The Clever Wife of the 1960s Chapter 26 (Part 1)

Chapter 26 (Part 1)

The team distributed grain after paying the public grain tax. Chen Rou had worked hard during the autumn harvest and managed to make up for a lot of the free time she had during her confinement period, so when grain was distributed, she really got a lot.

After all, her son Guobin has the most work points.

Chen Rou came over to divide the food with Han Hang, a baby boy who was more than three months old. Everyone saw Han Hang's fair, tender and plump appearance.

It's rare to see children like this in the countryside. They're all dirty and skinny.

Everyone in the village had heard that Chen Rou had given birth to a chubby, white boy for Han Guobin who looked like the boy in New Year pictures, but not many people had seen the child. After all, he was still very young and was rarely brought out for people to see.

Today I see that she is really good-looking.

The experienced lady said, "This white and plump body shows that he has a lot of milk. I heard that Guobin often buys pig's feet and stews them with peanuts to increase milk production. This is not for nothing."

"Yes, only a man like Guobin loves his wife so much that he is willing to do so. He is a real man."

"At the beginning, I said Guobin was good and would be fine after marrying him. But the girl of so-and-so didn't have such thoughts. The one she married now, although not bad, is nothing compared to Guobin's wife. She got pregnant after only ten days of confinement. The last time I saw her, she was secretly wiping away tears."

“…”

For some reason, a group of elderly ladies are particularly optimistic about young guys like Han Guobin.

Especially when he gets full work points, is good at work, and loves his wife when he goes home, such a young man is the best son-in-law in the eyes of older aunts and grandmas, the kind that cannot be picked.

Young girls just love to be pretty. I really don't understand the origin of the saying "marry a man to provide you with clothes and food."

A man who is reliable and can support the family does not matter whether he is fat or flat. Besides, Han Guobin looks exactly the same. He is tall and big, and you can tell at a glance that he is capable and a down-to-earth man!

But if you miss it, you miss it. Now he is someone else's man and father, so there is no need to worry about him anymore.

Chen Rou just smiled at their words. As for Han Hang's kid, let them look if they want. It won't be a loss anyway.

The sour and calculating one couldn't help but said to Chen Rou with a smile: "There's not much money at home, and my child doesn't have anything to eat. Guobin's wife, if you have any extra, I'll bring it over and you can lend me some?"

This is what it means to borrow milk. I say borrow, but it’s just a nice way of saying it. You don’t have to pay it back.

"It would be fine if there was more, but this kid has a big appetite and I won't have any left." Chen Rou said.

She loves her own children, and she can't control other people's children. She is not heartless.

She knew that life was difficult for everyone at the moment, and it was normal for children to lack food. However, Chen Rou didn't want to start this conversation. There were more than one children in the village who lacked milk. If she brought them all over, would she give this one and not that one?

What if she gave all of it to her own child? She was not going to start this.

Besides, her food is very precious, and she has worked hard to get it. If there is too much, she can ask Guo Bin to come over...

It may sound a bit discordant to say this, but that thief of hers had coveted her last time.

"Are you reluctant to lend me some?" the daughter-in-law said.

Chen Rou was polite at first, but seeing that she was so persistent, she stopped being polite and said with a smile, "It's not that I don't want to lend it, but my Guobin spent a lot of money, and he always gives me the good things he has on weekdays. He doesn't want to eat anything himself, and he hopes that I can eat more so that I can have more food for his son. So there's really no other way. Sister-in-law, if your child is short of food, you can ask his father to give you more food to supplement it, so that the food will be available. After all, it's his. But I also have some rice porridge at home. Sister-in-law, if you really have no choice, you can come over and exchange some rice porridge for him to feed him. It's made from ground rice, and I don't have much, but if he's really short of food, I can exchange some for you to feed him."

She prepared three things: rice porridge, millet porridge, and corn porridge, all of which she planned to feed to the Korean Air baby when they were six months old.

The daughter-in-law wants to say that you are just stingy and don’t want to lend it. It’s just a mouthful of milk, why are you so stingy?

