Chapter 10 Section ten

The fourth sister lay down. Last night, her father-in-law politely and respectably refused her request to leave the aunt's house, and her first demonstration was quietly crushed. She returned to the mansion, took off her clothes early, closed the door, He turned off the light and lay down on the kang, tears streaming down his cheeks, soaking the pillow. The yard was very quiet, the elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law, each holding a mat, led the child to the street to enjoy the shade, and the husband and mother-in-law also went to the side of the court to enjoy the shade, she was the only one left in the huge courtyard people.During the dog days, the room was as hot as a steamer, and her heart was filled with too much uselessness, which made her even more bored.She wanted to cry aloud, but she couldn't cry out. If the crying shocked the neighbors, men, women and children gathered in the streets and the sidelines to enjoy the shade, then the conflict between her and her husband would become public.She doesn't seem to have the courage to make this contradiction public. If it is made public, it will be difficult for anyone to sympathize with her.After seeing the life of this family for several months, she has roughly understood that this family is full of real prestige in Lujiabao.Peasants are dazed by successive political movements and frequently changing political slogans. Although they cannot but accept the great impact of various movements and slogans on people's living order and habits, for the vast majority of peasants, they still advocate Practical harmony in the family.Although Lu Kejian was placed in a particularly conspicuous position in Lujiabao as a middle peasant with a big belly, he was always in danger of being pushed into the hostile camp, which made ordinary farmers feel timid and isolated by the crowd consciously or unconsciously.However, for the actual life of the Lu family, many peasants admire and even regard it as a model. In a popular saying, it is a model civilized family.People say that the old man knows the etiquette, and the old woman is a virtuous person. The two old men can bring together a family of more than ten people, and there will be no quarrels and fights all year round, let alone troubles with the villagers. In the eyes of the elderly farmers, they are simply envious.Such a family with established influence in the eyes of everyone, if she quarreled and had trouble because of her arrival, even if she was justified, she would not be able to explain it clearly, and she would naturally be regarded as a troublemaker.

The second aunt was treated humiliatingly, and she couldn't say it out, and others would still say that the second aunt didn't understand etiquette. She only had tears, which shed quietly. Fourth Sister heard footsteps and a knock on the door. It was Jianfeng.He watered the fields day and night, came home in a hurry, took a big bowl of grilled rice, and went to the river with a swipe of his mouth.He is responsible for the safe operation of the pumps on the wells of the four and five wells, and repairs them in time when they fail.Hearing his footsteps, she didn't turn on the lamp, but pulled the wooden door latch in the dark, then climbed onto the kang, and lay down facing the wall.

She heard him walk into the building, close the door and turn on the light.The bright electric light made her eyes open, she covered her eyes with her hands, but she was thinking in her heart: Your father raped my second aunt today!Maybe he didn't know about it, but she couldn't guess, did his father tell him about it?She couldn't make up her mind for a while, should she complain to him about her grievances? He sat on the chair, gulped down the cold water she had left to dry in the tea mug, turned off the light with a snap, and closed the wooden door bolt with a bang, and she felt his strong arms.She was still facing the wall, her arms clasped her chest, refusing the aggression of those hands.

He didn't say a word, his palms as hard as iron tongs subdued her... Satisfied, he panted and rolled up his shorts again, slipped down the kang, and opened the door, without saying a word, the sound of footsteps came to the street door again went out. No joy, no tenderness, Fourth Sister closed the door again in disgust, almost fell down on the kang.In the first month of marriage, her sudden enthusiasm for him faded away like a flood in a small river.Since the old father-in-law taught him that night, he has become an indifferent man who only needs to vent his sexual desire to her.He didn't ask her if she was tired after a day's work, or whether her body was used to the torturous three-volt heat in Guanzhong, and he didn't care if she was used to eating habits, in short, he was tense enough to her face.Her menstruation had stopped long ago, and she almost halved her food intake. She picked up the bowl a few times and vomited so much that she couldn't drink the soup.He knew she was pregnant, but said: "It's the same with pregnant babies. I heard that it will be fine after half a year..." She wanted to eat some sour soup noodles, but the old woman didn't open her mouth to make such an order, and she didn't dare to make it for herself The next bowl, a big family, how can I have the nerve to eat and drink for myself?She wants to eat peaches, but the peach moon has passed, and she has never tasted a single peach.She wants to eat tomatoes, this kind of extremely cheap vegetables, only four or five cents a catty in peak season, the old man gritted his teeth and would not appoint anyone to buy half a basket back.Now, pear melons and watermelons are on the market one after another, and that is an unimaginable luxury... He never asked her if she needed to switch flavors when she was pregnant with a baby?

