Chapter 94

On the way back, Li Taohong would occasionally glance at the girl who was holding her arm.

Frankly speaking, if Xiaoyueliang was willing to be her daughter-in-law, she would wake up laughing in her dreams, after all, this child has a really good character.

But I was also worried that the little girl's words were just to criticize the old man named Gu.

Therefore, Li Taohong was too embarrassed to express her innermost wish until she entered the house.

"What's wrong? Why do you look so serious?" Seeing that her mother looked unhappy, Ruting, who was watching her daughter writing couplets, asked curiously.

Li Taohong came back to her senses: "Nothing, I was just mad at those two annoying things... Wow, amazing, my Miaomiao's handwriting is so good."

Ting Ting was a little unconvinced and looked at Xiao Yueliang and her brother.

Lin Jiaojiao naturally knew what her aunt was struggling with. To be honest, what she said before was just a casual remark.

But now, my auntie obviously took it seriously.

But...even though on the surface she had severed ties with her mother, she was not one of the five black categories.

But, in her heart, her mother is an inseparable existence and she can't just ignore her.

Therefore, she couldn't be with Lu Hong.

Lin Jiaojiao is naturally a rational person. If something is impossible, why bother worrying about it?

If we really don't care, it might even affect the big guy's career. Then what's the difference between that and repaying kindness with enmity?

Thinking of this, Lin Jiaojiao curled her eyes: "It's all right now."

After saying this, she added, "I'm going to go into the house to pack my things."

Knowing that she was going to the farm to spend the New Year with Teacher Yuan tomorrow, Ting nodded and said, "Go ahead."

After everyone left, Lu Hong also said he wanted to go to the back mountain.

Li Ting raised an eyebrow: "Tell your brother-in-law to come back early."

"...good."

"Mom, what's going on?" After his younger brother left, Ruiting immediately looked at his mother.

Li Taohong sighed: "It's nothing, I just misunderstood..."

After listening to her mother's retelling, Lu Ting smiled and comforted her: "I told you long ago that there are some things you don't have to rush. Xiaohong is only 25 years old next year. Why is he in such a hurry to go on a blind date?"

Li Taohong disagreed: "25 is still young? He is away from home all year round. Which boy who grew up with Lao Wu in the village didn't get married and have children? The oldest child is already in the first grade."

Ruting joked: "Good food is never too late. What if you can really get what you want?"

Li Taohong was stunned for a moment, then realized what he meant and asked in surprise, "You mean...?"

Ruting shook the couplet in his hand, making sure the ink was dry, and then put it aside: "No hurry, I'll go ask."

Li Taohong was a little worried: "Ah? How are you going to ask?"

Ting Ting waved her hand: "I know my limits."

The three-courtyard house of the Lu family has a total of eight or nine rooms.

But apart from Lu Shengli and Li Taohong, only Lin Jiaojiao was with him all year round.

For convenience and safety, she lived with the old couple in the main house.

However, Lin Jiaojiao lived in the second bedroom of the main house.

When Ruting came over, she saw Xiaoyue folding clothes, so she asked with a smile, "Are you making this for the teacher?"

Lin Jiaojiao asked everyone to sit down first, then said, "Well, a thin cotton shirt and pants, which are inconspicuous to wear inside... After all, my mother was a labor reformer, and the house she lived in didn't have a kang. If the director hadn't turned a blind eye and arranged a coal stove for her, I'm afraid she wouldn't have been able to survive in this weather."

Hearing this, Ruting finally remembered something and whispered, "In two years at most, the teacher will be rehabilitated."

Lin Jiaojiao raised her head sharply and looked at the people in disbelief...

Seeing the little girl opening her mouth several times but not daring to ask anything, her eyes gradually turned red, and Ting felt bad. She slowly reached out and hugged her and patted her: "Didn't you notice? A lot of people have been rehabilitated in the past two years, right?"

Lin Jiaojiao's breathing stagnated.

Of course she discovered it, but she never dared to think about herself.

I’m afraid that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

Thinking of this, she was silent for a long while before she whispered, "So... it's true."

Ruting patted the little girl on the back again and said, "It's true. I didn't lie to you. The higher-ups are discussing the restoration of the college entrance examination. When the time comes, talents like Teacher Yuan will be recruited back."

"So... Mom and I are no longer part of the black five categories?"

Hearing the tremor in Xiaoyue's voice, Ruting quickly let her go, only to find that her face was covered with tears.

