Jiang Xinyu, mother and daughter are going to Jiang Zhenzhen's mother-in-law's house today. They got up early today and packed everything before dawn.
The mother and daughter walked to the town carrying their things and caught the early morning bus from the town to the county.
When the three of them left, Yuan Chunhua's four sons had not yet discovered that Yuan Chunhua was dead, and naturally they had not started howling either.
The children in Yuan Chunhua's family have been bullied, ridiculed and insulted by the people in the brigade recently. Last night, Yuan Chunhua returned home quietly and disgraced, and they did not get close to her.
Yuan Chunhua felt uncomfortable. After the past few days and what happened yesterday, she felt that she no longer had the dignity to live.
Her own children also felt that she was embarrassed, and their looks made her extremely tormented. Yuan Chunhua sat there until midnight, and finally swallowed rat poison.
Until Fang Xiaochuan got up in the morning and saw her lying on the ground in the back room with her eyes open, he refused to call her no matter what.
The four boys have been bullied by other children in the village recently. They heard other children say that their mothers are broken shoes. Even if they don't understand it, they know that this is not a good word.
They knew that their mother had done something wrong, which would bring shame on them, but they never thought that their mother would die.
The helpless cries of the four children attracted the members of the team. Yesterday, most of them were scolding them vigorously. Now that they saw Yuan Chunhua's body and the four wailing boys, they felt sad.
Zhang Tiezhu felt more uncomfortable than anyone in the brigade. He had been in a relationship with Yuan Chunhua for two years, and he had been tempted to live with her before. Although he knew that she wanted to beat her to death when she went into the woods with others, he knew that she was
In order to ensure that the children in the family have enough to eat, the two of them still have feelings for each other.
Li Yiping and his wife took one look at Yuan Chunhua's body and left. Although she was very happy when she reported the crime before, she felt unhappy again when she saw the four lonely boys, the oldest of whom was only eight years old.
The secretary sent people to Yuan Chunhua's family's brigade to find her family to see how these four boys could be solved.
The oldest is eight years old and the youngest is more than three years old. No one is raising them. How long can they survive just on the food they were given before?
Jiang Xinyu, her mother, and her daughter didn't know anything about the brigade for the time being. It took the three of them more than three hours to get to the commune where Jiang Zhenzhen's mother-in-law lived.
Mother and daughter went to the supply and marketing cooperative first, where Jiang Zhenzhen was selling goods at the counter.
Jiang Xinyu wore a new floral skirt today and the watch Chen Yi gave her. She was fully armed. No one could underestimate her when she walked out. She came to Jiang Zhenzhen's mother-in-law's house to "show off" today.
When Jiang Zhenzhen looked up and saw her mother-in-law's family after work, she was a little unbelievable.
She couldn't wait to come out from behind the counter, with a surprised smile on her face: "Mom, why are you here?"
Before the mother and daughter could say a few words, Jiang Zhenzhen went to the manager to ask for a half-day leave.
Chen Xiuyun brought a lot of food to Jiang Zhenzhen today and asked her to put it away and eat it by herself. She only brought a handful of noodles to her husband's family.
When we arrived at Jiang Zhenzhen's mother-in-law's house, Jiang Zhenzhen's sister-in-law was cooking, and there was a young girl holding a child and coaxing her. According to Jiang Zhenzhen's introduction, it was her fourth sibling Pan Yu, and the child she was holding belonged to her sister-in-law.
Pan Yu has a small oval face, which is fair and delicate. It is very different from the mainstream rural aesthetic of big faces, thick eyebrows and big eyes. She looks thin and small, which is more in line with the white and thin aesthetic of later generations.
After a while, Jiang Zhenzhen's parents-in-law came back from outside. They were a little surprised to see the extra mother and daughter.
No matter how the two families feel, they can still get by on the surface.
