Miao Sanfeng was born in an ordinary peasant family. Her parents gave her many children, including brothers and sisters. As a girl, she was not valued like her brothers, and most of the housework was done by her sisters. Miao Sanfeng never had any objections. After all, boys are the roots of the family and girls are the grass on the ground. It has been like this since ancient times.
Because there were many children in the family, the Miao family was not very wealthy. Her sisters were married off at high prices, and the betrothal gifts were used to marry their brothers. When it was Miao Sanfeng's turn, it was almost the same. When she got married, her family only gave her a few quilts and a new dress to wear on her wedding day. Miao Sanfeng didn't see any of the money from the bottom of the box. Compared with the five dollars in betrothal gifts her parents received, the dowry was extremely meager. But Miao Sanfeng didn't care, because she was a girl after all.
Men are naturally superior to women, but this is what Miao Sanfeng has been taught since childhood and she firmly believes it.
Life after marriage was not much different from life before marriage, except that she changed her workplace, worked in the fields, did housework, and changed the person she served from her brothers to her husband. Miao Sanfeng did everything perfectly. She was lucky. While several of her sisters-in-law gave birth to girls, she gave birth to a boy. Her in-laws all looked up to her, and Miao Sanfeng herself was relieved because giving birth to a son meant she would have someone to rely on in the next life.
The good times did not last long. Miao Sanfeng's husband Jiang Cheng joined the army. The world was in chaos at that time, with artillery fire everywhere and the Japanese invaders rampant. No one knew whether they would see the sun the next second. Her two sons, one six years old and the other four years old, were both useless. Without the pillar of the family, Miao Sanfeng had to hold on by herself. Every day was difficult, as if she was soaked in bitterness.
She did the farm work by herself, and her husband's brothers would come to help her occasionally. However, as a woman whose husband joined the army and lived alone at home, her husband's brothers did not dare to get too close to her to avoid suspicion, so Miao Sanfeng basically did the work herself. In addition to the farm work, the two children at home, especially the younger one, were at the age of crying and making trouble. Fortunately, the older one was sensible and would help her take care of his younger brother. At the age of six, he started to learn to wash clothes and cook. Miao Sanfeng felt guilty and hurt.
Compared with her sisters who got married at the same time, Miao Sanfeng's life was the hardest. Although other families' lives were not much better, as long as they had a man, they would not have it as hard as hers.
At that time, Miao Sanfeng thought that there must be a man in the family.
Seven years passed like this. During this period, Jiang Cheng came back several times, but he didn't stay for long. In addition to bringing back some money, he also brought a maid, Jiang Dazhen, into the family. Life became even more difficult.
The New China was established, the bandits were driven away, and the husband that Miao Sanfeng had longed for day and night finally came back with a lame leg. Miao Sanfeng's heart was half warm and half cold.
Fortunately, although Jiang Cheng can no longer work in the fields, because he lost his leg to save the old leader's lame leg, after the establishment of Huaguo and the implementation of various policies, he can receive a lot of subsidies every month, no worse than those workers and cadres.
Miao Sanfeng suddenly went from being the object of the most sympathy among the women in the village to being the object of the most envy among the women in the village. All of these were given by her man. Miao Sanfeng became more convinced that in this world, men are more important than women.
The man came back, and life had to go on. Thanks to the subsidies from Jiangcheng, the Jiang family lived a very easy life. They married off their two sons, built a house for the second son, and separated their family. Everything went smoothly except the fact that the eldest son had no son, which made the old lady very worried.
How could this farmer's family not have a son? That would mean the extinction of the entire family. In the past, that would be the retribution for the evil deeds done by the family.
Because of what happened in the past, Miao Sanfeng was most partial to Jiang Dahai's eldest son. He watched his wife give birth to five daughters in a row, and the last one caused her to have bad health, which meant she was destined to not be able to have any more children. The resentment in his heart was too great to describe.
Gradually, she turned her attention to the two grandsons of the second son, and had the idea of adopting one for the eldest son. In this regard, she was very kind to the two children. As long as they wanted something, she would try her best to get it for them. For this reason, she treated the five girls of the eldest son badly.
