Chapter 125 Aunt, help!
Mr. Tai Sanye was thinking about it all night, and went to his old brother's house after dinner the next day.
While the villagers were busy finishing up the backyard, he went to the front yard to talk.
Mr. Tai respected his elder brother very much. He pinched some tobacco from his purse and put it into his elder brother's pipe and lit it.
During those years when he was not at home, his wife and children had to be taken care of by his elder brother. Even the Tai family's current status was due to his elder brother's efforts.
There have been continuous disasters in recent years, and the death toll in Taijia Village is the lowest among the villages around it.
Mr. Tai San was very happy. He took a few puffs from his pipe and found the tobacco particularly fragrant.
Liu Dongniang brought a large earthenware bowl, poured in some coarse tea, and said with a smile, "Uncle San, wait a moment. My sister-in-law is coaxing Zhuzhu in the room. The girl is too lazy to stay in bed today!"
Mr. Tai San also laughed when he heard this and replied, "Okay, I don't have anything to worry about."
After saying that, he started praising it with his old brother again.
"The eldest and second sons' wives are both good. They get along like sisters. They don't fight over anything, and they don't argue over work. Unlike us, there are always quarrels in our family!"
"My wife Jisheng is silent, but she has something in mind. As for my wife Jicai, although she has improved a bit, she is still lazy and cunning. Only my second wife Jifu is honest and hardworking and doesn't mind. Otherwise, I'm afraid there will be chaos all day long, and there will be no peace."
Mr. Tai had a good relationship with his elder brother and didn't mince words, so he advised, "Every family has its own problems. With so many children and grandchildren, there will definitely be quarrels.
"Luckily, your sister-in-law is a powerful woman who can keep these daughters-in-law in check. However, after a few years, when life gets better at home, it's time to split up the family.
"The three brothers Jicai have all inherited the family fortune and can work harder. They help each other when they have problems, and their relationship is undeniable.
"Instead, they get together all day and argue about who has more and who has less, and they keep arguing about who has more and who has less, which gradually wears away the brotherhood."
Mr. Tai thought this made sense and nodded repeatedly, sighing, "That's what I was planning too, but I still feel a little reluctant. As I get older, I always want to have my children and grandchildren around me. I can see them every day, and that's when I feel at ease."
Old Master Tai puffed on his empty pipe and said with a smile, "We're all half buried in the earth, and we might die someday. Make arrangements in advance so we can go with peace of mind when the time comes. Besides, few men who stay at home on the kang will achieve anything. We should let our children and grandchildren go out for a walk whenever they have the chance."
"Yes, I'll think about it when I have time." Master Tai San agreed, and turned to talk about yesterday's events. "Have you talked to the eldest brother's wife about teaching the village boys to write? If these boys really want to go out and make their own way in the future, they must have some skills to rely on!"
The old man nodded. Just then, Yang Lihua came out of the next room holding the sleepy Zhuzhu. He said, "Let the eldest son's wife tell you."
Yang Lihua held Zhuzhu and saluted. The old man quickly took Zhuzhu over, fearing that his precious granddaughter would fall.
Yang Lihua poured more tea for the two of them and then repeated what she had said last night.
Master Tai frowned, feeling somewhat worried. "Every family expects their daughters to work, so they probably won't agree to her coming here every day to learn arithmetic. It's better to let the boys learn first, and then they will naturally teach their sisters when they return..."
Yang Lihua shook her head and was about to say a few words when a quarrel suddenly broke out outside the yard.
"Auntie, auntie! Wuuwu, auntie, help me!"
A little girl of seven or eight years old, wiping her snot and tears, rushed in from outside like a little cannonball, and fell to her knees when she saw Yang Lihua.
"Auntie, my sister is dying. Can you please save her?"
My sister is dying?!
Not to mention Yang Lihua, everyone in the room frowned when they heard this.
Especially Master Tai San, he is the patriarch of the clan. There is almost nothing big or small that he doesn’t know about in every family.
Although every family has a hard time surviving in the winter, life has become much better since everyone started working with the old brother's family.
I won’t become rich, but I won’t starve my children to death!
"Whose family are you from? Why did your sister die? Was she sick or hungry?"
The little girl was wearing tattered clothes, her hair was tangled and dirty, and her face was like a kitten's. She looked even more terrible after crying for a long time.
She was probably a little frightened, and her words were incoherent, asking Yang Lihua to save her sister.
The crowd was at a loss, so they asked the little girl to lead the way and follow them to see what was going on.
The old man originally wanted to leave Zhuzhu at home, but the fat girl hugged his neck tightly, so he had to take her with him.
The little girl trotted ahead until she reached a thatched house in the south of the village.
But she didn't go into the house, but turned to the pigpen in the corner of the yard.
Of course there were no pigs in the pigsty, but there was a little girl lying in a pile of straw.
Yang Lihua only took one look and knew why she had never seen this child before.
Even the poorest families in the village, such as Tiedan's two sisters, had cloth shirts to cover up their ugliness.
But the girl was wearing a torn sack, made from castor beans from the mountains in autumn, torn into threads, twisted into thin ropes, and tied together like a fishing net. Straw was added to the gaps in the middle, barely making it into a sack. Four holes were cut out so her arms and legs could be stretched out...
After wearing such simple "clothes" for a long time, the hemp rope will become worn and dirty, and it will become increasingly unbearable.
Even the naughty boys in the village don’t wear this, let alone the girls who need to cover up their ugliness the most.
But this little girl wore it, and her exposed arms and legs were dark and thin, like a layer of skin attached to a dry bone stick!
Just like that, the little girl's face flushed abnormally, and her lips were cracked...
No one spoke for a long time, and no one knew what to say!
The village is poor, but not to this extent!
To put it bluntly, even the birds building nests in the trees are fatter than this little girl!
Mr. Tai San had a dark face and was about to call the adults in the family out to talk.
Unexpectedly, Zhuzhu was frightened and started crying.
"Grandpa, Grandpa! Woo, so pitiful! This sister is going to die!"
The old man was shocked and regretted it so much that his intestines turned green.
How could I forget that my granddaughter has sharp eyes and can see different fortunes?
In their eyes, they saw that the little girl was miserable, but their granddaughter was facing life and death.
He quickly hugged his granddaughter and turned around, blocking her from looking at the pigpen, and anxiously coaxed her, "Zhuzhu, don't cry, don't cry! Didn't you say that grandpa is very powerful? Grandpa might be able to save this little girl!
Wait a minute, don't be afraid, don't be afraid!"
Yang Lihua, Liu Dongniang and others also hurried to coax Zhuzhu, and also regretted bringing her here.
Of course, they didn't expect that there was a little girl in the village who was treated so cruelly!
While the commotion was going on, the people in the straw house also came out.
Mr. Tai Sanye and others took a look and sighed in their hearts.
No wonder this little girl is so miserable. Strictly speaking, this little girl is not a member of the Tai family at all!
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