Chapter 27: The Huang Family Young Master's

However, this cow can't be killed and eaten after buying it, right?

In ancient times, slaughtering cows is a great crime!

Cows can only be used for plowing land or pulling ox carts after being bought.

Jiang Wei led Jiang Xiaoxiao all the way, and finally bought seven chickens.

One chicken costs twenty-five wen, totaling one hundred and seventy-five wen.

Seeing that they bought a lot, the seller also gave them an extra bamboo chicken cage to hold the chickens.

After buying the chickens, the mother and daughter turned to leave.

At this time, a thin, tall old man with dark skin walked by leading a sheep, shouting while walking about who wanted to buy a sheep?

When passing by the mother and daughter, Jiang Wei opened her mouth and asked: "How much?"

The thin, tall old man looked at Jiang Wei, who was carrying the chicken cage, and his eyes lit up: "Girl, do you want to buy it? This is a milk goat raised on a high mountain, and it can produce goat milk! If you want it, I'll sell it to you for three taels of silver!"

Jiang Wei looked at the sheep he was leading when she heard this. It was a ewe, and its body was quite fat, but its right hind leg was a bit lame.

The weather was too hot, and the sheep was listless from the sun, with no spirit at all.

"Three taels of silver is too expensive. This sheep is not only lame, but it also looks listless as if it's about to die. How about two taels of silver?"

"Two taels of silver? This price is too low..."

The thin, tall old man looked hesitant, and his gaze at the milk goat was a bit reluctant.

"If it weren't for the fact that the family is really poor and can't open the pot, I wouldn't be willing to sell the only sheep in the family..."

He muttered: "Forget it, forget it, two taels of silver it is."

The two handed over the money and the goods.

Jiang Wei carried the chicken cage in one hand and held the reins in the other, and the mother and daughter left the street together.

Jiang Xiaoxiao had short legs and small steps, so she still had to take an ox cart back.

However, just as the mother and daughter found the ox cart, Jiang Xiaoxiao suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure walking at the street corner opposite.

Looking closely, wasn't that Li Shoude?

His nose was still wrapped in gauze, and he was walking with his hands crossed over his chest and his head lowered. Something seemed to be hidden in his bosom, bulging.

Jiang Xiaoxiao hurriedly pulled her mother and signaled her to look.

Jiang Wei took a look and immediately frowned: "He has silver hidden in his bosom... it looks like quite a lot."

"Where did he get the silver?" Jiang Xiaoxiao also frowned.

Looking at the direction he came from, it seemed to be the road to the county seat?

Could it be that he went to the county seat to find the Huang family?!

Jiang Xiaoxiao had a bad feeling for no reason.

Logically speaking, she wasn't kidnapped by the Lao Li family, so their marriage alliance with the Huang family should have fallen through. How could Li Shoude still be involved with the Huang family?

"Xiaoxiao, follow Mother." Jiang Wei rolled her eyes, suddenly pulling Jiang Xiaoxiao toward Yuelai Restaurant in the county seat.

Shopkeeper Zhou had just returned to the restaurant not long ago, and when he turned around, he saw the Jiang mother and daughter entering the restaurant, so he hurriedly greeted them personally.

"Yo, why did you mother and daughter come?"

"Came to ask you for some news."

Jiang Wei stated her purpose directly, "Do you know the Huang family in the county seat?"

"Huang family..."

Shopkeeper Zhou's face changed, and he looked at her with strange eyes: "Why do you want to ask about the Huang family?"

Jiang Wei smiled, her expression unchanged: "I heard that the Huang family is a famous wealthy family in the county seat, and their ancestors also served as officials in the capital. Many girls in our village want to marry into his family."

"That must not be done!"

Shopkeeper Zhou looked at Jiang Wei, then at Jiang Xiaoxiao beside her, seeming to understand something, and immediately lowered his voice: "Although the Huang family is wealthy, they are not easy to get along with. That Huang Family Young Master is also a spoiled playboy. Your daughter is still young, don't ever think about marrying into such a place to suffer!"

Jiang Wei knew he had misunderstood, but didn't explain, only saying: "Why? I heard from people in the village that as long as you are willing to marry your daughter into his family, they will give at least twenty taels of silver as a betrothal gift!"

For an ordinary peasant family to marry a wife, three taels of silver is the limit. These twenty taels of silver are undoubtedly an astronomical figure for the people in the village!

"Sigh, Jiang Little Lady, let me tell you the truth. That Huang Family Young Master has a hidden illness. Marrying your daughter to him is harming your daughter!" Shopkeeper Zhou persuaded earnestly.

Jiang Wei knew she had asked the right question, so she hurriedly said: "Then what exactly is his hidden illness? Can you tell me specifically?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao on the side also quietly pricked up her ears to listen.

In the original book, the original host's plot was being sold to a human trafficker by the Li family, and there was no such thing as the Huang family.

Therefore, she didn't know what hidden illness the Huang Family Young Master had.

"Sigh, actually I'm not sure. The Huang family's mouth is very tight, and those servants are even more tight-lipped about the master's affairs. I also..."

Speaking of this, Shopkeeper Zhou suddenly looked at the pedestrians passing by outside vigilantly, then covered his mouth with his hand, lowered his voice and continued: "That time I happened to go to the Huang family mansion to arrange a banquet. When passing by the backyard, I saw two servants carrying a little girl out of the Huang Family Young Master's room..."

"The little girl was seven or eight years old, completely naked, not wearing a single piece of clothing, and blood was still flowing from below, it was all rotten..." Shopkeeper Zhou couldn't help but swallow his saliva at the end, his face still carrying some horror.

Hearing this, Jiang Wei's face turned cold instantly.

Thinking that her daughter was almost kidnapped into such a wolf's den, she wished she could tear the people of the Lao Li family to pieces!

Soon, she lowered her face and asked: "Is there no one to report such a thing to the official?"

"Report what official. Those were all girls who voluntarily sent their daughters to the Huang family. They said it was a betrothal gift of twenty taels of silver, but in fact, they sold their daughters to others. Whether they live or die, they belong to the Huang family from now on."

Shopkeeper Zhou sighed: "Not to mention you also know that the Huang family's ancestors served as officials. Even if they have been demoted to this poor and remote place now, they are still related to the nobles in the capital. People in the county yamen dare not interfere in his family's affairs."

The mother and daughter left the restaurant, their faces both gloomy.

A brown-red horse ran past the street, and the person on the horse threw a whip, leaving a "Drive" sound and galloping away.

That was the clothing of the county yamen.

The person who ran past on horseback was from the county yamen.

Jiang Xiaoxiao retracted her gaze, sighing in her heart that the class system in this ancient world is truly cruel. Officials are far above the commoners, treating human life like grass, trampling on it at will...

Returning to the village, the villagers encountered along the way saw the milk goat Jiang Wei was leading, and it stirred up another burst of surprise.

"Jiang Shi, did you buy this sheep in town?"

Wang Shen, carrying a wooden bucket on her shoulder, looked at the milk goat with some jealousy, and said sourly: "I said your luck is too good. It's one thing to pick up a wolf on the mountain, but you don't have to do any work all day, you run to town all day, and you can still get such a big sheep!"

Why is this person speaking so sarcastically?

Jiang Xiaoxiao frowned unhappily.