The bitter age of the daughter-in-law

The husband said he would have to get a divorce if he wanted to make a fortune

A few days ago when I went back to my hometown, I saw Xiao Meixia. After a long time’s absence, we could not avoid a long talk. During the conversation, she suddenly said, “You know what? Xiao Mei is divorced.”

I pictured to myself what May had looked like in my childhood. With a ponytail and bangs, Willowleaf eyebrows, a small arched nose and closed mouth, Willowleaf students are always silent in class, and most of their time left their desks quietly. The teacher blushed when she stood up to ask questions.

The three of us were very close at that time. When I was in fifth grade, my parents went out to hide from family planning, and they took turns coming in at night to keep me company. At that time, there was a pear tree in my yard. When the pears were just as big as the eggs, we began to pick them and eat them. When the pears were ripe in autumn, we ate them all.

After graduating from junior high school, Mei went to work in the south with her relatives. Xiaomei was the youngest in the family and had two brothers. Her parents loved her very much and did not want her to go out to suffer.

Xiaomei just went to Shenzhen for half a year, 97 years Hong Kong returns, her father hears a person to say to have big army to go to south everyday, worry insecurity, sold a flock of small piglets of the home specially then do fare, went to pick up Xiaomei to come back. Xiaomei ended her working life.

At the age of twenty, Xiao Mei was introduced to Lin Qiangfu of the neighboring village. Lin Qiangfu was two years older than her, tall and thin, with a long square face and a forklift on the brick kiln. After getting along for some time, they got married and had a daughter a year later. Although the life was not rich, Xiaomei was an unsociable person and did not like to compare herself with anyone, so the life was quite calm.

Xiaomei was a typical good wife and loving mother. She kept all the delicious food for her husband. When she had meals, she handed the rice to her husband and even put his foot washing water in front of her. Mei Xia always joked with her, “You will spoil your husband like this.” Xiaomei smiled shyly: “He is more tired than us working outside, I move more hands should.”

Lin Qiangfu had an old classmate named Zhang Xuewen who lived in the town with very good conditions. His wife Huang Wei opened a clothing store and his son was in kindergarten. Zhang Xuewen has a small truck, running all year round transport, life is flourishing. The relationship between the two families is very close, each other recognized the “close”, farming busy will also help each other.

There is a period of time, The brick kiln that Lin Qiangfu works is shut down, catch up xiaomei just gave birth to a son again, the home is very difficult. After his son’s full moon, Lin Qiangfu went to a construction site in the county town to drive a forklift under zhang’s introduction.

While her husband was away, Xiao Mei took care of her two children, grew vegetables and raised pigs. Lin Qiangfu comes back once a month to send money and see the children.

Time went by so fast that my son could run all over the place in a twinkling of an eye. One night, Lin Qiangfu hurried back, tell xiao mi zhang accident: zhang ride electric cars to go fishing in the afternoon, and a freestone car in parallel, the turn at the crossroads, back to suddenly be freestone car hanging nets, zhang immediately fell, 40 tons of freestone car ran over from him, in addition to an arm a leg is complete, the other parts are bloody.

Those days Lin Qiangfu and Huang Wei together with the owner of the accident to see the surveillance video, go claim procedures, and then help to deal with the aftermath. After running half a month, for Huang Wei mother and son to strive for 600,000 yuan compensation.

But since then, Lin Qiangfu has been depressed, like the soul was taken away like, work also no spirit, occasionally also sigh, Xiaomei understand, lost the best friend, put who will be sad for a period of time.

Lin Qiangfu every once in a while will go to Huang Wei home to help, repair the electrical appliances or do some physical work, Xiaomei also support, after all, orphans and widowed mother, very poor.

One day at dinner Lin said to Xiaomei, “Once upon a time, a fortune-teller told me that if I wanted to make a lot of money in my life, I had to get a divorce. I suppose he’s quite right that we’ve worked ourselves to death for so many years and never made any money?” Xiaomei listen to, immediately retort a way: “fortune telling of the words you also believe? You just haven’t found the way to make a fortune. Driving a forklift is not a business. Of course, you can’t make a fortune.”

