Chapter 112 Delusion

Sister Lu told Lin Shu that the sausage rolls were delicious and wanted to collect some large and small intestines for her to make. She could bring them back to entertain guests during the Chinese New Year. She would have face and her parents-in-law would be happy.

Her father-in-law would have a Chinese New Year banquet, with guests from the commune and the county. There would be several tables, and this sausage roll with salted meat was so fragrant. It felt like it could be sent as a gift to the county.

Then maybe it would be a good idea to arrange a job for Guohua.

Fang Dihua wanted to ask why she asked the third daughter-in-law about this matter? It wasn't her who did it, so she asked your eldest and second brothers to do it.

Lin Shu had not interrupted their conversation, but now she took the initiative to say, "Sister, you can't do this. If you accept this, people will report you for speculation. Won't you implicate Grandpa Guohua and the others?"

Sister Lu: "What is there to report? Who doesn't buy some food?"

Lin Shu: "That's not the case. It's okay for ordinary people like us to buy some food, but what if someone is watching you? They will find fault with you. Lu Shaocai next door was reported for speculation and buying chickens."

Sister Lu knew about this. Her father-in-law said so. She whispered, "Third sister-in-law, it wasn't you who reported Lu Shaocai..."

Fang Dihua scolded, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Lin Shu: "Sister, What are you thinking about? Our eldest brother became an accountant based on his real ability, and Lu Shaocai was elected by the members based on his real ability."

Sister Lu laughed, obviously not believing it.

Fang Dihua looked at her, as if she was infected by Ding Jiachang's official language.

Lu Hehuan said, "Sister, you misunderstood, it's really not my third sister-in-law. Shihua said that the third sister-in-law is not that kind of person, and she didn't need to report him, because reporting him would not bring down the eldest cousin. The commune would have to think that he was useless before they would want to replace him, and then let the secretary guide the members to elect and replace him."

Xu Shihua said a lot at that time, some of which she could remember and some of which she couldn't.

She felt that Xu Shihua was kind-hearted. Although the third sister-in-law scolded him, he did not bear a grudge and even spoke for her. The third sister-in-law should not have any opinions about him.

She hoped that saying this would make the third sister-in-law treat Xu Shihua better. But

Lin Shu did not appreciate it at all. She glanced at Lu Hehuan. Xu Shihua was really not a waste, but because he was not a waste and he had a brain, Lu Hehuan was really controlled by him.

Compared to simply brainwashing her love brain, the most terrifying thing was that he suppressed her while providing her with emotional value, making her addicted like marijuana.

With Lu Hehuan's situation, even if he temporarily made her sober and estranged from him, she would definitely be attracted to him again if Xu Shihua extended an olive branch.

When Lin Shu thought about it, Sister Lu felt that it was right. Someone must be keeping an eye on her father-in-law. If the time comes, it would be easy to get someone into trouble if he was too eye-catching.

Forget it, my father-in-law has plans, let him make the decision, he is dedicated to the good of Guohua.

My father-in-law always thanked her for opening up the Ding family and allowing him to have three grandchildren, so that the Ding family would no longer be a single family.

Her father-in-law also said that the house would belong to her and the children from now on, so she had nothing to worry about.

Of course Lin Shu was not thinking about the Ding family, she was thinking about her own family.

Sister Lu is a nice person, and her father-in-law and elder brother-in-law also seem nice. Nowadays, it is good for relatives to be harmonious and help each other, but there is a saying that everyone is good when things are not bad. No one knows how deep people's hearts will slip.

Wasn’t the Lu family in a bad situation in the original plot?

The original owner and Lu Shaotang were gone. After Panpan and Tiantian's accident, the Lu family was in constant trouble. Sister Lu wanted to help her parents, but her parents-in-law felt that the Lu family was completely ruined and there was no hope, so they restricted the daughter-in-law from helping her parents' family too much.

Sister Lu's abilities are limited. She has a good relationship with Brother Lu and loves Xiuxiu and Lu Ping, so she is more willing to help them.

It's a pity that Sister Lu only has a kind heart. She doesn't even have a say in her son's education. Her father-in-law has the final say. How much can she help?

Ding Jiachang is a man who, if you are good, he is willing to add icing on the cake and treat you like honey. If you are not good, he will help you and wait and see. If he thinks you have no hope of making a comeback, he will quickly withdraw and keep a distance from you, or even watch from the sidelines.

As for whether he will add insult to injury, it depends on whether there is any benefit to be gained.

The Lu family is not doing well, so he naturally does not value his daughter-in-law, Lu Dajie, as much as before.

No matter how warm and close the eldest brother-in-law and the three sons are on the surface, they are actually educated by Ding Jiachang.

