Sweet love in military marriage: an egg in exchange for a rough husband

When Su Kang returned to his room after dinner, Tian Fang saw that he came back empty-handed without bringing any food for her and her son. She also thought that she would have to move back from the town tomorrow and could no longer show off to other villagers by living in the town. If she wanted to support her parents, she would have to come here secretly. She and her son could no longer eat sugar and eggs at will. She couldn't help but feel sad and cried to Su Kang.

Tian Fang's originally pretty face under the kerosene lamp revealed some tenderness because of her tears, and she called out "Brother Kang" from time to time, which made Su Kang's anger gradually subside. Thinking that he would have to control his temper in order to get along well with others when living at home in the future, Tian Fang patiently advised: "Little sister suffered so much today, it is normal for me as a brother to feel sorry for her, and your parents work so hard to help support the whole family, you have to be more filial."

"Brother Kang, I know I was wrong. Today I just feel sorry for our Aiguo who doesn't eat well. He is only five years old. How can he grow up if he doesn't eat well? My mother said that boys need to eat well to grow up. Girls can just drink soup and eat wild vegetables. They can't take food from boys. My two younger brothers grew up like this. So when I see my aunt and a girl..." Before she could finish her words, seeing Su Kang's disapproving look, Tian Fang quickly changed her words, "I feel sad that a girl eats better than boys."

"Don't compare my little sister with you at your mother's house. What does your mother not giving you food have to do with my little sister?" Su Kang disagreed with Tian Fang's words. While taking off his clothes, he bluntly said that it was her mother's fault that she had a bad life as a girl. "Go to bed quickly. You have to go to work tomorrow."

Tian Fang was full of thoughts that a boy was the most important thing, and her words that your mother is biased were choked in her stomach by Su Kang's retort. When she thought about going to work under the scorching sun tomorrow and feeling the pain of her face peeling off in the morning, she couldn't help but shudder. Seeing Su Kang lying on the bed and about to sleep, she spoke cautiously: "Brother Kang, can you tell mother that we will not give up the house in town, and I will go to town to take care of you..."

Before she finished her words, Su Kang raised his head and said, "You can go if you want. I don't dare! What our parents have decided cannot be changed." Seeing Tian Fang's indignant expression and the action of pressing her stomach with her hands, the anger that had just subsided rose up again. "Don't play tricks, just go to work honestly. Your parents won't let you starve."

When Tian Fang heard this, she thought of how her parents-in-law usually behaved. She slowly curled up in the quilt and began to cry. The noisy Su Kang and Aiguo lay on the bed and finally fell asleep after a long time.

In the early morning, with the crowing of roosters, smoke began to rise from the chimneys of each household in Dongshan Village. It was the summer harvest season, and everyone wanted to go to work early so as to harvest more wheat and have some free time before the sun became too hot.

Everyone in the Su family also got up and washed up. Li Yue and Wang Ye went to the kitchen to make breakfast. In order to save time, they ate quick meals like porridge and steamed buns in the morning. Su's mother saw Su Yunyun cleaning the yard and went to the kitchen to make arrangements: "Eldest daughter-in-law, second daughter-in-law, boil one of the eggs that the third daughter brought back yesterday for Yunyun, and make some egg pancakes for everyone in the family. You have to make up for the hardship you have suffered during this day's work."

The two sisters-in-law in the kitchen's eyes lit up, knowing that they too would have a share, and quickly responded with full energy: "Okay, Mom, it's great to have you in charge!" They also flattered their mother-in-law, as it was heartbreaking to see that their husband had lost a lot of weight, and these eggs were rare things, and the third sister sent them back saying that they were for the younger sister to nourish her body, but the mother didn't forget to give them some nourishment as well!

"Mother-in-law is so nice!" The two sisters-in-law looked at each other and understood each other's meaning. Woo woo woo...

After returning to the courtyard, Su's mother looked around and found that Tian Fang and Aiguo were missing. She walked to the outside of the third son's room and said, "Third son's wife, whose wife is still sleeping at this time? Hurry up and get up so as not to delay work."

