pastoral life

When Mingzhu was cooking in the kitchen, Wang Xiaoxi ran in. The little girl was careful, she not only got rid of her follower Wang Xiaotan and ran in alone, but also deliberately closed the kitchen door tightly, and even drove out Wang Dahe who was about to light the fire.

"Brother Mingzhu, I asked."

Upon hearing this, Mingzhu put down the lid of the pot and wiped her hands on the apron, then took the little girl away from the stove to avoid scalding her.

"What's the matter?"

"Sister Wanxia said that the grandfather of the family is here, and he is discussing with her father about pawning his wife!"

Mingzhu was terrified, but he calmed down in just a moment. This matter was far away to him, but it was the mainstream in this era. Country people couldn't afford to provide for extra aunts and grandmothers, and because their own women couldn't bear children, they always One or two are willing to spend a small amount of money to ask those women who can bear children to help them give birth to a boy to continue the incense.Although Li Sanniang is a good head of the family, it is dangerous to injure her body when she gave birth to Wanxia in her early years, so she has only given birth to a girl like Wanxia for many years. It is considered affectionate for Fang Tiezhu to be able to guard her for so long, but the village Which old man here is willing to just go out of business like this?It's not that my son is too old to give birth, who doesn't want to hug a grandson?Such pawning of the wife is reasonable, to put it bluntly, there is no son in the family, and no one even picks up the dung bucket when he is old!

"Okay, you go out, don't tell anyone about this matter, if you can't help it, you can confess to Wanxia that you once told me, go."

After Mingzhu sent Xiaoxi out, she sighed, and finally continued to cook. Wang Dahe saw Mingzhu's expression was not good and didn't bother to ask, just honestly took the tongs to dig out the stove hole, let the accumulated Only when the fallen plant ash fell off did a handful of new firewood be added.

Beep--

Mingzhu stared at the contents of the pot in a daze.

He also can't give birth, worse than Li Sanniang, if he really spends his whole life with Wang Mingchuan, even a girl can't give birth to him, so Wang Mingchuan can keep him alone in the future?

"Brother Mingzhu, brother Mingzhu?"

Wang Dahe called a few times before he got a response, Mingzhu shook his head and went to take care of other things quickly, leaving his daily affairs for future troubles, he is just looking for a partner to live his life now, maybe in a few days Wang Mingchuan would get tired of looking for a new love without waiting for a year. This circle is not as easy and long-term as ordinary couples.

If Wang Mingchuan really changed his mind before him...

Mingzhu speeded up the work under her hands in order to keep herself from thinking wildly, although the things in hand did not go wrong, but the boredom in her heart did not decrease at all. Wang Dahe couldn't help but worry when he watched from the side, but he was dull-tempered and couldn't figure out the reason, so he had to Waiting for my elder brother to come back and then discuss with him.

**

Wang Mingchuan and Wang Qingquan had been waiting outside for a while, and they asked someone from inside to invite them in. The Lanting Garden looked very elegant from the outside, and the decorations inside the house were exquisite too, although they were not many or expensive, they were Everything is placed in its proper position to make people look at it comfortably, even the old man with white beard sitting on the master chair is also pleasing to the eye.

"Hehehe, this is the stubborn donkey I told you the day before yesterday. Look at his appearance, he is comparable to you."

Before Wang Qingquan and the two saluted, Jiang Yuan pointed to Wang Qingquan and the young man beside him and said, Wang Mingchuan couldn't help looking in the direction, it was Jiang Cheng whom Wang Qingquan had just introduced.

"You old man is so unreasonable. If I hadn't come here early in the morning when Laifu told you that you had an old problem and reminded me, who would come here to make nonsense comparisons with you, stretch out your legs, and then hide and tuck me away. !"

Jiang Cheng yelled at Jiang Yuan, which in Wang Qingquan's view was outrageous and outrageous, and he should be dragged out to be killed with a stick, but Jiang Yuan didn't have the slightest bit of strangeness and still said to his son cheerfully:

"You should save some face in front of my students. If you want to look at your legs, look at them. I'm just too lazy to move. Who's going to make trouble with you?"

After saying that, he didn't care about Jiang Cheng, he just called Wang Qingquan over and said:

"Don't take it to heart, he has always been like this, you should not see it."

