Chapter 210: Mischief

Lu Shaotang can rest for two days this time. Lin Shu and her grandmother and elder sister make dumplings. At noon, she takes her second sister over and calls her elder brother-in-law back to eat dumplings.

Today, Lu Ping and several students also have a rest. They are all at home around their third uncle.

It is hot in summer and there is a lot of rain. It is inevitable that the roof tiles will leak. Lu Shaotang will lead the boys to repair the roof.

The tiles on the roof will always crack or loosen even if they are repaired every year. This is not man-made. Strong winds, freezing, hail, etc. can make the tiles loose or crack. In addition, the seeds of bird's nests blown by the wind will grow grass on the roof. The grass roots will prop up the tiles and leak rain, so they have to be repaired every year.

Lu Shaotang moved quickly, and walked on the rooftop as if it were flat ground, which made Lu Ping jump up a few times.

Lu Shaotang asked Lu Ping to come up to look for broken and loose tiles, and asked Hou Bo and Lu An to help throw tiles up from below .

He also checked the roofs of Aunt Li's house and Lu Shaocai's house.

Lu Ping actually found a nest of sparrow eggs on the roof. The nest was hidden between the chimney and other tiles, and could not be seen from below. However, the bird's nest would lift up the tiles, causing the chimney to leak, making it difficult to burn.

He asked Hou Bo and Lu An to use a pole to pick up a basket with a rope for him, and he sent the nest and eggs down.

Now Tiantian and the others were really excited, and they all wanted to hatch bird

eggs. They were tired of eating eggs every day at home, and they didn't want to eat the sparrow eggs at all.

Panpan ran to show off to Lin Shu and the others, "Look, my eldest brother took it out of the chimney."

Granny Fang pinched her glasses and took a look, "Oh, no wonder there was always smoke when I lit the fire these two days, which made me feel so frustrated. It turns out that they are the ones who are causing trouble."

I check my roof every year, and there are not many damaged parts. Aunt Li's house is a bit serious. Not only do they need to replace the tiles, but they also need to clean the yellow mud.

Lu Shaocai's family is even lazier. The tall thatch on the roof has grown but they don't clean it up.

In fact, it leaks every time it rains, so we have to use basins and buckets to catch the water. We say we will go up and fix it when the rain stops, but Lu Shaocai is lazy and Lu Changfu is not very diligent. After the weather clears up, they put it off until the next time it leaks.

While they were busy, the sound of a jeep came from outside.

Panpan: "Second uncle is here!"

Several children stopped helping Lu An to mix the mud and rushed out like flying.

It was Jiang Weidong who came. This time he didn't come alone, but also with old lady Jiang.

Old lady Jiang brought a bunch of small and large packages, and her smiling face showed her happiness and comfort.

"Hey, Tiantian Panpan Hou Wei, come on, help grandma carry the things in."

Lin Shu and Fang Dihua came out to greet them.

Jiang Weidong often comes here, and he is as familiar as a family member. There is no need to greet each other, and he is very comfortable.

Aunt Jiang had been here several times, so she was familiar with the place.

She said to Fang Dihua and Lin Shu, "Xia Xia is getting older. I think she is too tired from work, and it's boring for me to stay at home. It's better for me to go to Qing County to live with her for two months, and then go directly to her home in the last month when she is about to give birth."

Qing County has not yet completed electricity supply. Lujiazhuang Brigade is the first batch, but electrician training has always been there, and graduated electricians have to go for training regularly.

Lin Xia is actually only six months old, but Aunt Jiang is bored at home, and would rather accompany her daughter-in-law than with her eldest son.

Tiantian: "Grandma Jiang, when the little brother and sister are born, you can bring them to our house, and we can take care of them with you."

After playing with her little cousin Kuai Kuai, she likes soft and tender children.

Originally, she also thought Bao'er was fun, but now that Bao'er is older, he is not that fun anymore.

She also wanted her mother to give birth to a little brother or sister for her to play with, but her mother refused.

Well, she can only keep an eye on her second aunt.

Old Mrs. Jiang was amused by her. She came into the house and washed her hands while greeting Fang Dihua and helping to make dumplings.

Since Jiang Weidong is here, Lu Shaotang does not need to pick up Lin Xia, but can go directly to pick up Hou Jianwen.

Fang Dihua: "Go to Linjiatun and pick up the in-laws for a meal, to make it lively."

However, only Lin's mother and Bao'er can be picked up. Lin's father, Lin Yue and Lu's sister-in-law are the same. When they are plowing the land, the teams take turns to distribute meals and none of them go home.

Lu Shaotang naturally agreed.

This time, Jiang Weidong brought a special gift for Lin Shu, a hair dryer.

In winter, Lin Shu wanted a hair dryer. It was inconvenient to wash hair without one, not to mention at night, and even during the day.

She went to a barber shop in Qizhou and saw that there were hair dryers there, but they didn't sell them to individuals.

Lu Shaotang could ask someone to buy one for him, but she felt that it was not worth it to owe him a favor for just a hair dryer, after all, his job was special.

