Chapter 5

"Nianming, Nianyue, stop bothering mom and come over to have dinner." Wang Qinghe said as he took the two children out of his wife's arms.

I don’t know why, but I always feel that my wife’s eyes have become unfriendly.

Bai Xiu Xiu stared at Wang Qinghe quietly for a while. Looking at this face that met her aesthetic standards and his feelings for her, she managed not to lose her temper!

What a wretched man! Can't he be a little nicer to his children?

What? The wife is his, but the child is not?

What's going on in his head!

Wang Qinghe didn't know what she was thinking. There were only his beloved daughter-in-law and the two children she gave birth to him in the room. He was in an extremely good mood.

"Go and get the food. Didn't our mom say anything else?" Bai Xiu Xiu took the bowl.

It was 1966, and although the time of hunger was over, the conditions were not much better.

Every household didn’t have enough food, but the Wang family had a large population, so there were also many people eating.

Plus, the two old people in the family are partial to each other and save all the money to support their beloved youngest and second sons, so the food and drink are even worse!

Even though there were dishes for the fifth brother Wang Qingqi’s wedding, the meal was not very good.

A bowl of buckwheat porridge, with a battered cake, is enough for one person.

As for the dishes, they cooked them all in one pot with the meat dishes from the family’s wedding and the dried cabbage leaves picked from the private plot.

Apart from being fishy, ​​it has almost nothing to do with deliciousness!

Bai Xiuxiu has been an Ah Piao for several decades and has seen all kinds of prosperity in the future. Although she can't eat good food, she can see it! Looking at the food in front of her, she urgently wants to eat something decent!

Wang Qinghe sat opposite his daughter-in-law, feeding the child while looking at her.

She stared at the stew with eyes that seemed like knives. She was really confused: "Wife, what's wrong with this dish?"

"I want to eat good food." Bai Xiu Xiu blurted out what was in her mind!

"I want to, too!"

"Yueyue wants to too!"

Looking at his wife and two children, Wang Qinghe felt stressed: "The village is harvesting now, so we have to wait until winter to go hunting. How about... after lunch, I'll go to the commune and buy you some tiaozi cakes?

Do we have enough food coupons?"

Bai Xiuxiu hadn't eaten anything good in decades. When she heard about caozigao, her eyes lit up and she quickly opened the box to see what was in the house.

She is a person who loves to enjoy life!

She would never let anyone down, so she had eaten up most of the good things her elder sister and her mother had mailed to her over the years, and she also spent a lot of money.

Including the money left at the bottom of the dowry her mother brought, there was a total of three hundred and twenty-seven yuan and twenty cents left at home.

There are still 200 kilograms of food coupons, but if they are really used up, they will be used up very quickly.

There are not many other tickets that can be used.

Even so, Wang Qinghe could only save money by going hunting in the mountains every winter and hiding some prey under the noses of the Wang family, or by selling the medicinal herbs he accidentally picked in the mountains.

When Ah Piao was young, he didn't need to eat or drink. Wang Qinghe became successful later and didn't lack money at all! She hadn't felt short of money for a long time!

Seeing her in a daze, Wang Qinghe thought she was just worried about what to do if she ran out of food, so he quickly comforted her: "Wife, the grain coupons are enough. I will find a way to exchange them for meat coupons after the autumn harvest. I will go buy you some taro cakes tomorrow!"

At home, Wang Qinghe never had more than one dollar of pocket money!

Bai Xiuxiu remembered this clearly, so she took out a ten-dollar note from the box and gave it to him: "Don't spend it carelessly. Spend it until the end of the year!"

Then he gave him a grain coupon with a face value of ten kilograms.

After Wang Qinghe finished kicking the ball, the family of four quickly finished the remaining meal.

Nowadays, anything with a fishy smell is considered a good thing. No matter if you like it or not, you will eat it all up!

Everyone in the Wang family has the habit of taking a lunch break, but Wang Qinghe doesn’t!

He went out with the money in his pocket.

"What are you going to do?" Zhao Guifen had been waiting at the door for a long time, and wanted to talk to her eldest son first and give the room to the fifth son.

Look at him coming out and catching people.

But it's too late!

Wang Qinghe didn't listen to a word and ran away very fast.

"Stop! Why are you running?" Zhao Guifen kept cursing and trying to catch him for a long time, but failed. She turned around and went back to the yard in anger.

Seeing this, the fifth daughter-in-law Zhou Jiaojiao, who had been hiding in the house to watch the situation, became anxious and beat her husband severely.

The fifth child, Wang Qingqi, grimaced in pain and came out of the house: "Mom, why don't you talk to sister-in-law first? Won't this matter have to be approved by sister-in-law sooner or later? Besides, if sister-in-law doesn't agree, my brother..."

When Zhao Guifen heard this, he was speechless.

The eldest son has nothing but a pretty face, which is completely useless!

He is so afraid of his wife!

After thinking about it, Zhao Guifen knocked on the door of the west room.

In the house, Bai Xiuxiu was sorting out the fabrics at home. She would make a piece of clothing for herself, her two children, and... her unlucky husband.

This fabric will make you sick if you don't use it!

Hearing a knock on the door, Bai Xiu Xiu put all the things back into her big box and opened the door.

She immediately came face to face with her mother-in-law's old face.

The good mood is gone.

As soon as Zhao Guifen entered the house and saw the big white walls, the nice mat on the kang, and the blue brick floor, she was furious.

Living in a house, after this unlucky girl named Bai came in, she only had the house to herself.

Compared with this one, the other houses are like dog houses.

Don’t you see that she is greedy and lazy, how can she deserve such a nice house?

"My dear, are you feeling better? Just now I saw the eldest brother running out in a hurry. Where did he go?" Zhao Guifen tried hard to smile and squeezed into the house.

Later, Zhou Jiaojiao followed in quickly.

Bai Xiu Xiu looked at the two people with shining eyes and knew that they wanted to exchange rooms with her just like in their previous life.

What a big dream!

Thinking about the last guesses about her man's life, Bai Xiu Xiu also came up with the idea of ​​giving it a try.

This matter of changing houses doesn't just involve her.

In his previous life, the second brother's family were all Zhou Jiaojiao's lackeys. What if Bai Xiuxiu had offended the second brother's family from the beginning?

After thinking about it, Bai Xiuxiu smiled and said, "Thank you for caring about me, Mom. My head still hurts. I asked my husband to go to the commune to buy some things. My fifth brother's wife just got married, and I was thinking of buying her two paintings to put on the wall to make it look festive."

Is she still kind enough?

Zhao Guifen was stunned, and Zhou Jiaojiao, who was standing beside her, was also feeling proud.

Sure enough, no matter where she goes, no one will dislike her! This is a blessing given to her by God!

It looks like the matter of this house should be settled!

"Speaking of the house, Xiuxiu, Mom has something to discuss with you." Zhao Guifen took the pole and climbed up.

"Mom, I just happen to have something to say." Bai Xiuxiu quickly took over the conversation, not giving her a chance to continue: "Mom, I think it's really inconvenient for my fifth brother and his wife to live in the compartment over there.

Why don't they move to the east room as a young couple?"