Rebirth in the 60s: A Path to Counterattack-Chapter 76 - 0. Just for peace of mind

Dai Honghua was still thinking about telling Shuzhen how fierce the competition was for a spot at the Worker Peasant Soldier University and how difficult it was to secure one.

But Shuzhen had no intention of listening at all, coldly responding with, "That’s your business."

Either obey and don’t play tricks, or wait for her secrets to be exposed—those were the two paths. Shuzhen wasn’t keen on arguing with her and didn’t want to bother with it.

Having said this much, what else could Dai Honghua do?

She could only obediently comply!

Otherwise, if Liu Shuzhen, that malicious woman, really got ruthless and publicized her affairs, it would become known far and wide. Her husband Lin Yuanzhi wouldn’t just protect her; at first opportunity, he’d show a righteous face and personally tie her up to parade her through the streets.

Having affairs with another man before marriage, not only cuckolding her husband but also raising an illegitimate child as the family’s eldest son.

This would utterly disgrace Lin Yuanzhi and the Lin family; it’s not worth risking their lives over such a troublesome woman who tramples their dignity into the ground.

And she still expects her husband to continue protecting her, treating her as a treasure?

To pretend nothing happened and continue living as a couple?

Heh, not even in dreams would one dare to think such a thing!

Not to mention, she has the support of the Dai family and Dai Weiguo.

If Lin Yuanzhi were shameless enough to reveal everything openly, the Dai family and Dai Weiguo, who once protected her, would surely turn against her and side with Lin Yuanzhi.

After all, a spoiled girl/cousin, losing the reputation of the Dai family and Dai Weiguo’s prospects and reputation, what is more important?

Even sacrificing his own wife for his prospects without batting an eye, what makes you think he’d be genuine with anyone else?

Dai Honghua, despite her confidence, doesn’t consider herself holding more weight in that ambitious cousin’s heart than his former wife and their child.

Seeing through this, and fearing for her life but unwilling to give up her son, Dai Honghua was easily manipulated by Shuzhen.

Though she knew clearly that she put no small effort into tripping Shuzhen up just to cling to Weiguo and Bai Jing’s coattails.

No matter how obedient she is, once she has lost all her value, Shuzhen will not let her off easily.

So, she chose to delay as long as possible.

It’s like a terminally ill patient receiving a cup of poison—if you don’t drink it, you die immediately. If you drink it, you might buy some time.

Without the courage to face death willingly, most people would choose to drink the poison.

Because the desire to live, the hope to find an antidote, inevitably makes one hold onto every extra second. What if, by fate, they happen to find a cure during this delay?

Once the worries are settled, won’t life continue freely?

And right now, Dai Honghua clearly harbors such a gambler’s thought.

After all, as long as the production team exists and her husband holds the position of team leader, she holds significant importance to Shuzhen.

Spotting such a peculiarly positioned role as production team leader, let alone lacking any significance.

Though the position of team leader is small, it entails managing work points, assigning tasks, rationing food tickets, providing letters of introduction, and recommending students for the Worker Peasant Soldier University, along with official connections with the township government and the revolutionary committee. To ordinary members, the production team’s leader is untouchable.

In the event that her secrets aren’t exposed, Dai Honghua can act as if she holds eighty-percent of Lin Yuanzhi’s authority.

Controlling her is equivalent to indirectly controlling the head of the Liu family’s production team!

Just by that, Dai Honghua believes Liu Shuzhen is more concerned about keeping secrets than her. Even if she plots against her, she’d have to swallow it down to avoid ruining a well-played move.

If Shuzhen knew what she was thinking, she would undoubtedly laugh uncontrollably without explaining.

The debt collection incident was still brewing; if she put more effort and exposed some of Lin Yuanzhi’s dirt...

Making him fall and never rise again wouldn’t be too hard, would it?

What clever maneuvering, isn’t it all just for peace of mind?

If not, fighting with rats and bats, aren’t they all the same breed?

Better let Lin Yuanzhi muddle through; at least after being blackmailed, Dai Honghua would certainly think of a way to stop him from causing any more distress at home. frёeωebɳovel.com

After threatening Dai Honghua into submission, Shuzhen waved her hand like she was swatting away a fly and drove her away.

Really, she still needed to find time to impress her husband, brother, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law with her cooking skills. Make a potato pancake they would laud and savor in memory for years.

Who has the time to idly chit-chat with that annoying Dai Honghua?

Anyway, after today’s scare, without a surefire plan to utterly destroy her, Dai Honghua from now on would have to play nice around her, never daring to provoke her before ensuring her victory.

At least for the coming years, her family would live peacefully without storms.

After these turbulent times pass and the reform and opening policy takes hold, a world where only law-abiding people are good, who’d take a small village head so seriously?

As she contemplated the good days to come, she deftly shredded the potatoes and ground them into paste using a small millstone, filtering out the juice.

While the starch settled, she quickly gathered some wild mushrooms, oil cap mushrooms, grass mushrooms, and some small oyster mushrooms and hen-of-the-woods mushrooms.

She carefully chose six eggs from what was perhaps thirty to forty left, drizzling a few drops of oil and quickly stir-fried them. She chopped them finely, prepared to mix with minced grass mushrooms as filling for the potato pancakes, and made a pot of delicious mushroom soup from various mushrooms for meal accompaniment.

A large twelve-mark pot, with a full tray of potato pancakes steaming on top. Below it, a smaller steamer basket held ten or so eggplants and a few potatoes steaming away.

When the pot boiled, the potato pancakes would be cooked, and the eggplants and potatoes below would be tender.

Mashed potatoes with a little sauce, wrapped in cabbage or cilantro leaves, tasted amazing.

The eggplant torn into strips and mixed with minced garlic and cilantro was also an extremely appetizing garlic eggplant.

Potato pancakes as the main dish, with mashed potatoes, garlic eggplant, and a mixed mushroom soup. Shuzhen’s culinary skills were already good, and coupled with everyone gathering mushrooms and the mountain journey, their empty stomach made even cold water taste sweet.

At least, Lian Yue, sent back to cook and keep company, was visibly pleased to see Shuzhen’s potato pancake dish and the triple-boiled meal. She praised Shuzhen’s intelligence and ability, saying her brother was truly lucky.

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