They don't pay much attention to the children of the second and third uncles, and they are superficially close to the eldest uncle's family, but they actually take advantage of them.

Because Ding Jiachang has no granddaughter, he set his sights on Lu Xiuxiu and wanted to marry her to the county to change the future for his grandson.

This led to Lu Xiuxiu's marriage being extremely unhappy.

Lu Ping and his brother were taken to the commune and county by their cousins, who said they could help Lu Ping find a job, but they ended up meeting a lot of

bad friends. Lu Ping was only interested in finding a job and making money, but Lu An was a typical example of people who are close to people who are corrupt. Under the influence of his cousins ​​and their friends, he quickly became a bad boy and was used as a pawn by others. In the end, he even implicated Lu Ping.

All these made Lu's sister-in-law and brother worry so much that they had no time to care about anything else.

Now Lin Shu and Lu Shaotang are fine, Tiantian and Panpan are fine, Fang Dihua and Lu Laodie are fine, and life at home is getting better and better. The Ding family is naturally a good in-law. Sister Lu and her husband love each other, and their family is happy and harmonious. Lin Shu will certainly not instigate other people's family relationships. Dad Ding

is different from people like Xu's mother and Qian's mother. Qian's mother and Xu's mother treat their daughter-in-law as an outsider,

but Dad Ding treats his daughter-in-law as his own family, hoping that his daughter-in-law will treat him more closely than her own family. Sister Lu is his daughter-in-law, the mother of his grandson, and their own person. He is still good to Sister Lu.

And as long as the Lu family is always good, Sister Lu will always be good in the Ding family, and the relationship between the Ding family and the Lu family will always be good.

But Lin Shu knew the original plot and didn't want to get too close to the Ding family. She just wanted to maintain an ordinary relationship.

Are you going to let Lu Shaotang get closer to a few more nephews and take them to the army in the future?

I'm sorry, she doesn't agree.

As for the food that the Ding family used to help the family, most of it was bought by the mother-in-law with food stamps. Only in the past few months when Lu Shaotang "sacrificed", Ding Jiachang asked Sister Lu to send dozens of extra kilograms back, and the family also returned gifts of equivalent value.

Anyway, it will be normal relatives helping each other from now on, and there will be no need for anyone to owe anyone a favor.

Fang Dihua was familiar with Lin Shu and had a tacit understanding with her. When Lin Shu said this, she knew something was wrong, but it was difficult to ask in front of so many people, so she wanted to wait until the evening.

In a blink of an eye, the sky darkened.

This is how it is when guests come in the winter. They work all morning, eat lunch and can last until the evening.

Then the tables are almost cleared.

Sister Lu saw Father Lu go to the toilet, so she followed him out.

After waiting for Father Lu to come out, she said, "Dad, I want to tell you something."

Father Lu looked at her and said, "What can't you tell your mother?"

Sister Lu took him to stroll in the alley, "Get some fresh air and drink some wine." After leaving

the yard, Father Lu said, "What's the matter?"

Sister Lu said, "Look, Xiuxiu has grown up."

Father Lu said, "What's the matter? Has someone proposed marriage to you?"

Sister Lu said, "Of course. Xiuxiu is tall. At the age of 14, she looks like 17 or 18. Many people think she is 18 and want to propose marriage."

Father Lu smiled and said, "Don't be impatient. The child is still young. She has to wait until she is 18. Late marriage is advocated now, so it's okay to marry after 20." Men

always want to marry their wives early, but if they want to marry a daughter-in-law, they would like to marry her later.

Sister Lu: "Dad, what do you say?... let Xiuxiu marry Guohua in two years?"

"What?" Father Lu was stunned. "That won't work. You are kidding. They are cousins."

Sister Lu: "So what? They are even closer relatives."

Father Lu: "Don't mention it to your mother, or she will slap you in the face. Didn't you listen carefully to the literacy campaign of the commune? It has always been said that close relatives are not allowed to marry."

Sister Lu didn't agree: "Whose families are cousins? There are so many of them. It's nothing."

Father Lu: "I'm a doctor and you are a doctor? So many cousins ​​got into trouble, and you only saw one that was fine. Haven't you seen those who gave birth to stupid or sick children?"

He gave Sister Lu a few examples in a serious manner, from his own county, from which commune and which production team, and he could even tell the surnames of the couples. "If you don't believe me, go and ask around. Their children are either infertile or sick. If one of them is healthy among five or six children, it just looks healthy, but it may be that the child is sick in the brain."

Even if the child is healthy, how can one good foster parent and five or six brothers and sisters with problems survive?

