Ji Changze did not speak, but quietly observed the temperament of the people in the room and their attitude towards him.
The old lady who just claimed to be his grandma looked like she held great power in the family. She was confident in what she said and looked as happy as a queen.
And as her momentum became stronger, the rest of the people naturally became weaker.
There were two middle-aged men and two middle-aged women standing in the room. The two men had exactly the same honest expressions. When the old lady scolded them for not looking at their nephew, they clearly knew the meaning of these words. They didn't dare to say anything even if the blame was thrown away, and they just agreed.
Another person said: "Mom, don't be angry. It's my fault this time. Nagasawa said he wanted to go for a walk in the back mountain, but I didn't think much about it. If I stopped him, nothing would happen."
Another one also said: "It's not my fault, it's my fault. At that time, Nagasawa said he wanted me to work for him, and I did it without asking. If I had asked, maybe he wouldn't Went to the back mountain."
The two wives looked a little helpless, but the old lady was standing there, so they didn't dare to say anything and could only comfort them.
This one said: "Isn't there nothing serious about Nagasawa? Let's make something delicious to replenish him."
The one said: "Mom, don't be angry. The meat is here. Nagasawa is probably hungry after sleeping for so long. Let him eat quickly."
The old lady didn't listen to anyone and sprayed four people on her own.
"The four of you are almost 200 years old together, and you can't even bear to have a nephew. What else do I want from you?! Why, you four have been struggling for so long and haven't been able to give birth to our Ji family." When a little grandchild comes, will he kill me, Chang Ze?!"
These words were serious. The four of them looked anxious and hurriedly explained: "Mom, this is really not the case."
The two daughters-in-law said nothing but words of comfort, but the words the two men said almost choked them to death.
The honest and honest Uncle Ji said:
"It's too late for us to hurt Nagasawa, so why would we want to harm him? We still expect Nagasawa to support us in our old age. From now on, all the money we earn will be given to Nagasawa."
Uncle Ji saw that the expression on the old lady's face had softened after hearing this, and he quickly nodded: "Mom, we still count on Nagasawa to provide for her in her old age."
The two daughters-in-law listened to what their husbands said and felt deeply hurt.
All the property had been given to their nephew, what would they do with their own daughter? They felt uncomfortable in their hearts, but they still had to force a smile on their faces to prevent their mother-in-law from seeing her and getting angry.
Ji Changze watched the five people finish talking and had almost figured out the situation here.
The old lady is the eldest in the family. Her two sons are honest and honest, and they obey their mother's instructions. He should be the only male in the family now. The old lady wants the whole family to shine and contribute to him alone. The two uncles don't Opinions, the two aunts may have grievances in their hearts, but they dare not challenge the authority of their mother-in-law.
"Okay, milk, please stop arguing, I want to take a nap."
As soon as Ji Changze interrupted, the old lady who had been so aggressive just now relieved herself of her anger, turned to smile kindly at Ji Changze, and spoke as gently as she wanted.
"Nagaze, you finish eating before going to bed. Just put the bowl aside after you finish eating. I'll brush the milk for you when you wake up."
After saying that, when he turned around to face his two sons and daughter-in-law, his face changed again in a second.
"What are you looking at! Didn't you hear my sweet grandson say he wants to rest? Why don't you go out quickly? What are you doing here? Everyone is so stupid. How come I have a son and daughter-in-law like you?"
The four stupid people hurriedly shrank under the old lady's dangerous sight. Grandma Ji walked at the back. When she closed the door, she smiled at Ji Changze who was on the bed and said softly: "Yes. If you want to eat anything, just tell Nai and I will get it for you. Don’t worry, your eldest brother-in-law’s family is rich and she will definitely get it for you.”
After saying that, he closed the door softly.
Then her loud voice came from outside again: "You all speak softly, no one is allowed to speak. If it disturbs my grandson's sleep, I will wait for the northwest wind tonight!"
He was the only one left in the room, and Ji Changze began to check his memory.
