So, why are there a lot of girls waiting to be married in the village now, and it is so difficult to find a better in-law?

This has to start with the previous dynasty.

It is said that in the former Zhao Kingdom, in the marriage of men and women, there was a custom of attaching great importance to marriage.

Up and down, the folk are even more popular for high-value dowries.

In this way, in the eyes of the people, the girl is a money-losing product, and she has to pay such a high amount of dowry to marry a daughter, how to raise it is not cost-effective!

This has also led to the reluctance of every family to have a baby girl, and it has also made the existing custom of drowning women even more normal.

Ordinary people are unable to come up with enough dowry, which also makes all kinds of overage and unmarried phenomena appear among the people.

The decline in the number of women who can marry also makes it more difficult for marriageable men to marry wives, who need to pay a higher dowry to get out of the encirclement.

However, ordinary people can't pay a high dowry, not to mention, even if they can really afford a dowry, they have to face the situation of having no women to marry, and even have to take risks to directly rob their relatives, which makes the people even more afraid to have daughters.

Even if it is a wealthy family, because of the trend of marrying thickly, in order to avoid the dilution of family property, they are unwilling to have daughters, and they drown after giving birth.

The people at the bottom, they don't want to have daughters, in addition to drowning girls, they can also sell them, leaving the baby girl alive.

Compared with the people at the bottom, the rich families of the scholars value face more, and they are not bad at selling the money of the women, they do not keep their daughters, but they will not sell their daughters, because they don't know where the sold daughters will go in the future, if they end up in a dirty place such as Goolan Washe, how can it be good, rather than insulting their lintel, it is better to drown.

It is difficult for an ordinary man to marry a wife, so what should he do?

Because the rich families have a large number of maidservants, and the poor families rarely support their daughters, since the number of ordinary marryable women is far from enough, there are only maidservants who have been sold to rich families since childhood, so they have opened up another way.

However, this increased the cost of marriageable men to take wives, and also led to a great increase in the demand for handmaidens from wealthy families, and also made the trade of women more rampant, whether it was the purchase and sale of daughters by poor families, or the adulterous people deceived good women.

The bottom of the drowning women sell women.

The upper class of drowning women bought slaves and maids.

Later, for some reason, the culture of washing women was touted by many families.

What is a wash?

As the name suggests, it is to wash off the firstborn girl. If the first child is a girl, it will be killed, and if it is a male child, it will be kept, because if the eldest is a woman, then the woman will take her good fortune with her husband after marrying, and only by strangling it early can she keep her luck, so that after several generations, the family can continue to burn incense and prosper forever.

The lower floor is the abandoned baby tower that can be seen everywhere, and the upper floor is the prevailing culture of washing women.

All this led to a continuous imbalance in the gender ratio of men and women, and the existence of a large number of marriageable men also became the main cause of national turmoil at the end of the Zhao Dynasty, which directly led to the troubled times.

In troubled times, the change of dynasties, decades of war, countless deaths and injuries among soldiers and civilians, led to a sharp decline in the number of men, and also made the gender ratio of men and women tend to be balanced.

Chu Gaozu, the founding emperor of Chu State, learned the lessons of the previous dynasty, and at the beginning of the establishment of the new dynasty, he completely abolished the bad custom of high dowry among the people, and stipulated that the folk drowning women were prohibited, and the implementation was extremely strict. Although it cannot be eradicated, this culture has indeed been greatly improved.

Not only that, but there will also be a certain tax reduction for families who have daughters, and the more daughters in the family, the higher the proportion of tax reduction.

In this way, the combination of grace and power greatly increased the enthusiasm of the people to have daughters.

However, for the survival of women, this is ultimately a palliative rather than a cure.

If you can't drown, then raise it, but it's hard to say how to raise it.

Anyway, as long as it's a girl, it's okay to stutter, work at home when you are young, marry out for a bride price when you grow up, and give the bride price to your son to marry a wife, and count it in one fell swoop.

This is the idea in every household, and with the declining number of men due to years of war, there are more women to marry.

If there are more, it is not rare, and it is not valuable, especially since the Xue family has raised their granddaughter hard, and the first few are older. If it is not good, it is difficult to find the in-laws, and there are not many bride prices that can be received, which also makes Grandma Xue even more unwelcome.

In this way, while paying attention to the divorce with the Jiang Liu family, the Xue family began to find matchmakers, so that they could help the granddaughters in the family to see the right in-laws, mainly for the other eight granddaughters Zhang Luo, if they meet a high-quality man who is willing to pay tribute, they will also help the Xue family Xiaoba pay attention.

According to Xue Mao's original words, it doesn't matter if the other eight girls are filmed, as long as they are willing to pay a bride price, the higher the bride price, the better.

But if you want to join your own family, it must be the best one, the dowry from our old Xue family, our little eight is a well-known hunter in the village, and he is a capable person, where are you afraid that you won't be able to earn money, as long as you join our family, you will have a good life in the future, and you can inherit everything from the entire Xue family.

In short, if you join her Xue family, it is the best, and it will definitely not be a loss if you can enter the Xue family.

The Xue family has a total of nine granddaughters, if this is all done, it will be a big deal, even if it only becomes so many pairs, it is not a loss for the matchmaker, especially if there is a lot of money, then it will be said that the silver given will not be less.

Such a big good thing, a few matchmakers naturally came happily, showed the granddaughters of the Xue family one by one, and went happily, as for Xue Langjing, who was not at home, then there was no need to look at it, this realistic ability was there, and she had to stay to see what people were doing, just find her well.

In this regard, the Xue family sisters, who had always been eager to marry out as soon as possible to get rid of the hard life of not having enough food and clothing at home, did not have many happy thoughts.

It turned out that the life was poor, and the sisters of the Xue family, who couldn't eat a nest, naturally wanted to marry out and leave this family quickly, and they could always live better if they went to their in-laws' house, and Xue Linjing was even older, and they were afraid that they would become old girls if they didn't marry out again, and they would not be able to marry in the future, and they would be even more disgusted if they stayed at home, and they were afraid that the food would have to be reduced, and they would be alone, or marry an old widower or something.

But now the situation is different, since Xiaoba began to support the family, their sisters' lives are better I don't know how much, although there is a grandmother in the nest, they can't eat as much as they want, but it's okay to eat seven or eight points full, and there is meat to eat almost every day, although you can't eat too much, but there are one or two bites.

This level has surpassed most ordinary families in the village, and just having meat to eat every day is not something that ordinary families can do, especially for the women in the family.

For this meat, they are already envied by most of the girls of the same age in the village, and Hachi also says that it will make them live a better life.