"Did a donkey kick your head? The Qi family offers such a good marriage, but you don't want it, and you let your cousin marry in your place?"
Wang Juhua poked the girl's head in a resentful manner, but she kept her voice down for fear that Jiang Li in the next room would hear her.
"Qi Qiang is a handsome guy, and he is also a former head of a military corps. I heard that he will be assigned to a county class soon."
"The Qi family is rich. Qi is good at treating his mother well, and your mother-in-law is also good-tempered. Didn't you see the five green brick and tile houses in his house?"
Jiang Hongmei lay on the table, crying hard, "I won't marry you, you're forcing me, I'll hang myself on the beam! You can carry my body away!"
Wang Juhua took a deep breath of cool air, her head buzzing, and pointed at Jiang Hongmei and said, "I tell you, the Qi family has sent the engagement gift, you have to marry them even if you don't want to."
When Wang Juhua came to the door, Jiang Hongmei raised her swollen face and couldn't help shaking.
The old man was kind enough to let her live her life again. In this life, she must not choose the wrong person.
In her previous life, she listened to her mother and married Qi Qiang. Qi Qiang was a cold-hearted man who was busy with work all day and never went home.
She lived alone in an empty house with Qi Qiang's mother. Her life was extremely miserable.
And her cousin Jiang Li married Zhuang Guoliang, a gangster from the next village. It is said that he was reselling goods on the black market. He stepped on the first batch of wind farms and turned out to be a well-known local entrepreneur.
She saw Zhuang Guoliang being interviewed on TV, and Qi Qiang took out the divorce agreement with a cold expression on his face, "Let's get a divorce. I've had enough of these years."
The house is owned by the company and cannot be given to you. All the money in the savings account belongs to you. I just want to live a peaceful life for two more days. "
TV show Zhuang Guoliang becomes more elegant and handsome in middle age. Jiang Li stands side by side with him to be interviewed by reporters. They drive luxury cars and live in a villa with a nanny.
Zhuang Guoliang's ex-wife left behind a son and a daughter who were smart and sensible. One was admitted to a well-known university, and the other was a dancer. They were both very respectful and filial to Jiang Li.
Jiang Hongmei clenched her fists. Why was she, an orphan, so lucky? She should be the richest man!
Thinking of this, she wiped away her tears and searched the kitchen, the chicken coop, and the stream, but she didn't see her cousin Jiang Li.
It's strange. Usually Jiang Li gets up before dawn to wash clothes and make breakfast, but why is she nowhere to be seen today?
Jiang Hongmei walked to the room where the firewood was stored and knocked on the door, "Jiang Li, why don't you get up to expose your butt to the sun? You are so lazy, I will beat you to death when I get back!"
Jiang Li turned over in bed and muttered, "Auntie, you don't have to clean my room. Leave the breakfast there. I will eat it when I get up."
When waves of swearing came in from outside the room, Jiang Li's dazed mind finally cleared up.
She has traveled through time for three decades, but she is still not used to it.
Overnight, she went from being a rent collector in Guangdong who was living a life of idleness and waiting to die to a poor little person who was in need of clothes and food.
The original body's parents had both passed away, and she lived in a woodshed. There were seven people in the family, and she was the only one who took care of all the living things. No one cared about her when she was sick.
It was probably because of the high fever that Jiang Li came over.
Jiang Li got up slowly and climbed up from the bed made of several broken wooden boards.
Without a comb or a mirror, she used her fingers to smooth her hair and tied it into a single braid before opening the door.
Jiang Hongmei was so angry when she saw the beautiful and seductive face.
Jiang Li looks just like her deceased mother, with almond eyes, a cherry mouth, and a pear-shaped swirl on one side when she smiles, just like a vixen.
When she was a child, her mother was different from other wives in the village. She used snow cream and clam oil to wipe her face, and a flower handkerchief to wipe her sweat. She also knew how to sew clothes, tell stories, and teach Jiang Li how to play chess and read.
Jiang Li was not like the dirty children in the village. She was fair-skinned, wore neat and tidy clothes, and exuded a fragrant scent.
When she was in school, her male classmates also flattered her. Fortunately, both of her uncle's sons died.
Her grandmother didn't let her continue her studies, so Jiang Li had to work at home all day. She soon became pale and haggard, which made Jiang Hongmei feel uncomfortable.
"Come with me to the county," Jiang Hongmei ordered.
Jiang Li looked at her strangely, "I'm sick and can't walk. And I have no money to pay for the bus fare."
"I'll pay for the bus fare. You can go to the supply and marketing cooperative with me and I'll buy something."
Jiang Li's heart was filled with alarm. In the three days since she came here, no one in the Jiang family cared about her. Jiang Hongmei looked at her with hatred and jealousy in her eyes.
Calling her out suddenly must have bad intentions.
"I won't go. Grandma wants me to work. I have to wash clothes and make lunch."
Although Jiang Li didn't plan to work, she still had to say so.
Jiang Hongmei held her breath, "Then finish it quickly, we'll have lunch in the county, I'll buy you some meat buns."
Two days before the blind date, her mother gave her five yuan to make clothes, and she pardoned it with two yuan and four cents, leaving a little left.
Jiang Li was a little excited when she thought of the snow-white and soft steamed buns. During these days of illness, she had eaten only a few grains of rice and black holes of salted vegetables.
But the mouth still refused, "I am sick and my feet are slow, I can't live forever..."
Jiang Hongmei had no choice but to roll up her sleeves and do the work herself. She first went to the fields to pick some eggplants and boiled them, then steamed a pot of steamed buns made from double-kneaded dough, and then cut some bacon and braised beans.
After cooking, all the food is simmered in the pot and waits for the Jiang family to come back from work and eat.
Now is a time of great hardship, both men and women, old and young, have to go to the fields to work, and the food standard is also better than usual.
Jiang Hongmei has always worked in the fields, but she went on a blind date these two days, and Wang Juhua was worried that she would get tanned and look ugly, so she asked her to rest at home.
As for Jiang Li, she was so sick that she couldn't get out of bed and no one cared about her.
After Jiang Hongmei finished cooking, she saw Jiang Li still lingering by the stream behind the house. She grabbed the clothes from her and washed them in no time.
"Hurry up, or you won't be able to get to the county bus in time."
Jiang Hongmei urged her, but Jiang Li walked slowly. She took out a torn straw hat hanging on the wall to protect herself from the sun, and then followed Jiang Hongmei to the road where they were waiting for the bus.
The Shuping Production Team belonged to Jiaoshan Commune, which was in turn under the jurisdiction of Yongfang County.
But it takes more than three hours to walk from Shuping to the commune along the mountain road, but it is actually closer to the county, and you can get there in an hour and a half on foot, and it is even faster to take a car.
Therefore, if the members wanted to buy needles and thread, they would walk to the county.
The two of them arrived not too early, and Jiang Li was quick-eyed and grabbed a seat, which was by the window.
Jiang Hongmei was a step slower in paying the fare and was forced to squeeze in the corner of the bus with the two geese. She looked so miserable that she almost vomited.
She covered her nose with a handkerchief, looked disgusted, and kicked the goose.
The lady who was driving the goose was immediately unhappy, "What's wrong with you, girl? You kicked my goose and broke it. You pay for it!"