Chapter 143 Changing Face

Mother Hou was naturally very distressed. She felt heartbroken to see her daughter

-in-law, whom she had cherished since childhood, become like this. She turned her head to look at Sister Lin, wanting her eldest daughter-in-law to call her third sister's home. Maybe her third brother-in-law could help?

She had nothing to do with Old Hou, but she had to take care of Shuxian, right?

Of course, it would be best to clarify things with Jianwen, so that the couple could stay in Qizhou with the child, so that the child could continue to study.

Hou Shuxian returned to the Tang family, her face was swollen from crying, and she couldn't cover it up.

There was nothing to hide, because who didn't know about her family's affairs now?

Thinking about how Tang Bin had tried his best to pursue her and please her, and vowed to treat her well for the rest of his life, when she nodded to marry him, he was so excited that he jumped three feet high, and wanted to kneel down to show his loyalty to her.

After marriage, he was very obedient to her. When she was pregnant, he was very considerate. When she gave birth to a son, he even said that she was the great contributor. He wanted her to be devoted to him for the rest of her life and to work like a slave for her for the rest of her life. This made

her laugh. But not long after, he started to change his attitude. Not only did he become sarcastic when his father was dismissed, but he was no longer considerate and gentle to her. Not only was he rough in bed, he also started to ask her to wash clothes for the whole family and wash his feet...

So he didn't really love her back then, but just wanted to be the son-in-law of the Hou family?

It was a pity that she didn't see him clearly before marriage. Now... they have a son, and she has feelings for him... and it's hard to let go.

Tang's mother glanced at her and felt depressed. "You didn't wash your clothes or cook meals. Where did you go?"

Hou Shuxian didn't have to go to work today.

Hou Shuxian: "I..." She wanted to say that she went back to see her parents, but she didn't dare to say it when she met her mother-in-law's harsh eyes, fearing that they would take the opportunity to humiliate her and say something like "If you don't want to leave your mother's house, then go with your mother's house."

The family had already finished their meal and didn't leave any food for her, so she just found something to fill her stomach.

In the study, Tang Bin and Tang's father were discussing something.

Tang's father: "It is necessary to let your wife draw a clear line with her family."

Tang Bin: "Or... let's get a divorce."

Tang's father shook his head, "Not appropriate. If you are just dating, you can break up with her. Now that you have been married for three years and have a son, she is no longer a daughter of the Hou family but a wife of our Tang family. Divorce will be criticized."

Children can draw a clear line with their parents, which is a noble cause. However, if the husband abandons his wife, although it is not wrong, and it is also for the sake of innocence and breaking off ties with the reactionary children, but he will also be despised by others for being cold-hearted and profit-seeking. After all,

Hou Shuxian is now a wife of the Tang family. Strictly speaking, she is a member of the Tang family. She will not be implicated by the Hou family. On the contrary, if something happens to the Tang family, she will be implicated.

Tang Bin: "Then..."

He used to like Hou Shuxian. She was not only beautiful, but also had the self-confidence and pride of a girl from a big family. She had a superior demeanor that made him look up to her.

He was willing to support her after marriage.

But that was based on the fact that her father was the director of an ordnance factory.

If she was just a girl from an ordinary family, she would be arrogant and unruly, a beautiful vase, not only of no help to him, but would only cause trouble.

Tang's father: "You go to the Public Security Bureau of the Revolutionary Committee and give Director Zhao two bottles of wine and two packs of cigarettes to get close to him. I heard that a new department has been established in the Qizhou Provincial Department. The new director is named Chen or something. He is specifically in charge of that stall and has great power. You ask Director Zhao to introduce him and get in touch with him more. Give him whatever he needs. We must get our family out of the spotlight. The best thing would be for me to be the factory director."

Tang's father felt that he was no worse than Hou Deming, but he had been suppressed by Hou Deming for so many years.

Now that he finally had the opportunity, he didn't want to let it go.

He and Hou Deming had no grudges against each other. It was just that people go to high places and water flows to low places. This is a true saying, and he felt that he was right.

