Chapter 261 Take it back

Ever since Panpan Tiantian supported Lili, the children in the family compound have regarded them as their backbone and support. Whenever they feel bullied, no matter whether the other party is an adult or a big child, they will take the initiative to find Panpan Tiantian to support them.

"If you dare to bully me, I will tell Lu Pan and Lu Tian!"

This is their motto.

Of course, Panpan Tiantian will not be idle and meddle in everything. Some things are obviously a matter of back and forth, so who cares?

And those who are obviously wrong and go to the two to complain after being punished, Panpan Tiantian will first teach them a lesson and then let them go back to apologize.

In this way, the atmosphere in the class has improved a lot.

The classmates who used to have conflicts have also put aside their past grudges and started playing together.

Those who don't like studying now also learn a little, and those who don't like sports also go out and play games.

Originally, the teachers were worried about not being able to find people to sign up for the sports meet, but now the lower grades are being led by Panpan and Tiantian, especially the runners and pitchers/grenade/shots, and they have to screen the number of people. The

slightly older ones are not worried about not having enough people for the sports meet because of the leadership of Lu An and Hou Bo.

The autumn sports meet is held by several nearby primary schools. The agency primary school always has a lack of people and is suppressed by other primary schools, but this year it has reversed its disadvantage and won a good result of first place in the overall.

This made the principal of the primary school very happy. He praised the class teachers and students who won the most awards and gave them extra prizes.

Panpan, Tiantian, Hou Wei, Lu An, Hou Bo, and Hou Yingying all brought back certificates and prizes.

Lu Ping also participated in the sports meet in junior high school and also received a certificate and prize.

The children divided the certificates, some of which were posted in the No. 8 courtyard, some were posted at Sister Lin's house, and some were taken back and posted at Lu's manor.

Because they won awards in the sports meet, the children's enthusiasm for morning exercises increased. Even when Lu Shaotang and Chen Yanming were not there, they followed their respective captains to persist in training.

The parents of the children who participated in the training, especially those who won awards in the sports meet, all came to thank Lin Shu and gave her gifts.

Not to mention Mrs. Guan, Zheng Jie, Chen Huilan, Yang Shumin, and Zhang Ya, even Director Guan Wei came to thank them in person and brought rich gifts to the children, including a high-end pencil case and a pen for each child. Seeing that

the children were grateful for the gifts, Lin Shu accepted them and would do the same for the return gifts in the future.

Previously, many people knew Lin Shu because of eugenics, but they had never visited her. Now, because of the children's affairs, those parents who were not very familiar with her also came to visit with snacks, fruit candies, etc., which made Lin Shu really busy for a few days.

Finally, Lin Shu had some free time that day. She took out the children's cotton quilts and patched up the ones that needed patching.

Chen Huilan and Yang Shumin came over when they were busy.

That day, Lili cried and looked for Tiantian and Panpan for help. The whole family gathered around to watch and blame Cui Guixiang. This also let Chen Huilan's family know that Lili was bullied outside. Chen

Huilan was particularly regretful. She felt that she had spared no effort to help others solve their problems, but she did not take good care of her own daughter and did not show half the patience at work!

She blamed herself and asked Yan Zhendong to reflect on it, and took her two sons and the eldest daughter to reflect on it together.

Lili is a crybaby, shy, unconfident and a little cowardly, but what's wrong with her?

Why did they blame her for not being good at expressing herself?

Why did they think she was embarrassing themselves because she didn't say sweet words?

If their own family members hadn't done enough, how could outsiders dare to ridicule her in person and call her rude? Or even come to complain?

She hugged Lili and cried very hard. She apologized to her daughter, but Lili was at a loss and burst into tears.

That night, the whole family cried and apologized to Lili, and they were not allowed to say that she was crybaby, coquettish, or a liar.

Because outsiders used that kind of teasing and slightly contemptuous tone to say that Lili didn't like to call people and had a bad personality, her family was also affected invisibly, and they couldn't help but think that she was unsociable, lonely, and ignorant, and they inadvertently revealed it in front of others. Then outsiders naturally didn't take Lili seriously and talked about her casually.

Chen Huilan told her husband and children, "It's because of our indulgence that others dare to bully Lili behind her back. If others are 50% wrong, we are 80% wrong."

Yan Zhendong also felt that he never forced the little lady to call people, nor did he call her a spoiled child. It seemed right, but in fact, when the brothers and sisters scolded her for being a liar and a crybaby, he didn't stop them very sternly, which was also a kind of indulgence and harm.

