Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 16 Stepfather? Go!
Just when Jiang Tian was feeling very happy after catching more than thirty fat and long wild eels in one breath, someone came to complain to her.
The visitor was the cousin of Jiang Tian’s grandfather’s generation. According to seniority, Jiang Tian should call her aunt.
Aunt Jiang was a straightforward person. After exchanging a few pleasantries with Hu Qiongfang, she told him the purpose of her visit.
She wanted to be a matchmaker for Hu Qiongfang.
Logically speaking, Hu Qiongfang was in mourning for her deceased husband, so even if she wanted to remarry, she should not do so during the mourning period.
But there is indeed such a custom in the local area. If a woman's husband dies and there is no one to help her in her husband's family and she cannot raise so many children by herself, she does not need to care about the rules of the mourning period and can find a "next husband" for herself as soon as possible.
This way, having someone to help raise the child can be considered as preserving the flesh and blood of her late ex-husband.
Aunt Jiang felt that she had good intentions.
But there is also a little bit of selfishness mixed in.
The person she introduced to Hu Qiongfang was the second son of her husband's cousin.
Although this man was five years older than Hu Qiongfang, he was honest and hardworking. After his wife died, he never remarried because he had two sons to support.
According to Aunt Jiang's idea, each side has two children, and the age difference is not too big, so it's just right for the two families to become one.
In this way, Hu Qiongfang now has a man, and there is someone to help with the work in the fields, so it won't be as hard as it is now.
I caught a glimpse of Jiang Tian from the corner of my eye. Aunt Jiang was using her to persuade Hu Qiongfang.
"Look, he only has two naughty boys over there. After you two get married, there will only be one girl, Jiang Tian, in this family. In the future, you will have two older brothers and a younger brother to support your Tiantian. Are you still afraid that she will be bullied by her husband's family?"
Jiang Tian couldn't help but roll her eyes in her heart.
If it's so good, why don't you introduce her to the younger generation in your family?
Seeing Hu Qiongfang’s face flushed, Jiang Tian became angry.
She originally wanted to fight back on her mother's behalf, but when she saw Aunt Jiang's attitude, it was clear that she was relying on her status as the elder of the Jiang family and felt that she could dictate the lifelong affairs of Hu Qiongfang, a junior.
This kind of person is the most difficult to deal with.
Because they are your elders, and they are doing this for your own good, but you don’t appreciate it? That means you don’t know what’s good for you!
But what if you say you have no plans to remarry for the time being?
The other party will definitely say that it’s okay not to get married for the time being, you can just date each other and see how it goes.
Haha~ Do you really think it’s so easy to get along with someone just by “getting to know each other”?
As the saying goes, there is a lot of gossip in front of a widow's door, and there are still people who spread rumors even behind closed doors.
Do you believe that if Hu Qiongfang dares to let the other party come, the rumor that she is going to remarry tomorrow will immediately spread throughout the village?
By then, if Hu Qiongfang had to swallow her anger and get married, it would be hard to predict what good or bad luck would come to her in the second half of her life.
If I don't get married, my reputation will be ruined.
Thinking of this, Jiang Tian secretly clenched his fists.
No! We can't let Aunt Jiang go like this today.
Otherwise, if she went out and spread rumors everywhere, deliberately using them to force her mother to submit, even if her mother gritted her teeth and insisted on not getting married, her life in the village would be difficult in the future.
Looking at Aunt Jiang's smiling face, Jiang Tian sneered secretly, and a surprised expression immediately appeared on her face——
"Aunt, is your nephew's family rich?"
Aunt Jiang: “What?”
Jiang Tian didn't expect her to answer at all. With a smile that said "I don't care whether Aunt Jiang lives or dies" on her face, she happily began her crazy literary performance.
"That's great! In fact, I've long wanted to persuade my mom to find me a rich stepfather while I'm still young."
"Here's what I think. We don't have much room to begin with, and now my second uncle has taken one of ours. My brother and I are still young, so it doesn't matter if we squeeze in together. But when my brother grows up a little, these two rooms will definitely not be enough!"
"So I thought, if my mom gets married again, she should ask my stepfather to give us 2,000 yuan to build a big house with two entrances in front and back for our family."
"Well, let me do the math. There are three people in their family, plus three people in our family . My mom and stepdad have one room, I have one room, and the three boys have one room each. Add the living room and the kitchen, and we'll have to build a big house with at least eight rooms to accommodate them!"
When she heard that they were going to build a large house with eight rooms, Aunt Jiang took a deep breath.
She wanted her cousin to marry Hu Qiongfang because she liked the fact that her family had two rooms and could build three more small houses in the yard, which was barely enough for the family to live in.
After all, my cousin is the second child in the family and didn't get anything when the family property was divided. Now he lives with his two sons in an old house that is leaky on all sides.
If he could afford to build a big house with eight rooms, why would he need to marry a widow?
There are so many young girls willing to marry him, okay?
Jiang Tian seemed to think that this stimulation was not enough, and continued to add:
"By the way, I want to do some small business near the provincial highway. There is only one bus from the county to our village every day. It is a waste of money to take the bus back and forth all the time. How about this, let my stepfather buy my mother a women's bicycle and let me ride it in the future."
Aunt Jiang is on the verge of collapse.
"Also, I see that it's popular for many families in this town to buy televisions when they get married. My family doesn't have one yet. Can I ask my stepdad to buy one for my family?"
Aunt Jiang's face gradually turned pale.
"Also, Auntie, please tell my stepfather's family that even though my mom is getting married for the second time, we can't skimp on the etiquette that other families follow for their first marriage."
"Three turns, one ring, and a gold ring. None of these can be missing."
"By the way, as for the betrothal gift, you see his family has two sons. After my mother marries him, she will have to raise their children, so the betrothal gift must be higher. Other families give 66 or 88 yuan for a first marriage, but my mother only wants 50 yuan. Is that not too much?"
Aunt Jiang's head was buzzing because of what she said, and she could hardly stand.
After being stunned for a long time, she managed to regain her sanity and forced a smile.
"Why would a second marriage require so many things? It's just a second marriage, two people living together, so just make do with what you have."
Jiang Tian immediately cried out in surprise: "How can you just make do with it? Marrying a man means having clothes to wear and food to eat . Auntie, you say, this house! TV! Bicycle! Which one of these things is not needed at home?"
"And this gold ring. Although my dad didn't have the money to buy it when we got married, he made up for it for my mom later. He didn't even buy my mom a gold ring, and you still have the nerve to be my stepfather..."
As he spoke, he complained in a low voice: "I can't have a stingy guy as my stepfather."
Aunt Jiang almost fainted from rolling her eyes.
She asked herself that she had been a matchmaker for decades, but this was the first time she had met someone who dared to ask for something.
Aunt Jiang rolled her eyes at her and walked away angrily with her little feet twitching.
