The Return of the General to the Field

Chapter 3 Cause and Effect

It turned out that Brother He didn't marry Meng Dashuan voluntarily, he was married to Meng Dashuan by his eccentric father in exchange for his younger brother Meng Xing's dowry.

Xia He's father is Meng Tao, a high-spirited master. He originally married a hunter named Xia Cheng from Mengjia Village.Xia Cheng is a good hunter and has saved a lot of money. Meng Tao married Xia Cheng for the money back then.Who would have thought that Xia Cheng was killed in a hunt.

Meng Tao was unwilling to live a life of poverty without a husband, so he hooked up with another man named Meng Anguo when he was still in filial piety, and married him with his ex-husband's inheritance.Soon gave birth to a brother, Meng Xing.Later, another man named Meng Wenxiang was born.Since Meng Tao married Meng Anguo, Xia He's miserable life began.He is like a slave in this family, everyone dislikes him, he has to do the work of the whole family but he can't even eat enough.

Xia He looks like his father, not soft and fair like ordinary brothers, but like a man, with a tall physique and three-dimensional features.Because of his years of farm work, his complexion is wheat-colored, which is even more unpopular with men. People in the village laugh at him privately and call him ugly.So he was too old to get married.It is also because of this that Meng Anguo dislikes him very much. Who would like a child who makes people think that his husband has been with other men when he sees him?

It's a pity that even his own parents hate him.Meng Tao had looked down on Xia Cheng back then, and he would never have married if it wasn't for money.He felt that it was Xia Cheng, an unlucky ghost, who delayed him. Without him, he might have a better life, and he wouldn't have become a widow, and his spine would be poked every day.Moreover, Xia He has no one to ask for it, and it is worthless to exchange some dowry money.On the other hand, he likes Meng Xing very much. He thinks that his youngest son, Brother Xing, looks like himself, with slender eyebrows, peach blossom eyes, thin lips, good complexion, bright eyes and white teeth, which is very beautiful.In the future, I will definitely marry well, and I will be blessed with myself.He put all the dreams and expectations of his youth on his youngest son, and naturally the pain was tight.

This year, the 16-year-old Xing Geer was favored by the county magistrate. Although he is serving as a servant, who can decide what will happen in the future?Brother Xing married and became an official family member, and no matter how hard he worked, he might become the magistrate and lord of the county.How can Meng Tao not be jealous if he can also support his son and let him have more confidence in the imperial examination.In order for Meng Xing to have more status in the county magistrate's family for the benefit of her mother's family, Meng Tao naturally worked hard to help her youngest son save the dowry.But Meng Anguo's family is not good at management, and they all love vanity. Meng Wenxiang goes to school and takes the imperial examination; Meng Xing and Meng Tao's clothes and jewelry;So Meng Xing's dowry was in embarrassment.So they turned their ideas on Xia He.

There is a rotten man in Mengjia Village, Meng Dashuan, a lazy man who eats, drinks, prostitutes, and gambles. He needs his parents to support him when he grows up.He went to the brothel every day, and learned some dirty methods of torture from that dirty place.One of his first two husbands died and the other ran away. His house is not a place for people to stay at all. Meng Dashuan beat and scolded her husband, and tortured her in bed; It's all other people's fault. My son is so good, so there's nothing wrong with it!No brother in the village is willing to enter this fire pit.Xia He was naturally unwilling, but he couldn't help it. Meng Xing and Meng Wenxiang watched him closely. This was their dowry and a ladder for promotion!He escaped once, but was caught and locked up in the woodshed.He didn't eat or drink for two days and two nights, and was pushed into the bridal sedan chair.

In the past 19 years, Xia He never thought of dying no matter how difficult it was, but now Xia He suddenly doesn't want to live anymore.In fact, Meng Dashuan's family and Meng An's country might not be able to tell where it was more difficult, Xia He just felt that he had no hope of living.In the early years, Xia He thought about being patient, getting married, and leaving the house.Although the taunting words behind the villagers made me dare not have hope.But there is still hope in my heart.Ah!How hopeful I was once, how desperate I am now.He didn't expect a good man, just treat each other like a guest, have his own freedom, and don't have to live like a slave without dignity.Why are you still alive?The way and the future are dark.