Chapter 189 Can't Stay Idle

On the kang in the east room, Grandma Fang was also crying. She held Lu Shaotang's hand and blamed herself: "It's all my fault. It's all my fault. Sanwazi, I'm going back. I won't trouble you anymore."

She thought that she might not live long, so she came to see Huaer and apologize to Huaer to avoid the girl being angry.

She never thought that her old arms and legs would only cause trouble and get burned by the girl.

As the saying goes, the older you get, the more trouble you will suffer.

She couldn't let herself live like an old woman. Not only would she hurt people, but she would also lose face. It would be better to leave in a decent manner.

She wanted to leave.

Aunt Fang's persuasion was useless. The other three girls didn't dare to say a word.

Lu Shaotang held her down, "Grandma, you should take a rest, stay for two days."

If my mother didn't let her stay, she would have asked him to send her back directly. My mother didn't say anything because she wanted the old lady to stay for two days.

The old lady still wanted to leave, "I have no face, no face to stay."

Fang Dihua in the west room heard her fussing and shouted, "Quiet down!"

Grandma Fang was so scared that she trembled and immediately didn't dare to say anything like a child who did something wrong.

She trembled and reached into her bag again, "Third child, where are your wife and baby?"

She took out a gray cloth bag, which contained various kinds of candies, which were basically brought to her by Lu Da Ge, Lu Shaotang and others when they visited her.

The old man had a bitter mouth and a strong taste, and generally liked to eat something sweet. There was nothing she could do because of her poor family. She wanted to eat but couldn't.

The Lu family was well-off, and Fang Dihua was not stingy with her mother. Sometimes she would grab a handful of sugar from Panpan's bucket.

She stuffed it into Lu Shaotang's hand and asked him to give it to the child.

Lu Shaotang took it and went to the west room to see Fang Dihua, and asked Lin Shu and the children to go and see Grandma Fang.

Fang Dihua was afraid that he would worry, "I'm fine, the porridge is not boiled, and there are no bubbles."

How could there be no bubbles if it was boiled.

Lu Shaotang believed in his father's way of handling it, and he didn't need to do anything more. He was not a sentimental person, and even if he felt sorry for his mother, he would not say it.

He asked Lin Shu and the two children to go to the east room.

Lin Shu got up and went over.

The two children refused, and hugged Fang Dihua and shook their heads vigorously.

No, no!

I won't go!

The old witch got my milk burn!

In their young hearts, Grandma Fang was scarier than Grandma Jie. What kind of person was she? How could she get her milk burn right after arriving?

That was their own grandma!

Lu Shaotang didn’t force them, but just handed them the candy given by Grandma Fang.

Panpan glanced at them and snorted, “Dad, are you using my candy to coax me?”

It was clearly the candy in his candy bucket.

Lu Shaotang: “…”

Fang Dihua coughed and explained, “Your dad didn’t take it, it was grandma who took it. Your dad had no candy because he went to visit relatives.”

The two kids immediately understood that grandma took their candy to honor their great-grandma, but their great-grandma still got her milk burn.

This was even more abominable.

Panpan snatched all the candies away angrily and glared at Lu Shaotang, saying that he didn't even love his father.

Tiantian peeled the candies and gave them to Fang Dihua to eat, "Grandma, if you have a sweet mouth, your heart won't be bitter."

Fang Dihua was stunned. How could this child say such a thing?

Tiantian: "I learned it from my grandmother's mother."

They went to see Grandma Jie yesterday. She really felt sorry for Grandma Jie. What happened to her? She finally got it fixed and then it was broken by the other side. How miserable it must be.

She peeled the candies for Grandma Jie to eat, and Grandma Jie said this with tears in her eyes.

She couldn't move at all. She lay on the kang and relied on others to serve her. The eldest son said that he loved his mother, but he didn't do anything. He just scolded his eldest aunt to serve him.

The eldest grandson disliked the stinky smell in the abandoned room and didn't like to come forward.

Jie Jinlan was even more anxious. I heard that she had recently found a match and was in a hurry to get married.

