Chapter 234: Seventies Treasure Appraisal System (8)

Once the meal was set on the table, Qin Zheng called his wife out to eat.

Xie Yang had just finished organizing the items in her bundle.

On this trip, Qin Zheng had brought back quite a few good things from the south: tea leaves, salted bamboo shoots, ham, dried longans, dried lychees, Yellow Croaker Fillet, sandwich biscuits with a rich milky aroma, as well as two lengths of dacron floral Fabric that were hard to snatch up locally in Yongcheng and half a bolt of deep navy corduroy.

She roughly divided them into three portions.

Both her maiden family and her husband's family in this plane were quite good. In the original world, after the original body fell ill, these two families were the only ones who truly cared for her; Xie Yang had already pulled them into her own camp. She had always been generous to her own people.

The next day, Qin Zheng slept in for a rare time; even though his biological clock woke him up very early, he still held his wife and couldn't bear to get up.

Xie Yang was teased by him to the point where she had no sleepiness left.

But since she had let him, having tasted the sweetness of the marrow, fool around until the second half of the night, and he was at it again early in the morning, she couldn't handle it even with his good stamina.

So, playing with his rough, calloused hands, she sleepily chatted with him about household matters:

"How many days can you rest?"

"Four days."

This was an unwritten rule of the Transportation Team: after a long-distance trip exceeding half a month, one could have four days of leave upon returning.

When he was single, he would always spend two days resting at home and two days returning to the countryside to see his mother.

Now that he had a wife, he planned to reallocate these four days of leave: one day resting at home, one day accompanying her to visit her maiden family, one day returning to the countryside to see his mother, and the last day taking her to see a movie and eating out at a restaurant.

"Let's change the order," Xie Yang said after thinking about his plan. "Accompany me to buy some things today first. When we got engaged, I heard our sister-in-law chatting with our mother, saying that the Commune's Supply and Marketing Cooperative never has red thread in stock, and your nephew's fountain pen is also out of ink. Let's get the red thread and ink, and add a bag of Brown Sugar for both families. Also, my sister-in-law at my maiden home is pregnant with her second child, and this pregnancy hasn't been going well. Let's see if there are any appetizing or pregnancy-stabilizing foods to bring her. Forget about tonics; food supplements are better than medicine..."

Before he even finished listening, Qin Zheng stated his position: "Just arrange it as you like. Didn't I give all the money to you?"

He paused, suddenly remembering something, and rummaged through the chest and cabinets to find a bankbook: "I forgot to give this to you before I left on the trip."

Xie Yang opened it and saw the bright, clear balance of 800 yuan.

"This is the salary I saved before getting married. My mother didn't take a single cent and told me to keep it myself, so I opened a bankbook. We spent some on the engagement and wedding, but you take what's left. Buy whatever you need, and if it's not enough, tell me, and I'll find a way."

Xie Yang: "..."

With a man who indulged her spending like this, it would be hard not to be a spendthrift.

However, his money didn't come from a strong wind; she knew he was secretly helping people carry goods to earn extra money, which was one of the reasons he chose to drive long-distance.

Thinking of his ending in the original world, Xie Yang sighed inwardly and tentatively asked: "If there were other positions to choose from, would you want to switch?"

"Hmm?"

He had already considered this question carefully before they got married.

Like He Ximing, he actually had the opportunity to run short-distance routes back then, but in the end, he didn't swap with his colleagues.

Although long-distance driving was hard work, firstly, it paid more; the money he earned from helping others carry goods on a single trip exceeded his salary, so even if his wife didn't have a job and had high expenses, he could still afford it.

Secondly, after a few contacts following their engagement, he saw that she liked beautiful Fabric and novel snacks, which were more abundant in the south; having someone else buy them was never as satisfying as him picking them out himself.

So he wanted to run as many long-distance trips as possible before his wife got pregnant. Once they had children, he would find a way to transfer to the short-distance group.

But now that she asked like this...

