Chapter 8 Of course you have to protect your wife

After a long struggle between his conscience and his desires, Lizhan finally sighed slightly, raised his hand to pull over the military coat that had been kicked aside, covered Xia Juanjuan with it, and then held her and the coat in his arms.

Now...is not the time.

When this mission is over and he comes back alive...

The next morning, before it got bright outside, there was loud knocking on the door.

Xia Juanjuan was half asleep when she heard Wang Guixiang's hoarse voice shouting, "Fourth brother's wife, get up quickly! The men at home have to go to work!"

She opened her eyes dazedly, only to find herself being held in Li Zhan's arms, and she herself was sleeping in a very bad posture with her hands and feet clinging to Li Zhan's body!

Xia Juanjuan’s sleepiness disappeared all of a sudden, and she looked at Li Zhan with wide eyes!

This! Didn't something happen last night?

Li Zhan had naturally woken up as well. He glanced at Xia Juanjuan and got up to open the door.

Xia Juanjuan blushed when she saw that both of them were dressed neatly.

Her husband has sequelae of an injury, why is she still suspicious of him?

It was her that had always had a bad sleeping posture, probably because she felt cold in the middle of the night and rolled over to Lizhan's side.

Wang Guixiang had a bad time with Xia Juanjuan last night and was still furious, speaking in a weird way through the door.

"Fourth brother's wife, don't think you can be spoiled and stay in bed just because you are a new bride! Our new bride has to get up early to cook for the whole family! If you don't get up to cook, the whole family will not be able to catch up with the work, and what will we do if the commune deducts our work points!"

Li Zhan opened the door.

Wang Guixiang looked up and was stunned for a moment. Then she came to her senses and said with a wry smile, "Fourth...Fourth brother! Why did you come back? Why...didn't you tell your family?"

Li Zhan smiled and said, "I came back late last night, so I didn't wake everyone up. Second sister-in-law knocked on the door early in the morning. Is there something wrong?"

Wang Guixiang hesitated for a moment and said, "Nothing...nothing. It's just that my mother asked...asked me to ask my fourth brother's wife to get up and cook. Although she is a new daughter-in-law, my mother said...the rules of the Li family cannot be broken..."

Xia Juanjuan also walked to the door at this time and looked at Wang Guixiang indifferently.

Lizhan frowned slightly and said, "How come I have never heard of this rule? Second sister-in-law, when you and my second brother got married, I happened to be home for a visit. I remember that the day after you got married, it was your eldest sister-in-law who cooked, not you? After that, every time I came back from a visit, I never saw my second sister-in-law cook a meal. How come this rule popped up for my wife?"

Wang Guixiang was stunned. Her brother-in-law was away from home all year round. Every time he came back, he only stayed for one or two nights before rushing back to the army. She always thought that Lizhan was taciturn and easy to talk to, but she didn't expect that he would directly confront her at this time!

Xia Juanjuan didn't expect that Li Zhan, a rough man, would actually speak up to protect her. She glanced at Li Zhan unconsciously.

Liu Lan was also woken up by the commotion.

Liu Lan opened the door, put on a thick coat, and said sleepily, "Wang Guixiang! What are you doing so early in the morning? Why don't you hurry up and cook? Aren't you afraid that your husband will be late for work?"

Wang Guixiang felt aggrieved when she heard this: "Mom! I've been cooking for half a year! Now that the new daughter-in-law has come home, it's time to change people!"

Wang Guixiang is a lazy person who likes to eat and cook, and Liu Lan has always been partial to her second son's family.

Therefore, the cooking work of the Li family was initially taken turns by the eldest son's wife and the third son's wife. Half a year ago, the eldest son died in an accident, and his wife remarried soon. So the third son's wife was the only one who cooked in the family.

The second branch was overbearing and stole the two brick and tile houses built by the eldest son. The third son, Lijie, was so angry that he split up the family and moved out.

Wang Guixiang had no choice but to cook for half a year reluctantly.

Now that Xia Juanjuan came in, she was of course planning to quickly leave this tiring job to Xia Juanjuan!

Liu Lan originally acquiesced.

She wanted to find a wife for Lizhan simply because she heard that the army would give married soldiers an extra 15 yuan a month! Add to that the 25 yuan Lizhan sent home every month, and that was 40 yuan!

