Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 500 - 0500 Cannot Visit Relatives 3_1

Chapter 500: Chapter 0500 Cannot Visit Relatives 3_1

Just as she reached the intersection, the raindrops began to fall.

However, they were tiny.

Feng Qingxue put on her raincoat and continued walking. After two or three miles, the raindrops started to grow larger and fell more closely together.

Just when she was getting worried, she finally saw the figure of Chen Xueniang riding a bicycle in her line of vision.

"Sister Xueniang, stop! Quickly, stop!" Feng Qingxue shouted, hurrying forward, and when Chen Xueniang stepped off her bicycle, she draped the raincoat and bamboo hat over her. Summer clothes were thin and when wet, they clung to the skin, revealing curves. Unexpectedly, Chen Xueniang, although already in her forties, kept a figure as good as a young girl’s. "It’s raining, don’t get wet and catch a chill."

Chen Xueniang, with one hand on her bicycle and the other touching the hedgehog-like raincoat, felt warmed in her heart.

"Thank you, Qingxue, for coming all the way to meet me."

"I should be the one thanking you, sister. You’ve been coming over every week to help with the household chores and take care of the kids during this busy farming season. You’ve saved me so much trouble!" Feng Qingxue changed the topic after her words, "Huh, isn’t this Uncle Cheng’s bicycle that you bought? But it doesn’t look new?"

Chen Xueniang gave a tight-lipped smile, "I couldn’t get a bicycle coupon, so I couldn’t buy a new one. So, I asked Shen Feihong to find me one that is 80% new. A women’s bicycle, much easier to ride than Mayor Cheng’s, it’s just that it can’t carry heavy goods. I thought, always borrowing Mayor Cheng’s bicycle isn’t a solution. Even if Sister Cuilan doesn’t mind, the gossip from outsiders works just like a knife."

Even though it wasn’t new, it cost her the price of a new bicycle. She decided she wouldn’t tell Feng Qingxue that.

Feng Qingxue thought of the bicycle in her own space. It was time to find an opportunity to bring it out. Lu Tianjun needed a bicycle for school. Even though he said he could walk, how could his family bear to see him walking to and fro every week?

"Did Shen Feihong help you out? At least the good words I said for him to the Zhou Family paid off." Feng Qingxue chuckled, "Do you know him, Sister Xueniang?"

Chen Xueniang whispered, "Yes, I do. When I had money and coupons, he’s got the connections. In those years, food supplies were scarce. I couldn’t line up by myself or either when my turn came the store ran out of grain. Shen Feihong really helped me a lot. A bit of my money, and he would have his people line up early for me, or he would help me get some high-priced grain. I barely saved myself from starvation."

People like Shen Feihong interacted with everyone from all walks of life, socializing widely.

Feng Qingxue was just about to ask Chen Xueniang about Shen Feihong’s wedding date when they arrived home. After pushing the bicycle into the side room and hanging her raincoat and bamboo hat outside, Xibao came over and pulled her outside.

"Mama! Mama! Play! Play!"

Feng Qingxue picked him up and pointed to the rain curtain outside the door, "Baby, it’s raining. We can’t go out to play when it’s raining."

"Rain! Rain!" Xibao shouted happily, urging Feng Qingxue to go outside. He clearly remembered the scene from the other day when it was raining. While the adults were busily working, the children played wildly in the rain, slipping and getting covered in mud, on their hands, faces, everywhere. They looked like mud monkeys that had crawled out of a mud pit.

Chen Xueniang put down the bamboo basket she had brought, dusted off her hands and said, "Xibao, see what auntie has brought for you to eat."

At the mention of food, Xibao’s eyes gleamed and he instantly slid out of his mother’s lap, holding the handle of the bamboo basket and looking inside. One hand held the handle and the other lifted the cloth covering the basket.

"Egg! Egg!" He pointed at the eggs in the basket, and was absolutely delighted.