Zhangzi Nanliu village fortune-telling

These two days, Yao Zhuo was very anxious, especially when he caught a glimpse of his pregnant daughter-in-law drying clothes in the yard. He is even more like a cat on hot bricks.

"The child, I want to know if I can have a boy? 」

Sitting under the veranda, Yao Zhuo repeatedly speculated that he might have a girl at some moment, and then he lowered his eyebrows and his eyes were confused. The next moment he thought that he might have a boy, he was so happy that his mouth rose unconsciously and even laughed out loud.

Yao Zhuo felt possessed. He scratched his scalp with a cigarette in his hand, and then tried to take a deep breath and exhale to make his messy mood more stable.

Between breaths, Yao Zhuo suddenly heard the yard door creaking. He turned his head and saw his wife Tan coming back from the market with her granddaughter. There are a lot of pork, vegetables and fruits hanging in front of the battery car, and a bag full of daily necessities is carried on the back.

The 5-year-old granddaughter jumped out of the car with a small windmill made of colored plastic paper in her hand and jumped into the house.

Yao Zhuo got up at once, dragging his limping right leg, walked quickly to his wife and took the heavy objects in her hand. Son Yao Zhou was watching TV in the main room. When he saw his mother coming back, he immediately ran out, pointing to a small bag of apples on the battery car, and excitedly said with a vague accent:

"Apple! Apple! 」

Then he reached out and took an apple out of his bag and stuffed it into his mouth. Tan busy crying:

"Oh, that hasn't been washed yet! Wash and eat! 」

When she struggled to take the apple from her son's mouth, she saw that a large piece had been bitten off on it, and Yao Zhou was munching it with relish.

Tan looked at the apple, then at his son, and blamed lovingly:

"Oh, you said what's your hurry? This apple is dirty, so it's not too late to eat it after washing! Don't eat the rest. When I wash and cut it, you can share it with the children. 」

With the rest of the apples, Tan went to the kitchen, turned on the tap, rubbed them hard in the sound of water, and then went back to the kitchen, divided the apples into two halves with a knife and handed them to his son, holding the other half, and shouted at his granddaughter in the hall:

"Zitong, this apple is for you! 」

The little girl skipped over, took the apple from her grandmother and turned to her mother. Tan looked up, and her daughter-in-law Ling Zheng bowed her head and picked up several packets of toilet paper from the pile of daily necessities she bought.

"She gave birth to a child and knew that she would use this in a couple of days, so she prepared it in advance and went to get it in front of her father-in-law. 」

Tan Feng feels a little uncomfortable in her heart, but she also knows clearly that she can't ask her daughter-in-law to be a normal person. After self-reconciliation, she left with her, and then pretended to help her husband carry all the things she bought back to the kitchen.

2

Near the early morning, the waiting hall outside the delivery room of the county hospital has long been deserted. Yao Zhuo and Tan are sitting in a blue iron chair with a big piece of paint missing, looking tired and dignified.

They have been waiting here for a day and a night, afraid to leave. Except for going to the toilet once, they kept on looking at the delivery room anxiously from time to time. When you are hungry, you will eat your own pancakes and boiled eggs. When you are thirsty, you will drink hot water sent by the hospital.

"pa"

The delivery door opened and a nurse came out. Through her arms baby bracelet, said:

"Who is Wang Ling's family?"

Yao Zhuo and Tan immediately stepped forward. At this moment, their nerves suddenly tightened, and they have reached the maximum limit they can bear.

"Safe production, it's a boy."

The nurse went in without looking up.

Yao Zhuo clearly heard a bang in his head, and his eyes were dark. He was fascinated by the great good news, and the whole person seemed to float in the foggy air. Then the fog dispersed, and he felt that he had fallen back to the ground, and his inner ecstasy was hard to suppress:

"Ah, it's a boy! It's a boy! ! 」

He turned to look at his wife. Tan Fengping's face was full of tears. Obviously, she is more excited than herself. Yao Zhuo's heart is sour and he wants to reach out and hug his wife. Because of the formality of the rural people, he just took Tan's arm. They turned around and slowly returned to their original seats.

For this long-awaited child, what is waiting for a day and a night? The grievances, embarrassment and unwillingness that the husband and wife have suffered for half their lives have been greatly released at this moment.

They really need this boy.

three

When he was young, Yao Zhuo was handsome. He is not only tall and straight, but also handsome. Besides, he plays the harmonica and flute very well. It is said that he won a prize in the school literature competition, which made him stand out among the boys in Yaolou Village.