She has been in this family for almost half a year, and she can roughly see the process of economic operation. The husband controls all the food distributed in the production team in his own hands. Dun strictly controlled the floor of the upper and inner rooms. There were four large chest-high coarse porcelain urns against the east wall, and two wall-length large cabinets against the south and west walls, all of which were filled with wheat and corn. The plate is built on the poles of the toon and elm trees in the backyard.It is said that every night before taking off his shoes on the kang, the old man, like a president inspecting soldiers, would lift the convex lid of each porcelain urn, unlock the lock on the wooden cabinet, and look at the wheat under the tower made of corn in the backyard. Take a turn.But she didn't find out, maybe it was a joke from the villagers.She had indeed seen her husband sell grain. It was the sleepy March and February before the summer harvest. When she fell asleep, there was a messy sound of bicycle chains in the house and yard, and she quietly filled the wheat and corn. Strangers' bicycle racks were loaded with round grain sacks, and they were pushed out of the yard to the street gate in a single file.She climbed on the window sill and roughly counted eleven pockets.She understands that at the current market price of grain transactions, wheat sells for 60 cents, and bread grain sells for 278 cents. Calculated as half of each, there are more than 500 yuan.At this time, Jianfeng returned to the small house from the back room, and a layer of fine dust from turning over grain fell on his hair and shoulders.The old man acted cunningly. He saw the right time and sold all the grain that was going to be sold at one time.Unlike ordinary peasants in the village, who want to sell when they see a buyer, even if they are a hundred, and even if they are two hundred, they seem to be eye-catching.This huge sum of income every year is under the bottom of the mother-in-law's box, and it is rare to be born again.

Another important source of income is raising pigs.The government prohibits members from raising sheep, cattle, and bees, which are regarded as the "tail" of capitalism, and only pigs are allowed.Chairman Mao's "A Letter About Raising Pigs" was printed on red-covered yellow Daolin paper, and a copy was pasted in every house, and it was uniformly distributed by the county.The old man returned to the house from the field, threw down the furniture, squatted on the half of the pigsty at the entrance of the pigsty, lit the dry pipe, and admired the black crocodile until he handed it over to the commune’s pig purchasing station, and returned with seventy or eighty yuan. Then wait on the two-year-old little piglet more patiently.

The third important income is the eldest brother's salary.I heard that the eldest brother’s salary is 39 yuan. After spending on the seventh day of each month, he must go home on the Saturday after the spending and give it to the old man, and then the old man will return him 19 yuan as food expenses and pocket money. Smoking, buying soap or toothpaste and other small expenses.The old father-in-law left twenty yuan as income for the family's overall arrangement.The father-in-law forbids his son to go home and buy any food that is filial to his old couple. Firstly, there are too many adults in the family. If you buy too little, you can’t afford it. If you buy too much, you can’t afford it. According to the rules, no matter who came back from the city or town, he would not buy any food, and the dolls of the eldest brother and the second brother naturally did not take any chances.From morning to night, from spring to summer, the house and the courtyard are lonely and lonely, without any big or small things that can stir up a little joyful atmosphere.

The elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law gradually began to expose each other's faults in front of her.The second sister-in-law said that in this house, the elder sister-in-law's family took advantage of it.The elder sister-in-law has a family of five, and four of them live in Lujiabao. The annual ration is nearly three hundred, and the elder sister-in-law can’t do less than two hundred working days, which is worth less than one hundred yuan. The two hundred yuan paid by the elder brother is actually just Withholding their own family's rations, no one has benefited from the big brother. My husband knows how to settle this account, but he still thinks highly of the big brother, and his eyes are biased.The second sister-in-law also said that the eldest brother is the most skilled, and the meals for the elementary school teachers do not exceed ten yuan a month, but the report to the husband of fifteen yuan makes a profit of nine yuan a month.The second sister-in-law said that the couple suffered the most. The two of them earned five or six hundred working days a year, which was worth at least three hundred yuan, while the rations of the four of them were less than three hundred yuan, which was just enough. There are 600 catties of wheat and corn that can be brought in autumn and summer on a working day. How much are 600 catties of wheat and corn sold on the black market?The old man knew in his heart how the account was calculated, but he didn't say a word, and he didn't take advantage of the second reporter.

The second sister-in-law did the calculations like this, but the elder sister-in-law had her own calculations.The elder sister-in-law said that the seven or eight hundred yuan that the second brother was engaged to marry the second sister-in-law was all her man's money. The second brother didn't remember the benefits of the elder brother. The second sister-in-law is gone!The sister-in-law said that the old couple were honest, and they were just ghosts of the second daughter-in-law.The second child is a carpenter, and works with the team's sideline team in the No. 18 mailbox in the city. It costs 57 yuan a month, 40 yuan is paid to the team, and 30 working days are counted, and 17 yuan is left for food. , but in fact, even five yuan is not used.what?Migrant workers start their own gangs, and the food is taken by the family, and they only need to buy some salt and vinegar, saving seventeen yuan for food expenses.What's even more unexpected is that migrant workers work overtime on Sundays or evenings, and the money they earn is their own, and they don't pay it to the team.No one can figure out the money from the second sister-in-law's private house. It's just because of her boss who is stuck to death by her husband. She pays 20 yuan a month and can't afford a new uniform all year round. Her man The most ragged of the teachers in the elementary school...

