Chapter 214 [There is a plot about Jiang Song and Jiang's mother, giving out red envelopes]

Jiang Guotai used his mobile phone to call Jiang's father, or the previous landline. The other end of the phone picked up, but he couldn't understand what was being said

. This is also the reason why he didn't want to call Jiang's father. Even though the people on both ends tried their best to communicate in Mandarin, Jiang Guotai's Mandarin was really Shuibu Town Mandarin. He thought he was speaking Mandarin, but in fact, he was speaking a dialect mixed with non-standard words. The

same was true on the other end of the phone. The owner of the convenience store was a native of Shenzhen and spoke Shenzhen Mandarin. Both sides were tired of listening, but at least they understood to shout "Jiang Guoping" to answer the phone.

Every time Jiang Guoping made or received a phone call, it was always in their grocery store. Jiang's father was also a good person. From time to time, he would send the boss and his wife some salty foods such as duck heads and duck feet that they had grown themselves. It wasn't much, but over time, they felt that Jiang's father and mother were honest people, and the meals they cooked were clean and delicious. When the grocery store's wife didn't want to cook, she would buy lunch boxes from Jiang's father and mother. Jiang's father and mother would always send them an extra duck foot or dried orchid or something, and they got along very well with him and his wife.

Jiang's father was not at home, and the boss's wife ran to the train station to call him: "Someone from your hometown called you!" Then she handed him a phone number she copied from the phone: "This is the number. Call back when you have time. I'm leaving now!"

Jiang's father hurriedly picked up a few duck heads and gave them to the boss's wife to take back.

The boss's wife happily took the duck heads from Jiang's father and hurried back to the store to look after the store.

Jiang's father took off his apron and said to Jiang's mother: "It's Guotai's call. You stay here and watch. I'll go back and ask what's going on."

Jiang Guotai is a busy man. Generally speaking, no one would call him unless it was something very important.

Not long after Jiang Guotai hung up the phone, Jiang's father called back.

Jiang Guotai said: "You make a lot of money every year now. You have to go to the canteen every time to answer or make calls, and the people there can't understand what they say. Can't you buy a mobile phone?"

Others don't know how much Jiang Guoping makes in a year, but Jiang Guotai knows it.

If you make money but don't show off, it's like walking in the night in a gorgeous dress.

When Jiang's father shows off to others, he is afraid that others will borrow money from him or steal his money, but he doesn't have these concerns when showing off to Jiang Guotai.

Not to mention that the sand factory he contracted started to make money every day after the flood receded, even the money his brick factory made in a month was more than what Jiang's father made in a year.

The meaning of Jiang's father and Jiang Guotai's boasting is also very obvious, that is, brother, although I am down and out now, compared with those people in the village, I am still making money quietly and earning a lot.

Jiang Guotai knows his little thoughts and is not annoyed. On the contrary, he is very happy that he has cheered up again. He just reminds him to be nicer to his children at home. Every time he calls, he must emphasize to him that his daughter is extraordinary and they may all rely on him in the future.

Jiang Guoping listens to Jiang Guotai the most. Originally, he always forgot to send living expenses to his two children regularly. After all, the children are too easy to worry about and don't call to ask for money, so they always assume that they don't need it.

But now, no matter whether Jiang Bai and Jiang Qing need it or not, Jiang's father regularly gives Jiang Bai and Jiang Qing living expenses every month. In this era, it is still a lot. Three hundred yuan per person per month, two hundred of which are open accounts, and the other one hundred is a secret account transferred from his own private money.

Every time he sent money for living expenses, Jiang's mother, who was used to saving money, couldn't help complaining, "They both make money on their own. We didn't ask them for money, but gave them money every time. Who raised them so much? Isn't it paying money to the family?"

Jiang's father glared at him, "How can it be the same? They go to work, and Baizi and Liuliu go to school. They will not be from the same world in the future. Don't compare those useless people with Baizi and Liuliu!"

Jiang's mother said disapprovingly, "Guoan and Guoliang are also college students. How many times do they come home in a year?" She would not say, "Those who are righteous are usually butchers, and those who study are usually treacherous." But she wanted to express this meaning, saying, "You can't even see them during the Chinese New Year. When they get married, will you still be able to enjoy their happiness?"

As long as she saw the precedents of Jiang Guoan and Jiang Guoliang, Jiang's mother had no idea of ​​enjoying the happiness of Jiang Bai and Jiang Xi after they became successful. She always felt that they were unreliable and that she could only rely on her eldest son in the future.

To a certain extent, she was right.

