This is a true story.
Aunt Zhang was widowed in her thirties, and she had to support two sons, two daughters and four children.
Many bachelors in the village wanted to marry her, but she just wouldn't agree.
Aunt Zhang is very strong, and her mother's family also persuaded her to remarry, she was afraid that she would find a stepfather for the child and not love the child, so she insisted on running the family alone.
She first married off her two daughters, and then married each of her two sons to daughters-in-law.
By this time, Aunt Zhang was nearly half a hundred years old, and her health was getting worse and worse.
However, she still can't rest and has to take care of her son every day.
One day, he was walking around the house with his eldest son's child in his arms, when he suddenly felt dizzy and fell down all at once.
The eldest daughter-in-law saw it and scolded loudly: "It's really useless, you can't even take a child!"
Aunt Zhang wanted to explain that she was dizzy, but her daughter-in-law snatched the child and took it with her.
Then he said: "Since you can't take care of the child, you can go to the second child's house to live." ”
After Aunt Zhang sobered up, she said, "I didn't mean to," the eldest daughter-in-law didn't listen to her explanation at all, pushed and shoved, pulled the old lady out of the door, and slammed the door shut.
In desperation, Aunt Zhang came to the second daughter-in-law's house, knocked on the door, and the second child said, "Mother, why are you here at this time?"
Aunt Zhang said: "Son, I have been dizzy lately, and sometimes I can't stand steadily, and I threw your brother's child to the ground, so I was kicked out and let me stay at your house for a few days." ”
The second child said, "Mother, our family only has two houses, and your two grandchildren are older, and they can't live there!"
Aunt Zhang said: "I don't live in your house, you vacate the firewood room, and I can live in the firewood room." ”
The second child vacated the firewood room for his mother, and then got some straw, and Aunt Zhang slept in the firewood room.
There was ventilation everywhere in the firewood room, and Aunt Zhang didn't dare to tell her son that she was satisfied with letting her live in this place.
Every day, the second daughter-in-law only sends a bowl of porridge to Aunt Zhang.
Grandson Xiaoqing couldn't stand it anymore, so he took a bowl, added some food from the plate, and then took a steamed bun and was about to send it to his grandmother.
When her mother saw it, she snatched the vegetables and steamed buns, and said, "Why do you eat so much if you don't work every day?"
Xiaoqing was also brought up by her grandmother, but she was only a teenager, and she didn't dare to resist her mother, so she had to send a bowl of porridge to her grandmother.
One day, the son came to Aunt Zhang's firewood room with a new set of clothes, and he said, "Mother, Xiaoqing's daughter-in-law will come to our house tomorrow, you can change these clothes." ”
Aunt Zhang was very happy to hear that her grandson Xiaoqing had a daughter-in-law, and her son had never spoken to her like this, so she took the clothes.
Then the son said, "Your grandson and daughter-in-law are here for the first time, and you have to prepare some greeting gifts."
Aunt Zhang said: "Over the years, I have taken care of children for your two families every day, and I can't go out to earn money, where is the meeting gift?"
The son said, "Don't you have a silver bracelet in your hand, you don't give it to my brother, you don't give it to me, you can give it to your grandson, right?"
Aunt Zhang thought about it, she was so old that she couldn't bring this thing to the tomb, so she agreed.
When the granddaughter-in-law just called out her grandmother, the daughter-in-law of the second family took off the silver bracelet of the eldest mother.
Then he said, "This is a gift that your grandmother has prepared for you, and she does not have a rope," and then gave the bracelet to his daughter-in-law.
The daughter-in-law of the second family's behavior was seen really by Aunt Zhang's eldest daughter-in-law, but on this occasion, it was not easy to attack.
As soon as the grandson and daughter-in-law left, the son took away the clothes for his mother, and everything was restored to its original state, except for the bracelet.
Since Aunt Zhang no longer has a bracelet, her daughter-in-law is not as good as before, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai all day long: "Old immortal, what are you doing alive!"
Muttering all day about the smell in the firewood room and not wanting to take care of her anymore.
Two years after marrying her grandson and daughter-in-law, Aunt Zhang died, and the second child found the eldest and said, "Brother, I have taken care of my mother for all these years, you can handle the funeral." ”
The boss twisted his head and said, "My mother gave you all the bracelets, so you should do it." ”
The brothers let them come and go, and no one wanted to do the funeral.
Until the two daughters came, the mother's body was still in the firewood room, and there was not even a coffin.
The two daughters knelt in front of their mother's body, crying profusely.
Until this time, the brothers were still fighting hard, and they were reluctant to go to the funeral.
According to local customs, daughters are not allowed to perform funerals for their parents' families.
Grandson Xiaoqing took a mat and a quilt, and carried his grandmother's body to the ground and buried it.
Within a few years, the brothers grew old one after another, and the eldest first had a stroke, half of his body was paralyzed, and he needed to be taken care of.
Every day, only his daughter-in-law takes care of him, and when he needs to turn over or relieve him, his mother can't move alone, so she asks her son to greet him, and the son says, "Do it yourself, such a big smell, smoke to death." ”
The mother just wanted to have a problem, and the son said, this is all what you taught me, and you treated my grandmother like this, so that she had nothing to say.
The second child also had an accident, when he went up the mountain to chop wood, a big tree happened to hit his waist, although he picked up a life, but he was paralyzed in bed and needed to be taken care of.
Usually pooping and peeing on the bed, her daughter-in-law said, the smell is too big, let's move to the firewood room to live.
The second daughter-in-law said, "You don't care about it, but you still want to drive your father to the firewood room?"
The daughter-in-law and the son said in unison, "Didn't you do the same when you drove my grandmother?"
"I learned this from you, if you want to say that we are wrong, or are you wrong?"
The people in the village say that this is the final retribution that the brothers will receive, that is, the cause they planted earlier, so that they have such a fruit today.
As the saying goes: sow melons and get melons, and plant beans and get beans.
(Source: Records & Transmission)