Chapter 89
Three years ago, Lu Cheng brought Lu Haici to visit the Lin family for the first time. The 5-year-old Lu Haici met the 11-year-old Lin Luming. At that time, one was very happy to have a new mother and relatives from her mother's family, so he gave the other two candies. The other was very curious about her sister getting married and even having a son, so she was a little confused about the other. However, after Lu Haici gave Lin Luming two candies, Lin Luming remembered this child deeply and had a very good impression of him.
Children are so simple, they are completely bought by two candies.
"Yes, you two are destined to be together." Lin Qingqing followed the two boys' words and said, "You both have the word Lu in your names, so you are destined to be relatives. Lu Ming is the elder, so he has to take good care of Hai Ci. Hai Ci is the younger generation, so he has to listen to Lu Ming, understand?"
"I understand, don't worry, mom, I will definitely listen to my uncle."
"Don't worry, sister, I will take good care of my nephew."
A sister's treasure boy and a mother's treasure boy said in unison.
"Come, I'll take you to my room. I live with my brothers, but I have my own bed." Lin Luming said.
The Lin family's house is arranged like this, Grandpa Lin and Grandma Lin have one room, the third son and daughter-in-law have one room, and Lin Qingqing has one room. The other is a big room where several grandsons live together, with bunk beds. Dr. Lin also lived in this big room before he got married. But before he got married, the Lin family had an empty room as a spare, which was used by grandsons who were getting married. Because they didn't know who would get married first, the room was left empty and no grandson was allowed to live in it.
Later, Dr. Lin got married and used this spare room. After Dr. Lin got married, the Lin family built another spare room. This is now Lin Aojun's new room. In a few days, Grandpa Lin plans to build another spare room. Anyway, the grandsons will get married one by one, and the rooms will be built one by one.
"Wow, it's great to live with so many uncles." Lu Haici envied Lin Luming and was very happy to live with everyone. "Uncle, I still have luggage and I brought some food. Let's go get my luggage first."
"Okay, I'll help you." Lin Luming is the youngest in the Lin family. He was very happy to be the elder in front of Lu Haici.
By the ox cart, Lu Cheng took down his and Lin Qingqing's luggage. Grandma Lin was playing with Enen, and Aunt Lin was holding her eldest grandson and was reluctant to let go. Wang Qiuyue handed her son to them and went to clean up the room. The other brothers of the Lin family gathered in the yard and watched.
Lin Aojun and Su Fen had originally returned to their rooms, but seeing the situation outside, they also came out.
Lin Aojun's room was next to Lin Yiyang's room. When Su Fen and Lin Aojun came out, they bumped into Wang Qiuyue who was going back to her room to pack up.
"Aojun." Wang Qiuyue smiled and greeted, "Is this your wife? She's so pretty." Wang Qiuyue was originally a country woman. After living in the army for three years, she changed from being rustic to being elegant.
When Lin Aojun first saw his sister-in-law, he was still a little unresponsive. Now when he heard his sister-in-law greet him, he immediately said, "Sister-in-law is back. This is my wife Su Fen. Su Fen, this is sister-in-law."
"Hello, sister-in-law." Su Fen greeted her, feeling a little surprised. This sister-in-law was different from what she had imagined. She knew that her sister-in-law was from the production brigade next door, and she also knew what her family was like. Before meeting Lin Aojun, she had a general understanding of the Lin family's situation. Originally, she thought that this sister-in-law who had not even graduated from elementary school should be an ordinary country girl, but now it seems that she is not. She smiled brightly and confidently, and she looked very capable. She quietly gave up her original idea.
"I haven't congratulated you on your wedding yet. Your eldest brother is busy with farm affairs and can't leave." Wang Qiuyue said, "I brought you wedding gifts. Wait a minute. I'll find them from my luggage and give them to you later."
Lin Aojun: "Thank you,
sister-in-law." Su Fen: "You're too polite. You go ahead."
