The women in the village suddenly realized that they had sacrificed everything for their families, but had not gained economic freedom or the respect of their in-laws. However, since they started working with Jiang Xiaoman, it seemed that they had all of that all at once!
Now Shanying can earn more than 100 yuan a day. Jiang Xiaoman not only gives them a fixed salary, but also gives them overtime pay when they work overtime.
Besides his side, Jiang Yu often asked them to help out. Shan Yan's beekeeping cooperative was now collecting large quantities of honey every day, and when they got busy, they didn't have time to cook. Jiang Yu knew that Lang Ying also had to cook for Grandma Jiang, and was worried that she wouldn't be able to handle it, so he simply asked Shan Ying to cook two meals for his family every day, at noon and in the evening. He paid her thirty yuan for each meal, which added up to 60 yuan a day...
To put it simply, if Shanying continues like this, she can earn enough in three months to cover her and her child's living expenses for a whole year!
She can earn money to support herself and her child, so whether she has a man or not doesn't seem to matter much anymore.
If you want to stay together, then stay together; if you don't want to, the Civil Affairs Bureau is open every day, and getting a divorce only takes about a month.
With Lang Ying as a positive role model, the women in Langshan Village are no longer as afraid of divorce as they used to be.
Anyway, whenever Shan Ying argues with her husband, the topic of "divorce" inevitably comes up every three sentences, and she doesn't just say it to scare him.
Shan Ying genuinely believes that people like Lang Ying, who are divorced and raising two children, actually live much better lives than when they were with a man!
After all, raising a child alone, no matter how hard it is, has its limits. But in her current situation, it sounds good to outsiders, with her in-laws and husband helping her, but who doesn't know how difficult it is to be a daughter-in-law?
If a man earns money outside and gives you three or five hundred a month, it's as if he's made a huge contribution to the family!
When he gets home, he wants to treat his wife like a maid, and he feels like he's the emperor!
The same goes for the parents-in-law; they are the ones who order around their children, and the daughter-in-law never orders around her parents-in-law.
Thinking of this, Shan Ying was really angry, so she hugged her pillow and blanket and went to sleep in her daughter's room.
The next day, she angrily went to Lang Ying to tell on him.
Jiang Xiaoman also felt that Jiang Erming's family must have lost their minds. It was clearly their son who cheated, divorced, and abandoned his wife and children. Now, it seems that they can't make it outside and have started to think about the benefits of the original wife.
Sorry, it's too late!!!
It's laughable that Lang Liugu's family all thought that no one in the village knew about their affairs in the provincial capital.
Unexpectedly, Shan Yan knew quite a few people in the provincial capital. Although these restaurant and private kitchen owners were not involved in the underworld, they were able to do business in the provincial capital. How could they not know a few people who could protect them?
Two days later, Shan Yan took Qing Shan to the provincial capital to deliver mountain products and heard the interesting story of "getting a kidney cut for free".
This Mr. Hou is quite shrewd. His son has uremia, and he's tried everything to get a kidney transplant, but to no avail. Uremia is a disease where, without a kidney transplant, the rest of the life is essentially a wait-and-see approach to death.
As the saying goes, a moment of crisis can bring a solution. One day, Mr. Hou was sitting in his office, staring at the group of strong and healthy workers in his small factory, and couldn't help but sigh to himself: If only one of them could be a match for his son.
Hmm? What if there's actually a match for his son among them?
Mr. Hou was so excited that he jumped up from his chair on the spot.
However, finding a match is easy. A bunch of country bumpkins can be tricked into going to the hospital for a physical examination, and then connections can be used to tamper with the examination items. It's always possible to find out if there is a suitable match for his son.
But if there really is someone who is a good match, how can you cut off a human kidney and replace it with one for your son?
This is not the old society anymore. Even if Mr. Hou didn't dare to hire someone to dig out a living person's kidneys, no hospital would dare to replace his son's kidneys!
Mr. Hou was very distressed. After returning home, he couldn't help but tell his family about it.
Who knew that President Hou would have such a wonderful daughter!
Hou Tingting suggested that her father first try to find a match, and if a match was found, they could then try to persuade the person to "voluntarily donate."
