In their village, both husband and wife work outside the village, and there are many children who live with their grandparents!
Why do other people's children want to stay with their grandparents, but your child doesn't?
Are they all idiots in the village?
Upon entering the courtyard, they indeed saw Lang Ying's husband, Jiang Erming, grabbing her arm and cursing at her.
It's funny, before the villagers had even started gossiping, he was already accusing himself of being cuckolded and constantly talking about divorcing Lang Ying.
That's really rare!
Even the village chief couldn't help but suspect that he might have been possessed by an evil spirit outside.
You know, in the Langshan area, it's become increasingly difficult to find a wife these days. Not to mention first-time brides, even divorced women are in high demand!
Especially someone like Lang Ying, who is young and still fertile, would definitely attract far more suitors to marry her than Jiang Erming if they were to divorce.
The old village chief has spent his whole life mediating disputes in the village; what kind of monsters and demons hasn't he seen?
He immediately frowned.
Seeing that he didn't speak and hearing Jiang Erming's really harsh words, Jiang Yu put down the mountain flower in her arms and had Shan Guo pull her to the door to wait for her. Only then did she explain to Jiang Erming in a nice tone.
Upon hearing Jiang Yu say that he had a sworn brother and would never have any improper relationship with Lang Ying's sister-in-law, Jiang Erming was stunned for a moment, then snorted coldly.
"Godfathers? Does that mean neither of you can have children?"
"No wonder you came here to flirt with this woman, you don't want her to have a baby for you guys, do you?"
"Jiang Erming, what nonsense are you spouting?" The village chief knew that Jiang Yu's sworn brother was not to be trifled with, and had a group of apprentices under his command. Jiang Erming was, after all, from this village, and he didn't want to see him get beaten up, so he immediately spoke up to stop him.
He was only trying to help Jiang Erming, afraid that he would get beaten up later.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Erming's words became increasingly outrageous—
"If you really want this woman, I won't ask for more. Give me 50,000 yuan, and I'll give her to you two brothers to have a son..."
Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Erming was knocked to the ground by Jiang Yu's punch.
Despite being taller than Jiang Yu, Jiang Erming might not be able to beat Jiang Yu, who spends most of his time running around the mountains with the rocks.
Jiang Yu may look thin, but he has plenty of muscle in his arms.
Seeing him struggling to get up and fight back, Jiang Yu raised an eyebrow, flashed behind him, and kicked him in the lower back. Jiang Erming looked tall and strong, but he was surprisingly weak. He was kicked to the ground with one kick.
Jiang Yu clapped his hands, turned around, and apologized to Sister-in-law Lang Ying with an apologetic look: "Sister Yingzi, this is my fault, I've caused you trouble."
"But don't be afraid. If this guy dares to lay a finger on you, just come to my house and find me. I, Jiang Yu, dare to beat up my own brother, so why would I be afraid of an outsider?"
"Jiang Erming, I don't blame you for not knowing me before. But open your eyes wide and see clearly today. I live in Laoshan Aozi. If you don't believe me, go and ask around. Who have I, Jiang Yu, ever been afraid of all these years?"
"You dare to smear me? You'd better wait until my family comes down the mountain and say it again in front of him?"
Jiang Erming spent most of his time fooling around outside, so of course he didn't know who Shanyan was.
But he didn't know that his parents did!
At this moment, his father Jiang Hongyi stopped pretending to be weak, and his mother Lang Liugu stopped pretending to be gentle. The couple helped their son up, one on each side. Lang Liugu even whispered a few words of scolding to her son, probably telling him about the origin of the mountain rocks and river fish.
Sure enough! After being helped up by his parents, Jiang Erming immediately became much more obedient and stopped talking nonsense like before.
Although the village chief felt that Jiang Erming seemed a bit off, Jiang Yu had already taught him a lesson. As the village chief, he always tried to resolve the matter by minimizing the issue. He educated both sides and considered the matter closed.
