As soon as Yu Shuang accepted the body, she sensed danger approaching from behind and instinctively dodged to the side at top speed.
His face immediately froze...
Damn it!
My back is killing me...
Then a dark, indistinct thing brushed past her.
It turned out to be a goat.
The goat took advantage of the moment to launch a sneak attack, but missed its target.
Then it changed direction and rushed quickly towards Yu Shuang.
Is a mere roasted whole lamb an act of rebellion?
While strengthening her body, Yu Shuang used the terrain of the farmyard to avoid the attacks of the roasted whole lamb.
Finally, seizing the opportunity, he picked up a wooden stick.
With a loud crash, the whole roasted lamb collapsed to the ground.
The crisis is over.
A tiger fallen into the plains is bullied by dogs. Disguised as an old woman with limited mobility, she was almost killed by a sheep.
This is outrageous!
She silently entered the small, dilapidated house, receiving the plot while searching for ingredients to prepare a whole roasted lamb.
...
The plot is simple; it tells a family ethics story about an elderly person living alone and a group of "filial sons."
The original owner, Granny Yu, is 72 years old this year. She is an elderly woman living alone in a remote mountain village.
During a time when the country was still in dire straits, she fled famine and came to a mountain village, where she married into a family surnamed Zhang.
She had two sons and one daughter.
In those days, everyone was poor. Just being able to make ends meet was enough to satisfy everyone, and the happiness index was extremely high.
With the progress of the times, some of the bolder people in the mountains have left to make big money, and some have ventured into business, lifting many families out of poverty.
Those who haven't left the mountains continue to live in poverty, clinging to their small plots of land.
The Zhang family is one of those who didn't dare to venture out or take risks, and thus never left the mountains.
The old woman passed away early, and the original owner and her husband worked in the fields and raised livestock, raising their two sons and one daughter.
The eldest son is Zhang Tieniu.
He stopped going to school after graduating from elementary school and started working for his family. Later, he went out to work with other villagers.
He disappeared without a trace for seven or eight years.
Back then, communication was underdeveloped, telephone charges were expensive, and the original couple had to travel a long way to the village official's house to answer a call.
With no news of their eldest son, the couple could do nothing, no matter how worried they were.
The son, whom I hadn't contacted for seven or eight years, returned to the mountains after earning a little money.
With the help of an elder in the village as matchmaker, he married Yang Cuihua.
Yang Cuihua has a strong personality and is very calculating. After marrying into the family, she managed to keep Zhang Tieniu completely under her thumb.
She also caused chaos in the Zhang family, because she could take advantage of them and no one else could take advantage of her.
They'd curse and fight without a second thought for a pittance.
Zhang Tieniu was persuaded to build a brick house and move out with his wife.
If you don't have enough money, ask your parents for help, and ask them to borrow from relatives and friends.
After making a scene, the original couple finally relented.
The couple spent all their savings and borrowed money from relatives and friends.
The eldest son's house has been repaired.
The other two children naturally felt resentful.
On what grounds?
They also have a share of the family's money, so why should they pay for the eldest brother's family to build a house?
My parents are so biased!
A few years later, Zhang Tieniu and his wife had a son and a daughter.
Zhang Tieniu worked odd jobs to support his family and pay off debts, managing to keep his small household afloat.
However, he seemed to lack luck. After so many years, he was always just doing manual labor and never made a lot of money.
Once, a friend persuaded me to invest in a business together, but I lost money and ended up with a mountain of debt.
From then on, he never dared to get involved in business again, and instead became an honest migrant worker, earning a little money with his own hands and feet.
Yang Cuihua stayed at home and dutifully took care of the children; her interactions with the people in the old house were purely based on self-interest.
They would come to the old house from time to time to freeload, and never left empty-handed.
The original owner and his wife turned a blind eye for the sake of their child.
It's just that his other two children weren't very happy.
Sometimes, when people can't take it anymore, they'll have a huge fight, and the whole family will be in turmoil.
...
The second daughter, Zhang Fangfang, is three years younger than the eldest son. She also started helping with farm work after graduating from elementary school.
During that period, girls in the village got married early, some even a few years earlier than the eldest son.
She married and moved to the town, but she would still come back from time to time to freeload.
Why can my sister-in-law, an outsider, take things from our house, but I can't?
Rather than letting outsiders benefit entirely, it's better to let our own family members benefit.
The original couple tolerated it for the sake of their granddaughter.
The youngest son, who is still in high school, couldn't stand it.
In his view, what his sister-in-law and second sister came to plunder belonged to him.
How can one person who has moved out and another who has married out have the right to take things from the house at will?
He is about to go to college, but his family is even poorer than before. How can they afford to send him to college?
"Mom and Dad, you have disappointed me so much."
Every time his family was robbed, he would feel more disappointed in the original couple.
Because my parents did nothing, they let things go missing from the house.
How can you be so biased?
Little did he know that the other two families were also complaining that his parents favored their younger brother.
Why is it that we, with only elementary school diplomas, have to start doing chores for our families so early?
My younger brother, on the other hand, didn't have to do any work. His parents raised him until high school, and he's about to go to college.
They will be promising college students in the future.
"Mom and Dad, you're so biased."
...
The youngest son, Zhang Caimao, was the hope of the whole family, simply because he read more books than anyone else, and later, as expected, he was admitted to university.
He was one of the few students from the village who managed to get into university.
Many villagers came to congratulate him. Those who could stay in the mountains were poor, and going to university was a considerable expense. The simple and united older generation of villagers also contributed some money to help Zhang Caimao go to university.
Zhang Caimao finally escaped the mountains and entered the city.
He vowed to make something of himself, settle down in the city, and completely escape from that unfair home in the mountains.
As time went by, the children went to work in the city to support their families and live a better life.
The eldest daughter-in-law, Yang Cuihua, was not comfortable leaving the child with the original couple, so she sent the child to their maternal grandmother's house.
Now only the original owner and her husband are left in the dilapidated house.
Although I miss my children, there's nothing I can do; life goes on.
After graduating, Zhang Caimao found a job in the city. He was so busy with work that he didn't go home for three to five years.
He quietly married a city girl and settled down in the city.
He has a huge mortgage burden and is deeply in debt to the bank, and he never contacts his family.
I only go back to my hometown once every three to five years to make my presence felt.
He always comes back alone, without his wife or children.
The original owner and her husband didn't even know what their daughter-in-law from the city looked like.
He often sighs and complains about himself.
The original couple knew that it was the city wife who looked down on their family, and they felt quite inferior.
But what could they do? They could only see through it but keep quiet, and happily reunite with their son.
Unfortunately, the time for family reunions is always too short; during the Lunar New Year, we have to leave in less than half a day.
They couldn't keep them even if they tried.
They seem less like returning travelers and more like passersby.
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