Don't be a salted fish, the daily life of the concubine in the palace

A group of people blocked the door of the house tightly.

Shen Wei frowned secretly.

The old lady was the matchmaker in the village, often arranging marriages for girls from different families. The old lady smiled and called Shen Wei: "Why are you still standing there? Come in and pour us some water."

Yuanfu doesn't open the door.

Shen Wei said: "I don't want to get married yet, so don't stay at the door of my house."

The old lady pointed at Shen Wei and said to the middle-aged man, "Look, Xier is shy. Girls are always shy before they get married."

The middle-aged man was from the same village and everyone called him Lao Huang.

Old Huang looked Shen Wei up and down with his cunning eyes, his eyes full of brilliance.

Two years ago, Lao Huang married a woman. When his wife gave birth, she had a difficult labor, and her in-laws chose to keep the baby. As a result, the mother died of severe bleeding, leaving behind two thin sons.

Having two precious sons at once, Old Huang felt more confident and had more face in the village.

But soon, Lao Huang found that he had no wife at home, and his two babies could only be taken care of by two elderly people. He could not have a hot meal when he came home from fishing, and his children were also skinny.

He is in his forties, with elderly parents and young children to support, and a family to support. No girl dares to marry him.

He soon set his sights on Yuan Xier from the same village. Xier had no parents, only a younger brother, and was pretty. He thought it would be the best choice to marry her home as a wife. She would not fight back even if he beat or scolded her, after all, she had no support from her family.

Old Huang gave some money to the village matchmaker.

So today, a group of people came to propose marriage.

"He is almost fifty years old, how can he marry my sister!" Yuanfu's face turned red with anger.

The old lady smiled and said, "It's good to be old. Only when you are old can you know how to care for others."

Yuanfu was angry: "Then why don't you marry him and let him love you more."

The old lady glared at Yuanfu and said, "You are a child who knows nothing and is just talking nonsense. I am looking for a husband for your sister. Come into the house and bring out some stools and boil a pot of water."

Just as the old lady finished her words, another group of people came from the other end of the intersection of the fishing village.

It was another bachelor in the village who came with his family to propose marriage.

When the two groups met, they disliked each other and started cursing at the top of their lungs on the spot.

"I was the one who took a fancy to Xier first, why are you trying to snatch her away?"

"I brought a matchmaker with me today to propose marriage. I came before you."

"You've got half your foot in the coffin, why don't you take a piss and look at yourself in the mirror?"

Yuanjia Fishing Village was not big, and the noise in front of Shen Wei's door quickly alarmed the whole village. There were many old bachelors in the fishing village who coveted Shen Wei, and after hearing the news, they all crowded over and joined the quarrel.

In the fishing village, men outnumber women, and there is a culture of favoring boys over girls. Baby girls are drowned in the sea, while baby boys are carefully raised. Over the years, there are at least a dozen elderly bachelors in the village.

Other fishermen looked down on them, so they set their sights on Yuan Xier. Now these bachelors or widowers crowded in front of Shen Wei's house, escalating from quarrels to fights, competing for the ownership of Yuan Xier.

Amid the quarrel, Shen Wei and Yuan Fu closed the door and propped it against it with a wooden stick.

"Sister, how can they do this! You are a human being, not a fish." Yuanfu was so angry that he kept wiping away his tears.

Shen Wei sighed.

Human nature is despicable, it is what it is.

Shen Wei's original plan was to recover in the fishing village and then collect seafood with her brother to exchange for money. After accumulating enough silver, she would go to Qing Kingdom.

She couldn't wait for Li Yuanjing to rescue her.

It is never better to rely on yourself than on others.

But Shen Wei really underestimated the human nature of the fishing village. No matter how smart and wise she was, she could not survive safely in the covetousness of a group of evil spirits even if she lived in the village for a long time.

She had to leave the fishing village as soon as possible, the sooner the better.

"Brother, how much money do we have left?" Shen Wei pulled Yuan Fu back into the house, and the two talked in a low voice.

Yuanfu dragged a wooden box out from under the bed and counted the copper coins inside: "Including the money from selling clams today, there are three hundred copper coins. Sister, you were seriously ill a few days ago, and you spent a lot of money."

There is a difference in the prices of goods in Donglin Kingdom and Qing Kingdom. The copper coins in Donglin Kingdom are not very valuable, and one hundred copper coins are only worth one hundred coins.

Shen Wei calculated the value of three hundred copper coins in her mind. To go to Qing Kingdom, three hundred copper coins were not enough. But Shen Wei had made up her mind. She had to leave this broken fishing village. She could go to the imperial capital in the east, where she had a branch of the store.

In these years, there was no war between countries, and Shen Wei's business territory blossomed in all the countries on the mainland. In the imperial capital of Donglin Kingdom, there was also a shop opened by Shen Wei.

As long as you contact the branch, you will have the opportunity to return to Qingguo.

"Pack your luggage, take some dry food, and leave after dark." Shen Wei instructed Yuanfu.

Yuanfu's face turned pale. After guessing his sister's intention, he nodded vigorously after a while: "Sister, wherever you go, I will go."

At this time, the noise outside the house had died down. The fishermen's fight had alarmed the village's respected old chief, who stepped in and put an end to the farce.

The old village chief certainly wasn't standing up for Shen Wei.

The old village chief gathered all these old bachelors together and asked them to sit down and discuss who should marry Yuan Xier.

After arguing for a long time, there was no result.

Everyone wants to take Yuan Xier for himself.

After discussing for a long time, someone couldn't help but suggest: "How about we each marry her for a year? This year she goes to my house, and next year she goes to Old Huang's house, and both give birth to a fat baby for us. Anyway, she has no parents, so it's good enough that she's alive."

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole audience fell silent.

The old village chief was smoking a water pipe, his dim eyes rolling around, but he didn't refute.

The golden sun at the beach slowly sank into the sea, and the sky gradually darkened.

...

After dark, Shen Wei certainly wouldn't just run away with her brother. That would be very risky and easy to be noticed.

So, Shen Wei first asked Yuanfu to pretend to go to the beach to catch the night sea and pretend to have picked up a big giant clam.

Yuanfu, carrying a large bag, deliberately shouted at the door: "Sister! I found a really big giant clam! I can exchange it for a lot of money!"

Shen Wei opened the door and pretended to be delighted: "Really? Let's go to the county town and sell it right away."

Yuanfu deliberately asked: "How about going to the county tomorrow?"

Shen Wei replied: "That won't work. If it dies tonight, we won't be able to sell it for a good price. Let's go to the night market in the county and sell it."

The siblings' voices were so loud that they could be heard by the neighbors next door. Qiaojie, a fisherman's daughter, impatiently opened the window and said sarcastically, "It's no big deal to just pick up a broken giant clam. Keep your voices down and don't disturb my sleep."

Yuanfu scratched his head and said, "Oh, then I'll keep my voice down. Qiaojie, you go to sleep first. My sister and I will go to the night market to sell giant clams."

Shen Wei and Yuan Fu left in the night carrying their luggage.

Qiaojie curled her lips, cursed "junk", and then closed the window.