Chapter 155 Reconciliation and Growth

After cooperating with the Elm Forest Brigade, the elm bark problem of the incense factory was solved. Other pine, cypress and raw materials were also arranged, so there would be no shortage of raw materials.

With sufficient raw materials, sufficient manpower and skilled skills, the incense factory has entered a very smooth state.

Brother Lu deeply reflected on himself in the process of collecting elm bark, and reported his thoughts to his parents-in-law in time, gaining the understanding and trust of his parents, and then gloriously took back his job as a salesperson.

Now he and Brother Lu deliver goods and run orders together, and the incense factory arranges other people to squeeze incense.

Yu Qian'er and his friends went back to grind incense flour. When the time came, they would start the three mills together and deliver a lot of incense flour to Lujiazhuang in a week.

In a blink of an eye, the annual autumn harvest began.

Several members of the incense factory still did not need to participate in the autumn harvest and continued to make incense. However, members such as Jie Erjiu who followed the surveying technicians to bury the electric poles had to go back to work.

The autumn harvest was different from the wheat harvest.

Now the commune has agricultural machinery to harvest wheat. Although it is slow, it is much more efficient than people. However, there is no harvester for corn.

Nowadays, when members harvest corn, women and children still go in to break it off. Those in charge of transportation carry the corn out, and most men are responsible for digging corn stalks.

Corn stalks and sorghum stalks are different from wheat. Wheat can be cut, but these need to be dug up, using a slightly sharp hoe to dig up the roots one by one.

If you cut them, the sickle will be worn out too much, the efficiency is not high, and it will seriously affect the arable land.

As for the work of harvesting corn, according to Lin Shu, even in the 1990s, many rural areas were manual, and mechanization did not begin until 2000.

Because corn stalks are still very important feed and firewood, the harvester will crush the corn stalks into the ground, and the loss is too great.

Now we can only rely on labor.

When the members go back for the autumn harvest, Lin Xia and his friends can also rest for a while. Before returning to work, Lin Xia will stay at Sanmei's house for a few days.

Lin Xia got a darker complexion this summer, but she is stronger and healthier, with clear eyes and a bright smile. When she smiles, her neat and white teeth are exposed.

Panpan, Tiantian, and Xiao Houwei tilted their heads and stared at the teeth of the second aunt. Wow, the second aunt's teeth are so white!

They are shining.

Lin Xia, who was talking to Lin Shu, lowered her eyes to meet the eyes of the three children and smiled: "What are you doing?"

Tiantian: "Second aunt, your teeth are so beautiful."

Lin Xia: "I changed to a new toothpaste, the same as your mother's. Don't you use it?"

Jiang Weidong wanted to bring her something every time he saw her, but she didn't allow him to buy expensive things.

But he said he didn't know why, but he couldn't help wanting to buy her something and spend money on her.

She said that it was fine to just buy daily necessities, it was his intention and she liked it, so it was not a waste at all.

Jiang Weidong bought her toothpaste, soap, perfumed soap, vanishing cream, hair oil and so on, and even asked someone to buy them for her secretly.

Lin Xia didn't like to dress up, so she shared it with Lin Shu. After all, if Lin Shu didn't urge her, she wouldn't even remember to apply vanishing cream.

Tiantian and Panpan had small toothbrushes, which were high-end ones that Lin Shu asked Lu Shaotang to buy for them from the city. However, the craftsmanship at that time was limited, and even the high-end bristles were a bit hard and would prick the gums, so the two kids didn't like to use them.

They had been changing their teeth one after another, and there was a gap in the middle of their teeth, which was very painful when the bristles of the toothbrush pricked them.

Lin Shu didn't let them brush their teeth anymore, but asked them to rinse their mouths after meals and drink some mint water or something like that.

The two children thought that since their parents brushed their teeth, it would be unhygienic if they didn't brush their teeth themselves?

So they kept brushing their teeth with their little fingers.

The three children showed their teeth to their second aunt.

Lin Xia was so amused that she laughed out loud, and Lu Xiuxiu and Hou Ying, who were buttoning, also laughed a lot.

Lin Shu thought that her second sister's divorce was worth it. How could she get breast cancer when she was so cheerful every day? She

definitely wouldn't get it in this lifetime.

Lin Shu asked the children to go play while she made something to eat for her second sister.

"Sister, isn't your brother-in-law coming to pick you up?"

Lin Xia: "He called me before and asked me, saying that he would come to deliver your order and pick up the goods, and pick me up back to the factory."

Lin Shu laughed teasingly, "Sister, what do you mean by picking you up? He is coming to pick you up and pick up the goods."

Lin Xia is not shy, she is shy in front of Jiang Weidong, not in front of her parents and sisters.

