People in the mountains rarely go to the market to buy vegetables. They usually grow their own vegetables, especially in this season. In addition to the fresh vegetables they eat at home, they also grow more vegetables to make various pickles, kimchi, dried vegetables, etc., in preparation for when there are no vegetables to eat in winter, so as to enrich their family's dining table.
The main reason is that I can't bear to spend money on groceries.
Off-season vegetables harvested in winter are transported from outside the mountains to mountainous areas like theirs, and the price doubles! Except for the Lunar New Year, almost no one is willing to buy them to eat.
The vegetable gardens of the families I've recently become familiar with are basically overflowing this season, so full you can barely put your feet down! They have several kinds of radishes alone, including white radishes, green radishes, water radishes, and carrots!
There are also mustard greens kept to make pickled mustard tubers, and snow cabbage to make pickled vegetables.
Pea sprouts, spinach, bok choy, Chinese cabbage, garlic sprouts, etc., are kept for winter consumption as fresh vegetables...
These women are incredibly hardworking. They grow what they can themselves and are reluctant to spend money on buying it. Jiang Yu even saw people in several vegetable gardens covering their fields with broken clay pots to grow garlic sprouts and leek sprouts!
"These are expensive during the Spring Festival! Last year, a pound of garlic sprouts sold for ten yuan!" said Lang Ying, a woman from the village, pointing to rows of her homemade garlic sprout cultivation devices made from bamboo tubes.
"Little Fish, look, I planted so much this year. I'll harvest it two days before New Year's Eve and sell it in town. I estimate this plot of land will fetch at least 500 yuan, enough to buy my two girls new clothes and shoes for the New Year!"
"Sister Yingzi, isn't your husband coming home for the New Year? He's been working away from home for a year. Surely he can't even afford to buy the kids new clothes for the New Year?" Jiang Yu couldn't help but ask her.
"How would I know how much money he makes each year? They won't let me ask, or they'll hit me." Lang Ying shook her head with a bitter smile. "Anyway, their family says that the two girls are just a money-losing burden. They're only good enough to feed, let alone buy them new clothes. I'm not counting on them. They're my own daughters, and I'll cherish them myself!"
"Once I sell these garlic sprouts, I won't give the money to anyone else; I'll use it to buy clothes for the two girls!"
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After obtaining Lang Ying's sister-in-law's consent, Jiang Yu cut out this segment and put it into his own video.
To be honest, this new way of "fishing for vegetables" has recently gained quite a few fans.
Especially after a cat owner recently became popular on the platform for "adopting instead of buying," the general consensus among netizens was that this seemingly frugal but actually efficient use of resources was well done, and they wanted to imitate it...
It's just that the conditions don't allow it, so I prefer to follow the blogger and wait for updates.
Lang Ying's sister-in-law's vegetable garden was indeed very well managed.
Jiang Yu took this photo shoot on the theme of promoting the fishing activities of the women in the village, so he put even more effort into it than he usually does when shooting fishing-themed photos.
Early in the morning, before Lang Ying's sister-in-law arrived, Jiang Yu ran over and took pictures of the entire vegetable garden as soon as the sun came up!
Under the warm autumn sun, all kinds of radishes are plump and juicy, with thick, glossy green leaves.
The Chinese cabbages were neatly arranged, the largest of which was as thick as a water bucket, and each one probably weighed about ten pounds!
There were also various leafy greens, such as spinach, garland chrysanthemum, pea sprouts, mustard greens, and red mustard greens... Several of these were quite expensive when sold at the market, so I guess Sister Langying planted them specifically to sell for money.
This scene of a bountiful autumn harvest is so heartwarming!
The netizens who saw it couldn't help but feel excited, wishing they could go to the countryside, buy a plot of land, and grow vegetables.
Just as fans were secretly speculating about what kind of food the fisherman would get today, the scene changed, showing a conversation between Lang Ying's sister-in-law and Jiang Yu.
Good heavens!
Just a moment ago, we were all excited, but after hearing this conversation, netizens' anger is rising like wildfire!
"I'm devastated! This is exactly what my mother lived back then. My father looked down on us three sisters because he thought we were a money-loser and wouldn't give my mother any living expenses. My mother raised us three sisters by growing vegetables."
"I'm going to curse this scumbag guy here, no one will object, right? Is he even human? These days, hiring a nanny in the city costs at least five thousand yuan a month, and you married a wife! Your wife takes care of your whole family back in your hometown! She even gave you two daughters! And you only give her three or five hundred yuan a month for living expenses? You don't even buy your daughters new clothes for the New Year?"
