Chapter 116 Ignore

Just as Jie Jinlan was about to retort, Lin Shu spoke first: "By the way, why didn't you come to support the Sun family last year? There was no one to support us, and we were all drained by the Sun family! Didn't you see that the Sun family bullies rushed over like bullies? We are no match for them at all. They made my mother sick, and she didn't have money to go to the hospital, and my second sister had to borrow money from the leader. You also know that my money is taken by my mother-in-law, and there is not a penny left." You

know your aunt when you need money, but why don't you show up when your aunt is in trouble?

So you just want benefits without giving anything in return?

The brother and sister's faces changed.

Of course they knew when the grandson family came to make trouble, but grandma said that a married girl is like spilled water, and she didn't care about the Lin family's affairs.

Grandma also said that if Lin Yue, a rascal, wanted to divorce, it would not only be a disgrace to the Lin family, but also to the Jie family, and it would be the Lin family's fault in the future.

At that time, she was still muttering that she would find two more reliable partners for Lin Yue and Lin Shu, and she would definitely not ask for divorce.

In the past, she was very angry because Grandma Lin was in charge and couldn't intervene. Now that Grandma Lin is gone, shouldn't she have the final say on the marriage of her granddaughter and grandson?

As a result, Lin Shu's man came back, and she had to give up, but she was still thinking about Lin Yue.

Jie Jinkui and Jie Jinlan were raised by Grandma Jie since they were young, and she never hid anything from them.

She is really nice to the people she loves, and she also has good relationships with people she wants to make friends with outside. But she is really mean and calculating to her children and relatives who she doesn't love.

After hearing what Lin Shu said, Jie Jinkui didn't know how to ask his fourth aunt to share the medical expenses for his grandmother.

He murmured, "The Sun family... is so bad? I heard that my brother-in-law is back, so why don't you let him come to our house to beat us up?"

Lin Xia: "What are you thinking, cousin? Who is my third brother-in-law? Can he just come to our house and beat

us up?" Jie Jinlan rolled her eyes and didn't see Lu Shaotang and the others, so she asked, "What about my uncle and brother-in-law?"

She didn't want to dwell on the matter of the Sun family making Lin's mother sick, and she didn't want to hear Lin Shu crying. Her purpose was different from Jie Jinkui's.

Xie Jinkui wanted his fourth aunt's family to continuously provide him with money, but she wanted to find a good partner.

Nai said that everything in the Jie family belongs to the eldest brother, but she must also find a good partner for her so that she and the eldest brother can help each other in the future.

Mother Lin said she was going out to pay New Year's greetings, and invited them to drink tea and eat melon seeds, and to care about how sick I was.

Xie Jinkui was originally a little embarrassed by Lin Xia and Lin Shu's cold attitude. Now seeing that Lin's mother was asking exactly what she wanted, he quickly added fuel to the fire.

I have to say that Mrs. Xie is in good health. Whether she is sick or not depends on whether there is demand.

As long as she wants to be sick, her face will turn sallow the next day, and within ten days she will be on the verge of death, so her children have to drag their entire family over to visit the doctor and give them money and gifts.

When she feels about the same, she will start to recover again within a few days.

Anyway, she got sick because the family was short of money, and she had to give a lot of money to the eldest son's family.

Isn't this going to happen again?

Jie Jinkui: "Don't worry, Fourth Aunt, my grandma is not seriously ill, it's just old problems. She said that when she was young, the family was too poor, and she had no food to eat. In order to save food for the children, she forced herself to drink water, dug up some grass roots and stuffed them into her mouth, and dug out some insects as meat." He sniffed and wiped his eyes, "My grandma had a miserable life. At that time, there was no cotton-padded clothes in the winter, and she had to go out to work. She tied tree leaves and dry grass on her body, and her body was covered with frostbite. In the end, tree leaves grew on her body..."

Lin's mother couldn't cry anymore, "My poor mother..."

Lin Xia and Lin Shu exchanged glances.

Mother is being controlled again!

Every time she heard her grandmother talk about how she cried and how poor she was in the past, she felt distressed.

But in fact, Lin's mother was a little confused, because these were obviously her sufferings!

Old Mrs. Jie has always created an image of a loving and miserable mother in front of her children and grandchildren, but what is she suffering from?

She eats the delicious food at home first, and she wads herself first when there is cotton at home. The ones

who suffer are my second aunt, mother and second uncle!

