Chapter 214: Wheel Wars

Qiu Shimu is already 16 years old. Country kids are sensible at an early age, and he is no exception.

Since he was just over 10 years old, he has heard people gossiping that his family is extremely poor because his mother keeps giving birth to children.

His grandmother would complain from time to time at home, "It's all because of you debt collectors, otherwise how could our family be so poor?"

He thinks that he can't go to school, wear new clothes, or have enough food to eat, all because of his mother's constant giving birth to children.

Since he understood the relationship between men and women, he felt that it was shameful and shameless for his mother to keep giving birth to children at such an old age.

Zhang Yongshun said that his mother had not done anything with his father since he entered junior high school. Zhang Yongshun said that as long as their children grow up, parents should not do that anymore. That is being a hooligan and shameless.

He agreed very much. He also felt that his mother was too indecent and shameless. How old was she and she was still doing that all day?

Normally, in two or three years, his family would have to arrange for him to get married, but who would dare to marry him in his family's situation?

How could he afford the gift to marry a wife?

Besides, he was the eldest, with seven younger brothers and sisters. His mother was pregnant again, and she might get pregnant again after giving birth next year. She

was just like a sow, giving birth non-stop!

He despised and hated her in his heart. She was so shameless!

Wouldn't it be disgusting for the whole village to see you with a big belly all day?

He was filled with anger when he thought about how he couldn't get married because his mother gave birth to too many brothers and sisters.

Who would dare to marry their daughter to him? To such a rich family?

Would he be a bachelor for the rest of his life?

Oh my God, he's only sixteen years old!

He had been patient for a long time, and today he finally couldn't help but yell at his mother and said the words he had been holding back.

Qiu Shimu ran away after cursing, but Zhou Xiulan was embarrassed and angry, crying like a madman and finally felt that she couldn't breathe, so she jumped and yelled, tearing her neck.

Sanya and Siya were so scared when they saw her like that that they cried loudly.

Soon, the entrance and courtyard of Qiu's house were crowded with members who had rushed over, as well as other brigade cadres who came to visit and learn.

They all knew that Lujiazhuang had done a good job in promoting eugenics and good parenting, but a couple who had given birth to eight children had always refused to respond to the policy.

They also asked why Lu's father didn't persuade them to get sterilized, saying that they already had eight children and were so poor that they shouldn't have more children.

But Old Man Lu said, "Our brigade has always had a voluntary policy. The brigade is only responsible for propaganda. The members who have had IUDs and sterilizations have all taken the initiative. We don't need to go to their homes to persuade them, let alone force them. The government only allows us to promote it, not force them. If we force them, it will violate the policy and hurt the feelings of the members, which is a mistake. People have different levels of awareness and different ideas. They may not have figured it out yet. It will be fine once they figure it out."

At this moment, seeing Zhou Xiulan pulling her neck and hitting her stomach like crazy, Old Man Lu was also shocked.

He called a few women to come forward and hold Zhou Xiulan, and he pinched Zhou Xiulan's neck a few times.

Zhou Xiulan suddenly seemed to have no strength left, and she fell limp in the arms of Mrs. Qiu.

Mrs. Qiu sighed, "Xiu Lan is so pitiful. She is a useless person who has been working in the fields."

They already have eight children, and she is pregnant again so soon.

He knew that his wife was easy to get pregnant, but he didn't pay attention.

Mrs. Qiu came back from outside soon, jumping up and down and shouting, "What's wrong? Are you bullying us?"

Zhou Xiu Lan had calmed down, but she was too ashamed to see anyone. She just covered her face and cried.

Mrs. Qiu and a few others helped her into the house. There were a bunch of children in front of the kang, and there was a child less than ten months old on the kang.

What a sin.

When Zhou Xiulan saw her mother-in-law coming back, she begged, "Mom, I want to get sterilized. I can't have another

baby!" Mrs. Qiu said, "Why are you sterilizing when you're pregnant? If you want to get sterilized, you have to give birth to this one!"

Zhou Xiulan covered her face and cried, saying to Mrs. Qiu, "Auntie, Auntie, I'm miserable, I'm miserable, I can't make the decision--"

She didn't want this in her belly anymore, she wanted to get rid of it and get sterilized at the same time.

Anyway, she was free now, and she had time to take care of the confinement.

But she couldn't make the decision. Her mother-in-law and husband didn't listen to her, and her son didn't support her and even blamed her.

