Chapter Seventy-Five: Old Man

The old man didn't seem to understand my doubts at all, and smiled very kindly, as if he was chatting about family life, and asked me, isn't it normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines throughout the ages.

What is this...... The old man's appearance is not strange to them but I have never seen the world, which makes me hungry all over the house, I pulled the corners of my mouth in embarrassment, I asked him, what year is it now?

Now it was the turn of the old man to be puzzled, he asked a question, tilted his head and asked me: "Little boy, aren't you from outside, I don't know what year and month it is?" We have been in the mountains for generations, and we have long since lost track of the day! ”

The old man's words reminded me of the story of the Peach Blossom Paradise told by Tao Yuanming, I just thought that I was lucky, but I didn't take a boat, nor did I pass through any peach blossom forest, and besides, except for this village, there is a desolation everywhere, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the Peach Blossom Spring......

I restrained my cranky thoughts for a while, and asked him again, is your father also two daughters-in-law?

The old man still looked smiling, shook his head, I said in my heart, no wonder, it seems that there are too many women here to get married, so it is anti-ancient again. Three wives and four concubines? The Qing Dynasty is long dead.

But I didn't expect that the old man hadn't finished talking yet. He paused for a moment, and then said: "My father was more handsome, and married four rooms, but because of this, the family property was scattered, and when he came to me, he was poor, and I was not angry, and only married one room and gave birth to a son, so I wanted to marry my son two more rooms, so that he could spread out." ”

I pulled out a smiley face, picked up the bowl and wanted to drink water, but I felt a little unable to drink, put the bowl down, smiled, and said, "It's good, it's good......

The old man asked me what I was doing here, I wanted to ask him, but I thought that this old man should not know, after all, they have lived here for generations, if there was really that kind of magical herb, it is estimated that they would have made a fortune and walked out of the mountains, of course, it is estimated that there will be dozens of generations in the same house, and one person has several rooms......

I was vague and said that I was a tourist who came to play, and I accidentally got lost and got separated from my friends, so I walked in.

The old man's eyes almost lit up when he heard this, and he took a step forward sharply, and took my hand tightly, so that the folds on his smiling face could kill the flies.

He said: "Boy, I see that you are also very good-looking, we still have a few unmarried girls here, otherwise, you can stay, I still have a few pieces of land idle in the mountains, I will give it to you!" ”

As he spoke, he yelled and said, "Da Nier, Er Nier, come out to entertain guests!" ”

As soon as I heard this tone, I couldn't sit still, how could I listen to it like the voice of the old bustard in the kiln when my grandmother told me when I was a child......

Sure enough, in less than a minute, two little girls appeared in front of me, and when they saw me, one was more shy than the other, and they were scrambling to hide behind the old man, and the younger one secretly said to the old man: "Dad, he is so handsome......"

Not to mention, I really like this, after all, it's the first time I've ever complimented me on my appearance since I was a child. I nodded and smiled politely at them, and it drew another shy laugh among the women.

The old man also laughed, as if he was very happy, and said to me: "Little boy, this is my eldest Nier, eighteen this year, and my second Nier, sixteen this year, how do you see them?" ”

I haven't figured out the situation yet, so I had to nod my head first, saying that it looks good, and my daughter looks very similar to you, so you must have been one of the best when you were young, right?

After saying that, I felt disgusting myself, it was the first time that I had flattered a person with such a conscience, and I was still an old man with no power or power, and even I didn't know why I wanted to do such a thing.

The old man looked at me with a wicked smile on his face, and asked me which one I liked, or if I wanted both.

I was so frightened that I stepped back, almost falling backwards from the small bench, I had heard of forcing Liangshan, and I had never heard of forcing marriage after forcing Liangshan......

I had to point to the two girls, I said, the two sisters are still so young, why are you in a hurry, when the age is up, naturally there will be good people to propose, right?

The old man shook his head and said that his wife was only fourteen years old when she married him, and she had already given birth to her eldest son at the age of sixteen.

This...... Isn't this all evil feudal society......

I was speechless in shock for a while, and it took a long time before I felt strange, if this old man's daughter-in-law gave birth to the eldest at the age of sixteen, then according to the frequency of their children, I am afraid that seventeen or eighteen will have to give birth to a second child, but in this way, the youngest child is sixteen, assuming that twenty years old gives birth to the youngest child, then this legendary wife, isn't it only in her thirties, but this old man, how do you think about the appearance of seventy or eighty......

So, I pointed to the old man, I asked him Gui Geng, and the old man actually had a joking face, let me guess...... How can I guess this, could it be that he is an old cow eating tender grass, and he married a teenage girl in his forties and fifties?

I hurriedly waved my hand, and I said I couldn't guess, and the old man laughed at once, and he said that he was not young this year, and that he was fifty-six years old.

I was stunned for a moment, this gray hair, a deep wrinkled face, how could a person in his fifties look like this? I remember that the third master was seventy or eighty years old when he left, and he didn't look as old as him.

I moved my body awkwardly, and I didn't know if my brain was pumping, so I actually asked how old his wife was, but he touched his face and said that his wife died of dystocia when he gave birth to Ernier.

I was trying to say something to comfort him, but he didn't seem to be sad at all, but he smiled at me, stretched out three fingers, and said, "My wife is blessed, and she was only twenty-one when she died!" ”

It's not hot outside, but my sweat is flowing out, I don't know how much of a "blessing" it is to die at the age of twenty-one, my heart said is this their tradition, they all want to live a little shorter?

However, this old man is in his fifties, and he is still living a happy life!

I counted on my fingers, this old man is fifty-six this year, and Ernier is sixteen, that is to say, when this old man is forty, the old wife he said by Uncle Zhong is only twenty-one, so since his wife was married at the age of fourteen, and the two of them have lived for a total of seven years, so the old man married a fourteen-year-old woman when he was thirty-three!