Now that's bad, Jiang Erchun has no money to pay compensation, so he was punished to the fullest extent of the law and sentenced to five years in prison!
Netizens were overjoyed, and Jiang Cancan's fans cheered and held a team-building activity under the hashtag #HasJiangCancan'sScumbagDadBeenStrippedOfChildRightsToday#.
What's even more ridiculous is that, perhaps at the suggestion of Jiang Cancan's lawyer fans, the fan club also established a "Caring for Left-Behind Children in Rural Areas" charity foundation in Jiang Cancan's name.
The jubilant fans' enthusiastic donations instantly propelled this special foundation to the top of trending topics.
The slightly silly trending topic "Jiang Cancan's fans are all rich" has piqued the curiosity of passersby.
I clicked in and wow! It really is a place where "everyone is rich"!
The number of donations reached 150,000 in just half a day, with the top ten donations mostly in the tens of thousands. The top donor even made a generous donation of 500,000 yuan in one go, and left a message saying that he would donate the same amount as the program team rewarded Jiang Cancan.
Fans were practically dying of laughter; the comment received over 800,000 likes, and even casual viewers couldn't help but exclaim how generous it was!
Some mischievous netizens even tagged the "Youth" program team, asking if they planned to add more rewards. They really wanted to confirm whether this top donor would actually make an additional donation...
Since the program "Young People Singing for the Motherland" unexpectedly became a hit, J Province TV Station seems to have suddenly unlocked its full potential and successfully grasped the secret to attracting viewers.
Seeing so many comments tagging them, the official account went to consult with their superiors, and then reported back to the netizens who were watching the spectacle.
"Great news! Our kind and lovely sponsors @NiuNiuDairy, @WeiDongVideo, and @GoodbabyWatch have decided to each contribute an additional 200,000 yuan as an education fund for Jiang Cancan, the champion of this competition. Thank you so much, sponsors! So (fingers), you're so generous, are you in?!"
The comment section instantly erupted in laughter, with everyone frantically tagging the top contributor whose username was "Lion Queen"—no, judging from the username, she must be a wealthy woman.
Unexpectedly, that very evening, this wealthy young lady replied to the official tag.
"Thank you to the production team and all the sponsors. I've already taken the 600,000! It's already in my account."
Also posted was the electronic transfer record of the wealthy man's donation to the Jiang Cancan Charity Foundation, which indeed amounted to 600,000 yuan!
That's incredibly wealthy!
The onlookers couldn't help but drool with envy.
Of course, Jiang Erchun, who was eating steamed buns in the detention center, knew nothing of all this.
He will never know that the two daughters he discarded like trash were actually his greatest treasure in life.
Unfortunately, he voluntarily gave up this fortune.
Chapter 98
Before the National Day holiday, Jiang Cancan returned to Langshan Village with Jiang Xiaoman and the others.
I came back this time for two reasons: one was to handle the transfer procedures, and the other, more important thing was to help Grandma Jiang and Xiaoyueyue move.
The land for the house has been purchased, but building the house won't be quick. Worried that the grandmother and granddaughter would be left unattended in the mountains, Jiang Xiaoman entrusted Jiang Baichuan to help them rent a house in the village.
Many families in the village have gone out to work, so there are plenty of empty houses, and they are very cheap, with an annual rent of only two thousand yuan.
Another advantage of renting a house in the village is that you can use the owner's unused vegetable garden for free.
In this way, Grandma Jiang can grow some vegetables in the garden on a regular basis, and the family only needs to buy rice, flour and seasonings regularly.
It's more convenient to buy things in the village than in the mountains. When there's no market day, tricycles will come to the countryside to sell pork, braised dishes, fruit, tofu, and other similar products.
Although it's a bit more expensive than going to the market, you don't have to go out and buy it yourself, which is especially suitable for elderly people like Grandma Jiang who have difficulty seeing.
Jiang Cancan's eyes reddened as soon as she saw her grandmother. She felt a little guilty towards her grandmother, because if her grandmother hadn't testified in court, her father wouldn't have been sentenced to prison.
Some netizens criticized her online, saying that she was too cruel to her own father.
However, her grandmother never blamed her and repeatedly told her on the phone not to wrong herself.
The grandmother and granddaughter hugged each other and cried for a while. Grandma Jiang knew that her son was unreliable, but the thought that Can Can was not even ten years old and had to shoulder the burden of supporting the family made the old woman feel extremely sad.
She was originally determined not to move down the mountain to live in the village, because moving down the mountain would cost money and would increase the burden on her granddaughter.
Her granddaughter is only nine years old! She was born into their family and has never enjoyed a single day of happiness. Now she has to support this blind old woman. How can she bear to squander the money her granddaughter earns?