He also told his son: "Especially at times like this, be nicer to Shuxian."

When Tang Bin returned to the room, he saw Hou Shuxian crying while pulling out her clothes and jewelry that were inconvenient to wear outside. There was a box of gold, silver and jade bracelets.

Some were her dowry, and some were given by him.

He frowned, "What are you doing? You can't wear these things to show off now."

Hou Shuxian: "I exchanged the dowry my parents gave me for money and national food coupons. Then they went to the farm. They lived in broken houses with leaks on all sides. There were rats and ants in the houses. The farm was full of cow and chicken feces. They ate black dried sweet potatoes and the water was turbid. Wuwu..."

She wiped away her tears, "I exchanged some money and food coupons for them so that they can have food when the time comes." " I want to have a full meal."

Tang Bin's heart softened, and he went forward to hug her, "Don't cry, you don't need to sell these, I have prepared money and tickets for you."

Hou Shuxian looked up at him in surprise, "Really?"

Tang Bin smiled and said, "Of course, you are my daughter-in-law, my father-in-law and mother-in-law are in trouble, how can I just watch and do nothing?"

Hou Shuxian couldn't believe it, "Don't you want to..."

That day she saw him with a young and beautiful girl, their movements and expressions were very intimate, she questioned him but he told her not to interfere.

She could hear from his words that he wanted to divorce her.

Tang Bin: "Don't think nonsense."

Hou Shuxian burst into laughter again, and asked him to take the money and tickets quickly, and she would send them to her parents.

Tang Bin was so good to her, she would definitely repay him well.

Fighting Commune Post Office.

Lin Shu, Lin Xia and Lin's mother were calling their eldest sister Lin Dan.

It was easy to call from the commune to the county, and it was not troublesome to call to the city, but to call Qizhou, they had to go through three transfers and wait for two hours for the line.

They called the ordnance factory's phone number, which was left by eldest sister Lin. It also said that it was best not to call unless there was something special, so Lin's mother and her family had never called before. They used to write letters or send telegrams.

After the call was connected, the other party asked who they were looking for.

Lin Shu gave Hou Deming's name.

There was silence for a moment, and then they immediately asked, "Who are you? What is your relationship with him?"

The tone became more serious than before.

Lin's mother summoned up her courage and said, "I, I am from Linjiatun. My daughter is his daughter-in-law. I haven't seen her for almost two years. I was thinking of calling her to ask why she never came back to her parents' home."

Hearing that it was the in-laws, the tone on the other end softened a little, "Oh, wait a moment."

After finally getting through the call, Lin's mother was reluctant to hang up. At most, it would cost two more dollars.

Money was not something she could care about right now.

After a while, Lin Dan came running over breathlessly, "Mom?"

Lin's mother: "My dear, what's wrong with you? You haven't been home for two years. How are your parents-in-law? Jianwen is okay? Are the children okay?"

Lin Dan was choked by the burning sensation in his throat. He paused, cleared his throat, and pretended to be normal, "Everything is fine. My father-in-law is being transferred to a factory in another place. Wasn't Jianwen's job transferred last year? He's very busy now."

Lin's mother was sure that Something happened at the daughter's house, so she followed Lin Shu's advice, "You are all so busy, don't you have time to take care of the children? If it's not possible, let your father take the children to the countryside, and I will take care of them for you. Anyway, they are all grown up and don't need to be taken care of. I can only cook for them."

Lin Shu analyzed to her that even if parents were sent down, children would generally not be affected, and grandchildren would be even less affected. As long as someone takes care of them, they don't need to go to the farm with them.

Lin Dan almost couldn't hold back his tears.

Mother Lin couldn't hear her daughter talking, but she could hear the sound of sniffing coming from the microphone. "I can make the decisions at home now. Your father and your brother drive tractors to earn wages. They have finished planting corn. Your father will go to Qizhou to pick up the children in the next two days. You should hurry up and pack up for the children."

Lin Dan: "Then I... talk to Jianwen about it."

If possible, she would naturally be reluctant to let her children suffer with her.

