Dazhu squatted down. "Mother, give me everything, including the money. I want to open a shop in the county town. I'll pay you back when I make some money, okay?"
He didn't want to farm; he wanted to go out and try his luck, hoping to make a name for himself.
Back then, Zhao Dashu was in the same situation. He was forced to move out and start his own business by his grandparents, and as a result, he built a large and successful enterprise.
He believed himself to be quick-witted and that he might do better than Zhao Dashu if he went out into the world.
"Help me up, I can't get up."
"You have to promise me first that you'll give me all the money to try your luck, and you won't have to buy a house, okay?"
What are you going to do? Money isn't so easy to earn outside.
Dazhu shook Li's shoulders violently, urging her to take the silver.
Li's face turned deathly pale with pain.
"Father, come quick! My eldest brother is hitting Mother! He's hitting Mother!"
The little girl was too scared to go in and persuade him, she just thought her older brother was too scary, so she could only go inside and ask her father for help!
"evil creature!"
Zhao Dayong grabbed a stick and rushed out. The little girl followed at a distance, not daring to get too close, for fear of becoming their punching bag or getting hurt.
That's how it's always been. When my older brother and father argue, if neither of them can scold her, they'll scold her instead, and my mother might even beat her up in the end.
"You bastard, you beat your father yesterday and your mother today, why don't you just fly to the moon?"
“I didn’t hit anyone, stop slandering me, she fell down on her own.”
Dazhuzi couldn't bear the stigma of hitting his parents, so he refused to admit that he had pushed his own mother down.
"Old woman, did this beast push you down?"
After thinking for a while, Li could only shake her head. The old man was different from her. When he got angry, he would really act recklessly and make a scene. Wouldn't the whole village know what his son had done? How could he go out then?
"I slipped and fell by accident. Please help me up quickly, I think I've hurt my back."
The ground was cold, and now her two buttocks were completely cold, without any warmth at all.
The little girl didn't understand why her mother lied. She had seen her older brother push their mother down and then refuse to help her up.
Zhao Dayong pulled Li up, saying, "Don't move, don't move, it hurts!"
Li's face contorted in pain.
Zhao Dayong dared not move anyone, as his back injury could be serious or minor.
"Hurry up and carry your mother back to the kang (heated brick bed)."
Dazhu squatted down, picked up his mother, and carried her back to her room.
"Old man, this movement is very painful and aching," said Li, her face pale.
Zhao Dayong's face darkened further. His wife was not one to complain, so her screaming meant she must be seriously injured and in unbearable pain to be crying out like that.
"I'll go to the third brother's house to fetch a doctor."
Li nodded. The doctor in her third son's family was definitely better than the one in the village. Going to the county town would cost too much money, and she couldn't bear to spend it.
When Zhao Dashu heard that his second brother had come to fetch a doctor, he laughed in exasperation. "Daughter, it seems that the doctor in our family wasn't hired by your mother. Look, your second uncle's family comes to see him every few days. Do they even pay him for his services?"
He was repeatedly taken advantage of, even though he had a doctor's contract for a year, meaning he could use the doctor however he wanted without spending any more money, he was still unhappy.
All of their family members were perfectly healthy, even Grandpa Qian was free from illness and disease. The doctors were so bored that they checked out all the families at the end of the village.
I also noticed that a few of them were in poor health.
For example, Heizi's father, Heizi himself, Shunzi...
Everyone has some kind of ailment or pain; no one is as healthy as their family.
As for why
Because they eat well!
"What happened to my second brother's family again? Why did they send a maid to fetch a doctor? Where are they?"
She remembered saying last night that the money would be delivered today, right? What's going on now?
"They said my second sister-in-law hurt her back and couldn't get up, so my second brother told her to come and find a doctor."
He asked a few more questions earlier, and the little girl said that Dazhuzi had a huge temper last night, saying that he had scolded him.
This morning I lost my temper again and pushed my second sister-in-law.
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