Chapter 542: A group of old ladies

Chapter 542 A Group of Old Women
Bai Youwei and Shen Mo didn't know what was happening in the house. They came to the village and found that the family who had the accident last night also had a funeral.
White lanterns were hung inside and outside the house, and the condolences entered and exited just like the former Li Zhengjia.
If the death rate per night continues, every household in this village will have to do funerals.
According to the roster, Shen Mo finds women who are as nameless and surnamed as Li.
The men went to pay their condolences, and the women gathered together in groups of three to five, drying beans, washing clothes, and watching grandchildren.
They were all fifteen or sixty years old when they were married, and now they are the oldest in their seventies and the youngest are in their fifties.
Even those village women who are only in their fifties can describe the withered, gray-haired, and not much different from the sixties or seventies.
Shen Mo asked them about Li's affairs.
None of these village women knew.
They all said that they were unfamiliar with Li's family and had no intersection, only that she was the daughter-in-law of Li Xiuzi from outside.
One of them said, "Li Zizi is too poor, and he will not do his business!"
Another laughed and said: "Lazy and poor, but also want to buy a wife, this is called toad to eat swan meat!"
"Don't you ask him to get it in the end?" An old woman with a wrinkled face murmured. "It's a fool, and he's not afraid to cause trouble to the village. He even turned one from the outside.
Some people also disdain: "What luck, no children, all in vain!"
The atmosphere of the old times was extremely contemptuous of women who could not have children.
Bai Youwei looked at them and asked, "Have you been in the village for so many years, haven't you thought about going home?"
"Go home?" The old ladies smiled at each other and shook their heads, "What do you do when you go back? The family is poor, and there is no food to support the idlers. Even if you go back, you will be driven back."
Bai Youwei asked again: "Have Li's been home?"
This time, they looked at each other and silently fell silent.
Bai Youwei looked at them and said, "This question, either answer" yes "or" no "or" don't know ".
You just said that you are not familiar with Li, and you should answer ‘I do n’t know’, but none of you said that the answer is between
yes
and
no
.
If you have n’t gone home, you do n’t have to cover up. The biggest reason why you do n’t talk is because she tried to go back, but it was stopped by you. "
"No no!"
"How can we do that? Little girl, don't talk nonsense!"
"Yeah, I can't finish every day's housework. Who will control her not to go home ..."
Bai Youwei tilted her head for a moment and said, "Maybe you haven't stopped it, but the men in your family have stopped it."
The old ladies were silent again ...
After a while, the oldest old lady said, "Can you stop for a lifetime if you stop for a while? Little girl don't say that we are so impersonal, a woman who has lost her body, even if she runs back, what can be the end? It ’s better to live in An'an separately and have a son and a half next to me. "
The old ladies next to them nodded in agreement.
Bai Youwei asked: "As you mean, Li's later stayed voluntarily in the village?"
However, the old ladies no longer ignored her, and took care of their own work, drying beans, washing clothes, and watching grandchildren.
Bai Youwei couldn't ask for useful information. He exchanged eyes with Shen Mo and could only leave.
Walking on the country road, Bai Youwei suddenly smiled.
"What did you think of?" Shen Mo asked her.
"Huh ~" Bai Youwei looked up at him, her mouth slightly raised, "I suddenly found that the old lady in this village gave more useful information than the old man. Remember to go to the Li's next door last time and ask the three questions of Old Man Liu ?"
(End of this chapter)