"I specially went to the pharmacy to buy some ginseng wine. Didn't they all say that this ginseng wine can activate blood and dredge collaterals? Now that you have a leg injury, you have to drink some every day."
On this day, Yu Hongmei took home a barrel of white wine, opened the lid, and a strong aroma of alcohol wafted out of his face. Jiang Liu knew as soon as he smelled it that this was a relatively common 53-degree white wine on the market.
"I know that you have suffered a lot in rehabilitation recently. Drinking a little alcohol can relieve the pain, and you have a big heart, and you don't like to tell me a lot of things. It's not good to keep it in your heart. Relax."
Saying that, Yu Hongmei poured Jiang Liu a full bowl of liquor and pushed it in front of him.
"I said before that I would quit drinking."
Jiang Liu lowered his eyes and looked at the bowl of white wine in front of him, but he said in his heart that it was finally here.
This scene is exactly the same as the original one's memory, except that the original body of that world was in a state of self-defeating, Yu Hongmei instigated him to drink to relieve his boredom, and the original body also agreed half-heartedly.
But Yu Hongmei is different from the original body. The other party was sentenced to death by the doctor and could not bear the pressure in despair, so he wanted to drink to relieve his boredom. If the woman he loved the most at that time could persuade him and encourage him to let him With the motivation to reinvigorate, the original body may not reach that step.
As for Yu Hongmei, not only did she not play the role of persuasion, but on the contrary, she contributed to the flames after the original body became addicted to alcohol.
Wine is a double-edged sword. If it is used well, it can also cure diseases and save people, and strengthen the body.
Obviously the original body of excessive drinking is the latter. Every day he vomits, he vomits, and then he drinks again after waking up. His brain has been destroyed by drinking, and his reaction has become more and more sluggish.
At this time, Yu Hongmei deliberately said something that disliked him as a waste person behind the back of an outsider's back, and the original body, who was completely confused, would naturally beat up her wife in anger.
But how could the lame original body catch up with a healthy woman like Yu Hongmei, always just as he was about to start, Yu Hongmei led him to run outside the house and let the people outside witness his violent behavior. .
At that time, Yu Hongmei was a well-known good daughter-in-law. Everyone knew that she was still persistent after her original body was disabled. Not to mention housework, a woman who had never earned money went out to work, paid for family expenses, and was drunk. Even if the original body explained a few words awkwardly, people would only take him as a sophistry, and when he didn't take responsibility, they would never believe that Yu Hongmei would say such things to him in private.
Everyone praised Hongmei, and felt that it was a blessing for the original body to marry such a daughter-in-law. As a result, he not only did not cherish it, but also bullied his good daughter-in-law with drunkenness. Even those who were closest to Jiangliu, I couldn't stand it any longer, and they came to the door to persuade the original body not to drink, and carefully ran away the good daughter-in-law.
But with Yu Hongmei, how could the original body succeed in quitting drinking? Alcohol addiction is like smoking addiction. Once it is infected, it requires extremely strong restraint and the cooperation of people around it.
Whenever the original body was a little sober, Yu Hongmei would bring the wine to him. Over time, the original body's head was completely damaged by those wine bugs.
Once, the drunk original body smashed her son Jiang Fu with a bench. This incident became the fuse for "detonating" Yu Hongmei. She could no longer be with such a self-sacrificing person who spread fire on her family. After the man passed, she chose to divorce.
At this time, more than half a year had passed since the original disability, and everyone knew how difficult Yu Hongmei's life was, so even if she filed for divorce, she felt more sympathy than contempt and scolding.
Yuanshen refused to divorce, so Yu Hongmei chose to file a divorce lawsuit with the court. In the final trial, her daughter belonged to Hongmei and her son returned to Yuanshen.
Yu Hongmei generously ceded the more than 200,000 compensation to the original body, everyone exaggerated her righteousness, but forgot that the compensation money originally belonged to the original body, and the compensation for work-related injuries was not in the joint property of the husband and wife at all. within.
Through this incident, Yu Hongmei gained another good reputation.
However, she has not fully utilized her original body.
After the legal verdict was pronounced, Yu Hongmei went back to Jiang's house. Others didn't know what she had chatted with the original body. They only knew that Yu Hongmei left Jiang's house crying and was still injured. The wind said that Yu Hongmei wanted to take her son Jiang Fu to support her, but was rejected by the domineering and arrogant original body, not only that, but also beat her.
After the news came out, everyone felt even more sorry for what happened to Yu Hongmei.
Divorced women with children are not easy to marry, especially sons, but Yu Hongmei doesn't care about this. For the sake of the children, she is even willing to bow her head to her divorced ex-husband and hand over the court's sentence to her ex-husband's son.
Raising a pair of children is very difficult, not only time-consuming, but also expensive.
