Chapter 3 Patriarchy
Since last year, every household in Panlong Village has had their own land and fields.
Zhu Shuilian was full of joy.
Although some of the land allocated was too far from home, except for the three fields that were connected together, the others were all small Yikui, scattered scattered in various mountain ridges.
She still couldn't help but feel happy in her heart.
Finally, she doesn't have to leave her children to get up early and go to the production team to fight for work and food, and she can cultivate her own fields, raise chickens, ducks, and all kinds of poultry.
The enthusiasm of the whole village for work and cultivation is unprecedentedly high.
Everyone is busy planting and reaping their own crops.
Zhu Shuilian took her eldest daughter, second daughter, and third daughter to the foot of the mountain in the distance to plant cassava and sweet potatoes.
Peanuts and beans were planted in the fields that were closer.
She reclaimed a small piece of wasteland in front of and behind her home to grow vegetables.
A small pond was also dug and ducks were raised.
The third daughter was only two years old, and she had to take her to the fields while she was working, so that she could play by herself.
Zhang Changwen was tired of every time he came home from visiting relatives and didn't sleep warm with his daughter-in-law's bed, he had to listen to his mother chew his tongue and tell right and wrong, saying that his daughter-in-law and daughter were not.
He was tired of fighting, and it was a bit difficult to scold a person like him who was silent, so generally speaking, he could do it and never move it.
The meaning of cherishing words is like gold.
Besides, he is also an intellectual, and at first I heard his own mother say that his daughter-in-law was not good or not, she was young and vigorous, her liver was hot, and she waved her hand and beat it; After beating a few times, the daughter-in-law had tears in her eyes, neither resisted nor said what her mother-in-law was not, did not defend herself, and felt that she was bored.
Later, every time I came back, I found that my mother's words were the same, and a trivial thing was also shocked by her.
He gradually suspected that his mother was deliberately embarrassing his daughter-in-law.
It is indeed not easy for a daughter-in-law to pull several daughters at home alone, and to work to support the family.
I am afraid that it will not be until I beat my own daughter-in-law to death that my mother will be satisfied.
He was reluctant to kill his daughter-in-law, he also asked her to help give birth to a son!
So in 1980, Zhang Changwen decided to separate from his mother and brother.
Mom favored her brother.
When the family was divided, he received almost nothing, only a bowl and a stool for each adult and child.
He took out the little salary he had left, bought mud bricks and green tiles, and took advantage of the month of family leave to go up the mountain to cut wood and build a house.
Ask someone to help build the wall.
Zhu Shuilian's brother and parents continued to help after Zhang Changwen returned to work, and finally built the house a few months later.
Zhu Shuilian seemed to see the dawn of life, thinking that the hard days were finally coming to an end, as long as the child she was carrying in her belly was a son, then how happy her man would be when the time came!
has his own house, has three well-behaved daughters, and has a son who is looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looking forward to it.
Although the newly built house is not close to all the houses in the village, even the houses opposite.
At the foot of a mountain, surrounded by barren hills, there are several graves scattered on the mountain, and on the other side of the hill is the cemetery of the whole village.
This is a wasteland that the whole village is unwilling to receive when the land is divided.
The mother-in-law hated them and didn't let Zhang Changwen build the house in the village close to his father's house, but Zhu Shuilian still didn't resent it.
She lives in a new house with her daughter, and at night she can vaguely hear the sound of wolves howling on the mountain.
"That's an animal singing!" She comforted her three daughters.
When she slept, the third daughter lay in her arms, and the eldest daughter and the second daughter were next to her.
She will also be afraid in her heart, but after staying for a long time, it is good to get used to it.
But who would have thought that the fourth child she gave birth to at the risk of her husband losing his job and losing her own life was still a daughter!
Son, why can't you become a boy and come to my belly?
Otherwise, your father wouldn't have killed the killer!
Soon someone will come up there and take your father away.
A life pays for a life.
Kid, don't blame your daddy.
During the six months that Zhang Changwen was suspended, he went up the mountain to chop firewood and open up wasteland when he had nothing to do.
He quickly cleared the ground around the house, and he uprooted the weeds around the bamboo on the mountain.
He carefully planted a thick layer of soil on the roots of each bamboo, and when the shoots sprouted the following spring, there would be soil to care for them to thrive.
When the bamboos grow up, Zhu Shuilian can sell them and earn a little money to support her family.
He also divided the mountain land into small plots, bought young fruit seedlings and planted them, and when the fruit trees grew and fruited, they could also have a little profit.
More flat land developed by Zhang Changwen is reserved for growing vegetables. Green vegetables are not valuable, now in the countryside, they are basically self-sufficient, so it doesn't matter, if there is no money to buy meat, in the future, he will leave, and his wife and children will always be able to eat green vegetables, right?
He dragged the wood cut down from the hill back to the back of the house, sawed them off one by one, chopped them with an axe, and piled them up all over the firewood house.
"If the police arrest me, you can remarry with your children! There is no man in the family, you are a woman with three daughters, and you have a hard time! ”
Zhang Changwen paused for a moment, and then said: "But if I hadn't been arrested, I would have had a son with you, I'm not reconciled!" ”
Zhu Shuilian originally listened to him say the previous words, and her heart was full of emotion, but when she heard the latter sentence, her body trembled involuntarily.
Can you not have a son? She has already died once, and she will be reborn once, what if she dies?
Who will raise and take care of her daughters?
Although she understands that if she can't give birth to a son in the countryside, what will the villagers think of her.
Look down on it!
In her consciousness of being assimilated and ignorant, isn't the task of a woman to carry on the family for her husband? It's a woman's fault that she can't give birth to a son!
What about men? Without a son in the village, he couldn't hold his head up at all.
Do you want a man to do heavy work? Although women also have great strength, when it comes to work, it is still men who have the strength!
Over the years, she has been a woman, pulling several daughters in the village, and deeply understands the sadness of not having a man to help.
The police came a few more times.
The same questions were repeated over and over again.
For the last time, they asked where the baby was buried, and Qin Fengying led the way to the scene.
Peel back the dirt and take a lot of pictures of the baby buried in the soil.
During this process, Qin Fengying's body kept shaking.
Fortunately, everyone focused on the baby, and no one noticed her unusual behavior.
The medical examiner wore gloves and examined the body, wrote and drew with the examination sheet, and finally concluded that the baby had no injuries on his body, which was consistent with the characteristics of being born without breath.
A month later, a writ came down, and Zhang Changwen was reinstated.