Chapter 135 New House

Lin Shu was also very happy to know that her second sister decided to marry Jiang Weidong at the end of the year.

With a good man like Jiang Weidong as her companion, her second sister would not be so tired, nor would she be so depressed, and she would not be angry every day, so naturally she would not get breast cancer.

Zhang Guiqi had packed all the toilet incense, and Brother Lu had checked and tied them up.

In order to prevent damage, they gave out more.

Jiang Weidong was afraid that the fish would go bad on the way, so he refused to take all the incense and left it to Lin Shu, and only took the toilet incense back.

He would come to see Lin Xia again in a few days and take the clothes made by Lin Shu back.

In a blink of an eye, the production team finished harvesting the wheat, threshed it while harvesting, dried it, and then paid the public grain.

After the wheat harvest, the land had to be cultivated again. The wheat stubble was collected and used as firewood. After the cultivation, the corn was planted after waiting for rain.

Now that there are agricultural machinery to help the brigades cultivate the land, the pressure on the brigades has been greatly reduced, and the incense-making team can naturally concentrate on making incense.

The team leader fulfilled his promise and asked the workers to help the Lu family build two new tile houses.

Fang Dihua had already found someone to level the sorghum stalks. In the past few years, she had leveled a lot of sorghum stalks. Now she would level them back when her family needed them.

As soon as the news that Fang Dihua wanted sorghum stalks spread, her good friends immediately gave them to her, and even took the initiative to help her go to the homes of relatives and friends who had sorghum stalks to ask for them.

Anyway, it was not in vain, and the Lu family would return it in the future.

The bricks, tiles, and bluestones that Father Lu asked Ding Jiachang to buy also arrived, and the adobe bricks from the brigade were also delivered. The wood that Second Brother Lu had replaced before was also replaced, and carpenters were contacted to make new doors and windows.

The brigade leader first led people to help cut down several mature locust trees, poplar trees, catalpa trees, etc., and dug out the big tree stumps and then backfilled and compacted them.

Then they dug holes and buried wires to lay the foundation, and compacted it.

The foundations of the old houses of the Lu family are about two steps higher than the yard. The yard is also higher in the north and lower in the south, which is higher than the alley outside, so it rarely floods back when it rains.

The new house has to compact and raise the foundation. If it weren't for the brigade leader to provide people, it would still take some effort to build it yourself.

The brigade organized the people to work quickly. It took a day and a half to tamp the foundation, dig trenches and bury the wires. After the foundation was built, they started to build the walls.

Building the walls is the fastest!

Then they prepared to put up the beams, purlins, put up the beams and cover the roof.

Everything went smoothly. There was no need to wait for an auspicious day. They just hung red cloth, offered sacrifices and put up the beams.

Aunt Li and other old women helped the Lu family tie the sorghum stalks when they had time these days. On the day of putting up the beams, there was no delay and they could use it directly.

The beams were covered with beams, and then covered with yellow mud and tiles, and finally covered with ridge tiles, and the house was ready.

When other people build houses, they have to collect materials for ten years, and if they want to build, they have to prepare for half a year, borrowing food, eggs and vegetables, and going door to door to find people to help.

But the Lu family started building houses after a little preparation, and they built two large green brick tile houses in seven days!

The speed made the old Chang family behind them so jealous that they didn't know what to say.

The old Chang and his wife could only say sour words to themselves, and they couldn't go out and tell others.

His nephew Zhang Peijin betrayed!

The bald thief was arrested and sent to labor reform for five years!

Widow Sun is now notorious and no one dares to talk to her!

Lu Changfu also keeps his tail between his legs!

Lu Shaocai and Zhao Meifeng also want to curry favor with Lin Shu!

The other members were waiting for the Lu family incense factory to make money and share the profits with everyone!

Who could he talk to?

Apart from his own family, he couldn't find anyone to talk bad about the Lu family.

Besides, the brigade secretary and the brigade leader all protected the Lu family. He didn't dare to speak out no matter how bad he was. Wouldn't that offend the cadres and cause trouble?

He was not senile yet.