"Mom, I don't feel well. I want to go to town to see a doctor." Tian Fang's voice became hoarse after crying for half the night. She lay on the bed and found a reason to go back to town to avoid going to work.

"I asked you to go to work yesterday, but today you said you were not feeling well. What's going on? Are you trying to challenge me?" Mother Su understood Tian Fang's thoughts. She just wanted to be lazy and go to the town, and then call people back when there was no one available at home during the busy farming season, and then continue to stay in the town!

"Mom, how dare I? I really don't feel well. You see, my throat is hoarse and it hurts." Tian Fang naturally didn't dare to admit that she dared to face Su's mother head-on.

"Okay, stop pretending. People in the countryside are tough. Why would we bother doctors for everything? It's free! If your throat hurts, just get up and drink some salt water to reduce the inflammation." Su's mother did not take the bait and directly responded with a folk remedy.

"Hurry up and get up to eat. Don't be late for work. If you don't earn 10 work points today, you can forget about having dinner!" When Su's mother saw Su Yunyun sweeping the dirt in the yard into the vegetable patch in the backyard, she ran out of patience. Her daughter suffered so much and still got up early to clean up the yard, while the third daughter-in-law, who was a lazy pig in her previous life, was still sleeping. She didn't want to continue talking to her and told her the consequences directly.

"Third brother, bring all your things back when you get off work this afternoon. Don't forget!" Su's mother looked at Su Kang who was brushing his teeth and blocked the possibility of Tian Fang returning to town.

After Li Yue and Wang Ye finished cooking, Su's mother arranged for everyone to finish their meal, and then everyone went out to work. Tian Fang followed slowly behind, recalling the fragrance of the egg pancakes. She regretted getting up late and not being able to eat more. She wanted to go back and cook for herself, but when she thought of Su Yunyun who was left behind to recuperate, and Su's mother behind her, she panicked and decided to go to work. Otherwise, she would not get 10 work points and would not even be able to drink porridge in the evening. She hurriedly quickened her pace to catch up with the Su family.

When they arrived at the village, the team leader Su Ping assigned tasks. When it came to the educated youth group, he said, "Li Wenxuan will harvest wheat, Wang Danju will harvest wheat... Wang Yuhe will record work points..." Li Wenxuan's eyes were dull when he heard this. Wang Danju beside him turned pale. Wang Yuhe was very excited and hurried to thank Li Wenxuan: "Wenxuan, thank you very much. If you hadn't taken the initiative to ask the team leader to change the task and let the work point recording job go, it would never have been my turn. You are really a helpful comrade!"

When the other educated youth heard Wang Yuhe's words, they also looked envious and hopeful: "Yes, yes, maybe the team leader will let us all do the job of recording work points next time!"

Li Wenxuan's face suddenly turned red, his lips moved as if he wanted to say something but he didn't know what to say, he was embarrassed and stopped talking.

Wang Danju, who was beside him, bit her lip in annoyance, wondering how she could get the job of recording work points to herself. So she pulled at the corner of Li Wenxuan's clothes, looked up at him with slightly red eyes, her eyes revealing weakness and timidity, making the already thin person look even more pitiful.

Li Wenxuan felt distressed when he looked at Wang Danju, then he turned to stare at Su Ping and thought of Su Yunyun, his distress turned into anger: All this was caused by Su Yunyun. If it weren't for her, how could he and Danju do such heavy work? They are city people, scholars and intellectuals, and can only do work related to writing. Work like harvesting wheat, which requires working under the sun and on the land, should be done by these peasants. How can they be allowed to do it? The team leader really doesn't know what he is talking about!

Wang Danju saw Li Wenxuan staring at Su Ping silently, and saw that the educated youth were going to get tools to start working. She anxiously pulled the corner of Li Wenxuan's clothes again, causing Li Wenxuan, who was immersed in anger, to ask Su Ping loudly without thinking: "Captain, Wang Danju is not in good health, so let her record the work points. Wang Yuhe is a grown man, how can he do the work of recording work points? It's a waste of talent. Let him cut the wheat faster. I think Wang Yuhe should be willing to help Wang Danju to do the work of cutting wheat!"

