(Maopu Chinese) He Xiaojun's hometown is close to the mountains and the sea, and the land intersects with other places, either big rivers or mountains, and the traffic is extremely closed.

He Xiaojun's hometown is a hilly area, the whole place is full of small hills, in ancient times, the productivity was extremely low, the development of agriculture was extremely limited, plus the sea, the water conservancy at that time was not repaired, so the harvest of the people here is also extremely limited, life is not easy.

Poverty is thinking about change, and it is in this situation that the people in He Xiaojun's hometown seek a way to make a living.

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, He Xiaojun and his hometown have begun to see a huge number of immigrants, and a large number of people "sell piglets" to foreign countries to make a living.

This wave of migration continued until the middle of the last century.

The people who were "sold piglets" and immigrated to foreign countries did not have a good time, almost all of them did that hard and tiring hard work, and they couldn't make a lot of money, so the first, second, and even third generations of these immigrants belonged to poor low-level families in foreign countries.

The people who "sell piglets" to immigrate to foreign countries are all men, and these poor immigrant families, due to their extremely low social status in the local area, so most of them cannot find a partner to marry when they reach the age of marriage.

These poor immigrant families had no choice but to ask matchmakers to talk about their relatives in China. Of course, the relatives they are talking about can only be girls from poorer families in China.

These immigrants who have said their relatives in China cannot come back to hold the wedding because they cannot afford the large amount of money to return to China to get married, or because they cannot get out because of the work abroad, or because they cannot make the trip because of the long mountains and rivers, etc., so there is the so-called "chicken instead of son-in-law" custom of finding a rooster to replace the groom and the bride who are far away from the overseas to worship and marry.

Ah Lian is the one who "substitutes a chicken for a son-in-law" to worship the church.

Ah Lian told He Xiaojun sadly: The rooster who worships with her is very particular about the choice. The first is to have the hen hatch the rooster in the first litter, the second is to be refreshed and not sickly, and the third is to weigh the same as the mantissa of the groom's age. After the rooster was selected, he was kept alone in a new cage, which was tied with a strip of red cloth and pasted with the word "Ji Ji". The food fed has meat and cereal at every meal.

When worshipping heaven and earth, it is a distant relative of the groom in his hometown who holds the rooster and asks it to worship in the place of the groom and Alian. Since then, Ah Lian has been regarded as a woman, a woman who is still finished.

Ah Lian's husband is also like her eldest brother-in-law, in the first two years, there is money to send back to Ah Lian for living expenses, but three years ago, her husband, who has not met, has never heard from again.

Ah Lian also moved back to Chen Village for the same reason as her two sisters.

Finally, Ah Lian also told He Xiaojun that there are many people like them in the village, and there are even more in the vicinity.

Chen Village is located in a mountainous area, and the land is extremely poor, so the harvest in the field is extremely limited. As a result, the middle-aged people in the village all crossed the sea to make a living, which is also the reason why He Xiaojun saw the men in the village in the carving tower that day.

In Chen Village, except for Brother Han and Ah Niu, who fought bandits with He Xiaojun, middle-aged people like them who were forty miles away could already count the fingers of a slap. The rest of the people, except for a small number of old people and children, are mostly women.

The fate of the other women in Chen Village is basically the same as that of Ah Lian and her three sisters, except for a few who are real widows, most of them are widows. In other words, this Chen Village is a real and nameless widow's village.

He Xiaojun, who didn't know much about this history, couldn't help but feel sorry after listening to Chen Lian's story. A village is already like this, and in this particular era, how many young women like Ah Lian and her three sisters are still widowed in his hometown? This is an out-and-out history of the blood and sweat of overseas Chinese women.

Seeing Chen Lian talking and talking, tears had already flowed, in order not to touch the scar in her heart again, He Xiaojun hurriedly changed the topic and asked Ah Lian Isn't this carved tower uninhabited? How did the three sisters end up here?

Ah Lian told He Xiaojun that after the village let him live in this carved building yesterday, in order to serve him well as a person from the provincial capital, and to keep him, a person who can help the village fight bandits, the village sent the three sisters of Ah Lian, who did the best cooking in the village, to live in the carved building to serve him, the head of the sect, two meals and daily life.

Hehe, these three sisters have served themselves two meals, and even served one night. Thinking of the fierce battle that seemed to be real last night, He Xiaojun couldn't help but look at the "woman" in front of him who had dedicated herself for the first time.

Ah Lian looked less than twenty years old, and her complexion was white and red, which was the kind of healthy skin color common to rural people.

On Ah Lian's face, there are slender willow eyebrows, clear eyes, straight nose bridges, delicate cherry lips and smooth cheeks, these organs, which are already very beautiful separately, are just right to gather on a pure and refined face, coupled with her shy and resentful demeanor, it is a picture of a living country beauty in He Xiaojun's eyes.

Even if he was sitting, He Xiaojun could also see that Ah Lian's figure was slender and fit, slender and plump, big where it should be, thin where it should be, and thin where it should be, belongs to the kind of woman who can make people ** when she sees it. It's just a pity that the old-fashioned clothes and the wide Tang-style pants she wore with buttons from the shoulders to the armpits not only covered up her beautiful figure, but also made He Xiaojun, who had only seen this kind of dress on TV, look unpleasant.

Seeing the young, vigorous, sturdy and handsome sect leader in front of him, he looked at himself intently, and then remembered that after facing him naked just now, Ah Lian's face turned red with shame, and she lowered her head, not daring to meet He Xiaojun's bright eyes like a morning star.

When he saw the delicate baby in front of him, who was more beautiful in shyness, and dedicated himself for free last night and gave him all his innocent body, He Xiaojun secretly called luck in his heart, and at the same time, he also asked Ah Lian curiously: What is the reward in the village? What is that rule?

After listening to He Xiaojun's question, Ah Lian probably remembered the shameful thing last night, her face turned even redder, and her head lowered even more.

After squirming for a while, Ah Lian answered He Xiaojun's question in a gnat-like voice.

It turns out that there is a rule that has been handed down in the village that a man who has made a great contribution to the village (such as saving the village from extinction like He Xiaojun) will be rewarded with a widow in the village to serve him. The condition of this widow is that she must be widowed for more than five years, and she must do so voluntarily.

He Xiaojun laughed at the rules handed down in the village, and couldn't help but say to Ah Lian: You sisters shouldn't be widows, aren't they?

Ah Lian told He Xiaojun that in their village, as long as a woman has not heard from her husband for more than five years, she defines a widow.

He Xiaojun thought about it, people like Sister Ah Lian are not only no different from widows in life, but even a little more bitter than real widows, because widows have at least determined that they are widows, while Ah Lian and the others still don't know the life and death of their husbands, and they still have to leave a trace of bitter concern in their hearts, so they live a little more tired and miserable than real widows.

This is the sadness of overseas Chinese women.

The couple who were separated by the ocean, in the era of extremely backward transportation at that time, were already worse than the Cowherd and Weaver Girl who got together once a year, and if there was a little accident, there would be more widows like Ah Lian, who were not widows. Cat flutter Chinese