Soon after, a series of crashing and smashing sounds came from next door, as if something had been thrown.
Su Nianxue was completely bewildered. So this was their family's fried shrimp that caused a family war next door.
The big brawl was caused by their fried shrimp, and Su Nianxue felt it was necessary to go and see.
The two houses are separated by only a wall; you can see each other clearly if you stand on higher ground.
Gu Yanliu looked complicated and was about to explain to her that she didn't want to send shrimp because she was stingy, but for other reasons.
But when he looked up, he saw his sister-in-law, her butt sticking out, struggling to climb up the woodpile.
Gu Yanliu...
She quickly called out in a low voice, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing?"
"Come down quickly, if Aunt Yang sees us, she'll start arguing with us again!"
Without turning her head, Su Nianxue continued to hop on the chair, trying to jump onto the woodpile.
"I'll just take a look. It all started because of our fried shrimp. Maybe I can even offer some advice!"
Gu Yanliu looked suspicious. Who would climb onto the roof to try and break up a fight?
All right.
Judging from her sister-in-law's expression, she definitely wouldn't give up until she saw this spectacle.
then……
Soon, a ladder appeared in front of Su Nianxue. "Sister-in-law, use this to go up."
Su Nianxue turned around and glanced at her. Right, why didn't she think of that?
She climbed the ladder slowly, but didn't dare to stick her head out too much, only showing a little bit of her head.
In the neighboring yard, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were fighting. She was pulling her hair, and he was pulling her ear, while they were hurling insults at each other.
On the threshold of the main room, a man held a four- or five-year-old child, calmly watching the scene without even lifting his eyelids.
So what exactly is this bizarre situation?
What's even stranger is that none of the neighbors came to intervene and mediate the fight.
The two women on the ground fought for a while, but they got bored and spat at each other before letting go and going about their own business.
Afraid of being watched, she quickly descended the ladder.
"Yanliu, what's the situation with this family?"
Gu Yanliu pursed her lips and began to recount the past between the two families.
The two families used to live next to each other and had a good relationship.
Grandma Yang gave birth to a son and a daughter.
The boy's name is Gangzi, and the girl's name is Taozi.
But when Gangzi was working, he accidentally broke his leg, and now the whole house is in chaos.
Aunt Yang has been a widow since she was young. Now that Gangzi has broken his leg, which girl would still want to marry him?
Then a matchmaker came to the door and suggested a marriage exchange.
There was a family deep in the mountains who were very poor and were willing to exchange their daughter for a marriage with another family.
Thinking of the continuation of her family line, Aunt Yang gritted her teeth and agreed.
But Sister Peach disagreed. She and her older brother had grown up together and were very close.
Seeing that Sister Peach was really unwilling, Aunt Yang made a condition.
It's fine if we don't arrange a marriage, but given Gangzi's circumstances, I'm afraid he won't have a good chance of finding a wife in the future.
But if the bride price is higher, maybe some girls will be willing to marry Gangzi.
If Sister Peach can persuade the Gu family to offer a large dowry, she will agree to not arrange the marriage exchange.
Sister Peach came to our door crying, but at that time, Grandpa was raising the four of us sisters by himself, and the family was barely able to feed themselves.
Where would I get extra money?
In despair, Sister Peach threw herself into the river, but thankfully she was rescued by a kind person.
Later, Aunt Yang knelt down and begged her to go and arrange the marriage, considering that her family line was about to end.
Aunt Yang was widowed when she was young, and it hasn't been easy for her to support her brother and sister all these years, as Sister Taozi has seen.
So, with tears in her eyes, she married into the deep mountains, and Gangzi finally got his wife.
But later I heard that Sister Peach probably injured her body when she jumped into the river, and that she hadn't had any children even after so many years of marriage.
Wang Erya gave birth to two children for Gangzi, but Taozi hasn't had a single child yet.
It's estimated that Sister Peach's life at her husband's family wasn't easy either, so Aunt Yang wasn't very nice to Wang Erya either.
Wang Erya was also someone who refused to be taken advantage of, and gradually, the two went from arguing to fighting.
At first, some people came to mediate the fight, but after they saw it, the neighbors stopped coming.
"Peach Sister is so pitiful, and of course Wang Erya is pitiful too." Now Su Nianxue understood everything. No wonder they were cursing like that just now!
These kinds of things are not uncommon in rural families; you can always hear a few examples.
They called it "making the relationship even closer."
In reality, it was a marriage exchange.
"Yes, my brother is pitiful too. They used to be very close."
Sister Peach got married, and my older brother was depressed for a long time.
There happened to be a family in the neighboring village that was looking for a son-in-law to live with them. My grandfather saw that my eldest brother was getting old, so he made the decision to let him live with them.
Every time my older brother comes back, he says that family treats him very well, but I've noticed that he has gray hair.
We all know he must be having a hard time.
"Otherwise, how come you've lost all your vitality at such a young age?" Gu Yanliu said with some sadness.
Su Nianxue knew that, given the passage of time, the two families probably had stopped communicating.
Sure enough, "So, sister-in-law, it's not that I'm stingy, that I can't bear to part with a few shrimp..."
Before she could finish speaking, Su Nianxue gently patted her shoulder, "I understand."
After something like this happened, there's been a rift between the two families. How can they possibly keep in touch?
Su Nianxue sighed. She now felt that Grandpa Gu was the one who had the hardest time in this family.
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