Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 90: Raising Granddaughter as a Pig
The adopted granddaughter of the old He family is back!
While Jiang Tian was having a meal at He's house, more than a dozen people came and went at the door to see what was happening.
I originally thought that this adoption was just a formality, with the hope that the two elders of the He family would have someone to break the pot for after they passed away, and that He Xiangjun would have descendants to visit his grave and burn paper for him.
But unexpectedly, the girl from the Jiang family actually treated the He family as her own home and came back to visit her grandparents on Sundays.
Jiang Tian was a hard-working person in her previous life, and she can't sit idle in this life either.
After dinner, Jiang Tian chatted with the two elders for a while. Seeing that the sun was not as strong as it was at noon, she asked Grandma He for a vegetable basket and a woven bag. She used the excuse that she had to make kimchi at home and that she was going to pick beans from Grandma He's vegetable garden.
Picking beans is hard work. The bean rack is more than one person tall. In summer, the bean leaves are dense and thick. People have to get inside to pick the beans, and they have to bend over and look up, which is very hard work.
Jiang Tian was afraid that her grandparents would sprain their old waists, so after thinking about it, she decided that she would rather work harder herself. After all, vegetables like beans and lentils wouldn't go bad if they were picked and sprayed with water and left overnight. This way, tomorrow morning, her grandparents would only have to chop a few cabbages and pick a bag of cucumbers, gourds, loofahs, etc.
She even picked the peppers in advance, put them in woven bags, and placed them under the eaves, covering them with a wet cloth so they would not go bad even if left overnight.
Grandma He cursed and said that Jiang Tian was a hard-working person. She finally got the chance to go home on Sunday to relax, but she still wanted to suffer.
But he was very honest and wrung out a wet towel for Jiang Tian. He also put a large watermelon with well water in the bucket and soaked it. He would cut it for Jiang Tian to eat as soon as she finished her work.
Jiang Tian didn't bother to be polite with her. She held half a watermelon, scooped it with an iron spoon, and ate with a smile on her face.
Old Master He knocked his pipe against the door frame and stared at the empty space at the door with sharp eyes for a long time.
It’s too late this year.
We have to cultivate the land in front of the door next year.
Tiantian likes eating watermelons so much, so the family will have to plant more next year. The piece of land at the door is just the right size. After it is plowed and given enough base fertilizer, we can grow a hundred watermelon seedlings and produce two or three hundred large watermelons, which will be enough for his eldest granddaughter to eat.
Amid the slurping sounds of eating melons, Mr. He suddenly asked, "Tiantian, do you want to eat melons?"
Jiang Tian raised her head and answered happily, "Eat! I love eating those flowery melons, they are fragrant and crispy!"
Mr. He nodded with satisfaction.
Then you have to set aside some land to grow some melons.
Girls all love to eat sweet things. After the watermelons in the field are eaten, it is a good opportunity to pull up the watermelon vines and plant a few acres of sugarcane. During the New Year, my granddaughter will have sugarcane to eat.
Can’t finish it ? Then squeeze the juice and boil it into brown sugar!
Girls can eat more brown sugar to nourish their bodies.
Anyway, being so thin is not okay.
The more Mr. He looked at his eldest granddaughter, the more he felt that she was very thin. She didn't even have a double chin. How could that be possible?
Jiang Tian doesn't know yet that her grandfather is planning to raise her like a pig.
After spending most of the day at the He family, I looked at the clock and saw that it was almost five o'clock. I quickly kneaded and cut the dough and cooked half a pot of hand-rolled noodles for the two elders. When it came out of the pot, I covered it with a layer of stewed soft pig's trotter and sprinkled a handful of chopped green onions. A bowl of pig's trotter noodles, with the thick soup from stewed pig's trotter as the base, was so delicious that the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren were sweating while eating.
Such a big pig's trotter was eaten till only a bare bone was left.
Grandma He gave it to Da Huang at the entrance of the village as a reward.
Da Huang originally followed the crowd and ran to Grandma He's house to watch the fun.
Grandma He is well-known in the village for being difficult to deal with. Without the company of other two-legged animals, even if Dahuang had two more courages , he would not dare to run around Grandma He's house.
Unexpectedly, it got lucky today. Grandma He, the fierce old lady, actually rewarded it with a big and delicious bone!
Dahuang was so excited that he almost shook his tail to make a shadow.
No wonder every household in the village talks about getting married or having a baby every day.
Sure enough, after the two-legged beasts had cubs, the vicious old women became kind people.
Da Huang's shrewd eyes turned and looked at the beautiful human cub sitting next to Grandpa He.
That’s right! This is the cub of the vicious old woman He!
Next time, I must be polite to this cub. Maybe the fierce old woman will see its attentiveness and give it some meat and bones next time.
Having made up his mind, Dahuang happily held the bone in his mouth and ran to his secret nest to share the delicious food with the new bitch he had just met.
Oh~ No wonder everyone in the village likes blind dates. Dahuang also wants to have puppies with the new bitch he met.
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Jiang Tian had no idea what Dahuang was thinking.
After a day of "entertaining parents with colorful clothes" in Hejiaao Village, she returned home in the evening and heard her mother tell her that her second uncle was back again this Sunday.
When Jiang Tian heard that Jiang Lesheng, the evil wolf, had returned, all the hairs on his body stood up.
"Where are the others?"
Hu Qiongfang pointed to the next door and said, "I also heard from the villagers that he came back to get his clothes and will go back to school in the afternoon."
Doing business along the provincial road is really a challenge.
However, in just one week, Hu Qiongfang felt that he had seen more people and things than in the past thirty years.
In the past, she was ignorant and thought that this was how family was: the man worked hard outside, the woman was thrifty and managed the household, and all she had to do was listen to her mother-in-law and husband and live a good life.
But now, she has seen many people and things, and has many different thoughts about human nature.
If it were in the past, Jiang Lesheng would go home to get clothes and then quietly return to school. She wouldn't think too much about it and might even complain to her mother-in-law that going to school was really hard.
But now, seeing the two children of her eldest and second brothers coming to her shop to help on Sundays, Hu Qiongfang felt a little dissatisfied with the performance of her brother-in-law Jiang Lesheng.
After all, her husband risked his life to dig coal in the mine because he had three children in the family who needed to go to school.
Both of them are good at work. If they didn't have to support their younger brother-in-law, she and her husband would have raised a pair of children. Even if it was hard and tiring, they would not have to go down to the mine to dig coal.
Did the brother-in-law have his own reasons for not knowing about her man’s death?
He's so smart, he must know.
But after knowing this, he ignored the mother and her two children and did not care about them.
Even her nephew knew to help her wash the dishes on Sundays. Jiang Lesheng was Chengcheng's uncle. Chengcheng's father risked his life to support this uncle, but what happened? This uncle didn't care about the lives of the two children left by his eldest brother!
Hu Qiongfang admitted that she deliberately did not tell Jiang Lesheng that Jiang Tian was adopted by the He family.
She thought that when Jiang Lesheng came back and heard what the villagers said, he would at least ask what happened. After all, Tiantian was also his eldest brother's child.
But what about this person? She spent the money her husband earned with his life, but she didn't care about the two children left by her husband.
Looking at the locked door next door, Hu Qiongfang sneered.
I wonder if my husband is still alive in heaven. When he sees his own brother, whom he raised with all his life, treating his two children like this, will he regret all those years of selfless devotion?
