Xiaogou Village is a small and impoverished mountain village in the mountains. The land here is barren, and the two seasons of crops do not grow well. The family works hard for a year, but they can barely make ends meet.
There is a saying that people rely on mountains to eat mountains, and water to eat water. However, the mountains here are steep and there are many large wild animals. There are not many villagers who dare to enter the mountains, so they cannot make money by relying on wild animals and the like.
Xiaogou Village is located deep in the mountains, and the road to and from the mountain is extremely difficult. It takes a day and a night to get in and out of the mountain. The whole small village is almost isolated from the outside world.
The original owner was a native of Xiaogou Village. He never went to school, could not read a single word, lived to the age of fifty-two, and had only been to towns outside the mountains as far as he could.
When he was in his early twenties, the original owner's parents married him a daughter-in-law. As a result, they didn't see their grandson born, and they both passed away due to accidents.
After the death of the parents, the impact on the family was quite great. After all, two strong laborers were missing, and the money earned was even less. Fortunately, the original owner and his wife were hardworking people. Also passable.
After a few years of marriage, the daughter-in-law gave birth to three sons to the original owner. Neither of them had gone to school, nor were they educated. It didn't take long for the child to become pregnant again.
The first three children were born smoothly, so she took it for granted that the fourth child would also be born safely.
As a result, the original owner's daughter-in-law had already lost her health due to the successive births in the past few years. In addition, the fourth child's pregnancy was not good, and she could not make up her body properly. After suffering from pain for two days and two nights, I took the baby in my stomach with me because of heavy bleeding.
After the original owner's daughter-in-law passed away, the original owner did not remarry, firstly because he had feelings for his wife, and secondly because it cost money to get a new daughter-in-law, and his family was so poor, how could he get it? Pay to marry a new wife
Due to various reasons, the original owner rested and remarried, and raised the three sons as a father and mother.
The original owner thought that he had fulfilled his responsibilities as a father. Compared with other families in the village, although the life of the three children was not good, it was not much worse.
He thought that when the three children grow up, he will be able to enjoy the blessings, but when they are all grown up, he has an idea to match one by one.
The original owner wanted them to stay in the village. After marrying a wife and having a few children, life would be complete.
However, they were not willing to live such a life. Not long after they became adults, they used the excuse of seeing the outside world. The three brothers left home together and went to work outside.
It has been five years since they left, because Xiaogou Village is too remote, there is no internet or electricity here, and even the post office does not deliver letters here, and the three of them have never come back. The original owner did not know that they were working outside. something.
Although he didn't know what they were doing outside, the original owner felt that the three brothers were old men and would not encounter any danger after going out, so he was not very worried about the three brothers.
Time flies, and five years later, the three brothers returned to Xiaogou Village.
The three brothers seem to have made a fortune outside these years. The first thing they did after returning to the village was to ask the village chief for land and build three large tile-roofed houses in the east of the village.
They have suppressed the villagers of Xiaogou Village with one hand. Everyone thinks that the three brothers have figured it out outside, otherwise they would not have built a house as soon as they came back.
Many people are envious of the original owner, thinking that the original owner has raised three good sons, and just wait for the blessings in the future.
The original owner was also very happy, feeling that all these years of hard work had not been in vain, not to mention raising three children, all of them were so promising.
When the house was built, the original owner moved in. The three sons were filial, and told the original owner not to go to the fields to take care of the crops, but to support the elderly at home and just help them with things.
The children wanted to be filial to him, so the original owner naturally didn't say much, and nodded in agreement.
Afterwards, the original owner also lived a leisurely and happy life. He thought that he would spend the rest of his life so happily. How could he know what would happen later
After the three sons built the house, they would go out every three to five days. This trip lasted for ten days and half a month. They didn't tell the original owner what they were doing, but every time they came back, they would bring back a handful of tickets. Well, that money is worth what he spent working hard in the field for a year.
The original owner had never been to school, he was illiterate, and had no culture. He should have been happy that the three children were promising and earning money, but for some reason, he always felt that the money came from something unfair.
These children of his will never do things that violate the law and discipline, right
The original owner also asked his son, but they told him not to worry, they earned the money with their own abilities, and he just spent it, don't ask those messy things.
Seeing that the three children were confident, the original owner didn't say anything more.
Another year passed like this, and a young man from the village came to the house, hoping that the original owner's son would find him a wife from the city.
Until that time, the original owner did not know what his three sons were doing for a living.
Not long after the young man came to the door, the second son of the original owner brought back a beautiful little girl and sent it to the young young man's home.
