Chapter 63

To be honest, Sun's mother really looked down on Lin Hongna, her daughter-in-law.

Not to mention that she came from a humble family, the moral standards of Lin Hongna's family alone made Sun's mother sneer.

Sun's mother had a good family background. Her father was the director of the town grain station, her brother on her mother's side was the director of the town public security bureau, and she married the director of the light bulb factory. The old director of the light bulb factory retired in a few years. Now, among the leadership team of the factory, Sun's father, who also served as the factory secretary, was the most popular. When the old director left, it was likely that Sun's father would take over.

Sun's mother was about to become the factory director's wife. When she was feeling proud, God hit her with a heavy hammer, which she really couldn't accept.

Sun's mother had one son and two daughters in her life. The eldest and second daughters were married. She loved Sun Jialiang, her only son.

The daughter-in-law that Sun's mother chose for Sun Jialiang was either from a prominent family and a good match for Sun's family, or from a scholarly family and considerate. At the very least, she was a girl with a clean family background and easy to handle.

Sun's mother never expected that her son had such poor vision that he was designed to marry Lin Hongna, a girl from the countryside. There was nothing special about a girl

from the countryside, as long as she had good character, appearance, education and work.

But when she met Lin Hongna, who was not good in every aspect, Sun's mother didn't smile at all.

Since Lin Hongna was pregnant with her grandson, her mother reluctantly agreed to let her in, but it did not mean that she accepted her as the daughter-in-law of the Sun family. When Lin

Hongna came in with a big belly, her mother set five house rules for her without hesitation.

1. Get up at six o'clock every morning and clean the house from top to bottom.

2. When guests come to the house, you must be polite and pay attention to the degree of serving tea and water. The tea cannot be too full or too hot, only 80% full. Picky, picking teeth, and smacking lips are not allowed at the dinner table.

3. The mother is in charge of the Sun family. Lin Hongna does not work. All expenses for the baby in her belly are borne by the Sun family. She has 10 yuan of pocket money a month, and it is gone after she spends it.

4. When Lin Hongna married into the Sun family, she should have less contact with those messy relatives from her natal family.

5. The Sun family puts good business first. If there is any gossip outside, Lin Hongna will pretend not to hear it. Don't even think about making a fuss. No one in the Sun family will damage the family interests for such a harmless little thing.

To be fair, except for the first and the last of the five house rules set by Sun's mother, the other rules are acceptable.

Unfortunately, Lin Hongna is not an ordinary person.

She was reborn, and she went through a lot of hardships to snatch the good marriage of her cousin. She is waiting to enjoy the happiness in the Sun family.

How can she let Sun's mother control her?

Especially when grandmother spoke to her, that arrogant and picky tone of condescending and looking down on her made Lin Hongna feel depressed and resentful, but she had nowhere to vent.

Lin Hongna's chest was about to explode, and her stomach was throbbing with pain. She wanted to make a scene like a country woman and go crazy at grandson's house, but the remaining rationality in her mind pulled her back. She

felt relieved after making a scene, but she could not expect the glory and wealth in the second half of her life.

Impatience leads to chaos in big plans. Lin Hongna warned herself to be patient. Grandmother was almost fifty years old and she could only live for a few more years. She wanted to see how long this old man could be arrogant!

Lin Hongna cheered herself up and continued to work as a servant in the Sun family with a low eyebrow.

During the Chinese New Year, the Sun family had many distinguished guests coming and going. It was already the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and there were still guests coming to the door.

The security section chief of the light bulb factory and his wife brought canned fruits to wish the Sun family on their old age.

Grandma was sitting on the sofa, holding a fine porcelain tea cup and just raising her eyes.

Lin Hongna hurriedly brought tea and water, served snacks and candies, and sent the teapot to her grandma in a flattering manner.

"Mom, you drink tea."

Grandmother didn't say much, nodded slightly, picked up the tea cup and took a sip, and then smiled and chatted with the guests about home affairs.

After the guests left, the floor was covered with melon seed shells and candy peels, and the tea table was also a mess. Lin Hongna's face twitched, and she took the broom to sweep the trash can. While sweeping, she cursed in her heart that her grandson's mother had a shiny face and was not as clean as her husband!

