Marrying a Cook in the 1960s

Chapter 1

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"I really want to pry your head open and see, Xu Shuang is such a good guy, why don't you marry him?"

"She's a chef at a state-owned restaurant in town! If it weren't for your mother's quick eyes and hands, this good marriage would have been snatched up by everyone!"

"Lingling, don't be stupid. A woman's life is to find a man who can support her family. Xu Shuang has a salary, a skill, and only a mother and a brother. You can't find such a good marriage even if you search with a lantern."

Hearing the chattering from the next room again, Wang Ying covered her head with the sheet and went back to sleep.

As for this gossip, it’s still fresh if you hear it once or twice, but it’s no longer fresh after hearing it too many times, and you just think they are noisy.

Wang Ying was sleeping soundly with her head covered when there was a knock on the door. Unlike the earnest tone just now, her aunt Li Chunjuan knocked on the door "bang bang bang" and called Wang Ying's name.

"Saya! Sanya! What time is it? Why don't you get up quickly?"

Wang Ying ignored her. After two days of living here, she had figured out the temper of this aunt.

When you see a weak target, you want to pinch it.

When the noises outside finally stopped disturbing her sleep, Wang Ying had a good sleep. Then she got up, scooped up a handful of spiritual spring water from her sea of consciousness to wash, and then found an egg in the corner of the kitchen, mixed it with the spiritual spring water and made herself a bowl of egg soup.

After drinking it all in one breath, Wang Ying still felt unsatisfied. She touched her stomach and felt that she could still have two more bowls of egg soup.

I licked my lips. What a pity, there weren’t that many eggs.

Eggs are very precious these days. Country folks have no income except from farming and rely on eggs to make money. They treat eggs as hard currency.

The weather was cold and the chickens were not laying eggs very often. In addition, the aunt had been focusing on her daughter these days, so Wang Ying had to secretly hide these eggs.

Wang Ying looked at the small farmyard in front of her. There were four main rooms in total, one for her uncle and aunt, one for her two cousins, one for her cousin, and the remaining one was the one she lived in.

Wang Ying curled her lips. The memories left by the original owner were still relatively complete.

It is precisely because of its completeness that it is so infuriating.

The two brothers of the Wang family had separated their property early on because their parents were gone. There were four rooms, two for each family, with the eldest uncle occupying the two rooms on the east side and the other two on the west side.

After the family split up, they added a wall in the middle and built their own kitchen and toilet.

Wang Yongshun, the eldest son, has two daughters and one son. The eldest daughter, Wang Pingping, married to a man in town last year. The second daughter is Wang Lingling, who is only one year older than Wang Ying and is nineteen this year. The youngest son, Wang Yaozong, is currently in the second year of high school in town and comes back once every two weeks.

Wang Ying's family was even simpler, with only Wang Ying as their daughter. Wang Ying's biological father, Wang Yongfu, went to the army, and no one knew what kind of soldier he served in. He disappeared without a trace at the end. Wang Ying's biological mother raised her alone, and because she had some medical skills, she was promoted to a barefoot doctor in the surrounding area, so it was not difficult for her to raise a girl like Wang Ying.

Unexpectedly, the weather was not very good in the past few years. Wang Ying's mother encountered heavy rain and mudslides on the way to help the commune deliver grain to the city, and she died in an instant.

This was also for the sake of the public, and an orphan girl was left behind. The commune recognized her as a martyr and issued a certificate for Wang Ying's child.

With this certificate, Wang Ying can get 200 work points and 20 yuan for free every year, which is enough to support herself.

The brigade also received instructions from the commune and took good care of Wang Ying, the child of a martyr.

Seeing that Wang Ying, a little girl in her teens, could get work points and food for free without working in the fields, the aunt next door became interested. She first came to visit Wang Ying from time to time and chat with her, then she said in a difficult way that she had no room at home and asked if she could ask her two cousins to come and occupy a room.

Last spring, they simply tore down the middle wall of the courtyard and merged the two houses into one.

Wang Ying sneered. This aunt had a good plan. She thought that after the original owner got married, she could take these two rooms back as her own.

That would have been fine, but over the past two years, Li Chunjuan's attitude towards the original owner has become increasingly worse.

She ordered the original owner to wash clothes, cook, and take care of the family. Last year, she took away the certificate for the child of a martyr that she had been given. Naturally, the money and food were gone. Li Chunjuan also told the original owner that she had graduated from high school, and the brigade no longer gave her money and food, and she was now supported by her uncle's family.