Sister Lu didn't take it seriously, but since Father Lu was so opposed, she didn't mention it again.

She knew from a young age that her father was always generous. If she had excessive requests, she would test him first. If he agreed, her mother would basically be persuaded by him to agree. If he didn't agree, her mother would definitely slap him in the face, and her father wouldn't stop her.

So although it seemed that her mother was the head of the family, in fact, her father was the backbone.

Sister Lu: "Dad, then don't tell my mother."

She was afraid that Fang Dihua would scold her.

Father Lu: "Is this your idea, or your parents-in-law's?"

It would be ridiculous if the cadres of the grain administration didn't understand this.

Sister Lu: "No, it's me. I think the two children are a good match, and I thought that my niece is so good. If she marries to an outsider, she might be bullied or something. If she marries into my family, I'm sure I will love her more than my son."

Father Lu knew what she was thinking, so he didn't get angry. She loved Xiuxiu especially.

When the father and daughter returned, Lu Hehuan saw them and ran out, also holding Lu Laodi's arm, "Dad, what did my elder sister say to you? Did she say bad things about me?"

Lu Laodi: "Nonsense, your elder sister never talks about people behind their backs."

Lu Hehuan: "Dad, please talk to my mother and my third sister-in-law, they are too much."

Lu Laodi: "Look, you just said that your elder sister said bad things about you, and you said bad things about your mother and your third sister-in-law."

Lu Hehuan: "Am I saying bad things? I am telling the truth and asking you to help mediate the conflict."

Lu Laodi naturally knew what she meant. He and Fang Dihua talked about everything, and of course he knew about the affairs of the young lady's family.

He said: "Why doesn't your son-in-law come to visit and pay New Year's greetings?"

When he came, the family still gave him a cold face and drove him out?

He didn't even have an attitude, let alone take action, so what conflict did he want to resolve?

Who has the time to have a conflict with him?

Lu Hehuan pouted, "Isn't it because you always give him a bad face? How dare he come?"

Lu's father: "Let's put it this way, he is the husband you chose, not the daughter-in-law and son-in-law I chose, let's talk about our own things, I don't have to worry if he doesn't come."

Lu's father went into the house.

Lu Hehuan: "Dad..."

Sister Lu slapped her, "Lu Hehuan, what are you doing? Xu Shihua is just a junior high school teacher, and you replaced him as a junior high school teacher. Why is he so arrogant? He didn't come to wish us a happy new year, and you are so used to him slapping us in the face? If that's the case, then don't come back in the future!"

Lu Hehuan was unhappy, "Sister, why are you like our aunt now, liking to meddle in my mother's family's affairs?"

Sister Lu: "I don't meddle in my mother's family's affairs, I meddle in yours " Oh, don't come back if you act like this again, it's so annoying!"

Seeing Lu Hehuan pouting in anger, she said again: "By the way, what's wrong with Xu Shihua? How come someone saw him strolling by the river with a lesbian in the middle of the day?"

Lu Hehuan: "Oh, who knows that? I've seen them. They were fine, just chatting about literature."

She had relied on Xu Shihua to attend their gatherings before. She had seen that female poet, who had buck teeth and a bald forehead. She was not Xu Shihua's type.

Sister Lu poked her with a finger in anger, "Talk about bullshit literature, where can a man and a woman go to talk? Find a young man to talk in the grove, do you think he will be angry?"

Lu Hehuan looked sad, "He is not angry, he said if I can write poems and articles, I can also find someone to talk to."

Sister Lu really wanted to beat her up, and said angrily: "If Xu Shihua continues to do this, I will let him return the job to our family, I think your third sister-in-law is more suitable to be a teacher."

"Sister!" Lu Hehuan was anxious, "Why are you all squeezing Xu Shihua?"

Sister Lu ignored her.

Fang Dihua had already come down and started to put on the gift bags and small bamboo baskets for the two ladies.

Lu Hehuan: "Mom, I don't want anything else, just give me a plate of salted pork."

Fang Dihua: "You are so shameless."

Ding Runsheng went to the toilet and came back to praise Lin Shu's cooking skills and invited her to visit his home during the first month of the lunar year.

Lin Shu naturally declined and just said she wanted to go to her sister's house in the city.

After packing up the return gifts, Lu Hehuan took Xu Xiaoyou away, and Sister Lu and her family also rode home.

Ding Guohua took Sister Lu and couldn't help but fall behind, "Mom."

Sister Lu: "Oh, your grandma and grandma don't agree, they scolded me for being illiterate, and the government doesn't allow close relatives to marry."

For Sister Lu, it would be good for her favorite niece to be her daughter-in-law, but it doesn't matter if she doesn't, anyway, she is still her favorite niece.

