Chapter 22 Second Update

Jiang's mother was choked: "How could I know what kind of dirty place it is! You know what kind of nightclub it is, but you didn't tell us!"

Jiang's father said: "How could she know what a nightclub is? How old is she?"

Jiang's mother stopped talking and hated Jiang Yueqin to death.

She spat fiercely at the door of Jiang Yueqin's yard, and then dragged Jiang Xi away.

The others also dispersed quickly and went to their parents' homes to tell them about this: "Why are people so bad nowadays? She's just a little girl, it's bad enough that she ended up in that place, but why did she harm her family? She harms people from the same village."

"Some people harm people in the same village, especially their relatives."

"You should also talk to your parents' home as soon as possible. You must be accompanied by your own elders. Don't go with these little girls. We don't know how many people she has taken away. She'll come back to harm people again."

Everyone talked privately, wondering who else in the eldest wife's family was making dirty money outside.

"Yue Ping's house has been built. Isn't it said that her daughter is good at making money? Maybe..."

The four branches of Jiangjia Village have always lived and played together. When they went out to work, they followed the elders in the same branch. Now there is a prostitute in the big branch, and everyone can't help but wonder if all the girls in the big branch are there, especially the girls who have built houses in the past two years and are good at making money.

The people in the big branch didn't hear it, but they were also very angry and pointed at Jiang Yueqin's family and cursed at them at home.

"If we can't handle this well, our whole village will lose its reputation and it will be difficult for the girls in the village to get married."

"It's really a single bad apple that spoils the whole barrel."

This concerns their vital interests. If the reputation of the girls in the village is ruined, it will be hard to say whether they can get married, let alone the gift money.

Jiang's father was also very scared and got angry at Jiang's mother: "You asked her to work every day, and almost pushed the child into the fire pit!"

Jiang's mother was also guilty at this time, and said: "How could I know that Jiang Yueqin was so harmful?"

"Now the wages of workers in the city are only 170 or 80 yuan, how can a waiter make 200 yuan?"

Jiang's mother also ridiculed Jiang's father: "What's the use of hindsight now? I said before that I would let her go to work, and you didn't stop!"

"Why didn't I stop?"

"I said I would let her go to work, and you didn't say anything. Don't think I don't know what you mean. Now there is a problem and you blame me!" Jiang's mother was angry at this time and spoke in a harsh tone.

Jiang Liu was behind and watched the couple shirking responsibility.

Jiang's mother was thinking about what to do now.

She was worried about her going out to work without anyone to take care of her. If she got sold, she would have nowhere to cry.

But it was the middle of the year, and who in the village would go out to work? They would all come back together during the Chinese New Year and go out together again.

Jiang's mother really didn't want Jiang to study anymore.

"Fortunately, Xiuxiu asked us, otherwise if she had taken Xiuxiu away like this, she would have been too late to cry in the future." Jiang's father sighed, "Let Xiuxiu continue to study. She is still so young." "

What do you mean by young? You're already fifteen!" Jiang's mother glared at Jiang's father fiercely: "You only know about studying every day. I told you to call Songzi, but did you? School will start in a few days, and Songzi hasn't come back yet. Aren't you worried about Songzi, and do you have time to care about whether she studies or not?" She turned and looked at Jiang Xiu: "Since you can't find a job, go to the kiln and move bricks for me!"

Her sister works in a brick factory in the next township. It is a very hard job, but so many women do it, why can't she?

"I'll go talk to your aunt tomorrow and ask her to take you in!" Jiang's mother made the final decision.

She originally wanted to get up early in the morning and take Jiang Xi to her sister's house, but Jiang Xi got up early in the morning and roasted crayfish with Jiang's father, and then rode a bicycle to the neighboring city to sell it. Selling crayfish is also a business, so she didn't take Jiang Xi with her. She took some dried bracken and pickled fish that she had dried at home and went to her sister's house in the neighboring village.

Without a bicycle, she had to walk on foot for more than two hours. Jiang's mother walked sweating and arrived at her sister's house. As a result, her sister was not at home, but at the brick factory, so she hurried to the brick factory again.

