Wang Caifeng waited until Sun Hongmei's mother was tired of shouting, so she stepped forward and wanted to continue to defend her mother-in-law, but Xia Juhua shook her head at her and told her to take Liu Baoguo into the house and not to come out. The child had never seen anything like this before, and was so scared that he didn't even dare to cry. His little mouth was pouting, and his tears were in his eyes, not daring to fall. Even if Xia Juhua had a big opinion of him in her previous life, she felt pity for him now.
Wang Caifeng was reluctant to go back to her room, fearing that the two grandsons would confront her mother-in-law alone, and that her mother-in-law, who didn't like to talk much, would suffer. Xia Juhua looked at Wang Caifeng sternly and said, "You don't care about Baoguo, and you don't care about the baby in your belly?" Then they really started to quarrel and pushed Wang Caifeng, and it was too late to regret.
Wang Caifeng reluctantly carried Liu Baoguo back to the east chamber and whispered to him, "Baoguo, someone wants to bully grandma. You stay on the kang and don't get off the floor. I'll go help grandma."
When Liu Baoguo obeyed, tears finally fell from his eyes, but he didn't cry out loud. Wang Caifeng felt as if her heart was cut by a knife. She hated the Sun family so much that she wanted to kick them out of her home immediately.
But her mother-in-law didn't let her come out just now because she was worried about the baby in her belly. Wang Caifeng had no choice but to stand at the door of the east room, holding on to the door frame to watch what was happening in the yard.
There was no movement in the yard.
Sun Hongmei's mother's shouting did not get any response from Xia Juhua, and she could not think of any new words to accuse her, so she just stood there breathing heavily. Sun Hongmei's father wanted to make peace, but his wife was too firm in her words, so he didn't know where to start.
As for Xia Juhua, she just stood in the yard opposite the two people from the Sun family, not saying a word or moving, as if Sun Hongmei's parents were not in the yard. Wang Caifeng was so confused watching this scene that she couldn't laugh out loud. She knew too well how aggrieved people must feel when facing such a state of their mother-in-law, and she couldn't express it in words.
You have said and shouted, but others just don't respond. If you continue to shout, it will be suspected of bullying. Even if the Sun family is thick-skinned and really wants to bully others, don't forget that this is Ping'an Manor. Even if Xia Juhua didn't interact with others in the past, it's different now.
Ever since she taught the women new ways to weave, the women and their families have been grateful to Xia Juhua in their hearts. They don't know how to thank Xia Juhua. They feel proud to be able to talk to Xia Juhua, and their relationship with her is getting closer day by day.
If the Sun family wanted to bully Xia Juhua at this time, they had to see if the women would agree. Look, the gate of the Liu family had been pushed open, and in addition to Sun Zhaodi, a neighbor, there were also several women from Li Changwang's family and Li Changman's family who were weaving mats with Xia Juhua.
"Mrs. Liu, who are these two people? I heard that they came to your house to bully people, why didn't you say anything? You are too honest, you didn't suffer any loss, did you?" Li Changwang spoke loudly as he walked into the house, without even looking at the tanned faces of the Sun couple, he only cared about whether Xia Juhua suffered any loss.
The Sun couple were so angry that they wanted to vomit blood. Every word Xia Juhua and Wang Caifeng said hit them hard, leaving them speechless. They were the ones who suffered the consequences.
Sun Hongmei's father knew that his wife's voice was too loud and attracted people, so he looked at Xia Juhua and wanted to ask her to explain to the visitors that they were her relatives and that they just spoke a little loudly and were not bullying anyone.
Who would have thought that Xia Juhua had lost all the composure she had when talking to the couple. She looked shaky, her face was pale and her eyes were red. It was obvious that she had been bullied and couldn't speak. She was looking at the woman who was talking to her and shaking her head slightly without even opening her mouth.
Not to mention Li Changwang's family, no one in Ping'an Village had ever seen Xia Juhua look so weak. Who was Xia Juhua? She was the famous "Xia Xiaohuo". No matter how hard it was, she never shed a tear or complained to anyone!
So, the two people standing in the yard bullied "Xia Xiaohuo" to the point that he couldn't even speak, and the words they said must have been very ugly.
