Yoshida Mii

Chapter 346 Borrowing Money
Dongbao has often seen this kind of shopkeepers since he was a child. They pull a shelf cart, shake a rattle drum, and travel around the countryside. A few broken boxes are loaded on the cart, and there are cheap jelly beans and other things in it, such as ragged clothes and rotten soles. They collect them all, and also sell some needles and thread for a few pennies each. During the Chinese New Year, they sell some New Year's goods. As soon as the women in the country hear the sound of the rattle, they rush to clean up the tatters at home and exchange some needles and thread for jelly beans.Most of these shopkeepers don't even have a home, and they are vagrants.

Song Da Nier was only 12 years old when she got married. It sounds good to say that she was "hired" by her parents' orders, but what is the difference between "selling" and "selling"?She recalled the old and short man standing beside Aunt Song, who looked older than Old Song.

For a moment, Dong Bao didn't feel resentful towards Huang's cruelty and viciousness at all. She could even push her own daughter into the fire pit, and she could kill the little granddaughter that Second Aunt Song gave her. In other words, her granddaughter was just sold to be a maid, and Huang's treatment of her was really...too kind.

On the second day of the first lunar month, Dong Bao and Lin Shi took Wan Wan back to their natal home. After dinner, Dong Bao told Mrs. Li about Aunt Song.

"There is such a thing?!" Li Shi was very shocked, then shook her head and said: "I don't know at all, and no one has mentioned her. She was entrusted to the Song family, with such parents, I can only blame my fate ..."

Song Zhaodi has been gone for so many years, and there is no news at all. Doesn't the Song family just pretend that there is no such person?After so many years of being cold-hearted and cold-hearted, Dongbao has gotten used to it.

"If..." Mrs. Li hesitated for a moment before saying, "If it's convenient, you can pull as many as you can, and don't go too far. After all, she was hired to help your father study. For the shopkeeper, otherwise, how can I marry a decent man. However, if she wants to be as virtuous as Song Laoer and Song Laosan, then don't talk to her."

Dong Bao nodded, "Oh, I see."

Aunt Song's experience is just a representative of thousands of unlucky girls. There are no wars these years, it is a peaceful time, and the things that spoil girls gradually become less after the days are better. If there is a famine year, don't sell too many daughters. There are not a few families who change relatives. In order to let their son marry a wife, those parents casually hire their daughter to a family with a daughter, regardless of whether the other boy is a lame or a fool.

Dong Bao couldn't understand those cruel parents. If it was her and Lin Shi, they would rather starve to death than sell Wanwan or exchange it for relatives.

Early in the morning on the fourth day of the first lunar month, the Song family became noisy.

The day Aunt Song came back was New Year's Eve, she took her family to kneel in the snow, and cried for half an hour in front of Mrs. Huang and Mrs. Song before they allowed them to live in the Dongdong where Song Yang's family lived before. Room.

Song Bai and Yang Xiaohong endured it for a few days, and on the fourth day of the lunar new year, they couldn't bear it any longer.

"The water thrown by the married girl is a truth that even a three-year-old child can understand! There is no reason why the elder sister has been married for more than [-] years, and now she lives with her family and does not leave?" Yang Xiaohong stood at the door of the east room with her waist pinched, her voice high-pitched and high-pitched. "When people go back to their mother's house to see their parents, not to mention the big and small ones who come to the door with gifts, there are no empty-handed ones, right? The elder sister said that the daughter leaves her mother's house empty-handed, and the old and the young live for free. Don't you have any shame on your face?"

Aunt Song was sitting in the room, listening to the sour words outside, her dark and thin face flushed with shame, she waited for a while, but Mrs. Huang did not come out to say a word, so she had to come out.

She didn't dare to stand up straight in front of Yang Xiaohong and speak, she bent her waist and lowered her head, and whispered, "Third brother and sister, I really can't do anything... If it wasn't for the bad days, I wouldn't come back to bother Dad." Mother...Zhuzi's father has been seriously ill these years, and Chun Nier has grown up too, so he can no longer sell goods..."

"Yo yo! Look at Eldest Auntie, she really deserves to be in business, she can speak well with one mouth!" Yang Xiaohong said, squinting at Aunt Song, "I have been doing business for so many years, and I don't have anyone in my hand Who would believe it? I think the richer you are, the more bitter you become. You hide your money and don’t use it, and come back to eat and drink for nothing. Oh, you don’t have to worry about going to hell and getting retribution for doing such a bad conscience!”

Aunt Song's tears fell to the ground. She had been wronged by her husband in the wind and rain all these years, but when she returned to her mother's house, she would be scolded by her sister-in-law like this. .

"Look at what my sister-in-law said..." Aunt Song couldn't continue speaking halfway through her sentence, and began to cry, covering her face.

At this moment, Huang opened the curtain and came out, staring at Aunt Song with a stern face, and shouted: "Why are you crying?! Crying as soon as you come back, is it my death or your father's death? It's not too bad luck for New Year's Eve! "

"No, mother, I didn't mean that." Aunt Song quickly wiped away her tears and stammered.

Mrs. Huang snorted heavily. Looking at Aunt Song, who was dark and thin, and looked almost as old as her, her face was full of disgust. Sure enough, all daughters are losers. Husband and children come back to eat from their natal family!

