Chapter 53 Chapter 53 (Updated) Speaking of stupidity, the stupidest one...
"What the hell are you doing, old man? You should have fallen asleep so late at night..."
Before Old Lady Wang finished her words, she heard rustling sounds coming from inside the house. A few seconds later, the door was opened and Jiang Nannan, wearing a coat, stood at the door. She curled her lips slightly and asked, "Grandpa, what do you want to talk to me about?"
"It's quiet under the camphor tree in the outer courtyard. Let's go there and talk." Old Man Jiang chose a place.
He knew that the eldest and fourth sons' families were thinking of moving out, but he felt that if the family was crowded together, even a little secret could be easily overheard by others, which would then become a handle for others to use against them.
He felt the same way, so when it came to important matters, he would rather stay in the alley in the cold wind than stay at home and be overheard.
The camphor trees in the outer courtyard are planted at the crossroads, where they are not close to high walls and cannot be eavesdropped on.
Jiang Nannan didn't hesitate, "Okay, I'll get the oil lamp."
After a while, the two grandchildren came out of the yard carrying an oil lamp. Old Mrs. Wang wanted to follow them but was glared at by Old Man Jiang. She could only pout and stand there.
"Mom, what did Dad call Jiang Nannan to do?" Jiang Qing also got up. She was still a little sleepy and forced herself to open her eyes to ask. She had never seen her father care so much about his granddaughter Jiang Nannan before. She was curious about what they talked about, but no matter how curious she was, she did not follow them.
She was not stupid. She could see that her father took them to the alley to talk because he didn't want them to hear. Even if she followed them, she would be chased back. Instead of braving the cold wind, she might as well give up.
"How would I know?" Old Lady Wang snorted. "Your father's temper has become more and more strange. He has often complained about me being stupid. But how smart can he be? If I had known, I would have married the boy next door. He has become a skilled worker and earns tens of yuan a month. Unlike your father, he has no skills and still scolds people."
A lot of complaints, but the voice is very quiet.
Obviously she was afraid of being heard by the old man. Although her old man didn't hit people, he had a very bad temper when he got violent and no one could stand it.
"It's just a few dozen dollars, what's the use of it?" Jiang Qing looked down on it.
Old Lady Wang rolled her eyes at her. "That's all. Can you give me a few dozen bucks? I'm not saying anything bad, but when you get married, you should live in the Fang family. Don't stay at your parents' house every day. You'll just make people laugh at you."
I got married and got the marriage certificate.
But there was no wedding banquet, and the son-in-law did not come to visit, so people around her had already been gossiping about her. It had been such a long time since the marriage, but Jiang Qing stayed at home every day and had never been to her in-laws' house. The gossip was getting louder and louder, and every time she took a few steps out of the house, people would stop her and ask her about her.
"Isn't your daughter married? Why is she still staying at her parents' home?"
"Are you not satisfied with the family she married into? Your ideas are unacceptable. How can a girl not go out after getting married?"
"Is there any hidden danger in your Jiang Qing, and that family found out and kicked him out?"
There were so many similar words that she cursed back at them at first, but as the number of them increased, even if she was dry-mouthed, she couldn't stop so many people.
At first, Old Lady Wang didn't like her lame son-in-law.
But what can I do now that I'm married? I can't really hold her back like outsiders say. My family is short of food and clothing now, so I can't support Jiang Qing for the rest of her life, right?
Now she and the old man only have the five yuan a month given by the old family, which is barely enough for them. With the addition of Jiang Qing, they really have to tighten their belts to make ends meet.
Another point is that the old lady was definitely a treasure in her heart.
But the baby only wanted to empty her family's wealth. He had stolen money from her so many times that he couldn't count how many times. This was the last bit of savings for her and her husband. How could she still like the old lady? She had already disliked her in her heart.
"I'm not going to Fang's house." Jiang Qing pouted. "You don't know the environment where he lives. There's just a shed between two high walls. The wind blows and it leaks when it rains. There are also two paralyzed elderly people in the house who can't walk. The smell is terrible."
She really didn't know how Jiang Nannan could endure it in her previous life.
Anyway, she doesn't want to suffer this injustice.
"What's the point of complaining now? Who told you to get married to him without even telling him?" Old Mrs. Wang said unhappily. She got angry when she saw her indifferent look. When she wanted to continue nagging, she was startled by Jiang Qing's next words.
