Li Guizhen was happy after receiving the compensation. Yang Jianjun had a complicated expression, but he didn't say much. However, the atmosphere in the Yang family was not so good. Old lady Yang pointed at the mulberry tree and cursed the locust tree for several days, but everyone just listened.
[指桑骂槐 zhǐ sāng mà huái: lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree; fig. to scold sb indirectly; to make oblique accusations]
Only Li Guizhen was unconvinced and occasionally replied with a few words. If Old lady Yang scolded her too hard, she wouldn't dare to confront her, but she would vent her anger on Yang Jianjun. When Yang Jiabo looked at his unreasonable mother, he would silently feel sorry for his father. However he was still young and couldn't do anything.
Yang Jianjun was an honest man who didn't like to talk. He usually didn't get angry, but it was terrible when an honest man really got angry.
Yang Jiabo's first-grade elementary school career was just like that. What he learned was simple and boring, and his classmates were funny. Yang Jiabo considered himself an adult, but he was desperate when hanging out with a group of children every day.
After finally getting holidays with great difficulty, he started his own money-making business again. Originally, the Wei brothers were going to help, but as soon as the holidays came, they were packed up by their parents and sent to their grandparents' house. It was said that they were sent to study and couldn't come back until school started.
Oh, what a poor kid, their childhood is ruined like this.
Thinking of Wei Feng's pitiful look when he left, Yang Jiabo secretly gloated and looked at his little follower Bai Cheng. Bai Cheng was big, strong, and obedient. Most importantly, no one cared about him. So far, he was a good helper.
Two small children went to the farmers market early in the morning to wholesale vegetables in the name of adults, and then transported them to the living areas of various major units for sale. Because they were small and had little strength, the two of them didn't sell much each time and earned little, but they could accumulate little by little.
Over time, the vegetable wholesale bosses also got to know them and thought these two children were quite interesting. Yang Jiabo had a sweet mouth and often made them happy, and they were also willing to give them some discounts.
After struggling like this for nearly a month, Yang Jiabo decided to temporarily end his vegetable selling career. Bai Cheng was happy making money, so he didn't understand Yang Jiabo's behavior.
"Isn't this good, why do you suddenly want to stop selling?" Bai Cheng almost cried. His family was poor and he was not welcomed at home. He never had any pocket money. All the time, he could only watch others eating snacks, and his teachers and parents disliked him. It was like a dream to finally have a friend who didn't dislike him and was willing to make money with him.
Since following Yang Jiabo, he could have pocket money, which he never dared to think about before. Now that Yang Jiabo suddenly wanted to stop playing with him, it was like thunder from a clear sky.
[晴天霹雳qíng tiān pī: lìt. Thunder from a clear sky (idiom); a bolt from the blue
"I'm going to stay at my grandma's (from mother's side) house for a while. I don't have time." Yang Jiabo looked up at the sky. Every summer vacation, he and his cousins from his mother's side would go to his grandmother's house and stay for at least a week. Tomorrow was the day of departure. His mother had already prepared things for his grandparents and was just waiting for his second uncle to come and pick them up in a horse drawn carriage.
"Can you not go?" Bai Cheng didn't want to go back to the days when he had no pocket money and could only watch others eat snacks.
"No, you can do it yourself."
"I can't do it by myself." Bai Cheng scratched his head and ears in embarrassment.
"Then there's nothing I can do." Yang Jiabo spread his hands.
Bai Cheng looked at him pitifully. "Can you come back early? I'm counting on you for my pocket money next semester."
"It depends on the situation." After Yang Jiabo finished speaking, he waved his hand and ruthlessly abandoned Bai Cheng.
The next day, Yang Jiabo and his cousins got on his second uncle's carriage and went to his grandmother's house. It was early August, the season for wild mushroom to grow. The purpose of Yang Jiabo's trip was not only wild mushroom but also the rich wild medicinal plants on the mountain.
In his previous life, Yang Jiabo worked in a pharmacy and spent five years grabbing medicines from the traditional Chinese medicine cabinet, so he knew a lot. There were a lot of medicinal plants in the back of his grandmother's house. Selling medicine could make more money than selling vegetables. If possible, he would also like to find the pair of human-shaped fleeceflower roots (Polygonum multiflorum).
In the previous life, someone dug up a pair of human-shaped fleeceflower roots in the back of his grandmother's house. The news spread a lot at that time. If he could find them, he wouldn't have to worry about tuition. The man dug up the fleeceflower roots three years later, and he didn't know if he would be able to find them now.
"Jiajia, what are you thinking about?"
When Yang Jiabo heard someone calling him, he turned around and saw that it was his third cousin Zhang Qiang who called him. Speaking of relatives from his mother's side, Yang Jiabo felt a little nervous. It wasn't because of anything else, because they really had too many people, especially when the third generation was born. Ten tables were needed when they got together.
In his previous life, not counting his father's side, he had a total of three older male cousins, three younger male cousins, three older female cousins, and four younger female cousins. His eldest uncle and second uncle's family each had three children, his third uncle and second aunt each had two children, and each other family had one child. Counting Yang Jiabo's generation, there were a total of 14 children.
By the third generation, the second child policy was implemented. Except him and his second cousin who had never been married, there were 26 children in the family, which made him dizzy just thinking about it.
"It's nothing. I wonder if grandma misses me?"
"Hey, grandma is partial to a squeamish like you." The third cousin curled her lips.
"It's useless for you to be jealous." Yang Jiabo smiled shamelessly, remembering his grandmother, there was a little more expectation in his eyes.
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