"I'm speechless! How can a man like this even have a wife? If I could get married, and my wife gave me two daughters and willingly stayed in my hometown to help me take care of my parents, I would support her! I would keep enough money for my own food each month and give the rest to my wife!"
"If it weren't for the two kids, I'd really tell my sister-in-law to run away! Even if it meant taking a standing-room-only ticket overnight! Why keep a man like that around? You'd better kick him out right away!"
"Run! If you don't have money, I'll buy you a ticket!"
"One piece of knowledge about fear of marriage every day... Review it once a day, and your heart will be sealed in cement!"
Netizens who came in expecting to see a leisurely rural life were instead outraged by Lang Ying's scumbag husband. They were so angry that they wanted to rush out of the comments section and run to Langshan Village to rescue poor Lang Ying!
Three hundred yuan a month for living expenses? And she still has to serve this man's whole family!
Even if you brought two kids to the city to beg for food, you'd still earn more than 300 yuan a month, right?
Not to mention the girls, even many boys took to the comments section to passionately hurl insults at Lang Ying's wife, calling her a stingy and selfish man.
Originally, this video could only be seen by Jiang Yu's fans and randomly assigned users by the system. However, the video was so outrageous that some fans, either because they were eager to watch the drama or because they lacked the vocabulary to accurately insult others, tagged several witty and sarcastic bloggers on the platform.
Others tagged several well-known influencers on video platforms who specialize in emotional and women's rights topics, asking them to think of ways to help Lang Ying's wife...
Good heavens! Isn't this like "sitting at home and having inspiration fall from the sky"?
Many吐槽 (tu cao, meaning to criticize or complain) bloggers and relationship bloggers worked overtime overnight. One吐槽 blogger even didn't have time to put on a wig and just put on a hat to start working overnight!
Jiang Yu himself did not expect that he originally wanted to help Lang Ying's sister-in-law sell some vegetables by making this video. Unexpectedly, before the vegetables were sold, his own video became incredibly popular and even made it to the local hot topics!
The cause, of course, was those few influential figures with millions of followers.
After they finished criticizing, they couldn't find Lang Ying's sister-in-law's account, so they simply tagged Jiang Yu.
There was even a well-known lawyer who specializes in advocating for women's rights who tagged him, saying that if Lang Ying's sister-in-law needed it, she could provide Lang Ying with legal aid free of charge.
Whether it's seeking reasonable alimony from Lang Ying's husband or simply filing for divorce, if the facts are really as described in the video, then both cases are guaranteed to be won!
The blogger who forgot to wear a hat was even funnier, cursing Lang Ying's scumbag husband for a full two minutes in front of the camera, which amazed many netizens. Many who hadn't seen Jiang Yu's video simply followed the blogger's mentions and went to Jiang Yu's account to watch the original video.
Indeed, the best way to make a comment is to combine it with the original video.
After watching the original video, the fans who criticized the blogger also had a million curses they wanted to send to Lang Ying's scumbag husband... Unfortunately, their vocabulary of insults was limited, and after holding back for a long time, they could only loudly urge Miss Lang Ying to run away as soon as possible in Jiang Yu's comment section!
I also followed Jiangyu's account.
After all, they hadn't seen such an extremely stingy and scumbag man in a long time.
I'm desperate to know when Ms. Lang Ying will finally run away...
Chapter 126
On the first day of fishing, Jiang Yu gained over 100,000 followers overnight, and he felt like a really lucky goose.
This time, he simply took a picture of Lang Ying's sister-in-law's vegetable garden and chatted with her for a bit, and unexpectedly, he became a trending topic and was even tagged by several influential figures with millions of followers!
Most importantly, his number of followers skyrocketed from 130,000 to over 700,000 overnight!
It seems the entire internet is waiting to see when Lang Ying's sister-in-law will finally divorce her scumbag husband...
Will he cause trouble for Lang Ying's sister-in-law?
Thinking of this, Jiang Yu quickly called Jiang Xiaoman.
Jiang Xiaoman never expected that Jiang Yu taking pictures of a vegetable garden would cause such a mess.
The villagers are full of gossip, especially from Lang Ying's in-laws, who are all bad people!
If Lang Ying's husband was blatantly despicable, then her in-laws were definitely the silent, pervasive victims of PUA (Pick-Up Artist) tactics.
This is no secret in the village.
