Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 109: My Aunt's Weird Sister
Since they had promised their sister-in-law to help out in the store, the next morning, Jiang Xiuxiu and Chen Xiaohong, the two sisters-in-law, took time out to go back home and arrange all the household chores.
Each family raised two pigs. The original plan was to raise them until the Chinese New Year, sell one and kill the other to make bacon.
Now that they have to help out in the store, the two of them decided to just sell the two pigs.
Although they haven't grown big enough yet, I won't lose money if I sell them now, and I can even make some profit.
There were also geese, ducks and chickens raised at home. They didn't have to take them to town to sell. Hu Qiongfang had already told them to catch all the chickens, ducks and geese at home and bring them to the store.
She paid them according to the market price.
Anyway, she had to go to the morning market to buy these things every day, bring them home, raise them in the backyard, and slaughter them on the same day they were used, saving her another trip to the morning market.
As for the land at home .
My second aunt wants to find someone in the village to help grow some vegetables in the fields and then take them to the store. My sister-in-law has to buy vegetables every now and then. If she sells them to her sister-in-law at a lower price since they are grown at home, she can also make some money.
My aunt was a little hesitant.
She wanted to give these lands to her younger brother from her natal family to farm.
Her family conditions were not very good. Her mother gave birth to three sisters in a row, and only gave birth to her little brother on the fourth pregnancy. The whole family doted on him.
There are many children and many mouths to feed in the family. Every year, after working hard in the fields to harvest grain , the rest is not enough for the whole family's food after paying the public tax. It can be said that they are extremely poor. They can't even afford to keep a dog - if people are not full, how can they have leftovers to feed the dog?
Jiang Xiuxiu remembers that when she was a child, her family lived in a landlord's courtyard, a blue brick and tile house, which was very grand. Later, the "landlord" was rehabilitated and the courtyard was returned to him. She moved out and lived in the cowshed where the landlord once lived.
It's called a cowshed, but actually it's just a row of two and a half thatched houses. It can be lived in if it's cleaned up , but it's not good enough for me to marry a wife.
Who would be willing to marry their daughter to live in the cowshed?
In order to save money to build a new house for their younger brother, Jiang Xiuxiu and her two sisters got married very early.
However, the family originally wanted to arrange the marriage with the Hu family for the second sister Jiang Huihui, but the second sister was unwilling to do so because she disliked Hu Jianguo for being uneducated and a rough man. She started dating someone who had just graduated from junior high school. There was no choice but for Jiang Xiuxiu to agree to the marriage on behalf of the second sister.
Originally, her family had arranged for her to marry another daughter, but that family did not want to pay and wanted to replace the daughter. Jiang's mother did not want to agree, so she decisively replaced her second daughter's marriage with that of her eldest daughter.
Who would have thought that the despised Hu Jianguo would have such good fortune?
Originally, I thought that after I took my sister-in-law back to her parents' home, I would have to support her and her two children in the future. But who would have known that my sister-in-law would be so hardworking that not only did she not want them to support her, but she was also willing to take them with her now that she was making money.
Jiang Xiuxiu remembered Hu Qiongfang's kindness and did not dare to delay, so she wanted to rent the family's land to her brother from her natal family for farming. On the one hand, her brother could produce an extra 1,000 to 2,000 kilograms of grain every year to supplement the family income. On the other hand, she thought that her brother from her natal family was always more reliable than outsiders.
Unexpectedly, before the younger brother Jiang Zhiguo could say anything, the second sister Jiang Huihui jumped out first.
"Sister, you are too partial, aren't you? Zhi's family has only one child, and I have three. We can barely make ends meet. Why don't you feel sorry for me?" Jiang Huihui ran to Jiang Xiuxiu's house angrily. Looking at the Hu family's tidy red brick house, her eyes turned red with jealousy.
Hu Jianguo is a hardworking and down-to-earth person. The red brick house that the Hu family built for their two sons and the job of setting up a stall along the provincial road, all of these should have belonged to her!
It’s all my elder sister’s fault!
If her eldest sister had not said that she was willing to marry into the Hu family for her, her parents would definitely have forced her to separate from that man and let her marry into the Hu family.
Because her elder sister jumped out and snatched Hu Jianguo away, she had to marry into the Liu family. Liu Xiaojun, that man! He looked smart and good-looking, but he was not good to her, his wife.
Thinking of the grievances she had suffered in the Liu family over the years, Jiang Huihui couldn't help but burst into tears.
"Sister, if I hadn't let you, I would have been the one marrying into the Hu family. Now you are enjoying the good life in their old Hu family. Don't you think about who gave you this good fortune?"
"I don't care! Either you tell your sister-in-law to let me help out in her store and get paid the same as you do. Or you can give your land to my family to farm."
Hearing her second sister say this, Jiang Xiuxiu felt inexplicably guilty.
Jiang Huihui looked down on the honest and dull Hu Jianguo, but when the two families went on a blind date, Jiang Xiuxiu had a good impression of Hu Jianguo. However, she did not think much about it at that time. She just envied her second sister's good luck that her family found her a down-to-earth and steady man.
Later, the second sister refused to marry and insisted on marrying Liu Xiaojun. Thinking of Hu Jianguo's honest and warm smile, Jiang Xiuxiu suddenly said that she was willing to accept the marriage on behalf of her second sister.
What happened later also proved that her choice was correct.
Although Hu Jianguo is honest and dull, his parents-in-law are smart and capable. The old couple hopes that their two sons can live a good life. Grandpa Hu takes the two sons to farm and do odd jobs to earn money, and Grandma Hu helps the two sisters-in-law take care of the children so that they can also go to the fields to work and earn money. The family lives a prosperous and lively life.
In comparison, the second sister's life was not so good.
Liu Xiaojun looks smart and capable, but actually he does not do any housework at all. He usually hangs out with a bunch of young people in town.
Liu's parents are also lazy and like to eat. They are good at coaxing people. They praise their daughter-in-law for being filial and capable, but in fact they order Jiang Huihui around without any hesitation.
Even when Jiang Huihui was in confinement after giving birth, she was struggling to alter clothes for her eldest daughter who was in school.
Because my mother-in-law said that the clothes she sewed were not good-looking and she was afraid that the child would be laughed at when wearing them to school.
It's funny to say that Liu Xiaojun himself dresses like a cadre, but the clothes worn by his two daughters and one son are almost all old clothes that Jiang Xiuxiu's two children can no longer wear. They were taken back, altered to smaller sizes, and then given to the younger ones after the older ones wore them. In short, Jiang Huihui's three children have never bought two new pieces of clothes from birth to now.
No matter how beautiful “love” is, it can’t stop life from being miserable!
Jiang Huihui envied her elder sister for being able to marry into the Hu family, but also resented her elder sister for snatching away her own good marriage opportunity. When she heard that her elder sister was going to do business along the provincial road with her brother-in-law and wanted to give the family land to her younger brother to farm, she couldn't wait even a second and ran over, leaving her children behind.
Why should you give the land to me to farm?
This marriage with the Hu family was snatched away from me by my eldest sister.
Now that my eldest sister is going to live in town as a city dweller, the land in the village should be given to her family to farm!
