Chapter 8: Disciplining the Unruly Sister-in-law
[When he was young, he had poor grades. When he grew up, he couldn't understand contracts, but he still insisted on doing business with others. He couldn't pay off his debts and was thrown into jail]

[When she was young, she stole food. When she grew up, she stole money. My aunt was arrested and imprisoned for more than ten years. When she was released, she became an old woman.]

Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang don't know how to educate their children. They either let them do whatever they want, beat and scold them, or just ignore them.

Jiang Daguo is the eldest son and is supervised by people in the Jiang family, so he did not grow up too abnormal.

But all the other kids had problems.

The eldest daughter, Jiang Meizhi, was arrogant and unreasonable. Even after she got married, she often went back to her parents' home to bully her brother, sister-in-law and younger sisters.

The second daughter, Jiang Meihua, looked like Aunt Jiang, delicate and slender, but she was the least liked by Aunt Jiang, who either beat or scolded her. She was timid and cowardly, had a messy marriage life, and died early.

When the youngest daughter, Jiang Meilan, was born, Grandpa Jiang and Aunt Jiang were both in their forties. They had no energy to take care of her, and because she was a girl, they raised her like a cat or a dog.

As long as she wasn't sick or crying, Grandpa Jiang and his wife wouldn't interfere even if she stayed out all night hanging out with the boys.

Jiang Meilan's personality is like that of a boy. She climbs trees, fishes, skips classes and steals food.

I don't like reading and I'm not smart, so I'm always cheated.

She was pregnant and when asked whose baby it was, she was so confused that she couldn't say anything. Aunt Jiang was so angry that she almost swallowed the medicine, so she found a folk remedy and fed her a lot of it.

The child was aborted, but she remained infertile for life.

Jiang Meilan decided to give up and not get married, but she had one boyfriend after another, and had a variety of jobs, none of which were serious, and she didn't make any money.

Once I was tricked into doing business with someone, but I signed the contract without reading it clearly. As a result, I lost all my money and was also reported for malicious fundraising, and spent more than ten years in jail.

After Jiang Meilan was released from prison, she was too old to adapt to society and couldn't find a job. She was deceived into opening a moving company, but she was actually stealing. She was discovered and her partner ran away. Jiang Meilan became a scapegoat, and the result is predictable. She was imprisoned for a few more years.

Because of her family who has been to jail many times and has messy social relationships, Jiang Daguo and his sister's children's lives, work and marriages have been affected.

Jiang Xiaoxiao thought about the fate of Jiang Meilan in the book and felt sad.

At this time, Jiang Meilan, a 14-year-old second-year junior high school student, was not well fed and never focused on her studies. She spent all day thinking about where to get food.

Smelling the fragrance of milk powder in her little niece's room, Jiang Meilan's intestines started to growl, instigating her to come in and steal some.

Just as she picked up the can of milk powder, she heard a baby voice warning and scaring her.

Because she is not a good student, she will be defrauded of money and go to jail in the future? Is this true?

Jiang Meilan looked towards the bed. Her little niece opened her eyes slightly and stared at her without blinking. Her little mouth was opening and closing, blowing bubbles leisurely.

"I, I, I, I... let me look at this jar. The painting on it is really beautiful." Jiang Meilan hardened her heart and reluctantly put the jar back on the table. She walked to the bed and lay down, stretching out a finger and gently poking Jiang Xiaoxiao's face, "I didn't cheat, don't talk nonsense."

Jiang Xiaoxiao felt amused at how stubborn he was.

[Teacher Huang took sick leave in the morning and went to school in the afternoon. Teacher Huang must have gone home by now.]

Jiang Xiaoxiao stretched out her little finger and tried to wipe her left face, but she had no strength. This Jiang Meilan, who never washed her hands, actually poked her face with her black hands. How disgusting!

Jiang Meilan blinked. Math teacher Huang asked for leave? Is that true?

Now that Teacher Huang has gone home, no one will check her homework. She can copy her classmates' homework and avoid being punished in the afternoon.

