The second day of the Chinese New Year is a good day to visit your mother's family. But the weather is not good today.
It started snowing last night, and when I opened the door the next morning, I saw a thick layer of snow. If I stepped on it, I would sink half a foot deep.
This year, Sun Daqin didn't want to go back to her parents' home, so Qian Shulan went with her.
Wang Shouli accompanied Zhou Xuemei back home. Xiaotao was too young, so Wang Shouli didn't take her along because he was worried that she might slip.
Li Chunhua gave the pillar to Xiaomei to take care of, and went back to her parents' home alone, carrying the gifts prepared by Qian Shulan.
This year, Qian Shulan prepared mainly food. Although the portions were not large, they were sincere enough.
Qian Shulan, Xiaomei and Xiaohe were cooking in the kitchen when they suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.
Qian Shulan asked Xiao He to open the door, but unexpectedly, an unexpected person came, "Aunt? You're here!"
Qian Shulan came out of the kitchen upon hearing the sound and looked towards the door, only to see Wang Danzhi walking in alone in the wind and snow.
Qian Shulan quickly brought her into the main room, used a piece of tattered clothes to wipe off the snow on her body, and began to blame her, "How long have you been walking? You came here so early in the morning." She subconsciously looked at Wang Danzhi's feet.
Just one glance almost made her collapse. Wang Danzhi was still wearing open-toed straw sandals on her feet.
Qian Shulan was so angry, "What's wrong with you?!"
Without waiting for Wang Danzhi's reply, he asked Xiaohe to get the footbath and fetched some cold water. He added some hot water from the stove and tested the water temperature with his hand. "Warm your feet quickly. Don't use fire directly. It's easy to get frostbite."
Then he asked Xiaomei to get a wash basin and filled it with hot water. "Soak your hands, too."
Wang Danzhi was shivering with cold. She was wearing so little and had walked for more than ten miles. She was so cold that she couldn't utter a word.
Tears flashed in Qian Shulan's eyes. She went back to the house to find her cotton-padded clothes and asked Wang Danzhi, who had just finished soaking her feet, to come in and change.
Wang Danzhi did as he was told.
After putting on her clothes, Wang Danzhi felt warm and hurriedly took the basin from her mother's hand and poured the water outside.
Only after she finished pouring the water did Qian Shulan have time to ask questions.
As soon as Wang Danzhi sat down, her stomach started to growl. She covered her stomach, her face flushed with shame.
Xiao He hurried to the kitchen to heat up some food for her.
Qian Shulan thought that she would have to wait a while before she could eat the meal, so she took an egg from the casserole on the stove and handed it to her.
This egg gave Wang Danzhi a big shock.
She waved her hands hurriedly to refuse.
Qian Shulan noticed that she had several frostbite on the back of her hands. Her fingers were swollen like carrots and frighteningly red. They were obviously new. It was not so serious before. She must have frozen herself again.
Qian Shulan quickly poured a new basin of hot water, added salt into it and let her soak for 15 minutes.
"Your hand is already broken, I don't know if this method will work." Qian Shulan looked at the woman who was only in her early thirties but looked forty years old, and her sympathy began to play tricks on her again. But this time she felt more resentful than the first time. She had paved the way for her, but she was living worse than before. She wanted to wake her up and tell her not to be so soft.
Wang Danzhi was so moved that tears filled her eyes.
Sun Daqin, who had been sitting by the fire, had her head down, not knowing what she was thinking about.
While Wang Danzhi was eating eggs, Qian Shulan threw the egg skins into a casserole and boiled a bowl of water for her, asking her to rub the water on the red and swollen areas, "This will also reduce the swelling."
Wang Danzhi did as he was told and then began to talk about the cause of the incident.
She wiped her tears and said, "Mom, Dafu, he is going to marry another woman." She covered her face and began to cry bitterly.
Qian Shulan frowned and said to Wang Danzhi in a stern voice, "Speak carefully to me."
It turned out that long before Sun Dafu married Wang Danzhi, he had a lover. That woman was a widow in the village. She had never had a child, was very beautiful, and had some means to control Sun Dafu.
But she was not healthy enough to bear children, so more than a decade ago, Sun Dafu's mother refused to allow him to marry the widow. People in several nearby villages knew about this.
The original body also knew about it, but the original body did not take it to heart, so Qian Shulan only remembered it when Wang Danzhi reminded her.
Later, the Sun family offered a high gift, and the original body agreed to marry Wang Danzhi into the Sun family. After the marriage, Wang Danzhi did not get pregnant for several years. The old lady of the Sun family began to torture Wang Danzhi, the daughter-in-law.
