Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 56 If this isn't a marriage scam, then what is it?
My parents firmly disagreed with Hu Qiongfang marrying Jiang Leping, who was penniless and had to support his elderly mother and younger brother.
But they didn't expect that their well-behaved and obedient daughter would run directly to the Jiang family without saying a word and marry Jiang Leping!
Although it was recommended to obtain a marriage certificate for marriage in that era, many places in rural areas did not pay attention to this. Some people would hold a wedding banquet and then go to the county to apply for a marriage certificate when they had time.
Some simply never get a marriage certificate in their entire lives, but still live together.
Anyway, by the time Hu's parents heard the news, their daughter had already married the eldest son of the Jiang family.
If it were just this, Hu's parents would be angry for a while, but since they couldn't bear to part with their daughter, they would grit their teeth and accept this son-in-law.
But the terrible thing is that the young man who had a blind date with Hu Qiongfang, on his way back to the army, bravely stood up for justice and died heroically while fighting with the criminals.
This time, the man’s family completely hated the Hu family.
They felt that if the Hu family had not agreed first and then broken the contract, they would definitely have kept the child at home for a few more days, at least to finalize his lifelong affairs, before letting him return to the army.
As a result, because the Hu family agreed first, the boy's parents urged their son to return to the army to report.
If my son had not returned to the army earlier, maybe he could have avoided this disaster?
Perhaps because they hated their daughter for not living up to her expectations, or perhaps to give an explanation to the man's family, Grandma Hu and Grandpa Hu announced that they would sever ties with Hu Qiongfang, and from now on the Hu family would pretend that they had no such daughter.
Hu Qiongfang and the Jiang family are not allowed to visit the Hu family again.
"In fact, your grandparents, as well as your uncles, have regretted it a long time ago." Aunt sighed, "But they hate your father and your grandmother for their dishonorable means. Since they want to marry a wife, they must marry her in a formal way. Ask a matchmaker to come to your house first. Is there anything that can't be discussed properly?"
"But they don't take your mother's reputation seriously at all. They didn't hire a matchmaker, didn't discuss betrothal gifts, and didn't even invite the girl's parents to the wedding ceremony. Isn't this a marriage fraud? How can you be in-laws like this?"
"Your grandparents have always been strong, but they never expected that they would suffer a huge setback because of their most beloved daughter. Oh!"
"You don't know. When they heard that your mom and dad got married without telling them, your grandma fainted from anger. Your grandpa was so angry that he vomited blood and fell seriously ill . It took him half a year to recover."
"Tiantian, don't blame your uncles. They have no choice. As long as your father and grandmother are still alive, they can't step into the threshold of your Jiang family. Sigh~"
It is said that a man lives by his face and a tree lives by its bark.
The Jiang family used such despicable means to trick someone else's daughter into getting her, so it's no wonder that Grandma Hu and Grandpa Hu refused to let their daughter return to her parents' home.
Going back would mean acknowledging that Old Lady Jiang was their relative and that Jiang Leping was their son-in-law.
How can they swallow this bitter pill?
What's more, Grandpa Hu and Grandma Hu are both people who can't tolerate any grain of sand in their eyes. To put it bluntly, they feel it's a loss of face to be relatives with a family like Old Lady Jiang who doesn't follow the rules and likes to play tricks and scheme against others!
But it's different now.
Old Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Leping both died, and Hu Qiongfang even separated from her brother-in-law.
There are only three people left in this family who are related to the Hu family by blood...
Originally, the Hu family was still thinking about finding an excuse to let their daughter take the child back to her parents' home.
As a result, they heard that Hu Qiongfang was almost raped by the village thugs. How could they tolerate this?
Back when Hu Qiongfang was a girl at her parents' home, any boy in the village who dared to whistle at her would be put in a sack and beaten in the middle of the night by her two brothers.
For a moment, the two elder brothers did not find any excuses, and brought their brothers from the Hu family, picked up their weapons and went to the door to beat them. It can only be said that it was fortunate that Ma Lai Tou was still detained in the detention center, otherwise he would definitely not escape a beating.
The second aunt seemed to be more careful than the carefree first aunt. After the first aunt finished speaking, she reminded Jiang Tian softly:
"After all, your mother is an elder, and she has to save face. Just keep this between you and your brother, and don't tell your mother about it , okay?"
Jiang Tian nodded and said to her two aunts obediently, "If grandma and grandpa don't want to come to the Jiang family, it's okay. My mother has bought a piece of land near the provincial road. She plans to move there with Chengcheng and me once the house is built."
"When we get to the new house, the owner's surname is Hu. I think grandma and grandpa won't mind, right?"
The eldest aunt and the second aunt looked at each other. Instead of being jealous of the younger sister-in-law for having the money to buy land and build a house on the provincial road, they looked very angry.
My aunt-in-law was like a firecracker, she immediately exploded: "Great! I knew that there is no good person in the Jiang family! Jiang Leping has just been buried for less than a year, the soil in the grave is not dry yet, and the whole village comes to bully you orphans and widows? Tiantian, tell me the truth, is it because of the villagers that you three mothers are bullied so much that you can't live in the village anymore?"
As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves.
He looked like he wanted to fight the Jiang family for three hundred rounds.
It seemed that this was not the first time that the second aunt had dealt with this situation. She hugged the eldest sister-in-law's arm with familiarity and advised her: "Sister-in-law, don't be anxious. Listen to what Tiantian has to say."
My aunt looked over with her big round eyes.
Jiang Tian had to briefly explain to her two aunts what had happened at home during this period.
Including Jiang Cheng, who was bullied by bad kids at school because he had no father, and the school even protected those kids.
Including Hu Qiongfang, who went to the fields in the middle of the night to fish for eels to feed her and her brother, but was slandered by the villagers and was almost bullied by the Laila Tou.
As they were talking, I saw the second aunt let go of the eldest aunt's arm and started to roll up her sleeves.
Jiang Tian: “!!!”
Aunts, what do you want to do?
What are you doing?
Of course, we are going to overturn the ancestral hall of the Jiang family!
Of course it didn't work out in the end.
Jiang Tian convinced them with a reason.
"Aunt, second aunt, it's not that my mom doesn't want to make a scene, she's just afraid that it will be bad for Chengcheng and me after the scene."
"Chengcheng and I still have to go to school. I heard that we need to change our household registration after taking the college entrance examination and enter D, and we need to get the village stamp."
“If we offend the village, they will block our documents and refuse to stamp them, which will be a big problem.”
In fact, Jiang Tian was not as angry as her two aunts about this matter.
Maybe it was because she lived in later generations. In rural areas decades later, kinship and clan concepts were actually not as strong as they are now.
Everyone should take care of their own business, and no one is obligated to take care of other people's orphans and widows.
Helping is a favor, not helping is your duty.
But the two aunts obviously didn't think so.
After returning, the two of them pulled their men aside and started whispering about the sister-in-law's plan to move.
Sure enough, my eldest uncle and second uncle were also very angry.
