This world is not at all like Pang Maimai's imagination!

What farming, doing business, is not that simple at all.

This is a world where supernatural abilities exist in zài!

Pang Maimai still remembers the moment when his hand touched the invisible boundary, as if he saw a scene revealed in a horror movie, and as if a bucket of cold water was poured on his back.

She shuddered.

I was so shocked that I couldn't help myself.

It was not easy to control himself, he did not scream, and he was not particularly pale.

It was instinctive, and she always felt that she couldn't expose the fact that she couldn't get out of the village.

She took a step back, pretending to remember something, and said, "Ah, Brother Chen, I suddenly remembered that I still have something to go back to Sister-in-law Qin's house, so I won't go today." ”

Sister-in-law Qin was the woman who saved her. looks old, but she is only thirty, not a few years older than her.

Chen Da and the idlers were a little disappointed, but they couldn't make it difficult for them, so they had to regret that some went home and some went into the city with Chen Da.

Pang Maimai slowly walked back to Qin's sister-in-law's house by himself.

She even deliberately walked along the outer edge of the village. In order to test how big this invisible boundary is, except for the main road out of the village, whether you can go out of the village from other places.

However, after walking around the village, I couldn't find a place to get out of the village.

This village seems to be covered by an invisible round cover, and it is impossible to get out.

And this cover is only for her, and everyone else can enter and exit freely without noticing.

After walking around, walking back to the boundary stone, there were still idlers who had not dispersed, and asked her in surprise: "Pang Niangzi, can't you find Sister-in-law Qin's residence?" Pang Maimai was shocked and shook his head with a smile: "I was confused, but I have found it this time." ”

She looked at the people in the village now, they were all a little frightened, probably everyone could come and go freely, but she couldn't, as if the bees that had broken into the wasp colony, she had the instinctive shock of a non-her race, so she hurriedly walked back to the Qin family while the wasps hadn't realized that she was actually a bee.

After a few words, why didn't she go to the town, she started to help Qin's sister-in-law make a fire and wash vegetables and cook, while chatting with her, trying to find out.

Because she didn't dare to let people know that she couldn't get out of the village, she had to turn around and wipe her feet.

The most direct guess is that this place may be similar to the Twelve Kingdoms, a world with laws and regulations that are completely different from the normal world, and perhaps because they have no guide, they can't go on the road......

"Sister-in-law Qin, if I want to go home, do I want to go to the government to get a guide?"

Sister-in-law Qin was a little dazed, she was just a peasant woman with little knowledge, and hesitated and said, "Lu Yin? Sister Pang, is your home far away? If you want to go through the official road, I'm afraid you will ......"

"I don't know where my home is." Pang Maimai pretended to be cowardly and incompetent when he usually didn't go out of the door, although he didn't pretend to be very similar, so he had to lower his head and make up for it, but fortunately, it didn't matter much if he sacrificed his IQ in front of Qin's sister-in-law, and people didn't think that a woman's family should be a good living map.

It doesn't seem to be a matter of road guidance.

As a result, Qin's sister-in-law asked her about the situation at home again, this time there were too many chats, and it was not good to pretend that she didn't understand, Pang Maimai had no choice but to claim that she was a small cloth merchant's daughter, who traveled far away with her parents, met bad people, and was abducted and taken away.

Sister-in-law Qin sighed, sighed at her chastity, and comforted her that the future would be long, God bless the good people, maybe one day her parents will find her.

After chatting, cooking, and eating simple oil-free vegetables and corn porridge, Qin's sister-in-law went to weave, although she was upset, she still helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks, wash the dishes, water the vegetables, and feed the chickens.

Under the fence, you must be diligent.

Alone at night, all kinds of speculations came one after another:

Maybe this is the afterlife, and I am a new ghost, and I don't report it, so I can't walk around - but everyone clearly has a breathing body temperature, and they have to eat and drink Lazar.

Maybe this is a copy of a similar game, and the people here are all NPCs, but these people are obviously flesh and blood, how can there be such a real game?

Perhaps, this is a horror movie-like scene: in an isolated village, something strange happens...... She shivered and didn't sleep all night.

Pang Maimai spent a month of anxiety and panic and pretending to be nothing, and she had to go around socializing and chatting with people to find out the truth. But sometimes I think that this village may not be human, and everyone is eerie.

