frightfiction Chapter 39 The End of the Pawned Wife
Chapter 39 The End of the Pawned Wife
Lan Qiyan looked grumpy, "Kids, what's going on outside?"
It was quiet, as quiet as death, and no one answered her.
But the sound outside the door did not stop, so she quickly got up and rushed out as fast as she could.
He almost knocked Yunian and Yulin, who were standing at the door, away.
The two children looked at her aggrievedly and said in unison, "Mom, are you going to fly?"
Lan Qiyan rubbed his two adopted sons’ heads with both hands, “What a mistake, what a mistake, I thought they were here to cause trouble again, what’s going on?”
Yuze came over and said, "Mom, this is a long story."
"Then let's make a long story short."
"Not short."
Lan Qiyan really wanted to give him a slap. "Speak."
Yuze was startled, "Just say it, Mom, your voice is too loud."
Her voice was indeed loud, and it scared the two families who were fighting so much that they stopped.
After the two groups separated, Lan Qiyan discovered that there was a skinny woman with tear marks all over her face sitting in the middle.
"What's going on? Are you two players violent? You made the woman look like this?
You have the nerve to fight outside, and you even fight in front of my house, disturbing my sleep. I want to die."
Lan Qiyan was originally tall and fat, and now he had a cold face, which made the male laborers of the two families a little scared.
The woman was dragged away, and she kept looking back at Lan Qiyan, as if asking him to save her.
Lan Qiyan was a little confused. "What's going on? Can anyone tell me?"
Old Lady Yu sighed, "Come in, mother said."
Lan Qiyan took another look. The woman was slapped, but she kept looking back.
Lan Qiyan walked into the room, pulled a stool nearby and sat down, "Come on, tell me."
"Have you ever heard of pawning a wife?"
"Pawning a wife? I only know about sharing a wife. It means that the family is poor and can't afford to marry a wife, so the brothers marry one wife. There is one in Taohua Village, but when I heard about it, the poor woman had already jumped into the river and committed suicide."
Old Lady Yu couldn’t stop sighing today, “It’s even more pitiful to pawn a wife.
The woman just now is from our Yushi Village and has been married for five years.
The three laborers just now were her brothers from her mother's side.
His surname was also Yu. His names, from oldest to youngest, were Wei Jinbao, Yinbao, and Zhubao. His three daughters were named Yuncao, Yuni, and Yuhua.
This is the eldest daughter, Yucao, who asked for five taels of silver when she got married.
It is said that her husband's family had objections to her at first because of the betrothal gift of five taels of silver. Later, after she gave birth to two sons in succession, her status gradually rose.
Later, someone thought that she could give birth to a son, so they asked her to help give birth to a child, and they would give her five to ten taels of silver as long as it was a boy.
Under this temptation, her husband agreed, so she was pawned out in the third year of their marriage. She also worked hard, gave birth to three sons in three years, and earned thirty taels.
In the past few years, she has been pregnant and giving birth, and then getting pregnant again after the confinement period.
But your family knew about this way of making money, so they wanted you to divorce Yucao and make money for them."
After Old Lady Yu finished speaking, Lan Qiyan did not respond for a long time. After a long while, he asked, "How big is the jade grass?"
“He should be 19 now.”
"Fuck... these are a bunch of worse than beasts. I'm so mad at you." She stood up and paced back and forth.
Yulin spoke up at the right time, "Mom, you can't save her. Her husband's family won't divorce her, and her parents are eyeing her covetously."
Lan Qiyan was so angry that he said, "You little bastard, you are the worm in my stomach."
"Mom, it's not that I'm selfish. Saving a life is very costly. Her husband's family can even sue you for meddling in other people's business. I have no reason or position to do so.
This kind of thing happens in every village, and the government turns a blind eye to it. We can’t do anything about it.”
Lan Qiyan sneered. Yes, she was powerless. Is this era so cruel to women?
