The big pearl flew and turned into a moth and flew to a small street with Yang Fei'er. It is said that it is a street, but in fact, it is just a wide alley with more than 40 families living next to each other. These houses are very simple, except for a few wooden pillars in the main body, the rest of the walls are basically made of bamboo with a thin layer of mud, and the slightly better ones will be equipped with wooden planks, and the windows are also wooden windows. A better home will have a large hall with a high threshold in front of the house. Generally, three or four-year-old children will find it difficult to climb over the threshold.

The street is divided into upper and lower streets, with the east side being the upper street and the west side being the lower street.

The moth flew into a farmer's house down the street. Passing through the hall, I went straight inside and turned into a small room on the left. Lying on the wall of the plank, he didn't move.

This small bedroom, in the words of the locals, is called a "rest house", which is a place for resting, and outsiders are not allowed to enter this room except for the family.

There was a bed, a small wooden cabinet, and a wooden chair, and on top of the wooden cabinet was a wooden chest, about the same width as the wooden cabinet. A kerosene lamp was lit on a wooden box.

There was a woman in her fifties and a young woman in her twenties sitting side by side on the bed. The woman was dressed in a black coarse cloth cardigan, and her black hair was neatly tied up at the back of her head. The young woman has a goose egg face, a white face, and a pair of big eyes that reveal a sense of flexibility. Wearing a blue floral dress and green pants. Two long black braids hung down on his chest.

"Mother, are you thinking about the second sister, the third sister, and the fourth sister again?" asked the young woman cautiously.

"Alas! yes! It's all because I don't have the ability, I can't earn much food, and I can't feed them!" sighed as she touched a pair of children's flower shoes.

"Mother, don't say that, it's a bad age, which family doesn't starve to death a few children!" the young woman grabbed her mother's arm with one hand and said softly.

"Well, that's what I said, but there are only 8 children in our family, and some of them have more than 10 children, and at most they are only two or three......" The mother choked up and couldn't continue.

"Mother, don't be like this. Maybe it's all fate!"

"Well, yes. But Huan Woman, why are all the girls in our house?" The mother raised her head and looked at the Huan woman, her cloudy eyes were full of red bloodshots.

"Mother, this ...... Maybe you shouldn't have taken your second sister with you in your life, right? Maybe my sister and I can be your daughters in this life. The woman grabbed her mother's arm with both hands, leaned her head on her shoulder, and said with a smile on her mother's face.

"You damn girl, don't talk nonsense like this!" the mother turned her head and patted the woman's hand angrily. "By the way, why is your face so ugly these days?"

"I ...... I...... Nothing?" the woman quickly let go and turned away.

"Turn around, be honest!" the mother turned the woman's body around.

The ring woman lowered her head, her pretty face turned crimson, and she kept wrapping her fingers around her braids: "Mother, it's not ...... No, is there really nothing?"

"Do you want to say it?" the mother grabbed a pair of handmade insoles from the chair in front of the window and patted the ring woman's head.

The moth lying on the wall suddenly became agitated! It flapped its wings and pounced on the kerosene lamp on the cabinet. The little rush grass that had been burning was extinguished.

"Okay, don't fight! Since I was a child, you have always hit me on the head like this, and you have been beaten recklessly. You see the lights have been turned off by you!"

"Hmph, the lights are out, it's the wind blowing, how can it be me? You iron frame, see if I don't tear it up for you! You don't have a brain, you just want to pick up and fight!" The mother said, took out a pack of matches, and lit the kerosene lamp. Turning around and pulling the woman's mouth, "Do you say or don't say?"

"Ouch, it hurts, it hurts, I say!" the ring woman cried out, "I made a baby a few days ago!" The latter words were so small that the chain woman herself couldn't hear them.

"What are you talking about, what baby, you say louder!" the mother raised the insoles again and hit her on the head.

"I made a baby the other day!" the woman suddenly stood up and cried out.

"Ah, baby, what baby?" the mother was a little confused. But soon understood: "What are you talking about? You are pregnant with a baby?" said the mother, and went to beat her again.

The ring woman hurriedly hugged her head and squatted down.

Here the moth continued to put out the kerosene lamp.

"You dead moth!" the mother walked over and waved the insole. The moth flew away "poof". The mother watched the moth fly to the wall and lay still, walked straight to the threshold, looked around, and immediately closed the door. Then he turned around and grabbed the ring woman's ear, and shouted in a low voice: "You say, who told you to do this, you Mo family teacher!"

"Just once, he and I both drank that night!"