When these children grow up, they start to work, but they can't eat much. They survive like weeds, and like little mice, they get food from anywhere when they are hungry, stealing crops from the fields or chewing grass roots. Anyway, weeds struggle to survive.

In the lean months of February and March, they were so hungry that they went outside to dig up tree roots and grass roots to stuff into their mouths. They found even the smallest insects to be meat.

Even so, they were scolded and beaten by old lady Jie, and felt sorry for their parents' hard work. They worked hard and tried not to eat at home.

Lin Shu and Lin Xia heard these things from their aunt and grandmother when they were young.

The aunt was responsible for cooking and housework, and was often beaten for secretly hiding food for her younger brothers and sisters. The second aunt went to her uncles and aunts' houses to get food when she was so hungry that she fainted. The second uncle was a boy who could get food from his grandmother.

When Lin's mother was ten years old, she went to Linjiatun to dig potatoes from the fields to eat, because this place was far away from the Jie family's official village, and people caught her and beat her up without embarrassing her parents.

As a result, she almost died of poisoning after eating sprouted potatoes. Fortunately, Lin's father saved her.

This was what Lin Xia said quietly when she was trying to persuade her mother, when she blamed her mother for always sticking to her uncle's family and not being good enough to her children. Since then, Lin Xia

no longer competed with Lin's mother. She and her uncle and other people who came to the house to ask for things would compete with her. She was so fierce that even Mrs. Jie scolded her for being a selfish little ghost and told her that she might not be able to get married. Lin's mother

used to understand that it was not easy for her parents to raise a child. After she got married, she worked very hard. She didn't dare to take things from home, so she saved money from her own mouth to support her mother.

As a result, the first child died because of being too hungry, which made Lin's mother so angry that she scolded her for not knowing what was good for her. She also told her that Grandma Jie had frozen her third son to death and wanted to drown her and her third sister.

Your mother's family treats you as grass, and you still think it is a blessed nest?

If you are willing to eat grass, your eldest brother will have a nest to eat, and if you eat the nest, your eldest brother will have a big steamed bun every day.

You still feel sorry for him?

Why don't you feel sorry for yourself?

How despicable are you?

Only then did Lin's mother regain her sanity, and she felt even more sorry for her husband and children. She restrained herself from saving food to support her mother's family.

However, the second aunt and the second uncle were dug out badly.

In order to let the second son continue to work for the family without getting tired, Grandma Jie married him off to a mentally handicapped woman in her early forties when she was in her thirties, without spending a penny on the dowry.

The couple still has no children. They work like slaves in the Xie family. They work as soon as they open their eyes every day and never sit at the table for meals.

Second aunt worked at home until she was 28 and then married a 36-year-old bachelor. Although she didn't have much dowry, she didn't have her parents-in-law to control her. She had to go to her parents' home to help with housework during the busy farming season.

Mrs. Xie said that raising a child is so difficult. How many concubines have been abandoned? Not only did I not abandon you, I also raised you. You shouldn't repay me? If you don't repay me, you have no conscience.

Second uncle-in-law is an honest man who can't do anything. Most of the food that the couple earns is taken away by Mrs. Xie.

Compared with them, Lin's mother is really out of the sea of ​​suffering.

It can be said that Mrs. Jie has controlled her children since they were young. Now she wants her children to be filial and obedient without her crying.

She is popular with people outside and rarely quarrels with others. For example, when she asked Mrs. Lin for something and Grandma Lin refused to give it to her, she did not go to her house to make a scene or quarrel with Grandma Lin. When she asked her eldest daughter-in-law to ask Lin Shu for something and Fang Dihua resisted, she did not quarrel with her.

Lin Shu: "Mom, your heart is not well yet. The doctor said you can't get cold. It's useless to feel sad for my grandma. You stay at home and take good care of Baoer. Tomorrow the three of us will go to see grandma."

Mother Lin wiped her tears and thought about how hard it was to dig grass roots when she was a child. She was so hungry that it hurt like there was a big hole in her stomach. She knew how difficult it was, so when Jie Jinkui said that grandma had such a hard time, she immediately empathized and felt very distressed. She couldn't tell whether she

felt sorry for her mother or herself, but she felt uncomfortable anyway.