She was really going crazy.

Mrs. Qiu glared at Old Man Lu and Mrs. Qiu, and snorted, "What? You still want to abort my daughter-in-law? This is the child of my Qiu family!"

Although she has a bunch of children at home and she doesn't care about grandchildren at all, this is the face of the Qiu family, and they can't lose it.

Although they are poor, they can't lose face!

Because his family is so poor that they only have face left!

Mrs. Qiu had a very good plan. She told her son very clearly, "What's the big deal if you're poor now? In a few years, your five daughters will grow up. If you get married one by one and collect more gifts, you will have enough money for your brothers to marry. Don't be stupid and don't know how to calculate. Listen to their tricks and get sterilized. Can a man get sterilized? Will he still be a man?"

Because of her instigation, and because Qiu Jintian himself didn't want to get sterilized, fearing the trouble and the time and money, he had a clear conscience and didn't go.

Not going would not prevent him from sleeping with his wife, and from letting her continue to get pregnant.

He thought it was so easy for a woman to get pregnant and give birth to a child. It was just a matter of a leg.

Qiu Jintian was called back at this time, he had nothing to say, he was an honest man, his mother would always take the lead in everything.

He leaned out of the window, put his fists on his head, and looked like a man who was being cracked down on by pornography and illegal publications in the future, and said nothing.

Seeing him like that, Old Man Lu got angry, you said you were a coward, you are still a stubborn guy, specifically targeting your wife and children.

Old Man Lu said to Qiu Jintian: "Jintian, the wall of the main house is cracked, why don't you fix it?"

Qiu Jintian laughed, "I put yellow mud on it and it cracked again and again, I don't care."

Old Man Lu: "We have to rebuild it, it's just ten acres now, build a new house and get married."

Qiu Jintian: "Let's talk about it later. Oh..."

He doesn't want to build a new house? Seeing that the Lu family had built new houses one after another in the past two years, he was quite envious, but he was poor. He had no wood, no money, and no food. What could he afford?

He was the only laborer in the family, his wife was either pregnant or giving birth, and the children were not yet grown-ups. The food they were given was not enough to eat, and they had to rely on their aunt's family for support every year.

He also had a secret thought in his heart, why did they give such a good house to Xu Laonian's family but not to his family?

Old man Lu was really angry that the two could not make a good match. The Lu family and the Qiu family had a relationship. Mrs. Qiu was his mother's personal servant. Because of their good relationship, she was asked to bring all the men and children in the family here.

Her husband was honest, capable and loyal, and was similar to Laonian.

Because old man Qiu was worried about his mother and brother at home, old man Lu asked them to move here.

Qiu Er was not bad. Mrs. Qiu Er was also a good worker and treated her master well.

But after leaving the Lu family, Mrs. Qiu Er began to change. It was not that she was not good to the Lu family, but she started to make trouble in the village, bullying men to fight with others, and then bullying the daughters of the youngest daughters to be mean to the daughter-in-law.

The youngest son did not listen to her, and took the opportunity to recruit miners to sign up with his wife. Later, he became a miner and settled outside and rarely went home.

Without the younger daughter-in-law to bully, she bullied the older daughter-in-law even more, and made Zhou Xiulan very mean.

If it were up to Zhou Xiulan, she would not want to have any more children after giving birth to four or five children a few years ago, but Mrs. Qiu scolded her, her husband was not considerate of her, and she was easy to get pregnant, so she had to continue to have children.

Old Man Lu still remembered that Zhou Xiulan secretly asked Fang Dihua if there was any medicine to prevent childbirth, thinking that the Lu family had a rich history and might have such medicine?

Fang Dihua told her that there was no medicine to prevent childbirth, and if there was, it was the kind of insidious medicine that hurt people's bodies and should not be taken, so she should go to the hospital to see the doctor, who would definitely have a way.

Zhou Xiulan was a woman who had never left home. She only went to Lujiazhuang or her parents' home. When she arrived at the commune, she didn't know the directions. How could she dare to go to the hospital?

She didn't have the money to go to the hospital.

No one else can do anything about her family's situation, so it's like this.

But now Zhou Xiulan doesn't want to have a baby, and she's making a fuss.

It's better not to embarrass herself in vain, right? Old Man Lu thinks that he should respect her wishes and let Qiu Jintian get sterilized.

But how can Qiu Jintian get sterilized by himself?

