bestfiction Chapter 566: Living is the Hardest
Chapter 566: Living is the Hardest
Everyone outside the tent was busy packing their luggage. Su Yueyao saw Xingchen, Nanfeng and Pu'an talking not far away.
Su Yueyao and Xu Minghe walked over.
"My dear wife." Pu Anxian stopped talking immediately when he saw Su Yueyao and bowed to her.
The other two also turned around.
"Master wife."
"Xingchen, are you talking about the bandits and Kangshi County?"
"Well, the Killing Pavilion rescued six women from the mountains yesterday, and five women from the dark room of Kangshi County Government Office. Evidence of collusion between the county magistrate and them has been found. Pu Shijun meant that he should write directly to His Majesty in the name of the inspector, demanding severe punishment." Xingchen said.
"Okay, are those women injured?"
After Su Yueyao asked, the three of them paused and did not speak.
Su Yueyao saw their expressions and guessed something in her mind and said, "Just tell me the truth."
"The Fengyu Guards sent by my wife reported back that those women were not in good condition. Many of them were abused and had injuries on their bodies. Some of them even went crazy." Nanfeng said.
"How should these women be accommodated?" Su Yueyao asked with a pause.
"If they can find their family, they can be picked up by their family. If they don't have any family, they can register with the county government to see if there is anyone who will marry them."
"What if no one is willing to marry them?"
"My wife, these women will be treated. Women are scarce nowadays, and even if some of them are a little mentally retarded, there will be people willing to marry them." Pu An said.
There are many unmarried men in the county. If they want to escape from exile, they can find a crazy woman and keep her in the backyard. This will not affect their behavior outside at all.
After hearing this, Su Yueyao roughly knew what would happen next and stopped asking any more questions.
"My dear wife, please have your meal first! We are about to set off. There is such a big movement here. It will take three days to get to Kangzhou Prefecture by the official road. The governor of Kangzhou is a very calculating man. He will find out that it was us who did it. We have to avoid him." Pu An said.
"I don't have much of an appetite. Let's just go! If I get hungry later, I can just eat something in the carriage." Su Yueyao said dejectedly.
"My wife, please wait a moment. Sun Shijun should be back soon. Gongyang will be looking after His Highness and the others today."
"Okay, then I'll get on the carriage first!"
"Mr. Pu, you should go and accompany your wife. Mr. Nan and I will discuss the rest of the journey."
"Okay, Xing Ce-kun."
Su Yueyao and Pu An got on the carriage.
After Su Yueyao got on the carriage, she silently looked at the scenery outside the window.
"My wife, you must feel a little uncomfortable when you hear about what happened to those women, right?" Pu An asked as he sat next to Su Yueyao.
"It's not bad! It's just a pity for such crazy women. I think they must have been abused and driven crazy. Even if they get married in the future, they will probably be controlled by their so-called husbands. The government has no time to pay attention to the well-being of a crazy woman."
"My dear wife, at least they are still alive, right?"
"Sometimes, living is the hardest thing. These bandits and the magistrate of Kangshi County really deserve to die."
"Kang Shi, the county magistrate, will not survive. More than half of the bandits were killed or wounded last night. The survivors were demoted to slavery. These people will die on the battlefield for the rest of their lives, and they will not have any military merits."
Su Yueyao felt better when she heard about their fate.
Fortunately, men’s chastity is valued here. If it were in the ancient times when men were respected, these women might not be alive.
But even though women seem to be noble here, they still have to depend on men. The value of their existence is to give birth to children for them. This time, I found that there are almost no women serving as officials in the counties of various states.
It seems that there is still a long way to go if we want to change the disadvantaged situation of women!
She just stayed in the inn for one night. Just because she was a woman, she attracted several waves of people. Women kept their backyards to themselves and did not go out. It was indeed easy for something to happen if they went out once, especially for civilian women in these small counties without any identity background.
"My lady, don't think too much. This year, His Majesty established the Phoenix Feather Guard. Women are much better protected than before, but the number is limited. The Southern Guard has also been setting up branches in various places."
"The Phoenix Feather Guards cannot protect me all the time. Now I understand that after I got married to my master in Yi County, my master always asked me to choose a husband. If a woman only marries one or two husbands, she will be in danger when she travels far away." Su Yueyao said.
"That's right. In recent years, Fengluan's treasury has been insufficient, food has been in short supply, military forces are insufficient, and the population is declining. Bandits have appeared in some places. Some of the better county magistrates and prefects still have ideas to suppress the bandits, but the county magistrate of Kangshi County is not necessarily the only one who is colluding with the bandits!"
Su Yueyao sighed. There were so many things she wanted to do after returning to Fengdu, but every time one of them appeared, there would be a lot of resistance to promoting it.
At this time, Sun Yibai got on the carriage, "Wife."
"You're back, sit down!"
Then the carriage began to sway and move forward.
"Wife, would you like some food?" Urayasu asked as he took out the pancakes he had made in the morning.
Su Yueyao always felt blocked in her heart and didn't want to eat, but when she saw Pu An's concerned expression, she took a piece and started eating.
Pu An felt relieved when he saw Su Yueyao eating, but his wife was pregnant and he couldn't be careless.
"Yibai, are your highness and the others okay?" Su Yueyao asked Sun Yibai, who looked tired.
"Fortunately, most of them were retching and didn't eat much. Yao Lao gave them some nourishing pills. My wife, everything will be fine." Sun Yibai said.
"Hasn't Yao Lao developed an effective anti-emetic pill yet?"
"No, Yao Lao said that the early reaction is physical and cannot be intervened by drugs. Only when the wife is about two months old, the pills can play most of the role."
"Is there no other way to prevent them from vomiting? Or to alleviate their discomfort?"
"Yao Lao is also trying to find a solution."
"Yibai, I see that you look very tired. You should take a rest first!" Su Yueyao said to Sun Yibai.
"Okay, my dear wife, I'll close my eyes and rest for a while."
Sun Yibai was indeed not feeling well, his head was filled with the sound of retching. He truly admired Yao Lao and Wei Cejun for being able to stay in the same carriage without collapsing.
The sound of killing enemies in battle was more pleasant than this. He used to guard against sneak attacks from the Dongli Kingdom and patrol for several days without much rest, but he didn't feel tired. But after accompanying His Highness and the others for a day and a night, he felt like he was on the verge of collapse.
Sun Yibai leaned against the carriage and thought, and soon he fell asleep. Su Yueyao and the others heard Sun Yibai's even breathing and knew that he had fallen asleep, and his voice had become much quieter.
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【Please use love to generate electricity...】