Because there was already a patient who was bedridden for a long time at home, the family kept a relatively loose eye on Xiao Honglian. They didn't want her to end up like that.
During the day, Xiao Honglian sometimes helps her sister Wu Bingbing hold the baby, and sometimes helps with some chores. Occasionally, her one-eyed mother-in-law and her brother-in-law Mao Tou will accompany her for a walk.
It turns out that Maotou has hyperthyroidism - commonly known as big neck disease. His hands are always shaking and he cannot do heavy work. So he only does light work and monitors Xiao Honglian when he is free.
Maotou said: He didn't want to spy on her, and he also knew that this kind of marriage was wrong, but buying her cost all their family's wealth, so she couldn't just run away.
Xiao Honglian learned that the villagers treated the wives they bought like this. If outsiders come to inquire about it, they have to hide it. If they are rescued by the police, it will be over. Thousands of dollars will be wasted. But if the woman gives birth to a child, it will be over.
You will be more relaxed - maybe because many women will give up after giving birth to children. At least they will not be able to let go of the children.
Sometimes she also asked Mao Tou some easy questions. For example: How many years have you been in school and why you stopped studying? Which province and county does this place belong to? Do you know the world outside the mountains?...
The time spent with my brother-in-law Mao Tou was better, but the time spent with the one-eyed woman was boring. Because the woman couldn't even understand her, let alone speak Mandarin.
At first, Xiao Honglian was still afraid of the coming of night, afraid that the second oldest Hailin would suddenly take advantage of her and take possession of her recklessly. But as time went by, she saw that Hailin kept resisting the urge even if she had the urge. In addition to hugging her, she occasionally kissed her.
There was no excessive behavior, and she gradually felt relieved.
However, she heard Wu Bingbing say that her man used to torment her every night, sometimes two or three times a night, and she was in terrible pain and miserable. She always wanted to find a chance to run away or commit suicide, but there was no possibility at all.
In contrast, Xiao Honglian felt that she was lucky to have met a kind and honest man. Therefore, she was not in a hurry to find a way to escape.
Xiao Guren has seen a woman who was captured after Murakami ran away. Not only was she beaten with bruises all over her body, but she was also tied up with ropes and chains like an animal every day, making it difficult for her to even go out.
What's more, the mountain is so deep, it would be very miserable if she fell into a poorer and more savage family as a woman. Therefore, although Xiao Honglian felt very uncomfortable with the life here and was so homesick for her mother, she did not dare to mess around.
run.
She really wanted to encourage Mao Tou to go out with her to work on the coast, but as soon as she tried it, she knew that this way was not possible. He was still taking herbs to treat his illness.
After listening to Xiao Honglian's description of the colorful world outside, Maotou wanted to get over his illness and go out to work, so that he could marry a wife by his own ability in the future.
It rained for many days, causing a flash flood. After the rain, the sky cleared, Xiao Honglian went to wash clothes in the mountain stream, and accidentally dropped the soap into the mountain stream. Mao Tou, who was accompanying her, rolled up his trousers and went to search for her in the water.
. Touching left and right, I couldn't find a ring that looked like white jade and came out of the soap mold.
Xiao Honglian asked him to bring it to her. After washing away the mud, she felt that it was a bit like an ancient jade pendant. She said it would look good if she threaded it with a piece of red wool and wore it on her chest.
Cat Tou thought it was just a nice smooth stone, so he smiled and said, "Then I'll wear it for you." After that, he continued to touch the soap.
After washing the clothes and going back, Xiao Honglian had just hung two pieces of clothes to dry when she saw her mother-in-law calling Maotou into the room in a panic and carrying Wu Bingbing to see the doctor.
What's wrong with my sister? Xiao Honglian also ran in quickly. She saw Wu Bingbing's face was pale, her lips were black, and she was unconscious. When Maotou carried her on his back, there was a large amount of blood on the bed.
The mother-in-law quickly picked up the quilt and wrapped it around Wu Bingbing, and hurried out with Maotou. She also told Xiao Honglian: "Look after the baby. There is lunch cooking on the stove, be careful not to burn it."
"Yeah." Xiao Honglian nodded quickly.
She never expected that Wu Bingbing would collapse and die on the way, and even the body would be parked outside the village and not allowed to be carried home.
The next day, she was put into a hastily nailed thin-board coffin and buried hastily. She held her four-month-old child on Wu Bingbing's grave and said with tears in her eyes: "Sister, don't worry. I will definitely take care of her."
Raise the baby well!”
Time is so monotonous, and the busy life passes by, and in a blink of an eye, the Spring Festival has arrived with the sound of firecrackers.
Since the second day of the Lunar New Year, the three brothers of the Lan family have been visiting relatives to pay New Year's greetings. Regardless of whether they are uncles, aunts, aunts, or sisters, every family leaves early and returns late, walking over the mountains and ridges.
The sixth day of the Lunar New Year was the last day of New Year greetings. Unexpectedly, the three brothers who went to the sister's house next to the mountain town that day had not come back until dark. As the time got later and later, Xiao Honglian and their parents were all anxious and restless.
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The old couple first went to the entrance of the village to look around, but after the crescent moon fell, they had to come back exhausted. In the middle of the night, they saw Maotou running back in shock and panting.
He also brought a shocking news: on the way back, they failed to give way to another group of people at a cliff. Hailin was knocked off the cliff and died!
At this time, the whole family burst into tears and became a mess. And Xiao Honglian became a widow inexplicably. She felt like it was like a dream.
Since she was a purchased wife and she had two bachelor sons at home, it was impossible for the Lan family to really make her a widow.
Seeing that she and her younger son had a good relationship and were of the same age, her mother-in-law wanted to transfer her to her younger son, Shanlin. But Dalin refused, and even sneaked into Xiao Honglian's room in the middle of the night to take advantage of her and make the rice cook.
Thanks to Xiao Honglian's dream that Hai Lin came back with blood on his head, he was frightened and woke up screaming, and attracted the whole family to escape the disaster.
For this reason, the father-in-law scolded Dalin for being inferior to a beast, and his younger brother wanted to take his daughter-in-law before her body was cold. He also asked her mother-in-law to sleep with Xiao Honglian from now on, and no matter who she was for, she would have to wait until Hailin reached the age of "Qiqi".
Say it again.
Because the baby has been suffering from diarrhea since the new year and is not getting better after old age. The next day, the mother-in-law accompanied Xiao Honglian and carried the baby to the big village in the mountain col to see the doctor.
Coming out of the doctor's house, Xiao Honglian unexpectedly saw the girl named Yao who was eventually sold with her.
The girl's hair was disheveled and her face was pale. She was wearing a big, shabby cotton-padded jacket. Her belly was slightly protruding, and she seemed to be pregnant. There was even a thick rope tied to her hand, and the other end was held by a man in his forties. If
If she hadn't screamed first, Xiao Honglian would hardly have recognized her.
The girl also came to see the doctor. She cried while talking and coughed violently.
The girl said that the man holding her hand was the man who bought her. This man could be her father! She didn’t want to live anymore and committed suicide several times, so she was tied up. The girl wanted to say something else, but was pulled violently by the man.
Entered the doctor's house.
Xiao Honglian looked at this miserable girl, thinking about her sister Wu Bingbing and her misfortune, and couldn't help but burst into tears: "Oh my god! Do you have eyes? Why do we poor girls suffer such misfortune?"