Chapter 194 Optimist

With Xu's mother's guarantee, the mother and son were reassured. However, in order to look good in the test, Xu Chengcai still asked Xu Shihua to give him extra lessons and estimate the questions.

Although Xu Shihua didn't want to pay attention to him, he had to help when Xu's mother asked him to.

When the test time came, Lin Shu took the three children to the brigade office.

In the past, the office was the brigade's accounting office. Now, it was considered good for Brother Lu to come and stay for half a day in five days. The rest of the time, he was running orders, delivering goods, etc.

As for the accounts?

Isn't it that he has his eldest son to take advantage of?

The rules of the brigade primary school now are to study cultural classes in the morning and labor classes in the afternoon. During the busy farming season, they have to plant and harvest crops, and during the free time, they have to mow grass and collect manure.

Lu Ping, Lu An, Hou Bo and Hou Yingying are no exception.

Now that the spring planting has not started yet, the children have basically nothing to do. Hou Bo and his friends come to help Lu Ping

. Lin Shu wants to select electricians, and she has to ask Hou Bo and Lu An to help.

She asked a few children to help with Chinese and math questions, which are nothing more than filling in the blanks and dictation, such as electrical terms such as sockets and wires, and math is a simple four arithmetic operations.

They copied it on a large white paper and asked everyone to write their own answers according to the questions.

Lin Shu formulated the writing requirements. She asked each candidate to write a self-introduction, mainly introducing their family and personal situation, and then write about their understanding and imagination of electricity and electrician work.

Writing articles is really a good way to test an ordinary person's learning ability.

Ordinary people, especially ordinary people in this era, can read and write, write some simple articles, and do simple four arithmetic operations. Only

by knowing arithmetic can you calculate your own work points and dividends, and whether the food is correct. If you can't do it, you can only do what the team says.

To be an electrician, you have to learn mathematics. Mathematics is the basis of physics. When training electricians, you must learn some simple physics knowledge, so that you can connect theory with practice and better operate and repair.

In fact, if we want to select electricians, high school students are definitely more suitable. After all, it is more difficult to pass the high school entrance examination in this era than in later generations. It is good if three or five students from a junior high school class can pass the examination. The level of high school students is still very strong.

Oh, it refers to the things before the education reform. At that time, it was 633, and now it is 522.

The level of high school students nowadays may not be as high as that of junior high school students before the education reform.

Among them is a young man named Yang Tao, who is 22 years old this year. He was a junior high school student before the movement. Lin Shu thinks that his level of reading, writing and calculation is sufficient.

Lin Shu read his self-introduction and his determination and suggestions for some work after becoming an electrician. He wrote meaningfully, and his handwriting was straight and straight, serious and clear, not sloppy or frivolous at all.

The article was well written, and the answers to the Chinese and math questions at the level of elementary school students were naturally correct.

Lin Shu smiled at him and asked him a few more questions, which was considered an interview plus an oral test.

Yang Tao didn't dare to look at her directly. She was so beautiful and elegant and cultured that he felt ashamed and subconsciously wanted to humbly submit.

However, he answered the questions clearly and answered them all well.

Lin Shu knew what was going on, so she wrote an excellent on his paper and asked him to go back first and come to the team bulletin board tomorrow afternoon to see the results.

After waiting for a long time, two more people handed in their papers.

Lin Shu took a look. Is this the level of a junior high school student?

You are just scribbles?

No matter how bold the characters are, they are not as clear as Tiantian's.

Another question, you got the addition and subtraction within 100 wrong. What kind of junior high school level is this?

You are a junior high school student and you got the answer wrong. How can you be ashamed?

Seeing her frowning, Xu Chengcai felt uneasy. When he greeted Lin Shu just now, he mentioned the Xu family, but she didn't seem to respond.

Should he mention it again?

Lin Shu said to the man whose handwriting was a mess, full of mistakes and inexpressive, "Okay, you can go back."

The man felt good about himself, "I'm accepted, right?"

