The Clever Wife of the 1960s Chapter 32 (Part 3)

The Clever Wife of the 1960s Chapter 32 (Part 3)

Chen Rou smiled and said, "I'm not as good as my sister." Then she fell asleep.

Han Guobin hugged his wife and fell asleep together.

In the middle of the night, his wife was sleeping soundly, so he got up to change his son's diaper, and then continued to sleep with his son.

The days that followed became hotter and hotter, but it rained before the hottest days of summer.

Mrs. Han was so happy.

"It's not like you haven't seen rain before. Look how happy you are." Brother Han said.

Mrs. Han snorted: "What do you know, you fool?"

It's raining, so she has to take her two sons into the mountains to pick mushrooms. Last time she didn't prepare to exchange them for money, so she didn't pick much. Today she wants to exchange them for money, so she must pick more.

Not only Mrs. Han was happy, but everyone else in the village was happy too, because the rain made the men feel a lot more relaxed.

It's so hot now, and there's a shortage of water for irrigation. My shoulders are red and broken from carrying water. Wouldn't it be much more comfortable if it rained?

After raining for a few days, the sky after the rain was as clear as a cleaned mirror.

A large number of women who came to pick mushrooms also went into the mountains.

"You two follow me and pick mushrooms with me. When we get back, I'll boil eggs for you!" Mrs. Han said to her two sons with high morale.

"One for each of us or let us share one?" Tiedan asked.

"Of course we share it!" Mrs. Han said with her eyes wide open.

Although it was stingy, it was better than nothing. Tiedan took his brother to start picking mushrooms. Although they were small, they knew what the adults had told them, which mushrooms they could pick and which were poisonous and could not be picked.

Even if there is some confusion, the adults will screen them again after picking them back.

Chen Rou sent her son back to her parents' home early in the morning and went up the mountain to pick mushrooms with Zhou Zhen.

I bumped into Han Dasao, who smiled and said, "There are a lot of mushrooms on the mountain. We must pick more to take back today."

Chen Rou nodded, and then went to collect with Zhou Zhen somewhere else. Zhou Zhen was still muttering, "What's going on? She acted like she owed her something last time, but now she has changed her temper?"

"She is just like that, just don't take it seriously." Chen Rou said.

Zhou Zhen also joined her in digging mushrooms.

It only took two days, and after two days, we had to go to work. The grass in the field grew very fast, so it naturally had to be removed manually.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter.

Especially starting from mid-July, the daytime heat was so scorching that after Han Guobin brought back a batch of fertilizers for the village, Chen Rou simply stopped going out.

Escape the summer heat in your own small adobe house which is warm in winter and cool in summer.

Work points are important, but you should be more careful when you are pregnant so as not to go hungry. Now it is the first three months, so you naturally need to pay more attention, after all, there is still the autumn harvest later.

When Qiu received it, the weather was not so hot anymore and her stomach was feeling better, so she planned to go out and earn those work points.

It's the hottest time of the year now, so just forget it.

Because of this incident, many people in the village said that she was pampered. There were countless pregnant women who went to the fields, but she was the only one who refused to do so.

However, Han Guobin brought back fertilizers. Everyone saw the nearly 1,000 kg increase in wheat production during the summer harvest. This time, even more was brought back than before, so the production will definitely increase a lot.

Therefore, Chen Rou's blatant laziness could only be condemned, but not much was said openly.

Han Guobin would go to work during his three-day holiday, and he didn't care at all that his wife didn't go.

How can you bear such a hot day when you are pregnant? You should just rest at home.

In mid-August, the dog days of summer are over. By the end of August, the weather has become much milder. It is still hot, but not as hot.

Chen Rou started to work. She sent little Hanghang to her mother's home and went to work pulling grass for pigs.

There are also many pregnant women in the village. After the slack season last year, there are really many women who want to give birth this year. After all, during the slack season, all they are busy with is sex on the kang, so now there are many women giving birth.

However, none of them looked as good as Chen Rou.

It's inevitable that some people will be jealous.

"Second sister-in-law Han, you haven't been working for a while, and you've taken good care of yourself. You're almost having two children now. Looking at you like this, I'd think you're not married." The eldest daughter-in-law, who came over to pull grass for the pigs, said sourly.

Chen Rou glanced at her and said, "Sister-in-law looks good, and her belly is so big, she must be giving birth soon."

"You're not so lucky. My belly is so big and I still have to work!" said the eldest daughter-in-law.

Didn't Chen Rou go out to gather grass for pigs on the day she gave birth to her first child? She gave birth right after she came back. This was very common in the village, and she didn't act pretentiously and think she was something special.

Seeing that she didn't respond, the daughter-in-law wanted to say something, so her cousin Cai Lihua, who helped buy the pot and gave Hanghang eggs, said, "Okay, get busy now. The pigs are crying for food, so they need a lot of pig grass. The harvest in the village is good now, and the work points have been raised. If you get more and better pig grass, you can get three work points."

This is the truth. Not only has the work point for pulling weeds for pigs been raised by one point, but for women who do the work, the full work points are five, and by the time of harvest, it can reach six. Last year, it was raised to seven, and this year it will continue to be seven, and the best workers will get bonus points.

There are really a lot more than before.

Everyone went back to picking up pig grass, and Cai Lihua said to Chen Rou, "Don't worry about her. She's just jealous of you. She didn't want to marry Uncle Guobin back then. She's not bad now, but she can't compare to you."

"She had a relationship with my Guobin?" Chen Rou asked in surprise.

