Chapter 141 Worry

Naturally, no one else had any objections, except for Lu Ersao.

She had a strong opinion. Fifteen yuan is not money? Isn't that family money?

How can you not go to such a good job in a tailor shop?

Thinking of this, she became unhappy and couldn't help asking Fang Dihua, "Since Xiuxiu won't go, why don't we let Cuicui go to learn?"

Fang Dihua: "Xiuxiu has already learned it. If Cuicui wants to learn, she can learn from her sister. Why does she need to learn from her sister?"

Second Sister-in-law Lu: "How can an apprentice be the same as a master? The crafts are different."

Fang Dihua: "Is Guo Caixiu a natural master? Didn't he grow up from an apprentice? Why can't Xiuxiu be a master after learning it? It's enough to teach you, why can't I teach her sister?" Second

Sister-in-law Lu wanted to say something, but Fang Dihua said impatiently: "Okay, don't nag me."

She makes incense happily every day, you have to make her upset, you can't bear to see her happy, right? Can't she learn from the eldest and third daughter-in-law? Second

Sister-in-law Lu was rejected by her mother-in-law, and she was... angry again.

After taking a bath in the evening, Lin Shu sat on the kang and patted her homemade toner on her body.

Now the yard is not only full of vegetables, but also full of various flowers. Lin Shu made loofah and cucumber water, mint honeysuckle water, chrysanthemum water, and then rose water.

She planted roses and roses, and this year she also got two real roses.

Roses are small and edible. They are not as ornamental as roses, but they have beauty and medicinal effects that roses do not have.

This is the rose water she soaked herself, and she uses it now.

Lu Shaotang came into the house wiping his hair, and seeing this, he dropped his towel and patted her back.

Lin Shu hissed, "Be gentle."

Lu Shaotang: "I didn't use any force."

Lin Shu: "How can you use more force? I feel like my internal organs have been torn apart by you."

Lu Shaotang: "..." His wife is really exaggerating.

He found that Lin Shu's skin was delicate, and he really couldn't use his big hands to slap things on her body like she did. She was fine when she slapped herself, but he would... leave a red mark after a slap.

He kissed her guiltily, which made Lin Shu glare at him again.

In the end, he could only rub Lin Shu gently with his hands, but she still complained that his hands were rough, "You hurt me, did you rub my skin?"

Lu Shaotang: "Let me see?"

Well, her skin was white, and it seemed to turn red after his big hands rubbed it.

Before, he used a towel to cushion her skin when he gave her a massage, so he couldn't use a towel to slap her in the water, right?

Finally he found a way, rubbing her with the back of his hands and the inside of his arms.

The skin in these places is not that rough.

Rubbing and rubbing...

When Lin Shu woke up the next morning, she remembered Lu Shaotang's visit to the credit union. She

was busy with Xiuxiu's affairs yesterday and forgot to ask him.

She got dressed and leaned on the windowsill to look out. Seeing him carrying water to water the vegetables, she motioned for him to come over.

Lu Shaotang put down the bucket and went into the house, "Wife, what do you want?"

Lin Shu motioned him to speak softly, and looked outside cautiously. Lu Ersao happened to pass by, so she waited for Lu Ersao to pass by before speaking.

"How was it yesterday? Is there something wrong with that accountant Zuo and the guy surnamed Song?"

Lu Shaotang whispered, "We haven't got the evidence yet, but based on my rich experience, I know there is a problem."

Lin Shu was happy, "Catch them earlier."

Lu Shaotang kissed her.

Lin Shu pushed him away, "Go wash the dishes."

Lu Shaotang turned around and saw the two black heads leaning on the door frame, looking at them with a smile.

Lu Shaotang was not shy at all, and picked up the two kids, "Let's go wash the dishes, and then go see grandma and grandpa."

After breakfast, Lin Shu asked Lu Shaotang to help move the sewing machine to the north window of the main room, and let Lu Xiuxiu do the work here.

Lu Xiuxiu was in a good mood, as if a heavy burden had been lifted off her shoulders. She no longer looked mournful.

She did not want to go out to relax and play, but was happily making clothes.

Seeing her relaxed look, the family felt relieved.

Lu's wife was very grateful to Lin Shu.

She did not educate her children much, and let them follow the crowd. The children were almost all educated by their grandparents.

If the children did not tell her, she would not know what they were thinking or what troubles they had. She used to think that the daughter was very happy to learn sewing in the town. After all, she did not have to work in the fields and was respectable. How could she know that the daughter was unhappy?

"Sister-in-law, I am illiterate and don't know how to teach children. I am sorry for you this time."

