Thinking of this, Grandma Jiang put down the pastries, ignoring the questioning looks from everyone, and pulled Jiang Nuan into the room.
"Ya Ya, are you really alright?"
"It's really nothing now," Jiang Nuan replied earnestly.
To put Grandma Jiang's mind at ease, he casually picked up a stool from the room.
"I can lift a stool now, and in a while, I'll be able to carry a sack without any problem."
"Come on," Old Mrs. Jiang said, pursing her lips. "Why don't you try carrying the sacks first? Try carrying the buckets first."
I don't know my own daughter well. She's always been weak, like a chicken. She can't even lift a few bricks, let alone carry a bucket of water.
If I hadn't made up those stories, I wouldn't have found such a good marriage with the Huang family.
Thinking of this, Grandma Jiang felt a little regretful.
They praised her too much back then. Ya Ya has been living cautiously all these years, afraid that the Huang family will find out and send her back to her parents' home.
But Ya Ya was thin and small, and her appearance was not pleasing. If she hadn't exaggerated her reputation, which family would have dared to let their son marry a girl who might not even be able to have children?
Jiang Nuan didn't know what Grandma Jiang was thinking. She lowered her head and asked several times but didn't hear a reply. When she looked up, she saw her mother staring blankly.
He sighed helplessly and patted her shoulder. "Mother, didn't you have something to tell me? What is it?"
"Oh, oh," Grandma Jiang came to her senses and quickly said, "Ya Ya, now that you're better, how about you consider remarrying?"
"Remarry?" Jiang Nuan looked at Old Madam Jiang in horror and shook her head repeatedly. "Mother, I don't want to."
What the heck is remarriage? Don't people have to observe chastity in this day and age?
She can make money and has filial children and grandchildren, so why would she create trouble for herself?
Isn't it good to be an old lady?
“Yaya,” Grandma Jiang sighed, “the reason we made you threaten to hang yourself was because you were too weak to remarry and you had to raise five children. Only by making such a scene would your in-laws feel sorry for you. With your in-laws and your parents, you could make a living.”
“Mother,” Jiang Nuan swallowed hard, “Six years ago, was it you who made me threaten to hang myself?”
She said that with Jiang's selfish and self-serving character, how could she possibly commit suicide for love in the name of something great?
I never expected the hidden story to be like this.
That's right. Only in this way can we maximize the compassion of the Huang family elders and make them treat Jiang Nuan and the second branch of the family better.
For a moment, the look in his eyes as he looked at Grandma Jiang became complicated.
Sure enough, as people age, they become shrewd; my mother's understanding of human nature is terrifying.
"Ya Ya," sensing Jiang Nuan's change, Old Madam Jiang's cloudy eyes darkened, "Are you still blaming your mother?"
“No, no,” Jiang Nuan said, pursing her lips. “I know Mother meant well and doesn’t blame you.”
Even though I said that, I was still bothered by it.
She couldn't understand why they had to instigate Jiang to hang herself. A slight mistake could have cost her her life, and besides, such deceptive methods were hardly honorable.
"Yaya," Grandma Jiang seemed to know Jiang Nuan's thoughts, and explained with tears in her eyes, "If I had any other way, I wouldn't have let you suffer so much."
You know your own reputation: you are literate, gentle, capable, and blessed. Even if you remarry, many people will still have designs on you.
But the Huang family will absolutely not allow you to remarry.
You and Huang Mu had five children. When Huang Mu left, your eldest child wasn't even an adult yet, and your youngest was still breastfeeding. How could they possibly let you remarry?
Even if they were incredibly good to you before, now that Huang Mu is gone, your relationship is over. Whether for your sake or for the children's, they still had to pull this stunt!
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