It would be a waste not to take advantage of this opportunity. I'm not marrying her to continue the family line!

Moreover, although Xia Juanjuan is a woman, she is young and strong after all, so it is not a loss to have one more person working in the commune and earning work points!

Correspondingly, now that her eldest son has passed away and her third son has separated from the family, she will have to rely on her second son, whom she loved the most since childhood, for support in her old age. Being nicer to the second son's daughter-in-law, Wang Guixiang, is also out of selfish consideration.

Therefore, Liu Lan couldn't help but say, "Just change people, why are you arguing! Zhan's daughter-in-law, you will be the one to cook from now on..."

Before she finished speaking, she noticed Li Zhan and immediately stopped being sleepy. She asked in surprise, "Zhan'er? Why are you back? Why didn't you tell me when you came back?"

Li Zhan looked at Liu Lan and said, "I came back last night. Mom, isn't it inappropriate for my wife to cook?"

Wang Guixiang said immediately, "Why not? After your third brother left the family, your second brother became the only able-bodied worker in the family. He earned most of the work points in the family. If it weren't for your second brother, the family of more than ten people would have nothing to eat. Your sister-in-law has just come into the family, so she should make some contribution to the family, right? Cook for the family, at least earn her own share of food, right?"

Xia Juanjuan's blood pressure rose when she heard this. She had 100 million supplies, so why would she care about that little bit of food? And she had to serve a family of more than ten people just to earn that little bit of food?

Just as he was about to open his mouth to retort, Li Zhan on the side spoke first.

Li Zhan smiled coldly: "Second sister-in-law, do you think the twenty yuan allowance I send back every month is not enough for my wife's food?"

Xia Juanjuan held back for a long time before she managed to keep the corners of her mouth from curling up.

Her man... is quite protective!

When Wang Guixiang heard this, she was stunned!

She was just feeling proud and thinking that her man was the only able-bodied man in the family, and she forgot about this!

"Fourth...Fourth brother, I...I didn't mean that..."

In the 1970s, work points could be exchanged for food, but no matter how much they could be exchanged, they could not compare to real money! What was needed for the food and clothing of the whole family, cloth, clothes, rice, flour, meat, eggs, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar?

The Li family has been able to find wives for their three sons in recent years, and each family has two or three children, and they are still able to live a comfortable life. In fact, it is all thanks to the allowance that Li Zhan sends back every month!

Seeing that Li Zhan had just seen his wife and was already protecting her like this, Liu Lan couldn't help but glare at Xia Juanjuan with a cold look.

This vixen, who knows what kind of seductive tricks she used, managed to seduce her son's soul in the middle of the night! No wonder everyone in Xia Village is saying that she is not decent!

However, she naturally couldn't tear her face apart, so she quickly said, "Wang Guixiang! If you can't speak, then don't speak! You should still do the cooking from now on! How can you let Zhan's daughter-in-law cook for your man? Aren't you afraid of being gossiped about if it gets out?"

Seeing that Liu Lan did not protect her and still did not give up the cooking work, Wang Guixiang became even more angry. She glared at Xia Juanjuan fiercely, then reluctantly walked towards the kitchen.

At this time, three little ones came out of Wang Guixiang's room. They were the three siblings Li Wen, Li Wu and Li Beibei.

The three of them each carried a small bamboo basket on their backs. In the baskets of Li Wen and Li Wu there were two small sickles respectively.

Li Beibei was still in a daze. She rubbed her eyes with one hand and held her second brother Li Wu's sleeve with the other hand. She staggered over the threshold that was almost half her height.

"Brother, Beibei is so hungry..." Three-year-old Li Beibei was still ignorant and simply expressed his thoughts.

But five-year-old Li Wen had already experienced the cruelty of the world, so he quickly raised his little hand to cover Beibei's mouth, coaxing her in a low voice: "Be good, Beibei, we'll have food to eat when we come back from mowing the grass later!"

Even so, Wang Guixiang still heard it.

Wang Guixiang had been upset early in the morning, and now when she heard these three burdens dared to cry out for hunger, she immediately became furious. She rushed to the three siblings in two steps, raised her hand and slapped Li Beibei in the face!

"You are a debt collector who no one wants! You are so hungry! All you know is to cry out for hunger! Why don't you just starve yourself to death?"