On the day the house was built, Lin Shu brought Lu's second wife, Xu Erzhu's wife, and Aunt Li to prepare two tables of sumptuous dishes to entertain the people who helped build the house.

Jiang Weidong, Lin Xia and others also sent a few kilograms of candy as a celebration.

Lin Shu discussed with Fang Dihua to give a piece of candy to everyone who came to congratulate, regardless of whether they were adults or children. It didn't need to be much, just one piece per person would be fine.

Building a house for yourself will also make the villagers happy.

So the yard was crowded with members who came to join in the fun.

The team leader took the opportunity to announce some rules.

He waved his rough big hand, wiped the sweat from his face, and said loudly: "The secretary doesn't like to hold meetings, so I will say a few words here on behalf of the brigade.

Lin Shu is worthy of being an advanced person commended by the city. She cares about all of us members.

In fact, she doesn't need to work so hard. Shao Tang is a military officer. His salary is enough to support his family. Why does he need to arrange all this? Isn't it because he sees us working hard all year round to earn thirty or fifty yuan? Tell me, what can we do with this little money? The whole family has to take turns to make a new piece of clothing, right?"

Many people responded, "Yes, our work points are pretty good, usually just over 30 cents, sometimes up to 40 cents. Other brigades only have a little over 20 cents, which is even less valuable."

The team leader continued, "Lin Shu learned the skill of making incense in the city in order to help our team find a profitable business so that our work points would not be worth only 30 cents a year. With this incense factory, our work points at the end of the year can reach at least 50 cents."

"Really? 50 cents is a lot!"

"Yes, I haven't heard of any production team that can make 50 cents by farming. It seems that the coal mine can make 50 or 60 cents."

The secretary puffed on his cigarette and waved his hand, asking everyone to listen quietly to the team leader.

The captain said: "I'm going to say this in advance today. If anyone goes out and talks nonsense, or is jealous and plots to steal the incense factory's technology to get a job, I won't scold you, but I will remove your family from the list of dividends from the incense factory. Don't cry then."

"No, captain, don't worry. We won't be a drag. We will only actively cut mugwort and plant chrysanthemums and mint."

"Yes, we won't be a drag! We will go and help buy wood!"

Seeing their positive attitude, the captain was happy.

"Okay, everyone, just work hard on farming, and you will definitely see the money back by the end of the year."

The incense factory is doing so well right now, and it is certain that they will make money.

"All right, don't delay the work at the incense factory. Just look at how busy it is and go home to have dinner." The secretary waved his hand and drove everyone away.

The newly built house needs to be exposed to the sun for a few days. Fortunately, the temperature is high in midsummer, and the humidity will be almost gone after a few days of exposure to the sun. Then the incense making team will officially move in.

Fang Dihua and Lu Erge and others did not stop making incense during the time they were building the house. They have been working hard. Jiang Weidong came to pick up the goods every few days, and Lu Dage and Zhang Guiqi also kept delivering them to the county.

Lu Dage has become addicted to getting orders.

He didn't get involved or worry about building the house. His mind was full of thoughts about whether he could expand production.

He also wanted to go to other counties to get orders.

Before, he even wanted Lin Shu to move to the new brick and tile house with her children and parents, and leave the three middle rooms empty to be used as an incense-making room.

Fang Dihua refused mercilessly.

This old house is more comfortable to live in than the new brick and tile house. The half-meter thick walls are warm in winter and cool in summer. The foundation is also solid and will not flood. Although there are no floor tiles, it is also very comfortable.

She won't change it.

Besides, where would they cook if they changed it? There would be no main room!

Brother Lu had to give up and concentrate on getting orders. He was determined to visit all the units in the county, and then go to neighboring counties and cities.

He always carries a pack of Tuanjie Incense with him wherever he goes. He lights a stick of incense as soon as he lands. He can light a stick of incense at bus stations, train stations, guest houses, state-owned hotels, and even restrooms and state-owned bathhouses .

He was good at making

deals to sell incense to people all along, and he became even better after going to the city a few times. No matter how big or small the items are, people never go home empty-handed. Even if the other party doesn't want to place an order, they can still buy a few packs, after all, they have to order in the summer.