Although Wang Qingquan despised Jiang Cheng's habit, but because he respected Jiang Yuan, he still didn't show his face to show the truth to him. He just bowed his head and promised, then pointed to Wang Mingchuan and said:

"I mentioned it to you earlier. This is Wang Mingchuan, a student from the family. He is a recent scholar. He is also a smart and enlightened person on weekdays. It is only because his family is not good that he has not been able to invite a serious teacher to teach him. It is thanks to himself that he can learn today. He is hardworking, and the students want to support each other with the same surname, so he has to come out and let you take a look at him for a chance."

"You still don't like what you say."

Jiang Yuan seemed to have learned about Wang Qingquan's pedantic character long ago, so he stopped talking to him, and only looked at Wang Mingchuan with a smile. He saw that although the young man was dressed poorly, his demeanor was not inferior at all. The aura between the eyebrows is also rare. Jiang Yuan became interested when he saw the matching face and his eyes. Wang Mingchuan answered the routine homework questions one by one. After one or two questions, after a long review, Jiang Yuan would be more satisfied. Wang Qingquan looked at the faces of everyone in Jiang and felt that the matter was definitely settled, and he let go of his earlier worries.

These few people chatted happily but completely ignored Jiang Cheng, that Jiang Cheng was only in his twenties, and because of his eccentric personality since he was a child, he rarely made friends with him. He felt aggrieved by ignoring himself, and thought that he was pulled out of bed early in the morning to see the old man, but now he was so neglected. After thinking about it, he couldn't bear it, so he kicked Jiang Yuan's head. Sitting on the grand master's chair, both Wang Mingchuan and Wang Qingquan were taken aback.

"I'm leaving!"

Jiang Cheng was about to leave after kicking, Jiang Yuan was still smiling and showed no signs of anger, but Wang Qingquan, who always respected his teachers, couldn't take it anymore, and directly reached out to grab Jiang Cheng and said:

"How can there be someone like you in the world who is so close to you, if you are not around to take care of you, you can just say bad words to each other until you hit each other with fists and kicks, there is no reason for it!"

Jiang Cheng was already angry at first, and it has not been a day or two since he and his old man have been arguing like this, just now he has controlled his strength so that there will be no trouble, but now it seems that he is extremely unbearable if such a sour scholar talks about it, he Jiang Cheng Zilai is a person who can't bear to be wronged, so he grabbed Wang Qingquan with his backhand and was about to beat him up. Wang Mingchuan saw this and hurried to help, but it wasn't good to really fight with his clan brother and Jiang Cheng had to fight from the sidelines, but the two of them were anxious The other party would not stop until he was killed, and the scene was chaotic for a while. Wang Mingchuan talked and talked, and at the end he caught sight of Jiang Yuan sneaking away with a cat on his body.

Wang Mingchuan: ...

He felt that it was necessary to consider the future of working with such a gentleman.

"Sour Confucianism!"

"Fool!"

The two people over there were having a good fight, but Wang Mingchuan lost the intention of persuading the fight, and just stood aside and yelled leisurely in the direction where Jiangyuan slipped away:

"Why are you in such a hurry, sir?"

As soon as the words fell, Jiang Yuan jumped away vigorously with a "crack--" and Jiang Cheng, who was playing happily over there, didn't care much about leaving Wang Qingquan behind and chased his father over there. Laifu is impossible Frame him for no reason, look at the appearance of the old man, most likely he wants students to block him from seeing a doctor, he is too old to be afraid of taking medicine, he deserves such a pedantic apprentice!

When the father and son contacted Wang Mingchuan, he stopped Wang Qingquan to give him a favor, and said:

"All kinds of fathers and sons, all kinds of relatives, they just get along with each other in an unusual way. Why are you so restless? Mr. Jiang never said that you, an outsider, taught his son a lesson for him. What's wrong with that?" system."

Wang Qingquan adjusted his clothes resentfully, and unwillingly shot Jiang Cheng's back, so he had time to argue with Wang Mingchuan.

"Which father and son would not want their own son to kick Lao Tzu's feet, Mr. is so old, how should he deal with it if he really wants him to kick him badly, hum, just wait and see, I will see him later Don't let him please!"

Wang Mingchuan was persuaded, but he just let him go. Wang Qingquan's temperament was not developed in a day or two. Fortunately, although this person is a bit brainy, he is kind-hearted, and he is much better than those cunning and cunning people. To a certain extent, this person is really as good as Mr. Jiang said he is with Jiang Cheng - it is a rare true temperament.

