Chapter 436 I want a divorce!
When the village chief spoke, several old women who had been watching the scene tried to step forward and pull Dan Niang and Sun's mother apart.
But how could Dan Niang really let go?
Today we're going to make a big scene!
Only on such days, in front of everyone in the village, can the matter be blown out of proportion, and only in the end can the play be performed as Mr. He instructed, in the direction Dan Niang wanted.
Before anyone could react, Dan Niang's slaps came crashing down, landing repeatedly on Sun's mother's face!
"I'll teach you to bully Daya, I'll teach you to hit the child, I'll teach you to insult my kid! I'll beat you to death, beat you to death!"
Dan Niang's fierce expression frightened Sun's mother, who momentarily forgot to fight back.
Danniang took the opportunity to hit her a few more times. When she saw the old woman standing to the side about to step forward to break up the fight under the gaze of the village elders, Danniang took the opportunity to lower her head and whisper in Sun's mother's ear: "Didn't you want to sell Daya so that you could send the second son to school?"
I'll beat you to death, you old hag! I'll let your heartless, lungless, rotten-bellied filthy thing die!
In the end, Dan Niang was pulled apart by two strong women, and Sun's mother was also helped up.
But now Sun's mother was scared. She realized that Dan Niang already knew that she intended to sell Daya to a filthy place to get money.
How could Sun's mother not know that it was utterly shameful and disgraceful to suddenly sell a child during a famine, especially to sell him to such a filthy place for more money?
People with a sense of shame would never do such a thing!
They would rather raise the girl to adulthood and ask for a higher dowry in the future than sell a seven- or eight-year-old child to a filthy place.
The idea of selling the child to a filthy place is something that must never be spoken aloud; it can only be planned in secret.
But now, Dan Niang actually knows?
I thought that once I separated the two of them, the matter would be over.
After all, the village chief and the elders didn't consider the battle between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to be a big deal.
Just as the village chief and the village elders were about to step into the ancestral hall, Daya received a look from Danniang and immediately burst into tears. She ran towards Danniang while crying and said, "Mother, Mother, don't sell Daya! Daya can work! Daya eats less! Don't sell Daya! Daya doesn't want to go to dirty places!"
One stone stirs up a thousand waves.
Daya is already over seven years old. In the eyes of the villagers, a seven or eight-year-old girl is old enough to be ready to be married in another three or four years.
Therefore, the words that Daya spoke while weeping bitterly at this moment are naturally highly credible.
Therefore, the villagers who were already gathered together for the Qingming Festival gathered even more around the ancestral hall to watch the lively battle between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Now, they all stood in groups of three or five, watching the grand drama performed by the Sun family.
"Oh my god, did I hear that right? Da Ya said the Sun family is going to sell her to a dirty place?"
"My goodness, I remember Daya is about the same age as my Chunhua, not even eight years old yet!"
"It's not a famine year; people only sell their children when they can't afford to eat."
What were the Sun family thinking? How could they be so shameless?
"Hey, you guys don't know, do you?"
My family and the Sun family live diagonally across from each other. Dan Niang and her daughters work all day long, yet they still can't get a decent meal.
"Hmph, it's all because Danniang didn't give birth to a son!"
"If Danniang had two sons in three years like me, do you think Granny Sun would dare sell Daya!"
In the countryside, there's not much to do for entertainment anyway.
Therefore, the household affairs mainly handled by Sun's mother and Dan Niang at this time attracted a lot of attention. Everyone watched with wide eyes, afraid of missing any part of the story or missing the connection.
When the village chief and elders heard about the sale of children, they couldn't just ignore it.
The village chief turned his head and looked at Sun's mother and Dan Niang. He saw Daya, who was crying so hard that she was clinging to Dan Niang's leg, and Dan Niang, who, sensing the village chief's gaze, pretended to be serious and squatted down to hug Daya while crying and wailing.
"Oh, my life is so miserable, my life is so miserable!"
