In fact, everyone has such a bit of meanness. Especially some families with wives.
When there is no wife at home, they complain all day long. They feel that they can't live without a wife. Without a wife, life is impossible. Without a wife, eating, drinking, defecating, and urinating are all a mess, and they are exhausted.
But after having a wife, many men don't cherish her.
They don't know what's going on. As soon as they see their wives, or their daughters-in-law, they find faults everywhere.
They think that their wives are not good in this aspect and that aspect. Then they think that their wives are lazy and don't like to work, eat a lot, and spend a lot of money.
Especially some fathers-in-law and mothers-in-law, they stand at the entrance of the village whenever they have something to do, and tell their relatives and friends in the village that they married a lazy woman. They do nothing all day long, just sit there and eat, eat, eat, eat, and eat, and they are almost going to eat their family out of money...
After saying so many nonsense, everyone in the village knows that their daughter-in-law is no good, the daughter-in-law is not good, and the daughter-in-law is a spendthrift.
However, after they spent a lot of money to marry the daughter-in-law, and drove her away with great difficulty, they suddenly realized that it is better for their family to have a daughter-in-law.
The son cannot be without a wife!
If the son does not have a wife, people in the village and outside the village will laugh at him.
If the son does not have a wife, no one will take care of the big and small things in his life.
If the son does not have a wife, it will be very difficult to marry again in the future.
After all, in their place, there are more men than women. Many people do not have wives.
...
Gu Yu'an, who racked his brains to drive his daughter-in-law away, was quite complacent at first.
Especially when he found out that his son did not bring his daughter-in-law back, he was extremely happy.
He had only one thought at the time, "Great, it's really great! After driving out such a troublemaker, such a troublemaker, such a spendthrift woman, my family will finally be peaceful. I can finally sleep well in the future."
However, after a month passed by, the elderly Gu Yu'an realized belatedly that the life he was living now was not what he had imagined at all.
Gu Yu'an originally thought that after he had driven his daughter-in-law out, his son would listen to him in everything as before.
However, the reality was that his son had really grown a rebellious nature. He would never listen to him. What he, as the father, said was all bullshit.
When he thought that his son no longer took him seriously, Gu Yu'an felt particularly angry in the middle of the night.
Sometimes he couldn't help but have red eyes, his eyes wide open, staring at the blackened roof above his head in a daze.
He also hugged the waists of his cousins in the village as he did before, crying to them with a wronged look on his face, saying that his son was unfilial and that his son was nothing...
However, the people in the village didn't know what was going on, and it seemed that they didn't believe what he said.
Gu Yu'an, who felt isolated by his family, tossed and turned on the straw bed in the dark night.
He picked here and scratched there, and after grabbing dozens of fleas from his head and body, he gritted his teeth and pressed those dirty things to death.
...
Without Chen Xuanxuan at home, there was no laughter in Gu Yu'an's home.
Because during this period of time, they have clearly felt that their lives have become more and more difficult.
Gu Dazhu and his brothers didn't know what was going on, and they all rushed to have sex with their wives.
They were secretly competing with each other to have more sons.
In fact, rural people are still very vain. Especially when it comes to having sons, they like to compare the most.
If a son of a family doesn't get married early and give birth to more than ten sons, then their family will always be talked about by people in the village and outside the village. If
a son of a family is a bachelor, then their whole family will become the focus of the whole village.
If a son of a family is in his 30s or 40s and has not married, then people in the village and outside the village will laugh at their family. No matter what, they would go to their house to tease them.
Those who have married a wife would intentionally or unintentionally go to the bachelor and show off.
In the eyes of these people, having a wife, a child, or even a dozen sons is a matter of pride, and it brings glory to the ancestors.
In rural society, families with many sons often look down on families with few sons.
Those who have sons look down on those who don't.
In short, apart from those trivial matters, the rural people only focus on marriage, funerals, and having sons all day long.
Gu Yanzhang, a middle-aged man in his thirties, suddenly broke up with his wife. His wife went back to her parents' home and hasn't been back for a long time. The people in the village started to wonder.
At first, they sided with Gu Yu'an. They said that his family was indeed unlucky to marry such a spendthrift woman.
But after a long time, they all changed their faces.
Those people, whether they were relatives or friends, actually began to gloat over the misfortune.
Some people said, "An Zi, I am a fool. I am old, but I still interfere in the affairs of my son and daughter-in-law. His son is old, over 30 years old, but he still makes him a bachelor. Do you think his son has a grudge against him in his previous life?"
Some people clapped their hands when they heard this. "Hey, who said it wasn't?"
"Think about it, with the help of his daughter-in-law's family, his family lived a prosperous life. Since the support of his daughter-in-law's family fell, Uncle An Zi has been treating his daughter-in-law with disdain. I finally understand that he is definitely destroying the bridge after crossing the river. He thinks his daughter-in-law's family is useless and doesn't want to suffer the previous anger. He wants to suppress his daughter-in-law in this way..."
After hearing this, some old people who were experienced and had seen a lot could not help but sigh, "The old saying is true, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. No matter how good the Chen family is, it is better than those of us who have no roots. Anzi, he really thinks wrong..."
Gu Yu'an sometimes hears these rumors in the village very clearly.
However, at this time, he still had a stubborn head and did not think he was wrong.
He even thought that he still had to find a way to invite his daughter-in-law back home...