If you marry a big Buddha at home, you cannot hit or scold it, and it is best to worship and protect it.
This is what the Meng family thought after hearing about the supernatural events that happened in the village.
Feng Yijia never thought that her father's fuss would greatly improve her treatment in her husband's family.
I used to help with cooking, sweeping the floor, and other chores at home.
Nowadays, you can just sit back and wait for the food to come to you.
Whenever she did something, it was either snatched away by her mother-in-law or done by her father-in-law, who would order Meng Sheng to help.
Everyone in the family was busy with this and that, and Feng Yijia became the only one sitting there with nothing to do.
Meng Sheng was also pulled aside by his father and two brothers to be admonished in turn. The main point of their words was: be nice to Feng Yijia, everything Feng Yijia said is right, and even if it is not right, don't learn from other men in the village to beat and scold their wives, otherwise your life will be in danger.
Meng Sheng was speechless, but happy to see it happen.
He couldn't bear to see his wife suffer any injustice, and he also hoped that everyone in the family would be nice to Feng Yijia.
At dinner that day, the Meng family’s dining table was full of food.
There were prawns and sea cucumbers that Meng Chao brought back from the south, fresh fish and meat that Chen Hongxing bought in the county town, and cured chicken and fish that Meng Sheng and his friends made in the village.
It was more sumptuous than any meal the Meng family had ever had before, but the few people who had just returned from the county were distracted and ate without any appetite.
It was not until after the meal that everyone had some food in their stomachs, their fatigue from the journey had eased, and they had digested some of the news about ghosts in the village that they sat around the brazier and chatted.
Meng Chao, who traveled to the south, shared his experiences and concluded: "There are countless state-owned factories, factories run by villages and towns, factories invested by foreign companies, and various small private workshops.
A town that is more prosperous and lively than our county town.
This year I opened a grocery store, bought a small yard, and still have a little money left over.
It's much better than digging in the fields to just fill their stomachs in previous years, but compared to those bosses in the south, this is nothing to mention.
After the New Year, I stopped setting up stalls and hired someone to look after the shop.
I'm planning to invest some money and go trade goods north and south with Brother Hou and the others. That way I can make money faster."
Chen Hongxing complained dissatisfiedly: "Don't just think about making money. Your husband has already gotten married for the second time, but you still don't have a partner, and you are not in a hurry at all.
I asked someone to introduce you to several city girls, but you always complain about this and that.
It is said that girls have a short flowering period, but the same is true for men.
If you don't pay attention, all the girls of marriageable age will become mothers."
Meng Chenglin agreed with a serious face, "That's right. If you delay any longer, people will see that you're still unmarried at such an old age and wonder if there's something wrong with your health."
Ever since the two of them moved to the county town and no longer had to worry about making a living and farming, they have paid special attention to their son's marriage. Often, they would talk about finding a partner and getting married after just a few words.
Meng Chao's ears were almost callused from listening to this, and he had no choice but to refute: "The ones you introduced were either as thin as straw or as fat as wild boars, and two of them asked me how much money I made as soon as we met.
There isn't a single normal one, can you blame me for looking down on them?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he was slapped on the head.
Chen Hongxing was still not satisfied after beating him, so she twisted his ear and scolded him, "You're so picky just because you have a few cents!
Are you still complaining about whether she is fat or thin? Isn’t she prettier than that girl from the Bai family?
In the past, you would smile from ear to ear as long as there was a woman, but now you want to marry a fairy!
Besides, what's wrong with a girl asking you how much money you make?"
Meng Chenglin then added, "Marrying a man provides food and clothing, and you're not particularly good-looking, nor do you know how to coax people. If they didn't marry you for money, what else would they want?"
Meng Chao was left speechless.
Meng Qiang, Meng Sheng and Feng Yijia looked on with their heads down and laughed silently.
In the end, Meng Sheng couldn't stand it anymore and spoke up to help bring the topic back to the beginning.
"Big Brother, you can come along and trade goods, but it's over a thousand miles away and a bit dangerous. Think carefully before making a decision."
Meng Chao's eyes sparkled: "It's dangerous, isn't it dangerous there?
When I first didn’t know Brother Xiao and the others, it was dangerous to set up a stall in the county.
There are colleagues who try to steal your stalls, thugs who collect protection fees, and thugs who watch you make money and want to take a piece of your meat.
I don't know how many times we fought.
Fortune and wealth are sought through risk, and I've already thought about the sports car!"
Meng Sheng didn't expect that his elder brother, who seemed honest before, was actually adventurous, so he didn't try to persuade him any further.
He just said, "It's not easy to come so far. I still have some money here, so I'll invest in it later.
If you help to look after the incoming and outgoing goods, I will give you a commission.
I'll also ask two skilled fighters to accompany you, so that you can be safer and your parents and we won't be so worried."
Meng Chao nodded excitedly, wishing he could go out and make money right after the New Year.
He had only been working hard for half a year, and even if he tried hard, he didn't have much money, so he was restricted in buying goods. With his second brother's words, he could resell goods of higher value.
The topic of the evening mainly revolved around Meng Chao.
Time flies and it is New Year's Eve. Early in the morning, the cemetery on the back mountain of the village begins to become lively.
Apart from eating and drinking, the most important thing for people at the end of the year is visiting the graves.
Especially after this incident, the grave-visiting activities, which had been perfunctory among villagers due to the more than ten years of the "Four Olds Movement", became extra grand this year.
In addition to the extremely high sales of incense, wax and paper candles sold by the village agents, chickens, ducks and fish that had not been seen for many years were all placed on the graves on the back mountain.
The sound of firecrackers was deafening.
The villagers knelt down and kowtowed, hoping sincerely that their ancestors would forgive their past mistakes and praying for their ancestors to show up and bless them with promotions, wealth and marriages.
The same went for the Meng family, with Chen Hongxing even taking charge of preparing two sets of sacrifices.
It’s hard to say whether other people’s ancestors are around, but my father-in-law is definitely around, so we can’t let him eat what’s left over from our family.
They were thinking too much, fearing that their in-laws might be petty and come to chat with them one night.
He even gave up his son and asked Meng Sheng to follow Feng Yijia to pay homage to Feng Youcai first, and then turn around and kowtow to his own ancestors.
As for whether my ancestors would be surprised?
Chen Hongxing's mother has thought it all out. They are all her own blood, and they are protected by her ghost relatives, so they will not suffer any big loss.
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