Chapter one thousand and five family sacrifices
In the yard, the sky is still clear. It seems that God will not pity the people for a while. A circle of gray stone walls is very beautiful and well-stained; the exquisite fence surrounded the vegetable garden, and various types of vegetables grew. The stones on one side were polished cleanly, and various tools were sorted in order, witnessing the diligence of the Wang family. 4♀ 4♀ point 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀ 4♀
In a corner of the courtyard, Wang Siliu couldn't help but say to his wife: "You go and ask."
"Yes." The wife obediently entered the house, and her son was also reading a book in the house. This matter could not be hidden, so she said it directly and asked her daughter what she meant?
The couple gave birth to a pair of good children. Lord Wang was the best in Shangyuan County. He was ugly, but his facial features were also upright. In addition, Kong Wu was powerful, hardworking and simple. Some people were competing to promise his daughter to him, so Wang looked good when he was young, not short, and had a virtuous temperament.
With the excellent genes of parents, his son Wang Zhu is close to 1.9 meters tall. He is handsome, has excellent homework, is very good to his classmates, values friendship and is loyal. He has taken the lead in beating several rogues, and his nickname is Tota Tianwang in school.
My daughter Xiaoyao is as graceful as a gentle and pleasing person. She looks a few years older than her peers. Because she has helped her parents work every day since she was a child, she is very sensible. Unlike many girls in the village who like to dress up and eat and be lazy, there is nothing in the village who doesn’t praise her.
When Xiaoyao heard this, he was stunned at first, and then he tilted his head and thought without answering immediately.
Wang Zhu was unhappy and opposed: "No one wants to be a long-term worker in a large yard, but you are willing to let your sister go to a large yard to be a girl?"
Wang explained tactfully: "Mom doesn't want her youngest son to serve others. I mean, I mean, she will only suffer for a year or two, and it will be better for our family to live a lifetime."
Speaking of this, Wang remembered that she had been sick in bed a few years ago. Her daughter knew how to be filial to herself at the age of only four or five. She fed water, rice, and stuffed poop, etc. Every time she looked at her young age, hard-working and cute appearance, she was moved to tears. It was precisely because of her husband and her two children that she had the idea of getting better, so she could no longer say it, "No, I won't mention it, I won't mention this."
Even Wang Siliu said, "Forget it. I'm just because I'm not lucky. I didn't earn more than ten taels of silver last year. Let's continue to work hard to farm and let's talk about it next year."
Wang said, "Then let him talk about it in two years. The boss is about to grow up and can work as hard as you. My youngest son is about to take over me. Then she will take care of all the work at home and I will farm with you. The boss must continue to go to school and make a name for himself. Our family still has hope."
"That's it." Wang Zhu's favorite sister, "In the past few years, I will work hard to help my parents work, save more money, and wait for middle school to graduate. I will apply for a martial arts lecture school and be a soldier who defends the country."
"No." Wang Siliu was angry, "Even if I die, I will not allow you to be a humble military household. If you lose your ancestors' face, you will farm for me, marry and have children. Even if your mother and I are exhausted, we still hope that our Wang family will become a scholarly family."
"Dad, you don't understand at all." Wang Zhu looked excited, "It's not the past now, it's not embarrassing to be a soldier, let alone I'm an officer as soon as I graduate."
"That's not OK, there's no way." Wang Siliu was unmoved and took out his cigarette bag angrily.
Wang Zhu was naturally dissatisfied and was about to continue arguing, but his sister said, "I am willing to go." This was completely unexpected to the family, and everyone was stunned.
Speaking of which, although the Tong family has been passed down for a long time and is even more wealthy and noble, no one has ever respected Xiaojia Village. They all ridiculed the Tong family as a nouveau riche for a hundred years and is far from comparable to other big families.
The most important reason is that the family style is that the heads of the family have become stingy and have no style of a large clan. They are as stingy and stingy as those rich locals, treating their servants like mules and horses.
Xiaoyao knew very well that the Tong family was not the Xu family. Whose sisters in the neighbors had the honor to be maids in the Xu family? Everyone congratulated them on the way to enjoy the happiness. This is true. Even if you are a rough maid in the Xu family, it is more decent than being a first-class maid in the Tong family.
As a maid who had only been a one or two years, it can be imagined that in the past, she had to suffer a lot, and the Tong family would definitely make money. But she thought, as long as her suffering could make her father exchange for a big bull, she would no longer stand in front of the plow, pull her forward desperately, and grit her teeth, and the veins on her neck jumped straight. She would no longer have to sit in the house and sigh every year to borrow a cow, and go out to whisper to others. As long as there is a cow, everything will be fine, so she willingly endures.
But after all, the young Xiaoyao felt aggrieved and said angrily: "Even if you go to the Tong family and enter the Hall of Hell, as long as you are well, it is worth it."
