Chapter 607 Don’t treat girls as human beings!
What Zhao Da said about Old Man Li’s little girl is really deplorable.
Old Man Li’s family wanted to flee Chang’an from other places. He originally wanted to seek refuge with an uncle in his family who came to Chang’an to seek life. How could he have imagined that Chang’an City was such a big city? Without a specific address, he could not be found at all. Come.
Fortunately, the saint made policies at that time, provided relief grains, and allocated fields outside Chang'an City to those fleeing famine, so they did not starve to death.
However, Old Man Li is really good at giving birth, and the Li family's life is extremely tough. He gave birth to four boys in a row, and the fifth boy was not a girl until he was born.
But because Mrs. Li had given birth one after another and did not have a good confinement period, she died when her fifth child was less than five years old. When she died, her lower body smelled bad.
Originally, Old Man Li didn’t want to raise such a little girl. The aunt who lived next door to Old Man Li had a kind heart and took her into his care for a few months. However, she was taken over by other kind-hearted people in the village. The one who took her home for half a month and the one who took her home for several months couldn't bear to let such a baby girl starve to death.
In this way, Li Xiaoni lived on the food of hundreds of families and passed her first birthday.
There are always more kind-hearted people in the village, so they saw the starving Li Xiaoni. This family gave her half a steamed bun, and the other one poured her a bowl of gruel that could make a human figure visible. , which allowed Li Xiaoni to survive until she was five years old.
After Li Xiaoni turned five years old, she followed the children in the village to the nearby mountains to look for wild vegetables and anything that could be eaten. Without her mother-in-law, Li Xiaoni lived tenaciously until she was eight years old.
As Li Xiaoni grew up to eight years old, Chang'an City also began to slowly expand. Only then did Old Li have the opportunity to follow the villagers to find work in the three outer cities during the slack season. He got copper coins to buy food so that the four members of the family could make ends meet. A young man can have one more mouthful of rice.
Yes, even if Old Man Li makes money, he only spends it on his four sons. In addition to being able to sleep in the kitchen where Li Xiaoni puts firewood, Li Xiaoni also has her own Meals depend on what she can find that day.
Old man Li doesn’t support her.
It’s not like the village chief has never talked to Old Man Li and said to him: "Even if you are a girl who has been raised with food, whether you are married off to receive a betrothal gift or sold to someone else, you are still the same. Money is not."
Old man Li squatted on the ground and remained silent in response to the village chief's words. When the village chief opened his mouth to persuade him to raise Li Xiaoni, old man Li opened his mouth and said: "I am incompetent. It’s a lot of effort to support four young men. If the village chief wants to support them, he can just take them to Xiaoni’s house.”
"How much can she eat as a girl!
That's your seed. Just because she is a girl, you won't feed her?
How do you behave like this? !”
Old man Li was still squatting on the ground, and he didn’t say a word this time, but his attitude was: I don’t care!
The village chief has no choice but to report to Li Zheng and let the police from Jingzhao Mansion come to arrest Old Man Li, right?
After all, Old Man Li belongs to their village. If Old Man Li is captured, not to mention the four young men of the Li family and Li Xiaoni, the village chief will probably be scolded and complained by the villagers, and the village chief will have to deal with it. This incident has brought disgrace to the village. It no longer faces the villagers, and the village name is no longer there.
Also, can Li Xiaoni remember the village chief?
That’s not necessarily the case.
So, the village chief had no choice but to tell his old lady to give her something to eat if she saw Li Xiaoni, so as not to starve to death.
However, with the establishment of the Outer San Cities, life in the villages outside Chang'an has gradually become easier, and some people have even moved into the Outer San Cities, and they can be considered city dwellers. .
When Old Man Li followed the village chief and the others to work in the Outer San Cities, they stayed at the Datong Shop in the big car shop in the Outer San Cities. During the slack time, if the country people could come to the city to work, they would work for others. Some laborious tasks, such as carrying bags, transporting wine, or lifting stones.
But when Li Xiaoni grew up to be in her early ten years, the eldest son of the Li family was already over fifteen years old, and it was time to get a wife.
But Old Man Li’s family doesn’t even have enough to eat now, so how can he dare to think about marrying a wife?
But Li Dalang was really cruel, and he set his sights on Li Xiaoni, who had just turned ten.
"Aye, sell Xiaoni. She is over ten years old and can do a lot of work. Selling her to a wealthy family as a maid will also allow her to live a good life. Sell Xiaoni Ni'er's money, plus the one tael of money saved at home, can help me get a wife, and let my wife give birth to a grandchild for Aye.
The bloodline of Aye has been passed down! ”
What Li Dalang said made Old Li very excited, and he actually took Li Xiaoni to find Ren Yazi.
Li Xiaoni followed Old Man Li to see Ren Yazi in ignorance. He touched Li Xiaoni's body like an animal, and even opened Li Xiaoni's mouth to look at her teeth.
Li Xiaoni has been in a state of severe malnutrition for a long time, and her brain reaction is slow. This is like a human's teeth. She didn't react for a moment.
Only when she heard Old Man Li bargaining with Ren Yazi did Li Xiaoni realize that Aye was going to sell her!
Li Xiaoni knelt down and kowtowed to Old Man Li like crazy, her forehead was dripping with blood as she knelt down, crying: "Ah, I work, I eat less, Ah, don't sell me." Ah, don’t sell me!”
The way Li Xiaoni screamed at the top of her lungs was so pitiful that anyone who saw her would sigh.
But Old Man Li is not a human being, he has no heart.
Old man Li was unmoved at all and was still busy discussing the price of selling Li Xiaoni with Ren Yazi.
Ren Yazi was used to doing business, so when she saw Li Xiaoni's actions, she stopped thinking about buying people.
In the end, Ren Yazi did not buy her.
Old man Li failed to sell Li Xiaoni successfully and did not get the money. After Ren Yazi left, he was so angry that he stepped forward and kicked Li Xiaoni who was kneeling on the ground. The farmer did hard work all year round. Li The old man didn't hesitate with his kick and kicked Li Xiaoni away more than a foot (3.06m) away.
Li Xiaoni, whose forehead was bleeding, didn't react at all and flew directly into the air. When she fell to the ground due to gravity, Li Xiaoni's head hit the stone on the roadside.
Old man Li didn't even look at Li Xiaoni. He spat and walked away.
Finally, the woman who ran a tea shop on the street couldn't stand it anymore, so she carried her behind the shop and bandaged Li Xiaoni's head with a cloth towel.
The woman was kind and gave Li Xiaoni some steamed cakes to eat.
But day after day, when Li Dalang passed seventeen, twelve-year-old Li Xiaoni did not escape the fate of being sold.
When I wrote about Li Xiaoni, I couldn’t help but think of Song Zhenzhu, who I wrote about before.
The story of Song Pearl and Li Xiaoni can best reflect the importance of the technical life of reincarnation.
In modern society, if it were not for the compulsory education policy, how many children would be illiterate today in the 21st century?
But even if compulsory education is included in the law, there are still underage women who have not completed nine years of compulsory education and are illiterate. This can be said to be a very sad thing.
(End of this chapter)