Chapter 7 7
"So tacky." Jiang Ning said. She picked up the shiny chain on her wrist and looked at it. She looked at her and said, "Is this really gold? Why does it look fake to me?"
"How is that possible?" Jiang Yueqin immediately screamed like a chicken with its feathers blown off: "Of course this is true! You don't know anything, so don't talk nonsense!"
Jiang Ning put down the chain on her wrist and raised her head slowly: "Who said I don't understand."
She pointed at the physics and chemistry book on the desk. "It's written in the book that gold is a non-magnetic metal and will not attract magnets. I have a magnet at home. Do you want to try sucking it? If it can attract it, it's fake." As she spoke, she enthusiastically opened the drawer, as if she was going to help her find a magnet. "By the way, there is another way to detect whether it is real gold."
She turned her head and looked at Jiang Yueqin sincerely: "Gold and concentrated nitric acid solution will not produce any chemical reaction, but if it is fake, or gold-plated, it will turn green or gold. Do you want to try it?"
Jiang Yueqin's face turned pale, and she clutched the bracelet on her wrist tightly: "Who... who wants to try? Who knows if you can melt my bracelet? I heard that the people in the gold shop will melt a layer of gold from people who come to wash their necklaces, and sell it for money themselves!"
She was a little impatient to escape, and stammered, "I...I have something else to do at home, I won't talk to you anymore, hum!"
Jiang Ning kept watching her back as she left, which seemed like she was escaping in a panic.
Seeing her reminded her of the time when she had traveled hundreds of kilometers alone, begging for food along the railway tracks all the way home, and her dark past during her three years in high school when people rumored she was Huang Yao and she was bullied at school.
Few people knew that she had been taken to that kind of place. When she returned home, she didn't even tell Jiang's father and mother. She subconsciously knew that it was not a good place and she couldn't tell anyone. She just said that she missed home, missed her grandfather, and wanted to continue her studies, and then she ran back alone.
Jiang's mother was so angry that she scolded her that she was like a wild boar that couldn't eat fine bran. She didn't know how to cherish such a good job. She would rather beg for food and walk hundreds of kilometers to come back than to work and insisted on studying.
Later, the only people who could be heard about in her school were Jiang Yueqin and a few people she knew there. Two of them were also from the eldest wife's family and were much older than her. She had no interaction with them at all.
The rest were not from the same village or even the same township, and I had never met them before.
She didn't know if it was Jiang Yueqin, nor did she know what her purpose was in spreading such obscene rumors about her. Later, she understood that in this world, some malice has no purpose and is pure evil, just like when countless obscene men posted comments under a girl's photo on the Internet, saying that she was technician No. 8 at a certain nightclub.
There are even women who make up obscene rumors about kindergarten teachers they don't even know, simply because they want to create a topic and attract attention.
Sometimes, don’t dwell on the reasons and don’t ask others why, because some people are just purely bad.
After Jiang Yueqin returned, she touched the bracelet on her wrist and became more and more restless the more she thought about it. She wanted to find a magnet to try to suck it, but she was afraid that she would really be sucked by it.
A day later, he went to find Jiang Ning again.
On the one hand, of course, she wanted to confirm whether her bracelet was real. On the other hand, the purpose of her return was to bring a few sisters with her.
If you take one little sister, it will cost 500 yuan. If you take ten, it will cost 5,000 yuan.
Unfortunately, at that time all the girls in the village went to work in the factories, leaving only Jiang Ning, Jiang Hehua and Jiang Qinqin in the village.
She didn't dare take Jiang Hehua with her, and Jiang Qinqin...it was even more impossible. She was the treasure of her family, with a lot of brothers and sisters, and she was very strong, especially her mother. If she really dared to take Jiang Qinqin away, her mother would really lead their entire family to tear her family apart, and then tear apart her boss's family.
Only Jiang Ning.
Speaking of Jiang Ning, she originally thought that she would see a pretty girl who was fair-skinned, tall and bookish when she came back. But, not only was she skinny, but her hair was shaved like a boy's, long in the front and short in the back, with a spot in the middle that seemed to have been cut flat by a knife, like a bald head.
Not like a girl at all.
If I take this with me, I can only be a waiter.
However, Jiang Yueqin felt that the baby would be fine after two years of nursing. After all, her father and brothers were all very good-looking.
Thinking of Jiang Ning, Jiang Yueqin came to the Jiang family again.
She was still wearing a tight belly-exposing short-sleeved shirt today, which wrapped up her curvy figure. She was wearing orange flared pants, two metal chains hanging around her waist, and a pair of white platform sandals. She came to the Jiang family while facing the villagers' stares.
Although Jiang Ning and Jiang Yueqin were elementary school classmates, they were not familiar with each other.
There is a local saying here that goes "It's a waste of time to study at the age of eight", which means that if you study before the age of eight, you will not be able to achieve any results. Rural people are superstitious about these sayings, so children of their generation generally go to school at the age of nine or ten. Only Jiang Ning. Jiang's father thought that Jiang Ning was very smart when she was a child. When other children were sent to school at the age of nine or ten, she was seven years old in terms of age (five in terms of actual age), and she was in the same class with these nine and ten-year-old children.
For example, Jiang Qinqin, who was in the same class with her, was more than three years older than her.
