Chapter 10 10

How funny, there are such ridiculous things in the world!

But there are so many such ridiculous things in the world!

Such a ridiculous thing happened to her and she experienced it personally.

She had to thank them, be grateful to them, because indeed, compared with those girls in the village who were drowned just after birth, dropped out of school to work after elementary school, and were married early in exchange for dowry, she was thousands of 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 continue studying.

Many people on the Internet said that it was the money earned by your parents, and they would give it to whoever they wanted.

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 grow up and become like them?

The pumps at the power station pumped for several days and nights, and the shallow beach of the river was exposed to the water. People from several nearby villages all went to the beach to catch fish.

In the mud of the beach, there are not only various fish, but also river clams, snails and wild lotus roots. It's just that it's not the season to eat lotus roots now, but if there are no lotus roots, lotus buds and lotus stems are also good things. Wild lotus

roots are so rampant that they grow directly into people's rice fields. You can stand on the ridge and reach out to pick lotus buds. There are

also ditches used to irrigate farmland near the beach, which are full of wild lotus roots, wild water chestnuts and wild water chestnuts.

Otherwise, how can they say that there are delicious foods everywhere here?

Jiang's father and mother also brought their own water chestnut basins and bathtubs to fish in the mud of the river beach. Jiang's father and mother put all the big black fish, grass carp, silver carp, crucian carp, and mullet into the water chestnut basin.

Jiang Yu used her own big wooden bathtub to catch river clams and snails that others didn't want. There were also many snails in the nearby fields. Stewed chicken feet with snails was also very delicious.

Many people don't eat snails at all because they can't tell the difference between snails and longevity snails. She only ate them when she had nothing to eat when she was a child. As for river clams, locals don't eat them

at all, because they think they are fishy, ​​old, and have mud and sand.

Mainly because during the famine, the river clams on the river beach were almost eaten to extinction by the locals, and they were almost sick of eating clams.

Jiang Xi picked up river clams and snails because she wanted to make clam sauce and snail sauce at home and bring them to school as vegetables. Although they were not real meat, they were better than eating pickled cabbage, radish and pickled vegetables every day.

If she came across fish, she would catch them as well, and unknowingly caught a large basin.

She pushed the wooden basin to the shore with great effort, poured all the snails and river clams in the basin onto the ridge of the field on the shore, caught the fish back in the wooden basin, and went down to catch river clams.

You put fish on the shore and people will take them, but river clams and snails, no one even wants to look at them. There are many pointed-mouth clams, short-mouth clams, and all kinds of clams on the river beach, but no one wants them.

Jiang's mother saw that Jiang Xi was not fishing properly, but was actually catching river clams there. She was so angry that she picked up a rotten mud ball and threw it at Jiang Xi: "I asked you to catch fish, why are you using that broken thing? Why don't you throw it away for me!"

Jiang's mother was speechless. Other girls were younger than her and were more skilled at work. They were catching fish very quickly, but she was the only one who was stupid. It was a compliment to say that she was as stupid as a donkey. How could someone be so stupid? How could she give birth to such a stupid and stupid girl?

She really wanted to stuff Jiang Xi back into her stomach and remake her.

Jiang Xi deliberately didn't stay with Jiang's father and mother. They were a little far away from each other. Jiang's mother's mud couldn't hit her, but instead covered the people around her with mud. She couldn't help but shout, "Ailian, 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, it was still very uncomfortable to be hit by mud.

Jiang's mother couldn't help but complain to others about Jiang Xi, "Tell me what kind of fate I have. Why did I give birth to such a stupid girl? Everyone else is fishing, but she is picking up river clams."

The people around also laughed, "Maybe your Xi Xi likes to eat river clams?"

"Yes, no one is grabbing the river clams yet, why not give them to your family?"

Jiang's father said to Jiang's mother, "It's enough for the two of us to fish, let Qing Qing touch whatever she wants."

Jiang's mother immediately found a vent for her anger: "It's all your habit! You let her do whatever she wants, do you think this is good for her? You are harming her! She can't do anything at home, you deserve to be beaten to death at your in-laws' house in the future!"

Jiang's father's face suddenly darkened. "What nonsense are you talking about? Qingqing is only a few years old and she has already moved to her husband's family. She will go to college and eat government food in the future. What's wrong with her not being able to carry anything?"

Jiang's father usually doesn't get angry, but when he gets angry, Jiang's mother will stop talking and mutter, "Just get used to her. I want to see how you can get used to her! Anyway, you are the good person and I am the stepmother!"

