Chapter 172 Shock
Zhou Qiaoling had a gloomy face and said nothing.
Qiu Lina: "There are so many people like her in society now. You will have a hard time in the future, but I'm afraid you won't be able to endure it. Well, I'm going back first."
After Qiu Lina left, Zhou Qiaoling looked at her back and thought about the fights they had with other female classmates when they were young.
Qiu Lina used to flatter her, but now she wanted her to give her two steamed buns.
The next morning, Lin Shu and her friends could still go to the Revolutionary Committee cafeteria to buy steamed buns and dumplings.
When she came out, she brought extra food coupons, so she paid for the food coupons and her son paid for the money to buy two big bags of steamed buns and dumplings, which shocked the cafeteria chef.
These...are these children coming to the Revolutionary Committee cafeteria to buy goods?
The kid was still smiling at him, "Uncle, you are such a good cook. These steamed buns look delicious. My grandma, my second uncle and my second aunt didn't come, so they can't taste your cooking. I'll buy some back for them to try."
The master smiled happily, "What a filial child."
The family has such a good relationship.
Thinking about his brothers and sisters-in-law, fighting like black-eyed chickens for a little benefit, the master envied them even more.
It turns out that there are people who don't care about gains and losses and care about each other.
They are worthy of being advanced!
Wei Lan also went to the cafeteria to eat in the morning.
Lin Shu knew that Wei Ling was going to Lujiazhuang, so she said to Wei Lan, "Let Wei Ling come. No matter if I am at home or not, someone will warmly entertain her."
Wei Lan was relieved, and watched the people from Lujiazhuang get on the scooters and ride away one after another, and then drove to the city with her colleagues.
In Lin Shu's car, Lu Dasao drove ahead, and she and several children sat in the car wrapped in a big blanket.
The big basket was filled with steamed buns and other things, and there were also prizes such as washbasins, hot pots, and teacups.
The road was bumpy and clanging, and with the children chattering, it was like a symphony orchestra accompanying them.
After enough excitement, the kids started to report to Lin Shu. They were so tired last night that they didn't even have time to count the money before they went to sleep. After
selling candied haws this time, after deducting the money for buying meat for everyone, there was still 23.65 yuan left.
Xu Xiaoyou and Xiao Houwei were so surprised that their mouths opened wide, and Xiao Houwei's saliva was dripping.
"People in the city are really rich!"
"It's a pity that we don't have candy, otherwise we can do it again."
Lin Shu smiled and said, "It's impossible for people to buy it every day. The county is so small, and there are only so many people who have spare money to eat and drink."
Of course, if I go to sell it twice before the New Year, I can still make money, but the red armbands may not look down on it.
The key is that I don't have candy at home.
You can't open a food stall these days because there is no food, oil, meat and seasonings, and the purchasing power of the people is also insufficient.
When she was free on the way, she simply explained to the children some concepts and elements of commodity economy and market. She always explained things in a simple way, using analogies and examples, so it was easy to understand. Not only Tiantian, Panpan and Xu Xiaoyou could understand, but also Lu Dasao could understand a little bit, and was thinking about going back to talk to Lu Dage.
Panpan was thinking about the supply and demand relationship and the monopoly of supply, while Tiantian was curious about the ancient policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce that her mother talked about. Does it feel similar to the current policy?
Xu Xiaoyou thought that she had to make some money, as she would have to spend money to go to school in the future. Her grandmother would definitely be reluctant to let her go to school. Her mother was willing, but the family would be short of money after her mother gave birth to younger brothers and sisters.
So what should she sell?
Otherwise, she should discuss it with Panpan.
Little Hou Wei ate the last candied hawthorn with a smile.
The group arrived home at noon.
They first gave all the prizes to Fang Dihua and asked her to distribute them.
Because the family always took first, now every room has a new washbasin, teacup, and kettle, especially Lin Shu's room. In addition to three kettles, there are also three washbasins, so they can clearly distinguish the washbasins for washing faces, feet, and buttocks, which made Lu Ersao laugh behind her back.