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, we are a family. I don't know about Xiuxiu's affairs, but I would definitely intervene if I knew. You and your elder brother work hard for this family, right?"

Sister-in-law Lu naturally entrusted the daughter to Lin Shu, "Sister-in-law, you should teach Xiu'er more in the future, let her be stronger, and don't be weak and bullied by others."

Lin Shu did not dare to be arrogant, "We have our mother, there is nothing to worry about." Sister-in

-law Lu thought so too. Her parents-in-law were in charge of the household, so she didn't have to worry about it, so she went to work happily.

The commune didn't kill pigs yesterday but said they would kill them today, so Lu Shaotang rode his bike to the commune to take a look, and then bought pork and took his wife and children back to her parents' home.

As a result, the face of a child in June changes at any time.

It started to rain soon after the sky was overcast. The drizzle turned into heavy rain. The big raindrops hit the ground, stirring up puffs of dust and smoke, and the air was filled with the smell of soil.

Soon, heavy rain came down.

Lu Shaotang was hit by the heavy rain before he even left the village.

So he sat with his wife and children under the building at the gate of the courtyard to watch the rain, watching the rain swirling out of the ditch, with a lot of grass debris floating on it, and even cicada monkeys were washed out!

Panpan happily rushed into the rain barefoot, happily picking cicada monkeys.

Panpan: "This cicada monkey is really sensible, just like me." Tiantian:

"How can you be sensible? Grandma said you are not allowed to get wet in the rain, be careful of catching a cold."

Panpan took out his hat from under the gatehouse and put it on, and told Lu Shaotang and Lin Shu that he was going to pick cicada monkeys.

Lin Shu: "Cicada monkeys are not all so unlucky, their caves are very deep, most of them will not rush out."

Tiantian smiled and said: "You'd better wait here, haha."

Panpan was not convinced, if he could pick it here, he could definitely pick it somewhere else.

He also called Lu An to go pick it together.

Lu An didn't like to study and was very greedy for play. His eldest brother couldn't take him to play because he was helping his father keep accounts, so he took his younger brothers and sisters to play.

Lu Shaotang happily lived in the world of two people as a young couple.

The two sat under the gatehouse, and Lu Shaotang held a large cattail leaf fan, which could both fan his wife and protect her from rain.

Lin Shu stretched her feet to catch the rainwater from the eaves and washed the mud off her feet. She saw a leaf floating out from the gutter. On it was a bunch of ants and a small caterpillar!

Lin Shu was excited, "Lu Shaotang, the little black ant was washed down by the water, help it up!"

Lu Shaotang quickly picked up the little black ant and the leaf and put it under the gatehouse so that they could continue to push the caterpillar.

Lin Shu pulled Lu Shaotang over to watch them carry the insects and cheered for the ants.

"The nests are probably washed away. Can they still find the main force?"

Lu Shaotang: "Of course, as long as they persist and don't give up."

Yeah, same as me.

It rained today, so Lin Xia and her team couldn't start work. Most of the migrant workers and technicians went to the nearest production team to take shelter and rest. She took the team's carriage to find Lin Shu.

She wore a straw hat, a straw raincoat, and walked out of the gray rain curtain barefoot, just like walking out of a painting.

Lin Xia looked curiously at the couple squatting head to head under the gatehouse, and said loudly: "Third sister, third brother-in-law, you are living a leisurely and comfortable life."

It reminded her of the few pastoral poems she remembered.

See how other people are busy when it rains heavily.

Someone shouted, "My big soy sauce jar, why didn't you cover it? It's all flooded!"

Lu Shaocai's family shouted, "Where's the firewood? Why don't you bring it inside? How can we cook if it's soaked?"

Someone else shouted, "Quick, get a basin, it's raining inside!"

Some people got their quilts soaked, and some just spread out their food soaked...

Then look at Lin Shu and Lu Shaotang, oh my, they are really enviable. Lin

Shu and Lu Shaotang turned around to say hello to Lin Xia.

Lin Shu waved, "Second sister, come and see, these ants are really powerful."

Lin Xia also went over to watch for a while.

Then Big Brother Lu ran back with a clatter, his big feet stirred up a splash of water, and instantly washed away the ants on the shore.

Now not even a leaf can be picked up.

The three people who were watching: "..."

Big Brother Lu was very unhappy, because it was raining heavily and he couldn't use the donkey cart to deliver the goods, he would get wet.

At least the delivery was not so strict at this time, and the bad weather could be forgiven.

"It would be great if there was a truck with a gun!"

Lu Shaotang: "The rain is too heavy, and the truck dare not go on the road, it will block the view."

Big Brother Lu: "It really delayed my work."

