Chapter 4: Su Wan's Memories (Part II)
Since then, no one in Murakami has dared to speak ill of her family, and I don't know what others think in their hearts. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info has such a grandmother, Xiaoliu and they still live a very good life. Her mother's temperament is a little soft, and she always feels sorry for their Zhao family after giving birth to a few female babies. Later, her grandmother saw that something was wrong with her daughter-in-law, and called her son and daughter-in-law to her house, and when they came out, the little sisters saw the change in her mother, and no one knew what they had talked about that night.
The little six families are poor! But after she went to play in a few houses in the village, her family's conditions are still good. Of course, she also got to know a few little sisters again. Their Zhaojia Village does not rely on the river or the mountain. It's just a lot of land. The village is surrounded by trees, such as locust trees, elm trees, willow trees, and some fruit trees such as wild peach trees, date trees, pear trees, and mulberry trees. She now knew that there was a large river more than ten miles east of their village.
There is a small mountain two or three miles north of the village, and there is a bigger mountain over the small mountain. The trees on the hill are mainly pine, and there are few other trees. In late autumn, the Zhao family and other villages formed teams to go into the mountains to fish for pine needles, which is also a popular pick-up of tree hair among the local population, and it is still good to cook or light a fire. Because there are wolves in the mountains, and wolves are animals that live in packs like people. Even two or three adults don't dare to go.
There are no good medicinal herbs growing on the hill, at most there are some rabbits and pheasant animals. On the second day after Zhao Xiaoliu came over, he also went with his family once, and there were more than 40 adults who went that time, not to mention people from other villages. Everyone was not far away, and the Zhao family didn't want to take Zhao Xiaoliu because she had a dead face and finally followed. The people who went to Zhao Xiaoliu's house included her father, her grandparents, and the four sisters above, Xiao Wu and Xiao Qi were at home with her mother, and Zhao Xiaoliu's uncle and third uncle's family went to eight and six people each.
Adults also have to bring a firewood knife, and everyone who has a dog at home also brings a dog, if there is any movement in the forest, dog ears are much more useful than human ears, although there is less snake activity in late autumn, but it is still easy to encounter snakes. It is still very important to bring a few dogs, there are wolves in the mountains, and I have never encountered wolves every time, but I am afraid that the wolves will go crazy one day and come to this hill from the side of the mountain to take a walk.
When they arrived at the chosen place, the adults told their children not to run far and went about their own work. Zhao Xiaoliu picked up a basket, which her grandfather had woven from a kind of wicker that grew on the edge of the pond. She carried the basket and went to the pine tree not far away to pick up some pine towers that had fallen from the trees, and I don't know if it was due to geography. It seems that their home is in the Central Plains, and the local pine tower does not produce pine nuts, even if there are seeds, they can't eat them. Songta can also get the line to tie up, kick it with your hands and feet, and there is no other use but to burn the stove. When Zhao Xiaoliu and her sisters picked up a basket, they would fall into the hemp bag behind them.
At noon, everyone did not go home, and they all sat together and took out the dry food and water that each family had brought. After eating, I took a break and got back to work. This time, the Xiaoliu family brought three board cars out. One is pulled by his own cow. The other two borrowed carts were pulled by her father and her grandfather, and when the sun was about to set, everyone tied up the carts, and the people who came out of the village together counted the number of people and went back to the village.
Her own ox cart is led by the fourth sister of the little six, she and her second sister and third sister help her father push the cart, and her grandmother and her eldest sister help her grandfather push the cart. Xiao Liu was too young to have much strength, so after pushing for a while, she asked her second sister to hold her and sit on the cart. It was only after it was dark that everyone returned to the village. After the Zhao family arrived home, they were all tired, and only Xiaoliu still had the strength to run around. Her mother cooked the meal early. I put the washbasin and wash it one by one. After everyone's physical strength eased up, the meals were set on the table, everyone put things away in the moonlight with lanterns after eating, and her grandfather and her father took a board car to the village to return the car. Her mother and sisters were boiling water, washing dishes, and even her grandmother was sweeping the house.
Zhao Xiaoliu didn't know how they could see clearly, and they could do some work in the dark. Facing the gate of the courtyard is the main house. There are three rooms in a row, and in the middle is a hall with double doors, and there is a house on the east and west sides, and the small doors are open on the walls on both sides of the hall. The east and west houses each have a window on the wall facing the courtyard, and the windows are also double-opened, which can be pushed open from the inside. There are a lot of reinforced wooden poles on the windows, and there is no paper, so just put down the straw curtains at night. The east room is where her grandparents live, the west room is where her parents live, and the hall is where people usually sit when they eat.
At the bottom right of the main room, there are two wings, one for food, and the other for her and her sisters. There are also two wings on the left side of the main room, plus a small room, one for the kitchen, one for farming tools, and the other for bathing. There was no well in the courtyard, and there was a large vat next to the small room, and the water was brought back by the family. There is a chicken pen and a pigsty behind the main house. The chickens are ten hens and one rooster. The pigs are two big fat pigs.
