Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 39
During that period, Jiang Yueqin visited the Jiang family several times. In the past few days, she went to her grandmother’s house and contacted two girls from her grandmother’s village. Jiang Yueqin was happy, thinking she could get at least 1,500 yuan during the trip. She wondered if she could find two more.
It was a pity that, at that time of year, most of the older girls had gone out to work, and the younger ones were too young. After looking around, she only found three, so she came to the Jiang house to make an appointment for departure. Unfortunately, she didn’t see Jiang Ning after several visits. She had no choice but to find Mother Jiang.
Mother Jiang worked in the fields during the day and was only at home during mealtimes. Jiang Ning was not home these days. No one cooked at home, and no one swept the floor. She was busy with things outside every day, and she had to do housework when she came back. She had a bad temper, full of resentment towards Jiang Ning, thinking she was too ignorant.
“I can’t count on her now, and I won’t be able to count on her when I get old.”
The more Mother Jiang thought about it, the angrier she became, feeling that her daughter was born in vain.
When she heard that Jiang Yueqin was about to leave, she was very happy and nodded repeatedly, “Yes, yes, that girl has gone up the mountain to accompany her grandfather these days. I will ask her to come down, pack her things, and follow you.”
“Okay, then tomorrow, I will come on a tricycle. At five o’clock tomorrow morning, I will go to my grandma’s house to wait for two girls. Then I will take the bus to the neighboring city. If we take the mountain tricycle, we can’t go to the ferry. It will take a long detour.” She had to take a long mountain road to the next town, where her grandmother lived.
Jiang Yueqin was also happy when she was sure that Jiang Ning would go.
After Mother Jiang finished eating, she didn’t go to the fields. She took her straw hat and hurried up the mountain.
Jiang Ning was still writing in the hut on the mountain. She had just sent out 40,000 manuscripts. She didn’t know if it would get selected. If not, she would have to change magazines and continue to submit.
She was very confident in writing. Not to mention that she had published several works outside of work in her previous life, she also wrote a lot of reportage required for her daily work. Her writing skills had long been polished, and she was very familiar with the rhythm and plot of novels. The control and the burden of setting were all very numerous.
If she hadn’t been a government official in her previous life and was lucky enough to fall into the lap of her boss, she would have actually wanted to write full-time. Mother Jiang was sweating from running. When she climbed up the mountainside, she saw Jiang Ning lying on the dining table in the hut, writing seriously. She walked forward and grabbed Jiang Ning’s arm, saying, “Come on, come down with me.”
Jiang Ning was so immersed in writing that she didn’t notice Mother Jiang’s arrival. When she noticed the shadow in front of the table, her arm had already been grabbed by Mother Jiang. She struggled hard, trying to get rid of Mother Jiang’s hand that clamped on her. “Mom, what are you doing? Let me go first.”
Mother Jiang dragged her. “Stop writing these useless things. Yueqin just came to tell me that she will leave tomorrow. You pack your clothes. The tricycle will arrive at five o’clock tomorrow morning.”
Mother Jiang reached out and wanted to throw away what Jiang Ning had written. She didn’t want Jiang Ning to continue studying. Seeing that she was still reading and writing, she knew that she hadn’t given up yet, and was angry.
With quick eyes and quick hands, Jiang Ning grabbed the letter paper she had written on several pieces of paper and threw it on the mosquito net of Grandpa Jiang’s bed. It was thrown on top of the mosquito net, so Mother Jiang couldn’t get it for a while.
Jiang Ning said, “Don’t drag me. I’ll go by myself.”
Mother Jiang expected that Jiang Ning wouldn’t be able to escape from her grasp, so she let go and said, “Wouldn’t it be better if you were so sensible earlier?”
In her heart, she felt that she might not be able to rely on her daughter after getting old, so she thought about letting her earn a few more years of money.
She said kindly, “It’s not that I won’t let you go to school. Your two brothers will go to high school for one year. We need three thousand yuan, plus you, it’s at least 4,500 yuan a year. I didn’t even count living expenses. We don’t have this much money at home. If you go out to work for a year, your monthly salary is 200, which is 2400 yuan a year. You can take this money back and go study. I won’t stop you.”
She had made up her mind not to let Jiang Ning spend a penny, and she would bring back every penny of the 2400. As for whether she would study next year or not, she would take a break from studying, so of course she would continue to work.
But that didn’t stop her from coaxing Jiang Ning at that time.
Mother Jiang sighed, “You say that I am partial to your two brothers. I also admit that after you get married, I will have them take care of me in the future. I don’t favor them. I want to take care of your two brothers. That’s true. I don’t care about you, but if you really want to study, you can work for two more years while you are still young and pay for college expenses. Otherwise, if you graduate from high school and pass the college entrance examination, do you want us to pay for it? It’s possible that I can’t even support your two older brothers.”
Mother Jiang said, “Think carefully about what I said. Is that right?”
