Fourth Aunt
by He Hulin
About This Novel
The fourth aunt was beaten by the stupid donkey of the fourth uncle all her life, like a stone pestle pounding oatmeal. The fourth aunt said, blame yourself for being stupid, otherwise why would you call yourself a stupid donkey and be tortured for the rest of your life? In the mouths of outsiders, the story is different. In our hometown, when the fifth daughter-in-law was mentioned in the early years, people would open their eyes and be startled: "That piece of shit? What can I say, it's almost as bad as the stone pot in Miaowan!" This made the relatives of my grandpa's family very embarrassed. Everyone stayed away from each other and didn't even want to say that they were relatives of grandpa's family. In fact, they are all excuses. My grandfather's family, like mine, was one of the four wealthy gentry in the county before liberation. There are four jingles that were circulated in our county in the past, and they are still reverberating to this day. He said, "In Guo, Dongchuan, there are more cattle and sheep than turtles at home. The king of Xishan came to ask for a bucket of grain. In Lilu, in the north, there were peaches and plums on the ingot tree. In Han, in the south, Cixi borrowed money to escape.
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