Chapter 100 The Way to Live
"This is very good. There are many children in Huangshi Village who want to go to private schools. I heard that children are exempted from going to school? Although it is now wholly owned by Tan Dalang, there are also many men in Huangshi Village who still have the strength. I also want to contribute, okay? The men in our village come to build private schools, so they don’t need to pay wages.”

It was the village head of Huangshi Village who said this.

Today, he also took advantage of Tan Ji's visit to Qi's family to accept, so he came here specially, and wanted to talk to Tan Ji face to face about the issue of the children in Huangshi Village going to private schools.

People are alive, they have to earn a way out for future generations, although it is not important to study in Zhishou County, but what if there is really a champion?

It can't be because of poverty that limits the infinite future of the children.

In fact, the village head of Huangshi Village has long wanted to say that since Huangtu Village wants to open a private school, Huangguo Village and Huangshi Village will run it together. The children of the three villages go to school together. There are more students. Even if you don't need Tan Ji's full capital, you can hire a better husband for the children.

Regarding this point, the village head of Huangshi Village is not as entangled as the head of Huangtu Village, because there are actually not many people in Huangshi Village.

Of the three villages, Huangtu Village has the largest population, followed by Huangshi Village, and Huangguo Village has the least population.

The village head of Huangtu Village took a look at Tan Ji. Tan Ji's brows and eyes were firm, and he didn't talk much since he entered the door. Compared with Qi Ming, who was alive and well, Tan Ji seemed much more calm and introverted.

Seeing the head of Huangtu Village looking at him, Tan Ji nodded and said:

"At the beginning, Jiao Niang said that the money for building the private school was short, but Tan Ji promised to help, and I will pay the money, and she will take care of the private school. This is something that has been set long ago, so there is no need to change it."

When Sheng Jiaojiao asked Tan Ji to fully fund the construction of the private school, she planned a long way for him, although Tan Ji didn't think he could live for such a long time.

But he also didn't want to disturb Sheng Jiaojiao's arrangement.

He nodded again and said:
"Huangtu Village is located between Huangguo Village and Huangshi Village. If a private school is built in Huangguo Village, it will be too far away for the children of Huangshi Village to go to school. It is not as central as Huangtu Village."

These words are to properly safeguard Sheng Jiaojiao's decision.

Hearing Tan Ji's words, the village head of Huangtu Village immediately laughed,
"What is Dalang talking about? If our Jiao Niang marries you in the future, our two villages will become one family. If a family does not speak two languages, the children in your village will be the children in our village." In the future, Huangtu Village and Huangguo Village will be one village."

In a few words, the location of this private school has been confirmed, Huangtu Village and Huangguo Village have no objections, and the children of Huangshi Village can also go to school without Shu You, and the three village heads are very happy.

Everyone is very satisfied with the current situation, and everyone is also very happy that Tan Ji and Sheng Jiaojiao are married.

Sitting on a chair, Tan Ji moved his eyes in the lively Qi family hall, and saw Sheng Jiaojiao's figure passing by under the eaves of the Qi family hall, and went to the backyard.

Today, her black hair is braided into a thick braid, hanging obliquely on her shoulders, with two ebony hairpins pinned to the back of her head, and she is wearing a dark blue thick jacket, all plain, with colorful flowers and birds embroidered on the sleeves of the jacket. Fish pattern, light-colored cotton skirt corner, is also a circle of the same colorful flowers and butterflies.

The whole person looks very delicate, with an indescribable elegance.

For a while, Tan Ji couldn't sit still. He got up, saluted to the elders in the whole room, found an excuse, left the main room, and walked around to the backyard of Qi's family.

From a distance, seeing Sheng Jiaojiao walking in the snow with her hands behind her back, she went into the forest.

Today Tan Ji came to Qi's house to accept, although Miss Qi dragged Sheng Jiaojiao up from the bed early in the morning, but Sheng Jiaojiao couldn't go out to meet Tan Ji.

Therefore, Tan Ji only followed behind Sheng Jiaojiao, thinking of waiting for Sheng Jiaojiao to go further away and call her.

But he saw her enter the woods.

The forest has changed a lot from when Tan Ji came back last time.

Sheng Jiaojiao ordered Qi Rong to polish the original tree stumps, put an extremely rough small stone table in the middle of the tree stumps, and built a straw pavilion on top of the tree stumps and stone table.

On the top of the pavilion, there are a few words carved on a rough board, "Yexian Pavilion", which looks like Sheng Jiaojiao's handwriting.

It doesn't look exquisite, but it has a meaning that Tan Ji can't tell, and it looks extremely wild.

