Chapter 51: Cuihua's Sister-in-law

  Liu's wife's son thus joined the team escorting official grain.

  It was as if a cow cart loaded with grain and hay was crossing the river when the water suddenly rose greatly from upstream.

  Liu, who was in charge of driving the cart, slipped and fell, and before he could grab the reins on the cow's back again, he was swept into the river. Others only saw him struggle up and down twice, and then he disappeared without a trace.

  At that time, there were five people in the whole car. The other four people collectively decided that this person couldn't just disappear like that, so they left three people to continue pushing the cart, and the remaining one immediately returned to the village to find someone to go together to look for Liu's whereabouts.

  But with such a big rain and such a wide river, if one person fell in, how could they possibly be found so easily?

  Everyone searched from morning till night until they could hardly see the road, and only then did they return home.

  And just like that, a good person was gone.

  When she learned that her son had been washed away, Mrs. Liu immediately fainted, while Mrs. Liu's sister-in-law had a severe stomachache that lasted all night. The next morning, as soon as the sky brightened, Mrs. Liu gave birth to a four-jin boy.

  Because he was premature, Liu's grandson almost didn't make it.

  It's as if heaven has eyes, on the day the child was born, the rain that had been falling for over ten days suddenly stopped, and the sun that hadn't been seen in half a month shone again on the earth.

  Liu's wife woke up and couldn't stop crying until someone brought her grandson in front of her, and she finally came back to herself. Without thinking, she directly named the child Rìtóu (Sun Head). Not for anything else, but because this child was the only hope for the entire Liu family, just like the sun that people expect to come out after a heavy rain.

  It was also from then on that Liu's wife no longer allowed anyone to call her daughter-in-law "Liu's daughter-in-law", if they wanted to address her, they could only use her given name Cuihua. If the younger generation saw her, they would only call her Sister Cuihua. She also said that in the future, if she met a suitable family, she would marry off Cuihua as her own daughter and not let her become a widow at a young age for the sake of her son.

  Later, Cuihua expressed her intention, and from then on, she would not go to any other household except the Liu's. She also forbade those younger ones from calling her "sister", instead they had to call her "Cuihua auntie" or "aunt".

  Everyone knew that the Liu family had a good relationship before, and at that time they didn't talk about their own troubles. But since this thing happened, everyone in the village knows about the relationship between Liu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, which is absolutely not ordinary. The daughter-in-law doesn't treat her mother-in-law as a mother-in-law, but truly respects her like a mother, while the mother-in-law also doesn't treat her daughter-in-law as a daughter-in-law, calling her "daughter" in one breath.

  Of course, there are also gossipers who say that the two women are husband-killers. Liu's wife was young when she killed her own husband, and now that she has married a new daughter-in-law, the result is still the same.

  It can be said that these two women are heroes among women. Even if people say so, they still straighten their backs and live a good life, bringing up their children well. Although this life is not as good as those with men at home, it's not bad either. At least they don't go hungry, and the boy who was less than four pounds when he was born is now three years old. It's just that because of his poor foundation, he's a bit listless every day, lacking energy.