Chapter 130

Jiang's father and mother were at the train station every day, looking for him eagerly, but they never expected that Jiang Song would actually leave by long-distance bus.

Jiang Song's first love girlfriend was very reluctant to let Jiang Song go, but Jiang Song actually didn't feel too sad. He was more sad for those brothers who didn't come out with him. He felt sorry for them.

But if it wasn't for his first love girlfriend helping him this time, he would have been trapped and couldn't get out. He was still scared at first, but after his first love girlfriend came to find him, he was not so scared. He was in his early twenties and believed that he could live his life. It was seeing his girlfriend begging her father for him that made him feel very distressed. He coaxed his girlfriend and told her that he was fine, so she didn't have to worry and take care of herself.

He was always good at saying sweet words. The more he told his first love not to worry about him and take care of herself, the more she couldn't let him go. She thought he was a big fool.

The few days of being arrested and detained did not damage Jiang Song's handsomeness at all. Instead, he had a decadent temperament that made people want to feel sorry for him.

She cried and advised him seriously: "A Song, after this, you should not hang out outside anymore. Find a good job. You are not old. Go back to school to repeat a year and enter a university..."

When she mentioned this, he was very impatient, but he did not show it. Instead, he coaxed his first love: "Well, I know."

He has always been used to himself. Although he was a little sad to be separated from his first love, he quickly cheered up.

He made a lot of money this year. He originally wanted to go back to his hometown at the end of the year and bring his brothers to work hard together. He also wanted to build a house for his hometown. He originally wanted to build a three-story building, the most impressive in the village. He didn't expect that this severe crackdown would not only put all his brothers in jail, but also make him lose all his money.

Jiang's father and mother still sell lunch boxes at the train station. They no longer want to go to the construction site or work as a migrant worker. They find that working as a migrant worker is always working for others. Only their own business is their own.

Jiang's father originally wanted to rent a shop nearby and open a small shop, but Jiang's mother disagreed. She felt that the rent of the shop was expensive and unnecessary. They were still selling lunch boxes, and they saved the money for renting the shop.

Whenever the issue of spending money is mentioned, Jiang's mother would quarrel fiercely, so Jiang's father gave up the idea and only thought that he could build a big house when he returned home at the end of the year after making so much money.

Originally, Jiang's father wanted to build a small two-story house like Uncle Jiang's house, with white tiles all over the house and a large terrace on both sides to dry clothes, quilts, rice and flour, etc. Usually, some agricultural products from the fields, such as mung beans, sesame seeds, rapeseed oil, and dried radishes, can also be dried on the large terrace upstairs. The terrace is made of cement and is much cleaner than the one below. In summer, you can also enjoy the cool air on the large terrace upstairs at night.

This is currently the most common building layout in the village.

But after a year in Shenzhen, he rode his bike to buy goods every day. On the way, he saw many newly built small Western-style buildings. Unlike the ones in his hometown, which only had a central hall downstairs and two main rooms on the left and right, the Western-style buildings here were very large. He visited the landlord's house. There were six or seven rooms downstairs

alone, and there were two or three floors above. There was a yard outside, which was covered with cement. Some honeysuckle and roses dug from the mountains were planted. When Uncle Jiang first built the house, although he built the houses of his two sons together, they were indeed two separate houses.

Father Jiang had no idea of ​​splitting up the family. In his heart, the most perfect family was for his two sons and one daughter to live together, and for his children and grandchildren to be full. That was perfect.

In the past, when the family was divided, there was no house to live in. He built a small three-story house like this one, with six or seven rooms on each floor. When the time came, not only the three children and the couple, but also Grandpa Jiang could live together, even four generations living together could live there.

They waited here for a year with great enthusiasm, but Jiang Song did not come. At the end of the year, business was even better. Every day, countless migrant workers waited here to buy tickets to go home. During the Spring Festival travel period, the flow of people was extremely large, and the queues of people buying tickets were very long every day.

Jiang's father wanted to go back early, but Jiang's mother was reluctant to give up the good business these days. Every day, she and Jiang's father split into two groups, one riding a tricycle, and one selling thousands of boxed lunches twice a day. The money earned during the end of the year alone was enough to cover the money they had earned from working hard before.

They lived near the train station. Others couldn't buy train tickets during the Spring Festival, but they bought them in advance. In the last few days of the year, they could finally take a day off. The couple bought all the clothes, from coats and down jackets on the outside to sweaters and sports shoes on the inside.

The wholesale market in Shenzhen sells cheap clothes, and the couple bought a coat for each of their three children. Thinking of how surprised their three children would be when they saw the new clothes they bought, Jiang Dad couldn't wait to go home.

Jiang Ma didn't have any feelings for her younger son and daughter, but she missed her older son very much.

Jiang Dad wanted to buy clothes for them, and Jiang Ma didn't say anything, after all, she made money now, and the clothes in the wholesale market here were really not expensive. Jiang Dad also bought a pair of leather shoes for each of his three children.

Jiang's mother rolled her eyes at this: "It's good enough to have a pair of military sneakers to wear, why buy leather shoes!"

The military sneakers she was talking about are military green rubber-soled sneakers, which are relatively sturdy, durable and cheap, and are the shoes that rural people wear the most when working.

