She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 845 - 789: Famine Era 30 (Second Update)

"These kinds of vegetables are really hard to buy, even if you have money. What connections did you use to get them?"

"The husband of a nurse in our department is involved in agricultural research. I heard that her parents grow greenhouse vegetables back in her hometown, but they only grow a small amount in their own yard. They can’t bear to eat them and sell the extra at a reasonable price, so I got a bit of everything, just two or three jin each."

Now that she’s given this "heads up," if she brings back any more vegetables in the future, he probably won’t ask too many questions, right?

After lunch, it was just after 12, and Tong Zhan cunningly locked the gate. When she saw him, her face turned red.

"What do you want to do in broad daylight? Aren’t you afraid of people seeing us and laughing?"

"Laugh at what? We’re all adults. The other day, the wife of the regiment leader from the next regiment came over, limping, and her voice was so loud you could hear it on the road." 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Ye Huan:... damn, she shouldn’t have brought it up. These old men, once they get a taste, they lose their minds, don’t they? What kind of things are they saying?

Ye Huan pushed his face away with a slap: "Move aside, I don’t want to be stuck indoors."

"You don’t need to go out. Tell me what you want to eat, and I’ll bring it to you; you don’t even have to cook. Besides, do you think that just because you step outside, people won’t know what we did last night? Come here, let me give you a kiss. Why is your skin so smooth? Look at mine,"

"Your skin is all hairy and scarred, how can it be smooth? Wait a minute, what did I just hear? We women... does that mean I’m not your first woman?"

Tong Zhan didn’t expect her to catch onto such a small word and immediately raised his hand: "I surrender, can I not say anything?"

Ye Huan squinted her eyes and suddenly thought of the beautiful Chen Xiang.

"Does that Chen Xiang like you? You were transferred here, what about her? Do you like her?"

Tong Zhan suddenly felt like he had shot himself in the foot: "She went back to Tai Province; what does it have to do with me? How could I like her?"

Ye Huan pressed down on his restless hand, "Then am I your first woman?"

Her eyes weren’t large, but they were clear and pure. She just stared at him fixedly, and under the pressure, Tong Zhan shook his head.

"No, you know, with my identity, I had to put on an act sometimes, especially the character I played, who was a bit of a scoundrel. If I didn’t have any interactions, what would my superiors think of me?"

Ye Huan pressed her lips together, "Then which one am I?"

Tong Zhan’s vision went black, "Grandma, can we not ask this question anymore? It’s all in the past. From now on, it’s only you, never betray you. Can’t you trust me just this once?"

"Don’t tell me you can’t even remember yourself?"

Faced with her innocent yet accusatory gaze, Tong Zhan directly lay down on the kang, covering his head.

"Oh my dear mother, are all women so persistent in asking until they get to the bottom of things? I finally understand my brothers’ troubles. He,"

However, before he could finish his complaint, Ye Huan suddenly turned over and sat on him.

"What about your brothers, hmm?"

Tong Zhan, not immune to sex, as soon as he saw his wife making a move, the words he was about to say were swallowed down. When she started to take off his belt, he had already started unbuttoning his shirt, but Ye Huan suddenly squinted her eyes,

grabbed his little finger, "Huanhuan, don’t torment people like this, ah, be good. I have to go on a mission in the late afternoon. Let’s make it quick, and whatever questions you have, I’ll address them properly when I come back tonight, alright?"

Then with a turn, he changed from being passive to active,

"Tong Zhan, remember what you said. If you dare to betray me in this life, I will definitely make you regret it."

He leaned over her, his voice hoarse: "Don’t worry, once a wife, a wife for life."

He got up and left, thoughtfully warming her some water, then gently kissed her, telling her to get some more sleep, and that he’d bring her dinner when he returned in the evening.

Once Ye Huan had drifted into a muddled sleep, there was a sudden knock on the door. However, she was sleeping deeply and didn’t hear it, so the person ended up just walking straight into the courtyard. "Is the Tong family’s eldest sister-in-law at home? Sister-in-law?"

In her dream, Ye Huan was startled awake by the sound, her eyes snapping open. At first, she thought it was an illusion, but then the person was already about to push open the hall door.

She quickly shouted, "Wait a minute, I’m getting up."

In her heart, she was quite unhappy. How could someone be so inconsiderate? If she hadn’t called out, would they have just barged into the bedroom to call her?

She wasn’t wearing her military uniform at home; instead, she changed into a floral cotton-padded jacket and blue cotton pants she made herself. Although the bedroom wasn’t cold, she always felt there was a smell in the room, so she wouldn’t bring guests into the bedroom. She put on socks and slipped into her cotton shoes, then walked out while fluffing her hair and casually closed the door to the bedroom.

A middle-aged woman stood in the hall outside the door, wearing a gray cotton-padded jacket, black pants, and slightly worn cloth shoes. When she saw her come out, she immediately smiled.

