The Clever Wife of the 1960s Chapter 62 (Part 3)

The Clever Wife of the 1960s Chapter 62 (Part 3)

"I'll just go ask Brother Hang about the exercises, okay?" Han Si couldn't help but say.

"How dare you say that? He is the top student in the grade, and you just scored in the top 100. Are you still so proud of yourself? Why don't you explain the exercises to him instead of him explaining them to you?" Song Xiaoyu lectured.

Day after day, nothing goes as I wish. I can't compete with other men, and I'm not as good as my sons!

Han Si lowered his head and said nothing.

Han Bo said, "Mom, please stop comparing us with Brother Hang and the others. What's there to compare? There are so many people in the school. How can we compare them one by one?"

Song Xiaoyu scolded, "You guys are useless and you think you are right, right? You just watch TV all day long. Is TV that good?"

"Of course the TV is good. If we had one at home, my brother and I wouldn't have to run over there. Will you buy it for us?" Han Bo said.

Song Xiaoyu almost cried out of anger. A black and white TV costs seven or eight hundred yuan, and a color TV costs more than a thousand yuan. Her family could buy them, but it would bankrupt them.

Just for a TV? Of course, the TV is precious, but Song Xiaoyu is not willing to buy it!

"If your father hadn't been such a loser, he would have just opened a meat stall. Would our family have to live in such a tight situation? If he had been like your second uncle..."

"Don't always talk about my dad. It's not easy for my dad to be busy outside every day, but I've never heard him complain. But you, mom, stay at home every day, and I hear you complain about this and that every day. My dad hasn't even said why you don't be as capable as the Second Empress and open your own shop!" Han Bo said.

"Speak less." Han Si pulled his brother and said.

"I'm saying, she makes trouble at home every day, being dissatisfied with this and that, and comparing us guys with this and that. Why doesn't she compare herself with others?" Han Bo said.

"I'm going to beat you to death!" Song Xiaoyu was so angry that she kept wiping away tears.

"Go ahead and hit me. Since I came into the city, you've beaten and scolded me many times. If you want to hit me, just hit me. Just beat me to death!" Han Bo stood still.

When Han Guolin returned home, he saw Song Xiaoyu crying in the house, Han Si was cooking, and Han Bo was sitting there bored.

"What's wrong?" Han Guolin said.

"Dad, I want to go back to my hometown and live with my grandparents!" Han Bo said directly when he saw him come back.

"Go back, go back, go back quickly. I gave birth to you to scold me and disobey me!" Song Xiaoyu cried and cursed.

"Did you make your mother angry?" Han Guolin looked at him and said.

"Who provokes her? If she dares to provoke her, doesn't she curse people every day and never live in peace? I have never seen the Second Queen scolding anyone. Why am I not the Second Queen's son?" Han Bo said.

"Woo..." Song Xiaoyu broke down and cried again.

Being disliked by your own son like this is a bigger blow than any other.

Han Guolin took off his belt, Han Bo ate the belt and ran out crying.

"Second brother!" Han Si glanced at his father and chased after him.

Han Guolin went to cook porridge with a dark face, ignoring the crying Song Xiaoyu. Song Xiaoyu cried for a while but he didn't come to comfort her, so she said, "Guolin, now you also dislike me, don't you?"

"Are you still here?" Han Guolin looked at her and asked.

Song Xiaoyu's face changed and she asked sternly, "What do you mean?"

"I don't mean anything." Han Guolin turned around and continued to cook porridge, but in his heart he felt that his life was a complete failure.

After cooking some porridge, he ate a little with some pickles and then went out.

"Boss Han, this is the two cents I owe you. Thank you for letting me buy it on credit." A woman came over, handed the two cents back to Han Guolin, and said.

"Nothing." Han Guolin took it and said.

"Have you eaten? I just prepared something at home. Do you want to come over for some?" the woman smiled gently.

"I've eaten." Han Guolin smiled at her and left.

The woman glanced at his back, then looked at the house, pursed her lips, and turned around to go home.

Chen Rou didn't expect that just as she returned, the two brothers Han Si and Han Bo came over again.

Apparently they hadn't eaten yet, so Chen Rou didn't ask any more questions and said, "There are still steamed buns in the pot. Can I fry some eggs for you two to go with them?"

"Sorry to trouble you, Second Madam." Han Si said embarrassedly.

Chen Rou made them a plate of scrambled eggs with cucumber. The steamed buns had just been steamed at noon, so there was no need to steam them again. She could just let them eat it as it was.

