Mrs. Zhao and her husband had no idea that Jiang Lin had 10,000 yuan. Most of their daily expenses were bartered, and they spent money in cents and dimes. A few yuan was not a small amount. 20 yuan was a lot of money, and 100 yuan was rarely calculated, let alone 10,000 yuan.
Jiang Lin looked at their bewildered faces and said, "How can two hundred be enough? One will cost five thousand, and two will cost ten thousand. One cent less, no deal!"
She came here on her own initiative, so if she says she doesn't want to sell it now, the other party will definitely keep pestering her. It would be better to raise the price to a sky-high level so that they can't afford it and just give up.
"Go ahead and rob it!" Mrs. Zhao and the man were furious. They looked at Jiang Lin like a robber, not understanding why she suddenly asked for such a high price.
Jiang Lin looked at them with a fierce look in her eyes, and reached out to pick up the wicker thermos on the table.
"Put it down, put it down!" Mrs. Zhao's face changed drastically. This thermos bottle cost more than five yuan, she couldn't let it be thrown away.
Jiang Lin: "Don't worry, I can hold you tight and I can't hit you."
"No, no!" Old Man Zhao stamped his feet in anger. "Forget it, we want the one in Nantou. They suffered a flood and have too many children to feed. We should buy a smaller one that can be raised more maturely."
Mrs. Zhao and her husband were just ordinary members of the cooperative. Although they wanted to buy the child, they did not dare to cheat or rob. They had no choice but to sell it if Jiang Lin refused. In their hearts, they were reluctant to part with the handsome looks of Dabao and Xiaobao, and were very angry.
"I won't accept it even if you give it to me for free!" Mrs. Zhao spat angrily, "Except for my family, no one can afford two hundred."
Jiang Lin: “…” You’re dreaming.
She held the thermos and stared at the nervous couple opposite her. "It doesn't matter if you don't buy the child, but you can't just let it go after hitting me on the head."
She was very afraid of pain. When she just put it through, her head felt like it was about to explode, and there was a bump on her left temple. How could she just let it go?
Mrs. Zhao hurriedly explained, "You knocked your head on your own, we didn't hit you!"
Jiang Lin: "How could I have been hit if you hadn't pushed me? You have to pay for the medical expenses."
Mrs. Zhao almost jumped up in pain. "Your head isn't even broken, why do you need medical expenses? Do you want to ask the barefoot doctor in our village to come and check you out? At most he can apply some Tiger Balm."
Jiang Lin: "It doesn't look broken, maybe it's internal injury? Don't you know that many people are fine after falling down, but become useless after returning? Did you know that there is bleeding in the brain? It's a good opportunity for your barefoot doctor to take a look and send me to the county hospital."
As she spoke, she staggered and looked dizzy, which frightened Mrs. Zhao so much that she hurried to support her, fearing that she would knock over the thermos.
Old man Zhao said angrily: "What do you want? Are you trying to blackmail us?" Going to the county hospital would cost more money, so of course he couldn't go.
Jiang Lin: "No, I'm reasonable and I won't cheat anyone." She glanced at the money that Mrs. Zhao had left on the kang, thinking that if she had hit her head and went to the hospital for a CT scan in modern times, it would have cost at least a few hundred yuan. But she didn't need to go to the hospital, so it was reasonable for her to take a few dollars to calm her nerves."
She said, "You have to give me twenty dollars."
If he asks for ten dollars, say twenty so there is room for bargaining.
It was wrong for the original owner to sell the child, and it's not much better for the couple to buy the child. They should each be punished with fifty lashes and suffer in vain. Shouldn't they ask for some medical expenses?
After another round of wrangling, Mrs. Zhao and her husband finally gave her eight dollars out of spite.
It was not easy to make money at that time. In many brigades, a laborer only earned a few cents a day, so eight yuan was not a small amount.
Jiang Lin thought about it and decided to give up. She wasn't really trying to extort money, she was just feeling angry and couldn't get over it.
Jiang Lin took the money and returned the thermos to Mrs. Zhao. She did not leave in a hurry and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, buying and selling children is against the law. If you really want a child, find someone who can't afford to raise one and adopt one. Where can you buy one?"
Mrs. Zhao stumbled and quickly held onto the edge of the kang, saying, "You're quite good at talking. It turns out you don't want to sell the child and you're just trying to tease us."
Jiang Lin didn't want them to talk about her failing to agree on the price for selling the child in the village, so she wanted to minimize the negative impact as much as possible.
Mrs. Zhao looked at her and felt that this woman had changed her temper. Although she had been asking for money and had the same expression before, she had been scowling and glaring before. She looked pretty but had a fierce look on her face. She looked at people with her nose and rolled her eyes. Although she was still fierce now, her eyes were facing her, cold and oppressive.
Could it be that after hitting his head, he suddenly changed his mind and was reluctant to sell his son?
Jiang Lin didn't say anything more to the couple. She picked up the cloth bag that the original owner had placed on the table and walked out.
After leaving Zhao's house, she looked around the alley and heard the cheers of children.
She walked towards the sound, but her steps became slower and slower. She had come across the place for no apparent reason. She had two more sons out of nowhere, and she had to sell her own son as soon as she arrived. How terrible was this environment? Why did she go back?
Why not find a place to hide and see what happens?
The answer popped up in her mind: Forget it. To work in the countryside and earn work points, you need a letter of introduction and food coupons to leave home. Without these, you can't take a single step. Not only will you starve to death, you will also be arrested as a vagrant.
Damn, this is restricting freedom.
