Chapter 190: No Fault

She was hand-washing the underwear that Lin Shu had changed out of last night, and she said to Lin Shu, "I know the difference clearly. I didn't wash your pants and socks together, nor did I wash them with others. I washed them separately, and I rubbed them with soap."

Lin Shu wanted to wash her own and her children's clothes when she came back, but she didn't expect the old lady to take them and wash them, and she was washing underwear.

She rushed back, "Grandma, I can wash them myself."

She looked around and it seemed that there was also the second sister-in-law's jacket, and the socks and underwear belonged to the Fang sisters and Xiuxiu?

Grandma Fang: "You go and take a rest, I can't be idle, I know how to wash clothes, I will rub them clean for you."

Lin Shu forced the old lady to drive her into the house.

Granny Fang was still stubborn and strong, Lin Shu almost couldn't move her.

It was Sister-in-law Lu who heard the noise and came out to ask what was going on.

Lin Shu: "Sister-in-law, grandma is washing clothes for us, you should move her into the house quickly." Are you kidding

? Let an old lady who is almost 90 years old wash clothes for them?

Not to mention that she couldn't bear it, how could the mother-in-law allow others to order her mother around?

Granny Fang was still not happy, "I still work every day at home. I'm not old, and I haven't sat around waiting to die and wasting food!" Sister-in-law

Lu pressed her down on the kang and asked her to put her reddened old bark hand under the quilt to cover it.

Lin Shu divided the outer clothes and took out her own and her son's.

When Lu Shaotang was not at home, she washed her clothes by herself. Of course, she had to use hot water to wash them. She did not use cold water, which would hurt her hands.

She let others wash their own clothes. Second

Sister-in-law Lu went out for a walk and came in from outside while eating sunflower seeds. She saw Lin Shu pouring hot water to wash clothes without saying anything. She thought Lin Shu wanted to wash clothes and wanted Lin Shu to wash her two clothes as well.

"Second Sister-in-law, wash your own clothes yourself." Lin Shu called her.

Second Sister-in-law pouted, "Isn't grandma washing them?"

Lin Shu: "How can you let the old lady wash them?"

Second Sister-in-law Lu muttered, "I didn't ask her to wash them, she insisted on washing them."

If she can wash others' clothes, why can't she wash them?

Lin Shu finished washing her clothes and hung them up, and saw that it was almost time to make lunch.

Granny Fang couldn't sit still anymore and wanted to come down to help her cook. "You go and rest, I'll cook."

Why would Lin Shu want to use her?

Granny Fang sat at the table and started to wipe her tears. "I'm not too old to move, I'm not tired, I can still do it. I always do the work at home, why don't you let me do it here?"

Lin Shu had to let her help light the fire.

The old lady's feet were staggering, and Lin Shu really didn't dare to let her do anything.

Granny Fang was very happy to do it. She had formed a habit since she was a child, working one day and eating one day. As long as she could move, she had to work, unless she was too sick to get up or died, then she would not have to work at all.

Although she had started to take care of herself a long time ago, living in the homes of her three sons in turn, she never sat with her hands folded waiting for food. She would help whoever's house she went to, wash clothes, cook, feed pigs and chickens. It was only because she was over 80 years old and her eyesight was not good, and she didn't cook and wash dishes so cleanly, so her daughters-in-law didn't need her anymore.

She kept nagging Lin Shu, "Can't this person be idle? If she is idle and doesn't work, she will be dead. No matter what, I can't let people dislike me."

She took care of her daughter-in-law during the confinement period, and she also took care of her granddaughter-in-law. If Fang Dihua didn't want her, she would be happy to serve her grandson-in-law.

No matter what the mother-in-law had against her, Lin Shu really couldn't dislike Grandma Fang.

She and Grandma Jie were completely different people.

Old Mrs. Jie has been doing nothing for a long time, waiting for people to serve her. Granny Fang is only a few years older than Old Mrs. Jie, but she still washes clothes for the family.

Oh.

Lin Shu didn't know what to say.

The mother-in-law obviously has a grudge against her mother, but refuses to communicate to resolve it. Although she doesn't lose her temper with the old lady, she hides when she doesn't want to face her.

Hiding is actually a form of cold violence.

