Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 1279: There are strange things every year.

After Doctor Li said twice in a row that Zhang Yu was fine, the tense atmosphere around them was finally released.

The group of children who had been frightened just now calmed down after being comforted by everyone.

The children gathered around Zhang Yu, their eyes focused on him with concern.

The happy girl threw herself directly into his arms, and her tears fell like beads that had broken off the string, wetting Zhang Yu's clothes.

"Uncle Xiaoyu, wow, wow! You really fell down just now! I was so scared... It's all my fault, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have asked you to teach me..."

His voice was filled with self-blame, and his whole body was shaking as he cried, as if he wanted to vent all his worries and fears through his tears.

Zhang Yu patted his shoulder and comforted him: "Look, I'm fine. Don't cry. Xiwazi is a big boy now. If you cry again, Lewazi will laugh at you."

Under Zhang Yu's gentle comfort, Xiwazi's emotions gradually calmed down, and the big eyes that originally flashed with fear were now replaced by tenacity.

He sniffed hard, trying to raise the corners of his mouth. Although his voice was still a little choked, he repeated firmly: "Hiccup~, I'm not crying, I'm not crying..."

Zhang Yu raised his head slightly, as if he didn't see the tears in Xiwazi's eyes that were about to fall in the next second, and praised: "Our Xiwazi is the bravest."

The people around him looked at Zhang Yu coaxing the child and joked: "Xiao Yu will be a good father in the future."

"Of course not. Xiaoyu is much better than the man in our family who didn't even bother to help when the soy sauce bottle fell over. The girl who marries him will enjoy a good life in the future."

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of several women in the crowd lit up.

Someone half-jokingly tried to test: "I don't know what kind of girl Xiaoyu likes. My nieces are all good. Not only have they all been to school, they are also hardworking and capable. They are also among the best young girls at sewing..."

"Puchi!" Someone couldn't help laughing when listening to her bragging.

"Aunt Zhaodi, everyone in the surrounding area knows what kind of people your nieces are, so don't use them to bully Xiaoyu."

When he said this, it was obvious that he had thought of something, and everyone burst into laughter.

The lady who wanted to introduce her niece to Zhang Yu blushed with embarrassment.

She widened her eyes, stared at the crowd, and retorted unconvincedly: "Who said that? Stand up and I will tear your mouth apart! What's wrong with my niece? My niece is fine. You don't like my niece because you have no taste."

After that, he turned to look at Zhang Yu beside him and smiled flatteringly: "Xiao Yu, don't listen to their nonsense. My nieces are fine. They are just jealous, pure jealousy."

As he said this, he showed a loving smile: "Xiao Yu, get married and start a career. Getting married comes before starting a career. Only when a boy gets married and has someone to look after him, can he go out and earn a career with peace of mind.

My nieces are all good at housework, so you won't suffer any loss if you go back with them. They will take care of the housework for you and take care of the elders for you, so you can rest assured even if you go to school."

The corners of Zhang Yu's mouth twitched slightly.

During this period of time, he was not completely social, and he had heard a lot of gossip in the village.

I have heard something about Aunt Zhaodi.

Of course, it can be seen from the fact that the corners of his mouth can't help twitching even now when he thinks about it.

This Aunt Zhaodi is not as simple and honest as she appears to be.

Speaking of Aunt Zhaodi's family, in a sense, it is well-known far and wide.

This family focuses on the idea that yin is stronger than yang.

Of course, compared to the fact that her family is dominated by yin and lacks yang, the way her family handles things is even more eye-opening.

Aunt Zhaodi's father followed a group of brothers to Guandong. After many twists and turns, in the end, only Aunt Zhaodi's father was left to gain a foothold here.

Several brothers who followed her father to Guandong died on the way, and her father became mentally ill since then.

He felt that he was wrong and had implicated several brothers, causing them to die in a foreign land without even leaving behind a bloodline.

Because of this, Aunt Zhaodi's father became obsessed with having children.

I always wanted to have more children, and then give them to my brothers, so that my brothers in the afterlife would have someone to worship and offer incense to them.

And his wife is also a real girl from Northeast China.

