Chapter 263 - 255: Tian Xinhua Goes to the Countryside
Tian Sisi later heard from Niu Erniu about the Kang Mianhua family. Kang Mianhua’s father was the eldest son of Kang Tudi, an outstanding soldier who died in the line of duty before Mianhua was born. Mianhua’s mother died from heartbreak after giving birth to her, leaving Mianhua an orphan with just an elder brother five years older than her.
Kang Mianhua was raised by Kang Tudi himself. Kang Tudi’s current wife is his second, who bore him two sons, Mianhua’s uncles. However, like their mother, both uncles were somewhat selfish and treated Mianhua and her brother poorly. Thankfully, with Kang Tudi in the house, at least Mianhua and her brother were spared from worse mistreatment.
He Chengsi didn’t expect that Kang Mianhua had it even worse than him. He didn’t say much, but he soon started speaking more gently to Mianhua, softening a lot.
Tian Sisi wondered what kind of relation this Kang Tudi and Luo Datou couple had? To just send their granddaughter over without any worries at all. Didn’t they care a bit?
As soon as Kang Tudi entered his house, a fair-skinned elderly lady greeted him, "Old Kang, did someone rob our house? There’s a lot less grain."
"I took it. Mianhua is staying at someone else’s house, I needed to take some grain to her," Kang Tudi explained gruffly.
Mrs. Kang felt a tightness in her chest, almost wanting to fiercely slap the man before her, but she had always presented herself as gentle and virtuous, unable to behave like a shrew. She suppressed her anger and said with a smile:
"How can our Kang family members stay in someone else’s house? Old Kang, you should bring Mianhua back home. There’s no place like home!"
Actually, Mrs. Kang wanted to say to just bring the sack of grain back. Nowadays, grain was rationed, and although their family was better off than average families, they were not rich by any means. Kang Tudi had just taken forty to fifty kilograms, which pained her deeply.
Kang Tudi looked at his wife with scorn. This wife was not his choice, but arranged by the organization. She was beautiful and educated, more than a match for a coarse man like him, yet he longed for his former wife, an illiterate, unattractive woman who cursed and fought.