Chapter 358 This is your daughter (two chapters in one)
Most of the people living in the county towns of Zuo County are Han people, but there are many Yi people nearby. You can often see Yi people who come to the city to sell mountain goods in the county town.
The woman in front of her was dressed as a barbarian. She placed a bamboo basket at her feet, and there was a layer of leaves on the top of the bamboo basket. She didn't know what was inside.
Master Hua San set up calligraphy and painting stalls on the roadside, and every day he would see the barbarians passing by. The ancestors of the Hua family were barbarians. Although the Hua family was ashamed of it, Master Hua San never discriminated against barbarians and would occasionally chat with them. Therefore, Master Hua San could also understand simple barbarians.
But the woman spoke in a Qianzhou accent.
Qianzhou?
Zuo County is more than 300 miles away from Qianzhou, and most of them are mountain roads. When you come from Qianzhou, you have to cross mountains and ridges for more than ten days.
Master Hua San has no good impression of Qianzhou, and he met thieves there.
Master Hua San frowned. The woman's official words were not good. Master Hua San had to carefully distinguish them to understand what she was saying.
"I have given my master's orders to return your daughter to you. The master knows that you only value males, but this is your biological flesh and blood. You must treat her well and raise her."
Master Hua San finally understood the woman's words, but he couldn't digest them. He stood there like a stone.
Did he hear it wrong?
His daughter is still in the capital, what is this woman talking about?
After the woman finished speaking, she bent down, pushed away the leaves on the bamboo basket, and then carefully carried out a small baby from the bamboo basket.
The baby was wrapped in a cradle and was sleeping soundly. The woman carried the baby to Master Hua San and said, "Miss to you, I'm leaving it."
Mr. Hua San subconsciously took the cradle and looked at the child in his arms with a look of surprise. What does the child mean? He is given to him? What does he want a child for a man?
No, this woman said the child was his daughter, and the baby looked only three or four months old, so of course it wouldn't be Yaoyao. What's going on?
"Don't, don't leave, you have to make it clear, who is this child? What does she have to do with me?" Mr. Hua San was anxious for a moment, and he didn't care about whether there was a difference between men and women. He held the child with one hand and held the woman's sleeve with the other.
The woman shook her lightly, and Master Hua San was thrown to the point of two steps behind her legs. He didn't stand firmly and fell to the ground. The moment he fell, the woman reached out and took the baby back to her arms.
"Baoshi, I almost fell to the little lady." The woman looked disgusted, but she still reached out to pull Master Hua San up.
Mr. Hua San was a little embarrassed when he was thrown. He looked at the little baby in the woman's arms and said, "I do have a daughter, but she is in the capital and is eight years old. This child cannot be my daughter. Have you found the wrong person?"
The woman shook her head: "It's not wrong. I know you. I've been looking for you for three months. That man is you."
Mr. Hua San was so amused and crying. He was a gentle person. Although he felt that this woman was unreasonable, he still explained patiently: "I am from the capital. I am not familiar with you here. I have never seen you, and I have never gotten married here. If I don't get married, where did I get a daughter? This child is really not my daughter. If you want to find the father of the child, I can write. I can help you write a few more missing person notices, and you don't charge any money."
"What are you talking about? The little lady is clearly your daughter. Last March, I took her away from the inn. You can't be wrong, I know you." The woman said affirmatively.
"Last March?" Mr. Hua San was stunned. In March last year, he was stunned by the thief in March last year, snatched money from him and threw him into the valley to kill someone to silence him. Thanks to a passing miracle doctor who saved his life, he saved his life, "Are you a thief who fainted me?"
Mr. Hua San widened his eyes. Tian Qingyu went out to buy Yu vegetables and Qingyu went to buy rice paper. He stayed alone in the inn. Someone knocked on the door and he went to open the door. The man asked him if he came from the capital. He said yes, and then the man raised his hand to him. Then he lost consciousness and was in the valley when he woke up.
