Chapter 11 Favoritism
For two days in a row, people came to deliver vegetable seedlings, vegetable seeds, and melon seeds. Fang Dihua also took Lu Dasao and Lu Erge to repair the vegetable bed according to Lin Shu's request.
Peanuts should be planted around Grain Rain after Qingming Festival. It is more than a month late now, but if they are planted in the yard, they can get enough sunlight and wait for the autumn wall to keep warm, so they can be ripe for a few more days. At most, they will be harvested half a month late.
If it were in the past, Fang Dihua would definitely not plant it. If anyone dared to plant it, she would definitely scold them. But now that Lin Shu wanted to plant it, she thought, forget it. Let the third daughter-in-law plant it. As long as she is happy and doesn't have mental problems, everything is fine.
Isn't it just planting a few piles of peanuts? What's wrong with planting a yard? At most, a few handfuls of peanuts will be wasted!
Plant, let her plant!
She won't care even if she plants the whole roof!
Lin Shu planted the vegetable and melon seedlings immediately after getting them. She soaked the vegetable seeds immediately after getting them to germinate. She could plant them when white buds appeared.
Unfortunately, there were no melon seeds.
Oil-bearing economic crops such as sunflowers are basically not grown locally. Occasionally, someone would grow two for their own consumption, but because the flowers are beautiful, they might be picked by someone with bad hands before they bear fruit, so the damage rate is very high, and no one planted them later.
Fang Dihua couldn't find it in her own village, and she asked around in the surrounding villages and couldn't find it either. She was told that there was no melon in the town either, so she had to go to the county.
Since there was no melon, Lin Shu had to give up. It was not good to go to the county just to buy some melon seeds, and she had to take a bus and spend money.
Everyone saw the changes in Lin Shu these two days, especially Fang Dihua, who was afraid that she had mental problems, so she really responded to her every request.
Before breakfast today, she sent the old man and Big Brother Lu to work on their private plots, and she took her eldest sister-in-law and second brother to help Lin Shu tidy up the vegetable garden. After
Lin Shu cooked, she served the meal to the children who were going to school to cool it down, and then ran to the vegetable garden excitedly to admire the "kingdom" that her mother-in-law had built for her.
This is really a very good yard!
The terrain is high in the north and low in the south, so it won't flood back on rainy days.
The garden is large enough, about ten meters wide from north to south, and about sixty meters long from east to west. Excluding the location of the seven main rooms and several side rooms, there is still a lot of open space. There is
a wide distance from the east and west walls of the main room to the courtyard wall, and many trees and fruit trees are planted.
In the past, the vegetable plots planted by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law were rather messy, scattered here and there, which made Lin Shu feel obsessive-compulsive. In
her previous life, she studied art for several years when she was a child, and later her job was related to space design and decoration. She was very sensitive to space planning and would never allow chaos without aesthetics.
In her previous life, she lived in a high-rise building, and she had to plan the vegetables and flowers on the balcony that was not spacious enough, which made her regretful.
Now that she has traveled to the countryside, wouldn’t it be a waste of her time travel if she didn’t plan a big yard?
Lin Shu found that after she expressed her intention not to remarry, her mother-in-law became more and more amiable to her, even a little indulgent, which made her secretly take advantage of it - she was indeed a little arrogant because of her favor.
She came to Fang Dihua and boldly asked, "Mom, I have a plan to tell you."
She wanted to make drastic changes to the garden.
A distance of five meters in front of the house was cleared as a daily activity area. In order to protect against wind and rain, a pavilion was built in front of the main hall. They usually ate under it so that they would not have to move into the house in a hurry when it rained. The ground in
this area must be hardened, otherwise it will be muddy and dig a half-foot pit after two days of rain.
Fang Dihua heard her mumbling and digging the ground with the hoe in her hand. She became interested and stood up to look at Lin Shu.
Lin Shu looked up at her, her eyes smiling and sparkling, without any sadness or cowardice.
"Mom, the corridor is too narrow. It needs to be expanded to three meters to match our spacious courtyard."
Mrs. Lu came over to take a look while combing her hair and said, "I'll come over to help." Hearing Lin Shu say that the corridor was too narrow, she nodded repeatedly and said with a smile, "The third wife's family is becoming more and more like the mistress of the house. This is a great idea! But where can you get slate? It's not the past now. Now even if you have money, you have to apply for it if you want to buy a brick or a tile."
