Chapter 202: People from the Capital

Mrs. Guan was secretly happy, and Fang Dihua and Lin Shu were also happy after buying a lot of things.

This was really a happy situation for everyone.

Granny Fang was still sighing, "It is said that people in the city have many schemes and they are calculating us country people. I think the people in this courtyard are very nice, and that little Guan is also very good. I thought badly of him."

She came with her daughter, and friends of Shao Tang and Shao Tang's wife came to visit. No matter how many there were, they all brought some gifts and said nice things.

Especially the daughter-in-law named Yang Shumin, after learning to make kimchi from Lin Shu, she came to give a bottle when she could eat it.

In fact, Yang Shumin came to reserve furniture for the back with Lin Shu.

After installing this set of cabinets at home, she threw away the other old furniture and gave them away. Now her home is tidy and spacious, and there are enough cabinets.

Everyone who visited her home had nothing bad to say, which made her very proud.

Many of her relatives and friends came to ask her about the same style.

Yang Shumin was also smart. She came to discuss with Lin Shu, "Sister, I have inquired about the furniture factories around, and the price you gave me is really cheap."

Not only is it cheap, but the workmanship is also good.

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Of course, Sister Yang, the price you bought it is the same as mine, but you have to pay a little more for the travel fee, which is a few dollars more."

Those few dollars are nothing.

Yang Shumin: "Many people came to ask me, do you think we should add some money? We can split the extra money equally."

Lin Shu: "Sister Yang, you contacted them, you can just add some money, no need to give me a share."

Yang Shumin insisted on giving her half, and after much push and pull, Lin Shu said that she just needed to pay the carpenter a few more yuan for the labor fee, and the rest was waived.

She suggested that Yang Shumin should not add too much, lest others think it was not well calculated, and go back to steal the sample and find nearby carpenters to do it.

As long as the price is similar, or a few yuan more expensive, people will not change carpenters. After all, carpenters have different skills, and others may not be able to achieve this effect, and Yang Shumin's samples are ready-made, and you can see the carpenter's skills.

Yang Shumin was very happy to see her so generous. Although Lin Shu didn't want money, she thought that she would buy Lin Shu a gift when she made money from the counter.

Lin Shu looked at the order and thought that she should find a few more good carpenters so that she could set up a furniture factory.

After the reform and opening up, the number of migrant workers in the city increased sharply, and various consumer demands also increased dramatically. Even setting up a stall can make money.

That is the first wind outlet. As long as you are willing to stand in it and be blown by the strong wind, you can make money.

These are the connections that Yang Shumin has built up, which will be convenient for her to open a store in the city in the future.

When Yang Shumin left, Lin Shu gave her some mosquito coils and high-end incense.

Now the sanitary incense of Lujiazhuang is in great demand, so there is no need to develop additional markets. The main reason is that the production volume cannot keep up due to the limited raw materials.

However, the current profit is good. The Lu family, the brigade and the production team can all share the money. Everyone is happy. All they need to do is stabilize the production.

After the negotiation, Yang Shumin left happily.

Lin Shu prepared the meal and peeked out from the balcony to call Fang Dihua and her grandmother to come back for dinner.

In order to instigate the relationship between Lin Shu and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Guan really spared no effort. Just this morning, she told a lot of people that Lin Shu bought a lot of things for her mother-in-law, spent all of Lu Shaotang's salary, and borrowed money from everywhere.

Everyone in the family compound praised Lin Shu for her filial piety and good relationship with her mother-in-law.

Old Lady Guan wanted Lin Shu to suffer in silence and to make her feel embarrassed. She was obviously unwilling to spend money on her mother-in-law, but she was forced to spend it by her.

She naturally came to enjoy the black face of Lin Shu who was angry with her.

She asked Fang Dihua: "Did your daughter-in-law complain last night? Did she lose her temper? Did she not show her displeasure to the eldest sister?"

Fang Dihua said expressionlessly, "No, my daughter-in-law is filial."

If she said it with a smile, it might be more convincing, but this expressionless face would only make people feel that she was not sincere and was speaking sarcastically. She couldn't even force a smile.