Jiang Qing quickly grabbed two large basins of river clams, took the bamboo basket and carried them home.

Jiang's mother was right. She really couldn't carry anything. She just walked a few steps with the shoulder pole on her shoulders and it hurt like hell.

Because she has two older brothers, Jiang's father treats the three children equally on the surface. Her grandfather dotes on her. Since she was a child, her two brothers have done all the things outside. It is really not her turn.

Seeing her staggering forward with the carrying pole, her two brothers could not bear to watch. They stretched out their hands and took away the heavy pole, saying impatiently, "Give it to me. I'm afraid you'll fall when you carry it!"

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 a war, Jiang Bai would take it speechlessly when he saw it: "Forget it, forget it, you can't cook, give it to me."

Jiang Xi would happily pass the spatula and pot lid to him, and compliment him: "My second brother cooks the best, it's a loss to the culinary world that you didn't become a chef!"

Jiang Bai would raise his lips modestly, talking about how he cooked delicious dishes, and who liked to eat his dishes, praising his delicious dishes. The

men in the Jiang family are all good at cooking, and the women can't cook.

Well, Jiang Xi can, but she pretends to be nothing.

She didn't pretend now. First, it was a period of double competition. Whether she pretended or not, it was her job to cook. She really didn't want to eat the pig food made by Jiang's mother and grandfather.

Second, she didn't need to pretend anymore. No one could force her to do something she didn't want to do.

She stumbled along carrying two baskets of river clams. Before she reached the river bank, Grandpa Jiang ran over from afar: "You put it there, I'll do it!" Grandpa

Jiang hunched over and jogged anxiously, fearing that if he ran too slowly, the bag would crush his granddaughter's thin body.

He quickly took the load and said, "You are so small, how can you carry it? I'll hurt you later."

He and Jiang's father, two generations, started carrying river embankments when they were in their teens. The river embankments of dozens of miles were dug out by their shoulders, one hand at a time, and carried out one load at a time.

They didn't want their grandchildren to suffer the pain they had endured. There was nothing they could do

about the boys in the family. Being born in a farming family meant working. They were all tall and strong, and carrying a load would not kill them.

But the little granddaughter was so young, how could she carry the load?

Grandpa Jiang felt sorry for her, and she also felt sorry for Grandpa Jiang. She followed behind Grandpa Jiang and kept trying to take the burden back from him: "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 Gui developed late, and her height also grew late. She was so thin and small, there was no way she could take Grandpa Jiang's burden.

Grandpa Jiang still thought she was blocking the way, so he waved his hand and asked her to go away: "Go to the rice field and watch the rice for me. Those noisy sparrows will steal the rice if you are not careful."

Watching the rice in the rice field is not only to prevent people from stealing, but also various birds. The rice must be turned over from time to time to expose it to the sun. The rainstorm is coming, and the rice must be collected in time and covered with straw to prevent it from getting wet and causing the rice to sprout.

Jiang Xi had no choice but to go to the rice field. Grandpa Jiang was right. He had been away for such a while, and many sparrows had already flown to the rice field to eat the rice.

Jiang Xi hurried over to let the sparrows leave.

When the sparrows saw someone chasing them, they immediately flapped their wings and flew away. They did not leave, but sat in a row on the electric wires at the edge of the rice field, staring at the rice below with eager eyes, ready to steal it at any time.

Grandpa Jiang came back soon, and seeing that she was covered in mud, he urged her: "You should go back and wash yourself." He also said: "I don't know why you touched so many river clams. They are old and fishy, ​​and you can't even chew them. If I hadn't wanted to see the rice, I would have gone fishing."

Grandpa Jiang felt very sorry that he could not go fishing on the river beach.

It was unknown how many of the fish that Jiang's father and mother caught would end up in their granddaughter's mouth. Unfortunately, the power station had pumped out all the water on the river beach, so there was no need to pump water anymore, and he could not cast a net to catch fish.

Jiang Xi did not go home immediately. She had to go back to the river beach to drag the wooden bathing tub home.

The whole family shared one bathing tub. Jiang Xi was not used to it. She fetched water every day and stood in the wooden tub to scoop water with a gourd ladle to take a shower.

The conditions were like this now. There was nothing she could do but to adapt.

When she arrived at the river beach, she saw so many people fishing in the muddy water. She could not help it and went down to fish again. She had caught enough river clams, so this time she really wanted to fish.

