Chapter 129: Touched to tears
Lin Shu waited for them to finish eating, then went to cook dinner for the family.
She had made pancakes yesterday, so today she only needed to boil water and stew vegetables. After the pot boiled, she put the water in a thermos, and she could use the remaining water to make a soup.
In the evening, the family came back from work one after another.
The two children were responsible for explaining to them one by one that Uncle Chen was Dad's comrade-in-arms, and that he was injured and had to come home to recuperate.
Everyone expressed their concern and welcome for Chen Yanming, and let him live at home peacefully.
When Lin Shu was setting the table, she heard Lu Shaotang and Fang Dihua telling Chen Yanming to share a room with his parents.
Fang Dihua thought for a moment and said to Old Man Lu: "Take Yanming to sleep in the eldest room at night, and let his sister-in-law come to my room."
Although Old Man Lu didn't want to leave his wife, he had to bear the grievance of San'er's comrade-in-arms coming.
For this reason, during dinner, Old Man Lu looked at Big Brother Lu a little displeased.
Big Brother Lu was still confused. He told Lin Shu and others about the progress of the brigade's collection of materials.
"Dad, when will the pyrethrum arrive? Please hurry up."
Old Man Lu: "There are not many in the county pharmacy, not enough."
Lin Shu: "Dad, can you ask someone to get some seeds?"
But Old Man Lu said that Doctor Yan didn't know where to find seeds, and he might ask in the province.
Big Brother Lu asked Lu Shaotang to help.
Lu Shaotang: "Okay, I'll ask later."
Chen Yanming: "What is pyrethrum?"
Lin Shu briefly explained its effects.
Chen Yanming: "I know, there are red flowers, white flowers and stinking chrysanthemums. I know where to find them. I'll send a telegram tomorrow and ask someone to take a bag of seeds on the railway."
Lin Shu and the others were very surprised. They didn't expect Chen Yanming to know this.
Chen Yanming smiled and said, "We have wilderness survival training and assessments every year. It is common to survive in the wild forest for ten days or half a month without any food. We know the effects of some herbs but don't know their names." He turned his head and tapped Lu Shaotang with his chin, "Shaotang is the best among us."
Lu Shaotang: "It's not that I'm the best, but I'm the most cautious and patient, not as reckless as you." Big Brother
Lu was stunned. The third brother who had been stinging since he was a child could be cautious and patient? Why didn't he believe it?
Chen Yanming noticed his doubt and said affirmatively, "Really, Shaotang can hide in a base for a day and a night." Lu
Ping was full of admiration, but Lu An and Lu's second sister-in-law Lu Cuicui were skeptical. Can he not eat, drink or go to the toilet for a day and a night?
People simply can't do it, right?
Lu Shaotang glanced at Chen Yanming and
said, "Don't brag. Show my dad your arms and legs later." Professionals should not tell their expertise to people who don't understand. If they don't understand, don't believe or understand, your explanation is useless. Do you want to prove it to them?
What's the point?
He never said these things.
Chen Yanming also came to his senses. He was a little too integrated into the warmth of the two children. He thought that Lao Lu's family was as warm as the children, but in fact they were all ordinary people.
Realizing this, Chen Yanming admired Lu Shaotang more and more. He didn't show off, wasn't afraid of being misunderstood or belittled. It seemed that there was nothing special about him, but most people couldn't do this.
After dinner, the brigade secretary and the brigade leader knew that Lu Shaotang had brought back injured comrades, and they also brought eggs and noodles to visit.
Unable to refuse, Fang Dihua had to accept the gift.
They talked to Lin Shu about making incense, and felt confident and left with peace of mind.
Chen Yanming has been secretly observing the Lu family. He found that Lin Shu was really amazing. Her husband was away from home all year round, but she could make her parents-in-law treat her better than her own parents, and even her eldest and second uncles listened to her.
Old Lu is really blessed.
Father Lu lit an extra oil lamp and hung it on the wall, and asked Chen Yanming to come in and check his arms and legs.
Chen Yanming was injured while on a mission in the next city. Lu Shaotang bandaged him immediately, and the splint was also made by Lu Shaotang. Later, he went to the city hospital for follow-up treatment.
Father Lu praised: "It was treated very well. Fortunately, the bone is not broken, but just fractured."
