Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife

Ayu took out a lunch box and an oil paper package, "Zhouzhou, you serve Grandma first, I’ll get the kang heated up."

"Yes, yes, yes, Grandma, let’s eat first!" Zhou Zhou poured some hot water into the enamel basin, wet a towel to wipe Grandma’s face and hands, then handed her some porridge to drink and fed her buns.

There weren’t many belongings in the old woman’s room. The thermos bottle was something Zhou Zhou had sent money to have Hong Zhanjun help purchase, which was claimed to belong to Hong Zhanjun outside.

Hong Zhanjun was an old revolutionary, and the Zhou Family didn’t dare take his things casually.

Ayu picked up the scattered coal pieces beside him, stuffed them into the kang hole to start the fire, took the chipped spittoon by the kang out, emptied the contents in the public restroom, and washed it clean with snow water before bringing it back.

He moved quickly; Grandma Zhou, with a bun in her mouth, didn’t even have a chance to stop him. By the time she finally swallowed the food in her mouth, Ayu had already gone out. Knowing her granddaughter was now married, she angrily poked her granddaughter’s forehead, only able to say to Ayu when he came in, "Child, stop being so busy. Look at you, newly arrived with Zhouzhou, yet you’re busy inside and out."

"It’s nothing, Grandma. You’re the elder, isn’t it right for us youngsters to keep busy?" Despite the harsh winter, even with the toilet within the courtyard, every household had a chamber pot to avoid having to go outside in the dead of night, risking the cold, so the chamber pot in Lu Tianzhi and Xibao’s father’s room was always taken care of by the three brothers: Lu Tianzhi, Xibao, and siblings.

Lu Tianzhi’s father was very strict in educating Xibao, not letting him enjoy his brothers’ care due to his young age.