Hearing his confident tone, Panpan said loudly, "Didn't you hear me just now? The admission list will be posted tomorrow afternoon!"

He leaned over to take a look at the man's paper, and his eyebrows immediately frowned. It was really eye-catching. Some people went to school for nothing, right?

Is your teacher a shaman? I heard that many shamans are uneducated and illiterate, but they can draw talismans. I guess that's it.

The man was immediately unhappy. Although he had no time to study because of sports in those two years, he was still a junior high school graduate. How could

a woman who only went to primary school... who had only studied for a few days, have the qualifications to judge herself?

Humph, isn't it just because of her man's support? Otherwise, how could the team let her be selected?

He was not convinced!

However, he was afraid of Lu Shaotang and Fang Dihua's fierceness, so he didn't dare to be too obvious, but smiled and said: "Comrade Lin Shu, have you graduated from junior high school?"

Lin Shu was sitting and he was standing. She glanced at him, and seeing the expression of "I want to test your level", she pouted and didn't bother to pay attention to him.

What's the matter, do you still want me to write an article for you?

Then you can dream about it. Why should I prove it to you? Who do you think you are and you want to test me?

The man felt despised. "Comrade Lin Shu, I am communicating with you in a friendly way. I wrote an article for you to read..."

Lin Shu: "Hand in your paper and go back. Don't stand here and bother me."

Are you stupid? The admission instructions clearly state that you should be diligent and studious, abide by rules and regulations, be bold and careful, and be gentle and not impetuous.

This is very subjective. As long as you pretend to be someone else, you won't argue. After all, as long as you are not the kind of man with a bad temper who curses and fights all day long, no one will use this to hold you back.

But you are here to challenge me? This shows that you have a problem with your personality. You are conceited and do not abide by discipline. You are bold, but it is hard to believe that you will be careful and work-oriented after becoming an electrician. Don't delay your work because of a dispute over your feelings.

Lin Shu had already written him off in her heart, not to mention that he made a lot of mistakes, his words were not expressive, and he was arrogant and narcissistic!

Xu Chengcai was very nice, pushing the man aside, wanting Lin Shu to comment on him.

Lin Shu: "Did you write the article yourself?"

Xu Chengcai was surprised and said, "What's the matter? Of course I wrote it. Didn't I just write it while sitting there?"

Lin Shu glanced at him. This was her intuitive judgment. Xu Chengcai didn't seem to be educated, but the article he wrote... used several flowery idioms, and looked sourly like Xu Shihua's style.

Xu Shihua was also knowledgeable. It was not a big deal if she could guess the topic correctly. After all, she couldn't test their electrical knowledge, nor could she test something too difficult. At most, she would ask them to write some simple words to introduce themselves.

Lin Shu said, "Write another article about how you would require the two team members if you were the electrician team leader, and set rules and regulations for your team to follow."

Xu Chengcai was dumbfounded. This... Uncle didn't say it.

Uncle said that Lin Shu at most asked them to introduce themselves. At most, they could pretend to be electricians, but they never pretended to be team leaders.

He copied this article several times before he could remember it. He couldn't remember many words and didn't write them down.

Lin Shu thought that this person was a bit of a blockhead. Do you need someone to teach you this? Think about it yourself. If you are a team leader, you should first ask others to abide by the rules, come to work on time, not be late, work seriously, etc. You can always think of it, right?

Soon, other people also handed in their papers.

Among the eight or nine papers handed in, Lin Shu had already picked four people, but only needed to go.

She was a little undecided about two of them.

One was called Wang Tiegang. He looked honest and didn't talk much, but his handwriting was very serious.

One of them, Liu Bo, looked quite clever, talked a lot, had a bit of humor, and his handwriting was very elegant.

Lin Shu asked them to write a copy of Xu Chengcai's second article, which was about how to set rules if you were a team leader.

Liu Bo wrote a long article in a flash, mostly off topic, while Wang Tiegang was very serious, all of which were about some issues that he could imagine electricians need to abide by.

After reading it, Lin Shu made a choice.