The fourth sister has a bottom line in her heart: in this family, the most pitiful thing is that she and the man have built a peak.The two sister-in-laws both had a little bit of money to keep the old man from getting stuck, but she and the third son Jianfeng were really stuck to death.She and him work in the team, and the settlement is only made at the end of the year. Regardless of whether there is a shortfall, it will be handed over by her husband's seal.The grain earned by the family through various labor forces is also managed by the old father-in-law, and the surplus grain money sold is not distributed.She and the third child don't even have the ability to control a penny, but their labor income is the most in this family, and their expenses are the least... They suffer the most.

She's been married for a few months, and her father-in-law and mother-in-law haven't given her a penny, let alone her husband, doesn't the old woman know that at least she needs to buy a bundle of toilet paper?You can't make people hang a rotten rag on their buttocks when they are hot like the women in the old life, right?When she got married from the second aunt's house, the second aunt gave her five yuan, because she was afraid that she would not be able to open her mouth to ask the old man for money when she was new here, to buy a piece of paper or a piece of soap.The five yuan has already been spent, so I can't ask the second aunt for money anymore, right?Jianfeng opened his eyes and got up to go to work, came back from work to eat with a big bowl in his arms, took off his clothes to sleep when it was dark, and never asked her if she needed to buy a roll of paper. Is it pure carelessness? He was too serious to her, even too cold, he just needed to get his own satisfaction from her, and when he was satisfied, he fell asleep to death, she didn't get his intimacy and love, I felt so wronged! In my hometown in northern Shaanxi, there is a goat brother who herds sheep with her. He climbs the tree to pick elm coins for her, and climbs a tall wild apricot tree to pick apricots for her to eat.She sang with him on the hillside, singing so freely.He suddenly reached down to her skirt and squeezed her breast.She immediately changed her face and slapped him.Brother Shan also changed his face immediately, looking ugly like Qing Xing'er, turned his head and walked away.She burst into tears herself, and cried again to stop him.He came back and stood in front of her with a look of shame that he had done something wrong.She smiled and said that as long as he doesn't scratch and touch in the future, it will be fine.He ran to the slope, picked a bunch of wild flowers, pink and white briars, golden wild pepper flowers, purple-red wild bean flowers, with a simple smile, put colorful flowers one by one Inserted in her hair, hung in braids.It's a pity that there is no small mirror, she can't see her head and face covered with flower branches, but he is happily jumping and singing on the ground. She thought of him, and thought of that brother Shan who also needed help to dig out shit, and her heart skipped a beat. If she went on like this, she would be sleepy to death, or suffocate if she was not sleepy.Without any financial control and no happy relationship between husband and wife, she would really be suffocated. She finally decided: Demonstrate to her husband! She couldn't get up from sleep, so she pretended to be sick to see what her husband and mother-in-law would do?What about her man Lu Jianfeng? The window paper was lit up, and the old man's heavy and dignified cough sounded beside the pigsty in the front yard. The elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law were almost in unison in the yard telling their children not to cause trouble at school, and the children jumped out of the house.There was a sound of a bamboo broom sweeping the floor in the courtyard. It was the second sister-in-law, and now it was her turn to sweep the floor and cook.After the old father-in-law coughed so much that the whole family got up, he picked up the shovel (judged by the sound of the shovel bumping), and the sound of footsteps went out of the yard. Grandma and sister-in-law also hurried out of the door to go to work, and the yard suddenly seemed very quiet. , only the heavy and urgent sound of the second sister-in-law sweeping the floor.No one noticed her abnormal reaction. They probably thought she was just getting up a little late, right?This made Fourth Sister feel a little dissatisfied, she wanted to show them a demonstration, but they were all so careless that they didn't pay attention and didn't notice, which made her a little frustrated. "Fourth sister, Lord Ritou touched your ass!" The second sister-in-law dragged the broom from the front yard to her window, and said with a smile, "Hurry up, if you're a little late, the captain will deduct your work points." work. Someone finally talked to her, but it was the second sister-in-law who didn't care about housekeeping. Her main target was not the second sister-in-law but the husband and the old woman. On second thought, the second sister-in-law would definitely pass on the message to the two parents.She didn't talk to her, and let out a long groan, as if she was in so much pain that she was about to die of pain. "Oh! Then go see a doctor." The second sister-in-law's urgent voice made her believe it.The second sister-in-law said again, "You don't dare to get sick now, you are pregnant with a baby!" "It's not that bad..." She said lightly, but she pretended to be weak, "Take a break... Maybe you'll be fine!" "Don't delay your illness..." The second sister-in-law said with concern, "If you don't think about us, you have to think about the little friend in your stomach..." Fourth Sister groaned again, but didn't make a sound, thinking that it would count until the two old parents came to talk to her.see a doctor?Can you see a doctor with empty hands?Even if the second sister-in-law didn't fall short of favors, and she took care of her sincerely, she couldn't solve her problem. Can she give her money for medical treatment? The fourth sister is determined to lie down, and Tommy will not drink tea until the ruler of this big family of more than a dozen speaks...