"He drank, who told you to drink? Who told you to drink!"

"Ouch, ouch! I didn't want to drink it, but he insisted on telling me to drink!"

"Say, is it a boy or a girl?"

"It's a boy!"

"Ah, boy, you cut off your head on your back, you cut off your head on your back!" she said, picking up the insole.

"Mother, I don't want to do it either, I also want to give birth! But if he gives birth to a child before he gets married, I'm afraid his job will be taken off!"

"Oh, why do you think my life is so miserable? One or two are disobedient! Especially you, marry you to the Xu family, you have such a good life, you eat fragrant and drink spicy food, you have the final say. Isn't it just that you haven't had a baby after a few years of marriage! Children are all brought by fate, and maybe they will get pregnant in some year! As a result, you and your eldest brother carried me behind my back and quietly withdrew from the marriage. If you retreat, you will retreat, but now you have done these things again. Let the neighbors know, where is my old face resting! Look, it's strange if your eldest brother doesn't beat you to death if he knows it!" The mother let go of her hand, sat down on the bed again, pointed to the woman, and snorted and burst into tears.

"Mother, I beg you, don't tell the eldest brother!" The woman quickly knelt down, grabbed her mother's leg and cried.

"Oh, forget it, forget it! It's all in the past! It's just a pity for my male grandson!" said the mother and wiped it her face with her hand.

"Mother, don't worry! When I marry him, I'll give you a few more fat male grandsons!"

"Hmph, you can give birth to whatever you say!

"Oh, that's right, but I'm sure I'll have children in my life. ”

"Well, I believe that! But you must remember that it is better not to have a daughter for the first child!"

"Ahh

"I don't know, my grandmother said it!" said the mother, placing the insoles on the wooden chair next to the bedside. Walk over to the opposite side, open the cabinet, and take out a black wooden box. She rubbed the box under the pillow for a long time, found a copper key, and opened the embroidered copper lock on the wooden box.

At this moment, the moth lying on the wall suddenly turned into a white light and burrowed into the wooden box.

"Mother, what is this?" The woman leaned over and saw a blue hairpin in the wooden box.

"This is a phoenix hairpin, which has been handed down from the previous generation. ”

"Oh, I'll see! I'll see!" said the ring woman, and she was about to get it!

"Smack!" the mother slapped her hand fiercely, "This is not a random touch!"

"Ah, why?" asked the ring woman as she touched her hand, which had been beaten red by her mother, puzzled.

"Alas, this can only be taken if the first baby is a girl!"

Oh, no wonder! Because the mother is the eldest daughter, that's why she has this phoenix. The ring woman seems to understand.

"It's not good to have this life, it's not your parents, it's your children, and you're not doing well! Look at me, okay?" said the mother, her eyes red again. But I quickly locked the wooden box and hid the key under the pillow!

Her grandmother died when she was nine years old, and she was bought by her father, who was ten years younger than him, as a child bride. Father, since he was a child, he was hard to eat, and he always gambled after getting married, so the whole family was run by his mother alone. No wonder my mother was so anxious when she heard that the baby I did was a male baby.

"I said that you can't blow the wind outside in the past few days, you can't touch the cold water, you take a few days off for the place where you get clothes, and raise it at home for a few days, and you say you have a cold!"

"Oh, yes!

"By the way, you have to remember for me, you can't have sex for forty days! How did you and your eldest brother discuss, when will you and Zhao Wenjun go through the marriage procedures?"

"Mother, the eldest brother said, the eighth day of the first month of next month!"

"Well, you've just made a child, you can't have sex so quickly. If you have confinement disease, it's terrible! Postponement, postpone it to the next month. ”

"Oh!" the woman nodded obediently.

"Okay, let's sleep, I'll get up early tomorrow to earn centimeters. ”

"Mother, then you go to sleep first, I'll help you tie this bottom again. The ring woman said, picking up the insoles on her chair.

"What the hell is going on, I just got rid of the child, but I can't mess with my eyes, I won't be able to see things when I'm old. Besides, kerosene doesn't cost money! Go to sleep!"

"Hehe, kerosene doesn't cost money, the eldest brother did it at his friend's place, and he never takes money!"

The mother pursed her mouth: "Hmph, big brother! Look at how capable you say your eldest brother!"

"My eldest brother is already capable, but, mother, you are even more capable!" said the ring woman and leaned into her mother's arms, grabbed her mother's hand, and shook it "hahaha".

"Go, who is going to play a trick on you!!" said "poof", and blew out the kerosene lamp with his mouth.