Wang Qiuyue carried her luggage into the room and took out the wedding gifts she and Lin Qingqing had agreed on. She prepared a pair of bright red pillowcases, while Lin Qingqing prepared two enamel cups.
Wang Qiuyue took out a pair of bright red pillowcases that she had prepared and went to the next room: "Aojun, Sufen, this is a wedding gift for you."
When Sufen saw the bright red pillowcases, her eyes lit up and she said happily: "Thank you, sister-in-law." The bright red color is festive, and the fact that sister-in-law can give such a pair of pillowcases shows her generosity. Sufen was very lucky that she could marry into the Lin family, and sister-in-law seemed to be easy to get along with.
At this time, Lin Qingqing also came out of her room. She also took out a pair of enamel cups from her luggage and walked towards this side. Seeing Wang Qiuyue was also there, she said: "Sister-in-law is here too, Aojun, Sufen, this is a wedding gift for you, I wish you a happy marriage." A pair of enamel cups, printed with red double happiness, are very festive.
"Thank you, big sister." Su Fen naturally liked the gift that Lin Qingqing gave her. "Sister-in-law, big sister, please sit inside."
Wang Qiuyue said, "I won't sit anymore. I have to go tidy up the room."
Lin Qingqing also joked, "I won't sit anymore. I won't disturb your wedding night."
Lin Qingqing left here, took the passbook from her room, and went to find Grandma Lin: "Grandma, I have something to tell you. . "
When Grandma Lin heard this, she stopped teasing Enen and took Lin Qingqing into her room: "My dear granddaughter, what do you want to say to grandma?"
Lin Qingqing took out a passbook: "Grandma, this is 1,500 yuan. It is a red envelope that Aunt Lu Cheng gave me after we got married and before I followed the army. I think the 1,500 yuan that my aunt gave me should be the money for the old ginseng." Otherwise, how could she give a red envelope of 1,500 yuan.
Grandma Lin naturally understood what Lin Qingqing said. Who would give a red envelope of 1,500 yuan to their nephew's wife? Even if it was given to their own son or daughter, it couldn't be a red envelope of 1,500 yuan. So, of course, this was the money for the old ginseng. However, Grandma Lin confiscated it: "Keep this money, it's for you."
"That won't work, this..."
"Listen to grandma," said Grandma Lin. "Logically speaking, no family gives 800 yuan as a betrothal gift for marriage, so the 800 yuan betrothal gift that Lu Cheng gave that day was equivalent to giving the money for the old ginseng. The money for the old ginseng has been evened out, so the red envelope of 1,500 yuan is naturally for you. Besides, no family would give 5 yuan a month for support from a granddaughter who marries out. Since you have given it, it is also out of your filial piety, so grandma will accept it. If you insist on giving 1,500 yuan, just consider it as the 5 yuan a month being deducted from the 1,500 yuan." 5 yuan a month, 60 yuan a month, the granddaughter has been giving for three years, and it is already 180 yuan, so she will not take back the 1,500 yuan in red envelope. If she took it, she would have to return the 800 yuan betrothal gift and the 180 yuan pension to her granddaughter. As a family, we don't care so much. "Besides, you found a job for your eldest brother and your father, and these two jobs are worth much more than 1,500 yuan."
Lin Qingqing didn't know what to say after hearing what Grandma Lin said. She didn't expect Grandma Lin to make such an arrangement. You know, it's 1,500 yuan. In this era, 1,500 yuan means a wealthy family, but Grandma Lin's vision is so big that she didn't take 1,500 yuan.
Lin Qingqing did not insist any more. Grandma Lin was a big shot and she was not a stingy person. She accepted the 1500 yuan, but at the same time, she became more filial to Grandma Lin. "Grandma, if you say that, it's me who is at a disadvantage. I won't be polite then."
Listening to her joking words, Grandma Lin tapped her forehead and said, "You girl, you still make fun of your grandma." After thinking about it, Grandma Lin sighed again.