However, when he got home, he couldn't help but grumble to his wife, feeling that Jiang Erming didn't seem like the type to settle down and live a stable life with his wife.
It's so hard for people in the mountains to find wives these days!
Others are afraid their wives will run off with someone else.
Jiang Erming, on the other hand, keeps saying he wants to divorce his wife.
If Jiang Yu hadn't been so skilled and beaten him into submission, Jiang Erming would have wanted to "sell" his wife to Jiang Yu.
"What else could it be? There's definitely someone else on the side!" The village chief's wife snorted. "Haven't you seen what they show on TV? Lots of men cheat on their wives, and the mistresses, pregnant, put up a fight. How can they make room for the mistresses if they don't kick the original wives out?"
The village chief's wife is an expert in this area! She's currently watching a TV series that's showing the part where the mistress, heavily pregnant, forces her way into the husband's bed!
"What? What good place does Jiang Erming's family have to move to? If the mistress takes over, will she inherit that dilapidated tile-roofed house that was built twenty years ago?"
The village chief said he didn't understand!
"What do you know? There are some people like that in this world; even shit they haven't tasted smells sweet!" The village chief's wife spat, but ultimately felt sorry for Jiang Erming's wife and couldn't help but add a word of advice to the village chief—
"Let me tell you, if Jiang Erming really has someone else outside and wants to divorce Yingzi, you have to stand up for this girl!"
"We can't just let her leave with nothing without a clear explanation. If Jiang Erming wants to find someone better, he has to give Yingzi an explanation first!"
"Why does it have to come to the point of divorce?"
The village chief still refused to believe that there could be any woman in the world who would be so greedy for Jiang Erming's pile of worthless broken tiles that she would cry and beg to marry him. He insisted that Jiang Erming had been bewitched by a vixen outside and that once he woke up, he would definitely live a good life with Lang Ying.
After all, a good woman like Lang Ying, who is hardworking, honest, and doesn't cause trouble, is so rare these days. She only needs three or five hundred a month to take good care of Jiang Erming's whole family.
But the village chief was proven wrong just two days later...
Chapter 127
The day after leaving Lang Ying's house, Jiang Yu temporarily stopped photographing her vegetable garden. This time, he learned his lesson and decided to photograph the vegetable gardens of the elderly people in the village!
Unexpectedly, the fans were also watching with great interest. Occasionally, a few hadn't forgotten about Lang Ying's sister-in-law who had previously gone viral, asking him how Lang Ying was doing now. He listened to Jiang Xiaoman and refrained from replying. These comments gradually sank to the bottom.
Although there are no weird or scumbag men to watch, Jiang Yu's video update speed quickly attracted a large number of fans who like the slow-paced life in the countryside.
Jiang Yu is actually very smart. He knows that he can't compare to a skilled video editor like Jiang Xiaoman in terms of technical skills.
But if the quality isn't good enough, quantity will make up for it!
He now updates at least three videos every day, two short and one long.
Aside from the longer one, which was for getting a share of the video views on another platform, the other two are basically about daily life.
In the morning, I'll take a picture of me making breakfast for my three daughters, feeding the chickens, and doing housework. In the afternoon, I'll take another picture of me making beehives, packaging honey or old honeycomb, etc.
The long videos show them fishing on the river, catching fish and shrimp in ditches, and sometimes taking the two little ones to dig for earthworms or dig pond mud on the banks of ponds where the water level has dropped in the fall.
What's so interesting about digging pond mud?
The number of views tells us just how much netizens love watching Jiang Yu take his two kids to dig in the pond mud—the combined views of all his previous videos don't even reach the number of views for this one!
After all, who would have thought that Jiang Yu would be so lucky?
He was only worried that digging pond mud in the village would be taking advantage of others, so he specifically chose a pond that had been abandoned for many years. His original intention was to dig some pond mud, carry it back, dry it, break it up, and use it as base fertilizer to plant some vegetables next spring.