"Where is your brother-in-law, he is not at home again?"

Lin Xia also came several times during this period, and most of the time Lu Shaotang was not at home.

Lin Shu: "I think he'll be back in two days. He doesn't know how

many days he can rest at work." She whispered to Lin Xia: "It's good if he comes back less often."

Since Lu Shaotang came back, Lin Shu found that she had a very contradictory mentality: when he didn't come back, she looked forward to his return. When he came back, she looked forward to him going to work.

Of course, she didn't dare to tell him, for fear that he would look at her with his dark eyes until she could taste some...grievance in them.

I don't know what's wrong with this man. Now...he can act coquettishly.

It's a bit scary to think about it. A tall man can fit your whole person inside him. Just because you said "It's good if you come back less often", he looks aggrieved. Oh, I don't dare to think about it.

Lin Xia had never experienced that kind of situation, so naturally she didn't understand what she meant, "Did you have a fight with him? Let me tell you, if it was someone else I wouldn't dare to say anything, it was probably the man's fault, but if it was your brother-in-law, then it must be your bad temper, you have to give in to him. He's been away for many years and finally came back, and he makes so much money, you have to give in to him, right?"

Lin Shu: "I know, I'll give in to him."

After he came back, I couldn't wake up every day, how embarrassing it would be if I couldn't get up in the morning? I've already given in to him enough.

She quickly changed the subject, "Sister, go to the commune tomorrow and call your brother-in-law. If he's not busy at work, come over and stay for two days."

Let the second sister and brother-in-law stay here for two more days, and talk about love by the way. It would be inconvenient to go back to the factory where there are so many people and gossip.

Lin Xia: "Okay."

At this time, Hou Bo and Lu An came back one after another. Both of them looked unhappy, and Lu An was even more angry.

Hou Bo was very happy to see Lin Xia coming over, and he immediately smiled, "Second Aunt!"

Lin Xia was also happy to see him, "Wow, Hou Bo, you've had a good meal at Third Aunt's house, have you grown taller?"

She pulled Hou Bo over to compare, and he seemed to be a little taller and stronger, though a little more tanned.

Lu An pouted as he watched from the side, then turned his head and went east to his room.

Lin Xia happened to see him coming back and greeted him, but he didn't hear her and ran directly to the east.

He thought Hou Bo's second aunt must be good friends with Hou Bo, and Hou Bo definitely didn't like him getting close to his second aunt. It was mainly because he had this mentality that he would assume that others would be the same based on his own judgment.

Lin Xia thought he didn't hear her, so she stopped calling him. She was very pleased with the changes in the children.

Little Hou Wei used to be very timid in Qizhou, always asking for hugs. After coming here, he runs around with Tiantian and Panpan all day long, never asking for hugs.

Hou Ying has always been sensible, pretty, and gentle, and looks like a sister to Lu Xiuxiu.

The one who has changed the most is Hou Bo, who now looks much more stable. He is only ten years old, and in the city he would only run around, get into trouble, and fight. In the countryside, he gets up early every morning to run, climb trees, and exercise, and he even helps his third aunt with work when he comes back .

Today we are going to the autumn harvest field to pick up fallen beans, ears of corn, and sorghum ears.

Each child who goes to work can get one work point, and they can also take two handfuls of the food they pick home.

Fang Dihua felt that Hou Bo was a guest and didn't want him to go. His parents gave him food coupons and he didn't eat the food of the Lu family. It was not good to ask him to work.

But Lin Shu said it didn't matter. Let the child do whatever he wants to do. Just treat it as an early exercise to experience life.

Lin Shu first made some food for the second sister, and asked her to eat and then ride a bicycle to the commune to call Jiang Weidong.

After Lin Xia left, Lin Shu called Hou Bo over and asked quietly: "Hou Bo, tell your aunt, did you have a quarrel with Lu An outside?"

Hou Bo smiled and said: "Aunt, it's nothing. We just saw grasshoppers, bean worms and so on. I don't know what they are, so Lu An told me about them."

Seeing that he only reported good news and not worries, Lin Shu did not force him. Hou Bo is a sensible child. It may be because he is the eldest child in the family. In addition, when something happened at home, the child will be particularly sensible.

In comparison, Lu An is indeed a little naive. In the original plot, after the Lu family got into trouble, Lu Ping, a half-grown child, was worried about the family. However, his younger brother Lu An became close to outsiders and alienated his family under such circumstances. In the end, he was influenced by the bad people around him and went to the city to learn bad things.

Now that nothing has happened at home and Lu An has his grandparents to take care of him, he has no problem.

However, the education of children cannot be ignored.

Every bad guy is a soft and tender baby when he is born, harmless to humans and animals, and children are all cute. As time goes by, their hearts are stained with desires.

