Comfort Women's Japanese Aberdeen (novella) Zhang Baotong 2017.12.22

Wei Shaolan has taken Chinese medicine for nearly ten years, but she has not been pregnant, she wants to give up several times, she no longer wants to drink the bitter and astringent Chinese medicine soup, and she doesn't want to spend the poor money at home on useless things. However, the mother-in-law has always refused to give up, and persistently grabbed and bought medicine one after another. However, Wei Shaolan is still not pregnant, so even Wei Shaolan herself feels sorry for her mother-in-law for worrying about seeing a doctor and taking medicine for her all these years.

In the summer after Luo Shanxue dropped out of school, it was the busy season of double robbery, her husband and father-in-law were cutting rice in the field, and Wei Shaolan and her son Luo Shanxue were also helping to cut rice in the field. However, after only a while, she felt a little sleepy and wanted to lie down on the bed and sleep for a while, but her mother-in-law saw that she was always yawning, so she asked her to go back to the house and lie down for a while, because she was not in good health, she had been taking medicine, and the family did not want her to do too heavy work.

So, Wei Shaolan returned home and lay down on the bed. After sleeping for a while, she felt less sleepy, so she went back to the field to help cut the rice. However, after cutting the rice for a while, I felt sour in my stomach and wanted to vomit sour water. She threw up into the field for a while, but she didn't vomit anything. By the time dinner was eaten in the evening, she began to throw up again. The mother-in-law asked her, "What's wrong with you?" and she said, "It's nothing, I just feel sour in my stomach and I want to vomit." The mother-in-law asked, "Are you pregnant?" Wei Shaolan immediately shook her head and said, "No." "Because she has long since died, and feels that she can no longer live.

However, the strange thing is that she hasn't had her period for a long time. Usually, her menstruation is always a little too much, sometimes, she will come two or three times a month, and later, she has been taking medicine, and she has gotten better, which is basically normal. I can come for four or five days a month. However, this time she hadn't been here for a long time. She wondered what was going on? Could there be any more trouble? But nothing out of the ordinary. So why did menstruation suddenly stop coming? She wondered if it was going to be wrong again, so she decided to observe it for a few more days. However, after a few days, her period still did not come, and she began to panic a little in her heart, and she didn't know what was wrong.

After waiting for another month, my period still didn't come. Wei Shaolan couldn't help but tell her mother-in-law about this, and her mother-in-law thought that she might have some discomfort, so she took her to Xu Langzhong to see a doctor. Xu Langzhong gave her a number and asked her, "How long has it been since I had a period?" Xu Langzhong said, "Congratulations, you may be pregnant." Wei Shaolan has been feeling this way these days, but she can't believe that she is pregnant. Moreover, she also told her mother-in-law that she had not had a period for two months, but her mother-in-law did not expect that it was pregnant.

When the mother-in-law heard Xu Langzhong's words, she was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "It's true, there won't be anything wrong, right?" Xu Langzhong said, "I'm afraid there won't be a mistake." The mother-in-law pulled Wei Shaolan and walked back happily. When I returned home, I saw that my wife and son had returned from the field, and they were sitting in the house smoking cigarettes while waiting for dinner. She said to the two men, "The doctor said that Shaolan is pregnant. ”

Originally, the two men were tired for most of the day and came back to eat, but when they saw that there was not only an ice pot and a cold stove in the house, but there was not even a person in the house, they couldn't help but feel a little irritable, but as soon as they heard that their daughter-in-law was pregnant, the faces of the husband and father-in-law were smiling like flowers. The husband immediately followed Wei Shaolan into the back room and asked Wei Shaolan, "You are pregnant, is this true?" Wei Shaolan said, "That can still be fake." The husband immediately took her in his arms and said, "Hey, I'm going to have my own child." He kissed her the cheek.

At this time, Wei Shaolan was thirty-three years old, and it was the tenth year after she gave birth to Luo Shanxue. Her pregnancy brought new hope to the whole family, so her in-laws and husband treated her like a bodhisattva, and did not let her do heavy work, let alone work in the fields, and let her cook for them at home with her mother-in-law.

Wei Shaolan knew that her husband had been angry with her because she had given birth to Luo Shanxue, and that she had not been pregnant again for many years, and she often complained to her, said some grumbling things, and sometimes said some angry and vicious things. Now that she is finally pregnant again, she thinks that her husband will slowly get better to her. Sure enough, her husband began to smile at her, and often went to her bed at night to sleep with her, and sometimes, he would touch her belly with his hand and say, "I am finally going to have my own son." However, these words made Wei Shaolan feel that her husband didn't actually like her, but wanted her to give him a son.

Wei Shaolan's pregnancy seems to have really brought great hope to the Luo family, and the Luo family suddenly had joy, and the angry and irritable yelling and scolding in the past can no longer be heard, on the contrary, her husband also has a gentle smile on her. At this time, Luo Shanxue went out to herd cattle all day and was rarely at home, so this was a relatively peaceful period for the entire Luo family.

