Chapter 150: Comparison of Scheming

Zhang Shuxia thought that Han Xiaofen would not do it either!

Because she had also slept with Qian Lisheng.

Both of them were divorced adults, and they both had their own needs. When Qian Lisheng told Han Xiaofen that he was willing to marry her, the relationship happened naturally. When

Qian Lisheng hid in the branch factory, Han Xiaofen also dressed up carefully, put on a little powder, and made herself look a little pale but not sickly, but added a bit of charm.

When Qian Lisheng was going to the cafeteria to eat at noon, he saw Han Xiaofen standing under the big willow tree.

She was wearing a green dress with a white collar. Although she was already a mother, she still had two pigtails like a grown-up girl. She was slender and delicate, which made people feel pity at first sight.

He saw several male employees looking at her with lustful eyes, and immediately a surge of anger rose in his heart, as if his woman was being taken advantage of by other men.

He instantly forgot that he had not yet decided which one to choose and had to avoid them first, and strode towards them, and even touched her bare arm considerately, "Why did you suddenly come here?"

Han Xiaofen first looked up at him with tears in her eyes, and a second later, tears welled up in her eyelashes, and then she lowered her head and eyes, sobbing, but she didn't say a word.

Although she said nothing, it seemed like she had said everything.

Qian Lisheng quickly took her to the cafeteria to eat, but she had no appetite at all and refused to drink a drop of water.

Qian Lisheng forgot all the previous entanglements and just wanted to comfort the woman in front of him who was so sad because she loved him too much.

He was secretly happy in his heart, because Lin Xia looked down on him, but there was also a beautiful woman like Han Xiaofen who loved him but couldn't get him, and was heartbroken and fasting for him.

She loves me so much!

So the whole meal was torn between "you eat" and "I'm not hungry, hey, Brother Qian, I just feel so uncomfortable in my heart", and finally it was dragged to Qian Lisheng's dormitory, and something happened quickly and naturally.

Qian Lisheng started to be decadent after he came to the branch factory. Later, he often complained to the workshop workers in private, saying things like "he got divorced because his wife despised him", "his ex-wife came from the countryside, he taught her to read and write and supported her to take the electrician exam, but... "

The workers in the workshop who didn't know the truth naturally sympathized with him and hoped that he would cheer up. They encouraged him to find a better wife as soon as possible to embarrass his ex-wife.

So he was so close to Han Xiaofen, and even if someone saw it, they didn't criticize or report him.

Master Qian was so miserable, but you still bullied him. Don't you have any heart?

This is also the reason why he could have an affair with the nanny and go on a blind date with Han Xiaofen. Everyone is particularly tolerant of divorced men.

After what was supposed to happen happened, Qian Lisheng became even softer-hearted, thinking that he was omnipotent and could easily control the fate of two women. He was too important and too capable.

Unfortunately, he was destined to hurt only one.

Han Xiaofen tidied her clothes, then lowered her head shyly and asked him to help tidy up her hair and collar, sobbing softly: "Brother Qian, I... I have never really liked anyone before, only when I met you..."

Her cheeks were flushed, and she looked shy and dared not speak, "If you betray me, I... I will have to give up everything..."

The implication was that Zhang Shuxia threatened you to jump into the river, so why wouldn't I?

For you, I can even give up the child I had with my ex-husband. I put you in such an important position, you can do whatever you want!

Qian Lisheng felt extremely satisfied when a beautiful woman timidly said that she loved him more than her deceased husband.

They say that no one can compete with a dead man. Haha, that's bullshit. I, Qian Lisheng, can!

She, Han Xiaofen, loves me more than her dead man!

So he immediately got excited and hugged her to comfort her, and swore that he would marry her.

He promised to solve Zhang Shuxia's problem in the next two days and get rid of her.

Han Xiaofen smiled, leaned coquettishly in his arms, and said softly: "Lisheng, you are my greatest support in this life. You are the first man I fell in love with, the first man I took the initiative to give my heart to. If you let me down, I will..."

After leaving the Huangxian branch, Han Xiaofen was very pleased.

