Chapter 74: Selling Me to You as Your Wife

Without water, we couldn't cook. Every household had little water left, so they only dared to drink a small sip. The village chief's family also gave the mule some water, but the mules of other families could only be thirsty.

The children didn't know how to worry at all, and they played hide-and-seek around the carriage.

Juhua and Zhang Lao's daughter Xiang'er were sitting on the loess wall, playing with flower ropes. Juhua suddenly shouted, "Someone is coming."

Gu Fei looked over and saw a woman with a dusty face standing outside the half loess wall, holding a **-year-old boy, and a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl standing next to her.

The woman saw that everyone was looking at her, and smiled awkwardly: "We are fleeing from famine. Can you brothers and sisters-in-law let us stay here tonight?"

Everyone was silent, and they all looked at Gu Zhang.

Gu Zhang thought about it, two women and a child, there was nothing to be afraid of, and this place was not theirs, so he nodded: "Okay."

The woman thanked her and walked in from the side with the child.

It was getting dark, and Uncle Ma shouted, "Light up the fire."

Gu Sanlang lit some dead leaves with a tinder, and added dry branches, and the fire soon burned.

Everyone sat around the fire.

The mother and her two children sat by the wall and didn't come over.

It was dinner time, and every household took out dry food to eat.

Gu Fei was chewing on a cake, and suddenly heard the boy's voice by the wall behind her, "Mom, I'm so hungry."

The woman hung her head and said nothing.

The child said again, "Mom, I want to eat steamed bread."

The woman was silent for a long time, and suddenly made up her mind, pulled the two children to the fire, and knelt down with a plop, "Dear brothers and sisters-in-law, can you be kind and give us some food? To be honest, we only ate some grass roots yesterday, and we didn't get anything all day today."

"Thank you, kind brothers and sisters-in-law." The woman pulled the two children and kowtowed desperately.

Everyone who was eating dry food suddenly fell silent, no one spoke.

Gu Fei couldn't bear to see this, but she also understood that there were many people like this along the way, and she couldn't save them, and couldn't save them.

She lowered her eyes and ate the cake silently.

The woman and the two children kowtowed more than a dozen times, and the village chief couldn't help but sigh, "Don't kowtow, save that little strength for walking."

"We are also fleeing from famine, how can we have extra food to give to others."

The woman raised her dusty face, and suddenly saw the white flour cake in Gu Sanlang's hand, and rushed over and knelt down in front of him, "This young man, my Lian'er will be your wife, just give a bag of coarse grains."

Gu Sanlang's face turned black, who wants a dirty girl as a wife?

He waved his hands impatiently, "Go, go, I don't want a wife!"

The elder Zhang beside him laughed, "Sanlang, this girl is tall, her eyebrows and eyes are not bad, she should be good after washing, you've made a profit by exchanging a bag of coarse grain for a wife!"

Gu Sanlang was annoyed, "Uncle Zhang, your Donglai is ten years old, it's just right to buy her back as a child bride."

Everyone laughed.

Gu Fei looked at the mother and her two children, and felt indescribably sad.

At this time, Qian suddenly said, "You are from Xishan County, right? Your girl is so thin, and you still want a bag of grain? I heard someone say yesterday that now in Xishan County, a bushel of coarse grain can buy a girl."