Lu Nong's job in the library is relatively leisurely. He just organizes the books and cleans every day, and then he has the whole day to spare.
It is simply a paradise for those who have no ambitions and are salty fish.
When people have free time, they have to find something to do. Her direct superior, Lao Guotou, likes to study stones. He looks at a few stones over and over again every day. Once he even recommended it to Lu Nong, but Lu Nong refused.
Lu Nong decided to write fairy tales with science fiction themes for children. Maybe she will become the fairy tale king in the future. If not, she can even tell them to her children as bedtime stories.
In this way, Lu Nong began his daily life of "writing in the Forbidden City".
A few days later, the New Year was approaching and various units began to take holidays one after another. Lu Nong's unit also took a holiday. The unit distributed welfare to Lu Nong, including two kilograms of pork and two fish. Old Guo got more than her, in addition to pork and fish, there was also ten kilograms of flour.
This is because she has just joined the company and as a newcomer she does not have enough experience. Next year she will be able to get the same share as Old Guo.
There was no work at the unit, so Lu Nong took the benefits and went straight home. When he arrived at the gate of the compound, he found two familiar-looking people talking to the soldiers on guard.
"Comrade, please let us in. We are really here to visit relatives. My sister Lu Nong lives inside. Let me go in and find her. If I find her, it will prove that what I said is true."
A handsome man of medium build explained with great effort, while the woman following him nodded repeatedly while holding her child.
The soldier on guard refused expressionlessly: "Comrade, you must have a pass, this is the rule."
"Why doesn't it make sense?" the man became anxious.
Lu frowned.
One of these two people is her biological brother Lu Moxing, and the other is Lu Mo's wife Song Dalan.
Lu Moxing inherited the good genes of the Lu family. He is handsome and elegant. He is nearly thirty years old but has not gained weight. Instead, he has the temperament of a scholar. He is dressed in a well-ironed Zhongshan suit and looks like a decent man.
Compared with Lu Moxing, Song Dalan looked a bit ordinary, with a dark complexion, plain features and a plump figure. However, she was wearing very fashionable clothes, a tweed coat, leather shoes and a red scarf.
As the saying goes, clothes make the man, and saddles make the horse. In this era when most people are covered in dirt, Song Dalan's dressing up immediately raised her not-so-outstanding appearance to several levels.
But no matter how fashionable she is, the contrast with Lu Moxing is still a bit miserable. They don't look like a couple, but two generations.
The reason this couple was able to get together was entirely because of Song Dalan's good family background and Lu's mother's matchmaking.
When she was young, Song Dalan's father was Lu Moxing's leader. One time, Song Dalan went to the unit to deliver food to her father. She fell in love with the handsome Lu Moxing at first sight and cried and made a fuss about marrying him.
Song Dalan's father originally looked down on Lu Moxing, a frivolous man with only a decent face, but he could not overcome his daughter's insistence, so he had to hint to Lu Moxing to go to his house to propose marriage.
At that time, Lu Moxing had a childhood sweetheart, and they were both at the age of getting married. He couldn't remember what Song Dalan looked like at all. After returning home, he told his mother about it and asked her to find out whether Song Dalan was good-looking.
Who knew that Lu's mother had her own thoughts. She looked down on Lu Moxing's childhood sweetheart, thinking that she came from a poor family and had several brothers and sisters who lived off the family. She could not help Lu Moxing in his career and would only hold him back.
But this girl was good-looking and was a famous beauty in the neighborhood. When she stood with Lu Moxing, everyone praised them as a match made in heaven, and it also saved face for Lu's mother.
If Song Dalan had not appeared, Lu's mother would have turned a blind eye and agreed to her son's marriage to this girl. But as soon as Song Dalan appeared, Lu's mother immediately changed her attitude.
She first spent a lot of effort to instigate Lu Mo to break up with his girlfriend, and then she earnestly persuaded Lu Mo to marry Song Dalan, and every day she told the whole family about the various advantages of Lu Mo marrying Song Dalan.
Lu Moxing is a mentally unstable person and a mama's boy, otherwise he would not have broken up with his childhood sweetheart after being instigated by his mother. He was moved by her mother's words.
Three months later, Lu Moxing married Song Dalan.
The childhood sweetheart couldn't bear the blow and jumped into the river to commit suicide. Fortunately, Lu Nong found something wrong and grabbed a young man passing by in time, saving the childhood sweetheart. By chance, a good marriage was created.
As for the Lu family, all we can say is that people of the same family resemble each other.
After Song Dalan married into the family, she relied on her parents' family being better off than the Lu family and felt that she had married into the family of inferiority. She looked down on the Lu family and was always trying to pick on them. She bullied her husband and her sister-in-law and even ignored Lu's mother.
But the Lu family is not a soft persimmon that Song Dalan can easily bully.
Let's not talk about Lu's mother. In terms of scheming, ten Song Dalans tied together cannot beat Lu's mother. What's more, Lu's mother is a illegitimate daughter of the Li family, a wealthy family. When she was young, she eloped with Lu's father and was driven out by the Li family, who no longer recognized her identity as the daughter of the Li family. But even though she is a illegitimate daughter, Lu's mother's insight and vision are far superior to Song Dalan's.
Whenever Song Dalan wanted to show off something in front of Lu's mother, Lu's mother would always talk about the past, implying that what Song Dalan showed off was nothing, and that she had something better than hers. After doing this so many times, Song Dalan actually believed it and devoted herself to being a good daughter-in-law.
One of the sisters-in-law, Lu Nong, was not close to the family. Song Dalan tried to make things difficult for her, but she was always discovered by Lu Nong. After so many times, Lu Nong got tired of it and decided to live with her uncle. Song Dalan could not bully her.