“So I’m planning to get a divorce.”
"What?!" Old Mrs. Wang exclaimed, as if she didn't understand what she said.
How could I possibly understand?
It's been less than half a month since we got married and we're already talking about divorce.
If this gets out, will the Jiang family still be able to live as human beings?
"No, no, you are confused. How can marriage be so important..."
"Mom!" Jiang Qing interrupted her, looked around to make sure no one was around, and then pulled the person to a corner. She whispered, "Do you know why I knew so well where the pork in the slaughterhouse was hidden?"
"Didn't you say it? It was just a dream." Old Lady Wang shook off her hand. She was still a little angry because she felt that the old lady was hiding something from her. She felt sorry for the fact that the old lady had always considered her in everything for so many years, but she still hid something from her mother.
"I really didn't lie to you." Jiang Qing thought this excuse was ridiculous at the time, but now she thinks it can be used as an excuse to explain other things. "I not only dreamed about where the pork was hidden, I also dreamed about other things. Do you know why I wanted to marry Ma Jian so much?"
"Why?" Old Mrs. Wang was also very curious.
No matter how I look at it, I don't think Ma Jian is a good candidate, but I don't know what's wrong with Jiang Qing that she falls for this divorced man with a baby. Although he is an electrician, his ability is not that great. He looks barely decent, but he is so old that I can't see any particularly obvious advantages in him.
"That's because I dreamed about him. He will be very rich in ten years and can earn this much money in a year." Jiang Qing said this while pointing a finger at Old Lady Wang.
"one thousand?"
"How can it be only one thousand? It's ten thousand!" Jiang Qing just finished speaking, and saw her mother's eyes widened suddenly. In fact, it was not just ten thousand? Ma Jian's earnings in the future would be hundreds of thousands, millions, or even hundreds of millions, but she knew that if she said the amount was too high, her mother would not believe it.
One hundred thousand is out of reach for them.
But if it’s 10,000, I’ll definitely start to do the math in my mind.
Just as Jiang Qing had expected, Old Lady Wang counted on her fingers, but she couldn't figure it out. She was sure that even if their entire family worked together for ten or twenty years, they might not be able to earn 10,000 yuan.
She couldn't help swallowing, "Can he really make that much?!"
"How could I lie to you?" Jiang Qing felt that her mother would definitely believe this because she was extremely feudal and superstitious. Otherwise, in her previous life, her mother would not have secretly gone to the temple to draw lots just because she was going to marry Cheng Jin. If she was caught, she would be sent directly to the police station.
It's because I believe in it so much that I'm willing to take the risk.
"I will marry Fang Shuiping just to avoid being sent to the countryside. I will definitely not go to the Fang family and suffer all my life. I have to marry Ma Jian no matter what." Jiang Qing pulled Old Lady Wang's hand, acting like a spoiled child, "Mom, you must help me. As long as I marry Ma Jian, I can live a good life. I will definitely take care of you and dad until the end of your life, let you live in a big house, and eat delicious food every day to make sure you are full!"
Jiang Qing wanted to ask for help here, as some things are really difficult to do alone.
If there is one more person to help, it would not be a big help, but it would be nice to have someone standing at the door to keep watch.
Outside the alley, Old Man Jiang also wanted to ask for help.
Perhaps he really saw the current situation clearly and understood that all his sons were unreliable. In order to avoid being starved or frozen to death in the future, he could only lower his posture. After a sincere speech of surrender, he lowered his head and continued: "I promise you, as long as you decide, I will definitely convince the other people in the family to cooperate with you. After all, we are a family and we are connected by bones. We definitely hope that you will get better and better. If you can spare the energy, help your family."
After finishing speaking, Old Man Jiang was still a little uneasy. There were indeed a lot of people in the Jiang family, but none of them could take on the responsibility.
He was really afraid that Jiang Nannan would refuse.
So after I finished speaking, I glanced at her from time to time, anxiously waiting for a response.
"Sure."
"You really agreed?" Old Man Jiang suddenly shouted.
He didn't expect Jiang Nannan to agree so quickly. She agreed to his surrender in just a few seconds. He poked his hand happily and said, "Then tell me what we should do?"
"Don't worry, let me think about it first." Jiang Nannan whispered soothingly. Both her expression and tone were particularly friendly, as if the two of them really were a grandparent and grandchild with a very good relationship.