But Miao Sanfeng didn't think she did anything wrong. They were just girls, destined to suffer in this world. They had no brothers, and the only ones they could rely on in the future were their two cousins, Aiguo and Aidang. Others said she was too harsh on those girls, forcing them to work in the fields at such a young age. But, she had gone through the same thing when she was a child. Girls should be hardworking and be able to do any kind of work, so that they can find a partner.
Old Mrs. Miao used her own personal experience to teach her granddaughters and paid no attention to the gossip from outsiders.
Later, it was time for her granddaughter to find a partner. The girls of the Jiang family worked hard and were pretty, so many people came to propose marriage to them. Old Mrs. Miao didn't hold back. As long as the gift was right and the man had good character, she would marry him off. As for dowry, there would be no such thing.
At this time, something happened. For some reason, Jiang Cheng's monthly subsidy became less and less year by year. When he asked, it seemed that something had happened to the old leader above him. In those years, leaders were overthrown one after another, and intellectuals were demoted one after another. It was a common thing. Jiang Cheng and Old Lady Miao did not dare to make a fuss and could only endure it.
But as a result, the Jiang family's life became less easy, especially as the two sons of the second wife grew up. Building a house, getting married, everything cost money. The family didn't have so much money to prepare. No one knew that the subsidy would be reduced at any time, and no one knew when it would stop.
The second son's wife, Fan Xiaojuan, and Miao Sanfeng said that they had found a good match for Dani. Although he was a widower, the bride price was high. Miao Sanfeng hesitated for a few days and finally agreed.
Marrying a wife provides you with clothes and food. It doesn't matter whether you are a widower or not. As long as you live a down-to-earth life, you can always live a happy life in harmony.
More importantly, with this betrothal gift, half of the house for my eldest grandson Aiguo can be built.
Once there is a first, there will be a second. Fan Xiaojuan soon introduced a lame man to Jiang Erni. His family was well-off and the gift was high. Being lame was nothing. Jiang Cheng was also lame. Miao Sanfeng comforted herself and married Erni off as well.
Women should rely on men. Since they have no brothers, they will have to rely on their two cousins from the second wife in the future. Whenever Miao Sanfeng felt uncomfortable, she would tell herself this.
The eldest daughter Jiang Dazhen married to the county town and lived a comfortable life. She was always dissatisfied with the partners chosen by Miao Sanfeng for her two granddaughters. She endured it when she married Dani for the first time and asked her not to marry her granddaughters to that kind of family again. Miao Sanfeng did not say a word. But she kept it a secret from Jiang Dazhen when she married Erni for the second time. After she found out, she came back and had a big quarrel with her and even beat up Fan Xiaojuan. She took the remaining three sisters to the county town and said that those girls were her daughters from now on and that they would follow her in their future studies and marriages, and asked them not to interfere.
For unknown reasons, Miao Sanfeng did not stop them and watched Jiang Dazhen take the three children away.
In the days that followed, there were five fewer granddaughters. With the money from marrying the first two granddaughters and the money saved in previous years, Miao Sanfeng built magnificent brick houses for the two grandsons and married them off. She thought that life would get better and better, until the news of the eldest granddaughter's death came.
Jiang Dani died. The eldest granddaughter who had always been somewhat silent died from the beatings and kicks of her alcoholic husband, leaving behind a hungry little daughter.
Miao Sanfeng didn't know what she was thinking when she heard the news. After that day, her eldest son became even more silent, and her eldest daughter-in-law hid in the house and cried for several days, but in front of her, the two still didn't say a word.
Miao Sanfeng could see that her eldest son and his wife were resentful, but her eldest son was too filial and her eldest daughter-in-law was too cowardly, so even though they were resentful in their hearts, they didn't dare say anything in front of her.
The death of the eldest granddaughter completely severed the relationship between the other four granddaughters and the family. From that day on, the only ones they could rely on were the two grandsons. Miao Sanfeng was very kind to the two children, and she also tolerated and gave in to the increasingly arrogant second daughter-in-law. Gradually, the once aggressive Miao Sanfeng became closer and closer to the eldest daughter-in-law, whom she looked down upon.
