Han Xiaobei hugged the snow fox and panted to catch up, wiped the sweat on his head, and actually taught Hua Qianshu a lesson.

"Madam, kindness in this kind of place is not to be desired. ”

"Why?" Hua Qianshu asked ignorantly: "Although I can't help everyone's hardship, I can do my best to change the fate of one or two children." ”

Han Xiaobei sighed lightly: "Let's take the child of Shicai as an example, the family is really poor and can't open the pot, so the mother is ruthless and comes to the market to exchange the child for someone else's family as a child daughter-in-law." This child may be beaten and scolded, but at the very least, he can eat and drink, and he can live. If you stay up for a few more years, you will be someone else's daughter-in-law.

But you gave the money, and the child will not be separated from his mother for a while. But the emergency does not help the poor, this bit of silver can't change their situation, and in a month or two, the silver is spent, and it is still difficult to escape the fate of being sold. Next time, this child may not be so lucky and sold to someone else's family as a child bride. Maybe it's going to end up somewhere.

You say, did you save her, or did you hurt her?"

Hua Qianshu felt that Han Xiaobei's words were unreasonable, but he couldn't refute them for a while.

"And the people in this bazaar are all destitute and desperate. Can you save them all?"

Hua Qianshu asked astringently: "Why are there so many people who come to sell children? I remember that in the past, except for slave traders, there were very few child sellers. ”

Han Xiaobei glanced left and right, and saw that there was no one around, so he lowered his voice: "Madame, I'm afraid I don't know, now above the court, the eunuchs Zhou Lie and the Xie family are rampant and domineering, enclosing land around Shangjing, forcibly grabbing it, and taking the people's land as their own at a very low price." These people have no source of livelihood, so aren't they just waiting for death?

What you see here, it's for children, you don't know, I just got the news from that bastard, and the North Market is bustling. ”

Hua Qianshu has lived in a deep house for a long time, enjoying brocade clothes and jade food with peace of mind, but he doesn't know the suffering of the world, let alone the evil that Zhou Lie and the Xie family have done evil, and they have reached the level of anger between people and gods.

She and the Seven Emperor Uncles worked hard to get rid of Xie Zizhang, but it was only to save a small number of people from poison. And if the two tumors of Zhou Lie and the Xie family cannot be removed, they will harm the entire Chang'an.

Han Xiaobei's words made her feel a lot of emotion for a while, and asked, "What did that bastard say?"

As soon as he mentioned that person, Han Xiaobei spat indignantly: "It's just a scoundrel, he saw that I was holding a snow fox in my arms, so he opened his mouth and asked me to take the opening fee, saying that he really saw those two traffickers later." I was entrusted by someone, so I had to swallow my anger and cheapen him by dozens of copper plates. He just told me that he had seen one of the two traffickers in the North Market the day before yesterday, and was muttering to Zhou Chitose's housekeeper. ”

"Zhou Lie?" Hua Qianshu frowned suspiciously.

Hua Qianshu knew that Zhou Lie had several mansions outside the palace, and there was nothing strange about having another mansion alone.

It's just that how does this person still have anything to do with Zhou Lie's people?

"What else? Do you know what they're talking about?"

Han Xiaobei shook his head: "He said that they were very vigilant, that person wore a hat on his head, and he pressed it very low, if he hadn't dealt with them a few times, he wouldn't have paid attention at all." As for what to say, naturally I don't know, it should be related to the matter of marrying a relationship. ”

"Kissing the shade?" Hua Qianshu raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"It's a secret marriage, and the lady of the secret marriage should know. That is, if a man and a woman are unmarried during their lifetime, and the two families can become in-laws after death, then this pair of men and women will have a companion in the underworld. We have always had this custom in the countryside, and it became that the bones of two people were buried together, but this living person married a yin family, and the villain also heard of it for the first time. ”

"How can a living person get married?" Hua Qianshu was also surprised.

Is life different and death in the same cave?

Han Xiaobei swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "I heard that Zhou Lie adopted a righteous son outside the palace this week, but unfortunately he died before he reached the age of one." Zhou Lie's outer room felt that the child was pitiful, and there was no one to take care of him below, so he thought about finding a few relatives for the child. ”

"Such a young child died early, that is a blessing, and it is even returned to Xun Yin, and how many are there?"

"Not really. Han Xiaobei also expressed considerable indignation: "The key is that Zhou Qiansui has spoken, he doesn't want bones, he only looks for life, anyway, he has a lot of money, and he will not refuse." I also want a yellow flower girl, picking and choosing, quite strict. As long as she becomes a yin relative, in addition to giving a bride price, this girl will be regarded as a member of his Zhou family in the future, she can manage food and clothing, and she will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life. ”

"Isn't that just a widow?"

"What's more?" Han Xiaobei nodded and agreed: "The rumor released by the Zhou family is that a house will be built in front of their son's grave, and these big girls will guard their son's grave, so they will stay in the house and eat and drink spicy food." After a hundred years, just bury it in one place. Actually, this yin relatives also pay attention to the age of the match, you say, Zhou Lie can let these girls live to old age in peace?"

"Isn't this pushing your own daughter into the fire pit?" said Hua Qianshu indignantly.

"That's it, how many people are still flocking to it, in the face of life, what kind of backbone, dignity, what is it? Now the North City is the most lively, and those who come to marry are shoulder to shoulder, and they have to say good things to the steward, begging for others. On the one hand, there is a bride price, and on the other hand, his daughter will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life. If you make a good fuss, you can still climb the big tree of Zhou's family, why not?"

Han Xiaobei sighed again: "How many good men can't find their daughters-in-law through the autumn water, but this baby is enjoying it, and they have occupied so many daughters-in-law in advance." ”

Hua Qianshu's heart was like a mess, mixed and uncomfortable.

Has the life of the people of Shangjing been forced to such a point?

She was stunned here, and Han Xiaobei asked cautiously, "Madam, do you still want to go to Beishi to have a look?"

Hua Qianshu suddenly felt very tired, and shook his head: "What is there to see? I can't do anything, I just go to block my heart for no reason." ”

I can't always preach to those fathers who are forced to sell their daughters for their livelihood.

Children are a piece of meat that fell from their parents, if they are really desperate, who wants to separate their flesh and blood and force their daughter to a dead end?

I don't have the ability to fundamentally change their lives and give them a way out, what right do you have to condemn them?

Han Xiaobei also sighed solemnly: "What Madam said is very true, I feel blocked when I listen to it here." I also heard that the Wong Tai Sin Temple is also choosing a letter girl these days, which is more grotesque than marrying a yin family. ”

"Wong Tai Sin Temple?"

Hua Qianshu frowned in surprise, why are there so many lively things these days? And there is weirdness everywhere.