Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2613
"Grandma, the world has changed now, and the Australians are here. I heard that under the Australian rule, divorce is possible. Let's go to the Australians to uphold justice. You divorce him and draw a line with him. If anything happens to me in the future Come." Guan Zongbao resolutely said.

When Huang heard the word "divorce", her mind went blank with a "boom".In her limited social experience, only men have ever divorced their wives, and she has never heard of women being able to "divorce".

In terms of society at that time, it was not uncommon for the woman to propose "reconciliation" between husband and wife, but it was very rare.Most of the time it is because the husband is not doing his job properly, or has been sued by a lawsuit, and the mother's family stands up for the daughter, forcing the man to divorce his wife.It is said to be "reconcile and leave", but in form it is still "leave a wife".

Huang was born in a small local family, and her natal family was in a difficult situation, so it was naturally impossible to stand up for her.Her parents taught her the "Three Obediences and Four Virtues" since she was a child. Several times she went back to her mother's house and cried and complained that she couldn't live on. Her mother also advised her to be patient, to live a good life, and not to make others laugh at her.

Huang said with tears in his voice: "Hey, I don't want to live with him for a long time. When your grandfather promised me to him, you also thought that Guan's family was a local rich man with a family business. It would be rare to enter his family. Live a bit of a hard life. Now that I think about it, it was better to marry anyone than him. My grandmother, your grandmother, taught us sisters to marry chickens as chickens and dogs as dogs since we were young, and to be tolerant in everything. Although He likes to spend time outside, make friends with friends, and he was kind to me in the early years. But he got this strange disease, and his temper became worse every day. When you were young, he still endured the pain and raised fish flowers..."

As soon as he heard his mother mention things about his childhood, Guan Zongbao felt an unknown fire in his heart.In his childhood memories, this so-called father always got drunk with his cronies when he was strong and healthy, and when he never had a father-son relationship with him, he was still out there, threatening to quit several times his mother.It was the mother who cried and taught the young and ignorant him to intercede with Guan Youde, because he was still young, not to divorce her, and let her raise the child properly.Later, Guan Youde took medicine for many years, but he failed to give birth to any heirs. Others secretly said that it was retribution.

Seeing Huang's hesitation, Guan Zongbao said: "Didn't he say many times that he wanted to divorce you a long time ago? Since he intends to, and you also intend to, this matter is half done. A twisted melon is not sweet!"

Huang said: "If he is a healthy person, even if he divorces me, I will feel at ease. Look at his current appearance. If I leave him, let alone whether it will be possible or not, others will see it. If you know what bad gossip to say, your grandfather and uncle will not be able to hold their heads up in the future."

Guan Zongbao said: "Is it our fault that he looks like a ghost? He did it all by himself! He always said that he would die tomorrow, but today he beat us two with great strength! He is so ruthless and ungrateful." , Mom, why are you still talking for him!"

"Bao'er, grandma has done her best to him in this life. He owes both of us mother and son. The person grandma is most sorry for in her life is..." Huang said and cried again, "It's you! It's all my fault Mom has no ability to let you stay in ethnology to study and get a good reputation."

Guan Zongbao entered the ethnology study when he was young, and the ethnology teachers said he was a good seedling for studying. At the age of 13, he was recommended by the clan to take part in the boy's test. He didn't know what was wrong with Guan Youde, but he was asked to drop out of school before the boy's test Learn a craft at home to support the family.At that time, Guan Zongbao felt that he had grown up and had the responsibility to bear the burden of the family, so he dropped out of school and went home to learn how to raise fish and flowers.As the family property was pawned one after another and used to treat Guan Youde's illness, Yuhua didn't have to raise it anymore.His mother knew how to raise silkworms and reel silk, so Guan Zongbao rented more than ten acres of mulberry gardens with Huang's only savings and the money he saved from raising fish and flowers. One was to meet the needs of his own silkworm rearing, and the other was to sell it to the outside world. Some mulberry leaves made some money, and I also rented a fish pond, and set up a mulberry fish pond like an ordinary local farmer.

God's joke turned Guan Zongbao from a frail reading seed into a hard-working farmer with the scorching sun on his head, his hands covered with calluses.Originally thinking that as long as the family is in harmony, although life is hard, there will always be a day of success, but Guan Youde's behavior becomes more and more weird.Guan Youde always liked to drink, and after he got sick, he still kept the medicine pot in his left hand and the wine bowl in his right. Not only that, but in recent years he also developed the habit of smoking with his former gang of cronies, which made the already difficult family even worse. Guan Zongbao and Huang He hates this to the bone, but Guan Youde keeps saying that tobacco is a wonderful medicinal material. The old Chinese medicine practitioners say that Zhang Jiebin, a famous doctor, admires tobacco very much. Her mother and son don't let him smoke because they want him to die sooner.

Guan Youde occupies the moral high ground, Huang's mother and son can't say no to him, so they can only bear with it, but what they got in return is worse.When Guan Zongbao was still studying, Guan Youde could still work with his sick body, and he knew that money was hard to come by, so he didn't dare to spend money recklessly.Ever since Guan Zongbao took up the burden of the family, others praised Guan Youde for having a good son, and he should be blessed for the rest of his life.Guan Youde also felt that it was time for him to enjoy himself, and he started to drift away, citing physical discomfort as an excuse, he stopped doing any farm work, even cooking, washing and other things within his power, but he spent money more and more as he wanted , I don’t know where he heard the truth, saying that the greatest sorrow in life is that the money is not used up after death.

