Chapter 55 [Update 1]

After Grandpa Jiang and Uncle Grandpa finished handing over their duties, they took their own quilts and bedding, and pulled their pots and pans on a cart and went down the mountain.

When Aunt Jiang found out about this, Uncle Grandpa and his wife were already living in the small house on the mountain.

Mother Jiang was so angry that she almost slapped Father Jiang's face. "Such a big thing, but they did it without even telling me. Do you think I'm a member of the Jiang family? I gave birth to two sons in the Jiang family, and I've been treated like a slave for so many years, but they still think I'm an outsider, right? They didn't even discuss such a big thing with me?"

They made the decision without even discussing it with her, which really pissed off Mother Jiang. "What a good job patrolling the mountains is. How many people are lining up to get it? The old man said he didn't want to do it, so he didn't do it. He said he would give it to someone, so he gave it to someone, without even telling me?"

She waved her arms hard. "Since you don't think I'm a member of the Jiang family, don't come to me for support in the future!"

Thinking of Grandpa Jiang not saying a word, She said she didn't want to work and went to Wucheng alone. She couldn't help but sarcastically said, "The old man is getting more and more confused as he gets older. He really thinks that a little girl like Jiang Qi will support him in his old age? Won't his son support him then? He still has to rely on us! But he quit his job without saying a word and ran to Wucheng. If he starves to death in Wucheng, he won't come back to find us!"

She was so angry that she had worked so hard for the Jiang family for so many years and gave birth to two sons for the Jiang family. However, the Jiang family treated her as an outsider and no one told her about such a big thing. She only found out about it when the whole village knew that the forest ranger on the mountain had been replaced.

If she hadn't personally gone to the mountain to confirm that it was really her uncle and aunt who were living in the hut, she really wouldn't have believed it was true. It was like a bolt from the blue.

Jiang's father knew that if his wife knew about this, she would be furious. He didn't dare to tell her at home. He originally thought that the old man was just talking about this plan, but he didn't expect him to act so quickly. Not long after he finished talking to them, he had handed over all the work and pulled everything down from the mountain.

He said, "The old man has been in poor health in the past two years. He can't do it anymore. In my opinion, it's better for him to quit, so that we don't have to worry about him being alone in the mountain every day."

"What is there that can't be done? How tiring is it to patrol the mountains? Isn't it just walking back and forth? What's the big deal? Who doesn't walk every day? He can earn a thousand yuan a year just by walking, but he runs to Wucheng to beg for food? Isn't he ashamed? Don't come back dirty and smelly, and ask me to wash your clothes!" Mother Jiang was so angry that her eyes turned red, "Don't come to me then, doesn't he feel sorry for his granddaughter? Let his granddaughter serve him then, I won't!"

In fact, whether in the past or present life, Father Jiang and Mother Jiang never took care of Grandpa Jiang in his old age.

Grandpa Jiang has always lived alone in the mountains. He passed away suddenly in his previous life. In recent years, it was only Father Jiang who sent some rice and grain to the mountains. Most of the time, he went down the mountain to carry rice and grain himself. Even vegetables were grown by Grandpa Jiang himself.

Grandpa Jiang couldn't bear to part with the vegetables he grew himself, as well as the sour beans and snail sauce pickled by Jiang Xing. He carried them all onto the cart.

Those vegetables could be sold for a few yuan in Wucheng.

On the contrary, Grandpa Jiang's salary in recent years was distributed to his youngest son's family, so his salary in recent years also subsidized his youngest son's family.

Grandpa Jiang believed that he did not owe his youngest son a family. It was this confidence that made him not ask for the opinions of his two sons and daughters-in-law when handling his work, but directly asked them if they wanted to take over his job. If they did not want to, he gave it to his younger brother and went to Wucheng with a cart.

The eldest granddaughter had already rented the shop. If it was not open for business, she would have to pay the rent for nothing, which made Grandpa Jiang very anxious.

Jiang Qi really did not expect that Grandpa Jiang, who was supposed to come at the end of the year, would suddenly come to Wucheng and meet Wang Yong.

Grandpa Jiang had been to Wucheng before, so he knew the location of No. 1 Middle School and the store. After getting off the minibus, he unloaded his cart from the top of the minibus, pulled the cart full of things, and pulled it step by step to the store.

From a distance, before he reached the store, he saw someone shouting something in the store, and people outside the store were moving.

He pulled the cart toward the store in confusion, but when he arrived at the store door, he didn't dare to go in.

At the door of the store, I was watching the hustle and bustle of people trying to squeeze in to buy clothes. Because there were too many people, they could only stay outside. I saw an old man in tattered clothes standing at the door pulling a cart. I thought he was a beggar and said to him, "Go beg somewhere else. This store is doing too good and we can't squeeze in. Come back in the evening. They close at five o'clock, and the store owner sells a lot of clothes at that time, so you can get more food if you come here."

Upon hearing this, Grandpa Jiang laughed and said, "I'm not here to beg."

Although Shuibu Town is a town under Wucheng, the dialect spoken there is completely different from that of Wucheng.