Humph, what's so great about you, Zhang Shuxia, being pregnant? Can't I be pregnant too? Besides

, they are both normal men and women. She has given birth to two children, so there is no problem with giving birth to another one.

Qian Lisheng told her about Lin Xia, and also took out the latest test results forged at Qizhou Hospital to prove that he was healthy.

Han Xiaofen had a natural, unreasonable and illogical hostility towards Lin Xia. Even if Lin Xia stood in front of her and said that Qian Lisheng had a problem, she would still choose to believe Qian Lisheng, thinking that she would definitely be able to give him a son.

What she wanted to find was a high-end man like Jiang Weidong, but unfortunately he didn't like her, so she had to settle for the next best thing and find a good man of the same level as her late husband.

There is another more important reason. Qian's mother still has a job, which can be taken over by her family. Han Xiaofen wants to give it to her daughter in a few years, and then to her son.

Work is so precious these days.

Due to various considerations, Qian Lisheng was the one with the best conditions that she could choose at the moment, so naturally she couldn't give up.

Although Qian Lisheng and Zhang Shuxia's dirty deeds annoyed her, she chose not to mind because compared with those favorable conditions, this was nothing.

She was also an experienced person and understood the needs of men.

She felt that she had more advantages than Zhang Shuxia.

She was from the city, more beautiful, had a junior high school education, a job, and could give birth to a son. What could Zhang Shuxia compare with her?

Compared with other working women in the countryside, Zhang Shuxia was indeed a little more beautiful, but she had no job and no education!

Even if Zhang Shuxia was coquettish enough and could seduce men, couldn't she?

It was not illegal to seduce the person you were going to marry, so couldn't she? She could seduce better than Zhang Shuxia!

So how could she lose to Zhang Shuxia?

She left confidently, but met Zhang Shuxia who was rushing over at the bus station!

Zhang Shuxia looked more haggard than her. After all, Qian's mother called her to do housework every day and verbally attacked her. Although she fought back, she had to get Qian's mother's approval to marry Qian Lisheng, so she could only try to please her.

Han Xiaofen smiled at Zhang Shuxia, "Don't bother with useless things."

Zhang Shuxia's eyes revealed a hint of cruelty, "Brother Qian will definitely marry me!"

Han Xiaofen sneered, "Are you dreaming? Just because you are covered in dirt?"

She remembered what Qian Lisheng said before, that it would be a good time to make Qian Lisheng and Zhang Shuxia clean up the mess later.

She wanted to go over and stare at him, but she felt that Qian Lisheng was a soft-hearted person, and if she went over, he might suspect that she was spying on him.

Thinking of how passionate he was when he was with her, Han Xiaofen was very confident. In her opinion, Zhang Shuxia was inferior to her in every way, and Qian Lisheng slept with her just to vent his desires, not because he was passionate. She

was reluctant to leave, what if Zhang Shuxia threatened to commit suicide on the spot?

Otherwise...she would just follow quietly and wait outside? She

pretended to get on the bus, and when she walked a little distance to collect the ticket, she hurriedly asked the bus to stop, saying that she had left something and was going home to get it.

Zhang Shuxia had already hurried to the factory to find Qian Lisheng.

Qian Lisheng was busy in the workshop. When he heard that a woman was looking for him, he thought it was Han Xiaofen who had come back, so he told his apprentice to go out and take a look.

When he saw Zhang Shuxia, his mood instantly dropped.

It was as if he was instantly pulled from one world into another.

It was refreshing and beautiful before, but now it was embarrassing and miserable!

When he first met Zhang Shuxia, he thought this woman was a little rough, but she was also pretty, much more pleasing to the eye than those asshole women in the countryside.

When they had sex for the first time, he deliberately compared her with Lin Xia, and viciously concluded that Lin Xia, who seemed noble on the surface, was not even as good as Zhang Shuxia. He took revenge on Lin Xia and complained about her in his heart from time to time.

But now he found that this Zhang Shuxia was so scary! She

not only looked bitter but also fierce. How could a woman look so contradictory?

