Lin Lan has no time to pay attention to her now.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, not only do schools start to open, but publicity work also begins and the busy farming season also has to be put on the schedule, so no one has much free time.

Who cares if Han Jinyu finds a date? Who does she think she is?

On the fourteenth day, Han Qingsong borrowed the brigade's mule and took his family to the county. He wanted to buy a sewing machine for Lin Lan and take the children for a stroll in the county.

This time, Mai Sui and Er Wang went straight to the bookstore. They could buy several books with the New Year's rewards and New Year's money.

Before leaving, Sanwang reluctantly gave Mai Sui five cents as compensation for the damage he had done to Mai Sui's notebook.

Mai Sui poked him with a finger and said, "Forget it, I won't make this an exception next time."

Sanwang happily put the money away immediately.

For the first time ever, Xiaowang did not stick to Lin Lan, but instead wanted to follow his third brother.

Lin Lan feels that Xiaowang has grown a lot compared to last year. He is more cheerful and likes playing with his brothers and sisters. This is a good thing.

She put two dimes in Xiaowang's pocket so that he could buy some snacks.

Sanwang took Xiaowang aside and grumbled for a while, and Xiaowang took out his own two cents to join in the fun.

Sanwang: "So little?" He thought that his mother must give Xiaowang the same amount as his brothers and sisters, not to mention the two kowtows. He muttered: "It's not even as much as me. It seems that mother is not partial to you. Maybe you are the one who got it."

Xiaowang blinked, looking innocent, and didn't understand what he said.

Sanwang pocketed the money and took Xiaowang's hand, "Let's go play with big brother."

Lin Lan thought that Da Wang had become much more sensible after being beaten, and he would definitely not take his two younger brothers to that kind of place, so she just gave them a few words of warning and let them play by themselves.

Anyway, the county town is not big, and Xiaowang doesn't run around, so it's okay as long as Dawang is leading him.

Da Wang naturally didn't dare to go to those places again. After all, Director Han had already busted their lair.

He carried some dry food and took his two younger brothers shopping. Anyway, they didn't like reading and they couldn't buy books even if they had money. The most they could do was watch movies, buy toys and candies.

There was a disagreement when watching a movie. Sanwang wanted to watch the war movie "Tunnel Warfare", but Xiaowang shook his head and said, "Mom said my eyesight is not good, let's listen to the opera."

He pointed to the door opposite.

Although Sanwang learned some ghost howls from the radio, it doesn't mean that he likes to listen to opera. What he hates most is a group of people who dither and sing until they are suffocated by one word.

Who wants to listen to opera when there are war movies to watch?

"Listen to my eldest brother." Sanwang was sure that Dawang didn't like listening to opera, and Dawang also liked fighting.

Dawang looked at Sanwang and then at Xiaowang.

Xiao Wang raised his pretty face and smiled at his elder brother with big, watery eyes. "Brother, what are you talking about?"

Da Wang: "..." What are you doing following me? You little brat.

He took a fierce look at the entrance where the movie was shown, turned around and said calmly, "Listen to the opera."

It sounds a bit like there is no point in living.

Xiao Wang jumped up happily and clapped his hands: "Ahhh, that's great! Go buy tickets!"

Although they have money to watch movies and listen to plays together, they don’t have enough time. Besides, they still have to save money to buy toys.

When buying the tickets, the conductor looked at the three of them and frowned. He had never seen such young boys come to listen to him before.

Other people are either dating or their parents are leading the group, but in this case, the older brother is leading the two little kids.

Da Wang: "My parents are inside."

The man was originally a little confused, but now that he had a reason, he didn't care anymore and simply sold him a ticket.

There have been movies and plays showing from before the Chinese New Year until now. Most of the people who come are from the city, and there are very few from the countryside, so tickets are not in short supply.

Da Wang had to buy a ticket because he was tall, San Wang just squatted a little, and Xiao Wang couldn't jump far enough, so the three brothers entered with one ticket.

Sanwang was a little resistant, "Brother, can I go to the movies by myself?"

Dawang: “No.”

Sanwang didn't dare to say anything and followed Xiaowang in obediently.

He could flirt with his mother, bully his sister, and coax his brother, but he dared not act out with his eldest brother. Since he followed his eldest brother, he had to listen to the opera when his eldest brother said so.

Especially during the Chinese New Year, because he asked Uncle Qingyun if he wanted to be his mother's boyfriend, his father was fine, but he was severely beaten by his eldest brother that night.

Oh, the pain made his butt numb all night.

After getting beaten, he quickly realized one thing: his mother's man or boyfriend can only be his father.

