Male Meng Po

In the Wei family in the east of the village, there are two brothers, both of whom are married. Because the old mother is still alive, the whole family lives in the same courtyard and takes care of each other.

The ancestors used to be a wealthy family, but the world is unpredictable, and now the Wei family has only these two brothers and an old mother, surviving in such a dilapidated small village.

This elderly mother lived a wealthy life when she was a child. There were more than a dozen slaves in her family. She couldn't say how rich and luxurious her life was. At least she never worried about food, and she never made clothes and cooked meals by herself.Compared with the past, life today is really different.

Fortunately, the old man has suffered for most of his life and is used to it.From the time he married an illiterate man who worked hard in the fields every day but couldn't feed himself, the old man accepted his fate.It's just that she refuses to give up Wei, a surname that once represented the honor of the past.The man she married had no noble birth or ancestors, so her son took this surname.

In the past, people with surnames were nobles. Now that the society is in turmoil, there are more and more declining nobles. It is the general trend that surnames flow from nobles to civilians.

But now, this trend is just beginning to emerge, so in the village, even if the members of the Wei family often go to pick weeds, farm land and catch fish like them, they are very distinguished and different.

But no matter how noble a person is, they are still equal in the face of natural disasters.

This year's harvest was very bad. The elders and children were very young, less than one year old. Because the family did not have enough food and fell ill, the child died young.

This is already the third child of the old man who died.

The eldest daughter-in-law cried for a long time, but she had no choice but to watch her husband tie up the child with straw and bury it in a field.

Babies who have not grown up are not considered human beings, and cannot enter the grave after death.Being able to prevent the child from being killed in the wilderness is considered a little kindness of the father.

This is not a bad year yet.

In famine years when the hungry are dying, dead babies can be eaten.

But fortunately, this kind of famine is rare in a hundred years. Regardless of whether you have learned morality or etiquette, you have a bottom line in your heart.

It's just that the past few years have been really difficult.

At the end of the year, it snowed heavily for more than a month, and the wife of the second family gave birth to a boy.

A very spirited and beautiful boy.

Unlike the children born in the past, this boy looks very strong and healthy, and he has the confidence to cry.The second wife feels that she has the hope of raising the child.

However, only the second wife thought so.

The eldest wife lost her own child, and it was time for resentment. Seeing the healthier physique of the second child's family, she couldn't help saying: "It's so cold now, and the mountains are covered by heavy snow. What can I eat if I store food?" The time may be uncertain. There is another mouth."

Everyone was immersed in the joy of seeing the birth of a new life, and when they heard what the elders said, they were all silent.

This winter has been unexpectedly long, and no one knows how long it will last. The second child is undernourished and does not have much milk.Whether it is to supplement the nutrition of the second family or feed the children with porridge, more food is needed.

A child who doesn't know when he will die.

"I can't live anymore, why do I have an extra mouth?" The boss opened his mouth.

The second wife looked at her husband beggingly: "This is a boy."

The eldest wife murmured: "So what about the son, if he can't survive, he won't exist."

Just like her child who died in infancy.She had given birth to three sons, so what, and now she still has no son.

The second child has already had a three-year-old boy, who is in good health, and now he has this again.Compared with the desolation under her knees, the eldest wife felt very sad.

The second child remained silent until the old mother finally said, "The family doesn't have that much food. Since you have a son, you don't want this one."

In one sentence, the future destiny of this boy was decided.

The second wife was reluctant, she shed a few tears eagerly, looked at the hand that her husband extended to her, grabbed the swaddle, and finally let go.

The second child took the child away, but did not bring the baby.

The rare linen can be kept at home.What a waste for a child who is doomed to freeze to death outside.

The second child walked out of the room with the child in his hand, not shy about being seen by the villagers for throwing the child away.

In the same year when the harvest was not good, seeing that the children of the second family were thrown away while they were still alive, the eldest wife felt immediately balanced.

There is a woman named Shi in the west of the village.The woman has been married for several years, but her belly has not moved at all.She has never had menstruation and is a woman who cannot have children at all.

Every day, Shi suffers from her husband's indifference and her mother-in-law's eyes. Although Shi is very hardworking, with dexterous hands and great strength, he can do rough and fine work, and he is filial and obedient.The only pity is that she can't give birth to a child.

Not only the family members, but even the people in the village looked at her strangely.Because Shi is a bit rough and not like a woman's tender appearance, someone once said that when the goddess created a man, she forgot to give her important parts, which belonged to men.But there is no female part for her, so Shi is neither a man nor a complete woman.

Words are hard to hear.

Shi's husband was very dissatisfied with Shi, but there was nothing he could do.If he hadn't been able to marry another one, and the family needed a shrewd and capable Shi to help him, he would have given up on this worthless woman long ago.

If one day he has money and food, or no longer needs Shi as a worker, that day will be the day when Shi will be driven away.

Shi Xin was well aware of this matter.So she was very anxious, and she kept thinking of various ways to hope that she could conceive a child. Even if the time came to famine, Shi vowed that she would never give up her child.

However, no matter how much she prayed, the menstruation was gone, and the child did not move at all.

On the contrary, it was the Wei family in the east of the village who always heard good news of having a child.