She even held onto Old Man Jiang's arm and said, "It's too late today. Let's take a good rest. I'll let you know when I have made plans for other things."
"Okay, okay, I'll do as you say." Old man Jiang narrowed his eyes and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Among so many people in the Jiang family, only Jiang Shuangshuang and Jiang Nannan seem promising.
But compared to Jiang Shuangshuang, he still prefers to deal with Jiang Nannan. Although Jiang Nannan's methods are somewhat dishonorable, at least she can give people a chance to speak. Unlike Jiang Shuangshuang, every time his grandfather speaks, she smiles, and if she is unhappy, she will roll up her sleeves and beat his grandson.
Even if I wanted to talk nicely, I couldn't.
Unlike Jiang Nannan, she still remembers the kindness of the Jiang family. Besides, she does have some means, although they are not very glorious, but as long as she doesn't use them on her own family, what does it matter?
It's a good thing for them to have means.
Thinking this way, he became happier and happier. On the way home, he kept emphasizing, "Don't worry, I will make sure everyone at home cooperates with you. In the future, you don't have to do anything at home. For example, you can let Yaoyao do the laundry and cooking..."
He was chattering non-stop and didn't notice the sarcastic smile on Jiang Nannan's face at all.
Do you really think that if she can control them, she will be so powerful that she can lead them to great wealth and glory and move forward?
It's a joke.
If she had such powerful abilities, how could she live in the small Jiang family? She would have found a way to stay away from them long ago, and it would be best if she never had any contact with them again for the rest of her life.
The reason why I can only stay in the Jiang family.
It's because her ability is only enough to deal with people from the Jiang family.
The old man thought too highly of her and didn't take seriously the suffering she had endured in the Jiang family before.
It was precisely because she didn't take it seriously and thought it was just a small matter that she thought it could be put to rest with just a few words from him, which made her put all her efforts into making the Jiang family better and better.
Jiang Nannan bit her lip. If she hadn't tried her best to hold back, she would have laughed out loud. What he thought was too simple and too beautiful.
He curses others for being useless, but why doesn't he think about that those are his children, his grandchildren. If he, as an elder, didn't fail to educate them, how could they be living like this?
Speaking of stupid people, the stupidest one should be old man Jiang.
But it doesn't matter. They are rushing to beg her, how can she refuse?
This time she wasn't secretly taking advantage of them.
Instead, they begged her to use them. Even if they were idiots, they could still be useful to her. She had to think carefully about what to do next.
…
Jiang Shuangshuang has been quite free these two days.
It didn't take long for her to become an old hand at the job. While others were knitting sweaters and chatting, she was sitting at the table doing her personal things.
In order to apply the knowledge learned from the library, I did not continue tinkering with the bicycle with Grandpa Zhou these two days. Instead, I wrote and drew on the drawing paper, drawing each small accessory on the drawing with precise dimensions.
At this time, Xiong Ping sighed: "Tell me, why would someone want to get a divorce out of the blue? Everyone has their own life, and is getting a divorce good for you?"
"Who is thinking about divorce?"
"My relative." Xiong Ping looked at Jiang Shuangshuang. "Xiao Jiang knows that it's Hu Dahai's second daughter, Hu Can. Everything was fine before, but suddenly she wanted a divorce."
Jiang Shuangshuang raised her head when she heard her name.
After thinking about it, I remembered who Hu Can was.
Others also thought of it. It's not that Hu Can is so popular that everyone knows him, but the name Hu Dahai is so famous that few people don't know him.
If we go back a few decades, the land under their feet all belonged to the Hu family, who were the biggest landlords in their area. It is possible that their ancestors were tenants of the Hu family a few decades ago.
"I heard you mention before that she married well, right? Why is she suddenly asking for a divorce?"
"That's right." Xiong Ping sighed, "I don't understand what she is thinking. She really thinks marriage is just a game of house, and she can get married and divorced at will."
"That's not necessarily true." Director Wang frowned. "You are not her, so how do you know whether she is living a good life after marriage? She must really be unable to make ends meet, otherwise who would be willing to bear the name of a divorce?"
"That's right. Only you know whether you are living a good life or not." An older woman beside her smiled bitterly and shook her head. "Take me for example. I only report good news to my parents but not bad news. But they have no idea what kind of life I am living. If it weren't for the sake of my children, I would have wanted a divorce."