Although they are all in the countryside and doing farm work, it is definitely much better to be in her mother's village than in a labor camp farm.

She also asked about her father, sisters and brothers.

Lin Shu and Lin Xia spoke up and told her that everyone was fine.

It was impossible to say too much on the phone. Besides, Lin Dan was about to cry and hung up.

She wiped her tears, sniffed, made herself normal, and then turned around to thank the staff who called her to answer the phone.

The man hesitated for a moment and said, "Sister, your parents are from the countryside, so there is no problem. You can take the children with you."

Since your parents are willing to take care of you, that would be the best. There is no need to suffer with a man.

It is hard to say what life will be like on the farm. It is normal to be hungry and cold, and you will be bullied because you are unfamiliar with the place.

He has seen a lot of such things.

In fact, when many families were sent down to the countryside, in addition to the old women, many daughters-in-law... divorced to protect themselves.

It is normal for a woman to draw a line between herself and her husband's family, take the children away, remarry, and work, and it is not affected at all.

If there is affection and you are reluctant to let go, then wait for redress and then remarry?

It is not without precedent.

Of course, most of those who draw a line are afraid of being implicated. Even if they have affection at the beginning and pretend to divorce for the sake of the children, they will really divorce after years of hopelessness.

When the time comes, she must consider herself and the child more, right?

That's why the man gave her such a suggestion.

Sister Lin thanked him and then went home to discuss it with her husband and her parents-in-law.

She didn't say that she would take the child back to the countryside, but wanted to send the child to his parents to be taken care of.

She couldn't leave Hou Jianwen. He was honest and old-fashioned, and easily got stuck in a rut. If he went to the farm and was given trouble, he might conflict with others or be bullied. He might even get stuck in a rut because of being oppressed too much.

She thought it would be better.

Seeing her say this, Hou Deming sighed: "True friendship is shown in times of trouble. When we were doing well before, our in-laws never came to our house to disturb us. Now that we are not doing well, our in-laws have to come to our house. Alas."

Compared with the Tang family, it was really like heaven and earth.

The Lin family valued friendship so much, but he couldn't let them get in trouble.

He said to Sister Lin, "It's troublesome to ask your father to come up, so why don't you take the children with you?" He

also asked his daughter-in-law to meet with her parents and discuss things, whether it was to draw a clear line with her in-laws and live with the children at her parents' home or something else, so that there would be a plan.

In addition, if the three children and the daughter-in-law went to live with the Lin family, they would need money and food for food and drink, and it was hard to say whether the food they had was enough.

So he had to give the remaining money and food coupons to the children and hand them over to his in-laws. But

Hou's mother was a little hesitant. She felt that the Lin family might not really want to take the children. Maybe they wanted to force the daughter-in-law to divorce and take the daughter-in-law back?

But the daughter-in-law and her son had a good relationship, so they would not abandon her son.

If the daughter-in-law left, she was really worried that her son would not be able to make it.

She knows a lot of people who were decentralized, some were decentralized in the 1950s, some were decentralized in the 1960s, and some were decentralized in the past two years. Some have come back and some have not come back yet.

Without exception, they all suffered from illnesses on the farm. Some had lame legs, some had physical collapse, and some simply died.

At first she felt uncomfortable, so she secretly sent money for food stamps and old cotton-padded clothes there, trying her best to help old acquaintances.

Unexpectedly, things have changed, and now I am being sent to the farm.

Struggle Commune.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Shu and Lin Xia advised Mother Lin not to think too much.

After all, Lin Shu had the historical knowledge of the original plot and previous lives, so she didn't feel panicked.

She said: "As long as you are not shot, you will definitely be rehabilitated in the end."

It is certain that you will suffer. After all, it is suffering for the pampered people to work in the countryside.

Lin Xia has to go to work and has no time to go to Qizhou. Now that the corn is almost finished planting and the sweet potatoes are almost finished, Father Lin has free time.

Lin Shu decided to go with Father Lin.

She never thought of asking Lu Shaotang to help. If the decentralization of the Hou family is an inevitable trend, then there is nothing to struggle with. The only thing that can be done is to make everyone live more comfortably.

