Chapter 13 13

Jiang Ma angrily stretched out her finger and poked Jiang Ning on the forehead hard: "You just remember that I beat you, why didn't you see me when I beat your two brothers?"

She poked with anger, Jiang Ning's head was like a rubber ball, falling to the side and then bouncing back.

Jiang Ning touched the painful forehead and smiled again, "Really? I really don't remember you beating the eldest brother."

The second brother was beaten before, and he howled for a whole day. Who would dare to hit him again? , you have to weigh whether you can bear his continuous crying, and he will cry wherever you go.

The second brother is the kind of person who usually looks silent, but whoever dares to bully him will secretly kill you.

Jiang's mother's eyes turned red, and she cried, "You are still blaming me, blaming me for being useless, blaming me for being poor, and giving birth to you in a family like ours, but ah ah, this is fate!

" What can I do? I have also been through the same hardships. Who made you not be born a boy? If you were a boy, I would have let you study and go to college. I would have worked my ass off to support you. You read, but you are a girl. What's the point of a girl reading so many books? "

Excuse me?

What are you talking about?

Do you know what you are saying?

Jiang Xi's face was full of frustration: "You mean, I am a boy You let me study, but you won't let me study because I'm a girl. The reason you let me study is not because of your ability, but because of my gender, because I'm not a boy? "

How absurd!

"Are girls born with sin?" Jiang Xi couldn't help but ask Jiang's mother: "Mom, you are also a woman, and you also said that you suffered this way, so the suffering you have experienced must also be experienced by me. You said that it is useless for girls to study. If it is useless, why don't you let the eldest brother and the second brother drop out of school and go home? Why do you have to work so hard to make them study and let the eldest brother repeat his studies? Don't you think it's contradictory? "

Jiang's mother was stunned for a moment. She had never thought about this question.

Because this is how she was taught since she was a child. Everyone around her told her that this was the right way. All women have gone through this, so she didn't think about whether it was right or not. She just taught her daughter the same thing she had been taught since she was a child.

Surviving every day has already exhausted all her energy, so how could she think so much?

Jiang's mother thought for a while and said, "Isn't that how all women live? Which woman doesn't suffer? People come to this world to live a happy life. She rolled her eyes at Jiang Xi and said, "Who made you so unlucky that you were born a girl?"

Life is better now. When she was a child, life was hard. She went up the mountain to chop wood and herd cattle. Taking care of children, carrying endless dams, doing endless work.

Unlike Jiang Xi's generation, life has become better, at least now they are not hungry.

So Jiang's mother can't understand why her daughter is so resistant to dropping out of school to work and earn money. It's about money.

Being able to go to the city, have a job, and get paid well is something they never dared to think about in the past!

What happened to the hotel waiter?

The waiters in that big hotel were not sure how good they were. When she was young, she passed by a state-owned hotel once. She did not know how many people envied the jobs there.

What was the point of going to high school? Eight out of ten educated youth who went to the countryside were They are all high school students, don't they have to plant rice and harvest rice? They want to

go to college. Grandma Jiang's sister married a college student, a famous university, but she was still sent to the farm for labor reform.

Jiang Xi knew that she and Jiang Ma had different values. Jiang Ma’s values ​​were already fixed. She couldn’t convince her and didn’t want to talk to her. She just said, “I won’t drop out of school to work. I must Study hard and go to college."

Seeing that she was not listening, Jiang's mother stopped crying and slapped Jiang Xi on the back, making Jiang Xi, who was hanging salted fish under the eaves, feel very uncomfortable. He staggered, took several steps forward, and almost fell down.

Jiang's mother looked down at her with a frown on her face and said, "I've already told Yueqin that you have to go when the time comes, whether you want to or not! I can't control a three-year-old girl. "I'm so happy to see you!"

In the evening, Dad Jiang came back with three empty buckets, looking very happy: "All the crayfish are sold out. Some people actually eat this." Dad Jiang said happily: "No one bought it at the beginning. I I took a few for them to try." Jiang's father praised: "Your idea is still good, two yuan per pound, this bucket of lobsters sold for more than twenty yuan."