Even the two cousins, who had been cautious when they first moved in, became bossy. The enamel pots and wash basins that the brigade had given to the original owner were taken by the two cousins and placed in their own rooms.

Wang Ying was a little helpless. The original owner had such a soft temper.

If you just don't do it, what can these people do to you

They live in your house, spend your money, eat the food you earn from your work points, and still ask you to work as their servant.

With life like this, no wonder the original owner died of illness due to depression.

This time, the fake Wang Ying came to treat the disease.

But no matter what, Wang Ying thinks it's worth it.

After all, the place where she used to live was too cruel.

After human technology developed to a certain level, the first thing that came was the doomsday natural disaster.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, shortened days, longer nights…

A series of natural disasters drove humans into a world called "Apocalypse".

It has to be said that humans change very quickly as the environment changes.

In the third year after the end of the world, some people discovered that they had supernatural powers. Some people became extremely strong, some people could see scenes ten miles away, and some people could hear sounds a hundred miles away...

More and more people are awakening their special powers. After Wang Ying woke up one day, she found that she had a spiritual spring.

She carefully hid her secret, and after a long period of observation, she found that this spiritual spring was useless.

No matter how full you are, it can't prolong your life or promote the awakening of superpowers. After drinking it, you will only become whiter and more beautiful, your five senses will become more acute, and your physique will be enhanced, reaching the upper-middle level before the end of the world. But in the end of the world, there are so many superpowers in the direction of physical evolution, and their superpowers are particularly outstanding, such as seeing a mosquito from a thousand meters away and smashing a ten-meter-high tree with one punch... Compared with others, Wang Ying's enhancement is really a bit tasteless.

Wang Ying had no choice but to hide the spiritual spring and accept her fate as her own doctor. Although there were people with special abilities in the end times, they were still a minority compared to the huge number of ordinary people. These ordinary people gathered together and built a base. Although their lives were bad, they were stable.

Gradually, with the rise of the superpowers, zombies also appeared in a black rain, and the living environment became difficult to describe.

Food has become the most precious resource, green has become a rare sight all over the world, and humans are struggling to survive between mutants and zombies.

After enduring this for several years, Wang Ying finally lost his life in a zombie siege.

This made her feel relieved, as life in the last few years of the last days had been extremely difficult.

Before the end of the world, she was an avid food lover. With no family burden, she could spend half of her monthly salary on food and drink, and her Engel coefficient was ridiculously high. Although she was a kitchen fryer, she was born with a good tongue and had so much knowledge of food that she could work part-time as a food editor.

After the end of the world, what did she eat? Nutrients, small pills, and proteins squeezed from various insects...

If she hadn't been hanging on for a breath, she would have wanted to die long ago.

So, when she opened her eyes and traveled to 1969 in this parallel universe, and saw the bright sunshine, green trees, and chickens and ducks in the yard, she almost cried.

Mom, I'm in heaven.

Even though she lived with a family of annoying people, she felt it was heaven.

Even the rough texture of the sorghum flour steamed bun fascinated her, considering that she had not put such traditional food into her mouth for several years.

After a late breakfast, Wang Ying moved a chair to sit in the yard. Such good sunshine is hard to see in the end of the world, and she would feel uncomfortable if she didn't bask in the warmth.

The door of the next room creaked, and my eldest cousin Wang Lingling, who was "sick" inside, went out.

"Saya, where did you put my clothes after you washed them for me yesterday?"

As she spoke, she looked everywhere. There was not a single piece of clothing on the rope pulled out from the yard. Wang Lingling searched around and finally found the clothes she had changed yesterday in the basket beside the door.

Still dirty.

Wang Lingling was already very angry, and now she was even angrier.

"San Ya! Are the two holes on your face just for show? Can't you see the clothes thrown here?"

Wang Ying stretched lazily: "Whoever does the clothes should wash them."

Wang Lingling listened to this in disbelief. Who is this? Is this San Ya

Isn't Sanya just a timid person, busying herself around the house? How dare she talk back to me

“Sanya!!”

Wang Ying scratched her ears: "I heard it, no need to be so loud."

Wang Lingling was so angry that her chest heaved. It had been several days since her rebirth, and nothing had gone her way!

In her previous life, she listened to her parents and married Xu Shuang. The whole brigade said that she had made a good marriage, because not only was the man a government employee, but he also had a craft.

At first Wang Lingling thought it was good, but later she no longer felt that way.

She asked Xu Shuang to take things from the kitchen home. After all, putting more or less ingredients in the kitchen could just be a matter of the cook's hand. If she saved some and took it home, no one would know.