Old Lady Guan: "Hey, my nephew must have been wronged, and he must be blamed. Did the young couple...haven't they quarreled?"

Fang Dihua: "No, my son and his wife never quarrel, they are very loving."

Old Lady Guan thought to herself: You are making up stories. From what my son said, your daughter-in-law almost cursed someone. She must have cursed her mother-in-law and husband at home, and she wanted to curse me if she was not satisfied. If she didn't dare to curse, she called my son to complain.

Hehe. Cool!

While they were chatting, Lin Shu called them to eat, and Lu Shaotang also came back from work.

Old Lady Guan looked at Lu Shaotang with a smile and greeted him warmly, "You are back."

If other old women saw it, they would definitely be shocked. How could the domineering and mean Old Lady Guan become so kind and warm?

Lu Shaotang greeted Grandma Guan politely, then carried Grandma Fang upstairs.

After leaving Courtyard No. 8, Grandma Guan danced with joy. Haha, she saw it! There were two red marks on Lu Shaotang's neck, which must have been scratched by that hot woman Lin Shu!

Tsk tsk, she looks gentle and soft on the surface, but she is a tigress behind.

Fang Dihua said that her son and daughter-in-law are in love, but they must have had a fight last night.

Thinking of her son and daughter-in-law quarreling because of Lin Shu, and her grandson being beaten because of Lin Shu, she felt refreshed as if she had eaten a bowl of mung bean cakes.

Upstairs, Lu Shaotang put Grandma Fang down, washed his hands and had his meal.

After sitting down, he said to Fang Dihua: "Mom, my uncle from the capital called."

Fang Dihua was stunned for a moment, "Your uncle? What's the matter?"

Uncle Lu must have been in contact with San'er on weekdays, but San'er had never told her specifically, which meant that there was nothing going on at home.

Why did he tell her today?

Uncle Lu wrote to his family regularly, but he didn't say anything special.

Lu Shaotang nodded slightly, "Uncle wants to go home to visit grandma, visit her grave, and repair his own grave at the same time."

Fang Dihua: "Your uncle is not even seventy yet, why are you in such a hurry? He didn't say in the letter that he was in poor health."

Uncle Lu must have old injuries from leading troops in battles in his early years, but he practiced martial arts since he was a child and had a strong physique. Later, he was well recuperated in the capital. After retirement, he still goes boxing and running every day and is in good health.

Fang Dihua didn't see the need to repair the tomb so early, but the old man hadn't been home for years, so it was possible that he wanted to go home to visit.

She asked when Uncle Lu would be back.

Lu Shaotang: "They will take the train today and arrive in Qizhou tomorrow."

Lin Shu: "Why don't they take the train directly to Qingxian? Get off in Qizhou, and then go through so much trouble..." Before she finished speaking, she came to her senses and realized that she was stupid. Uncle Lu's family clearly wanted to get off in Qizhou and let Lu Shaotang arrange the follow-up matters.

There are trains from the capital to Qingxian, but the frequency is small and they arrive at the station at night, while there are many trains to Qizhou.

Although she has never met Uncle Lu and step-aunt, she and Fang Dihua subconsciously feel a little nervous when they are mentioned.

Although Father Lu and Uncle Lu have a deep brotherly relationship, they are only separated by a long distance and have little friction. In fact, they are not without problems.

At the beginning, Aunt Lu took her children to the capital and made it clear that she would never come back. Little did they know that Aunt Lu passed away and Uncle Lu remarried and had another son and daughter.

Later, when they sent Lu Shaocai and his family back, although Father Lu did not say anything, Fang Dihua knew in her heart that he wanted the second branch to be responsible for Lu Shaocai's family.

Lu Shaocai's family was not suited to farm work. Uncle Lu sent them back without arranging any jobs for them. He just let them go to work. But from Lu Shaocai to his children, they didn't work hard. They cried to their uncle and aunt. How could Lu Laodi and Fang Dihua watch them starve?

So Lu Laodi gave Lu Shaocai the job of accounting for the brigade.

Even so, stepmother wrote back that the second wife didn't control Lu Shaocai well, and always asked him to write to the capital to ask for money and tickets.

Although she didn't blame the second wife directly, everyone could understand her meaning.

