Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 150: Ms. Hu's Transformation
After leaving Wang Chunjuan’s house, the mother and daughter went to Tong Zhiyuan’s house.
In the days before the New Year, they were able to make so much money thanks to the heavy snow, which was inseparable from the help of Boss Tong.
Food was in short supply before the New Year, and Hu Qiongfang lacked experience and did not stock up enough rice, flour, grain and oil. When Tong Zhiyuan found out, he asked his friends for help and directly brought her a tractor full of glutinous rice, flour, rapeseed oil and other products.
The Hu Jianguo brothers led people to tow trucks for others on the provincial road. Thanks to Boss Tong's face, others did not cause trouble for them.
Otherwise, with so many people in the town relying on this provincial road for their livelihood, and the Hu family being just outsiders, if they had no one to protect them, they would have been bullied long ago.
Hu Qiongfang carefully selected the New Year gifts for Tong Zhiyuan's family and started purchasing them a week in advance.
Moreover, considering that there is no woman in Boss Tong's family now, the things he bought are things that just happen to be used during the New Year and do not require special care.
The salted goods included a salted goose, a salted duck, a salted chicken, and two pounds of dried sausages.
The fresh goods included a basket of local eggs and a basket of various New Year goods, such as rice candy, cat ears, brown sugar twisted dough sticks, fried Sanzi, fried hemp leaves, fried peanuts, etc., filling a whole basket.
Boss Tong was stunned when he received the New Year’s goods.
"Sister Qiongfang, this is too much!"
"We are neighbors and we are doing business together. If you have any problem, just ask me. Why do you need to send so many gifts?"
Boss Tong over-imagined and thought Hu Qiongfang wanted his help with something.
Unexpectedly, Hu Qiongfang really just wanted to thank him for taking care of their family these days.
There was another matter that had been weighing on her mind. Hu Qiongfang felt a little embarrassed, but still wanted to take this opportunity to explain it to Tong Zhiyuan.
After all, the New Year is coming soon, and businessmen believe in harmony and wealth. Even if she said something wrong, Boss Tong should not kick her out for the sake of a good omen for the next year, right?
Hu Qiongfang mustered up the courage to explain that although she and Jiang Lesheng were from the same family, the two brothers had separated after Jiang Leping's death. Finally, she endured the shame and apologized to Tong Zhiyuan.
"Logically speaking, I am Jiang Lesheng's biological sister-in-law. He did something wrong and bullied your Xiaoyan. As the eldest sister-in-law, I should bring him here to apologize to your family."
"But when our two families separated, there was some unpleasantness. We really didn't want to have any contact with Jiang Lesheng anymore..."
Hu Qiongfang explained stutteringly.
Jiang Tian was almost suffocated listening to this.
This is the most annoying thing about blood relations in rural areas. Even though her family and Jiang Lesheng had separated long ago, to outsiders, Jiang Lesheng is still her uncle, and she is also Jiang Lesheng's niece. If Jiang Lesheng makes a mistake, her family will inevitably be dragged out and criticized.
If emoticons could be used in chatting in this era, Jiang Tian really wanted to throw out the classic "I'm so annoyed" emoticon.
Since God allowed her to be reborn, why didn't he give her some special powers? For example, if she doesn't like someone, she can give him a box lunch or send him away on the spot. That would be the standard configuration of a rebirth and revenge novel.
What is going on now?
The three of them have all hidden in the provincial road, how could they be implicated by that evildoer Jiang Lesheng?
Although the punishment for hooliganism is not as severe as before, if a person has a bad personal conduct, it is very likely that he will implicate other unmarried men in the family.
Jiang Lesheng was only concerned with realizing his own ambitions, but never considered that he had a nephew!
Think about it, if Jiang Lesheng was really arrested for hooliganism, then when the villagers mentioned her brother Jiang Cheng, they would definitely think of him having a hooligan uncle...
Now that I think about it, when Boss Tong took action against Jiang Lesheng, her mother's face turned red with anger. It was probably because of this reason, right?
After hearing what Hu Qiongfang said, Tong Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, and his expression seemed a little confused.
"Sister Qiongfang, what are you talking about?"
"I already knew that you and Jiang Lesheng had separated. What does it have to do with you if he did something wrong?"
If he had not asked someone and found out that Hu Qiongfang and Jiang Lesheng had separated long ago and that the relationship between the two families had become strained because of the separation, he would not have been so cruel to Jiang Lesheng.
Or, at least, before taking any action, you should first ask your sister-in-law Hu Qiongfang what she thinks.
Now it was Hu Qiongfang's turn to be surprised.
"Brother Tong, are you really not angry? After all, Jiang Lesheng is my man's younger brother..."
Tong Zhiyuan shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Don't say that he is just your man's brother. She is your biological brother. It is not reasonable for a sister to suffer for a brother's mistakes."
"This is a new society, not a feudal society where you can punish your entire clan for no reason, right?"
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After coming out of Tong's house , Hu Qiongfang looked dazed. She always felt that the world was changing too fast. Shuangfeng Town and their village were obviously not very far away, so why did it feel like they were two completely different worlds?
Jiang Tian knew why this happened.
There is some truth to the old saying “If you want to get rich, build roads first”.
The road has been built, and it has broadened not only the traffic but also the vision and minds of the people.
At first Jiang Tian didn't realize that her mother was struggling with these issues because she herself was reborn from China decades later.
In that era, people's ties to blood ties were not as strong as they are now.
Not to mention if it is the husband's younger brother who makes a mistake, even if it is the husband who makes a mistake, unless it is a criminal act involving economic issues, for other criminal acts, as long as the wife is unaware of it, there is no need for her to have any psychological burden.
The same goes for Tong Zhiyuan, who has been doing business on this provincial road in Shuangfeng Town for several years. It is normal for a businessman to ignore his relatives, let alone his brother-in-law who has already divided the family?
But Hu Qiongfang is different.
Although she learned business very quickly, her ideas about human relationships and social conventions were still based on the old ideas of the villagers.
But that was all in the past.
Looking at Hu Qiongfang's thoughtful expression, Jiang Tian felt that it was really worthwhile to go to Boss Tong's house to give a New Year gift.
At the very least, after today, in Hu Qiongfang's heart, their family and Jiang Lesheng are no longer relatives who are "connected by bones and tendons".
What Jiang Tian didn't know was that Hu Qiongfang was indeed hesitant about whether to prepare a table of wine and food when she returned to the village for the New Year and invite the relatives from the Jiang family, including her brother-in-law Jiang Lesheng, to have a meal together.
This is the custom for celebrating the New Year in rural areas. Relatives treat each other to a meal and have fun at home. This is what it means to celebrate the New Year.
But now... Hu Qiongfang tossed and turned all night, and finally, her love for her children overcame her submission to traditional ideas.
She decided: she would say that the store was busy, and when she went to visit the Jiang family's relatives, she would give them gifts and leave.
As long as they don't stay for dinner, there's no need to invite them back!
