The flower-skinned pig jumped off the bamboo slippery, and the four little short legs slammed and rushed forward, and the round and fleshy little ass was warped and warped, and the little tail fluttered.

Hu Lie took a deep breath, gave his subordinates a look, and followed.

Behind him, a long dragon with a flow of people meandered, following closely.

Soon, when the group reached the valley, a few people came out of several houses, standing by the house with their mouths wide open and stunned, and the timid man trembling and kneeling.

A gravel courtyard came into view, and the pig's head arched forward, slamming the fence door open, and dodging into it.

Hu Lie made a few gestures, and his subordinates hurriedly dispersed to carefully observe the movement of this courtyard.

Only then did Hu Lie concentrate, holding the handle of the knife at his waist, and walked in step by step.

There were messengers blocking the door, blocking the crowd that followed, causing criticism.

"Everyone is a villager, I'll make a long story short, this Holy Spirit Uncle has entered the courtyard, there may be something, you are so intruded, are you not afraid of disturbing him?"

Everyone heard that there was a reason, and they could only stand outside the door if they were unwilling, after all, no one dared to be the first bird, in case of public anger and being beaten by the group, why bother.

The stone slabs are stacked on top of each other, and the overlapping parts are connected with mud mixed with some grass clippings to form the walls of the house, and the roof is made of straw from some grass and trees.

When I entered the door, it was dark, and it took me a long time to see the scene in the house.

Hu Lie was stunned, his eyes were a little moist.

On a simple bed, there was an old man, covered with a broken skin, with a sallow face, and godless eyes, scanning back and forth on the flower-skinned pig and Hu Lie.

"Ho ho, it turns out that the official has arrived, and the little old man will give you ...... you"

The old man spoke very weakly, and his arms trembled to support himself.

Hu Lie quickly glanced at the room and made sure that it was very safe, so he hurriedly stepped forward and hugged the old man.

"Old man, don't get up, lie down and lie down!"

Without much gossip, the old man and Hu Lie had a conversation, and Hu Lie knew the ins and outs of the matter.

It turned out that the old man's name was Shi Lao Liu, and he lived here.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang seized power and the world was in turmoil, and Shi Laoliu's ancestors and some villagers fled into the mountains in order to escape the war, found such a residence, and settled down.

After many years, life here is very inconvenient, many families leave and never come back, and many families cut off incense...... There are only six families living here.

Shi Laoliu made a living by walking more than ten miles of mountain roads and burning kilns to make charcoal.

"Sell charcoal, cut down and burn charcoal in the southern mountains.

His face was full of dust and smoke, and his temples were pale and his fingers were black.

What is the profit from selling charcoal? The clothes on the body eat in the mouth.

The poor shirt is single, and the heart is worried and wishes for the cold.

At night, a foot of snow outside the city came, and Xiao drove a charcoal cart to roll the ice ruts.

The cattle are trapped and the people are hungry, and they are resting in the mud outside the south gate of the city.

Who are the two riders? The yellow-clothed messenger is white-shirted.

The hand put the paperwork in his mouth, and returned to the car and led the ox to the north.

A cart of charcoal, more than 1,000 catties, the palace envoy will not regret it.

Half a horse of red silk and a zhang of silk, tied to the head of the cow to fill the charcoal straight. ”

The Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's poem "The Charcoal Seller" exhausted the endless sadness of this craft.

Shi Lao Liu was alone and burned charcoal for decades to support himself.

Later, when he got older, the rest of the families who lived here and had been supporting each other stopped him from working hard, but were responsible for collecting the charcoal money sold and giving him a profit.

Shi Laoliu was very friendly in his life, and he has also gained some nicknames among the villages a few miles outside the mountains for decades.

Not long ago, Shi Lao Liu went out to the door one by one and asked for the charcoal money last winter, and the host family was very happy...... It wasn't until the middle of the night that Shi Lao Liu dragged his scarred body back to the valley, and the silver money on his body was gone.

The neighbors waited for a day and finally waited, but this was the result, and they were so anxious that they could only quickly help him into the house.