Fang Dihua smiled and touched the two children's heads, "Grandma, you're fine. You can go out and play."

But the two children refused and wanted to stay at home with grandma and tune the radio for her.

Lin Shu went to the east room to see Grandma Fang. The old lady's teeth had almost fallen out, and she spoke with a lisp and was a little hard of hearing. It was a little difficult for Lin Shu to chat with her.

After a few words, Lin Shu felt that her voice was a little hoarse from shouting.

Grandma Fang took her hand and looked at her lovingly, "I'm so old, but after all, Sanwazi's wife is still the most beautiful."

Others looked blurry, but Shaotang's wife had fair skin and big black eyes, and was very beautiful.

"Ah, you worked so hard during those years when Sanwazi was not at home."

Lin Shu: "Grandma, it wasn't hard. I didn't have to work in the fields at home. We had enough food and drink."

Grandma Fang sighed again, "You are a good child. You only report good news and never complain. You and Sanwazi are a perfect match."

She understood the pain of a man not being at home. Even if you don't have to do manual labor, you may get into trouble or feel angry in any corner.

Aunt Fang had something else to do, so she changed the subject to prevent the old lady from nagging endlessly.

She chatted with Lin Shu about family matters and introduced the three girls she brought with her.

Aunt Fang: "My daughter Lihua is one year older than Xiuxiu, but she is not as capable as Xiu'er. Not only is she tongue-tied, she is also not very skillful. Now she is going to have a blind date and get married, but she has no skills. Oh, I am worried."

Lin Shu: "If she has a skill, it will be easier to have a blind date."

Aunt Fang heard her say this, as if she had found a soulmate. She clapped her hands and said, "Right? That's what I said, but her parents didn't take it seriously. What are you talking about? Isn't it true that the daughter of a rich family is so handsome? "When a woman gets married, she just needs to know how to cook, bear children and take care of the elderly.' Niece-in-law, what's so rare about this thing that everyone can do? Besides, a girl who knows nothing can only find a man who knows nothing except working and farming, and then she will work hard all her life like her parents with no hope."

She stared at Lin Shu, "Niece-in-law, don't you agree?"

Lin Shu nodded, but didn't say much. She could see that Aunt Fang was well prepared and was laying the groundwork here.

She has figured out the pattern now. When she sees relatives who suddenly come to visit her, there is nothing to guess. Everyone is for their own interests. They will not come to see her out of kindness. There must be something.

He didn't look for her before, but now he pulls her to talk to him warmly. Of course, it is for Lu Shaotang .

Why is he looking for Lu Shaotang?

She can generally guess that if he complains about the hard life at home, or that his son has no money to build a house or give a gift for his marriage, then he is here to borrow money.

If he praises his son for his ability but no opportunity, he is probably here to find a job for his son. If he helps him study well, then he wants to study at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University or find a job in the city.

If he praises the daughter of a noble family, then he basically wants to introduce a partner to the daughter of a noble family, preferably in the provincial capital or the city.

Lin Shu would reject all the people she didn't care about and help those who were close to her as appropriate.

As for work, university, introduction partners, etc., I'm sorry.

The job belongs to the government and work unit, not to Lu Shaotang.

University is even less so.

As for whom to introduce?

Not many matchmakers are successful. If the introduction is good, people may not be grateful. If the introduction is not satisfactory at all, people will hate you forever.

She doesn't want to do that thankless thing.

She would rather give them rabbits to raise, so that they can cut their fur and give birth to little rabbits and raise them to sell rabbit meat.

She is responsible for buying back rabbit meat and fur. They only need to work hard to cut grass and raise rabbits to make money.

Aunt Fang was talking dry, so Lin Shu poured her a bowl of tea water at the right time. She gulped it down in two mouthfuls, "Nephew's wife, you and your eldest sister are in the province, and your second sister is in the city, where they have a lot of knowledge and know many people. When you go back to the province, take Lihua with you. Although she has no ability, she is diligent. The key is that she has work to do. She can wash your clothes, grow vegetables, and cook for you every day, and you don't have to get involved."

Lin Shu turned her head to look at Tao Lihua on the side.

