Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 32
When Mother Jiang saw Father Jiang coming back, she looked very unhappy and said, “You didn’t even come back last night, I thought you died outside.”
As soon as Father Jiang heard the word “died”, he thought of how his daughter almost cut her own neck.Â
He frowned and said, “How many times have I told you, don’t hit your children? Don’t hit your children. Why do you always hit her? Do you know what happened yesterday? If it weren’t for my sharp eyesight and quick hands, Ning Ning would have cut her own neck with a knife.” He was covered in cold sweat just thinking about it.
Mother Jiang was also startled and cursed loudly, “This is a death seeker. I just scolded her a few times. When did I hit her? She ran faster than a rabbit. She was looking for death. She dared to use a knife at a young age to blackmail. If she wants to die, why didn’t she die? Hurry up and let her die as soon as possible.”
“Keep your voice down,” Father Jiang shouted, “Your mouth is like a knife. She has the strongest self-esteem. Who can stand it if you scold her like this every day?”
Mother Jiang also said angrily, “She can’t bear being scolded a few times. If she were born in someone else’s family, she would have to die many times.” She was really angry, but she didn’t doubt that what Father Jiang said was true. In fact, her daughter had been honest and somewhat naive. She feared that the girl might actually do something like slashing her neck in anger.
After raising her until she was fifteen years old, she could earn a lot of money for the family by working for a few years. In a few years, after getting married, they could still receive a lot of gifts. Her family had been educating the girl for so many years, so they should charge more as a bride price.
She said, “I really can’t control her. I also heard her telling you to use the farmland to raise those lousy crayfish. I got so angry that I took a pole and chased her. When I caught up, I was really angry. But I wanted to teach her a lesson. You saw what happened that day. I didn’t hit her. Just for this little thing, she tried to kill herself.”
Mother Jiang suddenly paused, thinking that the girl was afraid she would hit her, so she tried to kill herself. This girl wouldn’t be so timid, right?
The more Mother Jiang thought about it, the more she felt it was really possible. Her girl had been so scared of her since she was a child. In their local dialect, seeing her would make the girl wet her pants.
Then she thought about how the girl had been talking back to her these days and how important studying was to her. She just said that she would not be allowed to study, and her whole personality changed drastically. She even dared to do things like using a knife to threaten that she would kill herself. Yes, it was useless to have raised her to such a big girl.
Mother Jiang calmed down and said, “Tell her to go work with Yueqin and bring me back a lot of money during the Chinese New Year.”
“You know how hard part-time jobs are. How can you get ahead by working part-time?” Father Jiang frowned and disagreed. “You let Ning Ning go to college, take the civil service exam, and get a government job. I don’t know how well she will do in the future, but she can also help her two brothers.”
“Even if she can’t be a civil servant, being a public teacher and having a guaranteed income despite droughts and floods all your life is infinitely better than working,” Father Jiang said. “Don’t listen to other people and make our child work.”
Mother Jiang said angrily, “That’s all you know. I don’t understand. I don’t know if it’s okay for a girl to be a teacher. But there are three people in the family studying, and we have to pay for all the high school tuition. Next year, the two older ones will go to college. When it comes to wedding money, money is needed, and nothing is free of money.”
Mother Jiang put down the clothes in her hands and said, “You can’t just focus on the present, right? It’s okay for her to go to school now. But then Jiang Song and Jiang Bai will go to college soon. They will be in their twenties after college. They will get married soon. For them to get married, you should have a house. This house is too shabby.” When Mother Jiang was saying the word “shabby”, the look of disgust on her face almost reached the sky. She pointed at her small old house and continued to say, “Take a look for yourself. Which girl is willing to marry to such a house?”
Father Jiang was silent.
Mother Jiang said, “You just want to be a good person, then I will be the bad guy.” She looked very bored, saying, “She will only be sixteen next year. Why can’t she study a year later? The salary is so high. Two hundred a month, that’s two thousand four a year. With more than two thousand yuan, Song and Bai will go to college next year. We are also so tight in money. It’s not that difficult to do. Being a waitress isn’t hard labor. She doesn’t want such an easy job. Then let her come with us to the construction site to move bricks. Let her move bricks for a year, and I guarantee that she will go there happily in the future.”
In the previous life, Mother Jiang also persuaded Father Jiang for the same reason, so he did not stop her when she was dragging their daughter onto the tricycle. Later, Jiang Ning came back and studied again. Father Jiang didn’t say anything, so Mother Jiang knew that he agreed.
While drying the clothes, Mother Jiang said, “I am her biological mother, not her stepmother. She has studied for so many years, and I am also kind and righteous to her.”
“That’s all. When her two brothers go to college, the family will get money, and she earns money herself. If she wants to go to school, will I stop her from going to school?” Then she said, “Okay, let’s not talk about this anymore. Didn’t you say yesterday that you would catch crayfish and sell them? Take advantage of these two days to catch more crayfish and sell them at the market.” She also said, “If you can’t sell them in town, you can take them to the city to have a look.”
Although Mother Jiang was unwilling to raise crayfish, she would not say no to money. If that thing could be sold for money, Mother Jiang would naturally let Father Jiang continue to sell it.
The city was far away, but the neighboring city was much closer. It took two and a half hours by bicycle to get there across the ferry. If people needed something, they would go to the neighboring city rather than the more distant city. Even if they later bought a house, they would buy more from the neighboring city.
The city Mother Jiang mentioned was the neighboring city.
Father Jiang originally wanted to make some snail sauce. After hearing Mother Jiang’s suggestion, he put all the snails in a basin to let them spit out the mud and took a bamboo basket to pick up crayfish.
When Ning Ning sold her catch, he would go to the market to sell his.
Soon it was market day. Father Jiang and Jiang Ning had saved a lot of crayfish in the past two days. They got up at dawn to cook the crayfish.
While Father Jiang was cooking, Jiang Ning went to pick cucumbers, green and red peppers, and a lot of garlic to add as garnish to the crayfish.
Since it couldn’t all be cooked in one pot, Father Jiang divided it into several pots. Jiang Ning made several flavors, including garlic, spicy, and fragrant. She filled a bucket of each type and then another before she hurried to the boat.
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