He sighed, "Second Master, sterilization is not as easy as shaving your head, right?"

If it was as easy as shaving your head, he would definitely get sterilized without saying a word.

Even Old Man Lu, who is so well-mannered, was irritated by him.

He said, "Either you get sterilized or Xiulan gets sterilized."

Qiu Jintian: "But she's pregnant, right? Why get sterilized?"

Zhou Xiulan cried miserably in the room. Although she didn't dare to confront her mother-in-law and husband directly, she meant that she didn't want to give birth. It was really enough.

Her son's humiliation was a huge blow to her.

She was not afraid of other people's gossip, but her eldest son's poisonous words made her unable to raise her head.

She would rather go to the hospital to get the abortion and get sterilized at the same time. She would rather sit in confinement for a short period of time than endure ten months of confinement after giving birth.

Old Man Lu did not comment on this. This was someone else's family affair. Whether it was an unborn child or a born child, it was someone else's own responsibility to give birth and raise the child. If she had an abortion, it would be someone else's own suffering.

He remembered what his third daughter-in-law had said before, "If the children could choose, they would definitely not want to be reborn in his family."

Yes, there are already eight children, and if he has another one, he will definitely be raised like a little mouse.

Look at these skinny children in his family. If you don't know, you would think that Lujiazhuang is still not well fed like it was ten years ago.

Old Man Lu couldn't think of any way to persuade people. If it was before the land reform, Mrs. Qiu would definitely have to listen to his arrangements, but now each family is their own, and he has no power to control people.

You can't force people, and it's not good for everyone to stay in the Qiu family forever, so they dispersed one after another.

Zhou Xiulan took Mrs. Qiu's hand and begged, "Auntie." She wanted Mrs. Qiu to help persuade her mother-in-law and her husband.

Mrs. Qiu patted her arm and went to talk to Qiu Jintian.

Qiu Jintian covered his head, "Auntie, what I say doesn't count. You should talk to my mother."

If he was unhappy about family matters, he would tell his mother, but his mother would basically never agree.

Mrs. Qiu was puzzled, "Jintian, you said you already have eight children, and you still have to give birth to this newly conceived child?"

Qiu Jintian: "Auntie, it's a life anyway. Who of us can take the blame for murder?"

Mrs. Qiu said angrily, "It hasn't taken shape yet. It's just a ball of flesh and blood. How can you say it's murder?"

She didn't understand what Qiu Jintian was thinking, why couldn't he listen to his wife for once.

"Look, who in the village is as poor as yours? Even the widow's family is not as poor as yours!" Mrs. Qiu said unhappily.

Qiu Jintian actually cried.

Mrs. Qiu: "..."

At this time, Mrs. Qiu II ran in from outside, her face flushed with anxiety, "Sister-in-law, what do you mean? Are you making fun of us? Are you going to publicize our family as a negative example throughout the commune and the county?" She immediately started to curse, and her words were full of shame.

"You stepped on us to gain a good reputation and make money, and now you come back to bully us! God, is there any justice?"

She cried and yelled for a while, and Mrs. Qiu finally heard it. It turned out that she was blaming Lin Shu here.

Mrs. Qiu II meant that Lin Shu used her family as a negative example and wrote it into the propaganda manual for others to learn and preach, stepping on her family to please the government and gain benefits for herself.

Mrs. Qiu was furious and cursed, "You are such a ruthless person who doesn't know what's good for you!"

She didn't care and walked away. Zhou Xiuhua cried alone and helplessly on the kang.

Mrs. Qiu II cursed at the room, "What's the matter with you crying? How can you be so cruel? If you get rid of the child, you will have to spend money on hospitalization? How can you afford it at home? If you are pregnant, just give birth to the baby. What's there to cry about? At most, you can get a sterilization after giving birth, and you don't have to give birth in the future."

Mrs. Qiu II didn't want her daughter-in-law to get an abortion or sterilization now. In fact,

she didn't want her daughter-in-law to get sterilized at all. Even if Zhou Xiulan could get an IUD, she would not agree because she didn't want to cooperate with the team.

She felt that this eugenics policy was specifically designed for her family, and was specifically designed to harm her family and make fun of her family.

Because they saw that her eight children owed a lot of money to the brigade, they hated her family and deliberately bullied her!

So she refused to cooperate! She

absolutely refused to cooperate!