He used to think that she was honest and simple-minded, just a poor woman who was scared by men.

What did she say?

That damn man always beat her, and even if he was paralyzed, he still harmed her.

She said that she once met a good man, but unfortunately he had a wife and children, and other people would not let them have a good life.

Bullshit, what good man, he found out everything, this so-called good man was the blacksmith who was shot!

Even the blacksmith who was shot didn't want to marry her. He would rather remember his dead wife and children and harm other women and children than her!

Damn it, she was just pretending to be honest in front of him!

How could a steel mill worker marry a woman that even a lousy brazer wouldn't marry?

Qian Lisheng was furious!

He dragged Zhang Shuxia to a secluded corner and scolded her for being ungrateful and told her to get out.

And what nonsense was she talking about being pregnant?

Didn't he know whether he could have a baby?

If he couldn't have a baby, how could she be pregnant? Didn't she just find a strange man behind his back?

She betrayed him and dared to say that she was pregnant with his child and asked him to marry her?

Zhang Shuxia's eyes flashed with madness. Although Qian's mother was mean and always criticized her and drove her away, it was still a home that could shelter her from the wind and rain and provide her with enough food and warm clothes.

She didn't want to leave!

She had to stay!

She pursed her lips and said, "Brother Qian, I know about your situation. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. I'm pregnant for you. I'm not sorry for you. I'm just... pretending to say that. Brother Qian, I know you've been laughed at and bullied by the woman in front of you. I feel sorry for you. I pretended to be pregnant, and then I brought back an unwanted son from the countryside. That will be your biological son. Brother Qian, isn't a biological son better than someone else's son to raise?"

Qian Lisheng's eyes widened, and he froze, looking at her in disbelief.

Zhang Shuxia still had that bitter and fierce look on her face. She stood quietly in front of him, "Don't worry, Brother Qian. Some girls and educated youth in the countryside couldn't stand the loneliness and hooked up with others. Many of them accidentally got pregnant and gave birth to children. It's not difficult to have a son. If you have such a son, you don't have to worry about others looking for you. They won't be able to find us."

She found that Qian Lisheng's eyes slowly relaxed, and his gaze was not as fierce as before. She continued, "Brother Qian, I'm really doing this for your own good. You are the first person in the world who is good to me. I don't want you to... I don't want you to be laughed at by others. I don't want you to have no son to take care of you in your old age."

She continued, "Brother Qian, if you marry Han Xiaofen, she will have a son and a daughter, and you will raise children for others. She is so mean and will not be loyal to you. When you are old, she and the children will occupy your family's work and throw you out. How many children in second marriages are thrown out by stepmothers and stepfathers? Brother Qian, you can ask around. Look at the old men who are driven out. How miserable they are. They can't eat hot meals in the winter, and no one gives them hot water when they are sick..."

"And the one I give birth to can be regarded as your own child. I will serve you in the first half of my life, and he will serve you when I am old, and you can enjoy it comfortably."

Qian Lisheng was shamefully moved by what she said...

Lin Shu didn't take Qian Lisheng's nonsense to heart.

If the second sister had not divorced Qian Lisheng, then she and her parents would be the ones who were worried. Since the second sister divorced him, she was very leisurely eating melons.

Netizens have said that eating melons is good for physical and mental health and emotional stability. It would be a

shame to not eat melons, right?

But the family was busy building a house in a blink of an eye, so she had no time to eat melons.

This time, the team was not organizing the construction of the house, so her family had to find the labor themselves, and they still didn't have to pay for the labor, but they had to provide food.

This is how it is usually done in the countryside. The family will collect materials for a few years and then pool the materials with relatives and neighbors. Then they will ask the people they are connected with to come and help. The men will do the manual labor and the women will help tie the sorghum stalks. If the farmer is not free to work, they will be provided with two meals a day. If they work after work, they will be provided with one meal.

This time, Lin Shu planned the house building very carefully. When Lu Shaotang collected the sorghum stalks, she asked the women she was connected with to come and tie the sorghum stalks.

There were old women who did not work during the day and young women who got off work in the evening.

