A soft-waisted educated youth has sex with a loyal dog and a rough guy in the 1960s

With a constant supply of various nutritional supplements, Lu Miao's body gradually recovered and was rebuilt. Her condition improved significantly, and she spent less and less time in bed each day.

In contrast, consider Zhao Lanxiang.

Ever since that fainting spell at the end of the year, Zhao Lanxiang has frequently experienced headaches.

She is also a thoughtful and calculating person who likes to nitpick everything.

Unhappy with her life, Zhao Lanxiang's emotions piled up, and she fell ill as a result.

Since the formal separation of the family two years ago, the relationship between Chen Guifen and He Hongjin and He's elder brother and his wife has been in a state of stagnation.

Later, Brother He lost his job in the county, and the couple returned to the village.

Even though they still live in the same courtyard, the father and son, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, treat each other like strangers on a daily basis.

In traditional Chinese families, kinship ties are never broken, and parents will always be there to protect their children.

It was probably because of these reasons that when Zhao Lanxiang was seriously ill, Chen Guifen, with a stern face, still brought her meals several times.

What else could happen?

No matter how reckless she is, she still has a life.

Not to mention, she's also Minmin and Minrui's biological mother...

However, this matter was somewhat upsetting, and Chen Guifen often sighed about it.

He Hongjin saw it all.

Once, when Brother He was rushing back from working outside, He Hongjin said a few words to him in a lecturing tone.

Tell him to take someone to see a doctor if he gets sick.

What kind of person lies in their room all day groaning and complaining?
Brother He remained silent, unusually refraining from responding.

The next day, as instructed, a doctor was called to come to our house to examine us.

However, the barefoot doctor in the village was of inconsistent skill; after taking Zhao Lanxiang's pulse, he still couldn't figure out what was wrong with her.

At first, it was speculated that he caught a cold due to the change of seasons.

Tell Brother He to boil a few bowls of ginger and brown sugar soup for Zhao Lanxiang to drink morning and evening when he has time, so she can sweat it out.

Later, Zhao Lanxiang told me that starting around the Lunar New Year, I always felt headaches and lack of energy.

The village was poor and conditions were bad, so women were generally treated like men.

If there are any problems with the body, they are nothing more than those two.

After pondering for a moment, the doctor changed his tune, saying that Zhao Lanxiang was suffering from qi and blood deficiency due to overwork.

If Brother He can afford it, he should occasionally buy a pig liver and eat some from time to time. He should recover in a few days.

Brother He believed him when he heard this.

After all, before he lost his job, Zhao Lanxiang took the children with him and did nothing else besides tidying up the house.

But things were different after I lost my job and returned to the village.

Although they were both half-hearted when it came to working in the fields, Zhao Lanxiang did manage to wield a hoe.

After all, they had been husband and wife for one or two decades. Thinking that Zhao Lanxiang was really as the doctor said, Brother He took some time to go to town and buy pig liver.

However, Brother He couldn't cook, and Zhao Lanxiang was bedridden and couldn't get up.

In the end, Chen Guifen added some thin noodles to the pig liver and cooked it for Zhao Lanxiang in several meals.

Zhao Lanxiang did as the doctor instructed and ate everything.

Whether Zhao Lanxiang can truly recover remains to be seen...

……

During Lu Miao's time recuperating in her hometown, Hu Zhiyuan practically lived at the Fu family's house, visiting almost every day.

He usually doesn't come empty-handed.

This time I brought some newly acquired newspapers; next time I'll bring some snacks like leaf-shaped cards.

When he wasn't busy, Hu Zhiyuan would sit down and chat with Lu Miao, and let Lu Miao play some card games to pass the time.

Lu Miao was alright at other things, but he was really bad at chess and cards. Several pregnant young women in the village often came to visit him.

Lu Miao watched Hu Zhiyuan play with those young wives for a long time before gradually figuring out how to play.

But when she sits down at the table to play with others, she is still teased and ridiculed, with people saying that the cards she holds look like she's holding a big palm-leaf fan.

Of course, these all happen during leisure time.

As the weather got warmer, there was more work to be done in the fields.

When Fu Jingyou went to the fields to help He Hongjin with his work, Hu Zhiyuan would go with him.

With Lu Miao's condition stable, Fu Jingyou can rest assured.

So when he has some free time, Fu Jingyou is willing to tinker with all sorts of random things.

For example, fishing, catching eels, etc.

Sometimes when we go to town, there are vendors selling pig liver, so we buy some and eat some at home.

Some of the fish are cut into small pieces and hung on fishing hooks. You can cast your line a few times to catch soft-shelled turtles in shady spots with lots of lotus leaves in the lake.

Hu Zhiyuan found it novel, and he liked to follow Fu Jingyou around as he tended to these things.

Minjie is even more so.

Occasionally, when he came back from a holiday, he would rather stay up late at night than sleep, and would carry his little bucket and run around the fields and ditches with his uncle.

In the dark, with only a flashlight, Lu Miao was worried that the child might step on a snake if he went out with her, so she often tried to dissuade him.

Tian Guihua was more open-minded about this than Lu Miao.

Then Lu Miao called out to Fu Jingyou again, telling him not to go out. Knowing she was worried that Minjie would come along, Tian Guihua smiled as she went out to empty the bathwater:
"Just let them go! That's how kids from the countryside are; they never stop running wild when they come back from vacation."

Tian Guihua nodded towards Minjie and joked with a smile:

“Normally, if he went out in the dark with the village kids, we definitely wouldn’t let him go, but now that his uncle is here, let him go, so he won’t be so anxious and sleepless all night.”

She laughed, and Lu Miao laughed too.

After hearing what she said, Lu Miao stopped restraining Minjie and turned to Fu Jingyou to instruct him:
"Don't take him to deep water, keep a close eye on him."

"Ah."

Fu Jingyou chuckled, took one of her hands, and held it tenderly.
"We'll be back in two hours at the latest. Go to sleep early, and you'll have crabs to eat when you wake up tomorrow."

April has arrived.

The vegetables planted the following autumn and winter have long been harvested.

The newly planted vegetable seeds are not yet ready for harvest.

Right now, the vegetable garden is in a period of transition, and the only vegetables available to serve are lettuce and water spinach, which we have been eating for several days in a row.

At dinner tonight, Fu Jingyou noticed that Lu Miao hadn't touched her chopsticks much.

Lu Miao was slightly taken aback, as if he had also realized what was happening.

She raised her eyebrows, looking at him with a mixture of amusement, helplessness, and a touch of coquettishness:
"There's so much food at home, I can eat whatever I want, so don't always make such a fuss."

"understood."

Fu Jingyou nodded with a smile.

He agreed readily and left just as decisively.

Minjie, with a small bucket slung over his arm, skipped happily out the door.

Lu Miao and Tian Guihua stood at the entrance of the main room, watching the light of the flashlight gradually fade into the distance.

As the chirping of insects grew louder each night, Minjie's mutterings could still be faintly heard:
"Uncle, my aunt still treats me like a child! I've grown up a long time ago!"

"Really? Then catch a snake and see what happens."

"What? No way!"

From the darkness came Minjie's loud protest and Fu Jingyou's hearty laughter.

Lu Miao and Tian Guihua exchanged a smile, then turned and went back into the house in tacit agreement. (End of Chapter)