A guide to get married in the 70s

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This is how it all started.

Ye Yongguo used to eat at home, but now he started eating in the cafeteria. His coworkers asked him if he had a quarrel with his wife and she stopped cooking for him.

Ye Yongguo was very concerned about his reputation outside. Besides, Li Xiufen was a chef in the cafeteria of Nanzhou University, which was actually a very honorable thing for him. After all, women of Li Xiufen's age basically ate at home, and not many of them could make money, let alone be chefs.

So he said to his coworkers, "The leaders of Nanzhou University liked her cooking skills and wanted her to work as a chef in the school cafeteria. She was afraid that there would be no one to cook for her if she went there, so she was not very happy to go. I thought this was a good thing. The leaders valued her, and I couldn't let her down. So I asked her to go. Anyway, our factory also has a cafeteria, so I can just eat in our factory cafeteria."

After hearing this, several coworkers started to make a fuss, saying that they wanted to go to Ye Yongguo's house to eat and see how good Li Xiufen's cooking skills were. Even the leaders of Nanzhou University liked her.

Several coworkers made a fuss together, and Ye Yongguo got excited and He agreed, and went home and told Li Xiufen, "Lao Jiang and his friends are coming to our house for lunch tomorrow at noon. You should ask for a day off from school, and don't go to school tomorrow. Cook a few dishes at home, not too many, just four or five."

Li Xiufen, "Why didn't you tell me in advance?"

Ye Yongguo, "It's not too late to tell you now. Isn't one morning enough for you to prepare?"

Li Xiufen definitely didn't agree, "I can't just ask for a day off. There are thousands of people waiting for dinner in the school."

Ye Yongguo was unhappy, "You ask for a day off, and they can't serve dinner at school? Did they not eat before you went? I haven't heard of anyone starving to death."

Li Xiufen, "That's not the case. If it was an important matter, I would have invited them. The key point is that yours is not a big deal. Just to cook for you guys, I have to take a day off. Not only will it delay the students' meals, but they will also deduct my money. It's not reasonable. If Lao Jiang and the others insist on coming to your house, you can ask them to come on Sunday. I don't have to go to work on Sunday and I will cook a few dishes for you at home."

Ye Yongguo did not discuss it with her, but took the initiative to invite people to his house for dinner. Li Xiufen was actually unhappy.

But she also knew that Ye Yongguo was very proud. If she refused, he would lose face, so she gave in and let a few workers come on Sunday.

If it was in the past, if Li Xiufen asked to come on Sunday, Ye Yongguo might have postponed it to Sunday.

After all, it was just a meal, and it could be eaten any day. He just had to explain it to Lao Jiang and the others.

But now he had a lot of opinions about Li Xiufen. When Li Xiufen said to postpone it to Sunday, he felt that Li Xiufen was deliberately trying to save his face in front of his coworkers.

He was a grandfather, but he couldn't be the head of the family and couldn't make decisions at home. Even when he invited people to his house for a meal, he had to look at Li Xiufen's face. His coworkers must have laughed at him.

The anger that had been accumulated for a long time suddenly burst out, "Li Xiufen, look at what our family has become now, it's not like a home, I'm busy in the factory all day, I can't even drink a cup of hot water when I go home, no one cooks meals, and you still go to the canteen at your age, how many women are like you?"