She hopes that Lu An can follow his brother in this life, learn good things, and walk the right path.

Jealousy is nothing, everyone will be jealous of others, the most important thing is how to deal with this jealousy.

Don't let jealousy affect your character and behavior, and there will be no problem.

Jealousy is born out of imbalance, and ferments in a closed mind, and it is likely to evolve into hatred in the end.

If you hurt others because of jealousy, then there is a devil hidden in your bones, and jealousy opens the cage that holds the devil.

The devil devoured the energy and left, but he was the one who suffered the consequences in the end.

Lin Shu cooked, put the firewood in front of the stove in order, put the broken grass into the bottom of the pot and continued to burn it, put the firewood on the firewood pile, and swept up the soil and dumped it in the vegetable garden outside.

She stood in the yard and looked around. Did the kids go to the street again?

She walked to the gate of the yard. Oh, it turned out that Xu Xiaoyou was here.

When Xu Xiaoyou saw Lin Shu, she called sweetly, "Auntie, do you eat sour dates?"

Lin Shu smiled and said, "I don't eat them. Is your mother okay?"

The autumn harvest began, and the school was on autumn vacation again. Teachers and students also had to participate in labor.

Lu Hehuan was pregnant, so Lin Shu paid more attention to her, so as to avoid her parents-in-law from making trouble if something happened.

Xu Xiaoyou smiled and said, "That's great. The captain said she doesn't need to do any manual labor. She can lead the children to pick beans and ears of corn." She gave three of the sour dates she picked to Tiantian and Panpan, and to Lin Shu, Hou Ying, and Xiuxiu.

Lu Cuicui was not nice to her. She would look at her with malicious eyes every time she came. She didn't want to give them to Lu Cuicui.

She had to pick these sour dates for a long time, and her hands were pierced with blood. She could only give them to people she liked.

Lin Shu straightened Xu Xiaoyou's crooked braid and re-tied her hair. Looking at the small dots on the back of her white hands, she knew they were pierced by picking sour dates.

"Just pick it this time, don't pick it again."

Xu Xiaoyou agreed, but in her heart she was thinking: If I see it, I must pick it. If I don't pick it, it will be picked by others. Isn't that a loss?

She quietly reported her victory to Lin Shu, "Aunt, I have kept a close eye on my father, and he is much more obedient now."

Lin Shu laughed, this child.

Xu Shihua and Xu's mother were severely punished by her and her mother-in-law at the beginning, and had to feed Lu Hehuan and Xu Xiaoyou. Later, Lin Shu did not interfere in the relationship between Lu Hehuan and Xu Shihua, but Xu Xiaoyou took it to heart. Xu Xiaoyou

was afraid that her father would be too pretentious, and then Grandma Lu and Grandma Fang would be furious, which would be bad.

She learned to make surprise attacks.

In the morning, Xu Shihua went to work. If there was a car in the team going to the commune, she would take the car to the middle school.

Just a few days ago, she saw an auntie coming to visit her father by the river outside the campus.

The temperature difference during the autumn harvest is quite big. People wear small cotton-padded jackets in the morning and evening, and can be shirtless at noon.

The auntie was wearing a white skirt, a white wool cardigan, white leather shoes with cross straps, thin ankles, thin arms, and long black hair.

Others tied their hair into big braids, but she wore her hair loose and a white headband with a white flower on it.

It should be said that Xu Xiaoyou immediately thought of funerals in the countryside. After all, there was a shortage of materials in this era, and there were few types of clothes. In her cognition, people wore red for weddings and white for funerals. It was rare to see people wearing white at other times.

When she passed by, she happened to see the auntie smiling and approaching her father, so she rushed over, "Auntie, Auntie!"

She shouted at the time.

Her voice was so loud that the aunt shivered.

Xu Xiaoyou rushed over like a cannonball, pulled Xu Shihua's clothes and pushed him away a little, and said loudly: "Xu Shihua, why don't you pay attention to your words and deeds? You are a married man with children, you have to pay attention to the impact! If others see you getting too close to other female comrades, if they are jealous of you and report you for being a hooligan, you are done, I tell you!" The

girl in the white skirt looked at her in astonishment, "Little girl, are you Teacher Xu's daughter? You are such a smart girl."

Xu Xiaoyou: "Auntie, I'm doing this for your own good. You are so beautiful and so young, and if you get close to my dad, people will misunderstand you. You don't know how bad gossip is."

The girl in the white skirt laughed, "Little girl, I don't care. The world is full of filth but I am pure. As long as I am upright, I am not afraid of my shadow being crooked. Your father and I are just chatting, talking about literature. We have never been overly intimate. What should I be afraid of?"

