Liu Damei just returned home and was scolded by her mother-in-law, "You still know how to come back? You have been walking around with your child all day long. You haven't cooked dinner or chopped firewood. The stove at home is still cold!"
"Aren't I trying to find a way to go to Jiang's house to get dog meat to eat?" Liu Damei put her daughter Daya on a chair in the room and patted the snow off her clothes.
"You have the nerve to mention the Jiang family. Just now, your father and I were looking at you in the crowd, and we were almost embarrassed by you! You talked about other people's affairs, why did you get involved? The Jiang family pointed at your nose and scolded you, tsk
!You are really..."
Before her mother-in-law could continue, Liu Damei interrupted: "I won't get involved. If Huang Yuezhu gets the meat, will he share it with me?"
"It sounds like you're getting your share of the meat."
Old Mrs. Lin made a scornful sound and put the potatoes in the basket into the pot, "Da Ya is now two years old, so you don't need to take care of her anymore! Taking advantage of the slack farming season, you and Desheng should have a son as soon as possible. This is what matters most."
thing!"
After saying this, she continued nagging, "You said you stay with the second daughter-in-law of the Jiang family every day, why don't you learn from her? Her first child was a son, and now she has a big belly again. Look,
It’s my son again…”
Liu Damei's tone was sour, "Who said the baby in her belly is a son? I see that the belly is flat, like a girl's."
"What can you tell with that look in your eyes? When you were pregnant with Yatou, you said every day that you were pregnant with a son, but what happened? Yatou's movie!"
"Okay, old woman, please stop saying a few words," Old Man Lin, who was helping to light the fire by the stove, stirred the firewood a few times and said, "It's good to have a daughter for the first time. I can help take care of my younger brother in the future."
Well."
His wife snorted softly, "I'm afraid she will be a loser again with her second child. That would be really fatal!"
"You can't say that the girl is just a loser," Old Man Lin said, "Look at how lucky the Jiang family is to have picked up a girl. Not only is there meat to eat, but Dongzi's father can get out of bed today. That baby is really
Lucky star!"
"Some girls have good horoscopes and are born to attract wealth and blessings. Out of tens of millions of girls, there is at most one. She is the reincarnation of a lucky star, and the others are losers."
Having said this, she turned to look at her granddaughter, "I see that Da Ya is not only a loser, but also a bit like a disaster..."
"Mom, what are you talking about? Is Daya a disaster star?"
"The production team was repairing the canals, and everyone else was fine. But Desheng was injured. He didn't go to the production team for two full months, and he had more than 60 days less daily labor than others! We originally had fewer boys in our family, and at the end of the year
I don’t know how much dividends I can get.”
Liu Damei said: "This has nothing to do with Daya."
"Why doesn't it matter? Ever since we had a big girl, our family has not been going well," Old Mrs. Lin got angrier and angrier as she spoke, and said impatiently, "Oh, don't talk nonsense, just give birth to a son as soon as possible.
It brings joy to our family!”
"I also want to have a son, but my belly has been quiet..."
There was a bit of disappointment and disgust in Mrs. Lin's eyes, and she turned to her husband and said: "Hey! It's so irritating that people are so different from each other. Why do you think the Jiang family has such a good life? Then Dong Ziniang gave birth to all sons, and her daughter-in-law
She has given birth to grandsons one after another. Picking up a random girl in the mountains is a lucky star."
Listening to her mother-in-law's words, Liu Damei clenched her fists subconsciously, feeling angry, sad, and full of jealousy.
The next day, in the afternoon, the snow stopped and the sun was shining brightly.
The weather was rare, so many women gathered together with their babies in their arms to chat.
They talked about the Jiang family, and those who had seen Lingbao praised the little girl picked up by the Jiang family for being smart and beautiful. They didn't know whose family had thrown it into the mountains.
"That girl was definitely not thrown away by people from our Baihe Village. In all likelihood, she was from Huangkou Village or Linshui Village, or maybe Shangxi Village."
