Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 16

Seeing Mother Jiang’s stern expression and natural words, Jiang Ning suddenly wanted to laugh.

“Every penny of the money is worth an inch of my skin.” The more Jiang Ning thought about it, the funnier she found it, and she laughed unconsciously. How could there be such a weird thing in the world? How could a person say it so naturally?

Her face turned cold, her cold eyes filled with frost. “Then will you spend the money I earn?”

Mother Jiang was instantly irritated by the look in her eyes. She reached out to pull Jiang Ning’s hair, but Jiang Ning pushed her away violently.

Seeing that she couldn’t hit her, Mother Jiang became very angry. When she saw the book Jiang Ning was reading on the table, she angrily tore off the pages she was reading and wanted to tear them up further.

Jiang Ning laughed when she saw it. “You tear it up, you keep tearing it up, it’s all my eldest brother’s books, you tear them all up.”

Mother Jiang’s movements suddenly stopped.

Among the three siblings of the Jiang family, the eldest brother Jiang Song was the one whom Mother Jiang loved the most.

The upper two generations of the Jiang family had some strong women and weak men. Grandmother Jiang was a typical strong woman among the women of that era.

How strong was Grandmother Jiang’s temper?

When Mother Jiang first married into the Jiang family, Grandmother Jiang said to her, “If I draw a circle on the ground and let you stand inside it, you better not dare to step out.”

Grandmother Jiang’s words were remembered by Mother Jiang all her life. Later, when the family separated and faced the problem of supporting the two old people, Mother Jiang was determined not to let Grandmother Jiang come to her. So, Grandmother Jiang went to her other son’s family.

The turning point that prompted Mother Jiang to straighten her back was Jiang Song’s birth.

The moment her son was born, Mother Jiang finally became happy.

Therefore, among the three siblings of the Jiang family, if Mother Jiang had maternal love, 80% was given to Jiang Song.

At that time, when she heard that the book she tore was actually her eldest son Jiang Song’s, she immediately panicked. Her eldest son was going to retake the exam in the second half of the year. How could he possibly succeed if his book was torn? She quickly spread out the pages that she had just torn out. After tidying them up, she turned around and yelled at Jiang Ning angrily, “What are you doing with your brother’s books? If you affect your brother’s academic performance, I’ll peel off your skin. What are you doing? Why don’t you bring the tape?”

Jiang Ning replied, “I don’t know where the tape is.”

“Go buy it.”

“I don’t have any money.”

Mother Jiang quickly took out twenty cents and threw it to her, but Jiang Ning didn’t even look at it, saying, “I’m not going.”

Mother Jiang shouted in anger, “You cry out when I ask you to do anything, and you still blame me for favoring your brother.” Then she quickly picked up the twenty cents and ran out to buy the tape.

She was afraid that her behavior would delay his academic performance.

The store in the village was not far away. Mother Jiang went there in a hurry and came back in a hurry.

In her anger just now, she originally wanted to tear the book in half, but failed, so she grabbed the pages inside and tore them down. Now, she had to glue them one by one.

She was illiterate and wanted her daughter to help her, but seeing her daughter clearly standing by and not caring, she got so angry that she couldn’t help but stare at the torn gap and say angrily, “If I knew you were born with such evilness, I would have thrown you into a urine bucket and drowned you to death.”

This was not a praising remark but the reality in rural areas in this era. Under family planning, if they didn’t want a girl to be born, she would be thrown into a urine bucket and drowned, or directly thrown into a manure pit and drowned.

One of Jiang Ning’s elementary school classmates was thrown into a urine bucket after she was born, and her mother snatched her back up.

That incident was also treated as a joke and was talked about by the whole village.

Jiang Ning didn’t understand it as a child and laughed along with everyone else. When she grew up, she understood what was hidden behind the joke.

Jiang Ning smiled and looked at Mother Jiang. “Didn’t you say that you gave birth to me just so I could help my two brothers in the future, so that I could provide for you when you get old?”

These were Mother Jiang’s exact words. She never hid her thoughts.

When she secretly gave birth to Jiang Bai, she just wanted to give birth to a daughter but didn’t expect to have a son. Regardless, she became more confident in the Jiang family.

Mother Jiang raised her eyebrows and shouted, “I need you to support me in my old age, huh? I’ll be thankful if you don’t make me mad to death.”

Jiang Ning leaned against the door frame, smiled slowly, and clapped. “Congratulations, you have the correct understanding in advance. Keep it up.”

Mother Jiang was so angry that her chest felt like it was filled with cotton. She couldn’t move up or down and kept touching her chest to help herself breathe. As she thought about why her life was so miserable, her eyes turned red, and she started to cry.

When she burst out, she was like a crazed lion, but when she cried, she did so while whispering, looking very pitiful.

She cried about the bitterness of her life, how much she had suffered since she was a child, how much she had worried about the family and how tired she had been, and how her daughter didn’t care about her.

Jiang Ning listened and smiled. “I didn’t make you suffer all your hardships. None of your worries were for me. Big brother made you worry? Then go find him to complain.”

Mother Jiang felt angry again and extended her hand to beat her, saying, “I’ll beat you to death first, you think that will shorten my lifespan?”

Jiang Ning, who had been leaning against the door, moved faster than a rabbit and disappeared in a flash.

Mother Jiang couldn’t catch up with her, so she cursed angrily and went back to gluing the books.

She didn’t know why her daughter, who had always been weak and obedient, suddenly started to resist. She just thought that she was reacting to the news that she wouldn’t be allowed to continue studying.

Jiang Ning ran to the field ridge and saw pumpkin vines spreading on it. The vines were covered with pumpkin flowers.

It wasn’t until she grew up that she learned that pumpkin vines and pumpkin flowers were edible.

She didn’t bring a vegetable basket, so she put the picked pumpkin vines on her arm. After picking enough vines to feed the whole family, she went to pick the pumpkin flowers.

Pumpkin flowers were divided into female and male. The male flowers pollinate, and the female flowers produce pumpkins.