It's just that her father was in poor health. He had a hard time for most of his life and changed two wives. In the end, she was the only child left.

She has heard a lot of gossip since she was a child.

My parents often hug each other and complain about not having a son.

It is conceivable that even if a girl is loved by her parents, a girl who grows up in such an atmosphere will naturally think that having many children is a good thing.

Just like that, two fertility fanatics came together.

This time the result is not 1+1=2.

But 1+1>2.

After only five years of marriage, the couple already had six daughters.

Among these six girls, there are two pairs of twins.

Speaking of this, Zhang Yu was a little dumbfounded.

Even if we count the twins as one, that’s 5 children in 4 years.

hiss!
On average, a child is born in a little over a year, and this includes the confinement period.

In other words, most of the children got pregnant again not long after they finished their confinement period.

The couple were happy about this and didn't think there was anything wrong with having children too frequently.

It’s strange to say, with such frequent births and so many children, in an ordinary family, the women’s health would have some problems.

But Aunt Zhaodi's mother is in surprisingly good health.

Giving birth to so many children is easier than a hen laying eggs.

Not only did it not harm her body at all, but it made her health better and better.

However, having six daughters in a row made her wonder if she was destined not to have a son.

In order to have a son, she named her daughters Zhaodi, Mengdi, Yingdi, Laidi, Lingdi and Xiangdi.

It turns out that this kind of name does not bring her a son.

In the next few years, she gave birth to Pandi, Niandi, Qiudi, Nian'er, Menglang, Meigou, Shaoting, Zhidi, Baonan and Yingte, a total of 10 daughters.

Including the initial six, the couple had a total of 6 daughters.

By the end of the birth, the couple had given up the idea of ​​having a son.

Most people would probably frown when they heard the names the couple gave to their daughter.

I think the couple are the kind of people who favor boys over girls and are crazy about having a son.

Actually, it is not like that. Although this couple is determined to have a son, they are not the kind of people who favor boys over girls.

The couple struggled for so many years and tried their best to have a son.

Rather than saying that it is a matter of favoring boys over girls, it is more likely that it is the desire to win.

Want to prove that they are not unable to have a son.

The couple did not spoil their daughters, but they never treated them badly.

This can be seen from the fact that the couple, at the age of nearly 50, tried their best to give birth to their only son, and finally named him Sister You.

Moreover, the couple's only son really didn't receive any special treatment. Forget about any special treatment. As long as none of his 16 older sisters helped educate his younger brother, the couple never interfered, as long as it wasn't too excessive.

In subsequent weddings, funerals, and division of property in old age, the couple was fair and just.

When talking about this, Zhang Yu felt a little inexplicably sad.

Many people in later generations said that they preferred daughters, and even claimed that they valued daughters over sons.

In fact, the daughter's treatment is indeed good, but the most important and valuable property is left to the son by default.

This situation is even worse in rural areas.

They keep talking about gender equality, but in the end, they still deny girls the right to inherit property.

Even what many elderly people mean by equality between sons and daughters is that the family property and savings are left to their sons, but the cost of retirement needs to be shared equally by both sons and daughters.

Ridiculous and ironic!
From this point of view, the couple's thinking was more advanced than many people in later generations.

Zhang Yu shook his head, thinking about something far away, and decided not to talk about it anymore.

Continue to think about the weird things this couple did.

As we all know, except for those who rely on their daughters' dowries to "get rich", if you have many daughters, just marrying them off is a worrying thing.

This is particularly evident in Aunt Zhaodi's family.

16 daughters, you know, that’s a total of 16 daughters.

In order to marry off their 16 daughters, the couple's hair turned white with worry.

Local girls have no trouble finding a husband, but that doesn’t stop the couple from being too famous in the local area.

With 16 daughters in total, many families, when looking for a daughter-in-law, are worried that what if their daughter inherits the physical condition of one of their biological mothers and can only give birth to daughters in the future?
They are not as capable as the couple to raise 16 children.

Let alone 16, even if there are only 4, many families have to live frugally to be able to afford them.

Seeing her daughters growing up and gradually becoming a problem, Aunt Zhaodi was worried all day long.

In order to marry off a group of girls, the old man racked his brains and used one trick after another.

