Chapter 11 Song Lizheng's Romantic Debts
Seeing Song Lizheng entering the house, Mrs. Gu didn't care that she was still lying on the ground. She immediately opened her voice and howled: "Oh my God! Is there any justice in this? The eldest son Song died at the border, and now the second son is going to die too. This is going to make the Song family extinct! Song Laohei, you have no conscience. I didn't marry you back then, and you have harmed my descendants time and time again..."
Seeing that she started to provoke Song Lizheng again, the little Gu who was following behind did not go to help her. Instead, she turned around and lay behind the door curtain, secretly peeking inside.
Inside the room, Song Laohei's face was truly dark.
His eyes blazed with fire, he spat on the ground, and glared at Song Lao Er, who was sprawled on the kang. "Are you going to die? If not, sign your handprint and go into service."
On the kang, Song Lao Er leaned against the pile of quilts, closed his eyes and groaned, "Uncle, you saw it too, I want to go to work, but I can't walk!"
"Stop talking nonsense to me. You can't walk! Is your leg or arm broken?" Song Lizheng stepped forward and tried to pull Song Defu.
"Ouch! Ouch! Mom, I feel dizzy and my waist hurts. It's going to break!" Before his hand even touched her, Song Laoer cried out loudly.
As soon as the door curtain was lifted, Mrs. Gu rushed in with the wind and rushed towards Song Lizheng: "If you want to take him away, you have to strangle me, an old woman, to death first..."
Caught off guard, Song Lizheng was knocked back and staggered several steps. Fortunately, Xiao Gu came in right after and held him up, preventing him from falling.
Little Gu curled her lips and chuckled, saying frivolously, "Mother, if you have something to say, please talk to her nicely. Don't worry yourself and make your fifth uncle feel bad!"
Song Lizheng felt a dull pain in his chest from the collision, and when he heard what Xiao Gu said, he almost vomited blood.
Xiao Gu is the niece of Mrs. Gu from her mother's family. Both the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law are equally shameless and can say anything.
Song Lizheng pointed at the young Gu and cursed, "Not a single person in your family has any shame. The old ones are uneducated, and the young ones are shameless. You all have no shame."
Where in the world has one ever seen a daughter-in-law bring bad reputation to her mother-in-law?
Being scolded by the village head, little Gu didn't take it seriously and laughed, "No matter what, it was my mother who discussed the marriage with my fifth uncle back then. It's fate, and I can't forget it."
Song Lizheng's face suddenly turned blue and red, and he almost suffocated.
When I got home today, my wife said that Mrs. Gu was talking about the past again and complained to him a lot, asking why he was so blind to get involved with such a poor guy.
Now that I am old and have seen my children and grandchildren, I still have a lot of romantic debts to settle, which makes me feel embarrassed.
Song Lizheng felt that he had no way to express his grievances. He said that kissing once was worse than jumping into a cesspool, and he could never wash it away in his lifetime.
More than thirty years ago, his family sent a matchmaker to propose marriage to Mrs. Gu, but the Gu family asked for a betrothal gift of ten taels of silver plus other miscellaneous items.
Later, he heard others say that the girl from the Gu family was arrogant and unreasonable, so the engagement fell through and the two families never even met.
Unexpectedly, just a few years later, the old lady Gu, who had a bad reputation, married into Xiaoshi Village and became the wife of Song Laohan, who had lost his wife and left behind a son. She even told everyone about his proposal to Song.
It was said that it was Song Lizheng who caused her to miss her age, and that this good-looking young lady ended up becoming a stepmother.
Gu's parents' home was in the neighboring village, only ten miles away. Everyone knew about these things, and the villagers just treated what she said as a joke.
But after Song Laohan died a few years ago and Song Laohei became the head of the village, Mrs. Gu became even more shameless.
Over the years, I have sneaked into his house several times. Whenever I meet him on the road, I would pull him around and try to tarnish his reputation to avenge the fact that he didn't marry me.
Fortunately, the headman's wife, Huang, was from the same village and knew Mrs. Gu well. She was magnanimous and could do nothing about Mrs. Gu's behavior except to quarrel with her and blame Song the headman every time.
Song Lizheng knew that if he continued talking, the two women in the room would say that they had a crush on that old shrew and would make up a bunch of other stories.
As for Song Liyun's diving, he didn't dare to mention it at all.
If I ask about Song Lao Er's family affairs again, I'm afraid Mrs. Gu will take off her pants and pounce on me, blaming me for being so dirty.
Faced with such a scoundrel family, Song Lizheng could only curse angrily: "The town will come to take people away before dawn tomorrow. I don't care what you do. Anyway, the town guard will come to take them away. Let's see if you can still make trouble."
After saying this, he turned around and spat at Old Gu: "Marrying into a bad marriage ruins three generations. I'm lucky I didn't marry you back then. Look at what you've ruined the Song Laohan family, you evildoer!"
Before Gu could retort, she wanted to curse, but Song Lizheng had already torn down the straw curtain hanging at the door, kicked the gate open, and walked away angrily.
There was no curtain at the door, and the cool wind blew straight in, blowing chicken feathers all over the ground.
Seeing Song Lizheng leaving in a panic, Song Laoer, who had been sitting on the kang and leisurely watching the show, sneered: "Look at how capable you are. I just won't go, what can you do!"
Qingping Town is a hundred miles away from the border. Every year, people are arranged to go to the border to perform labor service. They get some wages, so some people are willing to go.
But now winter is about to come and the weather is getting colder day by day.
If you were to carry stones or bricks, your hands and feet would become stiff from the cold and you would get injured if you weren't careful. It became a hard job that no one wanted to do.
Besides, the eldest son of the Song family lost his life in this way.
This matter concerns her life, and little Gu is worried. Although her mother-in-law can control Song Lizheng in the village, this matter is handled by the government, and she cannot pin all her hopes on her mother-in-law's trouble.
"Boss, what do you think we should do about this? If we don't show up and don't pay, the town will come to arrest us. We have to deal with it."
Seeing that both mother and son looked indifferent, Mrs. Gu could only emphasize that the town was going to arrest someone.
Being able to freely insult Song Lizheng, Mrs. Gu was in a good mood, breathing easily, and full of confidence. Even her fatigue disappeared.
She shrugged off little Gu's worries: "What are you afraid of? If Song Laohei dares to ask the second son to do corvée labor, I'll say that he stripped me of my clothes back then."
Although she said this, Mrs. Gu still felt very depressed.
She married the widower Song Laohan at the age of 25. They were intimate for only two months before she had a quarrel with him because she beat the eldest son of the Song family, and their relationship immediately plummeted.
After she got pregnant with Song Lao Er after many twists and turns, Song Lao Han never touched her again.
So less than a year after getting married, Mrs. Gu became a widow. Looking at the wooden man beside her and then at her shrewd and capable previous suitor, she naturally felt unwilling.
After Song Laohan died, Song Lizheng regained his status and power in the village. Mrs. Gu was tormented every day, unable to sleep at night, and regretted her decision.
If I can't find Song Lizheng and make trouble every now and then, it will be difficult to get rid of the resentment in my heart.
Over the years, she has become accustomed to finding Song Lizheng to vent her anger, and naturally has no respect for power.
(End of this chapter)
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