Thinking of this, he sighed.

The opera performed this time is "The White-Haired Girl".

Sanwang: "Why isn't it Yang Zirong? If Yang Zirong comes, what will happen to Huang Shiren?"

Da Wang reached out and pressed his head, signaling him to be quiet and not disturb his sleep!

When they sang "The north wind is blowing, the snowflakes are flying~~" Sanwang couldn't help but complain: "If it were A-Qing's wife, she would have slapped them back a long time ago, what the hell is flying!"

Someone in front of him turned around and glared at him.

Xiao Wang raised his index finger towards him: "Tsk~~"

Sanwang: “…” It felt like there was a nail on my butt. It was more uncomfortable than attending class.

If I had known earlier, I would not have let Xiaowang join in for the sake of a few cents. Now I am asking for trouble.

Xiaowang listened happily. He was short, so it didn't matter if he stood up. He even used his two little hands to gesture along.

Sanwang suddenly had an idea. He thought that it would be okay for him and his elder brother to go to the movies, leave his younger brother here to listen to the opera, and then pick him up after the movie.

Anyway, he is so engrossed that he won't run around.

He pulled Da Wang's arm, leaned over and whispered a few words.

Da Wang opened his hands and covered his face and pressed him into the seat. It's all your fault! You gave me another dirty idea!

After finally waiting until the show was over, Sanwang jumped up and shouted, "Okay, let's go!"

Xiaowang: "And more~~"

Sanwang: “No more.”

It's a break and there's still half time to go.

Sanwang refused to listen and tried to fool Xiaowang.

Xiaowang pouted.

Da Wang was about to say something, but San Wang grabbed Xiao Wang and ran, "Oh, we still have to buy a car, how could you forget? Let's go quickly, or it will get dark soon. We have been listening all day, and our parents must be worried."

Xiaowang was fascinated by the story, but since he was young, he had no concept of time.

When he heard that it was dark and his parents couldn't find him, he became anxious and ran away after Sanwang immediately.

Dawang: “…”

Finally leaving the theater, Da Wang took a deep breath and felt like he was alive again.

But he showed nothing on the surface, and his face remained expressionless.

Sanwang, on the other hand, was singing like a liberated peasant slave, jumping up and down with joy: "The door gods carry big swords, and no ghosts can get in..."

Several people outside laughed and said, "This kid sings strangely...interestingly."

Sanwang: I just think of it as you guys complimenting me on how good my singing is.

Da Wang: "How about you go and listen to another show?"

Sanwang pulled Xiaowang up and said, "Let's go, big brother, go buy us some guns!"

Da Wang took them to a place that specialized in selling toys and stationery. These things were rather expensive, and only well-off families would buy them for their children, so no tickets were required.

Da Wang and San Wang originally wanted to buy a toy gun, but when they asked, they found out it cost eight yuan per gun.

Sanwang: Why don’t you go and grab it? ! !

Then they looked at the car.

No matter how old boys are, they are always interested in cars and guns.

When I asked, it cost five dollars and six cents.

Sanwang: Can I sell me to you?

Xiao Wang pointed at a music box and wanted that one.

Sanwang: "Don't ask. We can't afford it even if we sell it."

When Xiaowang heard that it was very expensive, he obediently refused it. He took out his harmonica and tried to play the north wind one, while letting his elder brother choose their toys.

Anyway, he had already listened to the opera and was very satisfied.

Da Wang counted their money. From the money they earned from kowtowed to their parents twice and going out to visit relatives and friends and taking exams, the total was just over two yuan. This was in addition to the money San Wang earned from being someone's boyfriend.

Alas, the money I won was confiscated.

Finally, he gritted his teeth and replaced the gun with a slingshot, and bought a car for his younger brother. He couldn't afford the older one, so he could only buy a pull-back car, and bought a frog for Xiaowang that jumped when you pressed it, so that the two brothers could play together.

The pull-back car is very mini, but when you press the button it will go backwards, and when you release it it will rumble forward, so kids love it.

Even the children at home have never seen little frogs, so they are rare things.

The two younger brothers were very satisfied.

It was a bit difficult to choose a slingshot. Da Wang liked a good one at first sight. It was not one of those crudely made ones, but one with a top-quality hardwood body, a translucent double-strand beige rubber band, and a pure cowhide toe cap in the middle. It felt good and was very elastic.

Adding up all the money, there was still a shortfall of five cents.

Either don't have the frog, or get a regular slingshot.

Xiaowang saw his elder brother standing there without saying a word, his brows furrowed, and he seemed to be in trouble.

