Chapter 174: I've Been Beaten 800 Times
Liu Cuihua greeted with a smile, "Yes, I arrived this morning. Big brother, you just got back, right? I just heard from my sister-in-law that you were out driving and haven't come back yet."
Mr. Jiang opened the sodas in his hand one by one before putting them on the dining table. "You haven't eaten yet, right? Stay and eat with me. You and I can sit on the kang over here. Haohao and Luoluo, you two can move two stools and sit by the kang. We have two high stools at home."
Jiang Jianshe saw that the old man had gotten on the kang before he sat on the edge of it. "Sister-in-law, is everything okay at home? How is Jianguo doing recently?"
Liu Cuihua: "Good, everything is fine at home, and Jianguo is in good health too."
Jiang Jianshe looked at Liu Cuihua hesitantly, and finally asked hesitantly, "How is my daughter Yinyin doing in the village?"
Liu Cuihua sighed. It was a happy day, so why did she have to mention these unhappy people? "How should I put it? She doesn't dare to get into big trouble, but she is always in small trouble. Big brother, you know your daughter well. If she had no one to protect her in the countryside, she would have been beaten eight hundred times.
If you ask me, brother, you should help her find a job and bring her back. In the countryside, if you don’t send her money every month, she will starve to death on the little money she earns.”
Old Master Jiang sneered, "Why protect her? She deserves a few beatings to teach her a lesson. If you don't teach her well at home and don't even bother to beat her, she's just waiting to be beaten when she gets out."
Jiang Jianshe's face was grim. "Dad, Yinyin is a girl after all. It's not right to hit her. Sister-in-law, what trouble has Yinyin gotten herself into? Is she okay?"
Liu Cuihua: "No one is wrong, those little troubles are not worth talking about. Oh, yes, there is one thing worth talking about.
A while ago, the educated youth accidentally cooked poisonous mushrooms while cooking, and then all the educated youth who ate together in the educated youth house of our brigade were poisoned. In the middle of the night, a group of people were singing and dancing in the educated youth house, digging holes and crying for their parents.
Later, the neighbors were woken up and called a doctor to feed the educated youth some medicine to make them vomit out the food. They then rested for two days before they recovered. Yinyin was also among the educated youth who had eaten poisonous mushrooms.
But don't worry, big brother. Yinyin is fine now, nothing happened to her, and she's recently started dating again. I guess if you can't get her back to the city before spring, she'll probably get married in our brigade."
Jiang Jianshe almost couldn't eat after hearing this, and spoke in a reproachful tone, "Sister-in-law, you are the same. My daughter Yinyin is a girl, and she came to your brigade in the countryside. Can't you and Jianguo take more care of her? I didn't ask you to invite her to stay at your house, but I asked her to have a meal with you, isn't that enough?
Besides, my Yinyin is not going there empty-handed. She also has food rations. When the time comes, she will give you the food. You just need to help cook it. It won’t take much effort. Just add some water.
Look, it's so dangerous for her to eat alone at the educated youth camp. What if the mushroom is poisonous? Will our Yinyin still be alive?
After all, she calls you uncle and aunt. We are all blood relatives, so what's wrong with you taking better care of her? Besides, we are all family, so isn't it your duty to take better care of her? "
Liu Cuihua felt like her ears were covered with shit. "Oh my God, big brother, what are you thinking about all day? You should know that our family has split up. Do you know why we split up? Let me tell you.
It's because I'm too lazy to serve the people in my family. Look, I don't even want to serve my own son, and you actually want me to serve your daughter. No, big brother, what are you thinking? I didn't beat your daughter up for what she did, which is already a favor to you."
Jiang Jianshe didn't think what he said was wrong at all. "It's just serving, just helping with the cooking. You have to cook three meals a day anyway. Taking care of our Yinyin's meals is just a matter of adding a handful of food. What's the big deal? I know what she did was wrong, but she's still young. When she grows up and becomes sensible, she will remember your kindness."
Liu Cuihua rolled her eyes, "Brother, you know, even if my grandchildren want me to take care of their three meals a day, they not only have to bring their own food, but their parents not only have to give me pension money every month, but also have to give me three yuan and some receipts as my hard work fee for taking care of their children.
You're so good, you open your mouth and want me to take care of your daughter's three meals a day, and even talk about adding a handful of food. What's the matter, brother, your daughter only eats rice, not vegetables, meat, or eggs? Or do you think that my family doesn't use firewood, water, or seasonings to cook, and you still remember my kindness? There's no need to do that."
Jiang Hao swallowed the old duck soup in his mouth and said calmly, "Uncle, you know, it's not easy for us to dig for food in the fields.
So, usually, everything has to be calculated, especially food. But cousin Yinyin is different. She has always been spoiled and used to spending lavishly. Every now and then, she will exchange some eggs or meat for a little extravagance to cook for herself. If she really had to eat porridge with pickles every day at our house, that would be really unfair to her. "
After hearing what Liu Cuihua said, Jiang Jianshe knew that he had just spoken out of turn. Jiang Hao was giving him a way out, so he quickly took the opportunity to back down. "Ahem, I'm so sorry, sister-in-law. I was inconsiderate."
Mr. Jiang ate the peanuts in his hand and said, "If you really care about your daughter so much, then you can find a job to transfer your daughter back home. This way, your daughter won't have to suffer in the countryside."
Jiang Jianshe ate the two-grain flour pancake in his hand and said, "I really love my daughter. Otherwise, I wouldn't have begged and pleaded to get her a temporary job. But in the end, it was because the child was not ambitious enough that she was fooled into signing up to go to the countryside.
Now she wants to come back, but she doesn't think about how easy it is to find a job in the city. If it were that easy, there wouldn't be so many educated youth going to the countryside."
Old Mrs. Jiang ate the sticky rice dumplings dipped in sugar. Her eldest son's mind was getting more and more confused. "When Haohao bought a job, didn't your factory sell a lot of jobs to other companies? If you had been willing to spend money to change jobs, your daughter would have come back a long time ago."
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