Volume 1: Reborn in the 80s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 76 The He Family's Backer
I went to the He family and found another relative.
This incident caused... Everyone in the Hu family thought about it when they got home, hey!
The more than two hundred yuan I spent on buying things was wasted.
If I had known that I would lose a granddaughter, why would I have brought anything with me?
Jiang Tian raised her hand weakly: "Well , it seems that our family is not at a disadvantage."
"Grandpa He and Grandma He gave me two red envelopes, with exactly 200 yuan in them."
Jiang Tian took out two thick red envelopes from his pocket.
Money is still very valuable these days. During the Chinese New Year, most people give red envelopes to their relatives' children, and a gift of thirty or fifty cents is considered good.
Some people would exchange some one-cent paper bills and put ten one-cent bills in a red envelope, which is exactly ten cents , and it is quite decent to use it as a red envelope.
However, just now, Mr. He and his wife gave Jiang Tian two big red envelopes.
Each red envelope contains ten big unity notes.
Grandma Hu stared at the two big red envelopes and sighed, "This is not for you."
Then he glanced at Hu Qiongfang.
Jiang Tian, the girl, made a sudden decision, fearing that the He family would not forgive Hu Qiongfang, so she gave herself to He Xiangjun as his daughter.
Unexpectedly, the He family did not take advantage of this.
Instead, according to local customs, a sum of money was given to the adopted child's family as a way of repaying the child's parents for raising him or her.
Now, even Grandma Hu had to say that the two elders of the He family were really kind people!
No wonder they could educate such an outstanding child like He Xiangjun.
Her daughter is unlucky...
The next morning, after having breakfast at grandpa's house, my two uncles rode their bicycles to take my mother and three kids home.
Unexpectedly, when I got home, I found the door was open.
Jiang Tian immediately became alert.
Sure enough, hearing the noise, Jiang Lesheng walked out of the yard.
Why is he back?
Yes!
How could she forget?
It was around this time in his previous life that Jiang Lesheng took two days off from school. He told his family that he had bought some books before the exam and did not have enough living expenses.
In her previous life, it took Jiang Tian a long time to find out that Jiang Lesheng had not spent all his living expenses and asked for leave to come back to get money.
He came back to coax his "spare tire".
If she hadn't been standing from the perspective of a reborn person, Jiang Tian would never have believed that Jiang Lesheng, who looked gentle and polite to others, was actually a hardcore scumbag who had multiple relationships at the same time.
In her previous life, Jiang Tian only found out from her fellow villagers that her second uncle finally married the daughter of his leader and rose to prominence. In order to climb up the social ladder, he dumped his "first love" who he had been with since high school.
However, Jiang Tian knew that while Jiang Lesheng was "making progress together" with his top student girlfriend at school, he was actually still hanging out with another girl in his hometown.
The girl and Jiang Lesheng were classmates in junior high school, but her grades were not as good as Jiang Lesheng's. She failed to get into the county high school and ended up going to a township high school.
However, although she can't study, this girl will be reborn.
The girl's father opened two gas stations on the provincial road. In that era, the provincial road was full of cars, and running a gas station could be said to be a very wealthy business.
No wonder Jiang Lesheng had set his eyes on her so early.
However, junior high school students of this era were still very innocent. Jiang Lesheng didn't need to put in much effort to hook up with a simple little girl. At school, he could just help her explain the questions and tutor her with her homework. When the teachers and parents saw this, they would only praise him for being friendly to his classmates.
Jiang Lesheng is good-looking and has good grades. No one would have thought that he would develop his female classmate into his backup.
After entering high school, Jiang Lesheng did not stop contacting girls, but he changed the way he communicated with girls and kept in touch with them in the name of "pen pals".
This kind of communication, in fact, made the relationship more ambiguous than meeting each other every day at school.
Jiang Tian guessed that Jiang Lesheng had been keeping this girl hanging, and he must be planning something bad.
He probably wanted to leave a way out for himself in case he failed to get into college and couldn't marry a girl who could help his career better. It would be nice for him to marry a rich second-generation man whose family runs a gas station.
But these were just Jiang Tian's guesses. In her previous life, she only knew that the daughter of the gas station owner had an affair with a female top student in the county high school because Jiang Lesheng had fallen in love with someone else. The two even applied to the same university.
