After thinking for a long time and not thinking about how to convince the He family, Gu Jinxiu sighed softly, got up and continued to do his unfinished work.

After dinner, Gu Jinxiu went back to the room to rest.

Lying on the bed, she tossed and turned and couldn't speak, thinking about today's events, thinking for a long time, and decided to give the He family a prelude, after thinking about it, Gu Jinxiu had no distracting thoughts, and slowly fell asleep, and it didn't take long for her to fall asleep.

The next day, after breakfast, Gu Jinxiu went to the county seat, and about half an hour later, she appeared in front of the Lin family.

Gu Jinxiu told the two mothers and daughters her intentions, "I came today to tell you that I want to help you set up a female household, and no one will be able to force you to remarry or sell you in the future, what do you think?" ”

This is the decision she made yesterday when she heard Uncle Wang say that Third Uncle Gu went to Aunt Gu Qi's house.

In this male superiority and inferiority of women, women have been taught to follow three virtues and four virtues since they were young, and they are bound by this feudal etiquette, and they don't know how the Lin family and the Gao family will choose.

The Lin family and the Gao family were silent, and they didn't speak for a long time, Gu Jinxiu knew that they were not calm in their hearts, but this was the best choice for them.

Gu Jinxiu asked, "What are you thinking about?" ”

Lin and Gao glanced at each other, as if to determine each other's meaning.

Suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, Gao looked at Gu Jinxiu and said cautiously: "Childe, I... I don't want a female household, my daughter and I want to be your family's subordinates. ”

Gao felt that although there was a female household, this was not enough to protect their mother, and she was now penniless and had nowhere to settle down.

And the most important point is that the mother's family sees the money, and the mother-in-law regards her as a subordinate, once they know that she is a free body, even if there is a female household, they can't get rid of the fate of being sold.

Regarding Gao's foresight, as a modern person, Gu Jinxiu didn't understand it very well, and felt that a free person was better than a person without freedom, so he persuaded him: "Once Gao's family is a slave, even your daughter will too, why don't you think about it again?" ”

Yesterday, she thought about bringing Gao's mother and daughter back, but they were outsiders after all.

There is a limit to helping people, she is not a virgin, so they have to be enslaved in order to bring people home.

Gao pulled her daughter to kneel down towards Gu Jinxiu, and said firmly: "Childe, we have already thought it through, please leave us!" ”

Gu Jinxiu saw that Gao's mind had been decided, nodded slightly, and hurriedly asked Gao's mother and daughter to get up, she was really not used to this behavior of kneeling at every turn!

After solving the matter of Gao's mother and daughter, Gu Jinxiu looked at Lin and said: "Lin, yesterday I went to help the villagers solve the matter of renting land, after returning to the village, the villagers will no longer embarrass you, what are your plans?" ”

Gu Jinxiu doesn't know much about the Lin family, everything is known from other people's mouths, and her mother's family has not appeared in the days when the Lin family was forced to remarry and injured.

This made Gu Jinxiu very puzzled, and also made Gu Jinxiu have a guess.

Could it be that the Lin family was also sold into her mother-in-law's family, and her mother's family has lost the right to help her?

Thinking like this, Gu Jinxiu looked at the Lin family with great sympathy.

Lin saw Gu Jinxiu's eyes frowning slightly, lowered his head for a moment, his sallow face was tense, he held his hand hidden in the quilt tightly, his nails sank into the flesh, but he didn't know it, and said in a slurred voice: "I... I... I want to start a female household. ”

After saying this, Lin's face loosened slightly, and she leaned weakly against the bed rail, and only then did she notice the pain in her palm.

After a while, Gu Jinxiu saw that Lin's face had become a little better, and asked, "Where do you want to set up a household?" ”

Gu Jinxiu felt that it was better to ask this question clearly, people's hearts were unpredictable, and she didn't want to be resented by the Lin family in the future.

If it is a village with a third surname, although she has a household, she can't avoid Aunt Gu's family, but she will help the Lin family when they need help, if it is elsewhere, then she will not have this ability, and she can only rely on the Lin family herself in the future.

Lin thought of his mother's family, and sighed helplessly, her mother's family is now only her little sister and brother-in-law, they have been at odds since childhood, and now they have no support to go back, in the village of the third surname, there are still two acres of land left by her husband.

Then, Lin asked: "Village chief, I want to stay in the village with the third surname, can you help me get my father-in-law's field back?" ”

What's going on?

Gu Jinxiu searched the memories in her mind, but she didn't find any related ones, it seemed that she had to go back and look through the villagers' household registration books.

In order to facilitate population statistics, taxation, etc., everything was divided, and the village chief had to register birth or death, and then the village chief would go to the government to register.

Gu Jinxiu asked, "Have you separated from Aunt Seven?" ”

Lin nodded slightly, and then said the matter.

It turned out that Aunt Gu's family had already separated, and since the death of Lin's husband, Aunt Gu Qi's family thought that there was no male in the child's family, and she was afraid that something would happen to Lin's mother and daughter, so she asked them to go back to live with the people in the big house, and the big house agreed to this matter because she coveted the Lin family's land.

However, the second room saw that the big house got two acres of land for nothing, and the subordinates who had to work more and eat less had to have opinions.

Aunt Gu Qi didn't want the two sons to fall out, so she asked the Lin mother and daughter to take turns to live in the two families, and also divided the land equally between the two rooms.

After listening, Gu Jinxiu calmed down her anger before saying to the Lin family: "Is your house available?" ”

Lin's face changed, and then, he shook his head, "Mother-in-law said that the house was not good if it was empty for a long time, so she rented it out." ”

Gu Jinxiu felt that it was necessary to ask the situation clearly, otherwise, when the Lin family and daughter returned to the village, they would not even have a place to live.

"Did you collect the rent? And what title deeds and title deeds are in your hands? ”

She prayed in her heart that the Lin family would be a little stronger, otherwise she, the village chief, would have to help the Lin family find a place to live.

Lin also thought of her predicament at this time, and whispered: "The deed and title deed were taken by the mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law said that if the rent was collected by her, it should be regarded as the husband's filial piety to her." ”

Mourning its misfortune and being angry with it, today she Gu Jinxiu finally realized it!

Without the house deed and title deed in his hands, it was a fantasy to get things back from Aunt Gu Qi's hands, so Gu Jinxiu did not agree to Lin's request at once.

Gu Jinxiu planned to go back and look at the book, if the name on the book had not changed, maybe he could help the Lin family get back the house and the title deed, and said to the Lin family: "This matter is not easy to do, wait until I go back and look at the household registration book of the village." ”

Lin nodded.

At this time, the familiar noise outside the door sounded, and Gu Jinxiu hurriedly said: "Regarding the matter of the female household, I will go to the yamen today to see if there is a way for you to avoid the cane punishment." ”

Lin nodded apprehensively and hugged the timid little girl tightly.

Gu Jinxiu comforted the little girl a few words, and then said to Gao's mother and daughter: "Your mother and daughter will stay in the hospital to take care of the Lin family first, and after she recovers, you will go home with me, and today I will go to handle your slavery." ”

Gao nodded.

Seeing this, Gu Jinxiu told the four of them not to go out, and she would solve the outside matter, and then she walked out.