Lin Qiangfu sighed and said: “With you, a lifetime will never be rich.” Xiaomei, who was having dinner, put down the bowl and said, “If you want to make a fortune, how many people are poor? Let’s not be fooling around and live a good life.” Lin Qiangfu said nothing.

After a few days, Lin Qiangfu came back to xiaomei for a passbook, said to do business with friends, to invest. Xiaomei always obeyed her husband, but without much thought, she gave him the passbook directly.

After about a month, Lin Qiangfu came back dejected and despondent, opened his eyes and said, “You are to blame for the loss of business, let divorce not divorce!” Xiaomei was very wronged, thinking of a pair of children, really loath to part with the family, said to her husband, as long as the divorce is not, life no matter how hard.

After a while, Lin Qiangfu was still determined to get a divorce. He even advised Xiaomei earnestly, “We are divorced in name only, but in fact we are still a family. You are still the mistress of this family, and we are still the same as before. I have no choice but to change my life if I want to get rich.”

Xiao Mei looked at her son playing with sand in the doorway and cried, “What did I do wrong? You say, I can change. I just don’t get divorced. Divorce is bad for children, poor children! School gets bullied at school.” Lin Qiangfu sneers: “you block my money!” Then she lay down on the bed, unable to get up, and xiao Mei had to let her daughter bring her food to the bed.

Xiao Mei see Lin Qiangfu like in evil, although the heart a hundred do not agree, also have to compromise, said to Lin Qiangfu: “If the divorce can let you feel a little better, then leave.”

That day after breakfast, two people went to the civil affairs department to do the procedures, the two children were awarded to Lin Qiangfu. On the way back, Ma Xiaomei cried her eyes red.

After the divorce, Xiao Mei still does laundry, cooks and takes care of the children at home. Lin qiangfu did not return for half a year, and phone calls were rare. One day, Xiaomei hears from the villagers that Lin Qiangfu is going to get married. She asks with whom, “Who else, Huang Wei?” Hearing the news, Xiao Mei felt very dizzy and it took her a long time to calm down.

After crying at home, xiao Mei, disheartened, thought, “If you can marry, So can I.”

The next spring, Xiao Mei was introduced to a widowed family with a four-year-old son. After two months together, Xiao Mei got married.

But every time she bathed her four-year-old stepson, Mei couldn’t help crying…

I asked Mei Xia, “Did Lin Qiangfu become rich later?”

“Lin qiangfu and Huang Wei were together for two or three years, but they also separated.”

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Even Lin’s daughter said, “It’s impossible for you to find another person who treats you as well as my mother.”

Later, Lin qiangfu’s mother complained to others in the village: “My son has nothing. After so many years of struggle, he has become a commander again.”

Someone immediately said, “Your son is thinking about their money!”

Once, Lin Qiangfu met Xiaomei in the street and called her together to buy clothes for the child. Xiao Mei looked down at him. “A dog I’ve kept for years wags its tail at me, don’t you?” Then he went away without looking back.

Later, Lin qiangfu bought his own house and bought the liangba (a kind of pasta, similar to bread, which should be given to relatives and friends in his hometown) from no one.

After waiting for six years, the husband came back and ran away with the woman selling watermelon

Sweet-scented osmanthus aunt is my cousin, more than ten years older than Me, small when my mother busy, not to take care of me, always let her take me to play. Aunt Osmanthus is beautiful and loves beauty. My mother told me that she had lice on her head when she was at school, and grandpa asked a barber to give it to her

He shaved his head. Osmanthus cried all morning, no longer go to school, then drop out of school.

Near the edge of the mountain, there is a field of osmanthus home, planted with peanuts, sweet potatoes and other crops. In order to prevent the wild boar to spoil the crops, osmanthus on the edge of the mountain to keep the crops, meet small animals arch peanut, called us together to banish.

We often played on the edge of the mountain, where osmanthus always spread a straw mat on the ground and picked raspberries and wild grapes nearby for us to eat.

18 years old that year, osmanthus married, I remember her married that day, crying like a tear, handkerchief soaked by tears.

