Old Houses and Grove Village.

Today, Wu Shufeng's mother's family came, her husband Lin Zaosheng was stir-frying in the kitchen, and Wu Shufeng chatted with her mother Wei and sister Wu Shuxiang in the hall eating melon seeds.

"Has Yangchun's marriage come to an end?" Wu Shufeng asked Wei.

Wu Yangchun is Wu Shufeng's younger brother, and Wei gave birth to three daughters in front of him, and his son is the fourth.

"I'm angry when I talk about this, Wang Yanqin and her daughter will be thirty after the beginning of the year, and they have been divorced, and they are embarrassed to ask for a bride price of 100,000 yuan."

Wu Shufeng peeled melon seeds on the side: "100,000? ”

Wu Shuxiang, who was sitting next to Wei, accosted: "It's not just that, their family also needs hardware." ”

Hardware refers to gold necklaces, gold earrings, gold rings, gold bracelets, gold pendants, the average family in the town is three gold, and the better conditions at home will add hardware to the woman.

Wu Shufeng sneered, feeling that this Wang Yanqin was simply a lion's mouth: "With this money, you can marry a little girl in her twenties." ”

Wu Yangchun is actually a second marriage, and the wife in front of him was bought from traffickers for money, but not long after the purchase, people ran away, and they didn't leave a son and a half daughter.

Wang Yanqin's sky-high asking price is not without confidence, Wu Yangchun is famous for being lazy, he is almost forty years old, and he is still gnawing at the old, and he was bitten off by a dog when he was a child, ordinary people will not give him their daughters at all, Wang Yanqin is not marrying a daughter, she is selling her daughter.

"I don't know which long-tongued woman said bad things about our family's Yangchun outside, at first Wang Yanqin said that she wanted 50,000, but I don't know where she heard any nonsense, so she changed her mind and asked for 100,000." Wei snorted coldly, "Don't look at her daughter, even if she is ugly, she is still thin, who knows if she will give birth to a son." ”

Wu Shufeng said: "Forget about 100,000 yuan, where is the whole money, you ask Dad to find a few more matchmakers to see if there is a suitable one in which village." ”

Wei Shi was also annoyed: "Your brother is unproductive, when people hear that it is him, they won't let him in." ”

Wu Shufeng pondered: "Do you want to buy him another one?" "It doesn't cost 100,000 to buy one.

"Buy what you want, if you run away again, you won't lose money."

It is not uncommon for people in towns and villages to buy daughters-in-law, and those who are old, a little disabled, or have no money to marry serious girls, will ask someone to buy girls who have been abducted from abroad, of course, not all of them are abducted, and it is not excluded that there are women fraud gangs who cheat marriage and money.

Daughters-in-law like this have to be locked up, and it's nothing if they're ripe, and those who can't be raised will run away when they get the chance.

Wu Shufeng also had a headache, after all, he was his own brother, how could he not help plan: "What can I do if I don't buy it?" Yangchun is almost forty, so we have to leave a back for our old Wu family. ”

Wu Shuxiang suddenly asked: "Second sister, He Miao is eighteen, right?" ”

"It just expired last month."

"Do you want to give her to Yangchun?"

Without waiting for Wu Shufeng to express his position, Wei scolded: "What are you talking about, niece marrying uncle, do you want our old face anymore?" ”

"Isn't this also a way, didn't the older generation be so close to each other before, isn't there still a niece in Taolin Qiao's family who married his niece, what's this, besides, let's not talk about our own family's affairs."

Wu Shuxiang has never read a book, and his thoughts are very pedantic, plus if Wu Yangchun really wants to buy a daughter-in-law or a relative, how can the two old people have money, and in the end, this money does not have to be made up by a few of their sisters.

She is naturally happy to facilitate this "marriage".

Lin Zaosheng, who was stir-frying in the kitchen, answered: "He Miao is still studying." ”

Wu Shuxiang immediately retorted: "Why do girls study so many books, they don't have to take care of their children at home when they get married in the future." ”

Wu Shufeng didn't say anything, thinking about something. Husband Lin Zaosheng is not squeaky, he is cowardly, and he has no fixed job, he helps people in the village and outside the village to do handymen, and he has been disgusted by Wu Shufeng for several years, and he has completely lost his temper, and he is only submissive.

