I'm back in 1990

Chapter 316: Iron-Capped Moutai

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When he got home, his aunt was still waiting for him in the living room, worried that he might have drunk too much outside. She only went back to her room after seeing him return.

Before going back to his room, he reminded him, "Take a shower quickly to get rid of the smell of alcohol, and go to bed early tonight!"

"Okay! Auntie, you can go and rest now!"

Back in her room, Yu Xiang was reading a book.

"Dr. Yu, you're working hard again!"

"Hey! You're back!"

Yu Xiang put down her book and warmly greeted Huang Xiaochuan, taking his coat and bag from him.

Huang Xiaochuan was startled. What was going on? This wasn't usually the case.

Huang Xiaochuan stopped Yu Xiang: "No, what are you doing?"

"The book says that this is how a wife should greet her husband when he comes home!"

Huang Xiaochuan immediately sensed something was wrong and quickly asked, "What book are you reading?"

"Ji Mei lent me a popular romance novel. She said we didn't know how to date, so she told me to learn how to date from the book."

"What? Help her out, okay? She should mind her own business!" Huang Xiaochuan couldn't help but complain when he heard that it was Yu Xiang's best friend Ji Mei who came up with the bad idea.

Ji Mei, this older single woman, only recently found a boyfriend, and it's only been a few days! And she's already giving advice on how to date, is she kidding me?

Huang Xiaochuan picked up the book Yu Xiang was reading and looked at it. Holy crap, it was Cen Kailun.

Huang Xiaochuan immediately said to Yu Xiang earnestly, "Dr. Yu, we are modern women who work in the medical field. We shouldn't read books that harm young girls. Besides, can you learn about love from books?"

Besides, what others say doesn't matter. What matters is that we both feel good about it. Isn't it good the way things are now? We're in perfect harmony, inseparable, and I'm working hard at my job too!

Embarrassed and annoyed, Yu Xiang immediately took action, preventing Huang Xiaochuan from continuing. Otherwise, who knows what kind of nonsense he might have said.

While rubbing his lower back, Huang Xiaochuan complained, "Dr. Yu, you're getting stronger and stronger. Look how you've pinched my back; it's all bruised."

Yu Xiang looked at it and realized that she had indeed used too much force, and couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

"Couldn't you have dodged it?"

Huang Xiaochuan was on the verge of tears: "Where can I hide? Your hand speed is lightning fast, and more importantly, it's steady, accurate, and ruthless. No wonder you have the hand to wield a scalpel; you came in a flash. I really have nowhere to hide!"

Yu Xiang burst out laughing.

"Come here, let me rub it for you."

To be honest, the massage was quite comfortable, so Huang Xiaochuan got a little carried away.

"You can also scratch my back while you're at it."

"A little to the left, a little more to the left, a little bit down, yes, yes, right here, feels good!" Huang Xiaochuan was so comfortable he was almost moaning.

As Yu Xiang scratched, she suddenly leaned close to Huang Xiaochuan and sniffed him.

"Go take a shower right now, you smell like alcohol and the restaurant!"

Sigh! His wife is great in every way, except she's a bit of a germaphobe. She won't let him into bed without taking a shower, so Huang Xiaochuan had no choice but to obediently head to the bathroom.

After taking a shower, Huang Xiaochuan came out drying his hair. Yu Xiang took the large bath towel and stood behind Huang Xiaochuan to help him carefully dry his hair.

"Yu Wei invited us to his house for dinner on New Year's Day."

Huang Xiaochuan turned his head back: "Is he inviting me to dinner or planning to hire me as his chef?"

Yu Xiang turned Huang Xiaochuan's head back: "Don't move. Don't flatter yourself. Yu Wei said he's going to buy some dishes from the restaurant to take home and cook a few more at home. He and Tang Yuan can cook a few dishes now, and he said he wants you to try his cooking."

Huang Xiaochuan muttered, "Really?"

"You'll know when you get there. Look at you, still judging people with your old-fashioned perspective."

New Year's Day in 94 fell on a Saturday, which meant that we could have a two-day weekend together with the following Sunday. This was a rare two-day weekend before the two-day weekend system was implemented in 95.

Yu Wei put on an apron and plunged into the kitchen, with Tang Yuan helping him inside.

In the living room, Huang Xiaochuan peeled an apple, handed half to Yu Xiang, and put the other half into his own mouth.

Huang Xiaochuan ate an apple while looking around the living room.

"These two seem to be quite diligent, huh? Their house is kept very clean."

Yu Xiang noticed it too. The windows were spotless, and the wooden floors were all waxed and gleaming. Yu Xiang was very satisfied with this. She couldn't stand dirt and mess. In the past, when she came, she would help tidy up if she couldn't stand it. This time, she didn't have to lift a finger. The young couple did a great job.

Just then, Tang Yuan came out carrying the dishes. She happened to hear Huang Xiaochuan's words and smiled as she explained the reason.

"This was done by an auntie I hired. She comes to clean for us once a week, and she just left before you arrived."

