049 The Su family's five generations of washing women
Everyone is watching the fun.
Suddenly there was a loud exclamation from ahead.
Li Jun looked over.
It turned out that the rope carrying the coffin suddenly broke. The thin coffin fell heavily to the ground and fell into pieces, and the body inside rolled out.
On the day of the burial, it was not a good sign for something like this to happen. Several family members hurriedly came forward to check, but they all stood by and did not dare to move the body.
Corpse?
Li Jun squinted his eyes and looked carefully.
But I saw some corpse somewhere. It was clearly a straw man with torn straw. The straw man was lying quietly on the ground, with a nose, mouth and eyes.
Where the eyes are on the straw man's face, there is a pair of dead fish eyes. The dead fish eyes are staring at the sky, giving a feeling of undying determination.
The straw man held a copper coin tightly in his hand, and there was a black air lingering on the copper coin.
Is this ghost money?
Naturally, everyone could not see the black air on the copper coins, nor could they realize that the corpse had been replaced by a straw man.
People from the Demon Suppressing Division should be able to do that?
Li Jun obviously felt that the woman named Qin was shocked, and she stared at the body in stunned silence.
From a distance, he could feel the shocked expression of the woman named Qin. This... little sheep's character was like nothing he had ever seen in the world.
How did you get into the Demon-Suppressing Division?
However, Ma Long and Qian Hu next to her hurriedly grabbed her and whispered a few words to her, and the woman calmed down a little.
Li Jun was not interested. He held Su Yin Deng and walked towards her house. For a moment...
"Brother, my home is here."
Su Yindeng pointed to the house in front.
"Yeah." Li Jun raised his head casually.
His eyes almost popped out of his head. When he saw Su Yindeng dressed up before, he thought her family was quite poor, but he didn't expect...
The house in front of you is made of blue bricks and black tiles, and the courtyard walls are high. Outside the gate, there are plump grains drying in the rice field, and a few mules and horses are tied beside it to graze leisurely.
At first glance, the Su family looks like a well-off family.
Maybe you saw Li Jun’s doubts?
Su Yindeng didn't explain, just laughed at himself, and after leading Li Jun through the gate, he walked towards the backyard.
This is a dilapidated thatched house made of rammed earth.
Outside the thatched house is a pile of tall firewood. When you open the simple firewood door, you will see a very dilapidated and dark home.
The walls are damp and the eaves are low.
The few pieces of furniture were missing arms and legs. There was a pit covered with straw and a few tattered clothes on top.
"Look at my house, we don't even have a decent chair, so you can sit wherever you want!"
Su Yindeng was a little embarrassed.
Li Jun looked at this home with only four walls and a trembling chair that was about to fall over, and he let out a long sigh.
"I'd better stand!"
Su Yindeng became even more embarrassed. After a moment of silence, she pointed to the mushrooms in the basket and said, "You must be hungry, brother. I'll prepare something delicious to treat you."
After finishing speaking.
Su Yindeng didn't dare to look at Li Jun, and carefully sat on the broken chair, picked up the fungus in the basket and cut it.
Su Yin Deng just cut the fungi like this.
Li Jun stood quietly against the wall.
The atmosphere was silent and awkward.
Most of the dogs felt embarrassed.
It sighed and transmitted the message: "Li Jun, Li Jun, in terms of shamelessness, if you say you are second, who dares to claim to be first?"
"My girl's family is already so pitiful, why do you still have the nerve to eat and drink? Come on, say goodbye and leave as soon as possible."
"Also, you are alone in the same room, and your face is not red and your heart is not beating. I am embarrassed for you!"
The dog chatters endlessly.
"Shut up, dog."
Li Jun closed his eyes and felt something quietly. After a long time, he opened his eyes. There was no joy or sadness in his eyes, and his expression was indifferent.
Even Gouda couldn't help but sigh,... Such a shameless person is really good for big things.
silence.
Awkward.
Li Jun didn't speak until Su Yindeng couldn't hold her face anymore. She thought for a while and prepared to say something to break the awkward atmosphere.
"Brother, are you very curious as to why my family is so wealthy, but I live a life as miserable as a pig or a dog?"
Su Yin Deng didn't wait for Li Jun's answer.
Start telling the story.
"The fifth generation of washer girls in my family."
Su Yin Deng's eyes were sad, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and the expression on his face was extremely sad.
…
When I was born, my father was so angry when he saw that I was just a girl that he didn't even cut my umbilical cord, so he brought me a urine bucket and prepared to drown me.
My mother was reluctant to let me die, so she tried her best to snatch me away and protect me in her arms, so I survived!
thereafter.
My mother never left me, she protected me in her arms day and night, just for fear that my father would come and snatch me away.
My father's family cut off my mother's food and firewood, trying to make her surrender.
My mother relied on the rainwater flowing from the eaves to collect it and drink it slowly.
He ate sweet potatoes dug out of the ground, gnawed them raw without fire, and survived like this!
My mother could endure such hard days, but the days were too hard and her milk supply was very little. I was so hungry that I cried loudly.
Mom, in order to support me.
Dragging his sick body, he climbed up the mountain step by step to collect firewood in the middle of winter, just to cook sweet potato soup for me.
That is this day.
My father took me away secretly while she was collecting firewood, and cruelly threw me into the Tower of Abandonment, hoping that I would die on my own.
Su Yindeng cried loudly while talking.
Li Jun suddenly frowned and asked, "What is the Tower of Heaven's Abandonment?"
"It's the Tower of Abandoned Baby Girls."
Su Yindeng continued to explain.
…
Women are weak and cannot carry on the family line, nor can they do heavy farm work. When they grow up, they will marry into their husband's family and become members of someone else's family.
No one in our area is born again.
Whenever there is only a girl in the house, the whole family will be downcast and feel ashamed when they go out.
If the first baby is a girl, it is said that it will bring bad luck to the whole family and no future generations will be prosperous.
Therefore, some particular families will wash their daughters.
That is to say, I killed the first female baby I gave birth to. I was unlucky because she happened to be the eldest daughter of Su.
Li Jun fell into deep thought.
"The washer daughter of the Su family, where are the other families?"
Su Yindeng's eyes had a touch of sadness.
"Our Su family is pretty good. We only wash the eldest daughter. My father later married the second mother, and the sisters born to the second mother are all living well.
Other poor families not only wash their eldest daughter, but also throw away other female dolls they gave birth to. The Abandoned Baby Girl Tower is specially designed to house these discarded female dolls.
A baby girl who is not loved by her parents and is abandoned by her parents is a person abandoned by God."
Li Jun was also in a bad mood.
He once read history at night. Many dynasties in history had abandoned baby girls. He once thought it was an exaggeration.
Isn’t it natural for parents to love their children? Isn’t it true that human love for cubs comes from the deepest, unreserved love?
Why do people exist who abandon their children?
"Since the Su family has a tradition of bathing women, how did you survive?" Li Jun suddenly asked.