“Starting next month, each of your two families will give me 500 yuan for living expenses.”
"What?!" Jiang Yong was stunned.
He planned to come back and ask his mother for some money, but instead of getting any, he's having to take money out of the country.
"I raised you and your brother to adulthood, built houses for you, and helped you get married. Now that I'm old, you won't even let your son give you some living expenses? Uncle Tian, you be the judge for me. What kind of unfilial son is this?"
Everyone was stunned by this reversal.
"Well done!" Jiang Xiaoman secretly gave Lang Hongfan a thumbs up.
To deal with these heartless vampire children, you should suck their blood back!
What?! I raised you two with such hardship, and now she's so old, and you don't even give her any living expenses each month?! Are you even human?!
After this incident, it's estimated that the Jiang brothers won't dare to go back to the village to harass their mother for a while.
Otherwise, Jiang Xiaoman has a thousand bad ideas that she can provide to Aunt Hongfan for free.
She complains about needing money from her sons for medicine when she's sick, needing to repair her house, and even selling counterfeit or substandard products online as overpriced health supplements! She told her two sons that all her money had been swindled away by these health supplement sellers! Now she's struggling to make ends meet and hopes her sons will give her some financial assistance…
Isn't it just playing the victim and crying poverty?
He now has ten million fans!
Even if everyone gave him a bad idea, there would be a million reasons for Aunt Hongfan's two sons to cry so much that they would never dare to come back to their mother for money again...
This incident caused quite a stir in Langshan Village for several days.
In the past, everyone felt that since the older generation didn't spend much money in their hometown, they could save up some money and use it to make their children's lives more comfortable, which would make them happy.
However, Lang Hongfan's case was like lifting the lid on a cesspool, revealing the filthy truth inside.
Perhaps it is precisely because they spoiled their children their whole lives and gave them all the good things that they raised some ungrateful children who only knew how to take and never knew how to give back!
In fact, many elderly people left behind in rural areas are living a very hard life!
Although every household raises pigs, they rarely spend money to buy fresh pork for themselves. They usually just eat some vegetables they grow themselves, or they cut off a piece of cured meat to cook and eat during festivals.
Moreover, it's cured meat that doesn't look very appealing.
After all, the best cured meat is always taken to the city by the children to eat after the New Year. How could they bear to eat it themselves?
And then there's the money earned this year from selling tea cakes and wild vegetables with Jiang Xiaoman. Actually, many of the elderly people in the village had saved up this money, but their children had already lured away a significant portion of it away...
The credit union branch in the town never expected that, despite driving around to the countryside to promote their services, very few people would be willing to apply for a card with them.
From that day on, more and more fellow villagers came to the credit union to apply for credit cards!
Moreover, many of them are relatively old.
Don't let their appearance fool you; these elderly folks may look like junk collectors, but they have quite a bit of cash saved up. The smallest amount is a few thousand to ten thousand yuan, and the largest is over thirty thousand yuan!
...
After filming at Lang Hongfan's house, Jiang Xiaoman decided to film the second house at the home of Lang Ying's good friend, Sister-in-law Shan Ying.
Many of the mothers left behind in the village actually envy Shanying, because her husband doesn't go out to work.
Most people would think that having a man in the house would make things easier for the woman, right?
Actually, no.
Although Yama-sakura's husband didn't cheat on her or have a mistress, and didn't have any tendency towards domestic violence, the fatal flaw was that he was a professional slacker...
How much does this man love to slack off?
Like Lang Hongfan's two sons, Jiang Xiaohui didn't like studying when he was young. When he grew up, he went out to work, but he didn't save much money. He was afraid of hardship and refused to do any dirty or tiring work. He just lazed around with his coworkers every day, earning the lowest basic salary in the factory. He didn't even earn enough to cover his own expenses each month.
After his family sold everything they owned to pay for his marriage, he, being the spineless man he was, clung to his wife, truly embodying the saying "obeying one's mother at home and one's wife after marriage"—it was as if Shan Ying had taken in a gigolo son-in-law, who not only bore him children but also had to find ways to earn money to support the family.