If you go to the food station to buy food at this time, you will definitely not be able to buy meat. Zhang Hua's father asked Zhang Hua to go to the commune canteen to get some food, and Zhang Hua's mother went to someone else's house to borrow some bacon.
Pan Yu squinted at the sisters Jiang Xinyu and Jiang Yuzhu, and when she saw the skirt on Jiang Xinyu's body and the watch on her wrist, she hummed in her heart: "She must have borrowed someone else's for the sake of face when she went out. She borrowed someone else's to show off. What a poor country boy.
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If someone leaned against her, Jiang Xinyu would naturally lean back. Not only that, she even gave her a blank stare.
Now Pan Yuke was excited, and she deliberately asked with a little disdain: "I heard from the third sister-in-law that her little sister also graduated from high school this year. I wonder if she has found a job?"
This question is exactly what Jiang Xinyu wants, and she is here to show off today.
She smiled softly and said, "I just passed the assessment of our commune junior high school teacher two days ago, and I will start class the day after tomorrow."
Pan Yu was still fine, but Jiang Zhenzhen couldn't be too happy. She patted her son and said, "You should study hard in the future and be as promising as your aunts."
Zhang Hua's mother, Pang Lijuan, and his father both looked at Jiang Xinyu and Jiang Yuzhu several times. Even in a commune, not everyone in every household has a job.
Pan Yu pursed her lips and looked unhappy, "What brand is your watch? Why doesn't our commune's supply and marketing cooperative sell it?"
Jiang Xinyu raised her wrist and shook it, "This is a Longines brand. It was given to me by my partner. It seems to have been bought in the provincial capital."
Pang Lijuan took the opportunity to ask Chen Xiuyun: "Does your little girl have a partner?"
Chen Xiuyun hummed and said, "He is the film projectionist of our commune. The two families have already made an appointment."
Pan Yu sat there silently. She had always felt that among all the daughters-in-law of the Zhang family, she was the best. Just because she was from the county, she outshone the two sisters-in-law above her. Now she saw sister Jiang Zhenzhen.
He looked more like a city dweller than she did, so I felt really uncomfortable.
It would take a long time to cook at home, and there was no way to prepare meals for a while. Pang Lijuan asked Zhang Hua, Jiang Zhenzhen and her daughter Zhang Fengxia to take the two sisters for a walk around town.
They are both towns. The commune where Zhang Hua's family is located has more township and village enterprises than Hongqi Commune. The town looks bigger than Hongqi Commune, but no matter how big it is, it's just that, and it won't take long to visit it.
Zhang Hua's family cooked a hearty meal for lunch, including steamed dry rice. Pang Lijuan invited them to eat. At this time, she was polite and enthusiastic, and she didn't seem to favor her mother-in-law at all.
The mother and daughter had no intention of spending the night at Zhang Hua's house. They took a car to the county shortly after dinner. After wandering all the way, they returned to the Wuliqiao brigade when it was dark.
At this time, the mother and daughter knew that Yuan Chunhua had committed suicide by swallowing rat poison.
Yuan Chunhua's natal family has a large population, and the conditions are just like that. The whole family is on the verge of starving to death. They don't want Yuan Chunhua's four sons. Their surname is Fang, not Yuan.
How much does it cost to raise people with a foreign surname and then take care of them when they grow up and marry them? Is it affordable to raise them?
The team leader and secretary negotiated with the Yuan family, and finally they said they could take the child back, but they could only take the eldest son Fang Xiaochuan back.
Fang Xiaochuan is eight years old and can barely earn work points, so he can't be considered a freeloader.
But Fang Xiaochuan doesn't want to, what should he do if he leaves his three younger brothers?
Zhang Tiezhu negotiated with the captain and secretary to take away the youngest boy from Yuan Chunhua's family and take his surname as his son from now on.
All the members in the team looked at him with admiration, and the team leader and secretary had no objections either, but several boys from the Yuan family hated him very much and were unwilling to follow him.
The matter is deadlocked here.
Chapter completed!