Chapter 34: Get out of this circle
Yu Yaoyang's focus was on the policeman's words "young rural couple". He still had two days before he reached the legal age to get the marriage certificate, and he felt a sense of happiness of becoming an official couple ahead of time, and was secretly happy.
Rutang took some time to explain the whole story to the police. After they realized it was a misunderstanding, the police left.
Hao Mei was so angry that she stood in the yard wiping her tears.
She didn't understand why the good daughter she raised was suspected of being a car thief. She felt very wronged.
"Aren't you going to comfort her?" Yu Yaoyang saw Rutang cleaning up the house, leaving her emotionally fragile mother crying outside, and he did not go out to comfort her.
But the fat lady was kind-hearted and kept persuading Hao Mei.
"If I go out now, I will be challenging her authority as a mother in front of outsiders. She will just say that you are an unmarried girl and you don't know anything. I will talk to her alone when there are no outsiders around."
Rutang has a complete plan to help his mother get out of the shadow of her failed marriage and there is no need to rush.
Yu Yaoyang stroked his chin as if he was thinking about something.
"What are you thinking about?" Rutang asked.
"I was wondering whether it's better to smash the glass or put him in a sack and beat him up..." Yu Yaoyang was annoyed. Why did he say out loud what he really thought?
His future daughter-in-law is a good person with a good family background. I'm afraid she will nag him a lot to persuade him to study, right?
"Don't try to persuade me. I am a man of principles. I have the final say in this matter! If I don't teach her a lesson, won't people laugh at me, Yu Yaoyang, for being a coward who can't even be protected by my wife's family?" Yu Yaoyang had disliked Aunt Wang for a long time.
"We will get the marriage certificate the day after tomorrow. You cannot leave any bad records. Everything should be based on the overall situation."
"Don't be so flowery, just say something I can understand!"
"Just pull out the valve core of her bicycle, don't hit her...what are you laughing at!" Ru Tang looked at him angrily. Why did this guy have to laugh so arrogantly?
"Why didn't I realize that you were such a mean and bad person before?" He slapped her on the face quickly.
Yu Yaoyang felt that when the Goddess of the Nüwa made the figurine, she must have made her specifically according to his preferences, otherwise why would she have picked on him so much?
"You are rewarded. You must maintain this level of awareness."
“…”Who is this reward for?
Rutang watched him leave with a mixture of laughter and tears.
She knew Yu Yaoyang's temper very well. If she didn't let him vent his anger, he would definitely do something bigger in the future.
Good people are often bullied, and good horses are often ridden. She doesn't take the initiative to harm others, but that doesn't mean others can bully her family.
Rutang is busy making money and doesn't want to waste too much time on Aunt Wang. She asks Yu Yaoyang to teach Aunt Wang a lesson so that she won't keep doing bad things behind her back.
In the yard, Hao Mei's crying could be heard intermittently, pouring out the grievances that had been pent up for many days.
"I just don't understand, is God blind? Why do good people like us have to suffer so much?"
Hao Mei spent half her life thinking about this matter but still couldn't understand it.
She lived an honest life and never hurt anyone, so why did she end up with a man who was abusive and a gambler?
Her daughter is both good in character and academic performance, she is pretty and smart, so why is she accused of stealing for no reason?
"God is too busy. How can he have the time to take care of our affairs one by one? You still have to think it through. Look at me, how many people scold me behind my back, saying that I can't give birth to children and am a hen that can't lay eggs. They look down on me because I'm from the countryside. But I'm fine too," the fat lady advised.
"Ah, you don't have children?" Hao Mei's attention was diverted and she didn't have time to cry.
"I have not been able to get pregnant in recent years. I went for a check-up and there was nothing wrong with me. Look at these Chinese medicine residues..." The fat lady pointed to the corner of the yard, where a pile of boiled Chinese medicine residues were piled together. She then compared them to the colorful flowers blooming in the yard.
"I used the leftover Chinese medicine residue as fertilizer to grow flowers. I didn't get pregnant, but the flowers bloomed beautifully. People should look forward and not live in the rumors of others. The more you care about this, the more upset you will be."
Rutang heard it carefully, and she felt that it was a great opportunity for her to rent a house here.
A positive person like Fatty is very suitable to be with her mother. If her mother were placed in the village and surrounded by a group of gossipy women like her grandmother, her mother would definitely be even more upset.
Hao Mei chatted with Fat Sister-in-law for a while, and when she heard that Fat Sister-in-law was even more miserable than her, she felt much less sad. Just then, Fat Sister-in-law's husband came back, so Hao Mei wiped her tears and went into the house to find her daughter.
"Where is Yangzi doing?" asked Hao Mei.
"I'm going out to do something." Rutang didn't elaborate.
"Xiaohua is such a good person, why can't she have a child? If a woman can't have a child, her life will be incomplete." Hao Mei said in a low voice.
Rutang shook his head.
"I think they live a very clear life. But you should change your mindset. Marriage is not a must for women, and the same goes for having children. It's just an experience and a choice, just like you like to eat steamed buns and others like to eat rice. Everyone has their own choices, and no one is nobler than anyone else. You can't think that others who eat rice and don't have children have an incomplete life just because you eat steamed buns and have children, right?"
"What are you talking about?! Our ancestors have lived this way for generations!" Hao Mei's mind was greatly shocked.
"It's like we've been drawn into a circle all along, and everyone is wandering around in the circle. When they see someone stepping out of the circle, they all curse together, regardless of right or wrong. When they see someone who is different from themselves, they curse. Brother Yaoyang just wasn't willing to stay in the circle, so he jumped out, and everyone cursed him. But are those people in the circle really nobler than him? For example, my father."
When Hao Mei heard her daughter talking about her father, she immediately perked up.
Marriage is the circle that Rutang mentioned. If she steps out of it, she doesn’t know what the outside world will be like. But if she wants to divorce, she will be out of the circle and will inevitably be scolded and pointed at by others.
"In the eyes of the villagers, my father is an insider. He got married and had children when the time came. Although he had problems with gambling and domestic violence, in the eyes of our villagers, he was a normal person. In sharp contrast to him is Brother Yaoyang. In the eyes of our villagers, he is not a normal person. Others get work points while he runs around. Other men beat their wives and children to prove that they are men, but he has to be different from others. Do you want him to become a normal 'in-the-circle' like my father?"
"No! Absolutely not!" Her daughter's happiness has always been Hao Mei's weak spot. When Hao Mei heard her daughter say this, she immediately retorted.
"Then why don't you dare to take a step forward? Step out of the circle drawn by others and look at the world outside. Is the world inside the circle necessarily correct?"
"Ah..." Hao Mei felt as if struck by lightning, and the stone blocking her heart seemed to break.
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