What left Jiang Xiaoman, an outsider, speechless was that no matter how much her husband slacked off, Shan Ying still happily supported him!
In Shan Ying's opinion, a man who doesn't drink, hit women, or go out and flirt with other women, even if he's a bit lazy, can barely be considered a good man.
Help! He doesn't understand!!
The reason he filmed the cherry blossoms this time was to let his ten million fans judge whether he was too narrow-minded or whether Jiang Xiaohui, a professional slacker, was really a good man.
After watching Aunt Lang Hongfan's video, although I was furious, what was speechless was that Jiang Xiaoman's account saw a significant increase in fan activity!
So, after seeing that Jiang Xiaoman had released the second episode of this series, fans quickly took out their phone stands, grabbed some snacks and drinks, opened the video, and happily prepared to enjoy the new drama.
Halfway through eating the melon, the seeds fell all over the ground.
Excuse me? You guys call this a "good man"?
Has the Xinhua Dictionary added a new definition to "good man"?
The following is a video replay—
Shan Ying also has two children, but she got married early. The older one is already in junior high school and lives in the town, coming home once a week. The younger one is in the fifth grade at the village primary school. Rural children are very self-reliant, and the fifth grader can already wash, eat, and go to school by himself.
Because of this, Jiang Xiaohui kept urging her to have another child. They already had two sons, but he wanted a daughter, or even two.
However, his so-called "wanting two more daughters" only involved providing a certain number of sperm and making some noise; the rest was left to his wife.
It was a little past five in the morning, and the sky was just beginning to lighten. Jiang Xiaohui was still fast asleep in bed, while Shan Ying had already gotten up.
First, light the stove in the house, boil a kettle of water, and the whole family wash up, plus give the child a kettle of cooled boiled water to take to school.
Then you see her spinning like a top, sweeping the floor, making breakfast, cooking pig feed, feeding the pigs and chickens, washing clothes, washing dishes... until she finishes all that and comes back from the vegetable garden with a basket on her back, digging up more than 100 pounds of radishes, then her husband Jiang Xiaohui lazily gets out of bed.
He was squatting on the ground brushing his teeth while urging his wife to hurry up and heat up his breakfast.
"I can't take it anymore, my fists are hard!"
"If you don't understand, just ask: is it illegal for the men here to work?"
"This guy thinks he's a good man? Forget it! I'm not worthy of him!"
"As a fellow man, I don't think he's a good man."
"Help! A good man's reputation is being ruined!!!"
"No offense intended, but I just want to ask this lady, are the standards for a good man this low where you live? If it were my family, I'd be exhausted after a long morning, and my husband would sleep in until he naturally woke up, and I'd be expected to heat up his food? Sorry, I'd want to grab a cleaver and kill him!!!"
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Before the video was even finished, some hot-tempered fans started passionately cursing in the comments section.
What's even more infuriating is yet to come.
You've already gotten up and eaten, so shouldn't you help your wife with some chores?
LOL~~ No way!
Jiang Xiaohui ate while playing on his phone. After finishing his meal, he pushed away his bowl and chopsticks and collapsed onto the shabby sofa to play games!
When they were filming, Jiang Xiaoman kindly reminded him to take the dishes and chopsticks to wash.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Xiaohui didn't even lift his eyelids, and his tone was very impatient: "Washing pots and pans is a woman's job, ask your sister-in-law to do it!"
Goodness! Jiang Xiaoman also felt a bit itchy to punch herself.
If this were his own brother-in-law, he would have beaten him so badly he couldn't take care of himself.
Since I don't do any work at home and am like a vegetable, I might as well be a real vegetable!
In the courtyard, Shanying had already chopped over a hundred catties of radishes into dried radish. She took out several large bamboo trays and placed them in the courtyard to dry. Then she ran out and carried back a basket of radishes.
Jiang Xiaoman couldn't bear to watch any longer, so she set up the tripod, rolled up her sleeves, and helped her cut the dried radish.
While cutting, she couldn't help but mutter a complaint under her breath that Jiang Xiaohui was too lazy, leaving Shanying to do all the housework by herself.
