Volume 1: Reborn in the 80s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 79 Return to the Village
Jiang Tian has wanted to sell boxed lunches on the provincial road for a long time.
But their family did not live near the provincial road, and the cheap disposable lunch boxes of later generations had not yet been invented. Those who sold lunch boxes along the provincial road basically had a few large iron buckets with coal briquette stoves underneath, and customers who bought lunch boxes had to bring their own.
In other words, if she wanted to sell boxed lunches, she would have to find a place to put these coal stoves, big iron buckets, and various pots and pans. There were quite a lot of these things, and she couldn't put them in Wang's breakfast shop every day, right?
Now, if a family wants to build a house, they must first build a shed and leave someone to watch it there at night, otherwise someone will definitely come to steal the cement, red bricks and other things that are transported over.
She planned to put the food she sold at the lunch stall in the shed first, and then after her house was built, she could slowly replace the lunch boxes with noodles.
The corners of my second uncle's mouth immediately drooped, and his tone was not very happy: "Why are you in such a hurry? Now that the He family's affairs have been resolved, you and your mother can stay at home for a while longer."
Jiang Tian didn't dare to let him know. In fact, she wanted to know what evil plan Jiang Lesheng, the venomous snake, had come up with this time. Only by guarding the provincial road, closer to the gas station, could she find out what was going on.
But this matter cannot be known to my grandfather’s family.
After rolling his eyes , Jiang Tian immediately used the gossipy women in the village to take the blame.
"Uncle, haven't you noticed yet? No matter where we go now, there are people trying to introduce a date to my mom."
"I don't believe it. You don't know what those people are up to. They just want the little money my mom has ."
"I'm not reluctant to part with the money, I'm reluctant to part with my mother. It's so hard for me to be able to be the head of my own household. If I get married, will I have to serve someone else's family again?"
"How can anyone be happy and at ease doing business..."
Hu Jianjun really wanted to scold her for talking nonsense, but then he thought, he is also a man, how could he not know what rural men are thinking?
At this age, those who still want to find a partner are either divorced or widowed. The reason they are so eager to find a woman is probably because the family cannot be without a woman to take care of them.
If you marry into such a family, no matter how good the man is, the new wife cannot escape from serving the man's family.
Thinking of this, my second uncle immediately pedaled his bicycle faster.
Jiang Tian felt that she might be a jinx in her life. She had just told her second uncle that there were always people in the village introducing potential partners to her mother. As a result, when they just got home, they saw Grandma Hu sending a matchmaker from the village out with a fake smile.
The matchmaker was still nagging her, saying things like "it will be really hard to find a partner if you get older", but was pushed out by Grandma Hu with a sullen face.
Now, without the niece asking, the second uncle took the initiative to talk to the family and asked Hu Qiongfang to go to the construction site with them to sell lunch boxes starting the day after tomorrow.
Grandma Hu never thought that after living in the village for most of her life, someone would dare to plot against her daughter. She was so angry that her face changed.
"No matter what you sell, let your sister go over there with you. You'll have to endure some hardship for a while. When the new house is built, pick a date to set up two tables of wine and move in directly. Don't come back unless necessary!"
This is the difficulty faced by widows in rural areas. No matter whether you want to get married or not, people around you always think that you can't live without a man, and they want to stuff all the dirty and smelly things into your hands. Bah!
Grandma Hu doesn't even look down on her ex-son-in-law Jiang Leping, so how could she look down on these people who have ulterior motives and are waiting to plot against her daughter?
Jiang Tian thought that she would have to work hard to convince the whole family, but unexpectedly, her grandmother was even more enthusiastic than she was.
That night, I found all the pots, pans, and utensils in the house that were not needed temporarily.
After the family discussed it, they decided to buy four more coal stoves, four tin buckets for food, and some oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and the like.
"You don't need to buy food and firewood. Take them from home first. Buy about 100 to 200 kilograms of coal briquettes and keep them aside. For the rest, buy whatever you need. It's more convenient to buy things there than in our village." Grandma Hu instructed one by one.
Hu Qiongfang shook her head and said that she still had food and firewood at home, and she didn't plan to live in the village anyway. She would wait until the shed on the construction site was built and then borrow a tractor to move all the things at home over.
Grandma Hu didn't object after hearing this. Although her daughter was sometimes confused, she was really good at managing her life.
After talking about setting up a stall to sell boxed lunches, Grandpa Hu called Jiang Tian aside and asked her about going to the county town with Grandpa He to register her household registration today.
Even though the household registration management in this era was not as strict as in later generations, not everyone could get it. A few years ago, if they wanted to travel far away, they had to ask the village for a letter of introduction. Without some strong connections, a few trips, and some gifts, how could they get their household registration?
Hearing Jiang Tian say that Mr. He was looking for Director Lin of the County Public Security Bureau, Grandpa Hu was silent for a long time before he sighed heavily and said with emotion: "Your Grandpa He and his wife are both kind people!"
If he was not a kind person and wanted revenge, with the connections that He Xiangjun had accumulated during his lifetime, how could the woman who jumped into the river and directly killed He Xiangjun, and her family, live well in the village?
However, with this relationship in place, my daughter and granddaughter can live a much safer life when doing business along the provincial road.
Thinking of this, the last bit of resentment in Grandpa Hu's heart about Jiang Tian being adopted by the He family completely disappeared.
On second thought, why should he be unwilling?
No matter whose surname Jiang Tian has, she is his granddaughter.
Anyway, if he had to choose a relative, he would rather be related to the He family than to the Jiang family.
The next morning, my eldest uncle and my second uncle borrowed a tractor and went to the brick factory near the provincial road to buy red bricks .
Hu Qiongfang rode the family bicycle, with Jiang Cheng sitting in the front and Jiang Tian sitting in the back. She first dropped her son off at the township primary school, and then took her daughter to buy things for the stall.
Nowadays, most people in rural areas still go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy things. Hu Qiongfang went in to ask and came out empty-handed.
Both mother and daughter made a common sense mistake: the prices in the supply and marketing cooperatives were almost the same these days. Although the township supply and marketing cooperative also had tin buckets and aluminum pots, because few people bought them, the pots were covered with a layer of dust. If they bought them now, they would have to take them to the new house later.
It would be better to buy it directly from the supply and marketing cooperative in the town near the provincial road.
Seeing that it was still early, the mother and daughter decided to go back to the village.
Hu Qiongfang first took some things to the next door. They were not at home these days, and the pigs, chickens and ducks in the house were fed by the neighbors next door. Now that they are back, she has to come to thank them.
Looking at the locked door next door, Jiang Tian frowned.
Today is Wednesday, Jiang Lesheng should have gone back to school for classes a long time ago. I wonder if he will come back this Sunday.