Xiuxiu and the three girls were playing with flower ropes there.

Tao Lihua smiled at Lin Shu, "Cousin, I can cook."

Fang Hongdou also said, "I can, too, and I cook better."

Tao Lihua frowned and glared at her unhappily.

Fang Hongdou: "My sister can't cook, but she is very strong and good at housework. She can grow vegetables and fetch water. She is very capable."

Tao Lihua snorted, but said to Lu Xiuxiu: "Xiuxiu, have you ever been to the province?"

No matter how capable you are, are you closer to Lu Xiuxiu? Lu Xiuxiu will go first, why are you in such a hurry?

Listening to the girls' comparison without any technical content, Lin Shu did not show any abnormality, but Aunt Fang was a little unhappy and glared at Fang Hongdou.

This girl is not very old, she likes to show off and be competitive. Originally, she was not taken with us, but she saw Gao Liang and Lihua coming and insisted on following.

Lin Shu didn't take the opportunity to go to the province, how could she have the nerve to go to the province? Is the province so easy to go?

Some people only see their relatives moving to the city, thinking that their relatives have become rich and that a hair on their head is thicker than their waist, so they must get some benefits from them, but they don't think about whether it is difficult for them to live in the city.

In the city, you need food coupons to eat, and the food is fixed. There is only so much for one person. If there is one more person without the food quota, the whole family will have to go out hungry.

In the city, you have to pay for drinking water and going to the toilet. You have to pay for the health fee.

Don't you want to work in the city so freely? Who doesn't have to look at the face of the team leader or the director?

When the eldest and second sister Lin married into the city, the relatives of the Lin and Jie families pushed them hard. Every day, they either asked their sons to find jobs or their daughters to find husbands, as if they would be promoted to mayors and governors and have administrative power after marrying into the city.

If you say you don't have the ability and can't arrange it, they will still resent you and say, "I asked you to help with a little bit, but you didn't help. Why are you talking about all that?"

This made her think more highly of Fang Dihua and her father-in-law. They were sensible, unlike some parents who would do everything for their children when they were a little promising before they had established themselves. Whenever relatives came to ask for help, whether it was to borrow money or arrange a job, they would agree and say they would take care of it for you.

When their children don’t agree, they start to cry and make trouble, saying things like: “That’s your relative, he was so good to you when you were little, he gave you food, he praised you, he even held you in his arms, now he’s in trouble and needs your help, you refuse to help?

You’ve become rich and look down on your poor relatives, how come you’ve become so heartless and don’t care about your relatives?”

And the words they cry about are the words that relatives use to make fun of them, if they don’t help, they will find ways to say something unpleasant, so that they can’t hold their heads up in the circle of relatives.

Some of them really helped, it’s fine, now they just consider it as a return of favor, but some of them just want to benefit with a sentence like “I held you in my arms when you were little”, as if they couldn’t support the child if they hadn’t held him in their arms?

How shameless!

It's no wonder that after Lin Xia became an electrician in the steel mill, his father was so proud of it that he showed off to the villagers. As a result, an old man from the village came to his house with his grandson and insisted that Lin Xia find a job for his grandson, at least as an electrician, and that he would take care of him first. He also asked that the salary not be too high at the beginning, and that twenty yuan for food and lodging would be enough.

This made Lin's father and mother feel uncomfortable, so they naturally couldn't agree.

The old man was very angry, and with the veins on his neck bulging, he wanted to break off the relationship with Lin's father, "Ah, your daughter is so successful that she looks down on poor relatives? I held her in my arms when she was a child, so what's wrong with arranging a job for her cousin? Isn't that what should be done?" Lin

's father and mother explained in various ways that the daughter was just an apprentice, and they hadn't stood up yet, so they couldn't help arrange a job.

The old man was so angry that he cursed again: "Why are you showing off if you don't have the ability? Don't look down on us just because your family is well-off, and don't want to help us. If you don't help, why are you saying that you have something but nothing?"

From then on, Father Lin never dared to go out to show off how good his daughter's family was.