Lin Shu: "Big brother, calm down. When you were planting corn in the field before, you were looking forward to rain all day long."

Not only can he rest, but he can also plant corn in the rain, killing two birds with one stone.

Recently, Big Brother Lu has become addicted to making money, a little crazy, and is anxious all day long. He refuses to rest for a day, as if he loses money if he doesn't go out to make money.

Is this still the lazy and sly elder brother Lu who used to trick his younger brother into giving him half of the firewood he collected?

Elder brother Lu was in no mood to watch ants. He thought about buying a batch of plastic film and wrapping the toilet incense and mosquito coils directly, so that he wouldn't be afraid of rain.

But it was raining too hard today, so he decided to forget it.

It rained heavily all day and it cleared up in the evening.

The rain stopped and the clouds disappeared, the sky was clear, the sun appeared in the west, and a rainbow spanned the eastern sky, which was beautiful.

When the rainbow disappeared and the sun set, the rouge-like sunset covered the entire sky.

Lin Shu and Lin Xia were picking vegetables in the yard to prepare dinner. Her snow-white face was reflected by the sky with a rouge color, beautiful and bright.

Lu Shaotang was using a shovel to clear the waterway in the middle of the vegetable patch. When he turned around and saw his wife's bright smile, he suddenly felt like he was struck by something.

He thought seriously: I must grow old with my wife.

So such an ordinary and beautiful day was forever imprinted in his heart. Many years later, with gray hair, he still clearly remembered the heavy rain, children, ants, rainbows, sunsets, and smiling faces that day...

It was a very romantic picture in his memory.

The next day, Lin Xia didn't have to go to work, so Lin Shu asked her to go back to her parents' home.

Lu Shaotang went to the commune to buy two pounds of meat, then packed up and went to Linjiatun.

As soon as Lin Shu and the others entered the village, the women who were afraid of Panpan ran away.

They are not afraid of Lu Shaotang. No matter how powerful he is, he will not hit or scold people casually. But Panpan is different. He really scolds people!

Lin Yue is not at home. He and Lu Dasao are the backbone of the agricultural machinery team. Even if they cannot go to the fields today, they have to meet to maintain the tractors and agricultural machinery and discuss where to work next.

Lin's father can rest at home today.

Seeing their daughter and son-in-law come back with the children, the old couple are also happy and care about Lu Shaotang.

Originally, they thought that the third son-in-law was cold, busy with work and not at home for a long time, so they had no objection even if he did not visit his wife's house for a long time.

But since Lu Shaotang came home last year, he would accompany his wife and children to walk around every time he came back.

The old couple thought that the third son-in-law loved his daughter and was a good son-in-law.

Father Lin called Uncle Lin and Father Zhou to help accompany the third son-in-law, so that he would not be left without someone to chat with.

Lu Shaotang: "..."

He did not want to chat with anyone, especially someone he was not familiar with.

He would rather accompany his wife to pick vegetables.

Lin Shu brought a lot of vegetables. She and Lin's mother and second sister chatted about family matters while picking vegetables.

"Lu Shaotang said that the unit can arrange a dormitory for him in Qizhou. I'm thinking of going with him in a few days, and I can also go to see my eldest sister and the others."

Lin's mother patted her gently and said angrily: "You girl, how can you call your man by his full name?"

Lin Shu: "Then what should I call you? Your third son-in-law? The father of the child? My man?" She grinned, cold.

At first, in order to fit the original character, she called him "his father", but later she changed it unconsciously.

Lin Xia laughed.

Lin's mother also glared at her, "You have to be more careful. You can't call Wei Dong's name. He is seven years older than you."

Lin Xia: "Well, I call him Brother Jiang."

At the very least, you can call him Director Jiang, right?

Lin Shu: "Then I can't call Lu Shaotang "Third Brother", isn't that corny?"

Nowadays, everyone calls people by their first names.

Lu Shaotang wanted to come over to help them cook, but Lin's mother refused and told him to sit in the yard to drink tea and chat.

Lin's mother is now the mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law, and she is more and more satisfied with each son-in-law.

She whispered to Lin Shu and Lin Xia: "Shaotang looks more and more handsome now."

The key is that he doesn't look fierce at all, and he looks very beautiful when he smiles.

After a large table of dishes is ready, the men eat and drink in the yard, while Lin Shu and the others eat and talk in the main room in the breeze.

Panpan and Tiantian had already eaten their fill, and took Lan Baoer to the street to play with the children.

Lin Xia asked her mother, "Has my elder sister written to you recently?"

In the past, her elder sister would write to her and her mother, and sometimes to Lin Shu, but recently, Lin Xia has not received any letters from her elder sister.

