Chapter 58 It's Just a Fish
The firewood made a crackling sound in the furnace.
The corners of Jiang Wanwan's eyes and cheeks were stained with a light rouge red, and her watery eyes were blurred and unbearable. She bit her lips, and let go after a moment, leaving light teeth marks on her plump red lips.
She shook her head in a soft voice: "Not good."
"I gave you meat to eat, but I'm not feeling well. I can't even have a sip of soup." She could only watch and could not relieve herself after wasting a lot of effort. She didn't want to help because she was afraid that she would get angry and have problems.
A smile escaped from Shen Xingjiang's throat. He bit the soft flesh on Jiang Wanwan's neck, just above the collarbone, leaving a red mark.
"Be good, wait until you get better, I will double compensate you."
His hand moved along Jiang Wanwan's lower abdomen to her wrist. With his other hand, he unbuckled his belt, loosened it, and took her hand to "help".
Jiang Wanwan is still young after all, she will only be twenty years old during the Chinese New Year.
She frowned slightly and closed her eyes, her face flushed.
Ten minutes later...
…More than forty minutes later, the heat hit her palms, and some of it spread over her smooth white wrists, scalding the pale blue blood vessels under the skin. She raised her hands helplessly, and Shen Xingjiang felt a little choked by her pitiful and delicate appearance. He pulled her black sweater to help her wipe her hands clean, and after she put on her pants, he fetched water for her to wash her hands.
Jiang Wanwan hid in the quilt depressed. Shen Xingjiang coaxed her for a long time before she was happy. She nestled in Shen Xingjiang's arms and knitted a sweater.
In the afternoon, she felt a little sleepy after knitting for a while. She yawned and lazily lay in his arms, saying with a little nasal tone in her voice: "Husband, if you ask me to stay here with you for the rest of my life, I will be happy to do that."
Shen Xingjiang put his arm around her shoulders and patted her gently, "What's the point of being here?"
The land is barren and desolate, the weather is bad, the ultraviolet rays are strong, and the food and accommodation conditions are poor. His Wan Wan is not as tough as him, so how can she stay here for the rest of her life?
"Hmph." Jiang Wanwan snorted softly, her eyelids growing heavier, and she occasionally opened them. "Of course it's interesting. We can watch the wheat ripen in spring, the rice flowers bloom in summer, the soybeans bloom in autumn, and the snow cover in winter... As long as I'm with you, I'm willing to do anything."
Shen Xingjiang's pupils shrank, and he tightened his grip on Jiang Wanwan.
His eyes burned, but he said, "No, you don't want to."
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Jiang Wanwan was unhappy, her eyes widened instantly: “Shen Xingjiang, you doubt me!”
How could he doubt her!
Shen Xingjiang pointedly said: "You just rejected me, and you agreed to help me only because I forced you. Wan Wan, it was obviously you who treated me badly, why do you still say that I doubted you..."
Jiang Wanwan: “???”
Is what he said human language?
A few days later, Jiang Wanwan's period was over. On the night of her period, Shen Xingjiang lit five red candles in the room. The room was bright and warm. He pressed Jiang Wanwan on the windowsill and ate her up from behind. She cried most of the night because of the bullying.
It was almost New Year's Eve, and Jiang Wanwan was so tired that she couldn't get up from the kang.
Old Mrs. Shen organized everyone to celebrate the New Year's Eve together. The old lady's room took two bowls of millet, two bowls of rice, and two bowls of meat, and paid the biggest portion. The remaining vegetarian dishes were given to the other three rooms.
Winter is long, and there is only a month or so left. We can put away the food at home as long as possible, and take out a little bit of meat every day, which will last for a month.
Every household counted the days with their fingers, and even calculated the amount of meat they would eat. The old lady took out two bowls of meat for the festival, and everyone took out some vegetarian dishes to eat with the meat. It was such a good deal.
The eldest wife took ten potatoes and five sauerkrauts and made a pot of potato and sauerkraut stew.
As for the third room, Jiang Wanwan went outside to take a look, gave away a fish, and took out three pounds of vermicelli. She put the vermicelli in when stewing the fish. The vermicelli absorbed the soup and was chewy and delicious.
