"Otherwise, I would have slapped you the moment you said the first word. Just wait and see if we don't punish you. You can say anything you want."
Then could I also say, "Your eldest son doesn't look much like you and Pindong. No, I have to remind Pindong that we are family after all, and I can't let him be cuckolded."
"What nonsense are you talking about? If you keep talking nonsense, I'll tear your mouth apart." After saying that, he quickly left the crowd.
Xia Pinren looked at the people who left and thought to himself that he would remind his younger brother later that Xiaojin was so successful, and there must be many people in the village who disliked him, and there must be quite a few who would say this.
We have to think of a way to scare them so that they won't dare to talk nonsense again. Otherwise, if they ruin the reputation of a good girl, how will she get married in the future?
He didn't know that Xia Jin had a boyfriend. Grandpa Xia was worried that Xia Jin was just doing it on a whim. If they broke up someday, no matter what the reason, his granddaughter's reputation in the village would definitely be bad, so he concealed the matter.
The people around had different thoughts when they saw the people leaving, but these people's character was okay. They usually wouldn't do anything to frame others. At most, they would gossip about others behind their backs.
They definitely wouldn't say anything like this to ruin a girl's reputation. Everyone knows this. Besides, they have girls at home. What would they do if someone said that about their daughter? Everyone would understand if they put themselves in their shoes.
A woman who was close to the Xia family said:
"Don't listen to her nonsense. She just can't stand seeing others do better than her. And you all know that she favors boys over girls. Now she's looking at someone she usually looks down on. How can she be so capable?"
"She's feeling incredibly upset. Besides, she's just jealous. She talks about how smart her precious grandson is all day long, but he's already grown up and still hasn't accomplished anything. So, she's just jealous of Xiao Jin's abilities."
"That's right, what's wrong with being a woman? Didn't Chairman Mao say that women can hold up half the sky? For us women, working in the fields is no different from working in the fields with men."
"Yeah, we can do what men can do, so what's so great about it."
The men around him smiled and said, "Yes, yes, you are the best. You can handle everything at home and outside."
"Of course you have objections."
"No, no, let's not talk about this anymore. Brother Pinren, please continue. We haven't heard enough yet and we were interrupted."
Xia Pinren smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll continue."
After talking for a while, he mentioned that Xia Jin paid for his father and grandfather to build a house for the whole family to live in. When the people around heard this, they all looked at him with envy, but no one was jealous, after all, everyone knew what their house looked like.
Everyone is just envious of Jia, envious that he has such a capable daughter. No matter what, the father and son of the Xia family have finally made it, so they can enjoy their lives in the future.
Not to mention hearing Xia Pinren say that he wanted to build a two-story building, everyone laughed and said:
"The Xia family is really capable of getting children. Look at how old they are, but they've already built a building for their family."
"This is the first house in our village. When it's built, I will definitely go and help. I want to take a good look at this two-story building."
"Isn't it? When I go back to my parents' home, I'll have something to show off and see how great the people in our village are. They've already built a building."
"No, I have to be nicer to my daughter. What if she becomes as successful as the granddaughter of the old Xia family in the future?"
"I'm going home to be nicer to my daughter. As long as she wants to go to school, I'll let her go. If my sick old woman dares to say something nonsense again, I'll move Xiaojin out."
"What's wrong with girls? If a girl is powerful, men have nothing to do with her. If she doesn't let me, she will say that when our girl becomes successful in the future, if you don't obey her, she will dare to talk nonsense again."
"My family, too."
Xia Jin didn't know that she had improved the status of girls in the village with her own efforts. Originally, many families would not let their girls go to school after finishing junior high school.
Let her come down to help with housework, and when she turns 18, find a good husband-in-law family and "sell" her for a good price to help her brothers and sisters get married.
They have no way and no ability to resist. Many girls are obviously good at studying, but their lives are ruined by the saying "What's the point of girls studying? They will be someone else's in the future."
In the 1980s, there was a widespread preference for boys over girls. Families would hide from each other just to have a boy, and girls would be the scapegoats, beaten and scolded as they pleased.
Xia Jin's success showed the villagers that girls were also capable and could repay their families, although they still couldn't hold the same status as boys in the family.
But most girls can continue to go to school in the town, and their families will not think about marrying them off early in exchange for dowry. They get the opportunity, study hard, and rely on themselves to get into university or technical school, and have a very bright future.
When Xia Jin returned home during the summer vacation, the girls in the village always looked at her with gratitude and liked her very much and took her out to play. Xia Jin was very confused at first, but later she heard her grandfather talk about this.
Xia Jin finally realized that she had inadvertently changed their fate, and she was sincerely happy for them. The surrounding villages were also influenced by their village, and in addition to the elderly, the younger generation also gradually changed their minds.
Although they still work hard to give birth to sons, the treatment of girls should not get better. Although it is also for their future rewards, it also gives girls the opportunity to change their destiny.
But Xia Pinren didn't know this yet. He thought these words were just jokes made by the villagers. After all, they all lived in the same village and everyone knew each other.
The old ladies in the families I just spoke to were the most patriarchal. When I didn't give birth to a son in my first pregnancy, I was almost tortured to death by the old ladies.
If the village chief had not tried his best to stop them, saying that killing a child was illegal, their eldest daughter would have been killed, and she might have been thrown into the river and drowned.
So he didn't believe that they could really be the masters of the family, but he didn't say anything. After all, he couldn't discourage them, so it was a good idea to have this idea.
The topic quickly passed, but no one knew what everyone was thinking. This tiny seed floated into everyone's hearts, took root and sprouted, and finally grew into a towering tree.
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