The Qiu family's incident was a big deal, so Lin Shu naturally heard about it.

In addition to following Lu Hehuan on a visit and inspection, the people from other villages who came to the Lujiazhuang Brigade to learn from it would also visit Lin Shu and talk to her.

They all highly praised the article - after all, it was an article used as a brochure by the Provincial Health Bureau, so how could it not be praised to a high level?

They naturally highly praised Lin Shu.

If Lin Shu didn't want to participate too much, they would have wanted her to accompany them on the visit, inspection and interviews with those members' homes.

The next day, they came to visit and asked Lin Shu: "Teacher Lin, how do you think this matter should be resolved?"

"Yes, how should this family be persuaded?"

They were very worried about the Lujiazhuang Brigade. After all, the Lujiazhuang Brigade was an advanced brigade for eugenics and good parenting. As a result, something like the Qiu family happened. Isn't this a discredit to the brigade? Can the advanced status be maintained?

They all thought that the brigade should punish Qiu Jintian's family.

Seeing their angry expressions, Lin Shu was very sensitive to their tendency to enforce the law radically, so she said: "Don't call me teacher, I just expressed some of my own opinions and communicated with everyone."

They changed their words to call sister-in-law or Comrade Lin Shu.

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Our team's advanced members were awarded because there were too many members who responded to the policy on their own initiative, not because we actively persuaded the members to do it. The Qiu family is a normal phenomenon. They are not so conscious and cannot take the initiative to go. We may need to do propaganda and ideological work. But I hope everyone knows that the Qiu family is not a stain on our team and will not become a stumbling block for us to select advanced members. This is just part of the work."

This is not the family planning yet. If everyone has to force or punish a family for a certain task or goal, it will be out of shape. When

people asked her how to persuade them, they laughed and said, "Comrade Lin, you haven't been to the scene to see that their family is really hard to swallow." If

a woman is miserable and can't make decisions, men will pretend to be stupid and stupid, and I will be unruly.

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Aren't you all here to learn from experience? I think we have learned a lot, so why don't we take turns to practice with her family. I think if we conquer the Qiu family, you will be able to overcome any difficulties in the future." Anyway,

you have to go back to promote and persuade people, so why not practice with Mrs. Qiu first.

Everyone's eyes lit up, it's true.

Lu Hehuan has been helping Father Lu receive them these days and has communicated with them a lot, so naturally he has to go with them.

So they divided the tasks, and formed a group of four to take turns to do ideological work at Qiu Jintian's house.

Lin Shu signaled Lu Hehuan to just let people in, and not stay at the Qiu family all the time, and let these cadres do the propaganda and ideological work.

In the evening, Lu Hehuan led the people over.

Now that the autumn harvest is over, the brigade is busy plowing the fields with tractors and planting wheat. Most of the members have started to do lighter work again, so they can naturally get off work on time in the afternoon.

Lu Hehuan called at the door, led a few people in, and said to Mrs. Qiu and Qiu Jintian, who were preparing to store fresh sweet potatoes in the yard: "Auntie, I know you are busy, so I came here to help." Mrs. Qiu's

first reaction when she saw Lu Hehuan was that this person came to force her daughter-in-law to get a sterilization on behalf of her father, right?

She immediately wanted to be cold-faced, but after hearing what Lu Hehuan said, she wanted to take advantage. She felt that I asked them to help with the work but I didn't listen to them.

She nodded, "Hehuan is here, that's great, my family has so much work to do and your sister-in-law can't do anything."

Several people slowly helped to sort the sweet potatoes. A thirty-year-old women's director smiled and said, "Auntie, you are so lucky."

Mrs. Qiu snorted, "What kind of luck? You are a suffering bastard."

The women's director smiled and said, "How is it possible? Look, the old saying goes that the more children, the more blessings. You have eight grandchildren, which is a great blessing. Some people also say that it is better to be a dog in peacetime than a person in troubled times. In other words, you would rather be a dog in peacetime than a person in wartime. You were born in such a good time, and the brigade is richer than ours, and you have enough to eat. You are really blessed."

The others immediately agreed, yes, yes.

Several people took turns to flatter Mrs. Qiu, but she became more and more angry. It turned out that these people were not here to help but to deliberately squeeze her, right?

She was unhappy and wanted to get rid of them, but these women directors who were in charge of mass work were very sticky. They all smiled very friendly. Even if you gave them the cold shoulder, they would still smile and talk back to you.

