In ancient times, a very despicable story happened in Qingshui Town.
One day, Xiaorou came home from work. As soon as she walked into the house, she saw her mother-in-law wiping with a bloody knife. She was so scared that she shouted her daughter's name loudly. She searched everywhere but couldn't find her daughter. She was so anxious that she fainted.
The story has to be told from the beginning.
Xiao Rou married Xiaogang, who was five years older than herself at the age of eighteen. The two met only at the wedding night, and the parents and matchmaker took charge of it.
Speaking of Xiaogang, he has no ability and is not very smart. He is often bullied by his peers in the village.
He is timid and cowardly and can’t make any decisions about everything. People in their twenties still have to ask their mother for their opinions on everything. They are definitely a mama boy.
Xiaogang's family has been single-handed for three generations. After he was in his twenties, the old couple was very anxious and wanted to find him a wife to pass on the family line.
But Xiaogang's personality is not liked by anyone. As she is getting older, the old couple can only pay more money to ask the matchmaker to come forward to find it.
Matchmaker Aunt Li has a wide connection and many resources. Seeing that Xiaogang’s parents are generous, they have a little idea.
She also took the woman's betrothal gift at one time, and then found Xiaorou's mountain village to look for the girl.
Because Xiaorou's village is deep in the mountains, its conditions are naturally not as good as Xiaogang's family in the town, so Aunt Li just used a fraction given by Xiaogang's parents to fool Xiaorou's parents and agreed to the marriage.
The wedding was held as scheduled.
After marriage, Xiaorou's mother-in-law asked her to eat more supplements to give birth to a boy. Xiaorou eats some very unpalatable folk remedies made by her mother-in-law every day.
Although such a life is very painful, Xiaorou adheres to the will of marrying a chicken and following the dog, and works diligently to become a wife without any complaints.
A day like this, after about half a year, Xiaorou felt a little uncomfortable. After telling her mother-in-law, her mother-in-law found a doctor for her.
After the doctor's eyes, hearing, asking and touching, he raised his eyebrows and congratulated his mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law learned from the doctor that Xiaorou was pregnant and was very happy. So she changed her tricks every day to make some folk remedies for her to eat, with the purpose of protecting the fetus.
Although it is very unpalatable, Xiaorou feels it is her mother-in-law's wish, so she can only bite the bullet and eat it.
Finally got pregnant for ten months. Xiaorou's stomach was in a state of unbearable pain. Her mother-in-law saw that she was about to give birth, so she kept finding the most famous midwife in the area to deliver the baby.
After the midwife arrived, she found that Xiaorou had already shed a lot of blood. She saw that it was difficult to give birth, so she rushed forward without any delay.
After four or five hours of hard work, the midwife finally gave birth to the child.
After giving birth to the child, Xiaorou suddenly felt weak all over, dizzy, her eyes turned black, and she fainted.
I didn't know how long she fainted. In a vague way, she seemed to hear her mother-in-law cursing something loudly.
Xiaorou was awakened by her mother-in-law's voice. She opened her eyes suddenly and looked around. When she saw that, her heart felt like a knife cut, and tears flowed down her body involuntarily.
I saw the child put it beside me, crying loudly, without anything wrapped around my body, and my parents-in-law were loudly scolding Xiaogang without caring about the crying child at all.
Xiaorou endured the pain and said with all her strength, "Please wrap it with a cloth for the child, so that the disease will be caused by the cold!"
When the mother-in-law heard Xiaorou's words, she immediately turned her head and stared at Xiaorou, and then said viciously, "I'm so embarrassed to lie down here, so get up for me quickly and do it yourself!"
After saying that, she reached out to pull Xiaorou's hand, trying to pull her off the bed. Fortunately, the midwife on the side stopped her mother-in-law and persuaded them a few words.
Seeing that there was an outsider, the mother-in-law couldn't get angry anymore. She was afraid of being laughed at, so she angrily said, "It's useless!" and after that, she took her father-in-law out of the house.
The midwife asked Xiaogang to find a clean cloth, wrap the child up, and then gently comforted the child. After the child calmed down and fell asleep, she handed it to Xiaogang, but Xiaogang did not dare to pick up the child.
He was scolded by his parents just now, for fear that he would let his parents see him again and not be beaten to death.
Xiaorou was very upset when she saw Xiaogang not picking up the child. She sat up hard and said weakly, "Aunt, give me the child!"
The midwife heard Xiaorou's voice, carried the child to Xiaorou, and carefully handed it to her.
then comforted, "Girl, don't get angry now. If you get angry now, you will have a root cause in the future. We women are like this, with a low status. I have been born for more than 20 years and have seen too many such things. After all, it is their children's flesh and blood. I will accept it in a while!"
Xiaorou nodded after hearing what the midwife said, and the midwife turned around and left.
