Chapter 178 Lu Xiaolan's helplessness
"Have you thought of a reason for divorce?" Su Mo asked again.
Lu Xiaolan shook her head, "I haven't thought about it yet. I just have this idea. Since mother doesn't agree, I don't want to think about it anymore."
"Mom is right. Don't look at everything so clearly. Be a little confused, maybe you can live a good life." Lu Xiaolan said bitterly.
"But in the future, my third brother and his wife may have to suffer a little and endure their faces. If they ask for anything, you don't have to help them. Greed is hard to satisfy. If you help them once, there will be another time."
"You don't have to worry about me. I have thought it through and I won't wrong myself. If they dare to do anything to me, I'm not someone to be trifled with."
Su Mo didn't know what to say for a while. After all, this was her first time experiencing marriage.
This time is not like the later generations, where you can divorce on the grounds of broken relationship between husband and wife. Or you can just separate for two years and then sue.
At this time, if there is no suitable reason, the man will always disagree and drag you for ten or eight years. By then, things will be even worse.
Although she suspected that Yang Jingming was azoospermia, the medical conditions at that time could not be detected, and it seemed that it would not work to divorce on this ground.
According to the calculations of the Yang family, Xiaolan would not be allowed to divorce easily before finding a new backer. If you want to divorce, I am afraid you will have to bleed a lot.
Therefore, you still have to wait until you find a reason to get out smoothly.
"Xiao Lan, if you find it hard to stay in that house, come back to your mother's house more often. When your third brother comes back, I will talk to him and see if he can find any solution." Su Mo could only say this.
"Thank you, third sister-in-law." Lu Xiaolan was grateful in her heart. When her mother didn't understand her, she could only rely on her third sister-in-law.
"Third sister-in-law, I still have to pay 15 yuan to his family every month with my current salary. I don't want to pay so much now. What do you think I should say?"
Su Mo was stunned. She almost forgot about this. They separated, so they managed their own money. For a mother-in-law like Lu Xiaolan, she had to pay.
"Your previous dowry, you didn't give it to your mother-in-law, did you?"
Su Mo recalled that when the family was divided, Lu Qing'an said that he not only gave the betrothal gift to Lu Xiaolan, but also gave her 100 yuan as a dowry.
"No, I kept the money."
"I thought I would pay a maximum of 10 yuan a month in the future, just enough for food. I'm in the supply and marketing cooperative, and my mother-in-law still asks me to bring some things from time to time, but she never gives me money."
This made Su Mo feel troubled. It seemed that this was the trend of the times. Those who made money had to pay into the public treasury, unless their parents said they didn't have to pay.
"How about you buy some milk powder or something to drink, saying that you need to take care of your body, and that you don't have enough money to spend, so you can pay less?" Su Mo suggested.
Lu Xiaolan couldn't think of a good solution for a moment, so she said, "I'll try."
Besides Lu Xiaolan, Li Yue'e was also unable to sleep.
Seeing her tossing and turning, Lu Qing'an asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Yue'e thought about it and said, "Nothing."
If this old man knew that his daughter wanted a divorce, he would probably get anxious and angry.
"Why are you tossing and turning if nothing's wrong?" She was taking him for a fool. It didn't look like nothing was wrong.
"I said nothing was wrong." Li Yue'e yelled.
Lu Qing'an was startled, and instantly fell silent. He shouldn't have asked!
Lu Qing'an turned over, out of sight and out of mind, and continued to sleep.
On the morning of the third day of the Chinese New Year, Lu Xiaolan went back to the commune to work after breakfast, while Su Mo stayed at home to start knitting a sweater for Geng Changqing.
At noon, Ma Xiaojuan came to visit as expected and told Su Mo some things about the educated youth camp.
For example, Lin Xia went home for a successful blind date and wrote back a letter. When spring comes, she will come back to the city to get married.
For example, there was a male educated youth in the same batch as them, and his elder was actually a high-ranking official.
Ma Xiaojuan sighed for a while, the educated youth camp was really amazing.
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The three-day holiday passed quickly, and it was back to work in a blink of an eye.
On the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, the young men from various brigades who signed up for road construction also started to build roads.
People of this era are really very active in work. Every morning, you can see young men carrying tools to work.
Su Mo recorded the growth data of vegetables every day and did her research.
On February 22, the front page of the People's Daily published an important news that the leader of our country met with the head of the M country.
Some sensitive people noticed that the wind direction might be changing.
On February 28, the People's Daily reported that the two countries signed the "Joint Communiqué" in Haishi, marking the beginning of the normalization of relations between the two countries from confrontation. People
in the news industry are all shrewd people, and they immediately smelled something different. The Haishi Newspaper was even more quick to act. A week later, it began to serialize a translated novel from the M country in a remote place to test the waters.
Su Mo also wrote a letter to the editor of the Haishi Newspaper in March, saying that if translation was needed, she could help with the translation.
The editor did not disappoint her and sent her two novellas for translation. Su Mo spent two days translating and polishing the articles and sent them back. Half a month later, she received the translated manuscript of a novel and a remittance slip of 30 yuan.
The novel was a very famous novel in later generations. Su Mo had read it several times, so the translation was particularly smooth.
The editor first sent her about one-fifth of the content. The original manuscript was about 200,000 words. Su Mo basically translated it whenever she had time. After more than half a month, she finished translating the manuscript and sent it back.
By the time Su Mo finished translating the novel, it was already mid-April. The ground had begun to thaw, and it was time to prepare for spring ploughing.
The brigade also distributed tractors, and the tractor operator was the youngest son of the brigade leader Lu Baoguo. The young man was only 18 years old, but he was smart and quick-witted. After three months of learning, he was proficient in basic operations.
When Su Mo went to work, she found that he had already started turning the soil in the field with the tractor.
Spring plowing was about to begin, so the task of sending Su Mo to work was replaced by Lu Boming from Li Yue'e.
After the canal was put into use last year, the brigade planted a lot of rice, and the yield was very good. The leaders of the Agricultural Science Institute also suggested that they plant more rice. After discussion among the brigade cadres, it was decided to continue to increase the rice planting area this year.
Planting rice is much more troublesome than planting wheat. After turning the soil, you need to add water to soften it and harrow it again.
The seeds need to be germinated and raised first, and then the seedlings are planted in the fields after they have grown to a certain size. Planting rice is a day-long job, and you can't even stand up straight.