But Yu Hongmei, who is a mother, doesn't care about this at all. It's a pity that she doesn't know good people, so she not only rejected Yu Hongmei, but also beat her.
So far, Yu Hongmei's good reputation of honesty, steadfastness and kindness has completely resounded in this area.
At the same time, everyone knows the wrong and bad things that Yuanshen did.
Because of this good reputation, Yu Hongmei after divorce is not worried about getting married. Everyone knows that she is a good woman who will never leave her husband after the accident. There are many people who say kisses for her, and there are many people who are divorced. Or a widowed rich man, but Yu Hongmei refused.
It was not until a year later that she fell in love with Jiang Tiancheng, the owner of the disc store where she worked, and then entered the marriage hall again. This marriage was naturally blessed.
After remarriage, Yu Hongmei treats her stepdaughter very well. This is even better than her own daughter. Everyone praises her as a good stepmother, but ignores Jiang Hua, who followed Yu Hongmei to Jiang's house. Feeling.
Eight months later, Yu Hongmei and Jiang Tiancheng's son were born. The family of four was happy and happy, which made Di Jianghua look like a thief who invaded their territory.
Facing her father's degeneration and her mother's indifference, Jiang Hua became more and more rebellious. In contrast to her excellent step-sister Jiang Ruyi, her rebellious mediocrity was regarded by the outside world as a symbol of her evil gene. She has the blood of her original father who is not excellent, so even with the same education as Jiang Ruyi, even with an excellent mother like Yu Hongmei, she is still a pool of mud in the pond, which vividly interprets what It's called mud can't support the wall.
As for Jiang Fu, he is quite competitive, but he has a father who is holding back like the original. He has excellent grades and has not continued to study after graduating from junior high school. Like most boys who stay in the countryside, Jiang Fu relies on With the little compensation money left over from that year, he married his wife, and after the other party gave birth to a child, he went out to work, and it took a long time to return home.
Finally one day, the original body completely drank himself to death. Jiang Fu, who got the news, went home for the funeral. After dealing with the funeral of the original body, he sold his family property and took his wife and children to other places. He has never returned since then. Pass.
At that time, Jiang Tiancheng relied on the money from the business to invest in real estate when the disc business declined. Now he lives a comfortable leased public life with dozens of houses.
Yu Hongmei, like a lady, carefully maintains and dresses up, and devotes a little energy to her younger son and stepdaughter in her spare time.
The tragedy of the three Jiang family's father and son seemed to have nothing to do with her, only when others talked about them, Yu Hongmei shed a tear, and then won a vote of regret and sympathy.
Jiang Liu frowned, his thoughts pulled away from the memory of the original body, he glanced at Hongmei, and then pushed the glass of wine in front of her back to her.
"I didn't understand it for a while, but what if I have a lame leg? I still have brains, I have flexible hands, and my other leg is healthy. As long as I work hard, I can still give you and the child They create happy lives.”
Jiang Liu looked at Yu Hongmei confidently and said, "Hongmei, you believe me, I won't drink again in the future, I will cheer up."
His eyes were full of love, and such a strong emotion made Yu Hongmei feel a little guilty.
She subconsciously avoided Jiang Liu's sight, but she didn't take Jiang Liu's promise to heart.
When he was a healthy person, he was still a famous farm worker with a monthly income of three or four thousand. Now his legs are likely to be lame. How could she believe a lame man's big words.
What's more, even if Jiang Liu can really cheer up, even if his leg can be restored to its original state, he will at most return to his old business. Jiang Liu, who earns a little income a month, can compare with Jiang Tiancheng.
Thinking of her happiness for the rest of her life, Yu Hongmei forced herself to be ruthless.
"you-"
Yu Hongmei was about to persuade Jiang Liu to drink, but before she could say anything, Aunt Manchun came in.
"Liuzi, let's see what the second child sent you back."
Aunt Manchun was elated, but her expression soon changed, "Why is there such a strong smell of alcohol?"
She covered her nose, and at a glance, she saw the pot of wine on the table that had not been put away, and the full bowl of wine glasses.
"Auntie, Hongmei specially bought me a sagebrush and came back to make wine. She accidentally poured too much, and I was asking her to pour some back into the pot."
Jiang Liu glanced at Yu Hongmei, then explained with a smile.
"yes?"
Aunt Manchun looked suspiciously at Yu Hongmei, who was a little flustered, and couldn't help but exhorted: "This wine smells a bit choking, although the ginseng wine is a good thing, you can't drink too much, Liuzi. The current situation does not allow it.”
Too much? Yu Hongmei doesn't seem to be able to carry the jug of wine either.
"Aunt Manchun, sit down, I'm still burning chicken soup."