Stepmother often said, "You have to take responsibility for your position, and you have to pay a price for the benefits you enjoy."

Fang Dihua and Lu Laodi also understood what he said. It was nothing more than that when Uncle Lu joined the army, he indirectly protected the Lu family and prevented Lu Laodi from being searched and criticized. Later, he brought Lu Shaotang to join the army and helped Lu Shaotang to have a future. The second wife should be grateful. As long as the first wife needs it, the second wife should provide help without complaint.

The rest is easy to say, but is it the second wife's fault that Lu Shaocai is not doing his job properly?

He is lazy and writes letters to the capital all day to ask for money and tickets. Is that the second wife's fault?

Fang Dihua was too lazy to say it. Anyway, the old man wrote letters to report good news and not worries, and only said good things and not bad things.

She said, "Didn't you say you were busy with work and didn't have time, so you asked someone to help you deliver it?"

If Lu Shaotang delivered it himself, he would be tied down and unable to leave, and would have to be the driver and waiter of the eldest wife.

Although Fang Dihua didn't seem to be that warm with her children, she loved her children as much as any mother.

When her son was young, he joined the army and entered the military academy with his excellent grades. Outsiders only saw that he had a promising future but didn't see the scars on his body at such a young age.

The eldest uncle was fond of his nephew's excellent grades and always invited him to dinner, but the stepmother was not so generous.

Stepmother Yan Ping married Uncle Lu with a son. The son was the same age as Lu Shaotang, but not as good as him.

Later, Lu Shaotang was selected to join the military academy, but Yan Ping's eldest son did not. She felt that Lu Shaotang had stolen her son's limelight.

Uncle Lu never mentioned these things in his letters, and Lu Shaotang naturally never mentioned them in his letters or when he went home. Father Lu and Fang Dihua figured them out based on stepmother's letters.

Almost every time she wrote to him, stepmother would mention: Shaotang was so lucky to be admitted to the Junior Military Academy, because it was his uncle who took great pains to get him in, and no one else had the opportunity. Although her own son was very outstanding, he did not ask his uncle for help.

But in fact, her eldest son's studies, work, and marriage were all arranged by his uncle Lu.

Lu Shaocai was so jealous and angry about this, because his biological father did not arrange a job for his eldest son, but was so concerned about the son brought by his stepmother.

Lu Shaotang: "It's okay, I can arrange my work and stay for two days. Uncle just wants to come back to visit, and he will go back after staying for ten days at most."

Fang Dihua thought about it, and said that she would take her mother home first, and go back early to prepare.

In fact, there is nothing to prepare. Uncle Lu also knows what the countryside is like. When he returns home, he will eat with the family. It is impossible for him to cook for them every day.

Lu Shaotang thought about it. When his uncle and step-aunt come over, the noisy mother and grandmother will be tired. It is better to go back early.

He is afraid that his wife will also be tired, so he wants Lin Shu to go back with her mother and grandmother.

He is a soldier, and many recruits have served as orderly soldiers for the leaders, so it is okay for his step-aunt to order him around, but he will not be happy if she orders his wife around.

If his step-aunt is interested and wants to play in Qizhou for two days, climbing mountains and going somewhere else, he doesn't care. He is afraid that Lin Shu can't handle it.

He already knew Lin Shu's habits. If she was taking her family and children out to play, it was fine. But if she had to go anywhere for a mission, she would feel very tired and very resistant.

Her step-aunt was a nurse by profession. Now she is the head nurse of the surgical department of the Capital Military District Hospital. She is usually quite picky.

In the past, if she saw a difficult elder coming over, Lin Shu would hide away without saying a word. Even if she didn't want to entertain them at home, she could hide away at her parents' house. But now she didn't want to hide away.

Thinking of how Lu Shaotang was ordered around by his step-aunt when he was in the capital, he felt a little unhappy.

This was different from asking Lu Ping and Lu An to deliver things to the Lin family, Ding family or Xu family. She and her two nephews lived under the same roof, and it was common for the family to help each other out. After all, she usually made clothes, shoes, and food for her two nephews, and she did not just ask them to run errands.

