"Why don't we walk downstream along the river and find a suitable place to sit down, then we can sit down and talk?"
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After finishing speaking, Song Chongjin took the lead and walked ahead, leaving the three old men behind him.
Chi Dongyi and the other two clan elders exchanged a glance, and then both showed a satisfied expression on their faces.
Although the river in Beishan is not large, there are quite a few people washing clothes there.
Naturally, there were quite a few stones.
They hadn't walked far when they found a few rocks of suitable size to sit down on.
When Chi Dong saw Song Chongjin looking over, he organized his thoughts before speaking.
"Scholar Song, it's like this. Some time ago, the imperial court issued an order that eligible men and women should get married within a month."
Most of the people in Chijia'ao are of the same clan, and given our location, you should be able to tell.
It's not easy for young men of marriageable age to find a wife.
In addition, for some reason, in recent decades, my Chi clan has only been producing male offspring.
Currently, there is only one great-aunt under the age of sixty and over the age of ten.
Yes, that's the girl who sold you grain yesterday, her name is Chi Yu.
There were a few under ten years old, but only a few; the oldest was only six.
Here's what I'm thinking; what do you think?
In fact, even without Chi Dongyi saying anything further, the intelligent Song Chongjin already understood the other party's intentions.
But guessing is one thing, hearing it from the other person is quite another.
Therefore, he pretended to listen attentively and replied, "Yes, I am all ears!"
“Yesterday I noticed that many of the women from your Wuning County who came this time are within the eligible age range stipulated by the imperial court.”
I don't know if they're married or not. I wanted to ask you what the situation is.
My idea from Chijia'ao is this: we can marry those women, even if some of them have been married before.
Of course, this marriage ceremony simply involved issuing marriage certificates to the women, without actually registering them with the government.
Then, when they get married, there will be no banquet or wedding ceremony. The woman will continue to live in your area, and her household registration will not need to be transferred to her husband's family in our area.
All you need to do is help out when the imperial court sends people to investigate.
Song Chongjin frowned upon hearing this, but he didn't speak; he simply listened to what the other person had to say.
While Chi Dongyi was saying these words, he kept staring at Song Chongjin.
Seeing him frown, they quickly laid out the conditions that Chijia'ao could offer.
"As compensation, the families we 'marry' can each give ten catties of coarse grains and one catty of salt."
Of course, if you all decide to settle here in the future, after you get the household registration book from the government office, we can help you pay the girl's head tax.
Furthermore, during holidays and festivals, as the husband's family, we also send some gifts; we visit each other as normal relatives.
Chi Sanhe, who was standing nearby, added: "If they feel they are a good match in the future, then they can be a normal married couple."
All that's needed is to set up a few more tables of wine and hold a wedding ceremony.
If you feel it's not suitable, just return the marriage certificate to the man, tear it up, and marry someone else.
By the way, a workshop is about to be built in our Chijia'ao village, and in the future, everyone in the village will have the opportunity to work in the workshop.
The current tentative wage is four hundred coins per month.
Because of the small fish, we can get access to drought-resistant, high-yield crops earlier than people in other places, and the crops are not limited by the quality of the land.
If all goes well, we should receive the goods in two or three months at most.
Seeing the third elder showing off his innocent bystander, the second elder added:
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