Xiong Ping thought for a moment and said, "You guys do have some sense. I'll go to the Hu family after get off work and ask Hu Can what's going on..."
"Oh no! Oh no!"
Before Xiong Ping finished her words, a person rushed in from outside, shouting, "Someone is using a knife again in the slaughterhouse, whoever that is, hurry over and persuade them!"
After she finished shouting, she set her sights on the person sitting by the window sill, and rushed to the window sill, bypassing Director Wang who had come to ask about the situation. "Comrade, hurry up, or there will be blood!"
Jiang Shuangshuang raised her eyebrows, "I'll go?"
The old woman nodded immediately, "Of course you have to go, otherwise how can you persuade them! Those cowards in the security department are useless, they can't even stop a few pig butchers!"
Director Wang behind her was both amused and confused. She didn't see the scene last time, but she also heard Xiong Ping talking over and over again about how powerful Comrade Xiao Jiang was.
With his own strength, he forced those old men to shut up.
Now, some people have even gone to the street office to find Comrade Xiao Zhang and try to persuade him. Obviously, anyone with a discerning eye knows who can really persuade him.
"Okay, Xiao Jiang, come with me." Director Wang made the arrangements directly. It was better to see it with her own eyes than to hear more. This time, she had to follow him no matter what. "Xiong Ping, you watch over here."
"Okay." Xiong Ping nodded. She actually wanted to go with them, but there was nothing she could do because the office had to be guarded by senior employees.
Jiang Shuangshuang could only put away the drawings on the table and leave the street office.
It has been several days since the last time I appeared on the scene.
Except for the first day which seemed particularly busy, the other days were as leisurely as possible. Take the sweater in Sister Xiong's hand for example, she had already knitted more than half of it in just a few days, and she was paid for it!
It's enough to show how leisurely it is.
On the way there, Director Wang asked, "What happened at the slaughterhouse? I was wondering why your factory is always restless. We have made many complaints to the street office. If you continue to make such a fuss, you will definitely not be included in this year's evaluation."
"Well, we have no hope." The old woman was not in a hurry at all. "The pork theft incident was such a big deal. Even if the culprit has been caught, it will not be their turn to be evaluated.
It would be better to hold a few more events this year and strive for awards next year.
"..." Director Wang immediately understood what the other party meant.
A dead pig is not afraid of boiling water and will lie flat.
Anyway, she couldn't be judged, so it didn't matter whether she made a scene or not. She said helplessly, "That's fine, so why did you make a scene this time?"
"It's Hu Dahai's family. His daughter married into an electric machinery factory. She was clamoring for a divorce a few days ago. At first, Hu Dahai advised Hu Can not to be so petty. He even secretly called his second son-in-law and his family to persuade her to go back. Who knew..."
The old woman snorted heavily, "That damned Lu family is nothing. They despised Hu Can for not being able to have children, and the whole family beat and scolded her. If Hu Can's brother hadn't seen the injuries on her body when they were pulling her, she wouldn't have known that she was being bullied."
How could Hu Dahai, an old father who loved both his son and his daughter, tolerate seeing his daughter being bullied?
He immediately took out a pig-killing knife and chopped at the people from the Lu family.
Director Wang took a deep breath and asked, "Did Hu Dahai hurt someone?"
"...That's not the case." The old woman's eyes rolled around. After all, Hu Dahai was from the slaughterhouse, and to outsiders, he was one of their own. If Hu Dahai really had the upper hand, she would definitely not come to report it. She would definitely wait until the Hu family gave the Lu family a good beating to vent their anger before doing anything else.
Normally, Hu Dahai and his son are both strong and sturdy, and with the help of a few pig killers around them, it is not easy for them to be bullied as a team, otherwise the people from the security department would not have been so helpless against them last time.
But this will...
I met a tough guy.
Otherwise, she would not have gone to the street office to find Comrade Jiang. Isn't this just looking for someone to support the slaughterhouse?
The old woman spoke haltingly, but at least she made the whole story clear.
But it was too clear. Jiang Shuangshuang wrinkled her face when she heard it. She said in disbelief, "Are you asking me to persuade them to stop fighting or to fight?"
So instead of asking her to persuade them to stop fighting, the idea was to ask her to join them?
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