novelraw Chapter 673
Chapter 673
"Plum, do you really have to marry him?"
"My master said that I must get married this year, otherwise, I have no suitable person for my father and mother. He is the only one left."
After her sister-in-law told her that Ma Lu and she started to work together in order to have a city registered permanent residence, Liu Mei's expectation of this marriage dropped to zero.
"Do you believe everything your master says? How can you still be superstitious in this age?"
"I wavered before, but two days ago my brother called me and told me that my father was ill again, so was my adoptive father, even my adoptive father's dog."
For the sake of her master's prophecy, she still wanted to be patient, so she wanted to get married first.
"If I remember correctly, you said your adoptive father's dog had been kept for more than ten years?" Xiaoqian is speechless. Does it mean that the dog died?
"Although I'm old, how come it's not too late or too early, when I break up? My master is right. My life is too hard. Not only my parents, but also the dog. "
"Your feudal superstitious master, I'll deal with her later." Xiaoqian has resented this legendary master for a long time. It's the old lady who left meiguai pit!
"What did you say, sister-in-law?" Liu Mei didn't hear clearly.
"I said that since people are here, we should treat them well."
Xiaoqian knows that Liumei's insistence on getting married has something to do with her teacher's psychological suggestion. Her teacher suggests Liumei in the same way that Xiaoqian suggests Ye Daqian. She says that if Liumei doesn't get married, the family will have bad luck. But Liumei's parents really have an accident. Liumei believes her teacher's words and firmly believes that she wants to get married to relieve the family's disaster.
Fortune tellers often say two things, which makes people feel that what they say is true. They make a long time limit and give a probabilistic prediction. For example, her master says that Liumei will not get married, and her family will have bad luck. Liumei must not believe it at first.
But just at that time, something happened to her family. Even if she didn't have this prediction, she would get sick or fracture. But because of that prediction, she thought it was very effective. This phenomenon was determined by probability.
There is another thing that almost everyone has seen, which has something to do with it, that is, confinement.
Many people firmly believe that some traditional customs during confinement are good for women, such as don't brush your teeth, don't take a bath and so on. In the old people's oral tradition, these vulgar customs of confinement are passed down to be miraculous, no matter how many doctors come forward to explain.
The level of estrogen will rise during confinement. Some puerpera will change into gestational gingivitis. Failure to brush their teeth will lead to oral infection, gingival atrophy and even tooth loss. Some puerpera will have puerperal infection because of active sweat gland secretion. But many people still believe this.
No matter how doctors and authorities come forward to popularize science, they can't resist the old man's prophecy that they are not obedient to the truth. When they get old, they will be guilty. Sometimes, some pregnant women will be confused. If they don't do that, they won't get sick? The old man will seriously say, you wait until you are old!
Many examples will be given. Who's daughter-in-law, when she's in confinement, when she's old, and a few years after she gives birth to her baby? Even if she doesn't brush her teeth or wash her hair, she won't suffer from certain diseases in the next few decades?
It's ridiculous to blame some illness decades later on some behavior in the confinement a few decades ago, but this is a true psychological portrayal of many people, which is similar to what Liu Mei thinks now.
Liumei is an open-minded girl Xiaoqian has met. Her personality is straightforward and flexible. But she is too tied to her family and cares too much about her parents. So her master caught hold of this and left a threat similar to the prediction of confinement to frighten Liumei. The child believed that she had to marry a scum man. This kind of psychology is explained by Xiaoqian professionally, which is the "Barnum effect" in psychology. The simple explanation is that if you want to believe something, you will find all kinds of arguments to support your own evidence. Even if it is irrelevant, you can also get involved in it. The more you believe it, the more you believe it, the more you feel reasonable!
To deal with Liu Mei's "Barnum effect" caused by her teacher's psychological suggestion at the moment, Xiaoqian decides to fight poison with poison. She also gives a psychological suggestion, but she doesn't believe it. Her distinguished doctor of Psychology (highest degree in previous life) can't be an old fortune teller?
Xiaoqian has a way in her heart. She confidently goes to the kitchen. Liumei watches her go to the kitchen. She is scared and roars.
"What are you doing, sister-in-law?"
Under the publicity of Mingming, everyone around Xiaoqian knows that Qian is always a kitchen idiot.
This voice not only called Xiaoqian stopped, but also called the next door is connected to the eavesdropper's yellow hair a card cover ears.
Mom, what are you doing with such a loud voice? I almost broke my ears!
"Sister in law, tell me what you want to eat! You must not go into the kitchen Liu Mei said in horror.
She has a serious shadow over Xiaoqian's blasting behavior in the microwave oven.
"I'll make a pot of tea." This is the prop Xiaoqian wanted to give Liumei a psychological hint.
"I'll boil the water!"
"Why are you like your brother Lang? Make a fuss, I don't even know how to burn water. Don't worry, I've thought about the process, and I won't make a mistake. I'll put rock sugar, chrysanthemum and dried Chinese wolfberry and longan in the pot first, then put the glass pot into the microwave oven and drink it in a few minutes! "
"You'd better sit and wait. I'll do it."
Liumei pushes Xiaoqian back. She goes into the kitchen and does it by herself. She's really convinced her sister-in-law that she doesn't need to use the microwave to make tea when she has a kettle. Who taught her this skill?
Xiaoqian is quite aggrieved. She feels good about herself and has tried many ways to make tea. She thinks it's the safest and most convenient. Why does Liumei dislike her so much?
The yellow hair aka across the wall is really listening with a bug.
The boss called.
"Is she all right?"
"It's very good. I've just moved here. I'm going to meet her again in school tomorrow. It's estimated that I won't be in her small group for long."
"Well, take care of her. I'll call you this month's salary."
"Boss, I just heard something funny. It seems that Chen Xiaoqian can't cook. She always makes tea in the microwave oven. Ha ha ha! How cute
"You think it's funny to make tea in the microwave?"
Why is the boss's voice so cold? Huang Mao suddenly had a kind of foreboding, sure enough
"I've decided to deduct your salary for a week."
"For Mao!"
"Next month's ink will be deducted." F starts and K ends, evil capitalist! Aka put up his middle finger and speechless Pooh to the phone.
It's not a video phone, so aka didn't see the boss turn on the microwave oven with gloves after he hung up the phone, and take out a ceramic cup with hot tea.
"You don't need a microwave oven to make tea. Do you still use cold water?" the man sniffed the fragrance of tea and thought about Xiaoqian on the other side of the ocean. His heart was warm.