What he guessed just now was correct. The original owner was indeed the only male in the family, and the four people just now were also his uncles and aunts.
Today is an era when the country is under construction. The Ji family is just an ordinary old farmer. Grandma Ji and Grandpa Ji gave birth to three sons in total. The eldest son is clever and slippery. The second and third sons have been deceived by this elder brother since they were young. He has become an honest person.
The father of the original owner was the eldest son. This guy was lazy and didn't want to work in the fields, and he was afraid of what others would say, so he declared that he wanted to study. If he had a literary mind, he could become a cadre and bring happiness to the whole family.
So the two elders of the Ji family and the two younger brothers gritted their teeth to support him. It turned out that this guy was lazy. How could he really study seriously? He said he was going out to study, but in fact all the money was used for him to eat, drink and have fun, and the family gave him a wife. He even hid it from his wife, and if a child was born, he would be the original owner.
When the original owner was one year old, he was about to graduate. At that time, Grandpa Ji happened to be sick and needed money, and his family couldn't raise the money, so he lied and said he would give up his studies and go out to earn money to treat his father.
His family gave him travel expenses, and the village also issued him a certificate. His original intention was to abandon his family and go out on his own to be happy.
The night he left, Grandpa Ji died.
It was such a coincidence that there was a car accident on the road, and the person was sent back with travel expenses.
Therefore, although he died young, in the minds of Ji's family, he was not the heartless liar who deceived the whole family for many years, but a filial son who resolutely gave up his education for his father and had a car accident on the road for his father's sake.
Grandma Ji had always liked her eldest son and regarded him as her pride. After his death, she poured all her affection into her grandson.
As a result, when the original owner was two years old, his mother went out to work, fell and was hit on the head by a stone, and died.
The original owner suddenly became a child without a father and a mother, so Grandma Ji felt even more sorry for her grandson.
Grandma Ji is thoughtful. She is worried that the other two sons in the family will not want to raise this nephew after they have their own sons. Therefore, she has been claiming at home that the original owner’s father gave up his studies and died because of this family, and his mother also died because of her husband. It was only after he passed away that he had to work in the fields so late at night.
In a word, your nephew's father and mother died for this family, and you have to take responsibility for them.
When the second and third sons failed to give birth to sons no matter what, and only had a few daughters, Grandma Ji's attitude became wary and defensive from the beginning: "You must be good to your nephew. His parents left for our family." ", and later he said confidently, "You don't have any sons, and you won't even have anyone to kowtow to your grave when you die. If you don't want to live an uneasy life even after you die, then be nice to my grandchildren."
The two sons were honest and friendly, and they listened to what their mother said.
As for the two daughters-in-law, although they were unwilling to do so, they were just ordinary rural women. They couldn't give birth to a son, and they themselves felt guilty. In addition, the old lady was so powerful that they really didn't dare to confront her, so they could only acquiesce in frustration. Everything left by the couple will be left to the original owner.
The original owner grew up in such an environment where he was supported and pampered.
Then, he grew crooked.
In the beginning, I was just a bit arrogant and lazy, and I had no respect for the elders in the family. I could only speak nicely to Grandma Ji, who held the power in the family. To everyone else, she was He looked carefree.
Later, slowly, he began to treat his older sisters as his own cash machines.
Regardless of whether they will be looked down upon by others in their husband's family, or how difficult their lives are, they all look to these cousins if they want delicious food or money.
It would be fine if he just wanted to eat and drink all the time, but later, he became addicted to gambling.
When I got into debt, I went to my sisters to ask for money.
If you don't give it, you'll make trouble and cry.
This trick worked at first, but later on, when several sisters couldn't afford it and were unwilling to give it to him, he directly threatened them, saying that if they didn't give the money, the whole family would not be able to live in peace.
Later, when they really couldn't come up with the money, he was forced by the debt collectors, so he started to have evil thoughts.
The Ji family are all pretty good-looking, especially the girls of the original owner's generation. Even after they get married and have children and get older, they are still pretty.