If we can't do it domestically, then we'll do it overseas!
As long as we can get the [illegible], everything else is not a problem!
And so, the Hou family set a trap, ensnaring Jiang Erming, who had willingly taken the bait...
As for the "ex-boyfriend who was involved in the underworld"?
Shan Yan sneered, "If President Hou is willing, he can find a hundred ex-boyfriends like that for a few tens of thousands of yuan!"
How much would it cost to hire a few extras?
Only a cowardly and wicked fool like Jiang Erming, after being scared a few times, would be so timid that he would never dare to go to the provincial capital again.
After hearing Jiang Yu's retelling of "Jiang Erming's Heartbreaking Loss of His Kidneys," Jiang Xiaoman slammed her hand on the table and laughed wildly, her palms turning red from the slapping.
No wonder!
He said, "How could a rich second-generation beauty in the city be interested in Jiang Erming, who has no money, no looks, and is already married with children?"
Even if she's heavily pregnant and looking for someone to take over her life, she should at least find someone she finds pleasing to the eye, right?
I never expected this!
It turns out that the rich second-generation guy who approached Jiang Erming wasn't looking for him to be a sucker, but rather a predatory scam that would cut off his kidneys!
Jiang Xiaoman's stomach ached from laughing, but she didn't dare grab Jiang Yu's arm for fear of making Shan Yan jealous. She could only helplessly clutch her aching stomach and desperately rub her sore cheeks with her other hand.
Oh my god! If this matter hadn't involved Lang Ying, Jiang Xiaoman would definitely have called the local news outlet to break the news immediately, and maybe even got the 200 yuan reward.
Having listened to the latest gossip with great satisfaction, Jiang Xiaoman turned around and provided this important information to Lang Ying, and then, quite unscrupulously, gave her some advice—
"If Jiang Erming and his two old geezers dare to bother you again, threaten them that you will spread the word that Jiang Erming lost a kidney!"
"Sister Yingzi, let me tell you, people in the countryside don't listen to any scientific explanations. A man's kidneys are so important! Without kidneys, wouldn't he be unable to have children?"
“It’s okay for a man to be poor, but if he can’t even have children, I don’t know how he’ll ever find a wife!”
Jiang Xiaoman was a little embarrassed to say that, based on his observation of Jiang Erming, this man probably wasn't very strong before, and now that he's lost a kidney, it's hard to say whether he'll still be able to have sex in the future.
Even if he could, as long as he dared to continue harassing Sister Yingzi, he would launch a media offensive to spread the rumor that "Jiang Erming lost his kidney and became a eunuch" throughout the surrounding villages!
Your son has become a eunuch, how can you still have the nerve to arrange a marriage for him?
Chapter 166
Jiang Xiaoman never expected that even though Jiang Erming was such a scumbag, there were still people in the village who would persuade Lang Ying to remarry him!
In Chinese tradition, whether in the city or the countryside, there is a bad habit: the nonsensical saying "advise reconciliation, not separation."
There are still some disgusting programs that use mediation as a guise. The husband is clearly abusive and doesn't provide his wife with living expenses, and the wife is threatening to divorce him. Yet, the mediator still tries to persuade her, saying things like "all men are like that" or "a prodigal son who returns is more precious than gold."
Bah! He's a man too, Shan Yan is a man too, and his father Jiang Youliang is a man too.
Why don't we see them not giving money for household expenses or not doing housework?
Just because he's a scumbag doesn't mean all men in the world are scumbags like him. Where did this mentally ill person come from?
Jiang Xiaoman instructed Lang Ying to use the fact that Jiang Erming had lost a kidney as leverage to shut Jiang Erming's family up. She was afraid that if they continued to make trouble, some people in the village with a "saintly heart" complex might try to mediate, or even use the two children to morally blackmail Lang Ying and Jiang Erming into remarrying.
If that were to happen, Lang Ying's life would truly be over.
"I'll remember that, thank you Xiaoman. But don't worry, even if I die, I will never remarry someone like Jiang Erming." Lang Ying smiled gratefully.
The eldest daughter will be able to start elementary school soon, and the second daughter will be able to start elementary school in another year. She can see that once the two children grow up, she will be able to get out of poverty. Only a fool would plunge headlong into the Jiang family's cannibalistic quagmire.
