Chapter 38: Woe to the Waters
Even the perceptive Ujida was not on the lookout for strangers, let alone the others, and all their minds were devoted to preparing for the coming battle and their thirst for booty, and Ujda was no exception, knowing what a precious spoilt she was going to get! not gold, silver, jewelry, livestock, slaves, or cloth, but a maid that no one else could have imagined! Ujida had already envisaged for her her future bunk in the Paigangala family, as well as her future bunk in Ujidaf's house, and of course she was going to be Ujida's dowry girl!
Ujida's desire to catch the little girl as a dowry girl and his vow to live and die with her may sound very contradictory, but in the eyes of little Ujida, it is very natural, the bride of the Yi people is not as statusless as the bride of the people outside the mountain, in their proverb, there is such a powerful word as "the girl who can't suppress the in-laws is not a good girl", this thing is unimaginable in the people outside the mountain. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info outsiders will say: "Low marrying a daughter, marrying a high daughter" , and in the customs of the Yi people is the opposite, each Yi people are honored to marry the daughter of the Tusi, so when the mother of the mountain outsiders teaches her daughter to be obedient and tame otherwise there is no in-law to want, the mothers of the Yi people teach their daughters how to put up a shelf to control the in-laws, a status bride's dowry girl is not bullied by anyone, when the bride can not resist others to take away or bully her dowry girl, she will commit suicide, and her maiden family will raise up all the soldiers and horses, with swords to avenge the blood shed by their daughters。
"Men will die in battle, and women will die for girls. Ujida had grown up believing in such ancestral teachings, and she had no doubt about it, and she couldn't imagine what it would be like if she was robbed of her dowry: the Yi people would not use the land to marry their daughters, except for clothing and jewelry, the most valuable and most valuable was the slave who was married, because ordinary plundering took place in the wilderness, so the slaves plundered were mainly young and strong men, and female slaves were not easy to escape, so a female slave was worth twice as much as a male slave, and if the dowry girl of a Yi bride was taken away, then she would be no different from becoming a beggar, and at that point, what difference would she have from death?
This is not to say that she equates the little girl from the mountain with a random dowry girl who is given to her temporarily, but that Ujida has never heard of more complex social relations, and that a little girl who grew up in a slave-owning family knows no other relationship under one roof than a slave-owner and a slave. Of course, there are also many Yi civilians living in the territory of the Paigangala Tusi family, every New Year's holiday, Tusi weddings and funerals, they have to come to send pigs and sheep, when the Tusi goes on the expedition, they have to bring their own weapons and dry food to accompany the battle, when the land of the Tusi family is to be cultivated and harvested, they have to come and work for Tusi for free for two to seven days, but Ujida does not want to put the little girl from outside the mountain in such a strange situation, she wants the other party to live in the same room with her, and she can see each other every day, so she can only catch the other party as a girl-- The butlers of the toast have their own rooms!
Hua Lin naturally has no way of knowing her calculations, and if he knows that he may be able to become a troubled girl for the two Tusi families to start a war in the future, he will definitely be insensitive to it, but fate often loves to go against people's hearts, such as he is now......
"Uncle, I'm going to Yantou Village. He pointed this out to the man he called his uncle in all seriousness.
"What Yantou Village are you going to, come home with me," the man said with a hippie smile, pointing to the tall city wall of Shuanghe County, "Your mother is waiting for you." After speaking, he dragged him into the north gate of the county without saying anything, and the soldiers who pretended to guard the gate turned a blind eye to this, and Hua Lin seemed to hear the grinding sound of the black golden-spotted butterfly above his head.
Obviously it wasn't like this last time he came, Hua Lin still remembers how smooth the ride was when he first visited Shuanghe County - well, the car owner was a little unsmooth after he entered the city, but what happened today?
He's tried to hit the road for the second time only to be dragged back into the city!
Although the person who dragged him was not the same as the last time, the destination they took him to was surprisingly the same!
"Mother Xu, look at what good goods I have brought you!" As soon as the man entered the courtyard, he shouted loudly without scruples: "Look at this skin and flesh, this look, after two years, she will be a Peugeot little lady!
Hearing his shout, two or three women dressed in red and green walked out surrounded by an old woman with a face full of meat, and the old woman shouted: "You bachelor, don't take ...... again" Halfway through the words, when she saw Hua Lin, her eyes were shining, and the fat on her body trembled: "Take those starving ghosts to stuff your old lady......" As he spoke, a pair of fat hands had already touched Hua Lin's face, and after touching two handfuls like a butcher touching a pig and sheep, he said with satisfaction: "This country girl is not worth anything, a silver coin." ”
How could the man who brought Hua Lin let him go so cheaply: "Mother Xu, the goods this time are not ordinary, the real city girl, you see that this small hand and foot, at least ten silver coins, can not be less, the child's father and mother are still waiting to sell the child's rice to the pot!"
Mother Xu snorted: "When I can't see the cocoon on her hand? City girl, how can you have this in your hands? Seeing that you have worked hard back and forth to complete this business, I will add half a silver to buy you tea." ”
"Mother Xu, you just don't want to make a business anymore -- the girls in the city also have to do laundry and cook in general, how can there be no calluses on their hands? After the man finished speaking, he picked up Hua Lin, pretending to leave, so where was Mother Xu willing to leave such a high-quality product: "Five silver coins, no more!"
"You don't want to buy it, let it go quickly, I'll send her to Zhang's mother's house, and it's still time for dinner." ”
The two argued again, nothing more than asking for money to be repaid on the spot, and finally talked about eight and a half silver coins, called someone to write a paperwork, grabbed Hua Lin's finger and was about to press down, but strangely, a little girl's finger, the two women couldn't press it down, and Xu's mother was anxious: "Girl! Since you have entered my door, you can't call the shots, the old lady's leather whip and soldering iron have everything!"
I saw the little girl she was going to buy raise her head and say, "Brag, I won't fall for you, I want to go home!"
Mother Xu immediately took out the leather whip, soldering iron and other things, and threw them in front of the girl: "The old lady never lies, but what kind of try do you want to start with? ”
After a while, Hua Lin walked out of Xu's mother's house with a heavy package on his face helplessly, and said to Xiao Ruyun above his head: "I think our plan needs to be revised." ”
Xiao Ruyun was still immersed in anger: "In such a world, where is the king's law!"