This sudden behavior made Ji Changying stunned for a moment, and she quickly reached out to pull him back: "What do you mean?"
Ji Fengshou and Zhou had already packed up their things and were waiting for Ji Changying to come back. When they heard the noise outside, they quickly opened the door and came out.
The woman lay on the ground and refused to get up, looking at Ji Changying pleadingly: "My nine sisters and I are homeless, with no one to rely on and nowhere to go. Please, young lady, show us a way to survive!"
"It was the girl who saved us. It was the girl who stood in front of us and told us to live with dignity!"
"We only want to trust you right now. If we can stay by your side, we're willing to work like slaves, as long as we have something to eat! If...if you think we're too much trouble, please show us a way out. How can we live with dignity?"
The woman's voice was choked and her eyes were earnest and urgent.
Zhou looked at the people kneeling on the ground and felt that they were really pitiful, but Ji Fengshou's expression was much more complicated.
He looked at the woman on the ground and said, "It's true that my daughter saved you, but you shouldn't have been so obsessed with her."
She shook her head with a look of panic, raised three fingers to the sky and swore, "I, Yao Sanniang, absolutely have no intention of getting involved with you! You've already done us a great favor by saving us. We only regret that we don't have the ability to repay you. We're desperate now and only thought of asking you for help. If you can't make things difficult for me, I'll leave now!"
Yao Sanniang was also quite hot-tempered. After saying this, she stood up decisively without any intention of dragging her feet.
"etc!"
Ji Changying looked at Yao Sanniang, who looked dejected, and called out to her.
Yao Sanniang turned around without crying and looked at her calmly.
Her behavior made Ji Fengshou look a little unnatural, although he knew in his heart that these people were just pitiful people.
But no matter how pitiful it is, it's not her daughter's fault! How can she blame her daughter?
Aying is still a child!
Ji Fengshou stood up straight again when he thought of this.
"Why are you desperate? The government said before that they would find a way to accommodate you people who have nowhere to go."
Ji Changying's eyes were filled with concern and inquiry.
Yao Sanniang forced an ugly smile and said, "They found some yamen runners and persuaded us to marry widowers."
"I know these adults mean well, but we really don't want to go down this path anymore."
Ji Changying didn't expect that the resettlement mentioned before would be this kind of resettlement, and frowned for a moment.
She turned to look at Ji Fengshou and said, "Dad, can we leave early tomorrow morning? I want to go with her to see what's going on."
Ji Fengshou was a little reluctant, but Zhou waved her hand: "Go if you want to, your father is here with me."
Ji Changying smiled broadly at Zhou: "Then I'm leaving!"
"Lead the way to where you are staying temporarily."
Yao Sanniang walked in front with an excited look on her face, leading the way, and led Ji Changying all the way to the end of another street next to the government office.
Stopping in front of the gate of a compact courtyard, she pushed open the door and invited Ji Changying to come in.
As soon as I stepped through the gate, I heard five or six yamen runners surrounding eight or nine women in the courtyard, and the one standing in the middle was reading out their names loudly.
"Zhang Mutou, 32 years old, from Qu County. His wife died at the hands of barbarians a year ago. I have all my limbs intact and no bad habits. I'm currently cleaning the inn."
"Liu Daqiang, 28 years old, from Liangzhou, lost a leg in an accident three years ago..."
Ji Changying and Yao Sanniang both stopped.
The yamen runner quickly finished reading the list: "Ladies, you are also from Liangzhou. You know that our population has decreased. Since you are part of this, you must make some contribution to the population of Liangzhou. Only then will it be worth it for the master to risk his life to save you ladies from the hands of the barbarians."
"Even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about everyone else, right? If everyone is like you ladies, not wanting to get married or have children, then who will protect our Liangzhou City in the future? If there is another foreign invasion, who will go to the front lines to fight the enemy? Only when our Liangzhou is well, can everyone be well, right?"
"I have analyzed this enough for you ladies during this period. I hope you will think about it carefully."
"There are still about three days left. If you ladies still can't choose, then the government office will have to assign you one."
After the yamen runner finished speaking, he put the list in his arms and waved his head to signal the others to follow him.
When they passed by Ji Changying, they took a look at her, didn't recognize her, and turned away.
Yao Sanniang looked at their backs and explained softly, "These are the runners from the government office. They've been coming here every day lately. Sometimes I think what they say makes sense, but...but whenever I think about living with a man for a long time in the future, I feel a pang of pain all over my body."
"Miss Ji!"
The remaining nine ladies saw the look of surprise on their faces.
It seemed that they did not expect Ji Changying to come here to visit them, and they invited Ji Changying to sit in the house a little awkwardly.
In the room, which stretched as far as the eye could see, there were many beds made of boards. Although it was crowded, it was very clean. It was just a little cold because of the wind coming in from all sides.
"Are all your family members gone?"
Ji Changying had already made a decision in her mind and wanted to know about their situation.
"I dare not hide the truth when the girl asks. My family is all here, but... my brother has already married and has five children. My parents have passed away, so there is no place for me in the family anymore."
"All my relatives died in front of me on the day I was kidnapped."
"I was abducted because my parents pushed me out to stop the barbarians in order to save my brother's life."
…
After asking around, Ji Changying fell silent.
Happiness is all the same, but unhappiness is all different.
"Why don't you want to get married? Is it because the men the government provides are not good enough?"
Ji Changying's question excited all ten ladies: "No! That's not true. How dare people like us look down on others!"
A woman gritted her teeth and looked at Ji Changying with a desperate expression: "I feel sick when I see men now. I feel like I can't breathe when I get close to them. I don't want to hurt others."
Another person looked at Ji Changying intently, "I don't care about justice, and I don't understand any great principles. I just remember what the girl said: The weak can only wait to be trampled on! I just don't want to live at the mercy of others anymore. I want to live selfishly and with dignity!"
Ji Changying looked at Xu Qingcao. She was the one who was pushed out by her parents.
After this experience, she also lived out her own ideas.
Yao Sanniang knelt down again and looked at Ji Changying firmly: "We want to live uprightly and like human beings! Please give us some advice, young lady!"
The others followed her without hesitation and knelt on the ground: "Please give me some advice, young lady!"
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