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My husband has five brothers, he is the eldest (and two sisters and one sister). Because the poor second child was 25 years old and had no wife, when he was 25 years old in 1991, he borrowed all relatives and friends and spent 3,500 yuan on him and married a woman from another place.
But after only over a month with him, the girl ran away. From then on, the second brother was depressed and did nothing, playing poker, playing chess, and playing day and day.
was 34 years old in 2000, and he didn't save a penny. That year, his friend's sister introduced him to a woman who was about to be widowed. She looked average and was named Luo Yufeng, the same age as her second child.
Matchmaker said that her husband has liver cancer late stage and has been with less than a month at the latest. After their husband dies, they will be together again. Who knew that the matchmaker had done bad things with kindness. They fell in love at first sight and couldn't wait to elope. Luo Yufeng was stunned by love and left behind a seven-year-old son and four-year-old daughter.
Love defeats maternal love and poverty. They didn't dare to live at home because our village was only seven or eight miles away from her ex-husband's house. They didn't go so many relatives, but they just became permanent ambassadors in my parents' home. On the tenth day after they elope, Luo Yufeng's ex-husband died of drinking pesticides.
At my parents' home, my parents taught him step by step to make the two of them. I have been studying for more than two months. My mother found a yard on the roadside of my aunt's house in her aunt's house, and let them use it for free for my mother.
They don’t have the capital, and the sesame cake stove, case, sesame cake shovel, and wash basin needed to make sesame cakes are all provided by my parents. My second brother and sister-in-law lend them money as capital and also lend them flour (my second brother opens a steamed bun house).
My second brother drove the motor tricycle to deliver all the things to them, and he didn't let them spend money to cheer up. (The place where they beat the cake is nearly twenty miles away from my parents' home.) When they worked for more than a month, my husband and I rode a motorcycle there to see the situation.
I wanted them to increase their income a little, so I took them a new pump (we opened a repair shop and also brought them a pump, tools for tire repair, glue patches, and other parts (the second brother can also repair bicycles). I told my second brother that amateur repairs are convenient for passers-by
and can make some pocket money. They were very happy to tell us that the business was good and the money was not much, and the main thing was to exchange for more wheat (one pound of wheat was exchanged for six taels of sesame cake). They pointed to the whole house of wheat filled with bags. , said it was better than working, and it was over a month to earn more than 3,000 yuan.
They worked for more than half a year and made some money, but they were unwilling to do it. More than ten neighbors around had quarreled with Luo Yufeng. Later, I heard that they said the remaining dozens of coal balls were Luo Yufeng for the landlord's neighbor. Luo Yufeng had severe double body odor, and the room she lived in was full of stench.
Luo Yufeng told the people in the village that she bought more than ten pounds of good meat for my mother, and also bought a lively large carp . She was pure It's a lie. She didn't buy one or two meat or two fish. My mother was very angry when she found out.
My mother said she shouldn't tell anything without shadow. It's true. Even if she bought one or two meat or one or two fish, she could be considered as buying more than ten kilograms of big fish and big meat. It's a bit slim.
One day, my mother came to my house and happened to meet Luo Yufeng when she went to the store to buy things. My mother asked her, "Who did you give me the big fish and meat you bought for me?"
Luo Yufeng suddenly roared loudly like a vicious dog protecting food: "You want to eat fish and meat, what do you want to do for me?! Should I buy it for you? Who are you?" My mother was so angry that she quarreled with her, and finally she made Luo Yufeng lose the word.
My repair shop is a simple board house with bamboo poles as slabs on it. Two layers of asbestos tiles are laid on the roof.
In the summer of 2001, we stripped it off and replaced it with bricks. The fourth brother said that he wanted our bamboo poles and asbestos tiles to be built in the village next door, and the elder sister-in-law built a repair shop.
My husband and I agreed readily, but the bamboo pole and asbestos tiles were secretly built by a couple of children next to the school gate of my village, building a house to beat the cake. None of them told me.
When my husband and I found out, the bamboo pole and asbestos tiles had been on the roof of the pancake shop for more than a week. Although I was angry at that time, I didn't say anything.
One day, the second couple had dinner with their parents-in-law at my house. I said to them, "Your brother and I have made bamboo poles and asbestos tiles to the fourth brother. You don't just use it!"
Before I finished my words, Luo Yufeng suddenly screamed like crazy. "Look at me, you feel uncomfortable when you build a house!..." The second brother changed his previous tenderness and said sternly: "'I can do anything I can with you, I just don't want to tell you!"
I never expected that my half sentence would attract such a big fire. Afterwards, my husband analyzed to me that it was probably because my mother was quarreling with Yufeng, and she told the people on the scene all the things they did. She was so angry that she had no place to vent her breath.
The mother-in-law next to her immediately started arguing with them, "How can you two be so unreasonable!" My father-in-law also came over to argue with them when he heard this. My mother-in-law drove me away, and I was busy cutting noodles (I was in the noodle rolling business at that time). After
, Luo Yufeng cursed me when she saw me. She scolded me four times in a row, and I didn't say anything. I thought that as long as I didn't mention my name, I would pretend that I didn't hear it.
One day, my mother came to my house and met Luo Yufeng. She cursed my mother as if she was scolding me, but my mother didn't answer. First, I felt that she had not nominated her name, and second, I thought that my relatives quarreled when they lived in my daughter's house, afraid that they would laugh at her. But I kept talking about this in front of me, and I was a little impatient to hear it, and said, "You are so angry when you scold you once. I called her (because) she scolded her four times and I was not angry (actually, I was very angry, but I just didn't show it).
"What? Why didn't you say it earlier? "My mother showed a look of surprise and started crying as she said it.
"I used to find a family for you (find a partner) to find many brothers. I think you are honest and afraid that you will be angry with outsiders. I didn't expect that the outsiders would not be angry with my family. I'll tell your mother-in-law and scold you in the future. I'll ask your two sisters-in-law to come and beat her up and tear her mouth apart. ”
My mother told me about this and my mother-in-law said it to Luo Yufeng. From then on, she didn't say anything again when she saw me. We don't miss the water in the well.