"Who are you? You come to our Ping'an Village to bully people. Let me tell you, the Red Team of the commune came to our Ping'an Village to arrest bad elements this morning. If you keep bullying people, don't tell them that I went to the commune to invite the Red Team to arrest you all." Seeing that Li Changwang's family took the lead in caring about Xia Juhua, Li Changman's family was afraid that she would always take the lead, so they immediately attacked the Sun couple.
Xia Juhua clenched her hands tightly together, and she didn't loosen them even when her knuckles turned white - she couldn't loosen them. If she lost her attention to the pain in her hands, she was afraid that she would laugh out loud on the spot.
Did Li Changman really not know the identities of the Sun couple? How did he find the key points so accurately? He immediately told the Sun couple the information about the Red Team that they wanted to hear the most and did not want to hear the most.
In order to hold back her laughter, Xia Juhua's body shook even more violently, and her face turned red. Li Changwang's family was so scared that they hugged her and shouted, "Sister Liu, don't worry, don't worry. We are here and we won't let you bully us. Let go, let go quickly, or you will break your hand."
Wang Caifeng heard that her mother-in-law was in trouble. She ignored Xia Juhua's instructions and stepped forward to help Li Changwang's family support Xia Juhua: "Mom, don't be angry. Now that someone is here, let's ask one of the ladies to call Zhishuang and his wife back, and let Sun Hongmei talk to her parents herself."
Now there was no need for introduction, everyone knew the identities of the two outsiders standing in the yard. Li Changman's family just spat: "Bah, I said, Sun Hongmei screamed and howled every night, disturbing the neighbors, and then pretended nothing happened. With such parents, they can raise such a daughter."
"It's not Sun Hongmei," the women were unwilling to be left behind in discussing these things: "All the bad things are on that Sun Guizhi. If she hadn't been the one who mixed up, Zhishuang, such a good child, wouldn't have had to marry Sun Hongmei. Ever since she married Zhishuang, there has been no peace in Liu Saozi's family."
"I have never seen such a troublesome daughter-in-law. People say that nieces are like their aunts, and Sun Hongmei is exactly like that Sun Guizhi. If you ask me, what happened in the Liu family yesterday must have been instigated by Sun Guizhi."
"She must have instigated it. She has been away from work these years, always gossiping about her wife. How can she stay at home peacefully? Old Mrs. Liu was instigated by her to be biased."
"Sister Liu, don't be so soft-hearted. Let Sun Hongmei go back to the Sun family with her parents. Otherwise, Zhishuang's life will be ruined in her hands."
The sound of something heavy falling was heard at the gate, drowning out the sound of everyone's discussions. Looking back, they saw Sun Hongmei sitting paralyzed at the gate. Liu Zhishuang beside her did not help her. Instead, he looked at the Sun couple and Xia Juhua standing in the middle of the yard with a complicated expression.
The Sun family couple was upset by the women's gossip and looked unhappy. Xia Juhua's desire to laugh passed, her body stopped shaking, and the red clouds on her face from holding back laughter also faded, and she looked pale again, with the red circles under her eyes becoming more obvious.
Combined with the women's discussion, it seemed clear who was at fault between the Sun couple and Xia Juhua. Liu Zhishuang moved, and he did not support Sun Hongmei, who was sitting at the gate, but walked closer to the three people who were confronting each other.
"Second son..." Xia Juhua had discovered that her youngest son was quite clever, and was afraid that he would see that she was pretending, so she called out to him. As she was not sure whether Liu Zhishuang had noticed that she was pretending to be weak, Xia Juhua's voice trembled a little, and her body shook again.
In Liu Zhishuang's opinion, his mother's condition was clearly caused by the two grandsons saying something unpleasant to her, and in order to avoid putting him in an awkward position, she endured the pain and became so angry.
Whenever his mother and his grandson's family quarreled, she didn't have to hold it in until she couldn't stand still. As soon as he came back, his mother's eyes were red. She must have been afraid of embarrassing herself and felt wronged.
In the past, my mother endured all the hardships, but now that my two brothers have married, why is it that my mother, who deserves to enjoy some happiness, still has to endure it, and even cannot say anything back when people find her at the doorstep and bully her? !
