In her previous life, Jiang Xiulan was known far and wide as a living bodhisattva.
To raise her three children, she endured bound feet but still waded through muddy fields. She begged for food and put her children through college. But in the end, her eldest son stole her retirement savings for his wife, her second daughter refused to let her in because she smelled like an old person, and her youngest son was an ungrateful wretch who, as she lay dying, pulled out her oxygen tube to save on medical bills.
When Jiang Xiulan opened her eyes again, she was back in 1978.
She had just turned sixty, was in good health, and had her newly allotted pension and ration coupons in hand. That big family of shameless vampires had yet to drain her dry.
Looking at her eldest daughter-in-law, who was crying poverty and asking for money, her second son-in-law, who was making snide remarks, and her youngest son, who only knew how to hide in his room and study, Jiang Xiulan gave a cold laugh and dumped the braised pork she had meant to share with them into her big yellow dog’s bowl.
“Want meat? Fine, pay for it. No money, then get lost!”
“You want me to look after the grandkids? No time! I’ve enrolled in classes at the university for seniors, and I’m going to the park to dance disco!”
“The youngest wants to go to college? No tuition money, unless you sign a document severing ties first. And even if you get in, don’t come back expecting a meal!”
The whole family was stunned. How had the timid mother-in-law who never fought back or talked back suddenly become a different person?
From then on, Jiang Xiulan began her “raising hell and living it up” retirement.
Shameless relatives came to borrow money? She threw a fit on the spot and cried even harder than they did.
Unfilial descendants wanted to divide up her property? She went straight to a lawyer and made a will, donating her house to the production brigade to use as a warehouse. Who says old people can only babysit and do housework? She teamed up with her old friends to buy and sell goods, and became the richest person in the county
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