Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 1 Rebirth
If you woke up and found yourself twelve years old again, what would be the first thing you would do?
Jiang Tian’s first reaction was not to run and buy a house.
Because at that time there was no real estate industry in the country.
I didn’t go there to buy stocks because the Shanghai Stock Exchange was still several years away from being established.
The first thing Jiang Tian did was to snatch the three yuan and fifty cents that her mother was about to hand over to the government .
"Tiantian, give me the money quickly. This money is for your grandma."
Hu Qiongfang was startled, looked around, and found that her mother-in-law and second uncle were not there, so she whispered to comfort them:
"I know you want to pay tuition to go to school. Wait a little longer, and Mom will save enough money to send you back to school."
Seeing the indelible mud hidden in the gaps between her mother's fingernails, Jiang Tian's eyes turned red.
He gritted his teeth and ruthlessly stuffed the roll of banknotes, which still smelled of fish, into his trouser pocket.
Over the past few decades, Jiang Tian has thought countless times how great it would be if time could go back and she could go back to the year when she dropped out of school in the second year of junior high school!
If she could go back to the past, she would never let her mother listen to her grandmother in everything.
We must not let her grandmother take away her father’s death compensation!
And I will definitely... never let that beastly second uncle lure my younger brother Jiang Cheng into the illegal brick kiln.
The black brick kilns in the 1980s were making money by taking the workers’ lives!
Can a teenage child who was tricked into going there survive?
Her younger brother Jiang Cheng is so smart, he has been a famous child prodigy in the area since he was young!
It turned out that her second uncle wanted to use her father’s death compensation to go to college!
Just because this family can only afford to send one person to college!
My younger brother was tricked by that black-hearted beast into working in a black brick kiln.
Jiang Tian still remembers that in her previous life, she and her mother received her brother from the police seven years after his disappearance. He was rescued from a black brick factory by the public security bureau.
At that time, Jiang Cheng had completely turned into a fool!
Later, in order to get her brother's medical treatment, she and her mother went to work in the city. Her grandmother had originally agreed to help them look after their brother.
But who would have known that when the Chinese New Year came, she and her mother came back with the money they had saved from hard work, preparing to take her brother to the provincial capital for medical treatment, what greeted them was not their living brother, but a small grave!
And grandma's understated explanation:
"How could I have controlled this little lunatic? He ran out on his own and fell into the toilet and drowned. Can you blame me?"
The mother cried till she fainted after throwing herself on her son's small grave, but they couldn't blame their grandmother for why her family didn't even call them when their brother drowned.
Although many families in the city had installed telephones at that time, their village only had one telephone, which was located in the village committee. Moreover, she and her mother worked outside and had no fixed place to live. Even if their family wanted to call them, they didn't know which number to dial.
My younger brother passed away just like that, and my mother became seriously ill and couldn't get up from her bed.
But what made Jiang Tian feel disheartened was that even though their family was in such a state, her grandmother actually came over with a clear conscience and asked her and her mother to hand over the money they earned from working in the city to the government.
Because my second uncle is attending university in the city, he needs a considerable amount of living expenses every month.
"Qiong Fang, you need to be more open-minded. Even though the child is gone, we still have to live our lives."
"Tiantian is a girl. If she doesn't have brothers from her natal family to help her when she gets married, won't she be bullied to death?"
"Listen to me, let's help . When he graduates from college, we'll assign him to a good unit. With his support, who dares to bully our Tiantian in the future?"
"I know you feel sad because Chengcheng is gone. But you should also think about Tiantian."
"Give me the money and ask her second uncle to finish college. He will remember your kindness as his sister-in-law for the rest of his life and will definitely treat Tiantian as his own daughter."
In her previous life, her grandmother had used all kinds of tricks to take away the money that she and her mother had saved from working for half a year.
At that time, Jiang Tian didn't know that the money she and her mother saved from every tooth was used to support the murderer who killed her own brother!
She also didn’t know that because grandma took the money, she couldn’t afford to pay for her mother’s treatment when she was seriously ill, and that’s why her mother passed away so early…
However, none of this will happen again.
Seeing her mother Hu Qiongfang's embarrassed expression, Jiang Tian's heart moved, she hugged Hu Qiongfang's arm, leaned close to her ear and whispered -
"Mom, my grades are not good, so I don't have to go to school. I don't like going to school anyway. But Chengcheng is different!"
"Think about it, Chengcheng's grades are so good that even the principal said he will definitely be admitted to university in the future. You know our family's situation."
As she spoke, Jiang Tian pouted at the person next to her:
"Second Uncle is so much older than Chengcheng, and my grandma favors him. What if my grandma uses all our money to help Second Uncle go to high school and take the college entrance exam?"
"When it's my brother's turn to take the college entrance exam, my grandma will throw up her hands and say that the family has no money. Can you still drag my grandma to the market and sell her for money?"
Thinking of her son who had been a "child prodigy" since childhood, Hu Qiongfang hesitated.
Over the years, the couple, one working in a coal mine to dig coal, and the other working on the farm in their hometown, have been working so hard, isn't it just to give their two children a good future?
Because my second uncle is still in school and my mother-in-law is a widow, the Jiang family has not yet split up.
According to family rules, all the money the couple earned was given to the mother-in-law, who then distributed it according to the family expenses.
All the land belonging to the whole family is planted together.
However, because his second uncle had to go to school and his grandmother was old, Hu Qiongfang was basically the only one working on the family's land.
After working hard all year round farming and raising pigs, all the money earned was handed over to the public. I don’t know how my mother-in-law spent the money. In the end, she couldn’t even pay for the tuition of her eldest daughter Jiang Tian.
If it wasn't for the need to save money for Jiang Tian's tuition, Hu Qiongfang, a woman, would not have gone to the fields in the dark of night to fish for eels.
Hu Qiongfang is very afraid of soft things like eels and snakes, but for her daughter to go to school, she has to suppress her fear and earn the money.
Many things in the countryside are worthless, but some people still buy wild eels.
The purchase price of eels weighing more than one or two taels is 35 cents per catty. Hu Qiongfang saved for two days and only sold them for 3.5 yuan.
Originally, she wanted to tell her mother-in-law that she should keep the money she earned from selling eels separately, and let Jiang Tian go to school when she had saved enough for tuition.
She also knew that her daughter’s academic performance was not particularly outstanding, but she should at least finish junior high school, right?
At this time in rural areas, if a girl could get a junior high school diploma, she would be looked up to when she found a husband.
Neither Hu Qiongfang nor her husband has the idea of favoring boys over girls. In their eyes, their sons and daughters are the apple of their eyes.
As parents, no matter how stupid our children are, we always try our best to arrange a better future for them.
What's more, she didn't think her daughter Jiang Tian was stupid. Studying is difficult. She herself was not as good at studying as her daughter when she was a child.
only--
"I won't give you this money, okay?"
Jiang Tian pursed her lips and smiled:
"Mom, don't say anything. If grandma asks, just say you gave me the money."
"When she comes to me, I will definitely leave her speechless, and maybe she will even have to give me some more money."
