The next morning, Chen Hong prepared breakfast. Grandpa Yu Yang brought the child home, and Chen Hong quickly set the table and invited Grandpa Yu Yang to eat. Grandpa Yu Yang said shyly, "It's the same if I eat at home."
Chen Hong laughed and said, "After all these years, why are you still faking it with me? Let's eat together, how could I skimp on your food? After we eat, you two can stay home. I have to go out to sea today. It's going to rain for several days starting tomorrow, so I can't go out to sea then. I'll rest for a couple more days then."
"Okay, you go ahead with your work. You don't need to worry about the chickens, ducks, or vegetable garden. I'll take good care of the kids, so don't worry."
After finishing her meal, Chen Hong washed the pots and cleaned the kitchen. Before Yu Yang and his son entered the kitchen, she put out three boxes of mackerel, one box of ribbonfish, one basket of starfish, and one bucket of squid. She also put a sea bass and two rockfish into a large basin.
Upon entering the main room, Chen Hong said to the foreign grandfather, "You can stay here with the children and watch the house today. Help me feed the chickens and ducks. I've put some fish in the kitchen. Since the sun is strong today, help me dry some goods. Dry them for a day, and tomorrow when they're half-dry, put them in the dehydrator."
There are abalones drying inside today, so please don't turn the machine on or off. They won't be done drying until tonight.
Chen Hong loaded things onto the tricycle. "There are live fish in the kitchen. You two can cook them for lunch. There are beef ribs in the freezer. Cook whatever you want."
You two haven't had an easy time today either; there's a lot of chores around the house. Don't worry if you don't finish; I'll do it when I get back. I'm going to make dried squid for Xiaobao as a snack. Xiaobao, be a good boy/girl and listen to Grandpa. Mommy will be home early this afternoon.
After explaining everything, Chen Hong drove to the dock and set sail again in a fishing boat.
Several villagers who were repairing fishing gear on the dock watched Chen Hong's fishing boat sail away, slowly turning into a black dot on the sea and then disappearing from sight.
"Chen Hong has gone out to sea again. That woman is really capable. She goes out to sea alone every time the weather is good. Why haven't we seen Yu Zhaozhong's family using this boat for so long?" Aunt Li asked the villagers who were mending nets together.
"Haven't you heard? Yu Hai and Chen Hong are divorced. This boat belonged to Yu Zhaohua's family, but now it's been awarded to Chen Hong. How can Yu Zhaozhong's family still have the nerve to borrow their divorced nephew's boat?" said a villager nearby.
"You're wrong. She's my niece-in-law before the divorce, but not after. The two families have no relation anymore." "Haha, that makes perfect sense!"
"When did this happen? I haven't heard about it. Chen Hong has been going out to sea a lot lately, and I haven't noticed anything different about her. I even saw Yu Zhaohua taking Yu Yang to visit someone the day before yesterday," Aunt Li asked.
"You all know that Yu Zhaohua moved to his old family home, right? It's because his son and daughter-in-law got divorced that Old Yu moved out."
“I knew Lao Yu had moved out a long time ago. I thought the two of them had a fight and couldn’t live together.”
"What? Chen Hong isn't the kind of wicked daughter-in-law who beats her mother-in-law and scolds her father-in-law. Her children are very filial. You don't know, Yu Hai had someone else outside, which is why he came back to file for divorce. Chen Hong is a strong-willed person, and she agreed without saying a word."
Even after the divorce, she still brings Lao Yu fish, vegetables, and fruit every day, and even bought him a can of peanut oil. I've seen it several times. The old man next to her looked on with envy.
“I’ve seen it a few times; Chen Hong makes dumplings and steams buns and brings them to Lao Yu. Lao Yu is so lucky to have such a good girl. My son is blind, and the wife he married is infuriating every day. She doesn’t do any chores, and she’s always putting on makeup, making her lips look like she’s eaten a dead child.”
"My husband goes out to sea, it's tiring and dangerous, and she doesn't even bother to cook for him or make sure he eats well. She spends all the money she earns on herself. What's the point of dressing up nicely? When she stands next to Chen Hong, she's an eyesore, unbearable to look at. Ugly people always try to be funny." Aunt Li started her nagging mode.
Another middle-aged woman said, "To be honest, I've never seen Chen Hong dress up much. She's just naturally beautiful, even more so than those beauty pageant contestants on TV. She's the kind of person who grows on you the more you look at her."
Her eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouth are all beautiful on their own. To be honest, those beauties on TV are really not good-looking. Their eye sockets are covered in dark makeup, their lips are painted bright red, and their eyebrows are cut so badly they look like they've been glued on.
People these days, I don't know if they're possessed, but they think this is incredibly beautiful!
"When Chen Hong first married into the family, the number of people turning their heads to look at her on the street was really...tsk tsk...there were actually people on the street who were too busy watching her crash into the telephone pole."
The year I first came here, I went to the city to buy New Year's goods. On the bus, a young man tried to harass me. He stood behind Chen Hong and rubbed against her. After only a couple of rubs, Chen Hong knocked him down in the bus and kicked him hard. She almost kicked him to death. I guess she kicked his private parts almost to pieces.
Everyone on the bus was terrified. It wasn't until the thug was lying on the ground, convulsing, that the driver finally reacted and called the police.
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