It's just that Tianfeng still has one last question in his heart: "Ah Hao, of course your approach is good, and I have no opinion." Merely...... What if they are detained? It's not like this hasn't happened before, you have to be careful! ”

Under normal circumstances, the women who bought in would usually be kept in the village for a few years before being freed. But even then, a woman who returns home to visit her family may be detained by her family or in her former village. Either they are killed and eaten for meat, or they are sold as commodities and sold elsewhere. As long as no one grasps the handle and denies it, in the end, the matter can often only be over.

Tianhao smiled.

Yonggang smiled.

The old priest laughed too. It's just that compared to Tianhao and Yonggang, his smile is not so proud, mixed with a bit of helplessness.

"Let them buckle it! Hehe, actually, this is the result I want to see the most. Tianhao's eyes were a little hideous, and there was obviously a bloodthirsty element in his expectation.

……

The gatekeeper of Huanchezhai knows Ah Ju.

The tall and sturdy gate slowly opened, and two vigilantes armed with spears ran over, and they swirled around Ah Ju with surprised eyes.

Last winter, there was a shortage of food in the village, and Ah Ju and several other women were selected by the leader to exchange food, and I heard that they were sold to Panshi Village.

"Aju, why are you back?" The older watchman did not let his guard down in the slightest, and despite being an acquaintance, he stood in the middle of the road with his spear clenched and his feet apart, not in the slightest hint of getting out of the way.

"I'm coming to see my mom." Ah Ju was very kind, she wiped a handful of sweat on her forehead with the back of her hand, put down the heavy basket sideways, squatted down, lifted the leaves on the top of the basket to cover, grabbed a handful of dried apples, and handed it over with a smile: "Uncle Hong, Ah Ping, you taste it, I made it myself." ”

Gifts are the best dissolving agent to eliminate strangeness and wariness between people. Ah Ju was originally a person in the village, not to mention that she was still a woman, alone, and no one followed.

Uncle Hong, the elder vigilante, quickly dispelled his doubts, and he took a piece of dried fruit from Ah Ju's hand in disbelief, and approached him to take a closer look. I've never seen anything like this before, and the length of a finger looks a bit like an irregular dumpling made of yellow rice noodles. The sweet aroma of dried fruit spreads, and the sensitive sense of smell quickly catches this pleasant and special smell.

He couldn't help but ask, "This...... Can you eat it? ”

Ah Ju, who had a fleshy face, smiled beautifully: "You taste it, it's sweet." ”

Ah Ping next to him had already eaten one piece in two bites, and he couldn't wait to grab another piece from Ah Ju's hand.

"Sweet" is an extremely rare taste. Unlike saltiness, which is used to survive, it means salt, which means that if you don't eat salty food for a long time, you will be tired. The northern barbarians had no nutritionists, no chemists and no biologists, they did not know what "sugar" was, and they did not know what "sodium chloride" was. The tongue is the only criterion for judging whether a food is delicious or not. Sweet...... Except for wild honey and mountain fruits, most of the year can only be found in the depths of memory.

Stuffing a handful of dried apples into each of them, Ah Ju entered the village with a small but steady step, and walked towards the familiar old wooden house.

Young Ah Ping swallowed the food in his mouth, he stared at the woman's back and smiled, "Ah Ju has become beautiful." ”

The elder Uncle Hong has a keen sense of observation, and his eyes have been turning around the waist and buttocks of the distant back: "It seems that Ah Ju has a good life in Panshi Village, she can eat enough, and she has never been hungry." ”

As long as she is well fed and has enough food, a thin and ugly woman can become beautiful. "White and fat" used to be a terrible adjective hated by all women in civilized times, but here, it means a stunning appearance that is even more touching than the four beauties.

Aju's father died early. Bad luck, he encountered wolves when he went up the mountain to hunt, and was gnawed off by a hungry wolf during the fight, and although his companions tried desperately to save him, he became disabled, and was killed by the people in the village the next winter.

The mother can spin thread, and this skill is her umbrella. When other old women in the village were constantly killed during the shortage of food, as long as she sat in front of the spinning wheel and "squeaked" and turned the spindle, no one would rush into the house and take her away.

The eldest brother is an honest man, and he can't beat a stuffy fart with three hammers. has been honest all his life, he never fights for the distribution of food and things in the village, he takes as much as he gives, and he will not speak even if he distributes it unfairly. Honest people are always bullied, and despite his tall stature, he always has a silly look on his face.

After a short period of surprise and greetings, Ah Ju took out the things in the basket one by one, she diligently lit the fire to boil water, took out two pieces of dried fish and soaked them, and then took some coarse wheat noodles from home, and asked the eldest brother to go to the neighbor to exchange the pickled venison for some fresh meat, and began to make meat patties according to the method she learned in Panshi Village.

"Did you hear, Ah Ju is back."

