Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 1273: Great Devotion 1

Chapter 1273: Chapter 1273: Great Devotion 1

The rain that day was heavy and relentless, not showing any signs of stopping by evening.

Coming out from Wang Xinlai’s house, Wang Fengqiao bustled around with nothing else to do. She counted the eggs at home, had accumulated over a dozen chicken eggs and three goose eggs, and decided to put them all in a basket to give to her niece.

This niece was naturally Feng Qingxue, and not Wang Jiao.

Seeing the room full of elderly people, her expression didn’t change as she greeted them and handed the basket to Feng Qingxue.

She had come to understand that not a single one of the old folks here was simple. In the past, they would have been unapproachable, yet now, out of fear of stirring up trouble and her grandchildren being timid, she wished they could be closer to the elders.

Still, it was better not to come and avoid being a nuisance.

Not everyone is as easy-going and endearing as the Lu family’s children.

Feng Qingxue put down the basket, took a towel to wipe the rainwater off her, and called for Guan Cheng to pour her some brown sugar ginger water, "Look at you, auntie, making a trip here in such heavy rain, getting your clothes wet and catching a cold, how could I live with myself?"

"What farmer hasn’t been caught in the rain? I’m sturdy, I’ll be fine!" Wang Fengqiao said nonchalantly, "Your house has many kids, never mind the older ones, just for the little ones, one egg per child each day—that’s five eggs, fifty in ten days. Even if your chickens laid eggs every day, you wouldn’t have enough. Take these eggs to cook for the kids. I’ll save up some more tomorrow and bring them over."

With a smile, Feng Qingxue said, "I’ve had Sister Jin Cuihua quietly collect them for me; chicken, duck, goose eggs, we have enough."

This was on the assumption the adults wouldn’t eat any and the eggs were only for her five children, occasionally making a bowl of scrambled eggs to add a dish to the table.

Having many kids, she needed to look after them, and it wasn’t a good idea to keep taking supplies from the space. Before living with the Lu family, she could fetch things from outside without Lu Tianjun and Lu Tianzhi suspecting, but now she couldn’t go out herself.

Wang Fengqiao, hearing this, commented, "Cuihua is a good person and knows how to handle things. Plus, she loves to wander around the neighboring villages when she’s free."

"That’s exactly why I entrusted this task to her. I even brought her a pair of Jiefang shoes from the army; she was over the moon," Feng Qingxue was not getting Jin Cuihua to work for nothing.

Wang Fengqiao nodded in agreement, "That’s good, that’s good!"

Changing the subject, "Today, at Wang Lingzhi’s wedding, I saw Cuihua. Guess how that marriage came about?"

Feng Qingxue chuckled, "How would I know? Mo Bai was one of the later sent-down youths, right? Just yesterday Xing Yushan told me while fetching water that it’s been half a month since he arrived. To think a marriage was settled in such a short time without any whisper hearing about it—both families were quick. Were they afraid of delays or dreams changing? They kept it so secret; I wonder how it came about."

Wang Fengqiao then told her niece the reason, delighting in seeing her astonished expression.

"It can actually be done like that? Mo Bai agreed willingly? He didn’t get upset at all?" Feng Qingxue felt her eyes were opened wide. Wang Lingzhi was desperate to find a son-in-law.

"I’m puzzled too, not sure what Mo Bai was thinking," pondered Wang Fengqiao. "All I heard from Cuihua was that when Wang Lingzhi saw his buttocks, she panicked, couldn’t help but scream, and ran out of the toilet with her face covered, which brought quite a few people from the sent-down youth spot, all seeing Mo Bai pulling up his trousers coming out of the toilet."

In such a suggestive scenario, Mo Bai was truly at a loss for words.