The Clever Wife of the 1960s Chapter 87 (Part 2)

The Clever Wife of the 1960s Chapter 87 (Part 2)

"Go to the gold jewelry cabinet in the department store and spend a few hundred dollars to get Guolin's mother a pair of earrings. Then don't mention the issue of retirement ever again, and this matter will be over." Song's mother also said.

Song Xiaoyu looked at her mother in disbelief, but under her mother's gaze, she repeated to herself a hundred times that she was still hers, and only then did she suppress the pain in her heart!

There is definitely no time to buy it now, but when Song Xiaoyu returned home, she told Han Guolin that she would buy a pair of gold earrings for her mother at the end of the year.

Han Guolin looked at her twice more and said, "When my mother-in-law comes to the city in the future, let her come to my place. My son-in-law is selling pork, so how can I not honor her?"

Needless to say, his mother-in-law must have come, although she didn't go to his meat stall.

This period of time has been very busy recently. Both Chen Rou and Han Guobin are busy from morning to night.

However, the weather this year is obviously not very good. It started raining heavily at the end of October.

"Those who harvested their crops late will probably cry." Chen Rou said as she watched the day.

There will still be grain in the fields at this time. If the speed is right, it can probably all be harvested. But if there is a delay, there will definitely be a lot of losses.

It is true that many farmers suffered losses, but fortunately the rain did not come too early, otherwise they would have suffered a lot.

Today, such a loss is a loss, but it is still within the acceptable range.

Because of the rain, it was naturally not that easy to do, so we could just take a few days off.

Ma Yuling came over and asked to answer the phone.

Ma Yuling installed a telephone this year, which cost several thousand yuan. Chen Rou was a little impressed by her because not many people called her, mainly from Chen Bing, but he only called home two or three times a month. It was not very useful for other purposes, but Ma Yuling installed it anyway.

Chen Rou didn't bother to be polite with her and directly gave her home phone number to Su Mianmian and the boss, asking them to call directly if they had any problems.

This time it was Su Mianmian who called.

Chen Rou called back after she came over and asked with a smile, "Are you done with your work?"

"I'm done with my work. Being a kindergarten teacher is really not easy. I'm so tired." Su Mianmian said with a smile.

"It's definitely not easy to take care of children, but it will be fine once you get used to it. Have you made any plans to go home for the New Year this year?" Chen Rou said.

"We're going back this year. Chengyao said he'll go back every year in the future." Su Mianmian said.

Chen Rou then knew what it meant.

Her uncle is getting older, and her third cousin wants to come back to visit him more often, after all he only comes back once a year.

"How do you feel about the bacon? If you like it, I'll make more this year." Chen Rou said with a smile.

"The bacon is delicious, Fifth Aunt, please make more and ask my mom to pay when we get back!" said Sanhu on the other end of the phone.

"Sanhu is here too." Chen Rou said with a smile.

"He came here because he knew I was coming and called. I didn't know why he came. Now I know, he came here to ask for food." Su Mianmian scolded with a smile.

"Fifth aunt, is Little Fourth here?" Sanhu asked.

"Go away." Su Mianmian dismissed him and continued chatting with Chen Rou. She also asked on the phone, "Ye Qian shouldn't have gone back to her hometown to disturb your cousin's life, right?"

"What do you mean?" Chen Rou asked.

"I called my mother the day before yesterday, and she told me that she got married and became a stepmother, but it was not a good marriage because the man's previous wife was often beaten by him. My mother also told me that Ye Qian must have been attracted to him because he owned a factory and had money, and the man was already in his fifties." Su Mianmian said.

Chen Rou said, "As long as she is happy."

"That's true. Actually, I just can't understand why she ended up like this." Su Mianmian said.

"It's your own choice. You can't blame anyone." Chen Rou told the truth. The two chatted for a long time before hanging up the phone.

"Just let Lao Chen pay the phone bill. Why do I have to let Brother Guobin pay the phone bill for making a few calls? Are you making fun of me by calculating it so clearly? How do I calculate the bill when Lao Chen and I go to have dinner together every few days?" Ma Yuling said to her.

"I plan to make more bacon today, and I'll prepare a portion for you when the time comes. You can take it to visit relatives." Chen Rou said with a smile.

"Then I won't be polite to you." Ma Yuling said with a smile.

Chen Rou waved her hand and went home to cook with her umbrella. The fourth child was peeling potatoes in the kitchen. When he saw his mother coming back, he asked, "Mom, is my third cousin going to come home for the New Year this year?"

"I heard from your cousin that she will go home to celebrate the New Year every year in the future." Chen Rou said as she put on her apron.

"You should come back. My uncle is already that old. You won't regret it if you come back more often." The fourth little brother said seriously.

Chen Rou smiled and said, "Sanhu just asked me if you had been there. He wanted to chat with you for a while."

"Let's talk after the New Year. Phone bills are so expensive, and I'm afraid he won't have any pocket money and will get beaten if he asks his mother to pay for the phone bill." said the fourth child.

