On Yuanlingtan, there are two villages on the east and west of the river, where two different clans live. One surname is Hou, and their village is called Houjiacun. The Hou family are very smart and flexible in mind. There are many scholars and it is said that there were even a few scholars in the former Qing Dynasty.
One family is named Wen, and their village is called Wenfangdian. Although the Wen family has the surname Wen, most of the men do not study, and most of them do business. The Wen family's ancestral tomb may have only given birth to girls but not boys, but the Wen family's daughters are all smart and pretty.
This time we will tell the story of Hou Baoshan, an old accountant who was nicknamed "Monkey Spirit" by the people of Houjia Village when he was young. Let’s mainly talk about his wife. This is the typical life of an atypical woman of that era.
Hou Baoshan’s ancestors were landowners, and the family had a big business. The most fertile land on Manyuanlingtan belonged to the old Hou family. However, in Hou Baoshan’s generation, his father smoked heavily, and there was no family outside the house. He didn't care about anything and spent all day selling off his property. Finally, he lost all the property left by his ancestors and his family was completely destitute.
When Hou Baoshan was fourteen or fifteen years old, he was about to talk about his wife's age, but he couldn't afford it. It happened to be a severe drought that year and there was no harvest. A handsome girl followed him. The parents fled to Yuanlingtan to look for relatives. When the family was desperate, they met the landlord father of Hou Baoshan.
Hou Baoshan’s father exchanged a basket of big radishes for a handsome girl and asked the girl to be his daughter-in-law. In this way, the girl who was five or six years older than Hou Baoshan became Hou Baoshan. Daughter-in-law, and has a new name, that is "from Hou Baoshan's family".
Seeing that the Hou family has fallen into decline, the family is poor, but their luck is not bad. When the rich people divide the land, the poor family can see that they have knowledge and people can talk. The Hou family is positioned as a prosperous and prosperous family. He was a poor peasant, and because Hou Baoshan attended private school for a few days and could write accounts, he became the accountant of the brigade.
The Hou Baoshan family is very good at living, and they are good at running the house. They go up the mountain to collect firewood and go to the ground to cut vegetables. live. With a capable daughter-in-law and Hou Baoshan having some power in the brigade, the Hou family's life has become better. It can't be said to be rich, but it is sufficient.
Hou Baoshan’s daughter-in-law has had no stomach problems for several years since she came to the Hou family. She is scolded by her mother-in-law all day long for not laying eggs. But the Hou Baoshan family, who is married far away, has no place to escape, so she can only Bear with it, secretly save some private money and go find doctors and doctors everywhere to take care of your body.
Finally, five years after getting married, the Hou Baoshan family gave birth to a son. The young man looked like his mother, he was very handsome, smart, and had a tiger-like head. Hou Baoshan became a father. This year, Hou Baoshan was 22 years old and his family was 27 years old.
Hou Baoshan was educated and racked his brains to name his son Hou Junting. After having their eldest son Junting, the Hou Baoshan family could finally be proud and proud. They spent all their energy on their children, raising them to be white and fat, and looking at them like ginseng dolls, they were filled with joy.
It may be that after the Hou Baoshan family became a mother, they spent all their energy on their children and paid less attention to their young husband. Hou Baoshan became so playful that he lost his temper.
As the saying goes, "A good man is in his mouth, and a good horse is in his legs." Hou Baoshan, a young accountant, has a good mouth and quick legs. He often goes to the house of his cousin who has not yet been out of the fifth server. , strolling around, I glanced at my eighteen-year-old flower-like little cousin.
The little cousin is called Xiaoying. She is as plump as a peach, and her waist is as tender as a willow. When pinched, she can be as tender as a puddle of water. At first, my cousin coaxed her with sweet words and laughed it off as a joke. As the cousin came more often, he stretched out his hand to touch and tease her, and slowly he was taken over by his cousin Baoshan.
The eighteen-year-old cousin is as tender and juicy as the thirty-year-old daughter-in-law who gave birth to a child. Back and forth, Hou Baoshan ran to his uncle's house almost as soon as he came back from the brigade, running, running, Seeing that my cousin's waist became thicker and her movements were no longer as agile as before, Hou Baoshan planted the fertile land on her little cousin. At this time, the cousin noticed something was wrong, and rushed out except when Hou Baoshan came again. , but I dare not speak out for fear of damaging my daughter’s innocence.