He stopped playing the harmonica and asked Sanwang what was going on.

Sanwang whispered, "I don't have enough money." He also motioned him to keep his voice down so that others wouldn't hear him making a joke about wanting to buy something without any money.

Xiao Wang didn't play the harmonica either, and pointed at the little frog, "I don't want it anymore."

After hearing what he said, Da Wang immediately asked for the ordinary slingshot.

The salesperson found these three brothers very interesting. The eldest brother had a stern face and didn't say a word. The black boy with a crescent-shaped forehead wanted to jump up to the sky. The youngest, who was fair and tender, was pretty and never let go of his harmonica.

He smiled and said, "Okay, I'll give them all to you."

Da Wang looked at him with surprise in his eyes, but also confusion. After all, how could a salesperson make the decision?

The salesperson nodded: "I can."

He got these toys, and his boss allowed him to sell them here, so naturally he had the final say. Well, people with connections are so willful.

The three children were immediately happy, and everyone was happy.

Although I didn't buy any candied haws, I couldn't take them home to show off because no one in the toy village had anything like them.

Sanwang jumped for joy.

Xiao Wang smiled and said, "Little Third Brother, you are a big frog."

Sanwang immediately chased after him and bit him, making "quack quack" sounds, which made Xiaowang giggle.

When we went to meet at the supply and marketing cooperative at the appointed time, our parents were nowhere to be seen. After a while, we saw them returning side by side.

Sanwang had sharp eyes and saw that they were so close to each other, so they must have been holding hands just now.

hey-hey.

Because the children all went out to play, Han Qingsong found that he and his wife were the only ones left, so he had to take her out for a walk. The two of them walked along the street and bought some candied haws.

Although he didn't say anything, Lin Lan knew that this was to satisfy her request for a date with her boyfriend.

Seeing the children coming over, they went to buy a sewing machine, Feiyan brand, spending a total of 155 yuan, and also bought some needles, threads and other accessories.

Erwang and Maisui also picked out their favorite books. They were both happy and sad.

That's how it is when buying things. You think you have money but you see something better. When you buy something, you will inevitably have to go through a painful struggle and make a choice. In the end, you will sigh "I don't have enough money" and have to settle for the next best thing.

It was already evening when the sewing machine was pulled back, and the villagers were busy preparing dinner.

When they heard that Lin Lan's family had brought back the sewing machine, many people dropped what they were doing and came to see what kind of machine it was.

When Han Qingsong first started bringing back delicious food, some people were jealous, but later on, there were more and more delicious food, and people couldn't stop being jealous.

The coal was brought back for grilling and eating, and then a large truckload of grain, oil, rice and flour was brought back. Now even a sewing machine was bought.

It's amazing!

Many people find that unknowingly, the housewife they once looked down upon has become prosperous and they can't even catch up with her.

Some people are bound to be jealous, but they have no choice but to say sour words.

"Look at him, he's not the director for nothing, he's gained so many benefits in just a few months."

"And that woman, she used to be so noisy, jumping into the river, hanging herself, drinking pesticides, nothing she didn't do. Now she's so different, sending the kids to school, doing publicity, she's really a different person."

"Everyone has his own destiny."

In the crowd there was a little girl who looked to be in her early teens, with dry yellow hair and a pretty face. She stood on tiptoe and looked at them curiously.

She first looked at the sewing machine, then her eyes moved between Han Qingsong and Lin Lan, with an incredible look in her eyes.

Another girl in simple and clean clothes came over and took her hand, "Caihua, what are you looking at?"

"Yanyan, look, Director Han's family bought a sewing machine."

Yanyan stood on tiptoe to look, and just then Han Qingsong looked towards them. His serious and stern expression frightened her a little, "Their family is really powerful."

"That's all. You'll be better than them." The girl named Caihua curled her lips with a look of disdain.

Yanyan blushed and quickly pulled her to stop her from talking nonsense and making fun of her. How could a poor girl like her compare to Director Han?

Cauliflower said seriously: "I won't lie to you."

Yanyan's attention was attracted by Mai Sui. She saw that Mai Sui was wearing a plaid jacket, a bright red scarf on her head, and a ponytail instead of the small braid that the country people wore. It looked very strange.

But Mai Sui didn't feel shy, instead she was very open and was reading a book to Er Wang and Lin Lan. I don't know what Er Wang said, but her smile was so bright and sunny.

She is so beautiful!

Mai Sui was already handsome, and now he was dressed neatly. Especially after Lin Lan changed his temperament, he looked generous and decent, with clear eyes and a bright smile. He looked beautiful no matter how you looked at him.