The step-aunt's behavior is very thought-provoking. As long as Lu Shaotang is called over by his uncle, she will find an excuse to send him to deliver things to pick up her niece. What does this mean?

Does it make people think that Lu Shaotang is hanging around her niece?

Or does she want him to be obsessed with her niece?

Fortunately, Lu Shaotang was not so superficial and would not fall in love with her niece just because her step-aunt asked her to give her a few things.

Although Lin Shu had never met Uncle Lu and step-aunt, she had a preconceived bad impression of step-aunt just like Xue Hanshan, so she set up a psychological defense mechanism for herself in advance.

She said to Lu Shaotang, "You can't handle it alone, I will stay to help you receive step-aunt, and then we can go home together."

Lu Shaotang held her hand, "Okay."

Lin Shu and Fang Dihua packed their things, and Lu Shaotang went to contact the car going to Qing County to take Fang Dihua and her grandmother back.

The main reason was that they had bought a lot of things with Grandma Guan, and they had to take them back.

Lin Shu didn't live here permanently, and Lu Shaotang's daily necessities were all distributed by the unit, so there was no need to buy extra. Fang Dihua was naturally reluctant to leave them behind and waste them.

When sending Fang Dihua and her grandmother to the car, Lin Shu pulled Grandma Fang and said, "Grandma, tell the two children that I will be home in the next two days, and tell them not to miss me too much." Grandma Fang

said yes repeatedly, and Fang Dihua said, "Don't worry, they will be so happy to take so many things back that they will not miss you at all. Just take care of yourself."

After seeing Fang Dihua and her grandmother off, Lu Shaotang went to the unit in the afternoon to arrange the work for the next two days, and Lin Shu went to talk to her good friend and said goodbye.

At night, the couple lay in bed, enjoying a rare moment of their own time. However, Lin Shu pulled Lu Shaotang aside and asked about Uncle Lu and step-aunt, fearing that they would be deliberately bullied when they met the next day.

Lu Shaotang hugged her tightly, kissed her, and whispered: "They are just uncle and aunt, not your parents-in-law, you don't have to be nervous."

Lin Shu: "You... are not nervous? When you joined the army, your uncle was very strict with you."

Lu Shaotang: "It's okay, he just has strict requirements, uncle is like this to his subordinates."

"What about your step-aunt, she must not be very good to you." Lin Shu felt sorry for him. He left his parents to join the army at the age of ten. His uncle had strict requirements, so he had to work extra hard. His step-aunt didn't like him very much, but he had to go to dinner for his uncle's face and was squeezed by his step-aunt.

Lu Shaotang felt her care, and a warm current surged in his heart.

Even when he was ten years old and training with the new recruits who were seventeen or eighteen years old, he tried his best not to fall behind. It was not easy at the beginning, but he did not think it was hard at all.

It was right for his uncle to be strict with him. He was brought to the military district because of his outstanding physical fitness. Moreover, his uncle was strict with all the soldiers, which was a good thing.

As for his step-aunt, it was even better.

He never felt embarrassed.

From the beginning, he regarded his uncle as the leader and his step-aunt as the leader's wife. He never regarded them as elders like his parents, and did not have unrealistic expectations of them. No matter how strict and picky they were with him, it was not too much.

When he was young, he was still a troublemaker, very strong-willed, inexplicably arrogant, and never convinced by anyone, and was not afraid of anyone. When he

joined the army, whether he met the platoon leader, the company commander, or the instructor, the regiment commander, or the political commissar, he never knew what it meant to be timid or to show weakness.

When he went to the military compound, facing so many children of the leaders, he never felt inferior or cowardly, and he would not be embarrassed or ashamed because people said that he was a beggar, a poor relative from the countryside, or a related household. He would just glare back at them with contempt, and if he had the chance, he would beat them on the training ground!

If they were not qualified to compete with him on the training ground, then he would beat their brothers, relatives, and even elders who were related to them!

He has been neither humble nor arrogant since he was a child, and he does not know what inferiority and cowardice are.

So he never felt embarrassed when someone deliberately humiliated me, because he would measure what he could do and would not do what he could not do no matter who ordered him to do it.