As he got older, Miao Sanfeng became more and more confused and often couldn't remember things clearly. He just listened to his two grandsons very much. After the land in Qingshan Village was expropriated, the Jiang family's old house was large, and Jiang Dahai's homestead without a house was also not small. The more than a dozen houses they were allocated were all registered in the names of his two grandsons.
At that time, Miao Sanfeng was already very old. Her husband had passed away long ago, and her two sons were also grandfathers. Especially the eldest son, Jiang Dahai, he worked too hard when he was young and suffered from a lot of diseases. He could no longer work.
The three people who were no longer useful were sent to the nursing home in the town by Fan Xiaojuan. At first, they still remembered to pay the money, but gradually, they no longer came. I heard that they sold their house in the county town and moved to the provincial capital.
The nursing home was not a welfare institution. When there was no money in the account, they wanted to kick the three of them out. In the end, it was their daughter Jiang Dazhen and several grown-up granddaughters who paid for them to live well in the nursing home.
But, they were still resentful in their hearts because they only came to pay the money but didn't even come to see them.
On the day Miao Sanfeng died, she gave a jewelry box to her daughter Jiang Dazhen, who appeared in front of her bed, and asked her to distribute the contents to her granddaughters and the great-granddaughter she had never met.
These were all she had, barely enough to be considered compensation.
When she was dying, Miao Sanfeng still couldn't close her eyes. Everyone said that sons were good and daughters were money-losing goods. How come in the end, the grandson she had devoted all her life to ran away with the money, while the granddaughter she had let down was the one who paid money to support this old woman.
Are these men and women really so absolute? Miao Sanfeng couldn't figure it out.
Perhaps there really is a soul after death. Miao Sanfeng watched her body being buried. She floated and wandered in the world, watching her two grandsons follow her example. After Fan Xiaojuan grew old, her daughter-in-law sent her to a nursing home, leaving her to fend for herself. Generation after generation, the two grandsons also had a bad ending.
Miao Sanfeng floated and floated, not knowing what kind of place she had come to. The people here all had blue eyes, blond hair, and strange looks. Occasionally, a person with black hair and black eyes appeared. Suddenly, she saw a familiar figure. It was her little granddaughter Jiang Laidi.
She knew that after the eldest granddaughter died, this granddaughter took the great-granddaughter to the United States. She seemed to be talking to the great-granddaughter on the phone. Miao Sanfeng had not seen the new granddaughter, the only child of her most costly granddaughter.
She was just about to get closer when there was a bang and blood splattered everywhere. Before Miao Sanfeng could figure out anything, her little granddaughter fell in a pool of blood.
"Want to start all over again?"
From somewhere unknown, a voice sounded in Miao Sanfeng's ears.
"Start over?" Miao Sanfeng was a little dazed, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Go back to the past and correct all the mistakes." It was still the same voice, "Give me your soul and I can give you a chance to start over."
Miao Sanfeng looked at her little granddaughter lying in a pool of blood and shook her head. "If you want my soul, I'll give it to you. But I'll give this chance to start over to my granddaughter."
She should use this to make up for what she owes them. That child will definitely correct everything and lead her sisters to live a good life.
"As you wish—"
The voice stopped, and Miao Sanfeng's elusive figure disappeared from the world.
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The author has something to say: Recently every time I read the comments, I have to be mentally prepared. I feel very conflicted, and it seems that everyone is not very satisfied. You can see that I have modified the articles several times because of everyone's comments. I am a person who cares about everyone's opinion. Besides, the little angels have spent money, and I don’t want everyone to feel that their money is wasted.
This is largely due to my fault, maybe because I have a weak mental endurance. Now every time I start writing, I feel very conflicted, and I feel that I should not write a sequel, and should leave the article at the end of the main text. The mentality of writing is very important, and I feel that I need to adjust myself now. This sequel will be the last chapter.
This long paragraph does not mean that I don't like to see negative voices in the comments section. On the contrary, it is because of everyone's opinions that I can write my novels better and better. It's just that maybe I can't satisfy everyone now. I hope that this book will not bring all bad memories to everyone. I hope that I am still an author who has brought happiness to everyone. I also hope that after these experiences, I can write better and better and bring more joy to everyone.
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