On the Red Mountain outside Matsue Castle, a young man in a blue coarse cloth coat is walking in the mountains.

He carried a worn-out bamboo basket behind his back, a wooden stick the thickness of a wrist in his left hand, and a small medicine hoe in his right hand.

Lou Zheng raised his head and wiped his sweat with his sleeve, found a large protruding stone in the mountain, put down the bamboo building, and sat down to rest.

Looking at the medicinal herbs picked for most of the day, Lou Zheng quickly sorted them into categories.

That's when I had time to catch my breath.

Looking down at his dress as a peasant boy, Lou Zheng smiled helplessly.

Then she recalled the people she had met in Songjiang City in the past few days when she came to this small world, and she couldn't even laugh.

Originally, when I saw the clothes of this small world called the Great Song Dynasty, I thought that I had returned to the familiar Dawu Dynasty, but when she was chased on the street and asked to marry, she was instantly speechless, and she felt that this small world was even more terrifying than the interstellar world.

thought that after completing the mission of the interstellar world, she would always be able to relax and relax, but when she encountered the situation in front of her, she needed to be more vigilant.

In the past two days, she found that there was hardly a single woman in the crowded streets of Songjiang City......

Even if the occasional woman appears on the street, most of them are aunts in their forties and fifties, and young girls have never seen them......

The Dawu Dynasty is open to the people, and even the daughters of the family can go shopping and play. Lou Zheng once heard the master say that the previous dynasty had a lot of constraints on women, but even so. There will also be some peasant women who show up to do business in order to run the household, and the ladies in the big family can also go out for a walk accompanied by the elders.

But here, even the woman can't see it......

It wasn't until the third day of coming here that Lou Zheng understood the reason.

In this Great Song Dynasty, for some reason, the birth rate of girls was extremely low, but the number of boys was as high as more than seventy percent...... This leads to a severe demographic imbalance.

The woman has become a rare resource...... And if the country wants to develop and prolong, the most basic thing is to need a population, so the laws of the Great Song Dynasty had to focus on the reproduction of male and female offspring.

Here, if a girl is born in any family. It must be reported to the yamen immediately. The official in charge of the household registration in the yamen will immediately come to the door to settle the girl. On the contrary, if a boy is born, it will be much looser, and the yamen will not be so enthusiastic. Most of the family members took their children to the yamen to wait for the household registration.

Therefore, the majority of men in the Great Song Dynasty were black. Some families look at the birth of a boy and raise a rough belt. I don't even bother to handle the household registration. It is not until he reaches the age of marriage that he has to go to the yamen to get the marriage certificate before he goes to reapply for household registration.

If a family has a daughter, 100% of the family is pampered. No matter how poor she is, she will not let a woman work.

The law of the Great Song Dynasty stipulates that when a woman reaches the age of sixteen, she must talk about marriage, and before the age of twenty, she must marry three husbands. If the first child gets a daughter in one fell swoop, the court will reward him even more.

Regardless of whether a man is a man or not, if he is not a disabled child (similar to a eunuch), he must marry before the age of 30, and if he does not marry, he will be confiscated by the government and sent to the temple to be accompanied by the ancient Buddha of the green lantern.

Women are scarce like babies, there is a daughter in the family, and they can't wait to provide for it, how can they be put on the street and let other single men snoop...... No wonder I didn't see a young woman.

The corners of Lou Zheng's mouth twitched, it was really difficult to accept this strange world.

In ancient times, most mothers were valued by their sons, and the Great Song Dynasty completely fell out, if you let the brothers of the father in the capital clan of the Dawu Dynasty know the rules here, I don't know if they still have the face to laugh at the father and the queen.

Lou Zheng took a deep breath and picked up the bamboo basket in her hand, she had to collect a bamboo basket of medicinal materials before dark, do a simple treatment tonight, take the medicine number and sell it tomorrow, she could no longer sleep outside in the open air, the weather in Songjiang City was getting colder and colder, and she had to earn some silver to settle down first.

Early the next morning, Lou Zheng carried the preliminarily processed herbs into the city.

She was only fifteen or sixteen years old, I don't know why, she had been in two worlds respectively, but she felt that she had not changed at all, even her hair had not grown, and Lou Zheng had wondered if it was because she was doing the task of the light group, so her body would always remain the same.

But now, she wrapped her chest, put on the old clothes of a teenager, wrapped her hair in a green cloth scarf, and smeared some stains on her face, looking really like a down-and-out young man from a mountain village.

Today, on the first day of the new year, the gates of Songjiang City were opened before dawn. Every fifteenth day of the new year, there will be a gathering in the west market in Songjiang City, and the city gate will be opened half an hour early, and people from the town will come to sell things before dawn, and the people are full of voices, and it is very lively.

At this time, the items in the West Market will also be cheaper than usual.

Lou Zheng walked on the slightly bright streets of Songjiang City with a bamboo basket on his back, if you ignore the people's feelings of the Great Song Dynasty, there is really no difference between this place and the Great Wu Dynasty.

The people lived in abundance, the peddlers and pawns often had smiles on their faces, and it was a prosperous country.

But now all this has nothing to do with Lou Zheng.

What she has to do now is to hide her identity as a woman first, earn some money to support herself, and then go to find Xiao Zhe!

Shops opened one after another on both sides of the street, including silk shops, grocery stores, bookstores, and steamed bun shops, and the entire Songjiang Castle seemed to come to life in an instant, full of life.

On the way to the West Market, Lou Zheng only saw a woman in her thirties coming out of the alley to buy morning food, and before she got out of the alley, a tall man in her twenties chased out of the alley, he whispered something to the woman, and then took the porcelain bowl in her hand and carefully helped her into the deep alley. After a while, the man personally took the porcelain bowl and went to the morning shop at the left corner of the alley to buy it and bring it into the alley......

Lou Zheng was stunned, how did she think that the status of women in this world seemed to be very high, but it was more like a tool for men to be trapped in the backyard to give birth?

If you don't let a woman touch anything, it means that you don't have any initiative.

Without thinking about it anymore, Lou Zheng walked briskly towards the West Market with a bamboo basket on his back.

There is a medical hall on the edge of the West Market, with a good reputation, and the guys in it are also good, so they will exchange the bamboo baskets for some silver money as soon as possible, just relying on the convenience of the West Market, to add some useful objects.

When I was crossing Fumen Street, I suddenly saw a lot of officials crowded in front of the door.

The leader is Chen Zhutou in the Songjiang City Mansion, who has a bad reputation in Songjiang City, and often takes his brothers to oppress the people in the market.

At this time, he was leading people to scold loudly in front of a mansion, "Tell you, Xiao Dashao, I advise you to find a cheap woman as soon as possible, otherwise even if you kick us out today, in a few days, your wealth will still go into the pockets of Uncle Ben!" ”

Lou Zheng was stunned, and she hurriedly looked up at the plaque hanging in front of the mansion.

"Xiao Mansion" - two huge vermilion fonts come into view. (To be continued......)