Xie Jinlan said to Lin Shu, "Are your brothers-in-law here too? Let them go with you. Grandma is also thinking about them. She said that they are all her precious granddaughters and she loves them as much as her granddaughters."

Lin Shu glanced at her and said, "Okay."

Xie Jinlan smiled. She looked at Lin Shu's clothes again and thought they were a little different from others.

Lin Shu was wearing a blue twill coat today. The style was the same as others at first glance, but it was different when you looked closely.

It's not straight-tubed and has a waist!

You're wearing a cotton shirt, so why are you pinching your waist?

It's so frivolous! The

same goes for the pants below. The crotch of the pants makes you look thinner. Even when wearing cotton pants, your pants are not as bulging as others.

And is she wearing a shirt underneath? Why can the white collar be turned out so big?

The powder washed out to a dazzling white, making Lin Shu's skin even whiter and more delicate.

How ostentatious, wearing a shirt under a cotton-padded jacket in the middle of winter, you're the only one who has one?

Was it Lu Shaotang who bought it for her from outside?

A shirt like this... She had seen the daughter of the branch secretary's family who worked in the city wearing one, bought from Dahai City, the collar wasn't as nice, and it cost ten yuan!

The daughter said that the style in Hong Kong was better, female stars permed their hair, painted their lips red, and wore shirts with large lapels, which was very fashionable.

A shirt of that style costs 12 yuan.

Is Lin Shu's one like that?

She immediately became envious and jealous, how did Lin Shu get it first?

She was only one year younger than her.

Over there, Jie Jinkui was very sweet-mouthed, caring for Lin's mother, calling her "fourth aunt" all the time.

Lin Shu felt that this man was really capable, worthy of being the eldest grandson of Mrs. Jie. He turned around and forgot about you. Whether you lived or died was none of his business. Once he wanted to get something good from you, he would immediately be as warm to you as if you had never been apart.

Lin's mother was also very happy. She had already recalled with Jie Jinkui the various little intimate things when she held him in her arms and stewed egg custard for him when he was a child.

Jie Jinkui: "Fourth aunt, several children at home miss you. They said that the red date cake you brought back last time was really delicious."

Lin's mother was very warm-hearted by what she said, and immediately wanted to say that I would steam the pot again and go to see it together tomorrow, but was interrupted by Lin Xia.

Lin Xia changed the subject and asked Jie Jinkui how his second uncle and second aunt were.

Xie Jinkui was too lazy to mention his second uncle’s house, so he said that since the fourth aunt was not in good health and would not be returning to her parents’ home tomorrow, he and Jinlan would stay overnight to get close to the fourth aunt.

Lin Shu thought that without her aunt, she was really less capable of fighting. To deal with such a shameless relative, it would be effective to ask the elders who had no vested interests to speak. If my sister and I confronted him, we would be mean relatives and would not be right. My parents couldn’t do that either, because they were the elders. How could they give a cold face to the nephews and nieces who came to the door with a smile? That was not allowed. And these two came empty-handed! What’s the matter, they didn’t even bring two rotten radishes? Well, it’s not that they didn’t bring any, these brother and sister are just two rotten radishes! I must get back the money and cloth that the eldest aunt of the Xie family took from the original owner! It doesn't make sense that Zhao Meifeng and Lu Ersao should be squeezed out while you are safe and sound. You have to lose one thing or the other, and it's better to lose both. Xie Jinlan asked about the steel rolling mill and then asked Lin Shu: "Third sister, are you going to your eldest sister's house after the New Year? How about I go with you?" Lin Shu pretended not to hear and walked out. Since we can't find the elders to help us, let's go find the children. Xie Jinlan blushed with embarrassment, and she adjusted her hair unnaturally, then turned to talk to Lin's mother. After chatting for a while, Xie Jinlan smiled and said, "Fourth aunt, I learned a few dishes, and I cook them as well as your third sister. I'll cook them for you to try in the evening." Lin Xia was really impressed by this man. What's so great about you being able to cook? You have to show off to my third sister? Outside came the cheerful voices of Tiantian and Panpan, Lin Xia immediately interrupted them, "I'm back." Xie Jinkui sat on the kang without moving, but moved closer to Lin's mother and kissed his good fourth aunt. Xie Jinlan stood up and walked out quickly, "Uncle, brother-in-law, you are back." The word brother-in-law was hooked. Lin Xia deliberately rolled her eyes at the door frame, so that Xie Jinkui would definitely see it. As expected, Xie Jinkui saw it with his peripheral vision, and his expression was a little unnatural. He smiled and said, "Jinlan, this girl, don't look at her 21 years old, in fact, she hasn't grown up at all like a child, she is so simple." The simple Xie Jinlan came to the yard, asked her uncle and brother-in-law happy New Year, but glanced at Lu Shaotang. She had seen Lu Shaotang on the day of her third sister's wedding.

