Jade show knew that one day would come sooner or later. She was very depressed, but she was helpless. She only hates her father's early death, not as early as her sister Yu Fen's. When her father was alive, she told him a proper marriage.
Dad survived the winter, but died soon after the spring. Within two months, the second brother took his mother to other places. Ten days later, the second brother came back alone with a bag of food. She knew that her second brother had sold her mother, but she was afraid to ask. She secretly cried with her sister-in-law, but when she heard the movement of her second brother, she could only quickly put away her tears.
I'm afraid it's my turn this time
Jade show entered the room and saw the second brother sitting on a bench, his eyes sunken and his cheeks sunken, with a long yawn listlessly. Seeing Yu Xiu standing by the door, she was a little happier and said, "Xiuer, I found a good family for you. It's a family in the town. My father is a craftsman. It's a family craft. People have calculated that sixteen is a good day. "
Jade show thought this marriage was not bad after listening to it, and thought it was her own brother after all. Although she will sell herself, she will still consider finding a better family for her sister. Jade show "well", turned back to the back room.
Sister-in-law is sitting on the kang mending her vest. When she saw Yu Xiu come in, she put down her work and said, "People have torn the cloth. I have to buy clothes for you these two days."
"Sister-in-law, has the second brother ever told you what that family is like?" Yu Xiu wants to know more.
"A carpenter's shop. But I heard that I am in poor health and can't do heavy work. " My sister-in-law said.
"Craftsmen don't need physical strength." Jade show said, her voice was as small as telling herself.
On September 16, when the night was still very thick, Yu Xiu was held by her sister-in-law and sat in a sedan chair with a headscarf. The sedan chair wobbled, and Yu Xiu felt her heart tremble. She was finally lonely. Thinking of this, she felt that the autumn night was really cold and bitter, and she couldn't help crying.
Yu Xiu woke up when the sedan chair landed with a bang. She touched the dry tears and sat up in a hurry. A few firecrackers crackled outside the sedan chair, then the curtain of the sedan chair was lifted and the skinny hand reached into the sedan chair. Although Yu Xiu was afraid, she helped the thin man get into the sedan chair and followed him into the yard.
Yuxiu feels noisy all around, and her strange accent makes her need a little reaction to understand what others are saying. She listened to the instructions of the man who took her out of the sedan chair, kneeling and kowtowing for a long time. Finally, she was taken to a kang in a room and sat down safely. Not long after sitting, she fell asleep against the wall.
Suddenly, there was a commotion outside and Yu Xiu woke up. She secretly lifted the veil and found that she was the only one in the room. But there was a loud cry outside, so she moved to the window and looked out through it. People in the yard didn't sit and eat, but stood and looked in one direction. Some people took advantage of the chaos to carry food on the table.
Jade show looked at it and felt a little hungry. She took out the cakes her sister-in-law gave her at night from her arms, tidied up the hijab after eating, and sat up straight.
With a bang, Yuxiu was startled. She stood up in a panic and heard many people coming in from the door. Before she could stand firm, she was suddenly pulled away and pushed to the ground, and then she was beaten with a few sticks. The headscarf fell to the ground and she looked up in panic. She saw an old woman with a long pipe falling down again. She turned around with her head in her arms. But the cigarette rod didn't fall on himself. She turned to look. Several people put the groom's clothes flat on the kang. The old woman threw herself on the man and cried several times. She was rescued by the people next to her.
Jade show fell to the ground, her head out, and looked at it carefully on the kang. A young man lay there, pale and with his eyes closed. She knew it was bad in her heart, but she got up the courage to push the man's arm. He didn't respond. Jade show swallowed hard, got up, and gave the man a hard push, but the man remained motionless.
Jade show feels that the blood is cold. She rolled and crawled to the door, only to find that it could not be opened at all. She suddenly turned in horror and looked at the dead man on the kang, shivering and crying.
That night, Yu Xiu huddled in the farthest corner from the kang. She didn't know if she was asleep, so she spent the night in a daze.
Early the next morning, several people came in and carried the dead out. Yuxiu shrank in the corner, but no one looked at her. A long time ago, an aunt brought Yu Xiu a cake and a bowl of boiled snow red. Yu Xiu looked at her skinny hands and knew that she got off the sedan chair herself.