Perhaps out of a guilty conscience, Yu Hongmei accidentally knocked over the bowl of liquor beside her when she was about to bring the pot of chicken blood vine wine back to the kitchen. Dirty.
Yu Hongmei hurriedly took the rag on the side to wipe the overturned wine, and then hurried back to the kitchen.
She always felt that the old lady's eyes were very powerful. Just like her mother, she could see through people's hearts.
"Liuzi, didn't you ask me to find a house before? It's a coincidence. My nephew has a house in the city. It was used as a wedding room before. He was transferred out of town, and now he has stabilized there, and the education level there is higher, so he plans to sell the house in the city and prepare to scrape together the money to buy a house in the workplace."
Before Jiang Liu discussed with her, he said that he planned to use the more than 200,000 compensation to buy one or two houses in the county or urban area, and then write the names of wealth and flowers, although these two houses are temporarily unavailable. , but it can be subletted out, and the rent earned is far higher than the interest of the money in the bank.
Moreover, housing prices have been rising steadily in recent years, and buying a house is also a good investment project.
Aunt Manchun thinks this is a good idea, not because she believes in Jiang Liu's prophecy that the house will rise, but because she feels that instead of putting money in Yu Hongmei's hands, which makes people frightened, it is better to use the money to buy some fixed assets , written in the names of the two children, not afraid of cheap outsiders in the future.
So when doing this, Aunt Manchun was very enthusiastic. She made a lot of phone calls these days to let relatives pay attention to whether there were any houses for sale.
"The area of that house is not too big, 86 square meters, two bedrooms, one living room, and a small study, because it was originally planned to be a wedding room, and the decoration is not bad, because it is urgent to sell, my nephew only costs 10.6 Wan, the grade and decoration of his community are good, if you don't live by yourself, you can rent it out for at least three or four hundred months."
In 2006, the house price in Huaguo was not high, and because the other party was in a hurry to sell, the price in the early 100,000 yuan was normal, especially since the other party's house was still renovated, and the price of more than 100,000 yuan was estimated to have the face of Aunt Manchun. inside.
"There is also a suite, which is in the same community as my nephew's house, but it is a large apartment with a full size of 154 square meters, but it is not decorated. Thousands of dollars."
Since it was bought for children, Aunt Manchun felt that the large-scale set could give wealth and the small-scale set would give flowers.
She is also an old thinker. She always feels that the son of the family's property should take the big head, and it is a very kind approach to be able to buy a house for her daughter.
The price of the two houses is not too high for Jiang Liu, who is accustomed to the house prices of later generations, and they add up to less than 300,000 yuan. The small house can be rented to small families who have not bought a house for the time being, while the rough one is large. Area houses can be simply partitioned and rented out to those migrant workers who are not very well-off.
Moreover, housing prices are low now, and in another two or three years, China will usher in a golden age of soaring housing prices. No matter how you calculate it, this is a more cost-effective transaction than putting money in the bank.
"Auntie, trouble you, I'll talk to Hongmei about this later and hear what she thinks."
"I disagree!"
As soon as Jiang Liu finished speaking, Yu Hongmei rushed out.
"What a good house to buy!"
Now Jiang Tiancheng is not sure. The money of the Jiang family lies in Hongmei. It seems that it is her own money. If she buys a house and writes it in the names of her two children, she will not be able to draw water in this marriage. Yet.
Seemingly realizing that her attitude was too urgent, Yu Hongmei quickly softened her tone: "This money is to be kept for your medical treatment in the future, how can it be used to buy a house, besides, there is not that much at home. money."
This is true. Yu Hongmei spent a lot of money, not counting Jiang Liu's more than 200,000 compensation, now she has less than 30,000 yuan, and she can't add up to 300,000 yuan.
"Why not? Over the years, I have taken home 170,000 to 80,000 yuan one after another?"
Jiang Liu asked in surprise.
"It doesn't cost to raise children? It doesn't cost to honor the elderly? And when my parents died, they held a funeral, and the money poured out like water. The money was barely enough."
When Yu Hongmei heard Jiang Liu's tone, she was questioning and doubting her, and she forgot that Aunt Manchun was still there, so she went back.
"No, no, that's not what I meant."
Jiang Liu quickly waved his hand, how could a man like him who loves his wife like his life question his wife.
It's just that what he said didn't mean that, but Jiang Liu's expression was not like that. His eyes revealed doubts, wondering why the money was not enough.
And not only Jiang Liu didn't understand, but Aunt Manchun didn't understand either.
In the first few years of the birth of the dragon and the phoenix, the second elder of the Jiang family was still alive. Jiang Liu was an old son. The second elder was not too young when his grandchildren were born. This person always had some savings throughout his life, and they didn't care about their son's money. , but bears the expenses of grandchildren, so Yu Hongmei said that raising children would cost money, but Aunt Manchun didn't really believe it.