"What's wrong with grandma?" Seeing this, Lin Qingqing asked with concern, "What's on your mind?"
Grandma Lin shook her head. When she thought about Lin Aojun's matter, she was too embarrassed to talk about it.
Seeing Grandma Lin like this, Lin Qingqing thought of Lin Aojun's matter and asked, "Grandma, didn't you oppose Aojun and Su Fen's relationship before? Why do you agree to their marriage now?"
Originally, Grandma Lin didn't want to say it. After all, no one else in the Lin family knew about it, and she didn't want to embarrass her grandson. But she felt uncomfortable hiding the matter in her heart, especially since she was the only one who knew about it and she didn't even have anyone to discuss it with. Now that her granddaughter asked, she hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't want to agree to their marriage either, but you don't know that Aojun did something shameful..."
Ah? Lin Qingqing didn't think about what the shameful thing was. "Grandma, what are you talking about?"
"It was him..." Grandma Lin continued to talk about what happened. "Tell me, if I don't agree to their marriage, what can I do? What if Su Fen is pregnant with Ao Jun's child? Or, what if this matter is known to others and they report Ao Jun? The situation is so tense now. What if Ao Jun's matter is reported to the committee, and Ao Jun is arrested, our Lin family will also lose face in Gaoshanao."
Lin Qingqing was stunned after hearing what Grandma Lin said. She didn't expect such a thing to happen. Lin Aojun was confused, and Su Fen was also confused. Lin Aojun was only 18 years old this year, and he was not yet an adult. Su Fen is definitely not older than Lin Aojun. Didn't she think about what if Lin Aojun is unwilling to take responsibility?
Lin Qingqing suddenly thought of a possibility. Could it be that Su Fen did it on purpose? Deliberately had a relationship with Lin Aojun and then married into the Lin family? She was not being scheming, but the life of the educated youth was not easy. If Su Fen could marry into the Lin family, her life would definitely be better than living alone.
Then Lin Qingqing shook her head. Maybe she was overthinking and being too scheming. She didn't know what to say: "Then what is grandma going to do next?"
Grandma Lin said: "They are married, what else can happen next? I just hope Su Fen is a decent person. However, such a thing can happen before marriage, I don't think she is a decent person."
Lin thought for a while and said: "Grandma, why don't we split up the family?"
"Split up the family?" Grandma Lin was not the kind of person who wanted to hold on to power, but she had never thought about splitting up the family. "Why did you suddenly think of dividing the family?"
Lin said lightly: "First of all, if the affair between Ao Jun and Su Fen is exposed, the Lin family has already divided, and it will not implicate the Lin family. Secondly, if the family is not divided now, each family can only raise two chickens. There are so many people in our family, and the eggs laid by two chickens are not enough to eat. But it will be different after the family is divided. The first room, the second room, and the third room can all raise two chickens, and then every family will have enough eggs to eat. Besides, grandma has to cook for everyone every day, which is too tiring. If the family is divided, grandma will be much more relaxed."
Grandma Lin smiled bitterly: "What you said does sound like that. It turns out that you are married and your ideas are mature. Okay, you are tired from rushing, go back and rest."
"Then I'll go out." Lin left the room lightly, leaving Grandma Lin in deep thought. But what she was thinking about was not what Lin Qingqing said, but that if Lin Aojun and Su Fen had such a thing happen before their marriage, and if they were restless, there would definitely be trouble in the future. After the family was divided, no matter how restless they were, she could rest assured.
Lin Qingqing left the room and saw Lu Cheng sitting outside. She walked over: "I'll take a shower first."
Lu Cheng stood up: "I'll boil some water." The
two went to the kitchen.
In the big room, Lu Haici happily distributed gifts to everyone. He took out comic books and food from his luggage. The food was richer, including fruit candies, White Rabbit milk candies, twisted dough sticks, and dried rice cakes.