Fang Dihua distributed the items to her daughters-in-law and granddaughters, and even the room of elder sister Lin was given a hot water bottle.
When giving things to Lu Ersao, Fang Dihua had to remind her, "This is for you at home, don't give it to others."
If she didn't make it clear, Lu Ersao would secretly take it to her parents' home.
I don't know what kind of temper this person has. She doesn't get along with her husband's daughter-in-law, but wants to pour things to her parents' home. The
remaining wash basins and hot water bottles were placed in the main room.
Clean basins are also needed for kneading noodles and serving dishes. Enamel basins are always better than clay basins.
Lin Shu told Fang Dihua the news that Wei Ling was coming, and asked Fang Dihua to entertain her if she was not at home.
Fang Dihua: "I know, I will definitely entertain her well."
After two days, Lin Xia took a break and ran to see the eldest and third sisters.
Lin Shu packed up the gifts and asked her second sister to accompany her eldest sister and her husband and the children to go back to see their parents. Her eldest sister-in-law and her family would return to Qizhou in two days.
The winter was too cold and there was not much work in the brigade. The technicians had already returned to the city to work a few days ago. Some of
them were from the Qizhou Machinery Factory and the Agricultural Science Academy. They went back to their respective units to do some preparatory work, such as helping the test brigade to arrange better seeds, how to improve agricultural machinery, and make the harvesting of wheat and corn more advanced, etc.
All of these had to be completed in the factory and laboratory.
The brigade secretary and the brigade leader thought about it and gave the technicians some millet, peanuts, red beans, vermicelli and other things as New Year gifts.
Everyone couldn't refuse, so they secretly left two yuan.
Hou Jianwen didn't want to leave the brigade. He lived comfortably and worry-free here. There was no need for intrigue, no need to make ideological reports and no one to nag them all day.
But he still had to go back for work.
When the eldest and second sisters went back to their parents' home, Lin Shu rode to the commune to apply for a tractor.
The commune's tractors were not idle even when they were idle. They had to go out to transport goods. After deducting the fuel and repair costs, the tractor operators and the commune split the money 40% to 60%.
Now they either go to the coal yard to transport coal or go to the brick kiln to help transport goods, but there are always two vehicles operating near the commune because the commune also needs vehicles.
Now that the autumn harvest has been completed in the countryside, there is no farm work to do, and the commune officials no longer need to go to the countryside to supervise the work of the teams, so they are all very idle.
Originally, Song Youping was going to stay at the incense factory, after all, the factory was not shut down.
But she couldn't stand Fang Dihua always ordering her to work impolitely, so she made excuses not to go.
She did know the formula and the way of making incense in the incense factory, but unfortunately she was not interested in doing it.
How tiring!
There is no technological content in making incense, nor is there any secret formula. It is purely... tiring.
Song Youping was unwilling to do this for the team, and she felt that other brigades could not do it at all.
Are you as diligent and hardworking as Fang Dihua and Brother Lu?
Are there any people in your brigade who are as trustworthy as the brigade cadres?
Are you as good at talking as Brother Lu, the incense seller?
Song Youping felt that even if she told her parents and the brigade cadres to buy elm bark and various materials needed for incense making, they simply couldn't do it. At that time, they would inevitably have to work without effort, and compete with each other to see who did more and who got paid more.
So in order to avoid trouble, she used the excuse that the Lu family's technology was conservative and she couldn't learn it, so naturally she couldn't teach others.
Song Bangyou felt that she only needed to know how the incense factory was, and it would be beneficial for her to manage the commune's sideline business in the future, so there was no need to really make incense, so after she knew how to make incense, she didn't have to go to the site again.
Of course, this also made Song Youping look down on Lin Shu even more. She felt that Lin Shu was nothing special and had not made any contribution to the incense factory.
Others did the work and others sold the incense. What did she do when she just ate and drank at home?
Why did the brigade and the commune say that she was indispensable?
And they were vying to give her the title of advanced?