After all, if the parents-in-law really cared about Lang Ying, they should have disciplined their son, made him give his wife more living expenses, and stopped him from beating his wife!
Instead of crying and playing the victim, saying that the family can only rely on the daughter-in-law, while letting the son go out to work and enjoy a leisurely life, leaving the burden of the whole family on the daughter-in-law.
What's most disgusting is that these two old men keep praising their daughter-in-law to the villagers, saying she's virtuous, capable, and even more filial than their son.
Bah! You think this is something nice to say?
It's nothing more than using these nice-sounding words and moral blackmail to manipulate the daughter-in-law into becoming a hardworking, unpaid nanny who works like a slave for their family!
No, that's not right. The nanny has to be paid, but Lang Ying, this daughter-in-law, not only doesn't want a salary, she also has to farm and raise pigs for their family to earn money.
They couldn't bear to let their son suffer, so they made their daughter-in-law suffer instead. These two old bastards are the real serial perpetrators of PUA, so bad they'd get sores on the soles of their feet!
Now, Jiang Yu has inadvertently revealed this secret and even made it to the local trending topics. If Lang Ying's man sees this, he'll beat her half to death.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xiaoman didn't hesitate any longer and urged Jiang Yu to go find Lang Ying immediately.
"No! Go to the village and find the village chief first. Ask him to accompany you to Lang Ying's house and explain to her in-laws that you accidentally filmed it, and that you didn't think too much about it when you were editing it. Lang Ying's wife didn't mean to talk about those things in her family outside..."
Jiang Xiaoman reminded Jiang Yu over the phone that there are differences between men and women, and the village elders are quite gossipy. If they were to create some kind of scandal between him and Lang Ying, Jiang Yu would be better off, as men don't usually suffer in this regard, but Lang Ying's sister-in-law would have a difficult time in the village afterward...
Jiang Yu couldn't sit still after hearing that.
He told Shan Guo to take good care of her younger sister at home. They had already reached the door when he thought for a moment, then turned back, picked up Shan Hua, and led Shan Guo by the hand. The three of them ran all the way to the village chief's house.
When the village chief saw him arrive with two children, he assumed it was some mischievous kid from the village bullying Shan Guo and Shan Hua, and was having a headache. But when he heard that he had accidentally captured something "that could be misunderstood" while filming, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"I thought it was something serious. You're being too cautious, kid!"
“People in the village don’t know how to watch their mouths. If things get heated, they can even fight. You’re not trying to pick a fight with anyone.”
The village chief thought Jiang Yu was making a fuss over nothing.
Every year, countless arguments erupt in their village, with people tearing each other apart and even pulling hair. Is Jiang Yu's case really that big of a deal?
"That's what you say, but it was my fault after all. I'd still like to trouble the village chief to accompany me so I can go to Sister-in-law Lang Ying's house to apologize." As he spoke, Jiang Yu put down the two bottles of liquor he had bought from the convenience store on the way here.
Although the village chief thought he was making a fuss, he thought that Jiang Yu and her husband had just moved down the mountain and needed to get along well with the villagers, so he told his wife and took Jiang Yu on a trip.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at Lang Ying's house, they saw her parents-in-law standing like two guardian deities, one on each side, squatting by the gate wiping away tears. From inside the courtyard came the harsh shouts of a man—
"I loved you! But give me back my dowry and get the hell out of here!"
"I've been sending you money every month, raising you for so many years, and I never imagined you'd turn into a whore..."
The old village chief blushed deeply.
That Jiang Erming! We never see him all year round, and the moment he comes back, he slaps him in the face. It's infuriating!
"Erming, what are you doing? In broad daylight, you're tormenting your wife. I think you're tired of having a good life, aren't you?" The village chief huffed and puffed, looking at Jiang Erming's father with his hands behind his back.
When his father, Jiang Hongyi, saw the village chief arrive, he quickly stood up and opened the door.
The village chief glared at him, clearly disapproving of his timid and submissive manner.
If you really want what's best for your son, you should help him and his wife support the family.
But what about Jiang Hongyi and his wife?
They used to seem quite diligent, but ever since their son got married, the couple has become like they've lost an arm or a leg, suddenly turning into disabled people.
This land can't be cultivated anymore; we'll have to rely on our daughter-in-law!
She can't do housework anymore, so her daughter-in-law has to do it!
They don't care about their two granddaughters at all. When villagers ask them, they just say the children are with their mother and refuse to stay with them... Bah!