However, a month has passed, and she has no clues, this village is a normal ancient village, and there is no problem with it.

She also tried different ways to get out of the village: let the little girl in the village hold her hand - it was useless, the little girl went out, she still couldn't get out, and the people turned around and blamed her for saying what she was doing in a daze, and she couldn't pull it.

There were also merchants from other villages who went out - still to no avail.

I went to the village chief's house and asked the village chief, "Can I go out of the village to the town?" The village chief was inexplicably happy and a little pleased with the respect that this foreign woman had for him, touched his beard and said, "Of course I can." Pang Maimai risked being regarded as a madman by the village chief's family and asked the village chief to write a note of approval for himself, but he still couldn't get out.

I tried again to see if the weapon could cut through the barrier, but it was still useless.

She slowly became depressed.

It's getting harder and harder to maintain a calm and steady state of mind:

Do you want to be trapped in a small village for the rest of your life? When I think of this, I am prone to claustrophobia-like attacks, and my feelings are inevitably extreme.

A month later, however, the situation changed again.

Sister-in-law Qin is getting married.

It turned out that Qin's sister-in-law was a widow and had no children, her husband had been dead for three years, and after three years of filial piety, her husband's family accepted the dowry and sent her to marry. She was married to a widower from another village, with two daughters and a son, seven or eight years older than her.

Sister-in-law Qin doesn't seem to be unhappy, a woman remarries, although her reputation is not necessarily good, it is better than staying alone in an empty house for the rest of her life, and she has no children, where can she keep it?

But as soon as Qin's sister-in-law gets married, the house will be taken back by the clansmen.

This was her husband's house.

Sister-in-law Qin was also worried about Pang Maimai, but she couldn't do anything, she was not an outstanding woman, and she was used to being powerless, so she just sighed a few times for Pang Maimai, and said a few anxious words, and then threw it away.

Pang Maimai had to figure it out by himself.

So Pang Maimai had no choice but to leave behind his anxious obstacles to leaving the village and first consider the urgent issue of survival.

To tell the truth, it is difficult for a young woman of unknown origin, with no house or land, to survive in a small closed village.

The only way out seems to be to get married.

Fortunately, Pang Maimai's appearance is quite standard, especially in such a place where most women have to work and have rough hands and black faces, it seems that she has fair skin, soft lips, a pair of black eyes and extra longing, a slender waist and chest, and black hair like clouds, which has naturally become the dream object of many young and simple country men, no, the lover of dreams.

However, parents generally refuse to find such a daughter-in-law for their sons: the origin is unknown, and they can't do farm work at first glance, and I'm afraid they may not be good at housework. Good look, are you willing to live a down-to-earth life? Can you honor your in-laws and serve your husband?

In the end, before Qin's sister-in-law got married, there was only one young man whose parents died and two young men who were really loved by the family invited someone to come to the door to propose.

Of course, Pang Maimai immediately refused. She felt that she was afraid that she would not be able to work hard, facing the loess with her back to the sky, feeding pigs, chickens, growing vegetables and cooking, not daring to say a word in front of her in-laws, and casually being her man's exclusive sex toy at night, and if she couldn't give birth to a child, she would be divorced, and she would go to the ground before giving birth to a child.

What's more, she didn't feel that she had reached the point where she couldn't survive without selling herself.

Or, what is the selling point?

Bean curd? There is already one.

Restaurant? No one can afford to eat.

Snack? It's probably okay to go to the market to sell it, but she can't get out.

Besides, that little money alone can't support itself.

What's more, even if she could make tiramisu and cheesecake, she wouldn't be able to find the ingredients here......

In a village where there is almost no commodity economy, I can't think of any room for her to play.

If it was spring, you might be able to consider raising silkworms, but it was already late autumn.

Weaving? She has just learned a few axes from Sister-in-law Qin, and I am afraid that she will not be able to master it well for a while and maintain her own life.

For the time being, this autumn and winter, I'm afraid I can only go to help.

The only person in the village who can use people is the Huang Butcher's family. His family sells meat, has a shop in the town, and has to go to the countryside to collect pigs, kill and cook, and look at the shop, only the husband and wife, and they really need help.

So she went to Huang Tuhu's house to recommend herself, and negotiated to help take care of the pigs and do housework, including food and housing, and 20 wen a month.