Just this time, he sold fifty packs to the bathhouse, fifty packs to the train station, and fifty packs to the guest house over there. He

can sell one or two packs wherever he goes, and he doesn't mind the small business at all, always saying that even a mosquito leg is meat.

A small pack of sanitary incense costs 1.3 cents, and they can make 5 cents!

With such a high profit, what else do they want?

Five points! He works so hard as an accountant, and he only gets five yuan a month in allowance in addition to work points! He

only earns five yuan for ten bags of toilet paper!

So what's so great about that little salary?

Today is the day when Lu Shaotang's salary is due, and Zhou Weimin came to deliver the remittance slip again.

Zhou Weimin was wearing a postman's uniform and a grass-green hat, with an envious face, "Sister Lin Shu, your brother-in-law can really make money."

Lin Shu glanced at him, "Don't you see how hard and dangerous his work is."

Zhou Weimin scratched his head, "Yes, I just saw my brother-in-law making money and forgot about his hard work and dangers."

He was sacrificed once.

There are two remittance slips this time, one from Chen Yanming?

Lin Shu looked at it in confusion. Chen Yanming actually remitted 80 yuan to her?

What does this mean?

Zhou Weimin: "Sister Lin Shu, what's wrong?"

He had sent Lin Shu remittance slips from Chen Yanming before, but the amount was the same as Lu Shaotang's at that time. This time, Chen Yanming's remittance was less.

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Don't leave in a hurry. I'll pick some peaches for you to take back."

The peaches and plums at home are ripe.

After Zhou Weimin left, Lin Shu put the remittance slip in her box and locked it, then turned around to ask Lu Shaotang.

"Sister-in-law, did you get a letter just now?" Zhao Meifeng came over with a ball of red wool yarn.

Lin Shu: "Sister-in-law, where did you buy this wool yarn?"

She had always wanted to buy a few kilograms, but this thing is really hard to buy, the quantity is very small, no matter which supply and marketing cooperative, the goods are taken away by insiders before they are put on the counter.

Even if Jiang Weidong wants to buy it, he has to ask for help. Lin Shu didn't want him to owe a favor to buy some wool yarn for her, so she never bought it.

Zhao Meifeng smiled and said, "I asked the capital for this. I'll give it to you."

Lin Shu raised her eyebrows, as if she didn't know Zhao Meifeng. Give it to me? How can you be so generous?

Just because I asked you to help build a house, I had a banquet for you?

But it wasn't just you who was invited, almost all the neighbors came.

Zhao Meifeng, however, pretended that she had never had any conflicts with Lin Shu and that they had a very harmonious relationship, and she had to give it to Lin Shu.

Recently, Zhao Meifeng wanted to have a good relationship with Lin Shu, and she might have flattered her on a daily basis, and she no longer mentioned the five yuan and the cotton fabric. She understood that Lin Shu was just settling an old debt, and naturally would not return it to her.

In order to curry favor with Lin Shu, she sent three telegrams to the capital to ask for wool yarn, and finally went to the commune to pick up the mail today and got three pounds of red wool yarn.

As soon as she got the wool yarn, she immediately ran to give it to Lin Shu.

When she was a child, her mother was a nanny, and when she grew up, she also worked as a nanny. Her long-term experience of working in the employer's home made her very good at observing people's words and expressions and judging their behavior.

After learning from her mistakes and letting go of the sense of superiority she felt from the capital, she had to admit that her second uncle's family was better off than theirs.

The second uncle is a barefoot doctor, the second aunt and the second son make incense, the eldest daughter-in-law is a tractor driver, and the third son is a military officer.

Lin Shu seems to be just cooking at home, but she is actually the one who calls the shots in the second uncle's house.

The second uncle and the second aunt listen to her, and Lu Shaotang obeys her in everything.

Is she jealous?

Of course she is jealous!

She is so jealous that she can't sleep.

However, she also wants to get some benefits.

Even if she lets her second son come to make incense? But

Lin Shu doesn't want hers.

Although she needs wool, she is not so picky. Want Zhao Meifeng's? She doesn't want anything from anyone.

