Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 151 From Social Ostrich to Social Gangster
Jiang Tian didn't know that her mother had already decided to become an ostrich in the rural social circle.
However, even if she knew, she could only support and applaud.
A person's character cannot be completely changed because of one thing, but her mother is still young.
Now I can only be an ostrich in the social circle, but in a few years, maybe I will become a gangster in the social circle?
Everything is possible. Ms. Hu has a promising future.
The next morning, my second uncle drove the family's ox cart to pick them up and take them back to the village.
Originally he wanted to borrow a tractor, but the roads were slippery due to the snow, and it froze last night, so the villagers refused to lend it to him, fearing that if the tires slipped, Hu Jianjun would crash the tractor, which would make it difficult for the village to start plowing in the spring.
Hu Jianjun had no choice but to borrow a cow from someone, harness it to his family's cart, and put all the New Year's goods prepared by both families on it.
People could only follow the ox cart slowly.
There was a thick layer of ice on the ground , so I didn't dare ride a bike.
Fortunately, they are not the only family that relies on two legs to walk.
On the 29th day of the lunar year, all buses to the countryside stopped running. After the snow on the road melted, it froze into a thick layer of ice. If people walked on it, they would fall down if they were not careful. Who would dare to ride a bicycle on it?
To put it bluntly, these days, bicycles are more valuable than people.
If someone falls, he can go home and lie down to recover, which doesn't cost much anyway. But if anyone dares to break his bicycle at home, then wait for the consequences!
They came all the way down from Shuangfeng Town, walking or driving ox carts on the road. Some people came back from the street carrying loads on their shoulders. Some of their baskets were empty, while others were filled with a lot of unsold things.
In 1985, life in the countryside was still very hard for ordinary people. Many families had not made any money for the year, and by the end of the year, they were still heavily in debt. They could only take out their family rations or vegetables from the vegetable garden and sell them at the market for money.
In comparison, the Hu family is so wealthy that they don’t seem like villagers.
Not only was the ox cart packed full of things, but the clothes worn by the family were also different from those in the village.
The Hu Jianguo brothers were both wearing brand new thick military coats and Lei Feng hats.
The two of them were quite showy. They didn't even button up their military coats, but had to leave them open. Otherwise, how could the leather jackets they were wearing underneath be revealed?
It's minus ten degrees and you're still wearing leather jackets. How come God didn't freeze you to death?
What Hu Qiongfang and her two sisters-in-law wore were not flowery cotton jackets they made themselves, but ready-made clothes that people in the city wore.
Even the children were wearing the same military coats, with large fleece scarves around their necks and Lei Feng hats on their heads. When they put on this posture, it was just like "driving a luxury car home for the New Year" in later generations. Everyone, whether they knew the Hu family or not, was staring at them.
When they arrived at the village, it was even more amazing. There were people they knew at the village entrance who followed them all the way. They didn't leave even when they arrived at the Hu family. Seeing that they were so busy that they didn't even have time to sweep the house, they rolled up their sleeves and went up to help.
The Hu family is building houses and doing business on the side of the provincial road. Everyone in the village knows about it. They all say that their family has made a lot of money this year. I only heard about it before, but now I see it with my own eyes. It seems that they are really getting rich. So why don't they quickly build relationships with them?
While chatting with relatives and neighbors, Grandma Hu was listening and looking around. When she saw that someone was staring at her daughter, her face immediately turned dark.
"Qiong Fang! Aren't you going to take Tiantian to the He family to give them New Year gifts? Why don't you go quickly?"
When Hu Qiongfang heard her mother calling her like that, she knew that Grandma Hu must be in a bad mood.
When Grandma Hu was fond of her daughter, she would call her "Fangfang" or "Fang'er", and when she was unhappy, she would call her "Qiongfang".
When he was angry or furious, he would call her "Hu Qiongfang" with her full name.
This rule is probably the same for parents all over the country, right?
Anyway, when she heard Grandma Hu calling her "Qiongfang", Hu Qiongfang didn't say a word, called her two children, took the New Year gifts prepared for the He family's elders, and ran away.
Hu Sigu was quite disappointed that she didn't get to talk to Hu Qiongfang.
However, thinking that Hu Qiongfang would be returning to her parents' home during the upcoming Chinese New Year, there would be many opportunities to strike up a conversation with her, so Fourth Aunt Hu rolled her eyes and ran to flatter Grandma Hu again.
This old sister-in-law, with a body weighing more than 80 kilograms, has at least 800 tricks up her sleeve!
Fourth Aunt Hu has never liked Grandma Hu, because none of the sisters-in-law in her Hu family have ever taken advantage of this old sister-in-law.
However, it might be that Grandma Hu was the one who made the whole family cunning and gave birth to a daughter who was as stupid as a domestic pig.
Who would have thought that a fool like Hu Qiongfang would have such good luck. Not only did she get a large sum of compensation for her husband's death, but now she is building a house and doing business on the provincial road. It is said that the money she earns every day is so much that it can't even fit into a drawer!
If you earn this much in a day, how much do you earn in a year?
The relatives were jealous and eager. In the past, the candidates introduced to Hu Qiongfang were always old men who were divorced or widowed. Now, there are older young men who have never been married who want to marry Hu Qiongfang, a not-so-young widow.
If it weren't for money, which first-married young man would be willing to marry a second-married woman?
Hu Qiongfang also has two burdens with her.
Hu Sigu felt that the marriage she had arranged for Hu Qiongfang this time was a sure thing, and she would definitely get the matchmaking money.
Thinking of this, Fourth Aunt Hu sweetly approached Grandma Hu and shamelessly flattered her: "Sister-in-law, you said that the children in your family are better than the other! Take your Fangfang for example, the eldest daughter is in junior high school, right? Why does she still look like a schoolgirl? Isn't she too beautiful?"
Grandma Hu rolled her eyes silently in her heart and accepted the flattery without any modesty.
"My Fangfang takes after her father, with a small face. Unlike your Erbing, who looks like you, with a big face...Haha, a big face means good fortune! I heard that Erbing has a girlfriend? Look how filial this child is. He doesn't even need you, as parents, to worry about his girlfriend."
Sigu Hu was so angry that she almost rolled her eyes.
She hates it most when people say she has a big face.
And about her son's girlfriend... She suspected that Grandma Hu knew something and was deliberately saying something to hurt her.
Hu Sigu gave birth to two sons and two daughters. Erbing was the youngest son in the family, so she was inevitably partial to him. As a result, this child was not easy to take care of! She didn't want any of the virgin girls her family introduced to her, and instead fell in love with the pretty widow from the next village!
A widow is also different from a widow.
If this widow was like Hu Qiongfang, honest and decent, able to make money and take care of the family, and with a few thousand yuan in savings, then it would be fine. For the sake of her younger son's future life without worries about food and clothing, she would not refuse to eat this bowl of soft rice.
But the young widow that her second soldier fell in love with was not a good person who could live a peaceful life!