Lin Shu ignored her weirdness and said to Fang Dihua, "Mom, I've thought about it. Just pick up any broken bricks or stones and piece them together on both sides of the slate."
She can design a beautiful pattern.
Second Sister-in-law Lu wanted to argue with her that everyone was very tired from working all day, and it would be great if she could go pick up the food since she had nothing to do at home
. Fang Dihua had already nodded and agreed, "I think it's okay. The road is a bit narrow, and it's not convenient to carry food home." Second Sister-in-law Lu secretly pouted and turned back to the house.
Seeing that her mother-in-law was so easy to talk to, Lin Shu continued to talk about the plan.
The vegetable plots are in a north-south direction along the corridor. The middle does not need to be too dense, leaving enough growth space for plants to absorb sunlight freely.
She measured it with her steps. The vegetable plot is one and a half meters wide and almost five meters long. There are six plots on the east side and eight plots on the west side.
The yard is very large. After planning these vegetable plots, there is still a lot of space from the east and west sides to the yard wall. The vegetable plots are also a long distance to the north.
Mrs. Lu was originally digging the ground with a lot of grunts, but now she was listening intently, "Wow, there are so many vegetable plots here, we can't eat all the vegetables we grow." She
can give some to relatives, and her family can also benefit from it. The third brother's family is really getting better and better at living!
Second brother Lu listened silently, without saying a word, and continued to work silently.
Seeing that her mother-in-law had no objection and her sister-in-law seemed interested, Lin Shu said, "Mom, there is still a lot of space in the east. Move the haystack there and dig a fish pond, pile up some stones and reeds for landscaping, plant some lotus, water lily, water chestnuts and so on, and raise some crucian carp, carp, and black carp to eat."
Fang Dihua: Well, you know how to enjoy life, and you look like my mother-in-law... Mom... Could it be that the old woman is possessed by her?
Fang Dihua's heart immediately rose to her throat again.
Sister Lu: "Raise fish, then you have to raise two red carps."
Fang Dihua glanced at her, "You know a lot."
Sister Lu's face was dark and shy, "His father likes it, saying that fish playing with lotus leaves are beautiful."
She usually talks a lot, but when it comes to Brother Lu, she instantly becomes a little wife.
Fang Dihua rolled her eyes at her jealousy and told her to dig the ground quickly, because it was time to go to work.
Lin Shu was afraid that her mother-in-law would run away and come back to complain that she couldn't take over, so she quickly said, "Mom, don't plant gourds in the vegetable garden, plant them directly under the trees and let them climb the trees freely."
Fang Dihua: "Well, we don't have to build a rack."
Gourds must be planted because they are going to be made into gourds.
At this time, few families in the countryside have metal ladles, let alone plastic ones.
They all use gourds and ladles. In addition to gourds, pumpkins, winter melons, squash, melons, pumpkins, gourds, lentils and other climbing plants are all planned here. Simple racks are built between the trees for them to climb freely.
The dozen or so vegetable plots are planted with common vegetables, green leafy vegetables, eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, etc.
Tomatoes should be planted more in particular, as they can be eaten as fruits and bear fruit frequently.
Fang Dihua took a look and said, "That big locust tree is old. Let's kill it and move forward to the front of the building."
She looked at Lin Shu and said, "What else?"
Lin Shu smiled sweetly. Her mother-in-law was so nice. She never complained that she was too fussy. "Mom, I also want to build a grape rack and plant two grape trees. I also want to plant a honeysuckle rack so that I can soak the water for drinking. I also want to cover the screen wall with roses of various colors. I also want some hibiscus, roses, chrysanthemums, cockscombs and so on... to plant in the open space."
Various seasonal flowers can be matched according to the layout of the space, such as hydrangeas, mirabilis jalapa, begonias, etc. It doesn't matter where they are decorated, as long as they match the environment, they will look very beautiful.
The spacious courtyard has chicken and duck pens, pig pens, vegetable fields, fruit trees, grape racks, various flowers, fish ponds, lotus and rockery in the corners.
Well, this is her ideal farmyard!