Of course, there was no need to tell Lin Shu about such complicated psychological activities. It was rare for his wife to feel sorry for him, so of course he would take advantage of it and then conquer the city.

At around 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the second day, Lu Shaotang took Lin Shu to Qizhou Railway Station to pick someone up.

They waited for a while at the exit of the train station, but the train was delayed by half an hour. When the train arrived, other people had already left the station one after another, but they had not seen Uncle Lu and step-aunt.

Lin Shu tiptoed to look inside and asked Lu Shaotang, "Is this the train? Did they say it was right?"

Lu Shaotang: "I confirmed that it is this train."

He asked Lin Shu to wait at the exit for a while while he explained to the staff about meeting Uncle Lu at the platform.

He thought that maybe his uncle was old, and his step-aunt was delicate and had a child with her, so it was inconvenient for them to walk with luggage, so they were slower than other passengers.

As a result, when he entered the platform, he found that in addition to Uncle Lu, his step-aunt and their grandson, there was also a boy, a girl and a little girl.

When he received the call from his uncle yesterday, he only said that he wanted to go back to his hometown to visit his parents and bury them, while his step-aunt only told him the train number and said that she would bring her grandson and asked him to pick him up at the station and make some arrangements.

Although Lu Shaotang was a little surprised, he did not show any abnormality. He strode forward to greet Uncle Lu, saluted first and then said hello.

Uncle Lu was very happy to see Lu Shaotang, hugged him and laughed loudly, "Shaotang, good, good!"

Lu Shaotang also greeted his step-aunt, and nodded slightly to the others, without greeting them one by one.

He knew all the visitors, his step-aunt's niece Yan Xin, who brought her little daughter, and his step-aunt's nephew Yan Bin.

Although he didn't know why his step-aunt brought them here, Lu Shaotang did not show any strange expression, and greeted them as usual.

He was not warm to others, and he was like this in the capital, and they also knew his character.

Yan Ping nodded, with a faint smile on her face, "Shaotang, why did you come to pick us up just now? I've been waiting for you for so long."

Lu Shaotang: "..."

Everyone picks up at the exit, how many people can just enter the platform?

Uncle Lu was very excited to step on his hometown, and urged them to hurry up, "Originally, we left the station earlier, but we had too much luggage and left one behind, which delayed us."

Lu Shaotang took the luggage from Uncle Lu, and helped them pick up the heavier luggage.

The boy on the ground looked up at Lu Shaotang, pouted and acted coquettishly, "Uncle, hug me!"

This is the boy of Yan Ping's eldest son, named Hu Xiaole, who is 6 years old this year.

Lu Shaotang lowered his eyes and glanced at him, and said in a serious voice: "You are a boy, you have to walk by yourself."

There was no softness or enthusiasm at all.

Yan Ping's face changed slightly, and her expression was unhappy.

The boy snorted, and immediately hugged Yan Ping unhappily, "Grandma, grandma, uncle is mean to me."

Uncle Lu picked him up, "Your uncle is moving the luggage, come, grandpa will hold you!"

Lu Shaotang carried the luggage and walked with Uncle Lu, leading them out of the station.

Yan Xin bit her lips hard and stared at Lu Shaotang, hoping to make eye contact with him.

Unfortunately, Lu Shaotang seemed to have no feelings. Except for nodding to her when he started to take the luggage, there was no communication afterwards.

She suddenly felt very aggrieved. He was obviously very good to her when she was in the capital.

At that time, she was still in high school. He drove to school to bring her food, brought her clothes on snowy days, and drove to pick her up when she and her classmates went out skating, which made her classmates envious and jealous. Even her good sisters said sourly that she had a good boyfriend.

Although she was only sixteen or seventeen years old at that time, she was really happy and liked him very much, and couldn't wait to marry him as soon as possible.

Who knew that he actually... left her and went home to get married at the order of his mother.

He must not like that country woman, and he must still... like her, right?

Thinking of this, she felt sad and distressed, and even had strong anger. She was angry and disgusted with Lu Shaotang's mother and country wife.

If it weren't for them, she would have had children with Lu Shaotang long ago, and there was no need to marry a man she didn't love and torture each other.

