Chapter 12 Section 12

Five dollars, turned a harmonious and virtuous family of ten upside down!The confident and dignified patriarch Lu Kejian was so angry that his heart ached and he lay on the kang unable to get up. The Kejian old man was lying on the kang, and the unforgetable scene appeared in his mind from time to time - he had just walked back to the village from the field when he saw a crowd of people crowded under the door of his house. This is what happened to a certain family in the village A symbol of an unusual event.His heart tightened, but he still didn't appear to be panicked on the outside. When he walked downstairs, he heard scolding in the yard:

"Look at you, you're a savage too! Mountain barbarian! Sell x for food! Sell x from the mountains to Pingchuan!" the voice of the second daughter-in-law. "I sell X, you sell X, and your mother..." the voice of the third daughter-in-law. "You're so wide! Sew up your mouth! The mountain stuff!" the voice of the eldest daughter-in-law. Lu Laoba was so angry that the veins on his neck popped out, he walked into the yard, dropped the furniture in his hands, and stood in the middle of the yard awe-inspiringly, looking at the three daughters-in-law who were scolding.Despite his frowning eyes and his dignified posture, the three daughters-in-law did not stop, and none of them spared the other, which made him even more angry and angry.Usually, if someone had a quarrel with someone, or even a quarrel between the eldest child and the second child's child, as long as he stood face to face with a cold look, the two sides in the exchange of fire would immediately hold their breath and stop talking.Now, the three daughters-in-law are actually spitting out unbearable obscenities in front of their husbands, and they don't take their parents seriously. Who is right and who is wrong, seeing more women and women watching the fun at the street gate, the family style of Lu Kejian's family has been swept away, the key is to stop this kind of insulting insult to the family's appearance immediately.In a panic, he picked up a clay pot for feeding chickens, smashed it to pieces on the steps with a "crash", and spouted out a sentence: "Don't you know how to save face?"

This throwing and shouting really worked, the eldest daughter-in-law shut up first, and walked back to her room, the second daughter-in-law didn't make a sound anymore, she was rolling the dough on the chopping board, using too much force, hitting the chopping board with a thud ring.It was the third daughter-in-law who ended up at the end. When the two sisters-in-law were silent, she even shouted: "It's not like you want to bully me together!" After saying that, she turned around and went back to the building.Lu Kejian left a very bad impression of the third daughter-in-law's performance of scolding one more sentence at the end. Apart from right and wrong, the two parties in the quarrel always stop talking first, and those who take advantage of it in the end are usually crooked.His impression of the third daughter-in-law was particularly disgusting. Although the three daughter-in-laws scolded people relentlessly, it was even worse for the third daughter-in-law to swear in the mountain dialect.Even when he later found out that the third daughter-in-law was not directly responsible for the family lawsuit, he still couldn't change his bad impression of her.

Lu Laoba figured out the whole story that night. The second daughter-in-law heard from the villagers that the third daughter-in-law never entered the hospital. The younger couple went to the restaurant and sat at the watermelon stall. After eating all the waves for a day, they couldn't bear it anymore. , the two of them began to scold while talking, saying that "outsiders don't understand etiquette and family rules"! "Mountain barbarians don't know how to live at home"! "The Lu family's bad luck should fall on this little bitch"!Just as they were scolding hotly, the fourth sister came back from work, went to drink water in the kitchen, heard it, and started the fire.

The old man Lu Kejian made the verdict in front of the three daughters-in-law. The eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law should not scold in private.The third daughter-in-law spends too much money, so let's not be an example.The old man was very open-minded and said that he had already cleared Sanwazi's innocence. After paying the medical bills for the doctor's visit, he had eighty cents left over. He ate some melons and fruits, mainly because he was pregnant.And it is too wasteful to eat up all five yuan.Both the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law didn't say a word, which means they accepted his ruling. What about the third daughter-in-law?He actually said in front of his face: "I told Jianfeng the five yuan, and I will pay it back in the future." The old man's impression of her was even worse. She is a bully who doesn't listen to reason!

The old man was lying on the kang, with an inescapable shadow hanging in his heart: separation.This family that he has maintained for decades, a harmonious family that is rare to find a second family in Lujiabao, now has an irreparable rift.The old man understands that no matter whether it is a sister-in-law, or mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, even between husband and wife, once they break up, scold their mothers, and turn their faces, it is not easy to stop the second and hundredth turn of their faces and scolding their mothers. Passing through the water channel once is like going downstream, the most important thing is that there must be no turning around for the first time.There is only one way to find the final outcome of the development of this kind of thing, and that is to separate the family, the brothers pull out the pot and divide the stove, and each leads his own wife and baby to the sun and the moon. Lu Kejian has watched Lu Jiabao for decades. Hundreds of households have been divided into two or three families in this way, without exception, and now it is his turn to rule the crop yard.