Yan Guoqiang, Guoqing, Yingzi and others also realized their own problems, especially Yingzi. Thinking about the words she scolded her sister, and thinking about what Cui Guixiang said, her sister was scared, helpless and weak after being bullied outside...

She felt extremely regretful and blamed herself. They were obviously a family, but they didn't know that her sister was hurt. No, they hurt her together.

She took out all the good things she had hidden and gave them to Lili, and apologized to her sister sincerely.

Lili was very happy, sobbing and saying, "It's okay, it's okay, I don't blame you, I'm so happy now."

She cried when she was sad and she cried when she was happy. Anyway, she had a lot of tears and she couldn't control it.

Now that no one bullies her, she still cries a lot. When the teacher is lecturing, she listens attentively, but suddenly something touches her and she starts to cry.

After class, everyone plays games together, and she starts to cry while playing.

There are many reasons to cry, such as being moved, sad, and compassionate. She even cries because her team bravely blocked the enemy's attack when playing the enemy game.

But no one will laugh at her for crying anymore, and no one will stop her from playing because of her crying.

So, although she continues to cry, she is in a happy mood.

She smiles every day at home, and Chen Huilan and Yan Zhendong are relieved.

The couple are very grateful to Panpan and Tiantian, and then to Lin Shu and Lu Shaotang.

Anyway, now Chen Huilan comes to talk to Lin Shu whenever she has time. Lin Shu suspects that she treats herself as a gas station.

At this moment, Chen Huilan is sighing again, "Really, I always wondered what's wrong with Lili before, why is she so fond of crying, what can I do with her in her life, will she be fine when she grows up? Unexpectedly, she was cured by Tiantian and Panpan, and now she is cute and smiling. You say, Panpan and Tiantian, these two children, why are they so lovable? They are smarter than us adults, and there is still a way."

Yang Shumin: "There is a generation gap between us and the children, and only children can communicate with each other."

Lin Shu: "Maybe because we are adults, we think we understand the ways of the world better and have more experience, so we are arrogant unconsciously."

Some parents, even if they don't know a few words and their studies are terrible, will not stop them from scolding their first- and second-grade children for being stupid and unable to do such simple questions.

They use their decades of reading experience to judge first- and second-grade children, but they can no longer remember how stupid they were when they were in first and second grade.

If they want to find fault, they can find fault with any good child. Can't they find fault with Panpan and Tiantian?

Impossible, as long as he is willing, he can find fault in all aspects and can criticize the two children to nothing.

Lin Shu saw with her own eyes a mother whose daughter was pretty, had a charming look when she smiled, and loved to laugh. The mother scolded her daughter

for being coquettish and naughty all the time. Most parents would be so proud of such a pretty daughter that they would want to show her off every day.

But there are always people who think differently and can find faults in beautiful things.

Some people are not worthy of being with beauty.

Chen Huilan: "Lin Shu said it well, I was deeply touched. Not only when facing children, we who are literate also find it difficult to be tolerant when facing those who are illiterate. We can't consider the problem from the perspective of illiterate people. We can only think how stupid they are and can't understand such a simple reason. Hey, this is a big reminder for me. I have to be more humble so that I can do a better job."

Recently, a family made her very tired and very angry.

A woman was beaten by her husband all day long. When she was beaten badly, she ran out to ask for help, but when the Women's Federation brought people to help her, she said it was nothing and her husband was very good. As a result, the man blamed the Women's Federation for meddling in other people's business and went to the government to make trouble and demand compensation.

After a few times, Chen Huilan was also angry and wanted to ignore it, but she felt sympathy when she saw the woman being beaten so badly.

Now that Lin Shu reminded her, she realized the problem. The woman was illiterate and unemployed!

She didn't dare to leave the man who supported her family.

Being beaten could buy her life, but leaving might make her die, which might be worse than being beaten, so she didn't dare.

Chen Huilan stood up and said to Lin Shu and Yang Shumin, "You guys chat. I remember I have work to do. I'm leaving now."

She grabbed her bag and ran away in a hurry.

Yang Shumin leaned over to the window and teased her, "Are you anxious? You're in such a hurry. Slow down!"

Chen Huilan waved her hand upstairs and rode away on her bicycle.

Yang Shumin turned around to discuss the furniture with Lin Shu.

She came to tell Lin Shu today that she had found the wood and paint. "My cousin promised to help us solve it."

Lin Shu: "So should we buy from him, or give him a little profit?"

Yang Shumin: "Your price is low enough. You won't touch my part, so I'll give it to him. Of course I'll raise the price after using paint, and the buyer will be happy." Yang

Shumin felt that she was making money for free in this business. She first found a buyer and then asked Lin Shu to help her make the order. After getting the goods, she made pure money.

