Chapter 375: A Strange Village
Yun Jiuge held Zi Shang’s hand and steered him towards the ground. After that, she walked towards the middle-aged woman who was wiping her tears. She asked, “Madam, where are we right now? You seem perfectly fine, so why are you crying?”
“This place is called Stone Village. We can’t do any farming because the soil is terribly dry today. My husband fell sick again, so I could only sell my daughter to Official Liu for ten silver taels. Because of this, she became his new wife. I have failed her as her mother,” the middle-aged woman said as she sobbed.
“Will Official Liu treat your daughter badly?” Yun Jiuge asked again.
“Official Liu is not a local here. Eight years ago, he came here with his two newborn sons and settled down at Jiuxi Town. Shortly after that, he married the daughter of a small family that resided in that town. Soon after their wedding, that lady passed away. I heard that her corpse looked like she was mauled to death by a wild beast.
Half a year later, Official Liu married another lady. She also passed away shortly after the wedding. He claimed that she fell from a cliff to her death, so he could not find her corpse.
Everyone in this town said that he would bring bad luck to his wife, so no decent family would let their daughter marry this man.
Thereafter, he went to poor families in villages and paid money for their daughters. He married five wives consecutively and they passed away one after another. All of their dead bodies were missing.”
“My daughter, He Hua, is his eighth wife. I am really scared that she will meet her demise after she marries him!” Tears and mucus were streaming down that middle-aged woman’s face. She looked extremely pitiful.
“Since you’re aware that Official Liu is a horrible man, why do you still want to let your daughter marry him?” After finding out that this middle-aged woman pushed her daughter into a lion’s den for ten silver taels, Yun Jiuge felt that she did not deserve her sympathy.