She tilted her head and smiled at Xu Shihua, "Oh, Teacher Xu."

Xu Shihua just felt a headache. He felt that he was very innocent and frank, so every time he chatted with people, he would chat outside in public without being afraid of being seen. If he hid in a corner or in a classroom, a man and

a woman alone, wouldn't it be even more difficult to explain? If he locked himself in the room and chatted with a lesbian, it would be a problem, right?

What's more, he not only chatted with lesbians, but also chatted with gay men by the river. Everyone was used to it, so the teachers and principals didn't take it seriously and didn't forbid him to chat.

He is so upright, why do those idiots always criticize him and care about him?

He believes that Xu Xiaoyou was sent by Lin Shu to keep an eye on him.

She is just a beautiful fool.

He even complained: She cares about me so much, is she interested in me? Could it be that after marriage, she found out that Lu Shaotang was not at home for a year and was not a good husband?

Xu Xiaoyou said to the girl in white skirt: "Auntie, I don't understand the big principles you are talking about. I only know that in a place like our countryside, if you don't pay attention, you will suffer losses and you have no place to complain. You may not know that there was a young man in our village who saw a beautiful aunt from the city and grabbed her crotch. Some people said that he was a hooligan and wanted to catch him!"

The girl in white skirt frowned and glanced at Xu Shihua. Why is Teacher Xu's daughter like this... How can a child understand so much?

She said, "Little girl, our school has a poetry club and clubs, and everyone is communicating enthusiastically like this. Literature is the collision of sparks of thought, and it is the collision that brings inspiration and works."

Xu Xiaoyou asked curiously, "What works do you have?" The girl

in the white skirt: "…………"

This child is so annoying!

It turns out that she is a seven or eight-year-old child, and cats hate dogs.

Xu Xiaoyou: "Auntie, you are not as pretty as my stepmother. My stepmother has a baby, and no one can make her angry."

The girl in the white skirt was not angry at first, but now she got angry and said angrily, "Teacher Xu, what do you mean? I came to talk to you about literature, not to talk about trivial family matters. Your wife is not happy that you came out, you should explain it clearly."

Xu Shihua was already fed up, and he wanted to go back, but Xu Xiaoyou was still arguing there.

Xu Xiaoyou: "My stepmother didn't forbid you, it was me who didn't allow you!"

The girl in the white skirt snorted, "You are nosy."

Xu Xiaoyou: "Yes, he is my father, how can I care? If I don't, I will be embarrassed if something happens!"

The girl in the white skirt gritted her teeth and said angrily, "I was not just talking to your father."

Xu Xiaoyou immediately showed an exaggerated expression, "Wow! No one reported you, no leader talked to you? Who in our team would..."

"Don't compare me with those bumpkins in your team!" The girl in the white skirt finally got angry, turned her face and left, "Teacher Xu, your child seems to lack a tutor."

Xu Shihua was so angry that his face turned ashen, as if thunder was about to strike.

Xu Xiaoyou stepped back immediately, looked at him warily, and shouted: "Xu Shihua, you try to hit me? I'm only seven years old!"

Xu Shihua clenched his fists, and for a moment, he felt that his head was going to explode.

What sin had he done to raise such an annoying daughter?

Xu Xiaoyou had already listed the consequences if he beat his daughter outside.

She would cry heartbreakingly and embarrass him!

What the aunt-in-law said was: social death in the street!

What she understood was being shot to death by other people's eyes in the street!

After she messed it up like this, no one would look for Xu Shihua anymore... to talk about literature.

Xu Shihua had a dark face every day again.

If he went home and got angry with Lu Hehuan, Xu Xiaoyou would say to him again, "My grandma Lu was a barefoot doctor. She treated so many patients every day and had to listen to so many people's complaints, but my grandma didn't get angry. You do nothing all day, you can't teach well, and you haven't written any poetry. What qualifications do you have to get angry?"

"My younger aunt started a side job for the brigade, and everyone made money with her. She was selected as an advanced person in the city, and she also caught several bad elements. Isn't my younger aunt better than you?"

"My older aunt can drive a tractor, and she's also..."

"Enough!" Xu Shihua was finally about to collapse from being naggled. He rushed out of the door without even eating.

Xu Xiaoyou added fuel to the fire, "Why

are you hitting the child? You can't even say a few words to me, how can you be a poet? Haven't you been nagging me enough?" What's the matter? Now someone is backing me up, you can't just hit the child casually, can't you stand it?

Humph!

In the end, Lu Hehuan had to coax Xu Shihua back, and told Xu Xiaoyou to stop being angry with her father.

Xu Xiaoyou: "He shouldn't be so sullen as if someone owes him a female ghost, I don't care."

