Chapter VII The Year
The village chief's words had just finished speaking, but Feng Cheng immediately refused: "No need!"
The tone was serious, completely different from his usual gentle and drizzly tone. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info made He Qing, who was sitting on the side, couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat. But then he reacted and immediately smiled at He Qing to apologize.
He Qing couldn't help but feel a little guilty.
Feng Cheng's body is like this, and he can't usually move, and in order to avoid fat accumulation or other problems, he must be very particular about what he eats every day. Now it must have been her who came suddenly, and in order to accommodate himself as a guest, he reluctantly ate with him.
Because I don't eat these things often, I will inevitably have an unacceptable appetite for a while, so I eat very little. If it weren't for the bad appetite, the village chief wouldn't be so nervous.
He Qing hurriedly persuaded: "It's okay, Uncle Feng, or you can eat a little more!"
He said to the village chief, "Uncle He, where is the porridge? ”
With that, he left for the kitchen.
Who knew that as soon as she finished speaking, she saw that the village chief's reaction was even more violent than Feng Cheng just now: "No!"
The village chief jerked up straight, his movements so quick and sudden that he almost knocked the table in front of him over.
It wasn't until the dishes on the table jingled that he reacted, then looked at Feng Cheng hesitantly, and sat down reluctantly: "Forget it, if you don't have an appetite, you won't eat, let's eat a little more at night!"
The host said so, and He Qing naturally didn't want to say anything more. In addition, because of what Feng Cheng said in the morning, she was embarrassed to stay in the courtyard for a long time, and after eating, she hurried out under the pretext of seeing the changes in the village.
I haven't seen it for a few years, and the village is almost the same as before.
There are yellow clay embryo houses, sometimes mixed with a few red brick houses. The whole small village came over, and there were only three two-story buildings, including the one of the village chief's house.
Of course, this village is poor, and all their money is basically used to marry a daughter-in-law.
From this point of view, they still have a bit of conscience, and the daughters-in-law married by the men in the village have never been those poor women who have been trafficked. They were all led by the village chief, who secretly bought those school-age women who were willing to be daughters-in-law from other more remote places. Whether you are married or unmarried, the price is clearly marked. And what they can do is save money, keep saving money.
But there is no other money to make a living in this mountain, and they work hard all year round, and they just rely on the land to earn some hard-earned money. Now that the road out of the mountain has been blocked, no new woman has come in for two or three years.
That's fine.
He Qing sighed: Let's do less evil.
Men here are willing to spend money to buy, and in more remote and poorer places, there are also people who sell, and the families formed by the two are basically the same as normal families, even if there are occasional wives beaten, they are still within the controllable range. After all, the mountains are too poor, and girls from good families are reluctant to marry them.
Just to talk about these things, everyone is willing to do it, and they are also harmonious with each other, although they are against human rights, their lives are not bad, and He Qing really has no position to say anything.
The reason why she dislikes it is not because of the fact that bachelors spend money on daughters-in-law. It's because everyone here doesn't treat girls as human beings.
It's a very strange thought, and it's very helpless.
Spending a lot of money to marry a daughter-in-law, the big guys all want to live a good life, so some people even listen to their daughters-in-law very much. But if the daughter-in-law gives birth to a child, especially a girl, it is different.
For them, a useless female baby, raised for one or two decades, although it can be sold for tens of thousands, but there is a lack of medicine in the mountains, and there are many risks, not everyone can be raised to adulthood, so it is not cost-effective.
The most important thing is that since 20 years ago, most of the girls in the village have not lived past the age of six.
Except for He Qing.
On this point, she has not been able to figure out what is going on since she was a child.
At the age when she vaguely remembered, every year when a girl was born in the village, the elders of the family would cruelly throw them down in a cave. The cave was formed somehow, and the entrance of the cave was slanted downward, and the newborn babies were thrown into it, and they would roll down the slope until they were dead. The villagers guessed that it should be very deep, maybe it was still some kind of beast's lair, after all, it had never been filled after so many years.
There are also people who love their daughters.
But what about that? They have worked hard to earn their families, and they love their daughters like jewels, and they can't understand this barbaric practice. But children can't always be by their side every day, and they will die slowly.
Or sick, or unexpected. And every time their young lives die, their families will be heartbroken and grief-stricken.
Over time, no one is willing to raise a daughter anymore.
After all, when the child was born, if you want to abandon her, it will be just two days of pain. But once you take care of it for a few years, you have a deeper relationship with each other, and you take care of it every day, but you still can't stop this damn fate...... The loss in this case is really heartbreaking!
He Qing is an exception, but everyone can accept the fact that she grew up smoothly, but it is just because she is not born in the village.
At that time, the man of the He family had a physical problem, and although he bought a daughter-in-law, he could not have children. At this time, they went out to work and picked up a newborn child.
When He Qing was young, she didn't encounter accidents, but she had a big life and always survived in the end...... This fact made the villagers even more convinced that this land was a curse on the girl.
And she also calculated her eight characters when she grew up, only to know that she was actually not related to the He family, and only roughly knew the time of her birth.
Because of this custom, He Qing really hated this place, and after her parents died, Grandma He actually took her to that cave more than once, and wanted to throw her into it several times...... She was born precocious, and she was obsessed with it, and she never felt a sense of belonging here.
According to the words of the villagers, it belongs to the white-eyed wolf that cannot be raised.
Grandma He worked hard to raise her so big, He Qing was grateful, but because of these memories, she was never willing to come back. And because she successfully survived, the people in the village unanimously decided to let her marry in the village, so they discussed with her grandmother that such a God-blessed girl would never be allowed to go out!
He Qing knew their plans early, so when he was in school, he couldn't wait to stab his head with a cone of the head, but fortunately Hui Tiancheng was a hard worker, so he became a blockbuster, attracted the attention of the superiors, and then was taken out directly......
Now that he has revisited the old place, He Qing decided to go to that mysterious cave again.