Xu Shuang refused to do it. No matter how much she cried, the other party just looked indifferent.

Xu Shuang was unwilling, so Wang Lingling did it herself. She would go to Xu Shuang every day after get off work, and when Xu Shuang wasn't paying attention, she would secretly put some dried food such as vermicelli and black fungus into her pocket. But Xu Shuang's colleagues found out and reported her directly.

Xu Shuang also lost his job and returned to the team.

After returning to the brigade, Xu Shuang did not fall into despair. Instead, she often helped cook for other families. Although she was not a formally hired chef, there were always weddings and funerals in the countryside.

Every time she cooked a large table of food for someone, the other party would secretly give Xu Shuang a few dollars or a basket of eggs as a thank you gift.

Logically speaking, Wang Lingling's quality of life did not decline. She helped Xu Shuang and even got a meal at the banquet.

In an era when no one had much money, Wang Lingling lived a life like a god.

But Wang Lingling was not satisfied. She wanted to marry Xu Shuang, a worker, not the Xu Shuang who attended the village banquet.

Wang Lingling made a fuss again, wanting Xu Shuang to continue taking the worker exam.

Xu Shuang wanted to, but stealing ingredients from the kitchen was not a good reputation for a cook. Even if there were many people who did this, it was not good to make a scene.

Xu Shuang wasted several years, and Wang Lingling was also angry with him. The couple lived under the same roof but like a pair of strangers.

After the reform and opening up, Wang Lingling urged Xu Shuang to open a shop. Even if she thought Xu Shuang was a coward, she knew that Xu Shuang's cooking skills were good. Just being a village banquet chef, many people came from far away to invite him.

After opening the store, the life Wang Lingling had imagined did not come true.

The hard times had not been over for long, and people's tables were still not well-fed. Xu Shuang's craftsmanship was good, and she sold her products at a similar price. The small profits and quick turnover made her a long-standing business.

But Wang Lingling thought that was not possible, so she set the price very high. The first batch of people had not yet become rich, and the only people who came to eat were those cadres' families. How much turnover could there be

Wang Lingling hated Xu Shuang for being a useless cook.

They say that scholars are good for nothing. That's all bullshit! People who go to university become cadres after graduation. The one who is really good for nothing is Xu Shuang.

He is not ambitious, does not seek personal gain, and does not know how to gain benefits for himself.

During an argument, Wang Lingling broke Xu Shuang's hand with a bench.

Now, the restaurant could no longer operate. Xu Shuang packed up her things and returned to her hometown to farm.

Wang Lingling simply divorced Xu Shuang and went south to find ways to make a fortune.

In the first few years of opening up, going south was not a good option. The household registration system was incomplete, there were many robbers on the road, as well as human traffickers and scammers.

Wang Lingling was cheated several times and her life became increasingly unhappy, so she had to go home.

After returning home, she found that everything was different.

Wang Ying, the third daughter from the next room, her parents wanted the house of her second uncle at that time, so they married Wang Ying to a divorced man who was a soldier.

Wang Ying endured several years in the countryside, raised her step-son and step-daughter excellently, and also captured the man's heart.

When Wang Lingling returned home like a lost dog, Wang Ying's retired husband had become the richest man in the county. He took his wife and children to the provincial capital, heading towards a brighter future.

Even Xu Shuang was poached by a hotel in the provincial capital to be the "executive chef".

Wang Lingling didn’t know what an executive chef was, but after all, she was just an employee working for someone else.

The fire burning in her heart was for Wang Ying's husband.

Why, why did Wang Ying have such smooth sailing? She just married the richest man

And after working hard for half my life, I got nothing

Wang Lingling was so angry that she almost died.

When she opened her eyes again, Wang Lingling found herself eighteen years old again.

Wang Lingling was ecstatic. In this life, she wanted to snatch the richest man first.

Before she even said she wanted to marry a divorced woman, she had already encountered many difficulties in breaking off the engagement with Xu Shuang. Her mother would never agree to her breaking off the engagement with Xu Shuang.

Wang Lingling was very annoyed. She couldn't tell her mother that Xu Shuang was a waste and would only be working for others in the future, right

In addition, Wang Ying, who was usually honest, was acting uncharacteristically irritating today.

Wang Lingling's mind was filled with anger. As she became more and more angry, a light bulb went off in her head.

In her previous life, Wang Ying robbed the richest man and married Xu Shuang. Since she wants to marry the richest man in this life, why can't Wang Ying marry Xu Shuang

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