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

Conceived in October and delivered in one day. With a burst of crying, the baby was finally born. The baby was born in the middle of the night. Listening to the child's crying, Wei Shaolan's mood was very conflicted, and he didn't know whether to be happy or sad. Seeing the birth of the baby, the parents-in-law showed joy on their faces. The mother-in-law picked up the child and said happily, "Look, it's a boy. The boy was small, his face was small, and he was red and cried with his eyes closed. The child is naked, and he can see the small handful on his body at a glance.

But this did not make Wei Shaolan happy, on the contrary, it increased her worries and worries. People naturally want to have a boy, but Wei Shaolan wants the child to be a girl. Because it makes her feel less stressed. Because girls are more likely to be accepted and accepted, while boys are more likely to be discriminated against and antagonized by people. She didn't make sense, but that's how she felt. Because she thinks that as long as a girl is delicate and cute, she will be easily liked by others, and she will not worry about marrying when she grows up. However, boys will be very different.

Originally, the husband was very reluctant to give birth to this child, so when the child was born, he stayed in the next room and kept his head down and smoked, as if a great disaster had befallen him. When the child was born, the in-laws came to the daughter-in-law's house with joy, but he still sat there without moving. When the mother-in-law shouted happily that it was a boy, he frowned even more. He felt that the greater humiliation had just begun.

Since the birth of the child, Luo Yanxian has not entered the back room again, and he does not want to enter the back room. He didn't want to see that child, and felt that that child was a disgrace to him in this life, an enemy and an enemy of himself. Not only did he not care about his daughter-in-law's affairs, but he also did not like his relatives and neighbors coming to congratulate him, as if all he had to do every day was to sit at the small table in the outhouse with his head down and smoke non-stop.

That day, when the mother-in-law was not in front of her, the child wet a large diaper, and Wei Shaolan shouted to her husband who was sitting in the outhouse, "Daddy, come and help me bring the diaper that is drying outside." However, Luo Xianxian felt that he was not the father of the child, so he didn't get up to deliver diapers to his daughter-in-law. Another day, when he came back from work in the fields, he met the good prescription of his village on the small road of the field, and the good prescription said to him, "The daughter-in-law gave birth to a boy for you, and your Luo family also has a descendant." But he felt that this was very harsh, so he immediately changed his face with the others, and said, "Why, are you laughing at me?" Seeing that he couldn't hear the words, he said, "Who laughed at you, I really don't know what to do." With that, he hurried away.

When he returned to the house, he did not eat, and he smashed the things in the house with a loud bang. So that the family didn't know what kind of nerves he had. The mother-in-law was not happy and scolded, "It is a good thing to have a child at home, so that you will keep your face half-hung all day long, as if someone has stolen your money." "Actually, whoever stole his money wouldn't make him so angry.

Her husband's attitude made Wei Shaolan very timid, and she always felt that she owed her husband something, and she couldn't pay it off in her life. This made her heart very gloomy and worried, and she was even afraid to see her husband's face. Although the child is innocent and cute, Wei Shaolan can't like it.

But Wei Shaolan is very grateful to her mother-in-law, who feels that she was captured by the Japanese devils and suffered a lot of devastation and humiliation, and wants to give her a good patch through this confinement of childbirth, so that she can return to normal as soon as possible. That day, her mother-in-law made her another pot of hen stew. The local Lipu Zhutou is famous throughout the country, large and noodle, rich in nutrition, and is a tribute to the imperial court in successive dynasties. No one was allowed to eat the chicken soup and chicken stewed by her mother-in-law, and only Wei Shaolan was allowed to eat. However, Wei Shaolan watched her parents-in-law and husband eat only the water spinach on the table, so she sandwiched the chicken to them, but they put the meat in her bowl again. She said to everyone, "If you don't eat, I won't eat." But the mother-in-law said, "You have given birth to a child, you have to make up for your body." But Wei Shaolan felt that her child was not a child of the Luo family, but a child of a devil, not only did not bring joy to the Luo family, but caused humiliation to the Luo family, so when she thought about it, she cried.

The mother-in-law asked her what was wrong, and she didn't say. She put down her job and went back to her bed in the back room to lie down, crying as she looked at the roof. After a while, she saw her husband come into the back room, and brought her food by the bedside and asked her to eat. She said to her husband, "Why don't you give this child to someone else?" and her husband said, "Give it to someone else, but when they hear that it is the child of a devil soldier, who will want it?"

When Wei Shaolan heard this, she felt that this child was like a plague god in her husband's heart, and her heart was even more sad. Therefore, when I saw my mother-in-law coming to change the child's diaper, I said to my mother-in-law, "Chan Xian doesn't want this child, so I think it's better to give this child to someone else." But the mother-in-law said, "He doesn't want it, I want it, I won't give this good child to anyone." He doesn't want it, I'm with your father. The mother-in-law's words made her feel a little warm.

That day, the whole family sat on the edge of the bed and on a stool in the back room, discussing a name for the child. The father-in-law thought about it and said, "What do you call it rich?" After all, people in the countryside are looking forward to getting rich and rich. However, the mother-in-law said, "There are too many names, and there are three or four people in our village who are called rich and rich." Wei Shaolan said, "Otherwise, it will be called Lian Sheng." It was a name she had come up with for a long time. However, the mother-in-law shook her head and said, "Don't call it Liansheng, I'm afraid that you won't be able to give birth in the future, and calling this name has become a joke." "Since the mother-in-law doesn't agree with other people's names, then everyone wants to listen to the mother-in-law. The mother-in-law thought for a while and said, "What is the name of Youcheng?" But Luo Xianxian immediately sneered and said, "What can he do? Don't call it that name, it's not good." The mother-in-law asked her son, "Why is it not good?" and said Luo Xianxian, "If you don't say it, it's not good." He couldn't say why, he just didn't think it was good. The mother-in-law said, "Then what do you call it?" Luo Xianxian couldn't come up with a name, so he said, "Otherwise, ask the people in the ancestral hall to give them a name." Listening to this, everyone agreed. The mother-in-law asked her son to go to the ancestral hall to ask for someone.

After a while, Luo Xianxian went home and said to everyone, "I went to the ancestral hall and told people that they gave our family a name after checking the family tree." Wei Shaolan thought that this name was not bad, quite elegant, so he said, "This name is good." The mother-in-law also thought it was good, so she asked her son, "What do you think?" Luo Xianxian stiffened his neck and said, "You can call it whatever you want, I don't care." Seeing her son's attitude, the mother-in-law said, "It's called Luo Shanxue." ”

Then, we began to discuss how to hold a full moon banquet for the children. According to local customs, when a child is born in the family, a banquet must be held, especially if a boy is born, the banquet must be grand. Locals not only hold banquets to celebrate, but also to collect some gifts and gift money through banquets. However, Wei Shaolan felt that he was giving birth to a child of a ghost soldier, which was a very humiliating and embarrassing thing to say, so it was inconvenient to say it, so he said, "Forget it, don't do it." Luo Xianxian was also afraid of embarrassment, and said, "Okay, someone is already watching jokes, stop showing people ugly." Seeing that his son and daughter-in-law were unwilling to buy a banquet, her in-laws said they would not do it.