Yoshida Mii

Chapter 3 Memories
Song Zhaodi glared at Dongbao resentfully, Dongbao was actually wearing a blue cloth dress, which looked new, clean and tidy, better than the jacket on her that had been worn for several years and patched a few times Too much!People really rely on clothes. Dong Bao, who looked silly before, looks white and clean in this clean clothes, as good-looking as a doll walking out of New Year pictures.Song Zhaodi was a little unhappy in her heart, and she was about to pour the copper basin in her hand into the newly turned vegetable field next to the house. She didn't want to go all the way to the pigsty to pour dirty water.

"Sister." Dong Bao stopped, and stopped her again, looking at the copper basin in her hand, which contained either Second Aunt's face washing water or Second Aunt's foot washing water, no matter which one Dong Bao felt was dirty and spilled It was easy for Song Zhaodi to go to the vegetable field, and she didn't feel disgusted by the vegetables grown in her mouth.

Besides, the vegetable seedlings are so small, they just germinated, and the pot of water splashed down, which would definitely kill the vegetable seedlings.The vegetable seedlings grown did not survive, and with Huang's temper, he couldn't scold Mrs. Song who grew the vegetables vigorously.

Song Zhaodi was impatient, "What do you want to do?"

Dong Bao said with a smile: "If you splash water and kill the vegetables, I will tell you that you splashed water."

"How dare you?!" Song Zhaodi was furious. It turned out that the cowardly and stupid Song Dongbao would become fat after entering the city. How dare he sue her? "If you dare to speak too much, I'll screw your mouth!" Song Zhaodi threatened, with acrimony on her long face.

In the Song family, Song Zhaodi considers herself to be a meritorious official because she lives up to her name. She has recruited two younger brothers to the Song family, and now she is about to recruit a third younger brother with a detached status. In Song Zhaodi's calculation, she is only She was inferior to Huang's and her mother, and absolutely above Song Dongbao and Song's sister-in-law. Now that Song Dongbao dared to rebel, how could she not be angry.

Dong Bao glanced at her indifferently, looking at her from the perspective of a modern youth, Song Zhaodi was so bitter and mean at such a young age, it was really the inheritance of the Huang family and the second aunt, and she was obviously also a target of being bullied by the Huang family , but still want to bully Dongbao who is more pitiful than her, I don't know what to tell others.

At this moment, the second aunt's voice came from the west wing, "Zhaodi, the water hasn't been poured yet?"

Song Zhaodi immediately said: "Mother, Dongbao is back."

The west wing was quiet for a while, and the second aunt smiled and said, "Oh, Dong Bao is back, but did he earn a lot of money in the city?"

Song Zhaodi laughed like a dog's leg, looked at Dong Bao proudly, and laughed, "Stupid enough to make a lot of money like her?"

Dong Bao's face darkened, Song Zhaodi is just a child and ignorant, and Second Aunt Song is an adult, so it's nothing to run on a ten-year-old child here, "Second Aunt is joking, what can I earn as a child? Money? Can’t compare to Second Aunt.”

"What do you mean? You said my mother is not making money?" Song Zhaodi immediately said aggressively, "My mother gave birth to a son for the Song family, can your mother do it?"

Dong Bao let out a long sigh in his heart, and looked at Song Zhaodi's proud and complacent face. This is the long-term imprint on women in rural areas that men are superior to women. Even a 12-year-old girl consciously thinks that a woman who gave birth to a son has a supernatural status. , A woman who can't give birth to a son is ashamed to see others.

Thinking of this, Dong Bao said loudly: "Elder Sister is right, no matter how much money you can earn, it is no match for Second Aunt who can give birth to a son, and if you lie on the bed and don't move, you are ashamed to ask someone to take care of you. Elder Sister, you have to learn from Second Aunt, Even if the old sow gives birth well, it can be eaten as food!"

Song Zhaodi's face was flushed with anger, and she put down the copper basin and was about to come out to beat Dong Bao. Dong Bao quickly pulled out a wooden stick used as a fence on the edge of the vegetable field, and pointed at Song Zhaodi, "If you dare to hit someone, I will hit you! Don't be afraid If you scratch your face, come here!" Just kidding, if she is an older young woman who is beaten by a 12-year-old girl, she has lived in vain for so many years, and she can be hanged by her neck.

The long, pointed wooden stick was quite intimidating. Song Zhaodi didn't dare to come over, and cursed a few dirty words in his mouth. All of them were taught by the Huang family. Dong Bao couldn't stand it, so he stuck the stick back After leaving the original place, he turned around and entered the door of his own house, and closed the door with a bang, blocking Song Zhaodi's scolding voices outside the door.

Song Zhaodi stomped her feet angrily. She bullied Song Dongbao since she was a child, and she never saw that girl who dared to talk back to her like today. When she saw the copper basin at her feet, she wanted to pour it all in the vegetable field to discourage her, but thinking about what Dongbao said, if If the vegetable milk is watered to death, she will be scolded to death, so she reluctantly picked up the copper basin, walked to the pigsty, and poured the dirty water into the dung pile.