"I saw that child yesterday. Her appearance was iconic, with big eyes and a small mouth, and she was very pretty," said the woman in a red floral jacket. "If I had such a beautiful daughter, I wouldn't want to lose it."
Got it!"
A burst of exaggerated laughter came from not far away.
Everyone looked in the direction of the laughter and saw Liu Damei approaching with her daughter in her arms. They couldn't help but ask, "Why are you laughing?"
"It's so silly to laugh at you!" Liu Damei stopped laughing and asked, "You don't really think she was abandoned by her parents, do you?"
The women looked at each other, confused, "It wasn't that they were thrown away. Could it be that they were lost? How can such a small baby walk into the mountains alone in the snow?"
Liu Damei had a meaningful look on her face, "Don't you think it's strange that Aunt Shen had to separate from her two sons because of the girl she picked up from the mountains?"
Her words made the women around them stunned, "It's true, it's a bit strange that we used to be a good family, but suddenly they were separated."
Liu Damei lowered her voice and pretended to be mysterious and said: "Which of the babies abandoned by their parents is not yellow and thin? How can they be so fair and tender? I think that girl named Lingbao is not a human at all!"
"Hey! Don't be scary, Damei!" the timid woman said nervously, "What is she if she's not a human?"
"Eighty percent of them are some kind of spirit that can perform magic! Think about it, Uncle Jiang, who has been lying in bed for so many years, is suddenly able to use crutches? The same goes for Aunt Shen. Fu Gui Niang told me that her mother-in-law was possessed by an evil spirit.
Similar."
Most people say "not superstitious" on their lips, but are very taboo in their hearts.
When they returned home, they told other people what Liu Damei had said, and it was spread from one person to another, and within two days, the whole village had heard the rumor that Lingbao was a monster.
Jiang Chao went up the mountain with an ax to chop firewood early in the morning. He heard other people talking about it on the way and laughed at his mother for picking up a monster sister for him. He was so angry that he ran home emotionally and insisted on
His mother threw away the Lingbao.
"For this girl, the eldest brother and the second brother have separated. Now you want to make our family laugh at the whole village because of her?"
Since his father was paralyzed, the person he relied on the most was his elder brother.
In his mind, it was Lingbao who forced his eldest brother and his family away!
After talking alone for a long time, he saw his mother sitting on the kang making clothes for Lingbao, ignoring him at all. Wu Chaozi frowned and threatened: "Mom, if you don't throw her away today, I will leave immediately.
Never come back!"
"Let's go, let's go," Shen Su'e licked the thread in her hand and said irritably while threading the needle, "Get out of here! Don't get in the way!"
Wu Chaozi's eyes were red, he threw the ax hard on the ground, and said angrily: "Okay! This is what you said, you will no longer have a son like me!"
After leaving home, he walked through the snow for a long time, not knowing where he was going. Finally, he went to his eldest brother's house and knocked on the door, "Brother, sister-in-law..."
Sitting at the eldest brother's house all morning, Wu Chaozi complained aggrievedly for a long time. After scolding his parents and Lingbao, he also boasted about his brother and sister-in-law, saying that if his sister-in-law hadn't taken care of them in recent years, the family would have been in chaos.
At noon, his sister-in-law put the steamed sweet potatoes on the table.
Without thinking, Jiang Chao stretched out his hand to get the sweet potatoes. Unexpectedly, his sister-in-law hurriedly picked up the whole plate and said, "What, Chao Zi, I don't have many sweet potatoes at home. Do you want to eat it or go back to eat it?"
"
"Ahem!" Dadongzi coughed awkwardly, "Yes, Chaozi, you can go back to your home to eat."
Two children, Shugen and Tugen, sat at the table, holding hot sweet potatoes in their hands, and said with a smile: "Haha, this is my sweet potato. If dad can eat it, mom can eat it, and so can we. Only Uncle Wu can't."