But that's the mother and daughter's business, and outsiders really have no right to interfere.

Everyone's life is unique. No matter how similar it seems, there is no way to get the medicine to heal yourself from other people's life experiences.

Everyone can only face it on their own.

It is certain that both mother and daughter have psychological trauma, mental illness, and need psychological counseling.

It's just... Lin Shu admits that she is not good at this. After all, even in the 21st century when medicine is very developed, psychological treatment is...

and only when the person is willing to do psychological counseling and confess, can it be cured.

Fang Dihua is now completely refusing. Taking the initiative to let her confess will only increase her psychological pressure and make her rebellious.

So, let nature take its course.

So Lin Shu took care of Fang's mother-in-law as a child, and arranged something for her to do no matter what.

She taught Fang Gaoliang how to make spicy cabbage and kimchi, and asked Fang's mother-in-law to help. Fang Gaoliang prepared the sauce, and Fang's mother-in-law helped to apply it.

There were cracks on her hands, and the chili sauce seeped in through the cracks. It hurt her hands, but she didn't care at all and worked very hard.

Fang Dihua saw this but didn't care about her. You can live here if you want, and do whatever you want, but there's no way you can get close to me.

Fang Dihua started the incense factory on the tenth day of the first lunar month.

She had injured her hand, and the eldest and second brothers Lu didn't allow her to go there to work.

Lin Shu discussed with her, "Mom, you don't have to do the work in the future. Just go over and supervise from time to time. Find two other women to do it."

Grandma Fang: "Yes, Hua'er, you have to take care of your hands. Oh, it's all my fault."

Fang Dihua asked Lin Shu: "Who should we find?"

Lin Shu thought for a while and said, "Look at Aunt Qiu, Uncle Xu, and Aunt Li's family. Any daughter-in-law who is diligent, capable, and doesn't talk nonsense will do."

Fang Dihua: "Then let Aunt Qiu's eldest daughter-in-law Shan Putao and Second Zhu's daughter-in-law Jing Shunni come over."

Granny Fang heard this and whispered, "Hua'er, wasn't Mrs. Qiu your former mistress? And that Xu family member, wasn't he also a servant? And you still let them do the work? Isn't that a mistake? Oh, you'd better be careful, don't let others secretly sue you. Some bad guys are very bad, if you ask someone to help you do something, they will accuse you of exploiting and hiring people."

She was old and didn't understand the current policies and situation. She just thought it was the same as before. She was afraid that the young lady would make a mistake and be harmed, so she became anxious and nagging.

Fang Dihua couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted her, "Stop nagging, you don't know anything."

Grandma Fang immediately rubbed her hands like a primary school student who had done something wrong, "Hua'er, I was wrong, I don't know, then you tell me."

Fang Dihua turned around to find someone to talk to.

Grandma Fang looked at the direction she left with eager eyes, "Hey."

She sighed, her back sank down, and she looked a little hunched.

Lin Shu explained to her what was going on now.

Grandma Fang: "Good lady, you are so kind."

The next morning, Grandma Fang got up early, she wanted to help Lin Shu make breakfast.

Lin Shu got up and cooked with her, to stew egg custard for the family.

Now there are many eggs at home, she just stews a pot, and gives two spoons to each person after stewing.

After adding an appropriate amount of water, stir the egg liquid evenly, and then use a small-meshed colander to sift the egg liquid to avoid honeycombs, lumps, etc., so that the egg custard will be delicate and smooth.

Fang's mother smiled when she saw it, "I have learned a trick. I didn't know that I had to sift it before."

When steaming it in the pot, Lin Shu also covered the pot with a small lid.

Fang's mother: "I know this, don't let the air and water fall out, just like steaming buns, if the air and water fall out, it will collapse."

After breakfast, Fang Dihua and others went to work.

Granny Fang stared at them eagerly for the whole morning. When it was almost time for lunch, she said to Lin Shu, "My dear, let me make some noodles for you. Hua'er likes my noodles the most."

She started to ramble again, "In the early years, our family was very poor. We couldn't even have enough noodles, let alone black noodles. Later, your grandma followed the old man from the Lu family and made some money outside. He bought some land when he returned home, and that's when we started to have food to eat. That's how it was. "They didn't dare to eat without eating. They only ate thin noodles twice a month, so I would roll noodles for them. Alas, it didn't take long for the days like this, and the land was gone. It would be a lie to say I didn't feel sad. That was the land your grandmother worked hard for, and it's gone after just two years of farming..."

