Chapter 21: Joyful and Mournful

Daddy's affair passed, but Grandpa's mood became bad. He always blamed himself for not stopping the situation in time, and even after returning to Thrush Village, he still remembered it. Soon after, I had a summer vacation and went to live at my grandfather's house.

One morning, an eardrum-piercing scream woke dozens of families of sleeping men and women. It was the dwarf mother-in-law who screamed. The short mother-in-law's house was no more than a few houses away from my grandfather's house, and the screams woke me and my grandfather up. We got up right away and ran out to see what horrible things were going on.

By the time we arrived, the dwarf mother-in-law's house was already surrounded by water. Someone whispered to each other: "Wenwen hanged himself!" I committed suicide when I first got married, and it was really a happy event and a sad event! The little woman sat on the ground, and from what she said and cried, we knew that this was the case......

This morning, the short mother-in-law carried a bowl of steaming egg noodles and walked majestically to the front of the house with the big red word "囍" in the middle of the door. There was a knock on the door, but there was no answer inside. The little woman pressed her joyful face against the wooden door, and she could not hear anyone getting up. She thought to herself, it was the bride who cried too tired yesterday, and now she is in a deep and deep sleep. She turned to leave, but her hands felt the heat of the egg noodles slowly decrease. So she knocked on the door again and shouted, "Wenwen, Wenwen!" There was still no answer in the room, not even the sound of a man squirming on the bed, and it was as dead as silence. The short mother-in-law wondered: Could it be that this little girl ran away?

With the steaming bowl of egg noodles in hand, she walked majestically to the window with red mandarin duck paper cutouts. The curtain was closed, and the woman stood on tiptoe and stretched her neck to peek in from the edge of the curtain. Suddenly, the dwarf woman remained motionless, as if frozen by the cold morning air for a moment. After a long time, the little woman's hand twitched, the bowl fell and shattered into several pieces, and the egg noodles spilled out, and at the same time, let out that piercing scream. A group of chickens pecking at the peach tree fled in all directions. The egg noodles are spread out on the ground, the noodles are like unkempt hair, and the eggs with yellow edges and white edges are like bulging eyes hidden in the messy hair. The short woman saw a pile of messy hair by the curtain, and between the messy hair was a pair of bulging eyes, and her tongue was sticking out from between her lips. Wenwen's body hangs from the red rope used to bind the dowry!

Neighbors who heard the screams rushed to the scene. When the men saw that the situation was not right, they immediately kicked the door open. By the time my grandfather and I arrived, they had already taken Wenwen off the rope. Through the gap in the crowd, I saw Wen Wen wearing a new wedding dress, the color of which was crimson, like a bunch of sun-dried red peppers. A man put his finger to Wenwen's nose, then shook his head and said, "It's out of gas." The words seemed to touch a switch somewhere on the mother-in-law's body, and she began to let out a terrible cry. The horseman, who had been wandering outside the door and did not dare to come in, heard his mother's cry and immediately "pounced" and knelt down, his face pale. In the next room, the cry of a big man was also heard, it was Ma Jun, the elder brother of the horse soldier, who had crippled his legs.

The couplet on the door is as red as blood! Ma Jun only married Wenwen yesterday, and today they are separated by yin and yang!

Speaking of why Wenwen married Ma Jun, who has crippled legs, there is a story of a love scam.

The husband of the short mother-in-law died young, leaving Ma Jun and Ma Bing's two sons to take care of her. The youngest son, Ma Bing, is good-looking and can speak well; The eldest son, Ma Jun, was born crippled. Before he died, the husband of the short mother-in-law always said that he was worried about the future marriage of his eldest son and refused to take his last breath. In the countryside, if a man loses his labour force, he loses the ability to compete in marriage, and no one wants to marry his daughter to someone who cannot do farm work. The short mother-in-law comforted her husband and said, "You can go with peace of mind, I will definitely handle the matter of the eldest son." If I don't do it well, I will also go to Huangquan Road in the future, and you will settle accounts with me. ”

The dwarf woman is a well-known shrewd person in Thrush Village, and she solves many things that her husband can't do. With this assurance, her husband squeezed her hand tightly and closed his eyes with a sigh.

After the death of her husband, she saw that her two sons were getting older, the younger son had already started a family, and the eldest son didn't even see anyone who proposed marriage. The short mother-in-law once asked countless matchmakers to find a suitable partner, as long as the age gap was not too big and the appearance was not particularly ugly, she promised her eldest son. But when they heard that the other party was a cripple who couldn't work in the fields, they shook their heads like rattles.

The short mother-in-law was sad when she remembered her husband's explanation, and she was afraid that her husband would blame her in the underworld, so she began to think of crooked ideas.

Although Ma Jun and Ma Bing are not twins, their eyebrows, nose and mouth are still somewhat similar, so she wondered if Ma Bing could come forward when she was introduced, deceive the girl's liking, and make a plan to drop the bag when she got married, and send Ma Jun to the cave room. The next day, the new girl knew that her husband was Ma Jun, and the raw rice was cooked and cooked, and it was too late to regret it.

As soon as she said and did it, the dwarf woman persuaded the horsemen to agree, and began to carry out her own conspiracy. She didn't dare to tell the truth to the horseman's daughter-in-law, so she told the horseman's daughter-in-law that the horseman was going to the city to do something and would be back for several days. The horseman's daughter-in-law did not doubt her mother-in-law's words.