Shi went crazy with jealousy.

In the winter of this year, Shi's mother-in-law fell ill and left.He closed his eyes and only hoped that his son could marry a fertile one, and the man agreed.Tell Shi that when winter is over and summer comes, and the days will not be so difficult, he will give Shi some food and tell her to go away.

A man wants to fulfill the wishes of his dead mother, and he thinks he can figure it out.Or look forward to a good harvest in the coming year.

His mother is gone, and there is one less mouth in the house, so he can relax a lot.

Shi was anxious, and she didn't know what to do.As usual, she went out to catch hares in the snow during the day, and happened to meet Wei Laoer who was carrying the child out.The child's arms were shaking. He was alive, not dead.

Another child was born in the Wei family, but as before, they refused to take good care of it.

Shi wanted to have a child, no matter how scarce the food was, she wanted to raise it, but unfortunately she couldn't give birth.

Those with and without children, those who don’t want to raise them and those who want to.

Shi's eyes lit up, she had nowhere to go, so she just quietly followed Wei's second son, watching people throw the child under the tree at the foot of the mountain.When the people were far away, Shi hurriedly rushed over, hugged the child in his arms, and secretly took the child home.

They don't want the children of the Wei family, but she wants them.

But men don't want it.

"You stole the child? This is a felony! Put it back!" Seeing the child in Shi's arms shaking his arms, the man immediately angrily shouted.

Shi nervously stammered: "No, it's not stolen. Mine. They don't want it anymore. It's mine."

The two quarreled for a long time before Shi Cai explained the matter clearly.The man beat his legs angrily, what he wanted was his own child, what's the matter with raising someone else's.Thinking of the Wei family, the man hurried to the door to explain the matter clearly.

To the surprise of the man, the Wei family didn't react at all to this matter. In the eyes of the second son of the Wei family, the child is not his if he sends it away. As for whether he lives or dies, he doesn't care about his future whereabouts.He is more concerned about how much food he can eat at noon and how much food is still in the warehouse.

The second wife asked if the child was okay, but did not mention bringing the child back.

The Wei family didn't want a child, so the man had no choice but to come back and vowed to let Shi throw away this food-wasting bastard, but Shi refused to let go, insisting that this was his child.

The man had no choice but to say that the family would never give food to the child, and that if he wanted to take care of him, he had to find a way to feed him.

There are only things in the world that you don't want to do hard, and there is nothing you can't do.The man didn't give him food, and Shi himself didn't have any milk, but she did her best to feed the child in this winter when the mountains were covered by heavy snow.

Shi was very happy, but the child did not change the ending of her being abandoned in the late spring of the following year.

The harvest has been bad for two consecutive years, and people in the village are almost out of food. Fortunately, this spring has started to be sunny, and everyone thinks this will be a good omen.

The fact is exactly the same, the whole year has been smooth.

The man finally got rid of Shi, and only gave Shi half a bag of corn, which ended the seven years of the woman's love for him.Even the small house I live in is an abandoned house, and the roof is leaking.

According to the rules here, Shi Qinian is barren, so he can even let this woman leave the house.Being able to give her something, the man earned enough fame, and because of this good reputation, the man married a woman from another village.Two months after Shi was driven away, the man's new wife became pregnant.

The man's life was finally on the right track, but Shi, who was abandoned by him, became a little crazy from then on.

Shi is normal most of the time and remembers to work and feed herself and her baby.It's just that occasionally I would laugh foolishly, thinking that I was still a man's wife, and ran to my ex-husband's house to hang around to work, and after scaring the man's new wife, he was beaten out with a stick by the man.Once beaten, Shi would get angry and rage, spreading his anger on the child.

Later, the man's new wife got used to Shi's occasional madness, ordered her to work when Shi couldn't remember who she was, and beat him out with a stick after she finished.For this reason, there were many minor injuries on Shi's body, and there were constant pinch marks on the child's body.

Shi Yuan had low self-esteem and couldn't speak clearly, but now he is a bit stupid and can't speak smoothly.The people in the village only knew that Shi was abandoned and pestered her, and they said she was shameless, often pointing fingers, and knowing that she had picked up the Wei family's children to raise, they were even more critical of this.

Later, because she gave the child Wei Shishi's name without authorization, the Wei family made trouble several times.The old mother of the Wei family believed that a discarded baby, even if it was of her Wei family's blood, still didn't deserve the surname.It's a pity that Shi insisted on calling it that way, and the old mother of the Wei family couldn't beat the woman to death. After being called by her name, she had no choice but to face it silently.

But from then on, Shi and Wei Shiyi, who was only one year old, became the most unpopular people in this village.Even if they never did anything wrong.People in the village believed that these two people were not favored by the gods by nature, and they were born with bad luck.It will be bad luck to meet them.If a lot of people are not going well in a day, no matter how big or small the matter is, even if they just fell while walking, they will blame these two people, such as passing by their door, or accidentally looking over there, and they will fall down. mildew.And this little trouble is the most favorable evidence.Even if it is nothing, fabricated out of thin air.

The more baseless nonsense is said, the more it becomes true.

Shi and Wei Shishi became the gods of plague in the village.