Four Hundred and Eighty: The Old Father’s Worry and Injury
Listening to the shameless words of his eldest daughter, Ma Datou was speechless. No matter how confident he was, he could not agree with his daughter's words without conscience.
Looking at his father's stunned look, Ma Shengnan patted his chest and said, "Dad, don't worry, the marriage of your two sisters will be left to me. I will definitely be able to find the right husband for them."
"Hey!" Faced with the confidence of his best friend, Ma Datou said nothing. After looking at his eldest daughter up and down, he sighed silently.
"Dad, what do you mean? Do you not believe in my ability?"
"No, no, how could I not believe you?" Looking at his eldest daughter's fists clenched with excitement, Ma Datou said these words with great difficulty.
He believes in his daughter's ability, but it also depends on what kind of ability it is.
As a father, Ma Da’s head was very hurt.
No matter how good your daughters may be in your own eyes, they don't look feminine at all in the eyes of others. This is a fact.
"Then what do you mean by that expression?" Ma Shengnan was still a little unhappy. In her opinion, her sisters couldn't be more excellent, and they could be caught at home and abroad. Whoever marries them will be the one who has accumulated the blessings in his previous life.
"I just have a toothache. Yes, I've been angry for the past two days and I have a toothache." Ma Datou covered his mouth, unwilling to argue with his daughter. Anyway, he would never admit that he couldn't quarrel with her.
Ma Datou, who had finally married off a daughter, expressed that he was very sad, but in fact, he could not blame the daughters for this matter. After all, it was their parents who made the daughters like this.
"Okay, okay, you two, father and daughter, stop quarreling there and come here and serve me a bowl." Looking at the father and daughter who looked like living treasures, the woman had a headache, but she saw her man at a disadvantage and being fucked by her daughter.
She didn't know what to say, and the woman felt a little distressed, so she quickly stepped forward to save her man.
"Come on, come on, wife, we'll be there right away." The wife's words were like nectar from heaven to Ma Datou at this time, and he hurriedly got up and walked towards the kitchen.
"I see, mother, you know how to favor my father." Looking at his father who was smiling proudly, Ma Shengnan said with some dissatisfaction.
"That's right, that's my wife. She wants to live with me for the rest of her life, no matter who she favors over me?" Ma Datou didn't care about his daughter's dissatisfaction at all. Instead, he smiled with big white teeth because his wife was leaning toward him.
"Then she's still my mother..."
"Then my wife must be your mother first. If I don't marry my wife first, where will you come from?"
Ma Shengnan did not expect that his father would be so thick-skinned. He choked and complained angrily to the woman: "Mom, look at my father!"
"Daughter-in-law, look at your daughter-in-law!" His own daughter had already complained, and Ma Datou was naturally not to be outdone. He imitated his daughter's tone and complained to his daughter-in-law. Anyway, he couldn't let his daughter be proud today.
The woman looked at by two pairs of similar eyes felt helpless.
These two living treasures!
Everyone is already a grown-up, why are they still acting like children?
"Okay, okay, let's eat quickly." The troubled woman put the dishes in her hands on the table, and then started to bring the water.
"Hurry up and eat. I fried eggplants for you today. Don't you love eggplants the most?" the woman said as she pushed the eggplants on the table towards her man.
Turning around, he pushed another piece of cold cucumber next to the unhappy girl, and said softly: "Okay, don't be angry, you don't know your father's temper, he can't love you more, I don't know.
You are coming over today. He went to the vegetable market early in the morning and bought the freshest cucumbers. When he bought them, they were still covered with dew. "
As soon as the woman's words came out, Ma Datou suddenly felt a little embarrassed when he saw the look in his daughter's eyes.
Compared with typical men of this era, the relationship between him and his daughters is much closer. For example, taking the fight just now, this kind of scene will not occur in most families of this era.
But deep down in his heart, he still has the kind of vague fatherly love that is unique to Chinese men, and he is too embarrassed to express his love.
"Dad, I knew you loved me the most." Looking at the cold cucumbers in front of him, Ma Shengnan smiled brightly.
"You are my daughter, if I don't care for you, who will you care for?" Ma Datou touched his hairless head and said with a little embarrassment, but confidently.
No matter how good his daughter is, she is still his own daughter. How could he imitate those stupid men who don't care for his own daughter, but care for an outsider who can't be beaten with eight poles?
Over the years, no one has given him various ideas, whether it's adoption or finding a son-in-law. Some people even introduced him to other women in the early years, saying that if he gave birth to a son and gave her a sum of money, he could have the child.
I took her back, but he didn't agree.
In his opinion, whether he is a daughter or a son, they are not all his flesh and blood.
Seeing the two men being affectionate in the blink of an eye, the woman was even more helpless. She didn't know what kind of relationship the two people belonged to. They were cats and dogs.
After Ma Shengnan finished eating a large plate of cold cucumbers that contained his father's wishes, he patted his chest and assured his father that they didn't need to worry about the affairs of his sisters, just leave them to him.
It's okay if I don't mention this, but when I mention the woman who is listening to the father and daughter talking next to me, I feel a little heartbroken.
She had experienced ups and downs in her life, and she never expected that she would suffer such a big setback from her daughters.
She was born in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. When she was a child, her family had some property and she enjoyed a wealthy life. However, her grandfather was a gambler and lost all the land and shops at home.
Fortunately, he left early and didn't take away his family's last place of residence.
After the family business was ruined, their father, who was inexperienced in the world, also left because he could not bear the blow, leaving the orphans and widowed mother alone in the family struggling to make ends meet.
But who knows how difficult it was for orphans and widowed mothers to make ends meet at that age.
Not to mention that she, the mother's only child, is still a daughter.
Not only could the clan not provide them with protection, they even had plans for them as mother and daughter.
From their point of view, their family was once wealthy, but a skinny camel was bigger than a horse. How could it be possible that nothing good was left behind?
Those poor people who can't even eat food may be saying that the two of them let go of what they have in order to monopolize it.
Isn’t it possible to make more money just by digging out something casually than by working hard?
If it doesn't work out, don't they still have a house?