Liu Xiaoai, Wang Ergou's elementary school classmate, yes, that is, Liu Xiaowan and her sister. There are two sisters in the family, which is rare in this poor ravine where she does not give birth to a son and does not give up.
Liu Xiaoai's father is called Liu Jiandang, who went to high school that year, and her mother Xiulan is also a famous beauty. The combination of the two is also a good story in the ten miles and eight townships. But Liu Xiao'ai's grandmother did not like this daughter-in-law: the skeleton was so small, the waist with thick arms, the walking was weak and the wind could not help but be windy, and it was difficult to give birth to a son. There is also a rural woman, what do you want to be good-looking? Except for letting those old bachelors in the village see The Ryuha Lazi!
Not long after the marriage, Liu Wanglou Primary School expanded, and the village chief introduced Liu Jiandang to become a substitute teacher, who could not delay farming, and could still get a salary of one hundred and fifty yuan in January.
A year later, the eldest daughter was born, and the younger two were not happy. But there is one person who can't be happy, that is, Xiao Ai's grandmother, who says, "I know I have to have a bitch!" ”
Neighbors advised her: "There are still ten or eight in the back, you don't want much and how much!" ”
"Eh, you see her weak and windy look, and her ass is big enough to give birth!"
Liu Jiandang named his daughter Xiao Ai, which means husband and wife love, family and beauty.
After two or three years, she became pregnant with her second child. This time, everyone who saw it said that Xiulan's belly must be a boy, and she herself felt that it was, because the child was particularly noisy in the belly, and her mother-in-law's attitude also changed, and she bought twenty eggs for her to eat before the pot.
It was particularly hot that day, Xiulan was lying on the bed rolling over in pain, most of the time, still only seeing the top of the child's head. The midwife sweated profusely next to her,
"This child, the head is too big, Nell, you make a little effort!" But Xiulan tossed for a day, sweat made the pillow wet, where there is no strength, Xiulan Niang quickly poured a bowl of brown sugar water for the girl. Outside the door, Xiao Ai's grandmother was kneeling in the courtyard and praying:
"Oh my God, you are doing well, but you must bless my eldest grandson with peace and security, I will kowtow to you, I will kowtow to you!!"
Xiao Ai's father was also anxious like a cat scratching: This will not work! He entrusted his daughter-in-law to his mother-in-law, and rode on the two-eight bars to go out. His mother pulled it out:
"Son, why are you going?"
"Mother, this can't go on, I'll ask Dr. Zhang to go."
"You give me back, your daughter-in-law gives birth to a child, what are you going to do with a man?" Pass it out, our family's face or not? Besides, whose woman didn't have a baby like this? ”
Listening to his mother's words, Xiao Ai's father slapped his thigh in anger, stepped on the front of the car and walked away without looking back, leaving his mother to jump behind and scold.
Dr. Zhang came, Xiao Ai's grandmother blocked the door and did not let her in, xiao Ai's father was angry and glared:
"Mother, what are you doing?" If Xiulan had three long and two short, I wouldn't live either!! Frightened, his old wife obediently hid aside.
Dr. Zhang entered the room and touched Xiulan's stomach,
"The child may be entangled in the umbilical cord, we have to hurry up!" Come, mother-in-law, you will feed the mother some sugar water. Then, he gently patted Xiulan's hand and face: "You endure it again, listen to me, I will tell you to do it." ”
Xiulan was also a tough person, and when she saw the doctor coming, as if she saw the hope of life, she drank a few sips of sugar water and nodded firmly. With the help of Dr. Zhang, Xiulan tore her heart and lungs and screamed, and the child finally came out.
But the child's face was purple, and he wouldn't cry when he cried
"The umbilical cord is wrapped around the neck three times, and it won't be done later!" Dr. Zhang quickly picked up the medical scissors and cut them. He lifted the child upside down and patted him on the back, and the child cried out.
"Okay, it's all right, come on, put it on!" Xiulan Niang quickly took the child and wrapped it in clean sheets. Xiao Ai's father grabbed her daughter-in-law's hand tightly, her face was full of face, and she didn't know whether she was sweating or tired, and said with a crying voice:
"Daughter-in-law, you have worked hard, we are as handsome as Little Love!"