"No, it's clear and innocent. Don't think too much about it. Her grandmother is very optimistic about Uncle Guobin and wants to talk to him, but she herself is not happy about it." Cai Lihua got married a long time ago and knew everything about the village.

Chen Rou finally understood and smiled.

My cousin's wife, Cai Lihua, was quite pregnant at the moment, so she didn't go to work and came here to pull grass for the pigs to earn work points.

Chen Rou smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, this is your third child, right?"

"It's the third one." Cai Lihua nodded.

"When will the baby be born?" Chen Rou said.

"There is almost half a month left. I am looking forward to giving birth soon. After giving birth, I will stay in confinement for a while. It will be almost the autumn harvest." Cai Lihua said.

It has already been distributed. Work points are very important to my small family, especially since there is a third child in the family. I have to earn work points to raise the child.

Her husband is Han Guobin's cousin. Han Guoming, who helped transport grain back last time, is also a good worker and not lazy. But if a family relies on only one man, the man will be under a lot of pressure.

Cai Lihua gave birth in early September, and my cousin-in-law was a strong person. She went to pull grass for the pigs that morning, but she didn't go in the afternoon.

Seeing that she didn't go, Chen Rou went to her house after she came back and found that she was about to give birth.

She scooped two spoonfuls of brown sugar over, as she guessed that her cousin's family definitely didn't have any brown sugar.

When the brown sugar was brought over, Cai Lihua was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Why would I need this?"

"Yes, after you give birth, I'll ask Brother Guoming to make you a bowl of brown sugar porridge." Chen Rou said.

Cai Lihua knew that she really wanted to give it, so she smiled and nodded to thank her.

Because this was my third child, the birth was very easy and I was done at around nine o'clock.

Han Guoming was also told that not long after the birth, he brought brown sugar porridge to his wife. After his wife finished eating, he quickly fell asleep.

Chen Rou came over to check twice more and earned her work points.

In the blink of an eye, it is September and it is time to start preparing for the autumn harvest.

Han Guobin has been paying close attention to rest recently. When Chen Rou saw him like this, she knew that he was starting to prepare for the autumn harvest.

"I can take care of myself. You can go to work and don't worry about me. I'm not made of water. I'm not that delicate." Chen Rou said while having breakfast with him.

Although she looks delicate, she is very strong inside. Simple hardships cannot shake her at all, and the autumn harvest is all ripe.

Han Guobin smiled and said, "It's just the autumn harvest. After we're done with it, we'll have plenty of time to rest."

This year the grain matured much faster, and the team started harvesting it in mid-September.

Han Guobin returned home at twelve o'clock in the evening, slept for four hours, and then got up and went out with the men to collect grain.

He worked until about ten o'clock, then rode his bicycle to the county town to work. He certainly didn't earn many work points by doing this.

Chen Rou also tried to persuade him, but the man said he was not tired. Seeing that he insisted, Chen Rou could only let him do what he wanted, but she still gave him plenty of good things to eat.

She made the noodles and rice in the space for him to eat as breakfast. She brought breakfast with her when she went to work.

Little Hanghang spent the entire autumn harvest time at his grandmother's house. In the evening, Mother Chen would either bring the food to her herself or ask her third brother to bring it to her.

After the entire autumn harvest, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The most feared thing during autumn harvest is autumn rain.

If the harvest is late, or the autumn rain comes early, all the food for the whole year will be wasted, and people will starve to death.

Therefore, everyone is involved in the autumn harvest, hoping to collect and store the grain as soon as possible so that they can feel at ease.

In the beginning, many people slacked off, and because of the autumn rains, they were unable to harvest the crops. They were so hungry that they could hardly walk all winter.

Now I don’t dare to be like before. Although there are still some lazy people, most of them are very hardworking.

The problem is not that big, the grain has been harvested.

Cai Lihua brought her third child to sit at home. Chen Rou saw her and said, "You should take good care of him during this period."

Cai Lihua stayed in confinement for half a month, and then went to the autumn harvest. Like Chen Rou, she received the full work points for women. She did earn a lot of work points in the autumn harvest and was able to get a lot more food, but Cai Lihua was as thin as a bamboo pole.

It's not just Cai Lihua, but also her third child. He's already over a month old, but he doesn't seem to have grown much and is so thin.

When Hanghang was this old, he was already very fat because of her feeding.

Cai Lihua smiled and said, "I am also planning to take a break. I am finally relieved. Isn't it for this moment that we have been working all year round?"

"That's true, but you should also be careful. There is a fish at home. You can take it back and stew it later. Drink more fish soup to nourish your third child." Chen Rou said.

"Guoming went fishing today, so you can keep the fish at home for yourself," said Cai Lihua.

She didn't think her child was that thin. After all, she had been through this, and because she had to breastfeed the child, she actually ate quite well.

Her husband is the type who loves his wife quite a lot, especially compared to Han Guobin, who is well-known for loving his wife. During the autumn harvest, when he comes back from work in the evening, he will go out to catch eels, loaches and other things and bring them back for her to eat. So she didn't have milk dryness during the autumn harvest, and the child still has food to eat.

Cai Lihua went home, and Chen Rou started to stew mutton and radish soup. After it was done, she ate some herself and saved the rest for her husband Guobin.

When Han Guobin came back in the evening, he had mutton and radish soup.

This man was seriously sleep deprived, so Chen Rou asked him to finish his meal and go to bed quickly.

Han Guobin naturally breathed a sigh of relief.

This period of time was also quite a challenge for him. After eating the mutton and radish soup, he rinsed his mouth and had a good sleep with his wife.

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

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