Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 158 It Would Be Nice If There Was No Split
In the next room.

"Brother, is sister-in-law angry?" Looking at the closed door, Li Zi asked her brother worriedly.

"Don't worry, your sister-in-law isn't angry." Wei Jingyuan shook his head and looked at Li Zi and Xiao Huai seriously. "Have you two really decided to go to fifth grade?"

Li Zi and Xiao Huai nodded insistently without thinking.

Wei Jingyuan then asked, "How much have you learned from the third and fourth grade textbooks?"

"I have learned the math and Chinese for third grade, but haven't started the fourth grade yet." Xiao Huai answered truthfully.

"Me too," Li Zi agreed. She was studying with Xiao Huai. She learned as much as Xiao Huai did, and didn't learn anything Xiao Huai didn't learn.

Wei Jingyuan always knew that Li Zi listened to Xiao Huai very much. He looked at Xiao Huai and said, "Xiao Huai, you haven't started studying the fourth-grade textbook yet. If you want to go directly to the fifth grade,

"I suggest that you and Lizi should not attend the first semester of fifth grade. Learn the materials for fourth grade and the first semester of fifth grade at home, and then attend the second semester of fifth grade next year."

"Okay, big brother, this is a good idea." Li Zi agreed with both hands.

Xiao Huai's eyes lit up and he nodded rapidly.

Wei Jingyuan said, "Since it's settled, from now on, apart from doing necessary work, you two must use the rest of your time to study. If you know something, learn it on your own. If you don't know something, come and ask me or your sister-in-law."

"Okay, we'll listen to Big Brother." Li Zi and Xiao Huai said in unison.

Wei Jingyuan nodded and waved his hand for the two of them to go study.

Li Zi happily walked towards the fireplace, but Xiao Huai looked at Wei Jingyuan and hesitated for a moment before asking, "Brother, will my sister-in-law be unhappy about this?"

"I don't know." Wei Jingyuan wasn't sure either, but since he was the one who came up with the idea, he had to go talk to Tao Qiuyi. "I'll talk to her when she comes out."

"Okay." Xiao Huai nodded and left.

His younger brothers and sisters all went to study, and Wei Jingyuan also began rehabilitation.

Tao Qiuyi easily lost track of time when she was busy in the ring. She left the ring only after hearing a knock on the door. She walked over to open it and saw that it was Li Zi.

"Sister-in-law, it's time for dinner." Li Zi came to call her for dinner.

"Okay." Tao Qiuyi then noticed that it was already dark. He closed the door and went next door to eat with Li Zi.

A large pot of braised pork trotters was placed in the middle of the table, the aroma was so fragrant that it greatly increased one's appetite.

Tao Qiuyi sat down at the table. Xiao Huai placed the rice in front of Tao Qiuyi and whispered, "Sister-in-law, there are a lot of braised pork trotters today. My brother asked me to send some over there."

"No one noticed you, right?" Tao Qiuyi asked.

Tao Qiuyi naturally knew where it was: the original owner's grandfather lived in the bamboo forest. She would send some food over from time to time, and she was not afraid even if the villagers saw her.

Anyway, everyone knows that she has a grandfather who is a labor camp prisoner.

It would be bad if Xiao Huai was discovered.

Xiao Huai shook his head, "No, don't worry, sister-in-law, I'm very excited."

"Okay, thank you Xiaohuai." Tao Qiuyi thanked with a smile. After talking to Xiaohuai, she looked at Wei Jingyuan and said thank you as well.

"We are family, no need to thank me." After saying this for the first time, Wei Jingyuan lowered his head and started eating. He didn't even have the courage to look at the change in Tao Qiuyi's expression.

Tao Qiuyi chewed on these three words playfully, then smiled.

"It smells so good, so good! I heard that two pig's feet were braised, so much meat must be in them!" Boss Wei exclaimed while looking at the porridge in his bowl and the steamed bun in his hand.

Sad and upset.

Zhou Mei raised her head, glanced at Boss Wei from a distance, and said nothing.

"It smells really good. I don't know how they made the pig's feet so fragrant." Wei Laosan took a few deep breaths and asked Li Hongying who was sitting in the upper seat.

"Mom, we sold some grain to the educated youths in the Youth Farm. Tomorrow you can go to town and buy a pig's trotter to braise or make soup with."

Li Hongying's eyes had long been reddened by the fragrance, and a layer of frost covered her face. She cursed, "Eat, eat, eat, all you know is to eat. Aren't you afraid of getting diarrhea from eating alone and killing them?"

"You want braised pork trotters, and I want them too. But Tao Qiuyi and Wei Jingyuan, those bastards, stole all my money and tickets."

"The money from selling grain is so little, and we have to save it for buying oil and salt later. If we buy pig's feet, we won't be able to make ends meet after that."

"Also, the weather is getting colder, so I'm going to start heating the kang tonight. Go to the mountains tomorrow to collect firewood. If you're lucky, you might even come across a pheasant or rabbit."

Boss Wei and his three companions didn't feel anything after hearing the first few sentences, but when they heard the last sentence, their eyes lit up.

Wei Laosan slapped his thigh and suddenly realized, "Yes, Tao Qiuyi can go up the mountain to hunt pheasants and rabbits, so can we."

"Yes, tomorrow we'll go to the mountains to collect firewood and hunt pheasants and rabbits." Boss Wei echoed, "If Tao Qiuyi can hunt pheasants and rabbits in the mountains, we can definitely do it too."

Boss Wei and Third Wei hit it off immediately and began to discuss what tools to bring tomorrow.

"If I hunt a pheasant, I will use it to make mushroom soup." Boss Wei said hatefully.

"Yes, if I hunt a wild rabbit, I will eat braised wild rabbit." After saying this, Wei Laosan took a big bite of the steamed bun in his hand.

Before going to the mountains, before hunting prey, he was already thinking about how to eat it. Zhou Mei wanted to laugh, but she was not interested in this. She knew her own situation and did not want to go to the mountains to make trouble.

Li Yuegui sighed, "If only we hadn't split up, we could still enjoy braised pork knuckles, pheasant, rabbit, mushrooms, and black fungus without having to go to the mountains to get them."

This sentence evoked everyone's memories and resonance. Yes, it would have been great if the family had not split up.

"Who was the first to propose separation?" Wei Lao San asked angrily.

"Of course it was Tao Qiuyi and Wei Jingyuan." Zhou Mei laughed sarcastically and looked at Li Hongying. "Mom, tell me, when you beat Wei Jingyuan that day, were you tricked by him?"

"What do you mean?" Li Hongying asked coldly, with a bad feeling in her heart.

"Right, why didn't I think of that?" Boss Wei suddenly said, "Mom, the way you beat Jing Yuan that day must have been Jing Yuan's plan. Because you beat him, he took advantage of the situation and asked Tao Qiuyi to propose a separation."

"We've been fooled. We've all been fooled by Wei Jingyuan."

"Mom, think about it. When we separated from Jing Yuan, we didn't give him a single grain of rice or a single pound of food. We thought they wouldn't be able to make ends meet, but they're actually doing incredibly well."

"It's either pheasant stewed with mushrooms or braised rabbit, and pork is a frequent choice. Yesterday we had pig's trotter soup, and today we went even further, braising two pig's trotters."

Counting off the dishes Wei Jingyuan and his family had eaten since their separation, Wei Lao Da couldn't help but swallow his saliva. The porridge in his bowl and the steamed bread in his hand were even less fragrant.

It's simply hard to swallow.

(End of this chapter)