Dr. Zhang was about to pack up and leave, Xiao Ai's father quickly stood up and dragged Dr. Zhang's medical kit,
"Dr. Zhang, you have to eat before you leave, if it weren't for you today, my daughter-in-law..." He said, tears falling down.
"Oh it's all right, people are better than anything, I have to go, the clinic is myself, can't cut people off!"
"I'll pay the fee tomorrow!"
"Middle, middle, when the time comes, just wrap me red eggs!"
In the middle of the courtyard, The little love grandmother was still kneeling there, and when she saw the doctor come out, she rushed up and asked:
"Raw? What happened? ”
"Congratulations, this little Nell is very handsome!"
Little Love Grandma listened, half a day did not ring, stunned to look at the sky. Suddenly, she leaned forward with both hands, stretched her voice and cried out, "Oh God, you are going to make the old Liu family the queen!" Give birth to a girlfriend, give birth to a girlfriend, you let me live! Aha..."
Xiulan Niang listened to the sighs in the room, and Xiulan stretched out her weak hand and touched his man:
"You, you go and see our mother, don't have a good villain!"
Xiao Ai's father was also dry in the house, slapped his thigh a few times, and went out.
His mother was still lying in the courtyard, crying silently, and when she saw her come out, she howled more and more miserably.
"Mother, what's the fuss?" Xiulan just retrieved a life from the ghost gate, can't you stop and stop? ”
"You filial piety thing! At the beginning, I said that you have to marry her, this is good, give birth to a girlfriend and give birth to a girlfriend, you are going to let our old Liu family cut off your hands! Oh shit! ”
"What about a girlfriend?" Girlfriend, he is not surnamed Liu? ”
"Gee, you still have a reason?" I see that you have been seduced by the fox spirit! Saying that the old mother was a fist to him.
"What do you say?" Xiulan she is a daughter-in-law!! ”
"Your daughter-in-law, your daughter-in-law, if you can't give birth to a grandson, I won't recognize it!" Tomorrow I will go to your sister's house to take her child and never come back!" It was superfluous to work hard to raise you back then!! ”
"Go ahead, go up there!"
When the old lady heard this, she got up from the ground, didn't even bother to photograph the soil on her body, entered her own house on the east side, closed the door tightly, and never came out again.
Here, Xiulan was also tired and fell into a deep sleep. Xiulan Niang looked at her son-in-law sitting on the edge of the bed, and several times she wanted to stop talking.
"Mother, I know what you are going to say, Xiulan has been wronged in my family all these years, but you can rest assured, in this life, I have designated her to be good to her and good to the children!"
"Eh, the founding of the party, I also know that you are not easy, I just feel sorry for my daughter..." XiulanNiang said, covering her mouth and sobbing carefully, she did not dare to speak loudly. Because Xiulan was lying next to her, watching her daughter pick up a life on the ghost door, and she had to be angry with the old woman, who could not be distressed. She sighed softly again: "You first put it aside and look at it for a while, and then go to the kitchen to cook some millet porridge." ”
Xiulan Niang went out, facing the endless night, after all, she couldn't hold back and cried...
The next day, Grandma Xiao Ai really went to her girlfriend's house. Three days later, Xiulan Niang was also going home, and she must also have a big son to take care of, and she took Xiao Ai with her when she left. As a mother, there are naturally a thousand people in my heart who can't rest assured. Fortunately, the school has been summer, and the son-in-law's care for the daughter-in-law is also meticulous.
Without the mother-in-law's parents, Xiulan recovered quite quickly. They named their second daughter Xiaowan, hoping that she would be as gentle and virtuous as her mother. Xiulan watched her man have to cook and wash diapers every day, and coax children, and she was distressed.
"Little love his father, look at you, tired and sweaty!"
"It's okay, this tired, a little work, besides, on a hot day, how can you not sweat!" As long as you and our girlfriend are well, it will be in! ”
"When I raise it well, I will definitely give you a son..."
