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Number six is my neighbor.
In the late 1990s, the preference for sons was especially serious in rural eastern Henan. The sixth wife gave birth to three daughters and was beaten by him. Seven or eight brothers, none of whom had any luggage in the house.
The wife of old six also very anxious, beg god everywhere Buddha, traditional Chinese medicine also did not drink less. There is only one wall between my home and Lao Liu’s. When I was a child, I could often smell the smell of Traditional Chinese medicine wafting from his home.
Finally, the sixth wife got pregnant again in her forties. The whole body is swollen throughout the pregnancy, with only a slit in the eye. In the third trimester, her face turned black. Many people in the village said she was not in the right state. She must be ill.
Sure enough, she died without her first month after giving birth. The sixth family was poor and could not afford a doctor, but there was no doubt that they had something to do with giving birth. But only let the old six gratified is, his wife this life for a son.
Six of the three daughters, the second daughter Moon xia was born with mental defects, black face slanting eyes, walking with her head still tilted, also known as the village “half-wit.” In fact, yuexia is not a complete fool, her life can take care of themselves, also can speak, but say slurred.
Yue Xia can eat, do not know how to work tired, old six put her as a cattle make.
During the busy farming period, she was always in charge of the most heavy work, such as wheat harvesting, corn harvesting, soybean seedling and sesame screening. Village person often sees month xia a person pulls grain of cart of a big board on the road “hum hi hi”, move forward step by step, the waist is about to bend to the ground, the head is straight ground is stretched, the veins on the neck is exposed, the face holds back blue and purple, the hair clothes is soaked by sweat.
Can’t see the person of bottom can blunt far heel behind of old six scold 1: “old six you of dog bastard, not afraid of month xia tired dead?” Lao Liu tilted his head sideways and stared at the figure of the other side, spitting: “Three meals a day, eat five bowls at a time, the food at home are let her eat, she does not stem who?”
When pulling a car, the moon xia stumbled, even people with the car into the roadside ditch. Old six ran to drag a blood moon glow from under the car, just casually on the ground to grab the earth on her head to stop bleeding. Looking at the spread of a ground of grain, the old six split on the moon xia is a fat beat.
In addition to doing hard physical work, Yuexia is also the vent of her anger at home. Everyone in the family, including her toddler brother, bullied her. Anyone who was in a bad mood would pull the moon over and slap her or kick her. Yuexia also do not cry, also do not fight back, just slanting head slanting eyes smile, mouth drooling.
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In the third year after the death of his wife, Lao Liu married a woman from Sichuan named Xiu with the thirty thousand yuan that his eldest daughter Dongmei had given him as a bride price.
Xiu was plump, of medium height, with a white face. It is said that there was a son and a daughter in the family. The daughter got married, the son went out to work, and the husband had an outside heart. She said she would stay and live as long as Mr. Six was kind to her.
Old six as if to pick up a treasure like show at home, good to drink to stay, afraid of what point care not week she ran away.
A show after entering the door, even the most favored brother in the home is often beaten, so when the month xia was beaten naturally more, the elder sister dongmei married, farm work, housework almost all fell on the month xia, she often day and night.
At that time every household in the countryside burned coal in winter. A show to the old six said to sell coal to make money, the old six put the yard east head cleared out a vacant lot pile of coal. From then on, Yuexia spent all day in the coal pile, unloading coal and loading coal. She was black except for her teeth.
Yue Xia married at the age of sixteen, married a fool.
People in the village say they marry too early, but Ah Xiu says, “In Sichuan, some girls give birth at 15.” the man’s family gave 20,000 pieces of dowry, a show readily took, said to take “to buy dowry month xia”, but transferred to his son, because “the son married wife urged the dowry.
Later, Yuexia only with two quilts and a few clothes married in the past.
less than two months, on the moon xia pregnant, was born a big boy, mother-in-law joy, every day chicken soup fish soup ribs soup, in a pattern to give the moon xia body milk.
There was a time when her mother-in-law always heard the child cry at night, crying so that her heart was torn. Her mother-in-law was not assured. The next day, she took her grandson to the village to look for a doctor. When the doctor uncovered the boy’s clothes, he found that he was black and blue all over, and that in some places the skin was torn and bleeding. Originally, the child hungry crying in the middle of the night, the month xia impatient to pinch him.
The mother-in-law was so angry that she clapped her hands and stamped her feet, and the tear beads rolled along with her. She took the month xia, holding the child to find old six complain, cry a tear.
six called over to the moon xia, picked up the ground filled with coal shovel, on the forehead of the moon xia is a dozen, show on the side also dont advise, also went to the kitchen to take a fire stick, to help the old six together. Yuexia lying on the ground curled into a ball, crying, attracted a circle of villagers outside the house.
That day, yue Xia was beaten black and blue, pulled back to lie in bed for three days. Her mother-in-law went to the market to buy milk powder, from now on no longer let the month xia take the child.
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Three months later, the belly of the moon xia again big up, born is a big fat boy.
