Chapter 190: Separation
Captain Song also has deep-rooted old ideas and always feels that splitting up the family means breaking up the family.
He couldn't help but persuade her: "As the old saying goes, the family will not be divided if the parents are still alive. You don't have any conflicts, so there is no need to separate the family. Only when you are together can you take care of each other."
Chu Hong immediately said, "Even though we have split up, we are still a family living together, right? It's just that each of us gets what we earn."
Captain Song couldn't refute this.
He also advised Secretary Song: "It's so lively when the family is together. If the family is divided, then why do you want to recruit a son-in-law?"
Secretary Song sighed, "There are benefits to dividing the family. Xiao Gu gives me five dollars a month. Just for this, I can't bear to refuse."
Instead, she advised him: "Even if we split up, they are still my daughter and son-in-law. When we get old or sick, they will still have to take care of me."
"I just think it's more cost-effective to separate the family than not to separate it."
Captain Song also thought of it. Someone had said before that Xiao Gu's parents were worried that their son was being wronged in the countryside, so they sent him 20 yuan every month and often sent him large and small packages.
If his son-in-law also gave so much, Captain Song felt that he would not be able to hold on.
The atmosphere was somewhat silent, and Chu Hong smiled and said, "I will go to the commune to report tomorrow, and bring Chu Dan back when I come back. We'll discuss it with the family first."
He sighed again: "Now the land is collective, and each person has a room in the house, so it's actually very easy to divide the property."
Although all ten fingers are of different lengths and parents are certainly partial, our parents will not be too partial.
"Gu Ci and I have discussed this. We will definitely take care of our parents in their old age. To put it bluntly, we should just treat ourselves as our parents' only children and not rely on others."
The main thing is that they have the conditions. Based on their current financial resources, they will be able to rest on their laurels in seven or eight years.
Secretary Song couldn't help but smile and praise: "I knew that Xiao Gu is a filial child."
Chu Hong snorted unhappily: "Am I not filial?"
"You don't understand." Secretary Song said something that made sense: "Whether a son is filial or not depends on whether his daughter-in-law is filial or not."
"You are our daughter, and it is your duty to be filial to us. But it is our blessing that Xiao Gu is filial to us."
Captain Song couldn't stand it anymore. He felt that both the father and daughter were extremely annoying.
This is blatant showing off.
Then he thought about how his daughter looked at him like a mouse looking at a cat, and his son was also stubborn and could not compare with Gu Ci Chuhong at all.
He turned and left, lest he should listen any further and be envied to death.
Chu Hong didn't stay outside for long and went home to pack her luggage.
As for those that need to be dug up and buried, they have to wait until Gu Ci comes back to do it quietly.
She put some of the more valuable things in a box and locked it up.
For safety reasons, of course you have to have three burrows and hide in several places.
I had a thousand dollars in assets before, plus the four hundred dollars I brought home on this trip, a total of fourteen hundred dollars.
There was also a pound of gold, a box of jewelry, and a box of jade.
He also exchanged watches for nearly forty pieces of gold and jade jewelry.
I now understand why others say that gold and jade from the 1960s and 1970s were really worthless.
I also heard that some people can exchange ten kilograms of grain for a gold ring, and more than a hundred kilograms of grain for a big gold bracelet.
I can be considered to have picked up such a leak, it feels like a windfall.
She wrapped the jewelry in rags and placed them in a jar along with two bottles of good wine, ready to bury them at night.
Then I sorted out all the food and gave one portion to grandparents, one portion to parents, one portion to my older sister and one portion to my younger sister, and I will also send one portion to Old Chu later.
There are two big bags of food, and if you split it, it won’t be much.
Fortunately, they were smart and had mailed back the defective cloth and some food they had bought two days earlier.
I'll go to the post office tomorrow and check, maybe it'll arrive.
She looked at her pocket and saw that there was only twelve yuan, thirty-eight cents left, and six pounds and two ounces of food coupons. She originally thought that she was already rich, but now she felt very poor.
However, thinking that each person could still get reimbursed for the nearly twenty yuan ticket, she decided not to touch the whole money.
When it was time for dinner, both families had ham and bamboo shoots, which were so delicious that they ate the entire pot.
Song Lao Er quietly untied his belt and loosened it, sighing: "I originally thought that ham was bacon, but now I know that ham is more fragrant than bacon."
He asked his wife in confusion, "We have cooked bacon and bamboo shoots before, why didn't it taste this good?"
He was just short of saying that his wife's cooking skills were not good.
Wu Qiaofang burped, then glared at him and said unhappily, "Do you know how much meat Chu Hong put in?"
"She even blanched the bamboo shoots and added an extra spoonful of lard. How could it not taste good?"
It is really delicious, but it consumes a lot of meat.
I can't bear to burn it like this at home.
Chu Tong also said: "In the past, we could cook a pot of bamboo shoots by cutting seven or eight slices of bacon."
"But Chu Hong cut more than a pound of ham. How could it not be delicious?"
Wu Xiu said, "While there are still bamboo shoots, let's eat more fresh ones."
"If there are a lot of bamboo shoots, just dig more and dry them in the sun to have more vegetables in the winter."
Secretary Song immediately agreed: "You are thoughtful. Let's go dig more bamboo shoots tomorrow and bring them home to dry in the sun."
The family had become accustomed to Secretary Song praising his wife, so they pretended not to hear it.
Nowadays people don’t like to eat bamboo shoots or dried bamboo shoots.
Because the bamboo shoots here are not blanched, and the chef’s cooking skills are not good enough, they will taste astringent.
Moreover, few people nowadays are willing to add meat and lard like Chu Hong does, and the taste is really not that good.
Drying bamboo shoots is even more troublesome. If the weather is bad and they are not dried, they will turn black and become inedible, which means a waste of effort.
Besides, who would be willing to put meat in stewed bamboo shoots?
But if you don’t add more meat, the dried bamboo shoots won’t taste good, right?
So much so that people would rather eat radish strips, which is less troublesome and goes well with rice.
Chu Hong also nodded: "Old duck and dried bamboo shoots stew is also very delicious."
After hearing this, Grandma Song couldn't help but mutter, "This is the most like your mother. You can eat, know how to eat, and are willing to eat."
Chu Hong was not ashamed, but smiled and said: "Grandma, only by eating and drinking well can you be healthy."
Wu Qiaofang also agreed: "What Chu Hong said makes sense."
My niece is willing to eat it, and Gu Ci has money. They are extravagant, so I can benefit from it.
She even asked Gu Ci with particular concern: "Does your family really send you money every month? Today is already the 16th, have you received this month's money?"
Song Lao Er, who was originally talking to Gu Ci, couldn't hold back his face when he heard what his wife said. He glared at her and said unhappily, "You have nothing better to do than to ask about this?"
He stood up first: "Okay, let's go home."
Gu Ci stood up to see him off, and said in a good-tempered manner: "Uncle, don't be angry, Auntie also cares about me."
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