A few days later, Zhao Guai took his eldest apprentice to another place to buy girls.

This gave the second apprentice another chance to plot against Qiao Jiwei.He has always been worried about Zhao Guai buying a man over, thinking that no one else would want a man at all.In fact, Zhao Guai had planned for a long time to sell Qiao Jiwei to Lin'an as a servant girl for the high officials and nobles to play with.But Zhao Guai's second apprentice couldn't think of this, and only speculated about other men from his point of view, thinking that all men in the world like women.

It just so happened that someone from a village nearby offered ten taels of silver to beg for a daughter-in-law.

This man, surnamed Qian, is already 24 years old. His father has passed away. Because his family is poor, he has not been able to get a wife so far.If in modern society, 24 years old is still a niche.But in ancient society, if you can't marry a daughter-in-law at the age of 24, it is too late and you will be laughed at by your neighbors.He searched all the corners and corners of the house, and with the aid of the nearest branch, he managed to scrape together three taels of silver.But this can't marry a daughter-in-law, so I have no choice but to buy a girl as a wife.Thinking about doing things on the day of the bridal chamber, even if the girl is unwilling, but the raw rice is cooked, the girl can only follow him in the end.

The middleman himself felt shabby, and when he arrived at the destination, there were only Zhao Guai's second apprentice and a few of his subordinates.

"Three taels of silver can't even buy a fraction of a girl's price. This family really has the face to buy someone." The middleman, Mother Sun, couldn't help muttering to Zhao Guai's second apprentice, exposing the family's shortcomings.

When Zhao Guai's second apprentice heard this, he immediately thought of Qiao Jiwei.He smiled knowingly when he heard Mama Sun's complaint, and decided to sell Qiao Jiwei to them.I think it is enough to buy a person for ten renminbi and sell it for three liang of silver.This business is worth it.

Taking advantage of Zhao Guai and his eldest apprentice not coming back, Zhao Guai's second apprentice asked Qiao Jiwei to wear bright red clothes and asked him to follow them.

Only taking him away alone, Qiao Jiwei felt a little strange, "Where are you going?"

Zhao Guai's second apprentice raised his eyebrows: "It's really troublesome, just follow along."

At dusk, Zhao Guai's second apprentice led those people to coerce Qiao Jiwei into the village.Once upon a time, the setting sun had gone down the mountain, and the whole village was shrouded in a kind of yellow light, which came from nowhere, bathing the surrounding area in a bright light.But that is only the last light, which means that it will be dark soon.Qiao Jiwei didn't know why they brought him here.

Seeing no one around, Zhao Guai's second apprentice tied Qiao Jiwei's legs and feet with a rope, gagged his mouth, and stuffed him into a sack.Only then did Qiao Jiwei know the reason. It turned out that he was going to be sold.

Mother Sun came to greet them in person and led them to the married man's home.

Looking from a distance, the family's house is indeed very shabby, surrounded by bamboo fences, and there are only four thatched huts.There are also weeds growing on the ridge.Peanuts and bacon hung on the walls were the only extravagant decorations in this room.

The husband who was going to marry a wife was also wearing a bright red robe with a red flower pinned to it, which was rented at a market five miles away.Standing there waiting a little anxiously, seeing a group of people coming in with sacks in their arms, they smiled heartily.

The man's mother was standing in the high hall, looking a bit fierce. "Look, didn't the daughter-in-law come in? You were so anxious just now!" After hearing that, the man laughed even more, feeling a little embarrassed.

Mama Sun came in first, "Look! Here comes the bride!"

The person behind carried a large sack and entered the house.Put the sack in the middle of the house.The sack kept shaking, like a silkworm chrysalis.Since the sack entered the house, the "groom" has been looking at the sack and never left.

Mother Qian hurriedly got up and handed three liang of silver to Mother Sun: "Oh! I finally have a daughter-in-law for the child, thanks to you."

Turning around to take a look at her son, she couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, thinking that she was crazy about her daughter-in-law, she pointed at him, and then laughed at Mama Sun: "Look at my silly son, look at my daughter-in-law. Crazy."

Sun's mother also turned her head to look, covered her mouth and laughed, "Don't marry a daughter-in-law and forget your mother!

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Mother Sun handed over piles of broken silver to Zhao Guai's second apprentice.As soon as he got the money, he urged his subordinates to leave quickly. "Go!" he whispered.

Just as she was about to walk out of the house, Mother Qian noticed her. She opened her mouth and rushed forward to pull him, "Let's go after eating!"