Lu Shaotang was wearing a half-new green military uniform that day, but he looked very handsome. The moment he strode in from the gate, she felt like she couldn't breathe.

At this moment, the still handsome man was holding two pink balls, which made him look tough but gentle, a tough guy with a soft heart.

Xie Jinlan's heart was beating so fast that she blushed unconsciously.

Old Mrs. Xie always said that the old vixen had found a good match for the little vixen, who could make a lot of money. She originally wanted to arrange a marriage for Jinlan, but was snatched away by Grandma Lin.

I don't know how the old vixen got on the Lu family, Fang Dihua, such a powerful woman, agreed to marry the little vixen.

Old Mrs. Jie was just making it up, but the eldest aunt and Jie Jinlan took it seriously. They always felt that Grandma Lin and Lin Shu had snatched their good marriage, and they didn't think that Fang Dihua would ignore them when they approached.

She was waiting for Lin Shu to introduce herself to Lu Shaotang, but Lin Shu was talking to the child. Father Lin and Lin Yue looked at the child with doting faces and didn't interrupt.

No one introduced her!

Panpan was showing off to Lin Shu, "Mom, Tiantian told them about catching a bald thief. The secretary said that Tiantian told the story very well and that I was also good at catching thieves. She even rewarded us with candy."

He patted his little pocket, which was filled with a handful of orange candies.

The two boys don't like to talk about Xu Ermao, because the people killed by Xu Ermao are so tragic that they subconsciously avoid talking about him.

They can talk about the bald thief for a year and even add fuel to the fire.

Xie Jinlan chatted with Lin's father and Lin Yue for a few words, but she saw that Lu Shaotang didn't look at her straight in the eye, and she immediately felt a little aggrieved.

She walked two steps over there calmly, got closer, and smiled: "Tiantian, Panpan, are you going to play with your aunt?"

She talked to the two boys, but her eyes were on Lu Shaotang.

Panpan asked curiously, "Which aunt are you from?"

Jie Jinlan: "I'm from your mother's uncle's family. You have an uncle, and your mother also has an uncle."

Tiantian suddenly said, "Aunt, is your squinting eye natural? There is a person with squinting eyes in our village, and he has to look at people like this."

Tiantian imitated others, turned her head and looked at Jie Jinlan with a squinting look.

Jie Jinlan's face immediately turned red, and she quickly explained, "No, an eyelash just fell into my eye. My eyelashes are a bit long..."

She boasted that she had long eyelashes and beautiful eyes, so she hoped that Lu Shaotang could look at her.

Tiantian rubbed her eyes, "Auntie, your eyelashes aren't long either, not as long as my mother's."

Lin Yue couldn't help laughing, "Your mother's eyelashes are fluttering, don't compare with hers."

Tiantian and Panpan ignored Jie Jinlan and compared with Lin Shu and Daddy to see who had longer eyelashes, because Daddy's eyelashes were also very long.

After entering the house, the two children didn't bother to greet the strangers in the house, and bowed their heads to let Daddy and Mommy compare who had longer eyelashes, and let the second aunt and grandmother be the referees.

Lin Shu flicked their foreheads lightly, "Compare again and I'll cut them off for you to compare."

Baoer laughed.

Panpan and Tiantian are lively and talkative, and they are beautiful and cute. Wherever they appear, they are the focus.

Especially Panpan is a community veteran who is not shy. She would chat with Jie Jinkui as soon as she found him. Jie Jinkui did not have time to try to please Lin's mother.

Jie Jinlan was ignored again. She felt wronged and helpless. She had to chat with Lin Xia and Lin's father.

She wanted to get close to Lu Shaotang. She had learned a lot about the army and even learned several military songs. She

wanted to find a topic to talk about the life in the army, or even find an excuse to sing a song to surprise Lu Shaotang. "Brother-in-law, which army are you in?"