She told Jiang Weidong and her second sister about it.

Jiang Weidong's steel mill had business dealings with many manufacturing plants, so it was okay to ask someone to bring two hair dryers from the home appliance factory in Shanghai.

He warned, "I checked it, and it's generally safe, but the metal shell is prone to leakage, so be sure to pay attention to safety when using it."

When she heard about leakage, Mrs. Jiang immediately said, "Why do you use something that is unsafe due to leakage? Don't let children use it, let alone Xia Xia."

Lin Shu checked it and found that it was true. No wonder hair dryers were not popular at home at that time.

If you leave it at home, it is easy to leak electricity if the elderly and children are not careful.

They continued to make dumplings, and Jiang Weidong went to pick up Lin Xia, and Lu Shaotang also took the children to pick up Lin's father and mother.

Granny Fang asked Hou Ying to light the fire and cook a pot first, and send it to Lin's father and son, Lu's wife and others.

When it was time for lunch, Jiang Weidong brought Lin Xia back, Lu Shaotang also brought Lin's mother and Bao'er back, and Hou Jianwen came back by bike.

Hou Jianwen now takes the technical team to travel around the countryside all day, and his skin has become three shades darker due to the sun. His clothes are not as fancy as before, one leg of his pants is rolled up to his calf, and the other leg is loose and full of mud. He no longer wears leather shoes or cloth shoes, but straw sandals or even barefoot in summer, looking like a genuine farmer.

However, his tortoise-shell glasses and the wisdom and optimism shining in his eyes make others see at a glance that he is still an intellectual.

Fang Dihua had already picked up the dumplings and gave a bowl to Xu Erzhu, Qiu Jincai and others who were working, and asked them to take them back home for the children and the elderly to taste.

Although they felt embarrassed, it was a rare opportunity to eat dumplings, so they did not refuse and took them home.

There are many vegetables in summer, and no matter what vegetables, they will be very fragrant with a little pork fat and oil, not to mention that Lin Shu also added dried shrimps, shrimp skins, and eggs.

There are many kinds of fillings, leeks and eggs, gourds and shrimp skins, beans and oil, radish and dried shrimps...

Anyway, there are so many people, so it’s fast to make.

When eating dumplings at home, the garlic paste belongs to Panpan and the other children. They are afraid that it is not enough, so they make a whole bowl. Not only do they pour soy sauce, but they also generously drip a few drops of sesame oil. The rotten garlic paste is fragrant.

The children were as diligent as the waiters in urging people to eat more garlic, "We smashed it, it's so delicious."

Panpan gave Mother Lin a big spoonful, and scared her so much that she quickly shared it with Fang Dihua and Sister Lin.

Father Lu looked at the children stuffing garlic paste into the dumplings, and said with a sigh, "Don't eat it like that, it's so spicy that your stomach hurts."

Old Mrs. Jiang also said, "Yes, dumplings dipped in garlic paste are delicious, but you can't eat too much, it's not good for your stomach."

Lin Shu also prepared chili sauce, and Lu Shaotang liked to eat the chili sauce dish more, but he couldn't tell the children, so he just said that he liked it.

As expected, Hou Wei's face wrinkled because of the spiciness. He opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue, "It's so spicy!"

Lin Shu quickly asked him to eat the one with brown sugar filling.

In order to cater to the taste of children, they packed some brown sugar filling and sesame filling.

Baoer only picked the one with sesame filling, and his mouth was black from eating, and then he smiled at everyone.

"Mom, you are going to scare me to death!" Panpan snatched the sesame dumplings from his bowl. Hehe, he ate it to scare others, but he couldn't see it.

Baoer stared at the empty bowl in a daze, a little confused, where are my dumplings?

Hou Ying immediately picked up a few brown sugar dumplings for him, "Eat them quickly."

After eating the dumplings, everyone can sit together and chat for a while.

Lin Shu took out the hair dryer and talked to her eldest and second brothers-in-law, "Can we change it to a plastic shell? Plastic shells are insulated and safer. It would be better if the power level can be adjusted, with high and low levels, so that different needs are more convenient."

She didn't understand mechanics and electricity, but isn't technology meant to serve people? Consumers make requests, and technicians go to research and improve.

Jiang Weidong: "This can definitely be done, but the plastic factory must cooperate."

Hou Jianwen: "It's mainly the mold."

Jiang Weidong: "Plastic molds are easier. I'll go to the machinery factory and give them some suggestions. If the outer shell can be made into an insulated plastic shell to improve production efficiency, the sales of hair dryers will increase significantly."

Not to mention the countryside, even dual-worker families in big cities will definitely rush to buy it.

By then, it's possible that every household will have one.

Thinking about it this way, this is a huge sales volume.

The next day, Jiang Weidong sent his wife and mother to Qing County, and then came back to take back the sanitary incense and mosquito coils ordered by each unit, as well as a box of high-end incense.

Of course, two baskets of eggs and twenty rabbits are indispensable.

