While Qian Shulan was speaking, Xiaomei raised her head from her arms.
Qian Shulan lowered her head and saw that she was wiping tears, looking pitiful. She touched her face and comforted her, "Child, why are you so angry? Your father is drunk, what's the point of arguing with him? If you don't agree with his ideas, wait until he sobers up and argue with him. That will be useful!"
Xiaomei's dazed expression finally showed a crack. She raised her head and stared at Qian Shulan's face with hopeful eyes, which made Qian Shulan's scalp tingle.
"Grandma, does my dad have to give birth to a son?"
Qian Shulan herself couldn't explain it. According to her thinking, it didn't matter whether she had a son or not.
But in this era, in such remote rural areas, if you don’t have a son, you will be considered a bankrupt and your roots will be cut off.
Perhaps, other executors would instill the belief of gender equality in the reformers when they encounter such a problem, and let the third brother and his wife raise their daughter as a son.
But Qian Shulan was not prepared to do so. She was a very pragmatic person, or to put it bluntly, a selfish person.
She felt that it was really difficult to use her eloquence to change Wang Shouyi's deeply rooted ideas since childhood.
Even if the third brother and his wife were temporarily persuaded by her to raise their daughter as a son, what would happen? It is not just her as a mother who determines a person's thoughts, but also friends, relatives and society. And the latter is the key.
Chairman M has always advocated equality between men and women, and that women can hold up half the sky. But is it really equal? No! Not at all! In the minds of these deeply rooted and conservative people, men are superior to women.
Therefore, the social situation that even great men could not change, she, an ordinary old lady, could not change either.
Moreover, the factors that determine gender inequality in this society are only a small part of these conservative ideas. The bigger factor is the law of the jungle where the strong prey on the weak, which is the economic basis. If women earn more money than men, they will have confidence and have a say at home.
But in those days, it was basically impossible. Men could generally get ten work points, but women could only get eight.
This is the difference brought about by physical fitness. She can't change this situation, no matter how much she tries to brainwash the third brother and his wife, it's useless.
Since she couldn't fundamentally change this fact, she might as well take a shortcut and let Wang Shouyi and Li Chunhua get what they wanted.
Since they wanted a son, she would give them one. What was so difficult about that? For others, having a child was a huge problem, but for Qian Shulan, it was something that could be solved with just a pill.
Qian Shulan touched Xiaomei's head and encouraged her, "There are many things in this world that have no answers. Your father's ideas are his own and have nothing to do with you. What you should do now is to study hard and find a good job in the future. When the time comes, let your father and mother know that you, a daughter, are no worse than a boy!"
Xiaomei was a little excited by Qian Shulan's talk about flowers. She eagerly held Qian Shulan's hand and asked, "Is it really possible?"
Qian Shulan nodded confidently, "I can do it!"
Sun Daqin came out of the east room and heard these words as soon as she entered the door. Although she felt a little disapproving in her heart, she didn't say anything to spoil the mood.
Qian Shulan patted Xiaomei on the shoulder and said, "If you want to prove yourself, you can't be controlled by other people's thoughts. You must have perseverance and determination. Don't be easily angered by others."
Xiaomei nodded heavily, and then, at Qian Shulan's urging, ran back to her room.
Only after Xiaomei left did Li Chunhua wipe away her tears.
Qian Shulan patted her shoulder and said, "Don't let Lao San drink in the future. If he drinks, lock him out of the door and don't open it."
Li Chunhua nodded and agreed.
Qian Shulan sighed. She had never met a violent man, but she once read in a book that violent men generally have low self-esteem.
Wang Shouyi is not a weak person, he is also smart, which can be seen from his literacy. He beat Li Chunhua not because he wanted to gain some sense of existence, he was simply dissatisfied with Li Chunhua and his daughter.
Because of them, he has no son. In essence, he is a little different from those violent men who try to show their masculinity by whipping women when they are drunk.
The source of his inferiority complex is easy to understand, it’s because he has no son.
This is also because his living environment since childhood told him that everything he has to rely on his son in the future.
Having a son is like having roots. With a son, there will be someone to take care of him when he is old, and with a son, there will be someone to carry his coffin and break the tiles when he dies.
Not having a son broke this man's back and even his mind.
Long-term repression and inferiority make this taciturn man unable to raise his head.
When the original body was secretly kind to his grandson, he might have caused secondary harm to Wang Shouyi.