Mrs. Huang worked day and night, and after finishing the silkworm work, she still had to cook and bring food to him. Guan Youde not only didn't feel grateful, but also often picked bones in the egg, which was not delicious and did not suit his appetite.Later, Guan Zongbao heard from his neighbors that when he was studying ethnology, Guan Youde often beat and scolded Huang, and drove her to the pigsty to prevent her from entering the house, but Huang never complained to him.After all this, the Huang family still endured, and Guan Zongbao didn't know how his mother endured it for so many years.Guan Zongbao vowed secretly that if there is a place to stand in the future, he would take his mother out of that ghostly place, and this is how he later built the broken thatched hut in Sanji outside the village.

"Grandma, I don't blame you." Guan Zongbao said: "If you want to blame, blame the world."

Huang thought that her precious son was once the seed of a young talent, but now he is full of calluses, fifteen or sixteen years old is the age to talk about marriage, but now he can't even find a matchmaker. Nian Ke was about to be a bachelor for the rest of his life, and couldn't help crying again, "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Live in separate lives, and no one wants their daughter to marry into this family and suffer. He is good, not only does not consider his son, but also acts to death, it is really embarrassing to eat shit, woo woo woo..."

Guan Zongbao saw his mother crying into tears, and asked sadly: "Grandma, let me ask you, are you still willing to live with him? As long as you make up your mind, I will go to the Australians to uphold justice. Those who went to the market said that a team of Australian officials came to Jiujiang Daxu yesterday."

Huang hesitated for a moment, and said: "The Australians are not here every day, even if they give us justice, who will recognize this justice when the Australians leave? The family has its own rules. If I want to live separately from him, I must You need to ask the clan elders to discuss it together. As well as his food and drink expenses, you also need to ask the clan elders to set a rule. If you are like him, you will need one tael of silver for a disturbance today, and two taels of silver for a disturbance tomorrow. Yinzi, where did you find your wife Ben!"

Guan Zongbao said: "Grandma, you are so confused! Your surname is Huang, not Guan. You have been married into the Guan family and have suffered for so many years. Has anyone in the Guan family ever said a word of justice for you? You still expect someone from them to stand up and preside over it." Fairness? Who will take care of this sick old man when you run away? Is someone willing to take money from the family property to fill his bottomless pit? They are all pointing at our mother and son to wipe his ass!"

Mrs. Huang hesitated and said: "We are just unknown people, and we all say that it is difficult for an upright official to solve housework. How can Australian officials care about such trivial matters?"

"How do you know if you don't try?"

"Then... let's try." Huang wiped away the tears on her face, her glasses were already red from crying.

The sky outside the house darkened, but she didn't feel sleepy, and she was still worrying about how to get rid of this desperate predicament.She asked Guan Zongbao to go to bed first. The silkworms made this time were almost at "three sleeps". In the second half of the night, Guan Zongbao had to get up to feed her mulberry. The two of them alternated to avoid exhausting their bodies.

Sericulture is a very hard work.After silkworms hatch into silkworm ants and "pass through the nest", they need to be fed daily to replace their feces.Sericulture workers generally feed silkworms once every three hours, eight times a day, work hard day and night, and sleep and rise together with silkworms.Feed once in the morning, at noon, at Shenke, at unitary hour, at the first watch, at the second watch, after the second watch, at the beginning of the fourth watch, and at the fifth watch.When feeding mulberry, wait for all the silkworms to get up before putting down the mulberry leaves to prevent their development from being different, resulting in uneven quality of silkworms.Day and night, as the silkworms grow larger, they need to divide their nests.It is necessary to replace the feces twice a day, once in the morning, and once in the morning. The silkworms should be rolled up by hand, moved to other nests, and the silkworm feces should be removed to cultivate the sangji and feed the fish in the pond.

The most serious threat is silkworm disease. When "silkworms sleep", silkworm farmers must always distinguish the color of silkworms.During the first sleep and the second sleep, the consumption of mulberry leaves is less. If silkworm farmers see endless molting, commonly known as strangled tails, or see sandworm feet, blue body feet, and sand skin feet during the first sleep, they should discard them immediately. Go, to prevent the loss of mulberry leaves, to no avail.There is a disease commonly known as "blackhead", which often occurs after silkworms "sleep" and before cocooning. At this time, it is too late to remedy. Silkworm farmers can only see if they can form cocoons. Even if they form cocoons, they are very thin. Severe cases cannot form cocoons, and may even rot and emit a foul smell, so they must be discarded directly to prevent infection.There is also a silkworm disease commonly known as "red bone", which will cause the silkworms to stiffen and die immediately, but fortunately, it will not spread on a large scale.The most troublesome thing is a kind of inexplicable silkworm disease. There is no sign in the early stage, and it doesn't show up until the harvest is about to be harvested, which makes people caught off guard.

(End of this chapter)