Chapter 88: The Husband’s Remittance Arrived

Peng Kaiyuan was reading in his room as usual.

But this time, when he heard the sound of a bicycle in the yard, he didn’t assume it was Yin Linjiang.

Instead, he felt a hint of anticipation.

Seeing that it was indeed Shen Chuning, a smile appeared on the old man’s face.

He was about to go out to greet Shen Chuning when he saw Shen Chuning skillfully carrying a new quilt in.

“Teacher, I had a new quilt made for you, use this from now on, it’s warm.”

Hearing Shen Chuning’s crisp voice, Peng Kaiyuan felt his heart swell.

This girl…

She said she would take care of him in his old age, and she really did, even preparing a new quilt for him.

This time, he didn’t stand on ceremony with Shen Chuning, nodding repeatedly, “Good, good…”

Shen Chuning replaced Old Peng’s old quilt with the new one and put it in the quilt cover.

While doing so, she said, “Teacher, I also had someone make a new quilt cover and a new cotton-padded jacket for you, it will be ready in a few days when the farming is less busy.

Have a warm winter.”

Peng Kaiyuan felt that he didn’t even need the new cotton-padded jacket and quilt cover, just hearing the girl’s words made his heart warm.

“Okay, since you’ve already had someone prepare them, I won’t be polite.” Peng Kaiyuan said with a cheerful laugh.

After putting on the new quilt, Shen Chuning took the old quilt out and tied it to the back seat of her bicycle.

The old quilt wasn’t warm enough to use anymore.

But it could be sent to the cotton-processing factory to be processed again, and the fluffy cotton could be used as padding.

After tying up the old quilt, Shen Chuning took the vegetables and meat to cook lunch.

Looking at her busy figure, Peng Kaiyuan’s eyes were full of relief, and his eyes were a little moist.

At this time, someone else was looking at Yin Linjiang, just like Peng Kaiyuan.

Seeing Shen Chuning going to cook.

Yin Linjiang quickly stepped forward, “Comrade Shen, the crucian carp and tofu soup you made last time was delicious. I traded a few crucian carp and a piece of tofu with a villager today. Can I make the fire, and you cook, and we’ll eat together at noon?”

Yin Linjiang had rehearsed this sentence countless times before Shen Chuning came, but when he actually said it to Shen Chuning, he was so nervous that he almost stammered.

“Okay!” Shen Chuning readily agreed.

She had planned to invite Yin Linjiang to eat together at noon.

After all, they would be working in the same office, and the accountant and cashier needed to cooperate, so their relationship had to be good.

Hearing Shen Chuning’s words, and looking at her beautiful face, Yin Linjiang felt his heart almost jump out of his chest.

He felt a surge of regret.

Why didn’t he meet her before she got married?

When Shen Chuning returned to the village, she went to the brigade headquarters first.

Because when the postman delivered letters to the countryside, he didn’t deliver them door-to-door, usually putting all the letters for the members of a brigade together at the brigade headquarters.

She had sent the letter and scarf to her husband for half a month, and this was the third time she had come to the brigade headquarters in half a month, but she still hadn’t received a reply from her husband.

She couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.

But on second thought, her husband had been urgently recalled to the army because of a mission, maybe he hadn’t returned to the base yet and hadn’t received her letter.

She would wait.

She waited for another five days.

Five days later, Shen Chuning had just returned to the production team from the commune when someone told her that there was a letter for her at the brigade headquarters.

Her mood instantly brightened.

She quickly rode her bicycle to the brigade headquarters.

At the brigade headquarters, brigade secretary Shen Weidong said to Shen Chuning, “Ningning, there’s a letter and a remittance slip for you, sent from the army.”

It was time to get off work, and the members of the production team were queuing up at the brigade headquarters to record their work points.

Hearing Shen Weidong’s words, an aunt next to Shen Chuning snatched the remittance slip to look at it.

Seeing the number, the aunt was shocked, “Eighty kuai!”

“Zhou Yubai sends eighty kuai home every month, how much money does he earn a year?”

Someone who was good at math had already calculated, “Nine hundred and sixty kuai a year.”

“My god, Chuning is living a good life, no wonder she doesn’t have to work in the fields and can run to the commune every day without worrying about money.

We work hard all year round, and a family can earn more than two hundred kuai, that’s already very good.”

“Who told you not to have Shen’s girl’s ability? People used to say Old Shen was a fool for treating his daughter like a treasure, but it turns out she’s worth it!

“That’s right, as soon as Chuning got married, Shen Qingsong had the money to pay off the debts for building the house. I heard that the women’s director has been to Shen’s house several times to find matches for the three Shen brothers!”

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The people around were gossiping sourly.

Shen Chuning saw Lin Shulan in the crowd, her face darkened.

Worried that her mother-in-law would misunderstand her because of these gossips, she was instantly anxious and her eyes reddened, tears uncontrollably falling.

Wiping her tears, she said, “You only know that my husband sent me eighty kuai at once, do you know that my husband was urgently recalled to the army three days after our wedding?

Do you know that he’s been gone for almost three or four months, and he only sent me this letter and eighty kuai?

Woohoo…”

Shen Chuning became sadder and sadder, crying like a river.

Lin Shulan had heard that Shen Qingsong paid off the debts he owed the village after Shen Chuning married into their family.

Although she had some knots in her heart, seeing Shen Chuning’s filial piety and competence, and now she had become a student of the commune accountant, and would soon have a job, becoming one of the “eight major officials” of the commune, she liked her and didn’t intend to care about her using the betrothal gift to pay off her family’s debts.

Hearing the people around her gossiping sourly, she already felt sorry for her daughter-in-law.

Now seeing Shen Chuning crying so hard that she was hiccuping.

She was furious and stood up to protect Shen Chuning.

“My youngest son just sent my daughter-in-law eighty kuai, right? If you’re jealous, let your own husbands and sons go to the army and the battlefield!

What? My youngest son is fighting for the country in the army, and his wife doesn’t deserve eighty kuai?”

“If anyone is jealous, stand up, today, in front of the brigade leader and the brigade secretary, let’s have a good discussion, who stopped their husbands and sons from joining the army when the country was recruiting soldiers!”

Lin Shulan rolled up her sleeves aggressively.

Zhou Yubai went to the army three years earlier than Shen Zhengrong, when he joined the army, the national situation was unstable, with internal and external troubles.

When the recruitment notice was issued, many people were reluctant to let their husbands and sons go to the battlefield.

Lin Shulan was also reluctant, but her youngest son was stubborn, and she couldn’t persuade him, so she let him go.