Chapter 8 8

Jiang Yueqin was choked by Jiang Xi's words. He said, "I'm tired of studying, is that because I'm stupid?" She was so angry that she threw her arms and said, "Forget it if you don't want to go! I won't take you with you even if you beg me in the future!"

After that, she didn't come to Jiang Xi's house for several days. Instead, Jiang's mother became a little anxious and went to Jiang Yueqin's house several times, wanting Jiang Yueqin to take Jiang Xi with her to work.

Jiang Yueqin said to Jiang's mother in a long and sarcastic tone: "I dare not take your Jiang Xiao~~~, your Jiang Xiao said~~, she doesn't work~~, she wants to go to college~~~"

Jiang's mother said anxiously: "Don't listen to her nonsense, girls who finish four years of college are already in their twenties, and those who get married early have children running around. They are not as good as you, who are promising and have built such a big house for the family." Jiang's mother praised sincerely: "Your parents are so blessed to have given birth to and raised you."

Jiang Yueqin's chin was raised high because of the praise.

Seeing that she had finally been coaxed, Jiang's mother coaxed her again: "I'm satisfied that Jiang Yu can be half as good as you. You can take Yu Yu with you when the time comes. You don't need to do anything else but follow you around to serve dishes and wash vegetables. If you have any work to do, just let her do it. Yu Yu is an honest person. I'm worried about letting her go out alone, so I want you sisters to take care of her. We can only feel at ease if someone from the family takes care of her!"

She said Jiang Yueqin was a "family member".

For people from the hometown, as long as they are from the same township, they are "family members" when they go to other places.

They are from the same village, have the same surname, and used to have the same ancestor, so how can they not be "family members"?

Jiang Yueqin then took Jiang Ma's arm and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll take Luo Luo with me then." Thinking that she still had to find a few more sisters, she said: "I'll call you before I leave, and you can just ask Luo Luo to come to my house then."

Jiang Ma thanked her profusely and went back.

The first thing she did when she got back was to open the door of Jiang Luo's room: "Don't read books anymore, I've already made an agreement with Yueqin, she will take you to work as a waiter, the monthly salary is 200 yuan, if you do well and get promoted to foreman, you can earn 300 to 500!"

She quickly collected two pieces of clothing for Jiang Luo, "I don't expect you to get promoted to foreman and bring back the salary at the end of the year." She naggingly said: "I can't count on you in the future, you can make more money for me in the next few years while you are still unmarried. Come, I have not raised you in vain."

Seeing that Jiang Xi was indifferent, she could not help but shout: "Did you hear me? Bring back every penny you earn. If you pay less, I will kill you!"

During her three years in junior high school, Jiang's mother gave her 20 cents a day, because she had to pass the ferry on the way to school, and it cost 10 cents to ferry there and 10 cents to ferry back. She had a meal ticket for the cafeteria, and she could bring her own vegetables, a can of salted radishes, or a can of pickled mustard greens. Sometimes her grandfather would bring her a can of salted fish, which could last her a week.

Jiang's mother really said that she would not let you spend a penny more, and she really would not let you spend a penny more.

Seeing Jiang's mother speaking as a matter of course with a stern expression, Jiang Xi suddenly wanted to laugh.

"I earned money, and I spent a penny and you want my skin?" Jiang Xi found it more and more funny, and laughed out loud unconsciously. How could there be such a weird thing in the world, and how could there be people who said such a thing so naturally?

Her face turned cold, and there was frost in her cold eyes: "Then did you spend the money you earned on me again?"

Jiang Ma's anger was instantly aroused by her eyes, and she stretched out her hand to grab Jiang Xi's hair, but was pushed away by Jiang Xi.

Seeing that she couldn't hit her, Jiang Ma was furious again. Seeing the book she was reading on the table, she tore off the page she was reading, and wanted to tear it again.

Jiang Xi laughed when he saw it: "Tear it, keep tearing it, they are all big brother's books, tear them all."

Jiang Ma's movements suddenly stopped.

Among the three brothers and sisters in the Jiang family, Jiang's mother loved the eldest brother Jiang Song the most.

