Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 24

Three years have passed and Bai He still hasn't come back. The Hong family harvested the autumn harvest, plowed the land, and said to Bai Tu: "Your brother hasn't come back yet, so I will plant next year's wheat!" Without thinking, I prepared all the wheat seeds and Bai He came back. As soon as Bai He arrived home, he took back his wife and children, and also took back three acres of land. As for the debt owed that year, he said that he had sold a batch of cloth to Ma's family on Huangfu Street in the neighboring county. It should arrive within half a month's payment. Just return it. People in Laocheng Village are saying that Bai He has made a fortune in the cloth business for so many years, because Bai He is wearing a black silk jacket and has gold teeth inlaid. Others have only one gold tooth, but his teeth are all inlaid. The Hong family said: You are Chrysostom, let me wait for half a month. But Bai He sowed wheat seeds in the ground, and the wheat seedlings grew to knee height. The Hong family came to ask for payment several times, but Bai He kept telling them to wait but refused to pay back. People in Laocheng Village are asking where Baihe's money is. He had a good business at first, but he made the same mistake as his father and lost his business by smoking ointment. When the Hong family heard about it, they came to collect the debt. Bai He said: This is it, the land will not be withdrawn, and the money is owed! Even worse than the Hong family.

The Hong family had a son who was already married, and Baihe's two sons were also teenagers who were stupid and ignorant. The two families confronted each other, and the Hong family did not dare to take action. However, the Hong family's daughter-in-law was gossipy. Whenever her daughter did something wrong, she would yell and curse at her across the courtyard wall. When she cursed her daughter, Baihe's family would blush and feel embarrassed.

This daughter was adopted from Wanggou Village. There is a family in Wanggou Village where the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are at odds with each other. The mother-in-law thinks the daughter-in-law's natal family is poor and she married and gave birth to three daughters but no boys. When my daughter-in-law finally gave birth to a son, she told her husband: Your family can continue to be prosperous, and I have had enough of it! So he hung himself. After the death of his daughter-in-law, the husband and his four children had a difficult time, so he gave away his third daughter. One family was given away first, but the old man in that family fell seriously ill in the first month, and the pig even let jackals take out his intestines, so he thought the child was a nemesis and withdrew him. If we send him to another family, the child cannot bear the scolding. He will run away and not go home when he is scolded. If he feels that his S3x is hardened, he will withdraw. The daughter-in-law of the Hong family had never given birth and adopted the child. Unexpectedly, the daughter-in-law became pregnant this year. The daughter-in-law abused the child and made her do this and that. If she couldn't do it well, she would slap him or put his hand on the thigh. He twisted it everywhere, until there was no good piece of meat on his thigh. Everyone in the village thought this daughter-in-law was poisonous, but they couldn't offend her, so they secretly cast a curse on her: when she went to wash clothes in the river, the water ghost would pull her down and drown her, and when she was made to eat spicy soup and fat intestines, sparrows would gather in a pile and go there. Sh!t in the bowl. There was actually one time when she took a bowl to the alley to eat spicy soup and fat sausage. Suddenly she remembered that she forgot to lock the door, put down the bowl and ran back. When she came back, three sparrows stood on the edge of the bowl and dropped a few dung into the bowl. She scolded her so hard that the three sparrows were already standing on the tree, but they fell down again and were caught by the cat.

The year the Hong family's grandson was born, Bai He's wife also gave birth to a little son. After the birth, he became dizzy. The world was spinning from time to time, and he had to hold on to the wall to walk. Bai He was busy working in the fields alone, and he was not a good hand at farm work. During the summer harvest, other people were on the field grinding wheat and packing it into sacks. The wheat in his family's three acres of land had not yet been cut down. He kept cutting it and felt that The pain in my waist was so bad that I threw the sickle away and said: Where is my waist? Where is my waist? ! I saw Ma Sheng lying under the persimmon tree by the roadside.

Ma Sheng is an orphan in the village. He has a big face but tight features. People call him a mule behind his back. Because his name is Ma Sheng, and the son born from the mating of a horse and a donkey is neither like a donkey nor a horse, but a mule. Ma Sheng never talks about his father and mother, and he doesn't burn paper on the graves during the Qingming Festival and New Year's Eve. People say: If you don't burn paper on the graves, it means the dead are dead! He said: Isn't that the end of poverty? I live a good life! Now he is lying shirtless on a mat under a persimmon tree, holding a bamboo beauty in his arms. A bamboo beauty is a basket woven with bamboo strips. It looks like a person. It is cool to sleep in the summer.