59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang.

"Crazy, crazy!"

"Shut up! You woke up my grandson. I'll beat you to death!" The old man came out of the house very unhappy and cursed in a low voice: "Why are you so loud?"

Sha Zhu smiled awkwardly and said, "Hey, I'm going to find the madman."

Chen Feng was warming himself by the fire in the bedroom, supervising Chen Li and the other two little ones taking a nap. He glanced at the three girls who were pretending to be asleep with their eyes closed but whose eyebrows were still twitching, and decided to go out and talk.

As soon as he went out, the three little ones sat up immediately.

"I am thirsty, are you thirsty?"

The two little heads knocked against each other hard.

"Hehe, let's get up and drink some water."

When Chen Feng came out of the bedroom, Sha Zhu had already opened the study door.

"what's up?"

"I was bringing food to Qiu Ye, and guess who I ran into?" Sha Zhu's face was full of gloating, and he looked too mean, especially like a well-known traitor in Beijing named Zhao Er!

"your dad?"

Chen Feng said unhappily.

Shazhu's face turned dark. The person he least wanted to mention and hated to hear about the most was his father!

"That old man is living happily in Baoding!"

The resentment in these words is almost the same as that in Nine Lifetimes of Resentment, which shows that the hatred is extreme.

"That's your mother?"

"Nonsense, you are talking nonsense!" Seeing that he was not fooled, Sha Zhu said, "I saw Widow Meng arguing with her daughter. Her fierce daughter found a family and wanted to be a child bride for them."

Child brides, also known as "adoptive daughters-in-law", are infant girls or young girls raised by their husband's family until they reach adulthood and are officially married. In the old days, child brides were very popular in China.

After the establishment of the new society, although this kind of thing was officially banned, there were huge difficulties in its actual implementation.

After all, many families really cannot afford to support themselves, and forcing them is unrealistic.

This kind of thing still existed in the countryside in the 90s, and it is still very common now. Many people who cannot make a living in the countryside have no choice but to send their children to certain foster families in the city under various pretexts.

"Huh?" Chen Feng was a little surprised.

This Meng Xiaoxing is really capable!

That’s cruel enough!

Being a child bride for someone else, what's the difference between that and selling yourself?

Of course, there are still differences.

During the Republic of China period, this was truly selling one's body.

Now, it's like foster care. Whether they will get married in the future depends on their attitudes.

"Didn't Xu Damao send her back to her hometown to let her inherit the Meng family's land and property, planning to find a live-in son-in-law in the future to continue the Meng family's incense?"

Country people have a strong obsession with the continuation of their ancestral bloodline and the worship of incense.

The Meng family is also a family of the same surname in the local area. All villagers are of the same clan and are relatively united towards the outside world.

If the village had not been short of food and had not been in a difficult situation and had not been unable to feed them, they might not have agreed to let Widow Meng marry into the city with her two daughters.

Cutting off the bloodline is a great act of unfilial piety.

"You know how hard it is to farm." Sha Zhu sneered, "Spring planting and autumn harvest, the scorching sun, farming under the scorching sun, living like a 50-year-old before the age of 30, what daughter would want that? It's not as comfortable as living in the city."

Shazhu is talking nonsense. Farm work is hard, but it’s not like you can live like fifty at the age of thirty.

It's just that the skin is easily tanned and calluses are easily formed on the hands.

"So she came back again?" Chen Feng said speechlessly.

However, considering that in another story she "wanted to be" the goddaughter of the ragged marquis and was prepared to inherit the marquis's huge fortune, it seems that being a child bride for someone else is not a big deal.

They all took the initiative to come to the house to be goddaughters, so it’s not impossible to be a child bride!

Anyway, they are still young. When they grow up and really want to get married, it depends on their own wishes. The current law does not support forced marriage, even if the child bride has been raised for more than ten years.

"Are you surprised?"

Sha Zhu couldn't help but twist the corner of his mouth, looking especially like the Black Dragon King, who was just waiting for the three-year period to end so that the eight million troops could turn from the north to the south to conquer the small Xu family!

"I guess so. I've learned something new. Which idiot agreed to this?"

Chen Feng was very curious about who would be willing to foster him.

"I don't know him. I heard he's from West City. That family had a stupid son and they were worried that he wouldn't be able to find a wife in the future."

"You know this too?"

"How could I not know that someone else brought their stupid son to the hospital to visit their mother-in-law!"

The corner of Shazhu's mouth is crooked again!

This ugly expression forced Chen Feng to turn his head and look away. He was afraid that he would not be able to help but slap his traitorous face.

"That's not right. They are both stupid sons, so why do they have to go to the hospital? Aren't you afraid that Widow Meng will get mad?"

"You don't know this. Child brides are not something you can decide on. If Widow Meng doesn't sign and explain, and their family directly adopts someone else's daughter, and someone reports it, that's trafficking in women, and they'll be shot!"

It was a rare opportunity for Sha Zhu to teach Chen Feng in this area, so his voice couldn't help but be a little louder.

"He Yuzhu!"

The old man's dissatisfied and scolding voice was heard from the yard again.

Sha Zhu lowered his voice again and said, "Only if the situation is explained clearly and Widow Meng admits it, can this matter be settled. Otherwise, hehe, as long as Xu Damao makes a fuss, that family will be in trouble."

Chen Feng was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I think Xu Damao will definitely not make a fuss. He might even be hoping for this."

"Ah, why?"

Now it was Shazhu's turn to be unhappy.

Seeing that his face was no longer cunning and his mouth was no longer crooked, Chen Feng looked him straight in the face and said, "If you think of yourself as Xu Damao, you will understand."

Sha Zhu argued, "But this is embarrassing. Xu Damao's daughter is being raised as a child bride. Isn't he afraid that everyone will laugh at him to death?"

"Do you think Xu Damao is a man with a sense of shame?" Chen Feng asked back with interest, and just made Sha Zhu unable to do anything!

Sha Zhu has his dignity saved, especially in front of Xu Damao. He would rather be poor and wear open-crotch pants than to lose face over his old rival.

“This guy seems shameless!”

Sha Zhu was silent for a long time, and finally had to utter these words.

"That's right." Chen Feng smiled and shook his head: "Besides, his last name is Xu, and her last name is Meng. She is not his real daughter. Even if it gets out and people misunderstand that Xu Damao is unwilling to raise a stepdaughter, at most it's just idle talk for fun. Who would call him cruel?"

"Don't you see the current situation? Our own family is starving, so how can we have enough food to feed someone else's daughter?"