Chapter 59 Chapter 59 Give Hao Jiahui a lesson. …

Jiang Qiuyue did not get up the next day. Before Lin Zhengrong left the house, he specifically told the two children not to wake up their mother.

Lin Beibei obediently said that she would not make a noise, and then took her sister to the opposite side to play with Daya and her sister.

Wu Shuangshuang felt a little better from last night's experience. Now she was humming a song and saw Lin Beibei and Lin Nannan coming over hand in hand. When she learned that Jiang Qiuyue hadn't gotten out of bed again, she immediately understood what they meant.

"You guys can play here with Auntie, and Auntie will fry pumpkin pancakes for you."

Wu Shuangshuang planted two pumpkin trees. She took care of them diligently, and the family harvested more than a dozen yellow pumpkins. She gave two to Jiang Qiuyue, made some into dried pumpkin, and kept the rest in the kitchen to eat slowly.

The pumpkin is first steamed, then mixed with rice flour and kneaded into a pancake shape, then fried in a pan.

After eating a lot of Jiang Qiuyue's food, Wu Shuangshuang also wanted to repay Jiang Qiuyue. She was not as good as Jiang Qiuyue in cooking, but she could make some snacks.

If sugar is not too expensive, you can add some sugar to make it taste better. But Wu Shuangshuang is not that extravagant, fortunately pumpkin itself is sweet. Fry the pumpkin cake until both sides are crispy and golden, then you can remove it from the pan and drain the oil.

Lin Beibei's five children couldn't take their eyes off the pumpkin pancakes in the pot. Children all like to eat fragrant and sweet things.

Lin Beibei took the first pumpkin pie and wanted to take it home for her mother.

Jiang Qiuyue just got up and saw the pumpkin pie in Lin Beibei's hand. She took a bite and said "good boy" weakly.

"Mom, are you sick?" Lin Beibei asked, "Why is your voice hoarse?"

Jiang Qiuyue: ...Isn’t it your dad’s fault?

Wu Shuangshuang thinks Lin Rong is not strong enough, and she thinks Lin Zhengrong is too strong. It would be great if these two could be combined.

Jiang Qiuyue shook her head with Lin Beibei and drank a glass of water. "Go play with Daya and the others. Mommy wants to lie down for a while."

She didn't want to cook at noon today, so she decided to make some noodle dumplings later. Grandma Wang happened to give her some shrimp skin, which was just right for making noodle dumplings.

Lin Beibei and Lin Nannan played until noon before going home. When they came back, Jiang Qiuyue had cooked some noodle dumplings. After eating, the two children wanted to go to the theater to play again. Jiang Qiuyue didn't have the strength, so she asked Xiao Li to take them there.

"Didn't Commander Yu say when he would be back?" Jiang Qiuyue sometimes tends to be lazy since she doesn't have to cook for Commander Yu.

Xiao Li shook his head, "It's hard for me to ask about the chief's affairs."

Jiang Qiuyue immediately understood that there was a spy here. The leader's mission must be very important. If he inquired too diligently, he would be caught as a spy and be skinned alive if he didn't die.

Anyway, when Commander Yu comes back, Xiao Li will come and talk to her, so she just needs to wait.

After Xiao Li took the two children out, Jiang Qiuyue sat alone in the corridor, looking at the lush vegetables in the yard, and spent the day comfortably.

On the day Weng Yuan left, Jiang Qiuyue and Lin Zhengrong went to see her off together. It was inconvenient for Granny Weng to move, so Li Pandi waited until Weng Yuan was settled before taking Granny Weng and the children there.

In the Weng family, Li Pandi was very shy when facing Jiang Qiuyue and didn't even dare to look at her.

The men were talking together, Jiang Qiuyue and Liu Xue were sitting on the other side of the living room. Li Pandyi poured tea and heard her mother-in-law sobbing in the room again. After going in to check, she found that her mother-in-law had urinated, so she quickly closed the door and helped her change her pants.

Liu Xue whispered, "If I were Sister Li, I wouldn't be able to serve her like this. Brother Weng is a good-tempered person and is nice to Sister Li, but Sister Li is a child bride, so Granny Weng doesn't have a good tone towards Sister Li. She lets Sister Li do all the housework and scolds her all day long."

"It's not that I'm petty, it's really hard for most people to do this at this time. If it were me, I'd be lucky not to throw him out, let alone wait on him and feed him."

Jiang Qiuyue couldn't do the same, so she could get along well with Liu Xue. She could hear the old man and old lady in the house calling out "wuwu". Although she couldn't understand what they were saying, she knew they were not saying good things.

She originally thought that Li Pandi would be mean to Grandma Weng in private, after all, Grandma Weng was already like this, there was nothing to be afraid of. But she just took a look and saw that Li Pandi served people very well. This Li Pandi was very kind.

