Chapter 27 Mother and Daughter

Tiantian read comic books to Panpan, while Lin Shu took out the original owner's cotton-padded jacket. The original owner had washed it but had not sewed it yet, so she just stuffed it with new cotton.

Anyway, she had the new cotton wool provided by Zhao Meifeng, so Lin Shu stuffed it thickly. The temperature in the local area could be minus 14 or 15 degrees Celsius in winter, and she didn't want to be frozen.

She pulled out the thread from the talcum powder bag and printed white marks on the lining of the cotton-padded jacket, so that the quilting would not be crooked if she sewed along the white thread. She

hadn't finished sewing yet, and it was getting late, so she rolled up the cotton-padded jacket on the kang and went to cook.

Fang Dihua, Lu Dasao and Ersao came back first today. Lu Dasao saw that the water tank was empty, and was afraid that her mother-in-law would ask Lu Dasao to pick it up later, so she rushed to go.

After a while, Lu Ersao and Lu Dasao came back together.

The second brother Lu carried a mountain of firewood on his back. When he got to the door of his house, he split it into two bundles and gave one to the eldest brother Lu.

In order to prevent the eldest brother from being lazy at home, Fang Dihua said that she would go to cut grass or pick firewood after work. The eldest brother Lu was impatient with such trivial work, so he always asked the second brother to do more and gave him half.

The second brother Lu was a quick worker since he was a child. When he grew up, he was like an old ox who never knew how to get tired. It seemed that he had endless energy. Not to mention cutting grass, even plowing the land was very easy.

It was just a matter of sharing some firewood. The second brother Lu had been helping the eldest brother with work since he was a child and had long been accustomed to it.

As usual, the eldest brother Lu yelled as soon as he entered the house, "Oh, it's not easy to carry firewood in the dark, I almost sprained my ankle."

Fang Dihua rolled her eyes, do I have to brag to you and pretend to carry it back?

How could she not know the petty nature of the eldest son?

When he was a child, he would trick the second son into doing the work for him while he slept in the shade.

I thought I would marry him a powerful wife to take care of him, but he even tricked his wife.

The second son was happy to be fooled by him, and she was too lazy to care. The eldest sister-in

-law Lu felt so distressed that she hurried forward to take over, serving him at every turn, fetching water into the house to wash his hands, change him into clean clothes, and then wash his dirty clothes and hang them out for him.

Second brother Lu not only had to wash his own clothes, but also his wife and children's clothes. He worked so hard, like a workhorse.

Second sister-in-law Lu went home to clean herself up. When she passed by the west room, she saw the cotton and cloth on the kang and almost jumped up. Was this what her mother-in-law got for Lin Shu? ! !

Mother-in-law was getting more and more partial. Why did she only give it to Lin Shu and not her?

Money was hard to make these days, but cloth coupons were even harder to get!

Every adult had 15 feet of cloth coupons per year, which was enough for a set of clothes. Generally, they were saved for the married couple in the family. If they didn't have enough, they had to find someone to help.

If there was no married couple in the family, the cloth coupons would basically be used to make new clothes for the family members in turn.

In previous years, Lu Shaotang had sent old clothes from the army, so Lin Shu and her children, as well as Fang Dihua and Lu's father, could benefit from them. Lin Shu also had two sisters in the city who supported her with old clothes, so the family had more than enough cloth coupons .

Lu Ersao not only kept her own, but also used those from Lin Shu and her parents-in-law.

After she got the cloth coupons, she gave most of them to her parents' home, and kept a small half for herself. She also liked to ask Lin Shu for cloth from old clothes.

She didn't think about that. She just saw that Lin Shu had new cloth and cotton in her room, so she naturally thought that Fang Dihua had given all this year's cloth to Lin Shu.

Too biased, too much! Her eyes were red.

She walked up to Lin Shu and asked in a bad tone, "Old Third, did you go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy cloth this afternoon?"

Lin Shu: "I was at home tending to the vegetable garden and steaming steamed buns this afternoon, so how could I have time to go to the supply and marketing cooperative?"

Second Sister-in-law Lu raised her voice, deliberately letting Fang Dihua hear, "Then why do you have so much cloth in your house? Are my shoes ready?"

She usually said it with a smile, but now she really couldn't laugh, she was too jealous.

Fang Dihua heard it and said unhappily, "Those cloths are returned to her by your eldest sister-in-law in the east."

