Half an hour later, it was ten miles away from Beishan Village in Luting Village.

In the low thatched hut, a pale woman with a turban and chapped lips was holding a swaddling baby and weeping secretly, and a little girl of three or four years old was shrunk by the bed.

Outside, a thin old woman was gently persuading her son under the eaves: "Before this child was born, my mother looked for the master, saying that if it is a male baby, it is the lucky star of the prosperous family, and if it is a female baby, it is the broom star of the whole family." ”

The man outside the house was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, and when he heard this, his brows furrowed: "When will my mother find the master to see me, why don't I know." “

"When your daughter-in-law was just pregnant last year, didn't she give birth to a girl before, I wanted to say that I wanted to find the master to calculate whether this baby was a male baby, but who knew that the master told me such a thing."

"Will the master be talking nonsense, Sanniang is good at giving birth to this girl, and that girl is good, which looks like a kiss."

"Ouch, my son, this is what my mother spent a hundred wen to ask a master to see, it will never be wrong, your daughter-in-law is doing well now because she has just been born, and when she grows up, this Keren's ability will also grow, and it will be different."

"But now it's freezing outside, throwing it out is a dead end, or else, wait a few months, the weather will be warm, and then throw it away."

"No, no, the master said, this girl not only restricts people, but also hinders the male heir, with her one day, your daughter-in-law will not want to give birth to a male baby, you are the only seedling of our old Wang family, your father has gone, the incense of the old Wang family can't be broken in you, otherwise, your mother will not have the face to see your father when she dies." As she spoke, two tears broke out of the old woman's face.

Hearing that it would hinder the incense, the man's hesitant expression became firm: "Mother is right, our incense can't be broken in me, I'll wrap a few more layers for the child later, as for life or death......... It's up to fate. ”

"Oh, that's right, you're still young, and you can still have children in the future." Seeing her son compromise, the old woman suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

When the woman in the house heard that her husband was really moved by her mother-in-law and was going to lose the child, tears immediately fell from her eyes.

When the man came into the house, the woman looked up at her and cried, "Daddy." “

Seeing her like this, the man knew that she had heard, so it was better to save him another explanation: "You heard everything my mother said, give me the child." ”

The woman immediately burst into tears: "It's such a cold day, you want her life." ”

The man turned his head and didn't dare to look directly at the woman: "Mother said, this Wake person can't stay." ”

"Even so, you can't lose the child, it's better to give it away."

"Give it away! Who to send, who is short of girls these days, they can't eat enough, and who is still full to support other people's children. The old woman jumped in and scolded.

"Yes, yes, the rich will definitely do it, the people are not bad for the stuttering, and the child can be raised to act as a subordinate, and he will definitely be happy."

"Go to your spring and autumn dreams, the county is so far away, this cold day, you want to freeze my son to death!"

"No, no, you don't have to go to the county seat, isn't there a county lord in Beishan Village, her family is rich, baby daddy, you send Niuniu there, maybe people will want it."

"Think about good things, the county lord is not a fool, if you want to work, you can buy a ready-made big girl for a few taels of silver, accept you this, and when will you be able to work." As he spoke, he couldn't bear to continue to argue with her, so he took a few steps forward and snatched the child in Lin Sanniang's arms, and handed it to the man at the door: "Why don't you take out this scourge and throw it away, it's really a little longer, and leave a little more bad luck." The old woman clapped her hands in disgust.

The man hugged the swaddling clothes, glanced at his daughter-in-law on the bed, and then looked at his mother on the side, and after a moment of silence, he resolutely walked out of the house.

"Daddy." Inside, the woman cried out in mourning.

The man didn't hear it, and walked straight out of the courtyard with the child in his arms, but as soon as he went out, he saw someone beating gongs and drums in the distance.

He paused and stood there listening.

"The county lord is merciful, set up Le'an Hall to collect orphans, widows and abandoned children, and if there are many children in the family and cannot afford to raise them, they can be sent to the Xu Mansion and rewarded with fifty pieces of silver."

The man tightened the swaddling clothes in his hand, and some suspected that he had misheard, and was about to listen carefully, but someone pushed him behind his back.

The old woman shouted: "Why haven't you left yet, isn't it soft-hearted again, I'll tell you this scourge......"

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"Listen to what." The old woman was impatient.

The man made a gesture of leaning his ears: "I seem to have heard someone beating gongs and drums just now saying that they should accept children." “

"Hey, your daughter-in-law doesn't know her brain, and you're stupid, stop dreaming, and quickly take this scourge away." The old woman urged.

At this time, as the people of the Xu Mansion gradually approached, the sound of gongs and drums and words became clearer and clearer.

The man shouted: "Mother, listen, really, and said that there is fifty yuan." ”

As soon as she heard that she was rich, the old woman suddenly quieted down and listened carefully with her ears pricked up.

"Hey, really, I didn't expect there to be such a fool in this world, go, take the child and take a look." The old woman walked ahead in disbelief,

The man glanced at the child in his arms, then looked back at the room where his daughter-in-law was, and sighed: "I hope it's true." ”

"Hey, what did you just say, who wants to take the child, is it true?" The old woman hurried to the front and asked.

The two subordinates assigned to Luting Village hurriedly said: "It's true, do you have a child to lose?" “

The old woman hesitated for a moment and replied, "There is one, but how old are you taking in the children?" “

"No matter how big it is. The servant replied.

"Do you want to be born too?"

"Yes."

The old woman didn't expect such a good thing to happen, and said with a smile: "What about the money, is it also fifty yuan?" “

The subordinate nodded.

The old woman immediately smiled and beckoned to her son behind her: "Pillar, come quickly, come quickly." “

When the man stepped forward with the child in his arms, the subordinates took a look, and one of them took out a string of copper coins from his arms and said, "Is this the one in his arms, which one was born?" ”

"Yesterday, I was born yesterday evening, isn't it difficult for my family to support me, I want to take it out and throw it away, but it just so happened that you came, and this girl has a big life, and I met you nobles." The old woman smiled shyly, and her eyes glanced at the copper coin in the hand of the lower.

"Okay, give me the child, and give you this hanging money." The servant handed the money out and took the child in the man's arms at the same time.

"Whoa, whoa." The old woman smiled and took the money, and was about to turn around and ask again: "Can you ask which family accepts the child?" ”

"The lord of Le'an County set up Le'an Hall to accept abandoned children, but since the children have been sent out, don't think about coming to recognize them in the future." The man said with a tiger face.

"Hey, no, no, don't worry." The old woman looked dumbfounded.

A girl is still a broom star, and the ghost wants to recognize it, but this county lord is really stupid, a milk doll that no one wants is willing to buy it with money, although fifty is not a lot, but it is also a windfall for their family.

Put the money into her sleeve, the old woman pulled aside and turned back, at this time the sound of gongs and drums has alarmed many people to come out to see the excitement, to see that the Zhuzi family really got the money, and other people who want to lose their children also immediately rushed back to the house and took the child out for money.

Before he could go all over the village, he received three milk dolls, all of whom were girls without exception, and the people smiled bitterly.

It was freezing cold, and such a young child could not stay outside for a long time, so the people thought about it, and asked the villagers present to inform each other, and then took the child back first.