"The wives your mother married for your brothers are pretty good. Why?"
Man Bao: "Why?"
"Because your mother suffered a big loss in the past."
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 did your father have besides a face?" Aunt Lai scolded: "Your grandpa is not good, your grandma is not good either, and the other one is too lazy to live with your grandma.
, have you seen the Leizi family?"
Aunt Lai said: "Back then, your family was just like Lezi's family. The fields in the village were almost closed, so your grandparents slowly started planting in the spring. They were always three steps behind others, and they started to fertilize and pull weeds.
, they just planted the seedlings..."
The onlookers and a group of children from Lao Zhou's family were all shocked. Oh my God, is this really Lao Zhou's family?
"Your grandma resents your grandpa's family for raising a high betrothal gift, and your mother was teased as soon as she entered the house. Those days were very sad." Aunt Lai couldn't help but sigh, "So Manbao, you have to choose someone else in the future.
, but you have to keep your eyes wide open and don’t follow your mother’s footsteps.”
Man Bao nodded sternly. Although there would be hesitation and heartache between her father and her mother, she still decided to take a little more of her mother's side.
Since childhood, although Qian never said where her illness came from, the adults outside said that her mother was tired.
Even Wu Lang still had some impressions, but he only knew that his mother worked quickly and neatly, and he didn't know that his mother had suffered so much when she was younger.
It is estimated that only Zhou Dalang, Zhou Xi, Tuesday Lang and Zhou Lang still have some memories of these things.
According to Aunt Lai, it was not just the Qian family who suffered, 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 could find excuses to run home three or two times a morning. All his time was wasted on the road.
Grandpa Zhou said that he was not cured of his illness yet, and Mrs. Zhang was pregnant with Zhou Yin. She treated her belly like a golden pimple and could not even leave the house, let alone help Mr. Qian.
So Qian had a big belly and took Zhou Dalang to the fields.
In order to prevent the child from running around, she tied a rope around Zhou Dalang's waist and tied him to a tree at the edge of the field, so that she could see the child when she looked up.
Aunt Lai sighed, "There were a lot of mosquitoes in the fields at that time. Your mother had wrapped up your eldest brother's hands and feet, but the forehead and face were exposed, as well as the little palms. When she finished her work, she came up and saw,
The child was bitten badly by bugs..."
Man Bao and others opened their mouths.
"Your mother carried your eldest brother on her back and cried all the way back to her parents' house, leaving the child behind." At that time, my aunt came to accompany Qian back home. Later, after the spring planting was over, uncle Qian took his two younger brothers with him.
Zhou Jin was beaten up and took his sister home for more than ten days. Grandpa Zhou personally begged at the door of his in-laws' 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.
Perhaps because they were old people, or perhaps because they were able to give birth to two sons to the old Zhou family, which had been passed down for two generations, Grandpa Zhou and Mrs. Zhang especially doted on Zhou Yin, even more than they did when Zhou Jingang was born.
Zhou Xi was already three months old at that time. Mrs. Qian had already gone to work in the fields and wanted to wean her child. But because of Zhou Yin, not only could she spend most of her time at home taking care of her child, Grandpa Zhou and Ms. Zhang also
Feed her meat and eggs as if she didn't need any money...
Is there any rule in the old Zhou family that men carry water?
Those were all decided by Qian herself. For three years after she got married, she had been the one to pick up the water for Lao Zhou's family. The other three adults in Lao Zhou's family would rather not wash their faces than carry water.
But because Zhou Yin woke up one time and couldn't find Qian, he cried as if he had died. Then Zhou Jin asked his father to beat him out and went to the spring mouth to take over from his wife to pick up the first bucket of water.
Then there was the first bucket, and then there was the second bucket. Later, Qian stopped carrying water.
Old Zhou carried the water for ten years. When Zhou Dalang was thirteen years old, he immediately handed over the burden to him.
Lao Zhoutou was trained by Mr. Qian, but it was too hard. Auntie said that if she had not looked at the face before and just chosen a hard-working one, there would have been 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 he 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 even handed over the old Zhou family to Qian.
Even when Zhou Jin faced Qian, he could only shrink his neck.
Zhou Yin has always been brought up by Mr. Qian, and he obviously prefers his sister-in-law to Mrs. Zhang who is always sick or loses his temper.
So even during the Chinese New Year, he was not willing to go back to Zhang's house with Zhang, but wanted to go back to Qian's house with Qian.
When he was just two years old, when he was learning to speak, he would always ask Qian to be his mother. This problem did not change until he was five years old.
This shows how good his relationship with Qian is. Even the Qian family likes his sister's brother-in-law very much, so the Zhang family is clamoring that Qian abused the young son left by his mother-in-law and sold the young son for money. The whole thing
Qili Village and even Qianjia Village were treated as a joke.
Especially in Qili Village, no one knows who.
Aunt Lai reached out and took Man Bao's little hand, and said pointedly: "Zhou Yin sold himself out back then. When your mother found out, she almost fainted."
Uncle Lai also sighed and said in a long voice: "It was difficult back then. Several people in our village starved to death."
"Yes, your mother soaked a piece of cake and distributed it to the whole family. She tied her belly with a rope to drink water. Your brother-in-law ran out because he couldn't bear to see it, but he actually found it.
A way out."
Aunt Lai squeezed Man Bao's hand and said, "Not only did he bring back a bag of grain for your old Zhou family, he also found a job for the young men in the village. The passing merchant who wanted to take him away was kind-hearted.
They hired people from the village to carry cloth for them, and later introduced everyone to another steward in the county. The people in our village survived on the rations saved by the people who went to work as laborers, and no one died of starvation.
people."
Aunt Lai sneered: "The Zhang family came to your door just because they found out about Zhou Yin's prostitution. They forced your parents to pay rations. Your uncle paid for that with his life. How could your parents give it to you?"
, the two families got into a fight and stole some things.”
"What happened next?"
"Then?" Aunt Lai smiled, "Then your uncle took your cousins and your brothers to Zhang's house. For the next five or six years, the two of you didn't move around anymore. This time
The fight will probably be cold for another five or six years."
She smiled and said: "Who knows how long a person of this age can live? Once your two cousins from the Zhang family die, this relative will be indifferent, and it won't matter whether he leaves or not."