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After the sixth day of the New Year, the county public security bureau began to work. Gu Shian rode his bicycle over mountains and ridges to go to work every day, which was really hard.

Lin Yao saw it all, and she could accept someone kissing her from time to time at night.

As a result, she indulged someone too much.

These days, when it gets dark, Gu Mancang and his wife go back to their room to rest. Dongzi plays around in his room, reads comic books, and soon falls asleep on his back.

At first, Deputy Director Gu was quite obedient, but Lin Yao was not obedient when she slept. After the lights were turned off, everything was silent in the deep mountains, and the only sound in her ears was the creaking of the cold wind hitting the door.

Lin Yao had a good sleep quality, and her face would turn red after a few minutes of sleep.

In the middle of the night, when she was half asleep and half awake, Lin Yao always felt that someone was kissing her gently. When she opened her eyes, before she could react, a hot and pleasant breath brushed past her ears.

"Yaoyao, are you awake?"

Lin Yao said "hmm" in a daze, and someone smiled softly, and then gentle kisses fell on her lips one after another...

For several nights, Lin Yao was like a small boat falling into the rough sea, so swaying, and when she woke up in the morning, her waist was sore and her legs were weak that she couldn't get out of bed.

Lin Yao fell into deep thought. This guy runs dozens of miles to and from work every day, and at night...

why shouldn't she hurry up and have a baby?

If this goes on, she will have to separate from Deputy Director Gu.

I don't know what happened during the Spring Festival this year. It snowed every two or three days. It just stopped from New Year's Eve to the second day of the New Year, and it snowed again on the morning of the sixth day. The mountain roads were muddy and difficult to walk on after the snow. After walking a few steps, your feet would be covered in mud. The house was also very damp. It hadn't seen the sun for a long time. The mountains were foggy at night. The fog, coupled with the gloomy, windy and snowy weather, made it difficult to stay at home.

The day when all the factories in Yunshui County will resume operations is far away, and the disaster has not yet passed. I heard that some disaster victims in the north ate Guanyin soil, which tasted like flour, but you couldn't poop after eating it, and some people even burst their stomachs.

Well, it was all because of the lack of food.

The people in the county exchanged fine grains for coarse grains, such as corn flour, sorghum rice, and sweet potato puddings. Some even exchanged white liquor for sweet potato puddings. They exchanged whatever they could eat. The

Sun family also cooked sweet potatoes in the bottom of the pot and steamed cakes in the big pot. In fact, Sun Jialiang's uncle was in charge of the grain station in the town, so they could still eat corn cakes and salted fish tofu pudding.

Lin Hongna has someone to rely on, so no one in the Sun family will be hungry.

Lin Hongna eats a lot, but Lin Daguo's family in the countryside is unlucky.

There is a big canteen in front of the old Lin family, but they have no sense of crisis at all. They eat and drink lavishly and spend money whenever they have it.

Now it's good. The canteen of the commune is gone, and each family in the village eats their own food.

Lin Daguo only has a small bag of black flour steamed buns, which Lin Hongwu stole and exchanged for good things on the black market.

How can such a small amount of food be enough to eat.

Lin Daguo's family of three don't know how to save money. When they run out of food, they think of going to the town to find a good son-in-law to beg for money.

Sun Jialiang gave them money twice, and then he was never seen again.

Not to mention the grandson's family, with the great Buddha of grandson's mother suppressing her, Lin Hongna dared not act rashly. Even if she didn't care about her natal family, she couldn't watch them starve to death. Besides,

Lin Hongwu brought her a message that Lin Daguo and Li Aifeng were planning to take a broken bowl and go to the town to beg for food.

Don't ask why, just ask that we have a miserable life, the daughter-in-law and son-in-law don't care about us, so we can only beg for food.

Lin Hongna was almost furious, so she had to take out her own private money and throw it to Lin Hongwu. Lin Hongwu went to the black market to buy three or four catties of sorghum flour, two catties of black flour, two catties of sorghum flour, and twenty catties of sweet potatoes in a backpack and carried them back to Linjia Village.

