General, the lady escaped again

Chapter 997 Unreasonable Ordinance (1)

"Was it sold for twenty taels?" Mother Ji glanced at the matchmaker and asked Li Xiuer.

When Li Xiuer saw Ji Xiaomu, her eyes turned red and she looked at Ji Xiaomu helplessly. She wanted to speak but didn't know how to say it. It was as if she had found a backer who made the decision for her. She could no longer control her tears of grievance.

Seeing Li Xiu'er like this, Ji Xiaomu knew everything. She sighed softly, held her in her arms and patted her comfortingly. "It's okay, it's okay. I'm here!"

"Who are you?" The matchmaker took a look at Ji Xiaou and felt that she looked familiar. She could tell that Ji Xiaou was already married and pregnant. She was sure that she was not the matchmaker, but she could not remember where she had seen her.

"The one from the embroidery workshop." Ji Xiaowu said to the matchmaker, "Her family received the betrothal gift? She is getting married? Don't you know that the girls in my embroidery workshop are not allowed to get married without my consent?"

"What? How could this be possible? Which embroidery shop would hold a girl back from getting married? How can this be logical?" The matchmaker frowned when she heard what Ji Xiaowu said.

"Xiu'er, show your contract to the matchmaker." Ji Xiaomu said to Li Xiu'er. Li Xiu'er was stunned and quickly ran back to the room to take out the contract.

Ji Xiaomu placed the contract in front of the matchmaker and asked her to read the terms carefully.

"Look carefully at what is written on it. Don't say I lied to you. All girls need to sign this contract before entering the embroidery workshop. It's... all the girls who learn embroidery in the embroidery workshop." Ji Xiaomu said seriously.

Ji Xiaowu had already learned from Wang Guoer's experience, so the girls who wanted to enter the embroidery workshop needed to sign a contract, which stated that if the girl wanted to get married, she must get the consent of the embroidery workshop. If she broke the contract and got married secretly, she would have to pay the embroidery workshop one hundred taels of silver.

The matchmaker saw that the contract clearly stated that if the woman did not get the embroidery workshop's consent to marry, they could even sue the matchmaker for marriage fraud.

The matchmaker felt dizzy, and looked at Ji Xiaowu with fear, but she didn't dare to say anything to ask Li Xiu'er to go back with her and get married. "Your embroidery shop is a true embroidery shop, it's a lie! How can someone hold a girl back from marrying!"

"I had someone explain it to them when they were first sent here, and their families signed it personally after listening carefully! This is equivalent to a contract to sell one's body, don't you know? The government has also kept a record of it and it can be checked at any time!" Aunt Ji looked at the matchmaker and said lightly.

"You... humph!" The matchmaker couldn't convince Ji Xiaomu. Seeing that Li Xiu'er was hiding behind Ji Xiaomu, the matchmaker knew, no matter how unwilling she was, that if the marriage went through and the embroidery workshop reported the matter to the authorities, she would be in trouble too. So she hurriedly ran to the Chen family.

After the matchmaker left, Li Xiuer walked out with red eyes and looked at Ji Xiaomu.

With tears in her eyes, Ji Xiaowu looked pitiful and wiped away her tears. "Now you know why I asked you to sign this contract? I'm afraid this kind of thing will happen again."

"We didn't know there was such a clause." Li Xiuer didn't expect that there was such a clause in the contract.

She was sent here by her family. Her parents simply signed the contract and gave it to her. She was then kept in the embroidery workshop. Even to rest, her parents would not let her go home. The room that belonged to her at home had become her brother's room. When she returned home, she didn't even have a room to sleep in and could only sleep in the woodshed.