That year, that year, Mrs. Ma will never forget.

At that time, Song Lingling's lobby brother Dalang was less than a year old at the time, and he was very young.

Song Fuling's second uncle, Song Fuxi, has also reached the age of starting a family.

Two years ago, the old lady gave her second son Zhang Luo a daughter-in-law, but she couldn't find Zhang Luo in the village.

On the one hand, her own reputation, after year after year, she was powerful when she was young, and it was not good, and the girl from a good family was not willing to marry her, for fear of being tormented by her.

On the one hand, it is estimated that people are also considering, Song Fuxi is the second, unlike Song Fucai is the boss, and the eldest brother in the future will be able to share more ancestral property, and there is a third brother below, who is also a student.

Studying, is that something that ordinary people can afford? The master died early, and they all knew that her family's foundation had long been empty.

And Song Fusheng didn't finish his studies at that time, he was not old enough to take the entrance examination, no one could see if he could make a career in the future, but felt that it was a drag to support the scholars with the strength of the whole family, not to mention the in-laws like the Qian family, there was no shadow at that time, and I didn't know the Qian family.

In that case, even if many people are satisfied with Song Fuxi, they are not satisfied with marrying into such a family.

That's it, the same village is not good, and there is no suitable one nearby, so Mrs. Ma inquired about the Zhu family.

The second daughter-in-law, Zhu, is shallow-eyed, and in Mrs. Ma's opinion, there is a reason for this.

Because the Zhu family itself is not good, they don't take their daughters seriously. When discussing marriage, it is not much different from selling a daughter. It doesn't matter if you live or die, anyway, if you give a gift of ten taels of silver, you can't wait to let it go directly, so that you can save rations.

Song Fuxi may have been stirred up and didn't have any heart, so he nodded in agreement without thinking about it.

Mrs. Ma is also really anxious, her second son is too old, and if she doesn't have a family, she will have to make people laugh and pay attention to it, for fear that others will scold her second son for being an old bachelor, so she decided to make the Zhu family.

After the ceremony, the money was given, and the family sold an acre of land to make up the gift money, so coincidentally, at this time, the eldest grandson Dalang suddenly fell ill.

The disease was menacing, and seeing that if it was not cured, it would have to be thrown back on the hillside and buried, so He cried and went back to his parents' house to borrow money.

To put it bluntly, so far, Mrs. Ma can sometimes be a little kind to her eldest daughter-in-law He, also because the He family and Dalang's grandmother's family really reached out to help.

But the family is poor, and their ability is limited, so they only borrow half a penny.

But people, especially the poor, when they get sick, they really can't afford to get sick. When I went to the town, I didn't catch a few pairs of medicines for half a penny, and the disease was not cured, so I spent it.

Mrs. Ma tossed and wanted to withdraw her second son's marriage, wanting to return the gift money and then treat her eldest grandson, but the Zhu family also said that the money and gifts were gone, and they didn't come back anyway after a quarrel.

Later, she borrowed it from her aunt's sister.

My aunt's sister is also an ordinary family.

Not to mention, she Mrs. Ma, the richest person she has known in her life, is the father-in-law of her third son, Mr. Qian.

In other words, my aunt's sister really saw the feelings when she stayed in her mother's house as a daughter, and the relationship was there, so she gritted her teeth and borrowed her. And it was borrowed from her behind the back of a man.

Mrs. Ma was eager to kneel on the kang and kowtow to thank this sister at that time, and wiped her tears and swore to the sky to promise people: When the grain comes down, remove the tax payers, and repay the money after selling the grain, and will not make your sister embarrassed, and will definitely return the money before the brother-in-law finds out.

My sister was kind, and the poor family took the child to the town to see a doctor, and she gritted her teeth and borrowed her a tael or two of silver.

Mrs. Ma recalled this, turned over, lay on the kang sideways, remembered that now she can sell cakes, and she can make money every day, and then she remembered the scene back then, when her sister gritted her teeth and lent her money, tears flowed down the corners of her eyes to the kang mat.

Back then, she never expected that although Da Lang was slowly recuperating, he was unlucky, there was a drought that year, and there was a locust plague.

She was in her own home, what kind of life was she living at that time, not to mention that she was half-full, she sold her house and land.

But who bought her house, Zhang Luo sold the land, it was all that year, and no one bought the land, so that the locusts gnawed half of it.

