Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Dream of the Younger Brother
Brother Cun had a long nightmare. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
It was as if she had returned to her mother's house—though she had long since lost sight of what the house looked like, whether it was two or three—but, for some reason, she was sure that the dark house was her maiden home, her hometown.
At first, she couldn't see anything, but then, with a slight light, it seemed that a small oil lamp was lit on the table in the middle of the hall, and she heard a woman's shrill voice: "When the girl is old and does not marry, do you want to raise her for nothing?"
This sentence seemed to touch her parents very much, yes, how can a poor family like them afford the loss of "feeding people for nothing"? Next, they began to talk about how much to sell her, and she heard the woman asking in detail what she would do, because the man did not want a girl who ate for nothing, even if she was only twelve years old, her parents repeatedly assured each other that she would do everything, chopping wood and carrying water, feeding pigs and watering vegetables, eating so little that she could simply drink the wind, as for her beauty, intelligence, These qualities of cleverness, as soon as they were mentioned slightly, were interrupted contemptuously by the woman: "Alas, we are in the village, it is useless to ask for this. In the end, the price of her equal to a donkey was finalized, and since the man had no donkey and no money, he used a large pig and a few bags of grain to cover it.
The man she called her father and the matchmaker had drunk, and the marriage was agreed, and there was no room for remorse—there was no way to repent.
She walked out of the dark room, it was even darker outside, she took out a rope and tied it to the tree, and she did it without panic, and many of the sisters in the village did it, and they ...... They were all very happy, happier than the girls who went out in the sedan chair later, she could see ...... She could see the girls, shadowy, like a fine white mist, floating around, sometimes they floated in front of her, stretched out their hands, as if they were invited--a few times, when she talked to her parents, they all glared, saying that she was confused, so-and-so had already married to the next village, and would not come back, so-and-so was carrying the child on his back just now, but she knew that they were here, married to the next village, married to the next door to give birth to a baby, not them.
She tied the rope and padded her feet with a stone...... When she awoke, her parents and many neighbors stood before her, saying that today was the day of her marriage.
Brother Cun remembered that day, she remembered that day very well, but she was a little confused now, didn't she stick her head into that circle? Oh, it was a dream, she said to herself, a ridiculous strange dream that had long been forgotten, people always had some strange dreams, and suddenly remembered it many years later, but dreams were just dreams - everything that followed went as smoothly as she remembered. She was welcomed to Jiming Village, and a man worshipped, since then, the Wang family in Jiming Village, has become her home, she works hard, frugality, has children, in this isolated small mountain village to live a leisurely and indifferent life.
Occasionally, men will talk about the drama, saying "I hope to live the life of the queen", she laughs, men are men, I don't know that for women, a home is more important than any queen, and now, she has a home.
The first one was born to a daughter, she was very calm, she was still young, and if she continued to regenerate, there must be a son, she named this daughter Zhao Di, and summoned her younger brother - the second one was indeed a son, and her life was satisfied from then on, occasionally there was something like white mist floating in front of her eyes, she didn't look at it, that world had no temptation for her, Jiming Village was her home, there was all her family here, and she would not leave here if she died. Home is her paradise, her faith, her temple.
Daughter is her only trouble, she is too young, too ignorant, she wants to read and write, but also wants to "see" outside the mountain, for a girl, this is simply a great heresy, she should be like her, is it not enough to have a home? A girl just has a home, what is the use of reading and reading and watching outside the mountain! In two years, in another two years, when she has a home, she will also be like her, forgetting the rainbow and clouds in the sky, and my brother is convinced of this.
However, Zhao Di's problem is getting worse and worse, she can say some nonsense that sounds, she begins to disagree, she begins to have her own ideas and put them into action.
When it was confirmed that she was dead, Brother Cun would never forget Changshu's breath for the rest of her life, and she would never have any more troubles, and then ......
She woke up from the dream, I don't know why, her face was wet, as if she had just shed tears, and then she remembered that Zhao Di was not dead, which was simply a bad thing!
She still wanders in the mountains until late at night!
She wanted to scream, but she couldn't, her mouth was gagged firmly, and she was relieved that everyone was by her side, and her home was still there! There was nothing to be afraid of! Then, what really frightened her was that Zhao Di was still not there!
Originally, when they heard that they were going to sell their family to Yiren, Cundi's heart was stable, no matter what happened, as long as the family was still together, she was not the kind of bad woman who was afraid of hardship! However, Zhao Xiaoliu brothers didn't catch Zhao Di, which made her heart rise again, Zhao Di stayed outside the house for so one night as a big girl who could be sold, she ...... She's sure no one will buy it!
But she died early, and she thought in tears, why did she come back to life after she died, so that my family was killed so badly...... She thought dishesively, unconcerned about what was happening around her, and after a while, it seemed as if their caretaker had changed to the appearance of a man, and after a while, many more bound people were sent, and the sun rose up and down, and she was only immersed in her own sorrow.
At the end, Zhao Xiaoliu came over, looked at her first, and then untied her rope: "Your daughter ......" he said.
She looked at him silently, knowing that she had spent the night outside, and her daughter Zhaodi had to marry him.
And you can't change it for pigs.
PS: I saw someone saying that poor people don't know how to gamble if they don't have money, I have to say that Ah Q in "The True Story of Ah Q", there is no tile on the top, and there is no place to stand on the bottom, so if you have money, you can gamble......