As she spoke, she began to wipe her tears, and the tears rolled into the basin, which she quickly wiped with her sleeves.

She only remembered that the little girl loved to eat hand-rolled noodles, but the family was poor at that time. Even if they were not hungry later, thin noodles were still a good thing. Who wouldn't eat it without eating?

When she grew up, she was tall and strong, so she naturally had a big appetite, and ate about the same as her brothers.

At that time, she was thinking: With this amount of food, she can't eat twice a month, even once is not enough. This damn girl, how can she eat so much? She eats as much as her brother.

Later, the daughter got married, and then she got older, and she became an old lady with blurry eyes and broken teeth. She felt that she was sick before. She was obviously uncomfortable and distressed after beating and scolding the child, so why did she still beat and scold her? What do people want

in this life? Isn't it to have a full meal, and for the children to grow up safely, get married and have children?

As long as the children are well, it's better than anything else.

Then why did she get angry about this and that?

Oh, she couldn't figure out why she was so irritable at the time, so she regretted and blamed herself.

So much time has passed, now she thinks of the old woman who made her crazy, she is full of sympathy, no resentment, the old woman must have been senile. If she

didn't even have resentment towards the old woman, how much more so towards her little girl? No matter

how naughty a little girl is, how big a mistake can she make?

She can no longer remember the things that the little girl did to make her angry, she only remembers yelling at her, beating and scolding her, and her mind only has the little girl's frightened eyes and rolling tears.

As she gets older, many things are blurred, even the faces of her parents can't be remembered, but the little girl's fear and panic at that time clearly appears in her mind.

She felt guilty and felt that if she could not hold her daughter and comfort her, or wipe away the tears from her face, she would not be able to rest in peace until her death.

In countless dreams, she held her skinny little daughter in her arms, wiped her daughter's tears, and she kept apologizing to her daughter with tears, saying "I'm sorry, I was wrong, I will never hit you or scold you again."

Sometimes her daughter would forgive her, eat the hand-rolled noodles and egg custard she made, and then lie in her arms and sleep comfortably.

Sometimes her daughter looked at her coldly and said that she would never forgive such a bad mother, and she would wake up with tears.

Seeing the old lady lost in her memories with tears streaming down her face, Lin Shu wiped her tears with a handkerchief and continued to knead and roll out the dough.

Granny Fang realized that she had treated Shao Tang's daughter-in-law as her confidant and kept nagging her. She was afraid that Lin Shu would annoy her, so she quickly wiped her tears and went to the yard.

She stood a little to the east and looked towards the incense-making room. She could vaguely see Fang Dihua, who was teaching the two daughters-in-law how to do their work.

Granny Fang thought that among these children, Hua'er was the most like her father, the most capable and the least complaining.

Seeing that her daughter-in-law's family was getting better and better, she felt relieved.

As for the lady's refusal to forgive her, forget it. Not bothering the lady herself would be the best apology to her.

After watching for a while, she made up her mind.

Returning to the house, she sat down tremblingly and helped Lin Shu light the fire and cook noodles.

When scooping the noodles, she first took the large enamel bowl of stewed egg sauce and scooped a large bowl full, thinking that now that life is good, she must let the lady eat enough.

She also scooped two large spoons of salt for the lady.

Lin Shu fried minced meat and egg sauce, which also contained diced mushrooms, chopped vermicelli, shrimp skin, etc., and tasted fresh and slightly spicy.

While eating, Fang Dihua looked at the enamel bowl of noodles in front of her and was stunned for a moment.

She didn't have such a big appetite now, and the third daughter-in-law knew that she couldn't serve her so much.

She glanced and saw the old lady holding chopsticks and looking at her hopefully, as if to let her eat more and eat until she was full.

Fang Dihua didn't say anything, just picked up the chopsticks and started eating.

Father Lu looked at her and whispered, "If you can't finish it, you can give me two chopsticks."

Fang Dihua was full after eating more than half of the noodles, but she still finished all the noodles.

