8. The stingy old rich man wants to take a concubine
On this day, Wintersweet was in a particularly good mood. After finishing her work in the fields, she also picked a basket of wild flowers and hummed a little tune as she went back. Unexpectedly, something bad happened to her on the way.
It turned out that he had been targeted by an old rich man in the village. This old rich man was in his sixties and his family had more fields than the whole village put together. He had two major characteristics that made the whole village notorious.
One was notoriously stingy. The poor man knelt at his door and begged him not to take away the seeds for the next year, but he snatched the seeds and left. The other was a man who took nine concubines after the death of his wife.
All the decent girls in Hachimura were coaxed and coaxed to get here.
The old rich man took a look at Wintersweet. He didn't think much of this girl before, but today he accidentally glanced at her. She looked particularly juicy. The little girl was already in bud.
The old rich man made up his mind...
After a quick calculation, Lamei's family has paid off all its debts this year. How can we get this girl's film without spending money?
The next day, a matchmaker came to Lamei's house for the first time. The whole family was very happy. They didn't know which village the young man was from. But when the matchmaker opened her mouth and said the name of the old rich man, the joy on everyone's faces disappeared immediately.
Everyone knows that the old rich man has nine concubines and a warehouse full of endless grains that are hairy. What he keeps in the cellar are not cabbages and potatoes, but rusty strings of copper coins. I heard that you can smell them when you stand in the yard.
Sensing the smell of copper, the old rich man had to breathe in for several hours every day, deeply intoxicated by this delicious taste...
In such a wealthy family, everyone wore patched clothes from top to bottom. There was not a single servant to serve the family, and it was all taken care of by nine concubines.
They ate coarse grains and light rice, drank large bowls of tasteless tea, and had nine concubines who were all skinny and skinny. They also had to go out to work to earn copper coins from time to time. If the family didn't owe debts, no woman would be able to do anything about it.
, no one will marry their daughter to an old rich man.
Bai Haitang listened to Lamei's cry and thought to herself, this old rich man is really cunning. Nine concubines mean that he will not have to work for a long time in his life, and they have to help him earn money for his family.
The matchmaker said that if Lamei's family doesn't agree to this marriage, then they won't be able to owe debts in the future. Sometimes, every family has to borrow a few buckets of rice from the old rich man. There is no one in the whole village who hasn't borrowed it, although they will have to pay back double the amount in the future.
Everyone knows that in this remote and remote area, the production is not much, and if we don't borrow it at that time, we will starve to death.
The Lamei family went to plead, but the old rich man's answer was, don't say I won't give you a chance, unless you can put the big water tank into the small water tank. The two water tanks, one big and one small, were built in the rich man's house.
In the courtyard.
This is obviously difficult to do.
Wintersweet cried and told Bai Haitang what had happened. The matchmaker had come twice. Now the family had no choice but to prepare to send Wintersweet into the tiger's den.
Bai Haitang whispered a few words in Lamei's ear and asked Lamei to do as she said.
"Is this okay?" Lamei swallowed nervously.
"The worst outcome is to become the old rich man's tenth concubine. Nothing can be worse than this." Bai Haitang said.
Lamei nodded vigorously.
Early the next morning, Wintersweet arrived at the door of the old rich man's house early. The old rich man was smelling the smell of copper in the middle of the compound.
"Have you thought everything through?" The old rich man observed the wintersweet with a smile, ****, he will have a baby in the future, he has thick wrists, is a good worker, has a pretty face, and is good-looking.