The whole family was even more surprised. Wang Siliu was moved to pick up his daughter, and couldn't help but burst into tears in his eyes, kissing his daughter's hair, "My youngest son is so big, but he is so sensible."
The dream of many years was about to come true, but Wang Siliu grinned again. After many days of thinking about it, he still couldn't find a way. His daughter solved it with a slight word. She was so happy that she wanted to go to the bull market to tell the bull economy that she should not sell the big bull he was right to others, and then go to the courtyard to find Brother Wang.
Suddenly, his smile disappeared, he shook his head tensely, and murmured: "No, no."
He pulled his filial daughter into his arms again, and his rough big hands held his slender and beautiful hands, which had become thicker due to labor, and looked carefully for a while. In addition to these hands, what a good girl, she just turned twelve years old, looked pretty and delicate, and had a figure that was comparable to a 14 or 15-year-old girl. She was slender and slender and was not comparable to most daughters in Jiangnan. She had dark eyes, two dimples on her red face, and her black and shiny hair. Although her hands were a little rough, her fingers were still pointed.
How could such an outstanding girl be willing to send her to the Tong family? Looking at the owner's face, obeying others' orders, being beaten and scolded, why should you suffer?
No, this can't be done, Wang Siliu shook his head slowly and said, "Young son, dad can't let you go."
Wang also touched his daughter's face lovingly. Who would like to send her flesh to a tiger like the Tong family? He asked: "Do you know how dangerous it is to be a girl in the courtyard?"
"I know." Xiaoyao was born and raised here, how could he not know the evil things that happened to the Tong family that had committed the servants? He reluctantly snuggled in his mother's warm arms, "I know that no matter how hard he is, he is not as painful as his father in the field, pulling the plow with the sun."
"Good kid, good kid." Wang Siliu was already in tears.
Wang murmured, "Silly girl, there are things that are more terrible than suffering. How do you know?"
"I'm not afraid." Xiaoyao became more and more determined, as smart as a young man. "Every time the third master would call me Uncle Xu, just because of this, the Tong family dared not bully me."
“That’s true.”
Not only did Wang's family relax, but Wang Siliu nodded frequently. Yes! After all, there is Xu Sanye in Xiaojia Village, who gives the Tong family ten thousand courage, and they dare not touch their daughter's hair. As long as they spread the news that their daughter called her uncle.
Wang Zhu, who opposed this matter the most, blinked and could not find a reason to object. Mr. Xu was a god in the village, and no one dared to offend him.
The room was quiet, as if this matter had been settled.
At the same time, throughout the afternoon, Lujia Village followed the old rules of the last time and carried three animals and eight etiquettes into the Lu family ancestral hall. A pair of tied "adulter-in-law" was carried to the stone dam of the ancestral hall for public display.
The parents of the tribe all came again, without writing a tribute to their ancestors. There was a ready-made one, and they walked the etiquette apart and announced the way to punish a couple of men and women in front of the whole village: Shenhe!
As agreed, the young men of Lu Er-class protected Lu Hao and Lu Yongjie from insults. In fact, as Lu Yongjie's identity, the villagers did not dare to step forward.
The entire ceremony was completed, and Lu Hanchen came to announce it and carried a pair of men and women onto the boat by the river.
I waited until midnight when I saw Lu Hanchen coming out tremblingly and suddenly said, "Carry back to my main hall, I will take them to the house for sacrifice first, and then carry them onto the boat."
Everyone was very surprised and could not guess what Mr. Lu had made, but this reason seemed to be open and upright. He was the leader of a clan and represented the entire Lu family and even the entire Lu family village. It makes sense to make any family sacrifice. I just don’t know how to make a family sacrifice. Do you plan to make a family sacrifice and not forget to tell Naiweng that a bitch was found in the family's family?
Soon a man and a woman were carried into the main house of the Lu family. Except for Lu Hanchen and his family, no one was qualified to join in and join in the fun. Anyway, Mr. Lu ordered the door to be closed and a mess to have a family sacrifice.
The door slowly closed, and Lu Hanchen said that apart from his blood relatives and a few confidants, even ordinary servants had no right to step into the house, let alone a long-term worker.
Lu Er and others stood outside and whispered. Lu San said, "You said the old man was delaying until dark and didn't hold any family sacrifices. What the hell is he going to do?"
Lu Er said puzzledly: "Maybe I want to apologize to my ancestors. This has never happened to the big house before. Now that he has gone, he must be shocked, angry and disappointed. This sacrifice is reasonable."
Everyone agreed, but now that things have come to this point, there is no room for any turnaround. I could have asked Mr. Xu San to come forward during the day, but there is no.
Now that everyone is outside the door, Lu Hanchen cannot do anything. He has to take care of the decency of the entire house and the Lu clan's morality. It is probably nothing more than a sacrifice at his own home, in order to meet his relatives and daughter for the last time and hear what her last wishes were.
Chapter completed!