Ruting immediately took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears from the man's eyes, saying, "Stop crying. If your eyes get swollen, my mother will think I bullied you."

Hearing this, Lin Jiaojiao's tears flowed faster.

In fact, she once hated it.

Her father, such a good man, died because of the unrest.

Her brother abandoned his character in order to protect himself.

She and her mother suffered extreme humiliation.

Therefore, she once hated everything in this world.

If Sister Tingting had not arranged her to the Xiangyang Brigade, and if her uncle and aunt had not loved her as their own daughter, Lin Jiaojiao dared not imagine what she would grow up to be like.

Thinking of this, and thinking of the injustices she had suffered over the years, her tears flowed even more freely.

Seeing the little girl covering her mouth and sobbing like a wounded animal, Ruiting's eyes gradually turned red.

This time, she did not persuade him again. Instead, she hugged him and coaxed him gently: "It's okay to cry, don't hold back the sound."

"No...No...wuwu...Auntie...will...burp...will be worried."

Hearing this, her eyes softened, and she stopped trying to persuade him. Instead, she changed the subject and asked, "Do you want to go to college?"

Lin Jiaojiao cried for a while before she left Sister Tingting's embrace and replied hoarsely, "Take the exam!"

Seeing that Xiaoyue had calmed down, Ruting stood up and poured some hot water into the basin, then threw the handkerchief in to wash it, then wrung it dry and handed it out: "Come and apply a compress on your eyes, they are swollen like walnuts."

Lin Jiaojiao took a deep breath and covered her eyes with the hot handkerchief.

Seeing this, Li Ting continued with the previous topic: "Since you want to go to university, I will send you some study materials when I return to Tianjing... You can tell your teacher about this, but don't tell anyone else."

Lin Jiaojiao took away the handkerchief and blinked her still somewhat sour eyes: "Thank you, Sister Tingting, I know my limits."

Ruting curled her peach blossom eyes and said, "What are you thanking me for? Not to mention the relationship with Teacher Yuan, given how much my parents love you, you don't have to be polite to me."

Hearing this, Lin Jiaojiao's heart moved. Thinking of her aunt's previous hesitation, she gradually fell into deep thought.

The men went into the mountains for several hours.

Fortunately, I brought back a roe deer, a live rabbit, and two pheasants. It was a fruitful harvest.

Since the children rarely come back, Li Taohong naturally shows off her skills.

It can be braised, stir-fried, or stewed.

In short, with the table full of meat, not only the children but also the adults could really satisfy their meat cravings.

Guoguo chewed on a bone while sighing, "Grandma's house is still the best. I can eat meat every day."

This is true. Although the conditions at home are good, everything is rationed in the city, and it is impossible to eat meat every day.

On the contrary, in the countryside, especially in the countryside close to the mountains, life is more comfortable.

Hearing her grandson's sigh, Li Taohong smiled so hard that her teeth were showing and teased, "Then don't leave after the New Year. Stay at grandma's house."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at the greasy boy with amusement.

Fruit...

Although the meat tastes good, he can't bear to leave his father, mother, and sisters even more.

Thinking of this, the little boy rolled his eyes and said with a chuckle, "It wasn't me who said that just now, it was Niannian who said that."

Nian Nian, who was chewing a bone, looked up blankly: "Ah? What did you say?"

"Pa!" Miaomiao raised her hand and slapped her stupid brother on the back of his head: "Yeah, what did you say?"

Guoguo took a deep breath and subconsciously wanted to rub her head, but she only reached halfway and saw the grease stains on her hands, so she pulled her hand back and looked at her sister aggrievedly, "Sister, you hit me again!"

Miaomiao picked up a chicken leg and some vegetables for her sister. She watched the little girl who didn't like to eat grass eat it with a frown on her face. Then she looked at her stupid brother and said, "Next time you make false accusations, I will beat you again."

Fruit...

Everyone...hahahaha

After dinner.

As usual, the family did not go back to their rooms.

Instead, they played mahjong instead of the old way of winning by sticking pieces of paper on their faces.

Ruiting didn't know how to do this before, so she asked her husband to be her military advisor.

Unfortunately, their luck was bad. Even though Huo Xiao was quite skilled, several notes were stuck on the couple's faces.

The biggest winner, Li Taohong, not only did not have a single note on her face, but her face was also flushed.

When she drew the cards again, she seemed to remember something and looked at her second son-in-law: "I have to ask someone to buy a train ticket to the capital, right?" Although she was reluctant, Li Taohong was not unreasonable, especially since the twin grandfather had waited for the children for so many years.

