Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 5 I fainted, I was pretending
In 1986, not many people went out at night in the countryside to fish for eels and loaches, but there were some.
Along the way, Jiang Tian and Hu Qiongfang met two men who were out fishing for eels.
Hu Qiongfang was frightened and was even more afraid to let her daughter go out alone to fish for eels.
The weather in September of the Gregorian calendar was still very hot, but Jiang Tian was very happy because the eels and loaches could not stay in their holes at this season and had to come out at night to look for food.
During the day today, she made more than a hundred fishing rods, specifically for catching eels.
He also used the old fish baskets at home to transform three simple "fish cages".
This kind of fish cage has a large entrance and a small exit, so it is difficult for loaches, fish, shrimps and the like to get out once they get in.
The mother and daughter put away the fishing hooks and the fish cage. Hu Qiongfang thought for a moment and advised her daughter in a muffled voice:
"Tiantian, if you want to sell eels to save money, mom won't stop you."
"You are a grown-up girl, so don't come out at night from now on. How about this, Mom will come to cast the hooks at night, and you can come out in the morning to collect the hooks, okay?"
She was still worried about her daughter going out to fish for eels at night. Which village doesn’t have a few hooligans and idlers?
These people are idle and have no women at home. When they see a beautiful girl on the road, their eyes will be green. If they are drunk at night and run into Jiang Tian who is fishing for eels in the field...
If her daughter is harmed by someone, how can she live?
This is exactly the effect Jiang Tian wants!
She knew that her mother was a typical traditional woman who had been deeply brainwashed by the Three Obediences and Four Virtues.
If Jiang Tian really asked her to stop caring about her grandmother and not do too much housework, she probably wouldn't listen no matter how hard she tried.
In her previous life, Jiang Tian had quarreled with her mother countless times because Hu Qiongfang was like a workhorse.
But every time, she was so angry at Hu Qiongfang's ideas of "Three Obediences and Four Virtues" that she was like a Buddha being born and two Buddhas ascending to heaven.
In this life, she decided to use a different method to deal with her mother.
Grandma is at home, washing pots and dishes, she may be a little tired, but she won’t die.
But if she ran out alone and something happened outside, her mother would be unable to sit still at home just thinking about it, okay?
Jiang Tian thought that in her previous life, she and her brother were too sensible and obedient, and never caused her mother to worry about anything, so Hu Qiongfang would serve her grandmother and her second uncle without complaint.
In that case, she would keep her mother busy so that she would have no time to think about others in this life.
As the saying goes, "It's hard to learn good things, but it's easy to learn bad things."
After Jiang Tian decided to start playing badly, she suddenly felt that the whole world was at peace.
When I got home and just opened the door, I heard a moan of "Ouch, ouch" coming from her breast room.
Jiang Tian had suffered so much from this old thing in her previous life. As soon as she wagged her tail, Jiang Tian knew what the old thing was going to do.
She must be going to ask her mother to wash her feet and massage her back again.
Seeing that Hu Qiongfang's toes had moved over subconsciously, Jiang Tian also cried out and fell to the ground in an unskilled posture.
Ahem ~ My body has been wrong in both of my lives, and Jiang Tian’s job of pretending to faint is really terrible.
Fortunately, it was night time, and her grandmother was always stingy and was reluctant to light a lamp in the yard.
The darkness perfectly concealed her poor acting skills.
In addition, Hu Qiongfang was so concerned that when she heard that her daughter fell down, she never thought that her daughter was acting.
He immediately rushed over to help his daughter up.
"Mom, I seem to be anemic again."
Jiang Tian had a sad face and leaned limply against Hu Qiongfang, pretending to faint.
When she was this age in her previous life, she also suffered from anemia.
To be precise, many rural people in that era suffered from anemia, which was caused by poor diet and malnutrition.
In her previous life, Jiang Tian fainted twice due to anemia.
Later, when Hu Qiongfang couldn't get money from her mother-in-law, she secretly sold a "Shanghai brand" watch left by her husband, and bought her pork liver, dates, and very expensive blood-enriching tablets every few days, which cured her anemia .
Jiang Tian is a little anemic in this life, but not to the point where she faints easily.
However, whether you feel dizzy or not depends on whether you need it, right?
When necessary, she can always pretend to faint on the spot.
For example, now, when her grandmother is making trouble next door, if she doesn't faint now, when will she do so?
Not only did Jiang Tian faint on the spot, but after being helped back into the house by her mother, she was moaning even louder than Wang Chunmei next door.
"Mom, I'm hungry." Jiang Tian tugged at the corner of Hu Qiongfang's clothes pitifully.
When Hu Qiongfang saw her daughter’s pale face, her heart ached. How could she care about her mother-in-law next door?
He was busy rummaging through the drawers and cabinets looking for food for his daughter.
Originally, Jiang Tian just wanted to find something relaxing for her mother to do so that she wouldn't have to go next door and be bullied by that old man . But when Wang Chunmei heard the sound of rummaging through boxes, she became a miser and put on her shoes and ran over to curse.
"This family will be bankrupted by you, a damn girl, sooner or later!"
"You ate my bowl of lard rice last night, and now you're hungry again? Are you the reincarnation of a starving ghost?"
"Eat, eat, eat! The total amount we got from the family was only 50 kilograms of rice and 10 kilograms of rapeseed oil. I figured it would be enough to last until the second child came back from school. Now that we've eaten everything, why would you ask your second uncle to come back and starve?"
It would have been fine if Wang Chunmei didn't mention the second brother Jiang Lesheng. But as soon as she mentioned this name, Jiang Tian's head buzzed and the sparks in her stomach exploded instantly.
With her slender ten fingers tightly grasping the thin summer quilt, Jiang Tian suppressed her anger, but a trace of frailty and pity like a white lotus appeared on her pale face——
"I know! I know that you, grandma, have disliked me since I was a child because I am a money-loser."
"It's all my fault, Mom. I'm not hungry anymore. I'm really not hungry. Please don't cook for me anymore."
"I heard that a woman in the next village fell into the river and drowned because of anemia. Mom, please let me die!"
"If I die, grandma will be happy, and there will be one less person eating for free in our family."
After saying that, Jiang Tian slowly slid into the bed and covered her head with the quilt.
Try to curl yourself into a small ball in bed.
It looks so pitiful.
Hu Qiongfang was so angry that she was shaking all over.
Neither she nor her husband are lazy people, and they earn a lot of money for the family every year.
The food for the family was all carried back from the fields by her in bags.
Why is it that her daughter is missing out on food?
She works so hard in the fields every day, isn't it just to support her two children?
What happened? Her daughter was so hungry that she became anemic, and all she wanted was a hot meal to fill her stomach. Wasn’t that allowed?
Seeing her daughter-in-law clenching her teeth and looking like she was about to explode at any time , Wang Chunmei was completely stunned.
It’s late at night and he just finished dinner and he wants to eat again. Isn’t this Jiang Tian’s fault?
How come as I was talking, it all seemed to be my fault?
Heaven and earth’s conscience!
She did dislike Jiang Tian for being a money-loser, but she really had no intention of starving this damn girl to death.
She was still counting on getting the betrothal gift from Jiang Tian to build a new house and marry off her youngest son. This girl couldn't really starve to death!
