Twenty-sixth

Qiusheng, who lived for the rest of his life after the disaster, lived with Lilac wholeheartedly, and the silver dollars that Qiusheng saved from Chongqing only had two silver dollars to spend along the way. Qiusheng has no capital, so he can only start all over again, he and Xia Sheng's two brothers together, after the New Year, rented six acres of paddy fields, plus their own three acres of land for a total of eight or nine acres of paddy fields. Help the cloves harvest some palm leaves during the slack time, and help out with some hands.

After experiencing the life and death parting in Changde, Chongqing, Qiusheng realized more, the family is harmonious, and the poor and old are better than anything else.

In the spring of the year the Japanese surrendered, Lilac gave birth to their first boy, who was twenty-four years old and had been married to the Akisheng family for five or six years. The birth of the boy made the whole family happy, the mother-in-law was busy serving Lilac, and Xia Sheng was also busy preparing for his nephew's full moon banquet. On the night of the fifth day of the child's birth, Qiusheng teased the child.

When Lilac saw it, she grinned and said, "It's only been a few days that you want him to call you daddy?" Qiusheng turned sideways, looked at Lilac, and then stopped at the little face of his son who was snuggled up to Lilac with his eyes closed, and said, "Lilac, I've thought about it, it's up to you to agree?" Our cub is named Blessed, Gui Blessed! The second cub is called Guigui, and Fugui Shuangquan means that there is hope for the future! ”

Lilac looked at Qiusheng affectionately, and said playfully: "You are the father of your son, you can call it whatever you say, it's up to you!" The name is not bad, in the end, the person who has been the boss has learned the name! Mr. Gui, isn't it?! ”

Qiusheng made Lilac blush, and smiled embarrassedly: "You girl makes me happy, and the boss is still the boss, it's good to talk in the fields." Speaking of this, he suddenly said with some sadness: "I've suffered you all these years, when will this day be the end?!"

When Ding Xiang heard this, she hurriedly comforted: "Brother Qiu, what about the trouble, I'm not a daughter, I grew up in bitter water since I was a child." Besides, if the child is older, he will be handed over to his mother, and I will go out to do something, and you will lose some money, and the life will be better in three or five years! Qiusheng's heart was surging when he heard this, and he stretched out his hand to hold Lilac's head, and the family of three was happily nestled together.

On the day of the full moon, the eldest brother and Wu Ying came with their two nephews, and the eldest brother's family was more miserable than Lilac. The two adults are dressed, and the two nephews are also skinny, and their clothes are shabby, which is pitiful. During the banquet, the two nephews devoured it, and they looked hungry on weekdays.

Lilac was bitter for a while, knowing that the eldest brother was in a hurry to repay his debts, and he lacked food and drink to make trouble. When I left, I secretly discussed with Qiusheng, and I put a silver dollar in the paper package I returned - in fact, Lilac and they are also having a hard time!

When the child was four or five months old, Lilac couldn't be idle anymore, and it had been more than half a year since two months before she gave birth, and she didn't earn a penny. Xia Sheng is almost thirty years old, and there is no one in the house.

Lilac was ruthless and handed over the blessing to her mother-in-law, saying that she would do something to subsidize the family tomorrow. At first, my mother-in-law disagreed, saying that if you are too young, why should you have to sip milk for ten months.

After Lilac begged for trust several times, her mother-in-law agreed to Lilac's entrustment, considering that the family was really stretched. Since then, Lilac has been doing some palm work around the village, and when the tea arrives, her tits are swollen and painful. Lilac is afraid that the milk will swell so badly that there will be no milk, and at night there will be no more milk, so Lilac secretly opened her jacket and squeezed out some milk.

The mother-in-law was at home with Youfu, and when the tea came, she cried, and the mother-in-law mixed some sugar water with boiling water and fed it cold.

When you are blessed to eat and cry a lot, your mother-in-law hugs Youfu, three or five miles less, and ten miles away to climb over the concave to find cloves, just to give you Fu a mouthful of milk!

Several times from afar, when I saw the thin mother-in-law holding the blessed milk from afar, the corners of the cloves' eyes were moist, and I felt deeply sorry for the mother-in-law and the blessed grandchildren. It's been such a bad day, but there's no way to do it.

When Ding Xiang went to the countryside and villages, she met an acquaintance, who was Hu Gui'e, who the eldest brother was going to marry the second brother.

That day, when Lilac went to a place called Hu Jiachong to work as a palm worker, she saw Hu Gui'e as soon as she entered the house. At that time, both of them were stunned for a moment, Hu Gui'e was a lot haggard, not a few years older than Lilac, less than thirty years old, she looked more than thirty years old.

It was Hu Gui'e who opened her mouth first, she stroked her somewhat withered yellow hair, and said, "Master Cao came early, you can rest first, breakfast is almost ready!" Ding Xiang replied: "Sister-in-law Hu is good, I don't want to meet you here, how are you going?" How many cubs are there? ”

When Hu Gui'e heard this, her body trembled, lowered her head and said, "There are two girls, they are gone!"