It’s all because I married Sun Hongmei!
Liu Zhishuang held Xia Juhua's hand and trembled: He and his mother had argued to marry Sun Hongmei, but after marrying her, he found that she was not as sensible as she had shown before the marriage, and was always looking for trouble like Sun Guizhi. Just like the aunts said just now, there has been no peace in the family since he married Sun Hongmei, and there have been more incidents than in the past ten years.
But his mother still gave him the right to decide whether Sun Hongmei would return to her parents' home. Liu Zhishuang slapped himself when he thought of this. Xia Juhua quickly grabbed his hand and said, "Son, this is not your fault. Why are you hitting yourself?"
"Mom, why don't you blame me? It's all my fault that I was young and ignorant. I made a mistake before getting married and thought that Sun Hongmei and Sun Guizhi were different people. I insisted on asking you to marry her, and that's why their family came to bully you." Liu Zhishuang was so annoyed that he wanted to slap himself twice.
Sun Hongmei, who had just stood up, sat down on the ground again and couldn't get up after hearing what Liu Zhishuang said. She looked at her parents with some resentment, and couldn't understand why they came to Ping'anzhuang at this time. Even if they came to Ping'anzhuang, couldn't they wait for her to come back and ask about the matter? Why did they start quarreling with her mother-in-law.
Sun Hongmei had been keeping a low profile in the Liu family for a while. She didn't dare to say much or move around much, and she did everything she could to make Xia Juhua and Liu Zhishuang see her changes and stop them from thinking about sending her back to her parents' home. But her parents came and wiped out all her efforts.