Osmanthus has no mother-in-law, since the door into her husband’s home, washing and cooking cleaning only her one person. Sweet-scented osmanthus’s husband is Hu Dewang, a good-looking man with thick eyebrows, big eyes, angular face and a height of 1.8 meters. Village girls and daughters-in-law used to say that no son-in-law of the Li family was more handsome than him.

After marriage, osmanthus with Dewang outside work. The second year gave birth to a girl, little girl grow to three or four years old, osmanthus put her in her mother’s home belt.

One day, I came back from school, my mother told me that the osmanthus girl accidentally fell into the pond and drowned, I was eating a lump.

Osmanthus back to cry a go again. A few years later, gave birth to a son called Dongdong, has been taken in the side.

Sweet-scented osmanthus and dewang work outside, there are villagers steal the boss’s machine, hidden in the house they rent in sweet-scented osmanthus. After the crime, Devon was sentenced to three years in prison for harboring. Osmanthus alone with East east at home farming, living by selling vegetables. After his release from prison, Dewan, as if to recover the loss of the three years in prison, began to steal and make a fortune.

The money came quickly, but he was soon taken in, and for another three years.

Osmanthus helpless, with East East back home.

A winter night, the small village a dark, heartbroken osmanthus with dongdong came to the village pond, the water slowly go, when the water flooded to the east of the waist, what dongdong as if suddenly realized, turned and ran and shouted for help, as he ran ran to his uncle’s house, 1 of “wow” cry. Wait for East east to pull adult to pond edge, sweet scented osmanthus already walked to the center of pond.

We all seven hands and feet to save the sweet-scented osmanthus, simply sweet-scented osmanthus and no accident, relatives to persuade: “Dongdong is still small, how can you do this stupid thing?” “Let everyone know if there is any difficulty, and you can rest assured that you will help devan until he comes back.”

Osmanthus a person with East And bitter guard for three years, beautiful face obviously gaunt. Osmanthus a person with East And bitter guard for three years, beautiful face obviously gaunt.

Osmanthus a person with East East and hard to keep for three years, beautiful face obviously gaunt, skin become rough, canthus also gave birth to fine lines.

After Dewan came back, relatives around him criticized for a long time, Dewan bowed his head to show his remorse, must live up to the years of waiting for osmanthus.

Osmanthus took out private money, and borrowed some from relatives, buy brick equipment, and their own fields and others for the barren hills, in a mile away from home to build a brick kiln factory on the side of the mountain.

A year later, with the concerted efforts of the couple, the life gradually improved, not only finished the foreign debt, but also the savings. The osmanthus family was the first to build a small house in the village.

Summer afternoon, the sun scorching the earth, only cicadas hoarse cry. On the brick kiln, machines blared non-stop, busy workers were sweating and someone urged Dewan: “Boss, it’s such a hot day, buy a melon to eat to relieve the heat.”

Not far from the kiln was a melon field guarded by the only woman in the village with red lips and powdered makeup. Her husband is honest and honest. He usually goes from house to house to repair shoes and match keys. The villagers often play a joke on him: “Do you earn enough money for your wife to buy cosmetics?”

Dewan into the shed, the hostess cut a watermelon, eat watermelon, dewan a strong praise watermelon delicious, the hostess can bear to see. The hostess flattered that Devon could make money.

From now on, from time to time, Dewang went into the melon shed to buy watermelon, chat, later developed to stay in the melon shed every day not to come out.

Since the house was built, Osmanthus has done little to manage the kiln, leaving it entirely to Dewang, who cooks, washes and cleans at home.

The little daughter-in-law who plays well in the village says to sweet-scented osmanthus half in jest: “you repair fairy at home all day, also don’t come out to walk around?” Osmanthus is only joking: “after living for so many years, the nearby scenery is familiar, what to see.”

Until one day, Dongdong met Dewang riding a motorcycle in the village, after a while, a painted woman on the car, two people talking and laughing to the county side to drive. Dongdong told osmanthus as soon as he got home.

such as evening Dewang back, sweet-scented osmanthus asked him, he said it happened on the way, but also become angry from embarrassment to the general east to play a meal.

