Jiang Yonggui jumped up abruptly and scolded, "Look at you! What kind of behavior is this, with no respect for elders?"
"Then what gives you the right to criticize me? You were fired from the factory because of your own incompetence, what does that have to do with me?"
Jiang Yonggui's face turned ashen with anger. "You've ruined our family this time, and you still won't admit it."
He turned to his mother and said, "You're just spoiling her. She'll get what's coming to her sooner or later."
"Alright, stop arguing. It's one thing for others to laugh at us, but you two just can't shut up."
Jiang Qiaoyun turned her head and went out the door.
"Go buy the tickets later, we'll leave tomorrow, oh no, let's go the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow I want to see Qiaoyun get her marriage certificate."
"Mom, my uncle lost his job because of you. Do you think Qiaoyun can still get married?"
"Why can't it be settled? Your uncle is destined for wealth and status, who can you blame? Besides, he went too far back then, destroying Qiaoyun's records, and now Qiaoyun can't go to school. Doesn't he have to take responsibility?"
"Mom!" Jiang Yonggui raised his voice incredulously, "How can you be so unable to distinguish right from wrong? My uncle got to this point because he was helping us. Don't you feel any guilt at all? Is your heart even made of flesh?"
"Yonggui! How could you scold me like that? My heart isn't made of flesh. If I had given birth to you three, I should have just stomped on you and died. I wouldn't have had to worry about this and that all these years."
As she spoke, Yang Shuying burst into tears.
Jiang Yonggui sighed and said, "Mom, I'm sorry, I was too impulsive just now. I'll go buy the tickets now."
*
the next day.
Yang Hailong arrived in the morning.
He stood outside the gate, wearing the same old clothes from yesterday, expressionless, waiting for Jiang Qiaoyun to get ready.
Since there's no need to take photos for the wedding, he really couldn't understand what Jiang Qiaoyun was packing up for.
Or who are you dressing up so nicely for?
He feels like vomiting whenever he sees her.
Inside the house.
Yang Shuying is whispering to her daughter.
"Hailong is probably still angry. If he scolds you later, just bear with it for now. You can slowly get to him after you get married."
"And your uncle and aunt, once you get pregnant, they will definitely treat you well."
"After you go to Ningzhou, buy some baking soda and wash your hands with it in a small basin every night. That will help you have a son."
Jiang Qiaoyun blushed instantly.
"Men like this. If you take good care of him, he'll definitely listen to you in everything. Okay, hurry up and get ready, don't keep Hailong waiting too long."
Looking at the clothes scattered on the kang (a heated brick bed), Yang Shuying said, "Put all these away. Wear red today, it's festive."
Yang Hailong was getting impatient and was about to knock on the door when Jiang Qiaoyun came out.
She was wearing a new red dress and a red headband.
She was also wearing makeup.
She affectionately linked her arm with Yang Hailong's, and smiled shyly: "Brother Hailong, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."
Yang Hailong subtly withdrew his arm, keeping his distance from her.
"Let's take a picture later."
Yang Hailong said in a very indifferent tone: "It was something I did unwillingly in the first place, so what's the point of filming it?"
Jiang Qiaoyun wanted to lash out, but she held back when she remembered what her mother had said.
It's alright, there's plenty of time.
I refuse to believe I can't deal with a loser like you.
"Brother Hailong, how many days off did you take? It's almost National Day, how about we go to Ningzhou after the holiday?"
"I'll be leaving soon."
Jiang Qiaoyun stopped in her tracks, surprised: "What about me?"
"Where are you going to stay? You don't have a dormitory, do you expect to stay in a guesthouse? Do you have money?"
Jiang Qiaoyun felt very uncomfortable with this series of rhetorical questions and sarcasm.
You think you're so great just because you have a dorm room?
You'd better burn some incense and pray that your job will last.
She bit her lip, looking aggrieved. "Brother Hailong, you've changed so much, I hardly recognize you anymore. We were such good friends just a few days ago."
"Stop, don't talk about the past anymore, it makes me want to throw up."
"What do you mean? I didn't tell you about the school right away, but it wasn't on purpose. I thought that since my uncle wasn't involved, there was still a chance for things to turn around."
Jiang Yonggui sneered, "Your greed is insatiable. What do you all take my father for? Hasn't he done enough for you?"
"That's not what I meant. Oh, let's stop arguing. Today is a joyous day, let's be happy."
She wouldn't worry even if we didn't take her to Ningzhou.
Didn't her mother ask someone to find her brother a job at the provincial machinery factory?
Jiang Yonggui graduated from junior high school.
If he can find a job, then he can find one for her too.
Food and accommodation will be provided.
What's there to worry about?
Because the news of the substitution has already spread like wildfire.
Jiang Qiaoyun felt that the staff members who were helping her with the marriage certificate were looking at her strangely.
After receiving the marriage certificate, Yang Hailong didn't even glance at her before heading to the station without looking back.
Jiang Qiaoyun felt troubled.
She didn't want to stay in this place for even a second longer.
She had to go to Ningzhou immediately.
When she got home, she asked Jiang Yonggui to buy her a ticket too. Yang Shuying was shocked: "Where's Hailong? Isn't he going to Ningzhou?"
Jiang Qiaoyun stomped her foot angrily: "He left on his own, he didn't want to take me with him."
Jiang Yonggui said irritably, "Hailong was just transferred here and hasn't been assigned a house yet. Where will you live? The city is not like the countryside; everything costs money here."
“Your brother is right. Then you should stay at home for a while. No, you should go to your uncle’s house. Now that you’re married, you can’t keep living at your parents’ house. They have an obligation to support you.”
"Mom! What are you saying? You two have had such a bad fight, how can I go? I'm not going."
"You child, how can you be so insensible? It's precisely because things have gotten so tense that you need to go to their house to try and smooth things over."
"As the saying goes, even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected. Your uncle loved you so much when you were little, how could he really ignore you? Your aunt, she's just indecisive, she listens to your uncle in everything."
Jiang Qiaoyun said angrily, "Why should I try to make peace with them? I'm not going to live with them anymore. I'm going to Ningzhou."
"Why are you such a disobedient child? Are you going to refuse to let them take care of your next child?"
"I'll take care of my own child, why should they take care of him?"
"You've never experienced it, yet you're spouting nonsense. You think taking care of a child is easy? Let me tell you, it's a tough job. You've never done any manual labor since you were a child. Just wiping away poop and pee will exhaust you. You barely get any food to eat every day, let alone do anything else."
Jiang Qiaoyun didn't believe her mother's nonsense.
How tiring can it be to take care of a child?
"Besides, I don't want to stay at home at all. I also want to go to Ningzhou to find a job. Didn't you say that when a woman has a job and money, it's hard for her in-laws to look down on her?"
Unable to dissuade her, Yang Shuying had no choice but to have her son buy another ticket, planning to take her to Ningzhou the next day.
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