This is the selection of electricians for the team. You just need to be bold and careful, diligent and steady. The more steady, the better.

This young man named Liu Bo is more suitable to be a salesperson. Let's go back and ask him if he is interested in following Brother Lu to do business. The incense factory is getting bigger and bigger and needs manpower.

Lin Shu didn't need to test anything. With just a few people and such a basic level, it was really easy to select.

She wrote down the three names she had chosen to the branch secretary, and asked him to write them out with a brush and paste them on.

Xu Chengcai was still trying to speak, but he only managed to say three sentences, and then he messed up a few sentences of the self-introduction that Xu Shihua taught him.

Lin Shu took a look and let him go. A person who can't even do the four arithmetic operations in elementary school, do you expect him to be an electrician? Don't let him get electrocuted.

Not selecting him is saving him.

Xu Chengcai thought to himself that it was not good, so he ran to find Xu's mother, "Aunt, I'm afraid I was rejected."

Xu's mother: "No, you didn't tell her that you are from my family?"

Xu Chengcai: "I did, I told her as soon as we met."

The two of them were too confident, not knowing that it would have been better if they hadn't said anything. As soon as he said that he called Xu Shihua uncle, Lin Shu felt uncomfortable, but she just continued to look at his paper based on the principle of not being biased.

Seeing that he was indeed a fool, Lin Shu had no burden in not admitting him, not because she was uncomfortable with the Xu family, but because he was really not good enough.

Xu's mother looked outside, it was almost noon, and her daughter-in-law should be home soon.

Sure enough, within two minutes, Lu Hehuan came back from outside, holding her waist and holding her big belly.

She was already in the late pregnancy, and she was going to give birth in a month, so the brigade didn't need her to attend labor classes, and she could go home and rest after teaching the children in the morning.

Many people become ugly when they are pregnant, but Lu Hehuan is an exception. Not only has her skin become fairer and more translucent, her complexion has also improved a lot, and there are no pregnancy spots on her face due to pregnancy.

She has been in a good mood recently. It should be said that she has been very happy since the article she wrote for the brigade won an award and she participated in the commendation

meeting in the county. Through that meeting, she met some poets, painters, and writers with Xu Shihua, and participated in several literary and artistic seminars organized by them. She is working hard to join the county writers' association and literary federation.

She wanted Xu Shihua to be a recommender for her, but Xu Shihua said that she was not qualified and had not published any serious articles, so she told her not to bother.

She was not discouraged, but continued to write articles with great enthusiasm.

She wrote essays, narratives, reports, poems, no matter what the subject was.

She sent her works to pen pals she knew in the Writers Association for evaluation and revision suggestions.

At first, Xu Shihua suppressed her and told her not to send them to others to avoid being laughed at. He also deliberately threw away the letter she asked him to send.

Xu Xiaoyou secretly found it and asked Brother Lu to buy a stamp and send it out.

So Lu Hehuan now has a pen pal with whom she can communicate in literature. Although Xu Shihua was sarcastic, disapproving and unsupportive, Lu Hehuan still corresponded with people regularly.

Pen pals praised her for her talent!

Praising her for her fresh, bright, warm and optimistic writing style is like the rising sun, which can bring people a very happy feeling.

Look, people know how to praise, but Xu Shihua would only say that her writing is superficial and without substance!

Lu Hehuan feels that she is getting better and better when she is praised, and she is getting closer and closer to Xu Shihua, and she is almost worthy of him.

She habitually only listens to compliments about herself and does not want to suppress her, so how can she not be happy?

Although Xu Shihua is still cold and violent to her from time to time now, her mentality is completely different from before.

Before, Xu's mother was also weird to her and treated her food and drink harshly. Now Xu's mother dare not treat her harshly. She eats and drinks enough every day and her stomach is very satisfied.

Before, Xu Xiaoyou was timid and afraid of her, but now Xu Xiaoyou cares about her and encourages her everywhere, praising her all day long, praising her for her beauty, talent, and good writing!