She thought that maybe because she told her elder sister that she was coming to the countryside to support the power supply, her elder sister was afraid that she would not receive the letter, so she did not write to her, and wrote to her parents instead.

Lin's mother: "I just received a letter two days ago, saying that everything is fine at home, asking how we are, and enclosed ten yuan in the letter."

Lin Dan and Lin Xia are used to enclose money in letters for their parents, thinking that if it is not a large sum of money, there is no need to go to the post office to remit money.

However, Lin Xia usually encloses five yuan, while Lin Dan is more well-off and always encloses ten yuan.

The two sisters discussed a solution: the letter paper should be thicker so that the money can't see through the letter and others won't steal it.

Once they were stolen, they would never steal again, and as a result, they were never stolen.

Among the three sisters, the eldest sister was the most educated, had good handwriting and literary talent, and her grandmother arranged for her to marry into a scholarly family in Qizhou.

The eldest sister is called Lin Dan. Although she is not as beautiful as Lin Shu, she has a graceful temperament that the locals do not have. At first glance, you will feel that she is a gentle beauty from the misty Jiangnan.

She learned to read and write from Grandma Lin, and also learned classical poetry. She has a little knowledge of music, is a good cook, and can manage the household frugally.

Her in-laws are very satisfied with her, and her brother-in-law also loves her.

The ancestors of the eldest brother-in-law's family were the Jiangnan Hou family, a famous old family. During the Anti-Japanese War, the family split up because of different ideologies.

Hou Laoyezi attended a private school since childhood, and later attended a modern school. After he became an adult, he went abroad for several years. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to China despite his parents' opposition.

His parents originally hoped that he would use his connections abroad to save the family business, but he turned around and threw himself into the torrent of revolution.

Although he could not ride a horse or shoot a gun, he worked as a technician in the arsenal.

Later, because of a disagreement with his colleagues, he secretly moved north to Qizhou with his family.

Later, he became a technician at the Qizhou arsenal, starting from the bottom and proving his determination and ability for the revolution.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the workshop director of the arsenal, and later the deputy director and director.

He survived every movement without any major disturbances, even in 1966.

Mr. Hou originally had three sons and two daughters. The eldest son died in the war, the second son died of illness, and the eldest daughter also died a few years ago. Now only the youngest son and daughter are still around.

The youngest son, Hou Jianwen, is the eldest brother-in-law of the Lin family.

Hou Jianwen graduated from Qizhou University and then worked in the Qizhou Industrial Bureau.

He has a good relationship with his eldest sister and accompanies her to her parents' home every year.

However, he was very busy last year because of his job transfer. In addition, his mother was ill, his sister-in-law got married and was in confinement, and there were a lot of things at home. The eldest sister and her husband did not return to her parents' home at the end of the year.

They wrote back to explain, and also sent an extra 30 yuan to Lin's mother, saying that they would definitely return at the end of next year.

Lin's mother took out the letter to show them and sighed.

Lin Shu: "Mom, what's wrong?"

Lin's mother: "I shouldn't have said such a pessimistic thing today, I just feel a little uneasy."

She took out the ten yuan that the eldest daughter sent with the letter, two five-yuan bills, neatly pressed.

Lin Shu and Lin Xia couldn't see anything wrong.

Lin's mother: "Your sister used to send ten yuan, usually new money, but these two bills are obviously wrinkled and ironed."

The eldest daughter is as concerned about her reputation as her grandmother, and she must give new money to her parents to look good.

She said, "It was all new money before, but now I'm suddenly giving old money, and two five-yuan notes. I feel uneasy. Do you think your eldest sister's family... is there something wrong?" There was

nothing unusual in the letters for more than half a year, and money was also enclosed in the letters, but when Lin's mother saw this letter, she still felt that something was wrong.

Maybe there was something wrong last year, and the eldest daughter didn't tell her family, or she felt that it was useless to tell her family, and she couldn't help except making her family worry.

Lin Xia: "No, my eldest sister's family was fine when the movement started. What can happen now? Many people in our factory have been rehabilitated."

Lin Shu: "Why don't we ask Lu Shaotang to ask."

Lu Shaotang and his friends often go to Qizhou, but he is not familiar with his eldest sister's family and has never been there due to work.

Lin's mother: "Let's call and ask by ourselves. Don't let Shaotang ask. What if it affects him?"

Although Lin's mother doesn't understand the interests involved, she has seen landlords being shot and killed in the past. All relatives have drawn a clear line and dare not get involved. What if

there is a problem in the eldest son-in-law's family, and the third son-in-law goes to ask and gets dragged in?

That's not good, it's better for the girl's family to ask.

Of course, it's best to be careful and let the girl's family be well.