Xu Shihua was really, really, really angry to the point of vomiting blood!

He wanted to beat the damn girl to death or throw her away, wouldn't the Lu family want her? Just give her to the Lu family.

As a result, before he could do anything, Xu Xiaoyou smashed a bowl!

Xu Yaoyao was frightened and started to cry. Xu's mother couldn't stand it anymore and said to Xu Shihua: "Okay, okay, stop being angry with the child and just calm down."

See, everyone is annoyed, as long as it doesn't bother them.

In the end, Xu Shihua didn't do it. He felt that his blood pressure was high and his head hurt for several days. When

the school was on holiday for the autumn harvest, he went to break corn and dig corn stalks. He was so tired that he felt dizzy and had no time to talk about literature with others.

Xu Xiaoyou is similar to Panpan in that she is good at talking and has a natural logic and is good at thinking.

She told Lin Shu a few things about the past few days.

Panpan and Tiantian's eyes lit up as they listened. Tiantian took a small notebook and took notes, mainly drawing her own symbols and sketches. Panpan was in charge of the atmosphere group, and little Hou Wei learned the words in it.

Panpan: "Sister Xiaoyou, you are so great!"

Xu Xiaoyou smiled with her big eyes, "It was you, Tiantian and Sister Houying who gave me the ideas."

Houying just heard her voice and heard it all.

She smiled and said, "I don't have any ideas. I will only be afraid when I encounter something."

Lin Shu felt that this child was not easy. The reason why this child is so sensible is that she was forced by her family.

A bunch of careless people can still live a decent life, because she is the one who patched things up.

If it weren't for her, I'm afraid things would have gone wrong long ago.

In order to reward a few children, Lin Shu said she would make sour date cakes for them.

When the children heard this, they immediately took out the sour dates in their pockets, put them in a large enamel bowl, and took it to the sink to wash it.

There were not enough sour dates, so Lin Shu washed a large bowl of hawthorns.

Boil the sour dates and hawthorns, rinse them with cold water, peel them, squeeze out the date and hawthorn kernels, and then mash them separately, then boil syrup and add the pulp to each.

Lin Shu also threw in some rose petals and chrysanthemum petals for decoration, poured them out and spread them flat to cool, then they could be sliced ​​and served on a plate.

The children were drooling over the delicious food and didn't want to eat dinner.

The sour date cake was amber in color, and the hawthorn cake was brown-red, decorated with red roses and white chrysanthemums. It tasted sour and sweet, appetizing and happy.

Lin Shu invited Xu Xiaoyou to have a meal, and asked her to take away two small pieces of sour date cake for Lu Hehuan to taste.

Hawthorn cake was not suitable for pregnant women.

After dinner, most members had to go to the production team yard to peel corn, mainly to peel the skin first, dry it in the sun, then thresh the grains, and then dry them again to hand over the public rations.

It was not convenient to work at the incense factory at night, so Fang Dihua, Lu Laodi and others went to peel corn, and the kids went to play in the yard.

Lin Shu and her sister talked at home.

Lin Xia called Jiang Weidong, and he said he would come over tomorrow when he had time.

Lin Shu remembered something and asked curiously, "Second sister, didn't you ask your brother-in-law Qian Lisheng if he married that nanny?"

Lin Xia laughed and pinched Lin Shu's face, "You little idiot, when did you become so gossipy?"

Lin Shu said, "I won't gossip about others unless they provoke me, but... I have to eat Qian Lisheng's melon."

If I don't eat the melon, I'll be sorry for my identity as a time traveler.

Lin Xia: "Then you can ask tomorrow. I didn't ask."

The two sisters ate hawthorn cakes while chatting about family matters, such as who introduced a date to Lin Yue, when Uncle Jie and Aunt Jie secretly went to tend to Lin's mother's private plot when they had time, when the eldest sister's husband would come, and finally talked about electricity.

Lin Shu was looking forward to electricity more than the children. On days without electricity, the two of them had to talk in the dark, and the small oil lamp was dim.

The two sisters were happy at home, but Lu An was angry in the yard.

He used to play with his eldest brother Lu Ping, and he didn't have to worry about anything every day. He was happy, but later when his eldest brother went to settle the accounts, he played by himself.

Originally, Tiantian and Panpan followed him, but Hou Bo took his place as soon as he came.

In the evening, they came to the farm to peel corn, and Hou Bo also came.

Because he was handsome, his speech was different from that of the country kids, he would run to the north woods to climb trees every morning, and he would go to the fields to help with the work during the autumn harvest. The members were very curious about him, as if he was a child from another family or from the city. In addition, he was Lin Shu's nephew, so they naturally praised him.

When peeling corn in the yard, they naturally praised him.