**

After returning from Jiang's house, Wang Mingchuan turned to Fuzu Village again, returned the copied books and exchanged for a few new ones. During this time, he always had to argue with Wang Qingquan about the opinions in the book, and both of them were serious. Scholars who are also of the same age are good talkers, but this talk took a long time, until Wang Mingchuan had dinner at Wang Qingquan's house before walking back with the book basket on his back, and when he arrived at the village entrance, he saw Wang Dahe Holding Wang Xiaohu and waiting for him there.Now that Xue Jiaojiao is pregnant, these two boys will be able to relax and not have to be guarded by adults. Wang Mingchuan saw his two younger brothers stretching their necks to look at him, and couldn't help but quicken his pace.

"Have you eaten dinner yet? The night is dew heavy, and you have to worry about running out like this to suffer the cold carefully. Go home, don't delay any longer."

Wang Mingchuan took the other in one hand and walked back, Wang Xiaohu was still holding his brother's hand in a foolish way and kept dangling, but Wang Dahe kept frowning because he had something in his heart, wanted to tell his elder brother clearly but didn't know how to say it, so he didn't know how to say it. I can't feel any more uncomfortable.

"What's the matter with you, what can't even elder brother say?"

"No." Wang Dahe was stupid, he vaguely felt that it was not good to talk about sister-in-law behind his back like this with his eldest brother, but he really felt that sister-in-law's situation was not right today, after thinking for a long time, he finally said Mingzhu's sad thing, Wang Mingchuan Hearing this, his face darkened, and he just told the two younger brothers not to talk nonsense with others, and hurried home without mentioning it.

Let's talk about Fang Tiezhu's house in Xiawan, the old man Fang took a walking stick and beat his son more than ten times in a row, until the thick back of the farmer was red and swollen, and then he threw away the walking stick tremblingly and yelled at him, but that stubborn cow is Half refused to let go.

"Tell me, you haven't been asked to divorce your wife. Your parents have worked so hard to support you all your life, but because of your daughter-in-law, they don't even want a grandson to be hugged by your parents!"

"Father, I made an agreement with San Niang when I married her earlier, don't force me!"

Earlier when Li Sanniang was a girl's family, she was also a flower from all over the world. He, Fang Tiezhu, was able to marry the bride with the blessings he had cultivated in several lifetimes. Now, how can he talk like this now?

"Beast, beast!"

The old man Fang was angry and furious, and in the end he couldn't simply leave his son behind and ran to his wife's room, and knelt down with a "plop".

"Mother Wanxia, ​​I know you are filial. I can't do anything about the old man now. I don't know if you two are young now. Which family can lose a son? No one will follow the incense in the future, and you will go to hell. You can't live in peace, Wanxia his mother, just listen to my advice!"

Li Sanniang hugged Wanxia and wiped her tears. She was angry at the old man Fang for not understanding her and at the same time angry at herself for not living up to her health. The daughter in her arms was so frightened that she burst into tears, her father-in-law knelt down in front of her and wanted to kowtow, and her husband was silent outside. ... Isn't he just waiting for her to give in?

Li Sanniang tightly clutched the handkerchief in her hand, looked at the daughter in her arms, and then at the cobwebs on the window lattice, her eyes were empty, and she didn't respond for a long while.

"Wan Xia's mother?"

"father."

Li Sanniang still looked at the shattered spider web, and said with a smile that was uglier than crying,

"It's not that a daughter-in-law can't have children. If you want a grandson, a daughter-in-law... just have a grandson."

After finishing speaking, she only turned a pair of empty ghostly eyes to stare at Fang Tiezhu's direction, and shouted in the sharpest tone with all her strength,

"Birth! I will risk my life to give birth. If this baby is a girl, I will give birth again until my son is born. Otherwise, I will die and marry another son for you!"

The woman's sharp voice cut through the window lattice and pierced into the night sky. The cold moonlight shivered, but after all, there was still no response.

The author has something to say: Well, everyone knows the true nature of Li Sanniang. This kind of phenomenon is common in rural areas, even now. Although I have never seen that kind of difficult childbirth and death due to dystocia when I was young, but in order to give birth to a son. It is not uncommon to have a series of daughters. Although daughters hold up half the sky, but in rural areas without sons, people really want to be scolded. That's all.