Cai Li shushed and asked for warmth, and his tone was full of affection.

Wei Shi II was a human being, and he had long seen through his hypocrisy.

When Cai Lichang left, Wei Shi went out to Xideng Bay, a neighboring village in Yushu Bay, and asked the children of the Deng family, who had been in a good relationship, to inquire about the matter.

The Deng family used to be a big family in Xinye, and the ancestors had a big man like Deng Sui, the queen of Hexi, if it weren't for the descendants of the Deng family, the Xinye Deng family would be more prestigious than the Xiangyang Cai family.

The person Wei Shi was looking for, surnamed Deng Mingfan, had studied in Luoyang when he was young, and had also worshiped the Yingchuan celebrity Zhong Xuan, and was very familiar with the laws of the Han Dynasty.

Deng Fan is a good man, he once asked Wei blacksmith to polish his sword, and he is no stranger to Wei Shi.

After hearing about the intention and receiving the gift of two wild boar legs, Deng Fan did not shirk and talked to Wei Shi about the laws of the Han Dynasty.

According to Deng Fan's detailed explanation, Wei Shifang began to understand the reason.

In the former Han Dynasty, in order to encourage childbirth, the imperial court stipulated by law that when a man reaches the age of 20 and a woman reaches the age of 15, she must marry and marry, otherwise, a special "childbearing age tax" will be added.

This policy, along with the family planning fines of later generations, has just turned a head.

In the Later Han Dynasty, due to the serious land annexation, as well as the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the registered population decreased sharply, in order to increase the number of people, the age of marriage between men and women stipulated by the imperial court was also lower and lower year by year, and in the Jian'an period, men were eighteen that were considered adults, that is, they had to be married.

In fact, Wei Shi's age is still seventeen, not eighteen.

It will not be until July next year that Wei Shi will be the age of marriage, but Cai Lichang lost face because of Cai Guang's incident, and took advantage of the household registration time to fill in Wei Shi as a school-age man.

The Wei Shi brothers and sisters have just relied on hunting to solve the problem of food and clothing, if they add a mouthful, how can they feed them.

Besides, the girls of the neighboring villagers, if they were good, would have been promised a long time ago, and only those who were defective and others did not want would be matched by the county.

If Wei Shi refuses, then he will have to pay more taxes.

If Wei Shi is forced to accept it, the woman he marries is not good, and the future will be sad.

I have to say that Cai Lichang played beautifully with this trick.

Much stronger than Cai Guangke.

Knowing the true situation of matching, Wei Shi has no expectations in his heart, it can be imagined that the quality of the women in the kissing team is not much different from that of the future generations.

Just crossed over, the seventeen or eighteen-year-old body was married before it was fully developed, and the object was still a younger child, Wei Shi was somewhat uncomfortable.

Compared with Wei Shi's coldness, the other men in Elm Bay were much more eager.

Males chase females.

Animal instinct dictates that even if it is an ugly woman who can't get married, it's worth a look.

February 20th.

The procession has finally arrived.

Wei Shi came to the Changting outside Xinye County according to Cai Lichang's instructions, which is close to the wharf of Shuishui, and as soon as the flower boat of worshipping relatives appeared, he could pick people without getting off the boat.

In the middle of the wharf, there were already three young men from the same county waiting, a sick and weak young man who was about to fall in the wind, a retired man with a broken hand, and the other who was the most familiar, none other than Cai Guang.

Seeing Wei Shi coming, Cai Guang snorted coldly with disdain and turned his head to look at the river.

After being injured in the lower crotch by Wei Shi's arrow, he recuperated for more than a month before he was barely injured, and then, whether the treasure weapon was still useful or not, Cai Guang didn't know.

This time, he made up his mind to find a young and beautiful lady and give it a try.

"A certain Xinye Huang Xu, brother's surname?" The sick man arched his hand and saluted Wei Shi.

Reach out and don't hit the smiley person.

Wei Shi saw that Huang Xu was polite and did not despise him, so he came to talk to him.

Huang Xu's family outside Xinye City, downstream of the river, and Yushu Bay about three miles away, his father served in the Jingzhou army, this time to visit relatives, but his mother listened to the words of the warlock, and wanted to find a woman to give him Chong Chong Xi, to see if he could cure the illness on his body.

Looking at Huang Xu's expectation, Wei Shi was also speechless.

Huang Xu's body is weak, and he still has to find a woman, this is not to cure the disease, but to urge his life.

Cai Guang grimaced, snorted coldly at Wei and Huang who were talking, and then turned around and stood on tiptoe to look at the river.

He thought that Wei Shi was an ignorant villager, and no one would pay attention to him, who knew that he met a sick ghost Huang Xu, and he didn't know what was going on, so he and Wei Shi had a lively relationship.

"It's coming, it's coming!" In Cai Popi's expectation, a merchant ship hung with red silk slowly approached.

In front of the ship's armor was a team of county servants, and a matchmaker with a red body and a rouge mouth dancing exaggeratedly.

In the cabin, thirty or forty young ladies with burdens appeared one after another, they were the women who were matched, and as long as they were chosen by the man, they would disembark and settle in the village where the man lived.

Years.

The marriage match at the most basic level of the Han has always been this model.

When these young ladies saw the men on the dock, they were not shy, some were bold, and they took the initiative to wave their hands.

On the little girls, the burden on their backs is all their dowries, among which there are slightly better families, there will be some money and silk inside, and those with poor family backgrounds are either broken jackets or wheat straw.

At this time, experienced people will first talk to the matchmaker for a while, and then pick someone after finding out the truth.

Wei Shi looked at this group of poor women with an indifferent attitude, compared to the arrogant young lady in the blind date show in later generations, the woman in front of her was wearing patched linen clothes, her face was generally full of vegetables and hunger, and almost none of them were fair and healthy.

Judging from the quality of these women, Wei Shi also understood why Cai Lichang was clamoring for him to come to visit his relatives.

More than thirty women.

Wei Shi looked carefully from beginning to end.

originally thought that he had found nothing, but when his eyes caught a glimpse of the middle of the team, he was attracted by the back of a tall woman with a thin waist and plump hips.

What is the standard of the best woman?

In the eyes of Wei Shi's later generations, it is definitely not a face.

The waist and hips are the most important.

If you marry this woman and go home, just hugging your waist and hips at night, it will be a different taste.

As for the face, it doesn't matter if it's dark or not.

"Brother Wei, there is a saying that you should be cautious when marrying a wife, and don't be impulsive." Huang Xu saw Wei Shi staring at a woman in the team for a long time, and he was busy persuading.

Wei Shi has no experience, he can see it clearly.

The patches on the thin-waisted woman's clothes were densely packed, one after another, and it could be seen that her family was not in a good situation.

In addition, her burden is obviously more bulging than the woman next to her, and when people who don't know the shape see it, they think it's something good, and only those who know it well will understand that it will not be anything else except weeds.