It is not too late to take concrete steps to stop such a recurrence, though difficult.After judging the three daughters-in-law face to face, he immediately took the second step, and asked the accountant of the team who went to the city to handle errands to send a message to Er Wazi, telling him to come back on Sunday, and he would come back no matter what. On Saturday night, the eldest son came back from school vacation, the second son also came back when it was dark, and the third son was at home.After drinking the soup, he called his three sons into the back room, and looked at the three sons who looked very pleasing to the eye, the old man suddenly felt that it was difficult to speak, and there was a sour stuff in his nose.The eldest son is quiet, the second son is violent, and the third son is sluggish and lazy. He is more familiar with their dispositions than he is with himself. No matter whether they work outside or farm at home, and no matter how they interact with outsiders, when they return home, they will treat each other well. He was always respectful, and he heard that he obeyed the teachings, and no one turned his back on him, which was also the envy of all the old peasants in Lujiabao.Now, how could he tell them that "separation"?

Before he could open his mouth, the eldest son blamed himself first, putting the responsibility on his wife, and then pushing it to the root cause of his lax education of his dolls.The second son imitated his elder brother and said that he was working outside and had no wife who could stop him.Only the third child lowered his head listlessly and did not speak. But the old man figured out that the sons had no obvious signs of family separation, so he said, "I think...they should be separated as soon as possible, so as not to cause trouble in the future and make people laugh..." Before he could finish speaking, the three sons objected together, speaking sincerely.Only then did the frugal old man show his truest intentions: "Since the three of you brothers don't want to divide, then I'll take charge of another period of family affairs for you; since you don't want to divide, then manage the people in your house well, and don't be like before. Been cursing and messing around like that for a few days..."

After a few days, the family gradually recovered from the sudden stiff atmosphere, returning to the usual atmosphere that was neither bland nor salty. After one month, there were no traces of the conflicts that had occurred. An unexpected blow came suddenly, and the old man Lu Kejian was stunned all of a sudden—his third child's daughter-in-law was pushed to the upper stage of Lu's Fort, and fought with a guy! Seeing the third daughter-in-law being dragged up to the theater building in Lujiabao Village by the militia, the old man Lu Kejian was terrified and furious. He soon learned that the third daughter-in-law was secretly selling eggs, speculating and taking the road of capitalism , was captured by the commune.

Half a month ago, there was a rain, the drought in Akita eased, and the grains began to boot. The farm work was reduced. Apart from managing cotton, there was no other major way of life.In order to alleviate the conflicts in the family, he asked his wife to send the third daughter-in-law to live with the second aunt's Xie in the Yang family in a caring manner.Unexpectedly, she secretly started an illegal business of selling eggs with her second aunt at her second aunt's house. The old man was trembling with fear, and he had an ominous mentality of imminent disaster all day long.God!In the past 20 to 30 years since Liberation, Lu Laoba has gone through many movements and kept his status as an upper-middle peasant without being promoted to a rich peasant or a landlord. It all depends on his rigor and law-abiding.This third daughter-in-law from northern Shaanxi dared to take risks and cause trouble, which would definitely affect the safety of this family of ten, old and young, what a disaster!

What particularly annoyed the old man was that on the second day after the struggle meeting, when the whole family was still in shock, she unexpectedly woke up at dawn and went selling eggs again. Holding the plow handle, Lu Laoba yelled at the scalper, thinking about what to do.He suddenly realized that the root of this disaster was all a big mistake made by himself! I originally thought that the people in northern Shaanxi had a hard life, and they came to Guanzhong just to get a bowl of rice to eat. With buns and white noodles, those women in the mountains felt that they had entered heaven.Now it looks like a big mistake, this fourth sister not only doesn't understand Guanzhong's etiquette and rules, but also has a wild temper, loves to sing, spends money lavishly, and scolds people even more harshly than local women.The old man suddenly thought of "King Chuang", and the king Li Chuang who was running around to kill came from northern Shaanxi.Poverty leads to chaos.This third daughter-in-law, who was born in a poor mountain valley where she ate bran swallowed vegetables since she was a child, naturally couldn't develop the self-cultivation of obeying the rules, and she was just like a troublemaker who caused accidents and troubles! How can it go on like this?She has a thick skin and doesn't care about the struggle, let alone, it will cause disaster for the whole family, what should I do?The precarious composition of the upper-middle peasants has risen to a higher level.In the past 30 years, the old man has never dared to let go of his warning to the whole family: don't be arrogant!Our ingredient Mada!Now, this catastrophe is looking for trouble by himself... After the setting sun disappeared from Yuanleng, the twilight gradually darkened. When he unloaded the livestock and carried the plow stick downhill, an idea was formed: to resolutely separate the family.Separate as soon as possible as soon as possible, before a mouse kills a pot of soup.It seems that this mountain barbarian daughter-in-law is not a docile citizen at all, but a wild horse that has not been tamed since childhood, and a broom star who has caused harm to the crop yard!