"I'm here to send off the family team again, go, see how the girl is this time?"

"Hurry up, it's too late, the good-looking ones have been picked up."

"You don't want to think about it one by one, can the women in the imperial court send their relatives to be good-looking?" Some passers-by shook their heads and laughed, their tones disdainful.

"Yes, in order to increase the population, the imperial court stipulated that if a woman does not marry at nineteen, she will pay three times the tax. The beautiful women around me are all married around fifteen or sixteen, and those who can't get married at nineteen are definitely not good-looking. ”

Listening to the talk around him, Su Anlin gradually remembered.

In order to stimulate the population, the imperial court implemented a rule that a woman must marry before she is seventeen.

Unless, of course, you meet a few conditions.

It is a religious person, such as a Taoist aunt, a nun, or an unusual status.

Or a person who has learned martial arts, and his strength has reached a certain level.

Most of the people who learn martial arts marry late and have children later, because they are full of qi and blood, they are not easy to get sick, and most of them can live more than fifty, and those who are strong are more than 100 years old.

On the contrary, if a person who learns martial arts marries early, has too much sex, and his essence leaks out, the road to martial arts is frustrated, and it is difficult to improve in the future, and he has children and daughters, which will also affect his cultivation.

In this case, Great Xia did not force the martial artist to marry, but hoped to marry later, because a strong martial artist was a precious combat power for the imperial court.

As for the requirement for men, there is also a seventeen age rule, but it depends on your family.

Before marrying a daughter-in-law, you must have a house, and the family must have at least one acre of fertile land, or have a decent life.

If not, then hit the single, because you can't afford to support yourself, how can you support your daughter-in-law?

Give it to your daughter-in-law, you don't use it.

At this point, the imperial court is very thoughtful and responsible.

Based on this, Su Anlin's eldest brother Su Dahu, even if he is 20 years old, the court did not come to his door to send his daughter-in-law.

Well, he's the same.

Anyway, the tooth shop hadn't opened yet, Su Anlin felt curious, pulled Su Yuyu, followed the flow of people, and looked towards the door of an inn not far away.

There were three officials, and there were more than a dozen women standing in front of them.

The women were covered with red hijabs and could not see their faces.

In fact, they were able to see their faces at first, but the government had prepared several send-off teams before.

Since these women are all leftovers, the quality can be imagined, and they belong to the level of jackals, tigers and leopards.

After sending it a few times, there were more of these women.

So, the government also got smart and put a red hijab on them, so that they couldn't see their faces.

And I don't know who came up with the idea.

Several of the women are well dressed, they look good, and they look good.

There were two tightly dressed ones, with convex and backward outlines, which provoked some men's emotions.

"Zhang Mazi, you are also seventeen years old, hurry up and find one, I think the one in front of you is good."

In the crowd, someone teased at a man with a pockmarked face.

"Hahaha......" the crowd laughed.

The pock-faced man's face turned red: "Whoever came up with the idea, they are all covered with a red hijab, and they can't see their faces, what if it's a bad mother-in-law?" ”

"Oh, don't worry, these are a few that I carefully selected, they look good."

Next to the official errand, a matchmaker with a red handkerchief said, her eyebrows fluttering.

"Besides, I remember that you are about to be seventeen, so you have to find it quickly."

The matchmaker persuaded her to introduce a successful couple, and she could get ten cents, so she worked very hard.

"Yes, yes, hurry." Mazi looked at the four men beside him: "You pick first." ”

"I don't pick, I'm only seventeen in three months, I'll wait, I'm about to catch up with Cuilan, she's called good-looking."

"I don't pick either, I recently met a strange woman, and I think I can catch up." A scholar shook a folding fan and said lightly:

"I can't be sloppy about major events in life, anyway, it's just three times the tax for an extra year, and I can still afford it."

To put it simply, no one came out to choose.

Su Yuyu squeezed into the crowd, her eyes full of brilliance.

"Second brother, there is still a daughter-in-law here, it is worthy of being in the city, but there is no one in our village."

"That's because our family is poor, and we are going to starve to death, and the court can't support you if you send a daughter-in-law."