If the bone is broken, it will be very troublesome, and he will have to stay in bed to recuperate.
Just look at Mother Qian and you will know.
Tiantian and Panpan did not avoid it, but looked at Uncle Chen's injuries very attentively, and they looked at him with great heartache.
Although Chen Yanming only came for the first time, he is Dad's best comrade-in-arms.
He also sent them things and prepared gifts for the New Year. What a good uncle he is.
They like him so much. They
don't want him to get hurt.
So, the two of them scolded Chen Yanming and kept saying things, asking him to get better soon and not to feel any pain or itchiness.
Chen Yanming was originally teasing them, saying that he didn't feel any pain and it was no big deal, but when he saw the two kids being so nice to him, he suddenly couldn't control his tears.
He was startled and quickly wiped away his tears.
The two kids thought he was crying because of the pain and pretending to be strong. After all, they also felt so painful when they bumped their knees that they wanted to cry, but when they saw their mother and grandma looking distressed, they would say firmly, "It's okay, it doesn't hurt at all."
In fact, it hurts a lot!
Seeing Chen Yanming suddenly burst into tears, Father Lu said nothing and quietly signaled Fang Dihua to go out.
Father Lu didn't think that a tough guy like Chen Yanming would cry because of the pain of being injured. He was afraid that the scene might have triggered his emotional trauma.
He quickly applied medicine, re-fixed the splint, and then left the room, and reminded others not to go to the east room to disturb Chen Yanming.
Only the two children were there to comfort their uncle Chen.
"It hurts a lot. How can it not hurt when your arms and legs are broken?"
"If you give it to me, I would have cried and rolled over."
Outside, Lin Shu felt something was wrong, so she pulled Lu Shaotang to the west room and asked in a low voice what was going on. We
can't let him suffer because we didn't take good care of him, can we?
Lu Shaotang hugged her and said, "It's okay. He just feels wronged."
He had known Chen Yanming since his youth, and the two had gone from being enemies to sympathizing with each other, and then to becoming the most trusted comrades.
Over the years, although Lu Shaotang didn't like to go home, he found that Chen Yanming didn't like to go home even more.
Sometimes he deliberately made trouble and didn't go home when there was no mission in the military academy.
He knew that Chen Yanming was avoiding going home.
He also knew that the letters Chen Yanming wrote to his family were just written, and many of them were not sent back, because perhaps no one cared about his letters and messages.
In fact, he found that Chen Yanming rarely received letters from home since the military academy period.
At that time, Lu Shaotang was rebellious and felt that a good man should have ambitions and should not be clingy with his family. Even so, he wrote to his family every month.
Chen Yanming was good if he wrote one letter a year.
At first, Chen Yanming was looking forward to receiving letters. Whenever he saw other people receiving letters from home, he would suppress his envious eyes.
When he received a letter from home, he was so excited that he wanted to show off to everyone that he also received a letter, but he was not happy after reading it. Later, he even stopped looking forward to receiving letters and did not open them after receiving them.
Chen Yanming thought he was doing these things very secretly, but they could not escape Lu Shaotang's eyes. After all, Lu Shaotang was good at observation since he was a child and had strong insight.
They were all men, and it was Chen Yanming's private matter, and it might also be a scar that he did not want others to know. Lu Shaotang naturally would not ask. Even
if he did not ask, he could still think of something.
In the past, Lu Shaotang was impatient with the trivialities of the household and felt that men should not be involved in the family affairs. However, his thoughts have changed since he escaped from death.
He began to come down from his high place and was willing to feel the trivial emotions and joys and sorrows of ordinary people.
Parents, wives, children, brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, etc.
Especially seeing Lin's mother crying for her brothers, the pain and struggle of being controlled by her mother, and Lin Shu taking the initiative to "befriend" Mrs. Jie for Lin's mother, all these made him feel that this is the life of ordinary people.
The slogans he once shouted, the highest ideals he pursued, and the beliefs he defended, if put into practice, are the daily necessities, joys and sorrows of these trivial ordinary people.
He and his comrades are just like ordinary people with flesh and blood, family and friends. They also have the daily necessities of life, joys and sorrows, and all kinds of helplessness and struggles. Just because
he doesn't have it doesn't mean others don't have it.