After eating, she went out for a walk.

Grandma Fang was very satisfied, as if she had finally given her daughter a full meal across time and space.

In the afternoon, she quietly said to Fang Gaoliang and Fang Hongdou, "Let's go, our food coupons have been used up, and if we stay any longer, we will eat and drink for free."

The two granddaughters immediately packed up their things and said goodbye to Lu Xiuxiu.

Grandma Fang: "Let them come and learn again when we can poke the Dragon King's eyes."

That will have to wait until the spring planting is finished.

Lu Xiuxiu: "Grandma, let my mother carry the bicycle to take you."

Grandma Fang waved her hand and said, "No, a bicycle can't take the three of us."

Fang Gaoliang smiled and said, "Yes, I can carry Grandma on my back. I'm very strong, just like my aunt."

When Lin Shu heard that the old lady was leaving, she hurriedly asked, "Grandma, why are you leaving so suddenly? Are you staying until the 14th?"

Grandma Fang said, "No, I've run out of food coupons."

She was just making an estimate. After all, she brought 13 kilograms of food coupons, and staying for five or six days was naturally not enough for three people.

Lin Shu smiled and said, "It's okay, there's enough food at home."

Grandma Fang still refused.

Lin Shu said she was going to find her mother-in-law and come back.

Grandma Fang would not let them go, "Just come and take a look, that's enough."

There was no spring planting yet, so Lin Shu asked Lu Ping and Lu An to go to the production team to borrow a donkey cart for Grandma Fang and the others to take back. They were still young and couldn't just drive a donkey cart casually, because mules have bad tempers and are easily irritable, unless the old master can't drive.

Grandma Fang urged Fang Gaoliang and the others to hurry up.

Fang Gaoliang was obedient, carrying Grandma Fang on his back and walked ahead, letting Fang Hongdou pack the bag.

Lin Shu hurriedly packed a few gifts, mainly the spicy cabbage they all loved, three pieces of salted meat, two cans of food and a malt extract.

She pulled Fang Hongdou and waited for Lu Ping to drive the donkey cart back to take them back.

Lu Ping also acted quickly. He borrowed a donkey cart in a hurry, took Fang Hongdou and the things, and then quickly chased Fang Gaoliang and the old lady.

Lu's wife said: "This old lady is really like our mother. She does everything in a rush."

​​She came suddenly and left cleanly.

Fang Dihua was taking Tiantian and Panpan for a walk outside. She was very tired.

She saw Lu Ping driving the donkey cart and pulling Fang Hongdou to the south in a hurry. She knew that the old woman could not live here anymore and had to leave.

Let's go. It's better to leave so as not to bother others here.

Tiantian looked up at her, "Grandma, great-grandma is leaving, shouldn't we go and see her off?"

Panpan: "Yes, we still have to be polite."

Fang Dihua: "..."

The two boys pulled her to the south, and they saw Lu Ping and his brother chasing Fang Gaoliang and Grandma Fang in a donkey cart.

Fang Dihua didn't go forward.

They watched Fang Gaoliang put the skinny old lady on the cart, and then followed the donkey cart.

Grandma Fang suddenly turned around, waved to the north, and shouted: "Hua'er, I'm leaving--"

She had poor eyesight, so of course she couldn't see Fang Dihua and the two boys on the road to the north. Even if she pretended to be a lady and said goodbye to her, she would still say goodbye.

She muttered in her heart and said it out loud: "Don't cause trouble for the daughter, don't worry about me in the future."

After Grandma Fang left, the Lu family lived as usual.

It's just that some people have come, some things have happened, and they will always leave traces.

The two children muttered while helping the rabbit chop vegetables.

Tiantian: "Will grandma be as old as great-grandma?" She used her little hands to gesture at her teeth and face, "No teeth, no eyebrows?"

They never thought that grandma would die before. Death was just a saying to them, without any real intuitive display.

It's the same with getting old.

They say grandpa and grandma, white hair, hunched back and so on, but that's just saying, and they don't bring it into the familiar environment.

But after living with Grandma Fang for a few days, they suddenly realized that the people around them would become like their great-grandma?

That's terrible!

In the past, they thought that their grandma was born that way, their parents were born that way, and they would not change.