Especially those who were good friends with the Lu family, such as Mrs. Qiu, Mrs. Li, and Mrs. Wang, they praised him so much that it made people blush.

Lu An was very dissatisfied.

Big brother is not bad, right? Big brother also goes running and climbing trees every day, right? Why don't you praise big brother?

What's there to brag about doing work?

Didn't he do it?

Hou Bo really admired Lu Shaotang, and he subconsciously learned from his uncle. When he felt shy, he would think about how his uncle never felt shy or embarrassed, so he forced himself to take it easy. He didn't care how much they praised him, as long as he didn't do it.

In fact, he was already digging his toes on the ground, and cold sweat began to seep out of his back. Being overly praised was the same as being scolded, both of which made him feel...uncomfortable.

His forced calmness made the adults think that he was a great kid, a child who had seen the world. Those with a little culture would think, well, he was a child who was not surprised by insults.

In Lu An's eyes, this was even more evidence of his ability to pretend.

He went to find Lu Ping angrily.

Lu Ping was in a state of panic. His father was the hands-off manager and handed over many accounts to him. He not only had to verify last year's accounts but also had to calculate the daily work points for this year.

Fortunately, the accounting of each production team has improved greatly compared to previous years, otherwise he would not be able to handle it.

However, because of helping the brigade with the accounting, Lu Ping's arithmetic level has improved by leaps and bounds, and he can even use an abacus! He is very skilled at it!

Seeing Lu An running over with a sullen face, he stopped writing, "Who did you quarrel with?"

Lu An sat opposite Lu Ping and snorted heavily, "What's so great about coming from the city? Aren't they bad elements who were sent down?"

He is a child of his third aunt's eldest sister, why did he run to Lu's house to seize his territory?

After Hou Bo and his friends came, grandpa was not so nice to him anymore.

Although grandpa treated him like this before, and it was nothing special, he had a preconceived notion and just couldn't stand Hou Bo, and he kept finding excuses.

"Lu An!" Lu Ping's face changed.

He had noticed that his brother was jealous of Hou Bo before, and when his eldest aunt's family came over, Lu An acted particularly exaggerated.

Although Lu Ping was a little angry, he felt that his brother was just young, and it was normal for him to be jealous of Hou Bo, who was the same age and more outstanding.

Who doesn't feel jealous? I've experienced it myself.

So that night he just had a simple chat with his brother, letting him know that when someone of the same age and better than himself appears, everyone will feel uncomfortable. If possible, then make friends with them and learn from their excellence. If you don’t want to learn, then keep your distance.

But you must not say or do anything excessive because of jealousy.

Now seeing Lu An like this, he is really angry.

Don’t you know what our family background is?

If it weren’t for the arrangement of the grandfather, the eldest grandfather would have become a military officer, and our family would also be bad elements!

Bad elements are not judged by whether you are a bad person, but by your family background.

Maybe 90% of the bad elements are bad people, but it cannot be said that they all deserve it.

Hou Bo and his two children are quite normal. Although they come from the big city of Qizhou, they are not as arrogant as some children from the county town and the commune. Just look at Ding Guowen. A child from a commune grain management office looks down on everyone, but Hou Bo doesn't.

Third aunt said that Grandpa Hou is a good man, so he is a good man. Grandpa, grandma, father and mother all believe it. Why do you follow the crowd outside? Are

you still a family member?

Are you still my brother?

And, it’s okay for you to curry favor with Ding Guowen, but why don’t you have better eyesight than him?

If the Hou family is really a bad element that has been overthrown, would Ding Guowen still go to Hou Bo?

Third uncle has been there, how could the Hou family be a bad element? It’s just that the job needs to be transferred!

You fool!

Seeing that his elder brother’s face was dark, Lu An was a little timid.

The elders in the Lu family rarely beat their children. The parents were tired from work and didn’t have much time to take care of the children. Most of the time, the older ones took care of the younger ones.

This led to the situation that if the younger siblings made mistakes, the parents would criticize the older siblings.

Because Lu’s father and Fang Dihua knew that it was impossible to reason with the younger children, but it was possible to reason with the older children.

And the younger children were more likely to listen to the older children. This was the influence of the older siblings on the younger siblings.

The eldest brother and the eldest sister-in-law of Lu were even more hands-off. They only gave birth to the children and never taught them. Their three children were all educated by the environment.

The children also had to look at the eyebrows and eyes at home. If they were naughty, the elders would say something, and if they were serious, they would be punished, and they had to change.

In this way, they would know what to do and what not to do, and then follow the adults and imitate them, and the family education would be completed.

In addition to the fear that a younger brother has for his older brother, Lu An is more dependent on his older brother.