Despite being busy all the time, Lang Ying's overall condition is getting better and better.
She used to be a free nanny for the entire Jiang family, always busy with endless chores, without receiving a single penny in wages. Occasionally, when she asked her husband for some living expenses, she would be scolded as a spendthrift woman.
But now, every minute she works is earning money for herself!
If it weren't for the two children she had to take care of at home, Lang Ying would love to work around the clock!
What's a little overtime? What's a little hardship?
What suffering in this world could be worse than being broke?
No one knows what Lang Ying said to Jiang Erming's family, but from that day on, Jiang Erming never dared to bother Lang Ying again in an attempt to remarry her.
Perhaps fearing that word would get out that he had lost a kidney, Jiang Erming soon made an excuse to go out and find work, and disappeared again.
It was only Jiang Hongyi and Lang Liugu, the elderly couple, who suffered.
There used to be a daughter-in-law who worked hard without complaint. The old couple didn't have to do anything at home. They just had to wait for three meals a day to be prepared and served. If the food wasn't to their liking, they would scold Lang Ying a couple of times.
Now things are different. Without Lang Ying, they have to cultivate their own land, cook their own meals, and do all the endless housework themselves...
A few days later, we heard that when Aunt Lang was squatting by the river washing clothes, she accidentally slipped and twisted her ankle. Her husband, Jiang Hongyi, had never washed clothes in his life. Without his wife to cook for him, the old couple ate roasted potatoes for several days!
Heaven knows, ever since the villagers started beekeeping with Shan Yan and his family, their living conditions have improved, and now very few families eat potatoes for all three meals a day.
A large forest has all kinds of birds.
Seeing that the elderly couple looked rather pitiful, Lang Ying couldn't help but feel a bit of a saint and went to persuade her, saying that they were, after all, her former in-laws, and even if Jiang Erming had wronged her and her two daughters, it wasn't their fault.
Now that her former in-laws are in dire straits and struggling to make ends meet, if Lang Ying, as their former daughter-in-law, were to take the initiative to care for them, what a wonderful reputation she would have!
"Since you have such a good reputation, why don't you take this job, Auntie? I won't compete with you for it."
Lang Ying smiled slightly, turned around and walked away.
Hilarious! Do you really think she's still the same silly Lang Ying from before?
Trying to use moral blackmail to harm her? Bah! What kind of bullshit reputation is that?
A good reputation shouldn't justify paying her 100 yuan a day.
A good reputation couldn't pay for her two daughters' tuition or buy them new clothes and shoes.
She doesn't deserve this good reputation; she'd gladly offer it to anyone in the village who wanted it!
...
These "saintly" women are just talking big. If they were actually asked to take care of those two old hags in the Jiang family for free, they'd probably get a beating from their own husbands before they even left the house.
They still had a ton of work to do at home. Anyone with a brain, thinking about how Shan Yan's little apprentice had been constantly chasing after Lang Ying, couldn't resist rolling up their sleeves, grabbing their gossipy wife, and giving her a couple of punches.
After beating him up and venting his anger, he said bitterly, "If you dare to mess with Shan Yan's gang, I'll divorce you! You won't get anything then, you'll just starve to death!"
Having probably been reprimanded by their own men, these gossipy women, suffering from a blissful infatuation, finally dared not go around spouting nonsense in front of Lang Ying anymore.
Lang Yingcai couldn't be bothered with them.
She's so busy right now she feels like she could be split into three pieces.
Even Jiang Xiaoman himself didn't expect that the tea cake business, which he had almost given up on, would suddenly become so popular!
During this period, spring honey was harvested in large quantities because Shan Yan had told him that spring honey has a high water content. Although it is fresh, it cannot be stored for long. He was told to hurry up and sell it. So during this period, Jiang Xiaoman almost always stayed around this pair of local honey bees.
However, quite a few families in Langshan did not join them in beekeeping last year.
Seeing that their neighbors who were also beekeeping were making a lot of money, these people became anxious.
Fortunately, in addition to local honey, Jiang Xiaoman is also still buying various mountain products and small tea cakes.