This was obviously to flatter Lu Shaotang. She just benefited from the man!
Marrying a good man would make your life comfortable. You don't have to struggle or work, just eat and drink.
Seeing Lin Shu coming to the commune, Song Youping looked down on her.
You were indifferent to me when I went to Lu's house. Now that you come to the commune, I will ignore you too. Do you have any objection?
When Lin Shu came to the commune, she went to find Secretary Jing. She was familiar with Secretary Jing. The young man was smart but sensible. The key was that people would talk without doing those ridiculous little actions.
When Song Youping saw Lin Shu coming, she deliberately turned her head away and didn't make eye contact with Lin Shu, waiting for Lin Shu to take the initiative to greet her. As a result, Lin Shu glanced at Secretary Jing and left without seeing him.
Song Youping: "..." Why is it so irritating! Where is the minimum courtesy?
She got up and chased after him, "Hey, sister-in-law, how come you have time to come to the commune today? Are you doing something?"
Lin Shu turned around and saw Song Youping and smiled, "I'm looking for Secretary Jing."
Song Youping: "He may be out. It's the same if you have something to tell me. If I can help, I will help."
At this time, Secretary Qin came back from inspecting the Grain Administration and other units. When he saw Lin Shu, he greeted her warmly, "Comrade Lin Shu, what's the matter?"
Lin Shu said that she wanted to rent a tractor.
Secretary Qin: "What day do you need it? I'll arrange it for you."
Lin Shu: "Whenever I have time, I can use it. It can be these few days or a few days later."
She can send the furniture over first, anyway, there are team members at Lu Shaotang's place.
Secretary Qin immediately arranged it, and then cordially talked to Lin Shu about the Lujiazhuang Brigade and the technical team.
Lin Shu also told him about Hou Jianwen's family going back to Qizhou.
Secretary Qin: "Then you have to prepare some local specialties for Engineer Hou to take with him."
Lin Shu said that the brigade was ready.
Secretary Qin: "I'll tell the pig station over there to kill a pig and get them 20 to 30 kilograms of pork meat."
Secretary Qin was naturally more far-sighted than other brigade cadres. He personally went to the Lujiazhuang water turbine irrigation land to observe that it was really a good project.
A iron family can conservatively be used for 50 to 60 years or even longer. This is a project that is very profitable, and he naturally wants to promote it throughout the commune.
If you want to let the horse run, of course you have to let the horse eat grass.
These days, giving people pork is the best gift.
Lin Shu declined twice, but seeing that Secretary Qin was sincere, she thanked her brother-in-law and agreed.
That afternoon, Director Qin asked Secretary Jing to personally deliver the pork to the Lujiazhuang Brigade by bike. Unfortunately, the other technicians had already gone home, so he asked Hou Jianwen to take more pork and share it with each family.
Hou Jianwei thanked him and accepted it.
He had to give half a pig, a full 60 kilograms.
Fortunately, it was freezing cold, so the pork would not go bad if it was frozen directly.
However, Hou Jianwei and Sister Lin did not want to take all of it away, so each family got 3 to 5 kilograms, leaving 15 kilograms for the Lu family.
Lin Shu: "Big sister, we are going to kill the New Year pigs for the New Year, there will be plenty of meat, you can take all of this back and give it to the children."
The Lin family also killed pigs, and the Lu family also killed pigs, so there was no shortage of meat for the New Year.
Fang Dihua also asked Big Sister Lin to take all of it away, because she thought that the third daughter-in-law would take her children to San'er's place, and everyone would live together, so the third daughter-in-law and her children would definitely be able to eat, so of course they had to take all of it away. Big Sister
Lin had no choice but to agree.
Big Sister Lin and Hou Jianwei did not wait for Lu Shaotang to come back, they followed the tractor.
There were also furniture in there that Lin Shu gave to Big Sister's family, and when Carpenter Tan finished the second batch, he would take it over again, and put it in her own home first, so that she could use it herself and keep it as a sample, which would be convenient for publicity.