After graduating from junior high school, he was introduced to Tan. Compared with Yao Zhuo's height, Tan is short and ordinary, but this does not prevent them from meeting on their first blind date. Soon, they got married.

Two people who are out of proportion in appearance have always had a good relationship after marriage. They have never had a red face fight for many years, and occasionally they have quarreled several times, which will soon be resolved invisibly. This is not uncommon in rural areas where quarrels and daughter-in-law fights prevailed more than 20 years ago.

Later, the couple gave birth to a son and a daughter one after another. It is said that life should be stable and happy, but there are always unexpected accidents in life.

Just for Yao Zhuo and Tan, this "accident" is really too heavy, and they have to bear this burden for life.

After his third birthday, his son Yao Zhou still can't walk alone. Seeing that his sister, who is one year younger than him, can still run around, Yao Zhuo and Tan are completely panicked.

In fact, Yao Zhou was different from other children when he was over one year old. For example, he can't stand up, but he is barely lifted up and can't move. His legs are as soft as if the skeleton had been removed. Unlike other children, he can't "babble" to learn to speak; His usual appearance is that his mouth is slightly open and his mouth is salivating.

The old man in the village later said that the child is still young and weak, and it will be fine when he grows up; When I grow up, I say it may be an evil thing, and it is illegal to ask for blind fortune telling. Finally, even the dreamers came, but it still didn't work. He also said that there might be a lack of noble people, so he found a familiar person in the village according to his date of birth and made Yao Zhou the foster mother of michel platini. ...

All conceivable methods have been tried, and Yao Zhou is still the same.

The husband and wife stopped listening to others' comfort and resolutely took their son to see a village doctor. Rao has treated countless children in his life. Yao Quansheng, who has considerable pediatric experience, has never seen such a situation: the child has neither a fever nor a headache, except that his legs are boring and he doesn't like to talk. Everything is normal for eating and sleeping.

Thinking about thinking, Yao Quansheng thought that Yao Zhou must have a brain problem. He suggested taking the children to a big hospital for examination.

Yao Zhuo and Tan raised enough money to take their son to several big hospitals. More than 20 years ago, medicine was far from being developed now. Many doctors gave ambiguous opinions, and some said that they should take medicine for treatment. Some people say that they should acupuncture the brain to promote development; Others said don't worry. When they grow up, their brains will gradually develop and improve ... After a round of examination, they have no idea, but they have spent all their savings. Finally, they had to take their son home, hoping that the slender "brain will automatically develop and perfect when it grows up."

four

Yao Zhou has grown up slowly, and all aspects have really improved a lot. For example, he can finally stand independently, walk and run, understand simple questions, speak vaguely, but express basic needs, and there is not much problem in taking care of himself in personal life.

Compared with himself, Yao Zhou has made great progress, but compared with his peers, the gap is obvious: he finally learned to walk at the age of four or five and started running at the age of seven or eight. At the age of ten, he fell to the ground and could not stand up alone without help from others.

When he could walk and run, Yao Zhuo sent him to the primary school in the village normally. At first, the school refused to accept it. Later, Yao Zhuo repeatedly begged the principal to pay all the fees normally. No matter what achievements Yao Zhou had, he just asked the school to give Yao Zhou a desk and chair, so he was regarded as an invisible man.

After several classes, the school found that Yao Zhou was not smart enough, but he agreed to let him enter the school without crying or making trouble in class.

Yao Zhou has been repeating the first grade since his sister didn't go to school at first. After his sister went to school, he didn't repeat the grade in order to be in the same class with her. When he graduated from primary school, Yao Zhou finally learned to write his own name.

Unlike my brother's stupidity, my sister Yao Xue has been clever, articulate and outstanding in appearance since she was a child, which is a little comfort to Yao Zhuo and Tan's depressed life.

Originally, Yao Xue had a cheerful personality and excellent grades, but he was tortured by gossip since he was a child. The phrase "her brother is a fool" is like a spell, which hangs over her from beginning to end.

When I was in primary school, whenever a naughty child shouted this sentence, no matter how far and tired, Yao Xue always caught up with that person and struggled hard. After entering junior high school, she has grown up and has a girl's self-esteem. Even if she met someone who said this again, she just pretended not to hear and kept silent.

But sometimes it's worse not to say it than to say it. Other people's whispers and strange eyes never disappeared from Yao Xue. Gradually, she lost interest in going to school and went out to work early.

After my sister dropped out of school, Yao Zhou's study career officially ended. Since then, he has been idle at home, doing nothing all day.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, Yao Zhou is a young man in his twenties. He is tall and handsome, and his face looks like his father Yao Zhuo, but he is still stupid.

five

Seeing that people the same age as his son Yao Zhou are married and have children, Yao Zhuo and Tan are also thinking about how to find a wife for their son and have a son and a half to support him.