Jiang's father decided to pick up some more lobsters. Go sell. Tomorrow is not the market, so you can pick up more. If you can’t sell them all, just ride your bike to a few more places.

Jiang Qing asked his father: "Now no one knows that this thing is delicious, and no one is selling it. After you sell it, everyone will know that this thing can make money. Will there be so many lobsters for you to pick up?"

Jiang Qing Dad frowned. He really didn't think that much.

"Why don't you buy a few acres of land to raise lobsters?"

Before Jiang Xi finished speaking, Jiang's mother ran out angrily and pointed at the two people's noses: "You dare to do this, unless you want to die!"

Jiang The reason why my mother was so angry was that in the 1980s, Jiang's father had a chicken farm. A chicken plague caused Jiang's father to owe a lot of debts. He had just paid off the debts after so many years. Life was getting better, but then his daughter died. He instigated Jiang's father to cause trouble again, and Jiang's mother immediately sounded the alarm, as if she was facing a powerful enemy.

She had never been angry before. She waved her hand and hit Jiang Xi in the face: "Have you forgotten what we lived through in the past few years? The family's foreign debts have just been paid off. We can't even support you guys, so you instigated you to go to jail. Dad is doing something stupid. There are lobsters piled up in the ditch and no one is picking them up. You still want your dad to raise lobsters? Have you forgotten the days of hiding from debt? You are living too comfortably and your skin is itching. Right?"

"If you're itchy, I'll give you a break!"

Seeing that she couldn't hit her, Jiang's mother got even angrier and started hitting her with a broom leaning against the wall.

Jiang Xi ran in front and she followed behind. He chased Jiang Xi for several miles.

The villagers came out to see what was going on, especially Aunt Jiang, who ran after them to try to hold back Mother Jiang.

But Mother Jiang was only 1.67 meters tall and strong, so she could not help but ask what was going on. Could the short and fat Aunt Jiang catch up? Even if she couldn't catch up, she would chase after him, shouting as she chased, "Ailian! Ailian, what are you doing? Put down the broom quickly, don't hurt the child!" ! "

Everyone could see that Jiang's mother was really angry and wanted to beat him.

The brooms in the countryside were all made by themselves, and the broom handles were very strong. If she hit him, and she hit him in anger, Don't beat the child to death.

The Jiang family has only one concubine. Aunt Jiang gave birth to three sons but no daughter. Aunt Jiang also had two sons. This generation has only one little girl, who is so good-looking. If she is not spoiled, she will be a troublemaker every day. She didn't know what Jiang's mother was thinking.

She called out to Jiang's father again: "Why didn't you know to stop them?"

Jiang's father had already chased after her, wiping the sweat from his forehead and said: "I never thought that she would hit people just like that. Before I could even react, the two of them ran so far away."

"Because of what?"

"Nothing, what happened? Xiaoxiao and I didn't say anything."

Jiang's father ran forward to stop Jiang's mother, and Jiang's eldest aunt also chased after them, panting. The two of them dragged Jiang's mother on the left and right, and pulled her back.

When Jiang's mother heard what Jiang's father said, she threw the broom on the ground and cried loudly, "Is there nothing wrong? This suicidal girl actually instigated her father to raise lobsters. You all know what my family has been like in the past few years. A few years ago, we ran a chicken farm and owed a lot of money. We finally paid it off. Now we have a little hope for the future, but she actually instigated her father to raise lobsters. Isn't this... Is it just a waste of money?"

She pointed at the houses in this area and said, "Look at the houses around. My house is the shortest. Who doesn't laugh at me behind my back? I don't say it out loud normally, but I'm too embarrassed to say it! She is not sensible at all. She doesn't know how to think about the family at all. She is just like her father!"

Mother Jiang was really angry this time. Her chest hurt and she cried very sadly.

