Cui Niang's face was sad, and she touched Duoduo's face with a sigh: "I'm sorry..., it's my fault, I can't afford candy...!"
Hearing this, Duo Duo sighed immediately. He looked at the room with four walls and Cui Niang's clothes, and immediately understood how poor this family was...
After drinking the medicine, Qian Duoduo used the pretext of losing his memory to get what he wanted to know from Cuiniang.
It turns out that this place is called Tianqi Continent, which is a place that does not exist in history. This continent has two countries, Tianlong Kingdom and Qifeng Kingdom.
And the place where he is is in a remote part of Tianlong Kingdom, in a small mountain village called Qianjia Village near the Dragon Claw Mountains.
Most of the people in Qianjia Village are surnamed Qian, except for a few migrant households. The rest are basically Qian. Qianjia Village has made a living by farming for generations, and its life is poor. Although it harvests a lot of food a year, the food left after taxes is only enough for a relatively large population.
Families with a small population eat a bowl of mixed rice every meal, while families with a large population basically only have porridge on weekdays except during the Chinese New Year.
Qian Duoduo's grandfather, Qian Manshan, has three sons and one daughter. Qian Duoduo's father, Qian Caibao, ranks third, with his eldest uncle Qian Jinfu, his second uncle Qian Yinfu, and his fourth sister Qian Baozhu.
Qian Duoduo's father, Qian Caibao, had previously married a wife. One year after their marriage, Qian Xueyuan, his eldest brother who had difficulty giving birth to Qian Duoduo, passed away, leaving Qian Caibao and Qian Xueyuan to depend on each other.
Rural people, generally those who have a dead child and a wife, it is difficult for a girl to marry him, until one day he went to the town to sell vegetables and came home, and happened to save a man who was fainting from hunger and carrying a baby on the roadside.
Cui Niang.
Cuiniang was helpless with her child. Qian Caibao thought about it and proposed to Cuiniang.
But Qian Caibao's father, Qian Manshan, disagreed. He felt that Cuiniang was losing money by bringing in Duoduo, and raising Duoduo, who was not related to him by blood, was a waste of food.
For this reason, Qian Caibao had a quarrel with Qian Manshan, and Qian Manshan gave him two acres of land and kicked him out of the house.
Qian Caibao couldn't help it, so he took Cuiniang, Duoduo and Qian Xueyuan to the end of the village near Longzhao Mountain and built a few thatched houses to live in.
At that time, Qian Baozhu, who was less than ten years old, was disliked by Qian Manshan and his wife because she was a daughter. She did a lot of dirty work for her, and even tried to sell her to Yapo for a few taels of silver.
Qian Baozhu has been friends with her third brother since she was a child. In the past, Qian Caibao helped with many tasks. But since Qian Caibao separated, Qian Baozhu's life has become more and more difficult. Her brother and sister-in-law don't like her at all.
He did all the hard work for her and made things difficult for her at every turn, calling her a loser.
Later, Qian Manshan got the news from somewhere, saying that he could earn two taels of silver by selling his daughter to Yapo. Qian Manshan was jealous when he saw the money, thinking that people in the village paid attention to being well-matched, and girls from families like theirs would almost marry off.
You can't even get a regular gift of money, but you can get two taels of silver from selling her, and you can save food money for several years.
Thinking of this, Qian Manshan found a reason to sell Qian Baozhu because the family had a large population and not enough food.
When Qian Baozhu refused to die and was pulled out of the village by Yapo in tears, Qian Caibao hurriedly arrived with the money he had borrowed from other people's houses and gave her to Yapo for two and a half taels of silver.