What a pity, good people are often bullied, Jiang Qiuyue felt sad.

After everyone sat for a while, Lin Zhengrong and the others went out to see Weng Yuan off.

Li Pandi also went there. Jiang Qiuyue and Liu Xue did not go with her. They helped Li Pandi clean up the melon seed shells. Li Pandi came back embarrassed and said, "How can I let you do it? I'll do it."

"Sister-in-law, you don't have to be so polite. It's hard work for you even if you just sweep the floor." Liu Xue saw that Li Pandi's eyes were red, and she knew that she was reluctant to send Weng Yuan away, so she sighed, "Sister-in-law, it's really not easy for you. Brother Weng is gone now, and you have to take care of your mother-in-law and raise the children. To be honest, if it were me, I wouldn't be able to do what you do."

Li Pandi held a broom, lowered her head slightly, and spoke in a low voice. "I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but my parents gave birth to several daughters but never a son. When I was eight years old, my mother gave birth to another daughter. The family couldn't afford to raise her, so they gave my sister away. I secretly visited the family, and they were very poor. The man even beat his wife. Within a month, my sister starved to death."

"When I knew my father was going to send me away, I was scared for a long time. My father wanted to give me to a cripple as a child bride and take me away with a chicken. I don't know where I got the courage from that day, I held on to a roadside tree and refused to let go. Later, my mother-in-law passed by several times and saw that I was about to be beaten to death, so she used two chickens to exchange me back."

Hearing this, Liu Xue started crying. She came from a working-class family, her parents were very good to her, and she had never suffered such hardship since she was a child.

Li Pandi still smiled faintly, "I know my mother-in-law treats me badly, but she rarely beats me and at least lets me have enough food. You don't know, later the cripple married a widow, and not long after, the widow died."

"Anyway, my mother-in-law is in this state now. She can't hit me or scold me. I just need to serve her a meal. I will just repay her for the kindness of giving her two chickens."

Jiang Qiuyue felt complicated after hearing this. Most people were still struggling to have enough food and clothing, but for Li Pandi, it was a favor for Grandma Weng to bring her home.

However, since Li Pandi was willing to serve, she had nothing to say. After all, she was not Li Pandi and had never experienced the despair of being beaten to death.

As they were talking, Lu Dacheng came to call Liu Xue, and Jiang Qiuyue followed him out.

When passing by the Zhou family's door, Jiang Qiuyue took a special look and saw the door move, so she knew someone was peeking from behind.

She deliberately said loudly, "This person has done too many bad things, and there will always be retribution."

Liu Xue didn't understand, but she thought Jiang Qiuyue was right, so she agreed and said yes.

What they didn't expect was that Grandma Weng passed away on the night Weng Yuan left.

Weng Yuan was not at home, so Chen Guowei and his brothers helped to deal with the funeral arrangements.

Jiang Qiuyue also went to help the next day. On the day of Grandma Weng's funeral, Jiang Qiuyue saw Hao Jiahui in the corner and walked over to her on purpose.

"Why are you running? Are you feeling guilty?" Jiang Qiuyue stopped Hao Jiahui, "If someone hadn't made up a lie to instigate Granny Weng, Granny Weng wouldn't have quarreled with Weng Yuan, and she wouldn't have died of a stroke."

"It's not me. Why are you looking at me and talking?" Hao Jiahui shook her head vigorously, feeling so guilty that her eyes flickered.

Jiang Qiuyue sneered, "Did I say it was you? Why are you denying it so quickly? Aren't you usually very good with Granny Weng? Why don't you go to the Weng family to see Granny off?"

"No, I see you have cold sweat on your forehead, are you really feeling guilty?"

Jiang Qiuyue just took a step forward, and Hao Jiahui was so scared that she took several steps back and almost bumped into a rock and fell.

Jiang Qiuyue refused to let her go. "Grandma Weng only had Weng Yuan as her son, but Weng Yuan became estranged from her, forcing Weng Yuan to go to support the border. Grandma Weng must have a lot of resentment in her heart. Before she died, she didn't see Weng Yuan for the last time. She must die with regrets."

"So what?" Hao Jiahui's lips were trembling. She was indeed feeling guilty and dared not go out at night. There was only a wall between her house and the Weng family, so if anyone spoke loudly, the people next door could hear it.

On the day that Grandma Weng passed away, people in the Weng family's yard were guessing who instigated Grandma Weng to report the incident. Everyone was scolding that person for being vicious and saying that he deserved a stroke.

Hao Jiahui heard all these words clearly. Someone even whispered that if Grandma Weng became a ghost, she would come back for revenge. Hao Jiahui even had nightmares.

