Xi'er took Peaches to hide in the corner of the wall and eavesdrop, and when she heard that she was going to let Sister Meizi marry instead, she wanted to beat them out with a stick. Later, when he heard that Daddy Lin had an idea to help them solve the problem, he stopped eavesdropping and quietly slipped back to the kitchen with Peaches.

There was still tofu pressed in the tofu mold in the kitchen, and Lin Mei had told the two of them to take a good look at it, and if it didn't drip water, they would call her. When I returned to the kitchen and saw that several molds were no longer dripping, I went to the hall to call Sister Meizi.

happened to meet Lin Chunhua and Wang Cuiying preparing to leave.

"Is this a girl or a boy, your relative?" Lin Chunhua saw that Xi'er was wearing women's clothes, but her hair was like a child, and asked Lin Mei.

Lin Mei didn't want to talk to her, for fear that she would want to beat Xi'er's bad idea again, so she said directly: "This is my sister." After speaking, he took Xi'er to the kitchen.

Lin Chunhua was in a good mood, and she didn't care, and left happily.

After Lin Chunhua made such a fuss, Lin Mei hated this worldly marriage system even more, and couldn't help but think of her life's events.

Daddy Lin is still a competent father, and he didn't treat his children's family affairs as a transaction for the sake of profit, but the world is difficult, and it is fortunate that it is Lin Chunhua who came today. In this world, human life is not valuable, and in this backward countryside, there are many people who sell their sons and daughters for money. Take Lin Feng's family as an example, if the father-in-law's family didn't have a son, Lin Feng would have followed the father-in-law to go to school in the town to be a toothman, and this good thing would not have been his turn. also took his brother Lin Hai to find a buddy's errand in the teahouse......

This night, Lin Mei couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, waking up Xi'er on the side.

Xi'er saw that her sister didn't sleep, knowing that her sister couldn't sleep because she was worried about the marriage, and she didn't know how to comfort her, she couldn't help but think of her poor sister who didn't know where she was, hiding in the quilt and secretly crying.

The trembling back was noticed by Lin Mei, she got up to check, and saw that Xi'er was crying sadly, she was startled, and she thought she was sick and didn't dare to say, so she hurriedly asked, "Xi'er, are you uncomfortable there?" Do you want to go to the doctor? ”

"Sister, I'm not sick, don't worry, I'm just scared." Xi'er was afraid of worrying her sister, so she whispered.

"It's good if you're not sick." Lin Mei lay on the kang and hugged Xi'er in her arms, and asked in a low voice, "What is Xi'er afraid of, can you tell my sister?" ”。

After a long time, Xi'er said: "Sister, are you going to say that your mother-in-law's family will not live at home when you get married in the future?" ”

Lin Mei didn't expect Xi'er to mention this topic, thinking about the events of the day, she understood again, and said: "Sister doesn't know, but Sister doesn't want to get married so early, and wants to earn a dowry for you in the future?" ”

"Sister, you are so good, I don't want a dowry, and I don't want to get married, I have thought about it, I will be at home in the future, I will not go anywhere, I will accompany our father and be filial to our father."

"That's not good, this woman has a reason not to marry, if she can really not marry, I don't want to marry, stay at home. But the world doesn't allow it, if we really don't get married, the spittle of the people in the village can drown us, and it will be our father who will be embarrassed at that time. Lin Mei sighed in her heart.

"What can I do, I really don't want to marry, what's so good about marrying, there used to be a family in our village, and the new daughter-in-law just passed the door for two months, and her mother-in-law began to dislike her, saying that she was a chicken that didn't lay eggs, and she was shouting in the village all day long to divorce her. The new daughter-in-law ran back to her parents' house crying one day, but her sister-in-law thought she had a bad reputation, so she asked her brother to drag her back, but the mother-in-law refused to go out and framed her for running away with a wild man. When the new daughter-in-law ran all the way back, everyone in the village saw it, but none of them stood up to help her speak. The new daughter-in-law was very pitiful, her mother-in-law did not let her enter the door, and her mother's family did not let her enter the door, and the new daughter-in-law knelt in front of her mother-in-law's house for a night, and the next day hanged herself under the crooked neck tree in front of her mother-in-law's house. ”

After Xi'er finished speaking, she buried her face in Lin Mei's arms.