Zhao Guai's second apprentice hastily shook off Qian's mother's hand, "Ma'am is gone, I have to go back, it's getting dark."

Mother Qian insisted on holding his hand, and Zhao Guai's second apprentice showed a bitter look on his face: "Ma'am, it's not that we don't want to stay here for dinner. It's my master who told me to go back in time. Otherwise, he will have to call me." Break my leg! We've got a lot to do there."

Hearing what he said, it was hard for Mother Qian to keep him, her expression froze, and she let go of her hand.

A group of people saw that the master didn't want to stay, so they hurried out.

As soon as he passed through the fence, Zhao Guai's second apprentice ran with his legs wide open.He ran more flustered than a rabbit, as if he was afraid that a wolf would catch up behind him.

"Hurry up to worship! Hurry up to worship!" Mother Sun was impatient, and pushed Qian's mother back to the high hall.

The "bridegroom officer" opened the sack with his own hands, expecting that a young girl in his twenties would come out, but when he opened the sack, a handsome man came out.Although his temperament is a little weak, but the lines on his face are obvious, which can't hide the fact that he is a man.After suffocating in the sack for a long time, Qiao Jiwei felt dizzy and gasped for breath.

The groom's mouth widened in surprise, "Why is it a man!"

Mother Qian and Mother Sun also rolled their eyes in shock at the same time. Mother Qian even jumped off the high hall and grabbed Qiao Jiwei by the collar, "Say! Are you a man or a woman?"

Listening to the conversation just now, Qiao Jiwei has roughly guessed the ins and outs of the matter.Although he sympathizes with the mother and son, he can't become a woman no matter what.He just answered truthfully, tremblingly: "I...I am a man."

When Mother Qian heard this, her heart twitched violently. "Ah", suddenly fell down, unconscious!

"Mother! Mother!" The bridegroom officer hurriedly squatted beside his mother, his face pale with fright.Mother Sun was also dumbfounded, not knowing what to do.

Because he lived in modern times, Qiao Jiwei knew that this was a phenomenon of suspended animation.He also learned the technique of waking up a fainted one.He crawled over and was about to press Mother Qian's chest.

Before he could suppress it, his hand was pinched, "What are you doing?" the groom said a little sternly.

"Let her wake up and tell you that you don't understand either."

The groom puts his hand down.

Pressing rhythmically on Qian's mother's chest, after a while, Qian's mother opened her eyes and woke up.

She opened her eyes and screamed, "The money I've saved all my life! It's all gone!" Weeping and howling, she rolled on the ground and covered her clothes with mud.Mother Sun hurriedly stepped forward to persuade.

"Damn Dayong, the money has already been cheated, so don't be sad. Isn't there an old saying: money is something outside of you..."

This persuasion made Qian's mother cry even more fiercely.Qiao Jiwei froze there, not knowing what to say, and Qian Dayong's face was also gloomy.

Being cheated like this, he stomped his feet angrily. "They shouldn't have run far, I'll chase them..."

Qian Dayong ran out.I ran to the entrance of the village, but I couldn't see a single figure in the distance.The people who sent Qiao Jiwei here had long since disappeared without a trace.The dusk was getting darker, and there were mountains in the distance, and the smoke from the chimneys of the surrounding families was rising, and suddenly a dog barked.

He had to go home.Mother is still crying at home.Mother Sun couldn't persuade her.Qian Dayong glanced at Qiao Jiwei, but couldn't say what he wanted to say, thinking that it would be great if he was a girl.

Suddenly a mother and daughter appeared from outside.The girl's name is Cuihua.Their house is on the right side of Qian's house, and when they heard the crying inside, they thought it was the "bride" crying because of homesickness, but when they entered the house, they realized that it was the "mother-in-law" who was crying. Seeing the figure of the bride in bed, only a strange boy of eighteen or nineteen years old was seen.This is strange.

Cuihua Niang didn't know the specific situation, she thought that the girl's natal family had changed her mind and sent this young man to withdraw from the engagement, so that the girl would not be married here, so she also went up to persuade: "Dayong mother, don't be sad. What can you do if someone doesn't agree with you? It's not that Dayong can't find a girl. Such a good baby must be wanted by someone, just like the man in our family often said: "Where is the end of the world, there is no grass." '."

Although Qian's mother was sobbing and crying with rain, she could hear other people's words clearly.She had always been at odds with Cuihua Niang, and she would go to the Three Treasures Hall for everything, so she came here at this time, most likely to see the excitement in her house.