Although this silly son has brought endless humiliation and supercilious look to the couple for half their lives, they still love him as always. Parents and relatives once advised them to give up Yao Zhou and have another son, but they could not bear Yao Zhou's suffering:

"Even if we have another son, he will never treat his brother like us when he grows up. 」

Therefore, Yao Zhuo and Tan gave up the idea of having another son after having their daughter Yao Xue.

"Where can I find a daughter-in-law for Yao Zhou? With our family's conditions, where can we find a suitable girl? 」

Husband and wife racking their brains, at this time, someone reminded them:

"Might as well go to Yao Qingshan and ask his wife Steve. Maybe there will be a way. 」

Hearing this, the Yao Zhuo immediately patted his thigh and said:

"Oh, I forgot about him. Didn't his wife just buy it? They must have access! 」

In rural areas, men who have their own defects or are older can't marry a daughter-in-law locally, so they go to remote and backward areas through intermediaries and take money directly to the woman's home for blind date. If both men and women see it correctly, they will give the bride price money agreed in advance to the woman's parents and take the girl home to get married. Many girls there are also willing to leave their hometown through marriage and live a good life in a place where they can eat and wear warm clothes.

Yao Zhuo and Tan took the 60,000 yuan they had worked hard on the construction site for several years, and together with the middleman, they went to Er Nizi's remote and poor hometown, which lasted for more than a month and finally bought their son Yao Zhou a daughter-in-law.

I thought that when my daughter-in-law came home, everything was all right at last, and both husband and wife could relax, but I didn't know that trouble was yet to come.

six

Son Yao Zhou seems to know nothing about men and women. After more than three months of marriage, the newlyweds still have no progress.

At first, her mother-in-law Tan described things between men and women to her son and daughter-in-law, but it was useless. Later, she told them directly, even I don't know where to get the indescribable little picture, and told them repeatedly that the result was not great. Finally, as a last resort, Tan simply put down his face and directed himself directly in front of his son and daughter-in-law. After some tossing, the effect is still not ideal.

Yao Zhuo and Tan have been sighing all day, hoping that their daughter-in-law will give Yao Zhou a son and a half daughter, so that he can have a support in the future, but I didn't expect this.

Tan heart think again and again:

"If you can't have children, what's the use of this daughter-in-law? Won't sixty thousand dollars be wasted? what can I do? 」

After careful consideration, she hit her husband Yao Zhuo with her own thoughts.

One rainy night, after finishing housework, Tan returned to her room and saw her husband Yao Zhuo lying on the bed, playing with his mobile phone and charging. After a long silence, Tan made up his mind to speak:

"Ah, father, I have something to discuss with you ..."

Yao Zhuo also don't lift, casually replied:

"Oh, what happened? 」

"I, I, I want you to go to Ling He to have children! 」

Yao Zhuo was intrigued first, and then jumped out of bed like being struck by lightning. The rechargeable mobile phone fell to the ground, and the wires and plugs on it were torn off. His face was flushed and he looked at his wife in disbelief, and his Adam's apple rose and fell. It took him a long time to spit out a sentence:

"What? what did you say ? 」

"Ah, ah, don't you worry first? Listen to me slowly ... "

Tan pull to her husband's side, took his arm and softly comforted:

"I know this idea ... well, it's a bit bad, but there's nothing I can do now. It seems that the two men stayed together all day, but in fact nothing happened. It can't go on like this. If this woman has no children, how can we let her do that? If after a year or two, she gets tired of staying here, maybe she will turn and run away ... she has legs and feet, and our eyes can't grow on her every minute! 」

The wife's words seem absurd, but they are helpless. Yao Zhuo can't think of anything to refute their words, which is hard to accept. He was stupefied and motionless.

See her husband tan doesn't seem as strong as before, continued.

"Marry her but we forcefully took out sixty thousand dollars! If we don't do this, all our money will be wasted. How do you think 60 thousand yuan came from? That's what we saved bit by bit on the construction site ... "

In the end, Tan's voice choked, and Yao Zhuo looked up at his wife. All she said in her head was buzzing, and every word of those words hit her heart.

Yao Zhuo's tight body suddenly relaxed. Obviously, his rebellious heart has slowly begun to accept this "suggestion". ?

seven

It's just that although his wife's idea has been acquiesced in his heart, Yao Zhuo's action is really difficult to implement. Tan urged him several times, but he refused for various reasons. Yao Zhuo blushed and looked up shyly at the thought of having sex with his daughter-in-law.