Huo Xiao, who was sitting behind his wife, raised his hand and flipped open the piece of paper that was blocking his view. "Before I came back, I asked my comrades to help me buy it. I can just go to the train station to pick up the ticket on the second day of the Chinese New Year."

Hearing this, Li Taohong nodded and looked at her eldest son-in-law who also had a note on him: "What about you guys?"

Xie Hao was helping his wife, who was busy with her business, to place the cards. Hearing this, he looked at his mother-in-law and said, "We haven't thought it through yet."

They and their sister's husband have different regular holidays from each other, so they are taking leave, so of course the sooner they go back the better.

However, it was rare for his wife to go back to his hometown, and the elderly people missed their children, so Xie Hao and Lu Qing were in a dilemma.

Unexpectedly, Li Taohong made the decision directly: "Then let's go to the train station with Tingting and the others, and we can have some companionship... By the way, is there enough time to buy the train tickets?"

As soon as she said this, everyone looked at her in surprise.

Li Taohong was a little amused: "Why are you looking at me?"

Li Shengli put a handful of peeled peanuts next to his wife, and smiled innocently: "I'm afraid you won't be able to bear to leave the children."

Li Taohong looked around at everyone before saying, "Of course you're reluctant to leave, but work is important, so don't think too much about it."

Ruting said quickly, "Mom, you and Dad can come and play with us when you are free in the future."

Ruiqing agreed: "Yes, yes, yes, Dad and Mom, there are many places in Tianjin that I didn't have the time to take you to last time."

Wei also smiled: "You can also go to Beijing. I will be transferred to Beijing after the Chinese New Year. Don't parents want to see □□?"

This is so tempting. Who wouldn't want to go and see □□ these days...

Li Taohong and Lu Shengli, who originally had no intention of going out, looked at each other and were both moved!

Seeing this, Ruting gave his second brother a thumbs up.

Li Wei curled his lips and accepted his sister's compliment.

Li Taohong saw the interaction between the brother and sister and couldn't help but laugh again.

After she finished laughing, she looked at the little moon beside her and asked, "What time do we leave tomorrow morning?"

Lin Jiaojiao played a card and then replied: "I'll leave at dawn and go to my mother's place, just in time for lunch."

Li Taohong: "Okay, I've prepared a lot of food, you can take it with you."

Lin Jiaojiao curled her almond-shaped eyes and said, "Thank you, Auntie."

Li Taohong: "Hey, what's there to thank for? Oh, and I asked your uncle to send you off."

The Victory Brigade was several dozen kilometers away from the farm, and it would take nearly half a day to get there by bike. There were also mountain trails on the road, so Lin Jiaojiao naturally didn't dare to go on the road alone.

But...she looked up at the big guy who was sitting with the children playing checkers.

Ru Hong, who was secretly glancing at someone, didn't expect to meet someone's eyes. His scalp tingled and he stood up hurriedly.

Guo Guo looked up blankly: "Uncle, you don't want to play anymore?"

Lu Hong's ears turned red, and he said in a panic: "Ahem...well, I'll go out for a while." As soon as he finished speaking, the tall man, who didn't dare to look at people at all, quickly went to the door to put on a thick jacket.

Guoguo suddenly realized and turned to call her sister: "Come on, Niannian, uncle is going to go to the party."

Ru Hong, who had just put on one sleeve, blushed and shouted, "I didn't! I'm not!"

Miaomiao stared at her uncle, who was so angry that smoke was coming out of his head, for a few seconds before glaring at her brother: "What nonsense are you talking about? Your uncle is just shy."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone who had not paid much attention to it looked over.

Ru Hong...he should just run away.

Lin Jiaojiao had been watching the big fool's reaction from beginning to end. Seeing that he was about to catch fire, she had a clue in her heart, and a cunning look appeared in her eyes: "...Auntie, there is no need for uncle to send me off. Let Lu Hong send me off."

After saying this, regardless of how surprised others were, she squinted her almond-shaped eyes and looked at people expectantly: "Tomorrow, are you free to take me to the farm?"

Just as he was about to step out of the door and run away, Rui Hong turned back stiffly, not knowing where to put his hands and feet... "Me... Me?"

Lin Jiaojiao nodded: "I want my mother to see you!"

"Bang!" The burly man was so flustered that he forgot the existence of the threshold. He staggered and fell heavily to the ground with a dull sound!

Li Taohong, full of maternal love, didn't even glance at him, and responded excitedly: "He's free!"

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