Lilac knew that she had touched her sadness, so she comforted her, "It's a shame, I only gave birth to a cub after five or six years of marrying here." ”

Hu Gui'e seemed to be stimulated by something when she heard it, and it seemed to say to Lilac for a while, and she seemed to be talking to herself, "Cub, good, cub, good, I won't give birth to a cub and only know how to give birth to a girl!" ”

Lilac didn't dare to say anything more when she heard this, so she diverted from the conversation and talked about other things.

Lilac worked at Hu Gui'e's house for a few days. Her man Hu is almost fifty years old, and the two daughters born to his previous wife married early. That Hu Yousheng looked very honest and loyal, but he didn't know that Hu Gui'e was uncomfortable when she saw her man, and she was afraid of the situation in her bones.

The people who went out to beg for food didn't want to mess with their tongues and didn't inquire much. After getting along for a few days, Ding Xiang and Hu Gui'e chatted a lot, talked about some things when they fell into Yingzhai, and also talked about the eldest brother.

Once Lilac inadvertently said, if my eldest brother hadn't had an accident, I would have called you second sister-in-law.

Hearing this, Hu Gui'e's mood immediately fell, she bit her lower lip, and said faintly after a while: "If I have a choice, I will be willing to eat chaff and grass with your second brother, and starvation is better than here!"

Lilac was stunned.

Hu Gui'e looked a little nervous, got up and walked around the outside of the house and then returned to the house, and said to Lilac with a terrible look: "Sister-in-law, don't you know, those two cubs in my house are not people, they are demons!"

When Lilac heard this, she was a little scared and didn't say anything, so she stopped what she was doing.

After Hu Gui'e calmed down, she chatted with Lilac about her man and mother-in-law.

Hu Gui'e's man Hu Yousheng gave birth to seven daughters in his early years, five of them died, and only two remained, and the five daughters who died were drowned alive by her mother-in-law with water in a basin. When the seventh wife died, but it was not the birth death they talked about, it was Hu Yousheng and his old immortal mother who died!

At this time, Lilac couldn't help but feel creepy, and hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law Hu, don't talk nonsense about what you do, it will cause trouble if it spreads!"

Hu Gui'e saw that Ding Xiang didn't believe it, so she said: "Hu Yousheng said it himself, and now Tao Ma in the He family has stopped delivering babies for more than ten years, and it is because of this incident that I secretly asked Tao Ma if there is such a thing!"

At that time, the clove palm spinning was so shocked that it fell to the ground, and seeing this situation, Hu Gui'e talked about those past events in 1510.

When Hu Gui'e was just bought by Hu Yousheng from Yao Wuqiang, his mother was kind to her, and they didn't want her to do anything after seven months of pregnancy. Before giving birth, she also killed a tender chicken and waited for her to give birth, and Hu Gui'e was quite moved at that time.

When she gave birth to the child, Tao's mother muttered in a low voice: "Daughter, sister-in-law."

Hu Gui'e didn't care, she was the first to be born, and the cubs were happy!

At this time, the mother-in-law outside the house heard it and her face was cold and cold when she came in. didn't even glance at Hu Gui'e, who had just given birth, and took the child from Tao's mother and hugged it out.

Tao's mother didn't speak, and when her mother-in-law came out of the room, she got up and said goodbye to Hu Gui'e.

Hu Gui'e was anxious when she saw it, and she couldn't care about the weakness when she just gave birth, and said: "Mom Tao, the children are all washed well, we don't understand, and we have to work hard for you."

Tao's mother, who walked to the door, turned her head and said unexpectedly: "Your mother knows how to get it, you don't have to worry so much!"

When her mother-in-law came back after a while, she was empty-handed, and Hu Gui'e hurriedly asked, "Mom, where is the child?" The mother-in-law glanced at her and said coldly: "It's dead, it's buried!"

Mother and daughter were connected, Hu Gui'e was in tears at that time, and Hu Gui'e knew in her heart that the baby girl drowned her mother-in-law.

At that time, it was extremely common for poor families to drown when they gave birth to a daughter and had another daughter, and raising one more girl would starve to death in the future, and those who could raise two or three girls were from good families.

Some soft-hearted people who can't do it will give the midwife a few dollars, let the midwife die and dispose of it, and the hard-hearted people who want to save a few dollars drown. Many women are reluctant to do this profession as a midwife, and in the words of the elderly, many midwives kill more lives than they save, and they can't get rid of their sins by repenting and repenting.

At this time, Hu Yousheng came in and handed over a bowl of rice, which was mixed with a bowl of soup without a little chicken, and only a few small pieces of chicken skin floated on the soup noodles.

Hu Gui'e knew that her mother-in-law and husband were unhappy, so she didn't dare to cry, so she had to swallow the bowl of chicken soup and rice. When the mother-in-law went out, she said to Hu Yousheng: "It's another time to carry the goods, wasting a year's spring!"

Before giving birth to the second one, Hu Gui'e's mother-in-law found Mr. Yin and Yang, who can read men and women, and counted the fetal image.

