Chapter 68: Don’t Eat Dinner Tonight
Chapter 68: Chapter 68: Don’t Eat Dinner Tonight
Regarding the trait of cherishing one’s wife and doting on one’s daughter, Jiang Changhai exhibited it to the fullest.
“That’s a certainty,” Su Wanyu had no objections to his words, for a daughter was naturally to be cherished.
After lunch, the couple stayed home and didn’t go to work, which sparked Zhang Guihua’s discontent: “Eldest, get moving and go to work for me! Do you not want your work points for today?”
“Mom, I’m not feeling very well, and since I didn’t go this morning, missing half a day more won’t matter. My wife and I will just rest at home.”
Jiang Changhai lazily sat on a stool, with a rascal’s demeanor that suggested no matter what you say, I won’t move, which infuriated Zhang Guihua.
She pointed at her disappointing son and angrily said, “I really don’t know what use it is raising you! If you don’t go this afternoon, don’t expect to eat dinner!”
Nasty words being ineffective, Zhang Guihua simply resorted to threatening with food, and looking at the submissive and frail Su Wanyu by her side, she felt even more dissatisfied.
“Each one of you makes me worry endlessly!”
Hanging a towel around her neck, she stormed off, out of sight, out of mind.
Seeing that neither the Second Branch nor the Third Branch could persuade Jiang Changhai, they didn’t bother either, only Sun Lixia, as she passed by the couple, spitefully hummed with a mix of intention and unintentional mocking: “Doing the least work every day, yet eating the most, forcing us to do the hard labor, truly here to collect debts from a past life!”
She really wanted to split the household!
Now that the whole family shared meals together, no matter how many work points were earned each day, it all went to everyone’s meals. The Eldest Branch did nothing but freeload meals—why should so many others carry the burden?
The more Sun Lixia thought about it, the more imbalanced she felt.
But these were just thoughts; she never really acted on them, not wanting to advantage the Eldest Branch with most of the house.
However, Jiang Changhai and Su Wanyu treated her words as if they were wind by their ears, hardly caring at all.
The couple lazily lay there, resting for half the day. When they had rested enough, it was time to pick up their daughter from school.
Jiang Changhai walked from home to the commune primary school to pick up his daughter after school.
After greeting Old Zheng at the school, Jiang Changhai sat on an outside bench waiting for Jiang Mianmian to finish school.
After the school bell rang, students sprinted out of the classrooms, and Jiang Mianmian immediately spotted Jiang Changhai at the gate: “Dad!”
Jiang Changhai responded with an “Hey,” took his daughter’s backpack in one hand, and held his daughter’s hand with the other: “How was school today?”
Jiang Mianmian didn’t think deeply and excitedly exclaimed, “Dad! Today at noon I got to eat meat and rice, and the cafeteria uncle even gave me a bowl of bone soup just for me, it was so delicious!”
Remembering the delicious meal from noon, Jiang Mianmian smacked her lips as if the taste was still lingering in her mouth. @@novelbin@@
Now, the happiest thing in her daily life was eating, especially something tasty!
“Daughter, if you want to eat, you can have meat every day from now on!” Jiang Changhai rubbed her head and smiled, promising.
“Really?” Jiang Mianmian raised her little head, her face glowing as she looked up at her tall father.
“Don’t worry, when has Dad ever not kept his promise?” Jiang Changhai patted his chest earnestly, simply recounting the morning’s selling grains, only mentioning that he had exchanged them for money, without giving specifics about the amount.
However, Jiang Mianmian didn’t care about the amount of money; hearing that she could eat meat every day was enough to make her happy, her cheeks blushing: “I knew Dad loves me the most.”
The Host seized the opportunity to gently coax: “Host, as long as you study hard, in the future you will have more delicious food than you can eat, so you have to keep it up!”
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