Patriarch Lin said: "This child is suffering. When he was two years old, my father went fishing in the sea and was bitten to death by a shark. My mother died in love. Alas, now I am living with my grandparents and uncles."
But it was obvious that her grandma and uncle didn't treat her well. When Lin Wanwan first met her, she was bare buttocks, covered with a piece of rag that was so dirty that you couldn't even see it, and she was skinny and bones. Now she still has the same amount of flesh on her body.
It took half a month to adjust.
Although Da Ya and Little Crab were both thin, at least their bodies were clean. But Little Qingyu was dirty from head to toe, just like the little refugees shown on TV in later generations.
In fact, if Patriarch Lin had not allowed the prostitution of sons and daughters in the Lin family village, she would have been sold by her uncle long ago. Unfortunately, she did not escape the death of her aunt in the end.
In fact, Patriarch Lin also knew that the baby must have been thrown away. After what happened, he punished the youngest son of the rich family to kneel in the ancestral hall all night, and warned them that if the clan found out in the future that the child had been sold into the
If they find a clean place, they will be expelled from their clan.
Lin Guofu's youngest daughter-in-law, Lin Sun, naturally swore that she would never sell her child. If she sold her child, she would die badly and be struck by thunder.
Now that the child has been picked up and adopted by Lin Wanwan of their own clan, this is really destiny. This should be the baby of their Lin Family Village, and cannot be thrown away anywhere.
Lin Wanwan looked at the patriarch: "Uncle, can I raise her?"
When Patriarch Lin heard what Lin Wanwan said, he couldn't help but hesitated and said: "Wan, I'm afraid it will affect you if you have a child. You are not too young..."
Before she finished speaking, Lin Wanwan thought about it and realized that at the age of twenty-two, she should have gotten married and had children long ago in the Tang Dynasty!
Without thinking for too long, Lin Wanwan made up a joke: "Master once arranged a marriage for me, but later because of the war, my fiancé died in the war. I have decided not to get married anymore! I originally planned to become a monk and a girl.
Guanzi, now that I have found my clan, I just want to stay here forever."
The Tang Dynasty was a place where concubines were allowed to exist, and she really never thought about getting married and having children here. In fact, in 2022, she was a non-marriage advocate.
Hearing what she said, Patriarch Lin was surprised for a long time.
The Tang Dynasty was not like the later Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the early Zhenguan Dynasty, the population problem was very serious. After the wars in the previous dynasty, the population dropped from more than 10 million households to less than 3 million households today.
Of course, not all of these people were killed in the war. Many of them fled into the mountains and became mountain residents, and some fled to Turkic and other places and were not registered.
In order to promote the prosperity of the population, the imperial court on the one hand redeemed the exodus of people and established household registrations for the mountain people. On the other hand, it naturally encouraged marriage and childbearing and advocated early marriage and childbearing.
Older young men and women who do not marry over the age will be fined, and there will even be "official matchmakers" to act as matchmakers to promote marriage. They also have a positive attitude towards supporting the remarriage of widows. The chastity memorial arch and the three cardinal principles and five permanent principles are not worth mentioning in the face of the population.
In the third year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty issued an edict: Anyone who gave birth to a boy since the first month of that year would be rewarded with one stone of millet.
If you want to guard your family, the officials will urge you to get married. After all, it will affect their political performance.
But Lin Wanwan had just arrived, and she was an expert who had lived in seclusion from the mountains. Patriarch Lin didn't want to say anything. He finally nodded: "In that case, it's no problem. Come, I'll take you to Guofu's house and tell them. Are you willing to raise her?"
It's too late for them to be happy about this baby."
"Uncle Chief, please wait for me until I bring Xiao Yu'er over to Ming Road."
I went back and hugged Xiao Qingyu. The little guy rested his head on Lin Wanwan's shoulder. Knowing that he was going back to his grandparents' house, he was very scared. Even the high-spiritedness of being the king of children was gone.
Sure enough, Lin Wanwan and the clan leader went to Lin Guofu's house, which lived in the innermost part of the village near the foot of the mountain. After explaining the purpose of their visit, the other party immediately agreed to adopt her.
The little guy is under seven years old and has not yet been included in the family tree. It is too easy to raise him by another person.
Lin Wanwan looked at the environment of Lin Guofu's family. There were several shabby seagrass stone houses with potholes in the yard. There were also a few girls hiding behind the door and looking at Lin Wanwan and the little Qingyu in her arms.
Lin Wanwan glanced over and saw that the three girls were all naked. The oldest girl looked like she was ten years old.
The two boys squatting in the yard and playing with the dirt were wearing clothes, and they were good clothes without patches at all.
Lin Wanwan frowned slightly. This family seemed to favor boys over girls. No wonder little Qingyu was tortured to the point of becoming skin and bones.
She took out a small gold collar from her sleeve and said to Patriarch Lin: "Uncle Chief, please help me host a clan banquet, which can be regarded as a formal adoption of Xiao Yu'er into my family. I will use the remaining money for the banquet.
Uncle Guofu, think of it as the cost of raising little Qingyu over the years."
These days, if you sell a little girl, you only need three or four guan to go to that kind of place. If you want to be a girl, you can only get one or two guan at most. The little gold collar Lin Wanwan took out can be exchanged for six guan!
When Lin Guofu and his family heard what Lin Wanwan said, their eyes suddenly lit up. The youngest daughter-in-law, Lin Sun, who had thrown away Xiao Qingyu, even laughed out loud and said nice things to others for free.
"Smelly... Xiao Yu'er should be destined to be with you, Wan Niang. If he gets lost, he will go to you. Look at these magical days now, wearing a silk skirt and eating white rice. From now on, Xiao Yu'er will be a blessing
Baby! This is really a little mouse that fell into a rice vat, and his happiness is endless."
"Shut up, you lost your child, do you still have merit?" Patriarch Lin shouted coldly, he was very dissatisfied with this Lin Sun family.
It's just that the Lin family village is poor, and there has been no happy event for a bride in the village for three consecutive years. This is all because of his incompetent leadership as the patriarch. He feels ashamed and blames himself. Naturally, it is not easy to force people to divorce their wives, so he endures it.
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Patriarch Lin angrily said: "Xiao Yu'er is the responsibility of their family. If you need to pay any raising fees, they should give it to you! We in Linjiazhuang make a living by fishing. The sea is dangerous and there are men in distress in every family. Which one
It’s not that they raise their wives and children at home. Even if they are all dead, they are still raised by the clan! It’s a good thing that their family broke the rules and didn’t drive them out of the clan.”
Lin Wanwan thought about it, yes, why should she give money to people like them? She was angry!
But she didn't want to get back the money she took out. It was all exchanged for peppercorns. It was really too easy for her to make money, so she simply said generously: "In that case, the remaining money,
I also ask the clan leader to put it on the clan’s public accounts as my contribution to the clan.”
Lin Wanwan wants to contribute to the clan, and this clan leader Lin cannot stop her. When she is prosperous, she must think about her family. This is a rule and custom passed down from generation to generation. People cannot forget their roots. Family and individuals are both prosperous and destructive.