"Those who don't heed the advice of their elders will suffer the consequences!"
Looking at Jiang Xiaoxue, who was standing stiffly in front of her, Tian Dahua began to earnestly persuade her.
This granddaughter doesn't seem very bright. I don't know what kind of spell Huang has cast on her. She was tricked into not studying properly when she was young, and now she's being tricked into marrying a hunter who could be her father.
“Grandma, you don’t need to worry about this! Besides, my mom said I’ll get half of the bride price; my mom also said that Yang Tiezhu doesn’t have a son, so once I marry him and have a son, his family property will belong to me and my son; my mom also said that Yang Tiezhu is old and was injured while hunting in his younger days, so he might just pass away one day, and I can inherit his estate.”
Tian Dahua's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets as she listened to her granddaughter's words. "Listen to what a normal person is saying!"
"Grandma, Mom also said that ignoring the advice of elders can make you happy for years!"
Tian Dahua was furious and, with trembling hands, told Jiang Xiaoxue to leave.
He began to regret it. He shouldn't have thought that he would be lucky if a girl married him just because his eldest son had lost an eye. In the end, he let his eldest son marry that troublemaker, Huang.
As soon as Jiang Wanwan arrived at the Jiang family's old house, she saw her grandmother standing at the entrance of the main room, breathing heavily and muttering, "Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. Those who are too controlling will not live long, while those who are open-minded will live long!"
Jiang Wanwan quickly helped the old lady into the house, poured her a glass of water, and added a drop of spiritual spring water.
Tian Dahua drank the water in one gulp, and the pent-up frustration in her heart dissipated.
"The water Wanwan poured tastes the best; it's so sweet it warms Grandma's heart!"
"Who is Grandma worrying about now?"
Tian Dahua told Jiang Wanwan what Jiang Xiaoxue had just said. Jiang Wanwan didn't really remember this cousin. They didn't get along when they were little because the adults didn't get along. After she went to study and work in City C, she only saw her a few times a year.
That day I heard someone say that she was going to get married, and I thought it was because Huang was forcing her, but I didn't expect that she was willing herself.
"Grandma, we've already said all sorts of nice things to her, if you keep interfering and Auntie finds out, she'll think you're after her family!"
Just as she finished speaking, Jiang Xiaoyu walked in with tears streaming down her face.
"Grandma, please save me! I don't want to go back to that home! And I don't want to get married!"
"What a terrible thing!"
Tian Dahua slammed her hand on the table in agitation, repeatedly berating Jiang Laoda and his wife.
"Xiaoyu, what did your dad say?"
"Dad, I'll listen to Mom." Jiang Xiaoyu clutched the ill-fitting hem of her clothes, recalling her parents' beaming faces as they talked about the 200,000 yuan dowry. She began to regret not listening to her mother and studying hard when she was younger.
If you study hard, you might be able to go to university like Sister Wanwan, and then find a job in a big city to support yourself.
"Child, have you thought about what you can do if you don't get married? Grandma can't protect you for a lifetime!"
"Grandma, I want to be a little different. I don't want to be like my parents, toiling in the fields and fighting with the neighbors for that tiny plot of land every day."
"Xiaoyu, is there anything you particularly like? You could learn a skill now and earn money to support your family in the future," Jiang Wanwan suggested.
“There’s a hair salon in town that’s hiring apprentices, saying I can learn makeup. I’d like to give it a try.”
"That's great, now many big influencers on Douyin are beauty bloggers."
"My mom won't let me go. She almost locked me in my room just now! She said that girls have to get married whether they get married early or late, and that if I were an idiot, I wouldn't be able to control her. I'd be letting her down after all the years of feeding me!"
"Huang Danu has really gone too far!" Tian Dahua said angrily, ignoring all attempts to stop her, she turned around, grabbed a rolling pin from the kitchen, and stormed out.
Seeing this, Jiang Wanwan quickly said to Jiang Xiaoyu, "Go to the fields and find Grandpa, Auntie, and my parents! I'll go with them first!"
Jiang Daguo's house is an earthen-walled house with three rooms and a small courtyard. In Yangjia Village, earthen-walled houses made of bamboo, mud, and straw are relatively rare now; most villagers now have brick and tile houses.
Jiang Daguo's family has always been a well-known low-income household in the production team, the kind of poor family that's proud of being poor. It's said that every time the government goes to the countryside to help alleviate poverty, their family is a key focus.
The officials in the city also found jobs for the couple to make a living, such as raising grass geese with government-guaranteed sales channels, sending their children to technical training for free, and engaging in ecological agriculture, etc.
Jiang Daguo and Huang were afraid of hardship. Anyway, the government wouldn't abandon them. Almost every six months, young people from their workplace would come to visit them, bringing them rice and oil. With food and drink, why would they need to start a business?
Tian Dahua strode along with the rolling pin, while Jiang Wanwan followed closely behind the old lady, afraid that she might fall because she was walking too fast.
As soon as the two entered Jiang Da's house, they were caught off guard by a stench of chicken manure that went straight to the top of their heads.
"Where's the eldest?" Tian Dahua's anger reignited as she watched Huang Shi sitting on the only relatively clean stone slab in the courtyard, legs crossed, cracking sunflower seeds.
"He's not hanging on my waistband, how am I supposed to know where he is?"
"Lazy woman, look at your yard, there's barely any room to put your foot down. Even the village's cattle pen is cleaner than yours!"
Huang paused for a moment while cracking sunflower seeds, then resumed her actions as usual. "That's how it is in my house. If you don't like it, don't come!"
Enraged, Tian Dahua raised a rolling pin and started hitting Huang Shi, shouting, "I'm going to teach you a lesson today, you lazy old woman!"
Jiang Wanwan quickly grabbed Tian Dahua, "Grandma, don't be impulsive! Hitting people is wrong! Let's talk things out."
"Wanwan, don't pull me! Today I'm going to beat this idiot to death!" Tian Dahua struggled to break free from Jiang Wanwan's grasp.
Just then, Jiang Daguo returned. "Mom, what are you doing? Let's talk this out!"
"What are you saying! If you two want to sell Xiaoyu for money, I'll beat you to death today!" Tian Dahua pointed at Jiang Daguo's nose and cursed.
"Isn't this something that hasn't even been confirmed yet?" Jiang Daguo frowned, wondering who had leaked this information.
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