Chapter 4 Where is Chen Yi?
Author: Shen Hu
Chapter 4 Where is Chen Yi?
Jiang Jianmin ignored the unruly old lady Li and looked at old man Jiang who was smoking a cigarette at the door. "Dad, if mom makes trouble again, we will separate our families. I am the boss, so you two can follow me. My daughter, you are not qualified either." Marry her to someone else. This is not the past, and there is no such thing as arranged marriage. You two should think about it carefully."
Mrs. Li screamed again, cursing her unfilial son.
The eldest son marries a daughter-in-law who forgets her mother and doesn't even have a son. Even if the family separates, they will not follow the eldest son.
But after the family is separated, Chen Xiuyun's subsidies will not fall to the public. In the future, Jiang Yuzhu and Jiang Xinyu's betrothal gifts will not be able to subsidize the family. How can this be divided?
Listening to Mrs. Li's "ouch" sound, Old Man Jiang shouted: "Shut up, you are not making enough trouble, and you are just letting others laugh."
Jiang Jianmin was too lazy to watch his father pretend.
After being at home for so many years, he has long known what his biological father and mother look like. His mother always takes the lead, and his father is silent behind him, but he knows that his father is still the head of the family, without his father's permission. , his mother would not make such a fuss, which shows that his father had no objection to this marriage.
Jiang Jianmin glanced at his two younger siblings, making them chatter, and then he took his things and went to the town to cancel the engagement.
But he didn't come back that night. Jiang Yuzhu and Jiang Xinyu saw him in the river when they were looking for someone.
It's cold in winter, and there is a river from the town to the village that is frozen. Many people dig holes to catch fish and eat them. During the day, there are also children from the village playing on it. No one expected that in the middle It will crack, and Jiang Jianmin will die quietly in the glacier.
By the time they tried their best to fish him out, Jiang Jianmin had already run out of energy and was frozen.
Sisters Jiang Xinyu and Jiang Yuzhu were crying so hard that they were out of breath.
Old Mrs. Li and Old Man Jiang also cried.
There are selfish motives, but Jiang Jianmin is the eldest son of the two of them after all. How could he not have any feelings? The white-haired man gave the black-haired man a gift, and Mrs. Li collapsed.
Mrs. Li beat and kicked Jiang Xinyu, saying that her son would not have died if it weren't for her.
Jiang Xinyu blamed herself very much. She always regretted it, thinking that if she had agreed to the Yao family's marriage, her father would not have canceled the marriage with a gift, and he would not have died.
Except for Jiang Yuzhu, everyone in the Jiang family regarded her as a sinner. The look in her eyes made her wish she could go with her father.
The third aunt Zhang Fengmei even said bluntly that if she had agreed, her father would not have died! Jiang Baoqin also said regretfully when comforting her: "Don't feel bad, uncle did all this for you. Although uncle is gone, he still can't die." As long as you are good, he will definitely have no regrets."
How can Jiang Xinyu be better?
Even she herself believed that if she had wanted to, her father would not have died if he had not broken off the engagement. It was all her fault.
On the night when Jiang Jianmin was buried, Jiang Xinyu went to the river to the north of the village, made a bigger hole in the hole dug by the villagers, and then jumped in.
Jiang Xinyu didn't know that when she went to the north of the village, a figure kept following her, watching people going that way and stopping them.
When she wakes up again, she is Jiang Xinyu with a modern soul.
Jiang Xinyu only felt that her sleep was very unsettled and her dreams were messy. Seeing Old Mrs. Li howling there, she wished she could give the old lady a kick.
Jiang Jianmin was a good father, could his death be blamed on the original owner? The Jiang family did not dare to blame Mrs. Li, so they caught the original owner and bullied him.
When Jiang Xinyu opened her eyes, it was dark outside. She was feeling very hot before going to bed, which was not pleasant at all. She felt much more comfortable now, but because she was sweating a lot, she really wanted to take a hot bath.
The musty smell coming from the quilt told her that everything that happened today was not a dream. She traveled to the countryside in 1976 and became a famous village girl from all over the country. Her father had just died.
She thought of her own grandfather, and didn't know how uncomfortable she would be when she heard the news that she had been in a car accident.
I don’t know where Chen Yi went.
She didn't forget the way he pulled her over and held her head against his chest to protect her when the truck hit him.
Jiang Xinyu felt the urge to urinate, so she sat up and put on her cotton-padded jacket in the dark, preparing to solve her physiological problem.
It is early January in the Gregorian calendar, just a few days after New Year's Day, and the weather is still very cold. After the funeral, Lao Jiang's family stayed in the house without much interest.
Jiang Xinyu walked out of the courtyard and found the unbearable toilet. She was afraid that she would fall if she stepped on the wooden planks. It was too dark, and she was also afraid that she would step in the wrong place, so she went to the toilet with trepidation.
From the memory of the original owner, Jiang Xinyu learned that pig manure and human manure these days were farm manure, which was sprinkled into the fields. Work points were also given according to the amount. Almost every household would dig a pit.
Put a soil bucket, put two wooden boards on top, and surround it with fence posts, and a simple toilet is ready.
Jiang Xinyu held her breath and left the toilet and returned to the courtyard. She saw two people squatting in front of the stove. There were scattered fires on the stove and the aroma of sweet potatoes came from inside.
Refined grains and fine grains are not easy to come by these days, but sweet potatoes are commonly eaten.
Jiang Yuzhu saw her, waved, and then used a fire stick to pull out a sweet potato, "Little sister, come here and warm yourself up. Eat the sweet potato once it's not very hot."
Jiang Yuzhu has not been able to find much food in the Jiang family these days. Jiang Pandi from her second aunt's family left a nest for her. All the fine grain in the house was locked up by Mrs. Li, so she only had
The sweet potatoes piled there can be roasted and eaten.
Jiang Pandi looked at Jiang Xinyu, who had lost a lot of weight, and asked, "Has the fever gone?"
Jiang Xinyu stretched out her hand to bake in front of the stove and said "hmm".
Jiang Pandi felt it was cold outside, so she shrank her neck and said, "I'm going back to sleep. You two should go back quickly, otherwise you'll be frozen again and you'll have to spend money."
Jiang Pandi left, and the sisters roasted it for a while until the sweet potatoes could be held in their hands. Jiang Yuzhu handed the sweet potatoes to Jiang Xinyu and asked her to take them back to the house. She went back with the tea bottle.
After returning to the room, Jiang Yuzhu took out the peach cakes wrapped in yellow paper from the bedside, put three pieces into a bowl, and then ran out with hot water from the tea bottle and handed them to Jiang Xinyu.
Chen Xiuyun bought this peach cake from the supply and marketing cooperative before he left and secretly put it in his daughter's room. If Mrs. Li knew about it, they would definitely not be able to keep it.
"You must be hungry. Drink it while it's hot. It'll heal quickly."
Jiang Xinyu saw Jiang Yuzhu take out another multigrain steamed bun with many black spots from his arms. It was made of sorghum flour, sweet potato flour and corn flour.
This kind of steamed buns was considered a miscellaneous grain in later generations. It was fat-reducing and nutritious. But nowadays, it is a staple food for most people. Steamed buns made of white flour are a rare item, and they are not willing to eat them even a few times a year.
The peach cake softened in the hot water, the sweet potato smelled sweet, and Jiang Yuzhu ate the steamed buns one bite at a time.
Jiang Xinyu felt really uncomfortable. The second sister of the original owner was really a very good sister.
Chapter completed!