But now they suddenly have a reference.

They will grow old!

What causes aging

? What is aging?

This is unclear, but it is very obvious in the control group.

Children grow up, adults grow old, and the elderly...

They asked Lin Shu, "Mom, why do people grow old?"

Lin Shu was binding the simple sex education picture book she drew, and she said casually, "Because time passes day by day."

Panpan: "Then if I don't sleep, will time not pass?"

Lin Shu laughed, "The sun rises and sets, spring goes and autumn comes, isn't it always moving? If time doesn't move, how can you grow up?"

Panpan immediately shouted, "I don't want to grow up!"

Wuwu, I don't want grandma to die, I don't want my parents to grow old.

Lin Shu looked at the two tearful children, what's the matter? When did the children become sentimental?

Could it be that the sex education enlightenment class hasn't even started yet, and the children have to be educated about death?

I'm sorry, my son. I don't know much about the mysterious subject of death. Although... I died once, it's just like sleeping. No one knows when they fell asleep, and no one knows what they will look like when they die.

She smiled and touched the heads of the two sons, "If you don't grow up, grandma and your parents will be really worried."

The two sons could immediately tell that this death was not the same as the one they thought.

This means to be worried.

Tiantian: "It would be nice if I could control time, so that children can grow up quickly and be sensible, and the elderly won't grow old and die."

Panpan: "I want grandpa and parents to live forever!"

Lin Shu kissed them, "With happy fruits like you two, grandpa and parents will definitely live forever."

Look, living a hundred years is not enough, they must live forever.

Tiantian: "Hey, I don't know where Houyi and Chang'e stole the elixir, I also want to steal a few."

Now even Fang Dihua, who entered the house, laughed.

This was the first time Fang Dihua had smiled so happily in these days. The two children were happy again. The little swallows chirped, "Grandma, Grandma!"

Fang Dihua felt that her heart had suddenly become several decades younger. If she was healthy, she would definitely live to be a hundred years old!

Seeing grandma happy, the two children were also happy.

The incense factory started work these days, and the aunt and uncle and other agricultural machinery operators also went to plow the land. Panpan and several other small breeders were also busy - they started selling rabbits again!

Panpan's sweet friends all bought rabbits at home. Some bought a pair of rabbits and bred the rabbits themselves. When the rabbits grow up, they can cut their wool or sell their meat.

Some people did not want male rabbits, but only bought a few female rabbits, and when they grew up, they would come to Lin Shu's house to breed them and have a litter of rabbits.

They had planned well. In spring, summer and autumn, when the grass and trees are lush, it does not cost much to raise rabbits, but in winter, when there is no grass, they have to eat vegetables and grains. Without calculating, they planned to sell most of them after winter, and only keep two or three for breeding.

Lin Shu had already foreseen that after March, the rabbits would grow fast, and there would be a lot of rabbit meat to eat.

The secretary, the team leader, Lu Shaocai and others had already ordered rabbit meat from them.

Rabbit meat has little fat, so it is best to stew it with fat meat. That’s okay. Every family just killed the New Year pig in winter, so they have fat and salted meat at home, so rabbit meat is a good companion.

Huahua, Honghong, Juanjuan, Huzi, and even Zhang Xiaoliang, Zhang Xiaofang and other children came to buy rabbits.

Tiantian took the account book to check the accounts. They didn’t go home for a while before the New Year, and grandma helped sell two litters.

Um... Tiantian looked at Juanjuan and asked, "Juanjuan, your mother hasn’t paid for the rabbits she bought before."

They never paid for the money, but they were not at home at that time, and grandma couldn’t take care of it. Zhao Qin said that if the money didn’t come, she would pay for it, saying that she would raise the rabbit cubs and sell the meat to make up for the money.

Huahua is the granddaughter of Mrs. Qiu, and Juanjuan is the daughter of Xu Dazhu.

Juanjuan blushed and said hesitantly, "Tiantian, my mother...my mother asked if we can settle the bill. One of the two rabbits we bought before ran away, and then another one... ran away too."

Several children looked at her, and Huahua said loudly, "There is nothing to eat outside, how could the rabbits run around? Our rabbits don't run away."

Honghong: "Did you eat the rabbits?"