Mother Qian didn't cry anymore, she took her hand away and stared at Cuihua Niang, with two unhealed tears on her face, "Damn woman, if there is anything wrong with my house, you will come here like a fly! Be careful in the future you My house is plagued by plague, get out of here quickly!"

Cuihua Niang was dumbfounded when she heard it, and she kindly persuaded her, but she didn't expect to eat such a good drink.

He stood up angrily, and walked out resentfully: "Cuihua, go! My kindness has become a meat bun, and I beat the dog and never came back! Don't worry about them!"

Qian's mother was still angry, and her heart felt oppressed, and she saw Sun's mother next to her, with an angry look on her face, pointing her hand directly: "It's not you who recruited those people, if it wasn't for you, we Can you be coaxed? You dirty bitch who only cares about money, I knew you were not a good thing!"

Mama Sun was ashamed, so she had to lower her head, "Damn Dayong, it was my fault, if you scold me to make it easier, you can scold me."

Mother Qian scolded enough, she wandered around, fixed her eyes on Qiao Jiwei, changed her finger, and pointed to him, "Little Zhuzi, don't pretend to be pitiful here, don't think I don't know if you're with them, See if I don't break your dog legs!"

After talking, I looked around and saw a stick in the corner of the room.He hastily crawled over, took the stick in his hand, and ran up to Qiao Jiwei to swing it at him. Seeing that the situation was not going well, Qian Dayong quickly blocked it with his own body. Qian's mother hurriedly withdrew her hand, put the stick on the ground, and pointed it at her son. Angrily scolded: "Why are you protecting him! Do you really treat him as a daughter-in-law?"

"Mother, he was also sold, just like us, he was cheated by human teeth!" Qian Dayong said with some sadness.

Seeing Qian's mother hysterical like this, Mama Sun was startled, and stepped forward to persuade her: "Damn Dayong, there is no one in the world who is in collusion with the betrayed person! If you really want to beat someone, you can Hit me, after all, I brought those people here."

After speaking, she took the stick from Mother Qian and threw it at herself, Mother Qian quickly withdrew her hand and threw the stick outside the house.

After a while, Mama Sun said again: "I'll look for them tomorrow. If they act arrogantly, I'll go to the Yamen to file a complaint. Master Qingtian will definitely make the decision for us."

Mother Qian's expression became gentle after listening to Mother Sun's words, but she took another hard look at Qiao Jiwei, and said unforgivingly: "Don't think that you have nothing to do, sooner or later you will not be spared."

After repeated persuasion by Sun's mother, Qian's mother's anger finally calmed down.

Seeing that things were settled, Qiao Jiwei felt that there was no need for him to stay. "Then can I go now?" After speaking, he took a step forward, running and jumping to go out the door.

"Stop him quickly!" Mother Qian shouted anxiously.Although Qiao Jiwei is not a girl, they bought it with all their wealth. It is always good to have one more person, so we can't just let him go like this.

Qian Dayong took the first step and stood on the door, blocking his way.

It seemed that he couldn't leave, Qiao Jiwei pursed his lips and smiled at Qian Dayong, "Okay, I won't leave."

Mother Sun and Mother Qian chatted in the high hall, saying how shameless those people were.After a quarter of an hour, Qian Dayong lit the lamp. This lamp was originally used in the new house, but in today's state, the lamp is definitely useless.

Mother Sun saw that it was getting late, and the village where she lived was still two miles away.So he bid farewell: "Mother Dayong, I still have to cook for my old man, let's go first!"

"Will you leave without eating?"

With such an incident, Mama Sun no longer has the face to eat his family's wedding meal. "No."

Sending Sun's mother out, Qian's mother asked Qian Dayong to close the door.Marriage is a big event, and the whole village will definitely come to see the excitement soon, family ugliness must not be publicized, let alone this kind of scandal.The three returned to the house again. "Let's eat!" Mother Qian said in a low voice.

Qiao Jiwei was hungry at noon, seeing the room full of food on the table swallowed several times, and almost couldn't hold back.The meals on the table are all peasant stir-fries. Although they are not delicacies from mountains and seas, they are fragrant and tantalizing enough.Hearing this permission, he was the first to pick up the chopsticks and wanted to pick up the vegetables.

Mother Qian slapped the table hard when she saw his frivolous behavior.When Qiao Jiwei heard the sound, he slapped his chopsticks on the table and stopped eating his family's food.

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