Before long, the rumor finally reached the ear of osmanthus flower, “You big fool, stay at home every day, your husband bought watermelon to buy somebody else’s bed you don’t know!”

Sweet-scented osmanthus began and dewang make, dewang go where with which, dewang tired, and play with the game of cat and mouse.

One morning, Dewang took out a few hundred yuan to sweet-scented osmanthus, and told her to buy some spare ribs, make spare ribs soup to drink at noon and buy some good clothes to wear. Wait for sweet-scented osmanthus to buy the ribs to come back a look, Dewan disappeared.

Dewan came back, sweet-scented osmanthus crying, “this has no conscience, you so poor when I married you, you put a few times in prison I wait for you, the day just passed a little, you create evil, this day is not too much, divorce…”

Everyone in the village said that the woman has no sweet scented osmanthus good-looking, Dewang for her home scattered, not worth when.

After the divorce, the house belongs to Dongdong, take care of dongdong’s life by osmanthus. Dewan moved to live in the brick kiln, the day of leaving, Dewan step back three, reluctantly left home. In the words of osmanthus, “Like reluctant. But early know today why at first!”

After a year, osmanthus introduced to zhou Sheng, Zhou Sheng’s wife died of illness a few years ago, two children are small, a person and when the father and mother life is extremely difficult. Since the understanding of osmanthus, Zhou Sheng often to help osmanthus work, slowly, osmanthus hard like heart has been melted.

That winter, osmanthus got married and moved to zhou Sheng’s house. Dewang’s business deteriorated year by year, and eventually closed down, taking the woman and Dongdong, who had not finished junior high school, out to work.

Osmanthus is very concerned about Dongdong, Dongdong also sensible, will often call her. Mother and son will be far away from each other.

The last time I saw osmanthus, she was holding zhou’s grandson in the street. Sweet-scented osmanthus is visibly plump, with a gold necklace around its neck and a pendant made of a Maitreya Buddha. Osmanthus told me that Zhou Sheng had done a good business in recent years. She had built a three-story building in the town, and the fields in her hometown had already been planted.

We all say osmanthus old enjoy, osmanthus said with a bitter smile: “Dongdong’s child two or three years old to find out autism, how can I be happy up?”

I bought it for two hundred dollars

I worked as a volunteer in a mobile community and met Xinfang by chance.

I happened to be on duty that night, and just as I was getting off work, an aunt in her fifties came in. She was black and red, with a long ponytail. She was a medium, stocky woman, and she was Xinfang.

She asked me to help her order a double-stick online. The price was less than 20 yuan. I searched the pictures and showed them to her, and after she nodded, I placed the order.

Shuangjie stick arrived, who knew she wanted to return after seeing the real thing, said so light still wrapped with sponge, hit no pain. I was a little surprised: “You bought this to hit someone? Who do you want to fight?” Unexpectedly, her eyes were red and she almost cried.

Xinfang told me that she and her husband worked on a farm together, earning 3,000 yuan a month and 1,500 yuan a month for five years.

Last year, another woman came to the farm, zhang Hong, a year younger than her. She and her husband got closer and closer. One night, eleven o ‘clock her husband has not come back, call in the past, after the phone is put through, but came out the husband and Zhang Hong flirtation voice, Xin Fang a word also can not say out.

The next day at work, Zhang Hong and her husband were inseparable. In front of other workmates, Zhang Hong said to her husband, “Lao Wang, why did you find such a wife? What’s good enough for you?”

Xinfang heard the words of the flagrant provocation, the blood poured straight to his head: “How good are you, you deserve? Stay away from my husband!” two people were scolding to move hands, Zhang Hong beat but Xinfang, crying in the side, xinfang husband came to slap Xinfang two boxes, pulling her arm to pull her away.

new fang touched the fire face to find the eldest son crying, the eldest son called to question how the old king, Lao Wang only said that the new fang unreasonable, the son also had no way.

Xinfang comes as soon as she is free. Sometimes she asks me to download songs for her, and sometimes she just chats with me. I know her heart is very stuffy, so I try my best to be a listener.

