Chapter 1010
It’s so funny that there are such ridiculous things in the world!
But there are so many ridiculous things like this in the world!
But such a ridiculous thing actually happened to her and she experienced it personally.
She also had to thank them and be grateful to them, because indeed, compared with those girls in the village who were drowned as soon as they were born, dropped out of school after elementary school to work, and were married off early in exchange for dowry, she was a thousand times luckier than them, because she had a father who was willing to support her to continue her studies as long as she was willing to do so.
Many people on the Internet say that that is the money your parents earn and they can give it to whoever they want.
Yes, so we can’t change others, we can only change ourselves and tell ourselves not to be parents like them.
But how many people, as they grow up, become like them.
The pumps at the electric station pumped for several days and nights, bringing the shallows of the river out of the water. People from several nearby villages all ran to the riverbank to fish.
In the mud of the river beach, there are not only various kinds of fish, but also river clams, snails and wild lotus roots. It’s just that now is not the season for eating lotus roots, but if there are no lotus roots, lotus pods and lotus stems are also good things.
Wild lotus roots are so rampant that they grow directly in people’s rice fields. You can stand on the ridge and pick the lotus pods with your hands.
The ditches used to irrigate farmland near the riverbank are also full of wild lotus roots, wild water chestnuts and wild water chestnuts.
Why else do they say there is so much delicious food everywhere?
Jiang's father and mother also brought their own water chestnut basins and bathtubs and went to catch fish in the mud on the river beach. They caught all kinds of big black fish, grass carp, silver carp, crucian carp, and mullet. Jiang's father and mother put all the fish they caught into the water chestnut basins.
Jiang Ning used her own big wooden tub to pick up the river clams and snails that others didn't want. There were also many snails in the fields nearby, and snails stewed with chicken feet were also very delicious.
Many people don't eat field snails at all because they can't tell the difference between field snails and golden apple snails. She only ate them when her grandfather cooked them for her when she had nothing to eat as a child.
The locals don't even bother eating river clams because they think they are fishy, old, and contain sand and mud.
Mainly during the great famine, the clams on the riverbank were almost eaten to extinction by the local people, and they were almost vomiting from eating the clams.
Jiang Ning picked up river clams and snails because he wanted to go back and make clam sauce and snail sauce and bring them to school as dishes. Although they were not real meat, they were better than eating pickled cabbage and salted radishes every day.
Whenever she came across a basin with fish, she would catch some as well, and before she knew it she had caught a whole basin of fish.
She pushed the wooden basin to the shore with great effort, poured all the snails and clams in the basin onto the ridge of the field on the shore, caught the fish back into the wooden basin, and went down to continue fishing for clams.
Even if you put fish on the shore, people will take them. But no one will even look at river clams and snails. There are plenty of pointed-mouth clams, short-mouth clams, and all kinds of clams on the river beach, but no one wants them.
When Jiang Ning was looking for clams instead of fishing, Jiang Ma was so angry that she picked up a mud ball and threw it at Jiang Ning: "I told you to fish, why are you using that crap? Throw it away!"
Jiang's mother was speechless. Other girls who were younger than her were more capable at work and were very good at slacking off, but her daughter was the only one who was praised for being as stupid as a donkey. How could someone be so stupid? How could she give birth to such a stupid daughter?
She really wanted to stuff Jiang Ning back into her stomach and remake her.
Jiang Ning deliberately didn't stay with Jiang's father and mother. They were quite far away from each other, so Jiang's mother's mud couldn't hit her. Instead, it covered the people next to her with mud. She couldn't help but shout, "Ai Lian, what are you doing? Throwing mud all over my head and face!"
Although everyone who went to the river beach to fish was covered in mud on their head, face and body, it was still very uncomfortable to be hit by the mud.
Jiang's mother couldn't help but complain about Jiang Ning to others, "Tell me what my fate is. Why did I give birth to such a stupid girl? Everyone else is slacking off, but she's picking up river clams."
The people around also laughed: "Maybe your Ningning likes to eat river clams?"
"Yes, no one is snatching the clams yet, wouldn't it be nice to give them all to your family?"
Jiang's father said to Jiang's mother, "It's enough for us two to slack off. Let Ningning touch whatever she wants."
Jiang Ma immediately found someone to vent her anger on: "You've spoiled her! You let her do whatever she wants. Do you think this is for her own good? You're harming her! She can't do anything at home. You deserve to be beaten to death at your husband's house in the future!"
Father Jiang's face suddenly darkened: "What nonsense are you talking about? Ningning is only a few years old and she is already in her husband's family. She will go to college and eat government food. What's wrong with not being able to carry anything?"
Father Jiang usually doesn't get angry, but when he does, Mother Jiang becomes silent and mutters, "Just spoil her. I want to see what you can do to her! Anyway, you're the good guy and I'm the stepmother!"