The key is not to make mistakes, not to cause trouble, and to be very clean.

Nowadays, industrial paints have appeared in state-owned furniture factories. Although they have a bit of smell, the colors are bright, including brown, reddish brown, etc. The furniture painted with them is also more beautiful and is deeply loved by the general public.

From leaders to ordinary citizens, when their children get married, they all want to get such a set of furniture. If it doesn't have 72 legs, it should have 36, right?

If it doesn't have 36, then a cabinet, a three-door cabinet, a sofa, or something will do.

Although Lin Shu is quite resistant to this kind of paint, she thinks it is not as environmentally friendly as the earth paint used by Carpenter Tan, after all, it has a strong smell and is slightly polluting, but customers like it.

In those days, there was no talk of environmental protection or pollution. After all, there was a shortage of materials, so it was good to have it. Who cares so much?

Since her cousin can solve it, every time Brother Lu and his friends come to deliver goods, they can go back to help pull wood and paint, which is also convenient.

When talking about furniture, Yang Shumin talked about her cousin.

"A family of ten people squeezed into two small rooms, each with several bunk beds, so crowded that we couldn't even buy a cabinet."

Her family also wanted to buy a large wardrobe designed by Lin Shu, but unfortunately there was no place to put it. The dining table was the largest open space.

There are many people in the family, and there is no storage space, so things will be placed everywhere?

Every day they quarrel over trivial matters, either she can't find her clothes or he can't find his socks.

Even if everyone has a box, who has the patience to put things in the box all day long?

Seeing her worried look, Lin Shu smiled and said, "Is your family financially comfortable?"

Yang Shumin: "We have a few people getting paid, so we don't have to worry about money, but we are worried about the allocation of houses."

Now, housing is tight in all units. Almost all units do not allocate houses to families who have houses to live in. Most young people who get married and apply for housing allocation will have to wait for one or two years, because couples with children have to be allocated houses first, so some families have three generations living together.

Lin Shu: "I have a way to spend some money."

Yang Shumin: "How do you spend money?"

Lin Shu gave her a few suggestions, but she said she was not clear, so she took a pen and paper to sketch.

In fact, it is the design style of a modern small-sized children's room. The bunk beds are against the wall on one side, and there are several drawers on the outside of the lower bunk that can be pulled out to store clothes and bedding.

A standing cabinet can be made on the top of the lower bunk to store clothes, bags, books, etc., and the tail is the staircase leading to the upper bunk.

Each staircase is a drawer, which not only meets the storage needs but also increases support.

If there is space on the wall of the upper bunk, partitions can be nailed to place simple small items, clothes, etc.

Moreover, these spaces can also be used as places for children to read and write.

If there are many children, a small room can be made into three or four beds.

Never underestimate the ability of modern snail dwellers to use space. They really fight for every inch. In fact, it is very consistent with the space needs of people living in tube buildings in this era.

However, the quality of the tube building is not good, so the bed cannot be directly installed on the wall.

As Lin Shu explained, the storage bed in her pen became clearer and clearer, and Yang Shumin exclaimed that it was amazing.

"Xiao Lin, how did you get so many wonderful ideas? Why can't I think of it?"

Lin Shu smiled and said, "You must have thought of it, but you just didn't think about it carefully."

Lin Shu had thought about this modern bunk bed a long time ago, mainly for the children.

The mortise and tenon structure used by Carpenter Tan and his team made a modular bed that is definitely sturdier than modern ones.

Yang Shumin was immediately interested and asked Lin Shu to order a set first, and then let relatives and friends come to see it, and they all want it.

Lin Shu: "For winter."

Carpenter Tan is currently making wedding furniture for Chen Yanming. In winter, the idle farmers have nothing to do, so he can organize more carpenters to help at home, and then he can make more modular beds.

Yang Shumin had a big appetite and immediately took Lin Shu's sketches away. "I'll go out for a few days and order a few more sets. It will be more appropriate for Carpenter Tan to make them in batches."

Find a family with a large population and a good economy, especially one with elderly and children. It is absolutely necessary!

In the following time, Lin Shu took people to clean up the third floor of the second building in the No. 8 courtyard, preparing for Chen Yanming and Zhan Qiuran to live there when they get married.

Doctor Zhan often comes here in the evening when he is free recently. When he comes, he doesn't go out with Chen Yanming to have a love affair. He stays at home to give Pan Pan Tiantian a lesson.

In the blink of an eye, it is the beginning of winter. The local custom is to eat dumplings and drink mutton soup.