The two generations of the Jiang family were both strong women and weak men. Grandma Jiang was a typical big woman among women of that era.

How strong was grandma's temper?

When Jiang's mother just married into the Jiang family, she said to someone outside: "I drew a circle on the ground, and I asked her to stand inside the circle, and she didn't dare to stand outside the circle!" Grandma

's words were remembered by Jiang's mother for a lifetime. Later, when the family was divided and faced with the issue of raising two elderly people, Jiang's mother was determined not to give up Grandma Jiang, and gave Grandpa Jiang, and Grandma Jiang returned to the eldest uncle's home for raising.

The turning point that prompted Jiang's mother to straighten her back was the birth of Jiang Song.

At the moment when her son was born, Jiang's mother finally stood up.

So among the three brothers and sisters in the Jiang family, if Jiang's mother had ten points of maternal love, eight points were given to Jiang Song.

When she heard that the book she had torn up belonged to her eldest son Jiang Song, she immediately became flustered. Her eldest son still had to review in the second half of the year, how could he tear up the book? She quickly flattened and tidied up the pages she had just torn, turned back and shouted at her: "Why are you taking your brother's book? If you want to affect your brother's academic performance, I will skin you alive! What are you doing standing there like an idiot? Bring me the tape!"

Jiang Xi threw her hands up: "How would I know where the tape is?"

"Why don't you go buy it!"

"No money."

Jiang's mother quickly took out two dimes and threw it to her. Jiang Xi didn't even look at it: "I won't go."

Jiang's mother was so angry: "I asked you to do something and you couldn't do it, and you blame me for favoring your brother!" She quickly picked up two dimes and ran out to buy transparent tape.

She was afraid that her behavior would affect her older son's academic performance.

The village store was not far away, and Jiang's mother went there in a hurry and came back in a hurry.

She was angry just now and wanted to tear the book in half, but she couldn't tear it, so she grabbed the pages inside and tore them down, and now she had to stick them inside one by one.

She couldn't read, so she wanted her daughter to help her. But she was so angry when she saw her daughter was standing by and watching. She couldn't help but glue the torn hole and said angrily, "If I had known I would give birth to such a bastard like you, I should have thrown you into the urine bucket and drowned you."

This was not a whining remark, but the reality of rural areas in that era. With family planning, what should you do if you don't want a girl? Throw her into the urine bucket and drown her, or directly into the cesspool and drown her.

One of her elementary school classmates was thrown into the urine bucket after she was born, and her mother snatched her back.

This incident was treated as a joke and told by the whole village.

When she was a child, she didn't understand and laughed along. Only when she grew up did she understand what was hidden behind this joke.

Jiang Ning also looked at Jiang's mother with a smile: "Didn't you say that you gave birth to me just so that you can take care of your two brothers in the future, so that you can take care of you when you are old?"

These were Jiang's mother's exact words, and she never concealed her thoughts.

When she secretly gave birth to Jiang Bai, she wanted to have a daughter, but she didn't expect to have a son. A son is good, and she is more confident in the Jiang family.

Jiang's mother frowned and shouted: "Do I need you to support me in my old age? I will thank God if you don't make me angry to death!"

Jiang Xi leaned against the door frame and smiled and clapped slowly: "Congratulations, you have this correct cognition in advance, keep it up."

Jiang's mother was so angry that her chest felt like a ball of cotton, unable to go up or down. She kept touching her chest to breathe downwards. When she thought about why she was so miserable, her eyes turned red and she cried.

When she exploded, she was like a mad lion, but when she cried, she was mumbling softly while she shed tears, which seemed very pitiful.

She cried about her miserable life, how much she had suffered since she was a child, how much she had worried about this family, how much she had worked hard, and how her daughter didn't care about her.

Jiang Xi, who was listening, smiled and said, "I didn't make you suffer all those hardships, did I? You didn't worry about me at all? Big brother made you worry, go find big brother!"

Jiang's mother was so angry that her heart was choked again. She waved her hand and punched him, "I'll beat you to death first, you life-shortening thing!"

