Four Sisters Novella XII
Five yuan has turned a harmonious and virtuous family of ten people upside down! The confident and dignified parent, Lu Kejian, was so angry that his heart ached, and he couldn't get up from lying on the kang.
The old man was lying on the kang, and from time to time he had an unbearable scene in his mind—as soon as he walked back to the village from the field, he saw a crowd of people crowded under the gatehouse of his house, which was a symbol of an unusual incident in a family in the village. His heart tightened, and he still did not show panic on the outside, and when he walked downstairs, he heard the sound of scolding in the courtyard:
"Look at you, too, a wild product!" Sell × for food! Sell × from the mountains to Pingchuan!"
"I sell ×, you sell ×, and your mother also ......" the voice of the third daughter-in-law.
"You × wide of the big package! Sew people's mouths! Goods in the mountains!" the eldest daughter-in-law's voice said.
Lu Laoba was so angry that the green tendons on his neck protruded, walked into the courtyard, threw down the furniture in his hand, and stood in the middle of the courtyard like a god, looking at the three daughters-in-law who were scolding together. Although he stared at him angrily and put on an awe-inspiring posture, the three daughters-in-law still did not stop, and no one spared anyone, which made him even more angry and added to the fire. Usually, if someone has a quarrel with whom, or even a quarrel between the eldest and the second child, as long as he stands in front of him and glances coldly, the two sides of the firefight immediately hold their breath and stop talking. Now, in front of their husbands, the three daughters-in-law are competing to spew out unbearable foul language in their mouths, treating the old parents as inappropriate. He persuaded but didn't want to persuade, scolded and didn't scold, and couldn't tell who was right and wrong for a while, looking at the street gate crowding more lively mothers-in-law and women, Lu Kejian's house was swept away, the key is to immediately stop this kind of scolding that insults the façade of the family. In a hurry, he picked up a clay pot for feeding chickens, smashed it on the steps with a "bang", and spewed out casually: "Don't you know that you have a good face?"
This fall and roar, sure enough, worked, the eldest daughter-in-law took the lead in closing her mouth and walked back to her house, and the second daughter-in-law didn't make a sound, rolling the dough on the board, using too much force, and hitting the board with a bang. In the end, it was the third daughter-in-law who ended up, and when the two sisters-in-law were already silent, they shouted: "You want to bully me together, it's not like!" Lu Kejian's performance of scolding the third daughter-in-law at the end left a very bad impression, and the two sides of the quarrel, in addition to the merits, always stop talking first, and the last to take advantage is generally crooked melons and cracked dates. He was particularly disgusted by the impression of the third daughter-in-law, although the three daughters-in-law scolded unrelentingly, but the third daughter-in-law scolded people in a brutal mountain dialect that was even more difficult to hear. Even when he later figured out that the direct responsibility for this domestic lawsuit did not lie with the third daughter-in-law, he still couldn't change the bad impression of her.
Lu Laoba figured out the reason that night, the second daughter-in-law heard the villagers say that the third daughter-in-law did not enter the hospital at all, the little two entered the restaurant and sat on the watermelon stall, eating the waves for a day, they couldn't bear it, first said to the sister-in-law, the two of them scolded as they talked, saying that this "foreign goods don't understand etiquette and family rules"! "The mountain barbarians will not live at home"! "The Lu family's bad luck should fall on this little **"! Just as he was scolding hotly, the fourth sister came back from work, went to the stove room to drink water, heard it, and then started firing.
Lu Kejian made a ruling in front of his three daughters-in-law, the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law should not scold in private, and if they have any opinions, they should say it to him or their mother-in-law, and the parents will come forward to solve it. The third daughter-in-law spent too much money and was lavish, so she didn't take it as an example. The old man said very openly, he had already said his innocence to the third child, he had paid for the medicine when he saw a doctor, and he had eight cents left, and he ate some melons and fruits, mainly because he had a body. And it's too wasteful to eat all the five dollars and spend them all. The eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law were silent, and accepted his ruling. What about the third daughter-in-law? She actually said in front of him: "I told Jianfeng about the five yuan, and I will pay it back in the future." "The old man has a worse impression of her, a tyrant who can't listen to reason!
The old man was lying on the kang, and an inextricable shadow hung in his heart: separation. This family, which he has maintained for decades, a harmonious family that rarely finds a second family in Lujiabao, now has an irreparable rift. The old man understands that no matter whether it is a concubine, or a mother-in-law or daughter-in-law, even between husband and wife, once the mouth is broken, the mother is scolded, and the face is turned, and then it is not easy to stop the second and hundredth times to turn the face and scold the mother, just like the first time through the channel of water, the important thing is not to have the first time to turn the face and break the face. There is only one way to find the final outcome of this kind of thing, that is, to divide the family, the brothers pull out the pot and divide the stove, and each leads their mother-in-law and doll to spend the sun and the moon. Lu Kejian has watched more than 100 families in Lujiabao for decades to be divided into two or three, without exception, and now, it is his turn to dominate this crop yard.