I can't have a son! The Sun family is going to beat me to death! I can't have a son!
Oh dear, you were born into the wrong family. Your mother is so sorry. Your grandmother is going to sell you to a dirty place to get money!
"Mother is useless! Mother doesn't want to live anymore! She doesn't want to live anymore!"
Every word Dan Niang uttered sent shivers down the spines of the village chief and the village elders.
“Da Ya, we mother and daughter are doomed, we can’t live anymore, we can’t live anymore,” Dan Niang said, picking up Da Ya and walking away, saying, “We mother and daughter can’t go on living, let’s go home, your mother will take you to have a good meal, and then we’ll go and drown ourselves.”
"Let's die cleanly, not in such filthy places."
Dan Niang picked up Daya and started to walk out, but the village chief gave his wife a look, and then someone stepped forward and blocked Dan Niang's way.
If this happened in your own village, whether it was someone drowning themselves in the river or a young girl being sold to a filthy place, it would sound terrible!
After such a tragic human tragedy, people can't help but say that the village chief is incompetent and can't even manage such a small matter in the village.
"Go to the back and call Sun Gouzi (Sun's father) and his whole family over here!"
After the stern-faced village chief gave the order, some quick-witted people scurried off to the back to find someone.
The three men, Sun's father, Sun Dalang, and Sun Erlang, who had been hiding in the back and thought they didn't need to stand out and would just let the commotion pass, were dragged to the front.
"Now you know to shut up?"
"When your wives were making a scene at home just now, why didn't you come out and do something about it?"
The village chief and several village elders sat on chairs and benches, looking at the father and his two sons standing in front with their heads hanging down, Sun's mother standing with her neck stiff, and Dan Niang squatting down, still holding Daya and crying bitterly. They scolded them with ugly expressions.
"Alright, hurry up and get things straight. It's almost noon, and everyone's waiting for lunch."
Seeing that no one spoke, Dan Niang sobbed as she spoke: "...She wants to sell my eldest daughter to that filthy place, just to make a little more money to send the second son to school."
If the teacher at the school knew that the tuition fee he received was obtained by his student selling his own sister, he wondered if he would dare to accept such a heartless student!
This kind of thing will surely affect the other children in our village who go to school!
"Sister-in-law, that's not how it works!"
Sun Erlang's wife, who had been watching the show with her child in the back, quickly came out to clarify: "I have no idea about selling people."
Erlang's wife waved her hands, trying to prove her innocence.
But how could Sun's mother let all the trouble fall on her head?
"Fine, you shameless thing who only knows how to take advantage!"
It was you who kept telling me that if the children and grandchildren in the family wanted a future, they had to go to school.
They also said that the eldest son's wife's daughters were all maids, and since they would all be married off in the future anyway, it would be better to sell them early and save the money for your son's education!
Now that things have come to this, you're trying to play the good guy!
That won't do!
As they talked, Sun's mother and Erlang's wife started arguing, and the argument escalated to the point where they were about to come to blows.
At this moment, Sun's father, Sun Dalang, and Sun Erlang didn't dare to utter a single word; they just hung their heads and didn't say a word.
Finally, an old villager shook his cane, and the village chief gestured for his wife to quickly separate the grandson's mother and the second son's wife. The village chief then said to the oldest villager, "Fifth Uncle, what do you think of this?"
The fifth uncle of the Sun family looked towards Dan Niang and asked, "What do you want, child?"
Dan Niang raised her head and said decisively, "Fifth Uncle, we can't live like this anymore."
Who knows, there might be rat poison in my and the girls' food later, and then we could be pushed into the river and die.
The village chief frowned, truly not expecting Dan Niang to say such a thing.
"I can't live with Sun Dalang anymore, I want a divorce!"
I'm taking the girls with me and getting a divorce!
We can't stay with the Sun family any longer. Who knows, one day they might sell us all to some filthy place.
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