Li Xiaoxiu stared at her daughter, whom she hadn't seen in years, with a look of disappointment that she wished she could pour the water out of her head.
"I don't want him to be interested. An old man who has been married several times, and I don't know what's wrong with him. I'd rather die than marry him." Jiang Qingqing felt like throwing up just thinking about Hong Baobao's short, fat, and dark appearance.
"What do you know? Hong Baobao did marry two wives, but the first one died in childbirth, and the second one ran off with someone else. None of this has anything to do with Hong Baobao himself.
He's a very outstanding man. If you marry him now, you can not only live in his big house but also help him manage his money and children. His current income is five hundred yuan a month. Do you know how much five hundred yuan is? That's enough for our family to live on for half a year. You truly don't know how fortunate you are.
If Hong Baobao didn't look down on your sister Xiaoqing, I would have married her off long ago." Li Xiaoxiu said the last part just to say it. If she really had to marry off her younger daughter, she would be reluctant too, after all, Hong Baobao was a bit too old.
"It's clearly me who doesn't like him. Mom is talking nonsense." Jiang Xiaoqing immediately stepped forward to express her dissatisfaction when she heard her mother comparing her and Hong Baobao.
A man like Hong Baobao, she wouldn't even want him if he were given to her.
Jiang Kaiguo also glared at Li Xiaoxiu reproachfully, "Don't say such nonsense. You'll go find Hong Baobao later and ask him to come to our house to see Qingqing. If he still likes her, we'll arrange their marriage tomorrow."
Jiang Qingqing looked at the difference in her parents' treatment of her and her younger sister, and her heart ached again. She thought she no longer cared, but unfortunately, she overestimated herself.
"Since Hong Baobao is so great, why don't you let Xiaoqing marry him? She's already 19 anyway. Why are you forcing me, a married daughter with children, to do this? You don't consider me a daughter at all. It's the same as the rustication quota. It was originally Big Brother's turn, but you made me go. Later, you let Big Brother take my job, and I had to suffer.
You didn't care about me in the countryside. Now that I can get married and bring you benefits, you're eagerly bringing me back to sell me.
You are truly my dear relatives. If you don't exploit me until I die, you won't stop, will you!
I'm telling you, if you want me to marry someone else, it will only be over my dead body."
Jiang Qingqing didn't want to expose this false kinship, but they kept forcing her, completely disregarding her human rights.
Then there was no need to hide it. At worst, she would pretend not to have these family members.
It was better than them always scheming against her.
"Third sister, I didn't snatch your job. Your job was given to Auntie. My current job is something I found myself. As for the rustication back then, it was our parents' decision. Don't blame me."
"Third sister, how could you become so wicked? That Hong Baobao is old and ugly. You want me to marry him, pushing me into a fiery pit? You truly are my good sister."
"You ungrateful brat, what are you saying? What do you mean we're exploiting you? We're clearly doing it for your own good. What kind of good life can you have marrying a peasant from the countryside? Now that we've rescued you from the countryside, not only are you not grateful, but you're also saying we want to sell you. I think the older you get, the more disobedient you become, and you need to be disciplined." Li Xiaoxiu was so angry with Jiang Qingqing that she stepped forward and raised her hand to slap her, but Jiang Qingqing dodged it.
"Under the guise of doing what's good for me, you can openly sell your daughter. Your methods have become quite sophisticated.
Also, even if I were to marry a man from the countryside, he would be a million times better than a man from the city. I'm happy, I'm content, and I don't need you to manage me."
Jiang Qingqing poured out her heart in one breath and turned to rush out of the Jiang family's door.
Jiang Kaiguo frowned upon seeing this and ordered, "Eldest son, catch her."
Eldest son Jiang Qingshan immediately grabbed Jiang Qingqing, who was trying to escape, and held her tightly in front of their father.
"Let go of me! I want to go back, I want to go back to my own home, I don't want to be here, I don't want to see you." Jiang Qingqing looked at her parents with red eyes, struggling with all her might. However, she had not even been a month postpartum, how could she be a match for a man?
"Slap!"
A loud slap echoed. Jiang Qingqing's face turned to the side. The pain reminded her that she had been hit, hit by her mother.
The reason was that she was not obedient enough.
It was truly ironic. She was a person with her own thoughts, why should she obey them in everything?
Why should she abandon her happiness for their sake?
Liu Nian, I miss you so much. Hurry up and come pick me up! I'm so scared.
Never before had Jiang Qingqing wished to see Zhang Liunian so much. Every second she was with him, she felt incredibly happy.
"You ungrateful wretch! A man who relies on his wife for everything and doesn't even treat you like a person, and you still cherish him like a treasure. I think he's really put some spell on you, beyond saving."
Li Xiaoxiu looked at her exquisite daughter, who was so out of place in the Jiang family. She thought that this daughter was indeed not born from her womb. No wonder she was so stupid, still unwilling to let go of such a useless man. She was truly foolish beyond compare.
"Don't you dare say Liu Nian's name. He treats me better than any of you. You have no right to talk about him. He is the one who treats me best. I belong to him in life and death, and I will never marry anyone else."
Jiang Qingqing's eyes began to blur, and her emotions became extremely agitated. You can criticize me, but you absolutely cannot criticize Liu Nian. He is my luck and my blessing. No one can replace him.
"Stubborn fool. Just lock her in her room and wait for Hong Baobao to come and see her." Jiang Kaiguo didn't want to waste any more words persuading this daughter, as he didn't even know whose child she was.
As soon as he said this, someone finally couldn't stand it and spoke up for Jiang Qingqing.
"Dad, why don't we look into it again? If that man treats third sister well, we won't have to do this. Besides, third sister is still in her confinement period. It doesn't seem appropriate to marry her off so quickly!" The one who spoke up for Jiang Qingqing was her second brother, Jiang Qingtian, who was also one of the people who brought her back to Jiangcheng yesterday.
So Jiang Qingqing didn't feel much gratitude for his words, but she couldn't deny that she was somewhat surprised he would speak up for her.
"Didn't you hear? That peasant from the countryside is not only lazy and gluttonous but also flirtatious and dissolute. He only knows how to scold and beat Qingqing every day.
How could such a man treat Qingqing well? In my opinion, she's just been beaten into submission to the point where she can't distinguish between good and bad. This is obsession, a mental illness."
Jiang Kaiguo had received firsthand information from Su Jie, knowing that this daughter praised such a disgraceful man so highly, seeing no fault in him at all, and thinking he truly treated her well. In such a situation, it was necessary to force her to remarry.