He couldn't see it before, but now he sees it very clearly.
His brother Chen Yanming is deeply involved in it.
He thinks he should ask his wife to help Chen Yanming.
He himself is not suitable, he can't say it, and he won't explain the reason in detail. He can only abide by the rules or say this and that in a dry way. No one is willing to listen to such suggestions, even if they are well-intentioned.
But his wife is different. She has such a special ability, and Chen Yanming is definitely willing to listen.
In the room, Chen Yanming is still building up his mentality and deceiving himself.
It was really strange. He was a man of steel who didn't cry even when his arms and legs were broken, but he started crying without any warning because of the two kids.
How useless!
How embarrassing!
Fortunately, Old Lu and the others didn't see it!
Fortunately, the two kids were naive and thought he was crying because of pain.
Oh, no wonder Old Lu has changed.
If it were him, he would have changed even more.
Looking at Lu Shaotang's family, he couldn't help but think of his own family no matter how reluctant he was.
His family was also a big family. Perhaps because the family was so big, the grandparents, parents had no shortage of children, and except for the people they cared about, everyone else was dispensable.
He memorized an article and showed off to his parents, but they scolded him, "What's the point of showing off just memorizing a few sentences? There are so many people who are better than you." When
their second brother, whom they valued, could write his own name, they were so happy that they wanted to make him a literary star.
When he was ten years old, he followed the men to the mountains to cut wood and drag wood in the wind and snow. He earned two yuan with scratches all over his body. He excitedly took it back to his parents, hoping to receive their praise, but his parents said, "It's just two yuan. What's there to show off? When you earn twenty yuan, you can talk about it."
It was nothing for him to earn one yuan at the age of ten. When his second brother was twelve years old, he stood on the wall and urinated on passers-by, but they laughed and praised him, "Erbao can pee so far."
The second elder brother ate the only piece of meat used for ancestral sacrifices in the family. They also praised the second elder brother for being filial and being liked by the ancestors.
He worked hard and ate less since he was a child, hoping that his parents would value him. But later he found that even if he studied, joined the army, had a promising future, and could make money,
he still could not win the attention of his parents. Whenever their eyes turned to him, they could not see him as if they were blind, let alone his advantages. Whatever he did was what he should do. No matter what he said to his parents, he would receive disappointing and critical words. Is
he promising now?
The family members only gave him false affection. Whenever they cared about him and asked him to put on more clothes because it was cold, they would inevitably ask for money and cloth coupons. Whenever they asked him to eat more and not be hungry, they would ask for money and food coupons.
This is the case with his parents, brothers and sisters.
So he doesn't like to go home, receive letters, or write to them.
If they don't receive a fixed amount of money, they will write to ask for it.
He left home at the age of 14 and never went back since he was 18.
Lu Shaotang didn't like to go home before, and at first he thought he was the same as him.
Later he found out that it was not the case. Lu Shaotang didn't go home not to escape, but because he liked to perform difficult tasks and completed challenges that others could not complete.
Lao Lu is different from him. Lao Lu has a warm big family.
Lao Lu is not lacking in care and love.
Chen Yanming sat on the best chair in the house, accepting the care of his two children. He heard Fang Dihua calling Brother Lu from outside, "Hurry up, take the flashlight and go to the south village entrance to greet her. Your wife should be back soon."
She chased Brother Lu away and even complained, "What a tactless man. He loves his wife but only cares about her."
Chen Yanming smiled, really envious.
He was out in the wind and rain, and only his comrades and superiors cared about him when he was on the line between life and death. His family never asked, "Are you in danger outside? Are you eating well? Are you sleeping well?" They only asked for money and things.
Ah, shame, he actually cried in Lu's house.
How embarrassing!
Chen Yanming slapped himself on the forehead with his good hand.
Panpan and Tiantian, who had been transformed into little psychologists, were startled and quickly pulled him to stop hitting them.
Tiantian: "Look, you got hit on the head and became stupid. If you end up like Huzi, you'll be dead. He can't even count to ten."
Panpan: "Father, if it hurts, you have to cry. It won't hurt so much after crying. My mother said so and I think it works."