Before, she could only worship Xu Shihua, Xu Shihua was her channel to approach literature, but now she is also close to the Writers Association and the Federation of Literary Arts, has published articles herself, and has met pen pals!

Before, she thought it was very difficult, very noble, and sacred, but now she can also...enough?

After crossing that threshold, she found that it was not...that difficult?

Not even so sacred and inviolable?

Some people in the Writers Association and the Federation of Literary Arts, she could only read their names in newspapers and magazines before, and thought they were very great and sacred, but after seeing them, they are actually just...people?

Some of them are quite vulgar, indecent, lecherous and scoundrel, but she looks down on them!

Through comparison, she thinks Xu Shihua is really good, he is more handsome than most of them, his writing is not worse than theirs, and he is not as slick and lewd as them.

This proves that she has good taste, and she is right to pay so much to pursue him!

That's right!

It is normal for such a good man to look down on her articles, he is also trying to encourage her and stimulate her progress.

Then she should work hard!

Her pen pal said that the small river in her hometown she wrote is very good, especially the sister-in-law who washes clothes by the river, which is the focus of the article. She is as bright as the sun and as kind as a mother, and her shoulders are worn out for socialist construction.

When her article is published, she will stand closer to Xu Shihua.

It was so beautiful just to think about it. What's wrong with his cold words?

She even reflected deeply on herself. Why did she feel uncomfortable when he spoke coldly to her before, and blame him in her heart? Did she not love him enough?

No, she was not good enough!

He was urging her to improve!

He was doing it for her good!

After improving her own ideological cognition, Lu Hehuan was very optimistic every day. Even if something bad happened in school, she would not get angry if Lu Jinling or anyone else bullied her.

It didn't matter. They didn't understand her. They were not her relatives. She didn't love them, so of course she wouldn't get angry for them.

Xu's mother got angry when she saw her cheerful all day long. Maybe she was jealous. After all, how many women were so silly and cheerful all day long after marriage? Anyway, she was always frowning. Part of it was because she was acting hard, and a large part was real pain.

Although she was not happy before getting married, she was bullied by her mother-in-law after getting married, and her husband sometimes treated her tenderly and sometimes beat her. She could not be called happy.

The only hope is the child. Children are soft. As long as you treat them sincerely, they will love you sincerely.

However, the child has changed when he grows up.

Now her son... doesn't listen to her. Fortunately, she still has a grandson.

Xu's mother looked at Lu Hehuan with a complex look of jealousy and disgust. She believed that there was no woman in the world who could truly open her heart to accept her daughter-in-law without a little jealousy and disgust towards her daughter-in-law.

Think about it, the son you raised so well, the son you raised with your youth and life, so excellent and handsome, was picked by another woman, and you are just an old mother.

Looking at the young and beautiful daughter-in-law, how can there be a mother-in-law who is calm and not jealous?

Xu's mother thought that Fang Dihua's kindness to Lin Shu was fake, and that old lady Jiang's kindness to her daughter-in-law was also fake, wasn't it just for the sake of having a grandson?

Humph! What are you pretending for!

After preparing herself mentally, Xu's mother could look down on the Lu family and act like a mother-in-law to Lu Hehuan.

"Then who, pack up, I'll accompany you back to your parents' home in the afternoon."

Xu's mother said to Lu Hehuan.

Lu Hehuan had nothing to do in the afternoon and was preparing to go back to her parents' home. She had to show off her articles to Lin Shu. Her pen pals in the Writers Association all praised her for her talent!

After hearing what Xu's mother said, she didn't think much about it. Now she was not tired from work, she was in a good mood, and there were no children making trouble every day. I don't know how easy life would be.

She never thought about unhappy things. Even when Xu's mother sometimes found fault and ridiculed her, she would smile and say, "You don't understand, you are uneducated, you don't understand literature, I don't blame you", which made Xu's mother angry.

Stepson Xu Yaoyao was looking for trouble? Isn't that because of his good girl Xiaoyou? She kept Xu Yaoyao in good hands and beat him if he dared to make trouble.