Zhao Meifeng didn't expect that she couldn't give the gift. After leaving, she wandered around outside the gate of her and Lin Shu's house, thinking about how to get along well with Lin Shu.

At this time, Lu Ersao came back from outside.

Lu Ersao was not happy recently because she wanted to join the incense-making team but didn't get in. Her sister-in-law wanted her to ask Lu Shaotang if she could send her brother to the army.

In the 1950s and 1960s, people believed that "a good man should not be a soldier" because being a soldier was not only hard but also dangerous. However, the trend has changed in the past two years. Everyone is willing to be a soldier because the benefits are better than before and there is no war and no danger to life.

Although Lu Ersao thinks that her sister-in-law is too nosy, she also feels that she has less and less status in her husband's family. Lin Shu

has manipulated her mother-in-law and her eldest sister-in-law to ignore her. The man only knows how to work all day and doesn't talk to her like a dumb person. The daughter-in-law is even more ungrateful and avoids her all day long.

She thought that Lin Shu was retaliating and deliberately ignoring her, but she didn't expect that Fang Dihua was busy making incense every day and didn't even help Lin Shu cook. Sister Lu was harvesting wheat and planting corn, and she didn't spend much time at home.

She saw Zhao Meifeng holding a ball of wool, "Sister, where did you buy the wool? How come it's so fresh?"

Zhao Meifeng said proudly, "It was sent from the capital." She

was embarrassed by Lin Shu, but she couldn't show her weakness in front of Sister Lu, otherwise every sister-in-law would step on her.

As expected, Second Sister-in-law Lu showed an envious look, "Sister-in-law, can you knit two sweaters with so much?"

She didn't know how to knit sweaters, nor did she have the wool to knit sweaters, but she had heard Lin Shu knit sweaters and trousers for the two children before.

Zhao Meifeng: "It's enough to knit a long-sleeved shirt and a vest."

Second Sister-in-law Lu said casually: "Sister-in-law, can you buy two kilograms for me?"

Although she didn't have a few dollars in her hand, didn't the man make perfume? He should be able to share the money.

Zhao Meifeng: "How can it be so easy to buy? You need industrial coupons, and there is no stock. You have to ask someone to hold it for a long time before you can buy it. It's eight yuan a pound."

She began to talk about how good this wool is, how precious it is, how hard to buy it, how popular it is, how crazy everyone is fighting for it, how face people who buy it will have, how respectable people who wear this kind of wool sweater are, etc.

"Only people in military compounds and government compounds can wear it."

Eight yuan a pound, do you think it's a joke?

Lu Ersao's appetite was whetted. If she had such a piece, then... how face she would have.

Then her sisters, sisters-in-law, brothers' wives and wives would all be jealous of her.

She wanted to buy some from Zhao Meifeng, but she heard Zhao Meifeng complaining, "My third sister-in-law is really ignorant. I thought she was knowledgeable." Second

Sister-in-law Lu thought that Zhao Meifeng wanted to sell it to Lin Shu at a high price. Lin Shu didn't want to spend money in vain and refused it. But she heard Zhao Meifeng continue, "I wanted to give it to her, but she didn't want it!"

"What?" Second Sister-in-law Lu was shocked. Give it to her? Don't want it?

She must have heard it wrong.

Zhao Meifeng looked at her expression and said, "Do you think she doesn't know what's good? I've noticed that she has become a different person now. She is not easy to deal with, unkind, and too shrewd."

She kept talking about Lin Shu, complaining, but her words revealed the resentment of being rejected for trying to curry favor with Lin Shu.

Second Sister-in-law Lu was so jealous. Why was she like that?

Such good wool yarn was given to Lin Shu, but she refused it?

Such a difficult sister-in-law actually tried to curry favor with Lin Shu?

You talked about how good a lot of wool yarn is, but you didn't want to give me one or two, but you dragged me to listen to you talking about how Lin Shu didn't like to pay attention to you?

Second Sister-in-law Lu was jealous and angry, and found an excuse to go home.

