Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 3: Grasp the Hand
The mother and daughter returned to their room.
Hu Qiongfang's expression looked as if she had been struck by lightning.
"You, you just stole your grandma's money like that?"
Is this still her silent eldest daughter?
How come he's like a different person?
Jiang Tian quickly corrected Hu Qiongfang's statement -
"When did my grandma ever earn money?"
"Didn't you and Dad earn this money?"
"Is it wrong for me to take the money earned by my own parents?"
That’s right, it’s right, but I always feel like something is wrong.
Hu Qiongfang sat down on the edge of the bed, her head buzzing.
Now neither the mother-in-law nor the daughter-in-law cared about the three dollars and fifty cents she earned from selling the eel.
Compared with the more than one hundred yuan that Jiang Tian snatched from her grandmother's hands after rushing into her grandmother's room and smashing and looting, three yuan and fifty cents is nothing.
Jiang Tian never expected that if she became ruthless, she could actually get money from her grandmother.
If only she had been tougher in her previous life...
Forget it. Jiang Tian would rather think that those things in her past life were just a nightmare. When she woke up, her mother and brother were still fine.
As for her father... Jiang Tian's eyes turned red and tears fell uncontrollably.
Although in her previous life, her family received the news of her father's death only the day after tomorrow morning, but later they found out that the black-hearted coal boss was worried that an accident would happen in the mine and the coal mine would be closed down, so he concealed the news for a whole week!
Later, the matter could no longer be concealed. The miners trapped in the mine could not be rescued, so they had to report it.
By the time the local rescue team was sent and finally dug a rescue passage, her father and several other miners trapped below were long gone.
In her previous life, because her mother was in poor health and she and her brother were still young, Jiang Lesheng went to the mine on behalf of the Jiang family to handle the funeral.
The only thing she brought back was her father's urn.
How great would it be if she could be reborn ?
Jiang Tian lay on the bed and cried for a while, wishing she could rush to the coal mine where her father worked.
But she knew in her heart that it was too late.
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Seeing her daughter lying on the quilt crying and gasping for breath, how could Hu Qiongfang bear to scold her?
Hu Qiongfang is a gentle person. When she saw her daughter rushing into her mother-in-law's room and smashing and looting, she thought her daughter had gone too far.
But now, seeing her daughter lying on the bed crying so aggrievedly, Hu Qiongfang couldn't help but think, if her mother-in-law hadn't gone too far, and had clearly had money but still refused to pay Tiantian's tuition, how could Tiantian run into her room to steal money?
If you think about it carefully, this is something that should have been done by her as a mother.
She works so hard farming and raising pigs, and her husband never takes a day off at the mine. The couple earns so much money for the family. What Tiantian said is right . The family doesn't spend much money on a normal day. How come they can't even come up with a hundred yuan for tuition?
Thinking of this, Hu Qiongfang hugged her daughter from behind with a look of remorse on her face and gently patted Jiang Tian's thin back.
"Okay, stop crying. It's all mom's fault. It's mom's fault. If I had known that your grandma hid the money and didn't give us tuition, I should have hidden some of my own money."
After hearing what her mother said, Jiang Tian could no longer cry.
I’m afraid there’s no other daughter-in-law as honest as her mother in the entire Liuzhutou Village.
If her mother-in-law asked her to hand over the money to the public, she would hand it over to the public. If her mother-in-law told her not to hide any private money, she would not hide a single penny.
Is this honest or stupid?
No! This little family absolutely cannot continue like this.
Jiang Tian wiped her tears and decided to set up some rules while her mother was feeling guilty about her.
Her mother couldn't bring herself to do this, so she didn't care!
The old woman could use her and her brother as weaknesses and exploit her parents as much as possible.
Couldn't she use her second uncle as her weak spot and hold the old woman tightly under her control?
Thinking of this, Jiang Tian said to Hu Qiongfang with a stern face:
"Mom, you've seen it too. My grandma is biased! She hides all the money you and dad earn. She probably saves it for my second uncle to go to college and get married. She doesn't care about our family's life or death at all!"
"Anyway, from now on, I have to save up tuition for me and my brother. Mom, you can't give all the money you earn from selling grain and eggs to me. You have to leave at least half for me."