Wang Yuhe and the educated youth looked at him in surprise. It was too shameless for Li Wenxuan to be so generous to others in front of everyone and to establish himself as a person who helps others. He did not even ask others whether they were willing or not, which turned everyone's gratitude towards him into suspicion and dissatisfaction.

"What, Li Wenxuan, are you questioning my unfair distribution? And what's wrong with Wang Yuhe being a macho man? Can't a macho man do work that requires work points? Then you used to do work that requires work points often. According to what you said, you are not a macho man?" Su Ping looked at him with sarcasm on his face and asked him back in a calm tone.

Everyone burst into laughter, and Wang Yuhe also looked at Li Wenxuan meaningfully and laughed.

"Captain, you misunderstood me. What I meant was that Wang Danju has done the job of recording work points before and can complete it efficiently, but Wang Yuhe has never done it and has no experience, so it will be a waste of time. We are so busy with summer harvest, and we can't let him affect our progress." Li Wenxuan's face flushed. Looking at Wang Danju's aggrieved expression, he racked his brains to find a reason to refute.

"According to what you said, this work point recording can only be done by experienced people?" Su Ping began to set a trap.

"Yes, this is the reasonable way to distribute the work. Wang Yuhe has experience in wheat harvesting, so he should do the wheat harvesting work to play to his strengths." Li Wenxuan argued that a team leader was not competent at all because he could not use people properly. As an educated youth, he had a high level of awareness, so he still had to find time to give feedback to his superiors and assign someone else to do the job!

"Then for the sake of reasonable arrangement, you also have experience in recording work points, so from now on, it's just you and Wang Danju who record the work points?" Su Ping looked at the clever Li Wenxuan in front of him, wondering what his younger sister liked about him before? In his eyes, Li Wenxuan was not good at anything!

"Yes, captain, you need experience..." Li Wenxuan saw Su Ping being so wise, and in a rush of excitement he followed his words and spoke out his thoughts. However, his excited words gradually disappeared in the angry eyes of the educated youths. The villagers looked at him as if he were a fool, and then he began to feel that something was wrong.

"No, Captain. Li Wenxuan just saw that I was not feeling well. Considering that comrades should take care of each other, he asked if we could switch roles." Wang Danju saw the reactions of the crowd and was very annoyed that Li Wenxuan, such a smart man, kept saying the wrong things today and offended the educated youth and villagers. She knew that she couldn't let him continue talking, so she pulled the corner of his clothes to shut him up, otherwise she would leave a bad impression in front of the captain. "In fact, I should be the one asking Wang Yuhe if he is willing to switch."

Wang Yuhe looked at Wang Danju's gentle and expectant expression, and felt uncomfortable as if he had swallowed a fly. Why didn't he notice that Wang Danju was being hypocritical before? She first said that she was not feeling well, and that Li Wenxuan was helping her by asking the team leader to change her task. When she found that it was unsuccessful, she took the initiative to ask him. This was in front of everyone. If he did not agree to change jobs, it would mean that he was not taking care of her. If he agreed to change jobs, he would be suffocated to death. Moreover, it was confirmed that the work of recording work points should be done by these two people in the future!

Just when Wang Yuhe was in a dilemma, Su Ping said calmly: "Don't ask, no change! Just do it according to my assignment. If every time I assign a task, someone questions it and asks for a change, will we still be able to harvest the summer harvest? Don't you see how long you have been delayed? In that time, you could have harvested two rows of wheat!"

"Also, Li Wenxuan and Wang Danju, you have experience in recording work points, but you also have experience in harvesting wheat, so it is reasonable to arrange for you to do the work of harvesting wheat. Don't let the organization down!"

"Let's get to work!" Su Ping glanced at Li Wenxuan and Wang Danju, who were no longer as high-handed as frost-bitten eggplants, and thought to himself, this is just the beginning!