Many people came to eat today, so Lin Shu and her elder sister started working early. They prepared a large bowl of noodles and four kinds of stuffing: leek and egg, radish and lamb, cabbage and pork, and black fungus, carrot and shrimp.

Lu Ping, Lu An, Hou Bo, and Yingying came home to help as soon as school was over. Pan Pan, Tian Tian, ​​and Hou Wei were also busy, like little bees.

Hou Wei: "Aunt, can my grandpa and grandma really go home today?"

Without waiting for Lin Shu to answer, Panpan said: "You have asked eight hundred times, and my mother is so tired of answering you that her mouth is blistered. Don't worry, they will definitely go home. My father will go to pick them up in person."

In fact, Lu Shaotang went to the farm not to pick up the old couple Hou Deming. Their documents were fine, and they could set off on time. As for the luggage that could not be taken, they could just send it back through the post office. Anyway, people can resume work after returning, and they don't need the money.

Lu Shaotang went to pick up Doctor Shao, hoping to persuade him with emotion and reason, so that the old doctor would know that the people of Qizhou need him, the patients in Qizhou need him, and hope that he can come back to preside over the overall situation of traditional Chinese medicine.

Sister Lin called Hou Jianwen a few days ago, and he will come today.

Chen Yanming will also pick up Zhai Qiuran to come over in the evening.

Fang Dihua asked Brother Lu to bring half a sheep yesterday when he delivered the goods. It was a yellow sheep raised by the neighboring brigade. It was not fishy at all. He also sent a dozen smoked rabbits.

When passing by the market, he sent the other half to Lin Xia and Jiang Weidong.

In the large aluminum pot on the beehive coal stove, the milky white soup of sheep offal and sheep bones kept rolling inside, and the aroma of mutton surged out in waves, making people swallow their saliva.

Lin Shu also prepared sour radishes, kimchi, and a pot of chopped coriander.

Seeing that the mutton offal was almost done, she took out a deep enamel basin and directly scooped out a basin, letting everyone take a bowl and add ingredients according to their taste, such as green onions, coriander, pepper, chili oil, pickled mustard greens, whatever they like.

Sister Lin called the children, "Come and drink the mutton soup, drink a bowl of hot mutton soup before making dumplings."

As she was talking, Xiaozhuang's loud voice came from outside, "Sister-in-law, brother-in-law is here!"

Lin Shu poked her head out from the balcony and called, "Brother-in-law, come up quickly! Xiaozhuang, bring a basin to serve the mutton soup." Xiaozhuang

: "Sister-in-law, there is also mutton soup in the cafeteria today."

Lin Shu: "Isn't that for lunch in the cafeteria? It's being made at sister-in-law's house now, hurry up."

Xiaozhuang happily brought up a small basin to serve it, and later went downstairs to share it with Kecheng and the others.

Lin Shu served him a lot of mutton offal and mutton, and nine-tenths of mutton soup, and let him season it himself.

Hou Jianwen came directly from the Dashalong Brigade in the mountainous area. Before coming, he went to the county to take a bath, get a haircut, and change into clean clothes.

His glasses have been changed, and he no longer looks like a spider web. He has become darker and rougher, but he is in good spirits, with a pair of black and bright eyes, and a cheerful smile on his lips.

As soon as he entered the house, he greeted the children loudly and hugged them tightly, no matter whether they were his own children or Lu Ping, Lu An, Pan Pan and Tian Tian, ​​he hugged them one by one, weighed them, and said loudly: "They have grown taller and heavier, but the food is good!"

After greeting the children, he strode to the balcony kitchen and greeted Lin Shu loudly, "Little sister, you have worked so hard. Thank you so much for you, Shao Tang and the children."

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Brother-in-law, why are you thanking me? You should thank my sister. She has worked so hard." Hou

Jianwen smiled at his wife, patted her and stroked Sister Lin's back.

Elder sister Lin blushed as they were an old couple. She said angrily, "Go inside and wait. Have a bowl of mutton soup and make dumplings. Make a lot of dumplings. Make some for them when mom and dad come back."

Hou Jianwen rubbed his hands and wanted to help. Seeing that he couldn't help, he smiled and went back to the room with the children to distribute the gifts.

Dashalong Brigade and several other brigades were located in a valley. The local mountains were mostly sand and gravel, with no trees or shrubs. The members had no place to collect firewood.

The mountains were numerous and the land was scarce, so they could not distribute enough crop stalks as firewood to the members like other brigades. Most families could only save on firewood. Drinking raw water and eating cold rice were the norm. They would only cook a hot meal in winter. Some families even had to work together to keep warm in winter.

