Jiang Weimin avoided Chen Xiahua for a long time.
He despised his mother's feudal dregs, but he couldn't just turn around and marry his brother's wife, right? This was neither morally nor logically appropriate.
Jiang Weimin refused to admit it later, but he was indeed cautious at the time. He did not remind his mother and brother that a marriage certificate was required.
Legally, Chen Xiahua does not belong to any family. In fact, she has always been an illegal resident in the Jiang family.
Her food rations were provided by Jiang Weimin, and she worked as a nanny in the Jiang family, doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, and everything else, but she was unwilling to take care of Jiang Weiren's daily life.
Jiang's mother was so angry that she scolded her for being heartless.
"You're the one with no conscience! Didn't I take care of him in the beginning? When I got him some water to wash himself, he just lifted up his hand and overturned the basin. When I brought him food to feed him, he sprayed me in the face! He didn't want anyone to take care of him, so you blame me?"
Jiang Weiren is a bit perverted and twisted. He has been lying in bed all his life, at the mercy of others. Finally, his mother said that this is his wife, his person, and he can do whatever he wants. So he has to torture her hard, right?
But who knew that Chen Xiahua was so impatient that she didn't even wipe his body after he lifted the basin twice, and she spit the rice directly into his face after he vomited it once.
All he could do was yell and curse.
No matter how Jiang's mother and Jiang Weiren scolded Chen Xiahua, Chen Xiahua pretended not to hear them, because it was Jiang Weimin who fed her after all.
If Jiang's mother dared to take action, Chen Xiahua would run out and say that she was a relic of the old society and was torturing the farmhands.
Jiang Weimin also sternly warned Jiang's mother several times that this was not her hometown. People within a ten-mile radius were all from the same village and hometown, and she had the final say.
This is a family compound, and the families of cadres live next to it. If Chen Xiahua goes out and shouts at this moment, someone might come to investigate the next second.
Jiang's mother didn't dare to take the risk. She and her younger son were in an unfamiliar place, and their lives now depended entirely on their eldest son. If he went bankrupt, she and her younger son would be finished too.
She could only curse at home whenever she had free time, and Shen Xiahua's ears were almost callused from listening to her.
However, this kind of life did not last long. Jiang Weiren's condition worsened again, and even the doctors in the capital shook their heads and said that he could not survive.
The fact is that Jiang Weiren has lived longer in the past few years. If Jiang Weimin had not been rich and well-connected, keeping him alive, many people like him who are born weak would not have lived to adulthood.
When Jiang Weiren left, Chen Xiahua had been in the Jiang family for more than three years.
Before he took his last breath, he was still staring at Chen Xiahua and saying something incoherently.
Chen Xiahua knew that he meant that she had to remain a widow for him.
She had no idea how many times she had heard this kind of talk in the past three years, and she just thought he was crazy.
Jiang's mother cried and shouted, saying that she would arrange all the funeral arrangements for her youngest son, but Jiang Weimin responded with a single sentence, "In the new society, everything should be kept simple."
She was so angry that she fell on the bed and couldn't get up.
From then on, Chen Xiahua had the additional task of taking care of her 80-year-old mother.
On the day Jiang Weiren was buried, Jiang Weimin sat on the steps and smoked all day.
Do you think he was sad? Of course, he was his brother. But do you think he felt relieved? Wasn't it like a huge weight had been lifted off his shoulders?
Chen Xiahua waited until Jiang's mother fell asleep, then sat next to him.
"I think his passing is a relief for him."
"Yeah." Jiang Weiren responded softly.
"Do you think your mother would agree to my marrying you?"
Just like Shen Xiahua listened to Jiang Weiren's crazy words for three years, Jiang Weimin also listened to Shen Xiahua's words of marrying him for three years. Now, when he hears such words again, he can do it without blushing or stopping for a breath.
"...Comrade Chen Xiahua, my brother just left."
"Oh, I'll ask you later."
…
God won't wait for a while. After a while, Jiang Weimin will be taken to live in the cowshed.
After all, the Jiang family was not from a poor peasant family. If Jiang Weimin had not joined the army, he should have been like his cousins who are now living a good life overseas, studying abroad, and then coming back to make money if he could, or going abroad to lie down if he couldn't.
Anyway, he knew that he was going to be dragged down, when his mother was lying in bed relying on medicine to stay alive.
Jiang Weimin stuffed a hundred yuan into Chen Xiahua's pocket and told her to leave quickly. She and Jiang Weiren hadn't registered their marriage, nor were they actually married. She could be a hired servant for the Jiang family, or a villager who came to help, but she wasn't a member of the Jiang family. She should leave quickly if she could.
In the end, Chen Xiahua didn't leave.
"Where can I go? I don't know a single word. I followed your family from the south to the north and have been circling around your Jiang family for three years. I don't even know where the gate of this capital is. Where can I go?"
Jiang Weimin was speechless for a moment, but time did not allow him to think for long. He walked around the house and tried hard to find a friend who could help him take care of Chen Xiahua.
"What will happen to you?"
"I don't know. Maybe we can go to the countryside and do farm work." Jiang Weimin was a little annoyed. Old Liu? No, he'd probably be in trouble too. Old Qi? No, he has a playboy at home. Old Ji? ...
"Then will you marry me?"
Jiang Weimin was really speechless. What time is it now, sister?
"If you had married me before, you could have become a leader's wife. But if you marry me now, you'll get nothing. You might even have to live in the bullpen with me, you know?"
"I know, if you marry a chicken, you follow the chicken; if you marry a dog, you follow the dog." Chen Xiahua was very calm.
"It's not like I haven't lived in a cowshed before. Kids like us who were born out of weeds, there's nowhere we can't live."
"Just tell me whether you want to marry me or not? If you marry me, I can take care of your mother openly and honestly."
Jiang Weimin stood in the middle of the room, staring at her blankly.
"You really want to marry me?"
Chen Xiahua nodded.
"Otherwise, what's the point of me spending four years in your house? I'm already twenty-two, and if you give me a hundred dollars, it's only enough for me to get robbed once."
"I'm just a weak woman who knows nothing. I don't have a family, and I don't have a husband's family. Where do you want me to live?"
"Jiang Weiren said I have to be his widow, but fuck him."
Jiang Weimin sneered, feeling that what he had just thought was too complicated.
But in the end he did not get married to Chen Xiahua before being sent down to the countryside. He left all the money in the family to her in advance and asked her to help take care of his mother.
The doctor said that she didn't have much time left and he didn't know when he would be able to come back. He couldn't take his mother to the countryside with him again.
"If it's my mother... you can help take care of the funeral. After that, the money will be yours. You can take it and get married or start your own family. It's always a way out.
If you still haven’t regretted it by then, come find me in the countryside again.”
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