With these rice and grains, Lin Daguo's family finally had peace.

Although this amount of food was not much, every household was short of food. They had to eat two thin meals a day so that they could eat wild vegetables in the spring. On

the eighth day of the first lunar month, it snowed again in the middle of the night and continued to snow until the next afternoon.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, after eating a meal of dried sweet potatoes, Lin Yao looked over and saw that the snowflakes had stopped flying. The old house had accumulated more than two inches of snow. The shrubs on both sides of the mountain road were withered and covered with white snow, and they looked lively. The bamboo forest in the distance was covered with white snow. There were also traces of small animal footprints on the mountain road, extending all the way to the depths of the mountain. It seemed that they were left by animals that came out to forage in the middle of the night.

Wild rabbits are easiest to catch after the snow. Gu Shidong put on a large cotton jacket and looked at himself in the small mirror in the room. He felt that it did not match his handsome face, so he took it off and threw it on the bed. He found his brother's discarded and improved small military coat and put it on. It was perfect and fit his image perfectly.

The brat fetched water, pressed down the hair on his head, grinned at the mirror, and showed off like a peacock.

"Sister-in-law, I'm going to the back mountain to catch rabbits. How about this outfit?"

Lin Yao's mouth twitched. She complimented him a few times and wondered, "We have rabbits at home."

Why go to the back mountain to catch rabbits ?

"Oh, sister-in-law, why are you so stupid? Our rabbits are only a little big. We can't eat them when we see them. The rabbits in the back mountain have been through a winter and are plump. Catch them and stew them with potatoes. They are delicious."

Lin Yao was also greedy after hearing this.

The brother and sister drooled at the little rabbits in the rabbit nest.

Zhang Cuilan laughed and cursed through the window, but didn't come out.

Gu Mancang got up early, took a big broom, swept the snow off the rabbit nest, shoveled out the feces in the rabbit nest and buried it in the garden, and swept the gravel road in the yard clean. The snow was piled at the corner of the wall. Gu Shidong pestered his father to go to the back mountain to catch rabbits.

Gu Mancang agreed happily.

Lin Yao also wanted to go, but her thin arms and legs made the little boy dislike her.

"Sister-in-law, why are you going? It's so cold in the mountains. When the wind blows, snow falls from the branches. If one leg is stuck in it, the other leg can't be pulled out. You just wait at home."

Lin Yao immediately said that it would be fine for her to wait at home.

Gu Shidong laughed and ran away happily following his father.

Zhang Cuilan was tidying up the closet in the house and found two pieces of fine cotton fabric, one with azalea flowers on a yellow background and the other with a date red color. The girl was pregnant and she wanted to sew a small mattress for Gu Chunmei, which would be useful when her eldest grandson was born.

The little rabbits at home were so hungry that they were clinging to the wall, causing the big orange rabbit to jump around and meow.

Lin Yao quickly cut the cabbage leaves and threw them into the rabbit nest, watching the little rabbits feasting on them. The nest had eight pups, and the mother rabbit was pregnant again. In the middle of winter, the family had stored a cart of cabbages, some of which were sent by Zhang's uncle and some of which Lin Yao bought through connections. She calculated that in half a month, the rabbits would be ready to be out of the cage, and she was grinning at the rabbits.

Gu Shian, who came home from work, was carrying a bicycle on his back.

Yes, Deputy Director Gu came back carrying a bicycle. After the snow, the mountains were covered with snow, and the bicycle could not start at all. After work, the old director specially approved Big Head Brother to drive the jeep in the bureau to take Gu Shian to the mountain pass.

Big Head Brother was unable to help him for the rest of the journey, so Gu Shian carried the bicycle back by himself. No matter how careful he was, he would inevitably walk unsteadily while carrying a bicycle, and fall down or something like that.

Of course, Gu Shian walked steadily, and he didn't fall down or anything like that, but his rolled-up sleeves were rubbed with mud, and his handsome face was also covered with mud. Deputy Director Gu, who used to have a cold and handsome face and an expressionless face, walked over like a country boy, covered in dust and dirt.

Lin Yao wanted to laugh when he saw this, but a wave of nausea and vomiting surged in his chest.