Hou Jianwen thought this was a good challenge, so he took his technical team to stay there and study available energy.

The area was too poor to get electricity, and the brigades worked together to only pull a set of electric wires from the commune to the countryside. The brigades shared a telephone and a loud speaker, and nothing else.

He took people there to study energy-saving firewood stoves, heat-insulating kangs, and heat-insulating walls, which can save more than half of the firewood heat energy compared to ordinary farmer stoves. He

also took people to study other energy sources, and finally found that solar energy was the simplest and most convenient.

He wanted to make a batch of solar stoves for several brigades there so that they could use solar energy to cook, boil water, and keep warm. Now he has made great progress.

If his parents hadn't come back, he might still be stuck there.

The leaders and members of the brigade there liked their technicians very much. Knowing that he was going home to visit his family, they packed a lot of things for him, including red dates, peanuts, and apples. The sandy land there is particularly suitable for growing these things, with higher yields and better taste.

Hou Jianwen refused but had to take it.

Lin Shu and Sister Lin came over with their own mutton soup. Lu Ping and Hou Jianwen moved the panel and lid for making dumplings to one side, and everyone sat around the table to drink the hot and delicious mutton soup.

Lin Shu asked her brother-in-law how the solar stove was made.

Hou Jianwen took off his glasses and wiped the mist off the lenses with his clothes. He said happily

, "There is progress. We have tried 20 or 30 times and finally found similar materials and a more scientific combination method to better absorb solar energy." The children were very curious and asked how to use the sun to cook.

They use water to take a bath, dry crops, and dry clothes at home. They all know that sunlight is important.

Hou Jianwen gave a lecture, but it was too professional for the children to understand.

Hou Jianwen scratched his head. He was not good at giving lectures to children. Not everyone can teach others if they know something themselves.

Panpan suddenly remembered something, "When you stack two lenses of reading glasses, there will be a small spot of light when facing the sun. When the spot of light falls on the grass, it will smoke and burn in a short time. Is that right?"

Hou Jianwen clapped his hands, "Yes, that's it!"

Panpan remembered that when he was a child, he used his grandfather's broken glasses to shine on ants. After a while, the ants started to smoke and died.

When the grandfather knew about it, he told them not to play with fire casually, let alone burn ants casually. So they caught mosquitoes and burned them.

Hou Jianwen told them that the solar stove is similar to the principle, but it does not use convex mirrors to focus light to ignite fire, but uses the principle of concave mirrors to focus light. The stove is placed at the focus of the concave mirror to gather heat energy to heat the stove.

All you need to do is find a suitable concave mirror veneer material, and the solar stove will be ready.

Mirrors, reflective paper, etc. are all fine. The key is to be safe, easy to use, and cheap, so that it can really help ordinary people solve life problems.

"Uncle, then can you make one for our family? We put it in the yard to boil water, so that each room will have hot water in winter."

Lin Shu smiled and said, "We have a boiler in the yard, and it has heating."

This solar stove may not be easy to make, so don't make it difficult for others.

Hou Jianwen said, "I'll go to the factory in a couple of days to look for materials and make two for our family."

The children cheered immediately.

At this time, Chen Yanming, Zhan Qiuran, and Zhan Jiali also came outside.

The children heard and ran out to greet them, "Godfather, godmother, sister Jiali, come and drink mutton soup~~"

At this time, a military green jeep sped up on the national highway from the neighboring province to Qizhou.

Lu Shaotang concentrated on driving and did not say anything along the way. Hou's mother was sitting in the passenger seat and kept dozing off. She was so excited that she couldn't sleep for several days. On the way back, she finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Hou Deming was sitting in the back, trying to persuade Doctor Shao earnestly, "Do you still think you are young? Can you bear the illness? Can you at least get some medicine? If Director Lu hadn't come to pick you up, could you have survived this winter?"

Old Master Shao leaned sickly on the chair, closed his eyes, pursed his lips, and said nothing.

He was 70 years old, and even if he was in good health, he couldn't stand the hard labor life in the countryside for a few years, especially in the farm where water freezes in winter. Without enough heating supplies, he had to suffer.

It was also thanks to Fang Dihua that Sister Lin sent a lot of cotton to her parents-in-law in the past two years, and Hou Deming evenly distributed some to Old Master Shao, otherwise he would not have survived last winter with his stubborn look.

Doctor Shao moved, his forehead still hot, "I, Shao Bei, will remember this favor."

After entering Qizhou, Lu Shaotang did not go home first, but went directly to the PLA Hospital to arrange for Doctor Shao to be hospitalized.