Xu's mother didn't dare to escalate the war, so she could only coax Xu Yaoyao to be a little better.

You see, as long as the adults are honest, the naughty children will immediately behave.

Her stepdaughter supported her unconditionally, Xu Yaoyao didn't dare to lose his temper with her, and her mother-in-law didn't dare to treat her harshly. Xu Shihua still loved her so deeply and uniquely. Lu Hehuan felt that, well, life is so beautiful!

Go back to your parents' home!

After lunch, Xu Xiaoyou packed up the family's decent gifts for visiting relatives. His aunt didn't care about their things at all. She usually kept some fresh food and packed the rest back.

Xu's mother knew this, but she was mean and had to make some sarcastic remarks.

Xu Xiaoyou retorted without any hesitation, which made Xu's mother so angry that her face turned blue.

Xu Xiaoyou specially helped Lu Hehuan check the article and wanted to bring it to his aunt to appreciate.

Although Lu Hehuan said that the third sister-in-law had never been to school and was uneducated, and could not tell whether an article was good or not, Xu Xiaoyou said, "Your aunt said that your article was well written, and she submitted it for you. My father said that if it was not well written, no one would read it and it would not be selected. I think my aunt's appreciation level is much higher than your husband's", so Lu Hehuan did not resist Xu Xiaoyou showing her work to Lin Shu.

The third sister-in-law would comment on it and even put forward pertinent suggestions for revision.

Xu Xiaoyou supported Lu Hehuan, Lu Hehuan carried the small basket, and Xu's mother carried Xu Yaoyao on her back, and they went to Lu's house together.

Xu Yaoyao was already 4 years old, and was fat because of Xu's mother. He looked very impressive on the skinny Xu's mother's back.

He could run and jump a long time ago, but Xu's mother still liked to carry him on her back when she went out. As it became a habit, he naturally didn't want to walk by himself, and would only rely on her back.

Xu's mother sighed, complaining about how tired she was, how hard it was, and how clingy her child was, but she refused to put her grandson down and walk by herself.

It seemed that if she didn't tire herself out to the point of bending her back, she couldn't show the value of her existence.

Everyone felt sorry for her before, but after Lin Shu and Xu Xiaoyou said something, they came to their senses and felt that she didn't deserve sympathy for liking that, and that her grandson was useless because of her.

Xu Xiaoyou looked at her brother's proud look on Xu's mother's back and shouted, "Xu Yaoyao, get off and walk by yourself!"

Xu's mother immediately scolded her, "You're going to die, why are you so fierce to your brother?"

Xu Xiaoyou ignored her and just stared at Xu Yaoyao and told him to get off, "Others can walk at one year old, but you are four years old and still need someone to carry you, are you a pig?"

Xu Yaoyao: "You are a pig, you are the pig!"

Xu Xiaoyou whipped him with a branch from the roadside.

Xu's mother was so angry that she wanted to beat Xu Xiaoyou again, but she couldn't hit him at all. She also felt embarrassed to make a fuss on the road, so she had to suppress her temper and coax her grandson to get off and walk.

"When we get home, I will give you sugar water and make brown sugar water eggs, and I won't give them to your sister."

Lu Hehuan was inspired again, and took out a small notebook imitating Tiantian's binding and wrote down: The son is a rascal, sometimes naughty, sometimes timid, and the daughter is obedient, gentle on one side and tough on the other. At

the Lu family, most people went to work and school after dinner. The three children were checking Fang Dihua's hand. Panpan wanted to apply the medicine bottle to the milk, but when he looked at the hand that had returned to normal, it seemed that there was no place to apply it?

Fang Dihua's hand was not seriously burned at the time, and Father Lu treated it in time and in place. Although blisters, itching and peeling occurred later, the back of the hand returned to its original state after the growth of new tissue, and there was no scar.

Usually they only apply a thin layer of ointment to others, but Father Lu and his two sons always apply a thick layer to Fang Dihua, and they are particularly willing to do so.

Anyway, she has recovered very well.