The second sister-in-law, Lu Qing, is the most favored youngest in the family. If Song Dalan dares to bully her, Lu's mother will beat her up first. In addition, Lu Qing has a strong desire for revenge. After Song Dalan suffered at the hands of Lu Qing, she will never dare to do it again.
After a round of investigation, it was found that no one in the Lu family was a good person. Song Dalan could only stay obediently with Lu's mother and lived a peaceful life for a few years.
But within a few years, as Lu Moxing and Song Dalan's children were born one after another, there were suddenly one more mouth to feed in the family. The wages that Song Dalan and his wife earned became more and more expensive, and the family's living conditions became worse and worse, and their living place became more and more cramped.
On the other hand, Lu Nong and Lu Qing live in the Li family's mansion every other day, and they eat, wear and use the best things given by the Li family. Lu Nong can even spend a lot of money to learn the useless violin. Song Dalan is a narrow-minded person, and this contrast made her jealous.
In fact, she had been dissatisfied for several years. Although they were all nephews and nieces of her uncle, her husband was not as favored as her two sisters in the Li family, and their children were also treated mediocrely.
As Lu Nong and Lu Qing were favored, they could get some advantages in every way. Lu Nong was more favored than Lu Qing because of his better talent and appearance. So Song Dalan was naturally more hostile to Lu Nong.
She felt that everything her uncle gave to Lu Nong and Lu Qing should be given to Lu Moxing, after all, Lu Moxing was the only male in the Lu family.
When Lu Nong was fourteen years old, the domestic environment was bad, and the Li family moved overseas. Before leaving, they made arrangements for Lu Nong and gave her a sum of money to allow her to study abroad.
The Lu family didn't know about this money at first. It was Qian Yu who revealed it to Lu Qing, and Lu Qing told Song Dalan and Lu's mother.
Without the protection of the Li family, Song Dalan turned her attention to Lu Nong. She pretended to be pregnant, saying that there was no room for her at home, and wanted to buy a house for her to live in. She instigated Lu's mother and her husband Lu Moxing to use her sister-in-law's money to cover the cost first, and then return the money to Lu Nong when they had money in the future.
Without Lu Nong's involvement, the family stole Lu Nong's check and used the money to buy the house.
By the time Lu Nong came back, it was too late. But she was no pushover. She used some means to threaten Lu Moxing and his wife to write an IOU and even got the street notary to stamp it.
A few years later, Lu Nong grew up to be a shocking girl. Song Dalan was still determined to get rid of her. Together with Lu Qing, who was jealous of Lu Nong, she instigated Lu's mother to go to Lu Nong's school to cause trouble, hoping that Lu Nong would give up her studies and get married to help Lu Moxing find a better future.
The school atmosphere was very bad that year, and most of the students and teachers were sent to the countryside to work. Lu Nong did not want to get involved in the trouble, so he dropped out of school and was admitted to a hospital as a nurse.
It can be said that since his uncle's family left, all the unbearable situations that Lu Nong had to go through alone were the result of the planning of his eldest sister-in-law Song Dalan and the connivance of his eldest brother Lu Moxing.
It would be strange for Lu Nong to be happy to see these two people. She wanted to wait until the couple left before going in. However, just when she was about to turn around, she was discovered by the sharp-eyed Song Dalan.
"Sister? Oh, it's really you. Come over here and tell the PLA comrades that we are your brother and sister-in-law. We are not lying!"
Song Dalan was delighted and tried to hold Lu Nong, but Lu Nong dodged her. She frowned and pulled the boy next to her, "Call me auntie, I'll give you some candy."
After that, she held the little son in her arms and showed him to Lu Nong, with a proud look on her face. "Sister, look, Xiaowu has gained weight again. Are you pregnant?"
The older boy, who looked about five or six years old, looked like Song Dalan, with narrow eyes and thick lips. He asked Lu Nong for money and candy as if it was a matter of course: "Auntie, I want some candy."
Lu Moxing also came over and said to Lu Nong impatiently, "It's cold, let's go inside. I have something to talk to you about."
Apparently he was used to this attitude in front of Lu Nong.
Lu Nong was almost made to laugh by this family. If she had not traveled to the modern times, Lu Moxing would not have dared to speak to her like this.
But in recent years, "Lu Nong" has shown a weak character. As the saying goes, if you are strong, he will be weak, and if you are weak, he will be strong. The Lu family has always bullied the weak and feared the strong. Although I don't know why, when Lu Nong becomes weak, the Lu family's attitude towards Lu Nong becomes strong. They want to take advantage of him and are arrogant. They don't even respect Lu Nong like a child.
Lu Nong walked right past the family and said to the soldier on guard duty, "I don't know them."
Lu Moxing was furious when he heard this. "Lu Nong, don't push your luck. I'm your brother! Do you want to quarrel with us? I'm telling you, if you don't let us in today, don't come back to the Lu family. I'm going to your workplace to promote you, so that everyone knows that you're rich now and look down on us poor relatives. Oh, and the old lady from the Gu family, does she know that you live in such a nice place with Gu Huai?"
Lu Moxing knew that his sister had become thin-skinned in recent years. Whenever he used these things to threaten Lu Nong, Lu Nong would quickly reveal a look of weakness and helplessness, then shed tears, and finally give in.
But this time, Lu Nong didn't show any cowardice. Instead, he sneered, "You'd better not be my brother. Are you worthy?"
Lu Moxing was shocked, and even Song Dalan couldn't help but be surprised. They looked at Lu Nong carefully. Why did his sister-in-law seem like a different person?
The couple looked at each other.