She also hated Lu Shaotang, who didn't want to stay in the capital, but had to go back to the countryside to marry an uneducated and ignorant rural wife.

Self-degradation! Self-degradation! A joke!

She was full of resentment, but she tried hard to maintain the image of a female cadre with status and position from the capital.

Her younger brother Yan Bin, however, looked around listlessly, feeling that everything was very boring.

He was full of resentment towards his younger aunt and uncle because they failed to arrange a good job for him.

He is 18 years old this year. His high school graduation results last year were not good enough, so he could not be arranged to work directly. He could only find a way out for himself. If his family could not arrange a job for him, he would have to go to the countryside to join the production team.

Originally, his aunt said that she would arrange for him to join the army and let him and Lu Shaoyu go to the recruit company together. However, at the last minute, there was a change in the army, and the old uncle could not arrange for two places, only one.

He thought that Lu Shaoyu was the old man's biological son, and there were many opportunities. If he could not be arranged this time, there would be plenty of opportunities in the future, so he should be allowed to go.

In the end, Lu Shaoyu went, and he was arranged to go to the countryside to join the production team.

His aunt said it nicely, saying that she had spent a lot of effort to help him get the opportunity to join the production team nearby.

No matter how close it is, isn't it still in the countryside? Don't you have to work? Dealing with pigs, cattle, sheep, and black soil all day long, he is really annoyed.

He was thinking wildly, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He saw a beautiful woman with a slender figure, fair skin, and a charming face at the exit in front of him!

Yan Bin's heart immediately started beating, and he felt like he was in love for the first time.

He had never seen such a beautiful woman before!

He immediately strode towards the woman, adjusting his pace, touching his hair that had not been washed for three days, putting on his military cap, and pulling the folds on his imitation military uniform, trying to show the aura of a young, promising, handsome and unrestrained man from the capital.

He knew that women in many places were particularly fond of this trick, and they couldn't walk when they saw him using this trick!

At that time, he was very popular in the suburbs of the capital with this trick.

His face was already filled with a smile that he thought was handsome and cool, but he saw the beautiful woman smilingly greet Lu Shaotang, and then greet Uncle Lu and Yan Ping.

Yan Bin's heart immediately turned cold. This is... Lu Shaotang's rural wife?

Lu Shaotang's rural wife is so beautiful?

Impossible!

How is it possible?

Yan Bin was stunned, and Yan Xin next to him was even more surprised and couldn't believe it.

Lin Shu greeted Uncle Lu and stepmother Lu, neither humble nor arrogant, but still enthusiastic.

Uncle Lu is tall, with thick eyebrows and bright eyes. Even though he is nearly seventy years old, he is still in good health and looks very energetic.

He spoke in a loud voice and was very impressed with Lin Shu. He put Hu Xiaole on the ground and greeted Lin Shu, asking about her parents-in-law, her family, etc.

Although Lin Shu had some opinions about her step-aunt, she was very enthusiastic on the surface. She greeted them and took out candies from her pocket to give to the two children.

Hu Xiaole was a naughty and a little arrogant boy. He seemed to be spoiled and a little spoiled.

The girl was called Pan Lili, but she was a little timid and cowardly, not as open as Hu Xiaole.

Hu Xiaole grabbed the candies and stuffed them into his pocket, but he still had candies in his pocket.

Pan Lili took a few pieces carefully and said thank you in a low voice.

Lin Shu gently touched her braids. Girls are well-behaved and lovable.

Suddenly, the girl's mother's face changed, and she took the candy out of the girl's hand and scolded her in a low voice: "What did I tell you? You can't eat candy because your teeth are broken. You don't even want to eat so much candy at home. Why do you treat two pieces as good things and stuff them into your mouth?"

The girl clenched her palms tightly, but her mother still took all the White Rabbit milk candy away. The other piece fell on the ground. She wanted to pick it up but didn't dare.

Although there was a lot of candy at home, she was not given any? She could only eat a few pieces of orange candy at most. This kind of White Rabbit milk candy was given to her younger brother, and she couldn't pick it up.

Hu Xiaole quickly picked up the candy on the ground and said proudly, "She's a little girl, she won't eat it, you give it to me."