Unfortunately, her fishing skills were really limited. People were fishing for big silver carp, big grass carp, and big black carp in the muddy water. She just picked up some small fish that others did not want.

In their dialect, such small fish are called fish shit.

When we couldn't go down to the river, fish poop was a treasure. Now that the beach was above the water, we could catch fish there, so we disdainfully called it fish poop.

There were many small fish like this, trapped in small muddy puddles on the beach. We just had to reach out and pick them up.

Jiang Xi had 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!"

Jiang's father replied: "Well, can you drag the bathtub? If you can't drag it, leave it there, and I'll take it back later."

The bathtub was made of wood, and the basin itself was quite heavy, not to mention that there were so many small fish in it.

Jiang Xi walked towards the riverside, and when she reached a place with water, she pushed the large wooden basin floating on the water and waded home until she was near the power station. She then dragged the basin to the shore and then dragged it along the river bank to the canal.

The power station had just pumped water a few days ago, and there was still half of the canal in the water. The wooden basin floated down the canal, and she walked along the shore until she reached the place closest to her home, then dragged the basin ashore and moved home little by little.

"Xiangxiong?"

Jiang Xi turned around and saw Jiang Yueqin.

She hadn't seen Jiang Yueqin for several days since she rejected her that day. She looked at her heavily made-up face and was curious about how this man could trick her into going to such a place and still call her "Xixi" affectionately.

Jiang Yueqin was originally going to the beach to watch the excitement, but she didn't expect to meet Jiang Xi on the road and immediately greeted him warmly.

"Are you going to move back home? Do you want me to help you carry it?"

She just said politely.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Xi said very impolitely: "Yes!" Jiang Yueqin

was suddenly stuck there.

She was wearing a hip-hugging leather skirt and high heels.

She looked at Jiang Xi's half-basin of small fish, then looked at her high heels, and saw that Jiang Xi 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 Xiao lift the basin.

She was tall and walked at the back, while Jiang Xiao was short and walked at the front, with most of the weight of the basin on her side.

She put on makeup, and the weather was hot to begin with. After a while, sweat started to flow down her forehead, leaving two grooves on her face.

After finally helping Jiang Xiao carry the basin home, she sat on the threshold of Jiang's house, she was so tired that she didn't want to move at all. She fanned herself from the heat, with a look of disgust on her face: "What are you doing with so much fish poop and river clams?"

She stretched out her fingertips to pick up one of the river clams: "Can this be eaten?"

Jiang Xiao glared at her: "You've never eaten it before?"

Jiang Yueqin shook her head: "No."

Jiang Xiao stopped talking again.

Jiang Yueqin went to the chair in the main hall of the Jiang family and took out a big palm leaf fan. She sat on the doorstep and fanned herself while pointing at Jiang Xi, who was covered in mud: "If you ask me, you might as well go out to work with me. Look at you, you are so dirty!" Jiang Xi

drew well water and washed herself briefly, then took a basket of river clams to the pond to wash.

Jiang Yueqin hurriedly followed with the palm leaf fan: "To be honest, you are so beautiful. If you can dress up well, maybe

a big boss will take a fancy to you." She showed an envious look on her face: "Alas, you don't know, there is a little sister in our night... hotel who was favored by a big boss. You don't know how happy she is now~"

Jiang Xi stopped brushing the river clam shells and looked up at her.

Jiang Yueqin was only 19 years old, but she had already worked as a laborer for several years.

She was taken away when she was 14 or 15, or even earlier.

That's how it is in the countryside, one person takes one, usually to the factory to make clothes, or to the electronics factory. It's rare to be taken there like Jiang Yueqin, and I don't know who was the first person to go there.

Before leaving the village, these girls were really innocent. At this time, their values ​​had not yet been formed, and they were ignorant. They only had one idea that was instilled in them since childhood, to go out and work and earn money for their families.

When they were first taken there, they were all waiters.

But after staying in such a place for a long time, what they see every day are men and women making love and living a life of luxury. They are so young, and their values ​​have not yet been established. It is common for them to be tempted by the encouragement of 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 without doing anything is much better than working like Jiang Xi, who works stupidly all day and still makes no money.

Jiang Yueqin felt a little uneasy when Jiang Xi looked at her. She reached out and touched her face and hair: "Why are you looking at me?"

Jiang Xi looked into her eyes, smiled, and asked her: "Didn't you say that a big building was built for your family? And then what? Is there a room for you?"