Now, in addition to the steel mill, other brother units also ask Jiang Weidong to buy rabbits and ask him to bring them.

Every time Lin Shu packs rabbits for her second brother-in-law, she has to sigh. Originally, she wanted to raise rabbits to cut their fur, but in the end, the main use was to eat meat.

Now the wild grass and vegetables are growing lushly, and every family has no shortage of green materials. They are in a hurry to give birth to rabbits, and when they grow up, they can sell the meat for money.

Those members who had the heart to raise a few more rabbits in the spring are now ready to sell them. In addition to the commissions they give to the brigade and the Lu family, they can earn at least three yuan per

rabbit. In this way, after a year, they can earn tens or even hundreds of yuan just by selling rabbits!!!

I didn’t dare to think about it before, but now it’s really gratifying. The key is that raising rabbits does not consume labor, and the elderly and children can feed them.

Giving the brigade a commission is a must. If the brigade does not allow it, it is speculation.

Giving the Lu family a commission is also a must. The rabbits were arranged by Lin Shu and she helped them sell them. If they sell them by themselves, not only will it waste time, but it may not be easy to sell. If they are caught for speculation, it will not be counted. In fact, even if everyone can sell rabbits by themselves after the reform and opening up, if they want to sell them in large quantities, they still have to sell them to wholesalers. It is impossible to sell them one by one in the city.

The team takes 30 cents for each rabbit, and Lin Shu takes 70 cents. She and her second sister split it in half. If

her second brother-in-law doesn't want it, she will naturally give it to her second sister.

In addition, if the factory doesn't want the rabbit skins that Jiang Weidong and his team get, they will bring them back to her. They

can be sold to make clothes and mattresses.

Because of the influence of Lujiazhuang, many women from other production teams also came to Lujiazhuang to buy rabbits.

Lin Shu told the team that it would be difficult to sell too many rabbits, so the price would naturally be low. Let them know the situation in their hearts, so as not to be unhappy and gossip when the price is a little low.

As for how to sell the rabbits of the breeders, Lin Shu has also thought about it.

Part of it was sold to the supply and marketing cooperative as part of the brigade's task, so that it could be used to cover the public grain task.

Part of it was taken to the market by my second brother-in-law.

Most of it was sold to the market opened by Big Brother Lu. Those who bought their sanitary incense also asked him what local specialties the brigade had, such as chickens, ducks, eggs, milk, pigs, etc.

At that time, people's desire for meat was very strong. As long as there was meat, there was no fear of not being able to sell it.

So as more and more farmers came, Big Brother Lu became busier and his status became more important. Now who would not respectfully address him when seeing him, "Manager Lu, are you back?" "Manager Lu, are you shipping again?"

In short, Big Brother Lu was the living god of wealth for the members. How could they not treat him well?

After the members finish planting corn, the work in the fields becomes easier for the time being.

This ease is relative. Compared with spring planting, summer planting and autumn planting, now all you need to do is hoe the ground, catch insects, tend to cotton, sorghum and other crops, and dig mud, shovel grass and fertilizer.

At this time, the first wave of jute planted in spring also begins to be harvested. Within a few days, the hemp skin must be peeled off, soaked in water, and then the glue must be removed to retain the hemp fiber.

The hemp fiber can be dried and bundled and sold to the supply and marketing social task.

Jute, ramie and kenaf all have great economic value. As the economic link between urban and rural areas, the supply and marketing cooperatives will also assign some sideline tasks to each brigade. If there are extra products sold to the supply and marketing cooperatives, they can also offset the public grain task and can be exchanged for fertilizers, pesticides and cloth coupons, etc.

This season is also the time when children take sickles to cut ramie and jute leaves and flowers to feed pigs.

It is better to feed pigs with wild vegetables, so that coarse grains and feed can be saved to feed pigs or rabbits in winter.

When adults and children were busy, Father Lu received a notice from the health departments of the municipal and county committees to all communes - to go to the city for eugenics training. In

the evening, Father Lu took the notice home to discuss with Lin Shu.

In the eyes of Father Lu and Fang Dihua, the third daughter-in-law who secretly studied with Teacher Ma was more educated than most people. He felt that the commune women's director and the health hospital could not explain it clearly, so he had to ask the third daughter-in-law.

Lin Shu was busy making kimchi, pickled vegetables, and preserved vegetables with her elder sister Lin and grandmother Fang. The vegetable patch at home was full of fruits and vegetables, and they could not finish the vegetables every day. Lin Shu also asked Hou Bo and Lu An to order some for the educated youth in the brigade and take care of the students from the city.

When she heard her father-in-law looking for her, she washed her hands and went into the main hall to drink a cup of honeysuckle tea. "Dad, what's wrong?"

Father Lu showed her the notice, "Look, what does the commune say about family planning?"

"Family planning?" Lin Shu also had some understanding of this in her previous life, mainly from her grandmother, mother and other elders, and also from the Internet.

Family planning has been mentioned since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and was piloted in the capital and other large cities after 1970, but it has not yet been made a national policy and is not mandatory, but only advocated.