After talking to her sister, Jiang's mother came back and informed Jiang Liu, who had just brought back another basket of lobsters, "I've already made an agreement with your aunt. You'll go to work after breakfast tomorrow morning and come back for dinner. The brick factory will provide you with a lunch and three yuan a day."

That's ninety yuan a month, which is a little less than what Jiang's mother had imagined.

The girls in the village who went to the clothing factory could earn one hundred and fifty or sixty yuan a month, and those who were quick and efficient could earn more.

The next morning, before dawn, Jiang's mother came over and knocked hard on the door. Jiang Liu had breakfast and left the house under Jiang's mother's repeated urging.

The sky was still dark, with stars twinkling all over the sky. Jiang Liu was covered in the night and gradually merged into the inky black night.

Jiang Xi went to catch crayfish.

School was about to start in a few days, and she wanted to make some extra money during these few days to pay for the first semester of high school. She

had been keeping an eye out for replies from various magazines these days, and it was not until two days before school was about to start that Jiang Xi received her first reply.

It was a reply from Zhiyin magazine, saying that the manuscript she had sent was accepted, and the payment had been deposited into the bank account she left at the end of the letter, asking her to check it out. They also said that since she was a newcomer and the quality of her manuscript was high, the payment was 50 per thousand words.

Her shocking article had less than 5,000 words in total, so it was calculated as 5,000 words.

Jiang Xi had long known that the payment for writing in Zhiyin was very high. After all, in her previous life, she had an author friend who received 600 yuan for every 1,000 words in Zhiyin in 1998.

But she did not expect that she, a new writer, would receive such a high payment from Zhiyin. You know, many workers now earn less than 200 yuan a month, and many are facing the trend of being laid off.

She originally thought that 20 yuan for every 1,000 words would be good.

She hurried to the bank to check and found that not only this payment had been received, but also two other payments, one for 40 yuan and one for 60 yuan.

These three payments alone amounted to 350 yuan.

Adding the money she earned from selling lobsters these days, she finally made enough money for the first semester of high school.

Once the tuition was paid, Jiang Xi felt relieved. She went back to the mountain and told Grandpa Jiang to go down the mountain and look for her letter at the brigade headquarters. If there was any, he should take it up the mountain and give it to her when she came back.

Grandpa Jiang cooked a large can of salted fish and a plastic bag of hot pot for her. The fish was pressed tightly and the hot pot was roasted until crispy.

Jiang Xi wanted to leave the salted fish for Grandpa Jiang, and she only needed to bring the salted beans. But Grandpa Jiang insisted that she take the salted fish, and he looked very disgusted: "I don't like eating fish. I was scared of eating fish when I was young. Take it away quickly!"

In fact, Grandpa Jiang likes eating fish the most.

Finally, Jiang Xi did not refuse, and just said: "Grandpa, don't always eat rotten radishes, eat more fresh vegetables, that is nutritious, you take care of yourself at home, I will come back to pick you up soon, I will also take care of you in your old age."

In her previous life, Jiang Xi had just graduated from university when her grandfather passed away. She had not had time to be filial to her grandfather, nor had she taken her grandfather to Leifeng Pagoda and Yuewang Temple.

Grandpa Jiang was lonely in the mountains. Jiang's father bought him a radio. This radio was Grandpa Jiang's treasure. He would take it out to listen to it every day. What he liked to listen to most was the story of Yue Fei and the Yue Family Army told by the storyteller, and he never got tired of listening to it.

Grandpa Jiang cries easily. Hearing this, his eyes turned red, but the wrinkles on his face were smoothed out by his smile. He smiled with great satisfaction: "Okay, okay, I'll wait for my eldest granddaughter to come back and take care of me in my old age!"

In the sunlight, Jiang Xi smiled brightly: "Of course! So Grandpa, you must eat well, and don't just eat rotten radishes to save trouble. I'll check when you come back!"

These days, after being nourished by the various dishes cooked by Jiang Xi every day for a period of time, Grandpa Jiang is still very thin, but his complexion has improved a little.