When Lu Shaotang went to work as a cadre in the province, when people asked him, he would have to say, "Can you just talk to me about your son-in-law's work? That would be a mistake."

So when Lin Shu returned to her parents' home, few people dared to approach her and ask Lu Shaotang to arrange jobs, arrange universities, and introduce partners.

I never wanted to hide from my mother's side, nor did I hide from Grandma Lu Shaotang's mother's side.

But this is Lu Shaotang's aunt, Fang Dihua's biological sister, and the old lady is still here, so Lin Shu will naturally not treat her like she did to Ding Guohua.

She lectured Ding Guohua because he was the younger generation, and as long as the two families did not tear each other apart, she could not be rude to Lu's elder sister, let alone her aunt?

But Lin Shu had a way.

She smiled and said, "Isn't it easy to learn a craft? Lihua and the others can come over and learn to make clothes from Xiuxiu when they have time."

As for food, she felt that her aunt and uncle's family would not be stingy.

In the past few years, the families have been in contact. Lu Shaotang and others often visit Grandma Fang, bringing a lot of things, and they also give gifts in return.

The three uncles have separated a long time ago. Grandma Fang lives in her son's house in turn. Originally, whoever lives in her son's house would receive gifts in return. Later, perhaps because Lu Shaotang was promising, the other two aunts knew that he would also give gifts when he went there. It doesn't matter how much it is, it's just etiquette.

When the families visit each other, they don't gossip. If they really stay at a relative's house, they will bring food. It doesn't matter

if it's coarse food or fine food, as long as you bring it, no one will have any objection. As for what to eat, it's naturally the same as the host family.

They were all girls in their teens. If they wanted to learn a skill, Lin Shu would naturally teach them.

She thought it was good for girls of this age to learn the skill of cutting and sewing. After the reform and opening up, whether they opened a tailoring shop or worked in a clothing factory, it would be a way out.

Other options were cooking and opening a small restaurant, but to be honest, whether it was a snack stall or a snack shop, the money earned was hard-earned. Although it made a lot of money, it was very tiring. It would be easier to make clothes.

If you don't want to make clothes, you can also go to a clothing stall in the future. If you save money, you can open a clothing store, which can make money for at least 20 to 30 years.

After hearing what Lin Shu said, Fang Hongdou said, "Thank you, cousin, I think it's great." She said to Lu Xiuxiu, "Xiuxiu, can I come and learn from you?"

Lu Xiuxiu: "It's OK if my grandma and my third aunt agree."

Fang Hongdou: "My grandma will definitely agree." She turned her head and asked, "Grandma, I want to learn to make clothes from Xiuxiu, I don't want to go to the fields."

Fang's mother was very familiar with the people she met every day, and she didn't need to listen to the words too clearly to know more or less, "You go ask your aunt."

Lin Shu agreed on behalf of Fang Dihua, "Your aunt agreed."

Fang Hongdou smiled proudly at Tao Lihua.

She wanted to learn the skills of making clothes, but she was not as shameless as Tao Lihua who wanted men.

Fang Gaoliang was a little bit brazen, and he didn't want to have a craft or get married, he just came here to carry his grandma as a laborer.

She tasted the spicy cabbage Lin Shu made at lunch and it was delicious, but because her aunt was burned and everyone was in a mess, she didn't feel comfortable eating her whole meal, so she was a little greedy now.

It was spicy, sour, and sweet, and it was really delicious.

Although she was tall and strong, she was a little shy in front of Lin Shu and whispered, "Cousin, can I learn to make that spicy cabbage from you? It's really delicious."

Lin Shu: "It's simple, Xiuxiu can also make it. You stay for two days, we can make some more."

There is always a lot of cabbage at home in winter.

Aunt Fang looked at the ladies, somewhat dissatisfied with being diverted from the topic, and said to Lin Shu with a smile: "Niece's wife, you are going to live in the family compound in the provincial capital. I heard that there is running water? And a toilet? It's different from the toilet in our house. It can be flushed and is clean."

Lin Shu satisfied her curiosity.

