"Aunt Jiang, come back to visit the grave?"
On the anniversary of Old Man Jiang's death, as usual, the three houses gather together to cook fast food for the ancestors. No matter how busy the business is in the shop, Jiang Miao will bring the children back to their hometown to visit their tombs to worship their ancestors.
"Well, I'm back."
Jiang Miao greeted one by one, "His third aunt, didn't you ask me to bring a piece of red cloth before? A few days ago, the cloth workshop produced a batch of defective materials, and the price was half cheaper than ordinary cloth. I checked and said yes. The defective material is actually a few pieces of red that are not dyed evenly, and they are all in the corners. When cutting clothes, you can completely cut that piece, and it will not affect your family's Hongnier's wedding dress. Xiaokun daughter-in-law, before you The flour sent to the store by your mother's family is of good quality. As long as this quality is maintained in the future, we will accept the flour from your mother's family... "
Hearing the news of Jiang Miao's return, the people who had asked her to do things before also gathered at the Jiang's house, which was very lively for a while.
"You said that this third Jiang is also lucky, married such a capable daughter-in-law, and even brought Xiaocao along with you."
Jiang Miao is a popular person in Jiangjia Village. Those villagers who didn't squeeze into Jiang Miao's side naturally retreated and chose to chat with Xu Xiaocao and Liu Cui.
As for Bai Lan, since her business has grown bigger and bigger, the people in the village have been a little intimidated by her. They always feel that everyone's identity is different now, and they are a little intimidated in front of Bai Lan. Therefore, every time she goes back to her hometown, Bai Lan is surrounded by the most intimidating people. clean.
In recent years, Xu Xiaocao has also learned to be smart, and no longer confronts the third room, saying some yin and yang strange words, but imitates the Jianghu and Liu Cui of the second room and begins to show affection to the third room.
After all, they are also close brothers, and there is no incomprehensible hatred between the two sides. Seeing Jiang Miao's face, Bai Lan also accepted the big room's favor.
Over the years, Bai Lan has bought a lot of paved fields with the money she has earned from opening a noodle shop. Some of those fields have been rented to people in the village who have no farmland, and some of them have been rented to Jianghai and Jianghu, because the rent is three floors less than ordinary fields. The life of the Jiang family's first and second rooms is also not bad.
Perhaps they tasted the sweetness. The big and the second room felt a lot better. Knowing that the third room was not willing to live with them under the same roof, they offered to sell the rooms that were allocated to them when the family split up to the third room. A piece of land was approved to the village chief and a new house was built. Bai Lan also rebuilt the house in her hometown after buying a few more rooms from the two families. Both parties were very happy and their relationship was restored.
"The third child is a blessing."
No matter how jealous Xu Xiaocao was in her heart, she still pretended to be happy for Sanfang on the bright side. It took a few years for her to understand that Sanfang was no longer someone she could provoke.
"Yeah, you can see that the big tiger is about the same age as our son, but he was sent to the school for enlightenment at the age of six. It is said that he has also hired a guard to teach martial arts. This is to be both civil and military."
Xiao Wang's daughter-in-law is still a broken mouth for ten years, and now she is holding a handful of melon seeds and joins Xu Xiaocao in their conversation.
"And the little girl from your third child, who came back in a carriage yesterday, right? She was served by a maid at a young age, and she is no different from the lady of the noble family."
"Yeah, I saw it for real yesterday. The six-year-old girl dressed up is called Jin Gui, and the little bell tied around her hair should be made of gold. Now, I haven't even touched a gold ring."
The girls in the village are most envious of Jiang Zhuhua, which are also worthless girl movies, but Jiang Zhuhua is her parents' treasure. Although her father is stupid, when she can't walk, her father It's her legs. No child in the village has ever seen Jiang Zhuhua riding on her father's neck. Her mother can earn money and love her daughter very much. She is never stingy in dressing her up, every time she sees Jiang Zhuhua. , she was wearing new clothes.
But envy is useless. Who told others to have a good life and be reincarnated in the third room of the Jiang family.
For some unknown reason, Meng Jiao Niang walked towards the Jiang family uncontrollably when she heard the news of the Jiang Liu family returning home, but she did not dare to approach, only dared to take a look from a distance, and then fled in a panic, but she did not dare to approach. The figure was still seen by the sharp-eyed woman.
"Isn't that Widow Meng, tsk tsk, I think she framed Jiang San before, but unfortunately she didn't succeed."
"Yeah, if she had succeeded at the beginning, maybe Bai Lan wouldn't want to continue living with Jiang San, and now Jiang San's life won't be so prosperous. It can only be said that everything is fate."
A few women with broken mouths chatted while looking at Meng Jiao Niang's back.
