Shen Qinghe looked at He Xiuyun's smiling face, but there was anger in her eyes. Was he disgusted with her for spending money on a bicycle?
"I want to buy the bicycle." Without waiting for Shen Qinghe to speak, Jiang Chunlin came out of the kitchen and said to He Xiuyun, "It's convenient for traveling!"
Jiang Jianguo said with a smile, "It's good to have a bicycle. Qinghe won't have to walk to the county town when she wants to go there."
He Xiuyun looked at Jiang Chunlin. There was a frank look in his eyes and the cold expression on his face was the same as usual. Since it was the fourth brother who wanted to buy it himself, she naturally wouldn't say anything.
Shen Qinghe has a history of being lazy and gluttonous, and she is afraid that Shen Qinghe will drag her son down and make his life miserable.
Jiang Chunlin carried the large basin into the inner room, scooped the hot water from the pot into the bucket, added cold water, and looked at Shen Qinghe, "The bath water is ready, go ahead and take a bath."
"Thank you!" Shen Qinghe stood up and walked into the house.
"Dad, Mom, I have something to tell you." Jiang Chunlin glanced at Jiang Jianguo and He Xiuyun, and without waiting for them to speak, he walked towards his parents' room first.
He Xiuyun and Jiang Jianguo looked at each other and followed him in.
Jiang Chunlin looked straight at his parents and said straight to the point, "Since I married Shen Qinghe, I naturally have to be responsible for her. She loves to eat, which is not a big problem. Anyway, I can afford to support her."
"If you don't like something, understand it if you can, and if you can't understand it, just pretend you don't see it."
He Xiuyun frowned, "Chunlin, mother is afraid that she will make her life miserable for you."
"Only incompetent men would restrict their wives from spending money. Besides, she is just greedy. How much can she eat?"
"If I can't even satisfy her with some food in my mouth, then I'm useless."
He Xiuyun was suddenly speechless.
Jiang Jianguo reached out and touched He Xiuyun's arm, then said to Jiang Chunlin with a smile.
"Chunlin, you are right. Qinghe doesn't have any bad habits except that she is a little greedy. I have seen her rarely contact Jiang Zhiqing. As long as she lives with you peacefully and has another child in the future, there is nothing to complain about."
One knows one's own child well. With Jiang Chunlin's personality, if the Shen family hadn't owed him money and couldn't pay it back and used Shen Qinghe to pay off the debt, Jiang Chunlin would probably have been a bachelor for the rest of his life.
He was busy trying to curry favor with his daughter-in-law Shen Qinghe, so how could he dislike her greed?
He Xiuyun came to her senses suddenly after hearing what Jiang Jianguo said!
Yes, how could she forget that Jiang Chunlin was a village bully.
She was also counting on Shen Qinghe to give her a granddaughter.
Alas, I’m used to being frugal, and I couldn’t control myself when I saw the fourth child bought a bicycle.
"Chunlin, it's mother's fault for being talkative. I will definitely control my mouth in the future." He Xiuyun looked at Jiang Chunlin and smiled.
Jiang Jianguo glanced at his wife and ruthlessly exposed her, "It's not enough to just control your mouth, you have to control your heart too."
He Xiuyun: "..." Does this old man want to kneel on the washboard? !
The other three brothers of the Jiang family all saw the bicycle placed at the door.
They had no reason to be dissatisfied. Although the fourth brother was arrogant, the three brothers together were not as capable as him. Normally, they did not dare to talk back when he confronted them, because firstly, they could not beat him and secondly, they did not have the confidence.
Men don't mind, but women may not.
Both of them married men from the Jiang family and were both daughters-in-law of the Jiang family. Shen Qinghe lived like a princess, while they lived like cattle and horses. How could they not feel jealous and aggrieved?
Everyone has a competitive mentality, but some people can work hard to surpass others.
Some people do not reflect on themselves, but blame others for what they do not have.
Wang Dan was throwing things around at home with a sullen face.
Jiang Chunming knew what Wang Dan was angry about. He also wanted to buy a bicycle, but there was nothing he could do since he was not as capable as Lao Si.
"Give me five dollars." Wang Dan said suddenly.
Jiang Chunming was stunned, "What do you want money for?"
"I'm going back to my parents' tomorrow. I can't go empty-handed." Wang Dan spoke harshly, and was so angry that he almost burned the house down.
Jiang Chunming muttered quietly, "But it doesn't cost five dollars."
With a "bang", Wang Dan threw the rag in his hand onto the table and glared at Jiang Chunming.
"Shen Qinghe always goes to the county town when she has nothing to do. She buys whatever she wants. Why can't she do that when she comes to me? I don't care. If you have money, give it to me. If you don't have money, lend me five dollars."
With a "wow" sound, Wang Dan's furious voice frightened the eight-year-old Jiang Yuping and he burst into tears. Jiang Chunming hurriedly hugged his youngest son to comfort him.