Surprisingly, this pond, which had been neglected for so long, was teeming with turtles!
He dug a few shovelfuls and found a turtle; then he dug a few more and found a turtle's nest!
These wild ponds are all unclaimed, so Jiang Yu quickly called Shan Yan. Soon after, Shan Yan came up carrying two large buckets.
In that small pond of about ten square meters, the two of them actually dug out more than twenty turtles of all sizes!
The wild fruits and wildflowers were overjoyed!
The two little ones had probably never seen a turtle before; they squatted there, staring at it without blinking.
Jiang Yu's heart almost melted: "Brother Yan, let's not sell them all, let's keep a few of the smaller ones so the kids can raise them and play with them?"
"Okay! I'll buy some red bricks later and build a turtle pond in the yard." Although Shan Yan didn't talk much, he was just as good at spoiling his child as Jiang Yu.
"Dad, what do turtles eat?" Shan Guo asked Shan Yan, blinking her big eyes.
"Small fish, shrimp, snails, and vegetable leaves, I'll have your dad catch some for you later." Shan Yan smiled and put a few smaller turtles in a small bucket for Jiang Yu to carry. These were the children's pets, so he couldn't let them get crushed.
As for the rest?
The next day, Shan Yan carried the two buckets of wild turtles to the city by bus and sold them to a private restaurant he knew.
Turtles aren't exactly rare food, but the ones Shanyan sent were genuine wild turtles!
And they're huge!
There were seven large turtles in total, which sold for 5,300 yuan.
This amount of money is nothing compared to what they earn by going into the mountains to harvest rock honey, but it's free money!
The couple were very happy. Jiang Yu even asked Shan Yan to buy a quarter of a sheep from the town and two jin of spare ribs that the children love, inviting Jiang Xiaoman and his son to come down the mountain for a nice meal.
That's how it is in the countryside; people who are close to each other can still get together even if it's not a holiday.
Jiang Xiaoman was incredibly envious when she heard that he had earned more than 5,000 yuan in extra money by digging for turtles.
Why isn't he so lucky?
The mountain near his home has several ponds of varying sizes from its foot to his house, but you can't find a turtle, let alone a crab!
When he was a child, he wanted to eat mountain crabs, so his father would take him to a faraway place with a torch to catch them.
"No way! When your turtles lay eggs, give me a few baby turtles too, I'll take them home and raise them in the pond in my backyard." Jiang Xiaoman looked at the baby turtles in the plastic basin with envy.
Who knew that neither Shanyan nor Jiangyu were the kind of parents who would use children's toys as a favor?
"You'll have to ask the three sisters, Camellia and Mountain Fruit. These turtles are their treasures now, and Yan-ge and I can't make the decision about them," Jiang Yu chuckled.
How could he let his three precious daughters suffer the same fate he did when he was a child?
Jiang Yu's parents were very concerned about saving face. He remembered one year, he saved up for half a year and finally bought a tin frog that he had always wanted before the New Year. Who knew that his uncle's child came to pay New Year's visit and rolled on the ground, insisting on having his frog. His mother snatched the tin frog from his hand without saying a word and stuffed it into his uncle's child's hand.
Jiang Yu still remembers that Spring Festival and the tin frog he saved up for half a year to buy.
He thought Jiang Xiaoman wouldn't understand his obsession with toys, but to his surprise, Jiang Xiaoman actually squatted down very seriously and started discussing business with the Mountain Fruit sisters—
"There are lots of wild rabbits on the mountain near my home. When your turtles have baby turtles, I'll trade you some baby rabbits for one baby turtle, okay?"
He refused to believe that any girl in the world could resist a fluffy little bunny!
really!
Upon hearing that he wanted to trade the little rabbit for their little turtle, Shan Guo's big eyes widened even more instantly.
"Deal!" Camellia, on behalf of her two younger sisters, reached this deal with Jiang Xiaoman.
She thinks much further ahead than her sisters.
Although turtles are more valuable than hares, they grow slowly!