Song Da Niu picked up the cooked herbs, walked to the bed, and helped up the pale Mother Song: "Mom, it's time to drink the medicine."
Mother Song took the medicine bowl with trembling hands, closed her eyes and drank the medicine in one breath.
Song Da Niu wiped her mouth clean, put her back on the bed, and comforted her: "Mom, after you drink the medicine, you have a good sleep. You will be fine when you get up tomorrow." After that, she picked up the medicine. The bowl is about to leave.
Song's mother took her daughter's hand and said tremblingly: "Big girl, mother may not be able to recover. What if I follow your father and leave, and only you sisters are left..."
Song Da Niu looked at her mother who was crying with tears on her face. Her heart felt sour, and her eyes immediately filled with tears. She suppressed her grief and said: "Mom, what are you talking about? It's just a little cold. You You can get better after just taking some medicine and lying down for a few days, so why are you saying these depressing words?"
Mother Song did not suffer from a serious illness. She fell ill because she was overly sad after her husband passed away. This was a heart disease. What's more, her husband died and she still couldn't give birth to a son. This made her feel shameless to face the Song family. Ancestors...Under the double blow, she was so sad that her heart died, and even this minor illness seemed to be on the verge of death.
"Mom, I'm so sorry for your father! You couldn't give birth to a son for your father until his death! It's all my fault. I'm the sinner of your Song family..." Mother Song said while crying, "I couldn't give birth to a son for your father!" I feel sorry for the ancestors of the Song family..."
Song Da Niu endured her sadness and comforted her: "Mom, if you don't have a son, don't you still have me and three sisters? We will provide for you until you die... Don't we say that men and women are equal now? Boys and girls are the same, mother. , you should stop thinking about your son. Whatever your son can do, your daughter can also do..."
"It's different! How can a daughter be the same as a son? You will all marry off in the future, and you will all be outsiders... Without a son, the roots are broken. The Song family will be ruined in my hands. I am sorry for the Song family. ..." Mother Song was still wailing. She had never read a book and didn't understand the truth. She only knew that women for generations had to give birth to sons to carry on the family lineage. Otherwise, they would not be qualified women and would be sorry for their husbands' families.
When Song Da Niu heard what her mother said, she felt sad and angry. She couldn't help but asked loudly: "Is my son so important? I'm going to kill you! Do you still remember that you still have three young daughters to raise?" ?”
"They are all losers! Why should we raise them? After we raise them, we will become members of other people's families..." Song's mother was also angry. She suddenly started coughing when she spoke urgently, which frightened Song Da Niu and hurriedly patted her on the back and told her to be okay. gas.
"Mom, don't be angry. I said the wrong thing. I will never say these words again." Song Da Niu was afraid that her mother's anger would worsen her condition, so she had to compromise.
Mother Song's face turned red from coughing, and it took a while before she stopped coughing and regained her breath.
"Don't blame Mom. Mom is also thinking about our Song family. If there is no man in the family, everyone in the village will look down on us. Everyone in the village will step on us and bully our family. Who makes our family without men? What?" Mother Song said in a low voice, her eyes red and swollen.
She sighed and said to her eldest daughter: "We still agree to your cousin's adoption of his youngest son into our home. After all, his surname will be Song."
When Song Da Niu heard this, she remembered the younger son of her cousin's family. He learned to be domineering at a young age, bullying men and women in the village, grabbing candy from other children, and beating people with his fists from time to time. He was arrogant and willful.
Song Da Niu suddenly became anxious and said: "Mom, the younger son of my cousin's family is already eleven or twelve years old. He has a domineering personality and is not good at all. No matter how old he is, he will not be raised well by any family."
Mother Song sighed and said, "He is the only one who is most suitable. Your cousin is only willing to adopt him, but he is not willing to adopt other sons."
"You see, his biological father despises him, so we can't keep him. He usually contradicts his own parents, and he will definitely become more arrogant after his adoption... What if he doesn't obey his mother or support our sisters in the future? Isn’t it a waste of money?” Song Da Niu will also consider the future interests of her family.
Song Da Niu racked her brains to dispel her mother's idea of adopting her cousin. Suddenly her eyes flashed and she said, "Mom, we don't need to adopt a cousin. I won't get married anymore. I'll find a man to marry and have a child." Just with the surname Song, wouldn’t this also be able to carry on the Song family’s lineage?”
When Song's mother heard this, she immediately became excited. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that her eldest daughter's idea was better. She grabbed her daughter's hand with shining eyes: "Big girl, you really don't want to get married? Do you want to find someone to marry?"
Song Da Niu looked at her mother's face that suddenly seemed to be alive. She nodded with determination, gritted her teeth and said, "Yes! I'll find a man to marry me and support our family, so we don't have to adopt someone else's son."
"Okay! Mom will immediately find someone to inquire about where there is a suitable man to marry." Song's mother said excitedly, her originally pale face turned red, and she was full of vitality, just like the dying man before. The patient who was about to die in a moment was not the same as her, he was a completely different person.
Song's plan to recruit a husband was more effective than taking medicine. Song's mother was able to go from being bedridden to being full of life in a day. She had hope of living again, and she no longer said those words about life or death. She thought about it all day long. Find out which young man in your own village or neighboring village is suitable to marry into your family.
However, marrying into a wife is not a glorious thing after all. If the man's family is too poor to eat, few men are willing to leave their own homes and "marry" into their wives' families, because this will make people look down on him and think that he is useless. He will never be able to hold his head high for the rest of his life, and even his future children may look down on him.
There are also some people who are willing to marry, those with broken arms and legs, or second-rate gangsters who no woman is willing to marry. Disabled men can't do heavy physical work, and Mother Song doesn't like them; second-rate gangsters have bad character, and Mother Song is afraid of them. His own family couldn't suppress it, but instead attracted the wolf into the house... So this excluded some men.
There were only a few options left to choose from. Mother Song was so anxious that her previous excitement had long since disappeared. She didn't expect that even if her daughter wanted to recruit a husband, she wouldn't be able to find a suitable candidate.
Just when she was so anxious that there were bubbles at the corners of her mouth, she suddenly saw Ji Mingtao bending down to dig sweet potatoes in the field. Ji Mingtao was tall and upright in appearance. He worked hard and was not lazy. He earned a lot of money every day. The work points earned are all full, and I am the only one left in the family with no other relatives!
Mother Song's eyes immediately lit up. Isn't this the best candidate to marry into the family? Ji Mingtao is not disabled and has no problem with his character. He is taciturn, but he always helps others when they are in trouble. Although people in the village alienate him because of his background, they all know that he is reliable. The captain will take him with him when he goes to the city to buy fertilizers, seeds, and deliver public grain, because he knows that he will not suffer any loss if he takes him with him. This shows that he is smart and capable!
