Volume 1: Reborn in the 80s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 64: Meddlesome and Struck by Thunder
I heard that the daughter of the old Hu family who eloped with a man had returned with her child. After finally waiting for them to finish their meal, most the village came to watch the fun.
Of course, everyone was concerned about Hu Qiongfang and wanted to know how she had been living in the Jiang family over the years.
Hu Qiongzhi just came to watch the fun.
No one knows how happy she was when Hu Qiongfang ran away with that man.
Who made Hu Qiongfang "the other people's child" since childhood?
She is well-behaved, obedient and good-looking. The most annoying thing is that her family does not discriminate against girls. Grandpa Hu and Grandma Hu love their youngest daughter like the apple of their eye.
The two brothers also protected their sister.
Unlike their family, Hu Qiongzhi has three sisters and only one younger brother. The whole family wants to praise her brother to the sky!
The three sisters have been helping their family since they were in primary school, collecting grass for pigs, herding geese and cattle, washing clothes and cooking. They are responsible for everything at home, but when there is any good thing at home, it is never their turn.
Her brother didn't do any work and was as fat as a pig. Her parents felt that he was being treated unfairly, so every now and then, they would sell the eggs the three sisters had saved from raising chickens to buy meat for her brother.
How can you be so biased?
Look at Hu Qiongfang again. She is obviously about the same age as them, but is spoiled like a princess at home. She is the best dressed in the whole village, and she is very fair and clean. She doesn't look like a country girl at all.
After Hu Qiongfang ran away with a man who couldn't afford the bride price, Hu Qiongzhi laughed out loud, thinking that God had finally opened his eyes this time.
That's how it should be.
We were all born in rural areas. Why do you, Hu Qiongfang, live better than the rest of us?
Later, she heard that Hu Qiongfang was tortured by her evil mother-in-law and her husband died, leaving her a widow. Hu Qiongzhi felt very happy. Although her own life was not good, she was satisfied to see that Hu Qiongfang, whom she once envied and hated, was living a worse life than her.
When Hu Qiongzhi heard that Hu Qiongfang had returned with two burdens, she almost didn't want to cook and just wanted to go watch the fun.
After being slapped twice by her own man, she limped off to cook.
After finally finishing the meal, Hu Qiongzhi asked her eldest daughter to stay at home to wash the pots and dishes. She held her youngest son in her arms, changed into new clothes that she usually wore when visiting relatives, and ran to Grandma Hu's house like a gust of wind.
The moment she saw Hu Qiongfang, Hu Qiongzhi almost dropped her son in her arms to the ground.
That's not right.
Didn't they say that Hu Qiongfang's husband died, and she separated from her brother-in-law, and now she is raising two children alone, so poor that she has to go fishing for eels?
The Hu Qiongfang in Hu Qiongzhi's mind should be as busy as an old maid in her forties or fifties, with patched clothes, torn shoes and socks, and a miserable face, crying and begging for a bowl of rice.
But the Hu Qiongfang in front of him, although her skin was indeed tanned and not as white and clean as when she was a girl in her parents' home, her cheeks were plump and her face was rosy. Most importantly, she was wearing a brand new "Dacron" jacket and a pair of small leather shoes!
Didn’t they say that after Hu Qiongfang’s husband died, she became so poor that she started fishing for eels?
How can she afford new clothes and shoes?
In fact, Hu Qiongzhi really misunderstood.
After Hu Qiongfang had two children, she was reluctant to spend a penny on herself. When she was in the Jiang family, she wore more tattered clothes than Hu Qiongzhi.
The Dacron jacket and new trousers she was wearing were both bought at the persuasion of her daughter Jiang Tian.
The reason Jiang Tian gave was simply beyond Hu Qiongfang's ability to refute: they were going to go door to door in restaurants along the provincial highway to sell loaches and eels, and if they dressed like beggars, people might not even let them in.
Hu Qiongfang also knew that business people were afraid of poor people coming to their door, so for the sake of their business, they had to buy a new set of clothes to dress up their appearance.
As for the little leather shoes on her feet , they were not bought by her. They were a gift from Wang Chunjuan after she and Wang Chunjuan became sworn sisters.
Hu Qiongfang always thought that leather shoes were very expensive, and she tried hard to refuse them that day. Unexpectedly, Wang Chunjuan told her that the good thing about living near the provincial road was that you could often get bargains.
For example, some truck drivers who go to other places to transport goods, when they see something good and cheap, will sometimes bring some back with them and earn enough money to buy cigarettes.
The pair of leather shoes that Wang Chunjuan gave her was bought from a truck driver. They were brand new women's leather shoes and only cost her fifteen yuan!
Later, Hu Qiongfang secretly went to the supply and marketing cooperative to check, and found a pair of women's leather shoes that were similar to hers, but not as nice-looking as hers, and were actually being sold for 35 yuan a pair in the supply and marketing cooperative.
In that era, this was almost a week's salary for a strong laborer.
It’s too expensive!
Anyway, she usually didn't want to wear it at home, and when she went back to her parents' home she was afraid that her parents would worry that she was not doing well, so she deliberately put on her best clothes.
Unexpectedly, it unexpectedly stimulated many people in the village to come and watch the fun.
Hu Qiongzhi felt embarrassed and angry. She stared at the cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles on her feet and wished she could turn around and leave.
But when she thought that Hu Qiongfang's husband had died and she was now a widow, she felt inexplicably happy.
She's dressed so nicely, who knows which mistress bought her those clothes?
I heard that Hu Qiongfang was previously harassed by a gangster, which shows that she must not be self-disciplined enough in her daily life.
Otherwise, why wouldn't the gangster bother others but instead bother her?
Thinking of Hu Qiongfang's husband's death, Hu Qiongzhi didn't feel that the two slaps from her were too painful. No matter how painful it was, she still had a man. Unlike Hu Qiongfang, what about being able to wear small leather shoes? Aren't widows always surrounded by gossip?
Sure enough, before Hu Qiongzhi could open her mouth, Grandma Hu, a cousin who she didn't get along with, started to make arrangements enthusiastically.
"Sister-in-law, your Fangfang is still so young, are you really willing to let your daughter be a widow for the Jiang family's kid for the rest of her life?"
"In my opinion, it's better to find another one while you're still young. My nephew just lost his wife last year..."
Before she could finish, Grandma Hu spat fiercely on the ground.
"You'd better shut up! Why did your nephew's wife jump into the river? Don't ask me to say anything nice!"
The old lady was immediately embarrassed, her eyes rolled, and she confidently advised Grandma Hu:
"How can a couple not quarrel? That's because my niece's wife has a bad temper. She would jump into the river after a quarrel. If everyone is like her, then all women in the world would have no chance of living."
"I think your Fangfang is pretty good. She's good-looking and has a good temper. She will definitely get along well with my nephew."
"Besides, one of them lost his woman, the other lost his man, and both of them have two children. Isn't this the fate determined by God?"
Grandma Hu snorted: "Don't mess with the heavens, be careful or you'll get struck by lightning when you go out!"