Yu Xiang felt a little embarrassed. Luckily, she hadn't praised the two of them earlier, or she would have been teased by the little man again.

However, Huang Xiaochuan seemed to approve of it.

"That's great! If you can't do the housework, then hire someone to do it. First, it will give them an extra source of income, and second, it will allow them to use their time where it's needed more."

"That's great! If you can't do the housework, then hire someone to do it. First, it will give them an extra source of income, and second, it will allow them to use their time where it's needed more."

Huang Xiaochuan said this because he also wanted to find two or three live-in nannies, but his aunt rejected the idea.

According to my aunt, there's no need to waste money; she can handle things around the house.

Huang Xiaochuan couldn't persuade her otherwise. Considering that his aunt was not yet fifty and couldn't stay idle, Huang Xiaochuan didn't bring up the matter again. His grandmother didn't mind Huang Xiaochuan doing this, but she was worried about not finding a suitable person.

When Huang Xiaochuan visited Yu Wei's house today, he decided to hire a few live-in nannies as a way to prepare for his future marriage and independent living with Yu Xiang.

After getting married, Huang Xiaochuan plans to move out, but he can start preparing for this in advance, as a good live-in nanny is not something that can be found on the spot.

Yu Wei is quite self-aware; luckily, he bought some dishes from the restaurant, otherwise Huang Xiaochuan definitely wouldn't have had enough to eat with just those few dishes he made.

Under the pressure of Yu Xiang's glare, Huang Xiaochuan could only lie and praise Yu Wei's cooking. To prove that he wasn't lying, he even ate a few big bites to show that he was telling the truth.

After dinner, Yu Xiang and Tang Yuan cleaned up the dishes and went to the kitchen. Yu Wei sat down on the sofa and refused to move, so Huang Xiaochuan had to search for tea leaves in his house by himself.

Drinking tea is not a hobby for young people, but Huang Xiaochuan loved tea in his previous life and now has the financial means to do so, so his home and office are filled with good tea, and he spends a lot on tea, with some tea costing tens of thousands of yuan per kilogram.

Once, my aunt used his tea leaves, which were worth more than 10,000 yuan, to make more than a dozen tea eggs. Fortunately, he didn't use them all, only a little over 50 grams. Even so, each tea egg was worth 100 or 200 yuan!

Huang Xiaochuan didn't say a word, nor did he intend to tell his aunt how much the tea cost; he was happy as long as she was happy.

Unfortunately, after searching Yu Wei's house for a long time, Huang Xiaochuan couldn't even find a single tea leaf.

Question: "Yu Wei, why don't you usually keep some tea at home?"

"I don't drink that, and nobody gives me any, so of course I don't have any at home."

Since starting work, Yu Wei has been going to Huang Xiaochuan's house less and less often. Before, he would try to get some good tea, cigarettes, or wine from Huang Xiaochuan, but now that he doesn't go there much, these things are naturally gone. Huang Xiaochuan wouldn't be so shameless as to offer things to his brother-in-law. He's already won over his sister, so why bother with that?

However, Huang Xiaochuan was thinking that the Chinese New Year was just a month away, and his father-in-law and mother-in-law would be coming to Shanghai to celebrate the New Year. His brother-in-law's family had nothing, so how could that be?

Huang Xiaochuan frowned: "I'll have someone send some tea, cigarettes, and alcohol over tomorrow."

"Huh? Really? This miserly guy has laid an egg?"

Huang Xiaochuan thought that he was at Yu Wei's house, and he forcefully suppressed his rising anger. "Look at what this unlucky brother-in-law is saying."

A stingy rooster laying eggs? Even roosters don't lay eggs, let alone a stingy rooster. It's clearly a self-deprecating joke.

"You think this is for you? Didn't you say Uncle Yu and Aunt Zheng are coming to Shanghai next month for the Chinese New Year? I'm giving it to them as a gift, it has nothing to do with you, don't try to get involved."

Yu Weicai didn't think that way. Sending it to his house was no different from giving it to him.

"Send over a case of the Moutai with the metal cap that you've been keeping at home."

"You think you're so picky? I'll tell you again, that's not my wine, that's my uncle's wine."

Yu Wei was eyeing Zeng Jiahua's collection of wines, which were Zeng Jiahua's treasures. There was a note on the box that read, "Valuable items, please do not touch." This note was for his aunt to see, to prevent her from taking it to soak bayberries. There were eight boxes in total, four boxes from 87 and four boxes from 90, with six bottles in each box.

Yu Wei discovered the liquor when he went to the basement to get more, and that's when he set his sights on it.

"Let me clarify, it's not that I want to drink it, it's that my dad likes to drink this kind of liquor."

Huang Xiaochuan was a bit of a headache. His father-in-law had already been brought up, so it seemed he had no choice but to send the wine. However, he definitely wouldn't touch the few cases of Moutai with iron caps that his uncle had, so he would have to buy them from outside. He would leave this matter to Jiang Bixing later.

The iron-capped Moutai was produced until 1996, so it may not be easy to buy an earlier vintage; you can only try your luck.