Wucheng is ancient, and Shuibu Town is even older, with its own dialect. But although the dialects are different, they are from the same place, so both sides can understand each other. From Grandpa Jiang's accent, I can tell that he is from Shuibu Town. I asked, "Are you from Shuibu Town?"

Grandpa Jiang bent his back and nodded with a smile, "Yes."

"Hey, I can tell from your accent. The dialect of your Shuibu Town is different from the dialects of other places in Wucheng. My eldest niece-in-law is from your Shuibu Town."

Seeing that the eldest sister was quite enthusiastic, Grandpa Jiang couldn't help but ask her: "Eldest sister, what's going on in this store? Why are there so many people?"

When the aunt who was talking heard that there were still people who didn't know about this gossip, she immediately explained to Grandpa Jiang with great interest: "Oh, you don't know this? Listen to what the loudspeaker says first."

Grandpa Jiang had already heard the voice of his granddaughter coming from the loudspeaker, but when he heard his eldest grandson's voice, he The woman was speaking standard Mandarin, just like the one on the radio, and she was shouting in a clear and melodious voice: "The bastard He factory director, the bastard He factory

director, ran away with his sister-in-law, ran away!" The auntie who was talking to him clapped her hands excitedly: "Did you hear that? The owner of this store is from the Jiangnan Garment Factory. Their factory director is a traitor. He had an affair with his sister-in-law and was caught in the act. He took more than 30 million and ran away abroad. He actually bankrupted a good garment factory. What a sin, isn't it?"

Grandpa Jiang was stunned and nodded, saying: "What does that have to do with this store?"

"Of course it is related!" Auntie raised her eyebrows, glared, and became more energetic: "The owner of this store is the worker of this garment factory. It's pitiful. All the money of the factory was taken away by that bastard factory manager. What should they do if they can't pay the workers' wages? They can only use the clothes of the garment factory to offset the original price of more than one hundred, two hundred or three hundred yuan. Now they are selling them for twenty-nine or thirty-nine. Such cheap clothes and good quality. After hearing about it, everyone will come to buy them. Look at how many people there are." The eldest auntie complained outside, "Originally, there was no one to be seen on this street. Now you see, you can't even squeeze in. They are all afraid that if they miss this village, they will lose this store. They hurry to buy two clothes for the family to wear during the New Year."

Grandpa Jiang was confused by the large amount of information from this aunt.

What garment factory worker? Isn't this his eldest granddaughter's shop? He was afraid that he had made a mistake and wanted to turn around and leave, but the voice in the loudspeaker, although a little distorted, he was sure that it was the voice of his eldest granddaughter, and he also faintly heard his eldest granddaughter's voice coming from the store: "Don't crowd, pick one by one, don't bargain, all are sold at a loss, not a penny will be returned, if the factory was unable to pay wages, how could there be such a price."

"Boss, this size is sold out? Do you have a bigger size? One size bigger is fine! Two sizes bigger? Two sizes bigger is fine!"

"Boss, is there a piece of this that children can wear?"

Jiang Xi and Wang Yongshi didn't expect that business on the weekend would be so popular.

The two of them didn't open the store in the morning, they went to the Internet cafe to write, and they opened the store after lunch at noon. Because it was the weekend, they played the loud speaker recording they had recorded before.

At the beginning, there were not so many people, but gradually, more and more people came, even people from the next street came. By Sunday afternoon, it was so crowded that not only people from the next street, but also people from the next street next street heard that there was a clothing store here, because the clothing factory closed down and was clearing out the stock, the clothes were very cheap, and they didn't mind the distance and ran here.

Also, because it was far away, they ran several streets. It seemed a bit uneconomical to buy one piece and take it back. In addition, they had relatives and friends, so they just brought a few more pieces and gave her a new cotton jacket when they returned to her mother's house during the New Year. That would be a very face-saving presence during the family gathering during the New Year.

Then it became what Grandpa Jiang saw now.

Fortunately, it didn't rain today. Grandpa Jiang saw that he couldn't squeeze in, and there were customers coming to buy clothes continuously. He simply put down the cart, sat on the cart, and waited next to the store entrance. After waiting for a long time, Grandpa Jiang was not particular about it. He took off his cotton padded jacket, pulled the blanket on the cart, lay on the cart, and took a nap.

Originally, no one noticed that there was an old man lying here. Maybe even if they noticed, many people didn't care.

But not everyone didn't care.

There are four schools nearby. Although the other schools in Wucheng are not on these two streets, they are not too far away. Because of Wucheng gossip and cheap clothes, girls from nearby schools heard that there were cheap clothes for sale here and came to take a look.

Before I squeezed into the shop, I saw a gray-haired old man lying on a cart next to the shop. He was silent and looked like he was dead. The girl who saw Grandpa Jiang was so scared that she hurried over to sniff his breath. When she found that he was still alive, she breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly woke him up: "Grandpa, Grandpa? Why are you sleeping here? What if you catch a cold? Are you lost? Do you remember where you live?"

Grandpa Jiang was woken up by two kind-hearted female students. He turned around in confusion and found that there were still many people in Sun's daughter's shop.