1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 14 Do you really think you are the son-in-law?
On the dinner table!
"You are all starving ghosts who have been reincarnated. Have you ever seen food?!"

Tonight, the Feng family had a table full of fish and meat for the first time ever, including a whole roast duck and duck bone soup.

Even Feng Jiazhao, the elder brother-in-law, was vying for the duck, fish and meat on the table and fighting with the children for rice.

The way he ate made Feng's mother so angry that her face turned red and green, and she kept muttering angrily.

"Mom, I told you that you are partial to Feng Jiayou. It's not a festival or New Year, but you prepared such a big table of fish and meat, and you won't let us eat it?!"

"I also bought a big roast duck. It tastes so authentic. It must have been bought from Quanjude, right?!"

The eldest brother Feng Jiazhao had a mouth full of big meat and duck. He gobbled it up with oil dripping from his mouth and said something to his mother!
"They bought the roast duck, so don't even touch it!"

Mother Feng looked at this unpromising eldest son, who was actually competing with his nephews and nieces for food. Could he be a more promising person? !
Feng Jiazhao smiled bitterly and said, "I haven't had a bite in several years. It's rare!"

"Yes, uncle! The big roast duck was bought by my new uncle! My new uncle also took us to Quanjude today and ate the big roast duck!"

“These are our leftovers!”

Then the six-year-old Feng Liqin came up with the finishing move and said!
"You went to Quanjude for a big meal at noon!? Is this what you left over?!" In an instant, Feng Jiazhao felt that the big roast duck in the bowl was no longer fragrant!
Did they secretly have a big meal at noon while I was at work?

And it’s Quanjude! ?

"Even eating roast duck can't stop your mouth! What do you mean by leftovers?!" The more Feng Jiayou looked at this little niece, the more she became naughty. If she can't speak, please don't speak, okay! ?

He immediately said, "This is a whole one that Xuemin specially asked the chef at Quanjude to pack. Sister-in-law, please eat more!"

She then gave the roast duck to her sister-in-law Ke Yumei and urged her to eat it.

"Oh, sister-in-law! When Xuemin passed by the supply and marketing cooperative, he bought malted milk and canned yellow peaches from you and mom. I'll go get them for you!"

Thinking of the malted milk and canned food he bought in the afternoon, Feng Jiayou hurried back to the house to get the things out!
"Thank you, my dear. No, no, please sit down and eat first!"

Seeing this, her sister-in-law Ke Yumei quickly pulled her sister-in-law and asked her to sit down and eat first.

"Okay, I'll take you to your room after dinner! My manuscript was rejected by my mother just now, and I was so busy revising it that I forgot about it!" Feng Jiayou mentioned her mother again in a miserable tone.

"It was returned again!?" Hearing this, the eldest sister-in-law Ke Yumei looked at her mother-in-law in astonishment. How many times has this happened? !
"Mom! How many times has this been revised? Does your magazine have such high requirements for manuscripts? It's almost passed. I'm still waiting for Feng Jiayou to get the manuscript fee and treat us to a meal at Quanjude!"

Feng Jiazhao was also surprised when he heard this. Remember that the manuscript rejection mode started last month?
This has been returned four or five times, right?

They are your own daughters, there is no need to be so harsh on them. Isn’t it enough to just give them what they deserve?
"Eat, eat, eat! All you know is eating! If her manuscript is useful, how could I not pass it on?"

"I'm so stupid that I still can't make any revisions even though I wrote down my revision suggestions in such detail. Are you blaming me?!"

Mother Feng put down her chopsticks immediately. She was really upset! What did it have to do with her if Feng Jiayou failed to pass the manuscript?
"No, mom! Why am I so stupid? It's obviously because you, October, are so short-sighted. I even suspect that some people are taking advantage of their positions to deliberately suppress me!"

"Anyway, I've decided. After the revisions are made, I won't submit to October Journal. I'll submit to Yenching Literature!"

