Lu Jiangting said, "I won't be the one to take care of her forever. Fang Qing called me this time because Chenchen is too ill. She said she would not live if Chenchen got sick. She is a country girl with little education. She was like a headless fly in a big hospital. She didn't know where to go. Oh, she couldn't even read a thermometer."

"Ah? Really? You teach her."

"I taught him for more than an hour but he still couldn't learn it."

"..."

"Why are you so stupid?"

"I've heard she's from the mountains, her family favors boys over girls, and she wasn't allowed to go to primary school." Having said this he paused, sighing and shaking his head.

Meaning, don't expect too much.

Seeing him like this, the other party looked at him with sympathy.

I thought that people like this would cause so much trouble in the future.

Those who have access to cutting-edge technology understand very well the direction of future development.

Society is progressive, and sooner or later it will catch up with the West, or even surpass Western countries.

Technology is advancing with each passing day. If you can’t even read a thermometer, how can you adapt to this society in the future?

I don’t know how much trouble there will be in the future.

"Jiang Ting, I'm not saying anything bad about you. Although she is indeed quite pitiful, you should also think about yourself. You can't just go whenever she calls you. If you do this, you will probably never be able to get rid of her in this life."

"Alas!" Lu Jiangting sighed heavily, looking tired. "I understand what you said, and I know you are all doing this for my own good. But think about it, she is just like that, what if I don't care about her? Jianjun and I are from the same place, he..."

At this point, he almost choked up.

The people eating at the same table were stunned.

"What's up?"

In fact, they didn't know much about the two men's hometowns, but having lived with them for a few years, they knew that they were both able to endure hardships.

Especially Comrade Wang Jianjun, his character is really impeccable. He is willing to do any dirty or tiring work. He is truly a good person.

It's a pity that good people don't live long.

Lu Jiangting must know about his affairs.

Lu Jiangting hesitated for a moment.

Wang Jianjun didn't like to talk about his family affairs. He never told anyone except himself.

It's not a good idea to talk about this kind of thing, but he had already come to this point. Seeing that everyone was waiting for him to say the next word eagerly, he opened up.

"It was very difficult for him to come out of the mountains, even more difficult than for us. Even the opportunity for him to go to school was not easy. It was better when his grandmother was alive, but later his grandmother passed away and he almost didn't go to school..."

It was through his narration that everyone realized how difficult Wang Jianjun's life was.

He has a complicated family. His mother died after giving birth to him, and his father married a widow who was remarried and had a child. There were many family conflicts.

The stepmother loved her own son the most. In those days, no one had enough to eat. They were originally from the mountains and were very poor.

The family didn't have many resources to begin with, and everything good to eat and wear belonged to the older brother with a different surname. Not to mention Wang Jianjun, even the brothers and sisters born to his stepmother and his father later could not think of surpassing the older brother with a different surname.

If his father had been a little tougher, he would have had a good life, but his father was a coward who was afraid of his wife and listened to her in everything.

It is easy to imagine how difficult it was for Wang Jianjun to live under this stepmother.

Fortunately, he had a grandmother who loved her grandson very much and insisted on sending him to school, so he had the opportunity to study.

He just started school late, entering the first grade at the age of nine. Later, his grandmother passed away, and even after he was admitted to high school, his stepmother refused to let him continue his studies.

She also whispered in his father's ear that if he studied too much, he would fly away and would never come back after going to another place, which was equivalent to raising a son in vain.

Besides, if he leaves, who will do all the work in the mountains?

He must be kept at home to work.

His father agreed to such an outrageous thing.

He refused, so his father beat him half to death and tied him up at home with a hemp rope for three days and three nights.

The day after tomorrow he ran away, all the way down the mountain and into the city, where he met the principal of the high school and begged him to allow him to take a leave of absence.

He went to dig coal for two years, and the money he earned supported his subsequent studies.

So although Wang Jianjun was his classmate, he was several years older than him.

At this point, everyone at the table fell silent.

Well, for those who can sit here, no matter how poor their family conditions are, they are not this bad.

This can no longer be described as a family hardship.

"His stepmother...his stepmother is so mean. She's afraid that he will become successful, so she wants to keep him in the mountains no matter what."

Lu Jiangting nodded, "Yes, so you said it was very difficult for him to escape from that mountain."

“It’s not easy.”

Judge Lu Jiang sighed and said, "He finally escaped, got married, had a child, and bought a small house in a tube-shaped building in the county town. The family of three had escaped from the mountain. Life was getting better and better, but he... just died like this."

Having said this, Lu Jiangting could no longer speak.

He lowered his head and couldn't utter a word for a long time.

He lowered his head and thought for a long time before continuing, "I watched him struggle step by step. Every time I thought about how hard he tried to escape from that home, every time I thought about how he had succeeded, but... he was gone, I couldn't sleep all night."

After hearing this story, not only Lu Jiangting, but everyone at the table was moved.

Everyone was silent for a long time. The food on the table was almost cold and could not be eaten.

How could there be people with such a miserable life?

"Is the daughter-in-law also from their local area?"

Lu Jiangting nodded, "She is also from the mountains. I heard that she was born in a family that favors boys over girls, and her life is even harder than his. At least he has a grandmother to take care of him, but Fang Qing is abandoned by her whole family. Because she is a girl, she doesn't even have the opportunity to go to school.

They had put so much effort into escaping, and now that they were living a good life, Jianjun was gone. This was a big blow to Fang Qing. Tell me, what would happen if I didn't care about them?"

After hearing what he said, the people who had just been trying to persuade him were speechless.

At this time, Yi Yunshuo at the next table put down his lunch box and walked towards him.

He pushed a brother who was sitting next to Lu Jiangting to the side and sat down himself.

"Jiang Ting, I have an idea."

Lu Jiangting: "..."

What is he doing? He has already had a quarrel with Yi Yunshuo and Fu Huaiyi, what is he doing now?

"You might as well marry Fang Qing."

ah?

There was a collective gasp from the crowd.

Lu Jiangting's face darkened, "Yi Yunshuo, what are you talking about? Fang Qing is my sister-in-law."

Yi Yunshuo smiled and said, "Don't be angry. You just have a strong sense of morality and can't think straight. Try to put aside that awkward feeling and think carefully. Isn't it the best outcome for you to marry Fang Qing?"