"Then her man didn't stand up to help her?" Lin Mei was a little puzzled.

Xi'er raised her head and said angrily: "His man not only coveted, but also bullied her with his mother, and when he saw that she was not pleasing to the eye, he beat her up and got angry." And ...... He also had a leg with the widow in the village. A few days after his daughter-in-law died, his mother found him a fourteen-year-old daughter-in-law, who was tortured by him every night and was almost imhuman, and begged him to go to the widow on her knees. ”

Where did Xi'er know such a secret news, Lin Mei was surprised: "How did you know?" ”

"That mother-in-law was still proposing to my father at that time and wanted to marry my sister, but my father said that my sister was still young and didn't agree, so I was interested, and deliberately befriended his eldest granddaughter Xiu'er, and gave my sister's embroidered purse to Xiu'er, so I secretly asked Xiu'er to help me inquire about the news."

Lin Mei didn't know what to say, Xi'er was precocious, this was what she knew, but she didn't expect Xi'er to have such a heart.

"Sister, can't I really not get married? I'm scared ......."

Lin Mei knew that Xi'er was afraid, but she was also afraid, and put herself in her shoes, what should she do if she was like the new daughter-in-law and met someone unladylike? And away? Hugh? In the memory of the original owner, I have never heard of such a shocking idea that someone in the village is leaving, and I don't know if the laws of this world allow it. Luo Sicheng gave some books to Shanzi a few days ago, and I don't know if there are any law-related books in them.

Still no, I have to talk to Daddy Lin, whether it is a daughter-in-law or a daughter in this family in the future, I have to set up some family rules......

Tossing and turning, tossing and turning until the second half of the night, Lin Mei was sleepy, and after falling asleep in a daze, she heard a voice in the yard.

Taking a deep breath, a grunt turned over and got up from the kang, put on his clothes, slapped his face a few times, and felt that the sleepiness was not so strong before opening the door and going out.

After breakfast, Lin Mei told Daddy Lin that she had something to discuss, and she was afraid that the two little girls would eavesdrop, so she simply went to water the bean sprouts and wash the dishes.

"Dad, I thought about it all night last night, I don't want to get married so early, don't worry, listen to me slowly......" Lin Mei repeated the incident that Xi'er said last night to Father Lin.

"But Meizi, not everyone abuses their daughter-in-law like this, our Lin family doesn't have such rules, you see your uncle and fourth uncle, that one is not afraid of his daughter-in-law, you can't worry too much, as for your relatives, when the time comes, your father will definitely give you a good check, and when you meet someone, you think it's okay, let's get engaged, do you think it's okay?" In the end, Daddy Lin himself was reluctant to marry his daughter.

"But don't forget, daddy, who can guarantee that there will be no time to look away, and when the time comes, what will you let your daughter do? Is it to wait to be divorced, or to be tortured to death? Or will the father be able to reconcile his daughter when the time comes? Lin Mei's sentences are like knives, piercing Daddy Lin's heart.

"Then you can't never marry for the rest of your life, or else, Daddy will recruit you a son-in-law? You're not afraid of him breaking it, right? Father Lin seemed to have taken a reassuring pill, and patted his big feet: "That's it, in the future, all your three sisters will be recruited sons-in-law." ”

Lin Mei couldn't cry and laughed, and said: "It's all that, it's all that, it doesn't solve the essential problem at all, and besides, what will you think about Shanzi in the future." ”

"So what do you say?" Daddy Lin blew his beard and stared at Lin Mei with his eyes.