Hou Ying was reluctant to let Lu Xiuxiu go, and she would rather spend the New Year at her third aunt's house.
But of course she had to go with her parents.
Lu Xiuxiu gave her a bag of hair ornaments made of leftovers, and asked her to give them to her classmates when she returned to the city.
But Hou Ying thought that they were not worthy, and she wanted to sell them!
The originally shy and generous little girl also became eager.
Hou Bo and little Hou Wei naturally had to go back with their parents first. Although little Hou Wei was in love with Tiantian and Panpan and didn't want to leave, it didn't matter to him knowing that his third aunt and her friends were also going to Qizhou, as they would see each other in a few days.
They went to Qizhou to pack up first, and when they got back, they could go to sleep directly after Panpan and Tiantian went.
Xu Xiaoyou knew that they were going back to Qizhou, and she also arranged things for her parents to visit relatives.
Lu Hehuan was already five months pregnant, and she also met some writers and poets during her visit to the county. It seemed that their circle liked to give gifts, and whenever someone came to visit Xu Shihua and Lu Hehuan, they would give them something.
Lu Hehuan couldn't finish the food, and Xu's mother secretly hid it, so Xu Xiaoyou forced it out of her. Malted
milk was hidden to supplement Lu Hehuan's nutrition, but canned food, especially canned hawthorn, canned oranges, and ginger candy, was packed up and given to Hou Ying as a gift.
In addition to the meat provided by the commune, Lin Shu also prepared a jar of chili sauce, a jar of salted eggs, a jar of pickles, and several soybean paste balls for her eldest sister's house.
Soybean sauce balls are the vat of sauce that is dried in the summer. The uneaten ones become more and more fragrant as they are dried. Finally, they are directly collected into sauce balls.
Fang Dihua also asked Sister-in-law Lu to go back to her parents' house and buy a piece of homespun cloth woven by an old lady. She also asked other wealthy families in the village to buy and exchange a few kilograms of cotton. Then she asked Hou Jianwen to send it to her parents so that the old couple could spend the winter more comfortably there.
Farmers help each other, and the most affordable things are rations, cloth, and cotton.
Hou Jianwen was so grateful that he was speechless when he saw what Fang Dihua and Lin Shu had helped prepare.
At that time, my father had long since broken up with his family members. In order to move north for liberation, he did not hesitate to be called a traitor and traitor to the family. There was not much contact with the relatives on my mother's side. Even if there were individual relatives here, they could only share blessings and not share hardships.
In the past, he actually didn't have much affection for his father-in-law's family and his sister-in-law's family. It was just that his wife wanted to help her parents' family and he didn't stop her. At most, because his mother-in-law sometimes gets into trouble and nags his daughter-in-law, in order to protect his wife, he will take the initiative to send gifts, pension money, etc. to his father-in-law's family.
He did not expect that in his more than thirty years, apart from the help given to him by his parents and teachers, the other biggest helper turned out to be his wife Sanmei's family.
If it weren't for his brother-in-law's timely arrival, his family would have been bullied by the gangsters in Qizhou and suffered a great loss. The Revolutionary Committee at that time was obviously trying to smooth things over, and would give in to whoever had the loudest voice and the strongest fist.
Later, when they went to the countryside, they were coldly received in other brigades. It was the third sister and the brigade who took them in and gave them the opportunity to show their strength.
Living in the Lu family, everyone was harmonious. No one thought they were outsiders, and no one thought they were here to take advantage of
others. The members of the commune respected them very much, calling them "Hougong" and "technicians" and treating them as omnipotent.
Now they are going home for the New Year, and the brigade has prepared local specialties and food for them. The third sister and mother-in-law also thought of his parents and prepared food and clothes for them to survive the winter.
How could he not be grateful?
However, he was not a person who showed his emotions, and was usually shy to express his feelings.
Even if he was grateful in his heart, he was too embarrassed to say thank you. He always felt that a simple thank you was too simple, too light, and too meaningless to express his gratitude.