The man was full of flattery and was a boy, and the mother-in-law grinned at the time, took care of the lunch, and sent the gentleman a few dollars.

Later, when she was born a girl again, her mother-in-law didn't speak coldly, and after she was killed and buried, she became fierce to Hu Gui'e: "Next time, I will lose money again, and I will eat iron clip chicken legs like Li Xiuying!"

Li Xiuying is the ex-wife of Hu Yousheng.

A few days later, Hu Gui'e waited for Hu Yousheng to feel better, so she asked, "Your mother is talking about having a new girl, so please ask me what is the iron sandwich chicken thighs?"

Hu Yousheng was stunned for a while, and then said impatiently: "It's the iron clip that burns the fire, do you want to do it too?!" This is how Lee so-young died, do you know!! At that time, Hu Guilian didn't dare to speak.

After a while, Hu Gui'e secretly found Tao's mother, who had already eaten fasting and chanted Buddha and had not delivered the baby, to ask about it.

Tao's mother was stunned at the time, and the good Buddha beads in her hand fell to the ground. She slowly bent down to pick up the Buddha beads on the ground, and said in a calm tone: "Who did you listen to, you listened to the root of people's tongues without any evidence, and you took it seriously?"

Seeing that Tao's mother refused to say this, Hu Gui'e said loudly: "Tao's mother, don't say anything else, it's the dead devil in my house who said it!"

When Tao Ma heard this, she closed her eyes and sighed: "What about evil, ...... evil"

Then he talked about the past a few years ago, and the dim oil lamp flickered in the miserable recounting of the past, which was very infiltrating.

Li Xiuying gave birth to seven daughters, all of whom were born by Tao's mother, and when she gave birth to the second one, Hu Gui'e's mother-in-law wanted Tao's mother to die and give her a few more money.

At that time, the baby girl suddenly opened her eyes and glanced at Tao's mother. Newborn babies have their eyes closed, and it takes almost a month to open their eyes.

At that time, Tao's mother was a little soft-hearted and a little afraid. hugged it back, made up a nonsense and said to Hu Gui'e's mother-in-law: "When I went to drown just now, there was a voice on your shrine, as if this daughter had a background and couldn't drown!"

When the old woman heard this, she believed it, and made a few gestures to the shrine, leaving the life of the second daughter!

The latter ones were drowned by the old woman herself.

When Li Xiuying gave birth to the seventh, the child fell to the ground, she looked at the baby's crotch, and the person suddenly fainted.

Tao's mother thought it was a postpartum stroke, and hurriedly pinched Li Xiuying's middle school. After a while, Li Xiuying woke up and turned around.

Hu Yousheng ignored the fact that Li Xiuying was still in a coma, so he picked up the baby girl and went out. His mother was burning in the kang, and her face was very frightening.

Li Xiuying saw that their mother and son were not there, so she cried quietly and said to Tao's mother: "Tao's mother, don't go back tonight, stay with me for one night, and wait for my mother's family to come tomorrow morning, will you go back?!" Your old man is merciful, and I will risk my life as soon as you leave! My mother-in-law said that if you have another woman, you will take a clip and burn me to death!! ”

Seeing this, Tao's mother hurriedly comforted: "Your mother-in-law is angry and scares you, it's better to fight for a cub next time, alas, women are ordinary lives!"

After speaking, he said goodbye and left, and Li Xiuying, who was lying on the bed at the time, was still crying and begging Tao's mother not to leave.

When I walked to the corner of the mountain, it rained a few drops, and then Tao's mother suddenly remembered that she had forgotten that she had not taken an umbrella, so she turned around and went back to Hu Yousheng's house.

When he arrived at the door and just wanted to shout, suddenly a dull scream came from Li Xiuying's room.

Tao's mother looked through the window and saw that under the oil lamp, Hu Yousheng pressed Li Xiuying's head with a quilt, and her mother stabbed Li Xiuying's lower body with a red-hot iron clamp that was still bleeding shortly after giving birth.

A scorching smell of flesh came to the nostrils, and the fiery red iron clip instantly turned dark red. Blood flowed down Li Xiuying's thighs.

Tao's mother was so shocked that she fell to the ground, and the mother and son in the room didn't know that they were busy dealing with Li Xiuying.

Tao Ma came to her senses, secretly got up, went down the steps, stumbled all the way, and everyone was numb.

Halfway through, my legs swirled, and I had to rest a few times before returning home.

Since then, Tao Ma has stopped doing that business by eating fasting and reciting Buddha, and has never told anyone about it.

After listening to Hu Gui'e's story, Lilac sweated profusely. She pondered for a moment and said slowly: "Sister-in-law Hu, I believe what you said, but this matter is too big, you told me, so don't talk to anyone else." If it reaches the ears of their mothers, all the people in your mother's house will be able to speak, and there is a thing that is called the heavens and the earth. You take care of yourself, try your best to find your mother's house, it's better to have someone in your mother's house to help you.

End of the twenty-sixth round