AWB Chapter 372 Father-in-law's Affairs
Chapter 372 Father-in-law's Affairs
Lan Qiuhua smiled and said, "You haven't seen his parents. Wenshan and Yuanshan take after their mothers, and Rongshan takes after his father."
Ji Wenhe asked: "Aunt Lan, doesn't my father-in-law have any brothers or sisters?"
"Didn't Rongshan tell you?"
"He didn't say it, and I didn't ask."
"Your father-in-law is the only child in the family. He is the only one, and it makes people feel very distressed when talking about it."
She asked, "Did anything happen before?"
Lan Qiuhua nodded: "You can't say that your father-in-law is an only child. I heard from my mother-in-law that your father-in-law has a twin brother who was not raised, and two sisters who married and moved to other villages."
"The two sisters married badly, and their deaths were very strange. Your father-in-law went to look for them, but couldn't find anything, so he severed all ties with them and never had any contact again. Later, I heard that the two families had an accident, and they are all gone. We don't know why."
"Many people said that their family had done something immoral and harmed their daughter-in-law, so the family suffered misfortune. Your father-in-law said that it was God's will that the two families suffered retribution."
Su Xiaolian sighed: "It's not easy to raise a child. There are many children in our village who were born but failed to survive."
Ji Wenhe didn't know about this. He probably didn't want to mention it, or his father didn't tell him about it.
"Yes, it's not easy to raise a child. If you have too many children, you won't have enough food to eat. If a family has four or five sons, you won't even be able to find a wife."
Lan Qiuhua said, "Let alone five sons, even if they have two sons, it's very tiring to find a daughter-in-law. For example, your aunt He's family has three sons, and her father-in-law is a scholar who has made a lot of money by running a private school. If it were us, three brothers could only marry one daughter-in-law."
"Aunt Lan, do you mean that since there are many brothers in the family and they don't have money to marry wives, they will marry one girl to be the wife of three of them?"
"Yes, in some villages, if there are two, three or four brothers in a family and they really don't have any money, they will marry a wife."
"They say that if a family has many sons, they won't be bullied. But having many sons can also be bad. How can we find wives for them when they grow up? Will we let them be single for the rest of their lives? I don't have their ideas. They say that if you have more sons, you won't be bullied in the future."
"After giving birth to Anguo, I wanted a daughter for the second child. I discussed it with your Uncle Shen. If the second child is also a boy, we won't have a third child. If the third child is a son, our family will have to live on coarse food. Maybe we won't even be able to eat cabbage."
All the family savings were spent on marrying off my sons. I have two sons, and I can’t think of how to earn enough money to marry off the second son.
"Mom." Su Xiaolian touched her belly, "If the one in my belly is a son, I don't want to have another one. If the first one is a daughter, then I will have a second one."
Lan Qiuhua replied: "If it's a son, that would be the best. As for whether to have a second child, you and An Guo should discuss it between yourselves. You already have a grandson anyway."
Ji Wenhe was listening nearby.
She nodded: "It's good to have a son. If we have a second one, it will still be too tiring. An Guo and I have discussed it. I don't want to be so tired if I have a son to carry on the family line."
"It's not easy to make money. He didn't want to eat in town, and he lived in a big bunk bed with everyone else. He couldn't sleep well, and he worked very hard."
"It's up to you. Your father and I won't interfere. Look at Qian Hongjuan's family. Her husband and father-in-law go to work in the town. If only one of their two sons goes out to earn money, how can they support the whole family?"
Shen Youcai is over fifty years old and still has to go to the town to find a job. His two younger sons are about to find marriage partners, and if he doesn't prepare some betrothal gifts, how can he find wives for his sons?
Ji Wenhe thought of their family: "Aunt Lan, Gu Yan has been living a good life since marrying Dali. I was wondering if Aunt Xie would ask Gu Yan to give some money as betrothal gifts to her two younger brothers when they are looking for marriage partners."
Lan Qiuhua replied: "Of course, you are like Aunt Xie, you don't know, when Gu Yan and Dalili were dating, they agreed on a betrothal gift, and later they increased it. When her two brothers are looking for marriage partners, they will definitely ask Gu Yan for money."
It seems that when I go to see her, I have to remind her not to take out all the money.
After chatting for a while at their house, I returned home before it got dark and closed the gate from the inside.
At night, the temperature in the mountains dropped and it was a bit cold without a thin cotton jacket.
After washing up, Ji Wenhe went back to his room to sleep, locked the door and propped it shut with a wooden stick.
The next morning, after dinner, I went to Li Chunhong's house and saw four little girls embroidering attentively in the house.
Shen Wanqing saw her and said, "Sister-in-law is here, please sit down. My mother went to the river to wash clothes and will be back soon."
"I came to see how you guys were doing and make a delivery at the end of this month."
“We made so many that we couldn’t use up all the fabric.”
"If it doesn't work, save it for the next design. If it works, I'll bring it to Boss Yang.
Pointing to the basket, he said, "Some of it has been cut, and some of it has not. Leave the ones that have not been cut."
Ji Wenhe took a look and found that there were not many cut fruits in the basket.
"Oh, sister-in-law." Shen Wanqing looked at her, "My husband's family is not far from the village. I want to come back to make puppets in the future. I will go back at night. Didn't sister-in-law say that I can do it until May or June?"
"Yes, Boss Yang probably meant until May or June, but is it convenient for you to come back? Will my in-laws tell them? And you'd better not tell them the style of the doll."
"Don't worry, sister-in-law. I won't tell them. I'll discuss it with them later. If they don't want me to come back, then I won't come back to be a puppet."
Shen Moxin on the side said: "Big sister, you are married to your husband's family, but you still run to your mother's house every day. After a long time, your mother-in-law will definitely be unhappy. Don't worry, I and my younger sister are here. We will embroider more and earn more money."
Shen Lianmeng nodded in agreement: "Yes, elder sister, you can live a good life with your brother-in-law after you get married. There are only me and my second sister at home. Anyway, we are close, so you can come back occasionally, but you can't come back every day."
At this time, Li Chunhong came in with a smile: "As soon as I arrived in the yard, I heard voices in the house and guessed that it was you."
Ji Wenhe smiled and said, "Let me see how the puppet is doing."
"Okay, then you stay here and talk to them while I hang up the clothes."
"Well, go and get busy."
"Oh, sister-in-law." Shen Wanqing said, "After I left, there was one less person to make puppets. Aunt Zheng's Feng Yao is also good at embroidery, but compared to us, she is a little bit worse."
"But if she puts more effort into it and slows down her hand speed, the finished product is not bad. Sister-in-law, do you want to go and see her embroidery? If it's good, why not let her come over."