The woman at the back of the walk was dressed in a dress that looked like red and was so washed that she couldn't see her true color, and the cuffs were raw.

She doesn't seem to be very old, but she keeps her head down, and she still holds a little milk baby who is only two or three months old in her arms, and she is standing behind the older woman, so that people can't see her appearance clearly.

It's just that her hands holding the child are full of calluses, and they look like hands that have been working for many years.

The older young woman recognized Liu's and enthusiastically invited Liu's house to sit.

"I know you, you are the old lady of Xie Fuzi's family, please sit in the house."

"Hey!" Liu answered, and followed the little woman into the house.

Seeing that there were guests in the house, the young woman did not follow her into the house, but held the child and looked at the little nephew who was squatting on the ground and playing.

In the house, the young woman, that is, Xiao Li, the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Li. asked Liu about his intentions, that is, his heart moved, and he looked at his own hard-working sister who was holding the child outside the window, gritted his teeth, and said his thoughts.

Old lady, it's a misfortune that you came today, my mother-in-law went to the East Village to tell people about matchmaking. However, I have a ready-made candidate here, and I don't know if you like it or not. ”

Liu: "Ready-made candidates? ”

"It's my miserable sister." Xiao Li pointed to the young woman in the courtyard with a scrawny and haggard face, and told Liu his story.

"My mother-in-law is my cousin, my father's cousin. The two sisters were four years apart, and when the younger sister was less than a year old, we had no mother.

My father soon married my stepmother, and after my stepmother came, she couldn't say that she was not good for our sisters, although she didn't like to take care of us, but she didn't miss us to eat.

It's just that after the stepmother gave birth to younger brothers and sisters, the good food in the family was left to the younger brothers and sisters, and we didn't complain, after all, every family is like this.

Daddy often hangs on the verbal sentence that the girl is spilled water, is a loss of money, and if there is food, it will become. So at home, my sisters and my father worked in the fields together, but we ate clear soup and little water.

When I was young, my aunt took pity on me and let my cousin marry me. I got out of the fields and married into the town.

My sister is not as lucky as me, my sister is in the age of Jilu, but my stepmother does not give her in-laws. My mother-in-law and I helped my sister see a few good people, but my stepmother kept telling my father that there was little labor in the family, and if my sister got married, who would work? Daddy didn't agree to his sister's marriage.

The son and daughter born to the stepmother herself were only two years younger than her sister, but she never refused to go to the fields to do farm work.

It has been dragged on like this, the younger brother of the queen mother married the daughter-in-law, and the sister of the queen mother married someone else.

My sister, who was born to the same mother, is nineteen years old and still an old girl. Until the daughter-in-law married by the younger brother of the stepmother, she disliked her sister and was an eyesore. The stepmother hurriedly found a family for her sister, that is, to fill the house for a widower who had died of her daughter-in-law.

My sister didn't want to, and I didn't want to, but we couldn't twist our arms around our thighs. The father and stepmother were willing, and they also accepted two taels of silver, and my sister married like this.

The widower had two daughters, and he married his sister just to have a son. When my sister comes to their He family, she is a free old mother.

Fortunately, my sister's stomach is still quite competitive, and after a few months of marriage, she has a body. The man had a good time with his mother, and my sister had an easy time.

A few months passed in a blink of an eye, and seeing that my sister was about to give birth, the two girls he gave birth to in front of him had a black heart, and while the man was not at home, he pushed my sister to the ground and gave birth prematurely.

My sister worked so hard that she lost half her life and gave birth to a little girl. The man and his mother, when they saw that my sister was born a girl, changed their faces at that time. Not only did he not teach the two girls left behind by the ancestors, but he also scolded my sister for being useless.

As you can imagine, my poor sister gave birth to a child for three days, and no one cared. When I heard Xin'er and my mother-in-law rushed over, the family of four was drinking broth, and my sister and child were left in the firewood room and left unattended. ”

Liu really couldn't listen to it anymore, and couldn't help but scold: "It's really a family of beasts, what's wrong with giving birth to a girl?" The girl is also from her own family. We have two granddaughters at home, and they are all fine, but we can't hurt it. ”

"It would be nice if they all met a bodhisattva like you!" Xiao Li sincerely complimented Liu twice, and continued:

"When my mother-in-law saw the misery of my sister and the child, she was angry and quarreled with them. You also know that my mother-in-law is a matchmaker, and the two girls in their family are also ten years old, so it is not good to talk back to my mother-in-law, I am afraid that my mother-in-law will say that the two girls in their family are not good, leave a bad reputation, and will not be able to find my mother-in-law in the future. ”

Liu shook his head, and sympathized with Xiao Li's sister in his heart.

"It was my mother-in-law and I who took care of it to pick up my sister and her mother and put them in the wing. The family of four just stood there and watched, and none of them reached out to help. My mother-in-law was not at ease, so she asked me to stay there for a few days and cook some food for my sister every day. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Li said even more angrily: "I want to cook confinement rice for my sister, but their family refuses to take out a grain of rice." ”

Liu: "This is a family or something, why is it inhumane." ”

"Who said no, fortunately when we went, we took a few catties of rice noodles, an old hen and thirty eggs, and I used these rice noodles and eggs to feed my sister every day. But her mother-in-law was not ashamed, I stewed chicken soup for my sister, but she scolded Huai there, saying that I didn't give it to them. ”

Liu: "This is a shameless family, and they still grab oral food with their daughter-in-law who is in confinement." ”

Xiao Li: "I was angry, so I stood at the door and asked loudly: Your old Ma family, in addition to my sister, is there anyone else in confinement?" The family of four couldn't say a word when I asked, their faces were red like monkey butts, and they longed to find a crack in the ground to get into. ”

Liu: "Haha, what you said is good. Now that their faces have been torn, there is really no need to save their faces. ”

"Well, no way, I lived there for more than half a month, and my sister was able to go to the ground by herself, so I came back. I'm back, and I'm not at ease. Fortunately, my mother-in-law went around telling people matchmakers, so she stopped by every once in a while to see, and just fooled my sister out of confinement. ”

Liu: "It's finally come out." ”

"But no one thought that it wouldn't be long before my sister was kicked out by their family with the child in her arms."

Liu Shi was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Why?" ”

"Because that damn horse boss got along with a young widow who had a son of four or five years old. The little widow said that as long as Boss Ma was willing to marry her, she would let her son be surnamed Ma and be the son of the Ma family. ”

Liu: "That's okay?" The old horse's brain can't be broken, right? ”

Xiao Li: "The key is that the little widow still has two acres of land under her name, and Boss Ma not only takes a fancy to the child, but also to the two acres of land." ”