When Lin Shu just got married, Fang Dihua gave her a betrothal gift, and her parents gave her a dowry, which was quite generous.

After all, Grandma Lin gave her more boxes, and her two sisters also got cloth for her. She brought several pieces of cloth at that time, and each piece was seven or eight feet of material that could make a piece of clothing.

Of course, those cloths were basically coaxed away from her hands, including Zhao Meifeng, Lu Ersao, and the original owner's aunt's mother.

Seeing that her mother-in-law actually took the initiative to protect Lin Shu, Lu Ersao became more jealous and angry, and squeezed out a smile, "Ha, who knows whether it's true or not."

Lin Shu was not used to her, "Second sister-in-law, you see that my sister-in-law has returned the cloth to me, why don't you return it to me earlier? You lent me the cloth before, saying that your brother from your mother's side was getting married..."

"Oh, you are from the third family, we are sisters-in-law, why do you calculate so clearly? You are really calculating, no wonder people say you are stingy." She quickly changed the subject and never mentioned the cloth in Lin Shu's room again.

If she had said this to the original owner, she would have been angry all night. You took my things and didn't return them, and you said I was stingy, it really pissed me off.

At this moment, Lin Shu was not angry at all. Wouldn't being angry make others happy?

It's okay. She would let her second sister-in-law know that debts must be repaid, and she would also let her second sister-in-law know what it means to be sulking.

When it was time to eat, Lin Shu put on the new cloth shoes and deliberately tiptoed around in front of Lu's second sister-in-law.

In order to save lamp oil, the family still had dinner in the yard. It was still very cool with the wind blowing through the garden.

The children were not hungry and had eaten earlier. Now they had gone out to touch cicadas and monkeys.

Panpan and Tiantian stayed at home all day, and Lin Shu let them go out to play with their brother at night.

Brother Lu Ping was willing to take Panpan and Tiantian with them. They didn't go far and wouldn't let them get hurt. Lin Shu was still very relieved.

Lin Shu prepared a simple dinner, including stewed eggs with Chinese toon sprouts and pickled vegetables, stewed eggplant with soybean paste, and cold-mixed pumpkin and pumpkin shreds. The other vegetables had not yet grown, so they had to make do with what they had.

Even so, everyone felt refreshed and their appetites were whetted.

To them, this was a good meal.

Big Brother Lu ate with great joy, "Well, my sister-in-law's cooking skills are getting better and better. This stewed eggplant with soybean paste is really authentic and tastes better than

our mother's." While praising Lin Shu's cooking skills, he unscrupulously laughed at Big Sister Lu in public, "What you cooked is rice? That's pig food! You want to kill our stomachs every time. Really, you have to follow me. If you followed someone else, you would probably get beaten. But I don't despise you, so you should be content."

The tone of despise was about to overflow.

Mrs. Lu nodded vigorously, "You're right, you're so nice to me." She herself was not a greedy person, but seeing that her husband loved to eat, she immediately took the enamel bowl of eggplants and placed it in front of him, and said to Lin Shu, "

These are from the third brother's family, you can stew more tomorrow." Lin Shu: "Sister-in-law, our eggplants haven't grown up yet, these were sent by Aunt Qiu."

Eggplants haven't grown up yet at this season, it will take at least ten days, and these three haven't grown up completely and are still tender. I guess Aunt Qiu gave them to her mother-in-law to taste.

Fang Dihua: "Old man, stop protecting your food!"

Lu Dasao: "Mom, I'm not protecting my food. The child's father doesn't like anything to eat either. He just likes stewed eggplant. The third brother's wife made it to his taste, so let him eat a few more bites."

She felt sorry for the big brother Lu who was wronged. After all, he was a young master in those days, living in a big tiled house with green bricks, eating big steamed buns and roasted meat. It's not like now?

If this wasn't the wife she found for the eldest brother, Fang Dihua would really beat him up. At that time, she thought that the eldest brother was slick and a little lazy, so she found a strong and capable wife to calm him down, and to control him when she couldn't move.

How could one know that this daughter-in-law is strong and capable of working, and she never slacks off, but no one would have thought that she was trained by the eldest brother to serve him better than the virtuous young daughter-in-law!

Fang Dihua felt that she had made a mistake, and her eyes began to hurt again.

She was obviously going to give the eggplant to comfort the third daughter-in-law. Eating something fresh would make her feel better, and she would not be affected by the nonsense of outsiders.

