This is the disadvantage of traveling through a book. All the plots that can be found revolve around the protagonist.
When He Ruixue read the book, she only skimmed through it, so she only knew the outline of the story. She was not as clear about the occurrence of some major events as Sun Laiyi, who had personally experienced two lives.
If I hadn't been careful, I might have really capsized in the ditch.
"Dongbao, what are you thinking about? You haven't picked up your chopsticks for a long time. This yam and bean stewed pork ribs was specially ordered by your brother for you. You must have been scared today. Eat more to replenish your body."
Wang Taozhi took a spoon and poured food into her bowl until it peaked.
He Ruixue stopped her and said, "I can't eat too much. Sisters-in-law, you guys eat, don't worry about me."
"Okay, just help yourself to whatever you want to eat... He Xiaoyou, you're a starving ghost, eat slowly!"
He Ruixue tasted it in small bites. Pig tail was added to the spare ribs, which were stewed until they were completely soft and boneless. The yam was dense and the pig tail was soft, chewy and chewy. The little black pig raised by the farmer was full of rich meat aroma in her mouth.
This dish probably contains a lot of medicinal herbs, such as angelica and poria, and has a light bitter taste and a sweet aftertaste.
In the 1960s, there were not many types of ingredients available for purchase, and the seasonings were also limited, but the original flavor of the ingredients was far superior to that of later generations.
Just like the bowl of chicken soup in her hand, it only contains ginger slices and salt, but it is filled with a rich and delicious flavor that no amount of chicken essence can bring out from the feed chicken.
Wang Taozhi first picked up some food that He Xiaoai couldn't reach, then put a large piece of fat meat into her own bowl and said, "Dongbao, you got promoted again this time. Did you get a salary increase?"
"It's gone up. It's forty-nine and a half dollars a month."
"Wow, that's a lot. If you keep working hard, you'll catch up with your brother. You're still so young, and you can support a whole family by yourself. Once the news gets out, I'm afraid our door will be trampled down."
"With my sister-in-law here, how dare the matchmaker come to our house?"
"Humph, they're not afraid of me, but your mother. When Mom came here, she repeatedly told me that your marriage must be decided by her, and no one else's words will count. Actually, Dongbao, you have a house and a job now, so it won't be difficult to find a son-in-law to marry into your family, so you don't have to marry into another family and suffer the humiliation."
He Chunsheng disagreed, "How many good men can marry into a family? Didn't Dongbao say that there was a son-in-law in their store who couldn't give birth himself, and it was wasted years delaying the girl's pregnancy."
Wang Taozhi sneered, "You're saying that, as if men who don't marry into the wife's family are so good, they're all the same. After all, they're in our hands, so we have to respect Dongbao openly.
If you really marry her off and she moves to someone else's territory, they won't be able to say whatever they want. As her brother, can you really come and keep an eye on her son-in-law every day?
I think, unless I find someone without parents, otherwise, with Dongbao's explosive temper, if she gets angry at someone else's family, she will pour a bottle of poison into the food and kill the whole family."
He Ruixue was furious. "Sister-in-law, what kind of devil am I? I can kill anyone I dislike?"
"Just tell me what I said is right, your parents-in-law are lying in bed, can you bend down to serve them? You're lucky you didn't kick her out."
Wang Taozhi was willing to let He Ruixue marry into her family, but she actually had her own selfish motives. "He Chunsheng, think carefully about who will take care of your parents when they get old?"
The custom here is that the youngest son takes care of the elderly, but He Chunsheng shook his head when he thought of his third brother and his wife. They were a pair of confused people who couldn't even figure out how to live their own lives and wished they didn't have anyone to take care of them.
He Xiasheng's husband is an official and she is a doctor. They have a bright future ahead of them and they will probably be even busier. Besides, the second daughter is devoted to her husband and has no time to take care of her parents. She will definitely not contribute money but effort to their retirement.
But now we can’t hire helpers or nannies like we did before, and even if we have money, it can’t help much.
As for Dongbao, even if she was willing to take care of the two elders, she couldn't bear to leave him. I was afraid that her mother would not forget to get up and cook for her before she closed her eyes.
Therefore, the only suitable candidate is their family, but... it's not that he doesn't want to, but he and Wang Taozhi are not young anymore, and they can only work for a few more years, so they have to consider their own retirement issues.
Thinking about it this way, if He Ruixue could recruit a hardworking and down-to-earth person, as the saying goes, a son-in-law is half a son, her parents would definitely be happy to live with their daughter. It would not be bad to have a son-in-law to support her in her old age.
"That's not right, Taozhi. Dongbao can't do laundry or cook. She definitely needs someone to help with household chores and take care of her parents. If she has a few more children, how will her husband be able to handle it?" He got a headache just thinking about it.
"What's wrong? Isn't this what all women in the world go through? Besides, men have better physical strength and they don't have to bear children. Why are you too busy?"
"That's not what I meant. Think about it, if one person can't handle it, what if Dongbao finds another? Then they can share the work, just like going to work. In our village, the land is always taken care of by two people. Collective labor is more efficient."
Hearing his shocking words, Wang Taozhi almost dropped her chopsticks in shock, and almost broke her voice, "He Chunsheng, are you crazy? What are you talking about?"
"Fang Guoxiang has two wives, and he can support them with his salary. Our Dongbao earns more than him, so why can't he?"
The more He Chunsheng talked, the more he thought it made sense. "Think about it. One of them is more down-to-earth and stays in the village to take care of his parents, while the other one, who is more handsome, marries Dongbao and raises children in the city. How comfortable it would be. Our family will try to find him a job. I don't believe there won't be anyone willing to do it."
"What happened to Fang Guoxiang was something Yang Ruoqing was too stupid to tolerate. Besides, what era was it back then? If she dared to run away with her child, she would have starved to death. There was no other way. And what about the situation now? How many men are willing to be cuckolds? Don't let your imagination run wild."
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