This person's name is Aunt Qiu, and she is a fellow countryman. He felt sorry for Yu Xiu, so he came to see him.
She told Yu Xiu that their son was dying of lung disease, so he bought a daughter-in-law to celebrate. Yesterday was a coin toss for ancestor worship and church worship. When I was baked on the mat, I fell dead. The old lady is not a vicious person. Yesterday, she was so sad that she hit Yu Xiu several times.
"The old craftsman said that you should go home after their son's funeral." Aunt Qiu told me when she left.
Yu Xiu dressed in mourning according to the rules, accompanied the craftsman's family, and completed the funeral for her husband. But as soon as the guests dispersed, Yu Xiu was kicked out of the gate. On her wedding day, she was still wearing a wedding dress made by her sister-in-law and herself. Red clothes stand out in the street. She stood helpless in a strange street, with an empty heart and no idea what to do. People passing by the door of the craftsman's house pointed to Yu Xiu, a widow and husband, and made fun of the happy event and funeral of the craftsman's house.
Jade show threw a road at random and walked slouches, thinking about her experiences these days. Widowed for a day without stability, and now she is driven out by her husband's family without saying anything. His father is dead and his mother is not here. The only brother he can rely on is a heavy smoker who has lost his family. Even if you go back, you will be gossiped and called an unwanted whore.
Thought of here, Jade Show felt ashamed to live, and might as well die clean.
This idea makes Yu Xiu have a little spirit. She quickened her pace and noticed whether there were any wells or ponds nearby as she walked. Finally, she found a well. There are no scrolls on the well, but the well is wet and shiny. It should be a well. She sat not far from the well, waiting for dark.
It's finally dark. Autumn night, a cool breeze blows gently, and Yu Xiu is thin and shivering with cold. She is looking forward to the coming of night, when it gets dark, no one will come to fetch water.
Yu Xiu stared at the well, quietly waiting for dark. Suddenly she heard someone calling herself, "Yu Xiu."
She jumped up in fright, took a step back, looked in the direction of the voice in shock, and saw that it was Aunt Qiu who looked at herself with concern. Jade show a little relieved.
Yu Xiu, what are you doing? Autumn aunt looked in the direction of Yu Xiu just stunned and saw the well. She stepped forward, grabbed Yu Xiu's arm and said in panic, "Son, we can't go into a dead end."
With the help of Aunt Qiu, Yu Xiu was pulled back from the entrance of hades. Jade show woke up from a trance, feel chest oppressed badly, want to open my mouth to talk but nothing can be sent out, she lowered her head, tears stream down.
Aunt Qiu looked at the little girl who was helped down by herself in the sedan chair and sympathized with her. She couldn't help crying with her, crying and thinking, "What a girl with bad karma! You didn't follow him when you were alive. How can you find him when you are dead? "
Yuxiu thinks Aunt Qiu is right. Why did she kill herself a day later? But she couldn't stop her sadness and cried for a long time.
That night, Aunt Qiu took her home for the night. Aunt Qiu's family of five huddled on a kang, and the quilt plate was only enough for the whole family. Aunt Qiu's man is also a soft-hearted man. He couldn't bear to sleep next to Aunt Qiu, so he slept on the kang, removed the door panel in the back room and put it next to the stove for the night. Aunt Qiu's son and daughter-in-law are also very accommodating. Although this family is not rich, they are all very kind, which makes Yu Xiu very envious.
Aunt Qiu's grandson fell asleep soon. 1989 The little boy was crazy outside all day, and now he is sleeping beside the pillow. Aunt Qiu's daughter-in-law was lying on the other side of Aunt Qiu, watching her son sleep soundly. She turned over and whispered, "Yu Xiu, I don't think you are as poor as the prostitute at home ..."
Aunt Qiu also replied: "Yu Xiu is very good at walking and eating, but she looks like a big lady at home."
Yu Xiu sighed and said sadly, "This family is really unfortunate."
