Mr. Lin is only forty-six years old this year, but the age for labor service is between sixteen and fifty years old.
Fifty years old is not much different from forty-six years old. A normal family has other adult men, so it’s better not to go if you can.
However, Sun was very unhappy when she thought that Mr. Lin had never performed any labor service since Lin Anji became an adult.
Lin Anji is thirty years old this year. When he became an adult, Mr. Lin was only thirty-two years old.
Her husband started serving in the army at the age of sixteen. The following year, Lin Anxiang was sixteen and it was his turn. The following year, Lin Anru was sixteen. The three of them began to take turns serving in the army from that time on.
"They say the three brothers love you the most, but in fact, they love themselves the most. As soon as you came of age, they made you do hard labor..."
In the end, Sun couldn't help but express her dissatisfaction.
After marrying into the Lin family for more than ten years, she really didn't feel that Grandpa Lin loved any of his children. He said that he loved the eldest child, but it was only slightly biased. It couldn't be said that he loved him, but of course it wasn't true to say that he didn't love him either.
But precisely because of this bias, they have to remember the kindness of Mr. Lin, otherwise it would be unfilial.
Sometimes, Mrs. Sun really wanted her husband to be "Lin Anxiang" for once. After all, no matter how much she contradicted him or beat or scolded him, Mr. Lin would never sue his son.
And because Mr. Lin values his son and cares about his reputation, he will not disown his son.
Doing this will at most make them have a bad reputation in the village, but they will definitely feel good inside.
Lin Anji didn't say anything. It was not a good thing to talk about your elders behind their backs.
Mrs. Sun was just a little angry and complaining because she saw her husband suffering. She didn't really hate Mr. Lin. She just said it and stopped.
Even though we are dissatisfied with this matter, the favors we have received over the past decade are not fake.
"Don't talk about Dad like that. Back then, he was responsible for the food and drink of everyone in the family. I had just come of age and I felt I couldn't do the same as Dad, so I went to serve as a laborer."
There must always be an adult male left at home, either him or his father. He thought he was still young, and because he was young and hot-tempered, he had a lot of strength, so he was the one who went to do labor service that year.
As for my second and third brothers, it was out of fairness. Even after all these years, they still took turns because they were used to it.
Lin Anji knew that his wife felt sorry for him, but he didn't want her to suffer unfair prejudice against his father.
Before, they thought their father favored the third child and blamed their two children's early deaths on their father. It had only been a short time since that happened, and knowing the truth, they felt so tormented by the guilt. Lin Anji didn't want to let it happen again.
It was also from this that he discovered that he had to speak when interacting with his family, as silence would only create misunderstandings.
"I was mistaken."
"It's okay, just tell me." Lin Anji smiled and changed the subject: "Didn't you make egg soup for me? Bring it over quickly, I'm starving."
Sun knew that her husband was concerned about her feelings, so she brought over the egg soup that had been cooked long ago.
Lin Anji swallowed it all in one gulp: "It's delicious!"
"I'll make it for you tomorrow. Let you drink it for a few days to get better."
This was something she learned from Old Lady Lin. As long as anyone came back from labor service, no matter who they were, she would cook egg soup for a few days for them to nourish their bodies. When they had almost finished drinking the egg soup, she would cut some lean meat and stew it into soup to continue nourishing them.
Thinking of this, Sun burst out laughing.
It seemed that she really had misunderstood Mr. Lin, because she vaguely remembered some forgotten scenes.
The three brothers of the Lin family once competed for the opportunity to perform labor because they wanted to eat meat.
It was raining outside and the family didn't go out to work. The two children, who rarely had to go to the fields, ran in the rain to play with their friends. Only Sun and Lin Anji were left at home.
"Has anything happened in the village recently?"
Lin Anji has been back for the past few days. He basically rested for the first two days while his wife and children were out tending the fields. They only met before meals and bedtime and had no time to chat.
"Nothing serious..."
It was a rare opportunity to rest, so Sun picked up her needle and thread and sat by the bed, sewing while chatting with her husband.
There were no major events, but there were some minor incidents that caused a lot of chaos. Sun picked out some of them and told him about them.
As she was talking, Mrs. Sun suddenly changed the subject: "Do you think we should let our daughter learn to read?"
Lin Anji: ???
Hadn't their family just paid off their foreign debt? Could it be that during his absence, they had become wealthy enough to allow their daughter to go to school?
Because of the ascariasis incident, Lin Anji got the "performance" fee from his third brother, plus the money from selling herbs he picked, which allowed them to pay off the foreign debt they had borrowed some time ago and have some left over.
It’s just a few cents, just a dozen or twenty coins.
Did his wife become bolder because of these ten or twenty coins? She even dared to ask her daughter to go to school.
Lin Anji was always thinking about the family's money and didn't notice that Sun wanted her daughter to go instead of her son.
"Wife, tell me secretly, does our family have a lot of money?"
Sun rolled her eyes at him and said, "Don't you know how much money it is?"
He didn't hide where the money was kept at home.
"Without money, how dare you let your daughter go to school? That stuff is so expensive."
Because of this study, his third brother owed money to half the villagers! That was because his teacher was Liu's father and did not charge him tuition. Otherwise, his third brother might have owed money to the whole village.
"It was my sister-in-law who brought it up."
"Ayi?"
"Yes, it's Ayi, your biological sister." Then she revealed a piece of information: "Did you know? Your sister is also a scholar!"
When Sun said this, she had been observing her husband's expression. When she saw the shock on his face, she felt relieved.
We can't let her bear the shock alone, right?
"How could Ayi..." Lin Anji was suspicious, and then he suddenly realized.
My younger sister has been sticking to my third brother since she was young. It must be my third brother who taught her, otherwise it doesn’t make sense!
Seeing her husband's reaction, Sun continued:
"Ayi said that the Chang family married her because she could read, unlike ordinary peasant girls. So she wanted the two in the family to learn too..."
Lin Anyi's intention was not just to let Lin Shiyi study so that she could marry into a good family, but she also believed that studying really brought many benefits.
But when she talked to Sun, she started by saying that she could read and married into a good family, just to attract her sister-in-law's attention and make her pay attention to her.
Growing up in the village, she knew too well that instead of wasting a lot of time talking about how reading can broaden your horizons and enrich your thoughts, it would be faster to say that it can help you marry a good man.
If it was to persuade boys to study, Lin Anyi would not waste his breath at all, because normal families with enough family wealth would not let their boys be farmers all their lives.
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