Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 26: Battle Damage Makeup
The next day, despite her brother's objection, Jiang Tian forced Jiang Cheng to wear a "battle-damaged makeup".
On the forehead near the hair, a very hideous wound was painted with charcoal ash and red paint.
In order to make it more realistic, I rubbed it back and forth twice with red medicine.
The gauze bandages on my arms and knees that were wrapped yesterday were also untied.
Jiang Cheng thought he was free, but unexpectedly, his sister brought over a small bowl of chicken blood left over from killing a chicken, smeared some on his non- existent "wound", and then wrapped it with layers of gauze.
Jiang Cheng: “…”
Looking at the "blood" slowly seeping out of the gauze, if Jiang Cheng had not witnessed everything that had just happened, he would have almost thought that he was really seriously injured.
The parents who came to apologize with large bags and their naughty children thought the same.
Especially Jiang Chunbao, the one who beat people. When his father saw that Jiang Cheng was injured so badly, he slapped his son hard on the back of the head on the spot.
"You still dare to say that I just hit you twice? You call it hitting you twice? Jiang Chunbao, you have learned to lie, right?"
As he said this, he put his things down, rolled up his sleeves and started to work.
He was stopped by other parents.
"If you want to fight back, you should check on the child first."
Rural children are tough, especially boys. They often fight a few times a day.
Originally, they thought that the school and Jiang Tian were making a fuss out of nothing, but they didn't expect that Jiang Cheng was injured so seriously. They suddenly felt that the gift they were holding was a little hot.
If I had known the child was so seriously injured, I should have bought more things.
Hu Qiongfang didn't cry at first, but when she saw the chicken blood oozing from the bandaged part of her son's leg, and thought about how her son and daughter would have to endure in the future without her husband, her eyes suddenly turned red, she covered her mouth, turned away and started crying.
Now, the parents of those naughty kids feel even more guilty.
Jiang Chunbao's mother also had a look of shame on her face. She was usually not careful with her words, but she didn't expect that her son would listen to her and actually run to the school to spread the news and beat Jiang Cheng like this... She secretly slapped herself twice in her heart.
I won’t dare gossip about others in the village anymore.
This is exactly the effect Jiang Tian wants!
If these people are not severely punished and made to know the consequences of being careless with their mouths and spreading gossip, their family, especially her mother, will be harassed by all kinds of disgusting rumors in the future.
She beat them once and made them feel hurt, so that they would know that Jiang Tian was not someone who could be easily bullied. If the villagers wanted to gossip about her mother again in the future, they would have to think about how much money their family could afford to pay as compensation.
There were five boys who bullied Jiang Cheng . Not only did these five families bring their own children to apologize, they also brought three chickens, dozens of local eggs, more than a dozen packets of noodles, several packets of brown sugar, and more than a dozen cloud cakes.
Nowadays, these are the only things that can be given as gifts when visiting relatives in rural areas.
Jiang Cheng never thought that he could earn so many good things just by lying in bed for two days pretending to be a "seriously injured patient".
If he had known earlier, he would have asked his sister to do it more seriously.
Jiang Tian rolled her eyes at him and said, "You wish! Just take care of it for a few days and then it will go to school obediently ."
Let Jiang Cheng lie on the bed and read a book, and Jiang Tian went into the kitchen to help her mother make lunch.
If you're doing a show, you have to do it fully.
Since Jiang Cheng was "beaten by his classmates", Hu Qiongfang killed a chicken and planned to make chicken soup for her son.
This morning, when Jiang Tian went to the ditch to pull up the net, he caught a few crucian carps as long as chopsticks, and some loaches. Jiang Tian planned to make a pot of mixed fish stew, add some corn cakes, and let Jiang Cheng try it.
So, at noon that day, in the homes of those naughty kids, there were ghosts howling and the roar of the "couple mixed doubles" rang out.
Jiang Cheng was sitting on the bed, drinking the delicious chicken soup and eating the mixed fish stew his sister brought him, which also contained two golden corn cakes.
This was the first time that Jiang Cheng had eaten the mixed fish stew. He swore that this must be the most delicious dish he had ever eaten in his life!
I didn’t expect that the dishes made from those unwanted small fish, shrimps, loaches and snails could be so delicious?
He wolfed down the entire bowl of mixed fish stew and even broke up two corn tortillas and dipped them in the fish soup, finishing them all.
After eating one bowl, he asked his sister to give him another half bowl.
"Sister, please make some more soup and bring me two corn cakes. The cakes are really delicious in this soup." Jiang Cheng looked eagerly towards the kitchen.
It’s a pity that he has to pretend to be injured and can’t serve the food himself, so he can only ask his eldest sister for help.
After dinner, Hu Qiongfang washed the dishes and the pot, and used the water to cook a large pot of pig feed for the two pigs in the house.
Jiang Tian brought out a small stool and asked Jiang Cheng to sit on it while she and Jiang Cheng put on the eel fishing rod.
This is a delicate job. The eel fishing rod is actually a thin bamboo pole with a piece of fishing line tied to the bottom and a fishing hook tied to the other end of the fishing line. What they have to do is to put the earthworms dug in advance on the fishing hook one by one.
After putting it on, you can take it out for fishing in the evening.
The mixed fish stew at noon was so delicious that Jiang Cheng wanted to eat more. He rolled his eyes and urged his sister -
"Sister, I see that the seventh grandmother in the village usually takes the bamboo basket used to hatch chicks at home, sprinkles some leftovers in it, ties a rope on it, and throws it into the big pond at the entrance of the village. After half a day, she pulls it up and can catch a lot of fish and shrimp."
"How about we try it too?"
After being reminded by him, Jiang Tian slapped his forehead and said, "How could I have forgotten about this?"
How many fish and shrimp can a bamboo basket catch?
She has to make the lobster trap!
If she remembered correctly, in a few years, eating crayfish would become popular in the provincial capital, and the market demand would surely increase gradually.
If she could seize this opportunity and order a batch of shrimp cages from a manufacturer in advance...
At that time, you can make money by catching and selling lobsters, and you can also make money by selling lobster cages. Wouldn't it be an opportunity to make a lot of money?
Moreover, that kind of shrimp cage can not only catch crayfish, but also loaches, eels, small fish and river shrimps .
The only thing she needs to worry about is that because the production cost of this thing is relatively high, unlike the eel fishing bait, after putting it in the ditch, she has to watch it nearby, otherwise if it is stolen, the loss will be too great.
Thinking of this, Jiang Tian decided that next time he went to the provincial road to sell eels, he would buy some wire and fishing nets and try making one first.
The water in the rice fields in the village has been basically drained, and the eel holes hidden under the ridges have also been exposed. Today, Jiang Tian made more than 300 eel fishing hooks in one go, intending to take the opportunity to catch more eels.
The mother and daughter cast their fishing rods into the holes along the ridges of the fields. Jiang Tian, being a stingy person, would go down and pick up the snails and throw them into the bucket if she saw any in someone's rice field.
Although it only costs ten cents per pound, a mosquito leg is still meat no matter how small it is!