He felt that true gratitude should be put into action.
He secretly vowed to devote his life to the mechanization of rural agriculture.
In the evening, he lamented to Sister Lin, "Dandan, a friend in need is a friend indeed. I will remember the help your mother's family and third sister's family have given us forever."
Sister Lin did not have such a big burden. She said softly: "Jianwen, don't think too much, this is how we are here. We may have stumblings in normal times, but when things happen, everyone helps each other. When my mother's family, my second sister, and my third sister encounter something, , I, as a sister, must also help. You have always supported me to help them. Now that our family has something to do, they will also help me. They don’t ask me to pay more, just live a good life. You don’t have to be burdened, and you will do your best in the future."
Having said that, Sister Lin is naturally very grateful, but she just doesn’t want to put pressure on Hou Jianwen.
The younger sister also secretly reassured her, saying that her father-in-law would be fine, and that he would be transferred back to work in a year or two.
As long as her father-in-law comes back, the family will naturally have no shortage of money and food given his status.
Lin Shu was quietly comforting her elder sister based on the information she knew, but elder sister Lin thought that it must have been her brother-in-law who whispered it, so she didn't tell anyone casually, not even her own husband.
If Fang Dihua and Old Man Lu knew, they would think that it was Teacher Ma who said it, and there was nothing wrong with it.
After sending away the aunt's family, the Lu family suddenly felt much emptier.
Not only Fang Dihua and Old Man Lu felt that, Panpan and Tiantian also felt... Hey, why did this person disappear so quickly after leaving?
Fortunately, there are still rabbits!
The other two female rabbits gave birth to little rabbits a few days ago, and there are soft and tender little rabbits to play with.
The two kids played with the bunny while waiting for their father to come back.
That day, Lin Shu was preparing indoor slippers for Qizhou. There was heating there, so she didn't need to wear cotton shoes indoors, so she wanted to sew a few pairs of cotton slippers herself.
While she was busy, she saw the women's director Wang Lijuan bringing a woman in her fifties over.
Lin Shu recognized her. Wasn't this the county women's director Xu Aihong?
What were they doing here?
Lin Shu warmly invited them in, poured them a cup of red date tea, exchanged a few words, and asked them what they wanted.
Wang Lijuan was a little embarrassed, but Xu Aihong was an old member of the Women's Federation, and she smiled very kindly, "Comrade Lin Shu, nothing to do, I just go to the countryside as usual, and come to see old friends."
Lin Shu was an advanced worker, and had been to the commune county several times. Naturally, she was familiar with Xu Aihong.
Lin Shu thought she was just visiting and chatting, and didn't take it seriously.
But after chatting for a few minutes, Lin Shu felt something was wrong. Why did Xu Aihong seem to pity her in her words and encourage her to be brave and not be afraid of the saying that family shame should not be made public?
Is there any family shame that she doesn't know about?
Lin Shu's first thought was, could it be that Brother Lu was messing with women outside?
Otherwise, why would the women's director come to her house?
They didn't dare to tell Sister Lu, fearing that she would be upset, so they came to tell her?
Lin Shu was just wondering, and then she heard Xu Aihong say, "It's true that couples have quarrels in their lives. It's understandable that men get angry and hit each other sometimes, but it's not okay to always hit women, especially cadres. Party members should start to have discipline."
Huh?
Lin Shu didn't understand.
Big brother is not a party member, and Big brother didn't hit Big sister. He probably couldn't beat Big sister. Besides, if he dared to hit Big sister, Fang Dihua and Old Man Lu would break his legs.
She was confused, Xu Aihong said earnestly: "Comrade Lin Shu, if you have any difficulties, just tell the Women's Federation, don't worry, no matter how big the difficulties are, we will help you solve them. Comrade Lu has made contributions to the country and the people, but he can't beat his wife."
"What?!"
Lin Shu stood up suddenly.
Lu Shaotang beat his wife?
Which wife?
He has another wife outside? ? ?
Could it be that he lost his memory during the time he was missing and got married outside?