Chapter 129: Envy

“What, you don’t admit it?”

Li Xinyue blushed: “Isn’t your husband good enough?”

Qian Sanni smiled: “I can’t say he’s not good, but he really can’t compare to your  Battalion Commander Chen!”

“Comparing people just makes you angry!”

“These days, I see your clothes being washed by your husband every day. He washes them, dries them, and even mops the floor.”

“It’s true that soldier men are usually quite diligent.”

“But I haven’t seen anyone else in our row who is as diligent as your husband.”

“I envy you!”

Chen Mingchuan was indeed very diligent. If you told him not to do something, he wouldn’t listen.

Li Xinyue was used to sleeping late and getting up late. Actually, she now gets up around seven o’clock in the morning, but it’s still no match for someone who gets up at five thirty.

“I’m afraid half of the family courtyard is saying I’m lazy, right?”

Qian Sanni laughed happily: “So what if they say it? What are you afraid of? Want to be lazy? You have to have the life for it!”

“I want to be lazy too, but can I?”

“People who say that about you are jealous of you. Don’t pay attention to them!”

“There are a lot of gossipy people in this family courtyard. If you care about what others say, you won’t be able to live your life.”

That’s right!

Li Xinyue was happy: “I don’t care what others say. I live my life, and others can say whatever they want!”

“This isn’t ancient times, women don’t rely on reputation to eat!”

Qian Sanni nodded repeatedly: “Right? That’s the way to think about it! I like your personality!”

Li Xinyue also liked Qian Sanni’s personality, but she had to hurry home to get busy.

“I have something to do, I’m going now.”

“Okay, let’s chat again when you have time!”

When Li Xinyue came out of Qian’s house with a large bowl of beans, Sun Weigang also just ran into the house from outside.

“Mom, the military service center didn’t have any meat today.”

“Impossible!”

Auntie Sun didn’t hear Li Xinyue’s last sentence. She thought her son was lying to her, not wanting to buy meat for her.

Sun Weigang was a little unhappy: “Mom, if you don’t believe me, go and see for yourself!”

“If I went to buy meat, and there was meat, would I not buy it back?”

That’s right.

Sun Dalian’s eyes rolled, and she just saw Li Xinyue coming out of Qian Sanni’s house.

She immediately went up to her: “Hey,  Battalion Commander Chen’s wife, where did you buy your meat?”

“Can you give me some?”

“This old woman hasn’t eaten meat for days, my mouth is really too bland.”

“Look at my age, can you give me half a pound?”

Looking at Auntie Sun’s face like a blooming chrysanthemum, Li Xinyue was really speechless.

They just had a fight, how could she have the face to ask for meat?

It’s true that people who have no shame are invincible in the world!

Li Xinyue couldn’t argue with an old lady.

She said helplessly: “Wait for me a moment, I’ll get you some.”

Soon, Li Xinyue took out a piece of meat, about seven or eight ounces.

“Give me fifty cents, forget about the meat ticket, this is wild boar meat.”

Wild boar meat?

Where did the Chen family get so much wild boar meat?

Wild boar meat doesn’t have much fat, and you don’t need a meat ticket for it.

Auntie Sun immediately gave her fifty cents, took the meat, and went into the house with a twist of her butt.

“You say this Battalion Commander Chen is really amazing, he can actually get wild boar meat. Isn’t hunting wild boars illegal?”

What law is there against hunting wild boars?

Sun Weigang’s face turned black: “Mom, you just got meat from someone else’s house, and you’re still saying things like this. Is it appropriate?”

“This wild boar is a pest, it wreaks havoc on the production team’s crops everywhere, and you can’t even get rid of it.”

“If you can hunt it, you can hunt a hundred of them and no one will say anything to you!”

If she could hunt it, would she be craving half a pound of someone else’s meat?

Humph, she got so much meat back, and she still dared to charge me fifty cents for half a pound, she really doesn’t understand respecting the elderly and loving the young!

“I paid for it, so why can’t I say anything?” Mrs. Sun retorted, unconcerned.

Sun Weigang’s face darkened even further.

“Mom, how can you think like that?”

“I think you should go back. If you stay here any longer, we’ll definitely offend Captain Chen!”

“If you want your son to have a future, just go back, okay?”

Auntie  Sun wilted slightly. “I won’t say anything anymore, okay?”

“I’m not going back. I have to go back. My sisters’ mothers-in-law will laugh at me if I don’t!”

“I won’t say anything anymore, I promise.”

Can she really promise?

Sun Weigang was exasperated.

But she was his own mother, and he couldn’t just force her to leave!

Just as Xu Hongqin came to call Li Xinyue, Auntie Sun was leaving.

Not wanting to deal with it anymore, he went back inside.

Li Tengfei came to call Chen Yiheng, and the two boys, hand in hand, immediately ran off.

Li Xinyue locked the door and then went out with Xu Hongqin and her daughters.

“Xinyue, what was she doing here?”

Li Xinyue’s face twitched as she explained Mrs. Sun’s purpose.

“She wouldn’t leave unless I sold her some.”

“I just arrived here, and I don’t feel comfortable arguing with an old woman. The whole compound will know that we have meat!”

In those days, who could afford meat regularly?

Hearing this, Xu Hongqin’s face turned black.

“That old woman is really speechless.”

“She’s always eyeing whoever has food.”

“She won’t leave empty-handed unless she gets something.”

“At first, everyone would give her some, after all, she’s an old woman.”

“But after a while, everyone ignored her.”

“Xiao Li, don’t be too generous, or she might latch onto you.”

“Their family is always arguing and fighting because Song Mei can’t have children. It never stops!”

Xu Hongqin shook her head repeatedly, and Li Xinyue just smiled without saying anything.

With a mother-in-law like Auntie Sun, constantly causing trouble at home, it would be a miracle if she could even get pregnant!

Pregnancy is closely related to one’s mood!

Li Pingping, who was fourteen years old this year, understood many things.

“Mom, can’t Aunt Song really have children?”

“Many people are saying that their medical reports are fake.”

Who knows?

Xu Hongqin glanced at her daughter: “Don’t listen to or talk about grown-up matters.”

“Just focus on your studies.”

Study, study, study!

Besides telling them to study, what else could her mother say?

Li Pingping was dissatisfied: “What’s the point of studying well? I get the Three Good Student award every year, but I don’t see any future!”

“When I graduate from high school and come back, I’ll still be working at the cardboard factory!”

“Mom, I don’t want to take your job at the cardboard factory.”

Hearing this, Xu Hongqin’s face turned black.

“You don’t want to go there, where do you want to go?”

“Having a job is a benefit for you cadre children from the army!”

“Many families who have followed the army here can’t even find jobs. You’re complaining?”

“You’re so picky. If you don’t go to the cardboard factory, what can you do?”

“If you don’t go to the cardboard factory, then go to the countryside!”

Going to the countryside was out of the question.

Li Pingping was from the countryside and knew all too well how hard it was to work there.

Hearing this, she immediately pouted: “If I’m going to work at the cardboard factory anyway, then I can just finish junior high school.”

“I won’t go to high school. That way I can earn money for a few more years!”

Xu Hongqin became anxious: “What do you know? The more you study, the better it will be! Don’t say things like that again!”