Chapter 385: Retribution for Favoring Sons Over Daughters 1 Who told you to bully your brother? ...
Maodan followed Kong Badou away. The children in the alley were so happy that they gathered together that day, called all the children around, and celebrated with great enthusiasm.
The location was chosen to be on the edge of Yu Lake. It was just after the Chinese New Year and the grass was withered and yellow, making it a perfect place to spread a plastic sheet and go camping.
The children were very enthusiastic. One brought some melon seeds, another brought some biscuits, or some fruit candies, peach cakes, or fried dough twists...
In short, as long as there is food to eat, it's fine. Everyone should contribute, and no one should be a freeloader.
For a while the lakeside was bustling with activity, just like a festival.
Guanying and the other three all participated. Guangmei also liked occasions with many people, so she came over to invite Xingxing and Yueyue to join.
Considering that they might have to come back with their parents in the future, the brother and sister brought some things with them as a token of their appreciation. They were wild hazelnuts from Changbai Mountain brought by their uncle from Northeast China, and frozen pears and apples specially prepared for them by their aunt.
The children accepted the hazelnuts well, but they all frowned when they saw the black frozen pears and apples.
Xingxing quickly took out a straw and demonstrated it to them: "Do you think I'm going to hurt you? What are you thinking? This is good stuff. I'll suck it up and show you how sweet it is."
The children gathered around. Guangmei and the others had also eaten it, and they immediately vouched for Xingxing: "That's right, this thing is really rare. My aunt brought it here specially. I was reluctant to give it to you. My Xingxing and Yueyue are really generous."
The moon was smiling and taking pictures of everyone with a camera.
This is the Polaroid camera her mother prepared for her. After taking and exposing it, you can get the photo in a few minutes. She took photos of all the children she was close to as a New Year's souvenir.
The children in the alley had never seen such a rare thing before, and they immediately gathered around to look at it.
"Yueyue, where did you buy this camera? It's amazing." Wang Cong from Qi Tiao Hutong was originally standing in the corner, not daring to move forward. He had previously bullied Guanying and Guangmei and was beaten by Yao Zhizhi, so he was terrified. But the camera in Qi Lingyue's hand was so rare, he was so curious that he couldn't help but move closer.
Little Moon didn't like him. She glanced at him indifferently and said, "Why are you asking this? You can't afford it even if you ask."
Wang Cong was depressed. He bit his lip, lowered his head, took two steps back, and said nothing more.
Just then, his sister Wang Jia came to call him back for dinner. Seeing that her brother was rejected by Qi Lingyue, Wang Jia felt unhappy, but she did not dare to offend Qi Lingyue. She had to take three or two steps forward, grabbed Wang Cong, and asked him to go home.
Wang Cong refused, shook off Wang Jia's arm, and hid among the children like a loach.
He didn't like going home. His family was poor and they lived a very difficult life. His eldest sister learned to blow candy and followed her master to set up a stall, which could barely supplement the family income, but it was just a drop in the bucket.
As they grew up, the family expenses became more and more expensive, and now that their mother was pregnant again, it was adding insult to injury.
When it comes to food, drink, clothing and other daily necessities at home, we try to save as much as possible, and we shamelessly ask relatives and neighbors for things if we can.
For example, the pants he was wearing were given to him by his cousin because he grew taller and couldn't wear them anymore. The cotton-padded jacket his sister was also given to his sister by his cousin's wife because she couldn't wear it anymore after she became pregnant.
It seems that none of the children in their Wang family have ever worn new clothes, unlike Qi Minxing and Qi Lingyue. The brother and sister look like a little prince and a little princess respectively. Not only are they well dressed, but they also have a lot of new things to open everyone's eyes.
He doesn't want to go home.
Wang Jia was so angry that she was shaking all over. She simply stomped her feet, crouched down among the children, grabbed Wang Cong's arm, and insisted on taking him back.
Wang Cong immediately let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered. Even though Wang Jia hadn't done anything to him, he started crying.
As a result, his mother was alarmed by his shouting. After all, Qi Tiao Hutong was right next to her and very close.
Yu Hongfang, wearing an apron and holding a shovel, ran over with a big belly. When she saw her daughter and son fighting, she was so angry that her head was buzzing.
She quickly yelled at the top of her lungs, "Jia Jia, you're going to die! Who told you to bully your brother? If you keep messing around like this, I'll make you marry an old man tomorrow!"
When Wang Jia heard this, she thought, here it comes again. Her mother was determined to find a rich old man to marry her. She couldn't stand it anymore, so she pushed Wang Cong away and ran away crying.
Yu Hongfang was too careless to care about her daughter's emotions. She muttered, "You little bitch, you're giving me a dirty look! Congcong, stop it and come home with me."
Seeing this, Wang Cong quickly ran over and hugged his mother and acted coquettishly. His mother loved her son, so he just needed to be a little obedient.
Yu Hongfang softened her heart and said softly, "Okay, then, play for another half an hour. Come back quickly when the time comes, or the food will get cold and you'll have to heat it up. We don't have enough coal briquettes at home, right?"
Wang Cong nodded seriously, stood on tiptoe, and, catering to his mother's interest, revealed a piece of gossip to her: "Mom, Wu Xiaojun said that Uncle Cao Guangyuan's son seems to be dying."
