Chapter 343: Chapter 343: One Peach Kills Five Sons

The Guo family was all eating, only the girl knelt at the doorstep, waiting for Jiang Xinglan to return before she could get up.

“Girl!”

Jiang Xinglan rushed over to the girl, hugged her, and started crying, full of hatred. She caressed the girl’s injured forehead and cursed, “Guo Caicai, you’re a beast, not a human!”

Guo Caicai stood up to hit her, but seeing Jiang Xingye arrive too, he hesitated, ultimately not daring to speak, let alone make a move.

Jiang Xingye slapped Guo Caicai across the face and glanced around at the entire Guo family.

Guo Caicai was the eldest, with four brothers below him, two married, and two bachelors.

No matter how many there were, the five brothers still couldn’t defeat Jiang Xingye alone.

Jiang Xingye said to the Guo family elders, “If it weren’t for old Mr. Guo back then, how does a beast like Guo Caicai deserve to marry my sister? My sister married into your family, worked tirelessly for seven years, and has never wronged your Guo family…”

Guo’s mother said, “Little five, you can’t say that. I won’t talk about other things, just the fact that Xinglan can’t have a son, that’s a big sin. Our family was kind enough to keep her, look at her, who would want her like this, staying here taking up space? A chicken that doesn’t lay eggs should have been slaughtered long ago.”

Jiang Xingye kicked over the kang table, spreading soup bowls, noodle bowls, chopsticks, and steamed buns all over the floor.

The children were so scared they started crying.

He was about to hit someone, but Jiang Xinglan held him back, shaking her head at him.

Is it worth reasoning with this kind of family?

“Fine, my sister won’t delay your family from having a prince to inherit the throne, let Guo Caicai divorce her, I’ll take her back now.”

“Divorce isn’t impossible; all these years in our family, she’s eaten, drunk, and raised a burden. Who knows how much grain she’ll consume in the future? Not asking for much, just give us five hundred yuan, and you can take her away, I won’t stop you.”

Jiang Xinglan lowered her head, and the girl hugged her, “Mom, I don’t want to be separated from you.”

“We won’t be separated, Mom won’t be separated from you.” She held the girl tightly in her arms.

Jiang Xingye pulled Jiang Xinglan’s arm, revealing her scars, and sneered, “Do you really think there’s no other way to solve this? See her injuries? If we report it, whether to the police or the women’s federation, they won’t ignore it.”

This indeed scared the Guo family.

But Jiang Xingye also knew that torturing people doesn’t just mean beating them, and what he had to solve was more than just intimidating Guo Caicai.

Guo’s mother slapped Guo Caicai, “You bastard, why are you hitting your wife?”

She was always good at acting, “Little five, you know your brother-in-law’s temper, when he’s upset, he can’t control his hands. He didn’t genuinely mean to hit Xinglan; isn’t it because people in the production team always mock him for not having a son.”

Jiang Xingye didn’t bother listening to her nonsense, he nodded his chin towards the youngest Guo Caixue, “I heard you found a city girl? How’s it going?”

Guo Caixue wasn’t capable enough to find a city girl; he liked a girl, daydreamed about her every day, but how could she notice a mud-legged guy like him? She was just fishing with him as bait.

“Hong Ying said if I bring a dowry of five hundred yuan, she’ll marry me.” Guo Caixue puffed out his chest, ignoring the fact that she also wanted him to have a city job.

But this condition was harder than climbing to heaven, he knew it was impossible.

“Didn’t she say you need a city job?” Jiang Xingye asked.

“How can that be possible!” Guo Caixue said.

“Why not!”

As soon as Jiang Xingye spoke, the Guo family became tense, Jiang Xinglan clenched her fists, though the Jiang family didn’t bring out five hundred yuan, a job was worth far more than five hundred, thrown away.

She didn’t realize, for Xu Qinghuan, a city job wasn’t much.

In this era, these seemingly glamorous jobs were all facing downsizing and elimination in the future, mid-life unemployment would throw more lives into hardship.

“You, what did you say?” Guo Caixue was so shocked that he couldn’t speak clearly, “Are you saying you have one?”

Jiang Xingye said, “I have a recruitment slot at a food factory, a formal worker, do you want it?”

Guo Caixue nodded vigorously like a chicken pecking rice.

“Okay, as long as Guo Caicai agrees to divorce my sister and let her take the girl, you can take this job. As for who in your family takes it, I don’t care, I just want a divorce and the child.”

It was like a stone stirring up a thousand waves.

When Jiang Xinglan was packing her dowry, the Guo family didn’t care anymore; they fought fiercely over the job, and eventually, the brothers ended up fighting, covered in blood.

Guo Caixue still had the upper hand, mainly because the Guo family elders supported the youngest son.

And Guo Caicai had his leg broken, lost his fighting power.

The Guo family’s male members carried Guo Caicai to the commune, and with Jiang Xinglan obtained a divorce certificate. Immediately, Jiang Xingye transferred the mother and daughter’s household registration to the Shangjiang Team, establishing a separate household.

Jiang Xinglan cried and laughed, only feeling the chains on her body had been shattered, she felt completely relieved.

The girl’s name was changed to Jiang Nanxin, a name chosen by Jiang Xingye on a whim, without any particular origin.

However, later Xu Qinghuan said this name sounded nice, which made Jiang Xingye feel a bit regretful; a name his wife liked should be reserved for their daughter.

Guo Caixue obtained the job opportunity at the food factory, became a formal worker, and transferred to a non-agricultural household.

On the first day of reporting, he filled out a form and started work, he was overjoyed.

If he hadn’t started working, he would have felt uneasy.

The post assigned to him was weighing dough, partnered with an experienced master. The master could weigh perfectly each time, while he had to weigh dough ten times over the scale and still couldn’t get it right, greatly affecting the entire team’s production efficiency.

That day, Guo Caixue was pulled out and heavily criticized, the entire team was urged to learn from his mistakes.

Guo Caixue felt extremely wronged, “Team leader, it’s my first day at work…”

“It’s precisely because it’s your first day at work that I arranged for an experienced master to assist you, and you relied on him without making an effort. At the end of the shift, how many pieces did you weigh? If everyone depended on their colleagues like you do, can this job be done?”

Due to the team’s feedback, the food factory never completed his onboarding procedures.

After working less than a week, the team had no choice but to transfer him to monitor clocks, to oversee fermentation times. After working for about a week, he assumed he had gained experience, yet started becoming lax, thinking about how to ask out that girl, he left his post to urinate.

He stayed a bit longer in the toilet, and an entire oven of dough, meant to be used for pastries, was over-fermented.

The food factory had had enough of him and told him to pack up and leave.

Guo Caixue felt it was unfair, “I’m a formal worker, you have no right to dismiss me!”

The HR said, “You are indeed a formal worker, but you can’t even handle the simplest task of monitoring the clock. Do you think you can manage another position? It’s not that we didn’t give you a chance, but we can’t support dead weight. Do you know how much this batch of dough is worth? Can you afford it? If you can pay for it now, I’ll let you stay in the factory.”

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