Grandma treats Tiantian and Panpan the best, mother treats father the best, and father treats him the best, but only his older brother treats him the best.

He relies on his older brother to be nice to him, and sometimes he gets angry, and his older brother lets him go, but if he really makes his older brother angry, he is still afraid.

Lu Ping said sternly: "Lu An, you may not like Hou Bo, but you cannot deny his excellence. Even our grandpa and grandma say that he is very similar to our third uncle when he was a child."

Lu An was not convinced and wanted to talk back, but he shut up when he saw that his older brother was really angry.

Lu Ping gave his younger brother a thorough analysis, telling him not to just look at the surface of people, not to focus on the stuttering and the little tricks, but to use his brain more.

Lu An lowered his head and said, "Don't you, brother, have to use your brain?"

Lu Ping was so angry that he laughed and patted him on the head, "I'm using my brain, will you listen?"

Lu An: "I will listen in the future."

Lu Ping: "Do you know what to do?"

Lu An: "But I don't want to apologize to Hou Bo."

How embarrassing! Apologizing is a step down.

Lu Ping: "I didn't ask you to apologize, and you didn't quarrel or fight with him. Just be polite and get along peacefully in the future. He is Third Aunt's guest. He will only stay here for a few days. In the end, he will have to go back to his parents, and maybe even go back to Qizhou. If you get along well with him, will he not treat you well when you go to Qizhou in the future? Don't you want to go to the city to have fun? You just have a mouth?"

Lu An hung his head: "Oh."

Lu Ping said to him, "You don't have to curry favor with Ding Guowen. Who is he? They are the only ones who want to curry favor with Third Uncle. Didn't you see that Third Aunt didn't say a word?"

Lu An: "Ah? I didn't see it. "

Lu Ping slapped him again, "What are you looking at? You're just breathing with your eyes. You flatter Ding Guowen, but what good has he done for you? Did he take you to the county to play? What's the point of you flattering him? Does he have the final say? If you want to go to the county, can't our dad take you there later?"

Lu An: "Well, I won't get close to Ding Guowen in the future."

Lu Ping confirmed again and again to let his brother understand that his behavior against Hou Bo was not good, and it would make Hou Bo feel that he was not welcome here and have opinions about him, and it would also make the third aunt have ideas about him. In the end, it was not appropriate in any way and it was Lu An who suffered the loss.

Finally, he said, "In the future, you should get up early and climb trees with us. You will know by looking at Hou Bo's performance. You should do more work at home in the future and not run around all day."

Hou Bo got up early and exercised according to the arrangement of his uncle, even if his uncle was not at home. He could not do this himself.

Moreover, Hou Bo helped Auntie to water the vegetable garden and do some work at home after dinner every day. Who would not like such a child?

Fortunately, although Lu An was jealous of Hou Bo, he only grumbled behind his back and did not quarrel or fight in front of Auntie, so as not to make Auntie dislike him.

Although Lu Ping was young, he also understood that if he disliked Auntie, he would dislike everyone in this family.

Both his parents listen to his third aunt, let alone his grandparents.

Haven't you noticed that Lu Cuicui is like an invisible person in this house?

Third Aunt has good things and often makes good things. They all get extra things from her, but Lu Cuicui can only share them with everyone and never gets anything extra that belongs to her.

As for Xu Xiaoyou, whom Third Aunt likes, take a look, how much power does that have?

If it weren't for the help of her third aunt, Xu Xiaoyou would still be a pitiful little bastard who would have been hungry all day long and beaten and scolded by her.

Lu Ping broke it into pieces and told his brother about it, letting him know the third aunt's status in the family and letting him learn to regulate his jealousy.

Lu An lowered his head, "Brother, I... sometimes I can't control myself."

Lu Ping had no better solution.

After all, he was just a half-grown child, and he inherited the good side of his parents. He was open-minded and easy-going, and he didn't really care about trivial matters, so he never really envied anyone.

Especially since he was the first boy in the family, his parents and grandma also loved him for a while, unlike Lu An who almost never received the love of the elders.

Finally, he said: "I think Third Aunt is very capable, if you can't figure it out, go and talk to her."

Lu An was a little worried, "Will she... think I'm not good and hate me even more?"

Lu Ping: "No, as long as you treat Tiantian and Panpan well, Third Aunt won't hate you."

Lu An: "I like Tiantian and Panpan, of course I will treat them well."

Tiantian and Panpan are also good to him, and Third Aunt will save the delicious food for him.

He just... doesn't like Hou Bo, but he has no problem with Hou Ying and little Hou Wei.

Lu Ping: "That's no problem."

When he got home that night, Lu An was too embarrassed to tell Lin Shu about the problem.