"What your sister-in-law said is not rough, what are you planning? How many days have you lived here? When are you leaving?" Huang asked.

Aunt Song was very embarrassed, her face flushed, she muttered silently.

"May I ask you, are you deaf or dumb?" Mrs. Huang raised her voice, turned her head and saw that many onlookers had gathered around the gate of her yard, and hurriedly waved them away, cursing, "What are you looking at? Get out of here." , go, go!"

In the east room, Aunt Song's son Zhuzi couldn't bear it any longer, and came out of the house, gritting his teeth, took Aunt Song's arm, and said to Mrs. Huang, "We're moving now, we can't stop!"

Aunt Song slapped Zhuzi angrily, pushed him into the house and refused to let him out, and apologized to Huang, "Mother, Zhuzi is not sensible, so please ignore him."

Mrs. Huang sneered, waved her hands and said, "He's not from our Song family, so I don't bother to care about him! Did you hear what I asked you clearly, when are you leaving? I can cook some good food for you to see you off."

"Mother!" Aunt Song fell to her knees, "It's a snowy day, Zhuzi's father has been sick all the time, how many days can he live after moving out?"

Second Aunt Song was standing at the door of the West Wing, watching a good show, and now she added more fuel and vinegar in a high-pitched voice, "Sister, you can live in the east house, you have to pay rent to our mother, you don't know if you haven't come home for decades. , our mother can't get out of losing money, her sons and daughters don't even recognize her, so she recognizes money!"

Anyway, they separated a long time ago, and they didn't even live together for meals. Aunt Song was in charge of eating and drinking, and their second room was happy to watch the fun.

"Nonsense!" Mrs. Huang cursed at the west wing, "Go back to the house, it's none of your business!" Then she stared at Aunt Song and cursed: "Are you cheating on me? Your man won't live for a few days I don't care, if you stay here, your father and I will be pissed off by you!"

Aunt Song saw that Mrs. Huang had killed them and refused to take them in. Old man Song hid in the house and never came out. She was also discouraged and knelt down in front of Mrs. Huang and said, "Mother, when spring begins, we won't take them in when the snow melts." Come on, Zhuzi's father has suffered from illness over the years, and Chun Nier has grown up. It should be said that we are kissing each other. It is not a problem for my family to be floating around. I am thinking, Chun Nier and I can rent someone else's house Land farming, Zhuzi to be a shopkeeper, you lend me [-] yuan, we build two adobe houses, after one or two years, I can pay you back the money..."

Aunt Song's voice became softer as she spoke, and she had no confidence at all, because Mrs. Huang kept looking at her with a sneer, as if what she was talking about was a fairy tale.

Mrs. Huang kept silent, meaning that there was no way to borrow money. Back then, there was nothing reluctant or unbearable to sell her daughter. Besides, more than 20 years have passed, and her daughter is so down and out.

"Big aunt, you've been in business for so many years and haven't saved any money?" Yang Xiaohong called out.

Aunt Song quickly said: "Small business, it's not bad to be able to make ends meet. Zhuzi's father has been seeing a doctor and making medicine all these years, and the money he earns is not enough to fill the medicine jar..."

"Then you come back to ask for money from your mother's family? You have been married for a few years, and instead of asking for money from your mother-in-law's family, you came back to ask for money from your mother's family. It's too bad that you can say it. It's embarrassing!" Yang Xiaohong said with a curled lip.

Aunt Song burst into tears again, "Zhuzi's father is alone, his parents are long gone, how can I have a husband's family..."

Chun Nier ran out of the room, hugged Aunt Song and knelt down together, wept together sadly, pulled Aunt Song and cried in a low voice: "Mother, don't kneel, let's go, I don't want to marry, I will follow you Pass!"

Aunt Song raised her head and begged Huang with tears all over her face, "Mother, it's only [-] yuan, I will pay it back next year..."

Huang said flatly: "Not a single money!"

Some of the onlookers knew about the sale of Huang's daughter, and they immediately shouted: "Old lady Song, you sold your daughter for more than [-] yuan, didn't you? The daughter is so pitiful, you take the money If you come out, just treat it as if you sold it for [-] yuan less, and it will be over!"

Huang's face turned red all of a sudden, and she was holding a big broom against the wall as if to rush over to hit the talkative person, but Yang Xiaohong hurriedly stopped her, and Huang got down a step, cursing and swearing for a long time, careless It's to scold that man and dog for meddling in other people's business.

"You have money, why don't you give it to me!" Huang's embarrassment and indignation were hard to appease. After all, selling a girl to such an old shopkeeper is not an honorable thing. If someone exposes her scandal, can she not become angry from embarrassment.

Yang Xiaohong seemed to have been enlightened by Huang's words, pointing at Aunt Song who was kneeling on the ground, she smiled and said, "Sister Song, you can go to anyone who has money. Back then, parents sent you to help my elder brother study. Hired out, it's the elder brother's debt to you, it has nothing to do with our third son, and it's not for our third son's education. This father's debt is repaid, it's only right and proper, if you want money, you can go to the elder brother's daughter to ask for it!"

(End of this chapter)