No matter what Mrs. Qiu said, they could always make it up. In the end, Mrs. Qiu's head was buzzing.

It was dark, Zhou Xiulan finished cooking, and Lu Hehuan and the others left. Mrs. Qiu breathed a sigh of relief.

Who knew that the next morning, as soon as she opened the door, Lu Hehuan came again with a few others!

Even if Mrs. Qiu frowned to show that she was not welcome, Lu Hehuan still led them in with a smile to "help".

The gang was together until noon!

Mrs. Qiu was afraid that they would come again in the afternoon, so she wanted to hide away. However, another group of people were waiting outside in the afternoon, and they immediately followed her when they saw her go out.

Their attitude was extremely good, and they smiled very kindly, "Auntie, are you going out? It's on the way, let's go together."

Mrs. Qiu was so angry, "Fuck you!

I didn't even tell you what I was going to do, how did you know it was on the way with me?"

But no matter how she refused or turned her face away, the other party just smiled and was very kind.

If she sat down on the ground in a rage, slapped her thighs and wanted to cry, they would immediately help her up, with a look of great concern, "Auntie, what's wrong, are you not feeling well? Hurry up, go home!"

Then they would rush her home.

After a few days of this, Mrs. Qiu finally collapsed!

"You are using my family as a tool to make money!"

"You are so mean!"

"You want to force me to death!"

Seeing her mad, everyone knew that they couldn't continue today, so they dispersed and wanted to wait for her to calm down before continuing.

Mrs. Qiu was cursing on the street.

Lin Shu happened to want to go to the infirmary to buy some Sichuan Fritillaria to take to her second sister's house, and was seen by Mrs. Qiu when she passed by.

Mrs. Qiu rushed over to stop her, "You spendthrift woman, you are the one who did it. You wrote articles to make fun of my family, let so many people come to see my family's jokes, and you want to force me to death!"

Lin Shu was not angry either. She smiled sweetly, spoke softly, and maintained a stable mood.

She said, "Auntie, you misunderstood. Your family was not written in my advocacy book. Your family did not respond to the policy call, and your life did not get better. How could I write about you? My articles only have positive examples of people who have made changes and whose lives are getting better and better."

Haha, write about you? You are not worthy!

Mrs. Qiu was stunned when Lin Shu said this, but she became even angrier.

What's the matter? You said we are negative examples, bad examples, and not worthy of your writing?

Aren't you looking down on us even more?

She was dissatisfied because she thought Lin Shu had written about her family in the article to gain some good points. Now she heard Lin Shu say that she didn't write about her family, and she felt even more dissatisfied because she was discriminated against. She

naturally didn't dare to hit or scold Lin Shu, after all, so many people were watching her. She turned around and went home to scold her daughter-in-law.

Zhou Xiulan was too emotional before, and because of the depression, her health was not very good. She was sick at home for the past two days.

Mrs. Qiu came in and started to scold her, "You are a jinx, causing trouble for the family all day long! It is a shame for our Qiu family to have a jinx like you! If it weren't for you, would the family be so poor? If it weren't for you being unable to control your own pants/crotch, I wouldn't have to be scolded at my age."

She cursed at Zhou Xiulan for no reason, and her vicious words hit her like hail, making the already unstable Zhou Xiulan even more desperate.

Zhou Xiulan's face turned gray, and she bit her lips tightly, not even noticing the smell of blood.

Mrs. Qiu was still there, constantly insulting her. She felt that it was her daughter-in-law who had caused her to lose face. If it weren't for her daughter-in-law giving birth one after another, how could she be humiliated by so many people?

San Ya and the others immediately cried and begged their grandmother not to scold them.

Mrs. Qiu slapped San Ya to the ground, "You idiots! It's all because of you, otherwise how could our family be so poor?"

Zhou Xiulan, who had been withered and lifeless, suddenly screamed and burst out with unprecedented strength. She threw Mrs. Qiu to the ground, sat on her chest, and slapped Mrs. Qiu several times, causing her mouth and nose to bleed, her head to be dizzy, and stars to appear in her eyes.

Zhou Xiulan slapped and yelled, "I don't want to live anymore, I don't want to live anymore!"

Mrs. Qiu was thrown down unexpectedly, and her waist was pinched. She couldn't get up for a while, and she was so angry that she could only scream.

Zhou Xiulan didn't have much strength herself, so she slapped a few times, got up and ran outside.

