Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 190

The families that were originally willing to educate their daughters because of their good grades would also deny the girls in the village any hope of studying because of her bad example.

So, even if she didn’t want to come back, during the Chinese New Year, she still returned to that small mountain village politely, with a smile on her face. She greeted everyone in the village cordially, cared about their farming and harvest, and chatted with them. She told them how the country had favorable policies for farmers, cared about the academic performance and learning situation of girls in the village, encouraged them to study hard, talked about the importance of education for girls, and explained that she was too busy with work to return during the Chinese New Year. She pleaded with them to help take care of her parents, and so on.

In fact, they were not used to taking care of her parents. They were just kind words. But when she spoke such kind words, she would return and stay for two or three days each year, giving people the impression that she had not forgotten their small mountain village and was still thinking about it in her heart. Having the image of being caring toward her parents also saved her from a lot of things.

She was unwilling to contribute money or effort to help Jiang Song. Her mother even thought about going to her workplace to cause trouble, but Father Jiang stopped her.

Jiang Ning was the pride of Father Jiang. What Father Jiang liked to do most was take Jiang Ning to visit relatives.

Because of his promising daughter, Father Jiang, who had always failed in life, suddenly became the center of everyone’s attention. Everyone supported him. Whenever there was a banquet at home, he was invited to attend. What mattered? As a guest, he was also invited as a fellow countryman and wise man.

Mother Jiang was an illiterate rural woman who suffered from severe motion sickness when riding in cars. If she didn’t have motion sickness and if Father Jiang wasn’t persuading her, she wouldn’t have gone to her workplace to cause trouble. After all, without Father Jiang to guide her, she didn’t even know where her work unit was, and she didn’t even dare to complain in the village that her daughter was born in vain.

Father Jiang wouldn’t let her say it, as it would affect her career.

Father Jiang’s only hope for her was that she could help Jiang Song more.

After the business failed, he owed a lot of debt. Many people had helped Jiang Song, excluding her and Jiang Bai.

Under the natural suppression of being a parent, Jiang Ning didn’t want to face Mother Jiang. It wouldn’t be good for her. Mother Jiang made her unhappy, so she went to find Jiang Song. If Jiang Song didn’t deal with Mother Jiang, she would just do it in her own way.

Jiang Song always had a way to coax Mother Jiang into submission.

After returning home, Mother Jiang noticed the good clothes and shoes on Grandpa Jiang and said sarcastically to Father Jiang with a cold face, “If he had the money, he could have given it to the family instead of buying himself good clothes and shoes.”

As Mother Jiang spoke, she burst into tears, filled with grievances.

Everyone said that she was great. She was in charge of the Jiang family. Grandma Jiang, whom she couldn’t deal with, was assigned to her brother-in-law’s house. Grandpa Jiang, who was paid, was assigned to her family. Father Jiang also listened to her but only knew how wronged she was.

She was indeed in charge of that family, and she had managed all the money Father Jiang had earned. However, all the money he earned over the years had been used to pay off his debts, and there wasn’t a penny left. They had finally paid off his debts and could save some money. The old man saw that they had finished paying off their debts and would not give them any wages.

There was no elder like him. There was no elder in the family who did not wholeheartedly care for their children. She had met such a selfish father-in-law. He would rather take the money to buy new clothes and shoes than give it to them.

He was already a very old man, and he didn’t have many more years left to live. What was the use of wearing such good clothes and shoes?

She hadn’t bought a new piece of clothing in years. Father Jiang didn’t understand why she suddenly cried when she was fine. After he helped Grandpa Jiang home, he pulled Mother Jiang back to the room and asked her, “Why are you crying at the Chinese New Year?”

Mother Jiang sat on the edge of the bed and said with a choked voice, “It’s your dad. Seeing that our debts have been paid off, he won’t give us money. Doesn’t he want us to provide for him in old age? Our life is better this year, but we still need money. We still need to build a house for Songzi. He will be twenty years old after the Chinese New Year. If he doesn’t marry in another two years, then it will be expensive to marry. Your father clearly knows that we are in such difficulty, and he still quit his job. Now, after he went to Wucheng to accompany the girl to study, he would rather use the money to buy new clothes than give it to us. He’s too selfish.”

When Mother Jiang got angry, she was like a tyrannosaurus, but when she cried, her voice was choked and squeaky, which was completely different from her usual angry demeanor, especially since she had lost a lot of weight due to overwork in the past few years.

She had been good-looking when she was young; otherwise, she wouldn’t have given birth to Jiang Song, Jiang Bai, and the other good-looking child. When she was almost forty, she had never taken care of herself, except for clam oil and facial cream. But at forty, she was still pretty.

When she got up, her tears fell one by one, like pear blossoms with rain.

It wasn’t that she was pretending to be weak to cry like that; she really felt wronged.

Although she had never read a book, she was the daughter of Tanshan’s captain family. Her father rose from a small officer in the village to a captain and remained so after arriving in Tanshan. If there hadn’t been too many brothers and sisters in the family, given her father’s position, she would have had a great life.

At that time, she was 167 cm tall and weighed 130 pounds. She was a fat girl with a strong figure and was very popular. If she hadn’t taken a fancy to Father Jiang’s looks and his status as a high school student, she wouldn’t have married him.

On the contrary, after following Father Jiang, she suffered a lot and had lost weight, now barely over a hundred pounds.

Father Jiang took her rough, dark palm, sighed, and said, “If Dad doesn’t give it to us, then he won’t give it to us. He has given us his salary for so many years, but he hasn’t given it to us this year. If Dad wants to buy something or wear something nice, just let him.”

Mother Jiang cried, “What you say is easy. He doesn’t want to think about how difficult our family’s life is. The elders don’t know how to take care of the younger ones. He doesn’t understand our difficulties at all.”

Her father’s salary fully subsidized her brothers.

Father Jiang was speechless for a moment and then said after a while, “He wants to keep it for Ning Ning’s education.”

“He just wants to watch us suffer and doesn’t want to help us,” Mother Jiang cried, “It sounds nice to keep it for Ning Ning’s education, but what he wears is all new. He even wears big leather shoes. You and I don’t even have a pair of decent leather shoes.”