Su Fuqing, who was said to be "neither three nor four": "..."
Forget it, I'm too lazy to catch up and argue with him, I still have to pick up Xiao Hua.
Su Fuqing hurried to the village chief's house, but unexpectedly, he happened to catch a good show.
From a distance, he saw a large circle of people surrounding the village chief's house. Su Fuqing originally just glanced at it curiously, but found that Su Xiaohua and Su Zilong were also among the crowd.
Su Fuqing struggled to squeeze through the circle surrounded by a group of uncles and aunts, and came to Su Xiaohua's side.
The sight line here is very good, and you can clearly see the scene going on at the village chief's house next door:
The pregnant woman whom they met once in the morning was holding a broom and confronting two old men and a little boy.
Behind the pregnant woman were three girls who were two or three years apart in age. They looked dirty and each was thinner than the other.
Su Fuqing touched Su Xiaohua's head and said loudly: "Xiaohua, sister is here."
Su Xiaohua looked up and saw her, and smiled happily: "Sister, you are finally here."
Su Fuqing couldn't help but feel guilty, so she quickly changed the subject and asked, "What's going on?"
Su Xiaohua summed it up in one sentence: "Sister Daya's grandparents came to ask for money from Daya's mother."
In other words, these two old people are the parents of the pregnant woman. What about the little boy?
Su Fuqing quickly learned the answer from their mouths.
The little boy coughed twice, and a trace of unhealthy red appeared on his pale face.
The old woman quickly hugged the little boy and comforted her gently, while the old man spoke harshly to the pregnant woman:
"Your brother has been in poor health since he was a child. If he doesn't go to the hospital when he is sick, how will he survive?"
This little boy is actually the younger brother of the pregnant woman, the son of this old couple?
He really gets stronger with age, Su Fuqing thought sarcastically.
[This is definitely an advanced maternal age. ]
[Looking at the mother-in-law, she is at least fifty years old, and the little boy is about twelve or thirteen years old, so she was at least forty years old when he gave birth. ]
[Shocked, these people work really hard just to make incense. ]
[To tell a joke, the boy looks younger than the pregnant woman’s eldest daughter. ]
[What a treacherous father and mother-in-law. ]
[It is normal for a child born at such an old age to be in poor health. ]
[Pregnant women are also very scary. They have already given birth to three daughters, and they are so skinny that they still have to give birth. ]
[If this baby is not a son, do you believe she will continue to give birth to her? ]
[It’s so ridiculous. Is there really such a person in reality? ]
[Yes, you have never seen a woman who gave birth to a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter. ]
[What’s wrong with people just wanting to have both children? (dog head)]
[My body is just prone to pregnancy, and I can only get better after giving birth to a son (dog head)]
[In the copy, it is fair and aboveboard and favors boys over girls. In reality, some people actually prefer boys over girls and insist on making all kinds of excuses. ]
[…]
"Mom, Dad, where will I get the money to send him to the hospital?" The pregnant woman's hand holding the broom was trembling slightly.
The old woman raised eyebrows at her and said, "You don't have money to ask for it from your son-in-law. If their family hadn't insisted on marrying their daughter to my family, would your brother have been killed?"
Combining the conversations between the three people and the discussions of the onlookers, Su Fuqing made it clear to everyone the grudges between the two families.
The pregnant woman’s maiden name is Liu and her husband’s surname is Cheng. Both the Liu family and the Cheng family are the kind of people who can't reveal the truth, and they both have a brother and sister who are about the same age.
Sixteen years ago, the sons of both families were in their twenties and had not yet married, so they were considered late to get married in the village.
The two families will work together and marry your daughter to my family, and my daughter to your family, and both sons will have wives, and there will be no need to pay a bride price or dowry.
As a result, Liu Juan, the daughter of the Liu family, and Cheng Yuexiang, the daughter of the Cheng family, who had just graduated from junior high school, were forced to marry each other's brother.
Unexpectedly, two years later, Cheng Yuexiang, who married into the Liu family, suddenly disappeared. The Liu family and the Cheng family mobilized the whole village to search, but the person at one end was not found, and the eldest son of the Liu family at the other end was missing.
He was drunk and fell down in a paddy field in the middle of the night. His body was cold when he was found the next day.
The Liu family almost cried their eyes out. The next day, they brought their son's body to the Cheng family to make trouble, saying that their daughter killed her son. They were asking for money.
The Cheng family felt they were in the wrong, so they gave the old couple a sum of money to stop the trouble.
It's just that the "incense" is gone. The Liu family went to the hospital for examinations and took folk remedies. It took them three years to give birth to a son, and they even had a daughter in the meantime.
Then the Cheng family's troubles came again.
The Liu family's hard-won son was not in good health. He suffered from minor illnesses every three days and one major illness every five days. The Liu family had no money to treat him, so they took the old man to the Cheng family from time to time to ask for money.
The excuse every time I come to ask for money is that your daughter killed my son.
In the past, she had given money long ago, but this time Liu Juan refused to let go. An aunt nearby said that she was pregnant with a boy, so she had to leave some money for her son no matter what.
[Isn’t this just a marriage exchange? Sacrifice two daughters so that both sons have wives in name only, de facto reproductive tools + free slaves. ]
[I am also from a rural area. This kind of thing did happen in my parents’ generation. ]
[So disgusting. ]
[I was forced to get married just after graduating from junior high school. I killed these people. ]
[This pregnant woman is so miserable. ]
[But she is still having children, and has to face the bottomless demands of her biological parents, so she is probably numb. ]
[She must have had a hard time in the Cheng family. ]
[The most miserable and innocent ones are probably her three daughters. ]
[Da Ya, Er Ya and San Ya look even sloppier than Su Xiaohua yesterday. ]
[It is really a sin to be reincarnated into this kind of family. ]
[She is just not cruel enough, otherwise she would have run away like the Liu family's daughter before giving birth. ]
[The living environment was like this since she was a child. It was difficult for her to have the courage to run outside. ]
[The daughter of the Liu family is very brave, but she has harmed the daughter of the Cheng family. ]
[It’s none of her business, the Cheng family’s son has a short life. ]
[How can anyone believe that the man was killed? ]
[Don't be too funny. ]
[Oh, it would be nice if they both ran away together. No one owes anything to the other, and neither wants a wife or children. ]
[…]
Liu Juan pulled her three daughters out and said to the Liu family in a tearful tone:
"Dad, Mom, I have three daughters here, and a child in my belly, as well as the parents-in-law. The family of seven is raised by Cheng Jun alone, and life is very tight. If you don't help me, forget it. On the contrary, You bring your younger brother to your door every now and then to ask for money, and you still want to let people live?"
"This is all what the Cheng family owes us..." The Liu family and his wife pointed at the Cheng family's house in an aggressive manner.
Anyway, those few words were repeated over and over again, and they just meant asking for money.