She just needed to give him hope now to heal him.
The next day, Wang Shouren dragged Wang Shouyi, who had sobered up, to the main hall. After dinner, all the family members were driven out to the fields. Even the youngest, Zhengjun, was driven out to play by Qian Shulan.
"Mother, I have brought my third brother to you. It is up to you to decide his fate."
Qian Shulan glanced at Wang Shouyi, who was too ashamed to raise his head.
He kept his head down and didn't say anything. Qian Shulan said coldly, "Do you know you are wrong?"
Wang Shouyi did not move, said nothing, or answer her.
Qian Shulan got angry and slapped the kang, "Speak!"
Wang Shouyi then replied, "Wrong."
"Where did you go wrong?" Qian Shulan snorted.
Wang Shouyi was about to speak.
Qian Shulan said with a straight face, "Hold your head high and chest out. It's not nice to keep your head down all the time!"
Wang Shouyi then raised his head reluctantly, his face full of stubbornness did not show any sign of admitting his fault.
Qian Shulan was very angry! You beat someone up when you were drunk, and you think you are right, right
She pointed at Wang Shouren and said, "Give me twenty strokes of the stick on him, and let him have a taste of being beaten."
Wang Shouren hesitated and repeated carefully, "Mom, do you really want to fight?"
Qian Shulan looked at Wang Shouyi's unrepentant look and gnashed her teeth in anger, "Beat him!"
Wang Shouren poked Wang Shouyi on the back, but seeing that he was stubborn and refused to admit his mistake, there was nothing he could do about it.
Qian Shulan sat on the chair and watched Wang Shouren take action. The force of the stick was like tickling. Qian Shulan raised her eyelids and said, "Boss, didn't you eat?"
Wang Shouren's face turned red with embarrassment, and he hit him with more force the second time. Wang Shouyi gritted his teeth and said nothing.
Qian Shulan snorted in her heart and reminded, "Make it worse!"
Wang Shouren could only continue, with even greater force than before. After this, Wang Shouyi groaned.
You're such a stubborn guy, you just won't admit your mistakes, right
After being hit ten times in a row, Wang Shouyi didn't even scream.
Qian Shulan was so angry that she grabbed Wang Shouren's stick, raised it high and hit him on the buttocks. Her strength was much greater than Wang Shouren's. Wang Shouyi screamed in pain.
He blinked away his tears, bared his teeth and shouted in dissatisfaction, "Mom, are you still my mom?"
Qian Shulan's heart tightened, and she said stubbornly, "You still know that I am your mother, why are you so disobedient? They are your wife and daughter, they are all your relatives, and you can still hit them!" She showed him the back of her hand, "You drank two taels of cat urine, and you even dare to hit your own mother. If I don't teach you a lesson, you will be damned in the future."
Seeing the red mark on the back of his hand, Wang Shouyi looked a little guilty, but when he thought about how his mother didn't even agree with his idea of marrying Xiaomei off as a son-in-law, he suppressed his guilt.
In the end, Qian Shulan beat him with all ten sticks, but he still refused to admit his mistake.
Qian Shulan was so exhausted that she was panting and leaning against the wall to rest. She had used all her strength in these ten hits. Wang Shouyi's pants were torn in two, revealing his underwear. But he still refused to admit his mistake.
Qian Shulan had no idea what to do with him, so she pointed to the door and said, "Kneel down in your room, and you are not allowed to eat today! You can only eat when you truly realize that you are wrong!"
Wang Shouyi looked up in disbelief and opened his mouth wide. Qian Shulan glared at him fiercely, and he was so scared that he quickly lowered his head.
He struggled for a long time, but finally got up from the bench and walked out.
Qian Shulan followed him and watched him enter the room and kneel before the bed. Wang Shouren also followed to see.
Qian Shulan kept her word and did not give Wang Shouyi any food for a single day.
Not only that, when she saw Li Chunhua secretly feeding sweet potatoes to Wang Shouyi, she directly snatched the sweet potatoes away.
She glanced at Li Chunhua, which made Li Chunhua feel at a loss, and Qian Shulan couldn't understand what she was thinking.
Even if she asked, Li Chunhua might not tell her the truth, so it would be better to let Zhou Xuemei find out. Li Chunhua only treated her as an elder and would not confide in her.
When Zhou Xuemei heard her mother-in-law's instructions, she immediately agreed without saying a word.
