Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 386 - 0386: Lion’s Mouth Opens 2_1

Chapter 386: Chapter 0386: Lion’s Mouth Opens 2_1

"Wang Zhengguo certainly knew why Wang Zhengjun came to ask for food, isn’t it just because his family doesn’t have enough to eat at home?

For an urban household, the standard of grain supply varies according to the type of work. The minimum is twenty-five kilograms, the maximum is forty-five kilograms, and only miners have the forty-five kilogram standard. Unemployed adults get only twenty-one kilos and children, eight kilos, calculated monthly.

Wang Zhengjun has a job, and his son was assigned to a job after graduation, but Liu Jinhua, his wife, has none.

Wang Zhengjun moved to the city for work only after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. His ability to read and write made him stand out during recruitment.

Before that, he was married and had his children in his hometown. The wedding gifts and the wedding itself were all paid for by Wang Zhengguo. To put it bluntly, he is just a country bumpkin, and the mud on his legs isn’t quite washed off.

Their parents are just ordinary peasant farmers, without money or skills. Without the help of the Lu Family, they couldn’t raise seven children. Later, they lived a decent life thanks to Wang Zhengguo and two daughters who worked in the Lu’s family for a few years. They have no ability to host weddings for their sons and daughters, as they can’t afford the dowry and gifts, nor could they pretend to be elders.

Their parents are incompetent; the eldest brother is like a father. Isn’t the marriage of his younger brothers and sisters Wang Zhengguo’s responsibility?

Among them, the marriages of the sisters Fengmei and Fengying were not arranged by Wang Zhengguo but by his parents. For this reason, Wang Zhengguo decided to take charge of his other siblings’ marriages.

At the time, he said that the two families were not suitable, but his parents did not listen. They thought that the city folks who proposed to Fengmei were rich so Fengmei marrying them would bring good fortune. As for Fengying’s father-in-law, he was Wang’s father’s good friend, who verbally committed to the daughter’s marriage and wouldn’t be Wang Zhengguo’s choice for a brother-in-law in any case.

Wang Zhengguo is very responsible, and his eldest sister-in-law Miao Fengqin didn’t object. She had a good impression of her second and third brothers-in-law, and her sister-in-law Fengqiao, who had been genuinely helpful to her after she married into the family, was not a tricky person. If they married well, it would definitely be a plus for their own family.

Wang Fengqiao obediently heeded her elder brothers’ words and she’s a considerate, decent and grateful person.

Thus, under Wang Zhengguo’s arrangement, both brothers married maids from the Lu Family, and Wang Fengqiao married a childhood companion from her own village. Now, they are all living prosperous lives.

However, the situation with the overly ambitious Wang Zhengjun is different.

Unlike his three brothers who abided by their parents’ decisions on marriage, Wang Zhengjun, with grand aspirations, was reluctant to marry a maid of the Lu Family. He believed he was no less noble than the people of the Lu Family. His soul was as noble as theirs, so he did not want to be inferior. Moreover, he was against the torment of an arranged marriage. He wanted to fall in love freely and then enter the matrimonial hall.

Wang Zhengguo knew that a coerced marriage wouldn’t be satisfactory, so he didn’t insist his younger brother live according to his plans. He loosened his hold on his brother’s marriage, until the latter brought back Liu Jinhua and told him that he wanted to marry her.

Liu Jinhua was from the neighboring Red Star Production Team.

The two production teams, oh, they weren’t production teams at that time, they were villages.

One was Wanglou Village, the other was Liu Family Village.

The two villages were very close, separated by a large piece of land belonging to the Lu Family in Wanglou Village. It took about twenty minutes to walk from Wanglou Village to Liu Family Village following the road.

Liu Jinhua, true to her name which means ’golden flower’, was a lovely flower of Liu Family Village. She was very beautiful and belonged to a family where everyone wanted to marry their son to.

Her reputation was not inferior to the daughters of the Wang Family, which clearly demonstrated her beauty.