Carpenter Fan also came to deal with the beams and purlins, and processed the wooden boards, and then made doors and windows according to the size.

Because Lu Shaotang was capable and the wood he collected was larger, the new house could be built with bricks and tiles with a larger width and depth.

Before the bricks and tiles were in place, the strong laborers went to work to tamp the foundation, dig trenches to bury the wires, and bury the foundation bluestones.

After the kiln factory hired the commune tractor to deliver the bricks and tiles, they could just connect to the wall.

Except for a two-day stoppage due to rain, the rest was almost seamless, and there was no time to wait for materials.

This time, the second and the first brothers Lu were still not asked to work, but father Lin, uncle Lin, Lin Yue and Lin Ju insisted on coming to help.

They also brought a truck of materials, but building a house would not require so much, so Lin Shu stayed to repair the south room and the pigpen.

Besides them, the team leader and the old branch secretary also insisted on coming to help, because they could not go to the fields anyway, so they could only patrol a few pens and attend a few meetings.

They both felt that they were really here to help the Lu family, but they really felt that the other party was here to help because they wanted Lin Shu to cook delicious meals.

This season is the time when vegetables in the vegetable garden are the most lush. As long as you take good care of them after sowing in the spring, you can have whatever you want to eat now, and the fruits are so abundant that you can never finish them.

When other people invited guests, they would cook vegetables in salt water with a little oil on top. The better ones would kill a chicken, buy a pound of meat from the commune, and stew a few eggs. There was no fancy way, almost all the dishes were stewed in the pot, such as vegetables, pumpkins, and eggplants, which turned out to be rotten.

Lin Shu's menu was rich, with all kinds of cold dishes, stews, boiled dishes, steamed dishes, and soups. The dishes were rich in color, aroma, and taste, which were beyond their imagination.

For example, the tiger dish, the members also make their own cold dishes, which are nothing more than green onions, garlic, green vegetables, and leeks mixed with soybean paste. Those who are more particular may add cucumber. Lin Shu's cold dish contains boiled green bean sprouts, bean curd sheets, chili strips, fried peanuts, green onion strips, and cucumber strips. The seasoning is also rich in soy sauce, chili oil, and sesame oil.

It smells so good!

The members who came to work ate two large enamel basins.

There is also a big pot of stewed grass carp and tofu, with a circle of cornmeal cakes on the edge of the pot, accompanied by small pickles, so that everyone can eat without raising their heads.

There is also a dish of roasted garlic eggplant, which makes the members exclaim with excitement.

Eggplant, who hasn't eaten it? Who doesn't grow a few eggplants in their vegetable garden?

They either cut eggplant into pieces and put it in an enamel bowl and steam it with sauce, or stew it with water and sauce, or steam the eggplant and mix it with garlic paste. Anyway, they have never eaten delicious roasted eggplant.

Lin Shu and her friends roasted eggplants. They chose a big one, cut it in half, brushed it with some oil and roasted it on the fire rack. After it was roasted soft, they put chopped pepper or garlic paste on it, and then sprinkled it with homemade spices. The aroma could be smelled for miles.

It tasted even softer, more fragrant and spicy, and it was a taste they had never eaten before.

In this era of scarce resources, being able to eat oil soup, eggs, and meat was a great enjoyment, but they actually thought that this roasted eggplant was more delicious than meat! !

Auntie Li's husband ate slurpingly and asked her, "How do you cook it? Have you learned it? Let's grill it ourselves at home."

Auntie Li poured some chopped green onions and cilantro for him, "Just enjoy this meal."

Although there is no meat, Lin Shu has added a lot of things?

Brush the eggplant with oil first, that's oil!!!

There is also a pot of chopped chili, chopped green onions, chopped garlic, and noodles that seem to be pepper and Sichuan peppercorns. How can it not be delicious? How

can you bear to eat like this at home?

Only the team leader and the party secretary's family can learn to let the old woman grill it for them. Others? They can only reminisce about it in the future.

So in order to come to Lin Shu's house for a meal, the villagers also wanted to come to help build the house after work.

Don't need so many people?

