Chapter 39: The Wicked Sister-in-Law Duo

Today, even the eggs almost caused a bloody battle, and Chen Mingchuan didn’t dare to buy meat back.

Although he didn’t have meat coupons, he could still get a pound or two of meat from the black market.

But getting the meat into his son’s stomach was difficult!

He decided to wait until he reached the army and find a way to get some meat for his son.

Li Xinyue was very listless. She ate and slept. Chen Mingchuan took his son out.

He didn’t know if Wang Mei and Chen Mingzhong had returned. Li Xinyue, who was asleep, slept until nightfall.

“Fourth Sister-in-law, is dinner ready?”

“It’s already dark, don’t go to the brigade headquarters for ideological reform!”

“If you don’t eat, you’ll be too late!”

Having married into the Chen family for almost four years, with Li Xinyue as her old workhorse, she lived a very comfortable life.

Now, Wang Mei had disappeared somewhere.

Her elder sister-in-law’s face was so swollen that she couldn’t even open her eyes, and her younger sister-in-law was lazy and stubborn. Ye Juan didn’t dare to ask her to cook.

She rarely cooked, so her hands were not as nimble.

Chen Lifang shouted, and Ye Juan wished she could kill Li Xinyue!

Undergoing ideological reform… that wasn’t a human job!

She had to learn so many quotations every night, not only had to share her understanding but also memorize them.

She didn’t get home until twelve every night.

Not only that, but she was often criticized like a dog.

Thinking about all this, Ye Juan’s heart ached!

“It’ll be ready soon, help me get the bowls and chopsticks.”

Chen Lifang came in and whispered, “Fourth Sister-in-law, aren’t you angry?”

How could she not be angry?

Ye Juan’s face was ugly: “What can I do? She has someone protecting her now, what can I do to her?”

Chen Lifang looked vicious: “Doesn’t she want to just lie down and eat?”

“Fourth Sister-in-law, spit some saliva into her rice bowl and make her eat it!”

That makes sense!

Ye Juan’s mood improved: “Right, you go and deliver her food later.”

“Okay!”

The sister-in-laws were plotting mischief, but Li Xinyue was completely unaware.

But what these two sister-in-laws didn’t know was that before they could ask Li Xinyue to get the food, Chen Mingchuan had already entered the courtyard.

He was carrying a basket in one hand and holding his son’s hand with the other.

He let his son go into the house first, and then went to the kitchen himself.

There was no one in the kitchen, but he saw a bowl of black rice and no other empty bowls.

He picked it up and poured the rice from the bowl into the rice steamer.

Then he washed the bowl, took a pair of chopsticks and left the kitchen to enter the house.

When Ye Juan went back to the kitchen, she found that the rice was gone.

She guessed that Chen Mingchuan had returned and taken the rice into the house.

She immediately felt smug: This is even better!

Li Benlu, just eat well, don’t waste the delicious meal we prepared for you!

Chen Mingguo came in and carried the rice steamer to the hall, Ye Juan brought the last dish in the bowl and followed him.

In the dining room, Chen Lifang glanced at her, and Ye Juan nodded slightly.

In an instant, Chen Lifang smiled…

In the house, Li Xinyue looked at the bowl of thick soup and drooled: It smells so good!

“Mommy, Daddy took me to catch them, he’s so good!”

“He used a slingshot, and he hit so many birds in one go.”

“He also climbed a tree and took out so many bird eggs.”

“Daddy is so amazing, I want to learn from him when I grow up and protect Mommy!”

This place is not a mountainous area, it’s a hilly area.

There aren’t many big mountains around, but there are many small hills.

On the hills, there are many bamboo and fir trees, and there is a type of bird in the fir forest, called night kite in the local dialect.

This bird is very fierce, and it’s not small, it’s like a duck.

They don’t usually live here, but they come here to live for a while every year.

They lay eggs, hatch their young, and then fly away after everything is done.