Lin Shu's smile faded a little, and she looked up at Yan Xin, are you scolding your daughter or me?

So it's wrong to give your daughter candy?

Yan Xin seemed to realize that he was a little out of control, squeezed out a smile, and forced an explanation: "I'm sorry, this child's teeth were damaged by eating too much candy, and the doctor doesn't allow her to eat candy anymore."

Lin Shu didn't take it seriously. She was a guest from afar, and she would leave after two days, so there was no need for her to care.

Yan Xin looked at Lin Shu as if he had overturned a bottle of five flavors, sour, spicy, bitter, astringent, and salty. He didn't know what it tasted like.

She had always told herself that Lu Shaotang's rural wife must be an uneducated, vulgar, dark and ugly woman. Even if she might be a little pretty, rural women would work in the fields every day, exposed to the wind, sun and rain, and would definitely age quickly. At the age of 25 or 26, they would be yellow-faced women.

Lu Shaotang's failure to marry her was his loss. He was blind. He deserved to marry a vulgar and ugly rural woman!

She had always used such excuses to comfort herself and seek inner balance, but... when she received the call from Gao Tingting, she felt unbelieving and unwilling to admit defeat.

Originally, she would not follow her aunt-in-law to accompany her uncle to the countryside. What was so good about the countryside?

But two days ago, she suddenly received a call from Gao Tingting.

Gao Tingting is her good sister and classmate who grew up with her. The two have a good relationship. Later, they each joined the army as medical recruits through family connections. After two years of study, they were assigned to the Capital Military Region Hospital as nurses.

A while ago, the Capital Military Region General Hospital dispatched some doctors and nurses to various military region hospitals to support local medical undertakings. Gao Tingting chose to be transferred to other places in order to get promoted quickly.

I don’t know if it was good luck or she manipulated it privately, but Gao Tingting was transferred to Qizhou a week ago.

They all knew that Lu Shaotang was working in Qizhou now.

A few days ago, Gao Tingting suddenly called her and said that she saw Lu Shaotang’s wife in the hospital. She was a country woman with a little bit of beauty, but that was just like that, nothing special.

Yan Xin originally thought that Lu Shaotang married a country woman, and she married a child of the capital compound. Her life was much higher than his. She would not think of him anymore, let alone worry about him, and would not want to have any intersection with him anymore.

But... after hearing Gao Tingting's words, her mood was instantly overwhelmed and she couldn't bear it.

She was unwilling to accept it!

She wanted to see who Lu Shaotang's wife was!

She even had a secret thought - maybe Lu Shaotang was forced to get married by his mother, and he hated his country wife and wanted to divorce her?

If Lu Shaotang was willing to divorce, then she...

she was willing to go through mountains of swords and seas of fire.

But now, seeing Lu Shaotang's wife, seeing Lin Shu's incomparably beautiful appearance, her charming manners, her snow-white and delicate skin, and her moist and seductive eyes, looking at Yan Bin's obsessed look, and then looking at Lu Shaotang's gentle eyebrows when he looked at his wife, Yan Xin felt very uncomfortable.

She tried to find clues that Lu Shaotang disliked Lin Shu and was just acting in front of the elders, but unfortunately she didn't find any.

At this time, Lin Shu and her step-aunt also greeted each other.

Yan Ping introduced her nieces, nephews and others.

The look in Lin Shu's eyes when she looked at Yan Xin was also different from the usual look she had when she looked at ordinary relatives before.

Oh, so this is the niece of my step-aunt, the one who always sends Lu Shaotang to deliver things and pick up people.

If my step-aunt doesn't mean that, Lin Shu would never believe it.

Yan Ping was still half-jokingly pointing at Lu Shaotang, "Shaotang is a leader now, and he is very busy. He specially came to pick us up and wasted your time."

When you become a leader, you don't have an elder to support you anymore, right? You

wait outside to pick someone up, is that what you call picking someone up?

How insincere.

Uncle Lu was very happy, patting Lu Shaotang on the shoulder, and it was obvious that he was very proud of his nephew.

"Shaotang, if you are busy with work, you don't have to take care of us. We can take a walk in Qizhou, meet old comrades, and then go back to our hometown."