Seeing the daughter-in-law bringing her mother-in-law, step-son and step-daughter over, Fang Dihua was a little puzzled.

What is this old woman doing here?

It is common for Lu Hehuan and Xu Xiaoyou to return to the Lu family. They come every few days, so they don’t need to greet anyone when they come back. They are particularly comfortable.

Xu’s mother is naturally not like that. No matter how much she has prepared herself to despise the Lu family, she is still afraid of Fang Dihua, and she always has to smile and say a few words of greeting to the in-laws.

"Your hand has recovered well, unlike our Yaoyao." Mother Xu's eyes turned red again as she said this. She took her grandson over and took off his cotton shoes to show everyone Xu Yaoyao's feet.

Xu Yaoyao's feet were boiled in boiling water, and then he didn't use cool water. Mother Xu smeared soy sauce and other things all over them. It was a bit late to go to the infirmary for treatment.

It was itchy and painful for a long time, and the skin peeled off several layers, and there was a scar on the injured part.

Fortunately, the purple-red scar was not on the face, otherwise it would be disfigured.

Xu Xiaoyou said to Xu Yaoyao, "You came to grandma's house, did you call anyone?"

Xu Yaoyao wanted to glare at her, but he felt a strong murderous aura. He glanced at Panpan, Tiantian, and Hou Wei and met their fierce eyes. He was so scared that he shouted, "Grandma, aunt, brother and sister..."

Panpan generously gave him two of the cheapest orange candies, which were of course defective, and each one had a missing corner.

Xu Yaoyao was very happy and immediately fawned on him like a brother or sister, which made Xu's mother very angry.

Children like candies, and whoever gives them candies is a good person and a relative.

Fang Dihua chatted with Xu's mother for a few words. She was not good at chatting with people she didn't like. She could chat with Lin's mother or Mrs. Jiang for a whole day, but with Xu's mother... three sentences were too much.

Xu Xiaoyou showed Lu Hehuan's work to Lin Shu. She knew that Lu Hehuan was embarrassed and a little arrogant, and couldn't show it.

Lin Shu did not refuse, and praised it after reading it, "It's very good, very happy to read, and it makes people feel pure happiness."

Xu Xiaoyou brought a few short poems this time, such as:

The morning mist

is like curling smoke, and

the fragrance is everywhere.

Ah, that is

the sweetness of braised pork

. And:

Look, look,

the face of the moon

is sometimes waning and sometimes full,

just like your heart for me,

sometimes close and sometimes far away.

There are also a few other poems, which are very simple and straightforward, but can make people feel pure happiness.

Lin Shu is not a serious writer. The threshold for writing and publishing is relatively high in this era, but after the development of the Internet, the threshold for writing is very low. As long as you have the desire to express yourself, you can write. Many people do self-media and write online articles. Even many people write diaries and daily life on the Internet, and there will be many readers.

There are many kinds of reading and communication media, which are more convenient and faster, which will make it easier for people to write.

She encourages all positive creations. Why should we use good or bad to evaluate? As long as you are willing to express yourself, it is good.

Seeing Lin Shu praising her like this, Lu Hehuan thought to himself: Oh, the third sister-in-law has something. She can actually say almost the same words as the pen pals in the Writers Association.

Lu Hehuan was grateful to Lin Shu because she had persuaded Xu's mother not to mistreat Lu Hehuan and Xu Xiaoyou. Now he felt closer to his third sister-in-law. In fact, his third sister-in-law had always been very good to him. She was ignorant before, so he had to be better to her in the future.

It seemed that his third sister-in-law was not just beautiful but also talented. If she had the opportunity to study, she might be able to write articles.

Lu Hehuan never focused on trivial matters in life. As long as she had enough to eat and drink and no one was causing trouble, she would not worry about what to eat or how much money the family had. Her mind was full of Xu Shihua, literature, and pen pals.

Now he wanted to give Lin Shu some advice so that she could also study and write.

Just then, Sister Lin mentioned the Qizhou Family Courtyard, so Lu Hehuan asked, "Third sister-in-law, eldest sister, I want to ask you about someone."

