Wanghai County, Changping Village.
Afternoon, Luo family.
Yang Huaming came to visit, and Blacksmith Luo received him.
The two of them were sitting in the airy and cool hall, watching the white sunbeams shining on the bluestone floor in the Luo family's front yard. The stone floors reflected a layer of dazzling white light.
In this afternoon, many villagers in Changping Village stayed at home and did not dare to go out to work, because this time is the hottest time of the day.
"Hey, brother blacksmith, it's hard to be a human being. There are some things that you have to pay back later!"
Hearing Yang Huaming sigh, Blacksmith Luo was a little puzzled.
"Why do you have to pay off the debt later? As far as I know, you saved all the money to build your four-bedroom house by yourself, and you didn't pay a penny of foreign debt!"
Yang Huaming waved his hand, "It's not a foreign debt, it's a love debt."
Love debt?
Now Blacksmith Luo was even more puzzled. Not only was he puzzled, he also looked at Yang Huaming, with an expression of disapproval and even condemnation gradually appearing on his face.
"Fourth, you shouldn't say this casually. You are no better than a young man in his early twenties who is about to become a grandfather. You must be steady and don't provoke those who shouldn't be provoked..."
When Yang Huaming was young, because of his good looks, he was one of the most handsome boys in Changping Village and even Shiliba Village.
In addition, the old Yang family has many brothers and a strong population. No matter whether they are working in the fields or arguing with other people in the village, there are many brothers in the old Yang family, and their momentum can intimidate people.
Therefore, Yang Huaming was very popular in the village. Not only did he have a lot of playmates around him, but all the older girls and younger wives in the village also liked to get close to him.
He flirted with women, causing many young couples to quarrel and fight, but he stayed away from the incident, refused to admit or deny, and just went along with it without anyone getting caught. People hated him with all their heart. It's itchy, but I can't vent it.
Blacksmith Luo knew all these things, so he reminded them like this.
Yang Huaming shook his head, as if his intestines were green with regret.
"Brother blacksmith, my old brother, I have washed my hands in a golden basin a long time ago!"
"Just wash your hands in the golden basin!" Blacksmith Luo said.
"Then why did you say you owed a love debt?" Blacksmith Luo asked again.
Yang Huaming said: "When I was young, I provoked others, and I didn't know how many tears I made from young girls and young wives."
"At that time, I was young and energetic, and I was ignorant. I didn't know that these things would have consequences in the end."
"If the retribution is not mine, then it will be retribution on my children."
When Blacksmith Luo heard this, he thought of He'er's infatuation with Li Laoer, and suddenly understood what Yang Huaming wanted to express.
"Don't think too much about it, Fourth Brother. There is no such thing as retribution. He'er is suffering from cold and cold. There is no fight with that..."
Yang Huaming shook his head again, "Brother Blacksmith, for this reason, I will tell you the truth!"
"What's wrong with the wind and cold? This girl, He'er, deliberately abused herself purely because of Li Laoer. She took cold showers, stayed up in the middle of the night and sat outside all night, and she made herself sick!"
"Also yesterday, when I sent Wang Sheng out, Wang Sheng told me privately that if this medicine still doesn't work, let us think of other ways."
"I'm afraid this girl is lovesick. Heart ailments require heart medicine! Oh, I'm so worried! I'm so worried!"
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During dinner, Blacksmith Luo had to relay the content of his chat with Yang Huaming during the day to his wife and niece-in-law at home.
Wang Cuilian heard that He'er might be suffering from lovesickness. At that time, her face turned pale and her mouth was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth. She even forgot to put the cabbage vermicelli on the head of her chopsticks into her mouth.
And Yang Ruoqing was also dumbfounded.
"If it's really lovesick, it would be a bit troublesome." Yang Ruoqing said.
To put it in modern terms, this is a paranoid personality whose thoughts have gone haywire after encountering emotional setbacks, and he has no interest in daily life, study and work. Finally, he committed some self-destructive behaviors under the dominance of such turbulent emotions.
The initial self-mutilation behavior may be to attract the other person's attention to themselves, so as to continue to receive the warmth and love from the other person.
In the middle and later stages, this self-mutilation behavior may be a denial and rejection of the self.
I feel that I am not good enough or outstanding enough, so I cannot attract the attention of others.
Then I became very angry. The angrier I became, the more I liked to make fuss about myself, making myself black and blue. I was drunk and dreaming of this kind of pain, and I was in a trance.
In serious cases, you may even go crazy.
From then on he became crazy.
Even commit suicide.
"There are two girls in our village who are crazy because of this." Wang Cuilian finally recovered from the shock and found her voice.
"There is a girl who is not too crazy. She sits at the entrance of the village talking to herself every day. She always likes to put flowers on her head. She dreams about being a bride."
Of course, Yang Ruoqing had an impression of this madman. He was about the same age as Xiaohua Xiaoduo.
Several attempts to get married failed, and one time they both left the government. On the way, the wedding parties from the two families had a quarrel about the bride price and dowry.
In the end, the man who was welcoming the bride stopped accepting the bride, and the woman who was sending her the bride also stopped seeing her off. People on both sides withdrew, leaving the bride standing in the middle of the road crying.
Since then, she has been a little crazy. The only reason is that her parents are too calculating about money. From the engagement to the wedding, they have been whispering in the girl's ear almost every day for the three melons and two dates. The invisible mental pressure will come sooner or later. Crushing these girls who have never been to school since childhood and have never escaped from their original families.
It would be weird if you weren't crazy.
Another female madman, Yang Ruoqing, also had some impressions. She was a few years older than Yang Ruoqing. It was said that she was close to her childhood sweetheart's cousin, but the two families firmly disagreed.
The two made an appointment to elope, but their plan was revealed and they were caught up by two families on the way.
Both families were very conservative and old-fashioned people. After catching them, they were locked up in their clan's small ancestral hall and detained separately.
As a result, one of the guards, a man from his clan, was an old bachelor. He became lustful when he saw the girl's messy clothes tied up with ropes.
The girl was ruined by the guarding relative.
Later, her childhood sweetheart's cousin took a hatchet and chopped the relative of the family.
My cousin was arrested by the government and jailed for three years.
Originally the girl wanted to wait for the boy to come out, but within half a year the boy fell ill and died in prison.
The girl also planned to sell her to the mountains, but as a result, the girl went crazy.
She was so crazy that she took off all her clothes and ran around the village. Her family locked her in the woodshed and prohibited her from going out to make her look embarrassed.
One year when the farming season was busy, her family failed to watch her and she ran away.
She ran away for three months, and her family thought she was dead.
