"She got home two days late. My friend sent her home." Chen Shanhe said calmly.
Chen Shanlin and Zhao Caifeng had been married for many years, so he immediately understood what Chen Shanhe meant. He sighed and patted Chen Shanhe on the shoulder twice, "Your sister-in-law has caused you a lot of trouble, right?"
Question sentences are indeed affirmative.
Chen Shanhe shook his head, "Not bad."
Chen Shanlin never mentioned Zhao Caifeng again. He knew his wife's character and his brother's character.
He raised his hand and pointed at the two east wing rooms. "Rooms, I've cleaned them for you. You..."
I wanted to say, "You go and rest for a while." But halfway through I saw Jiang Shiyue and Yangyang frowning.
Chen Shanhe called the brigade, and the messenger only said that Chen Shanhe would come back and the day he would arrive, but did not tell Chen Shanlin and others.
Chen Shanlin thought that Chen Shanhe was alone just like before.
Yangyang and Jiang Shiyue are both so fair that they look as if water can be squeezed out of their faces. Their delicate looks definitely show that they have never suffered any hardship.
The east wing is, after all, a side room. There is only one bed in the room, and it is a single bed.
The rest was just old stuff, various ropes and tools, and there was even a stove in the corner.
I'm afraid Jiang Shiyue and Yangyang won't be able to get used to living here.
Wu Xiu'e hurriedly said, "Move your father to the east wing, and we two old men will live there. You three can stay in our room."
Before Chen Shanhe could speak, Wu Xiu'e waved her hand to stop him. "Your father and I are both old and well, so we can live anywhere. You three are not used to sleeping in a small bed."
Neither Chen Shanhe nor Jiang Shiyue agreed.
Especially Jiang Shiyue, she really doesn't want to suffer and also doesn't like to take over someone else's position.
Finally, the old man Chen Dingguo, who was lying on the kang, made the decision to change rooms.
Jiang Shiyue felt a little emotional, it was worthy of being the hometown of Confucius and Mencius.
An old man paralyzed in bed, with just one word, his two 1.8-meter-tall sons obeyed him.
There are two main rooms, one inside and one outside.
The outer room is very large, with a stove, table, chairs, and some tools.
The inner room is actually not small, but a kang takes up most of the room.
The kang stretched directly from the east wall to the west wall. Chen Dingguo and Wu Xiu'e only slept on half of the kang, and the remaining half was used to store clean bedding and two wooden boxes.
Jiang Shiyue sat on the newly changed mattress and cleaned kang sheets and sighed, "It seems your mother took good care of your father."
"What do you mean?" Chen Shanhe squatted on the ground and put the purified saltpeter into a bucket to make ice for Jiang Shiyue.
"The kang slept on by a man paralyzed for so many years doesn't have the slightest odor. It's spotlessly clean everywhere. Your father's complexion is rosy, and his voice is as resounding as a bell... This is enough to show that your father is well taken care of."
"Yeah." Chen Shanhe nodded. "My mother is a relatively traditional woman. She always treated my father as her god. Later, when my father got into trouble, my mother was the most panicked one, but she was also the most determined one. She always believed that my father would be able to stand up again sooner or later. It is this belief that has supported her until now. Don't look at her illiterateness, she is now an expert in massage. She learned it all for my father."
Chen Shanhe pushed the prepared ice basin to the edge of the kang, shook the water off his hands and stood up.
Jiang Shiyue was not surprised. Women like Wu Xiu'e who still had bound feet at her age generally came from good families and were severely poisoned by feudal ideas.
The idea that a woman should obey her husband after marriage is even more deeply rooted.
She sighed softly, "Zhao Caifeng is such a scoundrel! She forced your mother to leave your father for so long! Not only is she physically exhausted, but she's also mentally exhausted."
Chen Shanhe moved his lips but didn't say anything.
Due to his personality, he cannot speak as freely as Jiang Shiyue.
At the very least, you can't talk about your sister-in-law behind her back.
He saw what his mother went through and felt pain in his heart.
Jiang Shiyue immediately understood Chen Shanhe's dilemma. She crawled forward twice and lay down on the edge of the kang. "Chen Shanhe, there's nothing wrong with respecting filial piety and loyalty. However, that shouldn't be a reason to condone bad people's evil deeds. Zhao Caifeng is so arrogant and domineering in the Chen family because of you guys."
Chen Shanhe looked at Jiang Shiyue warily, "What are you going to do? This is a production team, don't mess around."
"Why would you do such a thing?" Jiang Shiyue held onto the edge of the kang with both hands, looking up at Chen Shanhe with an innocent face. "I just want to teach your sister-in-law a lesson. I'm a businessman, and I don't like to do business at a loss. If your sister-in-law wants to take my 20 yuan a month, she must first meet my requirements."
Is Party A still Party A if he doesn’t make things difficult for others?
Chen Shanhe: “…”
"I never had the chance to say thank you so much for helping me. I'll pay the twenty dollars that belonged to my sister-in-law."
Jiang Shiyue blinked, "So your desire to marry me was fake? Is the distinction between yours and mine so clear?"
Chen Shanhe: “…”
A clumsy retort: "That's not what I meant. I meant..."
He is a grown man, and it is his job to make money and support his family.
His allowance is actually not low, but it is not enough compared to Jiang Shiyue.
Finally, he spread out his five fingers and covered the back of his head, looking embarrassed.
Jiang Shiyue was overjoyed.
What a piece of wood!
Chen Shanhe was about to speak when his gaze shifted to the window.
Jiang Shiyue also heard the noise and stretched her neck to look outside. "Why is there such a commotion outside?"
She couldn't see from that angle, so she anxiously sat up, pulling at the wound and wailing in pain.
"Don't move!" Chen Shanhe held Jiang Shiyue's shoulder.
Jiang Shiyue pouted, "I want to watch the fun."
"It's either lively or my eldest brother and my mother are fighting over whose chicken to kill."
"Ah? Aren't you a family?" Jiang Shiyue didn't quite understand.
"In the past, the production team was a 'big pot' system, with all resources belonging to the collective and shared equally among everyone. Now things have changed a lot. The land is still collective, and everyone gets points according to their work. Each family also gets a small plot of land for their own use, and they can raise poultry like chickens, ducks, and pigs.
However, they are all limited in quantity and cannot be bought and sold at will.
Ordinary families like us usually just raise chickens and ducks for eggs. You've seen my eldest sister-in-law before, she's a bit overbearing. She wouldn't let my mother give my father eggs. Later, we split up.
Although we live in the same courtyard, we don’t eat together and our household belongings are kept separate.”
It was said that they were splitting up the family, but it was just that Zhao Caifeng disliked Chen Dingguo and didn't want to have to share the same pot.
Wu Xiu'e and her husband obviously had no ability to work and could not earn any work points, so they were all supported by Chen Shanlin and Chen Shanhe.
Zhao Caifeng tried to deduct some of the money, but she didn't dare to go too far.
In 1978, the common people were generally simple and kind-hearted. If Zhao Caifeng went too far, the cadres in the production team would intervene.
Jiang Shiyue understood, "You mean your eldest brother and your mother are arguing over whose chicken to stew for my welcome?"
Chen Shanhe laughed, "How do you know it's stewed for you?"
"I'm so beautiful, everyone loves me. And I'm a patient!"
After a dispute, the hen raised by Wu Xiu'e was put into the pot.
She only has two chickens.
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