After deciding on a major matter, the whole family came to the main room. Mr. Tian was leaning on the kang, smoking a cigarette and thinking about something, while Mrs. Jiang was packing some old clothes.
Seeing that the whole family from the third house had arrived, Jiang raised her eyelids and continued to kneel on the kang, picking up her clothes, not letting Tian Minyan and the others sit down, and not making a sound.
Mr. Tian, on the other hand, sighed and came back from his thoughts and asked a few people to sit down.
Tian Huairen first chatted with the old man for a few words, and then asked when he would leave for Henghe. Why didn't his eldest brother come to pick him up yet? He was ridiculed by Jiang, saying that he had no conscience and that the two of them were an eyesore.
He shut his mouth in a sullen voice.
"Please fix your clothes, I just don't have anything nice to say." Mr. Tian glared at her and shouted.
"Okay, I don't have anything nice to say. What I say is rubbish. If you want to hear nice things, why don't you go to a teahouse or a chicken coop? Throw a few dollars in and you'll get all the nice things you can say." Jiang said angrily, throwing down the clothes in his hands.
Throwing it away, he glared and kicked his nose and snorted: "A lot of money, are you afraid that you won't be able to hear it?" The chicken coop is actually a brothel. People in Yangmei Village used to call that place the chicken coop.
When Tian Minyan heard this, she knew that Mrs. Jiang was thinking about the money they earned today again. When she came home at noon, Ms. Li saw that they had an empty load and asked what kind of cakes and soy milk they were going to make soon.
Finished buying? Why didn't you leave a piece for your parents? I asked how much you earned.
Naturally, Tian Minyan wouldn't answer how much money she earned. She only vaguely said a few dollars, but who was Jiang? Even a penny was rare for her, but Sanfang went out to sell food today and earned nothing.
She was not given a son, which made her very dissatisfied and depressed.
I remember that before the family was separated, Tian Huairen would go to the town to find work whenever she had free time, and the money she earned would be kept by her. But now that the family is separated, people don't take you seriously, even if you earn
How much money I have is hidden from you.
No, now there is a hint of sarcasm in the words.
"The children are here, why are you so shameless? Don't you know what you can and can't say?" Mr. Tian heard her talking more and more outrageously, and he yelled and cursed again.
Jiang became even more angry. The old man scolded her in front of her children and grandchildren. Isn't this a loss of face for her? At that moment, Jiang screamed strangely, cursed the bastard, and hit the old man with her head.
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"The more trouble you get, why don't you stop." Mr. Tian was very helpless and angry at Jiang's aggressiveness, especially these days, the boss didn't come to pick him up for a long time, which made him wonder if something happened over there.
What's wrong? Others don't know, but he himself is so anxious that his mouth is blistering.
"Grandpa, you and my mother are busy, so we won't disturb you. I just came to tell you that my brother and Xiaowu are going to school tomorrow." Tian Minyan didn't bother to watch the two elders fight, and said loudly.
"What? Going to school in town?" Mr. Tian was so stunned that he didn't notice Jiang's hand and was scratched by her.
When Mr. Jiang heard this, he immediately stopped making trouble and shot his triangular eyes at Tian Minyan and the others like sharp arrows.
It's incredible. In the past, the three families didn't have enough money to get scraped, but now they say they want to go to a town school, or do they have to pay for it themselves?
"Yes, dad, tomorrow I will take Brother Rui and Xiaowu to the town to study as teachers." Tian Huairen scratched his head naively and said: "Brother Rui will be twelve years old during the Chinese New Year, and Xiaowu will be seven years old, so we can't delay any longer.
, so I thought about sending them to school."
"Lao San, do you know how much Shu Xiu is in the town school? This means sending two children away, which is a big burden." Mr. Tian reacted from the shock and immediately considered the problem of Shu Xiu.
"Dad, my daughter has asked about it, and she said she will get five taels of silver a year and ten strips of dried meat."
"That's ten taels of silver..."
"Where do you get the money to send them to school? Let me tell you, if you want to get money from me, you won't get any money." Mr. Tian just started to speak, but Jiang rushed in front of him and shouted, " How can you offer me ten taels of silver? If you don’t have such a big head, don’t wear such a big hat. Who did you learn to pretend to be a big head?”
"Shut up." Mr. Tian shouted angrily.
Tian Huairen's face turned red from being stabbed by Jiang, and he pursed his slightly dark lips and was speechless. Only Tian Minyan could see that his hands hanging by his sides were clenched so hard that his knuckles turned white.
Tian Huairen must have been hurt by Jiang. This is his own mother. It's fine that she doesn't support him like other mothers, but she uses such ugly words to ridicule him. How can she not be hurt?
"Third brother, your mother is right. Ten taels of silver is not a small amount. It depends on how much you can earn by going to the town to find some work. There is a family here, and your wife is pregnant with a baby. .Look, are you going to..." Mr. Tian looked at the third child with a complicated expression, feeling as if something was blocking his heart, and he was very depressed and uncomfortable.
Over the years, he has only provided for the eldest son to study, and then Tian Minlin, which has been very difficult. Therefore, he has never thought about providing education and teaching for the other children. He only hopes that the eldest grandson will succeed and honor the ancestors, and places all his hopes on him. They didn't expect that the third son, the most honest and honest son, suddenly said that he wanted to send both children to school.
It was understandable that Tian Huairen cared about the child, but it invisibly showed the old man's partiality, which made the old man feel very uncomfortable. His face felt like a big slap in the ear, burning and ashamed.
When he was older, he didn't even think about having three bedrooms and two bedrooms. Now that the third bedroom is divided, it can be used for school immediately. Isn't this a slap in his face?
Therefore, after all the persuasion, Mr. Tian was actually a little unhappy because the Sanfang family had fallen into his disgrace, which made him very uncomfortable.
"Third brother, this is not just a matter of cultivating people. There are food, drinks, chews, books, pens and ink. Which one doesn't cost money?" Mr. Tian tried to tell Tian Huairen everything, and said with a stiff face: "These two children are studying. , at least dozens of taels a year."
"Dad, we have just put it all together. Although life is difficult now, we still want our two children to go to school in the town. We are not rich and noble, so we should be filial to our husband. I can't help but sell iron. Dad, I don't want my two children to be delayed." Tian Huairen looked at Mr. Tian, hoping to find some support and appreciation in his eyes.
However, he was disappointed. Mr. Tian's eyes flashed. There was no appreciation and support as he imagined, only silence and a trace of suspicion and displeasure.