This kind of bird, once it comes, will peck to death the newly grown fir trees.

They reproduce very quickly, and rural people dislike them very much.

It’s just that they are very agile and difficult to catch, but Chen Mingchuan can catch them, which shows how skilled he is!

At this time of year, it’s when they come to breed, and there are many of them in the forest.

There is meat, soup, and eggs in the bowl, and it’s cooked very fragrantly.

The son’s words are very heartwarming.

It’s just that the son’s little admiration makes Li Xinyue’s teeth ache.

It’s only been half a day, and you’ve been bought by your dad?

“One bowl isn’t enough, aren’t you going to eat?”

The rice is in the gourd scoop, and the soup is in the big bowl.

Chen Mingchuan poured the rice into the bowl and brought the soup out to the table: “We’ve already eaten.”

Huh?

Chen Mingchuan explained: “We ate at my aunt’s house, my aunt’s cooking is good.”

“We’ll eat at my aunt’s house from now on, I have food stamps, you just take care of your health.”

That’s fine, Li Xinyue doesn’t enjoy cooking.

Besides, her aunt’s house is next door.

It’s only three houses away from Chen’s house, not far.

Anyway, Chen’s family probably won’t care if they eat at home or not.

Li Xinyue happily eats the meal, drinking the fragrant bird soup, feeling very happy.

At this time, in the hall, Mrs. Chen took a bite of rice, her brows furrowed tightly…

“Mom, what’s wrong? Is something wrong with the rice?”

Chen Lifang asked, and Mrs. Chen opened her mouth: “Why is there water in this rice? It tastes so bland.”

Water…

As soon as these words fell, Chen Lifang looked at Ye Juan: Could it be?

Didn’t you say you brought the rice in?

Ye Juan was also dumbfounded: I don’t know, when I went in, both the rice and the bowl were gone!

Suddenly, both of them felt a pang in their hearts: Mom’s bowl of rice is the first bowl…

Could it be… could it be that the rice given to Li Benlu, the third brother didn’t bring it in?

Now Ye Juan was panicking.

Not to mention that there was dishwashing water at the bottom of the rice, they also spat in it…

“Mom, did the water from the pot lid fall into this bowl of rice? Come, I’ll change it for you.”

Mrs. Chen frowned: “Then you eat it, don’t waste it.”

Ye Juan: “…”

Seeing that Ye Juan was about to vomit, Chen Lifang immediately stood up.

“Mom, there’s still some rice left today, don’t eat this bowl.”

“Fourth sister-in-law, quickly get another bowl of rice for Mom.”

“Okay, I’ll get a bowl.”

Ye Juan went into the kitchen at an unprecedented speed, and then ran out quickly.

If she ate that rice, she would vomit to death!

This is called “Heaven’s punishment can be redeemed, but self-inflicted punishment cannot be avoided.”

Li Xinyue didn’t know that she had escaped a disgusting incident because of Chen Mingchuan. The bird stew was so good that even the sweet potato rice became fragrant.

“My aunt’s cooking is really good.”

Chen Mingchuan took the bowl: “If you like it, we’ll go catch some more tomorrow, there are a lot of them in the forest.”

“Did your aunt and the others eat?”

“They did, I caught a lot today, and I stewed a whole pot.”

That’s good, Li Xinyue was worried that she would be too embarrassed to eat alone.

Rice production was not high in this era, so sweet potato noodles became the main food.

Every family’s vegetable garden was allocated according to the number of people, and no one could plant an extra vegetable.

Li Xinyue remembered hearing people say before that if you open up a piece of wasteland to plant extra pumpkins, you will be cut off from the capitalist tail and your work points will be deducted.

Besides what you catch in the mountains and fish in the river, even raising pigs requires purchasing.

There is grain for sale at the grain station, but you need food stamps.

Opening her bag, she took out her food stamps: “Give this to my aunt too, let her put in more rice.”