The old women who were watching the children on the street had heard the noise a long time ago, and they were all peeking at the gate of the courtyard. They knew that Mrs. Qiu had been crazy recently and didn't dare to come in for fear of being scolded by her.

Seeing Zhou Xiulan rushing out like the wind, they were scared and hurried to catch up, but Zhou Xiulan rushed out from them like crazy.

Mrs. Chang shouted, "It's terrible, are you going to jump into the river?"

Another old woman called Mrs. Qiu and asked her to go and persuade her.

Mrs. Qiu has been admiring the telephone at the brigade these days. She thinks that machine is really amazing. Lu Ping is really amazing. At such a young age, he can make phone calls to the commune revolutionary committee and have a good conversation. Lu Ping

is already in the first grade of junior high school. He goes to school during the day and comes back from school in the afternoon to continue to help the brigade to settle accounts.

Before, a wave of rations had been distributed to the team, and more had to be distributed later. In addition, she had to communicate with the commune grain management office about the information of handing over public rations.

She didn't want to get involved in the mess of the second wife's family.

It was Mrs. Hu's grandmother, Mrs. Wang, who reacted quickly. She was originally going to work on her private plot, but when she passed by here, she heard that Zhou Xiulan was going to jump into the river.

She hurriedly chased after her.

Mrs. Chang and Mrs. Liu and others all went there.

Although Mrs. Wang was old, she was strong and had worked hard all year round, so she was naturally strong. Zhou Xiulan was very poor after each pregnancy, and she had been unable to sleep or eat for the past few days. In addition, she had just been stimulated by Mrs. Qiu and had an orgasm. She felt as if she had been drained of energy. She ran as if she was blown by the wind.

Mrs. Wang was able to hold Zhou Xiulan by the river, "Xiulan, you can't do stupid things!"

Mrs. Chang and a few others also came over panting. She said, "Xiulan, you can't be so selfish. If you jump down and die, then forget it. Why don't you think about the eight children in your family? How pitiful they are without their mother to take care of them?"

San Ya stumbled and chased after her, crying, "Mom, mom, please don't abandon us."

"Mother, mother, the youngest sister is hungry and crying at home. She wants to be fed."

Old Mrs. Chang continued to shout, "Look at these children, how pitiful they are! And how pitiful your husband is. If you die, he will not be able to marry a wife at his age and so poor. He has to work and raise eight children. He will be exhausted to death! As

a mother, you should also think about Shimu. He is about to get married. If you jump out of this, who in the eight villages will be willing to marry him? You can't harm the children! It's not

easy for anyone to be a daughter-in-law. Just hold on. In two years, you will be a mother-in-law!"

Old Mrs. Chang persuaded until she was hoarse. It would have been fine

if she hadn't persuaded her. Zhou Xiulan didn't have much strength, so Mrs. Wang pulled her to the shore. But as she kept persuading her, Zhou Xiulan suddenly gained strength and insisted on jumping into the river.

Mrs. Wang was so angry that she jumped to her feet, but she couldn't scold Mrs. Chang. After all, she would lose her temper as soon as she opened her mouth, and she didn't have enough strength to pull Zhou Xiulan.

The other old women didn't work and stayed at home to take care of the children. They were old and weak and didn't have much strength. If they went down to help, they were afraid that they would not be able to pull Zhou Xiulan up, but would throw them down instead. Soon

several people ran over here, but it was Lin Shu who was returning home from the brigade. She heard a woman on the road shouting that Zhou Xiulan had jumped into the river, so she hurried over to see.

Other members who passed by also hurried over to help.

Mrs. Qiu was faster than Lin Shu, and she jumped to the side, stamping her feet and cursing: "Zhou Xiulan, you ungrateful, unfilial woman, you dare to hit your mother-in-law! Don't hold her, let her jump, if she dies I will marry a younger and prettier one to Jintian!"

Zhou Xiulan screamed and struggled desperately to push Mrs. Wang

away. Mrs. Wang was almost pushed into the river by her, but fortunately Lin Shu and her friends arrived in time and pulled both Mrs. Wang and Zhou Xiulan back.

Mrs. Qiu, who was stamping her feet and spitting on the shore, was still shouting for people not to meddle in other people's business, not to save her, and let her die. The daughter-in-law dared to hit her mother-in-law, she was furious!