Initially, it was said that "one is not too few, two is just right, and three is too many", especially for dual-worker families, in order to better work and study, it is not suitable to raise too many children, generally two is enough.

Later, it was "fewer children and more trees", advocating late birth, fewer births, and better births, "one baby for each couple", and then it was basically compulsory family planning. Some local staff were even too aggressive, and for the sake of data and performance, they put forward the slogan of "one extra birth, the whole village will be sterilized", which became a laughing stock for young people who did not understand the situation in later generations.

Lin Shu, who has experienced the mask period, has a deep understanding that policies are dead, but people are alive. How grassroots cadres implement policies is the most critical.

Some officials are humane and people-oriented, while others are performance-oriented and use violent and barbaric law enforcement methods, which damages both the government's credibility and the people's feelings.

She looked at the notice that Father Lu brought back, which did not mention family planning, but rather eugenics. It asked barefoot doctors and women's directors to learn first and then come back to promote contraceptive measures and the policy of late birth, eugenics, and fewer births.

Lin Shu: "Dad, then you should go for training. I think our brigade really needs some publicity, just like Qiu Jintian's family. His wife has given birth to eight children, right? The youngest is only half a year old. If she doesn't use contraception, she will get pregnant again in two months. His family is already in financial difficulty, and they owe more and more work points to the production team. If this continues, his children will grow up and they will have to get married and start a family. It

will take a long time for him to pay back the debt owed to the brigade." She suggested to Lu Lao Dad not to mention family planning for the time being, so as to avoid the members who are uneducated and do not understand, and misinterpret it and cause panic in the future. We should

publicize from the perspective of eugenics and follow the principle of solving problems for poor families, and advocate that families with difficult lives and one of the spouses is in poor health should have fewer children and have them later.

Families in financial difficulty and unable to raise too many children will become more and more poor.

If the body is not good, the children born will have problems, and they will not be able to work well to earn food and support the family, and the family will also be in trouble.

As for how to have fewer and better births, it must involve the issue of contraception.

Old Man Lu nodded, "Who doesn't say it? I told Mrs. Qiu a long time ago, but she didn't take it seriously at all, saying that being able to have children is a blessing, and other people think so much but still can't get it."

The next day, Old Man Lu went to the city to study with other barefoot doctors and women's directors of the brigade.

Lujiazhuang Brigade has not elected a women's director since Wang Lijuan stepped down. It's not that the brigade doesn't want to elect one, but that it can't elect a suitable one.

These women are too difficult to manage. No matter who takes office, they will not accept or listen. The brigade simply doesn't elect one.

Originally, the branch secretary wanted Lin Shu to be the head of the women's department, thinking that others would definitely be convinced if she took the position. However, Lin Shu refused, thinking that being the head of the women's department would not give her freedom and would be a thankless job, so she did not want to be the head of the women's department.

A week later, Old Man Lu came back with a bunch of propaganda materials.

Propaganda posters, propaganda slogans, and propaganda brochures, in triplicate. Old Man Lu would keep one copy, post one copy in the infirmary, and post one copy on the bulletin board of the brigade.

The training class also taught several methods of contraception: condoms, intrauterine devices for women, and if you already have several children and do not want to continue having children, then you can get a sterilization. Both men and women can get a sterilization.

Of course, there is also a contraceptive pill, but that is very expensive and is basically not mentioned in rural areas.

The brigade has to paint slogans or hold meetings to promote the method.

Father Lu thought it shouldn't be a difficult task, after all, the electrician's propaganda was effective. Even now, the members want the electrician to perform some shows to promote the safety of electricity use.

Facts have proved that it is not that easy to promote eugenics and good parenting.

For several days, no matter whether it was the brigade office or the clinic, there were few people who showed up.

It's not that there were no people, but there was no target group for the propaganda. For example, women and men of childbearing age between 20 and 35 years old all used the excuse of being busy and didn't go. Those who went were some women over 40, or even in their 50s and 60s, who went to see the excitement.

It's mainly because the country people are not that open-minded.

Although many women gather together to gossip about who has been in bed with whom, they are embarrassed to listen to serious health and hygiene propaganda. The previous

health and hygiene propaganda for couples’ sexual life was not successful, and it finally became a code for them to joke with each other.

The current eugenics and contraceptive propaganda has the same ending, and the work cannot be progressed.

Anyway, 95% of families don’t take it seriously, and the very few who care don’t dare to ask openly, and they have to find out quietly.

If anyone knows that the neighbor goes to the clinic to buy condoms?

Then you will spread it to the whole team, and you will have to make a few jokes when you meet. It’s not over until everyone is embarrassed.

In line with the principle of responsibility, Father Lu went to the commune to learn from other brigades, but it turned out that other brigades were not as good as him.

At least he was still a little bit better in the brigade. In addition to the old men and women who were just joining in the fun and setting up the dragon gate formation, there were also a few young people who came to support him.

