Chapter 167 I Shouldn't Have Married Her
In the machinery factory, Fang Ning looked at Lin Mo and said, "You are in a bad mood today. What's wrong?"
Lin Mo didn't even raise his head, "I'm not in a bad mood."
"I saw you giving your sister-in-law a cold shoulder on the way home from get off work yesterday! Tell me, what conflict did you have?" Fang Ning teased.
"Nothing." Lin Mo denied.
"No, tell me, I'll help you out." Fang Ning said.
"This is not a question of whether to comfort her or not. I shouldn't have married her in the first place!" Lin Mo blurted out.
Fang Ning was stunned. He saw Li Min with a dazed look on her face outside the door. He said to Li Min silently: Wait a moment.
Li Min took two steps back and retreated behind the wall.
"Brother, what happened that made you say such things? My sister-in-law gave birth to a son. Even if she didn't make any contribution, she worked hard. We can't be ungrateful." Fang Ning said earnestly.
Lin Mo's face was dark. "I am not ungrateful. In your opinion, am I not a qualified husband?"
"No, you are qualified. If you are not qualified, then no one is more qualified than you. You are absolutely following the three obediences and four virtues to your sister-in-law. You are a model husband in the machinery factory." Fang Ning was telling the truth. In the entire machinery factory, is there anyone like Lin Mo who hands over all his salary, has no bad habits, and automatically stays three meters away from female colleagues?
No.
"Then why is she still not satisfied?" Lin Mo suppressed his anger.
Fang Ning's heart skipped a beat. To make Lin Mo so angry, it must be a big deal. "What on earth happened?"
"She asked me to write a letter to Qiqi, wanting her to mail some food back. But she knew very well that the province where Qiqi lived was the worst hit by the drought. How could she say such a thing? Whenever I wrote a letter, Qiqi would send it home even if she didn't have it herself, even if she was hungry. Qiqi has already mailed so many things home, even the money for my marriage to her was brought back by Qiqi. How could she have the heart to say such a thing?" Lin Mo's eyes turned red, he thought Li Min was just smart, but now it seems that she is not only smart, she is also cruel, heartless and ungrateful!
Fang Ning was silent. He suddenly didn't know how to comfort Lin Mo. In his opinion, Li Min's behavior was indeed excessive. Their life in the city was difficult. They just didn't have enough food, but they were not starving to death. Occasionally, they could still buy some things. But it was different in the countryside. When there was no grass growing on the land, people would starve to death.
During the famine in the past few years, the majority of the deaths were caused by country people.
But even though he thought so, he couldn't help but persuade him, "Sister-in-law may not think so much. Qiqi is capable and lives in a mountainous area. Sister-in-law probably thought that Qiqi could go into the mountains to hunt, so she wanted her to mail some meat back. After all, even if you adults don't eat, your son is only two years old and can't be hungry. Sister-in-law must be worried about Shang Shang and has to pin her hopes on Qiqi."
"Even if I feel sorry for Shang Shang, I can't let Qi Qi take risks. Shang Shang is my son, not Qi Qi's. Letting Shang Shang starve is a sign of my incompetence as a father." Lin Mo was still angry. Their whole family now depended on Shang Shang, so it was not a problem for Shang Shang to have enough food.
Fang Ning rolled his eyes, "You're not capable enough. You make twelve dollars more a month than me."
"I was wrong." Li Min came out from behind the wall, tears streaming down her face, her body shaky. "I didn't think it through. It's my fault. Qiqi has done enough for us. I was ungrateful and lost my mind for a moment..."
Li Min walked towards Lin Mo while crying.
When Lin Mo ignored her last night, she realized that she was wrong. Lin Qi didn't owe them anything. She took it for granted and was too selfish.
The atmosphere fell into silence. Li Min was crying uncontrollably. Lin Mo did not comfort her. He felt heartbroken but couldn't bear it. Seeing that Li Min was unsteady on her feet, he finally supported her.
Fang Ning saw that the two of them were about to reconcile, so he walked out with a look of understanding. However, just as he reached the door, he saw the guard approaching.
"Has Lin Mo returned? There is his package." said the guard.
Fang Ning's eyes lit up instantly. "A package? Is it from Yao County?"
"Yes, it came from Yao County. There are several bags of it. It looks like food to me." The guard looked envious. Everyone was not getting enough to eat, so food was very important.
When Fang Ning heard that it was food, he immediately shouted to the inside of the door, "Lin Mo, Qiqi has returned from sending the things."
Li Min's body froze, and she looked up at Lin Mo. Seeing that he was frowning, she hurriedly explained, "I didn't write a letter to Qiqi."
Lin Mo took a deep breath and didn't say whether he believed it or not. Instead, he said, "Let's go to the guard room first."
It's time to get off work and most people have left. Lin Mo pushed his bicycle and walked towards the guard room with Li Min and Fang Ning.
When they got to the guard room and took a look, the three of them were stunned. "What are these seven bags?"
The guard nodded. "Yes, that's all. You are such a kind sister. You are such a great help in times of need."
Lin Mo pursed his lips and didn't respond.
