Chapter Twenty-Three: The Woman Heads the House
"These people are quite cunning, specially set up this netting person? What's wrong with the fear that outsiders will sneak in? Rohan was a little skeptical.
"It must be a set of people, not a set of corpses, keep walking, be careful of your step, there should be more than this trap." Zhang Xiaomei stepped forward and leaned forward side by side with the thunderstorm.
Sure enough, not far away, we saw through no less than ten traps on this road, there are all kinds of things, there are netters, there are pits, but there are no barbs buried at the bottom of the pit, and these people are not ruthless.
"They just want to catch people alive, not kill people." Zhang Xiaomei squatted on the edge of the big pit thoughtfully, "Isn't it to catch people alive to go back to eat?" It's another cannibal tribe, and although we have guns and weapons, it's not easy to kill a hundred or so cannibals. ”
"Probably not, do you remember that man?" "People who have eaten human flesh have dark green eyes, but I know this very well, that man's pupils are quite normal, they are black." ”
"Let's go, do what you want! Not to mention human flesh, they don't even want to touch it. Thunderstorm patted Xiaomei on the shoulder and continued to walk forward, ahead of him, was the entrance to the fortress.
Xia Xiaohan followed behind Zhang Xiaomei, she didn't say a lot, but she shot quickly and ruthlessly, I believe that if the people in the fortress are not good cakes, she will not be softer than her husband when she kills people.
"What kind of people are scattered? Stop! "There was a shout from behind the big wooden gate of the fortress, it was a man.
"We are survivors, and we heard from the people we met on the road that there was a shelter here, and we don't know if we can accept people?" Xia Xiaohan stepped forward and hurriedly said, since the other party is a man, it is easier for a girl to gain trust when she steps forward to speak.
"Isn't listening to the accent a local?" The man had a head bared on the wooden door, and he was not very old, one was twenty-one or twelve years old.
"Little brother, we came from the northeast, we have walked a long way, and we have not found a suitable place to stay, you see, we also rescued a giant panda in Sichuan, and we don't know what it eats, how to feed it, do you think you are considering taking us in?" I didn't expect Xia Xiaohan to be so clever and pushed the image ambassador of Zai Tsai to the front.
"Yay? What a giant panda! You saved it? Wait! The young man ran away without a trace, probably to find the head of the house to ask for instructions.
In just six or seven minutes, the wooden gate of the fortress opened, and a woman walked out, yes, a woman, a very tall woman, a full 1.8 meters, and very strong, the woman was very tall, and she looked so alone that she looked like a female version of Arhat.
The woman was followed by seven or eight strong women, but none of them were as tall and muscular as this woman.
"Northeasterners, huh? Has anyone ever been sick? The woman walked up to us and asked the first question.
I'm sweating profusely, as for it?
Everyone shook their heads to indicate that they were very healthy, and the woman shook her head, "Come in with me." ”
Her voice is very normal, and even a little coquettish, but with this physique, this is an authentic female man, okay?
Entering the inside of the fortress, we kept looking around, and found that the area here is actually not large, that is, the size of a football field, surrounded by stone walls with large bluestone slabs, quite high, about two meters, people are busy working in the open space, there are baskets, there are seeds, there are shoe soles, there are everything, cold looking, just like a normal country village and town.
It's just a miniature version.
The women surrounded us, a bit like an escort to send us to a bamboo building, yes, this fortress is full of that kind of tall bamboo buildings, upstairs to live, downstairs to put things, so that the residence is more moisture-proof and snake-proof insects, rats and ants, after all, this is in the mountains, those small animals can not be stopped by the high wall.
"The woman comes up." A female guard said to us, "The man stays outside and waits for the arrangement." ”
What's going on? Me and Niannian, Xia Xiaohan followed into the bamboo building in confusion.
The tall woman sat on a bamboo chair, saw us go upstairs, and pointed to the other small bamboo chairs, "Sit down." ”
"As for me, my name is Gu Muli, and I am the head of the house." The woman introduced herself first, but we were very shocked, just now in the fortress we saw a lot of middle-aged men, but we didn't expect that the head of the house here was a woman.
"The first rule in our fortress: women are heaven, men are earth. The three of you are to tell the men who come with you that in the fortress they are all who will listen to women, not only to you, but to any woman, they will listen. Gu Mu said to us expressionlessly.
The three of us were speechless at the same time, Xia Xiaohan thought for a while and asked, "Of those men below, one of them is my husband, does he also want to listen to other women?" What if another woman let him spend the night with him? He also has to obey? ”
Of course, she had to ask to understand that no woman would share her man with other women.
