Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 112 You don't accompany me in poverty, who are you when I am rich and powerful
My aunt's second sister is actually divorcing her husband!
These days, divorce is no small matter. When the news reached the town, Jiang Xiuxiu and Hu Jianguo had to stop what they were doing and go back to see what was going on.
There was temporarily one person missing in the store, and at noon that day, Jiang Tian was so busy that she was dizzy!
Fortunately, not many people bought braised dishes at noon.
Grandpa Hu helped to collect money, Hu Qiongfang was responsible for serving the dishes and meals, Jiang Tian looked after the braised food shop, and the job of serving the dishes was taken over by my second uncle and aunt.
The whole family worked together and finally managed to get through the lunch break.
We can't go on like this. Even a body of iron can't bear it.
Jiang Tian suggested to her mother whether they should hire two helpers, one to collect dishes and wipe the table in the front, and the other to help pick and wash vegetables in the backyard.
"The food in the restaurant is all home-cooked. As long as you are willing to use more oil, it will be delicious. Others can learn from it if they want."
"It's mainly the stewed dish recipe, which is not difficult. From now on, we can wrap the spices for stewed dishes in a gauze bag. After the stewed dish soup is cooked, take out the spices bag, put it in a bowl, and lock it in the cabinet, so we don't have to worry about others learning it."
That's a good idea.
Hu Qiongfang nodded, thought of two candidates in her mind, and asked her parents if they wanted to look among the relatives.
China is a society based on favoritism. In a family, as long as one person becomes successful, all relatives, unless they are too unlucky, will help him out.
When Grandma Hu heard this, she wanted to roll her eyes.
Grandpa Hu opened his mouth, but he didn't feel comfortable scolding his daughter in front of his grandson and granddaughter.
That night, none of the Hu family members went home and stayed directly at their daughter's house.
After everyone in the family had washed up, Grandma Hu called her daughter into the room alone.
"I thought you had made progress, but why is your mind still sometimes clear and sometimes confused?" After closing the door, Grandma Hu started scolding her.
At this moment, Hu Qiongfang is no longer the little cutie in Grandma Hu’s arms. The child is not smart, probably because she has not yet suffered the beatings of society.
If this wasn't her own daughter, Grandma Hu would let her die.
You’ve just had a full meal and you want to help your poor relatives, right?
Why don't you think in your lovely head that if these relatives were really good people, you had such a hard time in the Jiang family over the years, your husband was gone, and you couldn't find anyone to harvest the rice for you on the fields. At that time, was there any relative who would stand up and give you a hand?
If you don’t accompany me when I’m in poverty, who are you when I’m rich and powerful?
When Hu Qiongfang was in the most difficult time, he even had to borrow a bicycle from his neighbor to do business. Why ?
"You have so much money and have nowhere to spend it, why not give it to me? I'll put it in the bank for you, and you can get a lot of interest every year. Give it to them? Believe it or not, if you give them fifty yuan a month this year, they will want one hundred or two hundred next year?"
If question marks could turn into sledgehammers, Hu Qiongfang would have been smashed to death by a bunch of question marks thrown at her by Grandma Hu.
Hu Qiongfang was so confused by her mother's scolding that she asked her grandmother, "Mom, didn't you teach me when I was a child that relatives should help each other?"
Grandma Hu covered her chest with her hands, looking like she would be pissed off to death by her own daughter at any moment.
Grandpa Hu sighed and had to take over the baton of educating his daughter.
They had experienced once before how terrible the consequences of spoiling a daughter were.
Only irresponsible parents would think that if they spoil their daughter, it will be their son-in-law and his family who will suffer in the future.
Who among the parents who truly love their daughter would be willing to let her fight with a bunch of people at her husband's house?
Thinking that his daughter was still young and might find another man in the future, Grandpa Hu began to educate his daughter with a serious expression.
Relatives do need to help each other, but can you think things through clearly?
Is it "helping each other"? Is the key point "helping each other"? The key point is clearly "mutual"!
"Knowing that Tiantian's father and grandmother had gone, your mother and I were extremely worried. Do you know why we didn't go to Jiang's house to pick you up and waited for several months before letting your brother look for you?"
Grandpa Hu tried to enlighten his daughter.
Hu Qiongfang thought for a moment and answered cautiously, "You and Mom, are you trying to see if my relatives will lend a hand to us when I'm down and out?"
Grandpa Hu nodded with satisfaction.
Even Grandma Hu's complexion looked better.
The fact that they could think of this proves that their daughter is not that stupid.
"Not just our relatives, your mother and I also want you to see clearly, when you are in the most difficult and painful time, who among the relatives of the Jiang family has a conscience and will help you and your widowed mother. And who is the black-hearted one who sees that your mother-in-law has no husband, but instead wants to bully you."
As soon as these words were spoken, Hu Qiongfang's eyes instantly turned red.
She suddenly thought of her mother-in-law, Wang Chunmei.
Over the years since she married into the Jiang family, she has asked herself whether she has been rude to the elders of the Jiang family during the holidays. She has always been diligent and proactive in helping relatives who were required to visit, sending New Year gifts, and even at weddings and funerals in the elders' homes.
This is how Wang Chunmei taught her back then, that relatives should help each other.
But over the years, all Hu Qiongfang felt was her "help" to the Jiang family.
She thought that as long as she made friends with many people and took good care of the Jiang family's relatives, the Jiang family's relatives would help her in return when she encountered difficulties.
But she never expected that the usually loving "family" would watch her orphan and widow being bullied, and no one would stand up to speak a word of justice for them...
In fact, the relatives from the Hu family did not offer any help to them, but Hu Qiongfang never blamed the relatives from her natal family. After all, they had not been in touch with each other for so many years after getting married. It was a favor for them to help you, and it was nothing if they didn't help you.
But the relatives of the Jiang family are really chilling.
I have to say that Grandpa Hu and his wife really used the bloody reality to teach their daughter a very vivid "human relations lesson" - relatives should indeed help each other, but those relatives who only want to receive but are not willing to give, just forget it!
Hu Qiongfang lowered her head and thought for a while, then said two names.
"Then forget about them. Mom and Dad, I want to ask Sister Cuizhi and Sister Xiufen to come over and help me."
Hu Cuizhi was the only relative of the Hu family who was willing to help her when she was in trouble.
There is also Sister-in-law Xiufen. Although the family had a heavy burden, during that period when she and Tiantian came to the provincial road every day to sell loaches and eels, Zhang Xiufen often invited Jiang Cheng to her house for dinner.
It's nothing for an ordinary family to invite their children to have a meal, but Zhang Xiufen has four children to support and she lives a tight life, so she still wants to help her. Although the two are not relatives, in Hu Qiongfang's heart, Zhang Xiufen is much closer to her than the Hu family's cousins.
