A small peasant girl

Chapter 28
"It's a little strange, but let's ignore her. Is it possible that the fourth aunt can sell the person in the second room?" Wenzi comforted Liu Meihua to be more open-minded. Easy to deal with.

"Sell?" Liu Meihua was stunned when she heard Wenzi's words, and said with trembling lips, "Then, what if the fourth aunt convinces grandpa and grandma to sell me?"

"Sister, what are you talking about? I don't even understand?" Wenzi knew that buying and selling people is illegal, so she didn't worry about it. Seeing Liu Meihua's frightened expression, she opened her eyes and said, " Could it be that grandpa and grandma can sell us at will?"

In this era, men are not allowed to buy or sell, but girls are different. Their fate is completely in the hands of their biological parents. Whether they marry or sell, the government will turn a blind eye.

"Wenzi, I'm afraid that my fourth aunt will gossip in front of grandma, so, what should I do?" Liu Meihua thought that after Tao'er from the next village was dismissed and returned home, in less than a month, her mother's family could not afford to support her. Because of the reason, he was sold to the landlord's house as a servant girl.

Due to the unbearable torture, only a few days later, Taoer jumped into the well and committed suicide.

"Big sister, grandpa and grandma won't do such a thing. They have a good face. If they really sell their sons and daughters, they are afraid of attracting the tongue of the villagers." Wenzi is used to thinking about problems rationally, but he thinks Writer: You need to know more about the laws and customs of this era.

"Then just in case, I said, in case grandpa and grandma are really convinced by the fourth aunt, I..." Liu Meihua covered her mouth and began to cry, she was afraid of nothing but losing hope of living.

"Sister, if grandpa and grandma really do this, then our second room will be separated and live alone, and the relatives will not do it in the future." Wenzi said decisively, but thought the problem too naively and simply.

In this era, if both parents passed away, the eldest son of the family had to be sixteen years old to have the household registration right to start a family independently, and Liu Kangdi was only one month away from turning sixteen.

"Wenzi, it's useless. Your second elder brother is not yet 16 years old, and he has gone out alone, and grandpa and grandma too..." Liu Meihua couldn't even say the next word, she only felt that her chest was tight and uncomfortable.

"Eldest sister, the soldiers came to cover up the water and the earth. It's really a big deal. It's just that grandpa and grandma didn't mention this at the moment, so we can't get on our own feet." Although Wen Ziming comforted Liu Meihua on the face, but in his heart Thinking about how to separate the family when Liu Kangdi turned sixteen, Wenzi still trusts Liu Kangtu more than his flirtatious lover.

"It's the elder sister who is confused." After Liu Meihua and Li returned home, they inevitably became sensitive and suspicious. Whenever they encountered something, they immediately panicked, and their temperament was not as calm as before. "Wenzi, elder sister is really useless."

"Who said, my elder sister is amazing, she is amazing at needlework, Wenzi is very envious." Wenzi immediately found out Liu Meihua's strengths, so that she could be more confident.

"Then follow along." Liu Meihua smiled after being praised by Wenzi. As the eldest sister of the family, she has been doing needlework since she was a child. In terms of craftsmanship, she is really not bad.

The two continued to talk for a while, put away the tools after finishing the work, and went to the kitchen to help Mrs. Liu prepare dinner.Farmers have a rich dinner, rice and shredded sweet potatoes, and although there are leftover corn buns from the morning, they are generally enough to eat.

But what Xiaowa likes the most is the vegetable soup for dinner, there are some oil residues in it, and it is very fragrant in the mouth.

"Mother, I'm buying shoes." Xiao Zheng was thinking about the 500 taels, and when she had time, she wanted to mention the Wang family's marriage to the younger one in front of Zheng.

Although Mrs. Zheng is the mistress of the Liu family, she is brisk with her hands and feet, twisting thread and threading needles in one go, and her skillful movements are not inferior to young people.Mrs. Zheng couldn't stay idle and would take out her shoes as soon as she came back. She wanted to make a pair of warmer shoes for Mr. Liu so that he wouldn't rest his feet.

"Ping, how are you paying back your wish today?" Mrs. Zheng called Xiao Zheng's boudoir name directly in private, "Come, come and sit next to your mother."

"Mother, I'm asking Bodhisattva to bless you and Dad to live a long life." When Xiao Zheng asked for help, her mouth was very sweet, as if she was born with this ability.

"Mother just wants you to be safe and sound, that's better than anything else." Mrs. Zheng was very displeased when she saw her fourth son working in the field wearing a pair of broken shoes with holes.

Logically speaking, when this man marries a wife, the clothes and shoes should be made by the daughter-in-law, but Mrs. Zheng looked at the shabby appearance of the fourth child, and it was not as good as before marriage.

Mrs. Zheng is jealous of Mrs. Zheng's parents, so she tolerates everything, but the fourth child was born in October of her pregnancy, and no matter how close they are, they can't be closer than mother and child.

Xiao Zheng's laziness is undoubtedly a slap in the face of her outside, and even the eyes of others looking at the Liu family are not very good, plus the fifth child has reached the age of negotiable marriage, in case the talkative woman speaks out, Those who don't know think how poor the Liu family is.

Zheng's anger returned, and she still said in a gentle tone: "Ping, this woman is married, and a man is a god. If you don't dress well, I'm afraid people will gossip when they see her."

"Mom, I got it." Xiao Zheng doesn't like others asking her to work, but the purpose of her coming here today is not to quarrel with Zheng. , she didn't worry about it.

Seeing Xiao Zheng's reaction, Mrs. Zheng felt no regrets, she knew her niece's temperament better than anyone else.If you want to blame it, you can blame it for being confused at the beginning, what kind of kisses do you want to marry, and marry such an ignorant and uncaring wife to the fourth child.

(End of this chapter)