Listening to what Liu Zhishuang said, it was clear that he regretted marrying me. His opinion of me had not diminished at all because of my efforts in recent days. Instead, he blamed me for the quarrel between my parents and mother-in-law.
那自己以後的日子還能過嗎？
孫紅梅就這麽呆呆的癱坐在院門口，聽着她爹語無倫次的跟劉志雙解釋，他們只是來打聽姑姑一家的消息，不是來跟婆婆吵架的。
之所以兩邊說話說擰了，都是因為她娘心疼她這個閨女，認為婆婆不應該只留大兒媳婦在家享福，讓她這個新媳婦下地掙工分。孫紅梅自己心裏呵呵笑了兩聲，看她爹娘的眼神更冰冷了。
因為孫紅梅她爹說出的理由，院子裏站着的婦女們對孫家展開了新一輪讨伐，人人都認為她應該下地幹活掙工分，婆婆并沒有偏心王彩鳳——都是農村人，誰不掙工分都得餓肚子，憑啥她孫紅梅就不能下地？
至于王彩鳳，孫家人瞎了嗎，沒看到王彩鳳大着肚子還帶着一個一歲多的奶娃娃，夏菊花這個當婆婆的心疼兒媳婦，讓她在家歇兩天礙着孫家什麽事兒了，吃你們家玉米面了？
要是孫紅梅也跟王彩鳳同樣大的肚子，夏菊花還逼着她下地，那是夏菊花偏心，可現在孫紅梅連孕都沒懷，就跟王彩鳳比，臉咋那麽大呢。
由于夏菊花和王彩鳳都是當大嫂的，婦女中還有人聯想起當年夏菊花懷劉志雙的時候，七八個月了還得下地幹活，扔在家裏劉志全孫氏也不肯幫着帶，那時剛嫁進老劉家的孫桂芝同樣沒向大嫂夏菊花伸把手。
那時候孫家咋沒人來平安莊，說說孫氏太偏心呢。敢情你們家占了便宜沒事，沒占上便宜就是吃虧是吧？
一陣陣的議論，吵的孫紅梅耳朵嗡嗡響，腦袋裏一會清楚一會糊塗，議論聲也忽遠忽近，孫紅梅分不出自己是真的聽到了這些議論，還是沒聽到。
突然，一個熟悉的聲音傳進了孫紅梅的耳朵，這是她最想聽到又最怕聽到的聲音，是劉志雙在對她爹說：“你別說了。不管你們今天來平安莊想幹啥，欺負了我娘都是事實。你們這樣找上門來欺負人的親戚，我可不敢再認了，你們走吧。”
仿佛聽到了最後的宣判，孫紅梅一直提着的心猛地有了着落，身上也有了力氣——劉志雙只讓她爹娘走，沒說讓她跟着一起回孫家莊，說明劉志雙還是舍不得她。
他心裏還有自己。
借着這一股勁，孫紅梅終于站了起來，軟軟的叫了一聲：“志雙。”
如果說孫紅梅最想聽到劉志雙的聲音，那劉志雙現在最不想聽到的就是孫紅梅的聲音。對于孫紅梅，劉志雙心裏是矛盾的。
家裏的事兒多少是因為孫紅梅而起，劉志雙心裏不是不知道。可他們哪怕開始的時候有些不光彩，仍算是自由戀愛，又是新婚，這些天孫紅梅處處向他賠笑臉讨好，劉志雙都看在眼裏呢，他不能把孫紅梅完全從自己心裏抹去。
正是這樣的糾結，讓劉志雙沒狠心說出讓孫紅梅跟着孫家兩口一起回孫家莊的話。不說，不代表劉志雙不生孫紅梅的氣——要不是孫紅梅嫁進了劉家，孫家兩口也不會這麽理直氣壯的出現在他們家的院子裏。
所以聽到孫紅梅叫自己，劉志雙全當聽不見，看也沒看她一眼，就盯着孫家兩口子想讓他們快點滾蛋。
孫紅梅的娘能幹？聽到劉志雙開口攆自己，她已經坐到地上開始撒潑了：“沒天理了，當姑爺的連丈人丈母娘都不認，你想白白霸占我閨女？”
孫紅梅聽到這話心裏就是一咯噔，娘說的這叫啥話，她跟劉志雙可是扯了結婚證的，還給了家裏彩禮，咋就說霸占呢。
她心裏發毛，劉志雙是整個人都毛了，眼睛立立着沖孫紅梅她爹說：“我咋就霸占你閨女了，平安莊的人誰沒看見過，我們沒處對象的時候，是孫紅梅自己三天兩頭往平安莊跑，來了就不走。說是幫着孫桂芝幹活，咋非得讓我二叔所她和我分到一個組……”
“志雙！”夏菊花聽不下去了，叫了劉志雙一聲不讓他說下去。不管孫紅梅是咋讓劉志雙非她不娶的，那時劉志雙也已經成年了，該有自己的判斷力。大男人做出的決定，哪兒能都把錯誤推給別人。
太沒肩膀頭了。
劉志雙被夏菊花吼了一聲閉嘴了，孫紅梅的娘也同樣收了聲。可他說出的話已經足夠院子裏的婦女又議論起來，最終的歸結點就是夏菊花真是個好人，到現在都不讓兒子說孫紅梅的不是。
有這麽好的婆婆孫家人還不知足，真是身上福中不知福。
“你們生産隊是怎麽回事，咋一個個都不上工，全擠在這兒幹什麽？”院門口突然傳來一聲吼，聽出來的人一個個趕緊閉上嘴縮住脖子，給來人讓出道來。
來的不是別人，又是大隊的民兵隊長劉力群。他跟上次一樣，聽到平安莊的人說有人來生産隊鬧事，帶兩個民兵急三火四趕過來，發現鬧的不是生産隊，而是夏菊花家，就打發民兵先回大隊，自己則先喊一嗓子鎮住所有人。
等劉力群面色嚴肅的站到夏菊花面前，發現夏菊花的臉色真的不好，而孫家兩口子也真不認識，聲音更嚴肅了：“你們是哪個生産隊的，為啥來劉家鬧事？”