Grandpa Jiang wanted to see Jiang Xi off, but was stopped by Jiang Xi.

The double robbery had already passed, and Grandpa Jiang could not leave the mountain easily, and had to patrol the mountain every day.

When Jiang Xi went home to pack winter clothes, quilts and rice, Jiang's father and mother were not at home. They went to the provincial capital to find Jiang Song. They originally thought that Jiang Song would come back before the school started. Who knew that they called him one by one, but Jiang Song just didn't come back. Seeing that the school was about to start, Jiang Song still hadn't come back. The couple couldn't sit still and hurried to the provincial capital to find Jiang Song, swearing that they would drag Jiang Song back to repeat.

Before leaving, they also gave her 800 yuan and asked her to send it to Jiang Bai, who was taking classes throughout the summer vacation. It was his tuition and accommodation fees for this semester. As for the food coupons, they would send him food when they returned.

Therefore, Jiang's mother's focus these days was not on Jiang Xi. She saw her go out before dawn and come back after dark. She thought she was working quietly in the brick factory, but she never came.

There was no phone at home, and my aunt had to go to work every day. Seeing that her niece had not come, she had no way to ask. They did not belong to the same township, and Jiang Xi's village was blocked by a river. She could not even find someone to bring a message. She just wanted to wait for it to rain and not go to work, and then she would go to her sister's house to ask what was going on.

Until Jiang Xi went to school to register, Jiang's mother still thought her daughter was working in the brick factory.

Their county is very large and has a large population. After more than ten years, their city was downgraded to a county, but their county was promoted to a city, and the house price soared.

At this time, Wu County had already become as prosperous as it would be more than a decade later. There were so many people that as soon as you got off the bus, people would constantly shout, "Shanghai! People from Shanghai, come here and get on the bus!"

"Hangzhou! People from Hangzhou, leave!"

"Chaoshi! People from Chaoshi, follow me!"

Because it was before the school started, there were many tricycles near the station shouting, "No. 1 Middle School! Anyone going to No. 1 Middle School? One dollar for No. 1 Middle School!"

The boys and girls who appeared at the station were all freshmen who had been admitted to middle schools in various towns under Wu County. At this time, they were all unfamiliar and confused about Wu City. When they heard the tricycle drivers' shouts, they all hurried over to get on the bus.

Jiang Xing carried a quilt on her back, 10 kilograms of rice, several large cans of snail sauce, and a large bag of other miscellaneous things in her hands. Like a turtle with a turtle shell on its head, she struggled to move towards the direction of the vehicle shouting "No. 1 Middle School".

Seeing someone running towards the same direction as her, she quickly pulled a girl who was also registering alone like her: "Want to share a ride? I'm going to register for No. 1 Middle School."

The tricycle is very small, and can seat four people face to face, but most of the students who came to register brought a lot of things with them, such as Jiang Xing, who brought a quilt, a straw mat, rice, snail sauce, etc.

The girl she called over was also wearing a junior high school uniform with Yaoba Junior High School written on the chest. The pants and clothes of the uniform were a bit short. She was carrying a thick quilt on her back and carrying a straw mat and other luggage in her hands.

The two of them shared a car and squeezed in after putting down these things.

The girl was a little quiet and didn't talk much. It was Jiang Xi who introduced herself to her with a smile: "My name is Jiang Xi, from Shuibu Town, and you?"

The girl was surprised by Jiang Xi's familiarity and pursed her lips nervously: "My name is Yao Wenjuan, from Yaoba Township." As she spoke, her eyes were always looking out of the car, memorizing the landmark buildings and roads. It

was her first time in Wu County, and she was afraid of meeting bad people, so she was a little nervous.

"Then maybe we can be assigned to the same class." Jiang Xi smiled.

Maybe it was because her smile was too friendly, her temperament was friendly, and she looked young, Yao Wenjuan relaxed a little and smiled at her. There were a

lot of people registering at the school gate. Jiang Xi got off the car and was still looking up at the sign at the gate of No. 1 Middle School when a person in the school uniform strode towards her.

It was Jiang Bai.