Jiang Ning quickly grabbed two large basins of river clams, took a bamboo basket, and carried them home.
Jiang Ma was right. She really couldn't carry anything on her shoulders or lift anything with her hands. She just walked a few steps with the carrying pole on her shoulders and it hurt terribly.
Because she has two older brothers, Jiang's father treats his three children equally on the surface. Her grandfather dotes on her, and her two brothers have done all the outside work since she was a child, so it is really not her turn.
When she was carrying a load, her two brothers couldn't bear to watch her staggering forward. They reached out and took away the heavy load for her, saying impatiently, "Give it to me! I'm afraid you'll fall when I see you carrying the load!"
Later, when she was cooking, she pretended to be weak, standing in front of the stove, holding the pot lid as a shield in one hand, and standing far away with her arms stretched out, cooking like she was in a war. When Jiang Bai saw this, he would take over speechlessly: "Forget it, forget it, you can't cook, give it to me."
Jiang Ning would happily hand over the spatula and pot lid, and praise: "My second brother cooks the best dishes. It's a loss to the culinary world that you didn't become a chef!"
Jiang Bai would raise his lips modestly and talk about how he cooked delicious dishes, and who liked to eat his dishes and praised his dishes for being delicious.
The men in the Jiang family are all good cooks, but the women can’t cook.
Well, Jiang Ning knows how to do it, but she pretends that she knows nothing about it.
She didn't want to install it now. Firstly, it was the double harvest period, and whether she installed it or not, cooking would be her job. She really didn't want to eat the pig food made by Jiang Ma and Grandpa Jiang.
Secondly, she no longer needs to pretend, and no one can force her to do anything she doesn't want to do.
She stumbled along carrying two baskets of river clams. Before she reached the riverbank, Grandpa Jiang came running over from afar: "You put it there, I'll do it!"
Grandpa Jiang had a hunched back and was jogging anxiously, fearing that if he ran too slowly, the burden would crush his granddaughter's thin body.
He quickly took the load from her and said, "You are such a small person, how can you carry a load? I will hurt you later."
He and Jiang's father, these two generations, started working on river embankments when they were in their teens. The embankments that stretch for dozens or hundreds of miles were dug out by them on their shoulders, hand by hand, and carried out load by load.
They don’t want their grandchildren to suffer the same suffering they have endured.
There is nothing you can do about the boys in the family. Being born in a farming family means you have to work. They are all tall and strong, and they can carry a load even if they are strong.
But my granddaughter is so young, how can she carry the burden?
Grandpa Jiang felt sorry for her, and she also felt sorry for Grandpa Jiang. She followed behind Grandpa Jiang and kept trying to take back the burden: "Grandpa, let me carry it, I can do it, hey, please give it to me!"
Although Grandpa Jiang was thin and hunched, he was still over 1.8 meters tall. Jiang Ning developed late and grew late in height. He was small and skinny, so there was no way he could take on Grandpa Jiang's burden.
Grandpa Jiang still thought she was blocking the way, so he waved her away and said, "Go to the rice field and look after the rice for me. Those noisy sparrows will steal the rice if you're not paying attention."
When watching the rice in the rice field, one must not only watch out for people stealing it, but also various birds. The rice must be turned over from time to time to expose it to the sun. If a rainstorm is coming, the rice must be collected in time and covered with straw to prevent it from getting wet by the rain and causing the rice to sprout.
Jiang Ning had no choice but to go to the rice field. Grandpa Jiang was right. He had only been away for a while when many sparrows flew over and started eating the rice.
Jiang Ning hurried over and asked the sparrows to leave.
When the sparrows saw someone coming to chase them away, they immediately flapped their wings and flew away. They did not leave, but sat in rows on the electric wires at the edge of the rice field, staring at the rice below, ready to steal some of it at any time.
Grandpa Jiang came back soon. Seeing that she was covered in mud, he urged her, "Go back and wash yourself." He also said, "I don't know why you caught so many river clams. They are old and fishy, and you can't even chew them. If I hadn't been looking after the rice, I would have gone fishing too."
Grandpa Jiang felt very sorry that he couldn't go to the river beach to fish.
There was no telling how many bites of the fish caught by Mr. and Mrs. Jiang would end up in their granddaughter's mouth. Unfortunately, the electric station had pumped out all the water from the riverbed, so there was no need to pump water anymore, and he couldn't cast the net to catch any fish.
Jiang Ning did not go home immediately. She had to go back to the riverbank to drag the wooden tub for bathing back home.
The whole family shared one bathtub, which Jiang Ning was not used to. Every day, he would draw water, stand in the wooden tub and use a gourd ladle to scoop water for a shower.
The conditions are like this now, there is nothing we can do but adapt to them.
When she arrived at the riverbank and saw so many people fishing in the mud and water, she couldn't help it and went down to fish too. She had touched enough river clams, so this time she really wanted to fish.
