"The two of us have been working together for a year. We haven't brought home any money. Instead, we have brought a little girl out. At such an old age, we don't feel ashamed. When we got home, we started to organize the whole family. Those who didn't know it thought they were tricked. A golden egg.”
The second daughter-in-law of the Bai family, Eugene Gui, was sitting on the bedside of her parents' home, eating melon seeds and fruits leisurely.
His mouth was flying up and down, spitting out melon seed peels and complaining to his mother.
"There is so much farm work at home, so I ran to Huaicheng without saying a word and said I was doing work. I think I am enjoying my happiness. What's so great about the old clam holding a pearl in his arms? It's not that he has never given birth. He gets more and more delicate as he gets older."
The more Eugene Gui talked, the angrier he became.
Why?
When she gave birth to Saburo, no one would support her like this. She would even have to worry about eating an egg and drinking a bowl of brown sugar water, and no one would lend her flour to make millet porridge.
Is her mother-in-law so valuable? This year, I was not sure how to enjoy the blessings when I went to Huaicheng, but I didn't do any farm work at home.
Old Mrs. Bai also asked her to take care of her parents' family to borrow eggs and brown sugar. How could he have such a big face, lift an old clam's daughter-in-law to the sky, and seize his grandson's daughter-in-law from her natal family?
She wouldn't be stupid enough to use her parents' things to fill the hole in her husband's house.
What's more, these good things borrowed cannot fall into her belly, and she is still pregnant.
Yu Jingui's mother, Qian, sat opposite Yu Jingui, picking up the soles of her shoes and listening to her complaints.
"Three generations of the Lao Bai family only have one daughter, so it doesn't matter how much they are pampered. No matter how much you dote on them, you can surpass your sons and grandsons? So when it comes to doting on daughters, they are all male or dragon. They don't really hurt them, they treat them like cat or dog toys. It hurts just the same. In the end, if the benefits of the family are not given to the children and grandchildren, what are you worrying about?"
Qian raised his eyelids and glanced at Eugene Gui, feeling that his daughter could not hold her breath. In her half-life, she has never seen anyone truly love their daughter.
Let's just say that in her natal village, there was also a son of a big family. It was easy to hope for a daughter who would be pampered and given everything. He wanted the stars but not the moon. In the end, for the sake of his son's marriage, he sold his daughter to a wealthy old man as his second wife. .
"Mom, you haven't seen it. The quilt material used to cover the girl's clothes is so shiny and slippery. It looks so expensive at first glance. Not to mention our Shenshu Village, even the rich families in the county have not seen anyone using that material. Clothes. He has just been born, and the couple's money has been spent on the baby. How can it be great in the future?" Eugene Gui felt that his own mother still had a better understanding of Lao Bai's family than she did.
It makes her even more angry when she mentions this. The quilt that Sanlang was born with was cut from her husband Bai Erzhuang's shabby coat.
Is the film about that little girl worth a lot of money?
Yes, it is true that everyone in the Lao Bai family longs for a daughter, but they cannot treat a newborn girl as a golden phoenix. When it comes to honoring our ancestors in the future, we don’t have to count on our sons and grandsons.
Eugene Gui felt that his parents-in-law were not smart enough, and Mrs. Bai actually joined the crowd to make noises.
The family was so poor that they were reluctant to burn firewood in the winter, and the house was like a hole in ice. She was pregnant and wanted to drink a bowl of egg tea dripping with sesame oil, but the old lady Bai still had eyes and noses.
Her parents-in-law were a good couple. They bought such good materials for a girl, but they didn't care about the life and death of the family at all.
"Also, mother, I thought I could steal the girl from my husband, but my mother-in-law took the lead without saying a word. Then can the daughter I give birth to in the future be better than my sister-in-law?"
Eugene Gui touched her belly. The strange thing was that she didn't know what was going on with her pregnancy. She had been diagnosed for two months, but her belly was still flat. And she can eat and sleep without feeling sick or uncomfortable.
That was not the case with Waisaburo.
Is it possible that having a girl is different from a boy?
She originally expected that after giving birth to the first daughter of the Lao Bai family, the whole family would surround her and praise her as a great hero.
But now, the position of the great hero has been taken away by the mother-in-law.
But she doesn't care. When she gives birth to a daughter, she will also be treated like a mother-in-law. Anyone who wants to be dissatisfied with her, Eugene Gui, is not a vegetarian.
Qian stopped what he was doing and glanced at her daughter's belly.
After thinking about it, he immediately said: "Since ancient times, sons are more valuable than daughters, but I think all the sons you have given birth to are sons. Why did I plan to marry the old Bai family at that time? Except that your man seemed to be a wealthy man at that time. Promising ones, the other one is that Lao Bai's family can give birth to sons. Your mother and I have given birth to seven daughters, but because we have no sons, you have been scolded by you as chickens that can't lay eggs. I'm thinking, wait for you to have a few grandchildren, and give one to us, Lao You. The family inherits the incense.”
Qian had mentioned this to Eugene Gui more than once before.
