"Widow": Beating the mandarin ducks leads to tragedy

In a remote mountain village, Erdan and Hongmei love each other and they make love together. Originally, the two wanted to be husband and wife for life, but their parents did not agree. Due to a misunderstanding, Erdan went out to work, and Hongmei married someone she didn't like, but became a widow when she was just pregnant. Later, in order to send her children to school, Hongmei wanted to remarry, but her daughter was strangled to death. When she was feeling sad and despairing, Erdan appeared. Can she regain happiness?

When Hongmei gave her body to Erdan, Erdan promised to marry her. She naively thought that she could grow old with Erdantou from now on. But when Erdan told his mother that he wanted to marry Hongmei, her mother immediately objected. Because she thinks Hongmei's father is a gambler, and Hongmei will definitely not be a good wife.

Although Erdan knelt down to beg his mother, her mother disagreed and wanted him to marry his childhood sweetheart Xiaoyu. Erdan bravely said that he only liked Hongmei and regarded Xiaoyu as his sister. His words were heard by Xiaoyu, who had just come to his house. She thought it must be Hongmei who seduced Erdan.

So, Xiaoyu came to Hongmei’s house and said that Erdan was getting married. Hongmei thought Erdan was going to marry her, but then Xiaoyu said she was going to marry Erdan soon. She was stunned, and Xiaoyu walked away.

Not knowing what to do, Xiaoyu was wondering whether he should go find Erdan when his father came back. He walked up to Xiaoyu and asked her to marry Murakami's Gouzi, and Xiaoyu responded that she didn't like Gouzi. But his father put it down and said that he had accepted the bride price, and Hongmei had to marry Gouzi regardless of whether she agreed or not.

The reason why Hongmei’s father wants Hongmei to marry Gouzi is because he lost money in gambling again today. It was Gouzi who helped him pay off his gambling debts and gave him a lot of gifts to marry Hongmei. .

Hongmei doesn’t like Gouzi. When her father asked her to give Gouzi corn, she clearly told Gouzi that she already had someone she liked and only regarded Gouzi as her brother. But Gouzi likes Hongmei and wants to marry her immediately. But seeing Erdan looking over not far away, he pretended to understand Hongmei and just wanted to hug her without pestering her, and Hongmei agreed.

Seeing this scene, Erdan believed that Xiaoyu’s statement that Hongmei was going to marry Gouzi was not groundless. He packed his luggage and went out to work. Hongmei could not go against her father's will and had to marry Gouzi.

Because Hongmei Married didn’t like Ergou, she became taciturn after marriage and took care of the housework like a machine. Not long after such days, Gouzi was killed by a falling brick on the construction site, and Hongmei, who had always been silent, cried.

At this time, Hongmei discovered that she was pregnant. Her father ran away because there was no one to help pay his gambling debts, so she could only work in the fields with her belly to make ends meet. So much so that her children were born on the land where they worked.

Children are Hongmei’s only hope. She works hard, hoping that her children won’t have to suffer what she went through. But she is a woman after all. She can barely provide food and clothing for her mother and daughter, but it is difficult for her children to go to school.

The kind-hearted neighbor aunt took pity on her and wanted to help her get married again. It is said that there is an unmarried man of about the same age in a neighboring village. He became a fool because of polio as a child. Now that he has been cured, he wants to marry a wife. He doesn't mind even a woman with children.

Hongmei was still hesitant at first, but when her aunt enlightened her and said that even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your children, she decided to go on a blind date with her aunt.

Although the man on the blind date knew how to work, he kept giggling while looking at Hongmei, which made Hongmei feel uncomfortable. So she made an excuse and said she wanted to go home, but actually she wanted to go home and think about it.

Seeing Hongmei go away, the fool was afraid that his "wife" would never come back. So, he also chased all the way. When he arrived at Murakami, he met Xiaoyu and asked her where Hongmei's house was. Xiaoyu, who originally hated Hongmei, said that Hongmei was married and no longer in the village. She was so anxious that she kept asking where she was married.

Xiaoyu was so entangled that he called him a fool. The fool couldn't bear to hear others call him a fool, so he immediately beat Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu's husband saw this and raised his fist to hit him on the head, causing him to immediately return to his unconscious state.

Hongmei’s daughter saw the fool sleeping on the ground and approached to pull him up.

Unexpectedly, he stretched out his hands and grabbed Hongmei's daughter's throat. When Hongmei heard the sound, her daughter had stopped breathing.

Such a blow left Hongmei alive like a zombie. She was working in the fields that day, and the neighbor's aunt ran all the way to tell her that Erdan was back. Her face regained its luster and she followed her aunt to see Erdan.

Sure enough, Erdan is back, but at this moment Erdan is just passing through the village, and the police are chasing her. In this way, he hugged Hongmei for a while and left. As he walked, he asked Hongmei to wait for him to come back.

Hongmei waited year after year, but she withered before Erdan, because she had been waiting all her life.

The domestic movie "Widows" released in 2015 depicts a pair of young people who are in love and cannot get married because their parents object, and they start a miserable life. Girls became widows and boys fell into trouble with the law.

Such misses are all caused by feudal thinking, which is deeply regrettable. If it weren't for Xiaoyu's deliberate sabotage, the brave boy Erdan would definitely marry Hongmei. In fact, although the starting point of parents' obstruction is for their children, it is counterproductive.