Chapter 28 Harmony
Jiang Erlang came over and saw his elderly mother's face covered with tears. She apologized with trembling lips: "Mom, my son has made you worry..."
Mrs. Jiang Liu choked with tears. She hugged her son tightly and hugged him on the chest again and again, "Mom, don't worry, I just want you to be well...Son, you must be more open-minded, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much..."
Jiang Erlang lowered his eyelids and said after a while: "Mom, since the Leng family wants to reconcile, let's divorce. But it's impossible for me to get thirty taels of silver."
After a pause, he added: "Ms. Leng knows the situation at home. Our brothers have separated. It makes no sense for me and Li to ask my parents and brothers to pay for me."
This time when he got sick, Leng's behavior completely chilled Jiang Erlang's heart.
He usually tolerated her tantrums, but she actually took advantage of her serious illness, took all the family money and ran back to her parents' house.
This morning he thought that when he recovered from his illness, he would go to his in-law's house and bring his wife back.
After all, they have been a couple for more than ten years, so how can they not quarrel and quarrel.
He thought that as long as he persuaded and coaxed him, and then admitted his mistake, his wife would always come back with him and live a good life, thinking of the children, this family, and the friendship between husband and wife for so many years.
But she never expected that today her mother, brother and sister-in-law would come to her door and ask for a divorce.
No matter how the parents explained, or how others persuaded them, the Leng family insisted on making peace with each other. They also said that the Leng family had suffered so much in the Jiang family that they could no longer survive.
Not only reconciliation, but also thirty taels of silver compensation.
Jiang Erlang didn't believe it. It was Leng who proposed this idea of peace.
Although he is a little weak, he does all the heavy work at home and farm work by himself. Leng is unwilling to go to the fields, so he tries his best to be satisfied.
Therefore, before leaving, he must ask himself whether Mrs. Leng really couldn't live with him.
If that was the case, he wouldn't be reluctant to part with her. Anyway, his second wife already had a son and a daughter. Even if he didn't have a wife in his life, it wouldn't be a big deal.
When Mrs. Jiang Liu heard that her son agreed to reconcile, she quickly persuaded her: "My son, reconciliation is not a trivial matter. You must think it over carefully. Mrs. Leng... maybe it's just an angry talk. As long as we are polite and polite, we will apologize to them..."
"Don't...cough cough cough..." Jiang Erlang coughed several times in a hurry, feeling that his chest started to hurt again.
After taking a breath, he said, "Mom, we were right. I was doing well before we got married, and I never had any serious illness."
His illness was caused by the cold he suffered while doing hard labor two years after his marriage. At that time, the family was not separated. His parents and brothers felt very guilty and spent all their money to treat him.
It is estimated that Mrs. Leng had a plan to reconcile at that time. She secretly hid the ginseng slices in the medicine bag, packed all the valuables and money in the house into a package, and stuffed it under the couch.
If Aniang hadn't accidentally discovered the package, opened it for inspection, found something wrong and questioned her, Mrs. Leng might have secretly taken the package and never returned, regardless of the child in her belly.
Today, the Yue family suddenly divorced their daughter who had been married for more than ten years. They must have already planned what to do next.
It's nothing more than trying to get another bride price from my daughter.
But the wife has always seemed possessed, unable to see clearly the greed of her parents and brothers, unable to listen to her own advice, and only wants to help her parents' family.
Over the years, it seems that I have never been sorry to my wife and my in-laws.
There is no shortage of gifts that should be given, and there is no shortage of money that should be spent.
Two years ago, my brother-in-law got married. At the request of his wife, in order to give generous gifts, he invited his eldest brother and his third brother to go hunting in the mountains. They stayed outside for several days in the cold weather before returning home.
At that time, he had only been recovering from his illness for a year, but he didn't even fall down despite holding on.
When he got home, Leng not only didn't ask a question, but also kept urging him to get all the prey.
In the end, the eldest brother and third brother didn't want any of the prey they brought back, and gave them all to themselves.
Even so, Mrs. Leng was still not satisfied and insisted on borrowing a lot of money from her parents and taking them back to her parents' home.
So far, he has not returned all the money to his parents. Of course, my parents never asked for it.