Fang Dihua, who rushed over after hearing the news, had a gloomy face. Without saying a word, she raised her hand and slapped Mrs. Qiu Er in the face, causing Mrs. Qiu Er to bleed from her nose immediately!

Fang Dihua's hand strength was not comparable to Zhou Xiulan's.

Zhou Xiulan slapped several times, but none of them was as strong as Fang Dihua's.

Mrs. Qiu fell to the ground. She was frightened by the Second Mistress's dominance and dared not fart, let alone seek death and make trouble.

How could others not dare to say anything? Originally, all the old men of the Lu family were afraid of Fang Dihua.

Lin Shu asked someone to help Zhou Xiulan back home.

But Zhou Xiulan looked as if she had given up hope and did not want to go back.

At this time, Qiu Jintian also ran over in a hurry, "Xiu Lan, what are you doing? Why don't you live a good life? Do you want to drive me and the children to death?"

Lin Shu frowned, "Shut up!" Qiu

Jintian put his hands in his sleeves, squatted down, and wiped his tears with his head in his hands. The more he feared embarrassment, the more embarrassed he was!

At this time, Zhou Xiu Lan's second and third sons and Da Ya and Er Ya also ran over. The children cried miserably on one side. Da Ya hugged Wu Ya, who was hungry and cried until she was hoarse.

It was a mess.

Lin Shu said to Zhou Xiulan, "Look at you, you have suffered so much injustice and so much suffering, and you are going to die without even enjoying a single day of good life. You should at least make yourself a delicious meal, eat the white flour at home, have a couple of eggs, and it would be best if you kill the chicken..." "

Oh my God..." Mrs. Qiu burst into tears again when she heard this, "How can you instigate like this? No, Mrs. Shaotang, please let our family go."

Zhou Xiulan's eyes flashed at Lin Shu's words. She was so hungry. She hadn't eaten properly in the past few days. She only ate boiled sweet potatoes. No matter how full the sweet potatoes were, she would feel hungry again after eating only 80% full and peeing twice.

Lin Shu continued, "It's a good thing that you have many children in your family. Children can help you with a lot of work. Everyone in the village raises rabbits, why don't you? You can raise two pairs of rabbits and let the children cut grass to feed the rabbits. When the rabbits are born, they can be released after four or five months of raising them. Each rabbit can be sold for at least three yuan. If you raise rabbits yourself, you can also cook rabbit meat from time to time. The spicy rabbit meat I make is so delicious. Haven't you smelled it?"

Zhou Xiulan swallowed her saliva and said in a hoarse and dry voice : "I smell it, I smell it. The dried sweet potato porridge is especially delicious when I drink it."

Looking at her expression, Lin Shu knew that she would not seek death. She continued: "Although the boys are not sensible and cannot help you intimately, the big ya, ya, ya and ya are very understanding. They are all good at catching cicadas in summer, cutting grass, picking wheat ears, and picking up cotton, drying melons, and taking care of children in autumn. You are not without help."

Zhou Xiulan looked at several children, where Da Ya was holding Yaomei, crying with runny nose.

A few children were wearing straw sandals and bare feet. In early September, others were wearing thin cotton-padded jackets or jackets. They were also wearing tattered single clothes.

Da Ya's trousers are too short, and the trousers hang to her knees.

These were the clothes that were picked up from my aunt’s family and the second wife’s children.

If it weren’t for the help from others, these children wouldn’t be able to run out on the street today.

Fang Dihua asked Qiu Jintian to carry Zhou Xiulan back.

Zhou Xiulan had been struggling for a long time and had no strength left in her body. She couldn’t even lift her legs.

But she resisted Qiu Jintian from touching her and didn’t let him carry her.

Qiu Jintian: “Xiulan, why are you being so stubborn? Look, you have to struggle like this and make people laugh at you. Go home quickly.”

Fang Dihua let him go and carried Zhou Xiulan back by herself.

Zhou Xiulan was so thin that she probably weighed less than 90 kilograms.

The branch secretary and the team leader rushed over from the wheat field and scolded Qiu Jintian and the second wife Qiu with a combination of punches.

Qiu Jintian wanted to protest and say that he was wronged, and Mrs. Qiu wanted to make a scene, but they just couldn't get a word in.

In the end, Qiu Jintian squatted outside the window, holding his head and sighing, while Mrs. Qiu lay on the kang and died.