But things are not as easy as midwife said. Since she gave birth to a girl, her parents-in-law have begun to dislike her. Even she cooked her own meals during her confinement period. Xiaogang wanted to take care of Xiaorou, but she would be taught a lesson by her parents-in-law and let him go out to work.
Because the confinement period was not done well, Xiaorou fell into the root of the disease. When it was cloudy and rainy, her whole body was in great pain.
Just after finishing her confinement, Xiaorou was asked by her in-laws to do a lot of work, and it was all hard and tiring. For the future of her children and for the children to have a good home, she had to grit her teeth and persevere, carrying the children while carrying them.
Just as the child turned one year old, the parents-in-law asked Xiaorou and Xiaogang to have another one. If they are still a girl, then they will have another one until the boy.
It may be because confinement is the root cause. After two years, Xiaorou has not gotten pregnant again. Her parents-in-law have become increasingly prejudiced against her. She often scolds her for not having a girl and is a stone girl!
After the child can speak and walk, Xiaorou put the child at home and went out alone to do farm work.
But who knew that when she got home from work, she heard the crying of the child as soon as she arrived at the door.
She hurriedly pushed open the yard door and rushed in, and saw the child sitting outside the door, crying loudly.
Xiaorou hurriedly stepped forward and hugged the child, gently patted the child's back with her hands, comforting her not to cry. The child wiped her tears with her hands and said to Xiaorou, "Mom, grandma bullied me, she didn't let me eat, and she hit me with a rattan!"
Xiaorou glanced at the room and saw her in-laws eating with a calm face, ignoring her granddaughter crying in the yard at all.
Xiaorou was very sad, but she had no choice but to hold back her tears and walked in with her child in her arms. When she found that her parents-in-law had cooked their own meals.
Now she could no longer suppress her tears, and she dripped it down. After looking at her parents-in-law, she carried the child into her room with tears and placed it on the bed. She asked the child to wait, and then went out to walk towards the kitchen.
When she arrived in the kitchen, she saw a bowl of rice still hot in the pot, and four or five pieces of pork were covered with rice.
Just as she wanted to take out the bowl, her mother-in-law rushed into the kitchen, pointed at her and scolded, "This is the food I left for my son. You and my mother have to eat it and make it yourself."
Xiaorou could only put down the bowl helplessly, then searched in the kitchen, searched for a circle, and only found a small amount of cornmeal. She could only boil the cornmeal into porridge and took it back to the house to eat with her daughter.
She knew that the meat and rice in the house were hidden in her room by her mother-in-law, but in that era, a man had to write divorce books and to get divorced, and a woman could not unilaterally terminate her marriage.
Xiaorou could only live with her daughter in a swallowing manner, and often complained to Xiaogang, hoping that he could persuade her in-laws and accept her granddaughter.
But Xiaogang's cowardly personality can't solve anything.
Two more years passed like this.
That day, Xiaorou came home from work. As soon as she walked into the house, she saw her mother-in-law wiping with a bloody knife.
She was so scared that she shouted her daughter's name loudly. She looked around but couldn't find her daughter. She thought it was her mother-in-law who hurt her daughter, so she fainted in anxiety.
Not long after she fainted, she heard her daughter crying at her in a daze. She suddenly opened her eyes and found that her daughter was kneeling in front of her, crying at her.
It turned out that the mother-in-law just killed a hen, and her daughter went out to play alone just now. Xiaorou woke up and found that she was still lying in the yard, while her parents-in-law and Xiaogang were eating chicken in the house.
xiaorou stood up sadly and took her daughter to the kitchen. The two of them cooked a bowl of polenta and ate it with dry steamed buns . After eating, they returned to the room.
Late at night, Xiaorou got up carefully, hugged her sleeping daughter beside her, gently pushed open the door of the house, and walked out.
After Xiaorou left, she never came back. Her parents-in-law found a new wife for Xiaogang, and the new wife gave birth to a boy in her first child. They were very happy.
However, the facts were not as they wished. The boy was very naughty, but Xiaogang's parents were very pampered and could not bear to beat and scold him.
When he was four years old, he played with fire and lit the haystack. Because his family was working in the field, he didn't have time to put out the fire as soon as possible, causing the fire to spread and burned all the house.
In contrast, after Xiaorou took her daughter back to her parents' home, her parents felt very heartbroken after listening to the narrative between her and her mother, thus doubled their love for her granddaughter.
The family lived a happy life.
After writing this story, I want to say: Men and women are equal , it is not important to have a boy or a girl. What is important is mutual understanding and respect. There cannot be an old idea of favoring boys over girls, and men respecting women!
Sometimes the beautiful things you obsessed with will lead you into the abyss.
Thank you for reading.
The story comes from the full text of "Folk Stories" explains worldly principles and encourages sentient beings to be good, which has nothing to do with feudal superstition.
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