The Clever Wife of the 1960s Chapter 24 (Part 3)

Chapter 24 (Part 3)

I came to Old Chen's house. Her mother is at home today, and her third sister-in-law is also at home.

Mrs. Chen San felt a little aggrieved when she saw Chen Rou coming over.

My mother-in-law exchanged a lot of eggs, and we saved some eggs at home. We didn’t eat them much, so we kept them all for my sister-in-law.

However, as a daughter-in-law, she didn't dare to say anything, but she must have felt uncomfortable.

"I just went to the town and bought some meat and bones." Chen Rou ignored her and took out a few pork bones and a two-ounce piece of meat from the basket.

When Chen's mother came out, she heard this and glared at her, "Are you wasting money again?"

"Guo Bin asked me to buy some food." Chen Rou said, and said to the slightly stunned Chen Sansao: "Sansao, bring the bones and meat in."

"Okay... okay." Mrs. Chen San's face lit up with joy, and she nodded when she saw that her mother-in-law had no objection.

Two taels of meat and a few bones are not much, but adding a handful of Chinese cabbage and boiling the bones and cabbage soup can moisten your intestines!

"What a waste of money!" Chen's mother glared at her daughter.

Chen Rou smiled and said, "Mom, did you change the eggs for me?"

"Changed." Chen's mother took her into the house and brought her an egg basket full of eggs. It looked like there were more than two kilograms of eggs.

"How many pounds does this weigh?" Chen Rou asked.

"I exchanged two kilograms for you, and the rest are laid by our chickens." said Chen's mother.

Chen Rou estimated that this small basket of eggs must weigh more than four pounds, which shows that most of the eggs at home must have been saved for her by her mother.

"Mom, please don't do this. I don't have to worry about eating eggs. My third sister-in-law is pregnant now, and my nephews and nieces are also growing up. Please don't withhold their rations and leave them for me. Besides, my father and brother are working in the fields, how can they do without some meat?" Chen Rou said.

"It's just some eggs, take them back." Chen's mother dismissed him.

"I just want two pounds." Chen Rou began to take eggs into her basket and said, "You can keep the extra eggs for the Chen family to nourish their bodies. Farm work is hard and they can't live without eggs."

There are seven or eight eggs in a pound, so she took advantage and asked for sixteen, but she didn't order any more.

She still had a lot in her space, and she didn't eat too much. She ate sparingly. She could take some out after taking the two kilograms of eggs back.

Seeing that she only wanted a small amount, Chen's mother said, "I think you are stupid. I give you eggs, but you still don't want them?"

"No." Chen Rou refused and said, "Mom, if you go to my uncle's house, ask him if he has any rice. If he does, give me half a pound."

She took a small piece of meat from her basket, about two ounces, and said, "Mother, give it to my uncle."

"Why did you buy so much meat? It's free, right?" Chen's mother asked.

There was still a piece of meat as big as a palm left in her daughter's basket!

"I'll buy it." Chen Rou didn't want to talk to her about this and said, "Mom, take it to my uncle."

Mother Chen was about to put eggs into her basket, but Chen Rou stopped her: "Mom, don't fight with me, or they will fall and be wasted."

"Take more back!" Chen's mother said, and gave her four or five more. Seeing that her daughter tried to stop her, she gave up and said, "I'll give this piece of meat to your uncle. If there is any rice, ask him to get you some."

Chen Rou nodded, and she went back without staying any longer.

Mrs. Chen San saw that there were still quite a few eggs left in her mother-in-law's egg basket!

"What are you looking at? Rourou took the two kilograms she wanted and didn't ask for more for the remaining one. She also brought some meat. And you have to feel wronged with the third child at night for such a small number of eggs. How can you be so outrageous?" Chen's mother scolded him.

Mrs. Chen San knew her mother-in-law's temper and was not afraid at all. She smiled and said, "Mother, what are you going to make for Dad and the others at noon?"

"It's not that long now. Wait until later to stew the pork bones into a wild vegetable soup, and chop the meat into puree and stir-fry it with Chinese cabbage." Chen's mother ordered.

"Okay!" Mrs. Chen San was happy.

Chen's mother wrapped the meat for her brother in a rag and went out. The little girl liked to eat rice, so she had to ask her brother to get some for her when he had the chance.

As it happened, her brother had some at home, so he gave it to her. It wasn't much, just over a pound.

Mother Chen felt embarrassed to ask for only her brother's portion, so she asked for half a pound.

So not long after Chen Rou returned home, her mother came over and brought her rice.

