farm daughter-in-law

Chapter 65

The eyes of someone next to you are like needlepoints, wishing they could pierce a hole in your body, because He Sheng is sitting on the far right, Luo Xiangyuan is on the left, and Zhang Xihua is in the middle, so she feels uncomfortable, and half of her body is huddled in the middle. On her husband, she turned her head and did not pay attention to the girl beside her.

Along the way, even Uncle He, a chatterbox, kept silent and just looked at the road in front of him. He Sheng didn't talk much, and now he had nothing to say. The dull atmosphere made Luo Xiangyuan extremely irritable.

Seeing this, Luo Xiangyuan suddenly said: "Sister-in-law He Sheng, I heard that your natal family is from Yangxi Village in the upper reaches?"

The Yushui River runs through the entire Daliang County, and there are many small villages along the way. With the county town of Daliang Town as the center, the upstream is collectively called the upstream, and the downstream is called the downstream.Zhang Xihua's natal family happened to be next to the upper reaches, and there were many mountains and forests in the upper reaches, so naturally there was little arable land, and it was inconvenient to travel, so when someone mentioned who came from the upper reaches, everyone naturally thought: Oh, it's that poor mountain valley ran out?

Luo Xiangyuan's question was obviously provocative.

Zhang Xihua nodded and did not answer.

Luo Xiangyuan snorted on purpose, and said with a smile: "My uncle's family has a cousin who married into your Yangxi Village. I heard that within two days of getting married, the family was so distressed that there was no rice for the pot. I was so worried that my cousin could only put the rice on her head. The pearl hairpins and the silver bracelets on my wrists were all pawned, and they were exchanged for grain to last until the autumn harvest."

Luo Xiangyuan talked more and more vigorously, regardless of whether others would listen or not, and continued: "The day I came back, my cousin complained a lot, my distant uncle and aunt were so angry, I didn't know the ladle that my cousin used on the day of getting married. Pots, bowls and chopsticks were also borrowed from the neighbors. My cousin woke up the next day to see, well, there were broken bowls, chairs, and tables with broken legs left in the kitchen. ..."

She giggled for a while, then secretly squinted to see the reactions of Zhang Xihua and He Sheng.

"I've heard of what you're talking about." Uncle He didn't turn his head, he thought he would tell what he knew completely since he had spoken out: "I heard that what you said is not the same as Xiangyuan. It is said that the man had already given five taels of dowry money, and the woman’s family promised to get married in early summer, but when it came time to get married, the woman’s parents temporarily regretted the marriage, saying that the dowry gift given by the man was not enough, and they had to take another five taels of silver before they were willing to marry their daughter past."

The corner of Luo Xiangyuan's mouth twitched, and she quickly interjected: "My aunt said that his family did not give enough money for the bride price..."

Second Uncle He interrupted her and said, "Xiang Yuan, don't worry about listening to me. At first, the man gave five taels of silver as the bride price in front of the matchmaker, so he asked if he wanted to write a list as a proof. The woman's family said that it was all done. It's a family doing all this, it doesn't hurt each other's feelings. Later, the woman's family took this matter as a raft and said to death that only the dowry was collected and the dowry was confiscated. Retire, and refuse to marry a daughter again. The man has no choice but to sell all the valuables in the house to make up fifty taels before he takes his wife home."

"This is a scam and abduction. The woman's family has been cheated! If you go to hell, you will end up in a mess." Second Uncle He said with emotion.

Uncle He's last words were very strong and loud, which frightened Luo Xiangyuan so much that he dared not speak again.

This incident really happened, Zhang Xihua knows more details and more follow-up.The man's family is somewhat related to the Zhang family. The man's family spent so much money to marry a daughter-in-law. They hated it to death, but no matter how much they hated it, they had to live. The family was so poor that they had no food to cook, and the bride was dressed up and wandering around. , refused to live an honest life, the groom hurriedly took off her accessories and sold them for food, the bride cried and ran back to her mother's house every day, and the groom beat and kicked her until she couldn't get out of the bed. If you have the problem of beating your wife, you will beat your wife if you don't like it.

The bride was originally good-looking, otherwise the man would not have preferred to spend five taels of money to marry him. This is the reason why the woman’s family used Joe to act reckless. The idea is that you don’t want to marry a lot of people anyway, five taels of money. The silver is sold at a loss, so don't even think about marrying my daughter without a tael.

When the bride was beaten by her husband, her nose was accidentally slapped, and her mouth and face became crooked, which was very ugly.When the natal family saw it, it was so ugly that no one would look down on it, and it was a waste of food when they took it home, so they turned a blind eye to the son-in-law beating their daughter and pretended that they hadn't seen it.

When Zhang Xihua was young, she was very afraid of the groom, and had to walk around in circles when passing by his house, and felt that the bride was very pitiful.Later, Mrs. Cai told her about this root cause, and said something sincerely: "The most important thing for a person is to have a peaceful heart. Only by being down-to-earth can one live a life."

Zhang Xihua didn't understand what mother said back then, but now she understands it.Regarding what happened to that bride, I can only sigh. She thinks that her idea of ​​living a stable life is very correct, but after marriage, she and her husband cherish each other, understand each other, and the husband and wife work together to live a good life.

(End of this chapter)