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Of course Grandma Jiang didn't want to take care of the child. Her husband was in poor health, and she was the one doing all the work at home and outside. Her youngest son was not married yet, and the bride price was increasing every year. She also had to save money for her youngest son to get married. Taking care of a child would only affect her work.

Besides, she has so many sons, if she agrees to take one, the others will have to take one even if they don't want to, otherwise it would be considered partiality.

However, the second daughter-in-law acted without authorization and just threw the child to Grandma Jiang without saying anything and left.

This undoubtedly added fuel to the fire. Grandma Jiang was so angry that she scolded for several days, but she couldn't just ignore her. There was too much work to do in the fields, so she could only leave her to her grandfather.

In the same year, Uncle Jiang's younger brother also threw his three children to Grandma Jiang, and the two of them went out to work, so Grandma Jiang scolded even more fiercely.

Fortunately, the youngest of the three children in Uncle Jiang's family was born in the same year as Jiang Xue, and the other two are grown up. The eldest sister Jiang Xian is already seven years old and can take care of her younger brothers and sisters. With the help of Grandpa Jiang, they can take care of them.

But the food consumed every day, the piles of dirty clothes, the messy house made by the children, the four of them grew up under the scolding of Grandma Jiang throughout their childhood.

She scolded the children's parents in front of them, complaining that her two sons gave her too little money, that they ate too much, got their clothes dirty, and delayed her work.

Because she doesn't like her second daughter-in-law, she also doesn't like the granddaughter she gave birth to. She always says, "Look, you look exactly like your mother."

If he was dissatisfied at all, he would say that he didn't want to raise Jiang Xue and wanted to send her to her parents.

You said your mother doesn't want you anymore, and she threw you to me and ran away. I don't want you anymore either, so go beg for food.

Jiang Xue spent her childhood in extreme insecurity, fearing that her grandmother would no longer support her and her mother would not want her. She was like the homeless people in town, begging for food, fighting with stray cats and dogs, and picking up garbage from trash cans to eat.

The three children from her uncle's family were like a group, distinguishing their relationships. She was the only one competing for favor and food, while the other side had three. So she tried to please her grandparents like a puppy, trying to be a good child, and developed the people-pleasing personality that she hated later.

When I was a child, my grandmother often asked me, "Xiaoxue, who will you be filial to when you grow up?"

She immediately said flatteringly: "Grandma, when I grow up, I will be filial to you and grandpa."

"Then aren't you filial to your mother?" Jiang Xue chose to remain silent, because if she were to say that she was also filial to her mother, her grandmother would start scolding her for being heartless and unruly.

There was no peace during the Chinese New Year either. Grandma Jiang asked for money, but my parents were reluctant to give her more.

She was kicked around like a ball. Jiang's mother was only willing to give what Uncle Jiang's family gave. She had only one child, while Uncle Jiang's family had three. She gave one-third of whatever Uncle Jiang gave, and was not willing to give a penny more.

But Aunt Jiang would leave pocket money for Jiang Xian. When Jiang Xian bought snacks and took her two younger brothers to eat, she would always be the one watching eagerly from the side.

Aunt Jiang would send clothes, school bags, and books to her three children, and ask someone to bring them food and daily necessities, but her mother would not give anything.

So all her clothes and shoes since she was a child were from Jiang Xian or her cousin from her eldest aunt's family.

The clothes either didn't fit her or were very old, so she felt inferior, cowardly and timid.

In this family, she is the most transparent and the lowest existence.

Jiang Xian from her uncle's family is the opposite of her. She is confident, has good grades, and her grandmother likes her the most, saying that she is the most sensible. With Jiang Xian taking the lead, the children below her all have good grades.

At that time, Aunt Jiang sent a lot of books back to my eldest sister. She read them along and was immersed in the colorful world in the books. Maybe she only had a vague understanding of them at the time, but the seeds were planted in her heart.

When she was a little older, Grandma Jiang would pretend to be nice to her when her mother came back for the New Year, and let her choose between her mother and grandma, who she liked more, and ask her to answer whether her mother or grandma was better to her, and whether she would be filial to her mother or grandma when she grew up, etc.

She was afraid to answer, and looked at her mother cautiously, and chose grandma. She knew her mother would be unhappy if she said grandma, but she still had to say it. In that era, only the agency stores had telephones, and there were no mobile phones like in later generations that could make video calls. As she grew up, her impression of her parents became weaker and weaker. Her parents were two somewhat unfamiliar people who only came back during the Chinese New Year.

So between the strangers' parents and her grandmother, she instinctively chose her grandmother.

Because compared to her mother, with whom she only lived for a few days a year, she was more afraid that her grandmother would be unhappy and stop taking care of her, not giving her food, and beating her afterwards.

She was caught between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law throughout her childhood.

This should be one of the reasons why her mother hates her. Jiang's mother cannot accept a daughter who is not close to her and who gets along with her annoying mother-in-law to make her angry.

Then Jiang's mother became pregnant again, with a rare pair of twins, a boy and a girl.

At that time, they had some savings, had paid off their debts, and had a stall in the vegetable market selling vegetables.

The child was born in a big city and was relatively light at birth, so Jiang's mother took special care in raising him.

Jiang Chao and Jiang Lu both grew up with their parents, and because of their two children's education, they gave up their stalls outside and returned to their hometown.

They favor boys over girls here. When Jiang Xue was a child, she thought that it must be because her mother gave birth to a younger brother, so her mother liked the younger brother and sister more.

But in fact, her mother treats Jiang Lu better than Jiang Chao.

She still remembers one Chinese New Year when her mother held Jiang Lu, who was wearing clean clothes, and said to her neighbors, "We work outside. People there don't favor boys over girls. Instead, they prefer daughters. I think that's right. When you get old, daughters will definitely be more caring than daughters-in-law. You can't even rely on your own children, so you can't rely on daughters-in-law born by others. When sons grow up and marry, they will forget their mothers. Only daughters can be their mothers' little cotton-padded jackets."

The neighbor agreed, "You will be blessed in the future, with two daughters."

Jiang's mother glanced at her dirty face and said calmly, "In the future, I will only rely on my little daughter. She is from the same family as her nanny." She didn't quite understand what was going on at the time, but she still felt sad and wronged because of this sentence.

Mother Jiang couldn't defeat Grandma Jiang, so verbally attacking her daughter who was on the same side as her grandmother seemed to become an outlet for her to vent her emotions.

I slept too much during the day and it was difficult to fall asleep again. Some memories that were almost blurred became clearer and clearer just because I was in this environment again.