Soon, Zhou Xuemei came to reply, "The third sister-in-law is afraid that the third brother will divorce her."
Qian Shulan raised her eyebrows in surprise. Is it really good to live with a violent man? Isn't Li Chunhua afraid of being beaten again
Zhou Xuemei felt very sorry for Li Chunhua. Compared with her man, the third brother was a complete jerk. Not only was he usually inconsiderate, but he even resorted to violence.
However, it was not easy to complain to her mother-in-law about this. She had completed her mission.
Qian Shulan sighed in her heart. She was afraid that in Li Chunhua's heart, as long as Wang Shouyi didn't divorce her, being beaten didn't matter.
But Li Chunhua didn't know that violence would happen a second time after a first time. If it was not stopped, the child would get used to it and become addicted to domestic violence.
During mealtime, Qian Shulan locked up the extra food and watched the people eat to prevent them from hiding anything.
Under the watchful eyes of her mother-in-law, Li Chunhua couldn't find any chance to hide anything.
At night, Qian Shulan did not let Wang Shouyi go back to sleep. She pointed at the door of the main hall and said, "Keep kneeling. When you truly admit your mistakes, you can go back to sleep."
She just didn't believe that she couldn't deal with such a violent man.
Wang Shouyi persisted until the next morning. When he saw that his mother was not ready to give him food, his stomach, which had been hungry all night, was sour. He could not hold on any longer, "Mom, I was wrong. I shouldn't have hit anyone."
Seeing that he finally stopped being stubborn, Qian Shulan took him to her room, nodded her chin, and asked, "Anything else?"
Wang Shouyi was stunned? And? What else did he do wrong
Qian Shulan sighed. The children had grown up and were no longer open with their mother. Unfortunately, the fourth child was not at home. The eldest child was too dull. If he asked her to get any information, it would probably be like two stubborn donkeys snorting together, and nothing could be asked.
She looked at Wang Shouyi and asked expressionlessly, "Does your head still hurt?"
Wang Shouyi shook his head, "It doesn't hurt anymore."
Qian Shulan frowned slightly. She knew Wang Shouyi's knot, but now she was thinking about how to untie it.
She patted the edge of the kang and said lovingly, "Come and sit down."
Wang Shouyi shook his head and refused to sit down. His butt was still hurting, so how could he sit on the kang? He was worried, wondering what his mother was thinking.
Qian Shulan turned her head and glanced at his buttocks obscurely, and insisted that he sit down. Wang Shouyi had no choice but to sit sideways. Looking at his crooked sitting posture, she sighed heavily, "In the blink of an eye, you have grown so big. When I was dreaming last night, I dreamed of you."
Wang Shouyi quickly glanced at Qian Shulan. He didn’t expect that his mother would still dream about him.
Qian Shulan gave him a glare, "Why, you don't believe it?"
Wang Shouyi's face flushed and he shook his head quickly.
Qian Shulan continued to brew her emotions, "Mom still remembers the year you were born. You cried when you were born, but you were very quiet afterwards. You didn't make any noise at all. Mom was wondering in her heart that this quiet son should be able to be a teacher in the future. Who would have thought that you would run away after studying with the village teacher for only a few days. Mom was so disappointed that she couldn't sleep the whole night that day."
Wang Shouyi also thought of what happened at that time and pinched the corner of his clothes embarrassedly.
Qian Shulan laughed and said, "Look at how foolish you are. Learning to read and study is a serious matter. Many people beg and plead to go, but you are still not willing."
Wang Shouyi blushed and moved his lips as if he wanted to explain, but in the end he couldn't speak.
Qian Shulan knew that he had a sullen personality, so she prepared herself for the situation and went straight to the point, "Mom knows you've always wanted a son."
As she spoke, she kept an eye on Wang Shouyi's movements and noticed that his face had become tense.
She patted his arm with a smile and said, "As long as you swear that you will never drink alcohol and never hit anyone, I will give you a son within two years."
Wang Shouyi raised his head quickly, swallowed hard, and stared at her eagerly for a long time before he opened his mouth and asked, "How do I give it to you?"
Qian Shulan pretended to be in deep thought, "Mom will spend money to buy you one. There are so many families who can't afford to raise children these days. It's easy to find a child." Although Qian Shulan said this, she would not spend money to buy one. There would be no harm without buying and selling. Buyers are as hateful as human traffickers. No matter how much she wanted to transform the best, she would never do such a thing.