"Sister-in-law is at home!" Tong Zhan’s rank was high, so they all called her sister-in-law, even though she was much older than her. It seemed to be the custom.

The woman’s face bore the roughness and darkness left by poor working people, even her hair looked messy, and she wasn’t tidied up well. From a distance, there was a noticeable odor. She took a step forward, nodded at her with a smile, and said, "Hello, please sit down, I’ll pour you a glass of water."

"Oh no, no need, I’m from the third house to the east, the one of Commander Cao’s family. It’s really quite something, my son got hooked on the joy sugar from your house, wailing for more today, but there was just a little that day, and he finished it all at once. It’s freezing outside, where can I find more for him? So, I came asking, does sister-in-law happen to have any more? Maybe give us two more pieces?"

Ye Huan awkwardly shook her head, "Sorry, all the sugar has been given out, I have none left." She really had none left.

"Then... does sister-in-law have anything else to eat here? Desserts or seeds, anything will do, we’re not picky, just need to stop the kid’s noise, been so annoying, can’t even do laundry,"

Ye Huan’s mouth twitched slightly, you’re not picky, huh? Desserts? She had to buy those herself, and you’re really not picky.

She shook her head lightly, "No, there’s none."

Upon hearing this, the woman looked a bit disappointed and even looked around, finally spotting their cabinet and starting to walk toward it to open it, Ye Huan watched her quietly. Seeing her really starting to rummage through, Ye Huan felt her patience was spent.

"Do you need me to open the bedroom door for you too, so you can search inside?"

Even though it was said with a smile, the woman really raised her foot to walk toward their bedroom, and even Ye Huan, with all her patience, showed a cold face.

She raised a hand to block her way, "Sorry, my house doesn’t have a stock of snacks or sugar for your family, and making sister-in-law go to such lengths to rummage through, how about this, next time I get paid, I’ll just give my salary directly to you, and you can buy whatever you want, how about that?"

Was that direct enough?

The woman finally understood, blushed, rolled her eyes at her, and turned around to leave.

As she left, she slammed their front door hard in anger.

Ye Huan had never met someone like that, inviting herself over, and was furious for a while.

Suddenly losing her drowsiness, she started boiling water to wash clothes, and hung the washed clothes in the bedroom, because hanging them outside would only freeze.

That evening, she didn’t cook, she just steamed a few sweet potatoes, planning to cook some noodle dumpling soup when Tong Zhan came back.

Unexpectedly, when Tong Zhan returned, he not only brought dishes but also cornbread. Though it was still radish and cabbage, at least there were dishes, and she wasn’t picky, and set up the meal on the small table on the kang.

After washing his hands, Tong Zhan climbed onto the kang. Looking at her, he hesitated to speak, and Ye Huan, being sensitive, immediately thought of something.

"Did someone say something about me?"

Tong Zhan sighed, "This afternoon, that Cao Family’s sister-in-law ran to the brigade, crying and saying you looked down on people, belittled her face to face, she just wanted to borrow some salt. If not, then not, but why insult?"

Ye Huan listened, speechless, looked up at him, "So, do you believe it?"

Tong Zhan shook his head, "She’s been here just over a month and has offended all the sister-in-laws here, how could I believe what she said? I said, my wife wouldn’t say that. She also said she wanted you to confront her, I ignored her, just gave her one thousand yuan to buy some salt, but she said it wasn’t enough. If Old Cao hadn’t gone over to kick her out of the brigade, it would have been an even bigger joke. Old Cao has already planned to send her back, and she returned the money too."

People call you sister-in-law as a formality because of the rank. They call you sister-in-law out of respect for them.

But some people don’t respect themselves, and Ye Huan naturally wouldn’t condone it, so she explained the ins and outs, after which Tong Zhan said.

"I’ll wake you up before I leave from now on, you can go back to sleep after locking the door. If it’s not safe even at your own home, had you come out a bit later, our cabinet’s food might have been gone,"

Ye Huan looked up incredulously, "No way, that’s stealing,"

"She’s not doing it for the first time. Old Cao brought her over because she served the elders at home for half a lifetime and wanted her to enjoy some days here, but didn’t expect her to be such a troublemaker, didn’t expect her manners to be so different from these sister-in-laws. How can she afford such a person? Guess they’ll send her and the kid back in a few days,"

"If they send them back, wouldn’t the kid’s life be ruined? With a mother like this, using the child as a pretext to cheat, how can the kid grow up well, and doesn’t the child go to school?"

"Old Cao brought them over with that thought, but if kept like this, probably Old Cao will have to go back with her,"

Ye Huan sighed, "Truly echoes the old saying, ’There is something hateful about pitiful people’, her little problems can cause big issues in the army. Isn’t a regiment leader’s salary enough to support the kid?"