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Once, Aying saw a woman who had just returned from Tanshen Cave.

She was dressed in bright clothes and had a silver bracelet on her hand.

When the people in the town saw her, they gathered around her curiously.

Someone familiar with her asked her: "What is in the Tan Shen Cave? How did the Tan Shen give money?"

The woman lowered her head and said nothing.

When Aying went home and told her husband what she had seen, the man's face did not look very good.

Ah Ying didn't notice her husband's dark face and continued:

"I married from another village, so I don't know that woman. But I heard that she used to be very skinny, but after a trip to Tanshen Cave, she became plump and her skin became white. What exactly is Tanshen Cave? Can it nourish women?"

When the man heard the last sentence, he suddenly became furious.

He pressed Ah Ying to the bed without saying anything and tormented her all night long, even ignoring the child's cry.

The next day, Aying suddenly heard that the woman who came back from Tanshen Cave yesterday had hanged herself.

Ah Ying was so shocked that the wash basin fell to the ground, and she didn't recover for a long time.

Why did she want to commit suicide?

Didn't she become plump and have jewelry? Her life should be better!

Why would you want to seek death instead of enjoying your good life?

What did she experience during those years in Tanshen Cave?

Also, why did the women who came back from Tanshen Cave keep silent about anything that happened in the cave?

Only when you are really in a hurry will you say: "Unless you can't make ends meet, don't go into the cave!"

Half a year later, Aying got her period.

My mother-in-law said coldly: "If your period is red, your milk will no longer be nutritious, and it's time to wean you."

Aying knew that what was coming would eventually come.

Looking at her two children giggling sweetly at her, she gently promised: "Mom will definitely be able to support you, definitely!"

After a few days, her milk returned to normal and her mother-in-law began to prepare for her to enter Tanshen Cave.

The night before she left, her mother-in-law came to her and said, "Let me tell you the rules of serving the Tan God."

Aying had asked her mother-in-law about the Tan God several times before.

The mother-in-law obviously knew all about it - she even suspected that the mother-in-law had been in there too. But every time the mother-in-law was unwilling to say more.

And tonight, when her mother-in-law explained everything in detail, Aying's eyes widened in surprise.

Then she shook her head desperately: "No, no, how can I, how can I ..."

The mother-in-law glared at her: "Don't you want to feed your baby?"

The child is the flesh and blood of the mother after ten months of pregnancy, and is also the bond that binds everything, forcing her to compromise on everything.

The next night.

The mother-in-law brought her a new set of clothes and told her, "Put them on quickly and wash your face."

Aying changed her clothes and washed her face without saying a word, then fed her son and daughter rice soup one after another.

Seeing the two children sleeping quietly, she lowered her head and kissed them on the cheeks again and again.

Seeing her husband lying silent, she felt some resentment and hatred, but more of it was helplessness.

She told her husband: "After I leave, you must take good care of the children. They are still young, so you must not neglect them. You must work harder in the fields and save more food."

The husband remained silent.

At the urging of her mother-in-law, Aying took one last look at the child, then gritted her teeth, turned around and walked into the night.

The sky was really dark that night!

There is no moon, no starlight.

The bumpy and dark mountain road under my feet seems so long that it seems like it will take a lifetime to walk through.

Her husband's big hand held hers, holding her more carefully than ever before.

But she couldn't feel the slightest warmth, instead she felt those hands were getting colder and colder.

She wanted to shake off his hand and escape from it all at all costs.

But when I looked around, it was pitch black.

She had nowhere to run.

Faintly, I could still hear the cry of a child.

The shriveled breasts seemed to want to swell up again.

Even though not a drop of milk can be secreted from her, the life of the child still depends on her.

She couldn't let go, couldn't break free, and could only choose to obey.

There was a light coming from afar.

That was the light of torches—several elders in the town had been waiting there.

There is a wooden fence at the entrance of Tanshen Cave, separating the inside and outside of the cave.

Normally the entrance to the cave is not easily opened. When a woman takes the initiative to enter the cave to serve the Tan God, the respected elders in the town will come over, hold a small worship ceremony, and open the fence.

Three incense sticks and a round of kowtow.

The simple worship ceremony is over.

An elder, with a stern face, warned Ying seriously:

"Our town has always been a place of simple folk customs, and we value women's chastity the most. The chastity arch in front of the town is our glory from generation to generation, and it must not be defiled. Do you understand?"

Ah Ying nodded woodenly: "I understand."

"After entering the Tanshen Cave, serve the Tanshen well. When the time comes, your man will come here to pick you up. Remember, no matter what you see or encounter after entering the cave, you are not allowed to reveal it to others! Once you reveal the secrets of the Tanshen, you will be drowned in the river! This is the rule, remember! Remember!"

Aying nodded.

The fence at the entrance of the cave opened and Aying boarded the small wooden boat.

A red paper lantern was hung on the bow of the small wooden boat. The dim light illuminated the bow and the river surface, but it could not clearly illuminate her husband's face, nor could it illuminate this dark old society!

The husband rowed the boat himself and took Aying towards the dark cave.

The cave was dark and damp, and bats were startled and flew over our heads, flapping their wings.

After an unknown amount of time, the boat finally came out of the cave and turned to the back mountain.

The two got off the boat and walked down along the road behind the mountain.

Someone was already waiting for them at the foot of the mountain.

The matchmaker stepped forward and took out the contract document and gave it to the man: "Pawn it for three years. If you can give birth to a boy, there will be a reward. For three years, you are not allowed to visit or ask for information."

"When the three-year period is up, I will still come here to pick you up. If there are no other questions, please sign the document."

The man pressed his fingerprint on the contract document and took the money from the matchmaker, and the deal was done.

"I'll come pick you up in three years."

After saying this, the man turned and left, not daring to even look at his wife from beginning to end.

Ah Ying cried and warned him from behind: "Look after the two kids. You must look after them!"

Where is the Tan God? Where is the fortune from heaven?

To put it bluntly, it's nothing more than exchanging wives for money.

Rich families want to have children but cannot take concubines for some reason, so they spend money to buy a belly.

So women became commodities in pawn shops and could be exchanged for money after being pawned for a few years.

This kind of transaction behavior has a very vivid name: "pawning wife".