Chapter 305 Your Mother is Still Young

With the last bit of conscience left in his mind, he did not sell his granddaughter to a human trafficker, but instead sold her to a pawnbroker in the town.

There is a big difference between the two.

The brokerage firms basically only do local business. Unless the situation is really bad, they will do business in surrounding towns.

These are all legitimate transactions and slaves will not be beaten or scolded.

If you sell her to a human trafficker, being beaten and scolded is no big deal. You never know where she will be sold to, and you will never see her again in this lifetime. She might be sold to a kiln mechanic, become a prostitute, and even her life will be in danger.

Jiang Guangyi looked at his two well-behaved granddaughters and felt a little bit sorry for them, but he was afraid that Widow Liu would make a fuss about the matter.

She was a widow and had no dignity to speak of, but he still had dignity.

He made up his mind and signed a death contract with the pawnbroker.

As for the price, it changed from two taels of silver per person to one and a half taels.

So, three taels of silver.

Not a penny more.

As a result, he had no money to rent a bullock cart.

It was almost dark when we got home.

My legs are numb from exhaustion.

"Where have you been? Have you seen the fourth and fifth girls?"

Chen Qiuju was sitting in the yard. When she saw Jiang Guangyi coming back, she questioned him.

"Oh, I went for a stroll in the next village. Where are Si Niu and Wu Niu? Where did they go? Didn't they go to the mountains to pick mushrooms this morning? They haven't come back yet?" Jiang Guangyi lied without blinking.

"Didn't you see it? Sanniu said you said something when you kept them here in the morning." Chen Qiuju narrowed her eyes and asked again.

"Oh, I just told them to work hard and not be lazy. Sanniu said you called her in a hurry, so I didn't say anything and she ran away."

Jiang Guangyi scooped a bucket of water and drank it up in one gulp.

After walking all the way, he was very thirsty.

"When did I call her? This kid keeps telling lies every day. Sanniu, come out here! Did you lie to your grandfather? When did I call you? I told you to take Siniu and Wuniu to the mountains to work, but you ran away. Where are Siniu and Wuniu? Go find them. If you don't, you won't be able to eat."

Chen Qiuju was so angry that she cursed loudly.

He also chased Jiang Sanniu, who was hiding in the house, out.

"Hiss, you naughty girl, you ran around recklessly and caused grandma to pinch my ears. It hurts so much." Jiang Sanniu rubbed her red and swollen ears, gasping in pain.

Passing by Jiang Fubao's house.

She found that the Jiang family's door was open.

The place was full of people, all holding bowls and eating.

Looking closely, there were several dishes of meat on the table.

Not only that, the Jiang Fubao whom she hated was actually gnawing on a piece of meat and bone, and he was eating it with a delicious taste.

"You little bitch, eat, eat, eat. Why don't you eat yourself to death or choke to death?" Jiang Sanniu cursed a few times under her breath and ran away quickly.

However, when she was cursing, her saliva slipped from her mouth and dripped onto the ground.

That's meat.

She hasn't eaten meat for more than a year.

Jiang Fubao, who was chewing a bone in the yard, also saw her.

It has been several months since she came here. She has long forgotten Jiang Sanniu and is too lazy to even look at her.

After eating, she washed the oil off her hands with soap and wiped her mouth.

Took my sisters and brothers to play games.

We didn't play cock-and-chick tonight. We played the quieter game of one, two, three wooden figures.

She was simply too full to run around.

"One, two, three, wood, head, man!"

"Hahaha, Tongtu, you moved."

The sound of play spread from the foot of the mountain to the inside of the mountain.

Jiang Sanniu, who was looking for her sister with a dead branch, heard it vaguely.

She was so angry that she beat the bushes wildly with a branch.

"Fourth girl, fifth girl, where are the people? If you don't come out, be careful that the grizzly bear will eat you!" Jiang Sanniu searched for a long time but couldn't find her sisters. She turned her eyes and wanted to use the grizzly bear to scare her sisters out.

However, my sister did not come out.

But she saw something moving in a bush half a person's height about ten meters away.

“Swish—”

The grass made a lot of noise.

Jiang Sanniu was so scared that she almost wet her pants, and she turned around and ran away.

I don't care about my sister anymore.

“Ahhh—”

"There's a grizzly bear, naughty, there's a grizzly bear, there's a grizzly bear on the mountain, I saw a grizzly bear."

As it was about to get dark, the visibility was poor in the mountains, and the legend of grizzly bears made the children in the village fear grizzly bears, so Jiang Sanniu imagined the things in the bushes as grizzly bears.

She ran home, collapsed on the ground, and yelled to her family who were having dinner.

"What? Grizzly bear? You saw a grizzly bear?" Chen Qiuju put down the bowl and frowned.

Oh no, my two granddaughters are still in the mountains. If there really is a grizzly bear, I'm afraid...

"Yes, it's true. The grizzly bear was hiding in the bushes, and I don't know what it was eating. It made a crunching sound." Jiang Sanniu's words confirmed Chen Qiuju's guess.

Her heart skipped a beat and sank to the bottom.

"No, go and inform the villagers to rescue the two children as soon as possible. If they are really eaten, it will be a huge loss. It is better to sell them to the town. At least you can get a few taels of silver."

Chen Qiuju was heartbroken.

It's like losing money.

"Looking for nothing, if there is something wrong, it would have been eaten up long ago. There is no point in looking. If there is nothing wrong, we can find it by ourselves. Who else in the village is willing to help us now? Besides, are you willing to beg Jiang Shoujia humbly? If you want to go, you go, I won't go."

Jiang Guangyi, who knew the truth, deliberately threw away his chopsticks.

therefore.

Chen Qiuju also gave up the idea of ​​looking for her granddaughter.

I just thought my granddaughter had fallen into the mouth of the grizzly bear.

As for the sisters' parents, Zhou Gaier and Jiang Lingu, they said nothing and just lowered their heads to eat brown rice porridge and mushroom residue.

Afraid that I would eat less.

In the dental clinic in the town.

Jiang Siniu and Jiang Wuniu were taught etiquette by a woman.

Although they were too young, they didn't cry or make a fuss.

After all, I was slapped from time to time at home, but here I not only have food to eat, but also don’t have to work.

Just listen to your mother-in-law carefully.

For them, it is simply a blessing.

In the middle of the Xu hour.

Almost all the villagers in Jiangjia Village fell asleep, including Jiang Fubao's family.

Only at Widow Liu's house could one faintly hear voices.

In Jiang Zhuzi's house.

The couple was lying on the bed, chatting.

"Your mother is still young, and you want her to be a widow for the rest of her life? Now that you two brothers and sisters are married, she can't help much at home. Why not find a good home for her and let her marry a second time? We can be considered filial to her."

Sun Xiaotao persuaded Jiang Zhuzi by whispering in his ear.

She went back to her parents' home alone yesterday.

Wang pulled me into the house to talk in private.

It turned out that the Sun family was in financial difficulty. They had just married off Sun Xiaotao's younger brother, and then there was a sudden hailstorm. Not only did they have to pay a fine, but they also had to buy a lot of brown rice to pay the grain tax. The little food she brought back to her parents' home was not enough to eat.

Sun Cong and his wife had evil intentions.

They secretly found a good family for Widow Liu.

He is a widower from Chenjia Village.