Chapter 8 8
Jiang Yueqin was choked by Jiang Ning's words and was speechless. She said that I was tired of reading because I was stupid? She was so angry that she threw her arms and said, "Forget it! I won't take you with me even if you beg me in the future!"
After that, he didn't come to Jiang Ning's house for several days. Instead, Jiang's mother became a little anxious and went to Jiang Yueqin's house several times, wanting Jiang Yueqin to take Jiang Ning out to work together.
Jiang Yueqin said to Jiang Ma in a long and sarcastic tone: "I dare not take your Jiang Ning with me~~~, your Jiang Ning said~~, she doesn't want to work~~, she wants to go to college~~~"
Jiang's mother said anxiously, "Don't listen to her nonsense. Girls who finish four years of college are already in their twenties. Those who get married early have children all over the place. You are not as good and promising as them. You built such a big house for your family." Jiang's mother was praising sincerely, "Your parents are so lucky to have you."
Jiang Yueqin raised her chin high in praise.
Seeing that she had finally coaxed her, Jiang's mother coaxed her again, "If Jiang Ning can be half as good as you, I'll be satisfied. When the time comes, you can take Ning Ning with you. She doesn't need to do anything else but follow you around to serve dishes and wash vegetables. If you have any work to do, ask her to do it. Ning Ning is an honest person. I'm worried about letting her go out alone, so I want you sisters to take care of her. We'll feel more at ease if there's someone at home to take care of her!"
She said Jiang Yueqin was a "family member".
For people from my hometown, as long as they are from the same village, they are all "family members" when they go to other places.
They are from the same village, have the same surname, and have the same ancestor, so how can they not be "family members"?
Jiang Yueqin then took Jiang Ma's arm and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll take Ningning with me then." Thinking that she still needed to find a few more sisters, she added, "I'll call you before we leave, and you can just ask Ningning to come to my house then."
Mother Jiang went back with many thanks.
The first thing he did when he got back was to push open the door of Jiang Ning's room: "Don't read the book anymore. I've already made an agreement with Yueqin. She will take you to work as a waitress. The monthly salary is 200 yuan. If you do a good job and are promoted to foreman, you can earn 300 to 500 yuan!"
She quickly collected two pieces of clothing for Jiang Ning. "I don't expect you to be promoted to foreman or bring back your salary at the end of the year." She naggingly said, "I can't count on you in the future. You can make more money for me in the next few years while you are still married. I won't have raised you in vain."
Seeing that Jiang Ning was indifferent, she couldn't help but shout, "Did you hear me? Bring me every penny you earn. If you give me one less, I'll kill you!"
During her three years in junior high school, Jiang's mother gave her 20 cents a day because she had to pass through a ferry on the way to school. The ferry cost 10 cents there and 10 cents back. She had meal tickets for the cafeteria and could bring her own vegetables, such as a can of pickled radish or a can of snow mustard. Sometimes her grandfather would bring her a can of salted fish, which lasted for a week.
Jiang Ma really can do what she says: she won’t let you spend a penny more, and she really won’t let you spend a penny more.
Seeing Jiang's mother speaking with a stern expression and speaking as if it were a matter of course, Jiang Ning suddenly wanted to laugh.
"I earned my money, and you want my skin if I spend a penny?" Jiang Ning found it funnier and funnier the more he thought about it. He couldn't help laughing out loud. How could there be such a weird thing in the world? How could there be someone who would say such a thing as a matter of course?
Her face turned cold, and her eyes were full of frost: "Then did you spend the money you earned on me again?"
Jiang Ma got so angry at her look that she reached out to grab Jiang Ning's hair, but was pushed away by Jiang Ning.
When Jiang's mother saw that she couldn't hit her, she became very angry. When she saw the book she was reading on the table, she tore off the page she was reading and wanted to tear it again.
Jiang Ning laughed when she saw it: "Go ahead and tear it up, they are all Big Brother's books, just tear them all up."
Jiang Ma's movements suddenly stopped.
Among the three siblings of the Jiang family, Jiang's mother loves the eldest brother Jiang Song the most.