"Ah, that's right, that's what I said." Su Yuyu nodded.

"It's a pity that I can't see my face, otherwise there is something good-looking, second brother, you can choose one now."

"This son, do you want to choose too?"

Su Yuyu's words were noticed by the matchmaker, and her eyes lit up suddenly.

This Su Anlin is good-looking, but he hasn't married a daughter-in-law yet.

hurriedly walked over, "Childe, what do you like, I have a lot of girls in my hands, they are all beautiful and thrifty." ”

Su Anlin was a little speechless, looking at the ten girls standing in front of him.

Well, it would be nice if the matchmaker was bald, and there was a row of lights in front of the ten girls, and the background music sounded...... That's absolute.

After a trance, Su Anlin said: "I'm from the countryside, just passing by." ”

"Do you have a field and a house at home?" The matchmaker hurriedly said.

As long as these two conditions are met, the court can send him a daughter-in-law.

Because the women in the family team have no choice, and if the man takes a fancy to you, you have to agree.

Su Anlin shook his head: "There is no land, and I barely make a living by hunting." ”

The matchmaker frowned: "There is no land, ......"

Hunting was not counted as a profession by the imperial court, because there was too much uncertainty to give a wife to such people.

The matchmaker sighed: "Then forget it." ”

The crowd is getting bigger and bigger, but no one is coming up.

Now, several girls are also anxious, if they can't get married, but they will pay three times the tax.

Not only is the burden heavy, but it will also be pointed at by others, saying that it is a loss of money.

"I ...... I can do farm work, and I am very sensible. A girl with a tiger's back couldn't wait and took the initiative.

"I'll count, if any master looks for me, I can be a concubine."

"It's okay for me to be a concubine, big brothers, give me a way to live."

For a while, the girls introduced themselves one after another, just wanting to sell themselves.

Some girls even bluntly said that they eat very little, don't eat vegetables, just give two bowls of rice every day.

Su Anlin lamented, it's not easy.

At this time, he noticed that the tooth shop opened the door, squeezed out the crowd, and came to the tooth shop.

Shopkeeper Liu is making tea.

Seeing Su Anlin, his eyes lit up, and the tea was only half poured, so he put it aside and greeted him.

"Su Gongzi is so early."

"Well, I saw that you didn't open the door before, so I went to the front to see off the family team." Su Anlin said casually: "Why are there more and more women in the family team now?" And I think they're all quite normal, why can't they get married? ”

In the past, Su Anlin knew that most of the disabled women who couldn't marry were either mentally retarded.

Shopkeeper Liu sighed: "In the past few years, there have been wars and bandits, and there have been evil spirits in some places. There are many men who die, and women naturally can't get married. Now, it's hard to earn money, you look at those gangs in the city, more and more every year, it's hard enough to raise a wife and children at home, who is still in the mood to take a concubine? ”

As he spoke, he led the two into the house.

Take out two delicate small teacups and pour tea for Su Anlin and Su Yuyu:

"Let's have some tea, I've already done the house yesterday, and I can take it to see it today."

Shopkeeper Liu took out a booklet, which recorded the location, area, furnishings of some houses, and finally the price.

After a day of viewing, Su Anlin finally settled on a small courtyard house.

The price is not too expensive, only 400 taels, and it is not far from the Dali Martial Arts Hall.

He knows the value of the courtyard, and it stands to reason that it is normal for this house to be worth 7 or 8 hundred.

He didn't understand why it was so cheap.

So on the way, he secretly wondered if the house was structurally defective? Or is there a dispute over the ownership of the house?

Be sure to understand it when the time comes.

Along the way, walking on the street at the entrance of the courtyard, it is also quite prosperous, and there is an endless stream of vendors.

However, the existence of some people makes Su Anlin not like it very much.

That's a lot of beggars.

These beggars are clearly organized.

From time to time, you can still see some gangsters talking to each other, and occasionally I see some girls passing by, always looking weirdly.

Su Anlin frowned, faintly, he seemed to know why the housing prices in this place were cheap.