Meng Jiaoniang's life has not been good in these years. When she first gave birth to her child, Meng Jiaoniang made a little money with her skin and flesh, but the good times didn't last long. Once Meng Jiaoniang provoked a man she shouldn't have provoked, The other party's daughter-in-law is a girl from the butcher's family, with a fat body and a sturdy personality. After learning about Meng Jiao Niang's adultery with her man, she brought her parents' brother to the door. It was also at that time that Meng Jiao Niang ruined the face of eating, The meat business can't be done either.
Those men wanted Meng Jiao Niang to be young and beautiful, but now that her face is ruined, who would want to spend money to have sex with her, because of this incident, Meng Jiao Niang's livelihood was cut off and her reputation fell to the bottom. Since the child she gave birth is also a descendant of the village chief's family, I am afraid that Meng Jiao's mother and son would have been expelled from Jiangjia Village long ago.
Over the years, Meng Jiao Niang and her mother have relied on the assistance of the village chief's family and the wild grass and wild fruits on the mountain to survive. In order to survive, Meng Jiao Niang had to start working. She cultivated a small half-mu wasteland at the foot of the mountain and planted some buds Sweet potato, due to her hard work, her originally delicate skin has become rough and dark yellow. In just a few years, Meng Jiaoniang has become the vulgar village woman she used to look down on, and even worse.
As for the child born by Meng Jiao Niang, because of a mother with a bad reputation, even if the child behaved very smart and attractive, there were no children in the village willing to play with him, and Meng Jiao Niang was not a good mother. The hardships of life made her take out her grievances on this child, and she often beat and scolded him. The child named Jiang Goudan was going to help Meng Jiao Niang to work at a young age, and she was also a poor person.
"I don't think what you said is wrong. If Meng Jiao Niang had been successfully framed, she might be living a rich wife's life now. After all, Bai Lan has always been soft-hearted, and she and Jiang San had a son, Da Hu, at that time. Now, will you really be able to get along with Jiang Sanhe?"
"That's right, I heard that some people saw Jiang Goudan yelling at Jiang San before. Do you think Jiang Goudan is really Jiang San's son? Meng Jiao Niang didn't lie?"
"Don't talk nonsense, let Aunt Jiang and Bai Lan hear it. Be careful that they won't accept your food in the future."
A shrewd woman interrupted the discussion of a few broken-mouthed wives. Bailan's noodle restaurant is booming, and the amount of rice grains needed every month is not a small amount. Folks in Jiacun buy it, and sometimes the demand is large, and the natal families of these daughters-in-law who marry into Jiangjia Village can also benefit from it.
Therefore, in Jiangjia Village, the third house of the Jiang family has long been an existence that cannot be offended.
"Let's say, look at my mouth, it's time to beat it."
A few gossiping women patted their mouths when they saw this, and they were the ones who slipped their tongues for a while. If the Jiang Sanjia did not accept their food because of their words, I am afraid they would become the sinners of the whole family.
A group of women changed the subject and then chatted about other things, other people.
However, the central characters of the topic just now met again just as they were talked about in the topic just now.
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"father!"
A skinny and disgraced little boy ran up to Jiang Liu. This was the reborn Jiang Jinlin, who was now arbitrarily named Jiang Goudan.
When he first discovered that he was reborn, Jiang Jinlin was very excited, because he felt that he was the son of heaven, and this rebirth was an opportunity given by God to check and fill in the gaps, but when he began to understand his own situation, the excitement was over. turned into apprehension.
Everything has changed, he has actually become the older brother who should have had a miscarriage, his father in his previous life was no longer a father, he became a traitor with a flawed identity, and the Jiang family, who had been a bull and a horse for their mother and son in their previous life, even more so. Become like a stranger.
In the past six years of his rebirth, Jiang Jinlin has experienced all the hardships he has never experienced in his previous life, and he wants to change his current situation more and more. It's a pity that it may be because of the poor start. Even though Jiang Jinlin has decades of memory of trickery, he still can't change the current situation of his life, especially because he is still limited by his body. Not even Meng Jiao Niang's beatings and scoldings could be stopped.
Jiang Jinlin misses the last life more and more. In the last life, he was Jiang Liu's son. He was wholeheartedly maintained by Jiang Liu. Son, it's just that everyone got it wrong, thinking that he was Jiang Dezhu's son.
Today, he heard the news that the third house of the Jiang family had returned to sweep the tomb, so he stayed on the ground where Jiang Liu must pass.
"You are so strange, how can you just recognize your father."
Eleven-year-old Jiang Liu is a well-behaved and innocent boy. Although he doesn't understand why his mother always says that the tiger and Zhuhua are his sons and daughters, since his mother said that, he will definitely take care of him like his father and mother take care of him. Tiger and bamboo flowers.
As for the other people who are crying and clamoring to recognize their father, sorry, he is still a baby himself.
