Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 4: Rice with Lard
On the left side of Jiang's backyard is a vegetable garden, on the right is her toilet, and next to the low wall at the back is the family's manure pile.
Jiang Tian was squatting on the ground digging earthworms when a jumping figure jumped into the backyard.
"Sister, why are you leaving school so early?"
Hearing her brother Jiang Cheng's voice coming from behind, Jiang Tian's eyes turned red. She dropped the hoe and hugged her brother tightly.
"Ah! Sister, you didn't wash your hands after digging for earthworms!" Jiang Cheng's expression was a little collapsed.
I almost forgot, this guy is a mysophobia.
Jiang Tian let go of her arm in dismay, but still feeling unsatisfied, she tried to pinch her brother's face with her hand which was stained with a little manure, but Jiang Cheng dodged her with a strange cry.
The brother and sister played for a while, then Jiang Cheng put down his schoolbag, carefully rolled up his sleeves, and came over to help his sister dig earthworms.
He thought Jiang Tian was digging earthworms to help his mother.
Hu Qiongfang has recently been fishing for eels at night, and every day she has to fill an enamel jar with earthworms.
Unexpectedly, after squatting down, I heard his sister say that she didn't plan to continue studying and wanted to do some small business.
"Sister, is it because grandma didn't give you money for tuition?"
Jiang Cheng is so smart that he immediately guessed who the key to this matter is.
Jiang Tian felt warm in her heart, but she couldn't help feeling sad and wanted to cry.
In his previous life, my younger brother fell into the evil scheme of that beast Jiang Lesheng because my grandmother didn’t pay for his tuition. He wanted to do odd jobs during the summer vacation to earn money for her tuition.
Otherwise, with Jiang Cheng's intelligence, how could he go to an unfamiliar brick factory to do odd jobs alone and without any precautions?
Jiang Tian guessed that Jiang Lesheng must have lied to him in his previous life, saying that the brick factory was run by an acquaintance of his. Jiang Cheng probably never thought until his death that his own uncle would personally send him to that man-eating black brick kiln.
However, in this life, she will never give anyone the chance to hurt her brother again!
Jiang Tian knew that her younger brother had been smarter than her since he was young, and she didn't intend to treat him as a child. While digging earthworms, she slowly explained her plan to her younger brother.
"Studying is too difficult. I'm lucky if I can solve one of the ten questions at the back of the math test. With my grades, I have no chance of getting into high school. If I want to get into a technical secondary school, do you think my grandma will be willing to spend money to support me?"
"So I thought, why not just stop going to school, save the tuition fees for the past two years, and use it as capital to try to start a small business first."
Jiang Cheng didn't say anything. He was silent for a long time, but he couldn't help but said in a frustrated tone:
"That's after you get your junior high school diploma."
"Otherwise, when your family finds you a partner in the future, they will look down on you for being uneducated."
Jiang Tian pushed him away, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and scolded, "How old are you, and you want to marry your sister off?"
"Dream on! I'm going to stay at home for the rest of my life, and I'll let you support an old aunt like me, huh!"
There was no trace of a smile on Jiang Cheng's fair little face.
He knew in his heart that although his elder sister said that she couldn't concentrate on her studies and didn't want to go to school, she actually wanted to save money so that he could go to high school.
He felt very sad and aggrieved.
But the young boy, who just turned nine this year, has no ability to make money. What can he say?
If he doesn't have the ability to earn money to support his sister's schooling, it's useless to say anything.
Jiang Tian really had no way to deal with this old-fashioned guy, so she could only soften her tone and coax him——
"Okay! Just think of it as me taking a year off to change my mind. Maybe when school starts next year, I'll suddenly get the hang of math."
Jiang Cheng was finally amused by her.
After thinking for a while, he raised his head and said to his sister seriously: "Then you should take a year off from school. By the way, sister, give me your algebra book. When I learn it, I will tutor you. We must make a comeback next year!"
Jiang Tian: “…”
She felt her brother was insulting her intelligence, but she had no evidence.
I finally managed to convince the most difficult person in the family, but my biological mother and my biased grandmother were much easier to deal with.
Towards Hu Qiongfang, Jiang Tian used the same trick as before:
Or you and dad can give me half of the money you earn in the future.
Or I'll go make my own money.
There is no third way!
Jiang Tian was not so polite to the biased and stingy Wang Chunmei.
At dinner time, Wang Chunmei was resentful that Jiang Tian had robbed her of more than 200 yuan in the afternoon. As soon as Jiang Tian sat down, she moved the only two dishes on the table to her side.
He even snorted twice: "You've grown wings now, so you want to separate, right? Then don't eat the food I cook. If you want to eat, cook it yourself!"
Jiang Tian was amused by the old woman.
"That's what you said."
Before Wang Chunmei could react, Jiang Tian stood up and walked towards the kitchen.
Wang Chunmei looked at her eldest granddaughter's uneasy back and suddenly had a bad feeling.
When she tiptoed to the kitchen, she saw Jiang Tian scooped half a spoonful of lard with an iron spoon, took a large bowl of rice from the pot, poured two spoonfuls of soy sauce on it, added a pinch of chopped green onions, and poured the hot lard on top. After stirring evenly, a bowl of fragrant lard rice was ready.
What a sin! Who would put half a spoonful of lard in their lard rice?
This damned girl who spends money like that!
Jiang Tian made a big bowl of rice mixed with lard, brought it to the main room, sat down , and passed half a bowl to Jiang Cheng.
Seeing Wang Chunmei's livid face, Jiang Tian felt very happy. Seeing her brother eating the rice happily, she couldn't help but stimulate the old woman again.
"Eat slowly, I'll make it for you after you finish eating!"
"You're just not letting me eat the vegetables? There's only a few drops of oil on such a large plate of vegetables. It's watery and tasteless. I don't even like it."
"Chengcheng, wait! Tomorrow the old hen at home will lay eggs, and I will make you egg fried rice!"
Wang Chunmei: “…”
What a sin! I can’t live like this anymore!
After dinner, Jiang Tian didn’t go to the kitchen to wash the pot.
In the past, she always rushed to do this job because she knew that if she didn't do it, her grandmother wouldn't do it either, and in the end the job would fall to Hu Qiongfang, who was already tired after a day's work.
But, from today on, I won’t serve you anymore!
Moreover, not only did she not wash the pot herself, she also wanted to abduct her mother away.
It was getting dark outside. Jiang Tian put on the fishing hook for catching eels, picked up the hook and walked out without saying a word.
How could Hu Qiongfang let her daughter walk alone at night?
"Chengcheng, you stay home and do your homework. Your sister and I are going fishing!"
After saying that, Hu Qiongfang hurriedly chased after him.
Hearing the sound of the door closing in the front yard, Wang Chunmei was so angry that she started cursing in the house.
After cursing for a long time but no one paid any attention to her, she could only put on her shoes, curse at herself, and walked out to the kitchen to wash the pot.
There is only one wood-fired pot for cooking in the countryside. If you don’t clean it tonight, you will have no pot to cook porridge tomorrow morning.
While washing the pot, Wang Chunmei felt heartbroken again when she saw the lid of a jar of lard opened on one side .
No, we have to find a way to deal with Jiang Tian, this wasteful girl!
This is outrageous. Not only did she rob her money, but she also ate rice with lard. If this continues, the money she saved with great difficulty would not be enough to pay for the trouble caused by this damn girl.
