Back To The 80s: President's Doted Wife

Chapter 516: Chapter 516: Girl, what’s the rush?

On New Year’s Eve, a commotion broke out in the Chiang Family, leaving everyone in a foul mood during this grand holiday. Chiang Qing didn’t dare mention Qi Taiguo’s name for a while. Lu Shufen, seeing that everyone in the family was on edge and couldn’t relax even during the New Year, hated Qi Taiguo, the instigator of it all, and that despicable Jiang Dafang as well.

In contrast to the Chiang’s low spirits, Cheng Su and her family were very cheerful.

On New Year’s Eve, every household slaughtered chickens and ducks, pasted red couplets, fried ’four-happiness’ meatballs, and wrapped ’grandchildren’ buns.

This was Cheng Su’s first New Year as a wife, so she also got up early from the warm bed to help with the chores.

The rituals for worshipping the gods were handled by the mother-in-law, the pasting of new couplets by Qi Taiguo and his brothers, and Cheng Su went to help Father Qi slaughter ducks and pluck their feathers.

”You don’t need to do this, I’ll have the duck ready in a moment. Why don’t you see if your mother-in-law needs any help?” Father Qi smiled and stopped her hands.

Cheng Su really didn’t want to crowd around her mother-in-law, so seeing that everyone had not yet had breakfast, she went to the kitchen to prepare it.

In winter, there weren’t many fruits or vegetables in the house, mostly just cabbage, radish, and potatoes. Cheng Su decided to knead some dough and chopped up cabbage and pork filling to make dumplings.

She worked swiftly and had half a pot of dumplings wrapped before her sister-in-law Qi Fengping got out of bed and came to the kitchen, yawning, looking for something to eat.

Seeing Cheng Su busy, Fengping felt a bit embarrassed and called out ”sister-in-law” before retreating.

Cheng Su didn’t mind, but she still felt a pang of envy when she heard Mother Qi outside telling Fengping to put on a few more layers.

They say that a woman’s most carefree time is when she’s unmarried. After getting married, she has to deal with daily necessities and various social interactions.

And that was no lie. The contrast between her and her sister-in-law made it clear. If she were only now getting out of bed and waiting for breakfast to be served, her mother-in-law would likely have had an opinion by now, right?

After being busy for half the morning, the family gathered around the table for breakfast.

”Dad, how come I’ve seen some unfamiliar faces in the village?” Taiguo asked.

He had spotted a few unfamiliar faces greeting the villagers while he was outside pasting couplets.

”Oh, back at the end of October, some cadres were sent to our production team for labor reform. The ones you saw were probably those people,” Father Qi replied.

”Dad, they still do labor reform? What crimes did they commit?” Cheng Su asked curiously.

”Of course, there are. People who commit crimes and wish to be reborn must undergo labor reform to clearly recognize their mistakes,” Father Qi laughed. ”The ones sent to our village didn’t commit any major offenses, just some minor corruption, not murderers or robbers.”

”If they were those kinds of people, then it would be the end,” Mother Qi added. ”Murderers are heartless; they are not human, they are devils!”

”I saw one that looked quite young,” Taiguo mentioned as he swallowed a dumpling.

”Brother, the one you saw must be Zhou Qiang. I heard he’s a college student who got implicated,” Fengping said.

Cheng Su glanced at the young sister-in-law, ”Little sister-in-law, you seem to be quite well-informed.”

Fengping’s face turned red, and she defended, ”He’s been here for quite a while; who doesn’t know?”

Cheng Su felt puzzled; she was just making casual conversation, why was she so defensive?

”Let’s eat quickly. I’ll take you to the town later to wander around, and we can buy some fireworks to set off tonight,” Taiguo said to Cheng Su.

Cheng Su’s eyes lit up, ”That sounds great!”

Mother Qi frowned upon hearing this, but before she could say anything, Father Qi offered a dumpling, ”Wife, the dumpling filling your daughter-in-law made is good, isn’t it? You like cabbage filling, eat a couple more!”