Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 127 Still want to sell your niece?
He Chunling said that she ran away from home, and her tone was very relaxed, but Jiang Tian knew that she must have suffered a lot along the way.
The cotton shoes on my feet were soaked, and the soles were covered with a thick layer of yellow mud and ice chips.
Half of his trouser legs were wet, and the cover over his torn cotton jacket was also soaked.
The He family is so cruel. In order to force her to submit, they didn't even give her an umbrella in this freezing snow!
He Chunling was really stubborn. She ran away without hesitation, without taking anything with her except her schoolbag and the dozen yuan she had saved .
"We'll talk about renting a house later. Go to my room first and I'll get you two basins of hot water."
At this point, the buses from the township to the provincial highway had long since run out, and He Chunling didn't have a bicycle, so she must have walked here on foot. Her worn cotton shoes had already been soaked through. If she didn't quickly soak her feet in hot water and change into a pair of clean shoes, she would have caught a cold.
Jiang Tian said something to Hu Qiongfang, took out her cotton shoes, cotton jacket, and a blouse, and got a large bucket of hot water for He Chunling, letting her wash and change clothes in her room.
The warm towel covered my face, dispelling the biting cold that came from walking in the wind and snow.
He Chunling knew that she had made the right move.
Although she and Jiang Tian were elementary school classmates, they were not familiar with each other. It was not until Jiang Tian went to the school to apply for leave of absence that she found out that she had taken a year off and went home to help her mother farm.
He Chunling was thinking at the time that if Jiang Tian came back to school next year and couldn't keep up with the progress, she could lend her first-year junior high school notes to her.
Unexpectedly, she was now forced to follow Jiang Tian's footsteps and drop out of school.
The final exams are coming up soon, and she will definitely finish the semester.
But if she continues to stay at home, her grandmother and father will definitely do everything they can to force her to get married.
There was no choice but for He Chunling to run away.
He Chunling never thought that she would have to marry someone to exchange gifts for her family. After all, she only has one younger brother, who is only in the third grade of elementary school this year. He is a little kid, so even if he wants to get married, he has to wait another ten years.
With her grades in ten years, even if she couldn't get into university, she would definitely be able to get into at least a technical secondary school.
In this era, technical secondary school students are still very popular, and they are basically guaranteed jobs after graduation. When she graduates and starts working, she can save her salary to help her brother get married.
He Chunling has never forgotten the kindness of her parents in raising her, and has also made up her mind that she will have to help the family a little after she starts working.
But what she didn't expect was that her grandmother couldn't wait for her to get into secondary technical school in order to find a wife for her younger uncle, and now wanted to marry her off in exchange for a dowry and build a house for her younger uncle to propose marriage.
What made her even more disheartened was that not only did her grandmother think so, but her father actually agreed with it!
She could understand that he was giving the gift of marriage gift to his own brother, but she should ask around the village to find out which family had sold their granddaughter in order to find a wife for their youngest son.
He Chunling knew that it was useless to quarrel with her family. Her grandma and dad treated her like a child and would not listen to her at all. They might have already arranged a matchmaker to meet her.
She didn't dare to argue with her family anymore, so she lied that she had to finish her final exams. She didn't take anything with her, only a dozen dollars that she had secretly saved. She pretended to go to school with her schoolbag on her back, but she ran away halfway!
Jiang Tian’s restaurant is now very famous. It was easy to find by asking along the way.
He Chunling didn't know that her restaurant was hiring. She originally wanted to ask Jiang Tian if she could help her find a job nearby, but she didn't expect to come across her own restaurant hiring.
He Chunling spread out her hands for Jiang Tian to see.
"At home, I do laundry, cooking, dishes, tables, feeding pigs and killing chickens. I can do everything."
"Jiang Tian, let me come to your restaurant to wash dishes. I will definitely do my job well. Don't treat me as a classmate. Just treat me as a handyman in the store."
How could Jiang Tian dare to let He Chunling work in other restaurants?
She has been malnourished since childhood and has developed slowly. He Chunling doesn't know if it's hereditary, but she develops early among girls. Although she is only in the first grade of junior high school, she already has breasts and a butt. The provincial road is so chaotic. If she goes to work in someone else's restaurant and is molested by those drunken idlers, or meets a lecherous boss, that would be fatal.
Jiang Tian told Hu Qiongfang about the matter, and Hu Qiongfang agreed immediately.
She also did not allow He Chunling to rent a house outside, saying that it was not safe for a girl like her to rent a house outside.
"It just so happens that your eldest aunt and second aunt have moved into the new house, and their rooms are now vacant. Let your classmate live there first."
He Chunling and Jiang Tian are not really good friends, so how can she have the nerve to take advantage of this?
She immediately expressed her willingness to pay rent to Hu Qiongfang, otherwise she would feel embarrassed to live in the house.
In this way, He Chunling spent two dollars and rented the other half of the mother and daughter's bedroom.
That place was originally slept by Grandma Hu. Now she has moved to the new house, leaving an empty bed which was of no use. Hu Qiongfang had not originally planned to charge He Chunling rent, but was afraid that she would not be comfortable living at home and would have to rent a house and move out.
Only after paying a symbolic rent of two yuan a month did He Chunling feel at ease to move in.
Jiang Tian asked He Chunling what her plans were. If she dropped out of school now, she would have enough to eat outside as long as she worked hard. But if she continued to go to school, she would definitely have to stay at home.
The first year is fine, but what should I do if the second year class division requires parents’ signatures? What should I do if the third year high school entrance exam is held?
He Chunling sneered, "So what? I'm only in the first grade, I can afford to delay, but that old woman's precious son can't afford to delay."
"If you want to build a new house and get married, go work and earn money. A grown man, like a coward, hiding behind his mom and brother, waiting for ready-made food, and even wants to sell his niece? Ugh!"
He Chunling scolded her father, her grandmother, and her uncle, but did not mention her mother.
Jiang Tian wasn't that familiar with her, so she was too embarrassed to ask and could only comfort her and let her stay there with peace of mind for the time being.
It doesn't matter if I postpone my studies for a year. If it were her, she wouldn't be able to go back to school now.
There were no dormitories in the town middle school where He Chunling lived. If she went back to school, she could only rent a house in the town or stay with relatives. In both situations, she would be easily caught by her family.
Jiang Tian also knew that taking He Chunling in was risky, but she couldn't just leave it alone.
It is so difficult for rural girls to go to high school safely! Maybe only one out of a hundred girls can do so.
Some of them are from poor families and cannot continue their studies. Even though they have passed the high school admission line, in the end they can only hide the admission letter because they have no money to continue their studies.
Some are not good enough in study, and they have a lot of younger brothers and sisters, and they themselves have no talent for studying, so of course they have to give the precious opportunities to the one who is more talented.
Others are like He Chunling, who have older brothers who have reached the age of marriage but have no money to marry, so they can only let their older sisters marry first and exchange some dowry for their brothers to marry.
However, it is rare for a girl like He Chunling to be married off by her family so that her younger uncle can find a wife.
Jiang Tian used to think that her father was foolishly filial enough, but she didn't expect that there was someone who was even more foolishly filial than her father.
Perhaps because she could empathize with He Chunling and had the same unreliable father, Jiang Tian didn't want He Chunling to be caught by the He family and married off.
