The Clever Wife of the 1960s Chapter 35 (Part 2)

The Clever Wife of the 1960s Chapter 35 (Part 2)

However, even though it is just a threshing ground, the workload is enormous. Not only does one have to turn over and dry the grain, but one also has to pay attention to the weather at all times. If there is any problem with the grain, the first person to be held accountable is the person in charge of drying it.

After the summer harvest began, Han Guobin began to endure the hardship again, earning a few work points every day before going to work.

Chen Rou no longer complains about being poor. After all, the villagers don’t know how much Han Guobin earns every month, but they can always guess it.

There is no point in always complaining about being poor, so when someone asked her about it, she told them that Han Guobin had paid off the money his company had borrowed to buy a bicycle, and now the bicycle was hers.

I just complained to people that this guy was a spendthrift and didn't know how to live. Just because he was late a few times, he borrowed money from his colleagues to buy a watch to check the time.

That’s right, until now no one in the village knew that Han Guobin had a watch. Just like bicycles, watches are also big items nowadays and it’s not easy to afford one.

Don't expose it easily.

Before he came to work to catch up with the harvest, he would ask the team leader for the time to go to work.

But even though he borrowed money to buy the watch, everyone was still very envious of him.

I dared to borrow as long as I had a salary, and I could pay it back as long as I had a salary, so I was not afraid of debt collection. First I got a bicycle, then a watch, all big items.

"We'll have to build a house in the future, right?" said Aunt Han San, who was busy here with Chen Rou.

"Wait until Guobin pays off the money for the watch, then we'll save money to build a house. The two brothers are getting older and older, and they won't have enough space to live in anymore." Chen Rou said with a smile.

Aunt Han looked at the little Zhou Zhou in her arms and praised, "I've never seen such chubby children like these two brothers. You've raised them so well."

Chen Rou smiled and said, "Guo Bin wasted his money and bought them malted milk to supplement their nutrition."

"I said it must be due to nutritional supplements." Aunt Han San was not surprised. It goes without saying that a child can only be plump and white if he eats well.

After a while, Chen Rou put Zhou Zhou on the cool mat and called his brother over: "Stay with your brother. Mom is busy now and will be here soon."

"Okay." Little boy Hanghang could already say many simple words and nodded to his mother.

Chen Rou went to turn over the grain and dry it, and from time to time she would look over here at the shade. Little boy Hanghang was looking after his younger brother responsibly, and played with his toys next to him, without playing by himself.

During the half month of summer harvest, Chen Rou never slacked off. She kept an eye on the weather every day, and would quickly call the older generation who were taking a nap nearby to check the weather at the slightest sign of trouble.

Fortunately, God was kind. The sky just darkened the next day after all the grain was harvested, and it started to rain heavily within less than half a day.

All the grain in their village was collected under the leadership of the team leader, but the same could not be said for the people in the neighboring village who were slacking off.

When the rain stopped, we sent the grain over to pay the tax, but the grain collectors refused to accept it and simply said that it couldn't be dried under the sun.

But all the food in their team was handed over.

With the comparison with the neighboring village, Chen Rou and other women working in the threshing ground also received praise.

When Guobin's wife first got married, everyone was actually not optimistic about her. They all felt that she was not very stable, just like Ye Zhiqing now, who kept running back to the county town.

But she learned her lesson later. After she hit her head when Grandpa Han passed away, she came to her senses and lived a good life with Guobin.

The elders of the old Han family in the village have all seen the changes today, especially now that they have two sons in a row, who would dare to look down on them?

Moreover, Guobin's wife is not lazy at all and attaches great importance to work points. The team would not trust ordinary people to do such work as drying the threshing ground.

Because we have to always pay attention to whether the sky is clear or not, and we have to collect the food before any cloud hides rain.

It's not that easy.

This time it was done very well and the millet was dried very well.

After the summer harvest, it’s time to plant corn and other crops, but Chen Rou didn’t continue. Like her big white goose, she has taken her two sons to escape the summer heat.

Nowadays, the weather is getting hotter day by day. It is really unbearable.

Han Guobin came back that night. It was so hot that he took some water and went to the thatched house in the backyard to take a bath. He came back wearing only his shorts.

Seeing that his two sons were asleep, he wanted to do something bad.

Now with two vigilant sons, the couple does their homework like thieves.

There’s nothing we can do, because we have no idea when they will wake up, especially little Hanghang.

One time, when the couple had just finished their work, they saw him sitting there, blinking his innocent eyes and looking at them.

Another time, he woke up in the middle of his work and said he wanted to pee.

The older brother is like this, and the younger brother is no less bad. In short, they are two little devils.

Seeing them sleeping soundly now, Han Guobin, who had been busy with the summer harvest and had not been close to his wife, could not bear it.

Chen Rou also missed this thief a little bit, so the couple acted stealthily, took protective measures, and then worked hard.

