Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 60 Who said this guy is honest?
The pork seller was also amused by Jiang Cheng's greedy look.
He also has a son, but because his family sells pork, they are not short of oil and water. His son is a picky eater. He is tired of eating fat and only likes to eat lean meat. Looking at Jiang Cheng, the boss can't blame him.
He quickly cut a large piece of fat meat for Jiang Cheng.
He put it on with straw and asked where Jiang Cheng's mother was.
"Here it is." Hu Qiongfang squeezed in with difficulty.
Seeing the boss cut such a large piece of fat meat, an expression of pain appeared on his face.
The boss found it funny and was afraid that she would give up and make the child sad, so he gave her a few words of advice.
"The child is still growing, he needs to eat more meat so that he can grow taller. Don't be reluctant to spend money, or he will grow up to be a dwarf and won't be able to find a good girl to marry."
These words made Jiang Cheng blush, he shrank his head and ran away.
The aunties and grandmas nearby laughed and advised Hu Qiongfang not to be reluctant to spend money to buy meat. How much can a child eat? The harvest is good this year, so what's wrong with letting the child have a good meal of meat?
Hu Qiongfang had no choice but to pay the money and asked for a large piece of pig liver. After asking, she found out that the pig lungs had not been sold yet, so she asked for them too.
This thing is troublesome to prepare, but my eldest and second brothers both like to eat it. The processed pig lungs, sliced and stir-fried with green and red peppers are cheap and delicious, and it is also a good dish to go with wine.
After buying the pork, Jiang Tian asked along the way and found a place that sold fish. He had already grabbed a black carp as long as his arm and a fat grass carp.
"I originally wanted to buy that golden carp, but just now an old lady said that her son was going to his mother-in-law's house as a gift, so I gave it to her." Jiang Tian's tone still contained some regret.
For local people to give as gifts, golden carp is the best, followed by grass carp, and bighead carp is the worst.
Seeing that her daughter failed to grab the golden carp, Hu Qiongfang pinched her daughter's face in a funny way and comforted her:
"Don't worry, your grandparents are kind people and won't care about these things."
Jiang Tian didn't comment.
The hatred that the Hu family has for the Jiang family cannot be expressed in a few words.
Not only did he deceive their precious daughter, but the most abominable thing is that he made her suffer for more than ten years. This hatred is too great.
She and Jiang Cheng both have the surname Jiang... Well, if she doesn't behave well when she visits their house for the first time, she won't be kicked out by her grandparents, right?
Thinking of this, Jiang Tian's desire to purchase also arose.
She urged her mother to buy more good things for grandma and grandpa.
This is actually what Hu Qiongfang meant. However, her daughter also put in a lot of effort to earn the family’s loaches and eels. If she wanted to use the money, she also had to consider her daughter’s feelings.
Now, hearing Jiang Tian's initiative to buy things for her grandparents, Hu Qiongfang felt a warm feeling flowing through her heart. Her daughter has never seen her grandparents since she was a child, so how much affection can she have for them?
Asking her to spend money to buy more things must mean that you are caring about her.
After buying the fish and meat, there were not many things left to buy. Hu Qiongfang bought two bottles of good wine for her father, and a few pounds of soft cakes for her mother, as well as the honey-covered yam and cloud cake that Grandma Hu liked to eat.
The eldest brother and the second brother have separated from Grandpa Hu and are now two small families. They also need to buy two bottles of wine each and a red scarf for each of their two sisters-in-law.
When she left home, her eldest sister-in-law had already given birth to her eldest daughter, and her second sister-in-law had just married into the family and had not yet given birth. She heard that both families now had a son and a daughter, and it was not popular to buy toys for children these days. Hu Qiongfang thought about it and simply bought some red paper and exchanged some new money, and then gave each child a red envelope of ten yuan.
At this time of year, when people in rural areas pay New Year's greetings to relatives' children, the amount of red envelopes given will not exceed two yuan, and a red envelope of ten yuan is considered very large.
After buying these things, the two baskets I brought were already filled to the brim.
Jiang Cheng was very shrewd. When he passed by the incense and candle shop, he looked up and asked his mother innocently:
"Mom, when we go to grandpa's house this time, should we visit the graves of great-grandfather and great-grandmother?"
Jiang Tian almost fainted.
Who said this guy is honest?
These days, visiting graves is not something you can do casually.
Didn’t you see that after Hu Qiongfang was disowned by her parents, she wasn’t even allowed to go back to her mother’s home to visit her parents’ grave?
As the saying goes, "The most important affairs of a country are sacrifices and wars," and life in the countryside is much the same.
If Grandpa Hu could get Hu Qiongfang to go to the grave and kowtow to her deceased grandparents, then she would be truly recognized by the entire family.
Hu Qiongfang was stunned for a moment, tears falling uncontrollably.
While crying, she put down the basket, went into the store and carefully selected two sets of incense and candles, two bags of gold ingots and two stacks of yellow paper.
I don’t know if it’s the power of faith, but Hu Qiongfang, who seemed a little guilty just now, seemed to have gained confidence after buying the incense, candles and paper money.
Grandpa Hu lives in Yangshuling Village, which was formerly called Hongsifang Farm. Later, the farm was restructured and split into several villages of different sizes. Yangshuling was named so because one had to pass by a large poplar forest on the way to the village.
Walking in this poplar forest with a load on his shoulder, Hu Qiongfang was filled with mixed emotions.
More than ten years ago, it was here that she and Jiang Leping secretly got engaged and decided to return to Liuzhutou Village with him to start a family.
More than ten years have passed in a flash. She didn't expect to return here again. The man who swore to the sky that he would treat her well all his life has been buried in the earth, but she is about to return to her parents with their two children.
Just when I was feeling sad, I heard my two children chattering in front of me.
Jiang Cheng found several withered poplar flowers.
Jiang Tian had picked up this thing in her previous life. Unfortunately, she told her brother that poplar trees would basically not produce any more after August, and would only grow when the peach trees bloomed the following year.
Both the brother and sister are very interested in picking mushrooms.
My grandpa didn’t let me come before, but now we have talked it over. Maybe I can go to my grandpa’s house to pick mushrooms next spring?
Second uncle Hu Jianjun came out with a smile on his face, pinched Jiang Cheng's armpits, picked up his nephew, and spun him around several times on the spot.
Jiang Cheng was so scared that he screamed and was hit twice by his second aunt who came up behind him before she put his dizzy nephew down.
He was so happy.
My sister is finally home!
Seeing her second brother and his wife coming to pick them up, Hu Qiongfang was also very surprised and asked them how they knew she was coming today.
Chen Xiaohong explained with a smile that someone from the village went to the market and saw Jiang Tian when buying fish. She said that he went to his grandfather's house to buy fish and visited relatives, and came over to say hello to them on his way back.
"Huh? Second aunt, I've never been here before. How do the villagers recognize me?" Jiang Tian asked curiously.
Chen Xiaohong looked at her husband. Hu Jianjun took Jiang Cheng to the front to see the bird's nest. She held her niece's hand and seemed to be explaining to her, and also seemed to be saying to Hu Qiongfang -
" Since you were born, our whole family would go to the temple fairs and the big market every New Year."
"Your grandparents, as well as your two uncles, can see you three at the temple fair every year."
He was too proud to admit defeat and refused to bow to the Jiang family. He could only look at his daughter and two children from afar.