So she basically couldn't play with her classmates, and they didn't take her to play.
Jiang Yueqin, however, acted as if they were very familiar with each other. When she arrived at the Jiang family's house, she didn't even wait for an invitation, but stepped into the Jiang family's doorstep and sat on the long bench beside the Jiang family's dining table. She looked around the Jiang family's old and dim house with a smile in her eyes, with obvious complacency and contempt in her eyes: "Ningning, are you home alone?"
She said to herself, "You know I built a big house for my family? Now my mother won't let me work. I even forgot how to harvest the rice."
Jiang Ning had just come back from harvesting rice and was about to make breakfast for Jiang's father and the others. Upon hearing this, she handed the sickle to Jiang Yueqin, "It's okay if you forgot how to harvest. Come on, I'll teach you!" She looked like she was about to leave, "I still have eight acres of land to harvest. You go and harvest two acres. I'm sure you'll remember how to harvest rice."
She had just returned home, and she hadn't taken off her straw hat, towel, and sleeves yet. She looked like she was going to harvest rice, which scared Jiang Yueqin so much that she almost jumped up and shouted, "I'm kidding you, I'm not going to harvest rice. I can't even finish harvesting my own rice, so who would want to harvest yours?"
Jiang Ning put down the sickle with regret: "Didn't you forget how to harvest rice? I was thinking of teaching you out of kindness, and I didn't even plan to charge you tuition."
She took off her hat, fetched water from the well, scrubbed the towel, washed her face, and washed the mud off her arms and legs.
A leech had crawled onto her calf at some point. She slapped it a few times, picked it off and threw it away. Since she didn't have an iodine stick, she went to the yard to pick a chili leaf and stuck it on the calf, pressing it for a while to stop the bleeding.
She didn't know whether chili leaves could stop bleeding, but that's how people in the countryside do it, so she did it too.
Jiang Yueqin followed her closely. When she saw her throwing the leech, even though it was not thrown in her direction, she still jumped back several steps on the spot, and then walked over with a look of disgust on her face: "I asked you to work with me, but you didn't want to."
She stood on the muddy ground beside the Jiang family's well in her snow-white platform shoes. The pure white of her feet formed a sharp contrast with the mud on Jiang Ning's feet: "Look at me, then look at you." She pointed at her new clothes, then at Jiang Ning's tattered clothes: "What's the point of studying? You can't make any money. Even if you study for a few years and become a teacher, you only make a hundred yuan a month. You might as well work!"
She looked very proud: "Do you know how much money I brought back this time?" She spread out her five fingers, stretched them in front of Jiang Ning, and shook them proudly: "Five thousand!"
She turned around and looked at the low, old house of the Jiang family, and said with a sigh: "Your house still has mud walls. Who's house still has mud walls nowadays?"
The Jiang family’s house was built the year Jiang’s father got married. Bricks and stones were used for the bottom and earth bricks were used for the top. Previously, most houses in the village were built with a combination of bricks and stones and earth bricks, but now there are fewer such houses, and most of them have been replaced with red bricks and cement.
The Jiang family's house is indeed unique in this area in terms of being shabby and short.
She said, "How can you be ashamed to see your house in such a state? Why don't you earn some money to change the house? Not to a big building, but a bungalow will be fine!"
Jiang Yueqin was very proud of the fact that she had built a large house for her family. She walked around the village with her head held high, looking very proud.
Now, who in the village doesn't praise her for her ability, filial piety, and the blessing of her parents?
"Once I build our big house, I can get married!" She had a longing expression on her face. At the age of nineteen, she had a mature innocence on her face.
She followed Jiang Ning, her eyes fixed on Jiang Ning who was concentrating on making pancakes in the dim and small kitchen. She was like an adult who had seen the world, looking at a country girl with a full sense of superiority.
"You've never been to a city, have you? The lights in a city are all colorful, more beautiful than a rainbow, and there's no dirt on the road. It's nothing like my hometown, where when it rains, my feet can sink three feet into a mud pit."
"In the city, the roadsides are lined with apples, oranges, and dates. You can pick them as much as you want. I eat them and throw them away. I don't eat the ones I have."
"Have you ever seen a car? It drives so fast!"
She said so much, but saw no reaction on Jiang Ning's face, neither envy nor jealousy, so she couldn't help but anxiously said, "Do you want to go out with me? It's really profitable. You can be a waiter first, and you can earn 200 yuan a month!" She held up two fingers, "If I wasn't short of people, I wouldn't take you with me. It's only because your mother came to ask me for help!"
She raised her chin proudly.
"No."
At that time, workers in the city only earned a hundred or so yuan a month, and many of them were facing the crisis of being laid off. Two hundred yuan a month was a huge salary that many rural girls could not even imagine.
When many people heard her say that the basic salary was 200 yuan a month, their first reaction was to exclaim: "Wow!" and then they wanted to go too.
Jiang Ning was unmoved with a cold face, holding the baked pancake and pushing her out: "I don't want to make money, I just want to study and go to college, you go away."
Jiang Yueqin was anxious: "Hey, what's the point of taking the college entrance exam? I'm so tired from studying!"
Jiang Ning put the prepared breakfast into the basket and looked up at her: "I'm not tired, I'm relaxed studying."
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