How is it possible? There is strength in numbers.

They brought their own dry food and just had some vegetables.

So when everyone was helping to build the house, Lin Shu took Aunt Li, Wang Pozi and other women to dry a lot of dried vegetables, pickled a lot of kimchi and salted vegetables, and learned to dry mustard greens in the south.

Mustard greens are really treasures. They dried salted cabbage and pickled salted vegetables.

When they are done, they can make authentic pickled fish.

She also used a recipe from her previous life to make chili powder. In addition to chopped pepper, there are also minced garlic, chopped pears, minced young ginger, etc., and some white sugar and white wine. After pickling, it is so delicious that it makes people's tongue curl. No vegetables or meat are needed, just this chili powder roll is enough to eat.

When there was still time, the women helped her to turn the soil and plant radishes and cabbages. They could harvest them in winter and continue to pickle pickles and sauerkraut, and they could also dry radish strips.

In the winter when there were no vegetables, being able to eat crispy radish strips was doubly delicious.

Last year, many families had eaten Lin Shu's dishes, so they were naturally happy to help plant them this year.

It only took ten days to prepare the ingredients, and less than ten days to build the house. After putting up the beams and laying the tiles, they would set up the kang and the stove, and finally paint the walls. After seven or eight days of drying, they could move in. Building

a new house is a big deal for farmers. Some families only build three adobe houses in their lifetime. After they are built, they will invite relatives and friends to warm up the house.

When putting up the beams, they will invite guests from the village, but not to the warm-up.

Fang Dihua sent Lu An to invite her aunt and uncle, asked Lu Cuicui to invite her aunt and Xu Xiaoyou, and asked Hou Bo to invite Lin's father and uncle to come over.

Lin Shu said that her father and uncle had come when the beams were raised, so there was no need for warming the house.

This time, just treat it as the day when the aunt and the younger aunt come back.

In fact, Lu Dajie and Lu Hehuan come back quite often. Lu Dajie sends food to her parents' home every once in a while, and Lu Hehuan comes back with Xu Xiaoyou every few days to eat.

Who made Lin Shu's cooking so delicious?

She couldn't keep her mouth shut no matter how much she wanted to save face.

Xu Xiaoyou is getting more and more sensible now, and he is simply the social leader of the Xu family.

Fang Dihua said that if it weren't for Xu Xiaoyou, the Xu family would have been infamous in the brigade long ago just relying on Xu's mother and Xu Shihua.

Xu Xiaoyou is good with Tiantian and Panpan, so of course she likes the people they are close to.

How is she getting along with Hou Ying now? After all, Hou Ying is older than Tiantian, so they can talk about higher topics.

Lin Shu also likes to interact with the children more.

Especially Xu Xiaoyou is the heroine of the original book, with a pure personality and hardworking. Such a child who is not loved by her father and mother can get along well with her stepmother, which is worth learning for other children, including Hou Bo and Hou Ying.

Facts have proved that this decision is right.

Hou Ying and Xu Xiaoyou get along very well, talk well, and have fun together.

Hou Ying is also a well-behaved girl. Although she has the coquettishness of a city kid, she is not hypocritical. She still wears straw sandals after going to the countryside. Although she is afraid of insects, she also helps to water vegetables, catch insects and pull weeds. Now she has adapted to life here.

She and Lu Cuicui don't get along well, just like Hou Bo and Lu An don't get along well.

Lu An and Lu Cuicui also don't get along well with the guests, secretly competing with each other and making trouble.

Lin Shu did not interfere. Children's affairs should be solved by children. After all, children have their own personalities.

Anyway, they didn't fight, she would intervene when they couldn't solve the problem themselves or when they openly asked adults to intervene to help.

They agreed to come over early in the evening for dinner, so that Fang Dihua and Old Man Lu would be off work.

Although Sister Lu's family was far away, they arrived first, and they rode three bicycles.

When he heard their voices, Lu An secretly glanced at Hou Bo and shouted in a very deliberate and exaggerated tone, "Aunt, uncle, eldest cousin, second cousin, third cousin..."

Lu Ping: "..."