Chapter 43 Jiang Meilan, the third in the class, had her home robbed
Because of Jiang Meizhi's matter, there is no time to waste.

It was already evening when Jiang Daguo returned home.

Aunt Jiang couldn't wait to ask, "Daguo, what happened to your sister's job? Has she officially started working?"

Uncle Jiang was smoking a pipe, knocking off the dust from his pipe and glancing at her. "Can't you wait for Daguo to catch his breath before asking?"

"I'm not in a hurry." Aunt Jiang complained.

"She doesn't have a job." Jiang Daguo pushed his bicycle into the house and parked it at his feet. He looked at his family and shook his head. "She was cheated."

"How is that possible? Her friend clearly agreed..." Aunt Jiang muttered.

"That friend is not called Wu Deyuan, nor is he a cadre in A City. Instead, he is an unemployed vagrant from a rural area in H County. He has been arrested by the police station. The comrades at the police station said that he has also cheated many other people." Jiang Daguo frowned.

Liu Xihua breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that the man had been arrested.

Because this means Jiang Meizhi will no longer have an excuse to ask her for money.

When Jiang Meihua and Jiang Meilan heard the explosive news, they just looked at each other and turned to play with Jiang Xiaoxiao.

Uncle Jiang sighed and went to smoke his pipe in silence.

Only Aunt Jiang opened her eyes wide in shock after hearing the news and stayed there.

"Wha...what? Great Power, is this true or false?"

"Mom, I'm not lying to you. The one who called the police was the young man who drove the car that took Xihua and I home. He was a reporter for a newspaper in City A." Jiang Daguo said again.

"Oh, what should we do? Meizhi has lost her job..." Aunt Jiang kept clapping her thighs and crying.

Before and after dinner, it was time for neighbors to visit each other. Neighbor Aunt Gui, holding a large bowl, ate her meal while walking to the Jiang family's yard.

Liu Xihua was sharp-eyed and was the first to see Aunt Gui coming. She also knew that her mother-in-law liked to compete with Aunt Gui, so she patted Aunt Jiang on the shoulder and said, "Mom, Aunt Gui is here."

Aunt Jiang quickly stopped crying and hurried into her bedroom.

Aunt Gui entered the main house of the Jiang family. "Why do I hear Daguo Niang crying? Daguo, where is your mother?"

"No, Aunt Gui, you heard it wrong." Jiang Daguo waved his hand.

Aunt Gui glanced at the faces of everyone in the room, and finding nothing interesting to see, she left with the big bowl in her hand.
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Jiang Meizhi’s dream of living in the city could not be realized and she never came back to her parents’ home.

Liu Xihua and his wife's life returned to normal.

Jiang Daguo still delivers vegetables to City A from Monday to Saturday, and fish once every Monday.

Because I don’t take the bus, I can save more than three yuan in bus fares every day.

At the end of the month, when he settled the bill, Jiang Daguo earned twenty-five yuan. After deducting the cost of several days' transportation and the cost of buying fish and vegetables, Jiang Daguo made a net profit of fifteen yuan.

The whole family was very happy as we made a net profit of fifteen dollars in less than a month.

Aunt Jiang has always been the one in charge of the money in the Jiang family.

She immediately stretched out her hand to Jiang Daguo and said, "Give me the money for safekeeping. You two should spend whatever you have. You have been married for ten years and I haven't seen you save any money. You should give me the money for safekeeping."

Jiang Xiaoxiao's face darkened. How could Liu Xihua and his wife not know how to save money?
Whenever they saved a penny, Aunt Jiang would find ways to get it for herself.

[Mom, our house needs some renovations. We need to save money.]

Liu Xihua looked around the house and said, "Mom, I can't give you this money. The house is old and we need to save money to repair it."

Aunt Jiang also looked at the roof and asked, "Isn't it in good condition? What needs to be fixed?"

Liu Xihua also pointed out what needed to be repaired, and she was following her daughter's wishes.

[Granny Gui’s family is planning to build a house, and we can’t lose to them.] Liu Xihua pursed her lips, “I mean, I want to build a new house. I heard Aunt Gui’s family is planning to build a new house, and we are neighbors. If they build one, then if we don’t…”

Aunt Gui is Aunt Jiang's sore spot. Whenever Aunt Gui is mentioned, Aunt Jiang immediately becomes speechless.

She asked coldly, "So when do you plan to build the house?"

Liu Xihua looked at Jiang Daguo and asked for advice.

Jiang Daguo touched the back of his head and said, "Maybe next year."

"Okay, I'll wait for you to build the house next year." Aunt Jiang said to the two of them.
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Jiang Meilan got the best score in history in the final exam, ranking third in the class.

She took the certificate and happily showed it to her whole family.

Except for Aunt Jiang who was sitting aside with a sullen look on her face, everyone else was praising her.

"Mom, look, I got third place in the total score!" Jiang Meilan shook the certificate and showed the prize. "This is the prize from the school, a notebook. The first place winner got a thick notebook, the second place winner got two thin notebooks, and I got third place, so I only got one thin notebook. Oh, I want to get first place next year too. I want a thick notebook with a red cover, which is so pretty!"

She kept on rambling, and Aunt Jiang didn't want to listen at all. "That's enough, it's too noisy."

"Mom, what's wrong with you?" The careful Jiang Meihua, who was shelling beans, asked hurriedly.

Aunt Jiang was impatient, "Go and do your own thing, leave me alone."

She couldn't be impatient because her eldest daughter Jiang Meizhi came to her early in the morning and said she was pregnant and asked what to do.

She thought it was Huang's son-in-law's baby and glared at her eldest daughter, "What else can we do? Give birth to the baby and let Huang Ming raise you."

But the eldest daughter said anxiously that it was not Huang Mingcai's, but that liar Wu Deyuan's. The eldest daughter and Huang Mingcai had not had sex for half a year, but she was four months pregnant.

Her head was about to explode when she heard the news.

Wu Deyuan was arrested!
She asked her eldest daughter to abort the baby, but she said that she had gone to several hospitals but none of them dared to do so, saying that she had a health problem and might be in danger of losing her life.

It seems that I can only give birth to the baby quietly.

It costs a lot of money to keep a baby, and the eldest daughter has no money, so she came to her again.

Where does she get the money to give to her eldest daughter?
Aunt Jiang was so upset that when she saw her little daughter coming to quarrel with her, she wanted to beat her up.

Aunt Jiang has always had a strange temper and often loses her temper for no apparent reason.

My family members were used to it and didn't take it seriously.

Aunt Jiang asked everyone to go about their business, and everyone ignored her and went about their own business.

However, while everyone else was out and Jiang Xiaoxiao was asleep, Aunt Jiang quietly slipped into Jiang Daguo and Liu Xihua's room and started searching.

The cabinet on Liu Xihua's dressing table has four drawers.

The bottom and top drawers were locked.

Aunt Jiang couldn't find the key, so she simply took an axe and broke the lock.

The loud noise woke Jiang Xiaoxiao up.

When she saw Aunt Jiang holding the shiny axe and the broken lock, she sneered in her heart.

Does this Aunt Jiang want to steal milk powder or money?
Aunt Jiang opened the bottom drawer first and found only milk powder. She snorted, "A few packets of milk powder are locked? Is it really that important? How stingy!"

She hacked open the top lock again.

When I opened the drawer, I saw a lot of cash, food coupons, cloth coupons, and oil coupons inside.

(End of this chapter)