The adults looked at Han Qingsong, Lin Lan, and the sewing machine. The girls all stared at Mai Sui, and some stared at Erwang, praising him for being a handsome student. The boys stared at the toys in Dawang and Sanwang's hands!

Slingshot!

Car!

Little frog!

The things that could only be seen in pictures and heard from the educated youth actually came true to them!

How can it not make people jealous?

"Da Wang, come down and play!" the boys started shouting.

Da Wang depends on Lin Lan.

Lin Lan smiled and said, "Go ahead and play. But you must be careful when playing with a slingshot. Be careful not to hit anyone and don't damage anything. Otherwise, be careful of your father's whip."

Dawang: “…”

Sanwang: "Mom knows." He pulled his eldest brother and tried to climb down from the back of the car.

Da Wang had already supported himself on the carriage with his hands, and he jumped down easily, and carried San Wang down with him.

Sanwang wanted to take Xiaowang with him, but found that Xiaowang was immersed in music again, so he ignored him.

Although Xiaowang likes to play with them, if he immerses himself in his own world for a while, no one can call him back.

Xiaowang is playing the newly learned piece "White-Haired Girl". It's a little difficult, but he perseveres.

In the crowd, Caihua held Yanyan's hand and said, "Don't look at Mai Sui. You are definitely more promising than her. She is just a face."

There was a huge crowd of people there, all eager to see the sewing machine that Han Qingsong and Da Wang had brought back. They couldn't wait to touch it, as if touching it would bring them good luck.

Unfortunately, Han Qingsong is not a very friendly person. When he is busy, he is even more impatient with people nagging him, so no one dares to stop them from watching him on the street.

They carried the sewing loom home and placed it in front of the kang in the west room, but they had to carry a vat outside to make room.

The one who was most happy after buying the sewing machine was Mai Sui, as she said she could finally make her own clothes.

"Mom, I'll make clothes for you in the future!"

Lin Lan smiled and said, "Okay, Second Brother will help me cook, and Sister Mai will help me make clothes, so that Mom can worry less in the future."

At this time, Caihua brought Yanyan in. She was well-behaved and shy, but she couldn't hide her curiosity. She said, "Mai Sui, we also want to see the sewing machine."

Lin Lan glanced at the two of them, but couldn't tell whose children they were.

The village is too big. Her family lives in the southwest, and she is not familiar with the area at the back and northeast corner.

Mai Sui had played with them during the Chinese New Year, and immediately welcomed them, "Come and see with me."

Yanyan was a little shy and didn't dare to speak, but Caihua was very open and confident.

Lin Lan thought the name was familiar, but she couldn't remember it for a moment. Apart from her own children, she didn't care much about the children in the village.

She found a few leftover firecrackers and asked Erwang to set them off to celebrate.

Lin Lan wanted to keep it simple for dinner, so she stewed a pot of cabbage and vermicelli, added some pork fat, scalded a circle of mixed noodles and dotted them with a few sesame seeds as decoration, and stewed an egg with soybean paste as a salty dish.

Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, and she wants to do something nice.

The most delicious local custom is dumplings. No matter what festival it is, people will make dumplings if they can. If the conditions are good, they will also stir-fry some vegetables and stew some meat.

Lin Lan wanted to make some Yuanxiao or glutinous rice balls to suit the occasion for the children to try.

However, only people in the city eat it. In self-sufficient villages like Shanzui, most people don’t even know what Yuanxiao is, and the same goes for the children in the family.

Lin Lan wanted to make a few herself to show them.

The filling is easy. We have sesame seeds and peanuts at home, so just crush them yourself.

There was no ready-made glutinous rice flour, but there was less than three pounds of glutinous rice left. She soaked it before going out in the morning. It was ready now and could be ground into starch on the stone mill used to grind tofu.

Lin Lan called Han Qingsong back and asked him to grind the glutinous rice later.

Han Qingsong saw black sesame seeds on her face and reached out to help her take them off.

Lin Lan, however, was thinking about the children and outsiders at home, so she asked him to be serious.

Han Qingsong held her head, and as soon as his lips touched her face, he put the sesame seeds into his mouth and ate them.

Lin Lan: “…”

She glanced and saw a pair of eyes looking at her. When she turned to look, she found that Cauliflower was looking at her obediently and curiously.

Lin Lan quickly signaled Han Qingsong to be serious and not teach the child bad things. Han Qingsong looked at her innocently, thinking he had done nothing.

Caihua secretly stared at Han Qingsong for a while, and then Yanyan came over and pulled her, "It's time for us to go."

