Father Jiang didn't know where he got so many bamboo strips, and he was using them to tie the cage with wire.
Seeing that both children had returned, he quickly clapped his hands and stood up with the help of the bed.
Recently he has been able to move around and help with some simple things at home. He is very happy and no longer depressed. His mood has improved a lot.
Jiang Baige got him a pair of crutches, with which he could slowly walk around the house and even sit down to eat with his family.
He smiled and said, "Let's eat! It won't be ready in a short time. I haven't eaten rabbit meat for a long time. It won't taste good if it gets cold."
At the dinner table, today's dish was spicy stir-fried rabbit meat. Because rabbit has a strong fishy smell, Jiang's mother added bean paste and stir-fried it until it turned red. As soon as the lid of the pot was opened, the house was filled with the aroma of meat.
During the meal, everyone sat together, talking and laughing, and they were not polite to each other when there was delicious food.
Jiang Baiyang has eaten a lot of good food these days. Although the fried rabbit meat was delicious, he did not eat it in a hurry. Instead, he chewed it slowly and savored it.
Today's meal of rabbit meat left everyone with a lingering aftertaste and left them feeling satisfied.
Maybe because they were in a good mood, they ate up all the meat and broth with the steamed buns.
Only a few adults knew about the Jiang family buying a house. Since Jiang Baiyang was still young, the adults did not intend to tell him the truth.
After dinner, the women cleaned the house. Jiang's father made a cage for the rabbit and asked Jiang Baiyang to catch the rabbit and put it in.
The fact that they raise rabbits at home must not be known to others.
At that time, there was a regulation that a family could only raise two chickens, but they had a litter of six or seven rabbits. Raising so many was tantamount to defying the law.
It would be bad if others found out and reported them.
Jiang's mother was cleaning the room when someone knocked on their door.
Jiang Baige heard the sound and didn't know who would come at this time, so she dropped the broom and went to open the door.
As soon as they opened the door, they saw that the visitors were relatives they hadn't interacted with for many years, their grandparents, and their uncle and aunt's family.
When Jiang Baige saw that it was them, she greeted them anyway.
"Grandpa, grandma, uncle, aunt, how did you get here?"
Old Mrs. Jiang squinted her eyes and glanced at Jiang Baige. If she was not mistaken, this girl should be the money-losing girl she picked up.
I didn't expect that after not seeing her for a few years, she has grown so big and looks so beautiful.
He snorted and said impatiently, "Where's your father? Let's come and see him."
Jiang Baige looked at them in disbelief, then looked puzzled.
Because of some things, the two families had not had any contact for a long time. When they suddenly came at this time, Jiang Baige guessed that they must have bad intentions.
When Aunt Wang Cuihua saw that Jiang Baige didn't invite them in, she rolled her eyes.
"You are Bai Ge, right? Your grandparents came over, but you didn't even bother to invite them in."
"Second Boss has come all this way to see your father. He must be exhausted from the journey. Go make us some bowls of sugar water."
When Jiang's mother heard the sound at the door, she and Jiang Baiyang quickly carried the rabbit cage away and hid it.
Jiang's mother came over and said quickly, "Dad, mother-in-law, uncle, sister-in-law, you are here, please come in and sit down."
When Jiang Baige saw her mother coming, she quickly opened the door. With her mother there, she had no place to go here.
She didn't want to have anything to do with the Jiang family, not even a word.
In order to send her away, the Jiang family had made many bad suggestions behind other people's backs. If her parents had not insisted on keeping her, she would have been sent away long ago.
After she stepped aside, the Jiang family members came in one after another.
Father Jiang was lying on the bed. When he saw his parents coming over, he asked them to sit down.
"Dad, Mom, Big Brother and Sister-in-law, you are here, please sit here!"
The old couple in the Jiang family are both over seventy years old. They have been doing farm work for many years, so their backs are a little hunched and their faces are full of wrinkles, making them look a little fierce.
Several people looked unhappy. After they sat down, Father Jiang asked, "Second Brother, I heard you hurt your waist. Are you feeling better now?"
Old Mrs. Jiang looked unhappy when she came in and kept looking around the room.
But he said, "I heard that you were injured and didn't tell your family, so we came to see you."
She said she cared about her son, but she didn't even glance at his face.
Father Jiang looked at the expressions of the two old men and what they said, and they didn't seem to care about him at all.
He felt bitter in his heart, but he said, "I'm well now, but I can't work anymore."
He wanted to tell his family the truth so that his parents wouldn't think about giving him more living expenses again.
Now that he can't move, if the cost of living continues to rise in the future, where will they get the money?
Brother Jiang said with a worried look on his face: "Look at you, your whole family depends on you for their livelihood. If you get hurt, how will you work in the future?"
As he spoke, he kept looking at this brother. He was one year younger than him, but much younger than himself. The people in this village were really nice.
When Wang Cuihua heard her husband speak, she quickly followed suit.
"Right, right, right. If you can't do this job, why not let your eldest brother take your place? That way you can keep your job. What do you think?"
She didn't say a word of concern, just wanted to work.
Jiang Baige and Jiang's mother looked at each other, and they both understood what was going on. No wonder they came here after dark, it turned out that they had bad intentions.
Father Jiang looked at his father and then at his mother.
"Dad, Mom, you didn't come here to see me, but for this job?"
Father Jiang snorted, "Huh, I heard you're selling your job. Wouldn't it be a loss to sell it to someone else? How about letting your eldest brother go to work and then I'll give you 100 yuan a year for living expenses?"
Since the words were made clear, Mrs. Jiang also said, "Yes! You give us five dollars a month for living expenses, what can we do? We can't even eat enough, but we can still starve. If you give the job to your eldest brother, you won't have to give me living expenses in the future, and let them take care of me in my old age."
Jiang Baige looked at the faces of this family and wanted his father's job, but instead of paying for it, he just wanted to replace it with a hundred yuan a year.
Their hearts are really rotten, they can even say such things. They may give you a hundred yuan this year, but what about next year or the year after? They will not admit it until you actually get the job.
She said she didn't want the five dollars a month living allowance, but that was just an excuse to try to get a job. If her grandmother gave her the money one day late, she would come to the door and make a fuss.
This is a family that has no ambition and is now plotting against their own family members.
She looked at Jiang's father, then shook her head gently, telling him that he could not agree.
When Jiang's mother heard what the two old people said, she became very anxious.
They sold their jobs, and even a few hundred yuan was a lot of money. If their jobs were taken away by this family, they would have to live in poverty in the future.
She was so busy with work that she had forgotten that she had just bought a house that morning. She was like someone with hysteria, with her mind full of their work and money.
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