Practical measures must be taken to stem the tide of such a recurrence, albeit difficult, but not too late. After judging the three daughters-in-law in person, he immediately took the second step, asking the accountant of the team to go to the city to send a message to the second child, telling him to come back on Sunday and come back no matter what.
On Saturday night, the eldest son came back from school vacation, the second son also came back when it was dark, and the third son himself was at home. After drinking the soup, he called his three sons into the back room, and looked at the three sons, who were very pleasing to the eye horizontally and vertically, and the old man suddenly felt that it was difficult to speak, and a sour stain appeared in his nose. The eldest son is quiet, the second son is violent, and the third son is sloppy, he is familiar with their temperament is simply better than himself, whether they work outside or farm at home, and no matter how they interact with outsiders, when they return home, they are all respectful to him, and when they hear about Shunjiao, no one turns their mouths against him, which is also the envy of all the old farmers in Lujiabao. Now, how could he say that "separation" to them?
Before he could speak, the eldest son first blamed himself, put the blame on his inside-in-law, and then pushed it to the root of his lax education of family puppets. The second son followed his brother's example, saying that he was working outside the home and could not stop his mother-in-law. Only the third child hung his head and did not speak.
But the old man estimated that the sons had no obvious signs of separation, so he said, "I see...... Divide it as soon as possible, so as not to stir up a thin soup in the future and make people laugh......"
Before he could finish speaking, the three sons objected together, and their words were earnest. Only then did the thrifty old man use his truest intentions: "Since the three of you brothers don't want to share, then I will take charge of family affairs for you again......;
In the days that followed, the family gradually recovered from the sudden stiffness of the atmosphere, and regained its usual atmosphere of neither light nor salty, and after a month, there was no trace of the contradictions that had occurred.
An unexpected blow suddenly fell, and the old man Lu Kejian was blinded all of a sudden - his daughter-in-law of the third child was pushed to the theater of Lujiabao and fought against a guy!
Seeing the third daughter-in-law being dragged up to the theater building in Lujiabao Village by the militia, the old man Lu Kejian was frightened and angry. He soon learned that the third daughter-in-law was secretly selling eggs, speculating, taking the capitalist road, and was caught by the commune.
Half a month ago, a rain fell, the drought in Akita eased, the grain began to grow, there was less farm work, and there was no more way to work except for managing cotton. In order to alleviate the contradictions at home, he asked his wife to support his third daughter-in-law to live at the Yang family's second aunt's house with a caring attitude. Unexpectedly, she followed her second aunt at her second aunt's house to secretly do the illegal business of selling eggs.
The old man was frightened, and he looked at the ominous psychology of a catastrophe all day long. In the 20 or 30 years since the liberation of China, Lu Laoba has undergone many movements to retain the elements of the upper and middle peasants, and has not been promoted to the level of rich peasants or landlords, all because of his rigor and law-abiding. This third daughter-in-law from northern Shaanxi actually dares to take risks and cause trouble, which is bound to affect the safety of this family of ten, how can she get it!
What especially made the old man angry was that the day after the struggle meeting, when the family was in shock, she actually got up and sold eggs again.
Lu Laoba held the plow handle, shouted at the ox, and thought about what to do. He suddenly realized that the root cause of this calamity was all his own fault!
I originally thought that the people of northern Shaanxi had a hard life, and they came to Guanzhong just to mix a bowl of rice to eat, with steamed buns and white noodles, and those women in the mountains felt that they had entered heaven. Now it seems that it is very wrong, this fourth sister not only does not understand the etiquette and rules of Guanzhong, but also has a wild temperament, loves to sing, spends money lavishly, and scolds people more ugly than local women. The old man suddenly thought of "King Chuang", and the King Li Chuang, who was running around to kill, was in northern Shaanxi. Poor times are troubled. This third daughter-in-law, who was born in a poor ravine where she ate bran vegetables since she was a child, naturally can't develop the cultivation of abiding by rules and customs, and she is a wrecked female king who invites trouble!
If she goes on like this, how can she get it? She herself is thick-skinned and doesn't care about the struggle, so she doesn't talk about it for the time being, and what should she do if this causes disaster to the whole family? The upper middle peasants, a precarious element, will rise when they say it. In the past 30 years......, the old man has not dared to relax his warning to the whole family: "Be arrogant!
When the sun had disappeared from the original flute, and the twilight had gradually thickened, and he had unloaded his cattle and carried his plough stick downhill, an idea was formed: to resolutely divide the family. Separate as soon as possible so that one rat doesn't hurt the soup. This mountain barbarian daughter-in-law seems to be not a submissive person at all, she is a wild horse who has not been tamed since childhood, and a broom star who plagues the crop yard!