In the two generations above the Jiang family, the women were stronger than the men. Grandma Jiang was a typical strong woman among women of that era.
How strong-willed is grandma?
When Jiang Ma first married into the Jiang family, Jiang Nainai said to someone outside: "I drew a circle on the ground and asked her to stand inside the circle. She didn't dare to stand outside the circle!"
Mother Jiang remembered Grandma's words for the rest of her life. When the family later divided up and faced the issue of how to support two elderly people, Mother Jiang was determined not to give up Grandma Jiang. She gave Grandpa Jiang away, and Grandma Jiang was raised by her eldest uncle.
The turning point that prompted Jiang Ma to stand up straight was the birth of Jiang Song.
The moment her son was born, Jiang's mother finally stood up.
So among the three siblings of the Jiang family, if Jiang's mother had ten points of maternal love, eight points were given to Jiang Song.
When she heard that the book she had torn up belonged to her eldest son Jiang Song, she immediately became flustered. Her eldest son had to repeat the grade in the second half of the year, so how could she tear up the book? He quickly flattened and straightened the pages he had just torn, then turned around and yelled at her, "Why are you using your brother's book? If you affect your brother's academic performance, I'll skin you alive! What are you standing there for? Bring me the tape!"
Jiang Ning spread his hands: "How would I know where the tape is?"
“Why don’t you buy it!”
“No money.”
Jiang's mother quickly took out two cents and threw it to her. Jiang Ning didn't even look at it and said, "I'm not going."
Jiang's mother was so angry: "I asked you to do something and you couldn't even do it, and you still blame me for favoring your brother!" She quickly picked up two cents and ran out to buy scotch tape.
She was afraid that her behavior would affect her older son's academic performance.
The village store was not far away. Mother Jiang went there in a hurry and came back in a hurry.
In her rage, she had wanted to tear the book in half, but failed, so she grabbed the pages inside and tore them downwards. Now she was going to stick them inside one by one.
She couldn't read, and wanted her daughter to help her, but seeing her daughter's apparent unwillingness to do anything, she was so angry that she couldn't help but glue the torn gap together while angrily saying, "If I had given birth to such a wicked creature like you, I should have thrown you into the piss bucket and drowned you."
This is not a statement made in anger, but the reality in rural areas in this era. With family planning, what should we do if we give birth to a girl but don't want her? Just throw them into a urine bucket and drown them, or directly throw them into a feces pit and drown them.
One of her elementary school classmates was thrown into a urine bucket after birth, but her mother rushed to pull it out.
This incident was treated as a joke and was told by the whole village.
She didn't understand when she was little, but she laughed along. Only when she grew up did she realize what was hidden behind the joke.
Jiang Ning also smiled at Jiang Ma: "Didn't you say that you gave birth to me so that I could help my two brothers in the future and provide for you when you are old?"
These are Jiang Ma's exact words. She never hides her thoughts.
When she secretly gave birth to Jiang Bai, she wanted to have a daughter, but she didn't expect it to be a son. A son is also good, she will have more confidence in the Jiang family.
Jiang Ma frowned and shouted, "Do I need you to support me in my old age? I'll be thankful if you don't piss me off to death!"
Jiang Ning leaned against the door frame and clapped his hands slowly with a smile: "Congratulations, you have the correct understanding in advance, keep it up."
Jiang's mother was so angry that she felt like her chest was blocked by a ball of cotton, unable to move up or down. She kept touching her chest to breathe downwards. When she thought about why her life was so miserable, her eyes turned red and she burst into tears.
When she exploded, she was like a mad lion, but when she cried, she shed tears and muttered to herself, looking very pitiful.
She cried about her miserable life, how much suffering she had endured from childhood to adulthood, how much worry and tiredness she had suffered for this family, and how her daughter did not care about her or be considerate of her.
Jiang Ning, who was listening, smiled and said, "I didn't make you suffer because of me, did I? You didn't worry about me at all, did you? If I made you worry, go find me!"
Jiang Ma was so angry that her chest was choked again. She waved her hand and punched him: "I'll beat you to death first, you life-shortening thing!"