Forget it, just two bites of eggplant. When her own vegetable garden grows up, she will not be able to finish the vegetables every day.

Second Sister-in-law Lu's mind is on Lin Shu...feet.

She can't get any of the new fabrics and cotton on the kang, and the beautiful new shoes are obviously hers, but her mother-in-law favors her, and she can't get them back.

You don't even have a man anymore, who are you wearing them for? Who are you trying to seduce!

Song Chunfang was right, she just wanted to hook up with men!

After dinner, Lin Shu wanted to wash the dishes, but Fang Dihua took over, "Go put up the mosquito net to smoke out the mosquitoes."

The bite bruises on the two children's tender skin were particularly obvious, especially the sweet blood and fragrant meat of the baby who loved to attract mosquitoes. She felt distressed when she saw the bruises on his body.

Lin Shu got up and went into the house, but was pulled by Lu Ersao in the main room.

Lu Ersao deliberately shouted: "Sister-in-law, do you think the needlework of the third child's family is getting better? Why don't you let the third child's family make you a pair of new shoes to wear back to your parents' home?"

She really couldn't swallow that breath. Why did her shoes get occupied by Lin Shu?

If she had the physique of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, she would have snatched them away in the morning.

How could Lin Shu not know her bad intentions? It's nothing more than wanting shoes but not daring to force them, and not willing to give up, so she wants to sow discord between herself and the eldest sister-in-law.

If she doesn't want to make shoes for the eldest sister-in-law, the eldest sister-in-law will definitely be unhappy. If she does it, it will be a waste of time and effort and she will definitely not be happy.

How can she let the second sister-in-law get what she wants?

Making shoes for the eldest sister-in-law is not called sewing, that is called mutual help.

She smiled at the second sister-in-law Lu, "Second sister-in-law, I'm sorry, you can't wear the first pair of shoes, it's okay, you can just watch me wear them every day to satisfy your curiosity."

She was in a good mood, her skin was white and rosy, and her face was radiant. This smile was really brilliant and dazzling.

The second sister-in-law Lu was so angry that her eyes were almost blurry, you are so cunning Lin Shu!

She wanted to play tricks on Lin Shu, but Lin Shu took advantage of her and showed off, so angry that she couldn't breathe.

Lin Shu: "Second sister-in-law, don't be angry?"

Sister-in-law Lu came over upon hearing the voice, "Oh, don't show off, I saw it the other day. The needlework of the third brother's family is really good, as good as my mother's. I want you to help me but I'm embarrassed to bother you." She

usually wears straw sandals, and has to wear cloth shoes when she goes back to her parents' home during festivals.

She always didn't recognize the reality before, thinking that she was a good hand at housework, good at cooking and sewing, but after getting married, brother Lu always criticized her, and her mother-in-law didn't let her cook or sew, and everyone went to Lin Shu. Now she gradually recognizes the reality - Lin Shu's cooking and sewing are indeed better than hers.

Lin Shu: "It's no problem to make shoes for my sister-in-law. This is the relationship between us sisters-in-law. The sister-in-law next door just returned me the cloth, so I'll make it for you."

Sister-in-law Lu: "It's not good to take advantage of you. I'll go back to my parents' home and get a few feet."

Her mother learned to weave cloth when she was a teenager, and now she still finds time to exchange the cotton cloth distributed by the team for other things. At the beginning, her mother relied on weaving cloth to exchange cotton and then weave cloth to buy thick cotton clothes for several children in the family.

She is a very capable and thrifty little old lady, and Fang Dihua admires her.

But she didn't expect that Sister-in-law Lu didn't inherit her mother's shrewdness.

Fang Dihua heard this and said, "Don't ask for it with such a smug face. Go back and get two yuan to buy it from my in-laws."

She was always rude to the thick-skinned Lu Dasao, and she was not careful at all. If she asked the original owner why she was so smug, she would be so angry that she would cry.

Lu Dasao: "Mom, she is my mother, who is she talking to? My mother would be very happy if I told you to give it to her."

Fang Dihua did not argue with her anymore, and she would give money to her in-laws after that.

Lu Ersao: "Mom, then I will also take time to go back to my mother's house. You also give me..."

Fang Dihua: "You are so busy, why do you have nothing to go back to

your mother's house?" Can your mother's house be the same as hers?

When you go back to your mother's house, every time you don't bring a lot of bags like going to war?

Then your mother may not be satisfied.