He held her face and looked into her eyes seriously: "I'm not at home; have you been wronged?"

"Of course not, why would you think that?"

Qin Zheng scrutinized her for several moments, ensuring her answer didn't seem fake.

Then, not knowing what he had imagined, his ears suddenly turned red. He reached out to pull the curtains, turned to hold her, and dense kisses followed.

Xie Yang: "..."

No, what is this guy doing!

Does he think she's sexually frustrated?

Apparently, he does!

For the time that followed, he used all his strength to please her.

So much so that on his first day home, the young couple didn't step out; except for three meals, they spent most of their time in bed.

The second day was also spent sleeping until the sun was high, and when they got up, Xie Yang's legs were still weak.

A man who has tasted the sweetness of the marrow is too terrifying!

Why did she tease him?

Xie Yang rubbed her sore waist, really wanting to fall back into bed and continue sleeping.

But she still had to go to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative; if she dawdled any longer, she could forget about buying meat or vegetables.

After getting up, she hugged the biscuit box and sorted out her coupons.

This time when Qin Zheng returned, he gave her another thirty yuan, as well as general coupons like National Grain Coupon and Industrial Coupon.

After counting the money and coupons, Xie Yang began to list the supplies to purchase.

They wouldn't go see the movie; she would change it to a half-day tour of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative instead, and bring back some useful supplies for the elders on both sides.

Although there were Commission Stores in the countryside, their scale was far inferior to those in the city, and the variety of goods was pitifully small.

Even for common items like needles and thread, there were only a few simple colors, and the red thread balls popular with the older generation were always out of stock.

Brown Sugar had always been a luxury item because it required coupons.

Also belonging to the luxury category were fountain pens and fountain pen ink.

Qin Zheng's eldest nephew, Qin Yue, was about to graduate from junior high school. Last year, when Qin Zheng ran a long-distance trip, he brought him a Hero fountain pen, but unfortunately, ink couldn't be bought in the countryside.

The nephews and nieces on both sides were malnourished, so this time when they went back, she would bring them some food to supplement calcium and nutrition.

And her sister-in-law at her maiden home was pregnant without knowing it; she had no appetite and felt weak, thinking the "bitter summer" had come early. She didn't pay attention to her diet and still went to work in the fields every day, leading to a miscarriage, and she never got pregnant again afterward. Her only daughter was later "eaten out of house and home" by Bai Xiuyuan's nephew.

Seeing his wife still buried in organizing the coupons, Qin Zheng took the extinguished stove out to relight it.

Last night they were too carried away, and afterward, he held his wife and slept soundly, forgetting to get up to add coal and seal the stove, which caused the charcoal fire to burn out and extinguish in the second half of the night.

After getting the stove going and putting on a pot of water to boil, he took the clothes they had changed out of to the washroom to wash them.

"Little Qin, doing housework as soon as you get back?" Kuihua Sao was washing vegetables in the washroom and, seeing Qin Zheng, teased him with a smile, "In this building, we can't find a man more diligent than you."

"It's not just our building; if you add up all three districts, you won't find another man as diligent and considerate as little Qin," someone chimed in.

Many people expressed their agreement.

Only Wang Tieqiang's wife said sarcastically, "Little Qin, don't blame me for being meddlesome, but a wife like yours, if she were in the countryside, would be drowned by the spit of the whole village. I've never seen anyone so lazy... Not only lazy, but she spends money so recklessly. It's fortunate your mother isn't around, otherwise she would have been angered to death..."

Wang Tieqiang's wife believed that all mothers-in-law under heaven were the same—they would never indulge a daughter-in-law who squandered the family fortune like that.

Qin Zheng earnestly scrubbed his wife's blouse and took a moment to glance at her: "I recall that your house isn't by the seaside, sister-in-law."

Wang Tieqiang's wife looked puzzled: "Of course my house isn't by the seaside, my house is by the mountainside."

"Then why are you being so nosy?"

"..."