It is said that not only did the young people in other brigades not listen, but the old women and old men who were stirring up trouble also clamored that the barefoot doctors were openly hooligan and indecent, tore up the propaganda posters, and scolded the barefoot doctors.

Especially those young and tender-skinned male and female doctors were so embarrassed by the old women and old men that some of them didn't want to work anymore.

Since becoming a barefoot doctor, Old Man Lu has devoted himself to the study of medicine. He has become very skilled in acupuncture and moxibustion techniques, and is also quite proficient in prescribing several medicinal prescriptions and ointments. He has a very good reputation among his patients and can be said to have been very successful.

Now that he has encountered the Waterloo of his career, he is a little hit. He doesn't study medical books at home, but just entangles these people. Why don't they listen to his propaganda?

He is obviously doing it for everyone's good.

Fang Dihua saw that the old man was unhappy, "Don't worry, I will go out and shout for you, at least get 30 to 50 people to attend the class."

Old man Lu sighed, "Forget it, a forced melon is not sweet."

In fact, for the sake of the Lu family, if the shouting must be required for the whole team to attend the class, then the members will give face.

Apart from other things, those who sell rabbits have to rush to go, but going does not mean it is useful.

Besides, it is not easy to force others.

Lin Shu also comforted him, "Dad, you can't rush this matter. You have to do it slowly and quietly, and let everyone accept it little by little. After all, they don't even know what contraception is now, and they can't accept sterilization. Take it slowly."

Father Lu felt that this was the only way. He was mainly a doctor and couldn't delay treating patients for this. The propaganda should be left to the branch secretary and the team leader.

Ten days passed in a blink of an eye.

The green garlic grown by the family was ready. Lin Shu also saved a few kilograms of sugar and planned to use two kilograms of sugar to pickle the sugar garlic. The sweet and sour sauce would not be wasted and could be pickled for a long time.

Grandma Fang, wearing glasses and carrying a box on her waist, helped pick garlic. "Shaotang loves to eat this. I used to pickle a jar of sugar at home, and he ate it as a snack. Later, sugar was hard to get and I couldn't pickle it anymore."

Sister Lin specifically told the children not to show off outside. Other children would struggle to eat a piece of sugar, but they pickled sugar garlic at home. The sweet and sour sauce is sour and sweet. Let alone pickled garlic, how can anything you pickle be unpalatable?

Panpan, Tiantian and Hou Wei were chopping vegetable leaves. Panpan and Hou Wei were the laborers, and Tiantian was the commander.

She was wearing a straw sunhat that Hou Ying had learned to weave, which was decorated with colorful flowers, and a white muslin dress made by Sister Xiuxiu. She was barefoot and conducting diligently, "Panpan, you take the old vegetables on the outside to feed the pigs, and Hou Wei, you take the slightly tenderer ones on the inside to feed the rabbits. The tenderest vegetable hearts will be left for us to eat."

As they were talking, Hou Wei said, "Do we also need to pay attention to the eugenics of our rabbits? Do we need to put condoms

on them?" Panpan: "No, they have to be sterilized with an IUD."

Tiantian: "Humans are sterilized with an IUD, and animals are sterilized by castration of pigs and sheep. They are called differently."

When Lin Shu and the other adults heard this, they were immediately speechless.

As for the promotion of contraception and eugenics, young women are shy and try to hide the truth, pretending not to understand it. Some old women who are infertile are keen to ask about it, and children who know nothing about it take it as a lively talk.

Children of Panpan, Tiantian and Hou Wei are at an age when they have a strong desire for knowledge and do not have much sense of shame like adults. They know a little about everything and dare to say anything.

They heard their mother and aunt talk about family planning, and saw the paintings hanging in their grandfather's clinic, and they knew the literal meaning.

They asked about the eugenics of the chickens, ducks and rabbits at home. Panpan and Hou Wei even took the initiative to care for their second uncle and asked him if he had already had eugenics, otherwise why did Sister Cuicui have only one child?

This made Second Brother Lu so embarrassed that he hid in the incense-making room every day and didn't dare to meet them.

Lin Shu originally wanted to tell the children not to talk about these things, but then she thought, weren't the infirmary and the director of the women's department promoting it? If she was afraid that the children would talk about it, how could she promote it?

Besides, in two years, family planning will be officially implemented in rural areas, and the streets will be full of family planning slogans. There is nothing that cannot be said.

So she didn't restrict the children.

Lu Hehuan was busy holding Xu Xiaoyou and came over quickly. The children immediately ran over to play with their little brother.

Xu Xiaoyou was wearing a dark blue dress, which was also made by Lu Xiuxiu. She chose the color herself because she had to work and white was not resistant to dirt.

Lu Hehuan's son is already more than three months old. Now is the time for him to have fun. He is white and tender, with a pair of big eyes like black grapes that are curious about everything. Tiantian and her

friends used to help Xu Xiaoyou take care of him. He was very impressed by his brothers and sisters, and as soon as they came, he stretched out his chubby arms and babbled.