Ding Guohua was quite disappointed.

Nowadays, people get married early, and it is common for women to get married after the age of 16 and men after the age of 18.

Grandpa said in a casual chat that Lu Xiuxiu was quiet and generous, and her family knew her background well, so it would be quite suitable for her to be a granddaughter-in-law.

Ding Guohua thought that it would be just right to get married in two years when Xiuxiu would be 17 and he would be 19.

His uncle and aunt got married at this age.

But his grandmother disagreed, and he was so disappointed.

It was not that he and Lu Xiuxiu had an affair, and Lu Xiuxiu had never expressed any affection for him beyond the relationship between cousins, but he felt that men should get married when they were old enough and women should get married when they were old enough, and he should find a wife when he was old enough, rather than looking for a stranger, it would be better to find someone he knew.

Moreover, Xiuxiu was quiet, beautiful, and gentle, the type of girl he liked.

He felt that the two of them were very compatible and suitable.

Originally, he only weighed the pros and cons, and did not consider the possibility that the Lu family disagreed.

He thought that he was better than the country folk, he looked good, and his family was okay, so there was no possibility of being rejected. He

just ignored the idea of ​​close relatives.

Hey, how can the maternal family be close relatives?

Now that grandma doesn't agree, he feels a little disappointed. Besides being disappointed, he feels that he seems to like Xiuxiu even more, and thinks that other men are not worthy of her.

It doesn't matter, Xiuxiu is still young, and grandma and grandma will definitely not arrange a marriage for her too early. He just needs to work hard in the past few years, persuade the old people, and coax Xiuxiu so that she will like him.

He didn't take the reason of Lu's father's close relatives to heart at all. After all, he has seen many examples of cousins ​​getting married.

After the two girls left, it was dark.

No one was hungry, so they roasted two sweet potatoes in the charcoal basin for heating at night.

Sweet potatoes make the stomach swell quickly, digest quickly, and are not easy to accumulate food.

Lin Shu was packing fabrics and clothes in her room. She would light an oil lamp to do her work in the dark.

Fang Dihua came over and whispered, "Third daughter-in-law, do you know something?"

Lin Shu was surprised and said, "Mom, what?"

Isn't the mother-in-law too sensitive?

Fang Dihua told her doubts, "What's wrong with your eldest sister's family?"

Lin Shu whispered, "Mom, do you think your eldest sister's father-in-law is too obsessed with officialdom?"

Fang Dihua nodded, "A little bit, he wants to move the grain management office to his family."

Fortunately, she didn't take advantage of the Ding family. She asked the eldest daughter to help buy rice and flour with grain coupons, and she also returned the extra rice, flour and oil given by the eldest daughter with a gift of almost the same amount.

Lin Shu: "Mom, I am a bit selfish. If something happens, I will definitely take care of my family first. You said that my eldest sister's father-in-law's position is not being watched by others? Even if he has some connections in the county, can others find him? If he doesn't know when to advance and retreat, someone will definitely compete with him for the position. Who knows how to wrestle with him at that time. We can't interfere."

He regards the country's work as his own private property, and wants to pass it down from father to son, and from son to grandson...

He says that his ancestors have dedicated themselves to the unit, but in his heart he wants to pass it down from generation to generation and turn public property into private property.

If Ding Jiachang really competes with others for the job, he may want Lu Shaotang to help him.

Lin Shu doesn't want to, she wants to give her mother-in-law a vaccination in advance to prepare for a rainy day.

Fang Dihua nodded, "That's right. I'll talk to your elder sister later and let her watch and persuade her. Our intentions are what we have done, and we don't care whether they listen to us or not or whether it is useful or not." She has

a clear conscience, and if anything unexpected happens later, it won't be her fault.

Fang Dihua is extremely confident in her third daughter-in-law. Although Lin Shu doesn't admit it, she vaguely feels that Lin Shu should know something.

She knows that the third child is alive, so will she know something else?

That Ma Shenxian can't just talk about kimchi, sauerkraut, salted meat, and sausage when he teaches her, right? There

must be something else. It's

okay to listen to the third daughter-in-law.

She has to talk to the old man and be more polite to Ding Jiachang in the future. Anyway, she doesn't need to get too close to him.

However, Lin Shu felt that it was useless to ask Sister Lu to tell Ding Jiachang anything. If someone has always had a good future, and you say that and they think you are badmouthing them, if things go wrong, people will inevitably doubt you, like the Chang family, if you knew something and didn't help earlier.

Besides, she has no feelings for the Ding family, so what does she care about them? Anyway, her family was not as unlucky as in the original plot, and Lin Shu didn't want to interfere with others.