For a while, Tan Ji looked at Sheng Jiaojiao who was sitting with Pin Ting in the wild fairy pavilion, and felt a little funny in his heart.

She is a delicate girl, she is more at ease than the gods in the sky, she is unrestrained and grows wildly.

In such a poor and isolated country, I really tried my best to live a comfortable life.

She also saw Sheng Jiaojiao took out a box of charcoal fire from under the stone table, a small red clay stove, and a thick pot, and started to boil water.

Tan Ji suddenly realized that he looked at her for a long time unconsciously.

He stepped up and walked around the trees in front of him. Just as he was about to walk over, he saw a pregnant woman rushing over, knelt at Sheng Jiaojiao's feet, and cried:

"Jiao Niang, Jiao Niang, please save my two older sisters, Jiao Niang"

Sheng Jiaojiao, who was boiling water and tea, was suddenly kneeled by Wenxiu. She frowned, looked down, and asked:
"What's the matter, sit down and talk."

Wenxiu shook her head, with tears all over her face, still kneeling on the cold ground, crying:
"Today, my sister asked someone to bring a message, saying that my mother won't let her go, Jiao Niang, can you please do me a favor and help my two poor sisters, Jiao Niang, I will kowtow to you, me."

As she spoke, Wenxiu was about to bend her back and touch her forehead to the ground.

But her chin was lifted gently by a catkin, forcing her not to kowtow.

Wen Xiu looked up, Sheng Jiaojiao withdrew her hand, got up, sat on another tree stump, a little far away from Wen Xiu, and continued to fiddle with the charcoal fire in the small red clay stove.

Only Sheng Jiaojiao slowly said:

"I'm in a good mood today, you don't have to kneel to me, get up, I'll talk to you slowly."

Wenxiu wiped the tears from her face, took two steps forward on her knees, shook her head, choked up,

"I'm sorry, Jiao Niang, help my sister, Jiao Niang, please."

"Look at you, it's so cold on the ground, you just keep kneeling like this, don't think about yourself, think about the child in your stomach."

Sheng Jiaojiao raised her hand, picked up the teapot, found an earthenware cup and some tea leaves in the box, made a cup of boiling hot tea for Wenxiu, and said:
"Your two prostitute sisters want to redeem themselves as slaves, but mother won't let them go?"

Seeing Wenxiu's pale face, kneeling on the ground and nodding desperately, Sheng Jiaojiao asked again:

"Now that your two elder sisters have money in their hands, if the household registration is redeemed, are you going to go to the yamen of Jishang to pay money and change back to good registration?"

As for where the money in the hands of Wenxiu's two sisters came from, I don't need to say it clearly, after all, it wouldn't be from accompanying a man.

The price of prostitutes in the military dormitory is too low, because Zhishou County has no extra money at all, so men are happy to find prostitutes.

Sometimes the yamen also stipulated that if the army won a battle, the prostitutes in the army's dormitory had to serve the army master for free.

So even if the slave registration household book is redeemed, there is no money to go to the yamen to improve the registration.

The fee for changing citizenship is very expensive, at least according to Sheng Jiaojiao's understanding, the sum of money in the hands of Wenxiu and her two sisters is not enough to change a good citizenship.

Wenxiu, who was kneeling on the ground, shook her head and cried:
"My two elder sisters just want to get out of the military dormitory first. They already have enough money in their hands. It is not a problem to keep our family fed and clothed."

Which shameless woman is willing to go to that kind of place to work as a prostitute?Naturally, I can get out, so I just think about getting out as soon as possible.

After coming out of the military dormitory, think about the future.

Sheng Jiaojiao couldn't help laughing when she heard Wenxiu's words. She poured tea into her teacup, sat in the cold snowy forest, held the warm earthenware cup in both hands, and asked:
"Why should I help you?"

Let me tell you a reason, although she has compassion, she has never been a master who eats fast and recites Buddha.

Wenxiu didn't expect Sheng Jiaojiao to ask this question at all, she was stunned for a moment, knelt on the cold ground, and looked at Sheng Jiaojiao motionlessly.

why?She has always thought that Sheng Jiaojiao is very kind, very kind, and generous, because Sheng Jiaojiao has helped her a lot, so Wenxiu's two elder sisters had accidents, and without thinking about it, she came to Sheng Jiaojiao for help.

Then I heard Sheng Jiaojiao say softly:

"On a day like today, a very good gentleman came to my house to ask me to marry me. I was in a good mood and in good spirits. I was thinking of a quiet place, but you came to me crying and crying. You feel uncomfortable, but you have Haven't thought about it, touched my mold?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Jiao Niang, I'm confused, I'm sorry!!!"

Wenxiu got up quickly, her belly was big, her face was full of shame, and she was about to leave with a red face.