In this era, everyone is reserved and not good at expressing their feelings, even most fathers and sons don't talk to each other.

Lu An is lucky to have a brother to help him with his mood.

The next morning, Hou Bo got up at the time when Lu Shaotang took him for morning exercises. He didn't eat and ran around his big yard for a few laps to warm up, and then climbed trees.

Lu Ping had no time to exercise with Hou Bo since he was busy with the autumn harvest, but today he got up to run together, and Lu An followed awkwardly behind.

Seeing Hou Bo climbing the tall and straight poplar tree in the west, Lu An asked awkwardly: "Hou Bo, why don't you go to the woods?"

Hou Bo smiled and said: "It takes time to go there. I can climb at home. Then I can go to the fields to pick food after dinner."

He is a child, not an adult like Lu Shaotang. Climbing trees will not attract much attention, so he can climb in his own yard and does not have to go to the woods.

Lu An said "oh" and tilted his face, not wanting to look Hou Bo in the face. He pretended not to care and said, "Then... I, I'll go with you. My brother usually goes to do accounts and has no time to accompany you."

Hou Bo smiled and his black eyes curved, "Then please accompany me. I have no motivation alone. It's very hard to persist every day. It would be much easier if someone was with me."

Lu An: "I see you have it easy every day."

Every day, watching Hou Bo imitate his uncle to exercise, Lu An... looked down on him, well, just jealous.

Hou Bo: "It's said that talking while standing doesn't hurt the waist. I see that others can dig corn stalks easily, but I can't dig two by myself."

Lu An suddenly felt a little comfortable. It turned out that Hou Bo was not as relaxed and self-controlled as he looked. In fact, there were times when he wanted to give up.

At this time, Hou Bo lowered his voice and said to Lu An: "Come on, I won't feel ashamed if you come with me in the future."

Lu An looked at him in surprise, "Embarrassed?"

Every day, he saw Hou Bo running and climbing trees without fear of others' instructions, and he thought he... didn't care about other people's eyes at all.

It turns out that he can be shy too.

Realizing that the excellent Hou Bo also wanted to be lazy and shy like himself, Lu An's jealousy suddenly... dissipated a lot.

He followed Hou Bo to climb trees.

Hou Bo taught him more professional and labor-saving postures and force techniques, which were all taught to him by his third uncle.

Lin Shu, who got up to prepare breakfast, looked at the scene in the yard and felt very relieved.

Lu An has a good brother who can find problems and correct them in time. He should not go astray in

his life. The reason why she does not interfere with the relationship between the children is that some problems must be solved by the children themselves. If adults force things to happen, the nature of the matter will change. Not only will it not help, but it will also catalyze conflicts.

Because jealousy caused by inner imbalance, as long as it is spoken out and spread to a wider environment, you can understand the object of jealousy more. Don't just look at other people's grades and halo, but also explore other people's hard work and sweat to overcome difficulties. Knowing that they are normal people and have achieved success through hard work, jealousy will naturally dissipate.

Learning to truly appreciate others can eliminate jealousy and improve yourself.

She hopes that the children will get better and better, have a foundation of deep friendship, and that when they enter their 1980s and 1990s, they can help each other and not be too lonely working alone.

The three little cubs also got up to practice climbing trees. As a result, their short legs and short arms couldn't even hug the tree, and they rubbed their belly so hard that they had to give up.

After breakfast, Lin Shu asked Lu An to help: "Everyone is very busy with the autumn harvest and I don't have time. You and Hou Bo can help me go to Xiejiaguanzhuang to deliver some jujube cakes."

Lin Shu would send some cakes to Old Lady Jie from time to time. Old Lady Xie was much better to her second uncle and her husband, and she didn't have to worry about her second aunt and Mother Lin.

Correspondingly, Uncle Jie got less extra things, and the old couple and Jie Jinkui were not satisfied.

They all had opinions about Old Lady Jie, and the Jie family was now performing the palace intrigue of the small family version every day.

When Lu An saw that Third Aunt asked him to do something, he immediately felt very honored and said loudly: "Okay Third Aunt!"

Panpan wanted to go and watch the fun. He was born to love to join in the fun, especially when he didn't watch the fight in the Jie family before, he deeply regretted it.

But he felt that just a few pieces of sour date cakes should not cause the Jie family to fight, so he didn't go.

As a result, when the family was having lunch, Zhou Weimin, who was in charge of delivering mail, suddenly came to deliver a letter: Sister Lin Shu, it’s terrible. There is a fight between your grandmother’s family in Jiejiaguanzhuang. Your eldest cousin’s head is broken and your grandmother’s hip is torn. They are arguing about dividing the family property and asked your aunt and you to judge for justice.

Lin Shu: “???”

This is too... exaggerated, right?