Hu Qiongfang's mouth corners immediately drooped, and she hesitated and said, "Your grandmother and I haven't separated yet. This is not good. The villagers will gossip."
Jiang Tian sighed.
She knew it would be like this.
If it was Jiang Tian in her previous life, she would have no way to deal with her mother.
But now~
Jiang Tian wiped the tears from her face fiercely and looked at Hu Qiongfang with disappointment.
"I know! Dad wants to be a good son, and you want to be a good daughter-in-law. You adults all have difficulties, so you let my brother and I suffer, right?"
"Mom, you earned the money yourself, so give it to whoever you want."
"My grades aren't good anyway, so I don't have to go to school. I'll earn money to support myself and my brother in the future."
After saying that, Jiang Tian broke free from Hu Qiongfang's arms and ran out.
He ran out of the house in one breath and ran to the big river at the entrance of the village.
Their village is called Liuzhutou Village. I heard that decades ago, this place suffered from floods almost every year.
Later, a Taoist priest came from nowhere and said that the feng shui of their village was bad, so he asked the villagers to plant a large area of willow trees according to the direction he drew.
They dug several criss-crossing ditches, and sure enough, after the willow trees grew up, floods rarely occurred in their village.
Moreover, because the village is close to a big river and has many ditches, the thing their village has the most of is various aquatic products.
But in this era, the least valuable things are these wild fish and shrimps that can be sold at high prices in later generations.
Because they are cheap, no one wants them, and if you cook them yourself, you will waste a lot of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, so villagers seldom catch these loaches, crabs, small fish and shrimps to eat.
The only thing she knew how to catch was the eel that her mother Hu Qiongfang had previously sold.
Wild eels are considered a good tonic by the Chinese people no matter what era, and their price is slightly higher than eggs.
An eel weighing one or two liang can be sold for 35 cents per jin. If it is less than one or two liang and is slightly larger, it can be sold for 20 cents per jin.
But Jiang Tian knew that at this price, if the fishmongers bought them back and shipped them to the provincial capital, the retail price would at least three to five times higher!
However, Jiang Tian had no plans to go to the provincial capital to sell eels.
Firstly, the journey was too far and she didn't know where to sell them. Also, the security in the city was not very good in those days. She was a girl going alone to sell the eels. She was afraid that if she didn't sell the eels, she would be kidnapped and sold.
Secondly, she knew a place where she could sell the eels without having to go too far.
It is on the provincial road only half an hour's drive away from their village.
In her previous life, when Jiang Tian went to the provincial capital to work, her car broke down halfway. They went to a restaurant near the provincial road and asked for some hot water and steamed buns.
As a result, I happened to see vendors delivering seafood such as eels, loaches, and crucian carp to the store.
When they saw the vendor smiling as he took out a stack of banknotes, everyone in the car was extremely envious.
But it's just envy.
After all, in this day and age, anyone who can ride a motorcycle to the countryside to buy local specialties must have some connections.
The only way out for these ordinary people who have no connections and no courage is to go out and work as laborers.
Jiang Tian had no intention of competing with these vendors for business. She wanted to catch some loaches, eels and the like herself. Once she had accumulated two buckets, she would take the bus to the provincial highway and sell them to roadside restaurants.
At that time, domestic freight was very developed, and there were large trucks coming and going on the provincial roads. These truck drivers were all wealthy people. In addition, some bosses who followed the trucks wanted to reward the drivers, so they would usually find a small restaurant on the side of the road, order two dishes, and treat them to a good meal.
Things like loach, river shrimp, eel and river crab, which are not often eaten by villagers, are transformed into the favorite local dishes of the bosses in these small restaurants along the provincial roads under the careful cooking of the chefs.
Nowadays, anyone who opens a restaurant along provincial or national highways can basically make a lot of money as long as they don't do anything stupid.
"You guys make big money, so let me make a little money with you."
Jiang Tian squatted by the river for a while, then went home, found a small hoe, and went to dig earthworms next to his own manure pile in the backyard.
There is no one selling bait in the countryside now, and Jiang Tian doesn’t have the ability to catch eels with his bare hands.
If you want to catch eels, you can only use the traditional method and use earthworms.