Unfortunately, her fishing skills were very limited. While others were fishing in the muddy water for big silver carp, grass carp and black carp, she only picked up small miscellaneous fish that others didn't want.
In their local dialect, they call these small fish "fish shit".
When we couldn't go down to the river, fish poop was a treasure. Now that the riverbed has emerged above the water and we can catch fish on the beach, we call it fish poop with disdain.
There are a lot of small fish like this, trapped in small mud puddles on the river beach. You just need to reach out and pick them up.
Jiang Ning picked up half of the bathtub in a short while and said hello to Jiang's father: "Dad, I'm going home to cook first!"
Father Jiang responded, "Well, can you drag the tub? If not, just leave it there and I'll take it back later."
The bathtub is made of wood, and the basin itself is quite heavy, not to mention there are so many small fish in it.
Jiang Ning walked towards the riverbank near the river surface, and when he reached a place with water, he pushed the large wooden basin floating on the water and waded through the water back home. He walked all the way to the vicinity of the electric vehicle station, then dragged the wooden basin to the shore and then along the river bank into the ditch.
The power station had just pumped water a few days ago, and there was still water in half of the ditch. The wooden basin floated down the ditch, and she walked along the shore, waiting for the place closest to her home, then dragged the wooden basin ashore, and then moved home little by little.
"Ningning?"
Jiang Ning turned around and saw Jiang Yueqin.
She hadn't seen Jiang Yueqin for several days since he rejected her that day. Looking at her heavily made-up face, she was curious about how this person could have tricked her into going to that kind of place and yet still call her "Ningning" affectionately.
Jiang Yueqin originally went to the river beach to watch the excitement, but unexpectedly met Jiang Ning on the road and immediately greeted her warmly.
"You want to move it back home? Do you want me to help you carry it?"
She was just being polite.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Ning said rudely: "Yes!"
Jiang Yueqin was stuck there for a moment.
She was wearing a hip-hugging leather skirt with high heels.
She looked at the small fish in Jiang Ning's half-basin, then looked at her high heels. She saw that Jiang Ning had already grabbed one side of the basin, waiting for her to grab the other side. She hardened her heart, bent down, and gritted her teeth! Helped Jiang Ning lift it up.
She was tall and walked at the back, while Jiang Ning was short and walked at the front, so most of the weight of the wooden basin was on her side.
She put on makeup. The weather was hot, and soon sweat began to flow down her forehead, leaving two grooves on her face.
After finally helping Jiang Ning carry the wooden basin back home, she sat on the doorstep of the Jiang family, too tired to move. She fanned herself from the heat, her face full of disdain: "Why did you get so much fish shit and river clams?"
She stretched out her fingertips and picked up one of the river clams: "Can this be eaten?"
Jiang Ning glanced at her: "You've never eaten it?"
Jiang Yueqin shook her head: "I haven't eaten it."
Jiang Ning stopped talking again.
Jiang Yueqin took out a large cattail leaf fan from a chair in the main hall of the Jiang family, sat on the threshold, fanned herself and pointed at Jiang Ning who was covered in mud: "If you ask me, you might as well go out and work with me. Look at you, you are so dirty!"
Jiang Ning fetched some well water to wash herself briefly, then took a basket of clams to the pond to wash them.
Jiang Yueqin quickly followed with a palm-leaf fan in hand: "To be honest, you are so beautiful. If you can dress up well, maybe a big boss will be interested in you."
She showed an envious look on her face: "Alas, you don't know, there is a girl in our night... hotel who was favored by a big boss. You don't know how happy she is now~"
Jiang Ning stopped cleaning the clam shells and looked up at her.
Jiang Yueqin is only 19 years old, but she has been working for several years.
She was taken away when she was fourteen or fifteen, or maybe even earlier.
It's like this in the countryside, one person takes one, usually to a factory to make clothes, or to an electronics factory. It's rare to be taken there like Jiang Yueqin, and no one knows who was the first person to go there.
Before leaving the village, these little girls were really naive. At that time, their values, outlook on life and values had not yet been formed, and they were ignorant. The only idea that had been instilled in them since childhood was to go out to work and earn money for their families.
When I was first brought to that place, I worked as a waiter.
But after staying in such places for a long time, all they see every day are the decadent affairs of men and women making love. They are so young and their values have not been established yet. It is common for them to be tempted by the people around them.
They even think that being supported by a big boss is something to be proud of, and that being able to make money easily by lying down is much better than people like Jiang Ning who work hard all day but still don't make any money.
Jiang Yueqin felt a little uneasy when Jiang Ning looked at her. She reached out and touched her face and hair: "Why are you looking at me?"
Jiang Ning looked into her eyes, smiled, and asked her: "Didn't you say that a big building was built for your house? Then what? Is there a room for you?"
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