Chapter 746 The humble old father

Author: I am six fish

Chapter 746 The humble old father

"My wife has rushed to do all the housework, so you should knit me a sweater first. I don't have this one to wear, and you have done so much for Zhou Rong. What do you want my wife to think?

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While speaking, Zhou Bingkun also pointed at Zheng Juan who was busy cooking in the outer room.

"When your sister finishes knitting, mom will knit it for you." Li Suhua said with a little embarrassment.

"You may not be able to finish knitting this piece by the time of the Chinese New Year."

"In this way, Bingkun, wait until next year, and my mother will definitely knit one for you next year." Li Suhua promised sincerely.

Li Suhua had already said this, and Zhou Bingkun couldn't say anything else.

But trying to get Li Suhua to realize the importance of Zheng Juan and talk to Zheng Juan better was a failure.

The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not that easy to handle, and Li Suhua cannot be said to be harsh on Zheng Juan.

But for Li Suhua, no matter how filial her daughter-in-law is, there is no unfilial daughter, and she has status in her heart.

For Zheng Juan, marrying Zhou Bingkun is considered a high achievement, but not much.

I don't think I owe too much to the old Zhou family.

Even if it was because Zhou Bingkun was helping out in Taiping Hutong, Zheng Juan would be equally filial to Li Suhua out of gratitude.

But when Li Suhua has been so biased for a long time, it is perfectly normal for Zheng Juan to be an ordinary person and feel dissatisfied with her mother-in-law.

However, this problem will not break out in a short period of time. There will be plenty of time in the future and we will act accordingly depending on the situation.

If we can leave the responsibility of taking care of our parents to Zhou Bingyi or Zhou Rong in the future, we won't have to live together under the same roof.

The problem of mother-in-law being partial to her children will become completely non-existent for Zheng Juan.

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At the end of November in the lunar calendar, which was just around the corner from New Year's Day in the solar calendar, Zhou Bingkun came home from get off work and saw Li Suhua sitting on the kang listlessly and sighing, so he asked Zheng Juan:

"Juan'er, mom, what's wrong?"

Zheng Juan pulled Zhou Bingkun into the outer room again and whispered: "Sister wrote a letter, saying that she will stay in Guizhou during the New Year and cannot go home to celebrate the New Year."

"It's not a big deal. You don't have to be so cautious. Mom is a person who can handle things. It was Zhou Rong who sneaked away to Guizhou to find a man to elope with, and it didn't take long for Mom to recover."

When talking to Zheng Juan, Zhou Bingkun always seeks truth from facts.

She was just afraid that if she didn't explain things thoroughly, Zheng Juan would misunderstand the old Zhou family as people, and she wouldn't understand Zhou Bingkun's true attitude towards these people.

Zheng Juan cannot be allowed to take the image of Zhou Rong as beautiful, sensible and well-educated in the mouth of her neighbors as true.

The image spread among the neighbors is that Zhou Rong chose to go to the countryside to endure hardships so that her younger brother could stay in the city.

This is completely the news that Li Suhua deliberately released for the sake of the face of the old Zhou family.

Their daughter ran off with a wild man, and no parent would be able to tell her.

"Kun'er, Bingkun, do you think your sister is still worried that your father will be angry, so she doesn't dare to come back?"

After returning to the back room, Li Suhua looked up at Zhou Bingkun and said.

"That's not possible. How could my sister be worried about my dad being angry? Everyone in Guangzi Film knows that my dad favors my sister the most. My dad cuts me off every once in a while. Has he ever touched her finger? She is

Simply not wanting to come back has nothing to do with whether my dad is angry or not."

Although it hurts the most when telling the truth, it is better than having Li Suhua have unrealistic expectations for Zhou Rong.

"Then you say, your sister has been gone for four years and why is she unwilling to come back? Doesn't she miss home and her mother?"

"Isn't this simple? Her husband, a poet in the fifth category, was sent to the countryside and will definitely be supervised. Lao Hei cannot leave. My sister will spend the New Year with her husband there."

This is a logic that is easy to figure out, but as parents, when thinking about their children, they are always willing to think the best.

Li Suhua, who was in a bad mood because her fantasy was exposed, immediately got angry and said, "Get lost."

"Good medicine is bitter in the mouth and good for the disease, and good advice is hard on the ears but good for deeds. If you recognize who your daughter is earlier and don't have such high hopes for her to go home for the New Year, you won't be so disappointed now."

Li Suhua's mental endurance needs to be tempered.

Otherwise, Zhou Bingkun would be worried that when he was dealing with Zhou Rong, Zhou Rong would do something evil and make Li Suhua angry to death.

"Bingkun, mom is in a bad mood, please stop talking," Zheng Juan said.