Jiang Xiaoman advised her that if she and Yueyue continued to live in the mountains without anyone to take care of them, Cancan would not feel at ease even if she went to school in the city.
Thinking of her granddaughter's future, Grandma Jiang could only sigh as she packed her bags and moved down the street with her granddaughter.
There's really nothing to tidy up. The Jiang family's old house is so old that even a thief would feel sorry for it.
Jiang Baichuan truly lives up to his reputation as a capable and thrifty principal. The house he chose for Grandma Jiang is excellent, only a two-minute walk from the school. From now on, Grandma Jiang will no longer need to pick up and drop off Jiang Yueyue to and from school.
In front of the house is a large courtyard with a row of three large tile-roofed houses, including a kitchen, cowshed, and toilet. Behind the house, near the river, is a vegetable garden of more than one acre, which is currently abandoned.
Jiang Baichuan plans to find time to take all the teachers and students there for two labor classes to help Grandma Jiang plant her vegetable garden.
Jiang Cancan returned this time by chartered car. They didn't charter the high-end business car that celebrities often ride in, but a large truck. The back of the truck was full of all kinds of gifts sent to Jiang Cancan by fans all over the country.
Most of these items were practical daily necessities, which Jiang Cancan couldn't possibly use up and was reluctant to throw away. So Jiang Xiaoman simply hired a large truck and loaded them all back.
The funny thing is, when this truck drove up to the TV station, several reporters ran out and casually picked up a story.
The entertainment section reporters, in particular, couldn't stop laughing when they heard that Jiang Cancan had become so famous that she needed to hire a large truck to carry all the gifts sent by her fans.
As a result, this news, full of local flavor, was posted in the entertainment section and unexpectedly became a small hit!
Jiang Cancan's fans were a little confused when they saw this news. They never expected that their cute and adorable Cancan would be in the news for the first time after signing with a new company, and it would be on the social news channel!
This is absolutely unbelievable!
At this moment, for some reason, fans suddenly thought of Jiang Cancan's "senior brother" Wei Sheng, who also frequently made headlines in the local social news in the early days of his debut due to various nonsensical and silly incidents...
Could this be the unique persona that Zhou Mingxing, a top agent in the Chinese entertainment industry, meticulously crafted for his artists?
Fans felt a mix of emotions, worried that the innocent and adorable Jiang Cancan might be led astray by her silly senior brother.
However, seeing that Jiang Cancan even brought the photo album that her fans had given her, everyone felt inexplicably happy.
After all, I've seen it in the news more than once before, saying that celebrities only accept expensive gifts, and even pick out the valuable brand-name gifts from a pile of gifts, leaving the rest either as trash in the hotel or having their staff sell them on Xianyu (a second-hand marketplace app)...
Jiang Cancan, however, couldn't bear to throw away even those pretty wrapping papers.
The truth is, I really couldn't bear to throw it away.
Because Jiang Cancan had not yet registered and verified her personal social media account, after the competition, her resourceful fans found Jiang Xiaoman's video account. Sure enough, they managed to catch her. Jiang Cancan and her sister carefully unwrapped each gift and neatly laid them out according to their different patterns.
"What is my daughter doing?"
"I don't know, maybe little girls like to collect these kinds of paper decorations? I liked them when I was little."
"I don't think so. Isn't saving money our daughter's only hobby?"
Because they saw in the news that Jiang Cancan's mother died in childbirth when she was very young, her fans felt particularly sorry for her. Now, female fans automatically identify with the old mother and constantly refer to her as "our daughter".
Although a few male fans despise associating with scumbags, they secretly took on the role of an overbearing father, spending money extravagantly on Jiang Cancan!
Seeing their daughter still reluctant to throw away even the wrapping paper, these "virtual parents" couldn't help but silently reflect: We were careless! We never expected our daughter to like collecting wrapping paper! Next time we'll have to buy some pretty wrapping paper…
Just as fans were blaming themselves and reflecting on their actions, Jiang Cancan took action again—
She and her sister carried the torn packaging paper into the house, putting some here and some there. The fans watched the live stream with suspicion, but the next second they solved the mystery.
Jiang Xiaoman carried a small aluminum pot, its exterior blackened by smoke, and filled it halfway with paste. Jiang Cancan brought over a stool, placed the wrapping paper with the back facing up, and Jiang Xiaoman took a bristle brush to apply the paste. Jiang Cancan then carefully pasted the wrapping paper onto the mottled, old mud wall.
Now the fans finally understood why she kept those wrapping papers. Watching Jiang Cancan, so small, standing on tiptoe to paste the walls with wrapping papers, the fans almost cried.
In fact, fans have always known that Jiang Cancan's family is not well-off, but they don't have a clear understanding of just how poor it is.
Only now have they realized that the girl they like can't even bear to buy the cheapest wallpaper!
