Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 1
“What’s the use of educating girls? They will leave someday and belong to their husband’s family.” Uncle Jiang squatted on the field ridge, looking at Father Jiang cutting rice in the field and took a puff of cigarette.
“Ning Ning is already fifteen. In a few years, it will be time for her to get married. Look at Brother Jiang’s family. Their daughter went out to work early and earned a lot of money. They even built a building with it. Take a look at your house.
He gestured toward the only low, gray tile-roofed house among the small white buildings at the entrance of the village not far behind him. “Your house is the smallest in this area.”
He meant to say that his house was the only dusty old house.
The proudest achievement in Uncle Jiang’s life was building a two-story building for his two sons by himself. So he spoke with confidence, unable to suppress the pride in his tone.
Speaking of this matter, Father Jiang was also feeling a little ashamed. In rural areas, a house was the foundation and root.
He sighed and said, “What’s the use of just having a house? As long as the three of them are successful, I’m happy without a house.”
Father Jiang had two sons and one daughter, the youngest being Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning, feeling a bit dizzy, gazed at the familiar scene in front of her, her thoughts drifting as she vaguely felt like she was dreaming, reliving her childhood once again.
Perhaps the memory of her childhood was too deep. Even though her family later built a three-story building, every time she dreamed, the home in her dream was still that gray and small old house.
In the big house, her eldest brother’s house was on the first floor, her second brother’s on the second floor, and her parents lived on the ground floor. On the second day of her wedding, her room was occupied by her sister-in-law and her nieces and nephews. They couldn’t wait for three days after her marriage when a bride would go home to visit as a ritual.
She once saw a sentence on the Internet that said that after a woman got married, she had no home.
She didn’t agree with that sentence at first, but when she saw her sister-in-law, nieces, and nephews lying on her bed that day, she suddenly understood it.
“What’s the point? Jiang Song is nineteen, and he didn’t pass the exam this year. He’ll have a family in two years. Jiang Bai is seventeen, and he’ll have to marry in two years. When young girls see a house like this, who would be willing to marry here?” Uncle Jiang said very realistically, “If you ask Ningning to work and earn for a few years, even if she earns a thousand a year, it will be more than 5,000 in five years. You and your wife can add a little more and build a house when the time comes. Whether Jiang Song is resuming his studies or working, he needs a house. When Jiang Bai graduates from University, he can get married. Now that the three of them are studying, you will spend more money. Let me tell you, don’t delay Jiang Song and Jiang Bai when the time comes.”
Father Jiang considered letting his son repeat his studies for a year. He was silent for a while and waved his hand, “Stop. It’s definitely not possible to let Ningning drop out of school. At worst, if needed, I’ll find something else to do.”
Uncle Jiang sneered.
Mother Jiang, who had been concentrating on harvesting rice and not speaking, suddenly stood up and asked Jiang Ning, who had woken up and was lying under the shade of the tree, “Ning Ning, what do you think?”
Jiang Ning had just woken up and was still a little confused. When she heard it, she instinctively retorted, “I don’t want to work, I want to study.”
The former Jiang Ning would never have been able to say such a thing. She was used to being obedient and never knew how to fight for herself. Even if she was not willing to drop out of school, she was beaten and scolded or coaxed by her mother several times. Once she cried and begged a few times, her mother retorted, and she couldn’t even speak further.
Mother Jiang was used to her daughter being obedient. When she heard Jiang Ning’s retort, she was furious, and her brows immediately raised. “We also want you to study, but where will the money come from? Girls who are as old as you had brought tens of thousands of yuan to their family a long time ago. You study all year round and don’t make any money, but you still spend money.”
Mother Jiang always had a hot temper and spoke fast.
If it were Jiang Ning of the past, she would be overwhelmed with guilt and panic at the instant. But she was no longer the cowardly Jiang Ning who was criticized and suppressed while growing up. She said, “In our country, we have nine years of compulsory education. I am only in the third grade of high school, and it doesn’t cost money.”
Mother Jiang didn’t expect that Jiang Ning would dare to talk back, and she suddenly said angrily like a lit dynamite, “Don’t I have to pay for your food, drink, and clothing? If you are so capable, don’t ask me for money to study.”
Jiang Ning smiled, looked down at her sleeves and trouser legs, which were obviously too short, and said, “Aren’t the clothes I’ve worn since I was a child the same ones that my cousins wore before? We got it for free”
She suddenly thought of something in high school. She wore a pair of trousers from junior high school to high school. She was thin, but she grew tall quickly. The trousers she wore in junior high school had become cropped pants in high school, and their sleeves got a bit too short. In winter, her high school classmate saw it and compared it to her normal sized clothes, and deliberately asked her, “Jiang Ning, why are all your clothes hanging?”
‘Hanging’ in the local dialect of Jiang Ning’s hometown meant that the clothes were too small, the sleeves and trouser legs were too short, as if they hung on the person.
Jiang Ning just told the truth, but Mother Jiang was so angry that she rushed over to hit her. Jiang Ning got up and ran away.
Mother Jiang couldn’t catch up with her, so she waved her sickle and shouted after her, “You still dare to run away?! Unless you die outside today, otherwise I will peel off your skin when you come back.”
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A traditional start. A daughter who is not valued. I’m looking forward to some satisfying face slapping.