Chapter 373 Chapter 10: The Pig Begs for Milk

Grandma shrugged her shoulders and said, "In this way, I don't know how much meat I have eaten in this life. Wouldn't it be that I will be hacked by them in the next life? Thinking about it makes me feel scared. You should stop talking about such weird things. It’s a dream.” She glanced at Ma Juhe, and asked lightly: “Isn’t your wife’s problem still unresolved? How can you talk about these things related to dreams so calmly?” Ma Juhe bowed slightly and said: "Aren't I afraid that your old man won't let father-in-law go?" Grandma pretended to be unhappy, but she was happy in her heart, nodded and said: "Go, go. How can I control Yue's father's feet? He can go wherever he wants, and he doesn't hold the reins like a cow. In my hand?"

Seeing that grandma let go, Ma Juhe was overjoyed, and hurriedly stepped forward to hold his grandpa back and said, "Let's go. I've been discussing my dream with you for so long, I can't wait." Grandpa followed Ma Juhe to his pigsty to have a look.Seeing Ma Juhe and grandpa, the black-and-white piglet put its snout against the wall and groaned, and dug out two small dirt pits on the ground with its front hooves. There were also bloodstains from two other piglets in the pen.But this ferocious piggy also won the prize, half of the left ear was bitten off, and it drooped wilted, like a residual leaf eaten by insects.

"Look at that evil face." Grandpa laughed. Ma Juhe asked: "Could it be a baby-phobic ghost?" Grandpa nodded and said: "Maybe it killed the other piglets in the same pen to monopolize the milk that your wife paid back. By the way, since your wife is born, she should have milk. It is here to beg for milk." The piglet immediately hummed twice as if in agreement, and then arched the pig's mouth against the wall twice. Ma Juhe pointed at the ugly piglet, smiled awkwardly, and asked, "My wife's milk is not given to my son, why should I use it to feed a piglet?" He grabbed the door of the pigsty, His hands were shaking violently, and his face was flushed red with anger.

Grandpa sighed and said: "Of course I promised it back then, of course it would come. If I hadn't promised it back then, your wife would have died long ago. Not to mention giving birth to a son for you, she couldn't even keep herself. It is also a concession." You can't go back on your word. If you don't keep your promise, it will be even more resentful." Ma Juhe said angrily: "Am I still afraid of it? A baby-phobic ghost? It's just a piglet now. I can stab its throat with a butcher's knife and bleed it! Let's see if it dares to be arrogant! Ma Juhe slammed his fist hard on the door of the pigsty, making a "bang".The piggy stepped back in a hurry, lowered its head and hummed directly at Ma Juhe, looking fearless.

Ma Juhe raised his fist above his head, as if to hit him, and said: "You are really arrogant! If you dare to touch my wife, I will take off your meat piece by piece and cook!" He and Zhu Zai were separated by a pig Well, he was just waving and waving like this to frighten the piggies. Unexpectedly, that piglet didn't give Ma Juhe any face, rushed to the door of the pigsty with an "ow", and jumped to bite Ma Juhe's hand.Although it couldn't bite Ma Juhe's hand due to its height, Ma Juhe was frightened by its sudden attack and hurriedly raised his hand higher.

Piggy's body hit the door of the pigsty and was bounced back.But it shook its head there, like a lion dance during the Chinese New Year, very arrogant. Grandpa said: "Look at its ferocious appearance! If you don't take it easy, it will get worse. I advise you to bear with it. After all, it starved to death because of lack of milk in its previous life. Good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded." There will be evil rewards. They are all debts owed in previous lives, and what should be repaid will eventually be repaid." Ma Juhe turned his head and walked away without saying a word.Grandpa followed him out.

Firecrackers suddenly sounded in twos and threes from the ground next door. Ma Juhe, who had just walked into the main room, was startled by the sudden sound of firecrackers, and angrily cursed at the ground next door.Several children with incense in their hands ran away like disturbed hares. Ma Juhe stopped next to the gate, stomped his feet, tried to restrain his anger and said, "Father Yue, it's not that I'm stingy. Think about it, how can I let a piggy drink bowl after bowl of my daughter-in-law's milk? Let me Why does my own son have no milk to drink with his mouth open? Call my own son and porridge? Drink muddy? Think about it. I... Can I bear this?" His hands clasped the door frame tightly, his chest heaving violently.

At this time, Ma Juhe's wife who was lying in the back room heard his words and sighed: "Juhe, I can't bear to see my own son starving. Otherwise, I won't give him milk to drink, just look at him What can you do to me! At worst, I’ll pay it half of my body!” She was obviously angry, but Grandpa didn’t know whether she was angry at Ma Juhe for not caring about him, or at the baby-phobic ghost who chased after him so hard. discuss. Ma Juhe grabbed the door frame and did not speak. His daughter-in-law said again in the back room: "Your father gave birth to several children, but in the end you are the only one left. In your generation, due to family planning, you can only have one child. This son is the only one of your Ma family. Your father passed away early, and before he died, he told you to give birth to a boy to continue the family. How can I not treat your only seedling well? How can I feed milk to pigs...and not give your only seedling to drink?" His wife Ma Juhe kept saying that he was "your family's only seedling", and Ma Juhe's face became more and more painful.

This was the custom at that time, and many families still believed in the feudal idea of ​​"passing on the family line", especially the older generation.Among many of my playmates, if the eldest is not an older brother, then the youngest must be a younger brother.To use a bad analogy, this is similar to a lottery: take one apart, it’s not a boy, then take another one apart, it’s not a boy yet, … and then take apart another one, oh, it’s a boy, stop immediately.This creates a situation of "three or four sisters and only one brother". According to my grandfather, when Ma Juhe's father was alive, he especially believed in "carrying on the family line".But Ma Juhe's mother "didn't live up to it" and gave birth to three daughters one after another.Ma Juhe's father "had no choice but to resort to cruel methods - if the reborn daughter was his daughter, he would immediately drown her in the water basin!"

In Ma Juhe's father's generation, there were not a few people who did this.