Since then, everyone in the village has known the capabilities of the original owner's three sons, knowing that they are capable of finding educated and beautiful city girls for their children, so they came to beg them to find a wife for their children.
Xiaogou Village is a small backward mountain village. Most of the villagers here have no education. They are ignorant and backward, thinking that sons are the treasures of the family and daughters are worthless weed roots. Or throw it on the back mountain. Few families in a village are willing to raise their daughters.
The village is remote, and the conditions of these villagers' families are not good. In addition, the baby girls were drowned before they could grow up, and the remaining men grew up to marry their wives. They marry, and because of poor conditions at home, they can't marry a wife from outside.
People who want to marry their daughters want to marry to a village with good conditions, and they can get a lot of dowry money, but the people in their village can't afford it, so how can they get a daughter-in-law
Originally, the villagers were worried about how to marry their sons, but they realized that the three boys from the Qi family were capable enough to help them marry daughters-in-law in the city. With the accumulated family fortune, ask them to help their children talk about their daughters-in-law.
Naturally, the three children of the Qi family had nothing to do with it. As long as they brought the money, they would go out for ten days and half a month, and then they would be able to bring their daughters-in-law back and send them to the villagers' homes.
Those who paid a lot of money would bring back beautiful young girls, those who were given less money would bring back worse ones, either because they were not good-looking, or they had been married before.
And those villagers don't have any opinions, as long as there is a daughter-in-law who can have children, how can they care about the rest
At the beginning, the original owner thought that his three children had the ability to tell the girls from outside to a small mountain village like them. He even felt a little relieved in his heart, thinking that his children could make money again , and can help the boys in the village solve their daughter-in-law problems, he is really a rare good boy.
However, he soon realized that something was wrong.
How could the half-limped old widower in the village marry a juicy little girl? That little girl looked seventeen or eighteen years old, and she was so beautiful, how could she look up to an old widower with a lame leg and a pockmarked face
The original owner was full of doubts, so he kept his eyes open and didn't ask what was going on with his child. After the wedding banquet, the original owner sneaked to the old widower's house that night.
Then he saw the young girl who said she had married the old widower voluntarily, struggling and cursing like crazy, refusing to let her new husband come near her.
She said she was trafficked, she said she was underage, she begged the old widower to let him go, she said that as long as he let her go, her parents would give him a lot of money.
"I don't want money. I just want you to be my wife. If I spend money, you will be my wife and give birth to a fat boy."
Seeing that the little girl was about to be bullied, the original owner couldn't stand it anymore, so he broke in and took the young girl away.
The original owner brought the little girl named Su Miaomiao back home, and after asking that she did not marry the old widower voluntarily, the original owner made a promise that she would send her home.
However, the next day, the old widower called with his family and said that he wanted to take his wife back.
The original owner told the old widower that Su Miaomiao was unwilling to marry him and asked him to marry another wife, but the old widower was unwilling and insisted on the new wife he married yesterday.
Su Miaomiao hid behind the original owner and shivered. The original owner also wanted to protect the girl, so he argued with them and refused to hand over Su Miaomiao to them.
Later, people from the whole village came, and everyone said that Su Miaomiao was the old widower's daughter-in-law, and asked the original owner to return her to the old widower. They said that they all gave the bride price to the original owner's children. The girl was given to the old widower.
Just when the original owner was about to be unable to resist, his three sons came back. The original owner thought his sons would stand on his side, but they forced the original owner to give Su Miaomiao to the old widower.
"Brother Liu has already given us money. This is his daughter-in-law. Dad, are you a fool? Why do you leave someone else's wife at home?"
After the original owner's three sons taught him a lesson, they forcibly handed Su Miaomiao, who begged the original owner to save her, to the old widower.
There is only one original owner, how can we stop these people? He watched Su Miaomiao crying and being taken away by those people, her crying was like a heavy hammer hitting his heart, making him feel weak all over.
The original owner was so angry that he had a big fight with his three sons, but they told him that this was what they did for a living.
"They give money, and we find them wives. There's nothing wrong with that."
"Women's families are born to be slept by others, so it's not the same for who they sleep with?"
"Father, I think you are old and confused, or do you mean that little girl? If you want to find a wife, just talk to your son, I can fix it for you no matter how big you want, just don't stare at her." I won’t let go of other people’s wives.”
The three sons educated the original owner and forced him to accept their practices.
The original owner didn't have much knowledge, so he was quickly persuaded by them.