"Your uncle just happened to have more than a pound, and he originally wanted to give it all to me, but your uncle has bad teeth, so I didn't ask for more and only asked for half a pound." Chen's mother said.

Chen Rou immediately felt very embarrassed. She didn't know that her uncle had bad teeth. She said, "Mom, my uncle has bad teeth. Please send it back to him. It doesn't matter if I don't eat it."

The supply and marketing cooperative in town doesn't have rice for sale, only in the county town, and you need food coupons for it. But there must be some on the black market, but she has no chance to go to the black market right now.

Chen's mother said, "Your uncle knows that you are filial. He likes that piece of meat very much. He also said that last year's mutton was delicious. Half a pound of rice is nothing. You go and get busy. Mother is going back."

After Chen's mother went back, Chen Rou looked at the half pound of rice and found it difficult to eat.

Next time there is a chance, ask her husband Guobin to go to Lao Yang to ask, but don’t bother her uncle.

Although she thought so, she still added a lot of rice to mix it together. At noon, Chen Rou ate the stewed rice.

Eat it for one meal, and the rest will be eaten during the summer harvest. Rice is not durable and can only be eaten in a few meals.

After stewing the rice, there is still some rice cakes. When you scoop it out of the pot, it smells very fragrant.

I ate two pieces while they were hot and put them aside and started frying the meat.

"Are you going to buy meat?" Zhou Zhen said as she passed by on her way home from work and smelled the aroma.

"Well, I was greedy, so I bought some." Chen Rou said.

I pulled out almost a pound of meat and fried it with pickles. It tasted really delicious and went very well with rice.

Zhou Zhen was extremely envious, but she couldn't afford to eat it, so she said a few words and went home to cook.

When Han Guobin came back, Chen Rou had already scooped out some rice for him.

"Wash your hands and face and eat." Chen Rou said, seeing that he looked tired.

Han Guobin smelled the fragrance and immediately went to wash his face and hands. He had a good breakfast, but he was really hungry at this moment.

After washing up, he came over to eat. He made three big bowls of steamed rice with pork and pickled vegetables. That was enough for him, but in fact he could have eaten two more bowls.

"Did my mother give me this rice?" Han Guobin asked.

"My uncle gave it to me. Next time you go to Lao Yang and ask him if he has it. If he does, buy some." Chen Rou said.

Han Guobin accepted the offer.

However, Han Guobin didn't need to go, as Chen Rou found an opportunity herself the next day.

The old He family who raises donkeys in the village are going to the city tomorrow, and are asking if anyone wants to go with them. The round-trip fare is only one cent, which is much cheaper than the previous deal from the neighboring village.

Chen Rou went to ask for a spot.

She estimated that this was her first and last trip to the city this year, so she had to find an excuse to get some things out so that her son Guobin wouldn't think that there were endless things at home.

Chen Rou had told Han Guobin about going to the city the day before. She prepared meals for him early in the morning and then went into the city with other people in the village.

Chen Rou didn't have much to buy, but she wasn't the kind of person who would compromise herself. It was a rare trip for her, so she had to get more supplies.

Everything was prepared yesterday. She took out a lot of supplies such as rice, noodles, soap, candy, etc.

When they got on the donkey cart back to the village, she had the most things in her bag, a large package, and it was obvious that she had bought a lot of things.

The young wife in the same car asked her, "Sister-in-law, this will probably cost a lot of money, right?"

"Things in the city are not cheap." Chen Rou sighed.

"It's not cheap, I bought two flowers and they charged me ten cents!" said another girl.

"The flower on your head looks beautiful and suits you well." Chen Rou complimented casually.

The eldest girl was very happy and said, "But she is not as pretty as you, sister-in-law."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the girls on the donkey cart looked at Chen Rou. Chen Rou was really pretty, with willow-shaped eyebrows, big eyes, a delicate nose and a small mouth.

"I'm someone's daughter-in-law, and I'm going to be a mother soon. Children grow old quickly in their lifetime. They can't be compared with you young girls who are as beautiful as flowers." Chen Rou said with a smile.

The chat went quite well. After returning to the village, Chen Rou gave one cent and took her things home.

Then, after a while, word spread throughout the village that she had bought a lot of things and had spent a lot of money.

Chen Rou also bore the reputation of a spendthrift daughter-in-law for nothing. Not only did she put more than ten kilograms of rice in the jar, she also took noodles, milk candies and other supplies and piled them all in the cupboard.

- Extracting MTL from raw by Du Xian'er (Poison❀Fairy) -

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