Chi Qiao, however, knew this and, seeing her younger sister looking over, gave her affirmation.
"Yes, your second sister-in-law is right. This time we'll take a different route back."
With this affirmative answer, Chi Yu's trip back this time allowed him to see just how far another path could go.
It's also clear why everyone takes shortcuts when they travel.
It's such a long and roundabout way!
If it took four hours to go down the mountain by taking a shortcut, it would take six hours to go up the mountain.
Taking such a detour would take eight hours just for a horse-drawn carriage to get up the mountain.
If you were to walk, it would take two or three times longer.
However, this route back leads to two or three more villages than the shortcut, and these are all small villages.
Judging from those dozen or twenty thatched huts, you can tell that the population is not large.
When they passed the first village, Chi Qiao pointed to it and said, "Xiao Yu, this village is called Dayan Village, and it's my maternal home."
There are over a hundred people in the village. Although it's called Dayan Village (Wild Goose Village), most of the villagers are surnamed Zhou; only two or three families have a different surname.
Chi Yu never expected that this was actually the village where her elder sister originally came from.
Thinking of the impending disaster, she gave the other person a meaningful look.
Based on their long-standing sisterly understanding, Chi Qiao knew what she meant and immediately shook her head.
The original owner of this body was destined to marry Chi Dahu because she was sold by her family.
Despite its large size, Chijia'ao is located deep in the mountains and has little arable land, so the villagers rely on hunting for a living.
They are lucky, highly capable, and come from a decent family.
In other words, having enough to eat and wear is not a problem.
With average luck, mediocre hunting skills, and few able-bodied men in the family, even basic necessities like food and clothing were a problem.
It could even be said that every year, people in the village lose their lives to those large wild animals.
Of course, many people lost their hands and feet as a result.
Therefore, families who truly love their daughters will not marry them off to Chijia'ao.
This led to the situation where men in Chijia'ao either used their daughters to exchange for wives with other men, or they bought wives with money.
Of course, "spending money to buy" refers to paying a high dowry.
As soon as the other party's daughter leaves home, her family will proactively cut off all contact with them.
I'm afraid the other party will be unable to make ends meet and will go back to beg for money.
Chi Qiao's original name was Zhou Sanya, and she was the fourth child in her family.
The eldest child was a son, named Jinbao. The second through fourth children were all daughters, named Daya, Erya, and Sanya respectively.
My two older sisters were given away after they were born.
It was left behind only after the original owner was born.
The purpose was to keep her at home to do housework, and to sell her son when he grew up so that she could get money to marry him.
At that time, when everyone's betrothal gifts were one or two taels, Zhou Sanya's family went so far as to ask for fifteen taels.
Zhou's parents originally intended that as long as the Chi family could afford the money, Zhou Sanya would belong to the Chi family from then on.
The Zhou family doesn't want their filial piety during festivals, and they shouldn't even think about taking a single straw from the Zhou family.
It's as if the Zhou family no longer has this person, and all contact has been severed.
Zhou Sanya was a woman of principle; she left alone, without even a change of clothes, with Chi Dahu.
She never went back to her parents' home after that.
More than 20 years have passed in the blink of an eye, and I've never walked this way before.
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