chapter xiii - quarrels

  As soon as Third Aunt left, Mother glared at Father, her gaze as cold as a blade, and Father glared back without showing any weakness, as grumpy as a trapped animal.   The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense.   Dou Zhao's tiny figure shrank in the mantle, listening to her parents' mutual accusations.   "Zhao Guqiu, what the hell are you doing? Don't you think I'm humiliated enough?"   "What am I going to do? I still want to ask you, what are you going to do? Taking a sinful minister's daughter as a concubine, where have you been reading your holy books? Do you want the Dou family's hundred-year reputation and the accumulation of several generations to be ruined in your hands? You don't mind losing face, I still want face!"   Father was furious and red in the face, "We grew up together, what kind of person am I, aren't you clear? At this time, you do not help me, but still pulling my leg, invited the second aunt to see my jokes, how are you a man's wife? How can you be a wife? If my reputation is ruined, how can you be any better? Don't forget, husband and wife are one! You're a good wife! Fortunately, mother-in-law went early, if see you today like this, do not know how sad sad it?"   "Dou Shiying, you talk about me, talk about me, why mention my mother?" My mother was so angry that she cried, "You still remember that we grew up together, do you still remember how my mother treated you? Do you remember what you told me before we got married? You are shameless! You want me to cover up for you, there's no way!"   Father immediately wilted like an eggplant struck by frost, a trace of discomfort flashed across his features, "I, I didn't mean to mention mother-in-law, do you have to be so unreasonable? I'm like this, I'm still not forced by you." He said, remembering the old times, and angry, "Baoshan is just pulling me to drink a flower wine, you are blowing your beard and eyes at others, people come to our home, even a cup of good tea is not given to people on, let me suffer from all the snickers of my classmates,......" he said more and more annoyed The first thing you should do is to blame me, but not yourself! If you had a better temper, would I have gone to Third Brother for advice?"   Mother was so angry that she was shivering, wiping the tears on her face: "You did something wrong, and you still have the nerve to talk about me! What kind of good thing is Feng Baoshan? Besides eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, what else can he do? At the end of the year, if it wasn't for my uncle's sake, he would have been expelled from the school, and you're the only one who hangs out with him every day, you're no good either!"   Father was choked speechless, half a moment before murmuring, "That, that you can not be like this ah!"   "What do you want from me?" Mother questioned sternly, "Open the door and welcome Wang Ying Xue in? I have that kind of elegance, does she, Wang Ying Xue, have that kind of luck?" The mother laughed coldly, "Dou Shiying, I put the words here, the world's women can be whoever you want, Wang Yingxue want to enter the door, unless I die!"   "You ...... me ......" father pointed at the mother, arms shaking, half a day did not say a complete sentence.   Mother laughed disdainfully, her waist straightened even more.   It turns out that couples can still quarrel like this!   This is her father who always puts on a dignified appearance?   Why is he acting like a child!   Dou Zhao was dumbfounded.   She had never quarreled with Wei Tingyu before.   At first, she didn't dare, then she didn't care.   Father hung his head and whispered, "Gu Qiu, let's not fight anymore, okay?" He spoke in a sad tone, "This matter, it's all my fault, Ying Xue is also dragged down by me. Otherwise, she is a good daughter of an innocent family, why would she have to suffer such humiliation? Moreover, I and Ying Xue also agreed, she will go to the farm to live," he said, raised his head, his gaze contains a few points of hope, "we are still the same as before, OK? I will listen to you in everything from now on, and never go out with Baoshan ...... again."   Good!   Dou Zhao almost couldn't hold back from jumping out of the mantle to answer in place of her mother.   When a husband and wife quarrel, what better way to show the wife's status in her husband's mind than for the husband to take the initiative to bow his head.   Since Wang Ying Xue is pregnant, and with her father's character, she must be determined to take Wang Ying Xue into her home, so why not take the opportunity to give her father a step down, not only can she show her generosity and virtuousness in front of the Dou family elders, but she can also win over her father's heart, and even hold her father's hand on this matter in the future, when the couple encounters any disagreements.   This is a three birds with one stone!   And the mirror is reunited, no matter whether there is no crack, in the eyes of others, it is still a mirror.   I'm afraid that Wang Yingxue will have a knife in her heart if she takes a look at it.   Then let Wang Ying Xue write down the deed of sale and throw her into the field.   Regardless of whether father is saying true or false at this moment, what he promised himself, he can't go back on his word, right?   As long as her father doesn't change his mind, Wang Ying Xue will have to stay in the farm. Just let everyone see, Wang Yingxue in the Dou family is considered a thing!   Even if father wants to go back on his word, he's not afraid.   When the time comes, I'll take Wang Ying Xue to every house.   Isn't Wang Ying Xue the daughter of a famous scholar? If you degrade yourself and become a concubine, let's see how your family will look!   Is there anything more satisfying than this?   Even if Wang Ying Xue could persuade her father one day, but her mother had her contract of sale in hand, and with the concubine's name there, and with the Dou family's elders helping her, could she still turn over a new leaf?   Dou Zhao almost laughed out loud.   But ears ringing mother's shrill stern: "Yingxue, Yingxue, called can be really affectionate! Since you have discussed everything behind my back, what are you still looking for me for? 