As soon as she entered the house, she saw Lin Shu picking vegetables in the vegetable garden. A country woman actually stood on tiptoe, waving her orchid fingers, and even saw a bug and used a small stick to dig it out with her teeth bared.

Tsk tsk, why are you pretending! Do you think you are a princess or a queen! You

want everyone to curry favor with you, right?

You are waiting for me to curry favor with you, right?

Thinking of Zhao Meifeng trying to curry favor with Lin Shu but failing, Lu Ersao was very upset. When did she become so popular? Is she so good?

I should have sneered at her at the beginning. She was so angry

that she didn't say hello to Lin Shu, and deliberately turned her head back to her room.

Lin Shu: "..."

This person is so interesting day by day, isolating the whole family, including her own husband and daughter, by her own efforts.

In the morning, Brother Lu asked her, "Where did I put my vest?" She coldly said, "I'm not your babysitter, don't ask me anything." Brother Lu found it from her clothes, and she started to complain, "You know where it is, but you're still asking me, you're just looking for trouble, right?" When

Lu Cuicui walked out with her schoolbag, she also scolded, "You're jumping around like a flea, what's wrong with you?"

And Sister Lu has become particularly good at spoiling things. No matter what you say to her, whether it's good or bad, she will definitely say something to spoil the fun.

When Lu Erge told Lu Dage that he was getting more and more skilled at making incense, she said, "It's so good, why haven't you seen a penny of money yet?"

When Xu Erzhu told Lu Erge that the wheat harvest was good this year, she muttered, "No matter how good it is, you can't eat steamed buns every day, what's good about it?"

Xu Erzhu, Qiu Jincai, Zhang Biao who worked in the Lu family, and Zhang Guiqi who came to deliver materials and goods, were all spoiled by her.

Now they are so scared that they hide from her, fearing that they will be killed.

As a result, Lu Ersao felt that everyone in the family was manipulated by Lin Shu to be at odds with her and exclude her.

Lin Shu was cooking when Lu Dage and Zhang Guiqi came back with the production team's donkey cart.

They drove to the county yesterday afternoon to deliver goods, and brought back the pyrethrins that they had ordered from the agricultural chemical factory.

This is a drug in a dark brown light-proof bottle, which is easily decomposed by light.

Natural pyrethrin is a natural insecticide extracted from pyrethrum at low temperature.

This drug has an advantage that it is harmless to humans and animals but can repel mosquitoes and insects very well, but it is easily decomposed by light and cannot be used outdoors. It is generally used indoors, and it is very suitable for making mosquito coils.

In midsummer, there is a lot of rain, humidity, and mosquitoes, and people have more demand for mosquito coils.

Now that the sanitary incense at home has been put on the right track, Lin Shu wants to start making mosquito coils as well.

They only need to add pyrethrin when kneading the dough, and they can make thick incense sticks or roll them by hand.

However, if they make them into coils, they have to give away a simple metal incense holder.

Of course, Lin Shu doesn't want to give away incense holder pieces with every box, so she can give away one piece for every three boxes to save resources.

They don't have machines, they make incense by hand, so the mosquito coils will not be the same as those on the market, but they have a price advantage.

Others charge 43 cents for a box, but they don't provide boxes or inserts. They are made of pure natural plants and pyrethroids, which are safe, non-toxic and harmless. A pack of ten pieces only costs 36 cents.

Of course, wholesale is even cheaper, with a minimum order of ten packs, which only costs 3.3 yuan.

In fact, this price is quite expensive.

However, at that time, mosquito coils were not used by country people with many mosquitoes. They were exclusive to cities.

Even city people didn't buy them in every household. Many of them were distributed by units as welfare.

It is said that people like to be workers these days. A unit can support them for a lifetime, and they can provide food, drink, defecation, toilet paper, matches, soap, mosquito coils, bath tickets and so on.

In her previous life, Lin Shu heard from her grandmother that their country family relied on mosquito nets and cattail fans to deal with mosquitoes, and used mugwort to weave fire ropes. In the 1990s, many people were reluctant to buy mosquito coils.

Wouldn't it be nice to buy meat with that much money?

What's the big deal if I get bit by mosquitoes?