Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 1071 - 1070: Ruthless Waters 4

Chapter 1071: Chapter 1070: Ruthless Waters 4

Wang Zhengguo knew that Guan Cheng had become an apprentice to Jin Ruochu, so he handed over the task of leading the group of elders in their work to Guan Cheng.

Twenty or so elders, that was enough for him to manage.

Wang Dachun particularly liked the few children of his cousin’s family, just as his mother had said, "Dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes," none of the children were simple, with Tianjun joining the army, and Guan Cheng studying medicine, did their future prospects even need to be mentioned?

"What do I have to worry about? You few go pull the flatbed cart, bring it over together with the bamboo baskets, the rest of you pile up the garlic heads, and when the cart and the bamboo baskets arrive, it will be easy to load them in." Wang Dachun gave a few instructions and was about to say more when his youngest son came running over, stumbling and crying.

"Daddy! Daddy!" Little Douzi’s voice was particularly loud, his tears mingling with the dust, smearing his face.

"What’s wrong?" Wang Dachun squatted down, pulled up his robe to wipe his tears, and said with a laugh, "Look at you, crying like a little calico cat. Weren’t you playing by the house? Why cry? Tell Daddy."

With a loud wail, Little Douzi cried even harder, "Brother Shi Mo took the tin frog Brother Xibao gave me!"

Xibao was now interested in radios, and aside from the toys Chen Xueniang had given him, he had kept them all, except for the tin frog he had dismantled. The tin frog and tin rooster Feng Qingxue had bought for him had been given away to children of similar or younger ages who had good relations with him, with Little Douzi, one year his junior, being one of them.

How else to explain Xibao’s popularity? Just this generous nature of his was something many could not compare with.

Just hearing the words "Shi Mo," Wang Dachun would feel a headache coming on.

This Zhao Dabao was the dear son of his maternal cousin Chen Cancan. He was a child plagued with various misfortunes from a young age, and the Zhao family’s elders thought it was a curse of the name, a precious name that could not suppress him, so they gave him another nickname, "Shi Mo." In their Wanglou Brigade, he was universally disliked.

Wang Fengqiao was straightforward and disliked this grandson. She had sent him back several times, only for him to be returned the next day.

Put bluntly, the people from the Zhao family were just selfish.

Even though Wang Jiao often went back to her parental home for meals, it was because her marital family was reluctant to eat plain meals, but Zhang Yuejin was considerate. Every time his wife went back to her parental home, he would bring over some pig offal and meat that did not require food coupons, never coming empty-handed.

Chen Cancan was different, not at all like Wang Fengqiao’s daughter.

Her husband, Zhao Tiezhu, worked in the power plant, and following him, she squeezed into a dormitory of merely seven or eight square meters, dumping all three children on her mother-in-law to take care of, while she herself did odd jobs in the city such as pasting paper boxes.

And what about Zhao’s old lady? She had been decent to Cancan before and after her marriage, otherwise Wang Fengqiao wouldn’t have allowed her daughter to marry into the Zhao family. But since the time of famine, she had become extremely acerbic, counting every little thing, ordering her granddaughter around like she was commanding two dogs, stingily giving them thin soup every day, but reluctant to let her grandson suffer in their own home. Year after year, their brigade’s harvest was poor, so they let Cancan send Shi Mo to Wang Fengqiao’s house, to eat her family’s food and spare their own grain rations.

Cancan sided with her in-laws, so naturally, she complied.

Hearing that his son’s precious tin frog had been taken by Shi Mo, Wang Dachun didn’t hesitate to pick up his son, "Let’s go, Daddy will get it back for you!" He wasn’t generous enough to not make a fuss with young children.

No sooner had the father and son left than Wang Lingzhi came along.