Only afterward did they hug each other and chat at night.

"Tomorrow is a holiday, wife. I'll take you to the city to see a movie together?" Han Guobin said contentedly.

"It's so hot, I won't go." Chen Rou said lazily.

"I haven't been to the city for a long time." Han Guobin said.

Chen Rou had indeed not been to the city for a long time. She went there once after giving birth to baby Hanghang, and never went there again after that.

"There's nothing to buy. We already have everything at home." Chen Rou said.

Although the adobe house is not big, there is nothing missing in the cupboard. He brought back a can of malted milk this time, and he bought it home before he finished the last one.

"By the way, why have you brought so much extra money home recently?" Chen Rou asked.

"One of Guoli's colleagues is pregnant and gave birth to a child, so she has to take over her shift. Her colleague asked me to buy some things for her," said Han Guobin.

"Is it reliable?" Chen Rou asked.

"Yeah." Han Guobin nodded. He trusted his sister. She would not help ordinary colleagues unless they were familiar to her and trustworthy.

Han Guobin didn't take much, it just depended on what was asked to be brought. Each order made a profit of one or two yuan, and his sister could get about fifty cents. As his colleague Li Dayuan said, it was basically cost-effective to ask for help to bring things compared to going to the provincial capital to buy them by oneself.

"Don't worry about these things, wife, let's do it again." Han Guobin said after he had a good rest.

Chen Rou patted him, but she couldn't resist the tenderness of this rough man.

The next day was a holiday and he didn't have to go to work. Since his wife didn't want to go to the city, Han Guobin went to work and earn work points.

Chen Rou brought him a military canteen of water and left him alone.

After the dog days of summer begin, the weather is really terrible, it's like a fire is falling.

Han Guobin was sweating profusely when he came back. This guy went swimming in the river with Ma Dafa and others for more than half an hour. He came back only after feeling completely comfortable.

After a short rest at noon, they went back to work.

Chen Rou discovered that this thief in her family now seemed to look down on the work points in the village.

He didn't show it. He worked especially hard during the summer and autumn harvests to help with the harvest, but Chen Rou still felt it.

You know, when he was in the village, before he had this job, he would earn every work point he could.

But today, he even suggested taking her and her two daughters to the city to see a movie.

Of course, he loves his wife and children, but there is also a man's confidence in his words. The more he goes out and sees, the broader his horizons are, and his temperament changes.

Chen Rou said that she liked the confidence of the man in her family.

Song Xiaoyu came back from get off work that evening, carrying two eggs.

"Second sister-in-law, this was taken by my mother and I for Hanghang and Zhouzhou." Song Xiaoyu said with a smile.

Chen Rou glanced at her and said, "Third sister-in-law, if you have anything to say, just tell me directly."

Just save the eggs. Her husband Guobin just brought back a basket of eggs not long ago, so she won't have to worry about having eggs. It's better not to take eggs from others and make yourself feel short-changed.

"Second sister-in-law, I just want to ask, do you still have the one from the provincial capital, produced in Shanghai?" Song Xiaoyu asked directly.

"There should be some more, but didn't you buy it for your colleague?" Chen Rou looked at her and said.

"This time it's not my colleague who wants it, but my eldest sister-in-law's younger sister is getting married, so he wants to buy a pair like this." Song Xiaoyu said.

When she went back to her parents' home during the Chinese New Year, she told her sisters-in-law about this. This year, her sister-in-law's sister is getting married. Probably because she heard her sister-in-law also brag about other people wearing these when they got married, she wanted one...

Chen Rou looked at her helplessly and said, "Third sister-in-law, I told you last time that your second brother doesn't help others bring goods. You also said last time that it was the last time."

"I know, I know, but second sister-in-law, you also heard me say that my sister from my mother's side is almost the same as me. They are all my relatives. My relative is getting married. It's not too much to ask my second brother to buy her a pair of nice shoes, right?" Song Xiaoyu said eloquently.

"They are indeed our relatives, but it is not a good idea to promote their products, and they are very expensive, twelve yuan a pair." Chen Rou said.

"My sister-in-law's younger sister works in a government agency and earns just over 20 yuan a month. There's no need for me to feel sorry for her," said Song Xiaoyu.

"So powerful?" Chen Rou said, "Does she want to be trapped?"

"What quilt?" Song Xiaoyu was stunned.

"It's because your second brother doesn't know how to live." Chen Rou said angrily: "There is a quilt cover in my cupboard. He said it was embroidered by an old embroiderer in the provincial capital. He bought it because it looked nice. He planned to use it when he paid off the money he owed his colleague for the watch and saved money to build a new house. But I think he is just being pretentious. See if you want it. If you want it, you can take it."

"What does it look like?" Song Xiaoyu asked with some interest.

Chen Rou went in and took it out. It was an embroidery of two flowers in bloom. It was very beautiful and the needlework was impeccable.

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

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