The family lived in a rented mud-brick house with peeling paint on the walls. Even the wrapping paper they carelessly threw away when receiving gifts was a treasure that Jiang Cancan could use to wallpaper the walls.
However, neither Jiang Cancan nor Jiang Xiaoman felt that their current lives were bad.
Actually, as long as they can stay away from those who bring them misfortune and be with the people they love, even the hardest days are worth looking forward to. Besides, these wrapping papers are thick and nice-looking, much nicer than the plastic sheets sold in their town, and they're free.
Jiang Cancan is quite talented in aesthetics. She managed to divide the huge pile of colorful wrapping paper that made Jiang Xiaoman dizzy into several similar colors and pasted them on in order from dark to light and from bottom to top.
This way, the light-colored top will make the room look brighter, while the dark-colored bottom will be more resistant to dirt.
After the walls were covered with wallpaper, she added some dolls and cushions that her fans had given her, and it actually looked quite cozy.
"It's just that this light bulb is broken. I'll rush to the market and buy a few energy-saving bulbs to replace it for you." Jiang Xiaoman looked at the old-fashioned incandescent bulb hanging above.
Although Jiang Erchun would rather go to jail than compensate them a single penny, Jiang Cancan is now flush with cash; 500,000 yuan is enough for her to settle down the family.
Jiang Xiaoman hired a car and took Grandma Jiang to the county town to open a bank account. Jiang Cancan deposited 50,000 yuan into it, which was enough for Grandma Jiang and Jiang Yueyue's living expenses and rent for a year.
While in the county town, Jiang Xiaoman had the driver go to the wholesale market and buy half a pig and twenty catties of lard. She also bought six large barrels of soybean oil for cooking, as well as a lot of salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and other cooking supplies.
Jiang Xiaoman is meticulous; she even bought enough laundry detergent, dish soap, soap, and shampoo and body wash for the family to last a year.
Grandma Jiang's eyesight is poor, and Jiang Yueyue is too young. It's unrealistic to expect them to buy these things themselves, so it's better to buy them all at once and bring them back.
The half pig that was bought was chopped into small pieces by Jiang Xiaoman, except for the leg which was cut off and cured into salted meat. The rest of the pig, including the skin, meat and ribs, was chopped into small pieces with the axe at home and then put into a large iron pot to slowly simmer until the surface was golden brown.
Once the lard has rendered, sprinkle in half a bag of salt and a handful of pepper. After it cools, store it in a large earthenware jar. When you want to eat it, scoop out a little bit. It's very convenient for stir-frying and stewing.
Most importantly, meat cooked this way won't spoil even in summer.
Back when Jiang Xiaoman was in college, almost every time she went home, she would buy ten or so pounds of pork and cook it in a clay pot for her father, so that he wouldn't eat roasted potatoes for every meal just to save money or trouble.
All twenty catties of lard were rendered and filled three enamel basins.
Although Grandma Jiang's eyesight is poor, she is not completely blind yet, and she can still cook normally. I render lard for her, and she can scoop some into her dishes and soups, which is more nutritious than eating boiled potatoes.
Jiang Cancan originally wanted to buy some nutritious milk powder for her grandmother and younger sister, but when she went to the store and asked about the prices, wow! It immediately deterred her...
"I'll buy it for them online later, don't worry. When I was in college, I had a few classmates from Xinjiang and Northeast China. They said that some local milk powders taste much better than those sold in supermarkets, and they're cheaper too. I'll ask about the brands and we can buy them online. Why waste money like this?"
Jiang Xiaoman didn't believe that these so-called goat milk powder and yak milk powder were actually goat milk and yak milk.
Anyone who has read a book knows how low the production of these two types of fresh milk is, so how come there are so many on the market?
If you're buying it yourself, it's better to find out the real deal, even if it's a cheaper local brand. At least you can be sure it's made from cow's milk and not some weird concoction...
After buying the items, Jiang Xiaoman took Jiang Cancan to an ATM near the wholesale market and withdrew three thousand yuan in cash for Grandma Jiang. The old lady didn't know how to use mobile payment, and having some cash on hand meant she wouldn't have to borrow money from others if she occasionally wanted to buy something.
Holding a stack of cash, Jiang Cancan's eyes reddened, and she hugged Jiang Xiaoman tightly!
These are life experiences that no adult in the family would teach her. Although Jiang Xiaoman always jokingly calls her "little aunt," deep down, Jiang Cancan really wishes Jiang Xiaoman were her real brother!
Jiang Xiaoman did not hide any of this from Jiang Cancan's fans.
He recorded everything on video, from going into the city to buy groceries and withdraw cash to settling Grandma Jiang in. Because the video was so long, he even split it into three parts before sending it out.
These three videos were not made for his own fans, but for Jiang Cancan's fans.