Father Jiang glanced at his parents and smiled bitterly.
"Mom and Dad, my job is related to the life of our family. If my eldest brother takes over my job, what will our family eat and drink?"
He spoke frankly and said that they had already had a falling out once, so he didn't mind this time.
After hearing this, Old Man Jiang was indeed very angry.
He slammed the table and said, "We gave birth to you and raised you, so what's wrong with asking you to give up a job? Your eldest brother has been farming in the countryside for decades, and he only gets a little food a year, which is not enough to fill his stomach."
"You have to do this job anyway, so what if you let your eldest brother do it? If he can't do it, there's still your eldest nephew, so you can let him do it."
"It's not like I don't give you any benefits. Don't I give you 100 yuan a year? If someone else could give you this much money."
Old Mrs. Jiang snorted softly. She believed that this job belonged to their Jiang family and it didn't matter who did it.
Then he folded his hands and said, "If you lose your job, just move back home. It's so inconvenient for such a big family to live in the city. Your old house is still there, so you'll have a place to live if you move back."
As she spoke, she kept looking between the two rooms.
I thought to myself, this house is so nice, spacious and clean, without a speck of dust on the floor.
Father Jiang said angrily: "You came here just to force me to give you this job, nothing else."
He thought to himself, after all, he was their son, and they had never considered his health at all.
Seeing his brother about to lose his temper, Brother Jiang quickly said softly, "Oh! What you said is so hurtful! We must have come here specially to see you!"
Jiang Baiyang stood at the door of his room, listening to the adults talking. When he heard his uncle's words, he quickly looked at their hands.
Seeing that he had empty hands, he couldn't help but ask.
"Uncle, you came to see my dad, why didn't you bring any gifts? Don't people who visit patients always bring two kilograms of sugar?"
The child thought that when visiting a patient, one must bring a gift. What’s the point of visiting a patient if one comes empty-handed?
When Jiang Baige heard what her brother said, she wanted to laugh. She raised her hand to give her brother a thumbs up, then pressed the corners of her lips hard and almost laughed out loud.
The eldest son of the Jiang family glanced at the child next to him. His nephew was one year younger than his grandson, so how could he be so tall and have a fair face? He was good in every way, except that he didn't know the rules at all and dared to talk back to adults.
He said, "Little kid, who told you to bring gifts when visiting a patient? That's feudal thinking. We should emulate socialism and not take a single cent from the people."
"Besides, we are a family, do we still need to bring gifts?"
When Wang Cuihua heard Jiang Baiyang's words, she said unhappily, "Children should not interrupt when adults are talking."
"What kind of gift does a family need? Who taught you that, little brat? You have no rules."
As she spoke, she cursed at Jiang Baiyang.
Jiang Baiyang pouted, still a little unconvinced.
"Shouldn't family members take care of each other? That's what my parents taught me."
Seeing her brother lower his head after being told off by the two adults, Jiang Baige quickly said to him, "Baiyang, the adults are talking to you, go out and play!"
Jiang Baiyang didn't want to stay at home either. He wanted to go out and play with his friends before it got dark.
Jiang Baiyang's interruption made his father watch his son leave and said solemnly, "Dad, Mom, Big Brother, forget about this job. Baiyang is almost grown up and needs a job. We also want to sell his job at the steel mill and give him an easier job."
After hearing this, Wang Cuihua said unhappily, "Alas, uncle, we are a family that is still connected even if our bones are broken. It doesn't matter who you give your job to. How about this! We will give you 200 yuan, and you sell the job to us."
As she said this she acted as if it could really happen, with an expression that said, "I'm rich, I bought it," and she held her head high and chest out, like a rich lady.
Father Jiang chuckled, feeling a little ironic.
"Family, do you treat us as a family? Now that you want to work, you remember that we are a family."
He recalled how he was bullied by the eldest brother's family. Later, he left home and came to this city. When he left, he took only a bag of food. At that time, they did not consider him as a family.
Father Jiang slammed the table again, "What did you say? How do you talk to your sister-in-law like that?"
Jiang's mother was shocked when she heard this. She was afraid that they would bully her man, so she quickly walked to the bed.
If the father and son really fight, I, as a man, won't be able to beat them.
Jiang's mother had no say in the family. She couldn't interrupt when the Jiang family members were talking.
But now they have come to bully her at home, and if she still hides behind, they will bully her even more.
Jiang's mother said, "Our work needs to be sold for at least 1,500 yuan. Either pay us or you don't have money. Forget it."
After she finished speaking, she put her hands on her hips, looking like she was ready to fight.
Old Mrs. Jiang had never seen her daughter-in-law speak so loudly, and she suddenly became angry.
"This is our Jiang family's business, you outsider, get out of here."
As he said this, he was about to reach out to pull Jiang's mother.
Seeing that her mother was about to be bullied, Jiang Baige quickly stood in front of her and blocked the old woman's hand.
She was very angry. She had been speaking softly for so long since she came back, but she would not pretend anymore today.
She glared at Old Lady Jiang with an angry look on her face.
"Grandpa and grandma, please leave! Even if we sell this job, we won't give it to you. Two hundred yuan, you can go wherever you want to buy it? Please leave our house."
Wang Cuihua also stood up, with her hands on her hips, looking like she was ready to fight.
"Bah, who do you think you are? What does the Jiang family's affairs have to do with you?"
When Jiang Baige heard that she didn't consider herself a member of the Jiang family, she looked at her with eyes like knives.
"Grandpa and grandma, my dad is giving you face because he thinks you're family. Now you can go on your own! Don't embarrass everyone."
She didn't want to argue with her aunt. This woman was arrogant and unreasonable, and no way of reasoning with her would work, so she went to talk to the head of the Jiang family.
Old Man Jiang snorted softly, "No matter what, I am still your elder. Do you still want to sever ties with me?"
The two parties had no idea what was going on and started arguing.
They were talking quite loudly just now, and the neighbors nearby heard it.
The door was not closed, someone came in to take a look and then left.
After a while, someone knocked on the door again. It was the Shen couple.
When Old Man Jiang heard that there was an outsider coming, his expression softened and he turned his back so that no one could see his expression.
When an outsider came over, the tense atmosphere suddenly became silent and no one paid any attention to each other.
Zhang Hong stretched her neck to take a look inside the house, then smiled and said, "Oh, there are guests at home!"
The couple had something to ask the Jiang family, and when they heard that the atmosphere in the Jiang family was not good, they hurried over to help.
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