They are hungry and eager to fill their stomachs with cold water.

That year, in Songjia Village, there were several families with strong laborers, and seven families starved to death. Not to mention that she is a mother-in-law who has no man. I don't have the strength to find a job to do.

It is said that the famous landlord's house in the neighborhood is said to be lined up to work hard and sell their bodies, and they are far away. Song Fucai and Song Fuxi, brothers, went out every day to find work, but they couldn't find it.

Thanks to Song Fusheng, he suddenly sent a letter back from the county, saying that there were disasters everywhere, and the family must be extremely poor, so he found a job copying books.

He copied books day and night, earned two dollars, bought coarse grain, and asked his fellow villagers and classmates to send it home. Only then did the family have some subsistence food, and they didn't stop eating, and they didn't starve anyone.

Anyway, let's say a thousand ways and ten thousand, that is, at that time, my family would not be able to survive, borrow money to repay the money, and I would be designated to be the one day and drag it back with a thick face. It is impossible to repay the money.

My aunt's sister came to the door to cry, and Mrs. Ma also cried at that time, saying:

Sister, if you chisel my bones to smash, I really don't have them.

You still have to wait, I've already entrusted my three sons to stop copying books and buying food, copying books to save money and paying you back? Save a few dozen and send it to you.

borrowed one or two taels of silver, dozens of dollars and dozens of dollars to earn, Song Fusheng is tired of copying books, and it takes many days, and it will take half a year and a year if he doesn't do it well.

In short, this thing is exposed.

My aunt's sister came to the door with a blue nose and swollen face that was beaten by her husband.

The husband of the other family is angry, there is a disaster, the family has little surplus food, and when he sees the bottom of the tank, the price of daily food in the town rises again day, and the price rises evilly, so he asks the daughter-in-law for money, but the daughter-in-law has no money, and says that she borrowed someone, can she not beat her?

So this aunt's sister was holding her breath and was angry, she came to the door after being beaten, and also beat Mrs. Ma, making a lot of noise, and Song Fusheng's aunt next door came to fight.

Mrs. Ma could only tell the truth when she was beaten, and her aunt really didn't want to listen to the truth, that is: if you don't have money, you have to die. You dug the house, and it was useless for you to kill me.

The trouble was fierce, and Da Lang was so frightened that he opened his little hands and cried.

Mrs. Ma really had that moment back then, and she couldn't live in a well.

But what she didn't expect was that she was beaten by her aunt's sister that time, which was the last time she met this sister.

It was only half a decade later, Song Fusheng, who was skinny at the time, went home, and received a letter from his mother, asking him to borrow money from Mr.

Mrs. Ma held the money and was grateful to Song Fusheng's husband, Mr. was able to borrow money, and was pleasantly surprised that she finally got together, and she was even more distressed that San'er had no face in her classmates, and her classmates knew that her husband had borrowed money, and she was so thin that she cried.

After crying, he hurriedly led Song Fusheng to find his aunt's sister.

But when I entered the village where my sister's family was, I heard that her sister was gone.

said that when he went back to his mother's house, he didn't know whether he was trampled by a horse or hit by an ox cart and a donkey cart, anyway, when someone found out, he was already lying on the side of the road and was hanging on the side of the road, and he was gone before he could be carried back.

In the days that followed.

How many times, Mrs. Ma secretly went to her aunt's sister's grave to kneel.

She is more diligent than her children, and she loves to go there to talk about big and small things at home.

She said, "Sister, my third son was admitted to the middle school. If my son could have been admitted back then, would I have been able to repay your money in time?

She said, sister, my third son is engaged, I heard that he is a well-known rich family in the county, and his husband is the matchmaker. You said that if he could have engaged such a good friend back then, would I have been able to repay you in time?

She said, "Sister, when you went back to your parents' house, did you go home because I owed you money?" If I didn't owe you money, you wouldn't have gone back to your parents' house to sue me, and if you hadn't gone back, you wouldn't have died so early.

She said, sister, I can't live in this life.

Those who have left can no longer know, but those who are alive can never get by.

When Song Fuling entered the house, she found that her milk was lying on her side, with her back to her, and her shoulders were shaking.

Mrs. Ma hurriedly wiped her tears with her hands, pinched her nose with her hands, tried her best to suppress her nasal voice, and said, "You go out first, let me stay alone for a while." ”

"Milk?"

"Get out."