He guessed that the man must have used the drug for him. After he was rescued, he got lost in the mountains and accidentally ran away for four or five days. It was not until he met a hunter who could speak Chinese that he finally returned to Qianzhou. He found the inn. Only then did he realize that he had been stunned. More than twenty days had passed. Qingyu and Qingyan heard that someone had brought a group of people to Zuoxian, so they also left Qianzhou. Therefore, Master Hua San spent a lot of effort to come to Zuoxian. Unfortunately, he was on the roadside every day and did not see Qingyu and Qingyan.
"You gave me some medicine?" Mr. Hua San pointed at the woman, incredible. He remembered that it was a man, but it might be a woman dressed as a man.
"I did it. After I was stunned, I threw you out of the back window upstairs. The people below caught you and loaded you into the carriage, so no one in the inn saw how you were taken away." The woman obviously didn't want to hide it. She said calmly, as if she was not doing a bad thing, but a matter of right.
"You also made the poison I was poisoned later? I have no grudges and grudges with you, why did you harm me?" Master Hua San would never forget the feeling of life being worse than death. If he hadn't met that miracle doctor, he would have been a dead person at this time.
"I took you away, but it was not me who poisoned you. Afterwards, I took my master's order to collect your body, but I didn't find your body, and I suspected that you were not dead. You were indeed alive." The woman's voice was cold, and her official words were not fluent, but Master Hua San gradually adapted to her accent and understood it more and more.
"Who is your master? Why did you take me away? And, what's wrong with this child?" At this moment, Master Hua San had already believed that this woman had not found the wrong person. She could tell the story of Qianzhou. Then the person she was looking for was herself, but what was going on?
The woman was a little impatient, and she said angrily: "I won't tell you, take your daughter with you, go as far as you can, and never go to Qianzhou again. No, don't even come here. I can find you, and others can."
Mr. Hua San is an honest man, but honest man also has a stubborn temper. He simply put his hands behind his back, looked at the child in the woman's arms, and said, "If you don't explain clearly, I will not accept this child. No, even if you leave the child behind, I will not ask her. I... I sold her, threw her away, and didn't give her food... Don't believe it, I can do what I can do."
When Mr. Hua San said this, he called himself a beast in his heart. He could not do what he said. However, it is very likely to find a good family to send the child out. However, Zuo County is too poor, so he would go somewhere else to ask if there is any family without children.
The woman obviously didn't expect that Mr. Hua San would say such cruel words. She looked at the children in her arms, then looked at Mr. Hua San with a stern face, and muttered in her heart. Before she came, the master said that most scholars would favor their sons, treat their sons as jade, and treat their daughters as mud. This person is also a scholar, and maybe they can really make up their minds and starve the little lady to death.
My daughter bit her lip and finally spoke: "We are a big family, no, it is one of the two big families in our place. Our family is full of women, and the other family is a male family. The two major families have been married for generations and do not intermarry with other surnames. The children born, the daughter stays in my master's house, and the male family is handed over to that family. Even if the man and the woman get married, they will live in their own homes."
Mr. Hua San was surprised, what? After the man and woman get married, they live in their own homes. What is the difference between not getting married? No, there is still a difference. They want to create people together.
In other words, the so-called marriage between their two surnames is just to create human beings?
"Why can't you intermarry with a foreign surname? You two are just marrying for a child." Mr. Hua San couldn't help asking.
The woman snorted coldly: "This is a rule left by our ancestors. Our two surnames must abide by, and you don't need to ask."
Mr. Hua San lived in Qianzhou for a while, but he had never heard of such a mysterious family in Qianzhou.
He grew up in the capital since he was young, and in his mind, those aristocratic families were like the Qin and Zhang families.