Gu Muli shook his head, "If he has a wife, in order to avoid women from fighting, other women will not touch him." But for those single men who don't have wives, if there is a woman who wants them to serve, they have to go. ”
As soon as I heard that my scalp was blown up, thunderstorms, Arhats, and Adam were in danger, they had no master.
Gu Muli suddenly asked, "Are all those men from the three of you women?" ”
It was very strange for her to ask this, because the Celestial Empire practiced monogamy, and I had never heard of polyandry or polygamy.
But since she asked, we decided to take the risk of fooling her, otherwise the three of them will not be treated as public husbands by the women in this fortress?
"Yes, we have two husbands." I replied stiffly, feeling weak in my heart, waiting for this strong woman to make a splash.
Gu Muli was silent for a minute, "Can't you give it to other women in the fortress?" ”
No way! She believed it! People here think so strangely!
The three of us shook our heads together, "No, no. ”
Gu Muli suddenly nodded very understandingly, "Actually, I don't want to give my men to them." ”
My men?! What's the situation, it's really polyandry here?
"Gu is in charge, how many men are you? Can you ask? Nian Nian asked curiously and bravely.
Gu Muli didn't care, "Six." ”
The three of us gasped in our stomachs, this strong woman who is one meter and eight years old, has six husbands, she is really ...... Modern Wu Zetian......
"Okay, I'll divide the three rooms for you, squeeze a little, the one with the child, you can be assigned to a slightly larger room, and your family of four can live."
I grimaced, wondering if they would turn around on the spot when I went downstairs and told those men about it......
"Who did you live with the panda you rescued?" Gu Muli suddenly asked.
I raised my hand and said embarrassedly, "We are not a family of four, but now we are five......
"Oh, then give you a more lenient room to live in, Panda Fat, don't be wronged by it." Gu Muli has a better attitude towards pandas than men, and men seem to be inferior animals in her eyes.
"Also, the men have to go to work every day, to hunt, to feed the animals, the women can do some sewing and mending, and the men do the dirty work, remember." Gu Muli admonished again, as if to confirm my opinion of her.
"Gu Dangjia's ...... "I tried to communicate more with her, and we didn't really come here to defect, so it's the right thing to know more about the situation."
"I'm busy," Gu Muli's eyes turned to the door of the bedroom on the second floor, where a sturdy man's figure appeared, "You follow Song Xiaomei to the room, go." ”
Can she not be busy? I secretly complained in my heart, she is six men! Alas, this strange flower.
Song Xiaomei is one of Gu Muli's female guards, she led us downstairs, the men didn't ask in front of her, and when they saw a few of us, they followed us towards a bamboo building.
This is a big bamboo building, there are several independent rooms on the second floor, Song Xiaomei said, "The largest one is for a family of five to live in, and the rest of the family of three live in a smaller one, go ahead." ”
She left this sentence that the men could hear and walked away.
By the time the three of us had finished explaining, the men's faces were green.
"In order not to arouse suspicion, I will live according to the assignment just now, and it will only be a few days anyway." Although Zhang Xiaomei is ridiculous about the strange system here, she is also very interested.
In this way, Adam followed me and Canaan, Shuai Shuai, and Tsai into a relatively spacious room, Zhang Xiaomei, Xia Xiaohan and Thunderstorm lived in one room, and Nian Nian led Luohan to live in another room.
Family of five and two families of three......
Song Xiaomei told us that if the men go out to hunt, everyone will have meat to eat, if they return in vain, everyone can only eat some wild vegetable dumplings or wild mushrooms or something, there is a bamboo forest on the mountain, when the bamboo is tender, everyone can still eat bamboo shoots.
If you have bamboo shoots, you will have a staple food, and you don't have to be wronged with us.
The family pattern in this fortress is quite strange, some bamboo buildings live with a woman and several men, probably polyandry, and some bamboo buildings live with several women, that is, those who do not have husbands temporarily get together and wait for the fortress to come in and redistribute new men.
We are extremely puzzled that the men here are willing to obey this perverted system, not masculinism, but men are still dominant in most cases, and in this fortress in the mountains of Sichuan, men are like accessories, plus labor.
Why?
Gu Muli appeared in front of us every day with a different husband, she managed the fortress well, people obeyed her orders, and no one resisted.
And her six husbands are even more obedient to her, like six big sheep.
These six husbands are sturdy, some are delicate, ranging in age from their twenties to their forties, and I can understand that some of them are handsome, but one of them is very ugly, a bit like a famous director in the Celestial Empire, I don't know what skills he has to be accepted by Gu Muli.
I quietly discussed with my friends and came in, what are I going to do?