Sent away Qin's sister-in-law that day, the scene was quite lively, she also followed the wedding team to try to get out of the village, but still failed, came back and picked up the backpack that had been packed up a long time ago, explained a few words to the people who came to collect the house from the Qin family, and went to Huang Tuhu's house.

Huang Tuhu and his wife are quite friendly, both of them are in their thirties, their son is sixteen years old, and they are studying in the town, otherwise they will be married.

It's dirty, tired and disgusting, Pang Maimai still smells the smell of pig feces, pig blood, pig internal organs, and pig filthy smell until he sleeps at night, maybe this is not an illusion, the Huang family kills pigs every day, and there is a smell of pig corpses everywhere.

Pang Maimai said to himself: I can bear it.

Unfortunately, the next night, halfway through her sleep, a stout man sneaked into her room, pressed her on the bed and kissed and touched, panting like a dying boar, and muttering: "Don't be afraid, don't scream...... I'll give you a silver hairpin, and I'll take you as a concubine...... If that stupid woman dares to disobey me, she will divorce her, and marry you directly...... Be careful with your liver and let your brother kiss you...... How does it look here, white, tender, round and big, more beautiful than steamed buns, I have long wanted to touch it and almost go crazy......" He tore her clothes fiercely, and wanted to take off her hem. The smell of pigs and blood mixed with the smell of human breath was all around her, and the big rough hands grabbed her wrists, like shackles that could not be broken free, and the heavy body pressed on her body was like a mountain that could not be overturned.

If she hadn't been cruel to herself, if she had the slightest idea of giving up in despair, I'm afraid she would have been succeeded by a pig slaughterer, right?

I'd rather die, she said to herself in panic and despair.

She desperately seized the opportunity to catch her breath, or she would be crushed and unable to breathe.

Don't panic, don't panic, or it's really over......

Pang Maimai finally reached the pig-killing knife next to the pillow to stop the yellow butcher from springing, which inevitably added a little urgency and intimidation, but fortunately it succeeded.

Her refusal to be a peasant wife is naturally not to be a concubine for a meat seller, and the virginity she still retains is not to cheapen a man with a pig-smelling face and a meaty face.

Perhaps because the occasional glance at her during the day had alerted her subconsciously, she slept with a bolt on the door and deliberately put a knife under her pillow.

I actually used it.

Thankfully, fortunately.

The next day, Pang Maimai ran away early in the morning, and Huang Tuhu's wife was still at home and scolded her for a day. She listened to Huang Tuhu's words, thinking that it was really Pang Maimai who seduced her husband with virtue and wealth, and ran away in shame without succeeding, and then she never gave Pang Maimai a good look.

Pang Maimai didn't bother to tell her, this is a stubborn woman, what's more, even if she believes that her husband is a slut, she has been married to him for so many years, and her son is so old, can she still leave from now on?

Let her believe whatever she wants.

Pang Maimai was unemployed again after working in the Huang family for two days, and the serious problem of survival was put in front of her again, and she even had to wander in the village for two days, sleeping in the wheat stack at night, and was almost killed by the scoundrels in the village again, but fortunately she also followed the pig-killing knife when she came out of the Huang family.

In the end, she finally found the unsatisfactory job of being an apprentice to the Guo blacksmith family.

It's really hard for Guo Blacksmith to find an apprentice.

The blacksmith was already tired of striking iron, and the apprentices had no wages, and the blacksmith Guo refused to teach the apprentices well, for fear that the apprentices would starve to death of the master.

His wife, Aunt Xiaohua, is a well-known shrew in the village, she is scolding, stingy, and harsh, and she has to make the apprentice do a lot of work, and she has to be harsh on food, so naturally no one is willing to do it.

After leaving more than a dozen apprentices in anger, the Guo family has not found an apprentice for more than a year.

As a result, Pang Maimai had the honor of becoming the first, and most likely the only, female blacksmith apprentice.

So life is really wonderful, fate goes round and round, and eventually it will always put a path in front of you that you didn't expect at all.

A year ago, if someone had told her, "You're going to be an apprentice blacksmith in a year."

Pang Maimai will definitely laugh, thinking that this person is crazy.

……

However, although the days were hard, the body was aching, there was not enough to eat, and there was not enough sleep, Pang Maimai was quite satisfied with the job, at least, no one climbed into her bed in the middle of the night.

At this point, Blacksmith Guo can be described as a righteous gentleman.