Before Wang Fang could reply, he looked directly at her and sneered:
"I misspoke. You're shameless. Otherwise, I wouldn't have let you blackmail me into marrying you, you shameless idiot."
Zhao Qingyue showed Wang Fang no mercy whatsoever, and spoke so loudly that everyone coming and going in the neighborhood could hear her.
Hearing this, Wang Fang felt extremely sad. She thought he had forgotten what had happened, but she didn't expect that he had remembered it all along.
"You... what right do you have to say that to me? I'm your wife, what's wrong with me giving you my things?"
Seeing the passersby staring at them, Wang Fang felt she had completely lost face as the factory director's wife.
"You have the nerve to covet the packages my sister-in-law sent me? She sent more than ten packages, and neither I nor the kids saw a single one, let alone ate any of them. How dare you call yourself my wife? What kind of wife acts like this?"
“I… I finally managed to marry a factory manager like you, but you don’t care about my family at all. What’s wrong with me taking some things back with me? Besides, you’re not starving.”
Wang Fang still didn't realize that there was something wrong with her.
Their family receives plenty of subsidies, so they don't lack for food.
Her family consists of only her parents, who are factory workers. She also has two younger brothers who are still in school, and they are short of things at home.
She finally married a factory manager and became his wife, but this man never showed any interest in taking care of her family.
Thinking about the unhappy looks her family gave her every time she came home, she hadn't even said a word, yet this man still had the nerve to say something.
"You weren't hungry? How dare you say you weren't hungry? Outsiders are saying the factory manager's daughters look frail and weak. What did they look like when they were born? And what do they look like now? You raised your two daughters like this? And you still have the nerve to say they weren't hungry?"
"That's because they're growing up and need to grow taller. You hardly ever eat at home, what do you know?" Wang Fang said sheepishly.
She thought girls eat less, so she cooked less. Neither of her daughters said they were hungry.
"You won't cook if I don't come home for dinner? Wasn't the child yours? Has he become skin and bones? Look at other people's children and then look at mine, I don't even want to talk to you."
He didn't want to come back for dinner not only because he had too much to do, but also because he didn't want to hear this woman talking about her family.
He had lost the will to reason with her; this woman was just a fool.
He took the package back and bought two more locks, locking up all the valuables in his house.
He would set aside a fixed amount of food for Wang Fang to cook each day.
He never expected that Wang Fang was such a ruthless person.
Unable to refuse her family's request and fearing she wouldn't have anything to take back, she actually withheld the food rations of her two children and sent them back to her family.
If the two children hadn't gotten thinner and thinner and hadn't fainted from hunger, Zhao Qingyue wouldn't have known.
Is this something a normal person would do?
The key point is that she kept her two children very quiet, not letting Zhao Qingyue, their father, know a single word.
Zhao Qingyue could no longer tolerate it and sent this utterly stupid man back to his parents' home.
The amazing thing is that after starving herself at home for a month, this second sister-in-law returned home crying, having become skin and bones.
After that, she never mentioned giving anything to her family again.
She devoted herself to taking care of her husband and children, but when her family came to visit, she was driven away and told they would sever ties.
No one told Fang Yuan about these incidents, and Fang Yuan was unaware of them either; even if he had known, he wouldn't have cared.
Too many people starved to death during the three years of natural disasters. The number of people who starved to death in the city was relatively small, since most of them still had food.
After someone dies, there will be no more food rations.
But many girls who lived in the city but had rural household registration died.
But compared to the real countryside, they are few.
In areas severely affected by the disaster, countless men who needed to stutter were sent away to become live-in sons-in-law, and countless women were sold for a single bag of grain.
Even so, many people still died.
She can accept the kind of mutual help and support among family members.
But she couldn't understand those who were clearly just waiting for her to bleed money to support their whole family.
Is this person truly brainless? Or is it just someone who thinks they're so great and self-righteous?
The more remote the place, the more of these kinds of people there are.
The idea that a mother would rather starve her own child than give food to her own family made her extremely resentful.
Because this kind of woman appeared in the military family compound.
Several families reported cases of people fainting from hunger. It was only after these people went to the hospital for examination that it was discovered they had been starving.
They sent all the grain allocated to the troops back to their hometowns.
This incident had a significant impact, and the military leadership had no choice but to have the logistics department subsidize these families to prevent them from starving to death and affecting the morale of the soldiers.
However, the military leaders did not expect that this incident would give these people an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
More and more people, after receiving their monthly rations, would only keep a day or two's worth and send it all back home, then wait for reinforcements from the army.
This put the logistics department in a difficult position.
Everyone is already short of food, so we can't just give it all to these military wives to help their families, can we?
To stop this situation, the higher authorities finally issued an order that all families receiving subsidies should eat in the canteen.
If they refused, they were sent home, which finally brought this unhealthy trend to a halt.
Fang Yuan felt an intense hatred for those people when she thought about how she had almost been forced to eat in the cafeteria.
That small group of people were ostracized because of this incident, and in the end, their men couldn't withstand the pressure and had to send them back to their hometown.
During the three years of natural disasters, Fang Yuan farmed in the island and sent express packages whenever he had a spare moment.
She couldn't control what others did, but at least her family wouldn't lack food because of her subsidies.
In the Fang family, her third brother, Fang He, also remarried during those three years. In 1962, his wife gave birth to a big, healthy son.
It was also a matter of luck that his second wife, who was from a rural area, didn't have a grain ration and ate very little at home.
Her family was still going to sell her off for a dowry, so she ran away and met Fang He.
In the end, this girl was quite bold; she went back to her parents' home, stole the household registration book, got a marriage certificate, and transferred her household registration away.
She severed ties with her family and devoted herself to living with Fang He, which finally satisfied Fang's mother.
It is clear that even if a woman is born into a family that favors sons over daughters, not every woman is as easily fooled and brainwashed as Liu Zhaodi.
Fang Yuan subsidized both sets of parents with gifts, and both sets of parents also gave her a lot of money.
She returned to the capital only once in three years, and on that one trip she received many good things from Zhao's mother.
Her savings were visibly increasing.
Over the past three years, regardless of the value of those valuable items, her cash savings have now reached 20,000 yuan.
Once she can buy and sell real estate, she'll have enough money to buy a courtyard house.
Don't even mention that there are still many years left to save.
She stayed on the island until 1963, when Zhao Qingzhuo was promoted to regimental commander and finally transferred there.
He was transferred to the Beijing Military Region.
That's right, they're heading back to the capital.
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