The Little Sister

The Little Sister (1953) Synopsis Yao's husband died when she was 25 years old. She took great pains to raise a son and a daughter. The daughter Yingying was born smart and smart, and the son Jimeng was very filial. After Meng married his wife, the couple had a good relationship, but Yao, who had feudal ideas, was not happy about this. Mr. Yao was very partial and loved his daughter like the apple of his eye, but he regarded his daughter-in-law as a thorn in his side and often beat and scolded her for nothing. One day, the daughter-in-law served breakfast to her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law said critically that the rice she cooked lacked salt and sauce and was unappetizing. She deliberately made things difficult for her daughter-in-law and asked her to make 86 kinds of rice immediately for her to choose from. The daughter-in-law really couldn't do it, so Yao used the excuse that her daughter-in-law was deliberately going against her, so he picked up a whip and beat her. At this time, her daughter Yingying happened to come into the house and quickly persuaded her to make another bowl of noodles for her mother. Seeing that her sister-in-law's cooking was good, Yingying took the bowl of noodles out of the room, walked around it, and brought it back in again. Mrs. Yao thought it was really her daughter who made it, and kept praising it as she ate it. After dinner, Mr. Yao found fault with his wife again. He thought the yard she swept was not clean and the soles of her shoes were not tidy. Yingying was afraid that her mother would blame her sister-in-law again, so she said that she was responsible for sweeping the yard and collecting shoe soles. Yao immediately turned from anger to joy and praised his...