
When Yang Guiha returned home to her birth home, Kiki spoke to Ling Jin as the two of them went to the fields.
Today a schedule for harvesting grain will be carried out, and this is constantly done until all things in the field are successfully harvested and stored properly.
After drying and so on, these grains will be stored, then at the not so long time, everything will be sent and weighed to the grain collection station in the county town.
After the handover, the rest can only be counted and given to the villagers according to the points they have produced in the time of planting until this harvest.
So, imagine how much the citizens can get at that time. And that is what must be saved to wait for the next harvest time.
"Girl Kiki," he said, "Fang Xionan is not in the village. Do you know where he went?" ask aunt Hong who some time ago is back to actively open talks with Kiki.
Kiki shook her head and said, "Auntie, I don't know anything, but do I have to find out about her?"
"Hey, what's wrong with you young people? Obviously he is your partner. Oh, don't tell me she left because you turned her down a few times when your relationship was this close," said aunt Qin who was also curious.
"Auntie, your thoughts and mine are different. Obviously I said I was too young to think about relationship issues. After all, he was an adult man who also had his own thoughts, maybe he was going to go for the wind right," said Kiki who was directly in yes by Ling Jin.
"Auntie, Kiki wants to live her life in safety and peace no matter what others think. Although it sounds a little strange, but I agree with what he thinks. If we can live happily, then why should we manage the thinking problems of others" Ling Jin said
"Ckckck, it's a good thing that only the two of you think so. If all the young people think the same, our village has long been the lip of another village" Wan's aunt said gruntingly
"Yes, I'm just confused where you can get such an idea. We were also once young, but never as strange-minded as you guys" aunt Hong said.
"Yes, Fang Xionan is indeed a naughty young man, but that was before. Now he is good, handsome, diligent, oh also strong right? I think that change is also closely related to the Kiki girl. So, Kiki, you should be happy to change such a man for the better."
Kiki did not know what to answer.
Should she cry and beg for marriage if a man tries to be nice to her? If everyone's thinking was like that, so how many men would she have to marry in this lifetime?
Weird, right?
An ideology that is difficult to change. But Kiki also could not accept such an ideology.
"Marriage just because it is hugged in front of people is not the marriage I want to live. I want to marry a man who doesn't just like me but appreciates me" said Kiki, half-whispered but still heard by aunts.
"Girl Kiki, you're not a mother yet, so your mind isn't very mature. The husband's house is our last home for women. After marriage we should serve the husband and give them a fat boy. Ahh, just look at me, I have given birth to three sons and 1 daughter in vain right, aunt happy now."
After such a word fell, everyone, all the aunts present there, said almost the same. They said they used to get married based on parents and matchmaker words.
Unlike marriage now which he said, based on free love, can divorce and so on. Although there is nothing said to be love, but obviously the marriage of people in the past there was no divorce.
"Yes, it's fine, just because the woman has to endure the heart and suffering" Kiki thought inwardly.
"But aunt Wan, I heard you had a fight yesterday with a daughter-in-law at home. Even your daughter-in-law had miscarried because she was beaten often," said Kiki who immediately said something that happened at aunt Wan's house.
This aunt has always been strict in her home and also did beatings on some of the daughters-in-law who were at home.
His son also never defended his wife but always let her intimidate their wives there. According to them, it was natural to want the daughter-in-law to obey the in-laws.
But for Kiki who once lived in the 21st century, saying it was a KDRT and it was not natural at all.
"Auntie was once a daughter-in-law too and mother-in-law did the same. This is a teaching so that the sons-in-law know how to take care of the house and how to respect the parents. If not, how can they teach their children in the future."
Jamb...
What makes Kiki smell, almost all aunts say the same thing, it's natural and this is fine.
They even consider Kiki as an unworthy person to be the future daughter-in-law in their home.
How could a daughter-in-law possibly go against her in-laws. If he is not married, he is not obedient, especially married, right?
Actually, the aunts didn't mean to patronize, but this is what happened to most houses and families in these villages in the '70s.
