Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife-Chapter 74 - 00 Reciprocity 2_1

Chapter 74: Chapter 0074 Reciprocity 2_1

Chapter 74 -0074 Reciprocity 2_1

On one side, Feng Qingxue left the Wang Family with her sister, while Lu Jiang arrived home on the other.

Seeing his father feeding the livestock, Lu Jiang quickly took off his military coat to help, pouring sacks of fodder into each stone trough.

Because of the natural disaster, the so-called fodder was the wheat straw, corn straw, bean straw, sorghum straw, rice straw, and vines of sweet potatoes and peanuts, which households were forbidden to use for boiling water and cooking. Occasionally, there was also grass cut into small pieces with a forage cutter and dried in the sun.

In slack farming seasons, Lu Jiang’s father would be doing these chores. It wasn’t too tiring, but it wasn’t exactly easy either. One person couldn’t cut the grass alone, he needed his grandson’s help.

Having completed their chores, father and son sat down to rest on the pile of straw.

“Where are Tianjun and Tianzhi? Why aren’t they home?” asked Lu Jiang about his two nephews.

“I had Tianjun take Tianzhi to practice their writing on the sandy soil by the river behind the house. I will call them when it’s time for dinner.”

Lu Jiang’s father never planned to let his grandsons interrupt their study. He had been cultivating their reading and writing habits from their childhood, and he didn’t abandon traditional academics just because the world considered it worthless.

Lu Jiang said, “I brought back ten steamed buns. I’ll roast them over the fire later.”

The steamed buns were from a state-owned restaurant. He had six left from lunch, and then he bought ten more. He gave six to Feng Qingxue and brought ten back himself.

The buns were hard but became aromatic and crispy when roasted!

“Did you buy all the clothes and shoes for Qingxue? If not, you can buy more next time,” Lu Jiang’s father was very concerned about his son’s marriage, “If you run out of money, I still have some left over. You’ve been sending money home all these years, but there’s nowhere to spend it.”

Lu Jiang took off his military coat and draped it over his father. “I wouldn’t say I’ve bought everything. I just bought a little fabric, some yarn, a pair of leather shoes, and a watch. I wanted to buy clothes for Qingxue, but she didn’t want me to. The clothes in our city have unattractive colors and styles, and their quality isn’t that great either. So, I agreed with her. Next time, I’ll ask someone to buy two nice outfits from Shanghai and send them here.”

His father nodded slightly and accidentally touched something hard in the pocket of the coat. He took it out.

“What’s this?” The father asked, looking at the nicely-wrapped box he had taken out.

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“Huh? When did this box get into the coat pocket? It’s not mine.”

Lu Jiang always kept his money in his uniform pocket, he had no idea what was in the package. He opened it and found it was a box for a watch from a department store. Inside was a Rolex watch with stainless steel, 17 jewels, waterproof, anti-shock, and gold convex font. It was heavy-duty, practical, and not flashy.

His father leaned in to take a closer look, “Where did this come from?” This watch did not look cheap.

“It must be from Qingxue. She probably bought it secretly because she didn’t want me to disagree. She tucked it into my pocket.” Lu Jiang quickly remembered. After leaving the department store, Feng Qingxue had left him for about ten minutes on the pretext of running an errand. She also carried his coat on the walk that had made them both sweaty.

No one else would buy such an expensive watch for him besides her.

Lu Jiang took off the Omega watch he had been wearing for many years and replaced it with the new Rolex. It looked good no matter how he looked at it.

On hearing this, his father was very surprised, and then laughed, “She’s more capable than we thought. It seems she isn’t planning to keep any secrets from you.”

If Feng Qingxue were just an ordinary country girl, she wouldn’t be able to afford hundreds of dollars, let alone the guts to buy a watch.

Who besides the extremely wealthy would be willing to buy an imported watch?