Juanjuan cried immediately, sobbing, and her head shook violently, "I didn't eat it, I didn't eat it!"

Panpan stood up and said, "I didn't eat it, I didn't eat it!" She immediately coaxed her, "I know you didn't eat it. You are a good child and you wouldn't steal food. Then tell me, who stole your rabbit?"

Juanjuan and Panpan listened to each other the most, so she answered obediently when he asked, "It was me...my uncle. He, he stole one and ate it first, and my mother scolded him, so he stole another one. My mother said that the rabbit was not caught well and was not raised well, so she shouldn't be paid."

Several adults who came to catch rabbits heard this and said, "Dazhu's wife is really outrageous."

"That's not good. She's getting better and better at taking advantage of others. She's despised.

" "Last year, Panpan exchanged lamb skewers and candied haws for the children. She didn't take any eggs, so she ate them for free every time."

"Tsk tsk, it's really embarrassing for Laonian."

Panpan asked Juanjuan, "Then do you think your mother did the right thing?"

Juanjuan's head shook like a rattle, "Definitely not! The rabbits cost one dollar each, and they were fine when I got home. I fed them, but my uncle stole and ate them."

Tiantian ran to find Lin Shu, "Mom, mom, Juanjuan's uncle ate the rabbits they stole, and came back to steal again!"

She told Lin Shu what Juanjuan said.

Logically speaking, Juanjuan is the granddaughter of Xu Laonian and Jin Ping'er. It's just a few rabbits, so she would be willing to give them away for free.

But Zhao Qin's habit of turning the tables and still wanting to take advantage of others was not good. Besides, the rabbits were eaten by them in at most two months, so how much meat could there be?

Lin Shu went out and said to Juanjuan, "Juanjuan, go back and ask your mother to come and talk to you."

Juanjuan ran home obediently and told her mother what Lin Shu meant.

Zhao Qin pouted. What's the matter? Are you afraid that the child will steal the money and the family will not admit it, and you have to tell them?

What a steal!

My father-in-law worked like a slave for the Lu family for so many years, isn't it worth a few rabbits?

She snorted and went to the Lu family with a big basket, thinking that she should steal at least ten rabbits this time.

She usually calculated and took advantage of others because she was 7 years younger than Xu Dazhu. She relied on her youth and coquettishness to control men. She also tried to let Erzhu's wife do the housework.

The Lu family opened a perfume factory and let Erzhu go but not her husband. She was unhappy for a long time. She complained to her mother-in-law but didn't dare to tell her father-in-law, fearing that he would scold her.

Although Xu Laonian didn't like to talk, he would turn hostile on the spot if he heard someone say something bad about Lu Laodie's family, even if it was his own family.

But she was unhappy, so she used the rabbit to provoke.

She thought it would be okay to buy a few rabbits. It was easier than raising chickens. She could catch a pair of them and raise them when there was grass. What's wrong with giving them to her?

Besides, she didn't eat them herself, so her brother would be greedy for them?

What's wrong with men being greedy? Brother Lu was greedy, and it wasn't against the law.

When she got to Lu's house, she smiled at Lin Shu and said, "Mother Panpan, I'll catch a few rabbits. You see, the weather is warm and the grass has sprouted. Should I catch eight or ten?"

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, can you raise so many?"

Zhao Qin didn't care. "It's just some grass. Let the children cut some at the bottom of the river."

From her attitude, Lin Shu knew that she didn't intend to raise the rabbits after catching them.

Lin Shu said calmly, "Rabbits are not that easy to keep alive. Rabbits have a big appetite and need to eat a lot of grass every day. Besides, if you keep too many rabbits, they will get sick easily. Just catch two."

Zhao Qin rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "Okay, two is fine, they will grow up soon anyway, and they will breed and give birth to pups themselves."

Lin Shu took her to choose.

Zhao Qin was afraid that the ones others picked were not strong enough, what if they got sick and died?

She bent down and picked the cabbages, picking them up in the same way. She thought this one was good and that one was good, but she was also afraid that the one she picked would not be good, so she would choose the other one.

Seeing her picking up the rabbits, Tiantian and Panpan were unhappy.

Panpan: "Don't keep picking up the rabbits. Rabbits are very timid and can't eat properly for a long time."