When Xiao Ai's father heard this, he hurriedly threw down the work in his hand,
"What's the daughter-in-law?" Well, what do you mean by that? ”
"When the party was founded, you can rest assured, there is nothing wrong with it, and I know that you are not the one who cares about these things, but I don't want you to be embarrassed in front of our mother..."
"Why is it difficult, not embarrassed, she is our mother, can't put me together!" Xiao Ai's father looked at Xiao Wan, who was asleep, and murmured, "Such a sin, I don't want you to suffer again..."
Xiulan's side just had a full moon, and her mother-in-law ran back from her aunt's house. If you must live in someone else's house and eat other people's food, you must be managed by others, and which enemy is comfortable in your own home?
Xiulan was sitting under the eaves to feed the child, and when she saw her mother-in-law return, she quickly smiled and greeted her.
"Mother, are you back?"
"Well, why don't I go back to my house and greet you in advance?"
"No, mother, you think too much." Look, it's Grandma."
Her mother-in-law "cut" and went into her own house.
As usual, the child will return to his mother's house for three days during the full moon. He went with both of them, thinking that he could bring Xiao Ai back by the way. Three days later, the family of four returned, full of joy.
Little Love Grandma was sitting at the door sniffing melon seeds, and Little Love shouted happily:
"Grandma..."
Her grandmother twisted her head, Erlang's legs cocked, and there was a "hum" in her nose.
At night, Xiulan cooked and found that the box of eggs saved in the moon was gone, which she was reluctant to eat for Xiao Ai. She quietly told Xiao Ai's father about this, no need to guess, it must be Xiao Ai's grandmother's business.
At dinner, Little Love's father asked:
"Mother, what about the box of eggs in our house?"
"What eggs?" The old lady's eyes were slanted and her neck was hard
"Those in the big cardboard box in the kitchen!"
"Oh, give your eldest sister some, and I'll sell the rest!"
"What? Sold? That's what Xiulan didn't want to eat for Xiao Ai! ”
"What? You go back to your mother's house but it is smooth, there is no meat at home, you can't let my wife eat eggs every day, right? That day your eldest sister came, you gave her some, and the rest of the ladies pulled to the set and sold... Sold for money to cut some lamb and make dumplings. ”
The young love heard that there were dumplings and also clamored to eat them. Here, Her father was so angry that his face was green, and he was holding his hair and gasping for breath. When Grandma Xiao Ai saw it, she slammed her chopsticks on the table:
"Do you still let people eat it?" Eating a meal doesn't make people feel safe," he said, taking a few more sips of the bowl.
"Mother, what the hell are you going to do?" Little love her father's eyes were red.
"What's up?" rise! How dare you? Xiulan you said, what about me, I don't want to eat my own things? The old lady instantly burned the flames of war on Xiulan's body, and Xiulan was frightened, and the little Wan in her arms suddenly cried.
"Mother, don't worry, let's eat, little love her father, you too, eat it, our chicken is still alive!"
"Don't pretend to be a good person with me here!" The old lady stood up violently, kicked the bench under her ass, pointed at Xiulan's nose and scolded: "If you hadn't worn it behind your back all day, would you dare to do this to me?" rise? ”
"Enough lady, can't you see you a little bit?" What are you doing here? Little Love his father picked up the frightened Little Love.
"Why, not for you, for the sake of our old Liu family, I can't let our old Liu family go to the end!!" The old lady stared at her big blood-red eyes and broke these words word by word.
Xiulan endured and endured the tears and finally broke the embankment, this meal, there is no way to eat, she hugged the little wan who was crying and went back to the room. Suddenly, there was a roar in the kitchen, and the old lady kicked the dishes on the table.
"Look, look, this is the good daughter-in-law you have found with your own mind, who is you looking at?"
Frightened, Xiao Ai cried loudly, and tonight, not only could she not eat the dumplings, but even spilled the half bowl of porridge.
(Part 2: Young Ai and Xiao Wan watch their father carry her bloodied mother to the scooter and take her to the hospital, but her mother never wakes up again, and they are asleep with their brother who has never met... ）
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