So during those years, the Feng family was in chaos every day, and every excuse was very strange. It was either you took an extra mouthful of rice or he drank an extra mouthful of soup, or someone squatted in the toilet for a while longer, or someone brought back a bucket that was not full, and so on. At first, the villagers regarded them as a joke, but they got tired of the joke being played seven or eight times a day, so the Feng family was not very popular in the village, and many people were in a relationship with them out of face.
I guess it's all for Old Lady Feng's sake. She doesn't brag in the village every day about how good her life will be in the future for nothing.
Later, when Mrs. Feng passed away, the two brothers separated. Old Man Feng's eldest brother felt that it was inconvenient to enter and exit the village, and his relationship with his younger brother's family was not very good, so he simply moved to Qingshan Village.
Old man Feng continued to live in the old house in Kaoshan Village.
After liberation, Old Man Feng's sister was sent back by the government. Before the eldest sister of the Feng family left, her family lived in a mountain village, so people didn't look for Old Man Feng, but sent her directly to Old Man Feng.
The eldest sister of the Feng family was sold at the age of twelve, and she was not close to her younger brother, but she always felt that she would have to rely on her mother's family when she returned, so she tried her best to meet the requests made by old man Feng.
When Old Man Feng said he had no money, the eldest sister of the Feng family took out her own private savings to subsidize him. Half a year passed like this, and the eldest sister of the Feng family had almost spent her private savings. She did not eat for free at home, but helped with a lot of housework, including taking care of the children and mending their clothes. She was busy until almost midnight every day.
Even so, Mrs. Feng still felt uncomfortable seeing her staying at home, so she discussed with Old Man Feng at night before bed, about marrying her elder sister-in-law off again in exchange for a dowry.
"With my second sister's conditions, if she can't find a good man, a widower is still an option. Then we won't have to support her, and we can get some betrothal money."
Old man Feng was also very excited after hearing this, and secretly looked for a suitable candidate. According to Old man Feng's idea, he didn't care about the other person's age, appearance, or character, he had only one goal: as long as he was rich.
So not long after, Old Man Feng ignored the eldest sister of the Feng family's crying and begging, and married her to a widower from a few villages away for a dowry of one silver dollar.
The price of a silver dollar was not low at that time. Old man Feng had no connections, and he went through many twists and turns before he asked someone to exchange it for fifty yuan. In this way, the Feng family lived a carefree life for a while with this money.
When Boss Feng found out, his sister had already been married off. Old Man Feng insisted on confiscating the betrothal gift. Boss Feng tried to persuade her for a while, but when he saw that he could not get any benefit, he had to give up.
A few years later, when Old Man Feng's son was about to get married, the eldest aunt of the Feng family came back. It turned out that the widower had died.
I don’t know if it’s because she experienced motherhood too early, but the eldest sister of the Feng family has never had children. It is said that she has been pregnant before, but none of them were able to give birth normally.
So the widower's family kicked them out on the pretext that they had no children.
The eldest sister of the Feng family had no choice but to return to Old Man Feng's house. At this time, Old Man Feng was forty years old, and the eldest sister of the Feng family was only two years older than him, and she still looked quite young.
then!
Old man Feng packed up and married off his second sister for the third time. This time, in order to out of sight and out of mind, he married her off directly to He Province in exchange for a betrothal gift of 30 yuan.
When the eldest sister of the Feng family got married, she cried and begged Old Man Feng that she did not want to marry again and promised to eat one meal a day at home and that all the housework would be left to her. However, Old Man Feng rejected her without hesitation.
Old Man Feng had been secretly contacting people to marry off his second sister, but somehow it got to the ears of Boss Feng.
So he brought his wife and son to the door. This time he was determined not to believe that Old Man Feng had confiscated the betrothal money when he married off the eldest sister of the Feng family. He had three sons, but Old Man Feng only had one. So the three sons plus him, the four of them, beat Old Man Feng severely and then reached out to snatch the 30 yuan betrothal money.
At that time, the people's commune had not yet been established, and the village chief was in charge of village affairs. However, the village chief also played a mediating role in such family conflicts. At that time, the village chief was Zhang Defa. However, Zhang Defa had a fair character. If he wanted to mediate, he must know the ins and outs of the matter.
As a result, he exploded with anger after hearing this, and scolded Old Man Feng, saying that he was not a human being. He said that he was his own sister and had sacrificed for the family time and time again, but could not get gratitude and kindness from his brother. Many people heard it at the time, so Old Man Feng, whose reputation had just been restored, became tarnished again.
The one who looked down on him the most at that time was the neighbor, Old Lady Zhao. She had watched the eldest sister of the Feng family grow up and then was sold by the Feng family. At that time, she told her husband that the two sons of the Feng family were ungrateful, but the only daughter was a kind and loyal woman.
The more such a family is, the less valued it is to be affectionate and righteous. What happened to the eldest sister of the Feng family later was a prophecy of what the old lady of the Zhao family said.
Although Old Man Feng's reputation became even worse, he did not stop eating and drinking and continued to live his life like this day by day.
Later, He Province was hit by a disaster. The family that Feng's eldest sister married into was not well off, and she was also old, so she couldn't survive and died.
When the news reached Kaoshan Village, Old Man Feng was not sad at all. He only secretly regretted that he could not marry his second sister again. However, he made the old lady of the Zhao family next door very angry.
So she would stand by the wall and curse the Feng family when she had nothing to do. She did this every day, whether she was in a good mood or not. She was repeatedly bringing up the bad things that old man Feng had done in the past in front of the villagers.
Zhang Defa didn't care. He couldn't care, and he didn't want to care. Who could bother with an old lady in her sixties or seventies?
The old lady of the Zhao family kept cursing for two years until she died. It was said that on the morning of her death, she was still standing by the wall and cursing at the Feng family with full energy. However, she died in the afternoon, so she passed away without suffering any hardship.
Then, when Old Man Feng played music during Old Lady Zhao's funeral, the two families became complete enemies.
After hearing this, Tian Cai finally understood the grudge between the Zhao and Feng families. No wonder when Huaihua fell ill, old man Feng kept clamoring to drown her in the pond. It turned out that the grudge had existed since the previous generation.
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