If someone makes money, then the money will be put into the family coffers, and it is the duty of the mother-in-law or the most poured-in in the family, how to divide it.
So, mothers-in-law have their own prestige in their homes.
If they cannot describe daughters-in-law, then their integrity as mother-in-law will also be questioned.
Can Kiki, a little girl, change the way they view the ideology they have developed since birth?
The answer is impossible.
Thinking like that, Kiki no longer revealed his strangeness to their ideology and let them chirp like an inexhaustible dove.
"A girl will never be valuable in her own family home. But when he is married and able to give birth to a fat boy, then he can be said to succeed in life, right?"
"Yes, that's how we are women. So, Kiki, our real womanly duty is to follow the orders of your parents and the Matchmaker, only then will you be happy and find your true husband's home."
Kiki only wanted to sneer in her heart, but she could not reveal her on the surface.
"Married in that way is just putting yourself down. Well if I can give birth to a boy, but what if I give birth to a daughter. Ahh, whereas the woman and the man are both our own children, of our own flesh, but the elders never considered the baby girl a child, instead thinking it was a debt," kiki thought to heart.
Looking at Kiki who no longer speaks, they assume Kiki has agreed with what they say and think Kiki can still be straightened out with his previously crooked thoughts.
"Yes girl, don't think if it's your home your true home is your husband's house only then will you get true happiness"
Kiki could hold back their conversation but they said the house she had bought with her own sweat was not actually hers.
What the fuck.
"Auntie, it wasn't me who said but the supreme leader said if women were also able to lift half the sky.The leader clearly said women were also valuable. if aunty still denies it so aunty does not deny me but denies the leader. If this matter is heard by outsiders then you may be taken to the police station" Kiki said.
Most people in the '70s thought so. A woman, even though she can make money, basically it still belongs to her husband. Including if they can afford to buy a house like Kiki is doing right now.
Is Kiki stupid, to want to give his efforts to the man who just entered his life on the grounds of marriage.
This is impossible.
Aunt Hong first frowned and straightened her waist as she said."Kiki, aunt didn't say the leader was wrong, but this is what happened. If you get married, then you'll stay at your husband's house, won't you. This is why auntie said it wasn't your house. Okay, so don't get me wrong until you want to take this matter to the police station."
"Auntie, I don't misunderstand, but I don't understand why you're discrediting women. Did you forget that your aunt is a woman too? What did the aunt say earlier if a woman could give birth to a fat boy, then she could be said to be successful in life, but if giving birth to a daughter was a debt? My aunt is a woman. Did when aunt gave birth to auntie feel any difference about her pain? Whatever the gender, the pain of giving birth remains the same. That aunt is still our blood, still our flesh, so what makes her different?"
When Kiki said that, the aunts grumbled, even though they honestly admitted it.
Kiki who did not accept the ideology and was already angry immediately said."In my opinion, husband and wife must bear the risk if they are together, not only must they understand each other, but also must help each other in any case. Maybe aunty would think strange, but to me it was natural that my future husband would help me do laundry or do the dishes at home. It will not demean the husband, but it will increase his admiration in my eyes as a wife" said Kiki who threw a hand and immediately went to take over his job again.
He did not care about the thoughts of others, but suddenly that day he returned to being a gossip and a byword in Qingyuan village.
"She said her husband had to do the dishes and do the laundry at home? I've been married for years but never thought there would be a woman who thinks that."
This is what older women talk about if they do not have a job at lunch break.
At that time Kiki had already returned to her home and did not care about the rumors outside.
But this is only spreading and Kiki's reputation as the least deserving girl to be a daughter-in-law is getting more intense.
"She will not marry but will recruit the husband into her own house even her husband will be asked to wash the same sweeping clothes sweeping the house and may even be told to cook as well, she said, who is that unlucky guy?"
"I didn't expect if he dared to think like that? obviously he's not afraid of not being able to get married."
Kiki no longer responded to the thoughts of others but she was angry because this happened because of Fang xionan's irresponsibility by going without news.