However, the eldest son she was chasing after was also unreliable.

At this time, Jiang Guotai mentioned the matter of buying a mobile phone. Could it be that Jiang's father didn't want to do this? He had long wanted to buy a cell phone to show off, but every time he brought it up, Jiang's mother would scold him harshly: "I think your good days will soon be over! Do you believe that as soon as you buy a cell phone, those pickpockets will steal it? Maybe even the house we live in will be targeted by thieves!" In

that era, cell phones were still a luxury item and not everyone could afford them.

Probably because they knew the crackdown was over, since the second half of the year, there have been more pickpockets, thieves, and motorcycle gangs in the entire Shenzhen train station. Many gangs do not steal, but rob. They snatch your bag and then dive into the crowd. The train station is very crowded, and several gangs will deliberately squeeze you, making it impossible for you to go out to find someone. When you get out of the crowd, the other party has already run away and even thrown away your ID.

Residents nearby are also often visited by these thieves and pickpockets, so that Jiang's father and mother wear tattered clothes every time they go out, and dare not wear any good clothes, for fear of being targeted by these people.

Jiang's father and mother have seen this kind of thing many times near the train station. At first, they saw those people being robbed and crying for help everywhere, and they even pitied them and gave them a box lunch.

After many times, Jiang's father and mother found that some people pretended to be victims whose money was stolen by thieves and they were penniless, and asked for help from passers-by, asking for five or ten yuan.

No one else has more money, but there are still many people who give three or five yuan. There are really many kind people in this world.

You think that you gave someone money for the trip and they will take the bus home, but in fact, she has been asking for money here not only today, but when you come back ten days later, she will still be asking for money here. The money she earns in one day is more than what they earn from buying box lunches.

Jiang's mother, who was originally not happy about Jiang's father giving them lunch boxes and watching them coldly, had another big fight with Jiang's father after discovering these people's routines. She took control of the family finances even more tightly, not only not letting Jiang's father get involved, but also depositing all the money they made into the bank every week. Only by depositing it in the bank could they feel at ease, and every time they went, Jiang's mother asked Jiang's father to wear their tattered clothes from three years ago, and put the money in several layers of snakeskin bags, for fear that those thieves would use a blade to cut the outer bag, and they would not know when the money inside would disappear.

Those thieves usually targeted those who dressed more decently, but few people targeted them.

Thanks to Jiang's mother's prudence, they have never been robbed. If it were just Jiang's father, who knows how many times they would have been robbed.

In addition, after three years here, they basically know which thieves there are in the train station. Thieves often come to Jiang's lunch stand to buy lunch, because the lunches on Jiang's and Jiang's lunch stand are the best.

Every time they come, Jiang's father pretends not to know, and entertains them with a smile. He doesn't dare to provoke them. Sometimes he even tries to get close to them, adding an egg or five-spice dried tofu to their food. In addition, Jiang's father is tall and strong, and Jiang's mother is also in good shape. One of them is smiling and looks like a good old man, and the other is fierce and fierce. No one bothers Jiang's father and Jiang's mother.

So even if Jiang's father wants to buy a mobile phone and show it off at home, Jiang's mother always scolds him and gives up the idea.

He said to Jiang Guotai with a wry smile: "You know your sister-in-law's temper. If I dare to buy a mobile phone, she will definitely fight with me!"

Jiang Guotai on the other end of the phone laughed and talked about the division of the tea mountain in his hometown: "I have already told the village chief about the land of Lingling. I left the best for her. As for Songzi..." He asked: "Haven't you found it yet?"

These words made Jiang's father silent.

Jiang Guotai said: "Okay, since Songzi is not here, let's wait for him to come back next time to divide it. There is still room for division on such a large mountain. This time it is mainly our second and third rooms. There are not many families in the first and fourth rooms who grow tea. When there is real income, those people will definitely clamor for division of land. We can divide it then. If Songzi gets married and has children, she can get more."

He was really busy and hung up after saying a few words . After he got on the phone, he did not stay in Jiangjia Village for long. He took his motorboat and left. Before he left, he first agreed with the village chief that the best plots of tea mountain would not be drawn by lot and would be left for Jiang Xi and Jiang Yanyan. He said, "You don't have to give up my tea land, but Fourth Brother has been running around so busy to develop the economy of our hometown. The village cannot let him down. He only has one girl like Yanyan. Isn't it too much to leave her a piece of land facing the sun with the best light?"

"As for Xiaoxiao." Jiang Guotai's attitude was even more serious. "We can see from the fact that she came back to help with disaster relief during the summer vacation that we may have to rely on her in the future. We are not giving her more land than everyone else, so we are giving her the best land.