Dong Bao entered the house and sat on the bed, lying there stretched out, in front of him was the mottled wall, the beams covered with cobwebs, and a basket was hung on the beams. There are many rats in the farmer’s house, and they are afraid of good things. They were spoiled by mice, and they were all hung on the beams with ropes.

The house was filled with the peculiar muddy smell of old adobe houses, mixed with the smoke from the stove, and the stench of the pigsty, forming a special smell in Dongbao's memory.

In fact, Song Dongbao's background is not bad, she is better than most of the girls in the village, this is due to her father who was admitted as a scholar.That's right, Dongbao's father is a scholar.According to the regulations at this time, scholars can be exempted from corvee and tax, can receive high-quality food, and those with excellent grades can also receive some silver every month.

Logically speaking, her family's life should not be like this.

Dong Bao's father, Song Yang, is not an ordinary person. He has been studying for so many years, and the most profound truth he has learned is "filial piety". Whatever his parents say, he will carry it out unconditionally. The old man of the Song family has a soft temper and doesn't care about things. After all, Song Yang would listen to Huang's. If the Song family had no money to marry Song Yang's wife, Song Yang would have listened to Huang's and divorced Mrs. Song and married another one.

Originally, Song Yang was in the town hall, and he could get back some money every month. He lived a frugal life, and all the money he got was handed over to the Huang family, but Song Yang had a bad problem. There was no money for him to re-read, and Song Yang, who thought he was full of economics and underappreciated talents, was inevitably arrogant, greedy for good wine, and would go crazy every time he got drunk.In this way, he was drunk several times in the school in the town, and the school dismissed him. How can he be so careless as a teacher?
Without a job, Song Yang could only go back home in despair. His reputation spread far and wide, and no school would hire him as a teacher. Fortunately, he is not a person who does not work hard at all, and does farm work at home. He is a good hand, but without the money from his job, the Song family still has to support Song Laosan to study in the town, so life is extremely tight.

No matter how frustrated Song Yang is, he is still a scholar. He is much higher than the villagers who don't know a single character in the ten miles and eight townships. For dinner, Song Yang is usually invited to come to the restaurant for the sake of making the scene look good. With him as a talent, the class has also improved.

Song Yang, who lost his job, found his second spring in this matter. Others don't know his knowledge, but the villagers appreciate it!Song Yang is very proud of being invited to drink and eat meat respectfully, thinking that it means that others think highly of him and respect him.Song Yang would come home drunk every time. In Dong Bao's memory, there were several times when he was drunk and passed out. When he was carried back, his pants were all wet, which was very embarrassing.

Sister-in-law Song would sometimes try her best to persuade Song Yang not to drink so much, but Song Yang would stare, "A woman's hair is long but her knowledge is short. People think highly of me when they invite me to drink. How can I play tricks and refuse to drink!"

Song Yang would also find a way to pack the leftover meat dishes and white flour steamed buns from the banquet and bring them back for his family to eat. Watching the family eating the leftovers, he would compliment him on relying on him to eat good food. Song Yang would laugh contentedly and contentedly.Of course, Dongbao and Sister-in-law Song couldn’t eat the white flour steamed buns that Song Yang took home. The good things of the Song family were eaten first by Uncle Song’s two sons. Their.

Dongbao has never even tasted the thin noodles that Song Yang brought home every month as a scholar. The Song family steamed two types of buns for cooking, and the thin noodles that Song Yang received were only eaten by Da Mao and Er Mao. , When Uncle Song, who was studying in the town, came home, that was what Uncle Song would eat, while Dongbao and the others could only eat steamed coarse grains.

Song Yang often said that his family paid a lot of money to support his education, and now that he is capable, he should make life better for his family.

This is a typical "Phoenix Man"!Dong Bao sighed, he would rather his wife and children live a hard life and die, and have a little bit of good, but also honor his parents and his brothers and sisters.

Just in the twelfth lunar month of last year, on a cold and windy afternoon, Song Yang came back from a family drinking full moon wine, carrying an oil paper bag, staggering drunk, the ground was covered with snow, he walked into the river in a daze The frozen river fell into the icy water.

By the time someone scooped it up, Song Yang had already frozen hard.No matter how much the Song family cried, they would not be able to return to Song Yang.

Naturally, the funeral of Master Xiucai couldn't be held poorly.After a funeral, the Song family owed a foreign debt.After Song Yang was buried, Second Uncle Song proposed to sell Dong Bao, and the reason was very good. The father's debt should be paid by the son, and the elder brother has no son, so the only daughter can pay the debt.Anyway, he won't pay the debt, it's none of his business.

Mrs. Song's sister-in-law is fighting with her life, her husband's bones are not yet cold, and the Song family will sell her husband's only flesh and blood. Besides, when Song Yang was alive, he had arranged a marriage with Dong Bao. If Dong Bao was sold, what would he give to others?

It was because of this marriage that the Huang family reluctantly agreed, and only asked Dongbao to sign a labor contract to work for others, instead of selling this "losing money" neatly.

(End of this chapter)