Chapter 71 Little Lu's Points to Note
The second uncle, who had just been scolded by Lu's father and was hanging his head dejectedly, immediately got angry when he heard his daughter say that:
"Don't say that, your mother isn't that kind of person."
To everyone's surprise, Lu Sitian, who had always been so sweet, suddenly became anything but: "She's not that kind of person? How can she not be that kind of person?"
"Didn't she sneak away while you were out in the fields and I was at school?"
"Let her go, I don't care anyway."
"But she also took all our family's money!"
"Are you even a man? How can you have no backbone? She ran off with another man and you're still thinking about her..."
"Smack!"
Second Uncle slapped Lu Sitian across the face.
Lu Sitian covered her face and looked at him in disbelief: "You hit me? You actually hit me for that bitch..."
With a headache, Mr. Lu slammed his hand on the table again: "Fine, can't we just talk things out?"
“Sitian, no matter what, she’s your mother. At least she gave birth to you and gave you life. You can be unfilial to her, but you can’t scold her.”
"And you, Erdan, is your mouth on your feet or your butt? All you do is show off your hands, huh? Believe me or not, I'll break them off!"
Second Uncle smiled wryly: "Second Brother, Sitian was too young to remember anything back then. She only listened to the nonsense of those women in the village. Her mother really wasn't that kind of person."
Lu's mother couldn't hold back: "Why don't you just talk to the child nicely? Why did you have to hit him?"
She pulled Lu Sitian into her arms, her heart aching at the sight of the handprint on her face: "You really are something, the child doesn't know, you could have told her."
"You don't talk to her and just beat the child. Are you deliberately trying to turn the child into an enemy? What kind of father are you?"
My second uncle was speechless with accusations: "No, I, I..."
Mr. Lu said in a deep voice, "Stop with the 'you, you, you' and just tell me honestly what's wrong with your wife."
“If you don’t explain clearly, your daughter will always treat your wife as an enemy.”
"If you hit her again because of this, she'll treat you like an enemy too."
"Would you be happy and satisfied if you turned a perfectly good child into an enemy?"
My second uncle's face twitched for a moment, then he said in a low voice, "Her mother was a sent-down youth..."
Once those words were spoken, those who needed to understand understood.
Lu's mother looked at him with a complicated expression: "You guys are really..."
Mr. Lu remained silent with a sullen face.
He knew very well how remote his hometown was.
Not only were there few plots of land, but the land was also barren. Otherwise, if he could have survived in his hometown, he wouldn't have joined the army at the age of thirteen or fourteen.
The mountain boy, who was thirteen or fourteen years old and had never been to school and couldn't read a single character, had little knowledge or ideals. His initial purpose in joining the army was simply to fill his stomach.
Therefore, that educated youth must have been unable to survive after being sent to the countryside, which is why she had no choice but to marry Erdan, simply to survive.
So when they were able to leave later, they left without any hesitation.
She left Lu Erdan with two children.
At this moment, Lu's father felt deeply guilty.
As one of the few successful people in his hometown, he could only recruit people into the army if they met the requirements; he did nothing else for his hometown.
As a result, housing prices in other cities have reached several hundred or even thousands of yuan, while people back home are still struggling to put food on the table.
Old Lu spent the first half of his life fighting wars, and the second half of his life also spent in the military.
I want to do something for my hometown, but I can't think of anything I can do.
He had no choice but to wave his hand and say, "Let's go back to our hometown for the Spring Festival this year."
"ah?"
Everyone was stunned.
Lu's mother was so angry she wanted to hit him: "The New Year is just around the corner, what are you doing?"
"I really want to go back after the New Year when it's not so cold anymore."
She's been back to her hometown before, it's really a remote mountain village.
It never snows in winter.
In the dead of winter, with ice and snow everywhere, good heavens, people inside couldn't get out, and people outside couldn't get in.
Especially in shady places, the snow can stay there for two or three months without melting.
It must have taken a lot of effort for Lu Erdan and his daughter Lu Sitian to get out.
Mr. Lu is over sixty years old.
At your age, walking on mountain roads covered in ice and snow—if people knew you, they'd think you were homesick; if they didn't, they'd think you were deliberately causing trouble for your family back home.
When Lu's mother said that, Lu's father realized that he had misunderstood: "Wait until after the New Year, wait until after the New Year."
"Erdan, you and Sitian shouldn't go back. Just stay here for the New Year."
"Sitian is only sixteen years old. She's such a young child. Even if she wanted to be someone's nanny, they wouldn't want her."
"Why don't we send her to school?"
Lu Sitian frowned: "Me, I'm so old, why would I go back to school?"
Jiang Jianni laughed and said, "You're only sixteen, what's so big about that?"
"It's never too late to start learning, as long as you want to."
Lu's father waved his hand: "Aren't you in a hurry to make money? There are training courses now that teach people how to make money. If you don't want to go to school, you can go to one of those training courses."
Lu's mother also chimed in, "That's right."
"If you're going to work as a nanny, you'll at least need to know how to cook, right?"
"The meals of well-off families are not just a simple mix of radishes and cabbage like in our hometown. They eat all sorts of delicacies. If you want to be their nanny, you have to be able to do everything."
"You can't expect the host to teach you how to do it every time, can you?"
Lu Sitian thought it made sense.
However, after asking around, she discovered that the training course actually charged tuition, which immediately made her back out, and she decided to go work washing dishes in a restaurant instead.
She heard from the girls in the village that washing dishes could earn a decent amount of money, around seventy or eighty yuan a month.
Lu Sitian wanted to stay, but Lu Erdan insisted on leaving. After finally persuading him to stay, Jiang Jianni felt like she had been up for several nights in a row.
Unable to fall asleep after lying in bed that night, she nudged Lu Xiangyang: "Are you asleep?"
Lu Xiangyang sighed: "What do you think?"
Jiang Jianni chuckled, her hand wandering off to touch his stomach again: "Hey, Comrade Lu, your abs aren't as firm as they used to be."
"Once your leg is healed, you'd better hurry up and get back in shape."
Lu Xiangyang tried to grab her hands that were stirring up trouble but failed. His breathing gradually became heavier: "What will happen if you don't practice?"
Jiang Jianni deliberately leaned back, but immediately moved away when she sensed the change in Lu Xiangyang's body.
"Hey, Xiao Lu, Xiao Lu, watch your step!"
"You're a patient right now, you can't do anything reckless!"
Xiao Lu gritted his teeth: "Whose fault is it?"
Jiang Jianni chuckled, "Then, do you want to help?"
Lu Xiangyang thought this girl was clearly a vixen.
A nagging vixen.
Jiang Jianni's hand twitched slightly, and she asked in a coquettish voice, "Do you want it, Xiao Lu?"
Xiao Lu felt like dying. He gently bit her earlobe and whispered in her ear, "Jiang Jianni, you just wait."
Jiang Jianni suddenly felt a little regretful, but the die was cast and she had no choice.
After a while, several crumpled pieces of paper suddenly appeared under the bed.
The two embraced silently, without saying a word.
Not long after, Jiang Jianni remembered a question she had wanted to ask but had forgotten for some reason. She poked Lu Xiangyang's shoulder with her finger:
"Hey, Lu Xiangyang, tell me, what exactly is this 'educated youth' thing? Do you know any educated youth?"
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