Chapter 10: Stealing
Brother Cun is afraid of her mother-in-law, just like a chicken is afraid of an eagle, not only because she is the most powerful woman in the Wang family, but also because she is the most dissatisfied person in the whole Jiming Village, and she herself is always trying to remind Brother Cun of these two points. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Those who have lived well-off since childhood, surrounded by wealth, have a strange illusion that in the huts of poor families, there is neither power nor power struggle, but in fact?
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.
How could the mother-in-law of the surviving brother have worked hard for thirty years to become a mother-in-law, and how could she have allowed such a hard-won power to be ignored? At the end of the year, they sell it to the pig collectors in the neighboring villages, and the pig collectors sell it to the "county", and then buy three or five catties of pork from the pig collectors or the big households in the village for the New Year, but anyone who knows a little bit can calculate that the pork they bought back is twice the price at which they sold the pigs, which seems to be a strange deal, selling their own pigs at a low price and then buying the pork back from the original owner at a high price? Is it because the Wang family has so much money that they are panicking? Or is it a high-tech job that the Wang family can't do this work?
Even if the wholesale price is cheap and the retail price is expensive, the poorer they are, the more they can only buy at the retail price, but they are not bad at the end of the year, they kill the pig by themselves, the oil-rich offal is cooked at that time, the meat is pickled, and the villagers are entertaining guests for the New Year, and when they need to buy meat, they slowly sell it and make a lot of money.
The money for selling pigs, the Wang family paid for the maintenance of farming tools, Wang Xi's reading expenses and the expenses of buying piglets in the coming year, there is little left, and the family's food and clothing often need two uncles who go out to carry the work to make up for it, and the wind and rain have been smooth in recent years, if the harvest is a little worse, Wang Xi will have to say goodbye to the school, but without the hope of bringing his uncles after he gets ahead, the two uncles who have been away for many years are not necessarily willing to invest money in the Wang family.
It is such an embarrassing family situation, and it does not prevent the mother-in-law of the younger brother from exerting her prestige as a hostess to her daughter-in-law and granddaughter all day long, which seems a little unreasonable at a glance, but if you think about it carefully, she has lived in a black hole in a thatched hut that also seems to leak wind and rain for decades, eating a hungry meal, a full meal, and from time to time relying on pigweed and wild vegetables to mix a meal, sleeping on straw, covering with rags, wearing two clothes that were married twenty or thirty years ago, eating a melon every summer, eating a pound of meat in the winter New Year, looking at the needles and threads brought by the merchant once every ten days and a half months, and hanging a lantern every year during the Lantern Festival, and her son and grandson are her masters, in addition to torturing her daughter-in-law and granddaughter, who have been so hard to get her hands on, what other joy does she have in life?
Therefore, as soon as she had the opportunity, she told her sons about her daughter-in-law and granddaughter, the water served to her was too hot, not hot enough, the posture of the end was not respectful enough, and when she called her, it was not loud enough, too loud, each of which could be a reason for her to ask her son to "teach" her daughter-in-law and granddaughter, and she did so for a very good reason, for the daughter-in-law, it is her duty to be beaten, and the daughter-in-law needs to be beaten like a donkey, and for the granddaughter, even the girl whose grandmother does not serve well will still have her in-laws?
Sometimes her son thinks that her nagging is trivial, and her daughter-in-law hides away in advance, she will try to pull her grandson to speak, saying that since Xi'er has read, the family should also set up "rules" according to the appearance of a broad person, and the Wang family has spent so much money to send their children to study, isn't it just for the sake of the family? Why did she gently let her daughter-in-law go?
After enumerating these many reasons, she can always enjoy a living drama composed of her son's fist and her daughter-in-law's cry, and then she feels that she is indeed a person of power and status in the Wang family, and she once again defeated her daughter-in-law, and won a great victory, and the shabby meals and bedding at home have become bearable, so she will never let go of the opportunity to let her daughter-in-law be beaten.
Right now, that's it.
The daughter-in-law has been reluctant for a long time, she has already fixed her eyes tightly, and when she sees her looking around, she is even more sure that she has a ghost in her heart, what kind of ghost is it? Is it stealing something, or is it stealing more than that? Stealing a man? Therefore, she actually hid in the shadow of the pigsty next to her early in the morning, endured the stench, waited for her daughter-in-law to reveal her flaws, and immediately called out her son, beat her to death first, and then opened the ancestral hall to leave her.
Earlier, when she saw her daughter-in-law looking at the neighbor's house and crying, she thought twice in her heart, how to use this excuse to force her daughter-in-law to go to Zhimei's house and hang herself, how could she get all the financial gifts of Zhimei, and then pay for a coffin, and enjoy it for herself in the future, and the corpse of her daughter-in-law?
Seeing that the abacus had failed, the mother-in-law of the younger brother was really unwilling! Zhimei's financial gift, the coffin that Zhimei's family paid for was already in her opinion, but now she had no reason to ask her daughter-in-law to hang herself, and she couldn't help but curse in her heart: "This unlucky poor girl has no financial luck in the end, and she is so tired that she has no coffin to sleep on." ā
Maybe her curse was heard by some passer-by, seeing that Zhimei was gone, but her daughter-in-law did not go back to the house immediately, still looking left and right, no, there is a chance! Oh no, there is a situation!
This time, she got the real stolen goods!
"Mother-in-law, I'm not doing it, what to do!" After many years of accumulation, the younger brother was so frightened that she was at a loss, and on weekdays, she dropped two branches of firewood and grass, and was seen by her mother-in-law and said that it was "deliberately spilling my Wang's things", instigating her son to give her two slaps before she would give up, and now a daughter who can exchange a pig and a few bags of grain is sent away by her, which must not be beaten from night to dawn!
"No-" Cun's mother-in-law didn't notice the existence or absence of her granddaughter at all, she snorted from her nostrils with contempt, her voice was not loud but powerful, and it was like thunder in her daughter-in-law's ears: "You have been holding firewood and grass for so long, are you going to do something with him while it is dark?" With the last loud shout, she suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed in the direction that Cundi had just been looking.
The younger brother was about to distinguish and beg for mercy, and his eyes turned in the direction of his mother-in-law's fingers, and he was so frightened that he almost fainted!
In the direction of her mother-in-law's finger, at the gap in the mud wall that had not had time to be repaired because of the rain, half collapsed, a man in disheveled clothes was hiding!
Moreover, she is also a famous scoundrel in the village, because she lives close to her house two houses away, so she must not say that she doesn't recognize it, Zhao Xiaoliu!