The secretary was furious and said to Qiu Jintian, "Okay, there's no rush now, go get your vasectomy."

Qiu Jintian didn't want to move, and said with his lips trembling, "Well, can Xiulan get her vasectomy when she gives birth next year?"

The secretary scolded, "No!"

He was really pissed off.

While Qiu Jintian was being scolded, Zhou Xiulan in the room covered her stomach and said that she had a stomachache, then went down to squat on the urinal, and a pool of blood came out.

Zhou Xiulan said weakly, "It's not that I'm cruel, I just can't afford to raise you. It's better for you to marry into a good family than to be born in my family."

Mrs. Qiu scolded, "What are you talking about? It's nothing now. It's just a blood clot in your stomach that has come out now."

Mrs. Wang also said, "It's not a big deal. You weren't pregnant at all. It's just that the placenta was not detached when you gave birth to Wu Ya. I lost a piece of flesh after I gave birth to Wu Ya that year."

Mrs. Qiu instructed Daya and Erya to boil water, and then went to her house to get some eggs to make some boiled eggs for Zhou Xiulan.

The chickens in Qiu Jintian's family were all very thin. Except in summer and autumn when they had insects and grass seeds to eat and could lay eggs, it was good enough for them to be alive at other times. Most of the time, they were killed by Mrs. Qiu to nourish Qiu Jintian.

Lin Shu glanced at Daya and Erya. Although they were wearing thin clothes and were tanned, they were clean and had no lice or nits in their short hair.

She said, "Do you two want to learn how to make hair ornaments from my Xiuxiu?"

Lu Xiuxiu always had a lot of scraps of cloth when making clothes. Because they were too small, they were useless and could only be used to make jackets, but she couldn't bear to use them, so she saved them to make various large and small hair ornaments.

Hou Ying followed her and learned a lot. She took them to Qizhou School and sold a hundred of them. Lin Shu also gave Li Xiaoru a dozen of them, and Li Xiaoru immediately ordered a batch.

Although the headbands are inconspicuous, they are consumed in large quantities. After all, they are cheap. Girls with a salary in the city will not be stingy with this, especially those who cannot afford watches or leather shoes. It would be beautiful if I bought 20 or 30 small headbands to wear in turn, right? Anyway,

the order volume is large and Xiuxiu has no time to make them, and Houying can't do it alone. Usually, Sister Lin helps to do it.

Lin Shu thinks that Daya and Erya can do it.

They can be rewarded with food in the future.

Sanya can stay at home to help watch the children and cook, after all, they are still young.

Daya and Erya were a little unbelievable, and they pursed their lips, "Auntie, is it true?"

Lin Shu: "Of course, but you have to listen to Sister Xiuxiu, you have to be obedient."

The two girls nodded immediately, indicating that they would definitely be obedient.

Mrs. Qiu couldn't help but interrupt as she listened, "Then...how much is the salary?"

Mrs. Qiu was so angry that she cursed, "If you don't open your mouth, no one will treat you as dumb."

The Qiu family moved to Lujiazhuang with the help of Mrs. Qiu, so Mrs. Qiu had been secretly trying to compete with the eldest sister-in-law, but was a little afraid of Mrs. Qiu when they met.

Lin Shu didn't care much about the Qiu family's affairs. She went home and told Xiuxiu about it.

Xiuxiu and Hou Ying needed someone to make hair flowers, so they naturally agreed.

After a few days, Qiu Jintian felt that no matter the elderly or children, they were all laughing at him and pointing fingers at him. He felt a huge pressure, and finally broke down and cried in the brigade office, saying that he would go for sterilization and not hold the brigade back.

He felt wronged, more sad than Meng Jiangnu, and more wronged than Dou E.

Obviously, Xiulan could get an IUD or a sterilization after she recovered, but why did everyone have to point fingers at him and poke his spine?

As if he was not their son and should die if he did not get sterilized? No

matter how you look at it, it is more appropriate for women to get an IUD or a sterilization than for men. He is a man and he has to do manual labor.

He had been gossiped about before, such as being poor, fertile, and owing money to the brigade, but he did not feel guilty or uncomfortable at that time.

Now he feels ashamed and dares not go out to see people every day.

Whenever someone looks at him, he thinks that they must be laughing at him for not being able to cover his pants/crotch, regardless of the fact that he made the woman pregnant after she just gave birth.

He couldn't stand it anymore, so he went to the commune clinic to get a vasectomy