One night, the original owner's two sisters disappeared.
Human traffickers were rampant at that time, but no matter how rampant they were, they would only abduct children and young girls. Who would abduct a married woman and have a child, and she would be a sister of the same family.
Some people said that these four girls were sold.
The seller is naturally the original owner.
He took the money from selling the sisters and continued gambling. He was found by Grandma Ji just as he was kicked out after losing all his money.
Grandma Ji asked him hysterically if he had sold four girls.
He said yes.
Grandma Ji asked him countless times where he had sold it, and why he could sell his own sisters. The original owner, who was furious at the loss, laughed and said that he not only wanted to sell the four sisters, but also their children.
He is the male of the family and the whole family is counting on him. What happened to them sacrificing for him? They should die for him!
Even if she knew it was him who did it, so what? She was his grandmother, and she still expected him, a man, to take care of her. Could she still report him
The original owner was so confident.
Then, that night, he went back to bed without any guilt. Just as he was sleeping soundly, he was stabbed to death by Grandma Ji.
Thirty-six cuts in total. No one knows how Grandma Ji felt when she personally killed the grandson she had loved for so long. After killing him, she also committed suicide.
In the end, only one of the four girls was found. It was her husband who found her. When she came back, she was already crazy. She was kept in the house in a daze for more than ten years. In the end, she failed to watch and sneaked out and fell into the river. inside.
The remaining three girls were never found in their lifetime. In that era, they would probably have died.
As for the original owner.
Even after death, he still refuses to give up. He is still addicted to gambling. As he keeps gambling, he gambles away his soul.
Ji Changze rubbed his eyebrows.
The current time was when the original owner was being encouraged to gamble, but it was the busy time of farming and there was no necessary reason not to go to the fields.
He came up with the genius idea of "break his own leg so that he doesn't have to go to the ground."
I thought it was pretty, but ended up falling on my head.
In the original timeline, the original owner felt that he had suffered such a serious injury and needed to take good care of himself, so he asked his eldest cousin, second cousin, and third cousin for something, including the meat that Grandma Ji served just now. Yes, it was just what I wanted before.
Ji Changze began to describe the sisters at home in his heart.
Two from the second uncle’s family and three from the third uncle’s family.
The youngest in the third uncle's family are twin sisters. They are still young now. They were sent to other people's homes when they were five years old. Now three years later, they are already eight years old.
The remaining three girls are all sisters.
In the original time, the reason why the original owner sold four sisters instead of five was because one of the twin sisters disappeared when she was a child.
When the two sisters were sent out, it was the most difficult time for the Ji family. There were so many people in the family, and the only strong laborers were the second and third uncles of the Ji family. The rest were either women or children, and the original owner Naturally, baby bumps will not be assigned too much tiring work.
What to do if there is not enough food at home? Then we can only reduce the number of people eating.
There happened to be a family who said they were very interested in daughters and wanted to adopt a daughter. Grandma Ji went out to find out. The family lived in the town and had a fairly good family background. They had a son but no daughter. They told the public that they liked girls. Well-behaved, if you can adopt a daughter, you will definitely treat her like your own daughter, and you will also be willing to pay the girl's original family.
Being able to give compensation means that you are sincerely adopting.
And there is no shortage of money. The girl at home has passed away and there is no shortage of food and clothing.
When she got back, she discussed it with Uncle Ji's family. Naturally, the two of them were reluctant to let go, but what could they do if they didn't want to let go? Would they stay in their own home and be hungry every day
At that time, the original owner heard that there was a reward, and he kept encouraging, so the twin sisters were sent out.
The two parties agreed that Ji's family could no longer visit them, lest they have to work hard to raise their children. As a result, the children still recognized their biological parents when they grew up.
The Ji family understands this. Even if Uncle Ji and Aunt Ji missed their daughter, they still resisted and didn't look at her. It was really uncomfortable to think about it, so they comforted themselves that they were going to enjoy happiness and go to work in the town.
