Chapter Eighty-Eight: Foolishness
Listening to Shen Yunqing's analysis, Xiaolan felt that it made sense, but she couldn't help nodding: "You really said it all, everything in the family should be based on his mother, and he doesn't care about me at all." ”
Shen Yunqing said sarcastically: "How can a person like him care about people, he has been a spoiled giant baby since he was a child, and he can live completely by marrying a capable daughter-in-law like you." ”
When these words were spoken, it seemed to poke Xiaolan's sad past, and soybean-like tears passed through her eyes silently.
No one has ever considered her feelings from her point of view, she has also quarreled with Ergou since she got married, but it was useless, and over time, she was too lazy to quarrel.
But today, Shen Yunqing saw the second dog clearly in just a few words.
The pain she had suppressed in her heart for many years was eager to find someone to vent.
Shen Yunqing knew that Xiaolan and Ergou had been married for many years, and he knew that Xiaolan must have suffered a lot of grievances, and she could endure crying until now, and this endurance was unmatched.
She took out a stack of tissues and handed it over, since she cried, she would cry all at once.
Almost a quarter of an hour passed, Xiaolan gradually stopped, and the tissues were all used up, and she turned all the grievances of the past few years into tears.
After crying, she talked about her experience intermittently.
Ergou was originally in the east of Nan'an Village, Shen Yunqing's family lived in the west of the village, and the Lin family was not a person who liked to join in the fun, so in the past few years in the village, he had no contact with Xiaolan.
"I am because of the lack of money in the family, my mother saw that his family conditions are average, so he asked for five taels of silver to marry me to Ergou, before marrying my mother came to Nan'an Village to inquire, the village people said that Ergou people are honest and filial, and suffer hard."
"It is said that a filial person is not bad-hearted, and he will not suffer any hardships when he marries, how do you know that he is such a foolish and filial person."
Shen Yunqing agreed with the word "foolish filial piety", she looked at Xiaolan's eyes and nodded without speaking.
Xiaolan continued: "As soon as I entered the house, I found out about this problem, but I thought that maybe it would be better in the future, who knows, the second dog will only sleep in the same room with me when he first got married, and he will sleep in the same room with my mother-in-law in less than a month." ”
"He said that he had slept with his mother for more than ten years, and his mother was timid and afraid of mice, so he went over to give his mother courage, even if there was only one bed in his mother's room, he had to sleep in his mother's room on the floor."
Shen Yunqing even stopped picking up branches, frowned and asked, "Is it okay like this?" ”
Xiaolan nodded, wiped away the remaining tears on her face, as long as she started talking, she couldn't stop.
"A few months later, when I was pregnant, he said that he was afraid of kicking the child in the belly, so he slept directly in his mother's room, and never came to it once, until the night before I gave birth, he came to see him and said, 'If it is a girl, he will not give it away.'"
"When I heard this, I was anxious, and I refused to live or die, because of excessive anxiety and emotional instability, the fetus was still a month old, but it turned out that I had a stomachache and was going to give birth that night."
"His mother said that it hurt at the beginning, not so fast, and asked Ergou to wait until dawn and then go to the next village to ask Wen Po, my daughter was born in the middle of the night, because the fetal position is not correct, and there is no Wen Po, I am alone in the room to die of pain, his mother just didn't let him in, saying that women give birth to men can't go in."
"After dawn, he went to find Wen Po, at this time my daughter has half of her body and feet out, only the head is stuck, Wen Po is very good, and she delivered her daughter smoothly, but her daughter has been stuck for a long time, and she is a little out of breath."
"When my mother-in-law heard that it was a girl, she refused to let Wenpo save her mother-in-law, saying that if she was rescued, she would have to trouble finding someone to send her away."
"That's it, my daughter could have survived in good health, but they killed her like this, and Ergou was a little sad at first."
"I was scolded by my mother, saying that the girl baby was born to lose money, and it didn't have to be given away, and I had to ask about people, so it was troublesome."
Shen Yunqing didn't know how many such patriarchal stories she had heard since she was a child, and she asked softly: "Then isn't your mother-in-law a woman?" If she was treated like this when she was born, and she is not qualified to come into this world at all, then what right does she have to deprive your daughter of her rights? ”
When Xiaolan heard this, she was stunned, she had never thought of it like this, even if she was a woman herself.
Shen Yunqing knew that it would not work at all for her to use this set of modern ideas to ask the ancients to change their concepts, but she just couldn't help it.
Xiaolan choked up two sentences, "In the end, if I didn't save my daughter, Ergou is the executioner, if he doesn't listen to his mother, my daughter won't lose her life when she is born." ”
Shen Yunqing: "That's the same. She remembered a question: "Did he ever quarrel with his mother?" Who lets who when there is a conflict? ”
Xiaolan shook her head, her face was sad, and she didn't throw away the wet tissue in her hand, she kneaded it, "As long as there is a little bit of quarrel, his mother will move out of the matter of her raising him alone, and then Ergou will give in and apologize to make his mother happy." ”
"Even I can't have an opinion on his mother in the future, as long as there is any contradiction, he must ask me to take a step back and let his mother."
"He has to take care of everything in his mother's house, even how much he eats, how many clothes he wears, he has to listen to her, I am going crazy because of these little things."
"I feel like I'm in this home, like a puppet."
Shen Yunqing remembered that in modern society, how many mothers and men were exposed because of the problems found by their wives after they got married.
Isn't this exactly the same as Ergou?
In modern times, divorce is not as difficult as in ancient times, but it does not mean that in ancient times, it was impossible to get along.
The third aunt had the problem of having no heirs, so she left the third uncle.
She leaned her head closer to Xiaolan and asked, "You didn't want to leave?" ”
Xiaolan thought that the "leaving" she said meant that she had run away from home, so she shook her head without thinking about it: "If you marry and obey your husband, you will be immersed in a pig cage if you leave without permission." ”
Shen Yunqing was stunned: "So serious? ”
"Hmmm......"
Shen Yunqing continued: "I'm talking about harmony, completely breaking off the relationship with him, leaving him, leaving this home!" ”
She said it too bluntly, which frightened Xiaolan, she never thought about it like this, and left? That will kill her, and her mother's family will not let her go, and where will she go after the peace?
But thinking that after reconciling and leaving, she could regain her free body and not have to live in that suffocating home, she was a little nervous.
Xiaolan wringed the corners of her clothes with both hands, lowered her head and didn't know where to look, and shook her head slowly: "It's still not possible, it will be fatal." ”
Shen Yunqing can understand her, no matter what, not everyone has the courage of the third aunt.