The two looked at her.

Lu Hehuan: "That person is called Xue Hanshan. He seems to be a writer of the Provincial Writers Association and an official of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He is probably also a member of the national level. He is very powerful!" Sister

Lin didn't know that she had no sense of existence in the family courtyard and didn't have many social contacts.

Lin Shu was more sensitive to Xue. Wasn't Xue Lian the chairman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles? It was not clear whether it was the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles or the Qizhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

Then Xue Hanshan must be her relative.

Having the same surname easily makes people think of a family.

Seeing Lin Shu's expression, Lu Hehuan said in surprise: "Third sister-in-law, do you really know him? Let me tell you, Xue Hanshan is amazing. He has written many articles, all of which are very good. He..."

She started to talk about how good Xue Hanshan is, how profound his articles are, and even recited Xue Hanshan's articles on the spot.

Lin Shu: "..."

Wasn't this how this person was when he was obsessed with Xu Shihua?

He started to be overjoyed when he picked up a collection of poems, and recited them secretly, thinking that he was the best in the world.

Lin Shu: "I don't know him. I've never heard of him."

Lu Hehuan kept talking as if someone had fixed his mouth on her. "You don't know him? That's okay. This writer Xue is amazing. I'll introduce you to him later."

Lin Shu: "Not interested."

To deal with someone like Lu Hehuan, you have to reject her coldly. Otherwise, she will think you are as crazy as she is and will cling to you and brainwash you like crazy. There are so many things about this person and she wants you to be obsessed with him as well.

That's how she treated Xu Shihua.

Lin Shu's indifference immediately poured ice water on Lu Hehuan, forcibly cooling down her feverish mind.

This made Lu Hehuan think again: Third sister-in-law is really useless, not striving for progress at all, just be a vase for the rest of her life.

She silently took back the words that she thought Lin Shu had a hidden meaning, and put the vase back on Lin Shu's head.

But soon she felt something was wrong. Third sister-in-law's reaction clearly showed that she knew Xue Hanshan. Could there be some contradiction? Otherwise, why would she turn hostile so easily?

Xu's mother had nothing to say to Fang Dihua. Seeing that Lin Shu was also in a lull, she interrupted and said, "His aunt, the brigade asked you to select an electrician these two days? How did the selection go?"

Lin Shu: "Very good."

Xu's mother: "Who did you choose?"

Lin Shu: "You may not know him."

Xu's mother was choked. There was no way to talk today. This daughter-in-law was really annoying.

She gritted her teeth and said, "As the saying goes, a neighbor is better than a distant relative, and good things should not flow into the fields of outsiders."

The children who were listening to the radio over there looked back at her in surprise. Why did she say these two sentences in a row? Are they related?

Xu's mother thought she smiled very kindly and dignified, "There is a boy in our family named Xu Chengcai. Do you know his aunt?"

Lin Shu: "I remember him. He probably didn't graduate from elementary school. He can't read and his math is terrible."

Lin Shu knew what Xu's mother meant as soon as she showed up. Was she here to help Xu Chengcai get a backdoor?

During the selection, Xu Chengcai specifically mentioned Xu Shihua and Xu's mother twice, but she ignored them and thought that anyone who wasn't a fool would be able to see her attitude.

Unexpectedly, a fool would do the same.

So she didn't give Xu's mother a chance to speak, and directly belittled Xu Chengcai, saying that this person was low-level and unqualified.

Mother Xu was not an ordinary person. Seeing Lin Shu belittle her nephew, she immediately became unhappy and smiled. "Oh, why do you say that about a young man? I watched him grow up. He is tall and handsome, with a good temperament, kind and polite, and quite..."

Xu Xiaoyou was dissatisfied. "Grandma, my aunt is selecting an electrician, not arranging a blind date for anyone!" Mother Xu

was so angry that she raised her hand to hit her, but unfortunately Xu Xiaoyou was far away and she couldn't hit her. She could only take a note of hatred.