Farmers raise pigs at least two pigs, at most three pigs, pigs you can't raise more, one is to eat more, the other is together, they can't eat and there are many contradictions. A pig is easy not to eat, and it is best to raise two heads to rush to eat, so it is easy to grow meat. There were huts next to the chicken and pigsty, and she knew why there were no windows on the back wall.
It is better to do such a big thing as her going to the thatched house, there is a toilet in the room at night, and the tuba will call a sister to accompany her to the side of the manure pile not far from the yard to solve it, and the side of the manure pile with pig,, cow and plant ash will be pulled to give you a big leaf. Usually no one goes to the tuba at night. It was all made during the day, and Zhao Xiaoliu later got used to playing tuba during the day. Unless sometimes I have a stomachache at night and can't go.
Don't ask Zhao Xiaoliu why she wants her sister to accompany her, and she doesn't go to the thatched house, first, she is afraid of the dark, and second, she is afraid of being alone in the night. Squatting on the edge of the manure heap, there was the occasional moonlight, and the hut was very dark. The people in the village are used to not going to the thatched house at night, they all go to bed early and go to bed who is okay and still run the door.
When the thatched house is full, you have to get the fertilizer up, so it saves a lot of trouble. In the past, in the countryside, the village was very clean outside the village, and some old people were fine, carrying a dung shovel and carrying a long dung basket to look for cow dung and the like. When it was almost over, he carried the dung basket to his own manure heap and poured it on, and then looked for it in another place. They don't think it's dirty. In the eyes of the old man, this is all a good thing, not that the crops are a flower, and they all rely on dung to be the house.
The dung heap of Xiao Liu's family is not far from the back of the hospital. Not far from the manure pit of the thatched house. On the side of the courtyard wall is a vegetable patch, and there are several piles of timber and grass at the top of the field. As long as the stalks that can be burned, they are all collected together and lined up in stacks.
Zhao Xiaoliu has been coming here for a week, and by chance, Xiaoliu was fortunate to see the Zhao family's family rules and the Zhao family's ancestral hall. It is also known that Zhaojia Village and Shangzhao Village are the same ancestor. I don't know why more than 100 years ago, the ancestors divided into two branches.
The difference in seniority between Shangzhao Village and Zhaojia Village is greater. Although it is said that it is the same ancestor as Shangzhao Village. But it's not very close. Each of the two villages has a patriarch, and the clan rules are not the same, Zhaojia Village only opens the ancestral hall when something big happens, and asks the clan rules to add the clan rules to be added. There is a genealogy of the family rules in the ancestral house of the Zhao family, and the tablet of the ancestors of the Zhao family, as long as the son and daughter-in-law of the Zhao family can enter and have a seat after they are old. If it is the Zhao family's daughter-in-law and the son-in-law's tablet that comes to the door, they can also enter, and they will receive incense from future generations together.
In the past hundred years, there have also been female babies recruited at home, but there are very few such people. The ancestral hall of the Zhao family is a blue brick and gray tile house, plus a large courtyard, which looks very old. In front of the courtyard is five big houses dedicated to the ancestors of the Zhao family, the ancestral hall door of the Zhao family will be opened on the day of the Qingming Festival, the Zhongyuan Festival and the Winter Clothes Festival, and all the juniors of the Zhao family at home, regardless of men and women, will be present to worship and worship their ancestors together. Maybe the ancestors of the Zhao family thought that even if you were going to marry in the future, it was also a member of their old Zhao family, with the blood of the old Zhao family. It's not something you can change by getting married. Lao Zhao's family rarely opened the ancestral hall in the middle.
Unless there is an old man of the Zhao family who has passed away after seventy-seven, please put the tablet in the ancestral hall. There is also a kind of mistake made by the descendants of the Zhao family and let you kneel in the ancestral hall to betray the clan rules, and in serious cases, let the clan rules not let you kneel in the ancestral hall. Expelled directly from the genealogy and expelled from the village. I also have to go to the county office to back up. Otherwise, you have committed a great sin. It may be that the whole clan will be wiped out.
The clan rules of the Zhao family, the Zhao family of Zhaojia Village have been passed down from generation to generation to their descendants, and many daughters-in-law who have married don't know what is written on it, but they can memorize it. If the old man is fine, let the juniors recite it and listen to it. The clan rules of the Zhao family are equal to the family rules of each family. The three compartments on the right are the places where the family rules and genealogy are placed, except for some written on silk silk, the three connected rooms are engraved with family rules on the walls. One of the three houses on the left has some torture instruments. Of course, if you commit something very big, you may have to be expelled from the family tree and sent to the county government instead. In the past hundred years, the Zhao family has not had such a person, at most they have committed some trivial things, and there are two rooms where people who usually watch the ancestral hall live.
On the side of the ancestral hall, there is a grass house courtyard on the left and right, and inside the right is the daughter of the Zhao family who let her stay from her husband's house. But the daughter of the Zhao family who lives here also has to be conditional, if she can't give birth to a child and let her go back, she can live here if her mother doesn't accept it. There is also a kind of unbearable domestic violence and other reasonable requirements, go home to the clan to ask for reconciliation, but after the clan verifies that there is something to do, then they will participate in the forced reconciliation.
