~Fin~ (2)
After eating, Jiang Yue asked, âMom, how do you have the money to buy meat?â
Fatty pork meat didnât produce a lot of oil, but if you use it frugally it can last for a very long time. Pork oil was very expensive, and it wasnât for their own consumption at home. It was a gift for Teacher Tang, and the fried dregs were what they could eat.
If you put the pork oil in a can, it could be stored for a very long time.
Jiang Xiumei said, âI still have two coins left.â
Jiang Yue noticed that something was wrong, but didnât realize what it was for a while. In the evening, when Jiang Xiumei washed up in the yard and was about to sleep, she finally took off the towel that had been covering her head. Only then did Jiang Yue realize that Jiang Xiumeiâs originally dark and shiny braids were actually cut off above the ear!
Momâs hair was gone!
Jiang Yue anxiously held her hand and cried, asking, âMom, whereâs your hair?â
âI sold them.â Jiang Xiumei touched her cut-short hair, looking as if she didnât care much, âItâs quite long and difficult to take care of, I might as well sell it and get some money. But donât talk about it everywhere, because I sold it on the black market.â
Jiang Yue didnât know what to say. She just looked at her with tears in her eyes and nodded.
Momâs hair was so pretty.
It was very soft, very beautiful and felt very good. Jiang Yue really liked touching them. But now it looked very coarse and didnât shine at all.
Jiang Yue was so sad that she didnât know what to say, while Jiang Xiumei only drove her back to sleep.
The next day, Jiang Yue took the two coins and the cooled down can of pork oil and sent them as a gift to Teacher Tang.
Later on, Jiang Xiumei applied to the production team to open up land, planning to open a field on the hill behind her house and grow cassava.
Cassava was easy to grow and could basically survive on its own, but it was cheap. It only sold for a few cents a catty, and you would have to carry it and sell it at the grain harvesting station a few miles away. It was physically and mentally taxing for not much return.
The usual work in the production team was already tiring enough, so most people wouldnât go and open up land in the mountains, which would be unbearable even for the strong-bodied.
Not to mention, after opening up the land, part of the harvest would have to be turned in as land rent.
The little bit of income from it was not worth the physical fatigue. Some people had tried it before, but they gave up.
Later... she was diagnosed with leukemia and could no longer leave.
This matter had become a secret that no one else would ever know.
When Jiang Yue died, she only hated herself for not being able to be filial to her mother, letting the old send off the young and making her suffer in her later years. She died very unwillingly.
Perhaps because Jiang Yueâs obsession was too deep, her soul didnât dissipate after she died and lost her body.
She continued existing as a soul, in an incorporeal form.
Not really a ghost, but she couldnât tell what exactly it was either.
She still had an obsession in her heart, so she didnât want to disappear.
Then one day, Jiang Yueâs wandering soul went to find her mother again.
She floated in the sky and looked at Jiang Xiumei, but she didnât know how she felt. Maybe a wandering soul didnât really have feelings, and she just wanted to see her.
At the same time, a truck passed at high speed while blaring its horns. Jiang Xiumei stood by the road side, watching a young girl get hit and be sent flying.
Perhaps, the young girlâs figure resembled her daughter Jiang Yue too much. When she was lying in a pool of blood and no one else cared, Jiang Xiumei rushed up and said worriedly, âGirl, are you alright? Hold on, Iâll call an ambulance for youââ
Jiang Xiumei had now learned to make a phone call on her mobile phone.
Jiang Yue looked at the scene and found that the girl who was hit by the car was completely dead and showed no signs of life.
It was an empty body â the soul was already gone.
Jiang Yueâs heart was moved, and she floated closer, and soon entered the girlâs body... and fused with it.
Her ethereal body became heavy again, once again having substance.
Jiang Yueâs hand felt too heavy to lift. She struggled to open her eyes, looked at the anxious Jiang Xiumei in front of her, and forcefully called out, âMom...â
She seemed to have returned to life.
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