Jiang Lin walked slowly, sorting out her thoughts and digesting the information she had received. After knowing the ins and outs of this body, she wanted to hit herself back with a brick.
It is now 1976, but it is not the world of her previous life. It should be a parallel space with discrepancies in information.
Her name was Jiang Lin. She was born on February 16, 1954, and was an educated youth sent to the countryside from the provincial capital.
There is actually a first love named Bian Haitao!!!
Before going to the countryside, he wanted to go through the back door with her to work in the textile factory. However, the gangster son of the director of the factory's revolutionary committee had long had his eyes on her and insisted on dating her, otherwise he would not process the procedures for them.
Of course she didn't agree.
But all kinds of information showed that going to the countryside was not something a delicate girl like her could bear. He sighed and scolded himself for being useless and unable to give her a better future and could only watch her suffer. Seeing that he was worried about her all day, she was moved and agreed to perfunctorily deal with the gangster and finish their work first.
As a result, her parents knew about this and firmly disagreed with her dating a gangster, so they went directly to the Youth League Office to get the formalities done for her and forced her to go to the countryside.
In a fit of rage, she broke off relations with her parents and decided to go to the countryside with Bian Haitao and her best friend. But Bian Haitao told her painfully that he wanted to be the son-in-law of the director of a county revolutionary committee and serve in the army. He also asked her to wait until he had established himself and was promoted to an official position and was no longer controlled by his wife's family, and then he would take her out.
After he left, she couldn't stand the stimulation and went crazy at home for a few days, and then her personality changed drastically. She was originally a delicate but lively person, but she became more and more withdrawn, cynical and disliked everyone. She had no friends except her best friend who she grew up with.
It was the busy farming season when she went to the countryside. She couldn't stand the harsh environment and physical labor there, and fell ill within a few days.
Her best friend suggested that she find a local man to marry. She thought this was a good idea, which would not only solve her livelihood, but also give her revenge on Bian Haitao.
Her best friend helped her pick Cheng Rushan from the village. Although his family background was not good, he was doing transportation all year round and was very rich. In addition, the brigade secretary had always protected his family and could arrange light work for her. He was the most suitable candidate.
She just thought it was good that he was not at home, so she didn't have to be with him day and night, and she didn't consider anything else.
At first Cheng Rushan disagreed, but his mother was afraid that he would not be able to marry and would remain single. After all, many people with bad backgrounds could not find a wife even in their thirties or forties. Since someone offered to marry him, it was a great thing.
Just like that, the two of them got their marriage notarized in the team and moved in together as a family.
But she likes men like Bian Haitao who is gentle, kind and good at sweet talk, and hates men like Cheng Rushan who is too tall and oppressive.
What made her feel fortunate was that Cheng Rushan was suddenly arrested by the police just two days after his marriage. She didn't know the details, but he has not returned since then.
Fortunately, Cheng Rushan's family life was not affected after he was arrested. The old branch secretary still took care of his family, and she lived a happy life for the next five or six years.
But she was getting more and more depressed. First, she didn't expect to get pregnant just two days after getting married and gave birth to a pair of sons. She hated the two sons very much because they reminded her all the time that she was pregnant by another man and she was sorry for her first love and her own love.
This is a stain on her love and life.
Second, she still could not adapt to the dirtiness and poverty of the countryside. With no prospect of returning to the city and an uncertain future, she missed Bian Haitao more and more.
That seemed to have become her obsession, first love, love, and returning to the city were all one.
Her life and love suffered a huge impact. With no end in sight year after year, she felt like she was going crazy.
This spring, the old branch secretary who had been protecting Cheng Rushan's family died. At the beginning of this month, news came that Cheng Rushan had an accident in prison and might never come back.
Her half brother immediately turned hostile and forcibly kicked her, her mother-in-law, and their two children out of their home, forcing them to live in a shack under the brigade wall.
Once the old branch secretary was gone, there was no one to support her. Those lecherous hooligans began to have ill intentions towards her, and life at home was getting worse and worse. How could she bear this hardship?
Just at this time, her best friend who came back to the city to visit relatives brought her a piece of news that Bian Haitao and his wife were not happy, and he had been missing her silently. He also said that he would definitely take her out in two years.
When she heard this, she realized that she couldn't bear it for two years and she immediately wanted to go back to the city to find him, thinking about him like crazy.
But she couldn't go through the procedures to return to the city by herself.
The male educated youth from the same village who had always liked her said that he would use his connections to return to the city to take over his father's job, and he also asked her to marry him so that it wouldn't matter if she didn't have a job.
Of course, she didn't want him to support her, but she wanted to find Bian Haitao, so she urgently needed to go back to the city, so she asked him to help her get her back to the city first.
He said that it would cost at least 500 yuan to make connections, and he had 300 yuan so she only needed to raise 200 yuan.
She racked her brains to collect 20 yuan, and finally heard from her best friend that someone in the cart shop wanted to buy a son, and she happened to have two burdens, so she was tempted. A few days ago, she came to contact once and thought it was feasible, so she went back and lied to her mother-in-law that her parents were sick and asked her to go back to the city to visit them. She also exchanged the family rations for food coupons, and went to the brigade to get the longest visit letter.
Oh my god.
Jiang Lin stumbled and almost fell.
Why is there a Bian Haitao here too? ! ! Why is Jiang Lin in this parallel universe so hard to describe?
She thought of her two children again and inexplicably felt a sense of sympathy. When she was 8 years old, her father cheated on her and divorced her. When she was 11 years old, her mother remarried and started a new family.
From then on, she had no home.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
