The fast-traveling girl has no feelings for her

Chapter 332 From Dancing Girl to General ([-])

Another year of hot summer.

Ah Lan, who was just ten years old this year, sneaked out of her cabin while her parents were taking a lunch break at home.

She walked through the rows of mango groves planted outside her house, and plunged into a nearby grove.

Under a luxuriant linden tree, her good friend Loha is waiting for her here.

Loha came out wearing a pale pink sari today, and there were a lot of exquisite jewelry on his hands and neck.

Ah Lan knew that it was because Luoha had already been betrothed to someone else, and those jewelry were bought for her by the family she was going to marry.She and Luoha are good friends, because the other party is going to marry far away to another village this time, so the two of them made an appointment to meet again before leaving.

Luoha, who was leaning against the tree with his head down, suddenly heard movement in the bushes ahead.

She was startled, and looked up, just in time to see Alan coming out of the bush with his head stuck out.

Alan's face is very beautiful, and her eye sockets are deeper than hers, and the other party is from Vaisya, which is much better than the lowest Sudra in their family.

The two girls looked at each other, and Alan smiled first and said, "Luoha, you look really good today."

Luoha, who was praised by Alan, forced a smile with his mouth open.

If possible, she would rather she didn't have to look so good.

Lowly people don't need to write down their birth year, so she doesn't know how old she is this year, maybe she is only a little older than Alan.But her mother said that girls can get married as long as they are on the menstrual cycle.

But she didn't want to marry at all.

Seeing that Luoha didn't seem very happy, Alan stepped forward and took her hands and asked, "Luoha, what's wrong with you? Why don't you look happy at all?"

Luoha twitched the corner of his slightly bitter mouth, lowered his eyes and said, "You will know when your mother marry you."

Alan tilted his head and asked doubtfully, "Is it because you don't want to get married that's why you're like this?"

Loha shook his head, "It's not a matter of wanting to marry or not."

She paused for a moment before saying, "It's a bride price. Our family can't come up with enough gifts to give to the man's family. My mother told me to ask me to be more obedient and work harder after I get married, so that the talents of the other party's family will be better." They won’t send me back from my divorce.”

These words made Ah Lan's slender eyebrows furrow unconsciously.

In my own village, if a girl does not have enough dowry when she gets married, it is a terrible thing.

Loha's husband's family can beat and scold her at will for this reason, and even suspend her to go home.

But the Luoha family is a servant for a rich family, and they should be thankful if the other party is willing to give their family a bite of food. How can they save money as a bride price?

When she thought of the bride price, she couldn't help but think of her two older brothers.

Of those two, one was idle in the village all day long, and the other was learning crafts from his father, barely able to make ends meet.

My grandma was talking about this at home all day long, hoping to find two wives with good financial backgrounds as soon as possible, so that their families could send a large number of betrothal gifts to their homes to improve their family's life.

Grandma even said that if the bride price received by her two elder brothers is enough, then she can find a way to ask someone to marry herself to a family of a higher caste, but the premise is that others have to see her first.

Ah Lan didn't want to think so much about the future.

Seeing Luoha's sad tone and desolate expression, she held his hand tightly and comforted her non-stop.

In the woods in the afternoon, two girls in their teens were sitting on the grass talking to each other.

Above the forest, looking into the distance, you can see that not far from this rural village, the prototype of a big city is being nurtured.

Those who live in the city, likewise only a very small number of people live a prosperous life, and most of the rest are not even as good as these poor people in the countryside.

Alan didn't know how long she had talked with Luoha. When she said goodbye to Luoha and returned home, she found that the sun in the sky was already very skewed.

Too bad, at this point in time, Mom and Dad must have woken up!

She hurriedly carried her skirt, which had been washed to some extent faded, and hurried towards the house with her legs open.

But before she ran to the house, a few lazy men from the same village were passing by her house.

After they discovered Alan running along the way, they blocked her path and stopped her.

Ah Lan, who was about to rush home, had never encountered such a situation of being stopped by someone.

She opened a pair of big eyes with a little surprise, looking at the men who were two or three heads taller than her in front of her.

The two sides were less than one meter apart, and her nose was enough to clearly smell the strong smell of sweat emanating from these people.

A Lan, who has excellent eyesight, saw that the eyes of these men were staring at her. She turned around and wanted to run away in another direction, but she didn't expect that a man with messy hair and black hair had already blocked her way back.

Ah Lan couldn't help trembling with her hands pinching the hem of her skirt. She looked at these men who were still approaching her, and shouted loudly, "What are you doing? You let me go, I want to go home! "

"Go home? What's the rush for things like going home?"

A man raised his hand and touched the beard on his chin, looking up and down Alan's body, with an evil light shining out of his eyes.

The other men also echoed with malicious intentions, "Yeah, there is no rush to go home, don't be in a hurry to leave, just play with us..."

Even though Ah Lan is not married yet, now she can see that the men blocking her way have bad intentions towards her.

She firmly grasped the hem of the skirt with both hands, trying not to let the tears of fear fall from her eyes, and pretended to be calm and said, "My father is Gupta, he is a craftsman, and he is a Vaisya! If you treat me Whatever you do, he won't let you go!"

After a man heard A Lan's words, the malice in his eyes became more obvious, "So you are the daughter of the Gupta family who lives in front?"

"When someone came from the mine of the British Company to distribute subsidies, he was the one who led people to make trouble?"

When Ah Lan heard this, she suddenly realized that these people who appeared out of nowhere might be aiming at their house.

Because just a few days ago, some people from my village who went to the mine to dig stones failed to come back.

Someone from the mine came to be responsible for distributing subsidies to the families of these people, but the money they gave this time was less than half of what they used to give.

In the past, when a person died, one hundred pounds could be exchanged, but this time, each of those people was only given fifty pounds.

Those who had no children suspected that the remaining fifty pounds had been embezzled by the sender.

But that person was related to the Kshatriya caste above the Vaishya, and he was considered a high-ranking person. No one in the village dared to question that the other party had embezzled money.

In the end, her father couldn't stand the incident, so he united with several well-respected old people in nearby villages and asked the man who swallowed the money to spit out some of the money he had withheld.

Because of this, Dad almost lost his job, but these people came to her house to make trouble again.

(End of this chapter)