Is it because Jiang Lesheng chose this female academic genius that the girl committed suicide by cutting her wrists?
That’s not right. It’s just a broken heart. You shouldn’t give up your life for a man, right?
Jiang Tian felt that there was something weird about the whole thing, and she couldn't help but stare at Jiang Lesheng secretly.
Sure enough, the next day, Jiang Lesheng was seen dressed up in a slicked-back style, riding a bicycle out.
Jiang Tian was secretly anxious.
But there was nothing she could do, she didn't have a bicycle and couldn't keep up even if she wanted to.
What's more, she had another more important thing to do today.
Mr. He has already agreed that since it is an adoption, the formal process must be followed. The child cannot just be included in the family tree, the household registration must also be transferred to the He family.
I can only say that the household registration management in this era is really loose. Anyway, 20 years later in China, if you want to change the household registration book of a teenager, it is not something that ordinary people can do.
Mr. He made it sound so easy because although his son He Xiangjun died, He Xiangjun's comrades-in-arms, especially those who were assigned to work locally after demobilization, would visit the He family almost every year over the years.
More than ten years have passed, and those comrades who were assigned to various units at the beginning are now leaders of various sizes. Grandpa He took Hu Qiongfang and Jiang Tian to the county public security bureau and found a leader named "Director Lin".
Director Lin was very polite to Mr. He, calling him "Uncle He", and personally took them to the police station window to handle the household registration transfer.
Hu Qiongfang had already brought the Jiang family's household registration book, as well as the certificate issued by the village.
Mr. He also brought the materials.
The clerk in charge of handling the business was quite surprised.
These days, it is not uncommon for people to come to the police station to register their children for adoption, but it is rare to adopt a child as old as Jiang Tian.
However, seeing Director Lin standing beside him respectfully, the clerk shuddered, quickly withdrew his gaze from Jiang Tian, and quickly completed the household registration transfer procedures.
"He Tiantian? Lotus Leaf He Tiantian, this name is very poetic. Why not just use the word 'Tian'?"
As it concerns whether she can have a dozen fewer strokes when taking exams and signing her signature in the future, Jiang Tian immediately turned her expectant gaze towards Mr. He.
"Grandpa, why don't we change it to Tiantian?"
Mr. He only has the education from literacy classes and doesn’t know the origin of the poem “Lotus Leaves Are Full of Fields”.
Fortunately, there is Director Lin. Although he himself does not like reading, he has two children at home and is forced to recite poems and songs by his wife every day. Seeing that Mr. He did not understand the poem, he hurriedly explained it to him.
"This is a famous poem in the Han Dynasty Yuefu. The first two lines are: Lotuses can be picked in the south of the Yangtze River, and the lotus leaves are so lush. Students have to recite this poem when they go to school. Uncle He, I think this name is quite suitable for a girl. Why don't we change it to this?"
The main reason is that the name "Tiantian" is repeated too often.
I heard the clerks at the window complain that those who came to them to register their household registration in the past two years, such as Lingling, Jingjing, Tiantian, and Lili, basically all had these names.
There are very few people named "Tiantian".
When Mr. He heard this, he was surprised that even Director Lin, a cultured man, said so. Moreover, this "田" did not seem to be the "田" in "耕田", but rather the one in some ancient poetry. It sounded very classy.
"That's it!"
At worst, I could go back and change the family tree. Mr. He’s family hadn’t produced a cultured person for three generations, so when he heard the name “very cultured,” he immediately decided on it.
The clerk successfully recommended Jiang Tian and happily changed her name to "He Tiantian" and stamped it with a big red seal!
From now on, Jiang Tian will be called "He Tiantian".
After finishing the work, Director Lin held Mr. He and refused to let him leave. He even asked for leave from the unit and wanted to take them to a restaurant to celebrate.
Mr. He felt embarrassed to let him spend money.
Unexpectedly, Director Lin found Mr. He’s new “weakness”.
He pointed at the freshly baked "He Tiantian" and said to the old man with a smile:
"Tiantian was adopted by Brother Xiangjun. She will be our niece from now on."
"I'll call a few more people over so Tiantian can meet all the uncles and aunts."
"In the future in Qinshan County, I dare not say that no one can bully our niece. At the very least, as long as we are here, we can always protect her and let her grow up safely."