Wang Danzhi, who had always been in the wrong, allowed the Sun family to bully her. Unexpectedly, in the fourth year, Wang Danzhi became pregnant and gave birth to a boy.
The Sun family was very happy. Wang Danzhi's position in the Sun family was stable. Old Mrs. Sun naturally couldn't let her grandson have a divorced mother. It would not be good for her reputation if it got out. So Sun Dafu only dared to have private contact with the widow.
But since the old lady of the Sun family died of illness, and the old man of the Sun family was a taciturn person, Sun Dafu's eagerness could no longer be restrained. In addition, the widow was also involved, so he wanted to divorce Wang Danzhi and marry the widow.
Just after the seventh day after Sun Dafu's mother's death in the New Year, Wang Danzhi was kicked out of the house by Sun Dafu.
Qian Shulan's forehead was throbbing with veins, and she jumped up from the stool in anger. She clenched her fists and made them creak. "Sun Dafu is such a worthless person! He treats you like a rag and throws you away after use. I'm going to settle the score with him!"
Wang Danzhi saw her mother was so angry and worried that her mother would suffer, so she quickly pulled her back and said, "Mom, wait a moment."
Qian Shulan shouted into the east room, "Big brother, third brother, come here quickly." After that, she turned and looked at Wang Danzhi, "You don't want to get a divorce, do you?!"
Such a bastard won’t leave and even stays with him to celebrate the New Year!
Hearing the word divorce, Wang Danzhi shook her head like a wave drum, "Mom, if I get divorced, what will happen to the little donkey? He is my life. I definitely can't get divorced. Besides, a woman can't marry a good family after divorce. I don't want to be bullied by others anymore." Then she knelt down and begged her, "Mom, I can't get divorced!"
Qian Shulan rubbed her brows and said, "So you want the little donkey to be with you, but you also want to be free from being bullied? Is that what you mean?"
Wang Danzhi nodded heavily, "That's what I mean."
Qian Shulan racked her brains to find a way to have the best of both worlds.
Wang Danzhi wiped her tears and continued, "This is how my life will be. Mother, I beg you, please help me. I can't live without my little donkey." As she said this, she kowtowed to Qian Shulan.
Qian Shulan helped him up, "Have you ever thought about how the little donkey feels? He's already twelve years old." As a child who has watched his father abuse his mother for a long time, Sun Yanming has become a little too well-behaved. In the previous families who came, Sun Yanming couldn't even play. He often showed a look of fear unconsciously.
Thinking of the little donkey, Wang Danzhi's face was a little sad. "It's all my fault. The little donkey heard that his father wanted to divorce me, and he smashed the widow's head impulsively. Otherwise, his father wouldn't be so cruel."
Qian Shulan's heart tightened. This child was so young and yet he was so shocked. Sun Dafu was really evil!
She was just about to say "get a divorce" when she suddenly heard the system's voice, "The executor cannot break up other people's marriages. Otherwise, the host will be electrocuted again."
Qian Shulan's heart skipped a beat. She thought for a moment and said, "I have enough gold coins. Can't I pay you twenty-five?"
The system sternly refused, "No! I only fined you 25 gold coins because I didn't remind you before. Now you knowingly violated the rules and will have to pay 5,000."
The amount increased two hundred times. Qian Shulan was furious. She thought to herself, forget it. It would take her forever to save up five thousand.
She sighed and said to Wang Danzhi, "You stay at home first. As for the matter between you and Wang Dafu, mother will help you make the decision."
Wang Shouren and Wang Shouyi also came over. Qian Shulan asked them to stay aside for now.
When she turned to look at Wang Danzhi, she found that she was wiping her tears and looked very sleepy.
Qian Shulan asked Wang Danzhi to lie down and rest in her room. Her quilt was filled with new cotton and was very warm. Unprecedented warmth instantly enveloped her tired body. Wang Danzhi fell asleep quickly.
In the main room, Qian Shulan started another family meeting.
Qian Shulan said directly to Sun Daqin, "Daqin, do you think Danzhi can bring the donkey over?"
Sun Daqin was stunned when she heard this. Want to come over? Does this mean you want a divorce
Qian Shulan didn't say anything serious. "I'm just asking."
Wang Danzhi, who has been working at home for many years, probably doesn't know much about the widow. It would be better to ask Sun Daqin. She is a person who can't sit still.
She would go wherever there was gossip. Maybe she had heard some of it when she was at her parents' house.