Furthermore, she also felt that Lu Shaotang couldn't help. After all, they were not in the same system. If she wanted to help, she would have to find connections around the corner.

How could someone like Lu Shaotang find a relationship?

She couldn't bear to embarrass him.

After Lu Shaotang knew about it, he did not express any opinions, but asked Lin Shu to pack up, and he would take her and Lin's father to see the dormitory in Qizhou.

Since they were not going to play, he would not bring the two children with him.

Tiantian and Panpan are very considerate of their parents. They have heard their grandma talk a lot and think that as long as their parents are with them, it will be good.

They have to help their mother manage the vegetable garden at home, and they also have to grow radishes and cabbages, which is very busy.

Then let their parents go to the provincial capital by themselves, and they can go and play after their parents have cleaned up there.

At the incense factory, Lin Shu taught others and left it alone. Now there are dedicated people for purchasing raw materials, grinding incense powder, making and sorting incense, packaging and delivery. It doesn’t matter whether she is there or not. When

she is not at home, at most there is no one to cook. Fang Dihua is busy making incense and has no time. Fortunately, Lu Xiuxiu is at home, so she can make clothes and cook at the same time. Now Lu Cuicui can also help her.

Lin Xia can’t go, so she took fifty yuan and a hundred kilograms of grain coupons to Lin Shu.

She saved the money, and Jiang Weidong exchanged the food stamps. Originally, he wanted to help with a hundred yuan, but Lin Xia refused.

Neither of them is married, so how can they ask for his money? It would be nice if he helped buy food stamps.

Jiang Weidong originally came to deliver mosquito repellent incense inserts to the incense factory, and after learning about the Lin family, he wanted to take them there.

"I happen to be going to the Qizhou Machinery Factory for a few days. Let's go together."

He was going to the Machinery Factory on a business trip for almost a week. He was thinking about Lin Xia and wanted to come over first and bring over the mosquito coil inserts from the incense factory.

Lu Shaotang did not drive back this time, and Chen Yanming would not send anyone to pick him up before the agreed time. He originally wanted to take his wife and father-in-law by bus or train, and since there was a ride, it would be more convenient.

They went to bed early in the evening, and set out before dawn the next day, arriving in Qizhou before nine o'clock.

Jiang Weidong sent them to the Qizhou Revolutionary Committee's family compound and went to the machinery factory for work.

Father Lin had been to the city after all, and now he was also a maintenance worker in the commune. He was often asked about his work by the commune leaders, and he had seen the world to some extent, so he was not as nervous when he came to Qizhou as when he first went to the city tractor factory.

Seeing that his daughter looked normal and not timid at all, he also straightened his chest.

No matter what, he couldn't embarrass his daughter and son-in-law.

Lu Shaotang knew that Lin Shu and Lin's father were anxious to see Lin's elder sister, so he did not take them to see the dormitory, but called a young soldier on guard to help him carry the luggage over.

He accompanied Lin Shu and Lin's father to the Hou family first.

Lin Shu held him and whispered, "Is it convenient for you to go? Otherwise, my father and I can go by ourselves."

Lu Shaotang smiled and said, "What's the inconvenience? My elder aunt and I are relatives, and this fact cannot be erased. I was also politically reviewed at the time. What are you afraid of?"

He rubbed her shoulders with his big hands, "Don't worry, let's go, I'll accompany you."

There was something going on at his wife's elder sister's home, how could he let her go alone?

"Boss... Director Lu!" A young soldier with several scars on his face ran over and stuffed the car key into his hand.

Lu Shaotang returned the key to him, "I'm going to take care of some personal business, so I'll just take a tricycle. If Captain Chen comes back, let him know."

The soldier agreed, and then quickly glanced at Lin Shu and Lin's father before running away.

There were seven or eight human-powered tricycles parked in the square outside, waiting to pick up passengers, and there was even a three-wheeled motorcycle in the middle.

Oil-burning tricycles are definitely faster than human power, so Lin Shu and the others took the three-wheeled motorcycle to the Hou family.