Who knew that the in-laws who were well-informed at the time would be so different after marriage.

Fang Dihua is really... always feels like being pecked in the eye by a goose while hunting geese.

Fang Dihua doesn't want to care about the eye-eye disputes of her daughters-in-law, because her eyes hurt.

All the daughters-in-law she married for her sons have problems.

The eldest daughter-in-law is obviously a tall and strong woman, and a decent man may not be able to beat her, but when she sees a man, she becomes a little daughter-in-law, and she can't wait to kneel down and serve him.

The second son's wife was good when they met. She was smart, perceptive, hardworking, and good at speaking. Her parents were also good people, and she got along well with the second son, who was a bit dull. But she changed drastically after she got married. She was calculating, and she was a good person on the surface, but she was a sly person behind his back. She treated her husband harshly, and her daughter also subsidized her family. She also bullied her younger brother's wife.

The third son's wife...

At that time, the family owed a favor to Grandma Lin. When Grandma Lin proposed a marriage between the two families, she specifically asked the third son if he had a partner in the army. He said no, so she arranged it for him.

Originally, I thought that the third son had high standards and ordinary women were not in his eyes. Lin Shu was the most beautiful and gentle girl she had ever seen, and maybe she could win his heart. But the third son ran away three days after his wedding and hasn't come back yet!

One or two of them are not worry-free!

At least the third son's family has changed a lot compared to the past. They are no longer as easily angry as before, and they are not as timid as mice. Now they dare to speak out and confront.

Well, she is really good.

She can get things from Zhao Meifeng. Although she may be digging a hole for her mother-in-law, she is also capable.

Thinking of this, Fang Dihua was satisfied again.

If there is a reliable one among the three daughters-in-law, this family will not fail.

When Lu Ersao saw that her mother-in-law asked her eldest sister-in-law to go back to her parents' home but did not allow herself to go back, she felt sad and bitter. She felt even more embarrassed when Lin Shu stared at her with a smile.

She hunched over and went back to the house.

Lin Shu was still saying behind her, "Second sister-in-law, don't be angry."

Second sister-in-law Lu became even angrier.

In the past, the original owner was sulking all day long, and she didn't think it was a big deal just to have fun every day, but now she suddenly found something wrong.

The mother-in-law has always been very protective of the third brother's family, and has always helped her to confront others, especially herself, the second sister-in-law, and the eldest sister-in-law from the next room.

The mother-in-law is very close to the eldest sister-in-law, and although she scolds on the surface, her tone is intimate.

But to herself, it seems that she is quite distant?

No, the mother-in-law has also confronted herself, but that was real confrontation, and there was no intimacy? The

more Second Sister-in-law Lu thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, and at that time, the possession of the third brother's family began to sulk.

She was feeling aggrieved and wanted to vent her anger on someone. Just then, she saw Lu Cuicui coming back from outside excitedly. She stretched out her hand and pinched her ear and pulled her over.

Lu Cuicui was in so much pain that she burst into tears. She wanted to scream, but Lu Ersao pinched her mouth.

Lu Ersao threw her on the edge of the kang and said unhappily, "You just hang out all day long. You want to hook up with men at such a young age?"

Lu Cuicui didn't dare to talk back. If she didn't talk back, she would be beaten lightly. If she talked back, she would be beaten ten times more. Second

Sister-in-law Lu was even more dissatisfied when she saw that although she didn't dare to talk back, she was stiff-necked and looked annoying. She scolded in a low voice: "Look at you, you are ugly and your mouth is not sweet, why don't you please your grandparents and let them be partial to you?"

Look at the two little ones in the third brother's family, they are so sweet, they coax their grandparents to be partial to them, and give them malt milk all day long.

Seeing that she despised her ugliness, Lu Cuicui couldn't help sobbing and crying, "Is it my wish to be ugly? But you gave birth to me?

My father is so handsome, why did you give birth to me so ugly?"

There are so many handsome people in the Lu family. Not to mention Lu Shaotang and Lu Lao's father who are one in a million, even the eldest and second brothers are handsome men. Among the grandchildren, Tiantian and Panpan are as beautiful as porcelain dolls because of their parents. Lu Ping and Lu An are a little darker because of their mother, but they are also handsome.

