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Chapter 19 Meat cutting professional household pacesetter

In the Eastern Henan Plain, in a small village with beautiful mountains and clear waters, there lived a young couple. The family had more than 80 mu of land, which was considered a well-to-do family.The male host is studying abroad all the year round, and the female host takes care of the housework and takes care of the children at home. It is a typical ordinary Chinese family where the male host is outside and the hostess is inside. After more than ten years of struggle, the male protagonist was admitted as a scholar. Just when he was full of ambition and was about to continue the postgraduate entrance examination, unfortunately, he overworked his brain and died of exhaustion. He was just in his early thirties.There are four sons and one daughter, the oldest is fifteen years old, and the youngest is still nursing.

The strong mistress climbed up from the ground, wiped away the tears on her face, buried her husband's body, and continued to fight.With five children, fighting against fate.After more than twenty years of arduous struggle, I finally won the battle of life.The sons are more promising than the other, scholar, Juren, Jinshi, Hanlin.Practice tells us that under the leadership of the hostess, this is a highly cohesive team that cannot be defeated or pushed down, and is extremely strong. The hard work of the hostess has won the incomparable respect of the children. Others are proud of their power and status, and they are proud of having a good mother.But as the years go by, time is really a sharp butcher's knife. I don't know when, wrinkles quietly climbed up my mother's forehead, and the temples slowly became gray hair. My mother is old, really old, children see In the eyes, pain in the heart.

An even more unfortunate thing happened. My mother fell ill and was on the front line of the family job.The sons and daughters waited on the bed all day long, but the mother's illness became more and more serious day by day. The sons and daughters kowtowed, made wishes, and wailed in front of the Stove Lord: Fame, status, and money are all floating clouds, but mother cannot be floating clouds, you must be strong, you have survived for so many years, and good days are waiting for you. After making the wish, the five sons and daughters suddenly made a shocking movement collectively. They are taking off their pants together.After taking off their trousers, everyone took out a kitchen knife. The extremely sharp kitchen knife gleamed dazzlingly white under the sunlight.

suicide?It's not necessary, this will increase the pain of mother even more.If you think about it carefully, something is wrong. You don’t need to take off your pants to commit suicide, just wipe your neck with a kitchen knife, which is convenient and trouble-free. Of course they did not commit suicide, but self-mutilation. Each raised a kitchen knife and pointed it at his own thigh. When he stabbed down, blood spattered everywhere, and a piece of flesh, human flesh, was cut off. Why cut the meat?This is a proper term "cutting flesh to treat relatives".Cut off the flesh on your body and cure your mother's illness.

It's too bloody and cruel. Could it be that human flesh has a good curative effect?of course not.This is the highest expression of filial piety, I hope to move the heavens and the earth, be more ruthless to myself, and make my mother feel better. Perhaps it is true that sincerity is true, the hostess' illness gradually recovered, and the children limped to their mother's side, cheering together, and cruelty finally defeated the illness.Since then, cutting meat has become a family tradition. When the husband is sick, the wife cuts the meat; when the mother is sick, the son cuts the meat.They are worthy of the role models of that era, and moved China's "professional meat-cutting pacesetters".

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