Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife-Chapter 99 - 00: Help in Need 3_1

Feng Qingxue missed her younger sister and was afraid that sending items to the Lu Family would draw attention. She quickly bid her farewell.

After she had left, watching his grandfather and brother sort and stow away the items, Lu Tianzhi suddenly said, "When I grow up, I will take good care of Auntie."

Although he was told to call her Auntie Feng, in his heart, Feng Qingxue was his real aunt, his mother’s sister, and also his mother.

Others had both a father and a mother, he didn’t.

However, he thought, if he had parents, they would be like his uncle and aunt.

Lu’s father rubbed his small head, feeling extraordinarily tender towards this grandson who had never had parents and lived a life free of privilege since birth.

"Good! We’re going to have the dumplings that your auntie made for lunch!"

In the past month or so, Lu Jiang had been at home and everyone ate their fill. After Lu Jiang left, Feng Qingxue sent food on a regular and scheduled basis, unlike the previous two sparse meals a day, it actually made them feel full, and they’d developed quite an appetite.

Lu’s father cooked about fifty dumplings. Seven-year-old Lu Tianzhi ate more than a dozen in one go.

Feng Qingxue did not make small dumplings; each one was as substantial as a small gold ingot. Lu’s father ate just over a dozen, and the rest were all polished off by eleven-year-old Lu Tianjun.

Retaining the original broth, after finishing the dumplings, they savored a bowl of dumpling soup. It was an indescribable pleasure.

Sitting atop their new straw mat, Lu Tianjun comforted his little brother by rubbing his stomach, while saying, "Grandpa, Auntie is truly amazing! She seems even more impressive than Uncle, he couldn’t bring back so much delicious food."

"Yes, indeed. That’s why I say your uncle is really fortunate." Lu’s father replied lazily.

Then he added, "Your auntie has a kind and honest nature - not only is your uncle fortunate, but we, grandfather and grandsons, are also lucky."

Indeed, weren’t they lucky? If not, how could they enjoy such comprehensive care from Feng Qingxue?

Lu’s father regretted that their welcoming gifts had been too modest; they would make it up to her when Feng Qingxue joined their household.

The snow outside seemed to be getting heavier. Lu’s father got up to add a few pieces of coal to the fire basin.

They dare not use the copper fire basin, but rather the clay one that every household had. The coal was procured from the coal factory by Lu Jiang through his army connections before he returned to his troop. Feng Qingxue was also offered some but declined, saying she had her own sources. Therefore, the coal was all taken to the cowshed. Later, a portion was shared with Wang Zhengguo.

Wang Jiao, unaware that her family’s supply of coal every winter came from the Lu Family, stealthily packed a small basket with it. Telling her parents she was visiting neighbors, she put on her straw raincoat and hat, wooden clogs on her feet, and headed for the cowshed.

"Is Uncle Lu home? I’ve brought you some coal!"

As Wang Jiao said this, she didn’t stop her feet. By the time she finished speaking, she had already entered the cowshed and took off her hat and raincoat.

The Lu Family was now suffering, and they would remain in these circumstances for twenty more years, until several years after the resolution of the cultural catastrophe, before they could live decently. If she was kind to them during their plight, and recommended her parents to be the same, they would surely remember it. When she would eventually marry Lu Jiang, Father Lu would think highly of her as his daughter-in-law.

Adding flowers to brocade is not as good as delivering coal in snowy weather; she understood this as her family enjoyed the Lu Family’s favor. Without her father’s connection with the Lu Family, her past life’s wealthy businessman husband would never have married her.

Perhaps, if the Lu Family noticed her goodwill, they might call off the marriage with Feng Qingxue without any help from her father, and instead decide to marry her.

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