Just like the most vulgar old saying in the world, the wife is always the last to know that her husband is cheating. While the people in the village were vividly describing the beauty in the straw piles in the forest, Hou Baoshan's family was still looking after their children. It wasn't until one day when Hou Baoshan and his little cousin were cornered in the private plot that they discovered the husband who had been stabbed a thousand times. You did this immoral thing.
If you want to make a big fuss, you are threatened by your parents-in-law, and your husband begs and says nice things. In addition, your aunt and uncle don’t want their daughter to be so unclear. Ying was sent to a distant relative in the county town for surgery, and a foreigner was hastily found to be his successor. The matter was settled.
The Hou Baoshan family was freed from worries, but they also suffered from a dark atmosphere, suffered a serious illness, and turned sallow. During Hou Baoshan's illness at home, Hou Baoshan behaved a lot, returned home more diligently, and worked more reliably than before. It seemed that life was back on track.
What can women, especially women of that era, do? Divorce is not popular, but life still has to go on, so you have to live it. Two years later, another child was born, a son named Hou Junge, who was as smart as his elder brother.
The hearts of Hou Baoshan's family have also become weak, and the days are coming to an end. I guess for the sake of their two children, they will just focus on raising them. Unexpectedly, the cat that steals sex cannot be trusted. Hou Baoshan, a greedy cat, cannot stay alone and causes trouble again. He hooks up with a lame sister-in-law of the same family.
It can be said that he and Xiaoying were excusable back then. Xiaoying was young and beautiful. Don’t men love young and beautiful people? His lame sister-in-law was ugly, far different from Hou Baoshan's family, but Hou Baoshan just jumped into it.
No matter whether Hou Baoshan's family cried or made trouble, or he took his two sons with kitchen knives to his lame sister-in-law's house to catch her, nothing could stop Hou Baoshan's true love for his sister-in-law.
I didn’t harvest the crops at home, so I harvested them for my sister-in-law’s family first;
Get a tractor, but I didn’t harvest the corns at home, so I harvested them for my sister-in-law’s family first;
The daughter-in-law is so good at growing some vegetables and green onions, and in the blink of an eye she brings them to her sister-in-law’s dining table;
What’s more, she kills the head of a piglet at her own house, and then the pig’s hindquarters go to her lame sister-in-law’s house.
He didn’t hug or watch his son, but he hugged his lame sister-in-law’s daughter to watch the lantern dance and dance;
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The Hou Baoshan family was extremely angry. , he worked hard every day, and helped every family in the countryside when they had big or small affairs, weddings, weddings, or weddings. He was a very enthusiastic person, and finally raised the two children until his eldest son Junting was twenty-two or three years old. , and also told Hou Junting about the next provocative girl Wenxiu from the study shop on the other side of the Yuanling River.
It may be that he is too tired, it may be that he is sick from overwork, or it may be that he is angry and hurts his health. The Hou Baoshan family who had just arranged a marriage for their eldest son suddenly fell ill. It was quite serious and could not be described. What's wrong with me is that my belly is getting bigger and bigger, and I'm so skinny that I can't even lie down. I went to the doctor and he said it was "qi bulge" and I need to drain the water in my belly to get better.
But in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was no money to go to a big hospital. I could only lie in bed and scream. Fortunately, my eldest daughter-in-law, Wen Xiulai, was engaged. Helping take care of him is the last blessing for the Hou Baoshan family.
After two years of suffering, the Hou Baoshan family finally closed her eyes and left, bringing nothing with her. Just as she came to Houjia Village, she left equally silently. Yes, with concern for her two sons, the elder and younger have not gotten married, and she doesn’t know whether her son has passed the college entrance examination. Anyway, she closed her eyes and ignored her.
Postscript:
Later, Hou Junting, the eldest son of the Hou family, went to college and went to the city to become a rice bowl worker. He did not get the wife his mother had chosen for him. When Wenxiu got married, her mother's last thoughts about this world were not fulfilled.
Hou Baoshan is big-hearted, nurturing and good at playing, and has been dealing with women of all kinds. When he was old, he lived a good life. His face was glowing all day long, and he enjoyed all kinds of tobacco, wine, sugar, tea and tonics that his eldest son was filial to him. He lived to be eighty-three years old with his signature red nose, and then he lived leisurely. I don’t know what he would say when he saw his wife?