Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 14

Jiang Yueqin’s face turned green, and she clutched the bracelet on her wrist tightly. “Who wants to try it? Who knows if you will melt my bracelet? I heard that people in gold stores will melt the gold, wash necklaces, then sell the scraps for money.”

She couldn’t wait to escape and stammered, “I still have some work, so I won’t stay anymore.”

Jiang Ning kept watching her running away.

Seeing her reminded her of her own experience of traveling hundreds of kilometers alone and begging for food all the way home along the train tracks, as well as her dark past of being bullied and rumored to be a xoxo in high school during her three years in high school.

Very few people knew that she had been taken to that kind of place. When she went home, she didn’t even tell her parents and Jiang Yueqin’s parents. She knew subconsciously that it was not a good place and she couldn’t tell others. She only said that she missed home and wanted to go home to her grandpa, wanting to continue studying, so she ran back alone.

Angry, Mother Jiang scolded her that wild boars couldn’t eat fine chaff and that she didn’t know how to cherish such a good job. She would rather walk hundreds of kilometers to beg for food than work.

Later, the only people that could have spread it to her school were Jiang Yueqin and a few acquaintances there. Two of them were also from the big house and were much older than her. She had never interacted with them at all.

The rest were not from the same village or even the same township, and they were completely unknown to her before this.

She didn’t know if it was Jiang Yueqin or what her purpose was for spreading such negative rumors about her. Later, she also understood that there was some malice in the world. It had no purpose, just pure evil, just like people on the Internet. Under a girl’s photo, countless men would say that she was seen sitting at a certain nightclub.

There were even women who, purely to create a topic and attract attention, made unprovoked scandals about kindergarten teachers they didn’t know at all.

Sometimes, it was without a reason, because some people were just purely bad.

After Jiang Yueqin returned, she touched the bracelet on her wrist. The more she thought about it, the more restless she became. She wanted to find a magnet to try on it, but she was afraid that she would actually fail.

One day later, she ran to find Jiang Ning again.

On one hand, of course, she wanted to confirm whether her bracelet was genuine. On the other hand, the purpose of her return from the trip was to bring a few little sisters with her.

If she brought back one young sister with her, she would get five hundred; if she brought ten, she would get five thousand.

Unfortunately, at that time, all the girls in the village went to work in factories, leaving only Jiang Ning, Jiang Hehua, and Jiang Qinqian in the village.

She didn’t dare to take Jiang Hehua, let alone Jiang Qinqian. That girl was the big treasure of her family. She had a lot of brothers and sisters, and they were very powerful in fighting, especially her mother. If she really dared to take Jiang Qinqian away, her mother would really bring their whole family to tear her family apart, and then go and tear up her boss’s whole family.

Only Jiang Ning.

Speaking of Jiang Ning, she originally thought that she would see a fair, tall, bookish, and pretty girl. However, she turned out to be skinny, with her hair shaved like a boy’s, with long hair in the front and short at the back, and there was a piece in the middle that seemed to have been cut by something sharp.

She didn’t look like a girl at all.

If she was asked to work, it would be only as a real waitress.

However, Jiang Yueqin thought that she would look fine after two years. After all, her father and her brothers were very good-looking.

Thinking of Jiang Ning, Jiang Yueqin came to her house again.

She was still wearing tight-fitting, navel-baring short sleeves, which wrapped her body in a smooth shape. She wore orange-red bell-bottom pants, with two metal chains hanging from her waist, and a pair of white sandals.

Although Jiang Ning and Jiang Yueqin were classmates in elementary school, they were not familiar with each other.

There was a local saying here that if one studied at the age of eight, they would be blind, meaning that if one studied at the age of eight or younger, they would not get good grades and would learn for nothing. Rural people were superstitious about these sayings, so children of their generation were generally sent to school at nine or ten years old. Jiang Ning was the only one who had gone to school earlier. Jiang Yueqin felt that Jiang Ning was very smart when she was a child. While other children were sent to school at nine or ten, she started at five, studying in the same class.

So, Jiang Yueqin, who was in the same class as her, was more than three years older than her.

Because of this age gap, she basically couldn’t play with her classmates, and they didn’t include her in their activities either.

Jiang Yueqin acted as if the two of them knew each other very well. When she arrived at Jiang’s house, she walked in without waiting for an invitation. She sat on the long bench beside the dining table, looking at Jiang Ning with a smile in her eyes. The house was old and dim, and there was obvious complacency and contempt in her eyes. “Ning Ning, are you the only one at home?”

She continued without waiting for a response, “You know, I built a big house for my family. Now my mother doesn’t even let me work. I even forgot how to harvest the rice.”

Jiang Ning had just returned from harvesting rice and was about to make breakfast for Father Jiang and the others. Hearing this, she handed the thorny sickle to Jiang Yueqin. “It doesn’t matter if you forgot how to harvest. Come on, I’ll teach you.” She looked as if she was about to set off. “I still have some farm work at home. There are eight acres of land that haven’t been cut yet. Go ahead and cut two acres, and I’m sure you’ll remember how to cut rice.”

She had just returned home and had not yet taken off her straw hat, towel, and sleeves. She looked as if she was ready to cut more rice. Jiang Yueqin was so frightened that she almost jumped up and raised her voice, “I’m kidding. I’m not going to harvest the rice. We haven’t finished the rice harvest at my own house, so how could I help you?”

Jiang Ning put down the prickly sickle regretfully. “Didn’t you forget how to harvest rice? I was thinking of teaching you, and I didn’t even plan to charge you tuition.”

She took off her hat, fetched well water, scrubbed the towel with water, washed her face, and washed the mud off her arms and legs.

She noticed a leech on her calf, slapped it a few times, picked it off, and threw it away. Without an iodophor stick, she went to the yard, picked a chili leaf, stuck it on, and pressed it for a while to stop the bleeding.

She didn’t know if chili leaves could stop bleeding, but this was common practice in rural areas, so she did the same.