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Chapter 19 The Six Sons Involved in Gambling

In April 1997, at noon on this day, the sky was so gray that it seemed that a rainstorm was coming. My son and daughter fell asleep after eating and drinking. At noon, I thought very much that everyone would take a nap and no one would come to the store to buy things. I took the opportunity I hurried to the field to pick vegetables and cut rabbit grass. I just finished cutting and was about to rush home. I happened to meet the second wife of Wei in the village. She came to me with a hoe and said, "Hey! Are you Yang Liuzi's wife?" Nodding her head, she went on to say: "Oh, I didn't expect you to be so beautiful, but it's a pity..." She swallowed the words again.I asked curiously: "What's the pity?" "Oh, it's nothing, you ran out to pick grass and mow rabbit grass when you're not resting at home in this hot weather!" She said while changing the subject.I smiled and said, "Didn't you rest at noon? Why are you busy in such a hot day?" "Hey, Xiaolan, I heard that your husband lost a lot of money playing cards and owed a lot of foreign debts... ..." she said half-jokingly. "What? Playing cards, losing money, owing foreign debts... Impossible? Impossible, our six sons are too busy with work, how can we have time to play cards? It's not good for you to provoke our husband and wife relationship like this." I looked surprised. Looking at her, he couldn't believe it.The second sister-in-law Wei looked at me and said seriously: "Really, I didn't lie to you. I heard from Niu Niu that if your husband doesn't pay back the money, he will go to your house to move things to pay off the debt." "Ah, there is such a thing? Who dares? Whoever owes it to whomever, if he dares to come to my house to move things, I will treat him as a thief." The more I listened, the more irritable I said to her loudly.She sighed and said: "I kindly remind you, I didn't expect you to be so fierce if you don't eat oil and salt! Who cares." After finishing speaking, she walked away without looking back.I stood there for a while, unable to believe it was true.

At this time, my daughter’s cry came from home. I ran home quickly and saw my husband rubbing his eyes tiredly and coaxing his daughter. I thought of Wei Ersao’s words and wanted to question my husband, but I was worried that there was no evidence to ask him. The words will hurt the couple's relationship, and the words will be swallowed again.When my husband saw me coming home, he gave me his daughter, and said to me with a hoe on his shoulder, "I'm going to work in the field." There are two children eating, he won't go behind my back to gamble! ?I wanted to go out with him to see what happened, but my son woke up and clamored for water, so I had no choice but to give up.

In the following days, as soon as I went out, someone would tell me about my husband losing money playing cards. The rumors became more and more frequent, and the more I heard them, the more I felt like I was getting scared. I felt that there is no smoke without smoke. In the evening, when he came back from work for dinner, I asked in a low voice: " Liuzi, did you lose money playing cards outside?" "No, I'm too busy with work to have time to play cards!" He looked up at me in surprise.I said to him seriously: "It's okay if we don't fight! You know better than me the situation of our family. I don't think you are poor, nor do I think you don't have a diploma. As long as we work hard, I believe we will get better slowly. If you don't learn well and want to make a fortune through gambling, stop it as soon as possible. If I catch you playing cards that day, don't blame me for being ruthless." Liu Zi nodded and said sincerely: "Well, I know, you will bear it if you marry me. It's a lot of pain. I'm sorry for you. I feel guilty for not being able to give you a good life. I also want to work hard to make your mother and son live a better life. Don't listen to those talkative women. They know that you just got married and deliberately Don't take it too seriously when trying to sow discord between us." I nodded believing it was true.

On the eighteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, it happened to be the market day, and I said to my six sons: "Husband, there is no rice at home, why don't you pick a load of millet and go to the street to beat rice." He said, "Okay! I will pick one Let’s call.” As a result, no one came back after waiting for the first time, and no one came back after waiting for the second time. Seeing that no one came back after twelve o’clock, I became anxious, thinking, why is there a power outage?Unconsciously, I turned on the light, "Hey, is there no electricity here? Where has this person gone for a long time? Don't you forget that the rice is waiting for the pot at home! There are more than [-] people, is there something wrong? I don’t know! Our house is not far from the street, and it only takes [-] minutes to go back and forth, why do we just go there?” Thinking of this, my intuition prompted me to go to the street to see what happened.At this time, my son, who was less than three years old, came to me yawning and sleepy: "Mom...I want to sleep." I quickly put down my daughter and carried him to the bed to take a nap with him for a while. I was about to fall asleep, I picked up my daughter and walked down the street under a parasol. The scorching sun and our mother and I were sweating profusely. My daughter kept scratching her face with her hands, and walked to the shaded place in the bamboo forest halfway to me. Stopping to rest, I suddenly heard the commotion in the yard not far away. I thought, don't people take a nap in this yard on a hot day?Could it be that he was busy playing cards?I heard before that people, men, women and children in this yard love to play cards, and all of them are very skilled in playing cards. A few days ago, someone told Liu Zi that he was in debt for playing cards. Would he also come to play cards in this yard? right?Thinking of this, I couldn't help but want to go in and find out.When I walked to the outer courtyard and looked inside, there were indeed a group of people gathered around to watch the game of cards. They didn't seem to care about the arrival of our mother and daughter. I approached the crowd curiously and glanced at the people on the card table. I saw Liuzi squatting on the top I played hard and didn't notice my surprise visit at all.At this time, a middle-aged woman at the door saw me and the child and said loudly: "Liu Zi, your wife is here." Liu Zi raised his head and met my eyes. He quickly grabbed the money on the table and ran away. The small stool that the man was sitting on gave him a hard push, chased him and asked, "Liu Zi, didn't you say you don't have a big card? Are you playing rice?" He ran back and said, "On the street, I Let's go play." I got angry and shouted, "What? Are you playing cards here? Guzi is still on the street? Don't you know that there is no rice at home and our three mothers are waiting for the rice to be cooked, ah You unconscionable bastard, I don’t think you are poor, but you are really gambling outside behind my back, I can’t live this life, I want to divorce you..." Liu Zi went to the street without turning his head run.

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