roccoschili Chapter 108 Wang Jianjun is indeed pitiful.
Chapter 108 Wang Jianjun is indeed pitiful.
Lu Jiangting said, "I won't be in charge of this forever. Fang Qing called me this time because Chenchen is too sick. She said that if anything happens to Chenchen, she won't live anymore. She's a woman from the countryside who hasn't studied much. When she got to the big hospital, she was like a headless fly, not knowing where to go. By the way, she doesn't even know how to read a thermometer."
"Oh? Really? You'll teach her."
"I taught him for over an hour and he still couldn't learn it."
"..."
"How could you be so stupid?"
"I already told you she's from the mountains, and her family favors boys over girls. They wouldn't let her go to elementary school." He paused here, sighing and shaking his head.
It means, don't expect too much.
Seeing him like this, the other person cast a sympathetic look at him.
I thought to myself, who knows how much trouble this kind of person will cause in the future.
Those of them who have access to cutting-edge technology understand the future direction of development very well.
Society is progressing, and sooner or later it will catch up with the West, or even surpass Western countries.
With technology advancing rapidly, how will people adapt to society if they can't even read a thermometer?
The future holds countless troubles.
“Jiang Ting, I’m not trying to criticize you, but although she is indeed quite pitiful, you also need to think more about yourself. You can’t just go whenever she calls you. If you keep going like this, you’ll probably never get rid of her in this lifetime.”
"Sigh!" Lu Jiangting sighed heavily, looking exhausted. "I understand what you're saying, and I know you all mean well. But think about it, she's like that, what will I do if I don't take care of her? Jianjun and I are from the same place, he..."
He almost choked up as he said this.
The people at the same table were dumbfounded.
"what happened?"
Actually, they didn't know much about the two people's hometown, but they had known each other for several years and knew that the two of them were both very hardworking.
Especially Comrade Wang Jianjun, his character is truly impeccable. He's willing to do any dirty or tiring work, he's really a good person.
Unfortunately, good people don't live long.
Lu Jiangting must know about his affairs.
Lu Jiangting hesitated for a moment.
Wang Jianjun doesn't like to talk about his family. He's never told anyone about it, except to himself.
It's not really appropriate to talk about this kind of thing, but since he'd already brought it up, and seeing everyone eagerly waiting for him to continue, he decided to start talking.
"It was incredibly difficult for him to come out of the mountains, much more difficult than for any of us. Even the opportunity for him to go to school was hard-won. It was better when his grandmother was alive, but after she passed away, he almost didn't get to go to school..."
Through his account, everyone realized how difficult things had been for Wang Jianjun.
He has a complicated family background. His mother died after giving birth to him, and his father married a widow who had been married before and had a child. There are many such family conflicts.
The stepmother doted on her own son the most. In those days, everyone was starving, and they were originally from the mountains, very poor.
The family resources were already limited, and any good food or clothing was always given to the older brother who was not related by blood. Not to mention Wang Jianjun, even his stepmother's younger brothers and sisters who were born to his father later could not surpass the older brother who was not related by blood.
If his father had been more assertive, he would have had a better life. But his father was a cowardly man who was afraid of his wife and listened to her in everything.
It's easy to imagine how difficult it must have been for Wang Jianjun to make a living under his stepmother's rule.
Fortunately, he had a grandmother who doted on her eldest grandson and insisted on sending him to school, which gave him the opportunity to study.
He started school a little late; he was nine years old before he was allowed to start first grade. Later, his grandmother passed away, and even after he was admitted to high school, his stepmother absolutely refused to let him continue.
She even whispered in his father's ear, saying that if he read too much, he would fly away and never come back, which meant he had raised a son for nothing.
Besides, if he leaves, who will do all the work on the mountain?
He must stay at home to do chores.
His father actually agreed to such an outrageous thing.
He refused, so his father beat him half to death and tied him up at home with hemp rope for three days and three nights.
Three days later, he ran away, all the way down the mountain, into the city, stopped the high school principal, and begged the principal to allow him to take a leave of absence.
He worked in a coal mine for two years to earn enough money to support his later studies.
So although Wang Jianjun was his classmate, he was several years older than him.
At this point, everyone at the table fell silent.
Well, the people sitting here, even if their families are poor, are not this poor.
This can no longer be described as just family hardship.
“His stepmother…his stepmother is so wicked. She’s afraid he’ll become successful, so she’s determined to keep him in the mountains.”
Lu Jiangting nodded. "Yes, that's why you can tell how difficult it must have been for him to escape that mountain."
"That's definitely not easy."
Lu Jiangting sighed deeply and said, "He had finally escaped, married a wife, had a child, and even bought a small apartment in a tenement building in the county town. The three of them had escaped that mountain. Life was getting better and better, but then... he was gone."
At this point, Lu Jiangting could no longer continue.
He kept his head down and couldn't utter a single word for a long time.
After lowering her head and gathering her thoughts for a while, she was able to continue: "I watched him struggle out step by step. Every time I think about how hard he tried to escape that home, every time I think about how he had succeeded, but... he was gone, I couldn't sleep all night."
After hearing this story, not only Lu Jiangting, but everyone at the table was deeply moved.
Everyone remained silent for a long time. The food on the table was almost cold, but no one could eat it.
How can there be such a miserable person?
"Is that woman also from the local area?"
Lu Jiangting nodded. "She's also from the mountains. I heard she was born into a family that favors sons over daughters, and her life is even harder than his. At least he has a grandmother to protect him, but Fang Qing is disliked by her whole family. Because she's a daughter, she doesn't even have the opportunity to go to school."
"They went through so much trouble to escape, and just when life was starting to look up, Jianjun was gone. It was a huge blow to Fang Qing. Tell me, what am I supposed to do if I don't take care of them?"
Hearing him say that, those who had been trying to persuade him were speechless.
At this moment, Yi Yunshuo, who was at the next table, put down his lunchbox and walked towards him.
He squeezed one of the brothers sitting next to Lu Jiangting to the side, and then sat down himself.
"Jiang Ting, I have an idea."
Lu Jiangting: "..."
What's he doing here? He's already fallen out with Yi Yunshuo and Fu Huaiyi, what's he doing here now?
"Why don't you just marry Fang Qing?"
what?
A collective gasp rippled through the crowd.
Lu Jiangting's face darkened. "Yi Yunshuo, what nonsense are you talking about? Fang Qing is my sister-in-law."
Yi Yunshuo smiled and said, "Don't be angry. You're just too 'moral' and can't think straight. Try to put aside your awkwardness and think carefully about whether marrying Fang Qing is the best outcome for you."