Aunt Fang asked again what kind of units there were, such as the canteen, cinema, school, etc., and exclaimed: "It's just as people said, there is everything. There are supply and marketing cooperatives and vegetable markets right outside the door. You don't have to grow your own vegetables or work hard in the fields. Well, it's said that everyone wants to move to the city. The educated youth who went to the countryside from the city cried their hearts out and wanted to go back even in their dreams. Some of them pretended to be sick, or their family members pretended to be sick, and they used all kinds of ways to get back to the city."

Her words were full of envy for them.

Lin Shu: "If their families have no connections and cannot arrange jobs for them, it's useless to go back. There's no food quota, and the family members will go hungry. They have to come back in a few days."

Aunt Fang clapped her hands, "That's right, some of them were caught by the Youth League Office and punished. Tsk tsk, pitiful."

After talking about this and that, her purpose was to let Lin Shu take Tao Lihua to introduce a target.

She had a good idea. If she asked Lu Shaotang to arrange a job directly, the requirements would be too high, and Lu Shaotang might have to use his connections, which would be a bit difficult to do.

It would be better to let the granddaughter live there for a while. At most, the family would have to export food, and the granddaughter could also help Lin Shu with housework, and it wouldn't cost Lin Shu anything.

When the time comes, Lin Shu will help introduce her, and her granddaughter will also try to get to know the people there. If she is lucky, she can not only find a date in the city, but also arrange a job in the city.

If you have a job, you can eat commercial food.

If my granddaughter marries a city man and gets a job in the city, won't she be able to help her brothers and sisters at home over time?

It doesn't cost Lu Shaotang and Lin Shu anything, they just need to let their granddaughter live there for a while.

Seeing that she still mentioned the idea of ​​moving in, Lin Shu stopped talking and asked her aunt to eat melon seeds with a smile.

Grandma Fang is old and lacks energy, so she usually takes naps during the day. She was a little tired from crying just now, and now she was stunned for a while while listening to Lin Shu and Aunt Fang chatting.

She wiped her face, looked at Aunt Fang, and said unhappily: "Oh, how old are you? You are more likely to faint and make mistakes than me. You keep nagging here. The young couple just went to the province, and they have two children. Where is the place for you to stay?"

She pushed Aunt Fang in disdain and said, "Okay, take Lihua back quickly. There are so many people, it's hard to sleep."

Aunt Fang: "Mom, why are you biased? Gaoliang and Hongdou are your great-granddaughters, so Isn't Lihua also a granddaughter?"

Grandmother Fang: "You didn't give any money or food coupons, so you can just have a free meal, and you still want to stay?"

She stretched her neck and shouted: "Second brother, where is Second brother? Ride your bike to send him back to your aunt."

She didn't call Lu Da Ge and Lu Shao Tang, because Lu Da Ge liked to talk, and she was afraid that Aunt Fang would squeeze or control him. She was partial to Lu Shao Tang and was afraid of tiring him. Lu Er Ge didn't like to talk, so she didn't worry about Aunt Fang's tricks, so she let him go.

Aunt Fang was not happy, but she was scolded by her mother and had no time to bother Lin Shu anymore.

Aunt Fang: "Little sister, little sister, look at our mother, she is so eager to drive me away, and you don't even say a word? Brother-in-law? Why don't you come and persuade her?"

Lin Shu, Xiuxiu, and Lu Dasao helped to entertain the female guests. After saying hello, Lu Lao Di went to entertain Fang Dihua.

The so-called company does not mean to comfort her, but just to sit there and coax her, tell stories or something.

He wanted to go over, but Fang Dihua shook her head.

Lu Lao Di did not move, and continued to listen to Panpan and Tiantian telling their simple sketch picture books.

He understood that Fang Dihua did not want her eldest sister to stay, because she was annoying and kept asking the third daughter-in-law to help her in a way that she could not.

You said that if San'er had such a big yard in the city, you could carry food and go with ten people, but the city is very small, why go there?

Besides, the family compound is full of people who are particular about etiquette. If you go there and there is someone who is not particular, wouldn't it be embarrassing for San'er and his wife?