Jiang Xi had been leaning against the door, moving faster than a rabbit, and she ran away in a flash.

Jiang's mother couldn't catch up with her, and she went back to glue books with anger.

She didn't know why her daughter, who had always been weak and obedient, suddenly started to resist. She just thought that she was provoked by not letting her continue studying.

Jiang Wu ran to the edge of the field and saw pumpkin vines spreading on the field, and pumpkin flowers on the vines.

It was not until she grew up that she realized that pumpkin vines and pumpkin flowers can also be eaten.

Without a vegetable basket, she put the picked pumpkin vines on her arms. After picking enough pumpkin vines for the whole family, she went to pick pumpkin flowers.

Pumpkin flowers are divided into female flowers and male flowers. The male flowers are pollinated and the female

flowers bear pumpkins. Jiang Wu didn't know whether the pollination of these pumpkin flowers had been completed, so she poked the pollen of the male flowers on the female flowers, picking one by one. Soon, she picked a handful of male flowers, and various ways to eat pumpkin flowers emerged in her mind.

Otherwise, how can we say that food is everywhere in the countryside in summer?

She walked back with a handful of pumpkin flowers in her hand and the pumpkin vines on her wrist.

The neighbor next door who was watching the fun saw that she did not go to help with the work in the fields but actually ran to pick flowers, so he could not help but say to her: "Xingxi, don't blame your mother for beating you. You are so lazy, it's a light punishment if she is not beaten to death."

"Your two brothers are not at home this year, and the work in the fields is only done by Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang. You are such a grown-up girl, and you don't even know to help them in the fields. Why are you running to pick flowers? It's because your father tolerates you. If you were in my house, he would have broken your legs!"

Jiang Xing smiled and replied: "Aren't the eldest and second sisters lame now?" She should call the two girls in the neighbor's family elder sister according to their generation.

The neighbor laughed and said, "When your second sister was your age, she could mow three or four acres of land by herself." He was doing the work in his hands and commented, "Ailian is just not hit too lightly. If she is hit a few more times, she will be able to work hard!"

People who were leading cows to drink water by the pond passed by and said, "Isn't it because the big guy is so cowardly? Let her study? What's the point of a girl studying? Isn't she going to get married? Look at how the big guy has treated her. She is so busy, and she runs to pick flowers. What fruits can be grown after picking pumpkin flowers? She is so weak that she can't even carry anything. Who will want her in the future? She won't even be able to get married!"

They said this in front of Jiang Xi, as if they were afraid that she couldn't hear them, and they almost pointed at Jiang Xi's nose.

Jiang Xi suddenly thought of a famous quote on the Internet: "A girl like Liu Yifei would not be wanted in our village!"

The countryside in summer is so beautiful. Behind her are rolling green hills, in front of her is a sparkling river, in the pond at the door are swaying lotus flowers, and in her nose is the rich fragrance of gardenias.

Whenever Jiang Xi sees these beautiful natural beauties and smells the fragrance of flowers in the air, she feels happy from the bottom of her heart and admires the beauty of the world.

Except that among these beautiful mountains and rivers, there are old, decadent, twisted, and malicious words and thoughts towards girls, like an invisible cage, tightly covering the people living in it, just like raising pigs, making them fight silently inside.

She waited until Jiang's mother went out again, and then she quietly returned home.

She had carefully glued the book that was torn up by Jiang's mother. Even though she couldn't read, she tore off the inside of each book one by one and matched them tightly.

You see, as long as she wanted, she could be very nice to people.

It's just that that person is not you.

Jiang Xi was actually afraid of Jiang's mother. Even though she didn't show any fear of Jiang's mother these days, and even provoked Jiang's mother, the fear that Jiang's mother brought to her was engraved in her bones.

She can't live under the same roof with Jiang Ma, because she doesn't know when and why Jiang Ma will suddenly slap you in the face; maybe it's the dust in the corner, or the baskets that are placed that make her unhappy, or the chairs that are placed in the wrong direction, she will suddenly get angry and curse at you. Only

after growing up did I realize how precious it is to have a stable mood.