Fang Ning saw that Lin Mo's face was not right, so he smiled and said to the guard, "Uncle, let's go back first and see if there is anything good. I'll bring some for you to try when we come tomorrow morning."
The guard also smiled, "Okay, I'll wait then."
The heaviest bag was placed on the back seat of the bicycle, and two bags were placed on the front bar. Lin Mo pushed the bicycle. Fang Ning took three bags, and Li Min took one bag. The three of them did not speak along the way, but just sped up.
I made it all the way back home, moved my things into the house, and slammed the door shut, blocking out anyone from outside.
"What's going on? So many bags!" Mother Lin was a little dumbfounded. Seeing the familiar packaging, she guessed without waiting for others to answer, "Is this what Qiqi mailed back?"
Lin Mo didn't say anything, and Li Min bit her lip and didn't say anything either.
Mother Lin noticed that the two men's eyes were a little red, and she cast a puzzled look at Fang Ning.
"It was mailed back by Qiqi. Please find a pair of scissors and let's open it to see if there is a letter inside." Fang Ning reminded.
This time, before Lin's mother could find it, Lin Mo went to get the scissors first. He quickly opened all the bags and successfully found a letter.
The letter was very brief. Lin Qi said in it that she had no shortage of food and asked her family not to be frugal and to send another batch back in a few days.
After reading the letter, Lin Mo had a complicated expression.
"Everyone has lost their harvest due to the drought. Where does Qiqi get the food?" Mother Lin was worried about her little daughter and was afraid that she would not have enough to eat, so she sent all the food back.
Several people from the Lin family looked at each other.
Fang Ning considered carefully before speaking, "Qiqi didn't send many things home last year, is it possible that it was from last year?"
"That should be the reason." Mother Lin said, "Don't just stand there, open the bag and see what Qiqi sent me."
Lin Mo silently unpacked the bags. The seven bags contained rice, smoked pork, oranges, dried fruits, chestnuts, dried black fungus and dried mushrooms.
Each item was in very good condition, especially the bag of oranges, which were as big as an adult man's fist, with bright colors and a lustrous appearance, making one drool at the sight of them.
Recently, not only are they short of food, but they can rarely get fruits and vegetables, let alone fruits of such good quality, which are really rare!
Especially the two women, Li Min and Lin Ma, have a special liking for fruits. Their eyes are glued to the oranges and can't be taken away.
"Where did she get this orange? It's much better than the ones grown carefully in other orchards." Mother Lin put the orange to her nose and smelled it, then handed one to her daughter-in-law, "You are just pregnant, if you feel uncomfortable in your stomach, you can smell it more often, it smells so good."
Lin Mo's pupils shrank, "Pregnant?"
"Yes, your wife is pregnant, didn't you know?" Mother Lin was surprised.
"Mom, I haven't had time to tell A-Mo yet." Li Min looked at her husband hesitantly.
Fang Ning, who was standing aside, looked at the stunned Lin Mo and thought, now it’s good, Lin Qi has mailed the things back and Li Min is pregnant again, this is double happiness, the conflict between the couple should be resolved.
On the other hand, Lin Qi had no idea that her elder brother and sister-in-law had a conflict because of her, nor did she know that she was about to have a second younger generation.
She was receiving guests from other teams - the five black categories who had cleaned up the river with Xu Hexiao.
There were eighty-four of them.
There were also some elderly people who were sick from hunger and did not come. Those who did not come asked those who came to help pass on a message to Lin Qi, asking Lin Qi to save them.
Lin Qi looked at this group of skinny people, and her heart, which she thought was cold and hard, couldn't help but feel a little sour.
"There's not much prey in the mountains now. If you don't mind, I'll catch some mice for you?" If she gave them other meat, she was afraid that something else might happen.
Give a few mice. It may not sound good if you tell others about it, and you may even be laughed at, but this is good enough.
"No dislike, no dislike!"
When everyone heard that there was meat to eat, they just focused on swallowing their saliva and didn't care what kind of meat it was.
Lin Qi nodded and turned to Xu Hexiao, "Bring out some dried fruit to treat everyone and make a bowl of sugar water for everyone. Then take everyone to dig sweet potatoes from the two acres of land. I'll go to the mountains and be back soon."
These eighty-four people made quite a commotion. Within half an hour, almost the entire Anliang Brigade knew that nearly a hundred ragged, skinny people had come to Lin Qi's house.
"Those people came to Lin Qi's house to beg?"
"It must be. I don't know who leaked the news and let them know that Lin Qi has food."
"I remember the three people who led the group. They came here last year to ask for money from Lin Qi's family. This year, they went even further. Not only did they come by themselves, they also brought so many people with them."
"With so many people here, and Lin Qi being so kindhearted, will she give away all her food rations?"
“That’s really possible.”
"What shall I do?"
“........”
The team members were very worried, but they couldn't say anything because they had also benefited from Lin Qi.
The team members sneaked up to Lin Qi's house, and when they saw Xu Hexiao leading those people to the two acres of sweet potato field, they felt relieved but also a little sad.
The relief was that Lin Qi did not give out her own stored food, but the sadness was in Lin Qi's heart. Those five black categories were the same as them, and the sweet potatoes given to them could also be given to those five black categories!
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