But an old lady nearby spoke up and said to the man who was carrying food with her: "Guo Jin, are you mistreating your wife by asking her to lend milk to your son? Hurry up and take it back to nourish him, so that your son won't be left without food!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked towards the daughter-in-law, who was embarrassed and said, "No, I'm just asking. Isn't it because her son is so fat and white? I'm greedy just by looking at him."

Everyone was an experienced person, so they just sneered: "Who wouldn't be jealous of such a child? What did the couple work so hard to raise such a child? You just open your mouth and want it. You are really shameless."

Life is easy for everyone, but no one asks for milk. If you want to borrow, others will also want to borrow. If you lend it to others but not to others, wouldn't it be a waste of effort and offend others? But if you lend it to everyone, will your own children still have food to eat?

The wife felt ashamed and hurried over when her husband called her.

Chen Rou thanked the ladies, and then she and Han Guobin used a small cart to transport the food back home.

The small cart still belonged to the neighboring Ma family. Zhou Zhen's husband Ma Dafa sent it here after he transported the grain back to the Ma family. Although her family didn't get much grain, if they wanted to take it away, they would have to make several trips back and forth, so it would be better to transport it back in one trip.

After the grain was distributed and the pigs were handed over, it was Han Guolin's turn to calculate the remaining money for each household. Last year, not much was distributed, but this year, a little more was distributed than last year. The main reason was that Chen Rou did not earn any work points except for the month of confinement after childbirth, and she even went to pull grass for the pigs on the day of delivery.

It can’t be considered lazy, so the money is a little more than last year, breaking the thirty-year mark.

But there was not much money like this in the whole village. With such a large family in the village, they got more than 300 yuan, nearly 400 yuan, which made everyone in the village envious.

But they are a big family with more than 20 people in total, so they earn a lot and spend a lot.

But such a huge sum of money is still enviable.

Not only did we get money, but we also got some cloth coupons and cotton. Just like last year, the cotton was still half a pound.

This year, cloth coupons were distributed three times, which means each person gets three feet of cloth. In other words, it is enough cloth to make a set of clothes.

However, Chen Rou took the cloth back to her mother's home and asked her mother to exchange it with her uncle, and also asked for some extra cotton.

She planned to make a small quilt to sleep on. Last year, she only had a bed sheet, which was not warm enough. When Han Guobin was not at home, she would sleep on half of the bed and use the sheet as a cushion.

As for clothes, they won't be made for the time being. Both she and Han Guobin had made them last year. She took them apart and washed them before winter this year, and they are all in good condition.

Chen Rou also cut a piece of mutton weighing about three taels and asked her mother to take it to her uncle. As for the money, she also gave it so that her uncle would not suffer any loss.

When Chen Rou went to her uncle to buy cotton cloth, Song Xiaoyu was born.

Not outdone by Chen Rou, she also gave birth to a son, also a big fat boy, also weighing more than five kilograms.

They all worked with the same midwife and gave red envelopes. They were very happy and praised the mother.

Han Guolin became a new father and was so happy.

Not only him, but also Han's father and mother were very happy.

Father Han actually likes his other grandchildren as well. He likes Tiedan and Ludan from eldest brother Han's family. Although he is not satisfied with his second daughter-in-law Chen Rou, who is a sharp-tongued wife, Father Han can't help but take a few more glances at his third grandson born to her.

After all, he was raised so well, and even if he was not satisfied with Chen Rou, it was true that his grandson belonged to the Han family.

So when his third grandson was born, he gave him one dollar, just like he gave it to Mrs. Han back then.

Chen Rou accepted it without hesitation.

However, I can only say that I didn’t treat the first three grandchildren too badly, but I treated the fourth grandchild like a real treasure.

Song Xiaoyu received a five-dollar reward, which was one of the first things he received. From then on, he had pork trotters stewed with peanuts, chicken, eggs and other things for every meal, and there was never a shortage of them.

The fragrance from the confinement period spread for ten miles, and all the neighbors could smell it. There was no shortage of benefits and benefits.

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

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