Chen Yanming no longer had the urge to cry. He sniffed and said embarrassedly: "You must keep it a secret for me. Don't let anyone know, especially your father. He will laugh at me."
The two boys: "Don't worry, I won't tell my father."
The two boys asked him to lie on the kang for a while.
Children like to play house. They play the role of parents and arrange other children to be babies. When the babies are sick, they give them injections, medicine and take care of them.
Now Chen Yanming is their big baby and they have to take care of him.
When it is time to go to bed, they kindly help Chen Yanming go to Brother Lu's room, and then they go to the kang to coax Chen Yanming to sleep with a sense of service. After Chen Yanming "falls asleep", they run back to Fang Dihua's kang to coax themselves to sleep.
Fang Dihua also said to Lin Shu, "Let Shaotang go to the commune tomorrow and buy some pig's trotters. If there are no pig's trotters, you can buy some pig's trotters to supplement Yanming."
Chicken feet alone probably won't work, so pig's trotters are still needed.
No pigs are slaughtered in the countryside this month. Only pigs that were not assigned last year are sent to the commune. The commune also slaughters pigs every seven or eight days.
No one in the countryside buys pork during festivals. Most of it is consumed by the commune’s own people. It is said that there is not enough to sell.
If you want to buy it, you have to find connections and ask people to leave some meat or pig trotters, offal, etc.
Last year, Lin Shu taught many people how to make pig intestines. The commune slaughterhouse also learned it. They specially brined several pots of pig heads and pig intestines as welfare to distribute to employees. They also gave them to county leaders and were praised.
Therefore, Lin Shu is also prestigious at the pig collection station and slaughterhouse.
The next morning, Lu Shaotang used his exercise time to go to the commune and actually bought four pig trotters.
Just as Fang Dihua said, he used his wife's face. His wife is now an advanced person in the commune, the most beautiful military wife, a commended person by the Public Security Bureau, a teacher of salami sausage...
With all kinds of titles, her face is very useful in the commune.
Fang Dihua said earlier that this pig trotter is for Chen Yanming to eat, and there is no need to make it for the whole family. The family members just need to drink the soup.
Chen Yanming certainly refused, but "living under someone else's roof" can only listen to others' arrangements, right?
Lin Shu stewed the pig trotters after breakfast and asked Lu Shaotang to help make egg cakes.
Call him while he is at home.
Well, with a bit of revenge in mind, who asked him to torture her last night?
Why not torture her back?
Let him help beat the egg whites and egg yolks.
It doesn't need to be as hard as whipping a cake, just need to beat the egg yolks until they turn white, she can't do it by herself, Fang Dihua and Lu Erge helped before.
Today, Lu Shaotang can be the only one to do the trouble.
Lu Shaotang beat them easily, and he met her requirements without looking tired.
Lin Shu held his arm in surprise and studied it for a while, and finally praised him sincerely, "You are really good."
Lu Shaotang quickly kissed her on the ear, causing her to glare at him, but it didn't have the same killing power as a wink.
After steaming the egg cake, Lin Shu asked Lu Shaotang to take the two children to Linjiatun first to deliver some eggs to Lin's mother. Lin's father and Lin Yue were very busy and tired in the agricultural machinery team, so they had to make up for it. By the way, she told them that Lin Xia had come to Qingxian.
On the way back, she turned to deliver two pieces of egg cake to Mrs. Jie.
They were still two small pieces, just enough to arouse her greed.
If his wife didn't go, Lu Shaotang would not spend much time even if he went to his father-in-law's house. He would say a few words and then leave. This was even more true when he went to Mrs. Jie's house.
He was only responsible for delivering, and the two children were responsible for socializing.
"My mother misses my great-grandmother
so much." "Chunzhong is so busy and tired, but she still secretly makes cakes for my great-grandmother with eggs and flour when my grandma is not at home."
"One egg for one cake!"
Grandma Xie ate the cakes so cherishingly that she couldn't bear to eat them in big mouthfuls. She took small sips, savoring the flavor and the soft feeling that melted in the mouth.
It was a taste she had never tasted in her life.
Xie Jinkui's face couldn't be any darker.
When Lu Shaotang left with his two sons, he heard the sound of him slamming the door.
The so-called good grandson is actually not worth a few cakes.
Lu Shaotang felt that his wife was really evil.