The village chief smiled and touched his gray hair. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, I know everything!"

The village chief has been the village chief of Jiangjia Village for so many years. He is highly respected in the village. How could he not know the cat's gum here? The village chief not only planned to give the best land to Jiang Yanyan and Jiang Xiao, but also Jiang Guotai's daughter Jiang Miao, his own grandson, and some key members' families.

The mountainous area of ​​Chaoyang is very large. As for the remaining land with good orientation, it will be drawn by lot in a fair and open manner. Whoever gets the land will get it. If people who are not core members of the group also get the land with good orientation, no one will say anything.

It is just luck. If you say they are selfish and partial, not all of them got the best land. There is only one mu. If you say they are not partial, they are indeed partial.

If someone among the core members of the group gets the tea land with good orientation by luck, then it is fair and open luck, and they should be given it.

After Jiang Guotai showed up and expressed his attitude here, the matter here was handed over to Jiang Town Chief and Jiang Village Chief.

Mayor Jiang attached great importance to the plan Jiang Qing gave him to develop the economy of his hometown.

Because of the flood this year, he originally wanted to plant lotus roots, water chestnuts, and water caltrops in Yaoba Town, which he currently governs, and mobilize the villagers to raise crayfish and pearls, but the flood caused all his plans this year to fail. Fortunately, he did not have time to do it this year, otherwise the flood alone would have caused all his aquaculture plans to go bankrupt.

During the flood, he could not do anything except disaster relief and flood control, so he devoted all his efforts to promoting the tea planting plan in his hometown. Now he has finally planted various tea varieties suitable for the soil and water of their "Huolu Mountain". He has also contacted experts and professors at the Provincial Agricultural College and the Agricultural Bureau about planting wolfberries, persimmons, chestnuts, hawthorns and other varieties, and will wait until the beginning of next spring to launch these plans.

Fortunately, according to the rules of the Shahe River here, after a flood, there will be peace for ten years. In the next ten years, there will be no need to worry about such a big flood, and he can concentrate on aquaculture in Yaoba Town, which he is currently in charge of, and Jiangjia Village.

He looked at the endless shallow beach still soaked in water. In the past, he was born and raised here, and was used to seeing everything that grew on this land. He never knew that the things they were used to seeing and seeing in the open might be treasures that others could not find, treasures that could bring prosperity to the hometown and boost the economy of the hometown.

Because it was a major event of land distribution, Jiang's father did not dare to delay. After Jiang Guotai left, Jiang's father immediately called the village chief Jiang to confirm the land distribution. Because he was not in his hometown, all the land distribution matters in his hometown were handed over to his eldest brother, that is, Uncle Jiang.

"I will transfer the money to you tomorrow." Jiang's father said.

Village Chief Jiang said, "Have you found your eldest son? Logically, if he comes back, he should be given land. If he gets married and has children, he should be given three parts. But there has been no news about your eldest son for almost three years..."

Jiang Guotai had already told him this before, but even though he understood, Jiang's father still felt bad.

There has been no news for almost three years. Generally speaking, as long as nothing happened, even if he didn't come back, he would call his hometown, but there was no news at all about Jiang Song.

Everyone in the village was suspicious. Didn't Jiang Song like to fight? He might have been caught and shot in the crackdown the year before last.

Jiang's father didn't want to believe it, but his heart couldn't help sinking. He only hoped that his son would be arrested and imprisoned for a few years rather than being shot. They became more and more afraid to leave Shenzhen and just kept looking for Jiang Song. They started by just focusing on the train station, then occasionally went to Shenzhen and even the surrounding prisons to inquire if there was a Jiang Song.

The village chief probably knew that he was upset, and said, "This is only the first time the land is divided. The tea leaves grow well on the tea mountain. If there is any profit in the future and money can be made, the first and fourth wives will definitely scramble to get a share of the land. By then, there will probably be news about Song Nut from your family, and it will be the same when the land is divided again. If you have grandchildren, you can get three or four shares together."

Although he said so, the land with good orientation would definitely be divided up by the first group of people this time. For those who wanted to join in later, there would of course be tea land on the tea mountain, but it might be located in the valley, at the foot of the mountain, or facing west, in the shade with poor sunlight.

The tea leaves grown in these places are also called "Wugong Tea", just like the tea leaves around the entire city of Hangzhou are all called Longjing Tea, but the taste of the tea leaves grown in different locations is different, so the prices sold are also very different.

It is not obvious now, but such a gap will become more and more obvious in the future.

