Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 96: Tong is not so easy to mess with
Jiang Tian took the initiative to send Tong Xiaoyan a lunch box of kimchi, thus opening the door to the Tong family.
It was not until this time that Tong Xiaoyan found out that the shop selling boxed lunches was actually the home of Jiang Lesheng’s eldest brother!
"Why didn't you tell me earlier? I and... Jiang were classmates in junior high school." Tong Xiaoyan's face turned slightly red. She was too embarrassed to tell her father that she and Jiang Lesheng were not only classmates, but also pen pals.
Tong Xiaoyan herself did not expect that after graduating from junior high school, Jiang Lesheng, who had been admitted to the No. 1 high school in the county, actually maintained correspondence with her.
The two chatted about their junior high school classmates, their current high school life, and the affairs of their two families...
Anyway, Tong Xiaoyan already knew what had happened in the Jiang family during this period, including the fact that Jiang Lesheng's eldest brother and mother died one after another, and that he and his eldest sister-in-law separated. These were all told to her by Jiang Lesheng in the letter.
Although Jiang Lesheng didn't say a word for help, Tong Xiaoyan imagined a lot of things in her mind. His biological mother was gone, and his eldest brother, the only one who could support his schooling, was also dead. He only had an eldest sister-in-law, but that sister-in-law had two children of her own to support.
Jiang Lesheng is still in his third year of high school. Who will continue to support his studies in the future?
What Jiang Tian didn't know was that when Jiang Lesheng came back last week, Tong Xiaoyan had also come back, and she gave Jiang Lesheng all the more than 50 yuan that she had secretly saved from her living expenses.
Afraid that he would not want it, Tong Xiaoyan secretly gave it to him by putting it in a book.
Tong Xiaoyan suddenly discovered that the people selling boxed lunches at the stall near her home were actually Jiang Lesheng's sister-in-law and niece. It seemed that the sister-in-law and her two children were living well, and she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it may sound a bit unfair to say this, what she was actually most worried about was that if Jiang Lesheng's sister-in-law could not support the two children, Jiang Lesheng would give up his studies and return to his hometown to farm in order for his nephews and nieces to survive.
Then it would be really hard for them to be together.
fortunately!
Jiang's sister-in-law seems to be a business person. As long as she can make money to support her two children, Jiang should not drop out of school and go home, right?
With some secret thoughts in mind, Tong Xiaoyan hoped that the Jiang family's lunch box business would get better and better.
Her father indulged her and her brother in other things, buying them whatever they wanted to eat and providing them with the best clothes and other things among their classmates. But Tong Xiaoyan knew that her father would never indulge her in the matter of getting married.
If Jiang Lesheng had a sister-in-law and nephews and nieces to support, with such a heavy family burden, and the fact that the Jiang family was not a wealthy family to begin with, she would have been eliminated by her father at the first level.
But Jiang Lesheng's sister-in-law has already separated from him. If she can earn money to support her two children without relying on her brother-in-law for support, when Jiang Lesheng graduates from university and is assigned to a public institution, this status alone will make her father look up to him.
Only then will the relationship between the two of them have the possibility to continue to develop.
Thinking of this, Tong Xiaoyan couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth.
Tong Zhiyuan misunderstood.
"You like this kimchi so much? Wait, Dad will buy you two more boxes and you can bring them to school to eat with your meals."
Tong Zhiyuan never regretted divorcing that unfaithful woman.
Once unfaithful, never again. If you can cheat on him today, you will inevitably be seduced by a wild man tomorrow. In order to stay with the wild man forever, you may even commit murder and robbery.
Therefore, Tong Zhiyuan made a prompt decision to divorce his wife, and beat up the fishmonger and drove him out of Shuangfeng Town, just to let everyone know that he, Tong, was not so easy to mess with!
But as a father, he needs to comfort the two children's emotions.
Tong Zhiyuan was a man with a clear mind. He did not think that if he divorced, he could just marry another woman so that his two children would have a mother to take care of them. No matter how good a stepmother was, she could not compare to a biological mother. Especially after having his own flesh and blood, how could there be no difference between his own children and those of others?
He doesn't want to remarry for the time being, so he can only be both father and mother. Fortunately, his eldest daughter is well-behaved and sensible, and his youngest son doesn't seem to be very rebellious at the moment. Tong Zhiyuan is quite satisfied with the performance of his two children. He picked up the lunch box and went to buy kimchi for his daughter with a flashlight.
When he got there, Hu Qiongfang had already packed up her stall. When she heard that Tong Zhiyuan came to buy kimchi for his daughter, she began to look at the gas station owner with a new respect.
No matter when, men who care about their family and love their children are naturally favored by married women.
Hu Qiongfang quickly opened the kimchi stall and filled two lunch boxes with kimchi for him. Fearing that the kimchi would dry up after a long time, she also scooped some kimchi soup and poured it on top.
Tong Zhiyuan wanted to give her money, but Hu Qiongfang refused.
"My family will be moving here soon, and we'll be neighbors. How can I ask you for money for just a little kimchi?"
Absolutely not!
Tong Zhiyuan didn't want to delay the mother and daughter from returning home, and in his heart he had a new respect for the proprietress who sold box lunches.
Why didn't he meet a good woman like Hu Qiongfang?
I heard that she was from the village below. The man used to work in a coal mine. After the accident, the village probably couldn't tolerate this widow. But this woman was quite strong. She actually dared to move to this side of the provincial road with her two children. She built a house and sold boxed lunches, and she managed to support her family.
Thinking about his ex-wife who cheated on him, Tong Zhiyuan felt that he must have been bewitched when he was young. He only cared about the face and wanted to marry her home because she was pretty. But later he found out that a pretty face alone was not enough for a couple to live together.
His ex-wife enjoyed the money he made from running the gas station, but she didn't like the smell of gasoline at the gas station at all. As long as he was at home, his ex-wife would either hide in the house alone watching TV or go out and wander around the town. In short, she was unwilling to stay in the store.
If that woman could be half as virtuous and capable as Hu Qiongfang, he could open at least two more gas stations.
Perhaps feeling that he owed Hu Qiongfang a favor, when Tong Zhiyuan came to buy lunch boxes the next day, he told Hu Qiongfang that if she had any unsold lunch boxes in the future, she could take them to the gas station.
If you were to ask where the most cars and trucks are parked on this road, it would definitely be the gas station on the roadside.
People can go without food, but a car can’t move without gas!
Especially for many truck drivers who are in a hurry to deliver goods, sometimes they are so pressed by the cargo owners that they don’t even have time to stop and buy a box lunch.
Before, Tong Zhiyuan wanted his wife to open a small store in the gas station to sell food and drinks. Not to mention the extra money, she could at least earn enough for the family's monthly living expenses.
His ex-wife was too tired to do it and refused to do it. Tong Zhiyuan was unable to handle it alone and had to give up the idea.
Anyway, there is a lot of space in front of his house, so he can just move a place anywhere, put a table, and sell lunch boxes to Hu Qiongfang. If nothing else, it will save a lot of trouble for him to eat in the future, as he won't have to come here specially to buy them.