Seeing that he stopped talking, the woman continued, "But in the past hundred years, our families seemed to have been cursed and gave birth to babies... In the past ten years, there was only the young lady who was healthy. The elders of the clan looked for medical secretary's prescriptions everywhere, and later they determined that the problem was not ours. Last March, their family sent a fool to marry the young lady, so the elders of the clan sent me out and found a man to take it back. The young lady fainted in the bridal chamber, so I sent you in. You and the young lady slept together for three nights, so the young lady is your child."
Master Hua San...
He thought he had heard it wrong, was he dreaming? Is this woman saying true?
He remembered that after being stunned, he had a long dream. He was doing those shy things with Zhaoyang in his dream. But he didn't care. Since he was separated from Zhaoyang, he often had such dreams...
But, what this woman said, did he not dream that night, but was really with others...and that person was not Zhaoyang yet!
No, this woman is talking nonsense. Since he is already confused, how could he do those things? He should be like a dead person, just sleeping without moving.
"There are some strange medicines in our family. The lady gave you medicine. It is not difficult to have a baby with you," the woman said.
Mr. Hua San was speechless again.
He felt so hot from head to toe that he was so ashamed.
"But you still want to kill me afterwards, you are too cruel." Master Hua San finally squeezed out this sentence.
"I said that it was not done by me, nor by the lady. It was the head of the family that he could not keep you. The lady blocked you for this. The head of the family had no choice but to use medicine to throw it into the mountains. Whether it was death or life, it was all based on the will of heaven. The lady was injured at that time and could only watch you be taken away." When the woman said this, she glared at Master Hua San fiercely.
Master Hua San is like falling into an ice cave. Who can tell him whether this is a dream?
"You two families have been in good marriage for generations. Why should I get involved in it? I have no grudges and grudges with you, you..." Mr. Hua San was gentle and humble. He would not curse people, and these are the harsh words he could say.
"Why don't you understand? If you weren't worried about a monster, how could you look for an outsider?" After the woman said that, she suddenly felt a word and quickly explained, "It's either a monster, or she's sick when she's born."
"Are you sick? By the way, you just said that the family sent a fool. You also said that in the past ten years, only your lady is the normal one. Could it be that all the people born are fools?" asked Master Hua San.
"A fool is good..." The woman was anxious and became more awkward in her words. She didn't know how to use words for a while, and Master Hua San understood.
"You two families have been married for generations, but in the past 100 years, the children you gave birth to are not healthy. In the last ten years, they only gave birth to one healthy child. Among those unhealthy children, fools are already considered good. So bad, as you said, are they monsters?"
Master Hua San’s eloquence is much better than this woman. Women can understand it. Judging from her expression, Master Hua San knows that he is all right.
"What kind of monster?" Master Hua San asked in a deep voice.
The woman knew that she could not hide it anymore, so she just gritted her teeth and said, "There are two-headed people, and those who have no limbs when they were born, and their facial features are all monsters. Even the lady's sister is such a monster, and so is her younger brother."
Women looked frightened. It was a nightmare for the entire family. Some of those monster-like babies died when they were born, and some were buried alive. Most of the lucky ones would find that they were fools when they were two or three years old.
Especially in the past decade, the clan has given birth to ten children, including three boys and seven girls. Apart from the young lady, there are only three children who survive, and these three are all stupid.
"But this child is not a monster. You also say that this is my daughter. Why didn't you stay and send her to me?" Master Hua San's eyes moved to the little baby again. The child was very young, but surprisingly quiet. The two adults were talking, but she was asleep.
Women looked frightened. It was a nightmare for the entire family. Some of those monster-like babies died when they were born, and some were buried alive. Most of the lucky ones would find that they were fools when they were two or three years old.
Especially in the past decade, the clan has given birth to ten children, including three boys and seven girls. Apart from the young lady, there are only three children who survive, and these three are all stupid.
"But this child is not a monster. You also say that this is my daughter. Why didn't you stay and send her to me?" Master Hua San's eyes moved to the little baby again. The child was very young, but surprisingly quiet. The two adults were talking, but she was asleep.
Chapter completed!