In the evening, Jiang's father and Jiang's mother asked for the passbook, because they had to go to the village chief to collect money tomorrow.

Jiang's mother reluctantly took out the passbook and threw it at Jiang's father, saying: "I have never seen a family where the eldest son did not get land and gave it to the younger brothers and sisters! You follow whatever Guotai does, and you think his fart is fragrant. You also have so many tea mountains. I see so much tea, who are you going to sell it to when the time comes!"

They hadn't heard from Jiang Song for a long time. They had been anxiously looking for him all over the world at the beginning, and they had been eager to see their son at the train station every day, but they gradually became disappointed and got used to not seeing their eldest son.

Jiang's father and mother had already prepared for the worst, and estimated that their son had been affected in the severe beating.

But the couple tacitly did not mention the worst, and just continued to look for their son silently.

Jiang's father explained: "It's not that we haven't heard from Songzi for more than two years. We are afraid that he got married and had children outside. It's not appropriate to divide the land too much, and it's not appropriate to divide it too little. We are just waiting for him to come back and divide it together next time. There are still a lot of people in the first and fourth rooms who haven't been divided this time."

Jiang's mother didn't say anything.

In fact, she didn't value the tea mountain land, not to mention that she had to spend money on it. She was not satisfied, but she felt that the eldest son Jiang Song didn't get any land, but the two younger ones got it, not to mention that Jiang Xi was a girl, so she felt a little unfair for Jiang Song.

When Jiang's father said that they could share the land later, she stopped talking and prayed in her heart, hoping that Jiang Song was really like what they thought, not arrested, but married and had children outside.

But they couldn't imagine why their son married and had children outside for almost three years and didn't come home, and didn't give them any news, and let them worry until their hair turned white without coming home.

They knew in their hearts that Jiang Song was probably locked up and it was impossible for him to marry and have children outside.

It's not to mention that although Jiang Song didn't get married outside, he really had a child, but the child hadn't been born yet, so he didn't know about it.

Why didn't he call his hometown after the Chinese New Year, and he couldn't even remember his hometown at all? He was really exhausted by the woman he brought back for the Chinese New Year.

After his girlfriend came back from school, he asked the girl who worked in the dance hall to leave, but she just wouldn't leave. She begged him in all kinds of humble ways, lowered herself to the dust, washed his clothes and cooked for him, and was obsessed with him day and night. Which man can bear such a persistent entanglement?

But reason told him that he couldn't do this, and he was afraid that the girl would go to his girlfriend. He was exhausted and exhausted every day between the two women.

But he is exactly the same as those romantic people in movies and TV dramas. He is soft-hearted and will not tolerate hardship. As long as others are humble and cling to him, even if he knows it is wrong, he still can't help but pity this girl who only relies on him and clings to him day and night, and his heart softens again and again.

After more than half a year, his girlfriend finally found out that something was wrong.

It is very different to treat your girlfriend when there is such a person around and when there is no such person.

Jiang Song is not a fool. He knows who his real girlfriend is. After being almost discovered by his girlfriend, he made up his mind and gave her 5,000 yuan to let her leave.

The girl touched her belly, looked at him deeply, took the money he gave, went to the girl's university, found out all the news about the girl, and then turned around and disappeared in the vast crowd.

Jiang Song was relieved that the girl had left.

He had no idea what he had missed during those years of living happily outside.

People in Jiangjia Village could not contact Jiang Xi, but they had Jiang Bai's contact information and called Jiang Bai's store.

The current store is no longer the store they rented at the school gate, but Jiang Bai and Jiang Xi's own store.

After the store was renovated and ventilated, Grandpa Jiang now watches the store downstairs during the day and goes to sleep in the house that Jiang Xi bought at the back at night. The floor heating is on and it is very warm.

It was Grandpa Jiang who answered the phone. Grandpa Jiang was very happy to receive a call from his hometown. Even though he had his hometown's phone number and the people in his hometown also had his phone number, they were reluctant to pay the phone bill and still seldom called. When he received a call from the old village chief, he couldn't stop smiling and shouted loudly: "Hello!"

The old village chief also shouted loudly: "Hello!"

The two of them said "Hello" several times before the old village chief was sure that the signal there was no problem. He told Grandpa Jiang that his hometown, under the leadership of Jiang Liu, Jiang Guotai and Jiang Town Mayor, had planted a large tea mountain. He also said that in the spring of next year, he would invite some experts and people from the Agriculture Bureau to come and guide them in planting crops such as wolfberries, persimmons, and chestnuts.