Lu Hehuan put the child on the big mat in the main hall. The child can just turn over and can't crawl yet, so there is no need to worry about him getting hurt.

Xu Xiaoyou is a person who can't sit still. He helped pick garlic, and chatted with Panpan and her friends about finding cicadas and monkeys in the evening, and also talked about his thoughts on the comic books he read recently.

Lu Hehuan approached Lin Shu, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Lin Shu glanced at her and said, "If you have something to say, just say it."

Lu Hehuan blushed and whispered, "Third sister-in-law, you..."

Lin Shu: "Tsk~"

Lu Hehuan hesitated and finally asked Lin Shu and Lu Shaotang how they used contraception.

She found that no matter how cute the child was, one was enough, and having more would be a hassle and affect her creation.

Lin Shu: "Didn't Dad advertise it?"

Lu Hehuan was coy, tugging at the corner of her clothes, and whispered, "I bought condoms from the infirmary, but Shihua refused to wear them."

Lin Shu: "..."

It's none of my business if Xu Shihua refuses to wear them.

Lu Hehuan, however, acted like she was my best friend, and kept asking Lin Shu how she and Lu Shaotang used contraception. There must be some way to avoid having children after so long, right?

Lin Shu stared at Lu Hehuan, thinking that her father-in-law's publicity work had not made any progress, so why not use Xu Shihua

as a scapegoat? She didn't like to wear condoms?

Then she would have to have surgery!

She suppressed her guilt. Xu Shihua already had three children, and Lu Hehuan didn't want to have any. How could she not respond to the national policy?

She immediately said seriously, "We responded to the national eugenics policy. Your third brother is a state cadre and got sterilized."

Lu Hehuan's eyes widened, "Ah? Really?"

Lin Shu glared at her, "Keep your voice down. What's wrong? Can't you? Let Xu Shihua get sterilized. This is the simplest, most convenient and cheapest way, and you don't have to suffer."

Lu Hehuan tried, "Didn't you get an IUD?"

She also saw the posters. In addition to condoms, women can also get IUDs, take medicine, and get sterilized. However, taking medicine is too expensive, and sterilization requires surgery, which looks scary. She was afraid. She

thought Lin Shu must have had an IUD, and wanted to ask what it felt like to get an IUD, whether it hurt, and whether it affected their sex life.

Lin Shu: "It's unhealthy to have an IUD. It will cause back pain and bleeding. It's not easy to remove it when the time comes. It might even grow inside the flesh."

In her previous life, her grandmother and mother had talked about the inconvenience of having an IUD. She checked the Internet for information. During the family planning period, many women had IUDs inserted. In the end, many of the IUDs rusted, rotted, and grew inside the flesh, leading to direct removal.

It was shocking to see.

Anyway, if you can have an IUD, don't have one. The materials of the IUD are not good at this time.

Lu Hehuan opened her mouth and was scared. How could you say that having an IUD is not good? What should she do?

She didn't want to get pregnant again. She asked Xu Shihua to wear a condom for fear of pregnancy, but he refused.

She said that everyone else can wear a condom, so why can't he?

He said that other men couldn't wear it either, it was only women who got it.

He concluded that Lin Shu must have gotten it, because a domineering man like Lu Shaotang couldn't wear a condom. Lin Shu

insisted that Lu Shaotang had been sterilized, saying that women would be hurt by getting an IUD, taking pills, or getting sterilized, but men were fine, didn't they see Lu Shaotang was alive and kicking?

She glanced at Lu Hehuan, "Why, your third brother can get sterilized, but Xu Shihua or some rare protected animal can't get sterilized?"

Lu Hehuan was skeptical.

Sister Lin was picking lentil threads. Hearing this, she suppressed her laughter and said, "Yes, your eldest brother-in-law has also been sterilized. We already have three children and don't want to have any more. Your eldest brother is also going to get sterilized

when he has time." Country people have no concept of contraception. They just give birth when they get pregnant. But city people have housing shortages and the cost of raising children is high. In fact, many people had the concept of contraception before the promotion of family planning.

The gap in urban and rural concepts is now more than 30 years.

Lu Hehuan's eyes widened. Is it true? Why doesn't she believe it?

If so, she will also go back and ask Xu Shihua to get sterilized.

Lin Shu: "It's okay. If you are worried that the county hospital is not safe, go to the city or Qizhou. The big hospitals are very simple."

Lu Hehuan took it to heart.

She took a few more articles and asked Lin Shu to help her polish and revise them.

Lin Shu: "Don't you have Xue Hanshan to help you?"

Ever since she knew that Lu Hehuan and Xue Hanshan were pen pals, she felt that Lu Hehuan had bad eyesight.

Xue Hanshan didn't communicate much with Lu Hehuan before, and it was basically Lu Hehuan who wrote to him. Later, for some reason, they began to communicate more, and the two of them were like close friends.

Every time Lu Hehuan received a letter, he would come to share it with Lin Shu, thinking that Lin Shu also knew Xue Hanshan and must appreciate his talent. Besides, didn't she also help Xue Hanshan to send books to her?