Zhao Qin smiled and said, "Hey, they are just a few rabbits, why are you so timid?"

She finally picked two for herself, picked them up by the ears and put them in the basket she brought.

Tiantian: "Including the two from last time, a total of four yuan."

Zhao Qin's smile froze, "Ah? Ah, well, I get it. I'll give it to you when the rabbits grow up and I come to sell meat. I've told your grandma."

Tiantian refused, "The rabbits are ours. Grandma doesn't have the final say. We're not at home in the winter, so she doesn't know the situation."

She looked like she didn't want to pay.

In fact, if the family was really in trouble, Tiantian would not let her pay. It didn't matter whether she paid with rabbit fur or little rabbits in the future. It wouldn't take too long anyway.

Who knew Zhao Qin was so annoying that he secretly ate the rabbits and said they ran away.

Zhao Qin's face changed and she became unhappy. "Last year, one of the two rabbits ran away, and the other... died of illness. You can't ask me for money for these rabbits that you didn't raise, right?"

Panpan: "How come none of the others died? Besides, it's not our fault if they ran away."

Zhao Qin became more unhappy and said to Lin Shu with a stern face, "Shaotang's wife, look..."

But Lin Shu turned around and talked to another woman, reminding her of the precautions of raising rabbits, and ignored her at all.

Juanjuan was trying to persuade her mother, "Mom, don't be stingy. Just give me the money, a total of four yuan."

Zhao Qin said angrily, "Where do I have the money? Besides, the previous two rabbits just ran away..."

Juanjuan lowered her head and whispered, "Mom, it was my uncle who ate them. I saw him grabbing..."

"Pa" Before Juanjuan could finish, her mother slapped her hard and scolded, "You little scoundrel who eats outsiders, why are you talking about your uncle behind his back? When did your uncle..."

"Wow~" Juanjuan burst into tears, "It was my uncle who stole the rabbits. He stole one and you didn't scold him, and you let him steal and eat the second one as well."

Others glared at Zhao Qin, "Dazhu's wife, what are you doing?"

Zhao Qin felt ashamed after being exposed by the daughter of the family. He angrily put down the rabbits and walked out quickly, pulling Juanjuan.

Panpan yelled, "Don't hit the children!"

Huahua, Honghong, and Huzi also yelled, "Don't hit the children!"

Zhao Qin walked to the door and was frightened by the children and almost stumbled on the doorstep.

Jing Shunnier, the wife of Erzhu who was helping here, heard it, looked out, and hurried out to say to Lin Shu with a smile, "Shaotang's wife, I was so busy that I forgot. My mother-in-law gave me rabbit money on the tenth day of the first lunar month and asked me to take it to the second grandmother, but I forgot. Hey, look at my brain, I forget things before I get old."

Lin Shu knew what was going on. It's

not the mother-in-law's fault that she cares about Xu Erzhu and his wife. Xu Erzhu is like his father, who is busy working without thinking about anything else, and Shunnier is almost the same.

This is because I heard my eldest sister-in-law being weird and beating the children here, so I wanted to describe this matter to avoid being laughed at.

In fact, the Lu family and Xu Laonian's family have a good relationship. Logically, they would not make trouble in front of outsiders for a few rabbits to make people excited.

It's just that Lin Shu came here. She doesn't have such deep feelings for the Xu family, and she will not put herself in a difficult position for others.

Lin Shu didn't ask Shunni'er for money.

Xu Laonian and Jin Ping'er have two daughters and two sons. The two daughters have been married for a long time, and the two sons are considered half-separated.

There are not enough houses in the family, so they are not completely separated. The two rooms still live with the old couple and everyone eats together, but the money and tickets issued per person are separated.

There was no reason to let Shunnier pay for Zhao Qin.

She told Shunnier to just work and not think about anything else. "My mother chose you because of your character and strength, not because of favors."

Shunnier was very happy and went back to work.

At lunch, Lin Shu wanted to talk to Fang Dihua, but the two kids had already reported it.

Fang Dihua also looked down on Zhao Qin, but she didn't care about the two rabbits she stole. Now she had money and didn't care about the two dollars.