They have their own business too, and it would be embarrassing to stay in someone else's house for too long.

Cauliflower held her hand and said goodbye to Mai Sui. When she came out, she also said goodbye to Han Qingsong.

Han Qingsong was too busy with his work to care about anything else and just responded casually.

Lin Lan brought out the remaining peanuts and said, "Let's go now. Grab some peanuts and eat them."

Yanyan carefully took a handful and said thank you. Cauliflower took a handful and looked up at Lin Lan, "You are so handsome."

Lin Lan was startled. No little girl had praised her for her beauty yet. She smiled and said, "You are prettier. The little girls are all beautiful."

Caihua turned her head to look at Han Qingsong over there, then took Yanyan away.

Looking at the backs of the two little girls, Lin Lan had an indescribable feeling in her heart for some reason.

Mai Sui saw her thoughtful look and whispered, "Mom, don't you remember? I told you about them."

She whispered a reminder.

Lin Lan suddenly remembered that when Sanwang had caused the big JJ incident, Mai Sui had told her that two little girls were doing something very strange in the haystack, and she didn't understand and came back to ask.

Thinking of this, Lin Lan frowned slightly, and suddenly she didn't want her daughter to play with them anymore. But it seemed that Mai Sui was having a good time with them, so she didn't say anything and just watched.

She has been promoting it for a long time, and there are also programs specifically for children, but I don’t think I’ve seen them here.

Otherwise, why doesn't she have any impression of it at all?

Lin Lan suddenly realized a problem. Her life was so fulfilling that she almost forgot that she had traveled into a female inspirational novel with a real-life prototype and became a background character in the novel.

Perhaps as a gift from time travel, she possesses the original owner's memories. Because of this, she sometimes wonders if she and the original owner are the same person existing in different dimensions.

Moreover, based on her possession of the original owner's memories, she also knows all the tragic endings of her family members, which is a part that is not mentioned in the book.

After all, as the family of the inconspicuous cannon fodder female supporting character in the book, they are not qualified to appear in the book at a large length, and the ending will naturally not be mentioned.

If you think about the plot carefully, the heroine in the book is a little girl from a poor family. Her father passed away, her grandmother and mother favored boys over girls, and she had a very hard life.

Her childhood sweetheart was actually an educated youth who had gone to the countryside to live in her house. The two helped each other and gradually developed a deep affection for each other.

The educated youth was handsome, gentle, hardworking and studious, and was the object of many girls' affection, including Mai Sui.

Later, Mai Sui became an insignificant stumbling block in the relationship between the male and female protagonists - the most beautiful and stupid little stone, a standard cannon fodder female supporting role.

Lin Lan traveled back a few years earlier than the story in the book officially began. For example, Mai Sui appeared in the story as a female supporting role who tried to get involved with the male protagonist. She must have been about 15 or 16 years old. When she traveled back a few years, Mai Sui was only 9 years old, which was obviously several years earlier.

So for all this time, Lin Lan didn't think about the book and only paid attention to her family.

I wonder if the educated youth has arrived?

Lin Lan counted the educated youth in the village. The youngest was only seventeen or eighteen years old. None of them met the requirements.

Generally, parents in cities are reluctant to send their young children to the countryside, leaving the younger ones behind to be taken care of.

So the youngest educated youth in Shanzui Village was sixteen years old at that time, and is now eighteen.

That means it hasn't come yet.

The male lead didn’t come, so what about the female lead?

Which of these two girls is the original heroine?

The original female protagonist in the book was named Chang Mingyan and the male protagonist was named Shen Yu.

Then Yanyan is the heroine, but her last name is Liu, and her father is alive and well. And what’s the matter with this cauliflower?

Looking at the young man's mature expression and eyes, why does she feel that Cauliflower is more like the heroine?

"What are you thinking about?" After cleaning up, Han Qingsong wiped his hands and came over to see Lin Lan standing in the main room in a daze.

Lin Lan looked at him. "You're back so soon?"

"The boys are going to grind." He looked at her with concern.

Facing Han Qingsong's dark eyes, Lin Lan smiled and put aside the matter of the heroine and cauliflower. Who cares? Her family is the protagonist in her own life. She will naturally not interfere in the lives of the hero and heroine.

Anyway, she would never let her daughter repeat the same mistake and go after other people's men!

After Caihua led Yanyan away from Lin Lan's house, she said to Yanyan, "Just listen to me. It will be much better than theirs in the future."

Yanyan looked disappointed, "Why am I better than others?"

"Don't you have me? Just listen to me." Cauliflower coaxed her.