Therefore, if Mrs. Leng is determined to reconcile, then just divorce. He doesn't owe her anything to the Leng family.
the next day,
Jiang Erlang came forward to tell the Leng family that he agreed to reconcile, but asked Leng to bring his son Huzi back, and the two discussed the reconciliation face to face.
So, Mrs. Leng took Huzi home in the afternoon, and the couple sat opposite each other on both sides of the table.
"Do you have to reconcile?" Jiang Erlang suppressed his sadness and asked in a low voice.
Leng, who was wearing a face towel, nodded.
Jiang Erlang closed his eyes and asked, "Why?"
Mr. Leng remained silent.
"Is it because of my illness? But I am already cured. Mr. Li said that I have fully recovered." Jiang Erlang suppressed the sadness in his heart and tried to save it.
Mrs. Leng still lowered her head and said nothing.
Jiang Erlang couldn't help but shed tears. He quickly turned his head away and wiped them away with his sleeves.
The two were silent for a long time, and Jiang Erlang asked again: "Are you having any difficulties? Tell us and we can discuss it together."
Mrs. Leng finally raised her head and said softly: "Erlang, my difficulty is that I married you. I have lived a poor life these years."
After a pause, he said, "Let me go and let's make peace."
Hearing this, Jiang Erlang was disheartened and stood up, "Okay, since you have made up your mind, I will grant you my wish. I hope you will be well from now on."
After walking out of the house, Jiang Erlang went to invite Muramasa himself, and asked his eldest nephew to go to the West Village to invite the matchmaker from back then.
Since we have reconciled, we must separate completely.
Therefore, the village leader Chen Sanyou and the matchmaker were present to witness the reconciliation between Jiang Erlang and Leng.
The Leng family also invited the elders of the Leng clan to come and support them.
The two families negotiated until the end, and Erni and Huzi were brought up by Jiang Erlang. The Jiang family paid Leng a settlement fee of fifteen taels of silver, and they had nothing to do with their future marriages.
Chen Cunzheng wrote two letters of divorce, signed by both families, with the elders of the other party as guarantees, and the former matchmaker pressed his fingerprints as witness.
Since then, Jiang Erlang and the Leng family have officially reconciled.
Ying Bao didn't know that just because of the five hundred coins she received, the family of her second uncle and her mother-in-law was broken up.
But even if she knew, she wouldn't feel guilty.
Because Mrs. Leng was not a good match for the second uncle, her five hundred coins was just a trigger.
It's just a pity that Erni and Huzi lost their mother at such a young age.
But in her previous life, after her second uncle passed away, Mrs. Leng still abandoned her young children early and lived her own life.
In this life, Erni and Huzi will still have their biological father looking after them.
"Yingbao, hurry up, dad is leaving."
Jiang Sanlang pretended not to wait for his little girl and walked out.
As expected, Ying Bao was so anxious that she put on her tiger head hat and ran over, stopped her father and opened her arms to hug him.
Jiang Sanlang picked up his little girl and put it on his back in a backpack, then went to the front yard to greet his eldest and second nephews to go to town together.
Today is the last big market before New Year's Day. People are coming and going, all of them are people buying new year's goods.
Yingbao stood in the basket, looking down at the vendors on both sides of the road.
Those selling chickens, ducks, old geese, eggs and cereals, game, children's toys, and silk flowers. The most popular ones are the Nianfu door gods and auspicious lanterns, which are hung red on wooden shelves. The gray winter brings a touch of warmth.
Ying Bao watched with great interest and asked her father to come over and ask questions from time to time.
A vendor placed children's toys on the ground, such as small clay pigs, clay cows, clay chickens, ducks, clay dolls, clay tigers and clay whistles.
"Which one does Bao'er want?" Jiang Sanlang asked.
Yingbao shook her head, "No."
She had long lost interest in these things, but she just came over to take a look out of curiosity.
Several people huffed and puffed in the crowd, each looking at the rare things.
Brothers Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan disappeared in a flash. Jiang Sanlang was so anxious that he shouted loudly: "Don't get separated, you two. I'll wait for you outside to go back together!"
"I know, Uncle San!" Jiang Cheng agreed in the crowd.
Yingbao stood high enough to see the two cousins sitting in front of the sideshow stall.
"Dad, let's go over there to see the flowers on the head." Yingbao pointed to the roadside.
"good."
So the father and daughter started visiting roadside stalls.