Seeing that Wei Shaolan's belly was getting bigger day by day, the Luo family was like planting seedlings in the field, waiting for the golden harvest. Wei Shaolan wasn't quite sure that she was really pregnant, but now her belly was obviously bulging, as if she was carrying a stolen watermelon in her arms, and she couldn't hide it if she wanted to. However, her mood is still very complicated, of course she wants to get pregnant and have another child, which is a value and role for her as a woman. Otherwise, others will call her a cow that does not give birth and a chicken that does not lay eggs. Moreover, since Niuniu's death, the Luo family has been looking forward to the stars and the moon and expecting her to give birth to another boy and half girl to the Luo family. For this reason, the mother-in-law didn't know how much effort she had spent for her, and the Luo family didn't know how much money she had spent for her. She can't live up to the hard work of the Luo family. Because she has not been able to get pregnant all these years, her husband gritted his teeth with hatred for her, blaming her for cutting off their children and grandchildren. Now that she is pregnant, she can continue the fireworks for the Luo family. She thought that her husband would be nicer to her, and would no longer blame her and abuse her with those mean words. However, she also knew that once she had another child, Luo Shanxue's child would completely become a stepmother. Because she has seen many families like this, as long as they have their own children, those children who are not their own will be angry. Because no one wants to raise a child for someone else.

Although her son Luo Shanxue is a kind of devil soldier, he is also her own child, as a mother, she doesn't want to watch him be bullied and scolded by others all day long, like a child without a father. Although she didn't want this child, the child had already been born and raised so big. She wanted to raise him as her own child, but she couldn't do it, because she was a woman, and a woman who had been ruined by devil soldiers, and in the eyes of others, she had long lost her dignity and personality. It's just that she is an adult, and she is not bullied casually by others like her son. However, worry is worry, and she has to live like this day by day.

On the first day of October, Wei Shaolan gave birth to a girl, which made the Luo family, who was looking forward to wanting a boy, feel a little disappointed. Seeing her husband and in-laws having a happy scene, Wei Shaolan felt very indebted in her heart, and felt that she was really unangry and did something frustrating.

But in any case, having a baby is always a good thing, and it should be celebrated. The mother-in-law and father-in-law discussed that they should celebrate, so as to wash away the mildew of the Luo family over the years. In other words, since Wei Shaolan was captured by the devil soldiers, the Luo family has been unlucky in the past few years, but from now on, the Luo family will start to embark on the road of rejuvenation.

Husband Luo Xianxian didn't want to put on a show, first, the daughter-in-law gave birth to a girl, and second, the family really had no money. However, when my parents said that they wanted to use this thing to wash off the mildew, I agreed. When the matter was decided, my mother-in-law began to run around and post people. My father-in-law was busy rushing into the city to buy groceries. Her husband still worked in the fields, while Wei Shaolan could only stay in the house and be confined. And this matter seems to have nothing to do with Luo Shanxue, he herds his cattle every day as usual.

In fact, everyone is still very worried about doing such a thing, because over the years, the family has emptied up all the family funds in order to see a doctor and catch medicine for Wei Shaolan, so whenever relatives and neighbors have something to do, they can always hide, and if they can't hide, they will take something to rub their face. Therefore, when I go to invite people to be guests now, I feel empty in my heart. However, to their surprise, both relatives and neighbors were willing to save face and agreed to participate. This makes them feel more gratified.

On that day, it was the full moon day of the child, and the Luo family set up a total of four tables of banquets in Wei Shaolan's house and in the mother-in-law's house. There were really a lot of guests who came to congratulate them, and the four big eight immortal tables were full. Wei Shaolan's brothers and sisters also came with their families. Originally, Wei Shaolan was always worried that they would hold a grudge against her and would not give her face, but she didn't expect her mother's family to come a lot, and the gifts were also very generous, which made her feel very face-giving.

So, after eating, when the brothers and sisters sat on the edge of her bed, to see her children, she said to them, "Thank you for all of you, I used to be sorry for you, please don't mind." The elder brother also said, "Our family counts your luck as the worst, and if we don't treat you well to your own family, then who can be expected to be good to you?" The eldest brother also said, "Our mother and father also wanted to come, but they are too old to walk this far." They want to wait for the child for 100 days before coming to see you and the child. ”

Wei Shaolan said with tears in her eyes, "My life is not good, and I encountered that unfortunate thing, so that I can't turn over in my life." My sister said, "That incident not only harmed you, but also harmed our family." But no matter what, you have to live well. I heard that the girl who was taken with you is still missing. Wei Shaolan said, "Her father went to the devil's turret to look for it, and some people said that she let the devil take it away when she retreated, maybe she let the devil kill people." The younger sister said, "Fortunately, you can escape from the turret, otherwise we will have one less person in our family forever." We'll never see you again. The words of her siblings made her feel extremely affectionate. I thought to myself, sometimes when we are together, we will be richer and more vindictive, but when it comes to the critical time, it is the brothers and sisters who are closest to me and the most reliable.