"It's okay. I know Mom is in a bad mood. I made her angry on purpose. It's better to vent the anger than to keep it inside." Zhou Bingkun fooled Zheng Juan and said.

As the daughter-in-law of the old Zhou family, Zheng Juan should have to adapt to this kind of contentious life.

Now only Li Suhua and Zhou Bingkun are at home, and the dispute is already very small.

It would be really lively if we could really gather all the people from the old Zhou family.

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After Zhou Rong also replied to the letter, Li Suhua's hope that her children would go home for the New Year was over.

Some time ago, I was so hopeful and happy, but now I am so disappointed and depressed.

My mood fluctuates so fast, faster than a child's.

Originally it was the New Year's Eve, and it was time to prepare various New Year's goods.

Every year, the government will provide more rations of meat, oil, flour, vermicelli, fish, peanuts, melon seeds, candies, etc. based on reserves.

This is the time when women at home are needed to go to various supply and marketing cooperatives, non-staple food, and grain and oil stores to queue up to buy various supplies.

Li Suhua also lost the motivation to rush to buy, and most of her energy was gone.

Seeing that Li Suhua was like this, Zhou Bingkun naturally wanted to write a letter to tell Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Zhigang what kind of condition Li Suhua was in.

Li Suhua felt happy and sad for a while. It wasn't because I, Zhou Bingkun, didn't take good care of her at home, it was all because of you people outside.

I wrote letters to two people to confirm Li Suhua's status in their hearts.

Whether the two of them should go home to celebrate the New Year or not, Zhou Bingkun's words were of no use, so he left it to the two of them to decide.

If Li Suhua is in this state, neither of them will come back.

One refused to go home to accompany his wife, and the other refused to go home to look for his daughter.

Calculating it this way, these two people don't seem to be any better than Zhou Rong.

Li Suhua's status in Zhou Rong's heart is not high, but in the hearts of Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Zhigang, her status doesn't seem to be that high either.

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Li Suhua was sad and sad alone, not caring about family affairs, but having Zheng Juan at home could not affect the old Zhou family's preparations for the New Year.

In the 1960s and 1970s, supplies were not so abundant, so in order to have a more abundant Spring Festival, we had to start making various preparations as soon as we entered the twelfth lunar month.

The main things are to prepare New Year's goods, paint and clean the house, unpack and wash bedding, and rush to make new clothes for the New Year.

What Zhou Bingkun did was to take advantage of his weekend break to buy rice, large yellow rice, small yellow rice, white flour, corn flour, these heavier rice flour grains and oils and take them home.

For the painting work of the adobe house of Lao Zhou's family, if any piece of soil on the inner and outer walls has fallen off, some mud should be used to repair it, and then the entire house should be painted with lime.

The linoleum on the roof is getting worn out and rotting. Buy a new one and replace it.

Some special items for the Spring Festival, such as sesame oil, tofu, vermicelli, meat, fish, etc. These items are not many and not heavy, and you still need to queue up to buy them.

It was Zheng Juan who took the time to buy it every morning.

In the afternoon, Zheng Juan needs to unpack and wash the bedding at home, and make new clothes for everyone.

Taking apart and washing bedding is also a very troublesome task. It takes Zheng Juan at least two days for three sets of bedding.

Making clothes is also not an easy task. In addition to the three members of the old Zhou family, Zheng Juan also has to make clothes for Aunt Zheng and Guangming.

That is to say, Lao Zhou's family has a sewing machine, and Zheng Juan learned it quickly, so she was able to make these five sets of clothes in this month.

Here in the Northeast, there is another big task during the twelfth lunar month, which is steaming bean buns and steamed buns.

You need to steam enough for the twelfth lunar month at one time, as well as almost the entire first lunar month’s staple food.

Even now there are only three people in Lao Zhou's family at home. The steamed bean buns, steamed buns, flower rolls, and sugar buns require at least thirty kilograms of ingredients in total.

The good thing is that Li Suhua doesn't care about these things at all.

Just because my favorite children are not coming back, I don't have the energy to take the initiative to do this.

When she sees Zheng Juan busy, Li Suhua will still help her more or less.

After I was almost busy with all this, it was already the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month.

It was also Zhou Bingkun's day off on the weekend, and he was busy cooking meat and freezing it at home.

Northeastern cooked meat is equivalent to the boiled meat in other regions years ago. This year, Lao Zhou's family actually has a lot of meat.

The total amount was about twenty kilograms. Li Suhua saw Zhou Bingkun taking the meat home and refused to let him eat it. After serving the meat jelly, he stored it in an empty water tank outside.

Put the pork, ribs, elbows, pig's trotters, and other non-flavored things into a pot.
To be continued...