Chapter 82
Mushroom meat sauce, chicken fir oil, and mushroom soup packets were delivered to Zhang Chengyue and the others.
Wang Xuemei got the package, and on the way back, she was asked by the military relatives in the same building what she was holding.
“A package sent by my in-laws.” Wang Xuemei replied, although she did not often contact her in-laws, but she did not have any bad relations.
Although her mother-in-law was always dissatisfied with her daughter-in-law not helping her at home, she didn’t say anything in front of her, nor did she complain to Zhang Chengyue.
Wang Xuemei thought of the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of other military dependents in the family home, and then thought about her own relationship with her mother-in-law. She was very fortunate that she had resolutely married Zhang Chengyue.
Wang Xuemei’s mother’s family also has some weight, and the relationship between her mother’s sister-in-law and her mother’s mother is not so good, so Wang Xuemei is very glad that her mother-in-law is not so difficult to get along with.
It’s just that Wang Xuemei sometimes complains to Zhang Chengyue that he often sends so much money back to his in-laws. Is this a subsidy for the elderly or for the uncle?
But later, my brother-in-law often sent them things, and Wang Xuemei’s complaints lessened. She came and went, and she was satisfied.
Compared with other people sending money and things back, there is no return gift. Her in-laws and uncles send them things from time to time, which is very good.
“Dr. Wang, your mother-in-law is so nice. In just one month, I have sent you several things.” The young woman who talked to Wang Xuemei envied.
She was only in her twenties, but she looked a little older than Wang Xuemei. She came from the countryside and had just joined the army for less than a year.
Before, she lived with her parents-in-law in the countryside. She had to work in the fields and busy with family affairs. The allowances sent by her husband were also collected by her mother-in-law. She was able to get very little.
Moreover, when she joined the army, her husband still sent back half of the allowance. The mother-in-law also complained that her husband sent back less money, not to mention sending things.
Young women have also opened a plot of land to grow some food here, otherwise, how can they support three children and their couple with half the allowance?
What she envies most is Wang Xuemei next door. Not only does she come from a good family, she is also a doctor, her husband is also a lover of his daughter-in-law, and her husband’s family sends some things every now and then.
In comparison, young women feel that their life is incomparable with others.
“Isn’t my mother-in-law worried about the two boys in our family? My mother-in-law felt bad for her grandson, so she sent them more things.” Wang Xuemei smiled.
The young woman didn’t say anything after hearing this. Wang Xuemei’s two sons were the only grandsons of Zhang’s family, but her family’s few were not. Her mother-in-law had many grandchildren.
Wang Xuemei said goodbye to the young woman and returned home with her belongings.
“Mom, are you back?” Zhang Weiguo happily leaned over to see Wang Xuemei coming back, looking eagerly at the package she was holding.
“Mom, did Uncle send something again?” Zhang Anguo also asked curiously.
Zhang Weiguo and Zhang Anguo are both three years old, Zhang Chengyue and Wang Xuemei are also very busy, so the child was first brought to her parents’ family Sang, and then to the nursery when they were two or three years old.
It happened that the children didn’t go to the nursery today, and when they saw Wang Xuemei coming back with a package, they all came together.
They liked the jam sent by my uncle last time, and they finished it in just half a month. They are looking forward to it. Did the uncle still send jam this time?
“It was sent by my uncle.” Wang Xuemei nodded and opened the package after putting it down, and found that it was a jar of sauce and something wrapped in oil paper.
“What is this?” Zhang Weiguo asked curiously, looking at the mushroom meat sauce in the transparent glass, Zhang Weiguo couldn’t help swallowing.
“It should be meat sauce.” Wang Xuemei took out the letter in the package and read it. It was written by her younger brother and sister.
The letter said that a wild boar happened to be caught in the village, and some meat was distributed at home, so it was used to make shiitake meat sauce. The shiitake mushrooms were saved before, and they were exchanged with the villagers, and they were made into meat sauce for everyone to share.
A whole brigade of wild boar is definitely not enough for all relatives, but it can be made into a lot of mushroom bolognese wine.
Wang Xuemei has a very high opinion of this younger brother and sister. She gave them jam before, and this time she gave them mushroom meat sauce, which is really generous.
Wang Xuemei opened a jar of shiitake meat sauce, scooped a few spoonfuls with a spoon and put it in a bowl, tasted it for herself and let her sons taste it.
“It’s delicious, Mom, I want to eat this.” Zhang Anguo said with a smile on his face, hugging his mother’s arm coquettishly.
“Mom, I want to eat too.” Zhang Weiguo also followed.
“Okay.” Wang Xuemei is also very greedy, the taste of this mushroom meat sauce is also great.
Wang Xuemei’s family is in good condition, and she and Zhang Chengyue both have wages, so she is not very greedy for meat or anything. But she didn’t expect this mushroom meat sauce made by her younger brother and sister to be so delicious. She felt that it was comparable to the big meat dishes made by those chefs.
In addition to the mushroom meat sauce, Wang Xuemei was very satisfied with the chicken fir oil and mushroom soup dumplings. Her husband’s family treated them so well, and she couldn’t be stingy.
Wang Xuemei thought for a while and decided to get some fabric or something. People in this era should prefer military green fabrics. Military uniforms cannot be sent to others, but it is not too difficult to get some military green fabrics.
After thinking about it for a while, Wang Xuemei decided to send some fabrics back to her parents-in-law, uncles, and siblings.
The days passed quietly in such a dull process. When Liu Guiying received the fabric sent by his eldest daughter-in-law, it was time to harvest sweet potatoes and prepare to plant rice.
The rice seedlings are raised one month in advance, and after the sweet potatoes are harvested, the fields can be ploughed and transplanted.
Liu Guiying was very happy to receive the fabric sent by her eldest daughter-in-law. Who doesn’t like military green fabric? These days, people worship and like soldiers, so it is very enviable to be able to wear a suit of army green clothes.
But Liu Guiying didn’t have time to make clothes, because sweet potatoes were to be collected in the field, she planned to put the fabric first, and then make clothes after the busy farming season.
This time, Chen Xiayue, who collected sweet potatoes, also went to the ground. She is fine, but others don’t know that she is cured.
So Chen Xiayue’s job is to help put sweet potatoes into baskets, dig sweet potatoes with a hoe, and carry burdens, which she absolutely does not do.
The Zhang family didn’t care how many work points Chen Xiayue could earn by following her to the ground, and she was just worried that she would be bored at home and make her health worse.
Chen Xiayue thinks it’s good, everyone is working in the field, and it’s boring if she stays at home and has nothing to do. It’s just to pick up sweet potatoes in the field together, and she won’t be tired.
Chen Xiayue is lazy, and she will not do such work as carrying burdens and digging sweet potatoes, even if she is in great shape – laziness has penetrated deep into the bone marrow.