Xue Hanshan also praised his third sister-in-law for her intelligence and beauty in his letter. He spoke so highly of his third sister-in-law, so they must have a good relationship?

But every time Lin Shu heard her mention Xue Hanshan, her words were full of sarcasm, which made Lu Hehuan quite dissatisfied.

Why is Third Sister-in-law like this?

Xue Hanshan is not only talented, but also good-looking and approachable.

Lu Hehuan: "He was injured while riding a bike a while ago. His wrist was bruised and he can't write letters." She looked distressed, "Third Sister-in-law, do you think we should go visit her?"

Lin Shu looked at Lu Hehuan like an idiot, "Can't you just write a letter to show your concern?"

Lu Hehuan: "But other people come to visit. When Xu Shihua was sick before, his pen pals also came to visit him."

Lin Shu: "Oh, the one in the white dress, right? Does she still come now?"

Lu Hehuan: "Occasionally."

She thought it would be a good idea for her to accompany Xu Shihua to Qizhou for sterilization, and then go to visit Xue Hanshan together.

Lin Shu looked at her. Maybe people who are born happy have different brain circuits than ordinary people. She always wants to show her happy side and won’t think of bad things.

However, every time Lu Hehuan talked about Xue Hanshan, her eyes would light up, which made people easily misunderstand whether she liked him or not.

Of course, she did like him. As for whether she just liked his literary talent or liked him as a person, who knows?

After all, love is also a kind of liking.

How many people worship and worship each other and finally... get together.

Lin Shu didn’t interfere with Lu Hehuan. After all, Lu Hehuan didn’t seem to be jealous when Xu Shihua was walking and chatting with her female pen pal. So Xu Shihua might not mind her visiting her male pen pal.

We shouldn’t interfere in other people’s husband and wife affairs.

Lu Hehuan took out a book from her schoolbag. It was a 16-page novella magazine that Lin Shu brought to her for Xue Hanshan. She had put a lot of papers in the book, all of which were her own writings and inspirations. She

took out a few pages for Lin Shu to read.

Lin Shu tilted her head while breaking cabbage to show Lu Hehuan the article.

Lu Hehuan's novels were full of affectation, but Lin Shu wouldn't say it was bad. This was her style, and no matter what style, there would be an audience.

She raised a few questions about grammar and inappropriate wording, and told Lu Hehuan some knowledge about character personality, motivation, and so on.

"Everyone's behavior is driven by his character, and a person's character change is caused by many factors, and it will not change randomly without reason."

"The widow you wrote about used to be very chaste and docile, so how come she suddenly had an affair with someone? If you have a suspense, you can reveal it later, but if you don't have a suspense, you have to let the readers know her transformation process."

Lu Hehuan agreed and began to record quickly, "Third sister-in-law, I find that you can always say something different, and Shihua and Xue Hanshan have never told me these things. You are really amazing, and I was...blind before."

Lin Shu glanced at her, what do you call blind? You are blind, okay?

Why didn't Xu Shihua and Xue Hanshan tell you, because they think you are not capable, one despises you and the other teases you.

She wanted Lin Shu to tell her more, but Lin Shu refused.

You haven't understood it yet, what's the point of talking more?

Seeing that Lin Shu refused to say more, Lu Hehuan knew that it was useless to ask, so she continued to look for the poems she wrote. Lin Shu

glanced at her and said, "Don't you have to return this book to the owner?"

Lu Hehuan smiled and said, "Xue Hanshan said that since I like it so much, he gave it to me."

Lin Shu: "..."

At the beginning, Xue Hanshan said that he borrowed it from the library, huh~~

At this time, a piece of paper floated out of the book. Lin Shu glanced at it casually and found it was an unfinished portrait the size of a palm.

Lu Hehuan hurried to pick it up, but Panpan ran over and picked it up.

Panpan: "Wow, aunt, is this the picture of my mother you drew?"

There was a pair of big, watery eyes on it, charming and clear as if they could speak.

Lu Hehuan was startled and his face changed, "Your mother?"

Panpan: "Yes, aren't these my mother's eyes?"

He turned the paper to Lin Shu, "Mom, look!"

Lin Shu tilted her head and took a look, "When did you learn to paint?"

Lu Hehuan's face was not very good, and she opened her mouth. This painting was stuck in the book. She thought Xue Hanshan drew her, after all, her eyes were also very beautiful.

When she got the book and saw the paintings, her heart beat faster and she felt very embarrassed, for she was afraid that her third sister-in-law would find out. As a result, her third sister-in-law didn't even look at the book and said she had no interest.

Could it be that Xue Hanshan drew his third sister-in-law?

Several children came over and praised Lu Hehuan for her good painting.

Tiantian: "Aunt, please draw one for me too."

The children asked Lu Hehuan to help draw.

Xu Xiaoyou glanced at Lu Hehuan. Her mother could only draw simple patterns. This was not drawn by her.

But she didn't say it out loud.

Lu Hehuan was held up by the children and didn't know what to say, so she had to agree casually.