Her idea was to adopt a child from an orphanage. Abandoned baby boys these days usually have physical defects. As long as she heals the child and brings him back, it would be considered a good deed. After all, she has the magic medicine. However, she couldn't tell Wang Shouyi about the magic medicine, so she could only say that the child was bought.
At first, Qian Shulan wanted to ask for a fertility pill in the mall, but she posted it for many days and no one responded. Later, an executor who knew medicine told her that this disease can only be prescribed after taking the pulse. Everyone's physique is different. Some have strong liver fire, and some have weak body. There is no medicine that can solve these two problems at the same time.
Well, in a different world, how could one diagnose a pulse? So Qian Shulan gave up the idea.
As for, why didn't she take Li Chunhua to the hospital
That's because the original body had taken her to the hospital a long time ago, and the doctor said that Li Chunhua was fine. It can only be said that fate has not yet arrived.
If they have a biological son in the future, Qian Shulan will take the adopted child in to raise, and maybe even raise a brother who is obsessed with his sister for her grandmother.
Wang Shouyi was stunned when he heard his mother say she would buy him a child. In fact, he wanted a biological child. However, at his age, Chunhua had not been pregnant for so many years, so it was probably unrealistic to have a biological son.
If you adopt a child and treat it as your own, it's not a bad idea. As long as the child is young enough and doesn't remember anything, it's fine. A child you raise yourself won't be much different from a biological child.
Wang Shouyi had begged the original body to adopt a boy, but the original body firmly disagreed to raise someone else's child. The original body wanted the eldest son to adopt a son for the third son, but the eldest son, who had always been obedient, refused to agree and even threatened to commit suicide, so he had to give up in the end.
Hearing her mother's words, Wang Shouyi excitedly stood up from the kang and kowtowed to Qian Shulan several times. Qian Shulan noticed that the filial piety value on his forehead had risen to 8 points. She was so excited. The child hasn't even been brought home yet, but his filial piety value has already risen. It seems that this son is really important to him.
Qian Shulan helped him stand up and said angrily, "Don't tell anyone about this yet. Mother will definitely find a way to help you."
Wang Shouyi nodded heavily and quickly responded, "Don't worry, mother, I know what's going on."
Qian Shulan looked at him and said seriously, "Swear now!"
Wang Shouyi immediately knelt down and swore an oath to Chairman M's portrait. People of this era were very fanatical about Chairman M. They loved him more than their own parents. Swearing in front of this portrait showed how eager Wang Shouyi was to have a son.
When he stood up, Qian Shulan's eyes were filled with warning, "Since you have already sworn, you must do it. If one day you cannot do it, I will send your son away. You must be careful, mother will keep her word."
Wang Shouyi grinned and said, "Mom, I can definitely do it."
Qian Shulan was worried about her granddaughters. "Also, I'll give you my son, but I have to tell you in advance about your three daughters. You can't sell them off for the sake of your son. From now on, I have to decide who they will marry, and you can't just swallow their betrothal money."
Wang Shouyi didn't care about his daughter at all. He didn't care about the dowry or not. He was not like his elder brother who had three sons to raise. He could raise only one son without selling his daughter. So he agreed very straightforwardly.
Qian Shulan nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, you should hold your head high and be more confident in the future. Look, what's the difference between you and others? You are tall and strong, and you have a calm temperament. If I'm not at home, you are the person I trust the most." This is not false. Wang Shouyi doesn't cause trouble easily. He is not stupid enough to be deceived. He is indeed very reassuring.
Qian Shulan said some encouraging words to make Wang Shouyi more confident. Yes, what's wrong with him? He's also going to have a son soon!
When Wang Shouyi returned, he told Li Chunhua the news he had heard from his mother.
Li Chunhua was applying ointment on her face. When she heard the news, her eyes lit up. "Really?"
Wang Shouyi couldn't suppress the joy on his face, "My mother would never lie to me."
Li Chunhua was also very happy. She was scared at first when the man got drunk and beat her up, but now she was only happy.
As long as she could have a son, it didn't matter if she was beaten.
The author has something to say: Wang Shouyi's violent tendencies are a little different from what we have seen. Although he is taciturn, he is not cowardly. He is just inferior because he has no son.
This is what his living environment tells him. It is very sad and helpless.
As for their daughters, they will arrange a good ending for them, muah