One day while we were chatting, I asked Xinfang when she got married. Xinfang said, “I’m not married. Lao Wang paid 200 yuan for it.” I almost blew a mouthful of water onto the table while I was drinking.

Xinfang was from Inner Mongolia. When she was a child, her family was poor and had so many brothers and sisters that she could not get enough to eat. There was a brother and a sister above her, but the sister she had never seen, and died at a young age. One sister saw her father grind her foot to death. When my sister was three or four years old, she had loose bowels and couldn’t move on the Kang. Xinfang stood at the door to see, crying ran out. Xinfang said while doing the action of crushing with the foot.

Wait for evening return, younger sister already had no, listen to the person of the village say younger sister dead, roll with reed mat throw mountain.

Xin Fang said she almost died when she was a child. When she was five or six years old, she played with her friends, and the older child put a toad on Xinfang’s head. The venom of the toad touched her scalp, and she became sores, and almost all her black hair fell out.

“Mum and dad didn’t take me to the doctor. They just let it develop. There was pus running on my head and dogs and cats eating and licking on my head. I cried and cried all day, thinking that it was all over, that I should die. But it wasn’t long before I recovered and my hair began to grow back.”

New fang at the age of seventeen, my parents want to five hundred dollars to sell her to a more than 30 years old fool, new aromatic anyway does not agree, mom and dad and brother are very angry, one night not long, the new fang has just returned home, smashed up a chair, “flop” 1 new aromatic are down, and then rain falling from the pole, the stick…

Thanks to a cousin at home to speak for her, cousin said: “I have seen that man, more than 30 years old, buttocks are still outside, how can fang find a fool? No amount of money will do!”

Later, a man who worked near their home was willing to pay 200 yuan to buy Xinfang, but his parents agreed, and the man became xinfang’s “husband”.

Disheartened, Xinfang soon followed the man to Anhui province, thousands of miles away, to raise her children.

Her husband is also a lazy person. He does not do any work at home. He likes gambling and takes Xinfang out of his anger when he loses. Once he hit the back of her head with steel bars, Xinfang was beaten unconscious on the spot.

“Originally thought the children are old, he is also old, good, who knows the old are old but also such a thing?”

“If he beats you, why don’t you go back to your mother’s?” I couldn’t help asking.

“I haven’t been to school all day. I can’t read a word. I can’t even ride in a car. Xinfang replied.

I reassured her, “Are the children okay with you? Spend the rest of your life with your children. Your son and daughter-in-law are all right.”

“Well, the oldest son is all right, only he won’t let me go around saying That I bought it and that it’s a dirty laundry that must not be aired in public. He has no face. The big daughter-in-law once quarreled with me, saying that I had done nothing for her. But she used all the bricks and cement I bought before to build the fence. It was all bought with money, so it doesn’t count.”

“I called my little son. He works as a manager in a busy company. It took him several days to arrive. When the day came, when I saw you, I lost my temper, and said, ‘How did you come here, do you know? I said 200 bucks for it. ‘Why are you making trouble with him now? Earn a little eat a little flower a little not line! ‘”

“I was puzzled for a while, but later my older son told me that my younger son blamed me for not giving him money. He worked in Beijing and met a local girl who was an only child. Because of this, my younger son thinks he saved me money and wants to make it up to me.”

I said, “No? He gets a good salary as a manager. Does he care about the money you work so hard for?” Xinfang shook her head: “he can spend money hard, wages are not enough to spend, just care about my money.”

Xin Fang came again, said to go out to find a job, to help the eldest son here, do not start the money, to buy things also have to pay the old, this way can not go on, have to save some money, only the most true money, than the son also used……

Once I went to Xinfang Eldest son’s shop to have breakfast. Xinfang was sitting in front of the sink washing dishes with an apron on. When she saw me, she raised her hand to greet me and wiped her face with sweat when she put her hand down.

Later, I haven’t seen Xinfang for a long time. I probably found a job and went to work. I hope she can lead a better life, new job satisfaction, new life everything goes well.

It’s the last thing I can do.