'A good daughter of an innocent family', Dou Shiying, how dare you say that! Would a daughter of an innocent family come to me as a concubine? Would an innocent daughter shamelessly seduce another man's husband? If she were the daughter of an innocent family, there would be no one in the world who is not innocent! If she feels humiliated, then she can find a place that doesn't humiliate her ......"   Dou Zhao listens anxiously wishing she had three heads and six arms to plug her mother's mouth!   Arguing is like talking, it's important to have a point!   What's the use of dwelling on this over and over again like this?   Hurrying up to finalize her father's promise was the way to go.   Just before she could do anything, her father had already shouted out in anger, "What more do you want from me? You can't do this, you can't do that! Don't you rely on your elders to back you up? Don't think I won't dare to do anything to you. I am remembering the love that we grew up together ......"   "If you still remember the love we grew up with, you wouldn't have done such a nasty thing!" The mother did not show any weakness, her expression was contemptuous, "I just rely on the elders in my family to back me up, what can you do to me? If you have the ability, you can bypass me to marry Wang Ying Xue!"   "You, you ......" father was infuriated, "I, I ...... I'm going to repudiate you!"   Mother froze.   "What did you say?" Her face swished white, "You're going to repudiate me!" The mother looked at her father in disbelief, "You're going to repudiate me for Wang Ying Xue ......"   As soon as the words were spoken, the father also froze, he did not dare to look at the mother as if he turned his face away, whispered, "I'll talk to you properly, you must not be accommodating either ......"   "Dou Shiying!" Mother's eyes reddened with anger, she yelled her father's name, "You get out! Get as far away from me as you can! I'm waiting for your letter of repudiation! I want to see how you welcome that little bitch Wang Ying Xue into your home!"   The father was in a sorry state and argued strongly, "Gu Qiu, I didn't mean it like that! Listen to me ......"   "Get the hell out! Scram! Get out!" Mother pushed father toward the door, "I'm waiting for your letter of repudiation, I'm waiting for your letter of repudiation ......" she muttered, and flung the door shut with a "snap."   "Gu Qiu, Gu Qiu!" Father rapped on the door from outside, "I didn't mean it like that, I was just talking off the top of my head! I didn't mean it ......"   Mother leaned against the door, tears falling like rain, her voice like a gnat, "Heartless, sometimes what is said heartlessly is the truth ......"   Dou Zhao, with a splitting headache, slipped off the bed and pulled on his mother's coat, "Mother! Mother!"   Her mother squatted down, grabbed her daughter's arms, and asked her with a sob, "Didn't you say you wanted to go to your uncle's house to play? I'll go with you to play at uncle's house, okay?"   "No good!" Dou Zhao shook her head, her big eyes brilliant like morning stars, "This is my house, I'm staying home. When it's New Year's, go to uncle's house!"   The mother was stunned, but her tears fell more rapidly.   ※※※※※   In the evening, Sister Yu advised her mother, "...... You're angry with the Seventh Master at this time, won't it make your relatives hurt and your enemies angry!"   Mother sat in front of the mirror table, staring blankly at the woman in the mirror who looked like still water illuminating the flowers, and replied, "...... When I was a child, every time I came to the Dou family, my mother instructed me not to be naughty, and not to upset Auntie Dou and my sisters... ...Once, Pei Ci took me to pick magnolia flowers, I was very afraid, do not dare to climb the tree, but think of my mother's words, I still climbed up with fear and trepidation ...... Pei Ci jumped down from the tree, but I squatted in the tree do not dare to come down ...... Seeing that it is almost time to eat at noon, Pei Ci anxious up, ran to the outer courtyard to find a boy to help ...... I squatted alone in the tree, the leaves are hairy, and there are meaty bugs crawling around on it ...... I want to cry but do not dare to cry for fear of attracting other people, harming Pei Ci Being beaten on the palm of the hand ...... Thinking of just jumping down like this is good, I would rather be dead and maimed than to be crawled by insects ...... I closed my eyes, and someone below me 'fed' a voice, saying. 'Why are you squatting in the tree?' That voice, like the water in a brook, was clear and pleasant. I opened my eyes and saw a young man standing under a tree, looking up at me. His hair was like fine satin, dark and lustrous, his face, glistening like beautiful jade, his eyes, gentle and bright ...... I looked at him in a daze. But he puffed a smile, more beautiful than the flowers in the garden ...... I told him that I was hung up in a tree and could not get down. He told me to wait, turned around and found a ladder to carefully free me from the tree ...... Later, every time I came to Doufu, he would wait for me under that magnolia tree ...... to send me sweet pea yolks to eat, as well as sour plums, black olives ...... Once, it was a pearl threaded bead flower ...... I put it in my personal purse and never left it for a moment ...... "She turned her head and looked at me with her weeping red and swollen eyes at Sister Yu, "Sister, you say, where did the man who waited for me under the magnolia tree go? Why can't I find him?"   "Miss!" Sister Yu covered her mouth and cried.   Dou Zhao's eyes were blurry and she couldn't see anything clearly.   ※   After reading the book review book's message, I feel that there is something that I have to explain to everyone before I can do so.   O(∩_∩)O~   With the Dou family's family, it is impossible to do the thing that sells his wife for glory, Dou Zhao's mother is suicide not murder, we do not use the brain to make up for it!   As for why Dou Zhao will be sent to the farm to the grandmother of the peasant woman's upbringing, Dou Zhao's uncle why will and Dou Zhao cut off contact, this belongs to the scope of the drama, you can only patiently read the text, from which to look for the promise.   ※