For the child, if the woman wants to have a child, she has to ask the child if she is willing to follow her mother, if she is willing to follow her, even if it is okay, the husband's family can not have an opinion. The children who came with him had to change their surnames to Zhao, and the Zhao family was very domineering about this. It may be that the founding emperor promised the Zhao family some privileges, why is there such a privilege, Zhao Xiaoliu thought that it might be related to the crossing ancestor. For the daughter of the Zhao family who regretted returning to her husband's house without permission after leaving, Zhao Jiacun would not recognize it again. They can accept the daughter of the Zhao family who is reconciled and leave, and they do not accept the daughter of the Yue family who repents.
If the daughter of the Zhao family committed a crime in her husband's family, the husband's family advocated for a divorce, and if it was true after verification by the clan, then Zhaojiacun would not admit it, and Zhaojiacun would not accept such a Zhao family's daughter to go home. The clan will also open a family tree, and the daughter of the Zhao family who made a mistake will be directly married from the remarks to the clan. The same has to go to the county government to back up, and the sitting was very serious in that era, and there were ten tribes that were exterminated. In the history she knew, there was a person named Fang Xiaoru. His friends and protégés were also listed as one clan, and together with the clan, they were combined into the "Ten Clans", and a total of 873 people were all executed! Who doesn't know that you can't be the only one who commits crimes in this era.
The clan rule of the Zhao family is that there will be no water at all, and the daughter of the Zhao family who is taken back, if her mother's family does not accept it, she can temporarily live in the house on the right side of the ancestral hall. If you remarry, you can set up another female household, and if you remarry, you don't listen to your mother's words and make your own decisions. For so many years, I haven't met the daughter of the Zhao family who came back due to domestic violence and left.
First, the situation of the Zhao family is known to everyone in these two small towns. The second is that at that time, it was not just to listen to the matchmaker when I was looking for my daughter's in-law, it was all good for relatives to see the child. When you go to your relatives' house to say yes, how can you go to a professional matchmaker. The profession of matchmaker is also open in the town and in the city. In the countryside, it is a relative and a matchmaker. It's not just one person who is a matchmaker. It is to have a matchmaker for each family. It is also necessary for the matchmaker to know something about the situation in the other party's home, so that he can know what the other party's home is like. Chen sesame seeds and rotten millet can be checked very clearly for you.
There is also a thatched house courtyard on the left side of the ancestral hall, which is for the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family to live temporarily, and the Zhao family rarely divorces the daughter-in-law, even if you can't give birth, you can also adopt those orphans to pass on. Even if two people don't want children, it's fine. If the man must take a break, then the woman's maiden family will take it back. Don't pick it up. You can stay in the courtyard to the left of the ancestral hall. You can live alone, or you can remarry. You can also adopt orphans, but the adopted child must have the surname of your mother, not Zhao. If the man of the Zhao family does something to his own lady, the clan will open a wing room in the ancestral hall to put the clan rules, and he will be punished directly with whatever punishment he deserves. Your own objection is invalid. Similarly, if the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family does something to the man of the Zhao family, the punishment will be even heavier. Fortunately, the Zhao family doesn't have that mixed daughter-in-law. It's the same for a woman who died and didn't have children. The Zhao family treats these Zhao family daughters and Zhao family daughters-in-law, if they want to live alone, they will raise them when they are old.
For another special situation, that is, after the mother is sick and dies after childbirth, the man can marry, and the stepmother cannot abuse the child. It was found that an ancestral hall was opened and sentenced. For the stubborn, the clan can directly force the rest, if the man does not agree to go from clan to village together. The child is to stay. The same penal code applies to the abuse of children by men. The children who stayed behind were raised by the family. The child can not be raised in the future. When such children grow up, they will marry according to the clan arrangement, and Zhaojia Village has more than 50 families surnamed Zhao. Thirty wen per year and the cost of the clan and so on.
The five eldest brothers are in charge of the money in the clan, and they will reconcile the accounts once a year to see what the money is used for. For the genealogy on the account, Zhao Xiaoliu's sixth grandfather, Zhao Qihua, is in charge. Zhao Qihua is an old talent, as the youngest child in the family. He was the only one who was admitted to Xiucai, and the five brothers all went to private school for a few years.
Zhao Xiaoliu's great-grandfather was also an old Xiucai. The names of her six grandfathers are, Zhao Qide. Zhao Qizhi. Zhao Qixin. Zhao Qiyong. Zhao Qiren. Zhao Qihua. Zhao Xiaoliu also has two aunts and grandmothers, named Zhao Qizhen. Zhao Qibao. As can be seen from the name, the Zhao family was a very precious girl at that time. The patriarch of the Zhao family is Zhao Xiaoliu's second grandfather. The other three clans are always the grandfathers of Zhao Xiaoliu's disciples.