Yanyan's father and mother didn't love her at home, her grandmother often beat and scolded her, and her brothers and sisters also bullied her. It was Caihua who gave her human warmth.

Ever since Caihua came to comfort her, accompany her, and give her advice, her father and brother have treated her much better.

She was grateful to Cauliflower and trusted her very much.

She nodded: "I'll listen to you. Thank you, Cauliflower. You are so kind to me."

Cauliflower led her away with satisfaction.

At dinner time, Mrs. Han sent Gu Mi to bring Lin Lan half a bowl of eggs stewed with shrimp sauce, and also returned the machete she had borrowed before.

After the separation, Han's sister-in-law felt relaxed, just like a tree that was trapped in a cramped space and suddenly broke free from its constraints. Its branches and leaves stretched out and became full of vitality. She was smiling happily all day long.

She wanted to learn from Lin Lan and live a decent life, so that the old lady and her husband could see how well she was living after the separation of the family property.

Although the family is tight, Mrs. Han cooks very attentively now, and her cooking skills are much better than before.

Everyone watching was happy for her.

Mrs. Han also asked her daughter to get closer to Mai Sui.

Gu Mi nervously told her about how he said the wrong thing that day and how Third Lady got angry. He felt that Third Lady might not like him anymore from now on.

Mrs. Han naturally wouldn't blame her daughter. After all, she herself was sometimes full of complaints and couldn't help being jealous of Lin Lan.

She told her daughter that the Third Lady was not that kind of person, "Your Third Lady is very generous. As long as you don't have bad intentions, she won't bother with us at all."

She also understood that Lin Lan had become a different person since she drank the pesticide. She became more and more powerful. If someone bullied the children or stepped on her bottom line, she would use an axe or a knife. However, she didn't care about minor frictions at all and would just laugh it off.

So no one would take her complaints, jealousy or angry words to heart. Besides, now that the family has been separated, most of the things that were blocking her heart have been released. Although she is still angry with the man, she will not take it out on others.

However, after returning from her parents' home, she still found time to talk to Lin Lan and wanted to apologize to Lin Lan, so that she could feel more at ease and not always feel that she owed Lin Lan something and felt embarrassed when they met.

Who knew that as soon as she brought up the subject, Lin Lan understood and immediately changed the subject to stop her from continuing.

If this matter is not mentioned, she will pretend not to know, and Mrs. Han will not have to feel embarrassed.

She believes that a person's true character will be revealed over time, and good or bad is not determined by words. If everyone treats each other with sincerity, feelings will naturally emerge over time.

Sometimes people are just like this. Living under the same roof all day may not necessarily lead to feelings. After separation, the relationship gets better. Maybe this is why people need to keep a distance from each other. Especially in a family, there can only be one woman who can be the head of the family. Two tigers cannot get along.

Lin Lan's attitude made Han's sister-in-law feel relieved. She wanted to have a good relationship with her, so she often sent Gu Mi to give her gifts or borrow something from her. As they kept visiting each other, their relationship became warmer.

Lin Lan would naturally help her more. After all, they had just separated and everything was in short supply. Some tools could be borrowed from each other.

Gu Mi: "Third Lady, this is the shrimp sauce my grandmother gave me. It's salty, just eat it with rice."

Lin Lan smiled and said, "It's a little salty, but it's nutritious and can replenish calcium."

Gu Mi didn't understand this, so she just smiled, talked to Mai Sui, and went into the house to look at the sewing machine.

Ever since the sewing machine was brought back, Wheat Ear Rice has been fiddling with it without paying any attention to it.

She is also eager to learn. Although her legs are not long enough, she still moves around.

"Sister, look, I already know how to operate it." Mai Sui held the instruction manual in one hand and turned the faucet of the sewing machine with the other.

Gu Mi looked at it curiously, "Can this really be made into clothes?"

Mai Sui took out the tailoring book she had bought and turned to the page she liked. "Look, when we have cloth in the summer, we can make a pleated skirt like this. Don't make a dress, make a half skirt. A dress wastes fabric and you can only wear one. A half skirt can be matched with different clothes."

Gu Mi thought to herself that I only have one jacket, which I can roll up to look like short sleeves and stuff it with cotton to look like a quilted jacket, so I don't have to worry about who to match it with.

Lin Lan said outside: "Gu Mi, I'm going to make Yuan Xiao tomorrow night, do you want to come and play?"

Gu Mi immediately responded, "I'm the Third Lady, what is Yuanxiao?"

Lin Lan explained it to her, and Gu Mi expressed great interest.