Yao Zhuo, the eldest son of the family, has been loved since childhood. Coupled with his talent and good appearance, he has always been arrogant and always loves to win or lose. He prides himself on being handsome in his bones. How could he do something against ethics?

But the wife is right. It took them a full 60,000 yuan to get a wife. That's all the family savings. How can we let it go to waste?

After thinking for a long time, coupled with his wife's repeated urging, Yao Zhuo finally made up his mind to have children for his children.

It was also a night of heavy rain. Tan pulled Yao Zhou away in advance, and after repeated explanations with his daughter-in-law, he pushed her husband upstairs and left himself on the first floor.

Before long, Ling was pregnant. Ten months later, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl ?

After having children, Yao Zhou and Ling seem to have grown up a lot. They are happy around the newborn baby. Although ling's daughter-in-law is not very clever, it may be due to motherhood. She took care of the child wholeheartedly and tried her best. The baby was fattened by the young couple. ?

What followed was a sudden increase in household expenses. Seeing that everything was all right at home, Yao Zhuo went out to work to make money to supplement his family, while Tan continued to stay at home to plant children.

Yao Zhuo and my family are neighbors. Although he is about the same age as my parents, I call him Big Brother by seniority. In the following years, I went to school in other places, rarely went back to my hometown, and no one in the village saw him again.

Later, I happened to meet Yao Zhuo at the wedding of an acquaintance in a foreign land. Unexpectedly, his hair was gray, his mouth was unshaven, he was wearing a semi-old shirt and a cigarette between his fingers, sitting there casually playing with his mobile phone.

I don't know what I'm tired of these years. Yao Zhuo has completely turned into an old man, and he can no longer see the lightness of his youth. He has changed so much that I can hardly recognize him.

After seeing me, Yao Zhuo simply said hello, exchanged a few pleasantries, and then continued to push a cup for a change with the people around him, smoking one cigarette after another. The noise at the wedding is just the background sound of their small group's self-excitement.

After a few glasses of wine, Yao Zhuo's face gradually blushed. He smoked a cigarette, big tongue said:

"My granddaughter is very rare. I want my daughter-in-law to have another child. There are two babies in my family, and this 60 thousand yuan will not be wasted. I don't care if that woman can stay in my house for a long time. 」

Someone comfort way:

"She will definitely stay in your house for a long time. Besides, where else can she go without staying in your house? You have food and drink at home, and you don't treat her badly. Why not be better than where her hometown is still hungry? 」

Others chimed in:

"Be, be, not in your home where else can she go? 」

Yao Zhuo looked up and drank another glass of wine, and his face was faintly proud.

Later, in a construction site accident, Yao Zhuo fell from a height and broke his right leg. The construction site paid a sum of money. Yao Zhuo took the money back to his hometown and built a big yard in front of the original house. Since then, he and Tan have been staying in their hometown, making a living by farming, and occasionally going to towns and counties to do odd jobs to earn some pocket money.

eight

Yao Zhuo loves his granddaughter so much that he named her Zitong. Whenever he is free, he walks around the village with his granddaughter in his arms. The little girl's cunning made Yao Zhuomei's acne disappear by half, and a trace of youthful high spirits reappeared on her face.

Someone is chatting in the small pond at the entrance of the village, and he is willing to say a few words, as if to say:

"Even if my son is not smart, my family is still promising. My family is no different from you! 」

Some people in the village have been unhappy about this, such as Zhang Xianfang. On the surface, she congratulated Yao Zhuo on having a big granddaughter, but in fact, she secretly disagreed, gossiping with women and saying:

"Hey, look at Yao Zhuo's pride. What's the big deal about having a granddaughter? Besides, whose descendant is that child? 」

"ah? Isn't that child his fool? 」

"He is stupid, can understand the personnel, how can have children? That child must be Yao Zhuo's own. 」

Then Zhang Xianfang mentioned that one night when she passed Yao Zhuo's house, she happened to be caught in a heavy rain. She went to Yao Zhuo's house to take shelter from the rain for a while. At that time, Tan Zheng was nervously guarding the stairs for fear that someone would go up and talk to her. She's also absent-minded. Before long, she saw Yao Zhuo and his daughter-in-law coming down from upstairs in tandem. The expression on her face is very strange, so Zhang Xianfang concluded that:

"Yao Zhuo and his wife must have something to do. His granddaughter may be of his own kind. 」

When this word came out, everyone was shocked. Some people think there is some truth in what Zhang Xianfang said. Yao Zhou can't have children with women. Others think that Yao Zhuo is not that kind of person and won't do that out of line:

"Although his silly son's head is not bright, there should still be a man's instinct. The child should be Yao Zhuo's granddaughter. 」

Opinions vary, and soon, the whole village is privately discussing whose child Yao Zhuo's granddaughter is.

nine

The village is so big, there are so many people, and most of them have their own relatives. Any gossip will soon reach the ears of the parties concerned.

