The whole family found it very funny, and the old man praised him, "This kid is really not easy to mess with."
Old Mrs. Mo said, "Yeah, but that's fine. Although it's a bit aggressive, at least it won't be easy for them to suffer in the future. They will live together as three mothers in the future. There must always be someone in the family who can stand up to trouble. Otherwise, you still have to not be bullied?"
The old man nodded, "Well, that's the truth!"
Then, Tang Mingtao on the side said, "I thought country people were all simple and honest, but I didn't expect the people from the Lao Xiang family to be so hateful?!"
Grandma Mo snorted coldly, "There are people like this everywhere, maybe they just use different methods."
Then Tang Mingtao asked, "That girl is really only twelve years old?"
The old lady and old man on the side nodded, and the old lady said, "Yes, he is only twelve years old. He will not turn thirteen until April or May in the new year."
Tang Mingtao said, "It doesn't look like him from a distance, but he is that tall, and he is in the second grade of junior high school at the age of twelve?" As he spoke, he looked at Yan Chen beside him.
Yan Chen is fourteen years old and only in the second grade of junior high school.
Yan Chen pretended not to notice, lowering his eyes and saying nothing.
Grandma Mo and the old man looked at each other, then smiled at each other, and then saw Grandma Mo saying, "That child will grow up," and then sighed, "Oh, speaking of which, that is pitiful.
Because the child was born a girl, the old couple didn't want to see her. Even before Yang Juyun's confinement period was full, the two of them started pretending to be sick, and Yang Juyun had to get out of bed to serve her. the two of them.
After that, for more than ten years, I didn't do any work at ordinary times. I just washed pots, cooked, and fed livestock and poultry. If I didn't do any of these, I would just play around. I wouldn't show Yang Juyun the children, let alone take care of them. Yang Juyun brought it himself.
Xiang Hai was also homeless all year round and never brought a penny back to his family. Therefore, Yang Juhua had to take care of all the family expenses alone.
But she is usually busy with the work in the field and at home. She has to rely on her to do everything inside and outside the place. How can she have so much time and energy to take care of the children?
So when the child turned four, she let the child follow the older children in the bay and take him to the village school every day.
That little girl is quite smart. While they were studying inside, she lay outside the window and watched. She actually learned the same things as the children who studied in the classroom.
Then the teacher became jealous, and one day he went directly to Lao Xiang's house and told Yang Juyun, asking her to send the child directly to him to study. This way, it would be safer to stay in the classroom, lest someone accidentally do it. The child ran away and disappeared. There was a stone pit under the bay of the school.
It was a big pit that every family used to collect stones when they were building houses. The pit was very deep, and there was always a pool of water in it. If it was a dry year, many people would still draw water from that pit. I was going to irrigate the fields, but I was afraid that the child would run there and be drowned.
Yang Juyun was very scared after hearing this. She didn't want the child to follow her, but if she stayed at home and no one would take care of her, she was also worried. In the end, she had no choice but to agree to the teacher's proposal. The child was sent to school and put into a nursery.
That way, the teacher will be watching during the day, and when I get back from school in the afternoon, there will be brothers and sisters in the bay traveling with me, so I won't be afraid of any accidents.
Just like that, the girl went to school, but you also know that our rural areas are not like cities. Before formal schooling, there is a preschool, kindergarten and so on. We don’t have those preschool education in the countryside, so going to school is just a
Grade 1, so the child is a little over twelve years old and is in the second grade of junior high school.
But I don’t know why, but the child’s grades have dropped a bit fast in the past two years, and he can’t keep up with the teacher’s tutorials. Therefore, he fails every exam, and then he is always scolded by that old woman Zhang as an old swine.
In addition, Xiang Jiao nudges the old couple in their ears from time to time, and then the old couple no longer wants to see the two girls Yang Juyun gave birth to."
"So that's it?" Tang Mingtao nodded.
The old man concluded, "The evil that happened to the old Xiang family was in the hands of Xiang Jiao."
Grandma Mo said, "Isn't that what it is? Everyone is saying privately that Yang Juyun will definitely regret it when Lao Xiang's family leaves. Not to mention that Sun Shuiyun is the person Xiang Hai longs to marry...
That woman is not a hard-working and good-tempered person like Yang Juyun. It is said that the woman has never done farm work before, she only started playing around.
Although I have a skill and can open a shop to give people haircuts, it is not a hardship.
It is said that there used to be a barber shop in an old community in Shanghai. Many of us here have gone to her to get haircuts, but every time she cuts the hair of five or six people, they say that their hands are weak, their arms are sore, and their legs are numb.
She had to go out of business, and she would have to go out of business for several hours and most of the day, and the money she made was only enough to cover her own expenses.
Moreover, she likes to dress up and always looks like a wealthy lady in the city."
A slight smile appeared on the corner of the old man's mouth, "That's your choice too."
Grandma Mo said, "That has nothing to do with us outsiders anyway. It's a pity that Yang Juyun is a woman. She usually doesn't talk much. She is a good person inside and outside, and she is warm-hearted.
She would try her best to help any family in the Bay with anything, but in the end she was treated like this. Just thinking about it makes her feel unworthy."
The old man said, "It's best if she gets divorced now. If she waits a few years, it will be a lifetime of nothing. Now that the children are following her and kissing her, it feels a little uncomfortable right now.
But it’ll be fine if it passes.”
Grandma Mo nodded, "That's right." After saying that, she stood up, patted the non-existent dust on her body, and then said, "I'm going to cook!"
The old man said, "Kill the chicken." He didn't know they were coming, and he didn't rush to the market to cut some fresh meat today. He only had old bacon at home.
"Okay, I'll catch him and you'll kill him later," Grandma Mo agreed cheerfully.
Tang Mingtao was the first to say, "Auntie, let me help you!"
"No, no, just let your uncle Zeng come. Don't get your clothes dirty later," Grandma Mo refused.
Tang Mingtao said, "If you have nothing to do, just let me help you. I feel uncomfortable doing this."
The old couple couldn't resist, so they had no choice but to agree.
Tang Mingtao and Grandma Mo went to kill the chickens, and only Yan Chen and Mr. Zeng were left in the room. Mr. Zeng asked, "What, did you quarrel with your dad again?"
Yan Chen said, "No!"
Mr. Zeng said, "You still haven't told me the truth to my grandpa? Your grandpa just told me on the phone."
Yan Chen lowered his eyes and said nothing. After a while, he said, "Grandpa, I want to study here."
Mr. Zeng was stunned. He stared at him for a long time, and finally sighed helplessly, "That's all, it's just that the quality of teaching here is not as good as that in the provincial capital. Also, does your grandpa know about this?"
Yan Chen said, "It's okay. I can learn some things by myself. In fact, the teaching quality here is not very bad. There are still several key middle schools here. I can go to one of them when the time comes.
I haven't had time to tell grandpa yet, I want to wait until he is not so busy in two days before I tell him."
Zeng Lao Yezi nodded, "Okay, then talk to your grandfather about it."