"The daughter-in-law your mother married to your brothers is not bad, why?"
Man Bao: "Why?"
"Because your mother suffered a lot before."
Man Bao: I always feel that my great-uncle is mocking her father, but she has no real evidence.
"When your mother first got married, what else did your father have besides a face?" Aunt Lai scolded, "Your grandpa is not good, and your grandma is not good either. One is too lazy to follow your grandma." , have you seen Lai Zi's house?"
Aunt Lai said: "Back then, your family was similar to that of a lame child. The fields in the village were about to be closed, and your grandparents started planting slowly. They were always three steps behind others in their work. They began to fertilize and pull weeds. , they just inserted the seedlings..."
The onlookers and a group of children from Lao Zhou's family were shocked, my God, is this really Lao Zhou's house
"Your grandma remembers that your grandfather's house offered a high betrothal gift, and your mother was tortured as soon as she entered the house. It was a very sad day." Aunt Lai couldn't help sighing, "So Man Bao, you have to choose someone else in the future Now, you have to keep your eyes wide open, and don't follow your mother's way."
Man Bao nodded fiercely. Although there would be hesitation and heartache between father and mother, she still decided to occupy her mother's side a little more.
Since she was a child, although Qian Shi never said how her illness came about, the adults outside all said that her mother was tired.
Even Wu Wulang still has some impressions, but he only knows that his mother works very quickly and neatly, but he doesn't know that his mother suffered so much when she was younger.
Zhou Dalang, Zhou Xi, Zhou Zhoulang and Zhou Zhoulang probably still have some memories of these things.
According to Aunt Lai, Qian was not the only one suffering, Zhou Dalang was also very pitiful when he was a child.
At that time, Zhou Jin was still very lazy. He went to work in the fields, and he could find excuses to run home three or two times in one morning, and his time was wasted on the road.
But Grandpa Zhou said that he was still ill, and Zhang Shi was pregnant with Zhou Yin, and he treasured his belly like a golden bump, and didn't even leave the house, let alone help Qian Shi.
So Mrs. Qian took Zhou Dalang down to the field with her big belly.
In order to prevent the child from running around, she tied a rope around Zhou Dalang's waist and tied him to a tree on the ground, so that she could see the child when she looked up.
Aunt Lai sighed, "At that time, there were many mosquitoes in the field. Your mother wrapped your elder brother's hands and feet well, but the forehead and face were exposed, as well as the little palm. She came up to take a look after she finished her work. The child was bitten badly by bugs... "
Man Bao and the others opened their mouths wide.
"Your mother carried your eldest brother on her back and cried all the way back to her mother's house, and left the child at her mother's house." At that time, Aunt Lai accompanied Qian back home. Later, as soon as the spring planting was over, Uncle Qian brought his two younger brothers He beat up Zhou Jin and took his younger sister home for ten days. Grandpa Zhou begged to go to his in-law's house before taking her back.
But Qian's situation was only slightly better, until Zhang gave birth to Zhou Yin but had no milk.
Zhou Yin was sent to Qian's side.
Maybe it's the old man, maybe it's because they were able to give birth to two sons of the old Zhou family who had been single-passed for two generations, so Grandpa Zhou and Mrs. Zhang loved Zhou Yin a lot more than Zhou Jingang when he was born.
At that time, Zhou Xi had been born for about three months, and Mrs. Qian had been working in the fields for a long time, and she wanted to wean her child. But because of Zhou Yin, she could not only spend most of her time at home to take care of the child, but Grandpa Zhou and Mrs. Giving her meat and eggs as if she didn't want money...
How can there be any rule of the old Zhou family that men carry water
That was decided by Qian himself. In the three years since she married in, she has been picking the water for the old Zhou's family. The other three adults in the old Zhou's family would rather not wash their faces or carry water.
But just because Zhou Yin woke up and couldn't find Qian, he cried like he died, and then Zhou Jin asked his father to beat him out, and went to the spring to take over his wife's first bucket of water.
Then with the first bucket, there was the second bucket. After that, Qian never carried water again.
Old Zhou carried water for ten years, and when Zhou Dalang turned thirteen, he immediately handed over the burden to him.
Old Zhou was trained by Mrs. Qian, but it was too hard. If she wanted to come to her aunt and say, if she didn't look at the face before and just chose a hardworking one, there would be so many things later.
"Zhou Yin, that is a very loving child." Aunt Lai's eyes fell on Man Bao's face, and she sighed faintly, "Your mother often said that he is her little lucky star."
Isn't it a little lucky star? Since Zhou Yin was born, Qian's life has gradually become better. When Zhou Yin was three years old, Grandpa Zhou and Zhang's still handed over the old Zhou family to Qian.
Even when Zhou Jin faced Qian Shi, he could only shrink his neck at that time.
Zhou Yin has always been brought up by Mrs. Qian, and he obviously likes his sister-in-law better than Mrs. Zhang who is always sick or loses his temper.
So even during the Chinese New Year, he didn't want to go back to Zhang's house with Zhang Shi, but wanted to go back to Qian's house with Qian Shi.
He was just two years old, just when he was learning to speak, and he would always call Qian Shi his mother baldly. This problem was not corrected until he was five years old.
From this we can see how good his relationship with Qian is, and even the Qian family likes his younger sister's brother-in-law very much, so the Zhang family yelled at Qian's abuse of the youngest son left by his mother-in-law, and sold the youngest son for money. Qili Village and even Qianjia Village were treated like a joke.
Especially in Qili Village, who doesn't know who.
Aunt Lai stretched out her hand to take Man Bao's little hand, and said pointingly: "Zhou Yin sold himself back then. After your mother found out, she almost passed out."
Uncle Lai also sighed, and said in a long way: "It was hard back then, several people in our village starved to death."
"Yeah, when your mother soaked a piece of cake and distributed it to the family, she used a rope to drink water by herself. Your uncle ran out after seeing Buluoren, but he really found it for him." There is a way out."
Aunt Lai squeezed Man Bao's hand tightly and said, "Not only did he bring back a bag of grain for your old Zhou's family, but he also found a job for the young and strong in the village. The passer-by who wanted to take him away was kind, I hired people from the village to move cloth for them, and later introduced everyone to another steward in the county. The people in our village survived by relying on the little rations saved by those who went to work hard, and no one died of starvation. people."
Aunt Lai sneered and said, "The Zhang family came to force your father and mother to take out rations because they caught Zhou Yin's prostitution. It was your uncle's life in exchange for it. How could your parents give it to you?" , The two families fought and took some things away."
"Then what happened next?"
"Later?" Aunt Lai laughed, "Later your eldest uncle took your cousins and your brothers to Zhang's house for a visit. For five or six years, your two families did not move around. This time It is estimated that the fight will last another five or six years."
She smiled and said: "At this age, who knows how long he can live? When the two cousins of your Zhang family die, this relative will be able to fade away, and it doesn't matter if he leaves or not."