“Don’t blame me for asking you to work. I raised you until you were fifteen years old and let you study for so many years. When the girls are eleven or twelve years old, they go to the factory with their parents to work in clothing. The motors and machines are fast, and their hands are poked by needles several times. Ask the girls in the village who make clothes, whose fingers have not been poked by holes.” Mother Jiang compared Jiang Ning with the girls in the village to prove her understanding of the situation. Jiang Ning’s life was so good.
Jiang Ning slowly packed her clothes.
The clothes on the mountain were all hers from previous years, and they were all worn out. She didn’t have two sets of clothes. In the past few days on the mountain, she could only take out her old small clothes, alter them, and wear them.
Fortunately, she was thin and it was still summer, so she could barely fit in.
Mother Jiang got angry when she saw her sluggish look. She reached out and snatched away her clothes and stuffed them in. “You’re so slow to pack two pieces of clothes. If you really went to the factory, your hand would be pricked with needles in less than three days.”
But luckily, she got work as a waitress.
Her actions were as clear as her words, and she also told her, “When you are outside, be sweeter and don’t be afraid of hardship. You have to compete for all the work to make others like you. Look how neat Yueqin is at work. After only a few years of working, she was promoted to foreman.”
When Jiang Ning was packing her clothes, she folded up the few manuscripts she had written and put them in her pocket. Seeing that they were just a few pieces of paper, her mother didn’t say anything. She reached out to close the door and locked it. The key was inserted in cracks in the walls.
At that point, Grandpa Jiang went to patrol the mountains again.
Seeing that Jiang Ning was like a wooden figure, Mother Jiang angrily grabbed her and went down the mountain in a hurry. Jiang Ning and Mother Jiang were like water and fire. Jiang Ning was like the quiet flowing water, and Mother Jiang was like the fierce and scorching fire. The two of them were in front of each other, forming a very sharp contrast.
When she got home, Mother Jiang went into Jiang Ning’s room again, helped her pack her winter clothes and her daily necessities, and put them in snakeskin bags. She also gave her empty cans, a bottle of water, and a bag of rice crackers. “There is no money at home. I won’t give you any money. Didn’t you sell crayfish these days? Buy the train tickets yourself, and don’t buy food on the way. You’ll be more hungry if you just eat some rice balls. When you get there, there’s a restaurant over there, the leftovers every day will be enough for you.”
In rural earthen stoves, there were always some rice balls left at the bottom of the pot. The Jiang family had the habit of making rice balls on the Kang every day. Afraid that Jiang Song and Jiang Bai would not have enough to eat at school, Father Jiang and Mother Jiang would bake two pots of rice balls every day and save them for the two to take to school.
Grandpa Jiang would also bake rice balls for Jiang Ning.
Seeing that Jiang Ning remained silent, Mother Jiang was angry and poked her forehead with her index finger, saying, “Can you hear me when I’m talking to you? You can’t even say a thing. I really don’t know what you can do in the future. It is fine that you’re at our home. If you go to your husband’s house in the future, you won’t even know how to say a word until you’re beaten to death. You just know how to fight with me all day long.”
After knowing that Jiang Ning was willing to work, Mother Jiang was relieved. In order to ensure Jiang Ning would bring money home in the future, Mother Jiang talked to her.
“Be smart and listen outside. Don’t be stupid all day long. Listen to whatever they say, and don’t go out and fool around. Do you hear me? If I hear someone say that you went out and fooled around, come back and see if I don’t break your legs.” Mother Jiang warned her sternly, “Especially you can’t go out with men, do you hear me?”
The worst thing about these girls who went out to work was that they were easily coaxed by outside men. Two of the ones in the village fell in love with men outside at the age of eighteen or nineteen. Mother Jiang still wanted to keep Jiang Ning for two more years, naturally strictly prohibiting her from falling in love outside.
Fortunately, she went out to work as a waitress. She heard Yueqin say they were all girls. Otherwise, if she got mixed with a boy and got coaxed, it would be really hard to guard against.
Especially those who worked in factories, where men and women were mixed together and no one was watching, wasn’t it easy for them to be coaxed into love?
Thinking of this, Mother Jiang felt that it would be better to be a waitress.
In the afternoon, she was afraid that Jiang Ning would run away, so she stayed at home and watched her. Jiang Ning locked herself in her room and kept writing.
Mother Jiang was a little relieved when she saw that Jiang Ning had finally accepted the situation.
In the evening, Jiang Yueqin came to Jiang’s house again to confirm the itinerary and time with Jiang Ning. Seeing that Mother Jiang really got Jiang Ning, she was happy with a smile on her face and said to her, “Auntie, don’t worry. We are all from the same village, I will definitely take care of Ning Ning.” She sweetly said to Jiang Ning, “Ning Ning, come to my door at five o’clock tomorrow morning, don’t be late.”
The bus from the next town would leave at half past six. If she was too late, she would miss the bus. She still had two people to pick up.
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