It is strange to say that yuexia and her husband are all fools, but the children born are not stupid. He looked round, spoke clearly, and had a shrewd look in his eyes.
two sons born less than a year old, and pregnant moon xia.
This mother-in-law worried, ran to find the old six to discuss, “in recent years to add two big fat boy is a good thing, can be married after the children have children, certainly want to prepare two houses. The ancestral home was built into two layers, one layer for each person is reasonable. When the child is older, I will follow the construction team to carry the cement and bricks, slowly save money.”
“But now Yuoxia is pregnant again, if this time born is a boy, not to mention grow up to get married and build a house, now it is difficult to feed big for school.” The mother-in-law said for a long time, is to tell the in-laws she intends to take the moon to the child flow.
The old six squatted on the ground silent, one after another to smoke. Nearby ah show suddenly burst out a sentence, “born is a boy, you can sell money ah.”
Old 61 clap ham, “rightness, I zha did not think of?”
The next day, Mr. Six asked people around, word spread a few days after someone came to the door, saying that if the child was a boy, he would be willing to pay 20,000 yuan to buy it.
Old six say that first pay deposit to write a contract, if the month xia this viviparous birth is a girl, he refund; If born a boy, hand over money hand over, no matter good or bad will not return. The man listened, and readily paid two thousand dollars deposit.
At that time, is probably the old six and a show in the heart happy, every few months will send a fish to the month xia, let her repair the body.
The buyer in the middle of the door, Shouting old six back money, said regret not to buy, “Month xia is a fool, her husband is also a fool, arrhythmia this viviparous birth is a fool.”
“The old six angrily explain:” you did not see the first two viviparous born out of how clever, the big one to go to school are the first.
“The first two don’t mean that this fetus is good. First, refund the money. The baby will grow to be one year old.
Old six and a show not to do, quarreled for a long time hard not to refund money. Ah show said: “when writing the contract can say good, born is a girl to return the money, now people have not born, can not return.”
That person make along while can’t take money, angrily walk, walk before spit old six couple an mouthful: “have never seen so cruel father and mother, incredibly let a daughter give birth to a child make money, it is a person all stem not come out this matter!”
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Later, the old six complained to the villagers that he was unable to do anything.
Lao Liu said that A Xiu had to remit ten or twenty thousand yuan to Sichuan every year, or she would go away. She said these years put up with all kinds of help the old six raise a few children, Winter mei, moon xia married, the third daughter caiyun also settled the family, the youngest son also went out to work. Now her own son has a child, daughter-in-law at home with unable to go to work, every year to her to subsidize some money old six refused? She cursed the sixth for favoritism and not treating her child as a child.
“Old six said sad place, patting thigh eyes tearful:” Halfway to find the wife can not afford ah. If she leaves in a huff, what shall I do? Over the years, she has sent at least hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
“Moreover, the month xia this girl’s life to enjoy the blessing of the son, now can rely on the birth of a son to make money is not bad. Now is the mother of my parents are afraid to live the children to find me to think of ways, I can have the heart to let her children off? We have no conditions, send a good family, people eat and drink to raise up, this is the best way for children ah…”
After hearing this, the villagers seemed to be right. Besides, it was not their own business, so no one asked again.
Six months later, the baby was born, and it was a boy again.
The man, with three or four women, turned him over, looked him over from head to foot, and seeing that he was all right, took a blanket out of the satchel, wrapped him in it, gave it to one of the women, and took a pile of money out of the satchel, and gave it to Mr. Six.
Ah xiu snatched the money, dipped his finger in the saliva and counted it again, his face suddenly changed: “Wrong, plus the deposit before only ten thousand, this still needs ten thousand.”
“I’ll keep the baby at home for a few months. If there’s nothing wrong with it, I won’t owe anything. I’ll make up for it all.”
Old six spirit be about to hit a person on the spot, be pulled by a show: “you don’t be silly, money drop a cent is a cent, in case this child have what problem, the person all don’t return, za return can fall this ten thousand yuan. Besides, we all know which village this house is, so we can’t run away. After a few months, the child has no problem let’s pull the moon glow past for money, if he dare not to give, we will put the moon glow in his home.
Old 61 listen to, “in reason”, disappear gas. Two people asked a few, called each other to have a baby, “to buy expensive milk powder, cheap milk powder children drink diarrhea.” Ah Sau also shed a few tears. “If it weren’t for the fact that our family is too poor to support us, we wouldn’t want to give away such a good child.”
Half a year later, the child was fine, the sixth collected the rest of the money, divided 5,000 yuan to the in-laws, and gave the rest to Xiu.
At that time, Yuexia was pregnant for three months.
Old six every person said: “look at the shape of the moon rosy belly, this one is nine out of ten or boys! Thirty thousand has already been set for the autumn.”
Village person looks at beaming old six, secretly often hate to scold: “this old dog day of want to make a fortune again!”
Later listen to his father said, the moon xia that born out of the child’s head is particularly big, before long was confirmed to be sick. Later, the child did not grow up to die, naturally not sold.
Now I hear that she works as a cow and a horse in her husband’s house and is not pregnant again.
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