Ms. Huang smiled bitterly: "My brother-in-law only graduated from primary school, and he can't even understand Mandarin, and it is very difficult to work in a big city, after all, there are not so many Chaozhou bosses to find." In the past, I took him to Guangzhou to work for half a year, and the boss thought he was stupid and wanted to dismiss him. He cried and shouted that he had to stay, and then the boss was forced to drive him back to the village in person, and threw down 500 yuan, begging him not to go back. "I looked at Ah Yong and thought to myself that the thirstier I was, the more salt I ate, not even if I was poor, uneducated and didn't know Mandarin, and I wasn't smart, this was really a life.

In this way, under the hard work of Ms. Huang's intermediary, the three parties finally communicated more clearly, and I asked Ms. Huang to pass on the process and principle of how the Thai mage cast the spell in detail, and she was a little embarrassed, mainly because the husband and wife had sex together was not easy to tell. But in order for the Zheng family to understand, she can only translate it.

"They said it was too expensive, and if they succeeded, they would pay 60,000 yuan, and if they didn't succeed, they would have to pay 30,000 yuan, which was all their belongings. Ms. Huang said. I smiled and asked Ms. Huang to ask the two old people whether they thought money was more important or whether it was important to hold their grandson, and if it was the former, I would not have come all the way from the northeast to Guangdong. Ms. Huang translated, the two old men were silent, Ms. Huang's expression was also very helpless, although she never expressed her attitude, but my sixth sense told me that she must be unhappy. As a woman, it is estimated that what I hate the most is being forced by my in-laws to have children one after another, and it is such a poor family, the couple works to save money and have to build a house for the uncle.

In the end, Ms. Huang said that her husband would go back to the village tomorrow morning, and the whole family would discuss it again, so that if I didn't dislike it, I would spend the night at home, and I said no problem. After chatting for a while, the old couple went into the kitchen to cook, and asked Ah Yong to take Ms. Huang's eldest daughter out to do something, and only me and Ms. Huang holding the child were left in the house. Seeing that there was no one around, I asked Ms. Huang in a low voice, why did she marry into such a poor village, and it was so feudal, and the preference for sons over daughters was serious, isn't it a crime.

Ms. Huang sighed: "I met my husband when I was working in Guangzhou, and I had a relationship and couldn't do without each other, but I didn't know that I was so poor when I arrived at his house." But I thought that the two of us didn't live in the village anyway, we all had to work in Guangzhou, and we would save money to buy a house in the county town in the future, and there was still hope for the future. But I didn't expect that the first two children were girls, and the customs in their village were very strong, and if they didn't give birth to a boy, they wouldn't get married, so there was no way. ”

"What does it mean not to get married if you don't have children? Ms. Huang said that she and her husband have not yet registered for the license, and the custom in the village is that when a boy is born, he can only register, otherwise he can't. Hearing this, I thought to myself, what kind of custom is this!

I asked, "Does your husband follow the family's thoughts?" Ms. Huang said that it was useless, the custom in the village was that the old man had the final say, and if the children of any family did not do what the old man wanted, they would be unfilial and would be punctured in the backbone. I smiled helplessly and shook my head, and then I saw Ah Yong enter the yard, followed by a little girl who was bouncing around, Ah Yong was carrying a live chicken in his hand, and she was still struggling. The little girl clapped her hands around the live chickens and seemed to be very happy.

Ms. Huang said to me, it was a chicken that my brother-in-law had just borrowed from next door, and I asked you why you didn't raise chickens and ducks. Ms. Huang said: "The food I have collected is barely enough for my family, and sometimes I have to be relieved by the village, so there is nothing to feed the chickens." ”

This made me completely petrified, what kind of poverty I had to become, so that I couldn't even eat enough chickens, and I would give some leftovers, and I would not starve the chickens to death when I went out to find food by myself. Suddenly, I felt that this business was not very easy to do, and asking this kind of family to come up with 60,000 yuan is equivalent to asking my family to come up with 6 million, which is simply nonsense.

Killing chicken for cooking, dinner for seven people, a total of four dishes, except for a small pot of steamed chicken, the remaining three are fried vegetables. Ms. Huang brought a small bowl of steamed chicken and rice, and went out to the house on the west side to come out again. When I asked her who she was bringing food to, Ms. Huang told me that it was her husband's grandmother, who was 84 years old this year, and that she didn't like to go out because of her bad legs, so she brought her food. I thought to myself, don't look at the poverty of this village, the standard of living is low, and it is estimated that medical care is not very convenient, but they can live so long, maybe the water and soil are better.

During the dinner, Ah Yong smiled and asked me to pick up more vegetables, and Ms. Huang explained that these three dishes are all vegetables from the farmer's own field, without chemical fertilizer, and pure green. I nodded my head repeatedly, knowing in my heart that the chicken was meant to serve guests, otherwise it would look too shabby, and the remaining three greens were their daily recipe. In order not to make them think that I dislike it, I deliberately pretended to eat very fragrant, but to be honest, the taste of this pot of steamed chicken is really not flattering, there is no lack of salt or oil, the chicken is still an authentic free-range chicken, but it is not delicious, and the soup is not delicious.

I quickly finished eating a bowl of rice, and Ms. Huang wanted to serve it for me, but I refused, saying that my current amount of rice was only a small bowl, and I was controlling my weight and letting them eat slowly, and I wanted to walk around the yard. Out of the courtyard, there is smoke curling on both sides of the path, and occasionally a few villagers and children walk slowly from the village road. Strangely, I think that people in rural areas and even county towns in China are accustomed to working in the cities, especially in the poorer villages, where there should be no young and middle-aged people, but in this village, the people I see are all strong laborers in their twenties to forties and fifties, mostly men, but few young and middle-aged women.

At this time, Ms. Huang walked out with her little daughter in her arms and asked me what I was shopping. I said that it was nothing more than to look at the rural climate of Guangdong, and asked her about her doubts just now. Ms. Huang said: "Just like Ah Yong, the people in the village don't know Mandarin, they don't read much, and they are stupid. No one wants to go out to work, and some can only pick up waste in big cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai to make a living. I couldn't get along for two years, and I felt that it was worse than in the village, so I had to come back to farm. ”

"Isn't it good to farm?" I said, "at least there will be a harvest, and there will be no shortage of food and drink." ”

Ms. Huang shook her head and said: "The people in the village do not know how to farm scientifically, they have very little grain, and they are reluctant to spend money on chemical fertilizers and pesticides. "I said that the county didn't send technicians to the village to guide the farmers on how to farm scientifically, shouldn't it?

Ms. Huang said: "In the past, people were sent down every year to guide, but most of the people in the village have not studied much, and the graduation of junior high school is already good, many women have not even finished primary school at home, and have never seen the world, they don't understand anything, and their brains are getting more and more wooden after a long time. ”