By the time Da Wang and his friends came back from grinding the mill, Lin Lan's meal was ready.

She invited Gu Mi to eat together.

Gu Mi was embarrassed, "My meal is ready, Third Madam, you can just go to my house and eat."

Lin Lan didn't insist on keeping her. She put down the food and served her a bowl of cabbage vermicelli. "Your Majesty is lazy today, so I made something simple. You can eat it together."

Gumi took a look and saw that there was pork fat in it. "My Queen, this is simple? I used to eat dishes like this during the Chinese New Year."

Lin Lan smiled and said, "Don't worry, if you work hard after the separation, you can eat like this too."

Gumi left happily.

The family sat down to eat. Lin Lan asked Sanwang to put away the car and the frog, and not to neglect his meal because of his flirting with Xiaowang.

Mai Sui smiled and said, "Mom, after the family split up, my aunt and sister are much more relaxed than before, and they seem to be smiling."

Lin Lan: "So the environment can shape people. In a relaxed and open environment, people's personalities are more healthy and tolerant. If they are suppressed and distorted, people are also prone to suppression and perversion."

Xiao Wang was struggling with the words he didn't understand and didn't know which one to ask first, but San Wang asked first, "Mom, what is a pervert?"

Lin Lan: "... always doing something out of the ordinary, like a senior gentleman peeing in public on the street?"

Sanwang secretly placed the car and frog under the table and played with them with his feet. "That's terrible. Most of the men in our team are perverts."

At this time, men don't care about anything. They just pee whenever they want and rarely care about the occasion.

Lin Lan: “…” Well, she forgot to consider the times again.

Erwang said, "I know there are a few old men in our village who are sneaky all day long, staring at people and eavesdropping around walls."

There are a few men in every village who are unfussy and dissolute, but they are also cowardly. They will never do anything out of the ordinary, but they do small things all the time.

For example, eavesdropping around other people's walls, or lying in ambush in small woods or bushes to eavesdrop on other people's love affairs, especially watching them hug and kiss, and talking about it afterwards is more exciting than doing it yourself.

When Erwang said this, Sanwang couldn't help laughing, but pretended to be calm. He also deliberately tempted Xiaowang to look at the car and frog under the table. He stepped on the frog's butt with his toes, and it started to run forward to bite the wheat ears.

Xiaowang giggled.

Lin Lan glanced at Sanwang. This boy was like a loach. He would not go anywhere unless there was something fun going on. Maybe because he was a year older, she always felt that this boy was a stubborn person, just like his elder brother.

In the evening, Han Qingsong was going to discuss something with Han Yongfang. Lin Lan asked the children to read books and listen to the radio at home, while she went to find Dong Huaihua.

Inspired by the conversation at the dinner table and still thinking about the matter of Yanyan and Caihua, she wanted to give a propaganda class specifically to the girls in the village.

There are all kinds of country men, including those who have character defects that lead to exhibitionism, voyeurism, and perversion. Some like to hide behind toilets and peek at women going to the restroom, while others suddenly expose their genitals to girls and children on the street to scare them. These are typical perverts.

Those who have been exposed can be arrested and punished and educated, but we are afraid that the adults don’t know and the children dare not speak out.

At this time, children, especially girls, are extremely shy and dare not speak out, so she has to instill safety knowledge in them, teach them to protect themselves, and report perverts.

Report for a reward!

Once a hooligan is caught, the whole team will hold a meeting to use him to teach some men a lesson and warn girls to protect themselves.

Dong Huaihua thinks this is a good idea and is now organizing a promotion for this, specifically targeting girls, especially those in their teens.

Lin Lan also specifically instructed Yanyan, Caihua and other girls who were not active in their daily lives and whose families did not pay attention to their education to participate.

Dong Huaihua said, "I'll take care of it, don't worry."

There are a dozen or so backward families in the village who will not go to the meetings unless they are given work points.

They were especially reluctant to allow women to come.

They think that the daughter of a noble family will be given to another man sooner or later, and is a waste of money. It is good enough to be able to support her, so naturally they will not educate her well.

Yanyan's family has this mentality.

There is also a kind of people who want to make their daughters work 24 hours a day. They feel uncomfortable when they are idle for a while, so they naturally don't want them to go to school or listen to propaganda lectures. They even think that the propaganda team talks about those things all day long, has no shame, and is corrupting the atmosphere. Men and women in the same room are not serious, and they are even more unwilling to let their daughters be taken advantage of by others or learn bad things from them.

Being a bad student mainly means having one's own ideas, being disobedient, and not following the arrangements of one's parents so honestly.

