Episode 29 Poor Chun Ban Doesn't Return Home (Part 1)
The moon is dim, the stars are dim, and the shadows are slanting. The happy smell of the New Year spreads throughout the streets and alleys of Mojing City. No matter the dignitaries or ordinary people, they put aside the unhappiness of the past year for the time being and concentrate on waiting for the New Year fireworks.
The explosion illuminated not only the night sky of the capital, but also sustenance and hope.
Most of the people who are keen on staying up late are children. At their most energetic age, they don’t need to make rich and fragrant tea. A handful of assorted candies are enough for them to reminisce with interest and play for half the night. The elderly can’t stand it.
They make a lot of noise and go to bed early, and the parents only talk until midnight at most. Before going to bed, they never forget to warn their naughty children not to go too far and disturb the adults' rest.
It was a dreamless night, and the fireworks gradually became quiet. You should have a peaceful and sweet sleep, but everything in the world can never be perfect. For example, there will always be young couples quarreling and quarreling, even turning a deaf ear to the cry of a swaddled baby.
There must be a fight over the situation first; and there is also the cover-up head of the family, who can't stand the frivolity that is bound to happen every now and then, and even leaves the reunion dinner without making any superficial fuss.
Wen Mei was sold to Ren Yazi. She suffered many hardships and her whereabouts are unknown. Her biological father and brother persecuted her to this point. During the New Year's Eve dinner, they could not even remember to shed a few tears for her. It seemed as if the Wen family had spent the past ten years or so.
There was no such daughter at all. Wen Shi teased his little grandson a few times, using the excuse that he was too old and couldn't bear the crying of the child, so he hid in the bedroom, closed the doors and windows, and simply behaved like a coward escaping from reality, pretending that as long as he fell asleep, he would be there.
Don’t think that your family is already stretched thin and you don’t know what to do next year.
But even if I hide in my sleep, I still can't feel at ease. I always feel that something is about to happen. The fireworks in the night sky outside the window are enough to cover up most of the noise in the world. In the north of the city, more than half of Mo Jing's merchants are gathered, and the Wen family is established.
Although his business has declined over the years, Wen Shi's good deeds in his early years finally earned him a good reputation, and no one took advantage of it to ridicule him.
However, after a neighbor discovered that his daughter, Miss Mei, was missing, it was Yapo who had passed by the door of the red-painted house. His eyes filled with contempt and disdain were like a storm, mercilessly hitting the heads of the Wen family and his son.
Even the daughter-in-law who had just given birth to a child was not spared. Wen Shi's eldest daughter-in-law had just given birth. As long as she dared to step out of the threshold of her husband's house, she would inevitably run into the neighbors, and she would inevitably be scolded.
——"My wife is so lucky. She gave birth to a son. Even if you raise her in the future and your husband loses all the family property, he will not sell the boy. Just like his poor little aunt, he will never have a son in this life.
Know where it falls."
The daughter-in-law's maiden name was Sun, and she was also the daughter of a merchant. When she got married, she brought a 128-carat camphor wood and red silk dowry box, which made her look very distinguished. Not long after she entered the house, she heard that her husband's sister was going to be given to the earl.
Being a young person, although it is not very honorable to say it out loud, but you can build relationships with noble people. If you can be favored in the future, your chickens and dogs will naturally ascend to heaven.
They have been in business for generations, but the Sun family has always disdained this behavior and even regretted marrying their daughter to such a family. Sun's parents would occasionally visit her parents' home, and her parents would always remind them that if they have children in the future, they must not let her go.
Her husband and father-in-law raised her up so that they would not be dishonest and their grandson would learn to be crooked.
"There are no scholars in our family, so we can only do business. But, children, the most important thing in life is to be upright. We must not do things that are unconscionable and greedy for shortcuts. Wen Mei is
Your husband's sister and your father-in-law's flesh and blood, they don't care about the reputation of their daughter's family. It can be seen that everything they said and did when discussing the marriage was all lies."
At that time, Mrs. Sun quietly observed that she was looking forward to seeing Wen Mei. Both inside and outside her words were full of pride that she was about to enter the Earl's Mansion. She completely forgot about her childhood sweetheart, and she did not feel that she was shameless for acting like this. Her sister-in-law was about to leave the cabinet.
As a sister-in-law, it is not easy to take care of things. Mrs. Sun felt that she had a clear conscience and there was no need to make her smell so bad. She simply covered her ears and it was none of her business.
On the day Wenmei was taken away by Yazi, Mrs. Sun was already pregnant. She hid behind the door and did not dare to let out her anger. She was frightened when she heard that. Her husband's family was in trouble, and although she was not very willing, she could not lose the dignity to reject her husband, so she hesitated.
I took out a list and thought that if I could get through this moment, life would go on. A child would have to be born without his father and family. Who would have thought that it would be like falling into a bottomless pit. The men of the Wen family kept reaching out, back and forth,
Mrs. Sun only had a few pieces left, and she refused to hand them over no matter what.
The Sun family sent baskets of red eggs and countless supplements, specifying that only their daughter would be able to take care of her body. They also asked her father-in-law and uncle to be merciful, and they could send additional supplies if necessary. The woman was postpartum.
The virtual fire was strong, and the crystal clear bird's nest porridge entered his mouth, sliding down his throat and barely suppressing his irritability. Mrs. Sun looked at her newborn son, who was as soft and delicate as a small ball of cotton. She felt pity that he was born at the wrong time, and he will not be born in the future.
I'm afraid I can't even put the full moon wine on the table properly.
The Wen family prided themselves on being men and could not bear such shame and humiliation. During the confinement period, they often showed off to their daughter-in-law and did not care much about their children. Mrs. Sun was originally gentle and had never blushed with anyone. At this time, she was extremely angry.
, she always had the backing of her mother-in-law, and she became adamant when speaking, and they would argue every now and then. The Wen family could no longer afford to raise the chickens they had ordered, and they had a mixed-haired puppy at the back door. They listened to their owners beating them all day long, but they didn't dare to jump.
Get up. Neighbors have long criticized the Wen family for selling their daughters for glory, and now they only watch from afar.
Life is so miserable, all because of the birth of a child. No matter how much a thousand or even ten thousand can make him miss his parents, the young and old of the Wen family just endured the New Year's Eve. Poor parents in the world, Sun's father
My mother specially sent rice, noodles and silver so that my daughter could have a hot and decent New Year’s Eve dinner.
The red lacquered wooden table in the Wen family's dining room has not changed, but the dishes served are all in the daughter-in-law's taste. Whether the men are used to it or not, they have to accompany them, or go down to the hall to eat the thin porridge and pickles that they have long been tired of, and the hard-to-bite vegetables.
The thick flour and multi-grain pancakes. The irony is that everyone else uses the fragrant new rice porridge, but Sun only has a bowl of millet soup, but the color is clearly yellow and golden, and there is a soft and elastic sea cucumber lying on it.
"Master and uncle, don't be surprised. My wife has told me that the eldest girl has not sat well during the confinement period. She should take more nourishing food. After all, only when a mother has taken good care of her body can she have the energy to raise a child."
The roommate mother from the Sun family was neither humble nor overbearing. She served the master with a spoon and had no intention of showing mercy to the poor man.