Then he looked at Wang Dan who was still angry and said, "Okay, I'll go out and lend it to you later."
Wang Dan finally felt better.
When Jiang Chunming went to borrow money from his parents, He Xiuyun angrily scolded him, "You just spoil your wife. She wants five dollars now and fifty tomorrow. Are you going to borrow money from her too?"
"Mom, the fourth brother bought Qinghe a bicycle today. Wang Dan is upset. Just let her calm down." Jiang Chunlin said with a sad face, "It's all my fault. I'm the eldest brother, but I'm not as capable as my younger brother."
He Xiuyun was so angry that she instantly fainted when she heard the boss's words.
He sighed and said, "It won't happen again!"
He Xiuyun knew very well what kind of personality the eldest lady's wife had. If the eldest lady didn't lend her five dollars today, she would make a scene and even overturn the roof.
A harmonious family brings prosperity!
Jiang Chunming said ashamedly, "Thank you, mother. I will pay you back when I earn enough money from work."
He Xiuyun asked Jiang Chunming to go out, found a handkerchief at the bottom of the box, took out five dollars and gave it to him.
Wang Dan looked better after receiving the five dollars. She knew that this money was borrowed from Jiang Chunming's parents-in-law.
Does a son need to pay back the money he borrowed from his parents? Of course not!
She felt at ease taking this money!
The Jiang family has four sons. If she doesn't fight for it, others will. Wouldn't she be at a disadvantage then?
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After taking a shower, Shen Qinghe sat at the dining table with a pen and paper, writing and drawing.
Jiang Chunlin didn't know what Shen Qinghe did, nor did he care. As long as she lived a good life with him, that was enough.
Shen Qinghe knew that Jiang Chunlin was a smart man. Although he was a bit arrogant, he could think of going to the mountains to collect medicinal herbs to sell. With this kind of intelligence, he was better than 90% of the men in this era.
"Jiang Chunlin, can you do this?" Shen Qinghe showed the drawn crochet hook to Jiang Chunlin.
She wanted to use the wool she bought today to knit wallets of different colors and small pendants. She looked in the supply and marketing cooperative and found that there were no crochet hooks for sale.
Jiang Chunlin took it and looked at it. It looked like an umbrella. He asked, "This isn't difficult to make. Do you want to make it with bamboo?"
"A thick iron wire will do." Shen Qinghe said after thinking for a while.
Jiang Chunlin nodded, rummaged around the house, found a steel wire as thick as his little finger, and hammered it with a hammer according to Shen Qinghe's drawing. Soon he made a set of crochet hooks for her.
Shen Qinghe was very satisfied after seeing it. Jiang Chunlin also polished the rough edges smooth with sandpaper so that they would not get caught on the wool or his hands.
Under the bright kerosene lamp, one was crocheting something with wool, and the other was weaving a bamboo basket. No one spoke, but the atmosphere was not awkward.
The firelight jumped, casting the figures of the two people on the wall. Sometimes the two figures collided with each other, and sometimes separated. It was quiet and warm.
Shen Qinghe likes crocheting these little things very much. Her slender and tender little hands keep flying up and down. After a while, a beautiful and exquisite little wallet takes shape.
Jiang Chunlin raised his head and looked at Shen Qinghe in surprise.
He was familiar with this wallet. It was the same wallet that he had helped Zhu Qiaolan recover. He didn't expect that Shen Qinghe would recognize it after just one look.
There's something about this woman!
Shen Qinghe crocheted two wallets, a little bear pendant, and a Mickey Mouse.
Time passed by unknowingly, and it was late at night in the blink of an eye.
"ah!"
The kerosene lamp suddenly went out, and Shen Qinghe screamed in surprise as she saw darkness before her eyes.
"There's no kerosene left, go to bed quickly." Jiang Chunlin had good eyesight. With the help of the moonlight outside the window, he accurately placed the unfinished things in Shen Qinghe's hands on the table, then pulled her to the kang.
"It was almost finished." Shen Qinghe felt a little regretful.
"Tomorrow I'll sell things at the black market while weaving." Jiang Chunlin said impatiently.
Shen Qinghe's eyes lit up, remembering that when she was in school, there would be a shelf on the ground at the school gate, which was hung with all kinds of crocheted small items, and the boss would sit nearby, weaving small items and selling them.
The girls all liked this kind of pendant and they all crowded in front to look at it. It was also at that time that Shen Qinghe was attracted by the colorful pendants and she started to weave them for fun when she had nothing to do at home.
Shen Qinghe was too excited to sleep. She stared at the ceiling with her eyes wide open. Thinking of the money she was earning every day, she grinned silently.
"What are you laughing at so late at night?"
Jiang Chunlin's cold voice came from the darkness.
Shen Qinghe suppressed her smile and whispered, "I can't sleep."
"Then do something else before going to sleep." Jiang Chunlin turned over and pressed Shen Qinghe under him. The woman's jade-white face glowed in the moonlight, and the fragrance on her body made some part of his body clamor.
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