Yu Xiu's mother's family is a Mongolian and Chinese businessman, engaged in fur goods, grain and oil business, and also opened several businesses in Xuanhua and Zhangjiakou. Earlier, my family planned to donate a job to my second brother Yu Bin, so Yu Bin entered a private school at an early age. Although he didn't have much knowledge, he practiced a good hand of cards. Many shop plaques and couplets were written by Yu Bin. Because of the disorder in those years and his father's failure to leave the west earlier, he gradually handed over his family business to Yu Bin.
When Yu Xiu was eleven or twelve years old, her sister Yu Fen married to Zhangjiakou, and her second brother Yu Bin took her to visit relatives and friends and go shopping. Yubin is not as clever as his father, but he learns quickly. When patrolling the shop, the shopkeeper in the shop didn't dare to neglect him, and his parents broke his word to him.
But in fact, Yubin had been smoking opium for some years, but the management of smoking ban was chaotic at that time, and it was also planted in China, so opium trading was relatively convenient.
But once this person is addicted to cigarettes, he becomes more and more lazy. Coupled with social unrest, he is not a big businessman. A few years later, the shop closed and sold out.
The warlord's scuffle has intensified, and his value has doubled. Yu Bin first sold valuable jewelry at home, then sold land and livestock, and finally sold the house. I got married and moved to a house in the country with my children. It was originally for workers who took care of ancestral graves for a long time. Three adobe houses have a small yard.
Jade show thinks dad is more annoyed with Paul Yu Pin. With the death of dad, the life of the whole family is in the hands of Yu Bin.
Aunt Qiu's family expressed their condolences over Yu Xiu's misfortune. However, in those days, it was not surprising that people in large families, small families and poor families borrowed usury, sold children and women, robbed and killed people because of smoking. Such despair is just an ordinary one among a group of poor people.
Yu Xiu finally returned to Yubin's home. But not long after, it was sold to a man who was ten years older than her and had just died.
That in-laws are notoriously stingy and overbearing in the local area. When Yu Xiu was still in the second month after giving birth to her first child, her in-laws fought on the kang and broke firewood bundles, and she stabbed her second-month child to death. Yu Xiulian was surprised and scared, and people became weaker and weaker. It seems that time is running out. Fortunately, the man she married sympathized with her this time, took his bedding and his daughter-in-law, went to a relative's house in Chen Lin and settled there.
People in Yu Xiu are pragmatic and capable. Later, he sold cattle with two other people in the town to make money, and took care of Yu Xiu more carefully. Although Yu Xiu is in good health, she has no difficulty breathing. When she was sick, she couldn't sleep all night, so she just sat with her head on the long pillow and against the wall.
1947, Yu Bin sent a message to her sister Yu Fen and her third sister Yu Hair, saying that she was dying, and asked to deal with the aftermath. Yu Fen couldn't move, so Yu Xiu went to see Yu Bin for the last time.
Yu Bin was lying on the half-collapsed kang, so thin.
Yu Xiu learned from the villagers that the abrasive Yubin sold his son, who was less than two years old, to others as his wife when the girl was less than fourteen years old, and finally even his daughter-in-law was sold by him.
He had no remorse for his bad habits, and even said, "At least the whole family was defeated, otherwise the whole family who beat the local tyrants and evil gentry would die." Such a ruffian rogue's face really makes Yu Xiu unable to associate him with the young owner who was once praised for his culture.
Yu Xiu took care of Yu Bin's funeral, but the descendants of this prodigal family were still sheltered by their ancestors and buried in their ancestral graves. I wonder what it's like to see his ancestors after he dies.
Some people say that Yu Bin's virtue must be the retribution of depravity and family destruction.
But Yu Xiu felt in his heart, how can the destruction of the family be regarded as Yu Bin's retribution? Hard-working father, kind mother, gentle and virtuous sister-in-law, clever and obedient child, kind self, what did they do wrong and were dragged down by such people? !
Yu Xiu gave birth to a girl and two sons, both of whom have their own offspring. She will tirelessly tell all the children the story of her second brother and warn them not to be involved in drugs, gambling and whoring. Addiction behavior is as terrible as ever, even if one person is infected, it is enough to drag the whole family into the abyss.