"Father, I want to eat thorn fruit."
Jiang Zhuhua is six years old, but she still likes to be held by her father. The petite, chubby little girl who was raised tugged at her father's clothes and gave orders to the silly father.
"Okay, let's pick the thorn fruit."
Jiang Liu bypassed Jiang Jinlin and carried his little girl to search for thorn fruit in the grass at the foot of the mountain.
From the corner of Jiang Zhuhua's eyes, she glanced at the lost Jiang Jinlin. When Jiang Jinlin came to recognize her father for the first time, they realized that the other party, like them, also had the opportunity to be reborn. He was innocent, and he didn't intend to implicate hatred on this child. Now that he knew that he was Jiang Jinlin, Bai Lanniang and the three would naturally not soften their hearts when they moved their hands.
Seeing Jiang Jinlin fall into this field now, Jiang Zhuhua is in a very happy mood. She hugged the silly dad tightly and decided to give the silly dad an extra quicksand bag today as a reward for his ruthless rejection of Jiang Jinlin.
Jiang Liu didn't return to his hometown many times. How could Jiang Jinlin give up because of his one rejection? Just when he was about to entangle him, Jiang Dahu stopped him.
The nine-year-old Jiang Dahu is tall and burly due to his adequate nutrition and years of martial arts practice. At this time, he stood in front of Jiang Jinlin like a hill.
No need for Jiang Dahu's nonsense, he just waved his fist, Jiang Jinlin didn't dare to take a step closer.
Seeing the Jiang family go away, Jiang Jinlin then went home in despair and returned to the dilapidated thatched hut.
"I miss books."
Jiang Jinlin thought that in his last life, he was also a leader. In this life, as long as he participates in the imperial examination and regains fame, everything he has lost will be at his fingertips.
"Ha ha."
Meng Jiao Niang sneered, she felt that this son was really here to collect debts, otherwise why would she make such a wild request.
"Who do you think you are? You are a traitor who is not recognized by your father's clan. Don't say that I have no money for you to study. Even if I have money, do you think there will be scholars willing to accept you as a disciple? Do you think there will be someone Would you like to bail for you, stop dreaming."
Meng Jiao Niang's scarred face was particularly eerie at this moment.
"You are a dog egg, the lowest and most useless thing."
Meng Jiao Niang touched her son's face with her rough palms, then held his hair tightly, and regardless of Jiang Jinlin's struggle and resistance, she took him to work in the small half-mu wasteland that she had reclaimed.
Jiang Dezhu was under the control of the tigress and did not dare to help their mother and daughter at all, but the village chief remembered that Jiang Goudan was also the blood of their Jiang family, and occasionally helped some food, but now that the village chief is old, the other sons in the family She had long been dissatisfied with the village chief's use of the public's belongings to help the second house's debts. In order to survive, Meng Jiaoniang had to start thinking about it.
She and her son will not be able to turn over in this life, she can't, and her son has cut off the possibility of turning over because of her status.
******
After that, Jiang Jinlin no longer appeared in front of the Jiang family, but every time they returned to their hometown, Bai Lan and others would hear the story of Meng Jiao's mother and son from other people's mouths.
I heard that Meng Jiao Niang finally got on with a widower in her forties. The widow's family was poor and could not afford a second wife, and the previous one didn't give him a son and a half daughter. The widower doesn't mind Meng Jiao Niang's reputation and her ruined face, and only asks Meng Jiao Niang to bear him children.
I heard that the widower has a bad temper and doesn't want to raise children for other men, and he beats and scolds Jiang Goudan at every turn, but Meng Jiao Niang, the biological mother, turned a blind eye to this, and she wholeheartedly wanted to give birth to a child for the widow, so that she could have a foothold at home.
I heard that Jiang Goudan ran to the village school to eavesdrop, and after being discovered by Xiucai, he recited the Three Character Classic and Baijia’s surnames proficiently. Unfortunately, his life experience was terrible. Although Xiucai was shocked by his intelligence, he could only regret it. He refused to be outside the school. I don't know who spread the news to Jiang Dezhu's daughter-in-law. She was worried that Meng Jiao Niang would rely on her son to turn her over, and that pungent woman found a few gangsters and broke Jiang Goudan's arm. After taking action, the woman compensated the widower and Meng Jiao Niang with 22 taels of silver, and the two of them stopped pursuing the matter, as if nothing had happened.
Hearing that Meng Jiao Niang was pregnant, the widower was very excited about it. He went to the town to buy wine many times. One time he fell into a river while drunk and drowned when he was found. Meng Jiao Niang became a widow here. Rumors about her coffs came out.
I heard that Meng Jiao Niang had a miscarriage when she was four months pregnant, and Meng Jiao Niang became crazy because of this.