Seeing that Xiaomei and her husband ignored her, Aunt Fang felt embarrassed.

She made a gesture of wiping tears, "Oh, I'm old and annoying."

She didn't want to have a quarrel with Xiaomei's family. It was impossible to ask others to do things or make a fuss. She could only go there in person and find an opportunity in the future.

She asked Tao Lihua to leave quickly.

Riding a bicycle was not convenient, after all, there were two of them. Lin Shu asked Lu Shaotang to see Aunt off.

Tao Lihua was a little unwilling to accept this. After all, her cousin was someone that many people wanted to marry but could not. It would be a shame if she did not take advantage of such a relative.

Aunt Fang came without any gifts and carried her own bag.

Lin Shu prepared a small pot of spicy cabbage and a can of pickled radishes.

The pickles pickled by Lin Shu were crisp and refreshing, and they were delicious as snacks, and they were the favorites of children.

Panpan saw that her mother had given Aunt Fang a small pot and a can, and she felt a little sad.

A small pot cost five cents, and a can was sold as scraps for two cents each!

Hey, she is Grandma's sister, forget it, just give it to her.

Lu Shaotang filled the jeep with diesel and motioned for Aunt Fang and the other person to get in.

Tao Lihua was only 17 years old. She had never been out of the house and had never met many people. She always thought that the educated youth in the brigade were very clean and good-looking. After all, their speech, clothing, skin color, habits, etc. were different. In addition, city kids were clean and handsome, so they were naturally better looking than country boys.

But her cousin was much more handsome than them!

This was the first time she had looked at her cousin so closely.

Although he was her cousin, he was not much older than her.

Thinking of this, Tao Lihua blushed.

When getting in the car, she pulled the passenger door for some reason. However, Lu Shaotang's jeep had been modified. The door had a small mechanism that required both the handle and the mechanism to be pressed at the same time. It also required a lot of force. Naturally, she couldn't open it.

Lu Shaotang helped Aunt Fang open the back door and glanced at Tao Lihua, "You sit in the back."

Tao Lihua was immediately embarrassed and blushed as she quickly got in and sat with Aunt Fang.

Aunt Fang's eyes were shining with excitement. A jeep! ! ! ! !

The commune leaders didn't have jeeps! Only

county leaders would ride in jeeps!

Unexpectedly, she actually got in one.

This time she had to show off to the villagers and let the brigade secretary and the brigade leader take a good look at her. She was going back in a jeep.

She couldn't help but straighten her back, and imitated the leader to cross her legs, then crossed her legs, put her hands on her knees, and combed her hair. She felt like a women's director.

She turned her head to look at her granddaughter and found that Tao Lihua's cheeks were red, she lowered her head slightly, but her eyes were looking forward.

She was about to speak when the car started. The two of them were inexperienced and fell backwards unexpectedly.

Aunt Fang grabbed the seat tightly, oh my god, it's so exciting!

After a while of freshness, she returned to normal and started talking to Lu Shaotang about going to the province.

"Your niece is pretty, gentle and virtuous, good at cooking and sewing, and diligent and always has something to do. I will make sure you guys take good care of her in the city, so you can have hot meals and clean clothes every day when you go home."

"Shaotang, bring your comrades and colleagues home more often and introduce them to Lihua."

"It's so hard for a rural girl to stay at home. It would be great if she could marry in the city. She wouldn't have to work in the fields at home in the future."

Lu Shaotang concentrated on driving and didn't respond, but he was thinking about it.

Someone actually asked him to introduce a partner?

Isn't that the job of the political cadres and the women's director?

Does he look like someone who would do that?

This is more horrifying than saying he beat his wife, right?

He wanted to tell Aunt Fang, "Let me introduce your granddaughter to someone else, but they would just run away faster, suspecting that he was mentally ill or was plotting something.

" But he didn't say anything.

He never chatted with women except his wife.

Tao Lihua mustered up her courage several times along the way, but didn't dare to say anything, because her grandmother kept mumbling in the carriage, and Lu Shaotang didn't respond to a word, at most he just said "um" or "oh". The atmosphere made her feel depressed and suffocated, but her grandmother didn't feel anything.