The next day, Dong Huaihua took advantage of the Lantern Festival to go from street to street with a loud speaker, saying that the brigade wanted to organize the girls to cut grass and weave grass braids.

Women's activities such as making straw braids, weaving cattail fans, and sewing straw hats, like men's winter mat weaving, were all sideline jobs of the brigade. The brigade provided the materials, and the members provided the labor and earned work points.

Generally, not everyone can do this kind of side job. Han Yongfang likes to choose those who are diligent, skillful and quiet.

He hates gossip.

Therefore, some people cannot be selected even if they have skills, and they can only keep their opinions to themselves.

When Dong Huaihua suggested finding someone to braid their hair, the women became active.

The next step is spring plowing. The men are plowing the ground. There is still some time before spring planting, so the women are free for the time being, so they can do some side jobs.

But Dong Huaihua only wants girls between the ages of nine and 15. Married women and old ladies are not accepted!

Although everyone had their own opinions, since the brigade had given the job to Dong Huaihua, she had the final say and it would be useless to ask Han Yongfang for help.

Therefore, families with girls happily sent their daughters to work and earn work points.

Dong Huaihua was in charge of recruiting people, and Lin Lan was in charge of writing the script. They would let the girls do the job for a few days first so that everyone would get familiar with it, and then start talking when the actual job came.

So as to avoid talking about things that will make girls shy and resist.

Lin Lan went to the brigade during the day and arranged the girls with Dong Huaihua, and observed at the same time. As expected, Yanyan and Caihua came.

The two little girls are inseparable and seem to be popular. The other girls are also happy to talk to them, especially Cauliflower, who has the feeling of being the queen of girls.

Lin Lan observed for a while and found that Caihua was very good at forming small groups. For example, when there were three people, he would pull Yanyan to isolate the other one, let that girl stick to him, and then suppress the next one.

After such a long time, several girls around her started to fawn over her.

But in terms of work, Cauliflower is not outstanding. Instead, Yanyan learns things quickly, works seriously and does the work quite well.

It's worthy of the heroine's fate.

Lin Lan was observing Cauliflower quietly, and in fact Cauliflower was also observing her quietly.

Suddenly, their eyes would meet. Lin Lan would smile, while Caihua would look at her with a look that said, "Wow, you are more beautiful and stunning today."

Lin Lan paid more attention to her, but unfortunately she couldn't see anything special. However, this also reminded her to be careful and not to be too extreme.

In future promotions, try to use as many spelling mistakes as possible and use country and radio language to make it sound fashionable and cultured. However, truly cultured people will find it deliberate and rustically fashionable.

When Lin Lan was daydreaming, Mai Sui came running over and said, "Mom, didn't you say you would take us to make Yuanxiao?"

"Oh, I almost forgot." Lin Lan quickly said to Dong Huaihua and went home first.

Dong Huaihua told her to just go.

Cauliflower chased after him, "Mai Sui, why don't you play with us?"

Mai Sui smiled and said, "My sister is waiting for us to make Yuanxiao. She will come back to play with you guys."

She goes to school every day, and now Lin Lan has taught her to find her greatest interest in studying. She is not obsessed with playing skipping rope with girls.

After Mai Sui ran away, some girls said sourly, "Cai Hua, don't look for her. She is a good student and won't look down on us."

Yanyan said: "Mai Sui is very nice, he doesn't look down on people."

Caihua pulled her aside and scolded her, "You know she looks down on you in her heart but won't tell you."

…

When Lin Lan and Mai Sui returned home, Gu Mi had already arrived, and he and Er Wang were preparing glutinous rice flour.

I polished it yesterday and put it in a bundle, hanging in the air and dripping water. Now it's almost done.

Lin Lan led them to make a large amount of glutinous rice balls using homemade wet glutinous rice flour, a certain proportion of wheat flour, and homemade sesame, peanut and other fillings.

It's snow-white and round, and looks particularly good, but the craftsmanship is not good enough, and the black sesame seeds are visible.

After it is put into the pot, it will be terrible, some of it will leak out completely.

Sanwang stood beside the pot with his hands on his hips and laughed, "Before entering the water, he was a white and tender little Wang, but after entering the water, he became fat and became a black and rough Sanwang. My sister's was the ugliest, so ugly, haha, she was lying on her back when she entered the water!"

Mai Sui was so angry that he chased him and beat him.

"Stand still, you bastard Sanwang! I've put up with you for so long! Today we're going to settle all the old and new accounts together!"

She was not angry just because of Tang Yuan, but since the New Year, she found that this cute brother