Chapter 25: Mother and Daughter Centrifuge
Sanniang is stupid, she knows everything. That's right. Sanniang felt that she was right. Crying and saying loudly: "I don't wash your clothes, but you are so old, what's wrong with doing your own laundry?" I don't give you food, it's not because I don't want you to go up the mountain. You are a girl, wearing your brother's clothes every day, dancing with knives and guns, how shameful it is for people to see. You are sick because you killed someone, and that person came to you, and when you died, you took someone's life. What's wrong with me? You said? What's wrong with me? Since you know everything, why don't you do what I say? Yes? ”
Li Xiao lowered his head with tears in his eyes and smiled: "Do what you say, do you want me not to live?" Any idea why I'm sick? It's because you said you were going to send me to that man's house. If I kill their man, will they let me go? You want me to die. My heart chilled. I sat in the house all afternoon, but I couldn't figure out why my mother would let me die without asking. So I got sick. ”
She raised her head and looked at Sanniang, and continued without any emotion in her eyes: "Later, I recovered from my illness because I figured it out. You're already dispensable to me. I have a father who loves me, a third brother who has always taken care of me, a fourth brother who runs before and after me, and a sister who cries when she knows that I am in danger. Did you see the reaction of the fourth sister? That's the person who took care of me since I was a child and loved me. There is also my grandfather who dotes on me and my aunt who secretly washes my clothes. You said that I always wear my brother's clothes, have you forgotten that I have worn my sister's clothes since I was a child. Since my sisters got married, I have grown taller, and my sisters' big clothes are too wide and the small ones are too short, so there is nothing I can wear. What do you want me to wear without my brother's clothes? My master has no children and no daughters, and treats me as if I was his own child. I have so many loving relatives who care for me that I don't need you anymore. I don't need you to take care of my business. Please". Then Li Xiao pushed Sanniang out of the door and closed the door with a bang. Leaning against the door with tears in his eyes.
Sanniang was stupid when she heard it, and she blamed her for not changing her clothes. Who's 9-year-old can't needlework. By the time she reacted, she was already outside the door. Turning her head, she found everyone in the yard watching her. She wanted to speak, but she didn't know what to say.
The old man opened his mouth and said, "Sanniang, you come in with me." Sanwang, go and tell your mother what happened, and you guys will come over too. Sixi, tell Wuya to pack up her things, and you send her to your sister's house now. You don't have to come back at night, come back tomorrow, and the five girls will live in Zhang's house first. Come brother, you go and put Wufu to sleep. This is the case for once." After speaking, the old man turned his head back to the house, and Sanniang followed silently.
Li Xiao opened the door and said, "Fourth brother, I heard what grandpa said. There is nothing to pack. Let's go now." As he spoke, he put the knife in its scabbard, put it on his back, took his quiver, and walked out of the gate with a bow and arrows. Sixi followed, one was his mother, the other was his sister, and he didn't know what to say.
Sanwang pulled her mother back into the house and told her the whole story. Xiulan learned that her youngest son was almost strangled to death, and she was angry and afraid. I also have an opinion on Sanniang.
Sanwang said: "At that time, I thought that the second aunt didn't know what happened and was scared, so I said that. But then, we explained it to her. If she does this, the fifth sister must be sad to death, no wonder the two of them are so strange."
Xiulan said: "Don't worry, son, my mother will take good care of the five girls." She is the benefactor of our family, if your second aunt doesn't want her, you will pass her on to our family. Let's treat her well. Sanwang happily agreed.
The old man sat on the kang and smoked his pipe and said, "At that time, Sanwang was in the hands of thieves, do you know? Sanniang lowered her head and cried quietly.
The old man said again: "I don't know you, I'll tell you now, when the thieves broke in, they couldn't eat, and they threatened Sanwang hostage." What do you do if you're in the yard? Sanniang continued to be silent.
The old man slapped the table and said, "Answer me, don't think it's okay to cry, if you don't understand, just go back to your mother's house and think about it, and then come and talk to me when you understand."
Sanniang looked at the old man stupidly, is this to drive her back to her parents' house? Sanniang cried and knelt on the ground and said, "Dad, I don't know, I really don't know what to do."
The old man said, "You don't know what to do, what do you ask a seven-year-old child to do." Regardless of whether what she did was right or wrong, should the family forgive her, and how did you do it? Let her die, is this what you are going to do"?
Xiulan pulled Sanwang and walked in.
Xiulan said: "Brother and sister, I just want to ask you, if it wasn't Sanwang who was choked by the neck at that time, it was Sixi or Wufu, don't you still know what to do?"
Sanniang shouted to her sister-in-law, "Why do you say that." It means obviously how you curse the Four Joys and the Five Blessings.
When she found out that she was saying something she shouldn't have said, she covered her face and cried. Of course she knew what to do, if it was four joys or five blessings, she would even have the heart to kill that person. "Dashou, I have the intention of killing that person. But if I do kill someone, I will pay for it."
Xiulan said again: "When my second daughter died, I cried and died. Brother and sister, I ask myself if I take you on weekdays. You've talked about it, I don't think you care about the five girls, so I'll ask you for the five girls with a cheeky face, and pass her to my house." Then Xiulan knelt down: "Please make it happen." Sanwang followed and knelt down beside him.
Sanniang watched Xiulan kneel down a few times, and hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law, that's a murderer." The old man was so angry that he threw his pipe directly.
Xiulan stood up angrily and pointed at Sanniang and said, "You think she is a murderer, I think she is my son's savior." Don't worry, when she arrives at my house, I will definitely treat her ten times better than you treat her."
The old man said: "I am in charge of today's affairs, and the five girls will be from the Dafang family in the future." Arise, all of you. Second daughter-in-law, listen well, put away your useless thoughts, and let me know that you are making small moves, and I will let Erzhu leave you."
When Sanniang heard that she was going to divorce her, she cried and said, "The daughter-in-law doesn't dare, the daughter-in-law doesn't dare."
The old man looked annoyed and let everyone disperse.
The old lady blew the oil lamp and sighed. said: "This second daughter-in-law is stunned, so to the five girls." The five girls didn't say a word, and they accepted it silently. You too, why did you agree to Xiulan's step-five girls. If Erzhu came back, he didn't know how to toss. He hurt five girls, but it hurt to the bones."
The old man was silent for a long time, and replied: "Let's talk about it then, the second daughter-in-law is usually weak, but I didn't expect it to be such a person." Not to mention anything else, just say that if there were no five girls last winter, their second room and the whole family would have starved to death." The old lady sighed and said nothing, didn't she? Just looking at this, the second daughter-in-law is wrong.