Fang Dihua stood and thought about it. It was really good. It really looked like her old lady... Fang Dihua was really worried! Lu Ersao
was already washing clothes at the water platform. She lowered her head and rolled her eyes and sneered at the basin for fear that her mother-in-law would see her. The third wife has really changed a lot. She has changed from a punching bag to a flatterer!
Look at the way she flatters her mother-in-law and eldest sister-in-law. A fox spirit is a fox spirit, and her tail will eventually show.
This method of seducing men is used on the mother-in-law and eldest sister-in-law first!
She wanted to go back to her house to vent her anger on her daughter-in-law, but Lu Cuicui ran out and rushed into the main room, grabbed a dough roll and a cornmeal dough, and ran out faster than a wild monkey.
Lu Ersao was so angry that she grabbed a stick and threw it at her, but missed.
Lin Shu looked at the vegetable patch in front of her, which was still in disarray, the messy haystacks, and the new vegetable patch that was mostly bare, but she was full of hope.
Well, she has already clung to her mother-in-law's thigh, and the beautiful farmyard is right in front of her!
Fang Dihua accepted all of Lin Shu's suggestions and has begun to instruct Lu Erge to find time to kill the trees.
At this time, Father Lu and Big Brother Lu came back from their private plots, and Fang Dihua invited them to eat first, as it would be time to blow the whistle for work soon.
After everyone in the family left, she sent the two children out to play with the young soldiers, and Lin Shu planted vegetable seedlings at home.
Tired from squatting for a long time, she got up to stretch her muscles and bones and practiced a set of Ba Duan Jin.
Ba Duan Jin is a good exercise that strengthens the body without hurting the body.
After the exercise, she washed her hands and feet and went back to the house to continue making shoes. If she put on the shoes in the next two days, she would have new shoes to wear.
After Fang Dihua and others left, Song Chunfang went to "work" behind the house again. This time, four women surrounded her, chatting and rubbing the rice grains.
Lin Shu raised her eyebrows. She was making shoes while listening to Song Chunfang's rumors. This bitch was almost fed up.
Well, Aunt Li had the same idea as Lin Shu. She collected a lot of evidence in just two days.
In the past two days, Song Chunli saw that she was making insinuations behind the Lu family's house, and Lin Shu didn't dare to show up to fight back. She felt very happy.
Naturally, she became more and more bold in her rumors. She even made up a story that Lin Shu and someone else were having an affair through the back window and she saw them in this and that way.
The other women might not believe it, but making rumors about beautiful young widows - especially when their men praise the pretty young widows all day long, makes them feel happy to vent their anger!
What's wrong with you being beautiful? Haven't you become a toy for us to amuse ourselves? Let you, a vixen, flirt with others all day long, and even dare to flirt with their men!
Because they were too complacent, Auntie Li got wind of the news. She inquired carefully, and what the hell!
She was so angry!
Others didn't understand Lin Shu, but didn't she?
She was a woman who dared not even look up at a man!
She flirted with other women?
Look at you men, each of you is like a cricket that has just emerged from the mud. I don't even look down on you, so how could she?
She found out the circle where the news was spread and where it came from, and then ran to the field to find Fang Dihua.
She was glad that she had bound her feet and then untied them, otherwise she wouldn't be able to run so fast!
Auntie Li ran so fast that she almost rubbed sparks from the soles of her shoes.
When her daughter-in-law saw her mother-in-law running over, she thought something had happened at home. She was about to go over to greet her, but her mother-in-law didn't even look at her and ran straight to Fang Dihua.
"Second Madam, Second Madam."
Her daughter-in-law: "???"
Fang Dihua: "What?"
Aunt Li immediately pulled her aside and told Fang Dihua everything about Song Chunfang's gossip.
Things like torturing the daughter-in-law, cheating on her husband, and Lu Shaotang had a lover who hadn't consummated the marriage, etc.
"I've inquired about it. She has talked to no less than eight wives. The ones who gossip with her most often are Liu Gun'er's wife, Zhao Gen'er's wife, the widow Sun Dazi'er, and Wang Damazi's wife..."
These wives have their own problems. They either rely on their natal family to control their husband's family, or they are lazy and greedy, or they jump around and make trouble.
They have one thing in common: they don't have to work! They
are just idle and make trouble!
They deserve a beating!
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