Fang Dihua said: "The electrician is selected for the team, not for my family. The best three must be selected."

The Lu family must choose the right person for their own affairs.

Not to mention her two sons and the other men in the Xu family, even the second daughter-in-law who was lazy while working in the fields, was always diligent in her duties and never lazy when grinding the incense flour.

Xu's mother wanted to speak, but Shunnier from the incense-making room called her, and she perfunctorily said a few words to Xu's mother and left.

Xu's mother wanted to argue with Lin Shu, but she had boasted to them that she would definitely get this done.

If they can't even do such a small thing, are they still in-laws?

Humph, they said they didn't use connections, but maybe the three people who were admitted used gifts and connections, surely they gave more and they complained that they didn't give anything?

Could it be that the connections of the in-laws are not as good as those things?

She hesitated, Xu Chengcai's mother didn't give her anything, only three feet of cloth.

She just felt that she couldn't refuse him when he found her, and she also wanted to show off her ability. How could she know that Lin Shu wouldn't give her face?

Xu's mother tried several times, but Lin Shu blocked her.

Finally, Xu Xiaoyou got annoyed, "Grandma, if you have nothing to do, just go back."

Xu's mother was so angry! She

had no idea what to do.

When Lu Hehuan brought Xu Xiaoyou home, Xu's mother felt uncomfortable lying on the kang again.

Lu Hehuan and Xu Xiaoyou had dinner at Lu's house and she went straight into the house to start creating, and Xu Xiaoyou also went over to learn to read.

Now Xu Xiaoyou is the one who cooks at home, and Lu Hehuan doesn't get involved. The two of them don't care whether Xu's mother has eaten or not.

When Xu Shihua came back on his bike in the evening, he heard his mother sobbing on the kang in the east room.

"Oh, I'm so tired. I'm old and can't move. I'll starve to death."

Xu Shihua: "Mom, are you sick?"

Xu's mother just wiped her tears. Xu Yaoyao had eaten snacks and fell asleep. She was hungry.

Xu Shihua turned and went into the west room. He saw Lu Hehuan lying on the kang table and writing something in front of the oil lamp. He sneered, "Mom is sick, don't you know?"

Lu Hehuan was immersed in his own creation and didn't hear his voice.

Xu Xiaoyou: "Dad, don't pretend to be ignorant when you know the truth. My grandma is pretending. In the afternoon, I went to ask my aunt to be an electrician for Xu Chengcai. My aunt refused, so she came back to embarrass herself and pretend."

Xu Shihua: "..."

Now, whenever he says a few words to Lu Hehuan, this girl will immediately jump out and accuse him.

Whenever the old lady is uncomfortable, he questions Lu Hehuan, and she will immediately jump out and accuse the two of them of pretending.

He decided to beat the daughter of the hero in the book and let her suffer more.

He said, "Your grandma hasn't eaten yet, go cook."

He wanted to let Lu Hehuan cook, but Xu Xiaoyou didn't let her cook, wash clothes, fetch water, or grind the millstone since she got pregnant. If he asked Lu Hehuan to work, Xu Xiaoyou would jump higher than the house and shout louder than the commune loudspeaker, wishing that everyone in the world would know that he, Xu Shihua, abused his pregnant wife. As

a big man, he certainly couldn't cook, so he let his daughter-in-law do it.

Xu Xiaoyou rolled her eyes at him, "Didn't you see me studying? I'm tired all day, what's wrong with you cooking for your mother?"

If grandma was really sick, she would definitely take care of her, but it was obvious that she was just making trouble on purpose, what was her habit?

She is 8 years old this year and will start school in the fall. She has already agreed with Panpan and Tiantian to learn the elementary school courses in advance and go to school together in the fall.

Xu Shihua was so angry that her face turned black and she yelled at Lu Hehuan: "Lu Hehuan, can you control her?"

Lu Hehuan had been immersed in his own creation. He looked up and asked blankly: "Ah? Shihua, you are back?"

Xu Shihua felt that she could not return to this home and was going to piss him off to death.