Chapter 13: The Sinking Pond

Wei Shu paused for a moment and then glanced at Rong'er, "Look at you, I'm so useless in your heart?" ”

Rong'er didn't dare to speak, but she nodded subconsciously and then quickly shook her head.

At this time, their every move fell into the eyes of the purple-clothed man in a private room on the second floor.

"What is Childe looking at, so engrossed?"

Seeing what the master looked at seemed to be in a trance, the servant standing aside finally couldn't help but ask out loud.

"Nature is to see the scenery..."

The man put down the bead curtain in his hand and said lightly.

The servant touched his head and glanced outside, but he only saw that all the men were seated, which could make Childe so distracted, and he thought that there was some peerless beauty.

As a result, I had to withdraw my gaze in disappointment.

And the man in purple commanded, "You go and check the identities of the two women at table 32 on the first floor." ”

"Woman?"

The servant's eyes widened when he heard this, how could there be a woman?

So he poked his head out again and looked at it, only to understand, "It turned out to be a woman dressed as a man!" ”

The man in purple evoked a curious smile, took the glass wine jug and took another sip of the best Taibai drunk.

Broke into the Qinglou last night, and today she changed into a man's outfit and went out, what is her identity?

"But... Interesting..."

"Hey, did you hear that? Recently, there has been another big incident in the imperial capital. ”

Wei Shu was feasting, when he suddenly heard several young men at the table behind him talking about the situation in the imperial capital, so he opened his ears and listened secretly.

"What's wrong? I haven't heard of it. ”

Qingcheng is thousands of miles away from the imperial capital, and the traffic information in this era is not developed, so it is normal for the news to spread slowly.

The man who originally mentioned this topic looked around, lowered his body and said, "My cousin is doing business in the imperial capital, and I heard that many people have died these days. ”

"Hey, what a big deal I thought, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, what's all the fuss about a river of blood flowing in anger." The other person who took over the stubble was obviously somewhat knowledgeable and dismissive of this kind of news.

"You don't know, this time is different!"

"What's the difference?"

Knock Knock Knock –

As he was talking, a gong sounded outside the restaurant, suppressing the sound of talking inside.

Wei Shu looked up and saw a group of ordinary people carrying a large cage covered with a black cloth walking down the street.

Because she was focused on listening to a few men at the next table talking about the imperial capital, she didn't pay attention to the situation outside, just thinking that this was some kind of activity and ritual that people did in ancient times.

I continued to listen to them with my ears open, not noticing that some of the people in the building had already gone out to watch.

"I heard my cousin say that Recently, His Majesty wants to retry the case of Concubine Li's witch Gu seventeen years ago, and he has already killed several ministers who were involved in it back then."

"Hey, if you want me to say, this matter in the imperial capital is enough to make the sky fall, but for our place in Qingcheng, no matter how the heavenly immortals fight, our life will still be the same!"

"Yes, that's right, cheers!"

Not everyone in this world has a great heart, and some people are determined to be in the sky, and their hearts are thinking about the country and the people, or for profit.

And some people choose to live in peace from the beginning, just like these young people in a small town, let it have changed color, as long as the hail has not hit their heads, then they should still eat and drink.

"Let's go!"

After eating almost, he took out thirty taels of silver and put it on the table, Hua Wu wiped the corners of his mouth and got up to leave, and Rong'er hurriedly followed.

It's still early, Wei Shu just had a full stomach and was not in a hurry to go back, so he simply walked around again to eliminate food, and after leaving the Mingdong Building, there was a street that sold some strange things.

For example, the miniature version of the wooden ox flowing horse, the flying turtledove made of bamboo, etc., these are all records that she has only seen in ancient books before, but she didn't expect that there is such a process.

It is rumored that the Mojia machine wood and stone walk, and the bronze opening can ask the public to lose, and the wisdom of the ancients really cannot be underestimated.

It's a pity that these are miniature versions, only the value of playthings, otherwise... Maybe it's a business opportunity.

"Childe, do you want to buy these dolls?" Rong'er asked with a wink of big eyes.

Wei Shu shook his head, "How old is this son, he still plays these, let's go." ”

The stall owner behind him looked at the two people who left, and muttered softly, "If you don't buy it, what will you see!" ”

"Hey, why are there so many people over there?"

Wei Shu suddenly noticed that a pond not far in front of him was full of people, men, women and children.

"Is this going on?"

As she spoke, she wanted to go up and take a look, not that she really had a heart that loved gossip, but that she had just arrived, although she inherited the memory of the original owner, but the original Wei Shu was just a girl with long hair and short knowledge after all, and she knew very little about external affairs.

So she needs to understand and integrate into this era now, and also to prepare for stepping out of the boudoir in the future.

After all, she didn't want to die like a caged bird in that small backyard for the rest of her life.

"Let's go, let's take a look."

The area around the pond has been blocked by a sea of people, and I also saw the group of people who passed by in front of the Ming East Building before.

Wei Shu remembered that the clothes they were wearing were all black, and they were carrying the cage covered with black veils on the side.

At this time, a dying old man who looked to be sixty or seventy years old stood up, cleared his throat and said, "The Chen clan, the family is unfortunate, the widow of the late clansman Chen Hai, the Liu family, does not abide by the women's way and damages the chaste archway, so today, the old man punishes the Liu family as the patriarch for entering the pond!"

As soon as the old man's words fell, the people around him began to applaud.

"Okay, drown this maid!"

"Yes, punish the wives immediately!"

It seemed that it was not enough for everyone to scold, and some of the three aunts and six women even picked up the rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves in their hands and threw them on the cage.

Wei Shu looked at the question mark on his face, so he had to ask Rong'er, "What are they doing here?" ”

Rong'er was also sold to the Wei Mansion since she was a child, and she was not very clear about these things outside, and then an aunt beside them spoke.

"Hey, boy, you don't know when you're young, inside that cage is a widow in the Chen family's clan, her husband has been dead for several years, and the clansmen have set up a chaste archway for her, but she is good, she has a private meeting with a man, and she is unfaithful to her deceased husband, and now the clansmen want to sink her alive, she deserves it!"

Wei Shu saw that the aunt finished speaking, and glared at the woman in the cage with hatred, as if he had some deep hatred with himself.

Yes, she remembered some stories she had heard from her grandmother before, that if an ancient woman set up a chaste archway after her husband's death, she would not be allowed to marry for the rest of her life, otherwise she would be sunk by the clansmen.

But she also heard from her history teacher that in that era of feudal cannibalism, the so-called chastity archway was just a means for the patriarchal society to restrain women.

In order to implement it above board, it is also called its name, "virtue." ”

As a result, there are countless poor women who were forcibly erected by their families and clansmen to set up the archway of chastity, and they died alone, how cruel!