"You, Sanhu, have your own pocket money." Chen Rou said.

"He is poorer than me. Where does he get his pocket money? I ask him to spend the money as soon as he gets it. He spends more than me." said the fourth brother.

Chen Rou smiled and said, "Sanhu has a cheerful personality. He used the money to treat his friends."

"My cousin said he is just a fool." Little Fourth grinned.

"He is not stupid at all. Sanhu will become a great man when he grows up." Chen Rou said.

"Mom, if Sanhu hears what you said, he will treat you as a friend regardless of age difference." The fourth child said with a smile.

Chen Rou smiled, stewed some potato ribs with the potatoes peeled by Xiao Lao Si, cooked some carrot and mutton soup, and fried an egg. Dinner was ready.

After the second child came back from tutoring, Chen Rou fried the last scrambled egg and the family was ready for dinner.

"Life is getting better and better now. Mutton is available at this time." Han Cheng said while eating lamb ribs, "I remember that last year they said that lamb would only be available at the end of November."

"This year, the hilltop in Hepan Village was contracted for goat breeding, and several hundred goats are raised," said Han Guobin.

"Isn't that a lot of goat milk?" said Little Four.

"You actually like to drink something so smelly." Han Cheng said with disgust.

"How many sheep do Lihua and Guoming raise this year?" Chen Rou asked.

"They say there are more than twenty of them." Han Guobin said.

Chen Rou said, "I heard that Shuanzi and his wife also raised a lot of pigs this year."

"It's similar to Guoming. The couple is also working very hard now. His family has a piece of land, which they have fenced off and used as a sheep pen." Han Guobin said.

Chen Rou smiled and asked the second child to eat more. "Your school has extra classes every day now, so you must pay attention to exercise more."

"Well, let's go play basketball when the rain stops. I'll be back late, so you don't have to wait for me. Eat first and save some for me." said the second son Han Zhou.

The sky cleared up a few days later, but the temperature also dropped because of the rain.

However, the business went on as usual and was busy until the twelfth lunar month. Only then did Chen Rou stop for a while and start making bacon.

The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is the month specifically for making bacon.

I originally wanted to make sausages, but since sausages are too troublesome, I decided not to make them, so I just made bacon.

The pork was brought back by Han Guobin from Lao Yang. Chen Rou was generous and this time she directly transported 100 kilograms of meat to make bacon.

There's a lot of bacon hanging in the backyard.

Ma Yuling didn't have Chen Rou's cooking skills, so she looked at it with envy and said, "This bacon will definitely be delicious!"

"I made twenty kilograms for you. When it's ready, just take it back. You can eat it yourself or visit your relatives." Chen Rou said, waving her hand.

In fact, the bacon only needs to be dried for seven or eight days. Chen Rou dried it for ten days before asking Ma Yuling to take twenty kilograms back.

Fifteen catties were left for Su Mianmian and fifteen catties for himself. One hundred catties of meat was enough to make about seventy catties of bacon. Chen Rou divided the remaining twenty catties.

It’s not much, but it’s a meaning.

Han's father and mother also took a copy over. Chen Rou didn't know whether they thought it was too little, but she just gave it to them.

Chen Rou could see that Han Guobin didn't feel uncomfortable at all about his parents favoring the third son, Han Guobin. He was relieved and had seen through everything.

But Chen Rou knew that if she had a lot of things over there, her Guobin's mentality would be better and more calm.

So everything was there, even when the eldest brother called and asked how many roast ducks to bring back this year, Chen Rou always asked him to bring one back for the second elder.

As for the others, it was enough for them to bring a few back. Except for the elderly in the two families, the others who were nearby would be divided. However, Ma Yuling specifically asked them to bring two more back for her to take back to her parents' home.

That day, Chen Rou and Han Guobin were busy in the shop when two girls came over. They were both very pretty.

"What do you want to buy?" Chen Rou asked.

"Auntie, is this Han Zhou's shop?" One of the round-faced girls asked with a smile.

"What? You are his classmates?" Chen Rou asked with a smile.

"I'm not, my cousin is." The round-faced girl pointed at a pretty girl with an oval face behind her.

"Hello, Auntie." The girl with a melon-seed face called out sweetly to Chen Rou.

"Hello." Chen Rou smiled and nodded, saying, "It's cold outside, and I don't have anything to treat you here. If you are free, come to my house and have a seat. We have tea, snacks and everything else."

"I haven't told Han Zhou yet. Isn't it inappropriate to come here like this?" said the girl with a melon-seed face.

"What's wrong with this? You don't have to go to class today. He is reviewing at home, and his sisters are also here. If you want to go over, you can come over to his house." Chen Rou said.

Han Guobin glanced at his wife who was a little too enthusiastic, and then looked at the girl who talked about his second son's classmate.

When the others went to the home address his wife told them, he asked, "Wife, is this the second son's classmate?"

"Yes, she is the second brother's classmate. She is really pretty, a very lively girl." Chen Rou said with a smile.

"Wife, you are too enthusiastic." Han Guobin laughed.

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

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