Upstairs, Ashida and the pretty girl hadn't warmed up enough, and downstairs, Ashiko was already knocking on the clay pot that had leaked sand. The girl begged Lu Da to be with him alone, but the woman was bought by the brothers in partnership, and although he had compassion, he did not want to have a conflict with his brother, so he got dressed and went downstairs.
Lu Er saw that Lu Da finally went downstairs, and the monkey was anxious to go upstairs, but Lu Da grabbed Lu Er's arm and said that they were all people with bitter lives, and their hands and feet were lighter. Lu Er promised three or two times and sneaked upstairs to the room.
The woman did not want to serve Lu Er, when Lu Er was anxious to take off her clothes, the woman saw a centipede on the table, without hesitation, she put her hand over, and she was bitten by the centipede and broke her finger, screaming in panic, causing Lu Da to hurry back upstairs, seeing the woman's fingers dripping blood, and quickly put her fingers in her mouth to suck the poisonous blood. Lu Er, who could not do anything, looked at the ambiguous two people, and his heart was very unhappy, and he reminded Lu Da to be careful of poisoning.
In the rural areas of xiangxi in the 1930s, if a man could not afford to marry a daughter-in-law, but wanted to continue the incense, he would spend money to rent a married woman to go home, and after giving birth to a child, the woman could leave, so that the rented woman was called the fox flower girl, and the person who specialized in this business was called "the fox". Because of this bad habit, the original river in Xiangxi, The Mother Creek, was even renamed to borrow the Mother Stream, which is really ironic.
The woman's name is Wan'er, she has been married to her husband for two years, and she has just given birth to a child, and she thought that although life was difficult, the family could live together. But the weather was unpredictable, and soon after, Wan'er's husband became ill with tuberculosis, which plunged the already poor family into crisis. In order to treat her husband's illness, they could only rent out Wan'er, who had only been giving birth to a child for a few months.
Wan Er learned on the way that she had been rented to two brothers, and she was very resistant and begged Uncle Zizi to change his family. But take the money to do things, Uncle Zi zi can't do anything, just persuade her, serve the two brothers well, and give birth to a child so that he can go home early. An angry Wan'er pulled off the hijab on her head and threw it into the water, but was unexpectedly seen by a young and strong boat man, and the long pole picked up and handed the hijab that fell into the water to Wan'er.
Wan'er, who had no choice but to go to her employer's house and pray that she would have a baby soon. The two brothers made an hourglass with a crock pot, and agreed that the eldest brother would go first, and the hourglass would finish the can and change people. After Lu Da, who had never touched a woman, hurriedly opened the hijab, it was the woman he helped during the day. Wan'er also had a good feeling for this man, so she took the initiative to teach Lu Da, who had never touched a woman.
Although the history is a little awkward, but the two are also in agreement, Wan Er does not want to serve the two brothers at the same time, Lu Da on the grounds that Wan Er has just given birth to a child, and asks Lu Er not to touch her first. But every day looking at the two concubines of Lang's love, Lu Er's heart was very hot. The feelings of the brothers also had problems due to the arrival of Wan'er.
Lu Da knew that as long as she was at home, Wan Er would not agree to sleep with Lu Er, so she planned to go out with the village's Xingjiang team for a while. Unexpectedly, the day before leaving, Wan Er chased to the river, confessed affectionately to Lu Da, hoping to go with him, the more the two talked more and more ambiguously, and couldn't help but come to the boat.
This scene was clearly seen by Lu Er, who followed Wan'er, and he angrily shot at the sky. Lu Da hurried out of the boat and saw Lu Er, and he instantly woke up. That night, the two brothers sat in front of the campfire chatting, and Lu Er said that he knew that Lu Da and Wan Er were in love and was willing to quit, saying that he handed Lu Da a knife and took off his pants to let Lu Da castrate himself. Lu Da did not speak, and silently helped Lu Er lift his pants.
Early the next morning, Lu Da quietly joined the xingjiang team and left. Without Lu Da's obstruction, Lu Er was even more covetous of Wan Er. But Wan Er got Lu Er drunk every time and escaped.
Soon, the news of Lu Da's disappearance came. Wan'er lost her spiritual pillar and was disheartened, and decided to sleep with Lu Er and hurry home after giving birth. But the helpless stomach did not move.
Although Wan Er was rented, she still diligently cleaned up the outside of the house. While cleaning the courtyard, she found a wounded Red Army soldier in the haystack and secretly rescued him for hiding. However, the matter was still exposed, and it was reported that the white bandits sent people to arrest him.
At this time, Lu Da returned and saved them. It turned out that Lu, who fell into the water, was saved by the Red Army and retrieved a life. But in the face of his brother's resurrection, Lu Er didn't seem so happy. After Lu Da Lu Er and Wan Er had already slept together, they were also silent.
Soon, the white bandits surrounded Lu Everyone again, and in order to cover the escape of the Red Army, Lu Er was unfortunately shot and killed. Feeling guilty about his brother and being influenced by the Red Army, Lu Da decided to join the army to avenge himself, and before leaving, Lu Da asked Wan Er to wait for him at home.
At this time, the lonely Wan'er received the news that her husband died of illness and her son starved to death, and the disheartened Wan'er decided not to go home, and went to borrow The Mother Creek every day, hoping for Lu Da's return.
Unexpectedly, this wait is decades. Many years later, the news of Lu Da's death came home, and it was rumored that Lu Da was very powerful when he died, killing seven enemies at a time.
The novel is about the strange custom of Xiangxi borrowing a wife to have children, in fact, this system really existed in the feudal period, called the "pawn wife system", that is, the woman is used as a tool, used to pass on the generations, used to exchange money for a living, and more tragically, women also have to accept this fate and live strong in the pain and struggle.
