Rebirth in the 60s: A Path to Counterattack-Chapter 73 - 0. Stealing socialist potatoes?

Watching the evening approach, Lianshan thought about how everyone was tired after a full day’s work. At noon, they only had some wild fruits to fill their stomachs, so by this time, their empty bellies were surely grumbling in protest.

Wanting everyone to have hot food as soon as they came inside, as soon as Lianshan left, Shuzhen began busily preparing dinner.

The family didn’t have much fine grain left; scraping together the bit of flour they had would only be enough for everyone to eat their fill once.

As for coarse grains like corncobs, cornmeal, sorghum, and millet, there was at least half a bag, but not a single grain of rice was to be found.

She wanted to improve the meal for her family who had been tired all day, but if she used up that precious flour to make a big pot of meat stew and polished it off in one sitting, everyone might hesitate to eat it. Plus, it would leave a bad impression on her sister and brother-in-law that she’s not good at managing the household.

The most important thing was that if they really ran out of fine grains at home, her husband would absolutely figure out a way to get some for her.

Even if he had to eat chaff and swallow vegetables himself, he would never let his wife and child go without. How could he change completely just because of something she said in the morning?

People, once they form a habit, find it difficult to change, especially habits built over years!

Shuzhen felt that if she wanted her husband to enjoy good food and drink without any stress, it wasn’t enough just to share bitter hardships; they had to make their everyday life prosperous.

When rice and white flour become commonplace, and stewing chicken and fish are no big deal, then Lianshan naturally wouldn’t go to great lengths to save just for her to eat more.

Right now, the rarity of egg noodles makes him want to leave every bite for her.

If they ate boiled noodles with eggs three times a day to the point where they were sick of the taste, he wouldn’t cherish it anymore; it would just seem wasteful, right?

Changing his character was secondary; improving their quality of life was the main thing.

She wanted to host her brothers, sisters-in-law, sisters, and brothers-in-law well but didn’t want to use up all the fine grain they had. Otherwise, all her good intentions would end up with her getting a reputation for not knowing how to run a household, worrying her husband, which would totally defeat the purpose.

Shuzhen glanced at the small amount of flour for less than two seconds before decisively shifting her focus to the shredded slicer on the upper shelf of the cabinet.

She glanced again at the small green stone mill not much larger than the size of a frying pan by the stove. Then she looked at the potatoes they had brought back, and Shuzhen had an idea!

First, she picked out about thirty large potatoes, each not smaller than a jin, and skillfully peeled them. Then she washed them clean, shredded them, and ground them to make filling with today’s freshly picked mushrooms and fried eggs. Delicious and filling potato pancakes were about to be made!

Thinking about the amazement and praise from everyone when they tasted her cooking later, Shuzhen couldn’t help but smile and felt even more enthusiastic.

Unexpectedly, as she had just washed the potatoes and started shredding them, she heard a bang, and the door of her house was kicked open. Kicked, open?

Shuzhen looked wide-eyed at the door, wanting to see who had the guts.

However, in the dim light, Dai Honghua’s fat face appeared, and Shuzhen laughed: Ha, she had been thinking of going to the village to have a good word with this gal, telling her to control her worthless husband, who was addicted to living off a woman, and not to become a troublemaker just because their own life was going well.

But she hadn’t found the opportunity to put her thoughts into action, and the target herself had come seeking trouble!

Amused inside, Shuzhen’s face turned frosty: "Hey, Captain Lin’s wife, what’s the meaning of kicking the door into my house? Did you lose the use of your hands or tongue, or is this how you, as the captain’s wife, treat ordinary members like us?"

The last sentence, full of misplaced accusations, made Dai Honghua’s big fat face stiffen, and even the fat on it trembled several times.

She had to swallow back the barrage of curses in fear that she might inadvisedly accuse someone and end up being accused herself of acting like a feudal landlord before ordinary members.

Her brilliant and capable husband had already suffered a big loss at this damn woman’s hands, so Dai Honghua had been warned repeatedly, naturally staying cautious.

The initial attempt to intimidate had failed, and she nearly got labeled instead.

Without much use for that tactic, she shifted her gaze to the large basin of potatoes in front of Shuzhen and straightforwardly accused her of stealing socialist potatoes.

Bluntly, she told her: If you don’t want to be paraded through the streets bound with a big sign, then you’d better quickly repay the overdue debts to the production team. Also, she should properly explain to everyone, dispelling the rumors, and say that reclaiming old debts was the higher-ups’ call, and repaying them voluntarily was their own awareness. That it absolutely wasn’t because her husband, Captain Lin, was urging to collect debts on people’s wedding days, indifferent to their lives and solely focused on reclaiming old debts in full.

Shuzhen chuckled at this: "Oh, so Captain Lin got splashed with muddy water, causing backlash from the members? And you, as the captain’s wife, have come yourself, aiming to have us, the supposed debtors, clarify things? To let everyone know the polices from above, Captain Lin’s difficulties and innocence?

And of course, in actively responding to the state’s call, my husband and I should eagerly repay the over-a-hundred-yuan old debt, setting an exemplary role for the members?"

Seeing Dai Honghua nod more and more, it looked just like: Right, that’s exactly it! Since you already know, hurry up and get it done. If it gets any slower, causing my Zhiyuan to be misunderstood and wronged again, you can’t blame me for officially reporting you as an opposition to socialism.

Ugh, she’s so conceited and disgusting it almost made Shuzhen’s pregnancy sickness act up!

Humph, with her little pigtail is in someone else’s hand, yet not hiding in shame but coming here flaunting a chicken feather as an arrow, she’s just incredibly stupid.

If this fool wasn’t even slightly useful, Shuzhen would have already directed a plant war in the yard with the beans, cowpea, corn, and melons to scare this woman into becoming the second notorious figure in the Liu family village to wet her pants after her failed husband.

Scaring her into compliance, taking care if she still dares come here posing like a big peacock?

Humph, does she think it’s easy for my husband to painstakingly build a house for me?

If opening your mouth could lead to door kicking, it surely calls for a thorough lesson!

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