Wei thought about it and still felt that it was inappropriate: "If it doesn't work, if you don't succeed, if you have a fool in your life, you will create evil." She also doesn't like this granddaughter very much, "Even if you don't give birth to a fool, how can you have an autistic child." ”

At that moment, the innermost door was kicked open.

Wu Shufeng glared back: "If you open the door, open the door, why are you so loud?" ”

Lin Hemiao lowered her head and walked out silently.

Wu Shufeng asked, "Where are you going?" ”

She was silent.

"Dumb?"

She looked up, her dark eyes were lifeless, and she looked at the three women in the hall without blinking.

Wei Shi was annoyed when he saw her silent appearance: "You are stupid to read." ”

"Isn't she just like that, like a piece of wood?"

“……”

Lin Hemiao threw all the contemptuous taunts behind him, straightened his back, and ran out without looking back.

She went to the convenience store at the end of the village to buy a pack of cigarettes and a lighter, which cost a total of three yuan and a half, and the cigarette was the cheapest cigarette in the store, and she choked her throat when she smoked it.

She paid and walked across the road, where there was an abandoned pond, and she crouched on the edge of the pond and skillfully lit a cigarette.

She was still wearing her school uniform.

The cigarette was only half smoked, and a hand reached out from behind and took the remaining half of the cigarette away: "You kid, what kind of cigarette do you smoke." ”

She didn't have to look back to hear Cheng Ji's voice: "I'm not a child, I'm eighteen years old, I can get married, and I can have autistic children." ”

Cheng Ji confiscated the cigarette case she put on the ground, and the half of the cigarette she didn't finish was put into his mouth by him, and he took a puff, and the inferior cigarette poured straight into his throat.

"This smoke is too choking, not for girls."

Lin Hemiao turned around, the eighteen-year-old girl had not fully grown, and her very immature face was not as vivid and lively as it should be at that age.

She stretched out her hand, and there was a very shallow scar on her wrist: "Give me back." ”

Cheng Ji took another breath, slowly exhaled white smoke, and his eyes inadvertently swept over her wrist: "Don't pay it back—"

She suddenly tiptoed and pressed her lips against his, taking the choking cigarette in her mouth, and after a brief touch, she stood up again: "Mine." ”

Her dull face finally had another expression: weakness, pride, and shyness.

Cheng Ji is twenty-seven, what kind of woman has he never seen, but it is the first time he has been caught off guard, he wiped his lips with his fingertips, although he smiled informally, but this tone has a bit of a training taste: "Little sister, do you know what you are doing?" ”

Lin Hemiao blushed and looked at him: "I know you don't have a girlfriend." ”

"Did you know that I have a lot of female companions?"

Know.

She had seen him go into the tattoo parlor several times with the girl in his arms, and each time the person was different.

She didn't answer, just stepped towards him.

Cheng Ji immediately took a step back, and the cynical smile on his face was completely closed: "You are still young, stay away from scum." He took another step back.

"You're not scum." Lin Hemiao raised his head and looked intent.

"I am."

"You're not."

If he is, he won't back down.

"Lin Hemiao," he said, "study hard." ”

He took her cigarette with him, but he didn't go far, standing on the stone arch bridge not far away.

Lin Hemiao squatted on the edge of the pond, staring blankly at the water, and after a long time, she slowly stepped out of one foot and stretched it into the water.

Cheng Ji immediately walked under the bridge.

She suddenly withdrew her foot.

He also restrained his feet.

It went back and forth like this many times, until she turned around and left, and Cheng Ji got down from the stone arch bridge and continued to smoke the choking cigarette. Eighteen years old, the age of flowers, how can he commit suicide.

After a cigarette ended, he found a passer-by and asked for directions: "May I ask how to get to Lin Cong's house?" ”

Lin Cong was one of the gangsters who witnessed Rong Li hurt people last night.