"Uncle, come and eat, these are all prepared for me by my mother." Lu Haici was happy to think that he could sleep with so many people at night.
At this moment, in the room were Lin Sanbin, 17 years old, from the third room, and the twin sons from the third room, Lin Shi and Lin Wu, 15 years old this year. In addition to Lin Luming, 14 years old, there were four people in total. In addition to Lu Haici, 8 years old, the group was reading comic books and eating snacks, and it was very lively.
"Sister is so nice." Lin Luming said, "I also want sister to make these foods for me."
Hearing this, Lu Haici said, "Then uncle, come with us to the army. In the army, you can often eat the food made by mom."
Lin Luming said, "That's not possible. I still have to study."
Lu Haici: "Uncle can go to the army to study. I am also studying in the army. If uncle goes there in the future, we can go to school and go home together. By the way, we can also play football together. I brought the ball..." As he said, he went to rummage through the luggage and found the football, "Uncle, let's play football together tomorrow."
"Is this a ball? I have never seen it before." Lin Luming stared at it curiously.
"How do you kick it?" Lin Shi asked.
"This is fun..." Lu Haici talked to them about the rules of playing football.
Several boys also listened with gusto.
But after a while, Lin Qingqing called out at the door: "Lu Ming, the hot water is ready, take Haici to take a bath."
Lin Luming: "Got it."
Lu Haici: "Mom, I'll take a bath right away."
Lin Qingqing didn't restrain Lu Haici, just gave him a warning and left him alone. Lu Haici rarely came to the Lin family, and he had a great time with Lin Luming and the others. If she was too strict, it would affect the child's personality.
When she returned to her room, Lu Cheng had already gone to bed, so she followed him up: "Grandma didn't take the 1500, she said the money was for me. Alas..."
Lu Cheng said: "Grandma loves you, we should be more filial to her in the future." Lu Cheng didn't care about the 1500, he had money, the property his mother asked for from the Zhang family, and the property his mother left behind. But he knew what the 1500 meant to an ordinary family. So, he could see from the 1500 that Grandma Lin loved Lin Qingqing. He was grateful to everyone who was good to Lin Qingqing.
Lin Qingqing: "Yeah, I think so too."
Lu Cheng looked down at her, at her gentle face, at her smiling eyes, he put his hands around her waist: "Qingqing..."
Lin Qingqing raised her head: "Hmm?"
Lu Cheng slowly lowered his head, and when he was about to get close to her lips, he stopped because Lin Qingqing covered his face with her hands. "The sound insulation of this house is very poor, you can't do anything else."
Lu Cheng raised his eyebrows: "What is the other thing?" His hand moved around her body in an unruly way.
"Don't make a fuss, I'm itchy." Lin Qingqing pressed his hand, "Go to sleep quickly, I have to get up early tomorrow to go to the grave. Besides, I don't want anyone to eavesdrop, or do you?"
Lu Cheng laughed softly, then patted her face hard, and then rubbed her to sleep.
The next
day Before dawn, Lin Qingqing and Lu Cheng got up. The two did not disturb anyone in the Lin family and went to the graves of Grandpa Lin and Grandma Lin. At this time, not to mention the Lin family, even the entire Gaoshanao Production Brigade was quiet, so the two did not see anyone on the way to the grave.
Fortunately, Lin Qingqing had the original owner's memory and knew where the graves of the two deceased elderly people were.
The two arrived at the head of the grave, dug a pit between the two graves together, and buried a set of the original owner's clothes in it. Because it was a clothing and hat carving, no one could know about it, so this was the only way. I hope that when the descendants of the Lin family visit Grandpa Lin and Grandma Lin in the future, they will also be visiting the original owner.
After the two set up a clothing and hat carving for the original owner, they left without doing anything to attract attention. When they returned home, everyone hadn't gotten up yet, so the two went back to the room and continued to sleep.
