The old blacksmith was surprised by Luo Cheng when he saw this, and felt that he was a rich boy who didn't understand the sufferings of the people.

"It just so happens that I made an appointment with Wang Yazi to talk about something, if you are interested, let's go and have a look."

Luo Cheng then responded with a mouthful, he really wanted to see what was going on with this pawn wife, but Wei Zheng didn't seem to be completely unclear about this.

"In fact, there were hostage wives during the Northern and Southern Dynasties."

There are still some differences between the pledge wife and the pawn wife, according to Wei Zheng's explanation, the pledge wife is a kind of mortgage, some people have debts and the like, and they have no money to repay, so they take their wives to mortgage, and even take out their wives as collateral when they borrow money. At the beginning, these pledges were only collateral, and they would not be taken away and sold by creditors until there was no money to pay them back.

Later, the nature of the pledge wife gradually changed, and some people simply took their wives and temporarily resold them to others as wives, making a sum of money from them, and then recovering them after a few years. After all, in the past, those creditors also sold their wives to others to make money for their wives after receiving them, so it was better to sell them directly, and there was no middleman to make the difference.

So the pledge wife became the pawn wife.

has developed all the way to the present, and the pawn wife has a set of default rules.

Under normal circumstances, the pawn wife lives in the pawn's house, and is not allowed to live with the original husband during the pawn period, and is not even allowed to go home to take care of her children.

Of course, there are also some people who agree that only the boy belongs to the pawn, and with the surname of the pawn, they enter the genealogy of the pawn husband and inherit the pawn husband's property, and the general pawn period is three to five years, and the longer the less.

"How could the imperial court allow this to happen?"

Luo Cheng asked.

Wei Zheng said with a smile, "There are many things in the people, although they can be called bad habits, but they also have their reasons. There are many wives in the south, and there are gangs in the north. ”

"What's this trick?"

"Northerners pull carts, and sometimes the horsepower is not enough, so they will put another horse next to them to pull it. In some people's homes, the man who is the top of the family suddenly becomes seriously ill or disabled, and loses his labor, so the family is poor, and it is not enough to rely on women alone. ”

Now Luo Cheng understood at once, this is a bit like a door-to-door, but generally the door-to-door is recruited after the husband dies, which is like a son-in-law who comes to the door. But this kind of gang trick is that the male owner is still alive, but he has lost his labor force and can't support the family, so he recruits another man to come to the door, he has no identity, he is not the owner of the family, he helps the family to work to support the family and pull the eldest child, and all he gets is to share this woman.

If you are lucky enough to give birth to a child, then you also have a flesh-and-blood relative, but the child who is generally born by the gang has to have the surname of the head of the family, and is not recognized as his child.

The pawn wife is the same as the gangster, it is a relationship that is not recognized by the government, but in the people, it really exists.

It can only be said that the people have their own needs, and there is no way to do it.

After waiting for a long time, the old blacksmith said that Wang Yazi came.

He brought good news to the old blacksmith, "I will help you go to the village and search around, and I really found one that meets your conditions, and I will go down to Liu San in Hezhuang." ”

"Liu San? I know that he is famous for being lazy and lazy, and he is good at drinking, and when he heard that his family had some money and food, he let him exchange it for wine and drink. ”

"No, when you are drunk, you beat your wife and children."

Lao Wang told the old blacksmith that this Liu San was idle when he was young, and later the family helped him marry a daughter-in-law, and he also received a few years of heart, but after several children were born, he slowly recovered his nature and began to be lazy. In the early years, the dozens of acres of land left by his family were lost.

Now that the court has distributed the land to him, he should have said that life would be better, but this guy is good, the land divided by the court is not allowed to be bought and sold, so he rents it to others to plant, and he becomes a landlord, collects some rent, and thinks about eating and drinking, and often goes to the county town to prostitute in the green building.

has no family background, who would suffer such a loser.

So other people's lives are getting better and better, and they all have a head, but his family is surrounded by four walls, and the children often have no food or clothing, and they have to find someone to borrow from everywhere.

No, I can't borrow it now, so this guy simply decided to pawn his wife.

"Dad, Liu San's wife is not bad, she is diligent and honest, and she looks good." The second son of the blacksmith Wang has some heart-warming words, they are all from ten miles and eight towns, and they are also clear about people like Liu San. Moreover, Wang's blacksmith family often went around striking iron, and they had all seen Liu San and his wife.

Wang Lao Er is twenty-six years old this year, at this age, other people's children are five or six, but he is still a single, he used to be poor, and he has no way to dare to think about marrying a daughter-in-law, and no one wants to marry. Now that the family conditions are good, I am very eager to marry one.

But I couldn't find a favorite one when I searched around, either other people's daughters asked for too high a bride price, or he couldn't look down on the bearded girls brought by Renyazi.

Lao Wang gritted his teeth.

"Everyone knows it, you don't need to inquire about it, but I don't know how many years Liu San is willing to pawn?"

"Three years."

"How much does he want?"

"Liu San's bastard, you know, he is poor and crazy, he offered 20,000 yuan a year, and he also had to pay him ten stones of grain every year, and said that he would give birth to his Liu family."

Lao Wang shook his head like a drum, "How is this possible, the Liu family is a woman who has given birth to three children, how much younger than my second son, not young, and thin, how can it be 20,000 a year?" ”

Wang Yazi smiled and said, "So Liu San is a bastard, but don't take it seriously, I also told him directly, I am willing to pawn, a total of 20,000 yuan, pawn for three years, and another five stones of grain rations every year, and give birth to children in the past three years, both male and female belong to your old Wang family." ”

"That's reasonable." When the old blacksmith heard this, the conditions were about the same.

"Yes, I have always been steady, and there is another point, to hold a ceremony, you have to have a matchmaker, a dowry, you have to choose an auspicious day of the zodiac, set up an incense case, set up a banquet, and you have to marry a beautiful woman."

"How much does he want as a dowry?"

"That's what it means, you can just give three or five thousand dollars, and tell him okay."

This old Wang is indeed very neat, and everything is negotiated, so he came to talk to Blacksmith Wang.

The old blacksmith then calculated in his heart, pawning his wife for three years, pawning money of 20,000 yuan, another bride price of 5,000 yuan, and the estimated amount of a banquet or something is also a few thousand, plus the matching and thank-you gifts for Wang Yazi, it is estimated that it will add up to at least 30,000 yuan.

That's not even counting the fact that another five stones of grain will be given for another year.

"Daddy."

Wang Er over there couldn't help it, he had been a single for a long time, and now even the old sow could look at it, not to mention that Liu Sanniang was also more upright.

"20,000 yuan for five years, no food grain, including the dowry gift, if you want to, you can do it, bother brother, you negotiate with Liu San, and we will sign a contract together, and strive to welcome people to my Wang's house as soon as possible."