Only Lu Cuicui looks... In Fang Dihua's words, no one in the Lu family is so ugly. She has dark skin, squinting eyes, a bulbous nose, and a sausage-shaped mouth. Not to mention that she doesn't have the good looks of the second brother, she can't even compare with the second sister-in-law. The second sister

-in-law of Lu always said that girls change a lot when they grow up, or that she looks like her uncle. She has an uncle who is dark and has a bulbous nose.

Now that her mother-in-law despises her, she doesn't reflect on herself, but blames the concubine for being ugly and disgusting, not as good as Tiantian and Panpan.

She hit the concubine and scolded her in an angry voice: "Are you scolding me in your heart? Don't think I can't hear you scolding me! You crawled out of my belly, and I know where you are going to get angry as soon as you stick your butt out. Your father and I are not ugly, why are you ugly? Isn't it because of your type? Look at Tiantian and Panpan, why do they choose to grow up in places with good parents?"

She talked about how good Panpan and Tiantian were to please their grandpa and bring honor to Lin Shu, and how ugly Lu Cuicui was and how embarrassing it was for her.

Lu Cuicui couldn't run out in the middle of the night, so she was held down by her mother to listen to her complaints. She had no other choice but to cry.

She couldn't help wondering, why couldn't grandpa hear her mother beating and scolding her? Did he hear it but didn't care or was he

just pretending not to hear it? Why didn't grandpa love her?

Was it because she was ugly that they disliked her?

But grandpa also gave her maltose and never disliked her for being ugly. He even bought her a red hairband.

That meant they treated Tiantian and Panpan better. If she drank it once, she would drink it ten or twenty times.

Thinking this way made her feel even worse.

At this time, Lin Shu's sweet voice came from the west outside, "Sister-in-law, you dig the ground so fast, tomorrow I can plant the sunflower seeds that have been germinated. Look, the chrysanthemums you planted for me are growing so well."

Sister-in-law Lu: "It's okay, just make more eggplants to eat."

Lin Shu smiled, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, when our eggplants grow up, I will make them every day, stewed eggplants, boiled eggplants, fried eggplants, roasted eggplants, eggplants with garlic paste, fried eggplant boxes..."

Sister-in-law drooled when she heard it, and dug faster in the faint starlight.

Lu Cuicui suddenly felt angry. Third Aunt was obviously the punching bag in the family before. Anyone could make a few remarks to her, and she didn't dare to talk back to anyone. Why is it different now?

The third aunt has become powerful, talkative and cheerful, and grandma still protects her and fights for her with outsiders!

Only she is still a punching bag, with no one to protect her.

Why doesn't grandma protect her? Why is grandma so partial?

Oh, she hates it so much.

Second sister-in-law Lu cursed in a low voice: "Slutty fox spirit."

Second brother Lu came in after washing clothes and saw Second sister-in-law Lu holding down the girl, who was twitching, "What's wrong?"

Second sister-in-law Lu immediately said angrily: "This dead girl goes out to play every day, and she doesn't know how to do some work at home. Today she dared to run to the river to play. If I don't beat her, she will be dragged down by the water monkey one day and never come back."

Second brother Lu glanced at the girl, "Take off your clothes and I will wash them for you." Second

sister-in-law Lu immediately dragged the girl to the small north room next door to change clothes.

The three of them lived in two rooms. The west room was a kang where the couple slept. There was a small single room on the north side of the east room with a small kang. The south was an open space used as a hall.

The second brother Lu took the girl's clothes and said, "Go home early after school and help your third aunt with some work. Don't play in the river ditch. If you fall in, you can't get out."

In the 1950s, the local canal was built, and many large wells with square and round mouths were built. When they were full of water, they were blue and adults felt weak in the knees.

Every year, someone fell in and couldn't be pulled out. Once a person fell in, he would definitely die.

Lu Cuicui nodded with sobs, but she felt more and more unbalanced. What's so good about the third aunt? Why would you help her?

Lu Erge said to his second sister-in-law, "Just talk to her, don't hit the child."

In their family, they only hit boys but not girls.

When the younger sister was naughty and made mistakes, her parents never hit her.

Lu Ersao frowned and said, "She did something wrong. If she is not beaten, she will not learn her lesson. I can't let her grow up and become someone else's stepmother! Men take care of their sons, and women take care of their daughters. Don't worry about our affairs."

Seeing that she was actually making up stories about her sister-in-law, Lu Erge couldn't respond and turned around to wash clothes.

Seeing that he didn't care about her at all, Lu Ersao was like a piece of wood. She felt aggrieved again. She turned around and lay down like the original owner and sulked.