Sun Daqin shook her head very seriously, "I'm afraid not. They only have one son. Sunjia Village will not allow it." After a pause, she continued, "Besides, Widow Liu is infertile, so she wants a son even more."
Qian Shulan thought so too.
She had asked about this before when she was helping Wang Shouzhi with his divorce.
There are three types of divorce in this era:
1. Parents arrange marriages, and as long as one party files for divorce, they can get divorced immediately.
2. The same class: One party has serious problems with work style. Wang Shouzhi divorced Li Caiying because she had problems with her ideology and work style.
3. Different classes: the five black categories and poor peasants. As long as the poor peasants submit a divorce certificate, they can be granted divorce immediately.
There are no other reasons for divorce. In this era, there is no such thing as a lack of love.
Just like Sun Dafu, he can get a divorce by using the first rule of arranged marriage by his parents.
Qian Shulan wanted Wang Danzhi to divorce, but she couldn't get involved directly, so she wanted other people to help her find a solution. When the family heard this word, they all turned pale with fear and no one was willing to get involved.
Wang Shouren changed his usual obedient attitude and was the first to object, "Mom, if Dafu doesn't listen, we brothers will go and beat him up. It will be so embarrassing to get a divorce."
Wang Shouyi also objected, "Yes, mother, how will the villagers view our family after my second sister gets divorced? With a divorced eldest aunt at home, who would dare to marry a girl from our family in the future? It's really embarrassing."
Although Sun Daqin did not express her opinion, her expression showed the same meaning. Even Wang Danna was strongly opposed.
Although Qian Shulan has lived in this era for more than half a year, she sometimes feels that she cannot fit into this world because her thoughts are incompatible with those of them.
Therefore, every time she was unsure about something, she would always ask more questions, trying not to be too specific or to do something bad with good intentions.
No one wants Wang Danzhi to get divorced. Even Wang Danzhi herself cannot accept divorce. What else can she say
A divorced man like Wang Shouzhi would only be less criticized in the city, but in the countryside, he would probably be drowned by all the spit.
Since Wang Danzhi didn't want a divorce and she couldn't say it out loud, she could only solve the problem of Sun Dafu.
When Wang Danzhi woke up, it was already time for dinner.
Qian Shulan had already cooked the meal. On the stove was a bowl of hot fish head stewed with tofu.
Everyone was very satisfied eating pancakes with soybean paste, spicy and sour potato shreds and pickled cabbage.
Seeing Wang Danzhi coming in, Sun Daqin handed her a stool, and Xiaohe served her a bowl of fish soup.
"Eat more, you are too thin now." Wang Danzhi had high cheekbones, which showed that she was malnourished, and her body was frighteningly thin.
The next day, the daughters-in-law who had gone out to visit their parents came back. They were indignant when they heard about Wang Danzhi's situation and wanted to help her. But they also strongly opposed the divorce.
By the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the snow had melted, the roads were passable, and the commune resumed normal work.
Qian Shulan wrote a letter of accusation and sent it directly to the commune, stating that Sun Dafu had an improper relationship with widow Liu from the same village.
When the commune heard about this, it immediately sent clerks to investigate.
People of this generation are very serious and responsible in their work.
The clerk stayed in Sunjia Village specifically to investigate the spring wheat planting situation, but in fact his purpose was to investigate the affair.
Within two days, the clerk blocked Sun Dafu on the kang in Widow Liu's house.
The two of them were disheveled and it was obvious that they were having an affair.
After the evidence was conclusive, the two were taken directly to the commune to be criticized and struggled against.
The brigade secretary of Sunjia Village went to plead for the man's return, but he was driven back and scolded by Secretary Chen, who was in charge of ideological education.
After several rounds of criticism and struggle, the two were exiled to Baotou, Inner Mongolia for five years of labor reform.
The two were directly convicted of being bad elements. Wang Danzhi cut ties with him for the sake of Little Donkey and filed for divorce.
The divorce certificate was delivered within a few days, and the commune also praised Wang Danzhi for her approach of drawing a line between herself and bad elements, saying it was worthy of learning from.
Qian Shulan never expected that Wang Danzhi would divorce without her persuasion. So there is no marriage that cannot be divorced, it just depends on what the bargaining chips are!
Logically, she should be happy for Wang Danzhi, but it was she who pushed for the divorce.
She was worried for several days, and no one responded to her calls to the system. It was not until the third day that the system reappeared and did not punish her. It turned out that you cannot directly break up someone's marriage, but you can do it indirectly. So, she no longer has to be afraid of being electrocuted
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