"What?" Yu Hongfang was shocked and subconsciously looked at the children gathered together. Sure enough, she found Wu Xiaojun's trace. The boy had a big forehead and his hairline was like his grandfather's, which was tilted back. At first glance, it was like seeing a big light bulb.
I heard that men in the Qing Dynasty all had bald heads and long braids. Maybe if Wu Xiaojun had a braid, he could pretend to be a Qing Dynasty person.
In short, although Yu Hongfang did not like this child, she believed that Wu Xiaojun's family was so close to Cao Guangyuan's family, so it must be true.
Wu Xiaojun noticed her gaze, looked up, and said nothing.
After Yu Hongfang left, Wu Xiaojun glanced at Wang Cong and said, "What have you done? You're going to repeat everything I say to your mother? Are you done yet?"
"Hehe, if I don't tell my mother some weird things, how can she bear to go back? You see, she will definitely ask someone when she goes back. Hey, I say, is his child really in trouble? Didn't he say before that he would be well soon?" Wang Cong and Wu Xiaojun didn't get along before and had fought a few times, but kids are like this, they fight and make up after a while.
Just recently, Wang Cong lent his slingshot to Wu Xiaojun to play with twice, and the two became good friends again.
Wu Xiaojun whispered, "Who knows? My mother said that his son should not have been born in the first place."
"Huh?" Wang Cong was confused. "Why?"
"Uncle Cao was not destined to have a son, so he adopted a baby girl that no one else wanted in order to have one. This baby girl was destined to have a younger brother, so he and Aunt Ma had a son. But he later sent that girl and his own daughter away. He lacked virtue, so he couldn't keep this son. God wanted to take his son away to punish him." Wu Xiaojun learned all the gossip his mother told him.
Wang Cong was stunned when he heard this. It turned out that there was such a thing. It was so magical.
He suddenly became curious: "What about me? My parents aren't like that, right?"
"I don't know." Wu Xiaojun looked at him in surprise. "Did your parents also give their daughter away?"
"I don't know, but they treat my sister badly anyway." Wang Cong thought about it and realized that it was true. His sister did all the housework, and he and his brother just had to eat ready-made food.
Because they were not required to work, they were too lazy to speak up for their sister.
Now that Wu Xiaojun had told him about the Cao family, Wang Cong suddenly felt a little scared. Their family wasn't supposed to be like this, was it? Don't make your sister run away in anger, or else God will take his life away too.
He was so scared that he hurried home to ask his mother.
As for the frozen pears, frozen apples, and Polaroid cameras, none of them were as important as his life.
Yu Hongfang was furious when she heard her son suddenly ask her this. She yelled at the top of her voice, "Jia Jia, Jia Jia, come here! Did you say something to Cong Cong?"
But Wang Jia did not go home. Yu Hongfang thought that her daughter would just hide in the room and cry when she was wronged, just like before. She did not think much about it. She shouted several times in a row, but no one responded. She did not take it seriously and thought that Wang Jia was angry this time and deliberately ignored her.
She was so angry that she immediately picked up the bowl and chopsticks: "Okay, you are so capable and ignore me, then don't eat!"
Unfortunately, she still couldn't hear her daughter's response.
Without thinking much, she quickly called the children to eat.
Wang Cong was more cautious. The question he asked his mother was not answered, and he was a little scared. What if he ended up like this? Wouldn't that be the end of him?
I quickly opened the door of my sister's room and took a look.
There are many children in their family, and my sister lives in a small partitioned room in the northwest corner. There is only a small bed one meter wide and a small cabinet less than forty centimeters wide. The width of the entire partitioned room is less than one and a half meters, which is crowded and cramped.
But his sister was not inside. Wang Cong was dumbfounded and quickly ran to the main room, shouting, "Mom, my sister is not back!"
Yu Hongfang still didn't take it seriously. She picked up her chopsticks and ate her meal. "Don't worry about her. She must have gone to her master's house to complain. Come over and eat quickly. It will get cold later."
Wang Cong sat down hesitantly, picked up his chopsticks and took two bites. The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became. Even the scrambled eggs his mother specially prepared for him didn't smell as good as usual.
He frowned and asked, "Mom, tell me, what's the difference between our family and Uncle Cao's?"
After all, the eldest child in their family is also a girl. Excluding the one in her mother's belly, there are five children, three girls and two boys.
And the order is daughter, daughter, daughter, son, son.
This is exactly what Wu Xiaojun said about adopting a daughter if one cannot give birth to a son.
Wang Cong was very worried about his life.
But Yu Hongfang didn't want to answer his question at all. She rolled her eyes and urged, "Don't listen to nonsense, little kid. Come on, eat yours quickly."
Wang Cong was speechless. He could only sigh and concentrate on eating.
After dinner, Yu Hongfang went out, bringing some change and a dozen eggs with her.
Wang Cong looked at his mother and felt that she didn't look like she was going to look for his sister, nor did she look like she was going to see Cao Guangyuan's children. After all, the two families didn't have much relationship, they were just acquaintances.
He became more cautious and followed her out quietly.
Soon I discovered that my mother had actually come to the bathhouse and found Uncle Qu who was burning the boiler. She closed the door and muttered to herself, and I didn't know what she was saying.
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The children near Yu Lake were called back by their parents to eat.
The stars and the moon are no exception.
The brother and sister sat at the dinner table and started gossiping with their parents: "Dad, Mom, Wu Xiaojun said that Cao Guangyuan's son is dying."
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