"Sister Yingzi, aren't you going to do anything about him?"
"Sigh! You think I don't want to deal with it? That's just how he is, he'll never change."
"I don't expect him to be of much help to me. I'd be happy if he didn't cause me any trouble like Jiang Erming did."
"Didn't you ever think about living alone with your child like Lang Ying did?" Jiang Xiaoman couldn't help but ask.
He knew the principle of advising reconciliation rather than separation, but Sister Shanying was now practically his employee. As the boss, he really didn't want his employees to use the money they worked so hard to earn to support gigolos.
Wait a minute! Jiang Xiaohui is dark-skinned, short, lazy, and greedy. He doesn't even qualify as a pretty boy with a sweet tongue! Sister, wake up!
Yama Sakura gave a bitter smile: "Do you think I want to be with him? I had no choice."
"I have two sons. If I get divorced, where will I live?"
"Xiaoman, you know perfectly well that women in our rural areas are born with a hard life. They don't have a homestead in their parents' home, and even after they marry into their husband's family, they still don't get anything!"
"If I divorce Xiaohui, not to mention where I'll live, he definitely won't let me take my two sons with me. For the sake of the children, I have to endure it whether I want to or not."
"But Xiaohui is not bad. Although he is a bit playful and doesn't like to do housework, he will go to the fields when asked during the busy farming season. He will also lend a hand to some of the women in the family who can't do the heavy physical work..."
This is the tragedy of married women in rural areas.
After a divorce, they become homeless; if they have a son, they can't take him with them. Most women don't lose their husbands; they just can't let go of their children...
Seeing this, netizens were so angry they were speechless. Some hot-tempered fans even suggested in the comments section that Jiang Xiaoman should stop making these infuriating videos.
They follow Xiaoman because they want to see the warm and leisurely slow life in the countryside.
They weren't here to watch a realistic storyline that would drive them crazy every day.
However, Jiang Xiaoman didn't make this video series to anger her fans and make them unfollow her. Before long, they were successfully healed by the conversation between Jiang Xiaoman and Shan Ying.
Shan Ying said that although her husband is unreliable, she is fortunate to have good sisters who fight alongside her, as well as good bosses Jiang Xiaoman and Jiang Yu.
Jiang Xiaohui didn't want to suffer and was unwilling to go to the city to work. Originally, Shan Ying and her son followed him, and they really didn't know where their next meal would come from. It was only by Shan Ying squeezing out time from her heavy housework to go up the mountain to dig for medicinal herbs, raise chickens and pigs that the family could occasionally eat meat.
But ever since Jiang Xiaoman and Jiang Yu started hiring people to do work in the village, Shan Ying's family's living conditions have improved a lot!
Other villagers have to go into the mountains to dig bamboo shoots and wild vegetables, or grow their own vegetables and make them into dried vegetables, before they can take them to Jiang Xiaoman to sell for money.
But Shan Ying was taken along by Lang Ying and started working in Jiang Xiaoman's small workshop. When things got busy, she could earn three or four thousand yuan a month, including overtime pay!
Moreover, Jiang Xiaoman is a very kind person. Sometimes when they bring their children to work the night shift, he doesn't say anything. Instead, he lends his office to the children to do their homework and helps them with their homework when he has free time.
Besides her salary, when the workshop doesn't need help, she'll also drag her husband into the mountains to dig for wild vegetables and bamboo shoots. They'll then make dried vegetables and sell them in Xiaoman, which is another source of income!
Last time, Xiaoman even introduced her to Boss Tang's guesthouse, where she could help with cooking. Each meal cost between 50 and 100 yuan, and she would cook about ten meals a month. The money she earned was enough to cover her family's food expenses for the whole month.
In addition, there's the money from selling honey, selling vegetables, and packaging local honey for Jiang Yu's family... All this adds up, the money Shan Ying earns each year alone is equivalent to several years' worth of her family's income in the past.
"Then you should definitely ask Brother Xiaohui to help out! Sister Yingzi, think about it, you can earn so much by yourself. If there's another person in the family earning money, wouldn't your family's life get better and better?"