孫紅梅是跟着劉力群一起擠進人群的，聽到他直接給自己爹娘定性為鬧事，心裏對爹娘再有意見也得先替他們解釋：“劉隊長，這是我娘家爹娘，來找我打聽點兒事。當時我上工沒在家，他們跟我娘唠嗑說茬了，不是來鬧事兒的。”說完，就拉着她娘站起來。
當着民兵隊長撒潑，哪怕不是孫家莊的民兵隊長，也撒不出去好吧。
“不是鬧事兒的，那咋圍了這麽些人，耽誤了生産隊的生産，誰負責？”劉力群聽說是孫紅梅的爹娘，更沒什麽好臉色了。
他是大隊的民兵連長，全大隊的治安也在他的責任範圍之內。老劉家昨天夜裏有人腦袋開瓢，打人的還帶着老婆孩子跑了，已經讓他吃了挂落，被紅小隊的幾個毛孩子好一頓嘲諷，心裏正不順氣呢。
現在聽說來人是孫紅梅的爹娘，馬上想到這兩個人也是孫桂芝的娘家哥嫂，那就別怪他擺臉色了。
老孫家沒一個好東西！
劉力群可聽說了，紅小隊去孫家莊抓人的時候，孫桂芝的哥哥嫂子起頭倒是幫着說了兩句話，見紅小隊态度強硬，竟然馬上把劉四壯的兩個孩子一起推給了紅小隊，說是他們不包庇壞分子。
劉二壯當時就求着孫家，不說先照顧一下孩子，把人給送回平安莊都行，不會讓孩子白吃孫家的飯。可孫家的人不僅不同意，還說自己家已經跟壞分子的家人劃清界線，劉二壯要是不同意紅小隊綁兩個孩子的話，那就是想包庇壞分子家屬，應該讓紅小隊一起抓走。
咋地，都劃清界線咋又跑到平安莊來了，是不是想借機立個功好把自己摘的更幹淨點？
別怪劉力群這麽想，運動初期不是沒有這樣的先例，講的就是打翻在地再踩上一腳。劉力群有理由懷疑，孫家兩口就是來踩上老劉家一腳的。
可你想踩一腳也踩準了，去老劉家踩孫氏去，踩人家夏菊花幹啥。
這邊孫紅梅的爹聽劉力群提到耽誤生産，也有些急了，按着閨女的稱呼賠着笑臉說：“隊長，誤會，都是誤會。我們可沒想着破壞生産，就是想來打聽打聽我妹子家現在咋樣了。這不是我妹妹一家子不在，我們想着先到親家這裏坐會兒，沒想到唠嗑說茬了。”
劉力群被他逗笑了：“打聽你妹妹一家的事兒？你妹妹兩個孩子都讓你一塊交給紅小隊了，你還好意思打聽他們家的事兒？”
孫紅梅的爹沒想到劉力群的消息這麽靈通，臉騰的一下紅了：“誤會，那都是誤會，我當時，我們當時不是，就是怕……”
不管他說的多語無倫次，院子裏的人都聽明白了，不就是怕沾包，連外甥都狠心交給紅小隊了，這還是人嗎？！
夏菊花這才明白，自己在公社為啥看到劉四壯一家四口都被紅小隊綁着，劉二壯為啥又那麽無奈——人家舅舅都說外甥是壞分子，劉二壯這個當二大爺的再求情有什麽用。
平安莊的人也被孫紅梅爹娘的不要臉給驚了一下，連孫紅梅自己也沒想明白他爹娘既然做出那樣的事兒了，還來平安莊幹啥。
“爹，娘，你們咋能連志亮和紅娟都……”孫紅梅問不下去了，她想到了一種可能，兩眼盯着自己的爹娘。她爹的眼神躲閃了一下，孫紅梅的心又提了起來。
她爹一定是拿了姑姑什麽東西，所以才着急打聽姑姑一家現在是個什麽情況。她敢保證，要是她姑姑真被紅小隊關學習班，她爹就敢昧下她姑姑的東西。
"Come on, don't ask around at Xia Juhua's house. She hasn't been in touch with the Liu family for a long time, so she doesn't know what's going on there." Liu Liqun didn't know the Sun couple as well as Sun Hongmei did. He waved his hand and said to them, "Hurry back to your own production team and join the labor. If you dare to cause trouble in Ping'an Village again, I'll have to ask your brigade cadres whether they can manage their own members well."
Before the Sun family could argue, Liu Zhishuang suddenly spoke up: "Sun Hongmei, you should pack up your things and go back with your parents. I don't dare marry such an inhuman father-in-law and mother-in-law."