Dad Jiang is rich now, and his temper has become much tougher. When Mom Jiang disagreed, he glared at her and said, "The children are all grown up. They have to visit relatives during the New Year. How can they do without a pair of good shoes?"

He himself only wore ordinary sneakers, but he bought Mom Jiang a brand new set of shoes from head to toe. Mom Jiang then smiled, glared back at him, and complained, "You spend money recklessly just because you have money. I tell you, forget it this time. Don't spend a penny more when you go back. There are so many places to spend money at home!"

Dad Jiang said, "Yes, yes, the money is all with you. You're watching over it, so I can't spend it even if I want to, right?"

In fact, he has already saved two or three thousand yuan in private money.

He thought about going back to give his parents 200 yuan to pay for Jiang Bo and Jiang Xiong's tuition and living expenses, as well as Songzi. After the New Year, he would be 21 years old. Now that he was no longer studying, he could find a partner and get married.

Most rural boys get married at the age of 21 or 22. Some may become fathers at the age of 17 or 18.

In their rural areas, such boys are considered capable. They don't spend a penny, but they bring their partners back and have grandchildren.

Jiang's father also wanted to buy a coat for Jiang's grandfather and grandmother, but Jiang's mother had a big fight with him.

What Jiang's mother meant was, "The old man earns a lot of money a year, and he said he would give it to his brothers, so he gave it to them. He himself doesn't care, so why do you worry so much about him?"

Speaking of Grandma Jiang, she was even more impolite, "Your mother has given it all to your sister-in-law and her family. Your sister-in-law and her family will take care of it. We just need to take care of our share!"

In the end, she only bought clothes for Grandpa Jiang, and not for Grandma Jiang.

The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in rural areas seems to be passed down from generation to generation. There is always internal friction between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The mother-in-law herself was oppressed, and then when she became a mother-in-law, she began to oppress her daughter-in-law. She had suffered such hardships when she was young, and passed it down from generation to generation, letting her daughter-in-law suffer the same hardships she had suffered.

When Jiang's mother just married into the Jiang family, it was like this. Two women with strong personalities wanted to be the master of the family. At the beginning, Grandma Jiang had the upper hand. When Jiang's mother just entered a new environment, she was uneasy and nervous, and said to the outsiders: "I drew a circle on the ground and asked her to stand in the circle. She didn't dare to stand outside the circle!"

This shows how strong Grandma Jiang's personality was at that time.

At first, Jiang's mother could still bear it, but after she became pregnant, she no longer wanted to bear it and started to fight with Jiang's grandmother. However, a pregnant woman is the weakest and most powerless in her life, so how could she be an opponent of Jiang's grandmother?

The biggest insult to a daughter-in-law in the village is to scold her for being lazy and greedy, but Jiang's mother is strong and unyielding. Even though she was seven or eight months pregnant, she still worked in the fields. Jiang's grandmother could not say that she was lazy. She was said everywhere in the village that Jiang's mother was a greedy woman. At that time, there was indeed a shortage of supplies, little food, and little food. The family could only make some syrup to sweeten their mouths during the New Year. If

Jiang's mother ate one more mouthful of sweet potato syrup made from her own sweet potatoes during her pregnancy, she would be scolded by Grandma Jiang from one end of the village to the other, and she would be scolded for being greedy.

As the quarrels intensified day by day, Jiang's mother suffered a lot from Grandma Jiang during her pregnancy and confinement.

It is said that a woman can remember the grudges during confinement for a lifetime, and this is true for Jiang's mother.

Even though her children have grown up and are in their teens and twenties, Jiang's mother still resents Grandma Jiang and is unwilling to buy clothes for her.

Jiang's father does not understand Jiang's mother's hatred for Grandma Jiang. He even thinks that Jiang's mother has a bad temper and is also mean to his mother. It is just because he has private money that he does not want to quarrel with her. The couple then unhappily took their bags and got on the train home.

To some extent, Jiang's mother is a simple and innocent person. For example, in her words and actions, she never hides the fact that she gave birth to Jiang Xi so that she could help her two brothers and the family make money and take care of her in the future. She is so frank that it is almost cruel.

She is also a person who unconsciously takes the code of conduct of "it is better to create others than to waste yourself" to the extreme. Whoever makes her unhappy, she will quarrel with everyone who makes her unhappy.

Jiang's father is also one of the people who is quarreled with by her on a daily basis. She quarreled with Jiang's father until he finally stopped buying clothes for Jiang's grandmother, and she was happy.

As for whether Jiang's father is happy or not, what does it matter? As long as she achieves her own goal, it's fine.

Mother Jiang brought along two large bowls of chicken and duck legs that she had cut off every day for the whole year. Although the amount left over every day was not much, she had accumulated half a snakeskin bag of dried chicken and duck legs, all the size of thumb knuckles, and weighed a full 50 to 60 kilograms after drying. Thinking that she could use this as a gift to her relatives after returning home, it would be both decent and generous, and Mother Jiang was full of a sense of accomplishment.

As they got closer and closer to their hometown, Father Jiang's bad mood, which had been caused by Mother Jiang, also improved. He imagined that when he returned home, his three children would have prepared meals at home. He took out the new clothes and shoes he bought for them, and his children saw their surprised reactions, and announced that they would build a building in their hometown during the Chinese New Year! When his children surrounded him with shining eyes and smiles on their faces, he was more eager to go home.