When they woke up again, there was already movement outside. The two had to go to the county town to look at houses today, so they got up. After a while, the Lin family got up, and everyone had to go to work today.
The Lin family had sweet potato rice porridge with some side dishes for breakfast.
After dinner, Lin Qingqing and Lu Cheng went to the county town, and Lu Haici went to play football with Lin Luming.
Du Wei specially asked for leave from the unit today because he wanted to take Lin Qingqing and Lu Cheng to see houses today. Du Wei took them to see five houses, all of which were independent small courtyards that Lin Qingqing wanted. There are many small courtyards recently. One reason is that some people had problems and their houses were idle and directly handled by the government. The other reason is that some people saw that the situation was not right and sold their houses in advance.
Therefore, there are many houses for sale in the county town.
Finally, Lin Qingqing and Lu Cheng chose an independent small courtyard that was closer to their aunt's house, but the house was a bit old and needed to be cleaned up by themselves. After buying the house, it was still early, so Lu Cheng went to order cement, bricks and other materials, and called a decorator through Du Wei's introduction.
After the decorator came, Lin Qingqing told him the places that needed to be modified. Houses these days are basically bare houses, so even simple decoration is very easy. After Lin Qingqing said it, the decorator understood and said that the modifications could be completed in three days.
After the house matters were settled, Lu Cheng and Lin Qingqing went to the market to buy some vegetables and returned to Gaoshanao.
At this moment in the Lin family's Gaoshanao, everyone else went to work, but Lin Aojun and Su Fen knelt in front of Grandma Lin.
"What did you say? Say it again, I didn't hear it clearly." Grandma Lin thought there was something wrong with her ears. What did she hear? After hearing what the second grandson just said, that he lied to Su Fen about having a relationship with her before the marriage, Grandma Lin felt a little dizzy and her head was heavy. She must have heard it wrongly.
Lin Aojun worriedly said, "I'm sorry, Grandma. I took the initiative to lie to you in order to marry Fenfen. This has nothing to do with Fenfen. I'm sorry, Grandma, but last night we...we really had our wedding night, so Fenfen is really my daughter-in-law now, Grandma, I'm sorry."
Grandma Lin felt sad. She didn't expect that Lin Aojun could even tell such a lie in order to marry Su Fen. She watched Lin Aojun grow up. How could she not be disappointed now? She looked at Su Fen: "What about you? What do you say?"
Su Fen said: "Grandma, this is not Brother Aojun's fault, it's my fault. It's because my father is sick, and he wants to... wants to see me get married before he dies, so... so Brother Aojun came up with this idea. Please don't be angry with us. If you want to be angry, be angry with me." She didn't dare to say that this idea was hers. She could see that Grandma Lin was very angry. If she said it was her idea at this time, she didn't know how Grandma Lin would look at her, so she could only go along with Lin Aojun's words and say that it was Lin Aojun's idea. She
originally thought that if she was honest afterwards, Grandma Lin would change her impression of her, but she didn't expect that Grandma Lin looked even angrier. If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have been like this, but now that I have said it, I don't know if I should have known earlier.
"No, grandma, don't be angry with Fenfen. It's my fault. I made the wrong suggestion and made you angry. I'm sorry." Lin Aojun said hurriedly. He is grandma's grandson. No matter how angry grandma is, she will not blame him for long. But if grandma knew that this idea was from Su Fen, it would be different.
Lin Aojun understood this principle, and Su Fen certainly understood it too. But in front of Grandma Lin, she needed to show that she was protecting Lin Aojun, so that for Lin Aojun's sake, Grandma would forgive her. "Grandma, it's my fault. It has nothing to do with Brother Aojun."
Lin Aojun: "Grandma..."
Grandma Lin's head hurt even more as she listened to them talking back and forth.
Just then, a voice came from outside: "Grandma, we're back."
It turned out that Lin Qingqing and Lu Cheng were back.
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