"I didn't say anything. Why are you so excited?" Jiang Qiuyue wanted to teach Hao Jiahui a lesson so that she wouldn't make trouble again. "I'm just curious, who will Grandma Weng look for?"

“That’s also for you and Lin Zhengrong!”

Hao Jiahui couldn't hold it in any longer and tried to hide her fear by shouting, "You are the ones who made her like this. What does it have to do with me? Don't come to me again. I don't want to see you!"

Hao Jiahui's voice attracted people from far away to look over.

Jiang Qiuyue had expected this and said, "Sister-in-law, please don't talk nonsense. We are in a new society now, and we don't like talking about ghosts and monsters. What's the point of looking for someone? If you continue to promote feudal superstition like this, I will find Director Zhu!"

"You!" Hao Jiahui stared at Jiang Qiuyue, "Did you do this on purpose?"

Seeing everyone looking at her curiously, Hao Jiahui didn't care about the quarrel with Jiang Qiuyue at all. She had something to hide, so she ran away.

When Liu Xue came over, she curiously asked what happened. Jiang Qiuyue smiled and said she didn't know clearly, "I just mentioned that she was usually very close to Grandma Weng, so why didn't she go to see her off when Grandma Weng passed away? As soon as I said that, she started to grumble. I don't know what she was afraid of."

"I think she did something wrong to Granny Weng, so she feels guilty." Liu Xue pulled Jiang Qiuyue away, "Let's ignore her. Granny Weng has been buried now. Dacheng has sent a telegram to Brother Weng. Sister Li needs to pack up. She will leave in a few days."

She sighed, "Ah, they usually get along well, but now that this has happened, and Brother Weng is so far away, I don't know when we can see each other again."

"There will always be a chance. No matter how far away we are, we are still in the same country." Jiang Qiuyue saw Lin Zhengrong coming over and smiled at him.

It was almost time for school to be over, so the two of them waited at the school gate together.

Lin Beibei was holding her sister at first, but when she saw her parents were there, she ran out immediately.

He couldn't wait to dig into his schoolbag and took out his test paper. "Look, Mom and Dad. I got 100 points!"

This was Lin Beibei's first exam after entering school. The brother and sister entered school half a month later than others, but they usually did not need Jiang Qiuyue's tutoring when doing their homework.

The teacher said that both children are very smart and have a talent for studying.

Jiang Qiuyue had calculated that when the college entrance examination was resumed, the two children would be able to catch up. As long as they knew how to study, they could go to university. In the late 1970s, university students were very popular and could be assigned jobs.

Even if they don't want to take a fixed salary, they can also show their talents after a few years of loosening policies. Jiang Qiuyue educates her children, mainly to ensure their physical and mental health and good character, and the rest is up to their own preferences. She doesn't have the energy to be a chicken, and she doesn't think it's necessary. There is already a capable father, so the children can lie down if they want.

However, both children were very awesome. While Lin Beibei was waiting to be praised, he also searched Lin Nannan's schoolbag and found that he also got 100 points.

Jiang Qiuyue touched Lin Beibei's little face and kissed Lin Nannan, "Great, you are all mommy's good babies. When you go back later, mommy will give you some candy."

Jiang Qiuyue kept the candy Gao Juanjuan gave her last time, because the two children were greedy and wanted to eat candy from time to time. She controlled the amount, because the children would get cavities and their health would be affected.

When Lin Beibei heard that there was candy to eat, she immediately shouted happily, "Mom is so nice, I love mom the most!"

He took his mother's hand and didn't forget to hold his father's hand. When he looked up, he winked at his father and said, "Dad, I like you too."

Lin Zhengrong wondered who his son looked like. His little mouth was always chattering and he would say something nice to anyone he saw, often making the person laugh.

At this time, Jiang Qiuyue met Bai Xiuxiu, and she immediately praised her, "Xiuxiu, I haven't seen you for a long time. You have become more beautiful. It is true that work makes people more confident. How is your work with Master He?"

Bai Xiuxiu said it was okay. "Master He is a little strict, but it's better this way. I don't have to be tactful to please him. As long as I do things according to his requirements, he will teach me the real things."

"That's true. No wonder I noticed that your temperament has improved. But work must be hard. You should also make sure to rest. Your health is the capital of revolution!" Jiang Qiuyue had already let go of Lin Beibei and walked naturally with Bai Xiuxiu.

Lin Zhengrong: ...Well, he understood. Lin Beibei is like his mother.

Along the way, Jiang Qiuyue was chatting with Bai Xiuxiu, and they only separated when they reached the door of their home.

"See you later, Xiuxiu. If you don't have work today, come and have tea with me in the afternoon." After saying goodbye to Bai Xiuxiu, Jiang Qiuyue entered the yard and saw Lin Zhengrong holding a letter in his hand. She leaned over and found that it was sent by her second sister. She opened it curiously.