Could it be that she had to learn to draw secretly?

After dinner, Lu Hehuan took Kuai Kuai and Xu Xiaoyou home.

On the way, Xu Xiaoyou: "Mom, is that the picture of my aunt that Xue Hanshan secretly drew?"

Lu Hehuan had prepared herself mentally, "Probably, but it's nothing, don't think too much. Painters all collect materials, and they will draw beautiful scenery, people, flowers, birds, insects and fish."

Xu Xiaoyou: "Then he put it in the book for my aunt? Did you take it before my aunt read the book?" Lu Hehuan:

" I guess so, but it doesn't matter. I'll take you to meet him later and let him draw one for you."

Xu Xiaoyou: "But I think if my aunt-in-law knew that it was Xue Hanshan who drew her, she would be unhappy, and my uncle would be unhappy too, and might even beat him up. So, you'd better learn it, just pretend it's your own drawing."

If she wanted to draw it and give it to her aunt-in-law, why not give it openly, but secretly put it in a book, and her aunt-in-law wouldn't know.

Lu Hehuan: "..."

She had seen Lin Shu painting, mainly gouache and watercolor paintings, not detailed figure sketches, so she couldn't learn from Lin Shu.

Xu Xiaoyou gave her an idea: "Just learn from this painting, just make it look like it."

Lu Hehuan: "..."

Well, now in addition to working and writing, she also has to learn to draw her third sister-in-law, right?

In the afternoon, when Xu Shihua came back from outside, Lu Hehuan went into the house while Xu Xiaoyou was cooking to discuss with him about going to Qizhou for sterilization.

Xu Shihua: "Can't it be done in the county? Go to Qizhou? It's too far."

Lu Hehuan: "The technology in the county may not be very good, right? It's better in big cities."

Xu Shihua: "Then go to the city."

Lu Hehuan hugged him, "Shihua, you are so kind."

Xu Shihua hurriedly pushed her away, "Don't do anything."

Lu Hehuan talked about taking leave again, and asked him to take leave on a certain day, as she happened to be free that day.

Xu Shihua: "You can go by yourself, why do you need me to accompany you? I'm busy."

Lu Hehuan: "If you don't go, how can you do the surgery?"

"I do it?" Xu Shihua's voice suddenly rose an octave, looking at Lu Hehuan like a lunatic.

Lu Hehuan was given courage by Lin Shu and Sister Lin, and said righteously: "Yes, my third sister-in-law said that it is very harmful for women to take medicine or get an IUD or sterilization. My third brother and the eldest brother-in-law of the Lin family sterilized themselves."

Xu Shihua: "Are you lying?"

Lu Hehuan did not give in this time and insisted that he get sterilized. After all, if his third brother can get sterilized, why can't you?

Ever since her daughter-in-law followed her son into the house, Xu's mother had been eavesdropping in the main room. When she heard her daughter-in-law asking her son to get a vasectomy, she was so angry that she broke into the west room, pointed at Lu Hehuan and cursed, "You, you spendthrift woman, have you ever seen a man get a vasectomy that would kill his son or grandson?"

Xu's mother didn't understand before. Wasn't this the clinic's promotion and Lu Hehuan was thinking about contraception and not having children?

The couple's voices were inevitably loud when they were discussing, and Xu's mother often eavesdropped on her son and daughter-in-law's private conversations, so she naturally knew.

She was thinking about it in her heart, and went to the clinic to pretend to care about the promotional activities and asked a lot of questions.

Xu's mother was thinking, if you don't want to have a child, you can get a vasectomy, why do you want my son to get a vasectomy?

Is a man still a man after a vasectomy?

Although she didn't know what sterilization was exactly, she had seen pig and sheep sterilization, which didn't stop her from having wild thoughts.

How could she not go crazy when she heard that Lu Hehuan dared to let her son get sterilized?

Seeing that she looked like she was going crazy, Lu Hehuan immediately hid behind Xu Shihua, "Why are you so fierce? My third brother and the eldest brother-in-law of the Lin family have also been sterilized."

Xu's mother didn't doubt that Lin Shu said that Lu Shaotang and Hou Jianwen had been sterilized. After all, such things can only be kept secret, how can they be publicized?

But this matter is different when it happens to people of status and ordinary people.

If a big cadre like Lu Shaotang, a young and promising man, got sterilized, people would say: Look! Lu Shaotang got sterilized, he loves his wife very much, he is not afraid of gossip, he is not afraid of not having any offspring

If he were an ordinary person, people would laugh at him, saying he is finished, he has been castrated like a pig, he is no longer a man, he has no children.

Xu's mother thought of being laughed at.

How could she accept it?

She was like crazy, slapping her thigh and crying in the house, not listening to what Xu Shihua and Lu Hehuan said, and she would not accept any threats.

For her, her son's sterilization was a big deal!

Now she called all the neighbors over to ask what was going on.

Xu Xiaoyou sighed, "My mother said she didn't want to have another baby, my father wanted to get sterilized, and my grandmother went crazy."