Chapter Seventy-Five: Door-to-door
When Zhou Daniu was in his thirties, the widowed mother was anxious. www.biquge.info At that time, women of the same age in the surrounding villages were all married, and Zhou Daniu's widow still wanted to save face, and she didn't want Zhou Daniu to marry a widow to live.
In the countryside, widows are generally regarded as "hard-hitting" women, and the reason why they become widows is that they are hard-pressed to kill their own men.
Zhou Daniu's widowed mother was afraid that her only son would be killed by the other party after marrying a widow. The big cow is the only seedling in her family!
Zhou Daniu was "left" like this, and after a year or two, Zhou Daniu's widowed mother had an illness and died. After the funeral, Zhou Daniu, who was already poor, became even poorer.
Year after year, Zhou Daniu is in his forties, and he has long stopped dreaming of marrying a yellow flower girl.
In the countryside of Yuyuan County, there used to be such a custom: if a family has too many children, the husband cannot take on the burden of the family, so another man will come to the door to help the family.
This work is not done in vain, people have made efforts to help you raise children and daughters, correspondingly, the hostess of the house will sleep with the man. If a child is born, it is up to the two families to negotiate which man to put it in.
It's ugly and disgusting. However, when the whole family is dying of hunger, no face is secondary.
This happened in Zhoujia Village a few years ago. Even Zhou Daniu's wife, who couldn't support the young Zhou Daniu alone after her husband's death, once found a bachelor to live in her house for five or six years.
Zhou Daniu's mother didn't think about marrying that bachelor, but people didn't dare to marry a bachelor! Widows are hard-working, and not all men are not afraid of death. This kind of door-to-door "cohabitation" relationship is automatically understood by the villagers as follows: if you don't get married without a banquet, you won't be killed by a widow.
After Zhou Qi's family was paralyzed two years ago, Zhou Daniu aimed his eyes at Zhou Qi's wife Qiu Xiang.
Qiu Xiang is not yet thirty years old, Qiu Xiang's appearance is considered the best among the little daughters-in-law in Zhoujia Village, and the most important thing is that Qiu Xiang's man is not dead, and Qiu Xiang is not a widow. If Qiu Xiang is willing to let Zhou Da Niu come to the door, it is estimated that Zhou Da Niu can jump up happily,
After Zhou Daniu had crooked thoughts about Qiu Xiang, he often offered courtesy to Qiu Xiang. It's a pity that Qiu Xiang didn't mean anything to Zhou Da Niu, facing Zhou Da Niu's often coveted face, Qiu Xiang couldn't wait to take off her shoes and paste them on his face.
Qiu Xiang is a decent person, Zhou Qi's family is paralyzed, and the burden of a large family falls on Qiu Xiang's shoulders. Qiu Xiang is busy like a spinning top every day, but Qiu Xiang's heart is full of hope, her children are still young, and when they grow up, they will be relaxed.
For her husband Zhou Qijia, who was paralyzed on the bed, Qiu Xiang took good care of her. Every day when the production team goes home from work, even if she is tired, Qiu Xiang will help Zhou Qijia turn over and press her legs. The doctor said that if the patient is bedridden for a long time, if there is no one to help press the leg, the leg muscles are easy to cause atrophy.
Zhou Qi's family sometimes wishes that he died, it's okay if he dies, there is no need to waste the family's food, and Qiu Xiang can be a little easier with a few children.
Zhou Qijia thought and said so, as long as Zhou Qi's family had the slightest sign of suicide, Qiu Xiang would persuade Zhou Qijia with tears in her eyes. In a family, it is the most difficult to have no father and only a mother with a group of children, although Zhou Qi's family is paralyzed, but as long as there are people, Qiu Xiang has the backbone in her heart.
Looking at a few small children, Zhou Qijia nodded. After all, there is only one life, and if you can live, who wants to die? Several children in his family are sensible, and Qiu Xiang is right, as long as the children grow up and the family has a few more laborers, life will gradually get better.
In the past two years, the production team has taken good care of Qiuxiang's family, and among them, there is the credit of the team leader Zhou Qimin. Zhou Qimin and Zhou Qijia are cousins, and they feel sorry for what happened to Zhou Qi's family, as long as they can help them, Zhou Qimin will help.
This time, the production team distributed grain, and Zhou Qimin withstood the pressure of several team members and exempted Qiuxiang's debts. After distributing the grain, Qiu Xiang borrowed 300 catties of grain from the team. Although this food is not enough for Qiu Xiang's family for a year. But Akika is confident that as long as she can survive the next harvest season, she can borrow food from the team to tide over the difficulties.
Five years at most, no! three years at most, and her eldest son will be in his teens. Teenage children can help the production team herd cattle or something to earn some centimeters, and their family's life will be better.
On this day, Qiu Xiang was feeding Zhou Qi's family who was lying on the bed to eat rice porridge, and the team leader Zhou Qimin came to the door.
When Zhou Qimin entered the door, Zhou Qijia and Qiu Xiang were very surprised.
Zhou Qimin just came to see Zhou Qi's family two days ago, asked Zhou Qi's family to recuperate, and said that there were any difficulties at home and asked Qiu Xiang to go to his house to find his sister-in-law, that is, Zhou Qimin's wife. As a cousin of the same ancestor, Zhou Qimin will not leave his cousin's family alone.
Zhou Qimin that day, his face was radiant. Although Zhou Qimin is a little selfish, as the team leader, he exempted the Qiu Xiang family's debts in a few words, but he was also a little proud to be able to help his cousin's family.
Today's Zhou Qimin, the look on his face is not very good, although he is not in the state of being sad, Zhou Qijia still sees a trace of sadness on his face.
"Oh ・・・・・・!" Zhou Qimin saw his cousin lying on the bed who was thin and only had a handful of bones left, and the words rolled to his lips a few times, but he still couldn't speak. Two years ago, Zhou Qi's family was strong enough to kill a cow, but now Zhou Qi's family is just a poor person who is barely breathing.
"Brother Qimin, is something wrong? It doesn't matter, you say, I can stand it. Although Zhou Qijia felt that his heart was not good, his words were very open.
After distributing the grain that day, Qiu Xiang went home and learned from Zhou Qi's family what happened when they distributed the grain, and Zhou Qi's family was a little worried. When he was first injured a year ago, everyone on the team agreed to give their family a food subsidy.
Two years have passed, and Zhou Qi's family still can't get up from bed, and there is no filial son in front of the bed after a long illness, let alone a powerless mud leg like Zhou Qijia. In the past year, the guests of Zhou Qi's family have gradually disappeared. Even the two brothers who have the same blood flowing from their father and mother, they are afraid that Zhou Qi's family will drag down their family!
Zhou Qijia looked at his unconscious legs, and his heart was full of frustration.
When the food was distributed, several team members jumped out to make trouble, although in the end, Zhou Qimin won and wiped off the debt for their family. However, who can say for sure what matters to the hearts of the people? Is it possible that any of the team members will go to the top to sue the gang if they are not angry?
After all, Zhou Qimin is just a team leader, no one has poked their family to erase their debts, Zhou Qimin can call the shots, if someone catches it, it will be difficult for Zhou Qimin to do it.