As a result, the village captain went to the city for a meeting and discovered one of the twins among the children begging.
This child can be considered to have grown up by himself. In addition, the child has not grown much due to malnutrition in the past three years. The captain recognized it at a glance. He hurriedly called the police and with the help of the police. He took the child back.
The child who was sent away successfully came back with a limp. The Ji family went to the town to ask for an explanation and found out that the family had just raised twin sisters for a few months when the hostess of the family became pregnant. When she gave birth to her biological daughter, Then he saw that this person who was not his biological son was not pleasing to the eye.
Send it back, they broke the contract first, and they will definitely not get the reward back.
Don't send it back. I feel unhappy raising someone else's child at home.
The two children spent a period of time as maids in their adoptive parents' home, and were later sold to human traffickers.
The people in the city already had some money in their hands, so the two girls were sold by traffickers to beggars. They were controlled to beg everywhere. They couldn't get any of the money from begging, and they couldn't fill their stomachs. In order to make people pity them more, the legs should not be healed, and they should be broken when they are healed.
The reason why they didn't bother them more was because the two sisters were quite good-looking. The other party expected them to beg for two years first, wait until they grew older, and then sell them to the mountains to be wives.
And just the day before the captain found one of the twins, the sister of the twins had been sold to a passing man.
Even the begging group that was caught by the police and imprisoned did not know where the other party came from. Naturally, it is impossible to find the child. The Ji family is just an ordinary family. Even if Uncle Ji and Aunt Ji want to There is no such condition for getting my daughter back.
The five golden flowers of the Ji family just turned into four.
The lives of the three sisters above are not much better.
The eldest sister married in the next town and lived well at first. However, as her younger brother asked for money and things more and more frequently, her mother-in-law began to dislike her, and her status in the family gradually declined.
The second sister was married in the village. Her parents-in-law were partial, but it was not her and her husband who were partial. Her husband was just like the original owner, and he didn't care how his wife lived at home. He went around to be happy and happy. Anyway, the family was partial to others. It's biased, as long as he can eat enough.
The third sister married the best man. He was a small cadre in the city. He was polite and nice to her. Her mother-in-law also liked her. The only shortcoming was that her father-in-law had been poor all his life and wanted his son to marry a well-off family. The girl wanted to improve her family situation, so she was very dissatisfied with this poor daughter-in-law.
What started as a subtle dissatisfaction turned into a huge conflict after the original owner frequently came to his daughter-in-law to ask for money and things.
The youngest fifth sister was timid because of her childhood experiences, and everyone in the village knew that she had been abducted and trafficked as a child. She eventually married a mute in the village, and was abducted again just a few days after the marriage.
Speaking of which, the original owner was able to come up with such an evil method of abducting his four sisters because he had witnessed the tragedy of the fifth sister and the others.
It can be said that these girls' lives are tragedies.
From birth to marriage, they have always been taught that "you must be good to your younger brother, so that your younger brother can support you, and your younger brother must be a filial piety to your parents." No matter how hard their lives are, they will work hard to satisfy them. This younger brother.
When he was at home, he had to do the hard work for his younger brother.
After getting married, she will face the dissatisfaction of her husband's relatives because of her younger brother.
Later, he was directly abducted and trafficked.
How unlucky they must be to have such a nibbling sibling.
The two-bedroom and three-bedroom family were even more unlucky. They worked hard to support their nephew and relied on him to provide for them in old age. But in the end, this white-eyed wolf didn't care about him, and instead directly abducted and sold their daughter.
It's a mess again, but fortunately, the original owner's reputation has been ruined, his deeds have been damaged, and he's looked down upon. The whole village thinks he's worthless. He hasn't had time to do any really bad things. .
Ji Changze didn't give in. After mentally calculating what to do next, he finished the broth in one mouthful and put the bowl aside.
"grandmother!"
He shouted twice before Grandma Ji trotted over. She looked at Ji Changze as if she were looking at a poor baby who needed constant care.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
"No, ma'am, I just want to ask, do I no longer have to go to the ground? My head hurts so much, I really don't want to go."