After drinking a few sips of hot water, Shi Laoliu's face looked a little better, and he told what happened to him.

It turned out that Shi Lao Liu was very enthusiastic in the early years, and he also went out of the valley to do some odd jobs in his spare time, and he met a person named Wu San, who worked hard to eat, and they knew each other.

Many years have passed, Wu San suddenly came and went, and his family situation got better day by day, and the two slowly stopped interacting.

Shi Lao Liu went out to ask for charcoal money, so he walked to Wufu Village, where Wu San was located, and met Wu San.

As soon as Wu San saw Shi Lao Liu, some of his fat body in medium silk swaying, he came to him.

"Oh, I said that the magpie reported the dawn this morning, and it turned out that a distinguished guest came to the door, come, and sit at home."

Shi Lao Liukou said that he had something to do, and he resigned again and again.

It costs money to visit, not to mention that the two have long been like passers-by.

"Brother Shi, you and I have known each other for many years, why are you seeing you outside like this, come and come, let the little brother entertain ......"

Wu San said in his mouth, stretched out his hand to grab Shi Lao Liu, and dragged him towards his house.

Shi Laoliu couldn't get out, so he had to enter the Wu family with a thick face.

When they came to the main house, the two guests and hosts sat down.

A woman dressed up in a fancy way, twisted her waist and hips to serve tea, and looked at Shi Lao Liu with a smile.

Although Shi Laoliu is a mountain family, he has survived in the world for decades, and he can see the roots of this woman at a glance.

"No wonder Brother Wu can make a fortune quickly, it turns out that he has his own way......"

Wu San hurriedly explained: "This is the daughter-in-law of one of my brothers, don't laugh at my brother." ”

Shi Lao Liu no longer dwelled on this topic, he just secretly changed, and he was not surprised, so he found a conversation and the two of them started talking.

No matter what era it is, it is not easy for a man to marry a woman.

Especially in ancient times, there were many poor people, and the majority of people who married a mother-in-law, wife and children were hot on the kang.

Therefore, some industries have been born, and secretly chang and selling daughters-in-law have become a genre.

Dark Chang, see its name to know its meaning, not much explanation.

And this sale of daughter-in-law is not human trafficking as we think, but a transaction between the two parties.

A family with a daughter-in-law, in order to make a living, will find a mother-in-law, sell their daughter-in-law to others as a daughter-in-law, and after giving birth to a child, then return to the original husband's house to live, which is not a shameful thing.

As early as the Han Dynasty, it was recorded in the "Book of Han" that "men are not enough to eat and pay for their work, and they cannot support each other if they are lonely, widowed, old and weak."

This means that if the husband is sick and unable to support the family, if the husband is in debt due to gambling, etc., the husband is generally the main wife, and the wife can only be forced to consent.

In addition, according to the record of the "Continuation of Capital and Governance Tongjian", in the seventh year of Xining (1075), because of drought and locust plague, the common people held hostages and sold their wives and children.

In the first year of Song Zhezong's Yuanyou, Su Shi wrote in a memora that in the past 20 years, because of the lack of seedlings, there have been countless people who have sold their fields and hired wives and daughters.

The "Yuan History and Criminal Law Chronicles" stipulates: "It is forbidden to use women as pawns and employers and the children of pawns."

It can be seen that in the Yuan Dynasty, the style of pawn wives was very prosperous, so the ruler had no choice but to prohibit it.

By the Qing Dynasty, the phenomenon of pawn wives in China had reached its "heyday".

In the family of the pawn people, the status of the pawn wife is often very low, many of the pawn people just take the pawn wife as a tool for inheritance, and give the son to the pawn after giving birth, the son born by the pawn wife can enter the genealogy, and the biological mother as the pawn wife, most of them can not go to the temple, the following genealogy, showing the very low status of the pawn wife.

The prevalence of this bad habit is mostly due to a variety of economic reasons, perhaps due to heavy taxation or real desperation...... It was not until the founding of our great New China that it was completely abandoned.

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