Jiang Wanwan bought the fish when she was buying New Year's goods. She planned to eat one on Little New Year's Eve and one on New Year's Eve. Everyone would celebrate Little New Year's Eve together, so she didn't bother to care about the amount. She just took them out for fun.
The second room was the last to hand in something. Liu Yeju brought a handful of dried wild vegetables as thick as a bowl.
Wild vegetables... can be dug up from the mountains and the fields. Picked in summer and autumn, they are dried and can be eaten and cooked at any time. Every family has a sack of them.
Liu Yeju put the dried wild vegetables on the kang, without any embarrassment on her face: "Grandma, we have many people in the second room, and Sanzhuzi hasn't gotten married yet, so we don't have that many things to take out, please don't mind."
In the original story, Mrs. Shen didn't want to pay attention to her during the New Year's Eve, but this bunch of dried wild vegetables was really unsightly!
Old Lady Shen snorted, "I understand. You plan to leave all your belongings to Sanzhuzi and his wife who is nowhere to be found. As a grandmother, I am very pleased that you, as a sister-in-law, care so much about your brother-in-law."
What, what kind of words are these? Liu Yeju just made up an excuse, but how could it be misinterpreted by the old lady like this!
Liu Yeju said in embarrassment: "Of course not... I didn't mean that."
Old Lady Shen sneered: "Since that's not what you meant, next time when you want to be stingy, you should think harder about making excuses instead of using the three pillars as an excuse every day. Isn't that embarrassing?"
She was so embarrassed for their second wife!
"If you take less, you should work harder. Kill the fish, scrape off the scales, and keep the edible part of the fish belly. Don't throw it away."
After being scolded during a major holiday, Liu Yeju's pettiness instantly came out.
Grandma is too partial. If it was Jiang Wanwan who picked up the dried wild vegetables today, she would never scold Jiang Wanwan. She might even praise Jiang Wanwan for doing a good job!
People will definitely say that the fourth son’s daughter-in-law is really filial. She knew that grandma was having a sore throat recently, so she gave her grandma some dried wild vegetables... But, but... she is not the fourth son’s daughter-in-law.
Grandma doesn't like her and is snobbish to her. What's wrong with dried wild vegetables? Aren't they edible?
When you are poor, dried wild vegetables are still treasures!
Liu Yeju felt very aggrieved, but she said, "I know, grandma." Her tone was firm and it was obvious that she was not convinced.
No matter whether Old Lady Shen was convinced or not, if she wanted to get the meat and fish, she had to work. If she had the ability, she shouldn't come over to eat with them.
Everything is ready, and several young wives are preparing to cook in the afternoon.
The young daughters-in-law are No. 1 Xu Lan, No. 2 Liu Yeju, and No. 3 Jiang Wanwan.
Jiang Wanwan was exhausted yesterday, her back ached and her legs were shaking. She stood in the kitchen yawning. Since she had cooked a lot of food, she could take a break from work.
Sure enough, money is the bottom line.
Just now, Jiang Wanwan squatted down to collect firewood with her sweater collar down. Xu Lan saw the dense red marks under her clothes, which were somewhat bluish. Thinking of the fact that the fourth brother went to the army after the Chinese New Year, and the young couple were still very close to each other, she must have been tortured a lot during this period.
What's more, Wanwan is so thin in front of Lao Si, her thighs are not even as strong as Lao Si's arms. I don't know how much suffering she has to endure at night.
Xu Lan felt sorry for her and found a stool to put by the stove: "Wanwan, come and sit and watch the fire. You caught the fish, so take a break."
There were three people in the kitchen. Xu Lan said this on purpose for Liu Yeju to hear.
Liu Yeju had been embarrassed in front of the old lady, and when she heard this, she immediately exploded with grievance: "Sister-in-law, what do you mean?"
She threw the fish into the basin and asked, "The fourth son's wife just took a fish. Do you have to use this to stab me? I didn't give birth to a son, so I don't have fish for you to eat. Do you have to annoy me with all these words?"
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