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"Song Jizu dared to murder me with three people, what else should I not dare?" Song Sanshun looked up at his father.
I still remember that when I was a child, my mother was still alive, and my father often beat her, and also beat me and my brother. When I was six years old, my mother was beaten by my father so hard that she couldn't get out of bed. She passed away within half a year, leaving two young brothers.
His poor mother was busy in the fields every day, and she never had a good day. As a result, she was beaten to death by the father in front of her.
At that time, he was not very sensible and didn't know that there was something strange about his mother's death. Later, when his stepmother came into the house, his father treated the stepmother and her son very well. Not only did he never beat or scold them, but
he was also considerate to them and brought all the good things in the house to them. He and his brother were puzzled and had discussed it privately, but they were too young to understand the twists and turns.
Until today, when a villager said that Song Jizu was his father's illegitimate son, he suddenly understood.
It turns out that it was not because he did not do well enough that his father disliked him. In fact, no matter what he did, he would not be able to please him.
In this case, why should he be a good son who is careful to please his father in everything? That fatherly love is something he cannot get. If
you are unfilial, then don't be unfilial. As long as you have a clear conscience, no matter how others judge you.
Song Baqi stared at his son with a gloomy look, and said after a while: "Song Sanshun, don't regret it!"
"Son, there is nothing to regret." Song Sanshun looked at his father calmly.
At this moment, Song Sanshun suddenly felt that his previous self was very ridiculous.
In order not to make his father angry, he lived in fear every day and tried his best to be the most filial child. Even if he knew that his stepmother treated his wife and little niece harshly, he endured it, just to avoid embarrassing his father in front of him.
But once his thinking changed, he looked like a joke when he looked back.
No wonder his stepsister looked down on him, no wonder Song Jizu's children did not respect him, it turned out that he was too cowardly in their eyes, like a coward.
Song Sanshun felt that he was not wronged for the title of coward who was obtained by compromise.
Now, he didn't want to seek perfection, and he didn't want to wrong himself or his wife.
"Okay! From now on, you can go through your Yangguan Road, and we can go through our single-plank bridge!" Song Baqi pointed at Song Sanshun and said, "Even if you starve to death, don't come to my door to beg for food!"
Song Sanshun: "Don't worry, Dad, even if my son starves to death, he will stay away from your family."
"You'd better remember what you said today!" Song Baqi
left with a wave of his sleeves. Song Sanshun said to his back: "I hope Dad remembers it too."
Song Baqi gritted his teeth secretly and walked straight away without looking back.
The clan leader was so angry with Song Sanshun that he pointed at him and shouted: "Look at what you said? Don't associate with your father's family? Can you say this?"
"If I don't say it, my nephew will never be able to straighten his back for the rest of his life." Song Sanshun said. Compared with the medical money of a hundred or so coins, it is more cost-effective to not associate with them.
From then on, he could legitimately not help Song Jizu's family plow the fields, hoe the rice and plant the rice seedlings, nor did he have to pound rice and grind flour for his family, chop wood and fetch water.
He and his wife just need to cultivate two mu of dry land. In their spare time, they can go to the market more often and do some small business to supplement the family income.
Of course, he would not let Song Jizu go, but it was not appropriate to do it now.
The clan leader sighed and sat down to continue eating dumplings.
Originally, he wanted to take people to Zhaojia Village to send Song Jizu and the Zhao family to the county government office so that those people could have a taste of prison food. As a result, Song Baqi insisted that it was a dispute between brothers and there was no murder.
With Song Baqi's involvement, even the head of the village felt that this was a family affair of the Song family, and they could just go back and solve it themselves. As for the outsider who had a head injury, he could only admit that he was unlucky.
So the clan leader wanted to fight for some food or silver compensation for Song Sanshun, which was also an explanation to him. As a result, Song Baqi was unwilling to give a penny and asked his own son to shake hands with the stepson.
Alas, Sanshun was right. Instead of fighting for the money for the medicine, it is better to cut off contact with Song Baqi's family.
After eating the dumplings, everyone went home one after another.
It was already dark, and Wu cleaned up the pots and bowls in the kitchen, boiled water for her husband and niece to wash, and fed some water and grains to the pheasant in the basket.
The pheasant was very nervous, refusing to eat or drink, and curled up in the grass nest without moving. Wu looked at it for a while, then let it go.
Song Sanshun was lying on the kang in a daze, while little Chang'an was sitting beside him, chanting the eight characters of the universe and the earth.
At night, Xiaoyuyu would definitely be checked. If she couldn't recite it or couldn't recognize one of the characters, Xiaoyuyu would conjure up a ruler and spank her. It was so scary. Chang'an
touched her little butt, and was too nervous to close her eyes, for fear that she would accidentally fall asleep and dream about the little fish.
In the past, she was eager to dream and play with the little fish, but now she didn't want to dream.
"Go to bed early." Wu wiped her niece's face and washed her feet, stuffed her into the quilt, and whispered, "Get up early tomorrow, and your aunt will take you to dig shepherd's purse."
The wild vegetables dug yesterday were all used up today. If we don't get some back, there will be no vegetables to eat at home.
Chang'an nodded, closed her eyes, and fell asleep in a short while.
Seeing Changan asleep, Wu said to her husband, "Thanks to Changan today, if she hadn't been dragging me to find you,"
she didn't dare to think about the scene at that time.
If she hadn't arrived in time and hadn't hit anyone with the stone, it would be hard to say whether her husband could survive.
Song Sanshun took a deep breath and slowly talked about what happened after he went up the mountain with Song Jizu and Zhao Quan.
"Song Jizu deliberately tricked me into the mountain and planned to attack me from behind twice, but I dodged them both. Later, Zhao Quan called another person, and the three of them surrounded me."
Song Sanshun clenched his fists when he thought of Song Jizu's smug expression at that time.
The plan of the three people was obvious, that is, they wanted to kill him on the mountain and bury him on the spot. Sadly, his own father was involved in it.
Wu grabbed her husband's hand and whispered to comfort him, "Don't be afraid, Sanshun, at worst we can sell the two acres of land and live in the village."
Song Sanshun shook his head, "No, I'm not afraid of them." At worst,
he would die with them, but his wife and niece were innocent, and he didn't want them to die because of him.
"Last time the old witch asked you to fetch water at night, she must have bad intentions, Xiuying, you must pay attention to that family's actions next time, and fight back immediately if you find something wrong, don't worry about hurting anyone."
After a pause, Song Sanshun said, "Tomorrow when you go out to pick wild vegetables, you can invite Sister Qian to go with you, one more person and one more help."
"Well, I know." Wu patted her husband's hand and got up to blow out the oil lamp. After
turning off the light and lying back beside her husband, Wu whispered, "It's strange to say, that day when my mother-in-law came to ask me to fetch water, it was Xiao Changan who tried his best to stop me from going. Later, it was Sister Qian and her husband who helped to fetch a load. Sister Qian came back and said that my mother-in-law's family didn't lack water at all."
Song Sanshun closed his eyes, and suddenly felt a little scared.
What would happen if his wife went to fetch water that day?
The well outside the village is very deep, and once you fall in, you can't get out at all.
Did the old witch want to harm his wife to fall into the well?
He and his mother failed to frame him once or twice, and there might be a third and fourth time.
The more Song Sanshun thought about it, the more frightened he became.
No, we can't just sit there and wait for death!
"Xiuying, let's take out the gold and exchange it." Song Sanshun whispered.
Wu's heart skipped a beat: "What do you want to do?"
(End of this chapter)k