Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 66
Huang Xinying really couldn’t see through her.
If she was said to be lazy, she was not. She could drink tea, eat snacks, read books, raise chickens and grow vegetables in the yard or clean the house. If said she was not lazy, no, Huang Xinying had not seen any woman who drank tea and snacks all day long.
She had a soft spot for the thatched umbrella in the yard. She often ate lunch under the umbrella. Huang Xinying once took a look. She ate two or three steamed shrimp dumplings at noon, a strange dough wrapped with glutinous rice, and a steamed dish, bean sprouts with fish and vinegar.
In the afternoon, Huang Xinying took a nap and went out, and saw her drinking tea and eating steamed shrimp dumplings and coconut cakes.
She ate very little each time, but it seemed to be eating all the time.
Also drinking tea.
Huang Xinying: “…”
Did her man never care about her?!
Oh, her man didn’t care about her when he came back.
The little army officer was also a wonderful man.
She obviously heard that Lu Yan was a very difficult person, with a bad temper, but he was blinded by the beauty.
Apart from that, she couldn’t think of any other explanation.
Huang Xinying: “…”
After the man next door would come back, her life would only be more nourishing.
Huang Xinying had long discovered that the little army officer next door could wash clothes. He not only washed clothes, but also washed dishes. Even if he was laughed at by Lao Zhang, he didn’t care, and still washed clothes and dishes in the yard openly.
She never heard him say a harsh word to his wife.
She also saw Lu Yan washing clothes in the yard the previous day. Qin Rou sat in the yard drinking fruit tea. She smiled and fed her husband who was doing laundry a fried oil cake and asked him if it tasted good.
“Delicious…”
At that time, Huang Xinying heard a lot of praise from Lu Yan. When she was cooking at home, her man never praised her like that.
Huang Xinying saw Qin Rou leaning over and saying something in her husband’s ear again, and ran away with a smile, avoiding the water splashed by the man.
Watching the couple fighting, Huang Xinying only felt that the young couple was really noisy.
When they have kids…
No, they had two kids.
Before Huang Xinying discovered the essence of the “tea spirit” woman next door, she still ran to the woman next door to hang around and asked her, “Aren’t you going to cook?”
Huang Xinying used to like to go to the house next door on purpose to show off her attentive virtuous and culinary skills.
Many new colony members did not know how to handle all kinds of seafood, let alone peel seafood and pick fish bones, so she would deliberately say in front of the husband of the other party, “Men don’t like to cook, my man is like that as well, I don’t care if he doesn’t. He would dislike you if you don’t cook well, you have to do this…”
“You don’t know how to deal with these little things since you came here for the first time, right? I’ll teach you how to peel crabs and pick out fishbone, follow me to learn, and then peel it off for your boys to eat.”
…
Usually, after she said that, the man on the other side would speak up, “Yeah, why don’t you hurry up and learn from her how to be a virtuous wife?”
“Let’s follow her as an example.”
…
Some women would learn from her modestly, while others would listen to their husbands at the time, and they would promise on the surface, but secretly get angry.
Huang Xinying liked to listen to a woman praising her inadvertently at times like that.
When she got to the Lu family, what she heard was completely different.
The army officer said, “Don’t bother, I’ll peel it, don’t hurt your hand, I feel bad.”
“Wife, you said you want to eat crab dumplings, I have already steamed all the blue crabs on it. Now, I’ll peel it later, tell me, do you want to keep the shell and cook the soup?”
“Will you use this soup to cook the noodles? Then I’ll make the noodles.”
“I know you like crabs. I specially asked someone to bring them from Ningshui. The crabs are more delicious.”
When the husband of the “tea spirit” next door came back, he would make steamed buns, make dumplings, and wash clothes and dishes.
The dumplings that “tea spirit” Qin Rou ate were all made by her husband!
Huang Xinying thought of her husband. When her husband Zhang Chengbei returned home, he did nothing.
She was particularly uncomfortable.
Finally, Huang Xinying still spoke to her husband, “Go and clean up that pile of seafood.”
Her husband Zhang Chengbei heard her words as if he had heard something extraordinary, and said in a disgusting tone, “Fish, the smell is so strong, I can’t get used to it. I smelled it at the beach, and you want me to smell it when I come back?”
Huang Xinying was upset, “I have never disliked the strong smell.”
“That’s what women should do. Is there anything wrong with you?”
“Why can the man next door do it but you can’t?”
The two of them were talking, and they got into a fight.
There was a little noise in the colony courtyard. Hearing that a husband and wife were quarrelling, and seeing the direction of the people watching the fun, Yang Yufeng subconsciously thought it was the new couple from the Lu family, who knew…
——It was the Zhang family next to the Lu family who quarrelled.
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