I heard that Jiang Goudan's shadow was behind the drowning of the widower and Meng Jiao Niang's miscarriage.
I heard that Meng Jiaoniang and Jiang Goudan were both dead. After torturing each other for more than ten years, Meng Jiao Niang set a fire and burned herself and Jiang Goudan to death in the broken thatched cottage of the Meng family.
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These are all things that happened over the next few decades.
Bai Lan and her two children did not play any role in it, they just tried to make their lives better, and quietly watched the mother and son of Meng Jiao kill themselves.
In this life, the hands of the three of them were not stained with blood, but they reported their hatred.
******
"I think what the old Taoist said at the time was right, that Jiang San is really rich and noble."
More than 40 years later, all the young people in the village have become gray-haired old people, leaning on crutches, bowing their backs and chatting in the shade.
Xiao Wang's wife finally could no longer eat the sunflower seeds. She was holding a handful of candy and oil fruits in her hand, and from time to time, she took one, softened the candy and oil fruits, and swallowed them.
I think people in the village took the old Taoist's words as a joke, and now who doesn't say that the old Taoist's fortune is accurate.
This Jiang San has been stupid for most of his life, but when he was young, his mother protected him, and after he became stupid, his daughter-in-law raised him. Now that he is older, although his mind is still not clear, his sons and daughters are filial, and they are really rich in life.
"I heard that Bai Lan's health is not very good. Yes, she suffered a lot when she was young, and now her body is not as strong as Jiang San."
"Yeah, I don't know what happened."
Everyone sighed a few words, time passed so fast, and in a blink of an eye, they were all people who stepped into the grave with one foot.
Bai Lan, who was being talked about by them, was dying, and Jiang Liu and a pair of children stood by her bed.
"After I leave, you brothers and sisters will be well."
Jiang Dahu and Jiang Zhuhua each got married and had children. Bai Lan was very relieved about their siblings.
The only thing she couldn't let go of was her own little fool, who had been raised to "fifteen" before, and on the day of his "fifteen" birthday, he returned to "four". Many famous doctors, but the human brain is too complicated, and no doctor can explain this disease.
Later, Bai Lan simply gave up. She first raised her husband as a son, and later she raised her as a grandson. She raised her and her relationship became more and more profound.
Now another reincarnation has passed. Jiang Liu is "six years old" this year. If it wasn't for Bai Lan's teaching day and night, he would have called Dahu Zhuhua and his grandparents.
"Mom, don't worry, Dad, we will take care of it."
Jiang Dahu tried his best to restrain the grief in his heart, looking at the silly dad next to him who was crying, tears and snot on his face, and assured his mother.
Not only did his mother raise the foolish father as a son as a grandson, Jiang Dahu couldn't treat this insignificant father as a grown-up, especially since the foolish father's intellectual memory only hovered between the ages of four and fifteen, Jiang Dahu simply regarded him as a grown-up. child.
As for revenge or something, it has long been left behind by several people.
"Um."
Bai Lan, who was promised, smiled and nodded. Finally, she glanced at her children and Jiang Liu, who was crying like a child, and slowly closed her eyes.
Maybe Jiang Liu's stupidity is the best ending. After all, she is still an ordinary woman who is governed by the dogma of husband and wife. Self-blame and self-loathing.
And a pair of children and that man are more restricted by the rules of ethics. No matter what the reason, revenge on the biological father as a child is an unacceptable existence in the world.
Jiang Liu is stupid, they don't need to be tortured by hatred anymore, they don't need to struggle between revenge or forbearance.
Bai Lan is very fortunate, fortunate for Jiang Liu to become stupid, and for herself not to be blinded by hatred, and for revenge to become a stranger to herself, she and her children still stick to their original intentions, and at the beginning of all bad luck, go on a completely different path to happiness.
Thanks for this rebirth, in this life, she has no regrets.
Jiang Dahu and Jiang Zhuhua cried and sent their mother away. On the day of Bailan Qiqi Festival, they sent away their stupid father. Fortunately, the brothers and sisters still have each other and their relatives. The dead are gone, and the living are still alive. to go on with their lives.
However, Jiang Dahu and Jiang Zhuhua did not bury their deceased father and deceased mother in the same place. Although the tombs of Bai Lan and Jiang Liu were both in the ancestral tombs of the Jiang family, they were separated by a short distance.
This is the common decision of Jiang Dahu and Jiang Zhuhua. They don't hate the stupid father, but they hate the biological father. After all, the biological father failed their mother three. Because of the stupid father's existence, they can let go of their hatred, but this does not mean they forget the hatred, the two thought. , the mother still does not want to be buried with her biological father.
Some old people in the clan were a little shy about the decision of the brothers and sisters, but Jiang Dahu and Jiang Zhuhua did not take those gossip to heart. In their opinion, this was the best ending.