Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 17 This damn girl really dares to think
I originally thought that the matchmaking plan was a failure.
Unexpectedly, this damn girl Jiang Tian!
It's like she is sure that Aunt Jiang will find her a rich and powerful stepfather.
Whenever he got the chance, he would block Aunt Jiang's way and ask her if she had found a good man from another family who could afford the 50-yuan dowry to buy her family a TV and a bicycle and build eight large houses.
"No, no!"
Aunt Jiang now feels a pain in her liver whenever she sees Jiang Tian.
How can you find a man here?
This is clearly an attempt to find a (rich) sucker!
Besides, if there really was a man with such good conditions, wouldn’t she leave him to her daughter?
If a daughter is not suitable, then a granddaughter or a great-granddaughter will do.
Think about it, can anyone who can afford to buy a house with three turns and one bell and build a big house with eight rooms be considered an ordinary family?
I’m afraid even the richest family in their town doesn’t have such good conditions.
Jiang Tian, this damn girl, really dares to think like that!
"You~" Seeing her daughter making Aunt Jiang so angry that smoke came out of her nostrils, Hu Qiongfang was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
However, he did not stop his daughter's mischief.
No matter what method her daughter used, Hu Qiongfang felt relieved as long as she could help her repel the young lady from the Jiang family .
Because she never thought about finding another man and marrying herself.
People say it's hard to be a stepmother, but in fact, in Hu Qiongfang's opinion, children with stepfathers and stepmothers are the most pitiful.
The man’s children are still okay, but once a woman remarries, the children she brings with her will most likely be laughed at as a “burden”. When they have to live under someone else’s roof, who knows how much grievance they will have to endure.
She couldn't bear to see her Tiantian and Chengcheng suffer such injustice.
Fortunately, after the incident with Aunt Jiang, no one in the village ever mentioned introducing Hu Qiongfang to a second marriage partner.
They were probably scared away by Jiang Tian's conditions of "three turns and one ring, plus eight large tiled houses in front and back."
Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and Jiang Tian and Hu Qiongfang had collected two and a half buckets of eels, as well as more than ten kilograms of wild loaches as thick as thumbs.
Because it was the first time for her daughter to go so far to sell eels, Hu Qiongfang was worried about letting her daughter go alone.
The final result of the discussion was to ask the neighbors to help feed the pigs at home, and let Jiang Cheng have lunch with them at noon, and the mother and daughter would take a car to a restaurant near the provincial road to explore the route.
There is only one bus from their town to the provincial highway. It departs from the town at 7:00 in the morning, passes by their Liuzhutou Village at about 7:30, and passes through their village again at 3:30 in the afternoon to go to the town.
So, that morning, Hu Qiongfang got up an hour earlier than usual.
First, she cooked the pig grass that she had cut yesterday and put it into a bucket. She fed the pigs herself in the morning, and asked her neighbor next door to help feed them at noon.
Then make breakfast for the whole family .
Today, both mother and daughter are going on a long journey by car. She didn't cook porridge because she was worried that it would be inconvenient to go to the toilet outside.
He made up his mind, took the gourd ladle, scooped two scoops of flour from the flour jar, beat three eggs into the bowl, chopped a handful of green onions, and baked a dozen green onion egg pancakes.
Hu Qiongfang is a good cook. The scallion egg pancakes she makes are golden and fragrant. The smell wakes up the two little gluttons in the family.
It's not easy! In all these years when Wang Chunmei was in charge, they could only eat scallion egg pancakes occasionally when their second uncle came back from school, right?
Hu Qiongfang probably thought of something and couldn't help but smile. She divided the egg pancakes into three plates. The two plates with more were for her son and daughter, and the one plate with less was for herself.
very nice!
It's not that she has a bad heart. After her mother-in-law passed away, the living conditions of the three of them in this family have improved by more than one level compared to before.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just the egg pancake. If my grandmother was still alive, the two children would at most each get a small piece to taste it. How could they eat it as much as they want?
Seeing that there were only three plates of scallion egg pancakes on the table, Jiang Tian slapped his head and cried out.
"How could I have forgotten about this? Mom, Chengcheng, don't eat yet. I'll make you some malted milk."
As she spoke, she ran to the small room next to the chicken coop where farm tools and sundries were stored, and came out happily carrying an extra-large bag.
When Hu Qiongfang saw the pattern of the bag, she almost spit out her egg pancake.
"Isn't this the quilt cover your grandma used to use?"
"Yes, I was in a hurry to pack my things, so I just grabbed a solid piece."
As he spoke, Jiang Tian untied the knot on the outside of the bundle, revealing a bunch of stuff inside with a clanging sound. He opened it and took a look. Wow!
Two unopened cans of malted milk.
Several cookie boxes of varying sizes.
A pile of loose banknotes and coins, mixed with a dozen copper coins.
What's left are large and small bags of red dates, walnuts, bags of brown sugar, cloud cakes, sugar-coated fruits and the like.
The corners of Hu Qiongfang's mouth twitched twice, and he couldn't hold it in any longer and started cursing.
She just said it!
My husband sends money home every month. The money from selling grain, eggs, duck eggs, and pigs at the end of the year is all given to my mother-in-law for safekeeping. How could there be no money at home?
There was some love money, but it was all taken away by this old woman and used to support her youngest son.
Hu Qiongfang was furious and immediately opened a can of malted milk and made a large cup for Jiang Tian and Jiang Cheng each.
After thinking for a while, he grabbed two handfuls of large walnuts and two handfuls of dried red dates and stuffed them into his son's and daughter's pockets respectively: "Eat!"
She fed her son till he was smooth and fat, but starved her daughter to the point of anemia. Hu Qiongfang will remember this hatred for her for the rest of her life!
I've decided. From now on, I won't spend money on incense, candles, or paper money when I visit the graves. I'll just burn two handfuls of straw to get by.
Don't you love your youngest son the most? Let him burn paper money for you.
Hu Qiongfang cursed her dead mother-in-law in her heart with a cold face for a while, and then she felt a little regretful.
We shouldn't have been in a hurry to divide the family and gave all the 2,000 yuan savings to Jiang Lesheng.
Now that I think about it, this brother-in-law is really not a good person!
Your elder brother lost his life for you.
Now that they are left alone as an orphan and a widow , life must be so difficult. Your sister-in-law said she was sorry to have implicated you and gave you all the family savings. Do you really want them?
At this moment, Hu Qiongfang hated her brother-in-law in her heart.
Jiang Tian didn't know that her mother would soon be on the same front with her.
After dinner, Jiang Cheng went to school with walnuts and dates in his pocket, skipping and skipping with his schoolbag on his back.
Hu Qiongfang washed the dishes and when she came out, Jiang Tian had packed up the things that the mother and daughter were going to take out.
An army green crossbody kettle filled with water.
She took out the books from her old schoolbag, put four steamed buns, a handful of dates, and a can of pickled beans she had made at home.
At this time, few people would chop the sour beans and stir-fry them, mainly because it wastes oil.
Everyone does it like this, taking it directly out of the kimchi jar and washing it with clean water. Some don’t even wash it and just eat it raw. It’s crunchy!
It’s sour, spicy and goes well with rice.