The two brothers were eating when Han Guolin came over after a while.

The two brothers looked at each other. Han Si called out "Dad", but Han Bo didn't even call out "Dad" and continued to eat his food.

Han Guolin went into the house and sat down, saying to Chen Rou, "Thank you for troubling me, sister-in-law."

"It's okay." Chen Rou smiled and poured him a glass of water.

"Second brother is not at home?" Korean Lin said.

"I'll be watching over the grocery store now." Chen Rou said. She came back to take a nap, and then went to take his place. He also leaned on the recliner for a while.

Han Guolin said, "Second sister-in-law, do you have any way to change Xiaoyu's temper?"

Chen Rou looked at him speechlessly: "Uncle San, you must be joking."

Really, they treat her like a deity.

"I don't know what's wrong with Xiaoyu now. She's always looking for trouble and finding fault at home every day." Han Guolin said.

Chen Rou just listened and didn't say anything. She would just listen to what the couple was doing, but she definitely wouldn't say a word.

Han Guolin sighed, then came over to the grocery store to talk to his second brother.

Han Guobin: “…”

"It's useless for you to tell me this. I have no experience in this area." Han Guobin said that his wife was very quiet and never got angry, let alone turned her face away from him. Even the children had never seen her really angry. Although they had been beaten with a bamboo stick by her, that was necessary to teach them a lesson.

Han Guolin actually knew what his wife was making a fuss about, and said, "Life is not bad now, why is she not satisfied?"

He makes about 130 to 140 yuan a month from selling meat. Because the supply of meat is sufficient this year, even though the profit is very thin, he still makes a lot every day.

How much does his brother-in-law Zhang Jiang earn a month? And this is based on the increase in recent years.

How is the one hundred and thirty or forty yuan a month less for him?

Even if his expenses are a bit higher, he can always save about 60 or 70 yuan a month. He plans to save up and buy a TV when the time comes.

But his wife just doesn't like everything.

Han Guobin had no way of answering this kind of question, so he said, "Guoming has raised a lot of sheep this year. I asked my sister-in-law to tell her that she will sell his sheep to you, so that you can have more mutton at the meat stall by the end of the year."

"Okay." Han Guolin nodded.

Han Guolin didn't stay long and went back.

Chen Rou came over to the shop after taking a nap and let Han Guobin sleep on the recliner.

Han Guobin leaned back in his chair and said, "It's not easy for the third brother to live this life either."

"It's not easy for him to be like this. Seventy percent of the families in the county have a harder time than him." Chen Rou said.

Although it is already the mid-1980s, there are still jobs here that pay 40 yuan a month, and 50 yuan a month is enough to support a family of five, but most people earn more than 60 yuan.

Han Guolin now earns more than 100 yuan a month, so what's so bad about that?

"The main reason is that my third brother's wife hasn't thought it through." Han Guobin said.

"No one else can talk about this, especially us." Chen Rou would not let him get involved and looked at him.

Song Xiaoyu now has a bit of hatred towards the rich, and anyone can say it, but not her family. Otherwise, she will say, "You are rich, so of course you can talk without any pain in your waist."

Chen Rouke has never had the habit of warming her arms to please others who refuse her.

So I will just listen to what Han Guolin says, but I will definitely not get involved.

Han Guobin naturally would not get involved and said, "My wife is still the best."

Chen Rou smiled and glanced at him, saying, "So you want to see your wife being good, so you go out and bring someone back to bully your wife?"

"That's not true. My feelings for my wife are evident to the heaven and earth and the sun and the moon!" said Han Guobin.

"I don't think you would dare." Chen Rou snorted.

Song Xiaoyu was the first to move last time because it was her sister-in-law Chen Rou who took the lead. But she remembered her and has not come here since they moved.

Han Guoli did go there, but Zhang Jiang said to her, "She didn't even pay attention to you, so why did you go there? You acted as if you owed her a lot of money."

"She is unemployed and anxious," said Han Guoli.

"What do you mean no work? I saw Guolin was so busy selling meat in the morning that he had no time to rest. It was Han Si who had to go over to help his father collect money and make change. She didn't even take a step over there. She was counting lice at home." Zhang Jiang said.

Han Guoli stopped talking.

"What she earns in a month is equivalent to what I earn in two months, and she can often bring meat home to eat. What else do you want with such a life?" Zhang Jiang said unhappily, "Don't go over there. She always gives you the cold shoulder. What do you owe her?"

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