Grandma Ji looked at her grandson with a very distressed look in her eyes: "You don't have to go. If grandma says you don't have to go, you don't have to go. Tell me why you are so stupid. You don't want to go to the ground. Just tell the captain no for me. What are you doing?" You have to torment yourself, the captain is a relative of ours, it’s just a matter of not going to the ground, what’s so difficult about it.”
Ji Changze nodded with a "Why didn't I think of that" look on his face: "Yes, I didn't think much about it at the time. Then next time, tell the captain directly for me."
"Don't worry, Captain, he wants to call me aunt. I can't deal with him yet? Do you still want to eat meat? There are some left here, all given by your eldest sister. I will stew them for you later. Take pity on us. "Jia Zhangze, after suffering so much, you must take good care of yourself."
"Wait a minute, don't give it to me, milk."
Ji Changze pulled her back, with a serious look on his face: "This meat was given by my eldest sister. My second uncle and the other parents didn't eat it, so I ate it. Will they think too much about it?"
Grandma Ji's eyes widened: "How dare they!!"
"If they hadn't watched you this time, could you have fallen down that mountain? I don't blame them. They still dare to snatch the meat?!"
Ji Changze quickly explained: "No, why don't you understand? I don't want to work in the fields anymore. I have to rely on my second and third uncles for my work points. Even if the captain is a relative of ours, he won't give me any extra credit." If they can’t eat well, who will earn the work points to support me and the milk?”
"Don't worry, they are very tough. They have resisted beatings since they were young. Your grandfather used to beat them when they were disobedient, but they didn't even cry."
"No matter how strong I am, I can't stand it if I work too much. Nai, we can't take risks. If my second uncle and three uncles die, the captain will definitely let me work. Nai, I can't bear this hardship. Just promise me, just promise me."
Ji Changze took Grandma Ji's arm and shook it. Grandma Ji couldn't help it and agreed.
"Okay, okay, I will listen to you and let them eat. If they don't do a good job for me after they finish eating, I will scold them to death."
In the yard, Aunt Ji was sighing and choosing vegetables. When she saw her husband coming over, she said, "Mom, that's too much. Nagasawa fell down the mountain on purpose. Why should I blame you?"
Uncle Ji didn't understand why his wife was angry at all, and asked in confusion: "It turns out that we didn't keep an eye on Nagaze. Isn't it normal for my mother to be angry? What's wrong with you? Why do you think so?"
Aunt Ji: "..."
"No, aren't you angry? Even if Nagasawa is a boy, our daughter is not picked up. Back then, the fourth and fifth girls were sent away directly. Now, although the third girl is married, we are her fathers. Mom, you should leave something for her, right?"
Uncle Ji: "The third girl married into a good family. How can she care about things like us? Didn't she bring meat to Nagaze when she went there before?"
But it was time to get down to business. Aunt Ji said: "That's right! The girl is already married, and the younger brother still asks her for meat. This, this doesn't make sense."
Uncle Ji looked confused: "That girl is already married, why do you still want us to leave something for her?"
Aunt Ji: "..."
"I mean, we don't have a son and we have to raise a nephew, so I won't say anything. But the girls are all married, so we don't have to raise this younger brother anymore. Look at the big girl, ah, the days are also changing. It's not that easy. Last time, Nagasawa asked for meat. What was the reason? It was given to the second brother and the second sister-in-law. Look, have the second brother and the second sister-in-law taken a bite of the meat? Not to mention the second brother and the second sister-in-law. Sister-in-law, I haven’t eaten a bite myself, so when has the food Nagasawa wants to come into someone else’s mouth, even a bite?”
As soon as she said this, Grandma Ji stood on the steps and shouted: "You guys from the third family, hurry up and clean up the kitchen and cook the meat that the eldest girl gave you. Let's try it together tonight."
Aunt Ji San; "..."
What's going on? The sun is coming out in the west