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#moral dilemma #ethical dilemma #sexual abuse
Welcome to Su’s Podcast.

There’s a saying in most Asian countries, “filial piety is the most important virtues of all.” We show our respects to our parents and to people who are older than us. However, for people who are born poor, sometimes they don’t have a choice....

Today, I'm gonna talk about this proverb-Yi mian shi gou, yi mian shi zun, with Aunt Rouzhong’s story.

Yi mian shi gou, yi mian shi zun, is used to describe someone who is in a dilemma.

I’m inviting you guys to leave a comment or thoughts of whether you guys think Aunt Rouzhong should follow the filial piety.

(Here goes the story...)

Seagulls were soaring in the sky. Ning-ah focused on her job collecting sea melon seeds for selling them later at the market. She tried to collect more during the ebb tide.

Ning-ah touched her belly. This is her first kid.

Together with Ning-ah is Aunt Ah-zhu. Aunt Ah-zhu was shouting to Ning-ah. She’s getting far away from the coast. Aunt Ah-zhu wanted her to stay closer.

Ning-ah was Aunt Rouzhong’s mom. She married the only son of Xu Xiu-cai, Ah-qu.


Xu family was the prosperous family of the town. Everyone there knew them because most of the land was owned by the Xu family. If the villagers needed some farm land, most of the time, they’re gonna deal with the Xu family. Xu Xiu-cai is a businessman. He knew how to get the most profit out of these. He’s well-educated and smart. He’s self-assertive, and he’s obnoxious.

Ah-qu, took full advantage of being the son of Xu Xiu-cai. He didn’t need to work. And, he was not guilty at all using his dad’s money. He’s always the one who eats first. He didn’t like to study. He didn’t even know how to write. All villagers in town knew about this. They talked about him, laughed at him, when he’s not around. No girls in town wanted to marry him.

Xu Xiu-cai hired a matchmaker for his son. They found Ning-ah. Her family were really in need of money at that time. Xu Xiu-cai thought a marriage could make Ah-qu a more responsible man.


Actually, Ah-qu was an addicted gambler. He gambled day and night. He lost most of the family money. However, Xu Xiu-cai didn’t know that the money that Ah-qu owned was too significant to cover.

Xu Xiu-cai sometimes got upset with himself. Because of him, his son grew up spoiled. Luckily, he was happy that his daughter-in-law behaved better than he expected. Soon after his son's marriage, he passed away.

Ning-ah watched Ah-qu lose all the money. She thought maybe it’s time moving to Gaoxiong, Taiwan. One, for Ah-qu’s own sake. Taking him away from gambling life that he used to have. Two, for more job opportunities. It’s better than doing nothing, she thought to herself.

Ning-ah arranged a simple funeral for her father-in-law. She told Ah-qu that she got a job reference from a relative in Gaoxiong. They should move there, Ning-ah suggested. Ah-qu didn’t care much about the job, yet he agreed. Because he believed he’s gonna have much more fun if they moved to this new place, Taiwan.

They migrated to Taiwan in the 7th year of Mingguo, in the year of 1918.

(break)

After Japanese left Taiwan in 1945, that’s when Aunt Rouzhong was born. Ning-ah gave birth to 12 children, six died at a very young age. She’s got six children to raise, Aunt Rouzhong was one of them. Ah-qu lived up his life everyday. He didn’t care about the family. Ning-ah knew she had to take on the responsibilities. In the early morning, she had to be at the bay of Xi-zi, collecting sea melon seeds. Next, she harvested vegetables. And, she would carry this shoulder pole loaded with sea melon seeds and vegetables, selling them all the way to Xiaogang. Sometimes, she also bought batches of goods to sell for a better price at the Xiaogang market.


Ning-ah had a lot on her plate. She was dead tired. One night, she made a yam congee with fish and vegetables that weren’t sold that day.

Aunt Rouzhong pointed to the sweet potatoes, asking her mom,

Is this all we got? Can we have some rice? Some actual rice?

Ning-ah pinched her cheek hard. Ning-ah couldn’t hold her temper, and yelled, “Just eat it.”

That night, Ning-ah was tossing and turning the whole night. She didn’t feel like going to work the next day. However, the whole family relied on her, economically. Children would starve for nights if she didn’t work. She got up…
Her market neighbor, Qing-ah, who sold meat for living, died of lung cancer recently. People at the market were chit chatting....

“Poor Qing-ah… He died too young. God knows what’s gonna happen to his wife and his two children...”

Ning-ah was there listening. She had tears in her eyes. She had all these thoughts kept to herself...

People show sympathy towards a widow with children. And me? What about me? My husband is able-bodied. He’s born healthy, tall, and he looked neat. Nonetheless, he’s not working. If he gets any money, he spends it on girls. He’s useless. It’s been years, and I could only suffer in silence. I am helpless.


(Same time. At home.)
Things were worse. He was a monster. When he had no money to buy girls, he laid fingers on his own daughters. He took advantage of them when Ning-ah was not around.

?“Let’s see what we’ve got here..”
?“No, stop, I don’t want it...”
?“No… No…”

Daughter wailed. She curled up her body, trembling in the corner of the house.

Later, even when Ning-ah found out about this, there was no way to stop this monster...
The story of the poor just went on and on...


Thank you for listening. This is Su’s Podcast.

This story is fictional. Any similarity is purely coincidental.



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