He shouted loudly: "All the wild lotus roots are drowned this year! According to the plan of Lao Si and Guotai, they will plant lotus roots, water chestnuts and water caltrops later. Those who are willing to grow crayfish in the large piece of land near the Shahe beach can raise crayfish!"

Grandpa Jiang listened with a smile on his face as the village chief talked about the changes in his hometown on the phone. He didn't know that Jiang Xi had suggested to Jiang's father that they should raise crayfish while no one was raising crayfish in their hometown yet.

After chatting for less than two minutes, the old village chief's loud voice came from the phone: "It costs money to make a phone call! I won't talk to you! You will know when you come back! I called to talk to you about the division of tea land. Your grandchildren have land, and you have land too!"

The old people in the hometown had no idea that Grandpa Jiang's household registration had also been moved away. They all assumed that Grandpa Jiang's household registration was still in the village. When drawing lots, they asked Uncle Jiang to draw tea land for them.

Uncle Jiang's family was lucky and drew two acres of land with good sunlight. The location of Uncle Jiang's tea land was not so good. Except for one acre facing the sun, the rest were all in the shade.

But because they have to patrol one more acre of tea mountain this year, Grandpa Jiang's salary as a forest ranger has been increased from 100 yuan a month to 50 yuan from the village committee. Starting from this month, it will be 150 yuan a month.

Uncle Jiang didn't mind the difference in land he got, and smiled and said to Aunt Jiang: "There is also the tea land of Guoliang's wife. Guoliang is married, and our mission is also completed."

The old couple was very sad that their two sons were not around, but they were satisfied with everything else, especially Aunt Jiang.

She didn't want her two sons to stay in the village. She would rather they go to the city and live there. Even though she was not around them, they were still healthy and had jobs as forest rangers. They had food and drink and were paid. What else could they be dissatisfied with?

You know, in his previous life, Grandpa Jiang's salary was still 100 yuan a month until he fell and died five years later. It never went up after that.

Jiang Bai was surprised and delighted to get an acre of tea land.

He and Jiang Xi were different from each other, and the education they received was also different.

He was a boy, and every year when they went up the mountain to worship their ancestors, Father Jiang would always say to him and his older brother: "This is the tomb of our big-foot ancestors, this is the tomb of our small-foot ancestors, this is the tomb of our great-great-grandfather, and this is the tomb of our great-great-grandmother!"

Father Jiang always taught his two sons to remember the locations of these ancestral tombs and who was buried in them. In the future, these matters would be handed over to them, and they would be the ones to teach the next generation.

But Jiang Xi has always heard people around him say that girls belong to other families and are raised by other families. In this case, how can the feelings and sense of belonging of two people to their hometown be the same?

He always lacked a sense of growing up in his hometown, but he had no roots. This made him feel that his roots were in Shanghai after he bought a house and a shop in Shanghai, and he also felt a sense of belonging to this strange city.

From then on, he would take root in this city.

But Shanghai was always strange to him, with strange people, strange language, and strange environment.

He was like an outsider who accidentally entered this place. In his world, apart from his school, his mentor, his good friends Tong Jingang and Grandpa Jiang, he even had little contact with his classmates.

This made him feel a little confused after he calmed down alone.

Thanks to his teacher's constant care and concern for him, the existence of Tong Jingang and Grandpa Jiang, studying, filming, and running a shop, he never had time to feel this strangeness and loneliness.

He always had a deep affection for the land where he was born and raised. This nostalgia, along with this acre of tea land, reconnected him with his hometown.

It was as if with this acre of land, he also had roots in his hometown for him to settle down.

He worked hard in the city, but his hometown was where he came from, and perhaps, where he would return.

Jiang Bai happily called Jiang Xi and told her the good news.

He knew that his sister felt the same as him. She always had a sad feeling about her hometown, as she was trying hard to put down roots, but there was no place for them to settle down.

He wanted to tell his sister that she had been allocated an acre of tea land in her hometown, a tea land that belonged only to her.

He talked incessantly on the phone. It was rare for him to talk so much. Many, many times, he was silent, restrained, and reserved. He was rarely so excited. Maybe he was really happy for her.

Jiang Xi just listened with a smile, and responded from time to time, "Yeah, I see."

"Yes, I'm happy too, and I'm happy for the elders in my hometown."

"Yes, life in my hometown will get better and better."

As Jiang Bai spoke, his originally excited voice suddenly calmed down.

He seemed to have noticed something, and after two seconds of silence, he asked Jiang Xi: "Xi Xi, are you not going back to your hometown?"

Even if you have land, you won't go back?