Yao Zhuo and Tan blushed when they heard these rumors. They know it can't be wrapped in paper, and others will know it sooner or later. The couple silently faced each other, holding the little girl who was born soon, and no one spoke first.

Yao Zhuo felt guilty. He felt that he should not listen to his wife Tan and have sex with his daughter-in-law. As a result, he always feels that he can't lift his head and be an upright person.

But on second thought, my wife has suffered much more than herself, and her heart must be more sad. After all, who wants her husband to have children with another woman? How can you blame her?

"After all, it's not just because our son Yao Zhou is disabled that we decided to do this. Otherwise, what can we do? 」

Yao Zhuo sighed at the thought, and Tan looked up at him, his eyes full of sadness. Her lips trembled, trying to control her emotions, and then reaching out to wipe away her tears, as if to comfort her husband and herself:

"Don't worry about how others think and guess, as long as we don't say it ourselves, they have no evidence, just a few words of gossip in private. This is our own granddaughter. In two years, we will have grandchildren again. Let them be jealous! 」

Looking at the sadness on his wife Tan's face, think about their life. Because his son Yao Zhoucheng has suffered too much humiliation and supercilious look, people are dwarfed by their predecessors. Yao Zhuo's heart is full of resentment:

"God, why are you doing this to us? What have we done? 」

Secretly, Reeve and his wife are sad and often relatively silent, but until they are happy, they keep calm and pretend to know nothing about all the gossip. They are full of love for the little baby in front of them, as if their half-life has been relied on since then.

10

Half a year has passed, and her granddaughter Xiao Zitong has been babbling and running away. In the past two days, daughter-in-law Ling has been sick and retching. At first, Tan didn't take his words seriously. It was many times before she noticed.

After so long marriage, she hasn't learned the local dialect. Tan even said that she didn't know she hadn't menstruated for two months until she gestured. She quickly put down the farm work in the field and took her to the hospital. After examination, she was told that she was pregnant.

Tan was puzzled and asked her husband to go home for the night. It turns out that Yao Zhuo had something to do three months ago. This pregnancy has nothing to do with him, but who is the child in his wife's belly?

The husband and wife asked Ling what was going on together. They suspected that their daughter-in-law would have an affair with another man, but they didn't even think about it. Tan usually takes care of her daughter-in-law and never lets her go out alone easily. Every time she goes to work in the field, she locks the door at home from the outside. Liu Ling and Yao Zhou are playing mobile phones upstairs. They have a mobile phone without a card, and they can even watch videos online.

Ling Lian said with gestures, and it took her parents a long time to understand what she meant. The child belongs to Yao Zhou, and she and Yao Zhou have already had a close relationship.

Tan Feng with a clap a thigh, pleasantly surprised to say:

"Ah, someone told me before that our Yao Zhou seems to be different from before. We have grown up and understood a lot. At first, I didn't take it seriously. I thought they were making me happy, but I didn't expect it to be true. Maybe he really did something adult before he became an adult? ! 」

After further understanding, I learned that after meeting Yao Zhuo, my daughter-in-law Ling gradually understood the matter of men and women. She and Yao Zhou get along day and night, and the young and energetic two naturally have a relationship.

Tan Fengping is so happy that she hasn't taught them before. I didn't expect to get things done in the end.

Ling said that their young husband and wife have been together for a long time. According to this statement, their "granddaughter" is likely to be a real granddaughter, which makes Yao Zhuo and Tan overjoyed. If so, they won't have to bear a heavy psychological burden.

Yao Zhuo and Tan silently breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile floated on their faces. Tan even couldn't help touching his daughter-in-law's belly, thinking expectantly:

"Don't we have anything bad? Anyway, it's our turn to have fun this time! Pray for all the immortals and family ancestors, and you must bless my daughter-in-law to have a boy this time. If our wish can come true, we will burn more incense and paper in the festival ... "

Finally, the wish came true. Eight months later, a baby boy was born.

Yao Zhuo and Tan held a grand full moon ceremony for their newborn grandson. Their hearts are filled with joy and their faces are filled with smiles. When the husband and wife stood in front of their house to greet the guests, the bright sunshine fell obliquely from the branches, and their mottled white hair and bent camel bodies instantly became beautiful.