Jiang Ning had been leaning against the door, moving faster than a rabbit and disappearing in a flash.
Jiang's mother couldn't catch up with her, so she went back to gluing books while cursing angrily.
She didn't know why her daughter, who had always been weak and obedient, suddenly started to rebel. She just thought that she had provoked her by not allowing her to continue studying.
Jiang Ning ran to the edge of the field and saw pumpkin vines spreading on the field, with pumpkin flowers all over the vines.
It was only when she grew up that she learned that pumpkin vines and pumpkin flowers can also be eaten.
Since she didn't bring a basket, she put the picked pumpkin vines on her arms. After picking enough pumpkin vines for her family, she went to pick pumpkin flowers.
Pumpkin flowers are divided into female flowers and male flowers. The male flowers are used for pollination, while the female flowers produce pumpkins.
Jiang Ning didn't know whether the pumpkin flowers had finished pollinating, so he poked the pollen of the male flowers onto the female flowers, picking one by one. Soon he had picked a bunch of male flowers, and various ways of eating pumpkin flowers emerged in his mind.
Otherwise, why do people say that food is everywhere in the countryside in summer?
She walked back with a bunch of pumpkin flowers in her hand and a pumpkin vine on her wrist.
The neighbor next door who was watching the fun saw that she didn't go to the fields to help work, but actually ran to pick flowers, so she couldn't help but say to her: "Ningning, don't blame your mother for beating you. For someone as lazy as you, it's a light punishment if she doesn't beat you to death."
"Your two brothers are not at home this year, so only Father and Mother Jiang are doing the work in the fields. You are such a grown-up girl, but you don't even know how to help them in the fields. You're picking flowers instead? It's because your father spoils you. If you were in my house, I would break your legs!"
Jiang Ning replied with a smile: "Aren't the eldest and second sisters both lame now?" According to the two girls in the neighbor's house, she should call them the elder sister.
The neighbor laughed and said, "When your second sister was your age, she could mow three or four mu of land by herself." He was doing his work and commented, "Ailian is just beaten too lightly. Beat her a few more times and she will be able to work harder!"
A man who was leading a cow to drink water by the pond said, "Isn't it because of the big guy's cowardice? Let her study? What's the point of a girl studying? She has to get married anyway. Look at how the big guy has spoiled her. She was so busy with the double harvest, but she went to pick pumpkin flowers. How can pumpkins bear fruit if they have picked pumpkin flowers? She can't even carry anything. Who will want her in the future? She won't even be able to get married!"
They seemed to be afraid that she couldn't hear them, so they started talking right in front of Jiang Ning, almost pointing at her nose.
Jiang Ning suddenly thought of a famous internet saying: "In our village, no one would want to marry someone like Liu Yifei!"
The countryside is so beautiful in summer, with rolling green hills behind and a sparkling river in front. Lotus flowers are swaying in the pond at the door, and the rich fragrance of gardenias lingers in the nose.
Whenever Jiang Ning saw these beauties of nature and smelled the fragrance of flowers in the air, he felt sincerely happy and admired the beauty of the world.
The only thing missing from this beautiful landscape is the old, decadent, twisted language and thoughts that are full of malice towards girls. They are like an invisible cage that tightly covers the people living in it, just like raising a Gu, making them fight silently inside.
She waited until Jiang Ma went out again before she quietly returned home.
The book that was torn into pieces by Jiang Ma had been carefully glued together by her. Even though she was illiterate, she tore off the inside pieces one by one and matched them together perfectly.
You see, she can be very nice to people as long as she wants to.
It's just that that person is not you.
Jiang Ning was actually afraid of Jiang Ma. Even though she had acted like she was not afraid of Jiang Ma at all these days and had even provoked her, the fear that Jiang Ma brought to her was engraved in her bones.
She couldn't live under the same roof with Jiang Ma, because she didn't know when and why Jiang Ma would suddenly slap you in the face; maybe it was the dust in the corner, or the baskets that were placed there that displeased her, or maybe it was the chairs that were placed in the wrong direction, and she would suddenly get angry and yell at you.
Only when I grew up did I realize what a valuable quality emotional stability is.
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