She didn't think carefully, and was so confused by the news from her elder sister that she even forgot that today was the day when Tan Ji came to Na Cai.

No, she saw the Tan family coming to Qijia, but she just ignored it. She only wanted to ask Sheng Jiaojiao for help, and she completely ignored that today is a good day for Sheng Jiaojiao.

Wenxiu apologized again and again and was about to leave.

Sheng Jiaojiao said coldly:

"stop!"

Wenxiu immediately stood where she was, with her head lowered, her hands holding her belly, crying and daring not to speak anymore.

In the pavilion, Sheng Jiaojiao gently pushed Wenxiu's cup of tea in her direction, and said softly:

"Since I've told you about it, there's absolutely no reason to leave like this today. Mrs. Zhang, you drink tea, and I'll talk to you."

This is the second time Sheng Jiaojiao made Wenxiu drink tea.

She didn't dare to answer, her hands were trembling, and she stepped forward to hold the hot tea in the cold hands, a warm feeling came to her heart, but she felt extremely sore, and tears started to fall down.

Sheng Jiaojiao turned a blind eye, took a sip of hot tea, and said:

"If I come forward to ask that mother to release her, it will take a lot of effort, but as I said, I helped you two sisters, what good is it for me? They are slaves, like flowers and jade The two of them would be caught walking on the road. I tried my best to use my relationship to rescue the two of them and let them out in the north of the county. Within three to five days, they didn't know which man's bed they were caught. , are you going to beg me again?"

That Sheng Jiaojiao would be annoyed to death by Wenxiu.

After all, Wenxiu is too good at watching the future.

Where is someone running to cry on such a day.

Wenxiu flinched, holding hot tea, with a big belly, standing pitifully by Sheng Jiaojiao's side, choked up and said:
"As long as Jiao Niang can save my two elder sisters, we are all willing to have three of our sisters as slaves and handmaids in the future."

"Then my elders will beat me to death."

Sheng Jiaojiao gave Wenxiu a sideways look with no expression on her face. She was full, and she didn't mind finding two women who had been prostitutes to be her slaves. She was drowned by the spit of each other.

Although the Qi family is not a noble family, they are also innocent, so they don't have to draw criticism on themselves like this.

Wenxiu stopped talking again, she was sobbing, she didn't know what to say now.

Seeing her like this, Sheng Jiaojiao sighed and asked:
"Why are you so persistent that you must redeem your two elder sisters? Miss Zhang, you are married, your family's conditions are not well-off, and now you are about to give birth. Do you feel forced to act like this?"

Everyone has their own destiny, and there will be no good results in the end if you act reluctantly. In fact, it is best for some things to happen naturally.

Wenxiu's family is poor, even though she has made some money from Sheng Jiaojiao during this period, it is far from being rich and powerful. Her family's conditions are like this, and there is a child who is about to give birth to support, how to take care of her Those two sisters?
Entering the military dormitory, mortgage the slave household registration in the hands of the mother to work as a prostitute, either voluntarily, or caught and sold.

The two of them want to redeem themselves, which is allowed by the law, not impossible.

The difficulty lies in how much the mother asks for. If the mother is willing to let her go, she can redeem herself with a few taels of silver.

But if the mother is unwilling and sincerely sends a sky-high price, it may be difficult to go to the sky if she wants to redeem herself.

They must overcome all difficulties to redeem Wenxiu's two elder sisters. How will they protect themselves in the future?In the military dormitory, at least there is a mother to protect the two of them?

What about leaving the military dormitory?
Prostitutes are in the military dormitory, at least there is a place to shelter from the wind and rain, at least they will not kill people, they have something to eat, some clothes to wear, and they are protected by the laws of Daze.

If you are lucky, if you meet a good man, you can be redeemed to be a decent man's wife.

After leaving the military dormitory, they were slaves, even if they were beaten to death on the street, how many people cared about their life and death?

Who would chase after the murderer and seek justice for them?

Even with such difficulties, this pregnant Wenxiu insisted on forcing her?That would be great.

She hadn't thought about the Zhang family, which was surrounded by walls, nor had she thought about the child in her stomach?

Sheng Jiaojiao is not a Bodhisattva, she does not have the ability to help all sentient beings, she has kindness, but this kindness cannot be abused.

Especially in a place like Zhishou County, it is even more impossible to be a living Bodhisattva, otherwise, it would be doing bad things with good intentions.

It's sad, but that's what really happens in Jishou County.

Many people assigned to Zhishou County can't get used to it at first, but after a long time, they will feel that they are here, as long as they can live well.

As for the way of living, it is not that important.

(End of this chapter)

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