Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife

Miao Fengqin was carrying her family's wooden bucket and came with Wang Fengqiao to wait for the fish distribution. Just as she got close, she overheard the conversation between Wang Zhenguo and Lu Erxiong, and immediately burst into laughter, "Oh my, Erxiong, your Auntie hasn't spoiled you for nothing. When Auntie gets her share of the fish, she'll give you a big carp and make sure you're completely satisfied."

"Thank you, Auntie!" Lu Erxiong quickly expressed his gratitude, but then continued, "Auntie should keep the fish for herself because if you give it to me, Auntie won't have any left to eat."

Wang Fengqiao couldn't help but comment, "Erxiong is such a good kid; listen to how beautifully he speaks. Brother, can you really have the heart not to give them some fish?"

Wang Zhenguo was both amused and a bit exasperated by this.

"Sure, sure, sure, every kid will get some, and Comrades Cheng Baoguo and Wang Cuilan will also get a share. Our brigade spent so many industrial coupons on these two comrades, who isn't aware of this?" Even Guan Yu and Lu Tianzhi's industrial coupons, which were two or three per month, were used by fellow villagers when they didn't purchase industrial goods.

Today, a total of six nets were collected. Carp, silver carp, white carp, grass carp, snakehead, catfish, and other fish were categorized and tallied. Each person could get around five jins, and everyone quickly took out the buckets and bowls they had brought from home.

Wang Zhenguo stopped the clamor among the crowd and said, "The kids have been waiting patiently for a long time; shall we give them their share first? Any objections?"

"None, none, no objections."

"It's only right to give the kids their share first since they've just come back. We won't say anything against it."

"Captain, hurry and distribute them. The sky looks overcast; it might snow."

Since there were no objections, Wang Zhenguo called up Xibao.

The kids had gone out to play without any containers for carrying fish, so Miao Fengqin and Wang Fengqiao both offered their family's wooden buckets. Anyway, they weren't in a rush to get theirs; they could help take the fish back to their house first and then come back for their own share.

Guan Yu and Zhou Zhou received their share separately, while Xibao accepted theirs for his siblings and the Lu and Cheng Baoguo couples.

Altogether, the ten people could get fifty jins of fish. Knowing that his family was large, Wang Zhenguo realized small fish would be troublesome to cook, so he selected fish weighing over five jins for them: four big carp, one large snakehead, two large silver carp, and three grass carps, with a total weight of fifty-two jins. No one minded the extra jin; who's going to chop a piece off the fish, right?

In their brigade's fish distribution, every household would end up getting one or two jins more than they deserved. Everyone was used to it since it all had to be accounted for in cash, it wasn't for free.

Once home, Xibao immediately put the fish in the water tank. Each swam around vigorously.

Smelling the aroma of braised goose coming from the kitchen, Lu Erxiong leaned over the tank and started ordering, "Brother, I want to eat braised big carp!"

Zhuangzhuang shouted, "No way, let's have sweet and sour carp!"

"Braised big carp!"

"Sweet and sour carp!"

Zhou Zhou had gone to get the fish, while Wang Cuilan watched over the braised goose in the kitchen. Hearing the argument, she came out and saw the two kids with flushed faces, and quickly intervened, "We'll have sweet and sour carp today and braised carp tomorrow, okay? We're steaming rice for lunch, and the sweet and sour sauce goes on the rice. Erxiong, don't you love that? And we'll also make a pot of radish and cured meat stew and a pot of cabbage and vermicelli stew."

Lu Erxiong was nearly drooling, "Aren't we making cured meat rice? Mom's cured meat rice is delicious."

"Cured meat rice, huh? How about we make that in a few days, is that okay?" After all, we can't eat meat every day, can we? Even if the Lu's house is a little farther from others, if someone passing by smells it, they'll definitely have something to say.