Lu Shaotang was originally squeezing Lin Shu against the head of the kang to compare eyelashes. If not comparing eyelashes, he would compare the size of his hands with her. Just when Jie Jinlan smiled and wanted to go over to join in the fun, Lu Shaotang grabbed Lin Shu's hand and pulled her out. "Let's go."

Lin Yue: "Sister "Husband, what are you doing?"

Lin Xia: "Why do you care so much? Just pour tea for my eldest cousin and my third cousin."

Xie Jinlan looked outside and said with a smile: "Second sister, Lin Yue, why don't we go out for a walk too?"

Lin Yue was so stupid that he wanted to join in the fun, but was stopped by Lin Xia, "It's so cold, why are you going out? Don't you see that my eldest cousin and my third cousin are here?"

Xie Jinlan was so angry.

Mother Lin asked Father Lin to get some pomegranates for them to eat.

"These pomegranates were brought by your third sister. They were from the pomegranate tree her father-in-law planted in his early years. They are very good."

Father Lin took out two pomegranates for everyone to share.

Jie Jinkui took one and said, "Fourth aunt, I won't eat this, I'll save it for my grandma."

Mother Lin's eyes became softer as she looked at him. What a filial and good child he is. She forgot that he is already 35 years old. She only thought that he was still a fair and lovely child.

Panpan suddenly said, "This uncle, the pomegranates were given by my grandma to my grandma and grandpa. You have to buy them yourself to honor your grandma."

Where did this uncle come from? I have never seen one in my life!

He even took the pomegranates from my house back to give to his grandma!

My grandma was reluctant to eat them!

Jie Jinkui's face immediately turned red. Why is the child of this third cousin so... ignorant of etiquette?

It shouldn't be the fourth aunt who taught him, right?

That must be the third cousin? But the third cousin is such an honest person. Well, it must be the fool Lin Xia who instigated it.

He quietly glanced at Lin Xia and happened to see a sneer on the corner of Lin Xia's mouth.

As expected!

Tiantian: "This uncle, have you married?"

Jie Jinkui was stunned, "Oh, of course, my uncle is already over 30."

Lin's mother didn't think there was anything wrong with Tiantian and Panpan. In her and Lin's father's eyes, these two children were good no matter how they looked at them, and everything they said was good.

How many children have you seen who can catch thieves and kidnappers?

There are two in our family!

Tiantian and Panpan's eyes lit up, "Then why don't you give us New Year's money?"

The two children began to count how much money they earned for New Year's money. Grandpa gave two cents, grandma gave three cents, dad gave one yuan, mom gave one yuan, grandma...

Jie Jinkui had never seen such a smart child, and looked at Lin's mother and father awkwardly. How could there be such a child? Who educates their children like this, asking guests for New Year's money in person?

This is too uneducated, they should be

slapped in the face. But Lin's mother and father didn't think it was a big deal. After all, when they went to Xie's house in May, their eldest sister-in-law and children asked for New Year's money.

Now it's the second year of the Chinese New Year, what's wrong for a six-year-old child to ask his eldest uncle for New Year's money?

Xie Jinkui has no money.

He didn't bring a penny, no gifts, he came empty-handed.

If it were someone else, they would definitely feel embarrassed to go empty-handed. Even they would feel embarrassed to go to other people's houses empty-handed, such as their own grandmother's house and aunt's house. They would never go empty-handed. Even if they went to their eldest aunt's house, they would feel embarrassed to go empty-handed, for fear of being laughed at by their eldest uncle. But when they went to their second and fourth aunts' houses, they were used to going empty-handed.

They were used to following their grandmother and parents to squeeze their second and fourth aunts.

Fourth aunt and uncle had no objection, but were squeezed out by the two little kids.

How embarrassing!

Fortunately, they were not ordinary people. They immediately smiled and said that they would make up for it when they went home tomorrow.

He also has several children, and he can collect three annual gifts for each child, which is even more profitable.

When Panpan and Tiantian heard that he had many children, they immediately became interested, "Uncle, let's go now?"

Tiantian: "I brought the picture books, let's go read to them."

She immediately took two picture books about catching spies, "They are very interesting."

Without waiting for Jie Jinkui and Jie Jinlan to agree, Lin Xia smiled and said, "Okay, let's go today, and we can stay for two more days, right?"

You two want to stay?

Why is it so beautiful?

Look, my nephew is chasing you away!