"Why is this little lady calling me?"
Qin Gong asked in the elegant language of the five countries.
The little lady in front of her was a beautiful village girl. Although she didn't look very good, she was full of vigor that was unique to her age, and her cheeks were glowing with a healthy look. She was wearing a lotus root pink top, with a short-sleeved shirt over her body, and a long fringe skirt under her body. The fabrics used for the clothes were not expensive, but they were brightly colored, which made it easy to see. Bright.
It can be seen from the clothes alone that this little lady's family is relatively wealthy and the quality of life is good.
In today's troubled world, not to mention dressing so decently, many people only have clothes that can go out.
The handsome village girl smiled.
"Is my brother married?"
Qin Gong's face stiffened, his cheeks flushed, and he answered dryly.
"The deceased father in the family has already arranged a marriage for me."
The village girl heard this, her face darkened, and she left sadly.
The farmer drinking tea in the tea shed patted his thigh and laughed.
"That's the most beautiful girl in our eight villages. You are not lucky."
Qin Gong blushed at the teasing.
The ghost knows what's going on in Wanzhou, Qin Gong was asked about marriage by all kinds of girls and women along the way, and everyone wanted to marry him.
Qin Gong was too embarrassed at first, and honestly answered that he was not married yet.
Later, he learned a lesson and said that his late father had arranged a marriage for him.
Just now that village girl asked him if he was married, Qin Gong guessed the next conversation.
With his sharp eyes, he noticed that the village girl had returned to the crowd, followed by three or five little friends who laughed and pointed at him, suddenly embarrassed.
"It really doesn't look like a troubled world—"
Qin Gong murmured.
The clothes of the people on the street are bright, even if they are patched, they are clean.
The adults look healthy, and the children playing on the roadside are fat and cute, a scene of prosperity and peace.
For a moment, he felt a sense of time and space disorder.
But he did not forget his mission.
He originally wanted to go straight to Cangzhou, only to find out that Jiang Pengji had already led his troops from Cangzhou to return to the prefecture in Shangyang, Wanzhou.
Holding the old horse, Qin Gong touched the purse with only a few coppers left, and sighed helplessly.
When he set out, he brought a lot of silver taels, which should be able to support the expenses of the exchange, but he saw the miserable people along the road, and in pity, he always bought some more food to distribute to them. Although it did not delay the rush time, it cost a lot of money.
Now only a few copper plates are left.
When he entered the city, the noisy street market and pedestrians made him look pitiful.
Qin Gong smelled the scent of the food in the air, endured the saliva secreted, and led the thin horse to the special road.
The territory under Jiang Pengji's rule has special rules, pedestrians, horses and vehicles have to take different paths, and there are even special yamen management.
After entering the city, unless there are special circumstances, you are not allowed to ride a horse.
Staying on someone else's site, Qin Gong naturally wouldn't make trouble on purpose.
I bought some hay to feed the horses with the only copper plate left, and bought two flatbreads and a bowl of rough tea by the way.
As he ate, he listened to the chatter of the tea guests with long ears.
Qin Gong was listening seriously when a young man with clogs came running outside.
The young man had dark skin, dull facial features, and his face was flushed with the blush that appeared after running. He shouted excitedly to the tea customers in the tea shop.
"Caikou is going to play the board again."
The proprietress of the tea shop slapped him on the back of the head angrily and scolded, "You little turtle, you don't study well all day, what are you playing at?"
The boy stomped his feet, "Auntie, it's not allowed to watch the excitement?"
The proprietress wanted to teach her a lesson, and a certain tea customer gave the boy a copper plate.
"Tell me, what's the news today?"
The tea shop is a place where news circulates and gossip is flying all over the sky. The young man is the son of the proprietress and has a stubborn temper, but he has an excellent memory and can always tell the tea customers all the news he hears. Many tea drinkers like to come here to drink tea and listen to gossip—
Qin Gong was also attracted by the youthful words and listened distractedly.
"Do you guys know about the nursery?"
The boy sold out.
The tea customer coaxed, "In the entire Wanzhou, there are still people who don't know about the nursery hall
As soon as Jiang Pengji entered Xiangyang County, she set up an orphanage to adopt orphans who lost their parents during the war.
After that, the orphanage became a shelter where many irresponsible parents abandoned their children—to be precise, a shelter for girls—if war orphans, it was relatively easy to enter the orphanage. 's deed.
Now in the past four or five years, the youngest of those children have been enlightened, and the older ones are able to work and support their families.
The boy said, "Someone went to the orphanage to steal the child."
As soon as the voice fell, many tea guests sprayed tea.
"Go to the nursery to steal the child?"
"Ye Wang Ye broke ground on his head?"
"Which beast without eyes does this?"
There was a lot of discussion among the tea guests, and the young man sat in the center of the tea shop, like a storyteller, hanging everyone's appetite.
"I don't know, right? The stolen child is a girl from the Enlightenment Jiading class in the nursery hall. Guess who is the one who stole the child?" The boy laughed, "It's actually the girl's biological parents! I was crushed today. They are also the ones who are spanking Caikou, fifty boards per person!"
The boy gestured with five fingers, his face full of gloating.
The uninformed tea guest asked, "Isn't it normal for the biological parents to take the child away? Why is it that one person needs fifty boards when he is caught?"
Qin Gong outside also had this doubt.
"You don't know, the children who entered the orphanage are either martyrs' orphans, orphans whose parents both died and relatives refused to take over, or baby girls abandoned by their parents and elders." Another tea guest who lives in Xiangyang County He bowed his hands in the direction of the state government, and then said, "The former is easy to say, if it is the latter, the elders must sign a deed to sever the relationship. Once the deed is signed, the children's elders and relatives cannot get close to the child, not to mention stealing the child, it is private. If you see the previous side, you will be punished consistently and hit ten boards!"
"Eh, no—since it's a girl, why take the risk and steal it?"
A deed broke the blood relationship, no matter from any point of view, the child is not the parent's.
blood relation
This thing is not worth the paper deed!
The young man said, "You don't know, I have a child in Jinlin Academy that I can play with. To publish a novel, the state shepherd is planning to expand Jinlin Academy. This is the source of students - I choose a part from the nursery school. That girl is from the Jiading class. , Entering Jinlin Academy is a sure thing. The parents heard the news from nowhere, and they came together. The girl didn't recognize it, so they used their brains to steal it."
After entering the Jinlin Academy, he is basically a direct descendant of the state shepherd. How can the future be bad
Even if it's a girl, it's a golden baby who has something to do with Zhou Mu.
If you can recognize your daughter, it's not a loss.
The tea shop chats in full swing.
Qin Gong drank the tea, returned the pottery bowl, and followed the flow of people to Changcaikou.
When he arrived, the fifty boards had already been beaten, and the dispersed crowd chatted hilariously.
Almost every commoner felt that the couple deserved it, and fifty boards were considered light.
The deeds to sever the relationship were all signed, which was equivalent to selling the child to Liuxi, the state shepherd behind the nursery.
The child's life and death are in Liu Xi's hands, and the child belongs to the state shepherd's private property—
Birth parents count as shit
This is not to steal back his own child, but to steal the state shepherd's private property, and it is considered kindness not to kill him.
Qin Gong listened and was surprised by Jiang Pengji's reputation in Maruzhou.