Arriving at the entrance of the village, Aunt Fang was so excited that she was ready to go. Although it was already dark, she still wanted Lu Shaotang to open the car window. She wanted to shout to the people outside to show off that she came back in a jeep.

As a result, Lu Shaotang stopped the car with his foot on the brakes, got out of the car and opened the door for Aunt Fang, "Aunt, if it's not convenient to go in, I'll take you to the village entrance."

Aunt Fang hurriedly said, "So Shaotang, let's go home to have a meal. It's just a few steps away. Let's go."

She enthusiastically pulled Lu Shaotang.

Lu Shaotang declined, motioned them to go back, and then got in the car and turned the car around and drove away.

Aunt Fang watched the jeep go away, feeling upset, a little annoyed, and a little embarrassed. It was very complicated.

She knew that her younger sister blamed her, maybe she resented her and hated her, maybe she had never truly forgiven her in all these years.

It was not just because she unilaterally broke off the engagement, but also because her younger sister was scolded by her mother when she was a child, and she, as an elder sister, did not help her younger sister, and even... sometimes, in order to avoid being affected by her mother's anger, she would deliberately use her younger sister as a shield.

For example, if she ate something, she would say that her younger sister ate it, and if she broke something, she would say that her younger sister did it.

At that time, her mother had an extremely bad temper and would not tolerate any rebuttal.

Although her mother didn't know, her younger sister knew whether she had done it or not. Although Aunt Fang later deliberately guided her younger sister to say that it must have been your third brother who did it, her younger sister did not seek an account with her third brother.

Alas, I am already in my fifties, and I feel embarrassed when I think of those things when I was a child.

Why was I so scared at that time? Why was I so...

Although she felt embarrassed, she did not think she was wrong. If she could go back to the past, she would definitely do the same thing. She felt that she was much better than the third brother.

The third brother poked the youngest sister's eyes and later denied it and said that the youngest sister played with it.

Tao Lihua: "Grandma, my cousin is so pretty, no wonder she was able to marry my uncle."

Aunt Fang: "Of course, your aunt was afraid that your uncle would die on the battlefield, so she could not find a pretty girl to marry him."

Tao Lihua sighed: "My cousin... is so lucky."

Find such a good man, and the man did not die, and gave her a better life.

Aunt Fang: "It's okay. Go hang out with her more often later."

Tao Lihua felt uneasy. She always felt that grandma didn't see the situation clearly. Gaoliang and Hongdou had already moved in, but she was driven back. Can't she see what it means?

Grandma dislikes grandma, and grandma doesn't even realize it.

And great-grandma is obviously partial to grandma.

At this time, Lin Shu had already prepared dinner, and they started eating as soon as Lu Shaotang got home.

Grandma Fang was distressed again, "What kind of family is this? Why do they still eat three meals? They don't work in the winter, so two meals of porridge are enough. In those years, our family had land and didn't go hungry, but we ate porridge when we were free and dry when we were busy, just like the tenants, and two meals of porridge in winter."

Panpan and Tiantian glared at her.

Granny Fang looked at them and said admiringly, "Third child, your two children are so handsome, just like your grandma and your father when they were little."

Tiantian was unhappy, "I look like my mother!"

Granny Fang laughed, "Yes, the older they get, the more they look like your mother. It's good to look like your mother, because it's beautiful to look like your mother. People say that if your father is a little short, your mother is a little short, but it's good to look like your mother."

She looked at the big enamel bowl of stewed eggs in front of her and wanted to move it to the two children.

She was old and her eyes were not good, and she almost knocked over the teacup again.

Mrs. Lu had been staring at her since she sat down. She immediately took everything away and held the enamel bowl and said, "Grandma, you eat, there is another bowl on the table, enough."

Granny Fang didn't move it anymore and looked at other people's bowls, fearing that they would not eat as well as she did.

There was no sticky porridge for dinner, but steamed buns made of two-grain flour and pancakes.