Thinking about it this way, she was quite grateful to Old Lady Yu for giving her the identity she was. She was a widow, and a fat widow at that. When robbers came, they would only rob her of her money and not her body.
"I understand. I won't act rashly. Don't worry."
She can't even save herself, how can she save others?
However, apart from Yu Xiu, no one believed that she would remain indifferent.
Sure enough, in the middle of the night, a fat body crawled out.
Except for Yu Xiu who was soundly sleeping, everyone else got up.
"Brother, are you going to rescue them?"
"Not necessarily, but she must have gone to chat with Sister Yucao."
"Hey, did she listen to what I said during the day?"
"I listened to it during the day."
"Brother, what nonsense you are talking about."
"Brother, what eldest brother means is that mother listens during the day but not at night." Yu Zhen said with a smile.
Lan Qiyan asked his mother-in-law Yucao about the location of her parents' home during the day. It was located in the south of the village, with a big locust tree at the door.
According to reliable intelligence, the two families reached an agreement that the money Yucao earned would be shared equally by each family.
How sad that a group of grown men have to rely on betraying women to accomplish their goals.
She quietly walked to the woodshed and unlocked the bolt outside, "Yucao?"
A figure struggled out from the pile of firewood, "Ahhhhhhh..."
"Shh, you can't talk, can you?"
Yucao took Lan Qiyan's hand and put it in her mouth. Lan Qiyan touched it and the tongue was gone.
She was furious. "How ridiculous! How ridiculous! Why did you cut off your tongue?"
"Because they are afraid that my sister will run out and ask for help." A childish voice sounded behind Lan Qiyan.
She turned around to protect Yucao, "Who are you?"
"Hello, Sister Yan, I am Yuhua."
"You are Yuhua? Isn't Yuhua 13? You..."
Yuhua sneered, "Don't be surprised, sister-in-law. Because I didn't eat well and sleep well, I was shorter than others since I was a child, so they can't exchange me for silver until now."
Hearing this, Lan Qiyan was relieved, "What are your plans next?"
"Sister-in-law Yan, can you save my sister's life?"
"What are you going to do?" Sister, there is nothing the elder sister can do.
"Sister-in-law Yan, I beg you to save my elder sister."
Yucao crawled to Yuhua, covered her mouth and shook her head. She didn't want to live at all, but who could save her two younger sisters.
Lan Qiyan has been sighing all day. For the first time, he feels that this Taobao space is useless.
She scratched her head, "Aren't you three sisters? You're missing one."
"My second sister is tied up in my parents' house, and she will be given to a widower as his second wife tomorrow.
The widower was in his thirties and his first wife was beaten to death.
But the betrothal gift he offered was high, ten taels of silver, and my parents agreed."
Lan Qiyan touched the five taels of silver in his waist bag and thought about how five taels of silver would be needed to buy those ten snakes.
She only gets 60 coins for catching a snake, but if she buys it from the space, it costs 600 coins per snake, which is ten times more. This broken space is so rip-off.
"Yuhua, sometimes people need to save themselves and rely on themselves to survive."
"Sister Yan, I know you can catch snakes, let's make a deal."
Lan Qiyan raised an eyebrow, "Oh? What kind of snake do you want?"
"Viper!"
"How poisonous? Will it kill people or not?"
"Half dead!"
"Tugong snake, 600 coins each, I risked my life to catch it."
Yuhua took out three taels of silver, and Yucao beside her widened her eyes, as if asking where the silver came from!
"Humph, stealing from my parents and selling my second sister's deposit."
"Wait!" After saying that, Lan Qiyan left, closing the door gently.
An hour later, Lan Qiyan came back and threw in a bag. "Three taels of silver, five earth snakes, two pit vipers, and a small flower snake, non-venomous. Let it bite you a few times. You have to put on a good show!"
The two men exchanged money and goods, and then went their separate ways.
Soon, heart-wrenching cries were heard from every room.
When the neighbors arrived, they found that except for the three girls with wounds on their hands and faces, there was a snake on the other people's bodies, biting them as if no one was around.