Chapter 131 Boss Tong, the Scheming Man
He Chunling really wants her mother to divorce her father.
Just look at Jiang Tian’s mother and you will know. Wasn’t she just an ordinary rural woman before?
Later, Jiang Tian's father passed away. As a woman, she ran to the provincial road with her two children to open a restaurant. Without a man to hold them back, her life was better than back home.
There are also many job opportunities in the provincial highway.
Otherwise, why do they say that vision determines life?
When she was in the countryside, He Chunling thought that leaving her hometown was a terrible thing. She could really starve to death by wandering outside without any land or work.
But after she got out, she found that outside, as long as she had hands and feet and could see the work, she would never have to worry about having food to eat.
Not to mention those far away, let’s just talk about the old couple who live diagonally opposite Uncle Hu’s restaurant. I heard they fled here from somewhere to escape famine. The couple has no local household registration and no land allocated to them. They are so old that no one dares to hire them to wash dishes.
I’m afraid that if I fall in the store one day, the store will have to pay compensation.
This kind of family would have starved to death in the countryside long ago.
But the old couple still lives a very comfortable life today, because there are so many ways to make money along the provincial road!
The couple dug yellow mud and made mud bricks. They also cut a lot of reeds and weaved them into reed mats. They used mud bricks and reed mats to build two long, low houses on the side of the provincial road.
Then they dug a hole underground and a large septic tank behind it, and actually built a paid "public toilet" on the side of the provincial road!
On a busy street like this, men can be careless and just find a place to relieve themselves.
But women can't do that.
Moreover, many sophisticated gay men in the city would rather spend money and go to public toilets to solve their problems.
The old couple did not overcharge their customers. They only charged two cents for entry, whether for defecation or urination. They also sold toilet paper, sanitary belts and other things, so they could make some money.
There are always those careless people who don't even bring toilet paper when they go out. You can't just pick a few leaves to deal with your poop, right?
They dare not talk about other places, but the leaves on the side of the provincial road are covered with a thick layer of dust! If you use them to wipe your butt, it will probably get dirtier the more you wipe!
Two cents a trip, even though it doesn't seem like a big business, there are a lot of people.
Sometimes, a long-distance bus can pick up dozens of people, and the operator can make a few dollars per bus.
You know, the best flour now only costs 25 cents per pound. If you go to the countryside to buy multi-grain flour, it will be even cheaper.
When a car comes, the money the old couple earns is enough for them to buy food for several days.
What's more, this is a business with no capital.
And the septic tank behind the toilet can also make another profit.
In those days, chemical fertilizers were not yet popular, mainly because they were expensive. People used farmyard manure when farming. The old couple sold manure every once in a while, and people nearby carried their own manure buckets to collect it, and each bucket cost five cents.
Many families with a lot of land do not have enough manure at home, so they have to spend money to buy it.
Anyway, buying manure is definitely cheaper than buying fertilizer.
Moreover, fertilizers nowadays cannot be bought with money. You need fertilizer coupons.
So, even though this business of the old couple smells bad, they make a lot of money every year.
There are so few public toilets along provincial roads these days! Not to mention along provincial roads, even public toilets in the city are hard to find, otherwise how can there be so many people urinating and defecating in public?
He Chunling was bold and ambitious. She thought that if her mother continued to endure this, she might as well divorce her father.
Didn’t her father always think that the three of them, mother and son, were a burden?
Didn’t they say that the three of them ate and drank what he gave them, and without him, they would have starved to death long ago?
That’s fine. He Chunling is willing to “reduce the burden” for her father and bring out the two “burdens” in her father’s eyes - her mother and her brother.
This is so great. Now that they, mother and son, are no longer "eating and drinking for free" at the He family, your family of three will surely become rich and prosperous, and never have to worry about food and drink, right?
She really wanted to do this, but the problem was that her mother would definitely not agree.
Not to mention now, even decades later, many people in China still think that divorce is a shameful thing.
He Chunling was very worried that her father would beat her mother when he returned this time.
But her mother had gotten used to being beaten over the years, and sometimes He Chunling couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to call the police and have them arrest her father.
Unexpectedly, Yao Huifen stopped him and refused to let him go. A few times when the beating was not severe, she even got up from the bed and went to cook for her father...
She was not allowed to intervene once, and she was not allowed to intervene twice. After a long time, He Chunling's heart grew cold.
Originally, He Chunling didn't want to care about her mother anymore, but this time, her mother dared to secretly give her money without telling her father. He Chunling couldn't help but want to get her mother out.
However, Yao Huifen felt ashamed even to call the police and would never agree to a divorce. How could we persuade her to leave that home?
Seeing her sad face, Jiang Tian couldn't help but comfort her: "Don't think too much for now, make money and go to school, and when you pass the technical secondary school and graduate and have a job, can't you bring your mother out to enjoy life?"
When the time comes, let that domestic violence man and mama's boy live as a loving family with his mother!
He Chunling burst out laughing.
At this time, neither of them had expected that He Zhiyong, who always liked to beat his wife, would be so cruel to Yao Huifen this time!
The man was beaten so hard that four of his ribs were broken and he was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment overnight.
Originally, He Chunling didn't know about this, but she couldn't help but know that Boss Tong had been courting Hu Qiongfang crazily recently.
He heard from Hu Qiongfang about what happened in He Chunling's family, and from the police station that He Chunling's mother was beaten so badly by her father that she was hospitalized. Even her youngest son, whose eardrum was perforated after being beaten by his father for protecting his mother, was also sent to the hospital.
Boss Tong put down the work in his hands and went to inform Hu Qiongfang.
Hu Qiongfang was startled and dropped the spoon to run to find He Chunling.
Boss Tong is such a scheming man! For such a short distance, he even drove out his big motorcycle, which came in handy right now.
Hu Qiongfang was in a hurry to report the news and didn't care about avoiding suspicion. Tong Zhiyuan started the motorcycle and asked her to get on quickly. Hu Qiongfang got on without thinking.
The motorcycle was much faster than the bicycle, and it made a loud rumbling sound. Hu Qiongfang was so scared that she quickly grabbed Boss Tong by the hem of his clothes from behind.
Through the thick cotton coat, I could only vaguely feel two small fists pressing on my lower back.
Tong Zhiyuan looked at the big hole created by a truck on the side of the provincial road and wanted to just drive his motorcycle into it.
When the motorcycle bumps, Hu Qiongfang won't be able to grab his clothes and will definitely be scared and hug his waist.
After thinking about it, I decided to forget it.
Hu Qiongfang is so timid. He is aiming to date and marry Qiongfang, but he can't just seek momentary pleasure. What if he scares her away? Where will he find such a good wife?