Back to the 70s: My Childhood Sweetheart Spoils Me Rotten-Chapter 24 - 23 Contrast

Zhao Gang was eating while talking to Gong Tao about Gong Ruini’s previous childish words, "Don’t you think she’s a bit adorable?"

Even Gong Ruwen was stunned after hearing it, "Chickens actually eat meat?"

Chickens are for people to eat, right? How come chickens are divided into eating vegetarian or meat? In short, Gong Ruwen was really taken aback.

Zhao Guangran looked at Gong Ruini with disdain, "You’re so stupid, actually studying this. I’m telling you, chickens like to eat greens and paddy."

The chickens at home are often fed these by our parents. They lay eggs quite diligently, so Zhao Guangran thinks chickens just prefer this.

"But I saw chickens eat bugs with such joy." Although Gong Ruini was very angry and didn’t want to explain anymore, she felt she had to clarify due to their ridicule.

Zhao Guangran finally got a chance to laugh at Gong Ruini, so of course, he hit her with all kinds of opposition.

Gong Ruini, puffing up with anger, finally said, "If you don’t believe me, we can try separately."

Humph, no matter how much is said or argued, practice is the ultimate proof. Gong Ruini saw from the adults’ faces that they regarded it as just children’s talk and didn’t take it seriously at all.

Gong Ruini didn’t want this matter to just pass like that. She saw so many people mocking her and brought this idea up in hopes Gong Tao would take it seriously.

If the eggs are for our own consumption, the size doesn’t matter. But if they are for sale, then of course, they need to be bigger for a better price.

More importantly, Gong Ruini remembers that eggs produced this way seem to be more nutritious. In times lacking nutrition, supplementation from all directions is necessary.

Gong Tao wasn’t very knowledgeable about raising chickens and laughed at the girl’s childish words, not seeing Zhao Gang, who has extensive experience, taking it seriously either.

But as Gong Ruini and Zhao Guangran’s argument got a bit noisy, he suddenly stopped laughing.

"Gangzi, I think there might be something to it. How about we give it a try?" Gong Tao thought his daughter had a point. Since it’s not troublesome to get earthworms, might as well follow Nizi’s idea.

If successful, that would be great. If not, nothing is lost. More importantly, earthworms are good, "They can be used in the vegetable garden too."

The fields in the brigade need farm manure. Just relying on the brigade’s poultry manure isn’t enough, so every household has a certain manure task, counted at the end of the year as part of work points. Hence, one needs to think of ways for farm manure in their vegetable garden.

Gong Tao remembered if the land was exhausted, as long as earthworms worked tirelessly in there for a few years, it would gradually recover, indicating earthworms are good.

Since they’re beneficial, the soil used to raise earthworms could also serve as farm manure.

Zhao Gang started to realize the potential, "Yeah, why not do this beneficial thing that requires little effort? Let’s start raising earthworms."

Although they’d never raised earthworms before, Zhao Gang believed it wasn’t hard to tend to them.

No way, Zhao Guangran was dumbfounded. He thought he had defeated Gong Ruini, but with one sentence from Uncle Gong, the whole scenario drastically changed.

If his own dad hadn’t followed up, it could seem like Uncle Gong was just backing Gong Ruini. But now that even his own dad supported it, sigh.

Zhao Guangran felt frustrated since Nizi’s sister came, he was met with various contempt from his parents.

He often heard praise from his parents about how great Nizi’s sister is, and she wasn’t even their daughter. He wondered, what if she were his actual sister?

Previously, Zhao Guangran regretted why his mom only had brothers this time, stinky brothers, without a soft sister. But now he’s grateful she had brothers.

Zhao Guangran really couldn’t imagine if his mom had a daughter, what position he, the brother, would hold. He would certainly face all sorts of disdain.

"Nizi, if this idea works, Uncle Zhao will buy you a flower dress." Zhao Gang expressed that if this idea was viable, it would definitely be a delightful surprise.

Not only a surprise, if the hens lay eggs vigorously and the eggs are big, they could sell for a higher price.

And this would be actual income, so Nizi must be well praised.

A flower dress? Wow, how envious, Zhao Guangran showed a face full of envy and jealousy. To him, new clothes were a huge luxury, and he had barely worn any new clothes growing up. Most were hand-me-downs from his brother.

A flower dress? Gong Ruini felt all sorts of disdain from her heart. Cloth with big flowers, oh, with a bright red base, just thinking about it made her feel it would blind people’s eyes.

Considering she often exercised outdoors, her skin would become rough and turn a wheat color—no, more like yellowish-black—wearing that type of clothes, Gong Ruini just thought it would really mark her as a countryside kid, not fitting her persona.

"No, no, Uncle Zhao, can you take me to a bookstore to buy books?" Gong Ruini tactfully declined the proposal, knowing that clothes required cloth tickets these days, so as long as they weren’t damaged, they had to keep wearing them.

Gong Ruini didn’t want to parade through the streets in such clothes if she returned to the city with Gong Tao’s family. If possible, Gong Ruini would rather wear a military uniform than that.

No way, refusing new clothes? Zhao Guangran didn’t understand why Gong Ruini declined it. If possible, he would have rushed to Zhao Gang saying his sister didn’t like the dress and that he hadn’t worn new clothes in a long time.

However, on second thought, his sister was great, knowing new clothes would just be for her, so to avoid others feeling left out, she refused them. Zhao Guangran felt his sister was really nice.

Zhao Xuran believed Gong Ruini refused because she didn’t want floral clothes. Such clothes wouldn’t suit his sister.

Refusing clothes just to buy books? Zhao Gang was flabbergasted, knowing the temptation of new clothes for children is real. Didn’t he see how his silly son’s eyes lit up when he heard about new clothes?

Cai Meina was relieved when she heard her daughter refuse the proposal. She was worried her daughter would succumb to temptation and accept, since cloth tickets were scarce everywhere.

Zhan Jing mentioned earlier that to get a set of clothes for her unborn child, Zhao Gang and his wife had tried many ways to get some cloth tickets. If her daughter so easily agreed, even if Zhan Jing wouldn’t show it openly, she might have some minor resentment.

Luckily, her daughter was sensible and declined them. But Gong Ruini’s maturity pained Cai Meina; poor children mature early indeed.

Cai Meina silently vowed that once their family situation improved, she would make more clothes for her daughter, to dress her beautifully.

Gong Ruini didn’t know her aversion to floral clothes led Cai Meina to make such a decision. If she did, she wouldn’t know how to gloat; a family member’s decision was the best backing.

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