There are too many tricks, comparable to the "Thirty-Six Strategies" in the world of marrying a girl, so Zhang Yu will not list them one by one.

Just talking about the past of Aunt Zhaodi in front of us is enough to represent how outrageous the whole thing is.

Aunt Zhaodi is the eldest of 16 daughters.

When she got married, because she was the first, the old man's methods were still in the process of being perfected, so they were relatively gentle.

My mother's house is not a ghost town nearby.

In order to marry her off, the couple traveled all over the villages and personally investigated the conditions and temperament of every young man of the right age.

Isn't that the fear that your daughter will suffer injustice after getting married?
After much consideration, the old man chose a famous local family, the Xie family, for his eldest daughter.

As to whether some of them are jealous of the large number of young men in the Xie family and plan to wait for the eldest daughter to marry into the Xie family and then let the eldest daughter act as a matchmaker to marry the other daughters into the Xie family, it is unknown.

Anyway, up to now, among the young men of the same generation as Aunt Zhaodi in the entire Xie family, five have married Aunt Zhaodi's sisters.

Cough!

Zhang Yu looked up at the sky. No one knew what happened in the meantime, but it must have been very interesting.

Zhang Yu also quietly observed the situations of those families and found that there were no conflicts between the couples, and they could be considered to be living in harmony.

Some of them even appeared to be quite affectionate.

Based on this alone, Zhang Yu could be sure that although the old man had made plans in order to marry off his daughter, Nan was not the kind of person who was obsessed with calculations.

The premise of this calculation is probably that the two children really like each other.

However, the elders in the Xie family generally have no bad feelings towards the old man's actions.

I guess this has something to do with the fact that the old man has never resorted to any despicable means.

The old man's moves are also amazing.

But there is a scale in my heart that tells me what I can do and what I cannot do?

She had never fallen into the water and was rescued by a man, and then she used the excuse that she was seen naked to force the man to marry her.

There is no so-called drunken sex, forced marriage due to pregnancy, or catching the husband cheating...

The old man disdains to use these despicable means.

He thought his daughters were good and would definitely be able to get married.

Of course, he used some small tricks to promote the relationship between the two young people, and he was the only one who knew about it, besides God and the earth.

For example, before the man even meets the eldest daughter, the wife always finds someone to encourage him, letting him know how good her daughter is and how many young men like her, so that the man can have a good impression of her.

All these actions made the man feel superior to the woman before they even met.

As for those who paid money to hire someone to create a scene where the eldest daughter is sought after by hundreds of families, it is to prove to the man that my daughter is popular and does not have to rely on you alone.

After artificially creating a sense of tension, she changed her previous enthusiasm, as if she had met a son-in-law whom she liked even more.

The subsequent interactions involve the ways of husband and wife.

If that were all, Aunt Zhaodi's family home wouldn't have become a haunted place.

Of course, there are more important reasons.

As mentioned before, Aunt Zhaodi's family is more yin than yang.

I'm afraid everyone has no idea of ​​the extent to which yin is stronger than yang.

Aunt Zhaodi’s younger brother is her mother’s only son and the 17th child.

Including Sister You, there are only two men in Aunt Zhaodi's family.

The ratio reached 17:2.

This is not the final proportion. The final proportion is much more amazing than this.

Even Zhang Yu, who has received 21st century education and is a staunch materialist, sometimes wonders if there is something wrong with the feng shui of his partner's home?
Otherwise, why would you keep giving birth to daughters?

The previous generation had 16 daughters, but only gave birth to this one son.

Aunt Zhaodi can't possibly give her only son to his brothers for adoption.

Although he felt guilty, he was counting on his only son to carry on his family line, so he let the extreme incident go unnoticed.

So that after his death, his old brothers could also enjoy the fireworks.

The old man turned his attention to his only son.

As soon as he reached his teens, he couldn't wait to find him a wife and wait for him to give birth to grandchildren.

It would be better to have more children so that they can adopt a grandson for their brothers. However, before the old man passed away, the idea had turned into adopting a great-grandson for their brothers.

The reason is simple, it's just like repeating the journey of my biological parents.

(End of this chapter)