Thinking of this, Jiang Meilan turned around and ran out of the house.

Liu Xihua came with the village health worker, Doctor Chen, and saw Jiang Meilan running away in a hurry. She called her in confusion, "Meilan, your stomach doesn't hurt anymore? Where are you going?"

"Sister-in-law, my stomachache doesn't hurt anymore. I'm going back to school!" Jiang Meilan ran away without looking back.

Liu Xihua shook her head and said, "This girl!" She called a nurse, but Jiang Meilan ran away.

Feeling embarrassed to let people make a wasted trip, Liu Xihua bought some deworming pills and asked Dr. Chen to look at the medicine she brought back from the hospital and asked how to take it.

The fat female nurse repeated it to Liu Xihua very responsibly.
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In the evening, the Jiang family returned home one after another.

Liu Xihua was unable to do heavy work, so she sat on a small stool and picked the wild vegetables that Jiang Daguo had dug up.

Second sister-in-law Jiang Meihua helped Aunt Jiang cook, while Jiang Daguo and Uncle Jiang started weaving straw sandals.

Jiang Meilan sat in the yard, tilting her head to look at the sunset in the sky. On the small table in front of her was a homework book, but not a single word was written on it.

Dinglingling——

Suddenly, the sound of a bicycle bell was heard from the back door of the Jiang family.

"Dad, Mom, I'm going to my classmate's house to do my homework!" Jiang Meilan stuffed her homework book into her schoolbag, picked up her backpack and ran away.

"Come back early." Uncle Jiang just glanced at her and didn't object.

In the bedroom, Jiang Xiaoxiao also heard the sound of a bicycle bell.

She thought of Jiang Meilan's past and couldn't help but worry.

Whenever the sound of a bicycle bell rang at the back door of the Jiang family, Jiang Meilan would rush out.

When he came back, the moon was already high in the treetops. When asked, he found out that he had gone to a classmate's house to discuss homework.

In fact, she was just hanging out with male classmates. They did this for a year or two and had a child, but we don't even know whose the child is.

[My little sister is still running outside after dark. Will a boy lead her astray?]

[Dad, you need to take care of my aunt. If you don’t care about her, she will be ruined. She will get pregnant with some boy’s child.]

[My aunt didn’t study hard, so she couldn’t understand business contracts and was cheated and put in jail. She was so miserable]

[Grandpa and grandma don't care about my aunt, but dad, you can't ignore her. If she learns bad things, it will bring trouble to the whole family.]

Uncle Jiang has a disabled leg and Aunt Jiang can't run fast, so they can't catch up with Jiang Meilan.

Although Jiang Meihua is the older sister, she is afraid of Jiang Meilan. Liu Xihua had a miscarriage and is in poor health. Now only Jiang Daguo is strong enough to take care of Jiang Meilan in the family.

Jiang Daguo was stunned. His daughter's voice?
No, it was my daughter's voice! She was talking about my little sister?
Will the little girl be led astray by the boy? Will she be tricked into jail?
Jiang Daguo was so frightened that his back went cold. He put down the straw sandals he was weaving, stood up and said, "Dad, I'm going to check on Meilan. It's already dark, why is she still running around?"

"Yeah." Uncle Jiang just hummed and continued with his work.

Jiang Daguo frowned, sighed, and chased after Jiang Meilan.

But Jiang Meilan was riding a male classmate's bicycle, and in the blink of an eye, she disappeared.

Jiang Daguo was so anxious that he shouted around, "Meilan, Meilan?" He shouted several times, but no one answered. He thought of a way out and shouted, "Meilan, your elder sister is back home and brought some meat!"

Jiang Meilan heard her older brother's voice, but she didn't want to come out, so she hid behind a haystack with a male classmate from her senior year, waiting for Jiang Daguo to leave before coming out.

But when she heard that her elder sister had brought back meat, her greed began to tickle her stomach, and she immediately came out, "Brother, did your elder sister really buy meat?"

"Of course, you'll eat it all if you don't go home."

(End of this chapter)