When I was seven years old, I lived in Giant Wild City. There is a neighbor's little girl named Yuan Mingcui, who is two years older than me.

One day, Yuan Mingcui wanted to take me to my sister's house to play. After a while, the two of us arrived.

The black gate of the sister-in-law nunnery, the gate faces west, and there is a rectangular wooden sign on the door, which has words on it, and I don't recognize it. Under the door, there are two large stone door pillows, the middle is a wooden door inlay, and the entrance door is a large door hole.

The courtyard is not large, with three halls, three east houses, and three west houses.

There were people talking in both the hall and the east room, and we didn't go in, but went to the west room. That was the first time I went to the Guzi Nunnery, and it was also the first time I saw a woman shaved her head.

There is a sister-in-law who is eight years old, and I know the age, so I call her sister.

The sister-in-law's uncle heard it and said to me, "Little donor, you call her the elder brother." ”

There were five sisters-in-law in the house, and they were like a family, all dressed in the same clothes, and their clothes, socks, and hats were all woven of coarse cloth at home. The socks are white and the shoes are black, all made by themselves. The oldest sister-in-law, Changsheng is called grandpa. There is also a sister-in-law who is fourteen years old, Changsheng calls her brother, and her brother's father is called uncle, and she also has a father.

There were three beds in the room, three cotton carts on the beds, and a loom on the floor. When we entered, the old sister-in-law was leading the two sisters-in-law to spin cotton, and it was Changsheng's uncle who was weaving, and Changsheng's father was busy inside and outside the house.

There was not a single cabinet in the room, but there was a long table with four brass incense burners. I looked up and saw a painting on the wall.

I asked, "Why do people in this painting have so many hands?" ”

Changsheng's father was done, sitting there doing needlework, and she said to me, "That's the Buddha with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes." ”

She told me the story of the Buddha with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes, but I didn't have the heart to listen. At that time, I was young and ignorant, so I just wanted to ask my sister-in-law to go out with us.

Grandpa saw that the two of us were not leaving, and said to the sister-in-law: "Changsheng, you go out to play for a while, don't go far." ”

I walked out of the sister-in-law nunnery hand in hand and walked outside the gate.

Yuan Mingcui said: "Let's go climb the tower." I heard my brother say that the county magistrate Zeng Zinan took out money to repair the tower, and the tower was repaired well. ”

I said, "Let's go and see." ”

The sister-in-law said, "You two go, I don't dare to go." If I don't listen to my grandfather and run so far, my grandfather will beat me. I heard my father say that my grandfather beat her a lot, and she was ruthless, and now my father is afraid of my grandfather. ”

Yuan Mingcui and I said: "She didn't dare to go, and neither of us went." ”

I took the thread egg that day, Yuan Mingcui took the skipping rope, and I played outside the gate of the sister-in-law's nunnery, and after playing for a while, I went home.

On the way home, Yuan Mingcui said to me: "My sister-in-law is so pitiful, she can't come out to play, and she is dressed in gray clothes." A little girl, she can't even wear floral shoes and clothes. ”

When I got home, my mother asked, "Where did you go to play?" ”

I said: "I went to my sister-in-law with Yuan Mingcui and played with my sister-in-law, her name is Changsheng, one year older than me." ”

The mother asked, "Is there still a thirteen or fourteen-year-old sister-in-law in the nunnery?" ”

I said, "Yes." Spinning cotton miles there. Her grandfather didn't ask her to come out to play. ”

The mother said: "Two months ago, that sister-in-law and her father came to her and wanted to take her home. The sister-in-law was reluctant to go, and his father insisted on letting his daughter go, and he made trouble in the sister-in-law nunnery for several days. The sister-in-law had no choice but to sue her father to the county yamen. ”

"Why doesn't she want to go home?"

"When I arrived at the county office, the county official asked my sister-in-law, 'Why don't you go with your father?' The sister-in-law said, 'My father gambled, smoked a lot, and sold all the valuable things in the house, and he didn't care if my mother was sick when he got angry. My mother had no money for treatment, died, and left my sister and son, my sister was twelve years old, and I was six years old. When my father saw that my mother was dead, he turned around and left. Thanks to a distant uncle who helped us, rolled my mother up with foil, found a few people, and carried it out to bury it. After that, my sister and son asked for food during the day and went home to live at night. Later, my father sold the house again, and my sister and son didn't even have a place to live, sometimes living in other people's car houses, sometimes sleeping under other people's walls. One day, a few people came and snatched my sister away, and I chased after me, crying and shouting: Sister! Sister! Sister! The people were pushing, pulling, and driving, and they lifted my sister into the car and pulled her away. Later, I heard from others that my sister asked my father to sell him to Dongzhuang and became a daughter-in-law for a fool. I can't go with him, if I go with him, he will have to sell me! At that time, thanks to the kindness of the uncle, I was sent to the nunnery. When I came to the nunnery, I had food to eat, and my father loved me. The magistrate scolded her father and said, 'Get out! From now on, if you pestered the child to tell her to go with you, I will send you to prison and never let you out! I heard that her father never came again. ”

My mother also said: "Those people in the sister-in-law's nunnery are all hard-working people, good children, who will send them there?" ”

I heard that the liberation did not take long, and the two sisters-in-law went to their in-laws.