Father Jiang also knew that Mother Jiang had suffered a lot with him over the years. She was originally very happy after selling the money today, but now she has no mood at all. She half pulled and half hugged Mother Jiang and said, "Xingxing just said it casually. Raising lobsters is not such a simple thing..."

"Don't even think about it!" Jiang's mother interrupted him sharply: "She just can't stand seeing things go well at home!" Jiang's mother cried angrily: "I gave birth to her to collect debts! I don't know how much I owed her in my previous life, and I gave birth to such a life-taking thing. Other people give birth to daughters to repay their gratitude, but I gave birth to this one to make enemies with me!"

The neighbors all agreed with Jiang's mother's words and felt that Jiang Xi was indeed wrong: "We can't listen to her nonsense. This is the first time I heard that crayfish need to be raised. I don't know how many there are in the ditch. We can't pick them all. Who would eat that stuff?"

Some people paid different attention and asked Jiang's father: "Are you still picking lobsters to sell? Is there really anyone buying them?"

Jiang's father originally wanted to sell some more lobsters for some money, but now he couldn't hide it anymore.

He smiled bitterly and said, "Two cents a pound, for the kids as snacks, and I also bought a lot of cucumbers and peppers." Jiang's father sighed and said, "I just listened to the kids and did it. My cucumbers and peppers are worth more than that."

"Ah? Someone really bought it?" What's wrong with two cents? Two cents is not money? Many people also wondered if they could pick some and sell them at the market.

Father Jiang smiled bitterly and said, "What are you selling? I'm going to sell fish today. The fish I caught on the river beach yesterday are all sold today. Who would buy crayfish? I can't even sell them at 20 cents a pound. I gave them to my nephews and nieces. My father-in-law didn't dare to give them food because he was afraid of worms. I made sure they were washed clean and cooked for a long time before they ate them."

Everyone nodded when they heard this.

"That's right. Who would eat lobsters? They are in the stinky ditch every day. I don't know how dirty it is!"

"If this thing is edible, wouldn't they have eaten it long ago? Why would they wait until now? There are lobsters everywhere in the pond. Children are too lazy to even look at them, let alone eat them." Someone agreed.

Seeing so many people agreeing with her, Jiang's mother became even more angry: "Listen to me, listen to me, am I right? If you say to raise a few more pigs, I have no objection, but you want to use several acres of land to raise lobsters? Isn't that throwing money into the water?"

When everyone heard this, they realized that not only did they need to raise lobsters, but they also needed several acres of land to raise them, and those fields were for growing crops.

They felt that Jiang Gui really deserved to be beaten. After just a few years of good life, she was ruining the farmland. "She just eats too much. Just starve her for a few meals and she'll be fine!"

"Your daughter is really rude, and so is your husband. Why do you listen to your daughter in everything? How can a woman have any knowledge? They are all short-sighted."

Jiang's father said helplessly, "Gu Gui just said that. Didn't I disagree?"

"How can you say that?"

"You shouldn't have let her go to school. After a few years of studying, she doesn't even know her own last name. And you're raising lobsters?" The villagers sneered.

"Did you hear that? Did you hear that?" Jiang's mother pulled Jiang's father's ear: "Listen to what others are saying!"

Outside, Jiang's father could only coax Jiang's mother: "Yes, yes, you are right, you are right."

Jiang's mother was coaxed by Jiang's father and went home. When she got home, her eyes were still red. She said to Jiang's father: "Don't think about this and that all day long. If you dare to do these things, I will die!"

Jiang's father nodded helplessly and coaxed her: "I listen to you, I listen to you. I don't want to do it. I just want to sell it for a few more days because I made some money today."

He really didn't want to raise lobsters. There were many people at the market today, and the lobsters were all sold. There would be no one in the next few days. Where could he sell lobsters?

They have a market every three or six days here, and there are still three days before the next market.

He gave Jiang's mother the money from selling fish and crayfish today. Jiang's mother took the money, counted it, put it in the cupboard and locked it. When she came out, she said viciously: "When she comes back today, I will give her a good beating!"