Chapter 54 Bought a Bunch of Wives

Sanchazi Town.

Er Gouzi hadn't been here for a while, and the jujube tree in Li Banxian's yard was overturned.

The jujubes on the tree would naturally not be left.

Even the bark and root bark were stripped away.

I felt a little ashamed for not taking good care of my master's house.

He originally came to the town to buy pork today, but the meat stall had run out of pork.

There was only a bloody human leg hanging on the meat stall.

Looking at this, his favorite meat buns were no longer edible. Who knows what kind of meat was inside?

The price of grain has risen again. At this time of year, a liter of grain was at most twenty or so coins, but now it has risen to 60 coins.

One stone of rice is equivalent to six taels of silver.

At this price, grain merchants are still hoarding grain and are unwilling to sell it, because it will be more expensive next year.

There are many more people in the market, but the variety of goods is even less.

Selling some rags and jars, which are not valuable things.

In the whole market, almost half of the people are selling their children and wives.

Some bachelors who can't get married take advantage of this opportunity to pretend to bargain, manipulate and take advantage of the situation.

In fact, the wives of these poor families are as thin as dry firewood, with dry and yellow hair and bones. It's hard to pinch them.

When Er Gouzi walked into the market, a man came up to greet him enthusiastically.

"Brother, do you want to buy a wife to warm your bed?"

"Look at my wife, one of the most beautiful women in the village, who can work and give birth to children. I will sell her to you for only one stone of rice."

"No wife!"

Er Gouzi shook his head and refused.

A few years ago, Er Gouzi also considered whether to buy one or two strong and healthy girls to be his wives.

Now he has been accustomed to the colorful world in the city, and his vision has improved a lot. He no longer looks down on these skinny women in the market.

"Just take a look, it doesn't matter if you don't buy it."

But the man finally found a customer who looked rich, so he was not willing to give up.

Although the boy in front of him also had dark skin and dressed like a farmer, he had flesh on his face, wore a pair of cloth shoes, and his clothes were neat and without patches.

And the boy in front of him looked like an honest man.

The man took Er Gouzi to a woman.

The woman had a straw tag on her head, and was probably in her 20s. Compared with other skinny women, she might be a little fatter.

The man tore open the woman's clothes, and the cool wind blew in, making the woman lower her head and shrink back.

"Look, this meat is thick and elastic, there is absolutely no problem raising a baby."

"As long as there is a stone of rice, it can warm the bed, farm, give birth to a baby, wash clothes and cook. You will definitely not lose out if you buy it."

The man tried his best to sell his wife to Er Gouzi, praising her as rare in the sky and unparalleled on the earth.

Er Gouzi didn't even marry the second daughter of Huang Laocai's family, so now he is even less interested in spending money to buy a wife.

He turned around and looked at the market. Several people who specialized in human trafficking were picking and choosing in the crowd.

Sometimes they opened their mouths to check their teeth, and sometimes they pinched to check the thickness of the meat.

It reminded him of the human leg in the butcher shop and the blood and soul pills made by Scarface and his men.

These people were bought back. If they were lucky, they would be used as servants and could even have enough food and clothing.

Those who were unlucky, who knew what would happen to them.

"Okay, one stone of rice, I'll buy it."

Er Gouzi nodded and immediately gave the man six taels of silver, asking him to go to the grain shop to buy rice himself.

"Thank you, she will be yours from now on."

The man pulled out the grass tag on the woman's head and pushed it in front of Er Gouzi.

The woman turned around, took off her cotton coat, and stuffed it into the man's hand.

"Alter this cotton coat and make it into a cotton jacket for the two children."

"If you sell me, you can't sell the children. They are still young and can't sell at a high price."

After saying these two sentences, the woman followed Er Gouzi and never looked at the man again.

"Young man, take a look at my wife."

"My wife is pretty good."

"My child is eight years old and can work on the farm. I only need a bushel of grain."

"Take a look at mine..."

Seeing that Er Gouzi didn't bargain and bought a wife directly, other people in the market gathered around.

Try your best to sell your children or wives to him.

The boy in front of him looks honest and generous. Selling to him can at least keep a living.

As for selling to those people, they don't know.

Looking at the faces around him who are trying their best to sell, Er Gouzi made an impulsive decision.

He bought all the people in the market today.

"Don't crowd, come one by one..."

"Come one by one..."

...

When Er Gouzi walked out of Sanchazi Town, he was followed by more than 30 people.

There were both men and women, the oldest were in their twenties and thirties, the youngest were only two or three years old, mostly children, and 12 of them were other people's wives.

These people were ragged, pale and thin, and followed Er Gouzi with numb expressions. Except for the occasional cough, no one said a word.

Er Gouzi bought so many people on impulse and now led them to the foot of Shekou Mountain.

He was a little worried about how to settle them.

He only had a blue brick house, which was where he stored food.

In addition, there was no place to live. If they were left outside in the winter, several people would freeze to death in one night.

After thinking for a while, there was still a lot of dry straw on the mountain.

So he used the wind control technique and rushed to the top of the mountain to get straw.

This scene made more than 30 people dumbfounded. What kind of new master did they follow?

Then they saw Er Gouzi riding a goose flying down from the sky, and the shock in their hearts was even stronger.

Could this be the legendary immortal master?

Er Gouzi pointed at the pile of straw.

"You can use this pile of straw to keep warm tonight, and build a straw shed tomorrow."

The crowd looked at the new owner quietly, and no one dared to speak.

"Um, what's your name?"

Er Gouzi pointed out the first wife he bought from the crowd.

"My name is Qiuyue."

"Okay, these 30 people will be handed over to you in the future."

With so many people, he didn't have so much energy to worry about it, and there must be someone responsible for daily management.

"All of you listen to Qiuyue's arrangements."

There was still a silence in the crowd, and only Qiuyue showed an expression of surprise.

"Qiuyue, come with me."

Er Gouzi said, and walked towards the blue brick house.

Qiuyue followed behind with her head down, a little nervous, not knowing what the new owner was going to do.

Since she had already sold herself, she would be his from now on.

Er Gouzi opened the door and walked in, and Qiuyue hurriedly followed obediently.

Inside was a very simple living room with only a wooden table and four benches.

Er Gouzi opened the door of another room, and saw that it was full of red dates and persimmons.

"Put some in a sack and take it out for everyone to eat."

"Oh!"

Qiuyue felt that her hands and feet were much more nimble at that time, and she picked up handfuls of red dates and persimmons and put them in.

From time to time, she grabbed a persimmon and stuffed it into her mouth.

The two filled two large bags, took them outside, and distributed food to everyone.

These people who were bought back were all sick, swaying left and right when they walked, and shivering with cold.

Now when they received the food, they stuffed it into their mouths desperately, and almost choked several people to death.

Today, they could only eat some red dates and dried persimmons to temporarily stay alive, and spend the first night in the haystack.

The next day, Er Gouzi gave them a set of stone mortars, iron pots, and a stone of rice, and asked Qiuyue to help them pound rice and cook porridge.

Then he allocated an acre of land for them to build a straw hut to live in.

In the next few days, Er Gouzi went to Sanchazi Town every day, and bought people who were selling people when he saw them.

Anyway, he had bought more than 30 people, so it didn't matter if he bought more.

Now people are very cheap, and it didn't cost much silver in total.

Gradually, more than 100 people have been bought.

Er Gouzi didn't understand why he suddenly became so impulsive.

Maybe he had been with Sima Yi for a long time and was influenced by him.

As for doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, he never thought about it, but he just couldn't bear it.