The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

The few family members who came with them were even more envious after hearing this.

The Yang Shulin family is one of the poorest families in the village.

A widow has several children and often comes to borrow things from others. Which family in the village doesn't despise them?

Unexpectedly, Yang Shulin was so lucky that he found a wife with so much food.

Although the marriage certificate did not specify the amount of silver, but with so much food, I think there must be quite a lot of silver.

Several people from Yang Shulin's family kept looking around Lu Tianming's group, trying to find another single girl without family.

Unfortunately, all the girls of marriageable age in the team are already married.

As a last resort, they even glanced at Aunt Lu.

When the brothers Wang Dashan and Wang Dahe saw this, they glared back fiercely.

They had asked before, but his sister didn't plan to look for one again!

Seeing the fierce eyes of the two sturdy men, those people were so scared that they looked away.

Yang Shulin's mother was still immersed in joy and didn't notice the gloomy expressions of Lu Tianming and Cui.

Yang Shulin saw that the situation was not good and pulled his mother's sleeve.

Yang Shulin's mother finally came back to her senses from her excitement and said to Lu Tianming and Cui:

"Uncle and aunt Xing'er, don't worry. When Xing'er gets married, I will definitely treat her like my own daughter, just like my own daughter Cao'er. You can rest assured!"

Cui really looked down on this old woman, but she couldn't make things awkward today.

She could only force a smile and reply with a few words.

In the side room, Lu Qingqing withdrew her gaze outside and looked at Bai Xing'er, who was sitting on the kang, looking a little shy and confused.

"Sister Xing'er, you're already engaged now, so I won't say any more words of advice to you.

When you get married, your half of the food will be kept in my house.

It will take several months until the beginning of next spring.

If you can live well at Yang Shulin's house, we will send you the remaining food before we leave.

If so, if you encounter any problems there, please come back and tell us.

I and the people in the team are all your family members!"

Bai Xing'er listened to Lu Qingqing's words and tears fell down her face.

It took a while before I recovered.

She hugged Lu Qingqing and said with a choked voice:

"Daya, I'm a little scared.

You don’t know, the days I spent with you guys were the happiest times of my life.

Even though we could be robbed at any time on Yunchi Mountain and die at any time in Jingou, no one looked down on me.

I was no longer ridiculed, beaten or scolded.

I don’t know if after marrying Yang Shulin, I can still live like I do now, without anyone beating, scolding or laughing at me.

But I am seventeen years old this year and already an old girl in the village.

My mother used to say that when a woman reaches a certain age, she should find a husband and get married.

If you marry too late and become an old maid, you won’t be able to find a good one.

My mother didn't come to find my father until she was 19 because she was helping with housework.

You don’t know, before I was nine years old, my mother was beaten all day long, and her face was bruised and swollen, and I didn’t have a single piece of good skin on my body.

It wasn't until my father died that year that life got better for my mother and me.

I just want to live a good life!"

Bai Xing'er said this with both tears and laughter on her face.

"Daya, I know you all don't think highly of Yang Shulin.

But ever since I was raped by those beasts..., my life has been ruined.

If I don’t get married, what else can I do?

I told Yang Shulin about the matter that day and he said he didn't mind it.

He said his family was also poor, and as long as I didn’t look down on his family, he would be willing to live a good life with me.”

Lu Qingqing looked at Bai Xing'er who was immersed in memories and felt a little sorry for the little girl.

"Sister Xing'er, like I told you before, everyone has the opportunity to choose how to live their life.

I still say the same thing as before, if you don’t have a good time there, you can always come back.”

Bai Xing'er looked at Lu Qingqing standing against the light and thought of the first time she met her.

At that time, she and two other girls in the village were tied up by bandits in a dark hut where no light could be seen.

The door will only open when those beasts come to bully them.

She felt like she had been locked up there for a very long time, so long that it felt like a lifetime!

Until that day, it was this little girl who opened the door and rescued her.

It was the same that day, she stood at the door against the light.

At that time, she thought that this little girl must have been sent by the Goddess of Mercy to save them.

In fact, when the two girls were about to hang themselves, they came and called her.

But she doesn't want to die, she wants to live well!

She desperately begged the team to take her with them, and sure enough, everyone in the team was as soft-hearted as this little girl.

He actually brought the useless girl with him.

The longer she followed the group, the more she realized that this little girl was different.

She can draw the bow and shoot arrows, and wield the knife with great vigor.

He even became a disciple of Master Yan, and like a group of boys, he learned a good set of martial arts.

He also saved teams in distress several times.

She thought that this little girl was really amazing!

It was not until she learned more about her that she realized that this little girl had been sold by her family as a child bride.

No one knew the impact that moment had on her.

It turns out that there are girls who can really climb out of the quagmire!

Since she can, then she can do it too!

She worked hard to learn martial arts, hoping to become as strong as Daya.

When she escaped from Jingou, she was holding the bloody knife that she had pulled out of the soldier's body.

For the first time, I felt like I could do it!

Later, I traveled through the ice and snow, and my hands and feet were frozen countless times.

It was only with his strong determination that he managed to follow the team to Linshan Village.

As she thought about it, Bai Xing'er smiled.

She buried her face in Lu Qingqing's arms and spoke softly.

"Daya, thank you so much!"

......

A few days later, it was Bai Xing'er's wedding day.

The whole yard was decorated festively, with red cloth hung at the door and on the walls.

Logically, red lanterns should be hung at the gate of the courtyard, but it is unfortunately inconvenient to go out and buy them now.

This red cloth was put together by Lu Qingqing, Lu Tianming and Yao County Magistrate.

Early in the morning, everyone got up and started working.

Lu Qingqing was in Bai Xing'er's room, watching the old village chief's wife kneading noodles for her.

I saw the old village chief's wife holding a piece of hemp rope, which was made into a figure eight noose. Her right thumb and index finger supported one end of the figure eight, her left hand pulled one end of the rope, and she bit the other end of the rope in her mouth.

Open and close the thumb of your right hand, and coordinate with your left hand and the right hand to put the thread on your face in an eight-shaped shape and pull it back and forth to remove the sweat hair.

After the dough was kneaded, Cui came over with cosmetics and helped Bai Xing'er put on makeup.

After putting on makeup, Bai Xing'er's face looked like it was covered with a thick layer of putty.

Lu Qingqing looked at the girl, who was originally pretty, but her original appearance could no longer be seen after the putty was applied.