After returning to the guesthouse, everyone prepared to stay for another night before returning to Su City. Liu Yanran also had a plan in mind. They gave the money, but there was nothing they could do if some people couldn't keep it, right?
It just so happened that Liu Yanran lived in a room by herself. After dinner, she pretended to be very tired and went back to her room early. Everyone went to bed early at this time, so no one suspected anything.
Around nine o'clock in the evening, she slipped into the space and left the guesthouse in stealth. When there were no people around, she took an electric car from the space and drove towards Jiang's house. There were few people along the way, so she drove very fast. When she was almost at Jiang's house, she slipped both herself and the car into the space. When she arrived at Jiang's house, the family had not yet gone to bed and were happily counting money.
"Mom, we should at least share some of this money. My husband and I have contributed a lot." Sister Jiang looked at the pictures of unity, her eyes full of greed.
Jiang's mother gouged her out all night. "Bah, you money-loser! This money should be saved for your fourth and sixth brothers to get married. Why are you so obsessed with money?"
"Mom, I earned a lot of work points for the family when I was at home, but I didn't get a penny of the betrothal gift back then." Sister Jiang retorted unconvinced.
"How much are those few work points of yours worth?" Jiang's mother scolded. "Besides, the ten yuan betrothal gift you gave me over the years has already cost you more than that."
"Mom, that's not the case. Back then, our family couldn't even make ends meet. If my eldest sister and I hadn't been married off, you and dad might not be here anymore!" Jiang's second sister also spoke up. She would remember all her life that her parents sold her to her husband's family. Although her husband was from the city, he was a beater and was a second marriage. His first wife was beaten to death because she gave birth to two daughters. It was also because she was determined to give birth to a boy as soon as she got married, otherwise she would not have survived.
"This is all Lao Liu and I's money. How can you sisters be thinking about our money? This money is only enough to buy two wives." They are too poor here, and no woman is willing to marry here, so the wives in the village are basically sold here because their families are poor.
"That's right, you are already married, but you are still thinking about your parents' money!" Jiang Xiaodi echoed.
"You guys..." Jiang Dajie and Jiang Erjie were so angry that they couldn't speak.
Their men went home in the afternoon, otherwise they would not be left alone.
Sister Jiang suddenly thought of something and sneered, "Oh, mother, have you forgotten the owner of the jade pendant?"
Jiang's mother was shocked. "How did you know?" She looked at the man beside her. This matter should only be known by her and her husband!
"Mom, is the third child really the third child?" Sister Jiang spoke again. Mother Jiang now knew what her eldest daughter really knew.
It turned out that when she gave birth to her third child, she had an accidental fall that resulted in premature birth. The child was born thin and tiny, with a cry as weak as a kitten. Since Jiang's mother hadn't yet produced milk, she could only feed him with rice soup. However, the child was premature and malnourished, and died within a few days. This was their first son, and Jiang's mother was heartbroken and almost blinded by tears.
Because the child died prematurely, according to local custom, he could not be buried in the ancestral tomb. So, Jiang's father and mother decided to bury the child in the mountains. On their way to the mountains, they met a woman who had just given birth.
The woman looked very haggard, but she was well-dressed and clearly came from a wealthy family. She gave all her money to Jiang's father and mother and left a jade pendant, asking them to help raise the child.
At the same time, she said that she would definitely come back to look for the child if she had the chance. Unfortunately, the identity information they left for the woman was false. However, since they had just lost their son and now had a boy, they decided to raise the child.
Initially, as he was the only boy in the family, his parents were quite tolerant of him. However, within two years, a fourth child, also a boy, was born. From then on, his parents' attitude towards this child became increasingly harsh.
He would only be given a bite of food when he was in a good mood, and would be left hungry when he was in a bad mood. However, the child was very hardworking and learned carpentry from a retired soldier.
Later, he got the opportunity to be recommended for military service. Over the years, they had kept this a secret, but unexpectedly, their eldest daughter, who was usually taciturn, knew about it.
"Of course the third child is the third child. I don't know what you are talking about. Don't mention this again. You two sisters take 50 yuan each, not a penny more." Jiang's mother counted out five 10-yuan bills with a distressed look on her face and handed them to her two daughters. Then she turned and walked into the room and locked the money in the cabinet.
The eldest and second daughters knew when to stop. Sister Jiang thought that she could use this secret to continue to control her parents and squeeze money from them. Sister Jiang was content with what she had, and with this money she hid, she could often give her sons special treatment.
The fourth and sixth sons knew that their parents' money belonged to them, so they were not in a hurry. The fifth daughter had been exploited for a long time, so she didn't dare to say anything. However, she didn't know what the secret that the eldest sister mentioned was.
Liu Yanran in the space understood in her heart. Through the two questions asked by Sister Jiang, she guessed that Jiang Qi was not the biological son of this family. She thought that good bamboo shoots would come out of bad bamboo, but it turned out that the roots were not here. Then she would feel no guilt about what she was going to do next.
When Jiang's father and mother returned to their room, Jiang's father couldn't help but smoke a pipe. Amidst the smoke, he frowned and said in a heavy tone, "Mother, do you think the eldest son knows something?"
When Jiang's mother heard this, her heart tightened. The more she thought about it, the more uneasy she felt. She said worriedly, "I think something's amiss too. How could she know so much about the third child?"
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