Then there is the funeral of the second old man. The cemetery was bought by the two old people before they died. It is a rural custom. When they are about the same age, they will prepare a shroud and some funeral items for themselves. The real place to spend money is the funeral banquet. A person who does not follow the ceremony, just the money for the funeral ceremony is enough to cover the expenses of the funeral.
Aunt Manchun didn't believe it. Jiang Liu, a frugal housekeeping couple like his parents, didn't leave any inheritance to his son at the end of his life.
Therefore, in the eyes of Aunt Manchun, Yu Hongmei's remarks are very untenable. The more she says she has no money and the more she resists using the compensation money to buy a house for the two children, the more Aunt Manchun believes in Yu Hong. Mei was holding the money and was unwilling to give it back to Jiang Liu.
But if she didn't want to get divorced, why would she be so tight on the family's money? Aunt Manchun felt that Yu Hongmei was weird everywhere. The more she learned, the more she felt that this woman was insincere.
"The two of you have a good discussion about buying a house. Liuzi, my nephew's house is also in high demand. For my sake, he can delay it for a few more days. If you think about it, I will take you to take a look. , if I decide not to buy it, I'll tell my nephew too."
Although I realized that Yu Hongmei was weird, I couldn't tell Jiang Liu too much about Aunt Manchun's identity.
She knew how much Jiang Liu liked his daughter-in-law. If she said some unfounded words, it would only make her not a human being inside or outside.
"Thank you auntie, I will discuss it with Hongmei."
Jiang Liu looked at Aunt Manchun apologetically, and drove the person to the door with a cane.
"Hongmei, has our family really not saved any money over the years?"
Jiang Liu came back on crutches, looked at Yu Hongmei and asked seriously.
"There are some things that I won't expose you in front of Aunt Manchun, but you know that my parents never spent our money at all, and even when my mother died, she left us a This passbook has more than 20,000 yuan in it, which is their life savings from farming. Over the years, I have been making money back one after another, and I also keep accounts. At first, I earned less and I earned less, and later I earned more. Now, I have more money by calling home, and in the past nine years, I have also called home more than 170,000 yuan. Including the money left by my parents, is it true that I haven’t saved it at all?”
Rural expenses are low, and many well-mannered women can control their family’s annual expenses within four or five thousand yuan, even if Yu Hongmei spends a lot of money, excluding his parents, he is still alive and does not need them to pay for the four years of living expenses. , the remaining five years can't spend 200,000.
"I'm really out of money."
Yu Hongmei felt a little aggrieved when she looked at her husband who was questioning her for the first time. He was a man who had no ability to make a lot of money, so why should he complain that she spent a lot of money.
200,000 yuan, Jiang Tiancheng can earn it in a few months, but she has to use it for several years. Wouldn't Jiang Liu reflect on himself
"Do you think it's easy to take care of the children and run the housework? This money is just paper, and it's not used in the first place. Why don't you try it as a housekeeper?"
Yu Hongmei was sure that Jiang Liu liked her, so she used the aggressive method and pretended to be angry.
She thought that what she said, Jiang Liu would definitely not hold on to the deposit.
"Okay, I don't have anything to do at home anyway. I'll be the housekeeper in the future. You can return the passbook and my ID card to me."
Contrary to what Yu Hongmei had guessed, Jiang Liu agreed with the housekeeper and asked for his compensation.
"Hongmei, it's not that I don't let you spend money, but this money is too important. No one knows what will happen to me in the future. I will keep this money for the children."
Jiang Liu was very sincere, but Yu Hongmei didn't listen at all.
At this moment, Aunt Manchun was standing by the door. She had already walked outside the yard, but she suddenly remembered the strong smell of wine she smelled when she entered the door. She wanted to turn back and remind Yu Hongmei that even if she had to make wine with chicken blood vine, she should not It was such a coincidence to use such a strong liquor. She heard this conversation between Jiang Liu and Yu Hongmei.
This made the old lady feel more and more distressed for Jiang Liu, and even more despised Yu Hongmei, who would not be the head of the family and still spend money.
If I hadn't known that my behavior at this moment was eavesdropping and not so glorious, I'm afraid the old lady would have rushed over.
However, not saying that does not mean that Aunt Manchun will not do anything. Soon, the whole village will know that Yu Hongmei spent the money sent home by Jiang Liu and the inheritance of the old Jiang family in a few years. 200,000 yuan is considered a huge sum in rural areas, and it is possible to buy two apartments in the urban area.
For a time, the name Yu Hongmei was hooked on the prodigal ladies. Fan Fang, who was far away in Jianghua County, also heard about her daughter's bad reputation. She couldn't sit still, and she came to take care of her son-in-law with the burden of money. Arrive at Jiang's house.