Lu Shaotang: "Uncle, my work is well arranged in my unit, and I have time."

Lin Shu said: "Uncle, Aunt, the dormitory of the family compound is small and there is not enough space. Let's go to the guesthouse."

Yan Ping frowned slightly, "The guesthouse is not very clean."

People come and go, and the beds are not clean. We have to live in the officers' suite.

Uncle Lu said: "You doctors and nurses have a cleanliness fetish. What is unclean in the guesthouse? I think we even slept in the barn with perfume." Lu

Shaotang thought that Uncle Lu might want to go to the military district. After all, the military district compound is more familiar, and there are more comrades or old subordinates.

Although there may be some of my uncle's retired subordinates in the agency, the number is still small.

He thought it was just my uncle and his three people, but he didn't expect that my aunt also brought nephews and nieces, so one car couldn't fit them.

He asked everyone to wait and he would go to the railway station office to see if there was a car here, and if there was no car, he would call Xiaozhuang to drive over.

Uncle Lu: "Shaotang, don't worry, we can use buses, tricycles, etc."

Lu Shaotang had already strode to the railway station office.

Yan Ping looked a little unhappy, glanced at Lin Shu, and said in a low voice: "Shao Tang is a leader now, and he doesn't have to arrange many things by himself, so he is not familiar with it. If it were before, he would definitely know to send two cars."

Lin Shu disliked her stepmother more and more, and said with a smile: "Auntie, you will know after living here for a few more days. Their unit is short of supplies. There is only one car. He and Chen Yanming have to draw lots to decide who drives and who borrows a car when they are assigned to go out on missions."

Of course, they are not that poor, but Yan Ping doesn't know no matter what she said.

You are not satisfied with a car, and when you turn around, there is no car, so you can just walk away!

Yan Xin stood beside his aunt, not knowing whether he wanted to increase his aunt's prestige or use her prestige to crush Lin Shu. He stared at Lin Shu with a bad look and a sneer on his lips.

Yan Bin stared at Lin Shu infatuatedly, and felt that his soul was about to fly away. It's not like he hasn't seen beautiful women before. The pillars of the art troupe are beautiful and elegant, but none of them are so perfect for his heart.

In fact, he is a greasy and lustful guy. Since he understood the relationship between men and women in adolescence, he has been looking for an ambiguous object wherever he goes, and he thinks it is a destined fate.

Soon Lu Shaotang came over with a leader from the train station. He went up to Uncle Lu warmly and shook hands with him.

The deputy station chief was a retired military officer. Although he and Uncle Lu were not from the same military unit, they were all military men, so they naturally had to greet each other.

The other party arranged a small car to help Lu Shaotang take the guests to the military district guesthouse.

On the way to the parking lot, Yan Xin glanced at Lin Shu who was walking beside him, and smiled softly to Yan Ping: "Aunt, Lu Shaotang doesn't look as happy as before? He was in high spirits in the capital with his uncle and you taking care of him, but now..."

Lin Shu heard it, but she was not angry. Although she didn't know the specific situation, she could judge a little.

Lu Shaotang is not the kind of person who is two-faced. He would definitely not be ambiguous with Yan Xin in the past and pretend nothing happened now. He could only be the kind of person who would decisively reject Fang Dihua's request for marriage if he liked Yan Xin.

Since he is not abnormal, it must be Yan Xin who is acting like a drama queen.

She smiled and said to Yan Xin, "Sister Yan, do you know Gao Tingting?"

Although the female nurse did not introduce herself, her name was printed on the badge on her left chest. Lin Shu made a special effort to identify it.

Yan Xin frowned slightly and acted nonchalantly, "Yes, she is my classmate. She transferred to Qizhou Military Hospital as a nurse a few days ago. She is a very good nurse."

Lin Shu said, "Then she... is there nothing wrong with her brain?" After saying that, she looked at Yan Xin's face which suddenly changed color and explained, "Don't be angry, Sister Yan, I'm not scolding you, I just meant it literally. Because that nurse Gao suddenly ran up to me, didn't introduce herself or say what happened, and directly said something weird, which made people very confused."

Yan Xin was so angry that her face turned black.