Chapter 1002: Chapter 1002: Difficult Situation
“Weng Jiefang, I’m telling you. If you don’t support this child today, I’ll really take the child and go back to my family.” Bai Na coldly dropped a sentence.
It was a statent that stirred up a thousand waves.
In their village, it’s not unusual for won to take their children and return to their parents, living on their own because the marriage age in their village is generally young and doesn’t comply with current marriage law policies, so most don’t register. After all, divorce doesn’t exist here.
Every household’s daughters and sons-in-law are like this, carrying on for the sake of the children. Bai Na is the sa; she’s only seventeen and can’t legally marry.
Technically, what they have can only be considered cohabitation without legal marriage.
But no woman in the village had done such a thing.
“Bai Na, you can’t act on impulse. How can a woman live without a man?”
“No matter what, he’s still your man. What you said is too much.”
“If people in the village all acted like you, how could life go on?”
The whole village is still entrenched in feudal thinking, with n as the authority.
A woman should listen to her man; otherwise, in their eyes, it’s a grave sin.
Of course, what Bai Na said today made many people uncomfortable.
She was openly challenging their feudal authority.
Weng Jiefang laughed. How could he not know what the n in the village thought?
Here, n are like the sky; what they say goes.
“Alright, you’ve got guts now. If you want to leave, then go. You think I can’t live without you?”
Arrogant, as he knew well, even his father-in-law wouldn’t allow his daughter to just return ho with a child, adding two extra mouths to feed. How would they get by then?
Bai Na’s mother was dumbfounded.
How could her good daughter just return ho?
The problem is that once they co ho, it really adds two extra mouths to feed, and the harvest from the fields barely fills their bellies.
If there are two more mouths to feed, how are they supposed to survive?
This isn’t sothing that can be solved with a flick of the tongue.
In a mountainous village like theirs, the harvest is poor, and with no other skills, they don’t even have money throughout the year. If they can fill their bellies, they’re already lucky.
With reluctance, she said, “Daughter, it’s not necessary to go this far. Even if the son-in-law isn’t reliable, how can married couples live without friction? We’ve decided to take the child back to raise at our place. Your two brothers said as long as they have food, so will this child.
We certainly won’t let the child suffer. You just focus on living your life well.”
It’s not that they don’t want to support their daughter, but once she returns ho, it would be hard for her to remarry.
Bai Na’s father knocked his pipe against his mouthpiece. In one breath, he had already knocked his pipe several tis.
Even Bai Xiao suspected that his pipe couldn’t be damaged.
“Think it through for yourself.”
This sentence was unexpected for Bai Xiao.
He didn’t expect Bai Na’s father to be protective of his daughter, implying that her return ho wasn’t impossible.
Weng Jiefang finally beca nervous.
He was just saying it to make his wife submit. He knew his actions were inhumane, but if she really went back ho.
He would lose out greatly.
Not only would he lose his son, but also his wife. In the future, who would do the work and serve him?
“Father-in-law, think about it. If it’s known within the ten-mile radius that Bai Na returned ho, she won’t be able to get married again. Your family will be raising two extra mouths for no reason. At that ti, people’s spittle alone could drown you out.”
Now, he is hoping his father-in-law will make the decision.
The old father-in-law is only about ten years older than him, so they couldn’t have been family under normal circumstances, but it was fate.
Bai Ying cares a lot about face.
If a daughter returns ho, especially with a tag-along child, it’s unlikely he would agree.
As long as Bai Ying doesn’t agree, Bai Na has no place to go.
A woman with an infant, trying to live on her own, isn’t easy. Land here isn’t just given out. Won’s land is tied to their fathers or husbands. Without the na on the household register, won can’t get land.
No land ans no food, no grain.
He scoffed, not believing Bai Na wouldn’t give in.
Bai Ying looked at Weng Jiefang’s despicable, smug expression and rembered the grievance when his daughter married a year ago to Weng Jiefang, indeed.
If it weren’t for Weng Jiefang, taking advantage of Bai Na falling off the mountain, saving Bai Na and letting the whole village see it, and then boldly asking Bai Ying for her hand in marriage, in their village, saving a life is a huge favor.
If their family didn’t agree, it would be ungrateful.
How could a fine daughter like a blooming flower be married off to a fool like Weng Jiefang?
Among so many young n in the village, which one wasn’t better than Weng Jiefang?
How could they let this scoundrel marry their daughter?
What’s the saying about a flower in a pile of cow dung?
Their family’s Bai Na is the embodint of it.
Seeing his daughter endure hardship and fatigue at the Weng Family wasn’t enough; this bastard wasn’t even willing to work in the fields, lounging around the village all day. But what can they do, won here don’t return to their parents.
For hundreds of years, it wasn’t unheard of.
But won who returned had no good outcos.
“Dad, just let your daughter make her own decision for once. Whether it’s life or death, I will live with my child, definitely not burdening the family. Just pretend you never had a daughter like . Give your grandson and daughter a way out too.
Weng Jiefang has always been a good-for-nothing, and I endured it. But a man who doesn’t want his own flesh and blood isn’t a human. How can I live with such a beast again?
I will raise my child on my own, even if it ans starving; I won’t beg for your help.”
This was Bai Na’s only request, knowing that without such words, her father wouldn’t agree to her leaving.
Bai Na’s mom panicked, “How can you say such things, daughter? How can you live with such a small child? If you went alone into the mountains, wouldn’t you feed the wolves? No matter how bad he is, he’s still your man.”
Despite her mother’s earlier defense of her grandson and daughter, upon hearing her daughter wanted to bring her grandson ho, of course, she was unwilling.
It’s not about being scolded behind their backs; the problem is how to support two people!
Tears stread down Bai Na’s face.
“Mom, Dad, if you don’t agree today, I’ll die with this child, saving him from a heartless father and a mother who can’t protect him. At least he wouldn’t have co to my womb in vain.”
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