"Didn't she sell it to Panshizhai last winter, why did she come back?"

"I don't know, maybe I was beaten by the man over there and escaped, right?"

"Jing Blind said, Ah Hong and Ah Ping are on duty today, they said that Ah Ju brought back a lot of things, and there is a kind of sweet dried fruit that is very delicious. Where does this look like you've been beaten by a man? ”

The news fluttered like the wind in the stockade, burrowing into everyone's ears, touching people's hearts like a cat's claw scratching the soles of their feet.

There is no precedent for a woman who has been sold to come back. This is the case with Huanche Village, and it is also the case with other villages.

The strong aroma of food wafted from the wooden house of Ah Ju's family, and everyone who walked by nearby couldn't help but suck their nostrils, trying to determine the source of the smell, and desperately thinking about what it was in their brains.

The house was densely packed with people, all to see the excitement. The number of dried apples was not enough, so Ah Ju had to cut them into small pieces with a knife and distribute them to everyone, and everyone who tasted them said that they were good.

Envious eyes and jealous words became the best quota.

"Look at Aju, I went to Panshi Village for a winter, but I didn't expect to be beautiful after I came back. If you look at her waist, she must have a lot of strength to work in the field. ”

"It smells so good! What is that she does in the pot? I saw that she had just taken out the meat soaked in the water and chopped it up, saying it was fish. I haven't seen it before. White, such a big piece, what kind of fish is that? ”

"Look at the dress on her, and the pants, they're all made of cotton. Where did she get so much cloth for her clothes? It can't be stealing, right? ”

Clothes are one of the topics that women are most concerned about, and they have never changed in the era of civilization or now. Full of curiosity, they cautiously leaned over and asked, and Ah Ju did not hide this: "This is the hair issued by the leader of our village, and everyone is given a piece of cloth, and the children are halved." ”

The women in the room were dumbfounded and completely stunned.

What is the concept of a piece of cloth?

At some special times, such as winter, or summer, one piece of cloth can be exchanged for one woman, or even two.

Of course, there will not be much such business, and it mainly depends on the needs of both sides of the exchange. Prices change all the time, but only the most expensive part is remembered.

Being well fed and clothed is the happiest life in the eyes of the vast majority of Northland barbarians.

The discussion about Aju became more enthusiastic. All the women in Huanchezhai unanimously agreed: Aju is now a real rich person.

Jealousy soon overwhelmed envy: it was really unfair that the stinky woman who was sold in the village last winter actually lived such a good life no different from that of a fairy.

In the middle of the night, Lei Zhi rushed into the house.

He is the man before Ah Ju.

It was the man who slept with each other after taking a fancy to each other, not the husband who had the consent of the head of the stockade and the priest to witness in public.

Ah Ju was a little panicked. She barely squeezed out a smile and greeted Lei Zhi. The latter was not as good at talking as she imagined, so he came directly and hugged her waist, dragged the whole person horizontally, lifted it high over her shoulders, and carried it out.

Lei Zhi took a few people, and the eldest brother ran over to stop him, but was stopped by them.

There are no secrets about open robbery. They snatched Ju's basket and divided up everything she had brought back. The frightened and angry Ah Ju was not as strong as Lei Zhi, she was carried in the air, waving her fists, screaming and scolding this arrogant and unreasonable man, but Lei Zhi turned a deaf ear, and strode through the stockade like this, and brought Ah Ju home under the gaze of hundreds of people who had walked out of their respective wooden houses.

Ah Ju was slapped a few times by Lei Zhi and was dizzy. She felt that someone was taking off her clothes, and she struggled desperately and screamed: "I'm married, I have a husband." ”

"You have a husband with a chicken handle. I'm your man. Lei Zhi picked up his fist and smashed Ah Ju's cheek, making a fierce and threatening voice: "If you shout and scream again, believe it or not, Lao Tzu chopped you with a knife?" ”

Will the woman who sells still have a husband? Lei Zhi didn't believe this kind of thing at all. The status of the women of the Northland barbarians is extremely low, especially the women who exchange with each other, they may be favored by other men, but they can never become open and legal husband and wife.

Men don't like bondage, and there is a price to be paid for asking the head of the village to witness the marriage. Grain, game, cloth, salt...... That's a lot of money.

Looking at Ah Ju, who had been punched several times, lying on the ground shivering, twisting and struggling in sobbing, the fierceness in Lei Zhi's eyes gradually dissipated, releasing a flame with a strong desire component.

Ah Ping and the others are right, Ah Ju is indeed much more beautiful than before.

She used to be skinny, and she was all bones to the touch.

Now that I have gained weight, my fat waist feels soft when pinched, and my originally sunken cheeks have been stretched out to become round and smooth.

Yard, the standard of living over there in Panshi Village seems to be good, even this kind of ugly woman can be raised slick and slippery, and she is really a sow...... Oh no, skeletons turn into sables.