Dreaming of 1988, I have the ability to see ghosts and ghosts

After a long while, the one in the middle raised his head slightly, looked at me, and said in a very depressed mood:

"Sister, I don't even have a name. I was drowned not long after I was born."

"Yes, we were drowned by our biological parents."

Someone next to him interrupted.

"Uh-huh!"

The others nodded in response, with a mixture of resentment and sadness on their faces.

"Sister, let me tell you our story!"

The one in the middle said.

So I listened carefully as she told me their stories, and as I listened, I recounted them to my grandmother.

It was the end of the Qing Dynasty, I don't know which year it was, but the village was still called Huangjia Village. Most people in the village were surnamed Huang, followed by Chen, and even fewer were from several other small surnames.

Chen Zhonggui is the only son of the Chen family. His father has passed away. His widowed mother, Huang, has a very arrogant and domineering personality because her maiden name is Huang, and her family is a prominent family in the village.

The family had a few acres of land and lived a pretty good life. Unfortunately, half a year after Chen's father helped Chen Zhonggui marry Liu Yuzhen from the neighboring village, Chen died of illness.

Huang was extremely angry and pointed at Chen Zhonggui's nose and cursed:

"You unfilial son, I told you not to marry this unlucky guy, but you didn't listen. Now look what's happened. Your father has been killed too. How am I going to live in the future?"

It turned out that Chen Zhonggui met Liu Yuzhen when he visited relatives in the next village, and he fell in love with her at first sight.

Liu Yuzhen is pretty and considerate. Under Chen Zhonggui's fierce pursuit, Liu Yuzhen gradually accepted him.

Because in that era, there were very few families with only one son. After marrying into the family, there would be no brothers to divide the family property, and no sisters-in-law to make trouble. In the eyes of Liu Yuzhen and her family, this was a good choice.

When Chen Zhonggui proposed to his parents that he wanted to go to Liu Yuzhen's house to propose marriage, Huang refused to agree.

She already had the candidate for daughter-in-law in her mind, a girl from the Huang family. The family was very wealthy and would not be a burden to the Chen family.

But Chen Zhonggui had already set his sights on Liu Yuzhen and went on a hunger strike at home in protest. Since she was Huang's only child, Huang finally compromised.

But after Liu Yuzhen came into the family, Huang was extremely picky about her and kept making things difficult for her. Fortunately, Chen Zhonggui protected her, so she felt a little better.

She tried her best to fulfill her duties as a daughter-in-law and never dared to disobey Huang's wishes. Until the death of Chen's father, the family lived in harmony and peace.

When Chen's father passed away, Liu Yuzhen was already two months pregnant. She endured the discomfort of morning sickness and bustled around the house as usual.

After Chen's father's funeral was over, Huang started to curse Liu Yuzhen every day, saying that she was a jinx and had brought death to Chen's father.

For the sake of the baby in her belly, Liu Yuzhen has been enduring silently.

She thought that after the baby was born, her mother-in-law would gradually treat her better for the sake of her grandson.

Huang sat at the gate, crying and wailing.

"Mom, don't be angry. My dad is sick. It has nothing to do with Yuzhen."

Chen Zhonggui weakly persuaded Huang.

"It was her, it was her. As soon as she walked in, your father left. Who else can you blame but him? Woo, woo, woo!"

This persuasion made Huang cry even harder.

Chen Zhonggui looked at Liu Yuzhen who was hiding in the distance with a shy look on his face.

Liu Yuzhen nodded at him, indicating that she didn't mind, and asked him to persuade her mother-in-law well. Huang should get better after a while.

She understood her mother-in-law. After losing her husband in middle age, no woman would recover from grief quickly.

After Chen's father passed away, the family lost a laborer. Liu Yuzhen dragged her heavy body and continued to work in the fields. When she returned home, she had to do laundry, cook, and serve her mother-in-law.

Most women of that era went through this. There were many women from poor families who worked in the fields with big bellies, and when they had a heart attack, they would run straight home to give birth.

The Chen family was living a relatively good life. The day Liu Yuzhen had the attack happened to be an off-month, so Chen Zhonggui invited the only midwife in the village.

Chen Zhonggui and Huang were waiting anxiously at the door of the delivery room.

After Liu Yuzhen's heart-wrenching cries, the midwife held the wrapped up baby Chen Jia Daya. I will call her Daya here, the one in the middle of the nine-headed bird.

"Congratulations! You have just received a golden gift!"

The midwife walked to the door of the room with a smile on her face, ready to hand the newborn baby to Huang. Huang's face darkened, and she did not reach out to take Daya. She turned around and left angrily.

"Giving birth to a dead girl, what's there to congratulate?"

Huang said angrily as she walked.

The midwife was stunned for a moment and handed the child to Chen Zhonggui.

"Yuzhen, you've worked hard."

Chen Zhonggui walked to the bedside holding the child and said to Liu Yuzhen.

Knowing that Huang didn't like her daughter, he didn't want to care. However, he was very happy that Daya was his and Yuzhen's first child.

"It's not hard, Zhonggui! Is mother unhappy?"

Liu Yuzhen dragged her weak body and asked softly.

Huang didn't like him in the first place, and now that he had a daughter, he was afraid that Huang would be even more unhappy.

"It's okay. We are still young. If we give birth to more sons, mother will be happy."

Chen Zhonggui consoled.

Only then did Liu Yuzhen feel a little relieved.

Huang went out angrily, and as she walked, she actually came to the river and wandered around for a while.

It was noon in early winter. The sun shone on the water, and the slight ripples created a halo that caught Huang's eyes.

She suddenly had an idea and thought of something. The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, but her eyes became sinister.

After returning home, she did not take care of Liu Yuzhen during her confinement period. Only Chen Zhonggui clumsily helped Liu Yuzhen take care of the child.

Every midnight, Huang would sneak into Chen Zhonggui and Liu Yuzhen's room, and when she saw they were awake, she would leave again.

Until one night, Chen Zhonggui and Liu Yuzhen, who had just become parents, finally coaxed Daya to sleep, and both of them fell into a deep sleep due to exhaustion.

Huang tiptoed into the room, picked up the sleeping Daya, and hurried towards the river.

When they reached the river, she stripped Daya of all her clothes. In the freezing night, Daya woke up from the cold. Her shrill cries echoed throughout the river bank, and the cold moonlight revealed a desolate look.

Huang slowly immersed Daya's body into the cold river water, saying as she immersed it:

"Child, don't blame me. It's your fault that you are a girl. The Chen family is poor now and can't afford to raise you, so we have to let you go first. Amitabha!"

Daya's petite body was slowly submerged inch by inch, and she cried heartbreakingly, it was so tragic.

When the last strand of Daya's hair was submerged in the water, Huang's hands were shaking, and she hurriedly lifted Daya out of the water. Unexpectedly, Daya spat out a mouthful of water and burst into tears again.

Huang quickly sank Daya again, and waited until Daya's body, which had been struggling in the water, gradually became stiff, before she lifted the already cold little body out of the water.

After wiping Daya's body dry with a dry cloth prepared in advance, he put her clothes on, quietly returned home, and put Daya, who was no longer breathing, back on the bed.