Panpan silently converted two yuan into two hundred candies in her heart. She felt very painful for a moment, but she also knew that she should not be too stingy. She gritted her teeth and said, "It is said that a person's strength can be known only after a long journey, and a person's heart can be known only after a long time. Humph, I know what kind of person she is."

At this time, Xu Laonian's family was in conflict.

Shunnier went home for lunch at noon, and naturally told Jin Ping'er that Zhao Qinbin's rabbit was returned to her brother and he ate it secretly.

Although Shunnier was as capable and honest as Xu Erzhu, she was not as honest as Xu Erzhu. Xu Erzhu was not silent even when he suffered a loss. He always felt that they were brothers and there was no need to care so much. Everyone could see it with their own eyes. Did she ask him to work without seeing the second wife?

Shunnier, however, had a lot of opinions about her mother-in-law's partiality to the first wife. Usually, if the mother -in-law

had something delicious, she would secretly give it to Xu Dazhu and the grandson of the first wife, and even Zhao Qin could secretly eat more delicious food. In the past, Shunnier could earn eight work points from working in the fields, while Zhao Qin could only earn six or seven. After returning home, Shunnier fetched water, watered the vegetables, and fed the pigs, while Zhao Qin did her own thing. Shunnier tolerated all this, thinking that they were all family members and there was no need to care so much. It was just a little work, and she had plenty of energy. But if Zhao Qin went out to plot against the second grandmother's family, wouldn't this destroy the relationship between the Xu family and the Lu family? What if Lin Shu and the second grandmother felt that the Xu family was not trustworthy, wouldn't the second wife follow the first wife to eat the spoils? So she told Jin Ping'er that Zhao Qin returned the rabbit she owed to Lu's family to her brother and pretended to run away after eating it. When Jin Ping'er heard this, she asked Shun Ni'er not to make it public, so that people would not hear the joke. Shun Ni'er said: "My sister-in-law is embarrassed in front of others, and so many people are watching."

Jin Ping'er looked at her in surprise, "Shaotang's wife...just embarrassed your eldest sister-in-law like that?"

Shunni'er: "Why did Shaotang's wife embarrass her? Didn't she embarrass herself?"

Jin Ping'er's face sank, and she knew that this matter was not Lin Shu's fault. Although she slightly complained about Lin Shu's lack of face in her heart, she blamed the second daughter-in-law more. She sullenly scolded: "What's the matter? Your eldest sister-in-law is embarrassed, and you are gloating? Don't you know how to smooth things over? Do you have family members like you?"

Shunni'er didn't expect her mother-in-law to scold herself instead of her eldest sister-in-law, and she felt wronged and disappointed.

It's okay for the mother-in-law to favor the eldest wife, but why is she so confused about right and wrong?

She said, "Anyway, I told you that my sister-in-law still owes money. You can handle it, mother."

Jin Ping'er complained again, "You have money, why don't you pay

for your sister-in-law?" Shunni was too lazy to say that if she gave it but Lin Shu didn't want it, then her mother-in-law would probably have to ask her for money to fill the hole for her sister-in-law.

She said, "I don't have money."

After that, she went into the house to eat.

Jin Ping'er went to ask Zhao Qin for money and scolded her, "You are so short-sighted. You dare to go to the second grandmother's house and embarrass yourself."

Zhao Qin was immediately unhappy, "Mother, what's wrong with me? Dad works like a slave for his family, and that's it..."

"Shut up!" Jin Ping'er heard the old man's footsteps coming in from outside and hurriedly stopped Zhao Qin.

But Xu Laonian had good hearing and had heard it all. He strode to the door of the main hall with his hands behind his back, staring at Zhao Qin and Jin Ping'er with heavy eyes, "Second Master saved my life. I just did a little helper's work, and Second Master gave me a house to live in and enough food to eat! You say I'm treated like a slave? Have you seen what it's like to be treated like a slave? This season, just after spring, I go to the fields barefoot and pull the plowshare with my shoulders. My shoulders are sore all day long, and the two handfuls of rice I earn are not enough to eat myself, and I have to bring them back to support my wife and children. Have I starved you all these years?"

Xu Laonian usually doesn't like to talk, but today he was so angry that he started to speak at length.

Xu Laonian looked at Jin Ping'er and said, "Take the money and let her deliver it herself to apologize to the Second Madam."