"Feng Jiayou, can you please have some conscience when you speak?! What do you mean I'm deliberately suppressing you?!"

"Okay, okay, you can vote for whoever you want. I'm putting this out there. Your manuscript is just not good. No matter how much you revise it and submit it again, it's still the same. I was thinking that after I revised it this time, I'd give it to you if it was about right!"

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It starts again!

Cheng Xuemin ate quietly, and decided not to get involved in the confrontation between mother and daughter.

And there was no way to choose sides! Logically, he would definitely stand on the side of his wife, but the person opposite his wife was his mother-in-law who lived in the same house, so he couldn't offend her.

So just pretend that I couldn't hear you and just buried my head in my food!

"I mentioned this to Lao Qian today. I'll clean up the east side of the courtyard and give it to you two, Jiayou Xuemin, to live in!"

"When we get back, Jiazhao, ask someone to help your sister clean up. If there's anything new you need, go buy it!"

After the quarrel, Father Feng spoke.

"Huh!? Didn't they let us sleep in my second sister-in-law's room?" Feng Jiayou was stunned when she heard that and looked at her father in confusion!

"Can your second sister-in-law really hide at her parents' house and not come back?" Mother Feng took over the conversation unhappily and said, "Next month, your second brother may come back!"

"Also, it's time to pick up Jiamo in a couple of days. Your dad has already made arrangements with the school!"

"Here are two hundred dollars. If you want to buy a new one, go buy it yourself!"

Feng's mother glared at her husband unhappily, then reluctantly took out two hundred yuan and handed it to her debt collector.

"Mom, how can I feel embarrassed?!" Feng Jiayou was blinded by the money and immediately said to her mother with a smile on her face. She even touched the money on the table with her hand without any hesitation.

"Mom! Yumei and I also want to change our beds. The iron frame bed is too uncomfortable!" Feng Jiazhao said with shining eyes as he looked at the two hundred yuan on the table.

"Jia Zhao, what are you talking about?! When did we talk about changing beds!?"

When sister-in-law Ke Yumei heard this, her face instantly turned shy. She glared at her man and muttered!

"It was going to be changed anyway!" Feng Jiazhao said righteously.

"If you want to change it, go buy it yourself. Why are you asking me for money?" Feng's mother glared at him unhappily again. He was just a debt collector who was eyeing her and his father's salary.

"Thank you, Dad, thank you, Mom! Jiayou and I can't take this money from you! We actually have some savings!" Cheng Xuemin couldn't keep silent any longer.

He quickly grabbed Feng Jiayou's hand that was touching the money and politely refused.

He is really not a live-in son-in-law!

Not only did he help them rent a house, but he also gave them money to buy new furniture. This was the typical treatment of a live-in son-in-law, and it made Cheng Xuemin unable to sit back and do his homework any longer!

"Cheng Xuemin, what's wrong with you? How can we have any savings? My parents gave us money because they love me as their daughter and you as their son-in-law. Why don't you want it?"

Feng Jiayou refused to do this anymore. There was no reason to return the money he had already earned.

Besides, her parents' combined monthly salary is nearly 200 yuan. What's wrong with them spending some money to prepare for their daughter's wedding and her son-in-law's visit? !

"Just take it if I tell you to. Why are you pretending to be so poor?!"

Feng's mother really looked down on him. The more this peasant son-in-law said this, the more she felt he was just pretending.

Pretend for their whole family to see!

But her wife was really fooled by his tricks. Not only did she agree to let the debt collector let them get the marriage certificate, but she also went to find Lao Qian today and rented the east ear room, which added five dollars to her monthly expenses!
They are really picky. They refused to rent the three-block earthquake shed on the west side of the yard, and insisted on renting the ear room on the east side. If you didn't know, you would really think that the Feng family had a son-in-law!

Row!
Now that his mother-in-law has said this, what else can Cheng Xuemin say?
Besides, I am really poor and have no ambition, so I can only express my gratitude to my mom, dad, and their whole family!
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(End of this chapter)