Contrary to the Lao Bai family, the You family is famous for having daughters.
Qian gave birth to seven daughters in total, but no son. Not only did the Qian family have a low position in the village, they were also bullied by the clan. Eugene Gui's uncles and cousins are all like bloodthirsty hungry wolves, and they want to eat "extreme households" from time to time.
Several of Eugene Gui's sisters married into their husband's family and all gave birth to daughters. Like Qian, they suffered a lot from their husband's family.
At that time, Qian wanted to marry the third daughter to the second eldest daughter of the Bai family because she was interested in the fact that the old Bai family could have a son.
The third daughter did not get married, but the fourth daughter Eugene Gui took the lead.
The fourth daughter lived up to her expectations and gave birth to a son as her first child into Lao Bai's family. This made Qian very proud in the village. And because of his son-in-law's status as a scholar, the hungry wolves of the Qian family did not dare to come back to rob the family easily.
It would be even better if the fourth daughter gave birth to more sons and one of them returned to the You family.
Eugene Gui felt that her mother's idea was too bizarre. She felt that no matter how many sons the Lao Bai family had, it would be impossible for them to be adopted to someone else with someone else's surname.
Don't even think about it.
"Mom, you are a toad trying to eat swan meat." Eugene Gui didn't care whether the metaphor was appropriate or not, and he complained to his mother, "No matter how many sons the old Bai family has, they are not carrots and cabbages. Let anyone pick one up and take it away. You dare to say this, not to mention that my parents-in-law are unwilling, there is an old woman sitting in the house, she is not a scumbag, she can burn down our old You's family with a fire. . My mother-in-law can give birth to a daughter at such an old age, why don’t you try harder to have a son?”
This girl specializes in stabbing her mother's heart with scissors.
Qian's heart was filled with panic. Not giving birth to a son was the pain of her life.
Qian scolded angrily: "How can it be so easy for an old clam to hold a pearl? I am ten years older than your mother-in-law. Even if I can do it, I still have to see if your father has the energy."
Pian Eugene Gui also echoed: "My father does not seem as energetic as my father-in-law."
Qian was so angry that he wanted to prick his daughter's brain with the needle in his hand.
"You are also a person who can't stand up. In the past, you were smarter than your sisters at home. Why can't you handle it when you get to your husband's house? Your man is a scholar, so you should separate the family and live alone. By then, the son you gave birth to will want to Give it to whom, who dares to fart?"
"Mom, it's a good thing you didn't mention Erzhuang. I'll get angry when you mention it. At that time, everyone said that he was a young scholar who would be promoted to an official sooner or later. He hadn't earned any fame in so many years. I, a scholar and a wife, could still be considered a scholar. She is not as dignified as the village chief's daughter-in-law, who has to eat or drink, and has no blessing at all." Eugene Gui's target of complaint switched from his parents-in-law to his own man.
"He works as a tutor in a private school in the town. He earns twenty taels of silver a month, but I don't get a penny of it. Most of it goes to school for the fourth child, and the other half raises a large family, and the old man's paralyzed son seeks medical advice. . If you want me to say that Lao Bai's family is all trying to make a fool of themselves, they are too poor to take the blame, and they still let the fourth child go to school."
Eugene Gui was very dissatisfied with the men in his family, and even more dissatisfied with Lao Bai's family for letting him go to school.
"You didn't listen to my decision to separate our families early? What did I tell you when you first got married? Aren't you pregnant? Take this opportunity to take Saburo to the town. When you get to the town, don't come back and live your life behind closed doors. , as time goes by, the family will naturally be divided." Qian gave Eugene Gui advice.
Eugene Gui glanced at his mother, she had never used this method before.
It's useless, her man is always on the opposite side of her. Don't worry about the scholar's usual marriage. If she insists on breaking up the family and living alone, her husband will divorce her without waiting for her parents-in-law to come forward.
"It's all down to you. If it weren't for your blind idea, I would have married into a rich family like the third sister."
Eugene Gui thought of marrying the third sister who was married to someone in the county, who was well-fed, drunk, and covered in silk. Even if a man is as old as his father and sets rules every day in his husband's family, it is still better than the life of Lao Bai's family where there is little water and no water.
What's the point of being a scholar? No one supports her in her husband's family, she is not respected in her family, and she is talked about behind her back in the village.
At that time, she was really out of her mind. She thought the rich man was too old, so she forced herself to marry a scholar. She had not gained any benefits for so many years.
Qian was betrayed by her daughter, and she felt her face was dull. She couldn't help scolding: "You damn girl, you are relying on me now. Don't forget, I gave your third sister the idea to marry the old Bai family scholar. You don’t want to be someone’s second wife, so you have to marry into Lao Bai’s family on behalf of your third sister..."
Qian also showed no mercy when it came to exposing his daughter's shortcomings.
Mentioning this incident, Qian suddenly felt regretful.
Because of this matter, every time she had a confrontation with her in-laws, she was always at a disadvantage, and was pointed in the nose by the old lady Bai.
"I knew I would have found a son-in-law for you back then."
