Chapter 0038 The Tragedy of Selling Women The Real Murderer Behind the Scenes
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Along the way, Mu Tianji looked at his coarse cloth green clothes, dressed as a small girl, and felt very funny. Look left and right, no matter how you look at it, it feels awkward.
Feng'er also felt guilty, the young master's dress was completely to accommodate her. Seeing that the young master seemed to be dressed very uncomfortably, Feng'er of course felt that she couldn't go.
After crossing a bluestone bridge, Feng'er pointed to a scattered house under the mountain pass: "Young master, it's here." ”
"Feng'er, do you still call me young master?"
Feng'er was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "I can't change my mouth." ”
"Okay, then I won't say anything after I get to your house, if your father and mother ask me who I am, you can say that my name is Zhao San, and I am the long-term worker of the Mu family. ”
As they spoke, the two of them had already passed through a field house, and at the end of a winding dirt road was a mud house, and the fence in front of the courtyard was a little dilapidated, but there were all kinds of melons and fruits growing around it.
The yard was actually very lively, Feng'er's father was about fifty years old, but his temples were white, his dark complexion, and the wrinkles on his forehead all showed that this was a loyal and honest old farmer in the countryside.
There was also an older man beside Gao Laohan, who was about thirty years old, and he was also miserable, sitting there in a daze, it was Feng'er's brother.
Seeing Feng'er come back, the father and son stood up in surprise.
"Girl, why are you back?"
After listening to her father's question, Feng'er felt very strange: "Dad, didn't you tell me to go home and have a look?"
Gao Laohan was stunned for a moment and said, "How can there be such a thing?
"My uncle's cousin Zhang Laojiu's words. ”
When the old man heard this, his already gloomy face became even more gloomy, and he looked extremely irritable.
"Brother, what's going on?"
Feng'er was clever, and when she saw her father and brother like this, she knew that something must be going on at home, and hurriedly asked what was going on, she faintly felt that when she came back this time, she was transferred into the pit dug by others.
Feng'er's brother's name is very interesting, called Gao Da Niu, this honest and wooden man, obviously a stupid person, I don't know where to start for a while, Feng'er asked for a long time before asking a rough idea.
It turned out that Feng'er's father asked Feng'er's uncle last year to borrow five taels of silver and buy a calf, which he was going to use as a farming helper after raising it. But he was raised until the beginning of spring this year, but he didn't want to suffer from the plague, and the cow fell ill and died.
When the calf died, the money was lost. And the uncle came to collect the debt after hearing the news, and the old man's family was surrounded by four walls, and the deficit of the five taels of silver could not be made up anyway.
Therefore, the family seems to be in a hurry, seeing that spring ploughing is coming. Without oxen, the fields could not be ploughed. There are creditors who come to collect debts, and this life is really tight, and it is about to be unbearable.
Gao Daniu was still a little vague, and it was rare to explain the whole story. But she couldn't stand Feng'er's repeated questioning, and finally told all the truth.
The uncle gave a suggestion, willing to pay 20 taels of silver for Feng'er to go to the Mu family to redeem herself, and at the same time forgive the previous five taels of debt, and make up another 5 taels of silver to Feng'er's father and brother, so that they can buy a cow again.
And the price of these is that Feng'er's future destination must be arranged by her uncle, and the Gao family cannot interfere at all.
After listening to her brother's words, Feng'er was really angry and anxious, almost scolding, and even crying, her eyes were red, and her teeth were biting her lips.
Mu Tianji on the side was crying and laughing, he was from a noble background, although he had an embarrassing position in the family before, he had never worried about his livelihood.
If he hadn't come with him in person, Mu Tianji might not have been able to imagine it, because five taels of silver could force the family to have no way out. It seems that in the previous life, Feng'er's tragedy was caused by this.
Just as he was thinking about how to speak, there was a sudden noise of footsteps outside the door. The door was then pushed open with a creak, and two people walked in. When Gao Da Niu saw these two people, his face changed slightly.
The man in front was about forty years old, dressed as a steward, with a mustache and a shrewdness. And behind him was a young man, who looked a few years younger than Gao Da Niu, with a bit of a wicked smile in his eyes.
"His uncle is here. ”
Gao Laohan also had to get up and say hello at this time, his mother-in-law was gone in her early years, and there is no woman in charge of this family now, which is indeed a little deserted.
The middle-aged man with a beard dressed as a housekeeper was Feng'er's uncle Zhang De, and said with a smile: "Brother-in-law......"
While speaking, Zhang De's eyes suddenly moved and caught a glimpse of Feng'er sitting in the corner, and his eyes lit up and said: "Yo! The second girl is back, I haven't seen her all these years, this girl is so smart, okay!"
Combined with the experience of his previous life, Mu Tianji roughly already has a context. It seems that the black hand behind Feng'er's redemption in the previous life was not Feng'er's father and brother, but the so-called uncle in front of him.
Looking at that Zhang De, looking at his niece's eyes, how can he look at his niece's appearance at all? It is clearly like seeing a perfect piece of goods and waiting to be sold at a price.
Zhang De is now a small steward in a noble family in Fengyun City, so he has a full sense of superiority over a poor relative like the Gao family. There was no need for the old man to greet him, he walked into the house by himself, and sat directly on the stool.
Syllable!
The package in Zhang De's hand was put on the table, and he said in a tone that he thought was very noble: "Here are twenty-five taels of silver, and now Feng'er is also back, brother-in-law, you can take the idea." After this village, there will be no shop, and spring ploughing will not wait for anyone, will it?"
The tall bull snorted and stood up: "Uncle, we will find a way to repay the money we owe you, but Feng'er is so young and sells it to people to fill the house, isn't this a bad thing?"
"Pay back the money?" I said Da Niu, what are you going to pay back as your family is in such a dilapidated state?" the young man with a thief's eyebrows and mouse face on the side snorted, this person was Zhang Laojiu, the cousin who had sent a message to Feng'er earlier.
Zhang De smiled faintly and said: "Brother-in-law, Da Niu, how can I say that you are country brains and don't know how to be flexible? Feng'er is now a maid for others, and sooner or later it will be a life to fill the house." ”
"Now I will redeem her body and resell it to the third young master of the Hou family, if this girl serves her well, maybe she can get the title of a concubine. Even if you can't get a name, what if you fill in the house? It's all filling the house, isn't it the same in any house?"
"And you, not to mention the debt, you can get another five taels of silver to buy a ploughing cow, and this year's farming has also been settled, what have you lost?"
Now, the green tendons on the tall cow's forehead suddenly protruded, and he slapped the table and said loudly: "No, no, it's not good! Uncle, if you want to sell my sister, it's not okay to say a thousand things and ten thousand!"
Zhang De seemed to know that this nephew was a tendon, so he didn't care, but continued to lobby Gao Laohan: "Brother-in-law, think about it, the price can be discussed." ”
"You see that Da Niu is also twenty-five or sixteen years old, and some children at such an age are six or seven years old, and Da Niu can't even say a daughter-in-law now, isn't it to cut off the incense of your old Gao family?"
"Otherwise, I'll arrange Feng'er's affairs, and I, as an uncle, will be responsible for telling Da Niu a daughter-in-law. To put it mildly, your old Gao family must have a woman to pass on the incense. ”
Mu Tianji secretly exclaimed, this Zhang De is really a steward of a noble family, and he can really speak well with a mouth, and every sentence hits the soft spot of the old man. No wonder there was such a tragedy in the previous life.