Panpan knew that they had sticky porridge for lunch, and she reasonably suspected that grandma didn't want to give good food to her aunt. Well, he wouldn't like the people that grandma didn't like.

Grandma Fang didn't eat steamed buns made of two-grain flour, but wanted to eat coarse grain pancakes, which she soaked in a bowl and scooped two spoonfuls of stewed eggs on, then ate them slurpingly.

She didn't have many teeth, and if she didn't chew the food well, it would leak, but she didn't know it, so she ate it in a mess.

Lu Cuicui looked a little disgusted, so she took the steamed eggs and green onions in a roll and left.

The others didn't care.

Panpan and Tiantian looked at each other, and stared at Grandma Fang for a while, and then started to whisper to each other.

Panpan: "That great-grandmother wasn't like this."

Tiantian: "This great-grandmother has no teeth.

" Panpan: "Are teeth so important?"

Tiantian: "Yes, so you have to listen to mom and brush your teeth."

Panpan went into the house and pulled out his bib from childhood, and tied it around Grandma Fang's neck, "This way you won't get your clothes dirty. It's hard to wash clothes in winter, and you don't like to do it."

Grandma Fang didn't think the children despised her, they just cared about her happiness, "This child is so kind-hearted, good, good child, grandma is happy."

She drank a sip of the soup with the pancakes, and kept muttering, "Sanwa is a child who really cares about people."

Everyone who heard her thought that she was thinking of Lu Shaotang when he was a child.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Shaotang went back to the provincial capital to work. Lin Shu didn't want to go so early, and the two children naturally didn't want to go because of the burns on their breasts.

Fang Dihua had a burn, and that hand couldn't get wet. The two children were very concerned.

They took the initiative to wash their grandmother's face early in the morning, just like when their grandmother washed their faces when they were little. They put a towel around their chests, and Panpan pinched the back of their grandmother's neck with one hand to make her lean forward, and used the other hand to splash water to wash her face.

After washing, they lifted the towel and wiped her face.

Tiantian took the vanishing cream and helped her to rub it on.

The same goes for washing hands.

Fang's mother sat beside them, squinting her eyes and looking at them enviously, "This child is really well-raised."

Fang Dihua didn't want to face her mother face to face, so she wanted to go out for a walk after dinner, but the two children had to follow the doctor's instructions not to get frozen or burned, so she had to take the two children to the infirmary or talk to Mrs. Qiu, Jin Ping'er, Mrs. Wang and others.

Fang's mother looked at the backs of her daughter taking her grandchildren out, sighed when she could no longer see them, and then visited the yard and each room.

Lin Shu went to talk to the brigade secretary and others about something, while Lu Xiuxiu took Fang Gaoliang and Fang Hongdou to see your water wheel pump grinding flour.

Everyone else was doing their own thing.

Mrs. Lu: "Grandma, it's cold outside, you go to bed and eat some melon seeds and candy."

Granny Fang waved her hands, "I'm fine, you go and do your own thing, don't worry about me, I'll just take a walk and have a look."

The old lady rarely went out, so everything she saw was new.

Mrs. Lu didn't care. She wasn't a meticulous person. She was studying recently. The agricultural machinery group had an exam every spring, and she asked Brother Lu to help her with her studies.

Granny Fang took a walk and quickly packed a basin of clothes. She took a bench and sat on the water platform outside the main hall to start washing clothes.

She couldn't bear to use soap, so she took some wood ash from the bottom of the pot, then beat the big clothes with a clothes mallet and rubbed the small clothes by hand.

Mrs. Lu saw this and took off her dirty clothes that she didn't want to wash and threw them over, saying with a smile, "Grandma, help me wash them too."

Granny Fang said, "Just leave them there, I'll wash them right away."

When Lin Shu came back, she saw the old lady, who was almost 90 years old, sitting on the water table, enjoying the cold wind and washing clothes for the family with ice-cold water!

Lin Shu was startled and hurried over to stop her, "Grandma, what are you doing? Everyone in our family washes their own clothes."

Granny Fang smiled kindly, "You young people are busy, and I have nothing to do anyway. I'll wash them so you don't have to worry."