Chapter 28: Cheating

After everyone went to bed, Lu Cuicui in the small north room quietly got up and went to the west to pick peaches. She wiped them with a towel and ate them as if to vent her anger. She threw the unripe and unsweet ones outside the north wall.

When she came back, Lu Dasao in the east also went to pick peaches for her man. She washed them in the room and stuffed them to Lu Dage, "I picked them during the day, fearing that the third brother would pick them. I picked the three sweetest ones for you."

Lu Dage was still dissatisfied: "Did you wash them clean?"

He took a bite, "Yeah, they are really sweet, you can have one too."

Cheating is especially sweet!

The next morning, Lin Shu got up and took out the soybeans that she had soaked last night, put them in a clean bag and spread them in a basket, and then poured a little water on them to make bean sprouts.

Today, her father-in-law went to the brigade to count the accounts, and he could bring back two kilograms of soybeans, so Lin Shu soaked both kilograms last night.

During festivals, the family did not kill pigs, and there were no meat coupons to buy meat from the commune. It was good to eat eggs stewed with salted vegetables on weekdays. It was normal for everyone to be malnourished.

Lin Shu wanted to find ways to supplement the family. Soybeans are rich in plant protein and high in calcium, which is very suitable for people who do hard work.

It's a pity that there is no small stone mill at home, otherwise we can grind tofu, and then make soy milk, tofu pudding, mapo tofu, and tofu with spring onions...

Originally, the Lu family had a large mill, a large stone mill, and a small family stone mill, which were used to grind tofu, milk, etc.

But they were all in the big tiled house with green bricks, not here.

She picked up a few salted duck eggs from the pickle pot, washed them, and boiled them. The duck eggs at home were basically put in the pickle pot and pickled as pickles.

Nowadays, people don't care about the oiliness, and there is no condition to add pepper and aniseed water and white wine. Some of them are extremely delicious. Many families are reluctant to eat them. Eggs and duck eggs have to be exchanged for salt matches and so on in the supply and marketing cooperative.

Fang Dihua saw this and couldn't help but remind her: "Old Third's, don't make the meal too delicious."

The third daughter-in-law's cooking skills are getting better and better. Fang Dihua is a little worried. If the meal is too delicious, it will easily whet people's appetites. Not only will they eat more vegetables, but they will also eat more rice.

The food is just the same. If you eat too much this time, what will you eat next time?

Don't make it as bad as the eldest sister-in-law's, and don't make it too delicious, otherwise the dog will be more greedy.

Lin Shu: "Mom, it's okay. When the vegetables in our vegetable garden are ripe, I will cook more and save food."

Fang Dihua didn't say anything else and went out to work in the vegetable garden. By the way, she looked at the three peach trees that were about to mature, and went back to pick some early-ripening ones to sweeten the children's mouths.

Lin Shu saw that the children had caught a large bowl of cicada monkeys, so she took them out, washed them, drained the water, and fried them with a little oil.

The two brothers Lu Ping and Lu Ping are quite capable. They can find more than ten cicada monkeys in one night, and they can eat them once every four days to satisfy their hunger.

This is meat!

In the era when pork was not available, cicada monkeys, grasshoppers, river fish, frogs, bean worms, voles, snakes and even weasels were all meat.

There were more than sixty cicada monkeys in total, and it was a big bowl.

The adults ate some to taste, and Lu Ping shared the rest with his brothers and sisters. He liked Tiantian and Panpan, so he would give them two more.

After Lin Shu finished cooking, she went to the yard to help her mother-in-law and sister-in-law.

When the eldest brother Lu came back from his private plot, he washed his hands and went into the house to eat. He saw a big bowl of cicada monkeys on the table and ate one first. "Hmm, it smells so good. My sister-in-law's cooking skills are getting better and better."

He ate another one, and then ate the one of the eldest sister-in-law Lu.

It was so delicious that he couldn't help it and ate one, two...

When the two brothers Lu Ping came in, they found that there were only a few left in the bowl of cicada monkeys!

Lu Ping: "Dad!"

Lu An ran out crying to find Fang Dihua to complain, "Grandma, grandma, my dad stole all our cicada monkeys, wuwu..."

Fang Dihua: "!!!"

This thing deserves a beating!

She just checked the peach tree and found that the peaches that were about to ripen were gone!

She guessed that it must be the eldest and second oldest children who were cheating, so she took a walk and found a few peach pits outside the eldest child's wall. However, she didn't find the peach pits on the west side, so she guessed that the second oldest children were more cautious and buried them.

She was already angry, and when she heard her grandson complaining, she wanted to beat up the eldest child.

Mrs. Lu glared at her youngest son, "Why are you crying? Your father works so hard, what's wrong with eating a cicada monkey? You sons should be filial to your father, can't you just find a few more in the future?"

Lin Shu: "..."

Mrs. Lu's eyes were swollen, and she squeezed them out, smiling, "Haha, the third brother, did you eat Brother Lai's food while cooking?" She laughed again, "I'm joking, don't take it seriously."

Before Lin Shu could retort, Fang Dihua glared at her, "Don't eat if you joke again, people who like to eat secretly suspect others of eating too."

The smile on Mrs. Lu's face was immediately broken, and she was so wronged that she was about to cry.

I just ate Cuicui's thin noodle rolls? When did I eat secretly?

Fang Dihua strode into the house to scold her son. It was embarrassing enough for Brother Lu to be beaten and scolded by his mother at the age of over 30, but he was used to it. Second Sister

-in-law Lu blocked Lin Shu and gritted her teeth: "Old Third, what kind of magic potion did you feed my mother?"

Lin Shu's eyes curved, and her smile was bright and sweet, "Second Sister-in-law, do you want to drink it?"

First Sister-in-law Lu: "Old Second, you taste it first, it tastes good, leave some for me."

She listened with her ears erect. Once her mother-in-law beat her husband, she would rush over to protect him.

In the house, Fang Dihua scolded Big Brother Lu and hit him twice with chopsticks, but he didn't take it seriously and was still smiling.

Mrs. Lu came in hurriedly: "Mom, his father works so hard, it's nothing for him to eat a few cicadas and monkeys."

Fang Dihua: "..."

This fool, hey, the daughter-in-law I chose, I am so annoyed.

Lin Shu saw Lu Ping and Lu An running out with dry food and schoolbags, and hurriedly chased them out, "Lu Ping, wait."

Lu An was unhappy and didn't want to pay attention to her. He suspected that the third aunt also ate secretly.

Lu Ping pulled him, "Third aunt, what's the matter?"

Lin Shu: "I was careless this time. Next time I will make it for you to keep and wait for you to get up before taking it out. It will never be like this again."

Lu Ping hurriedly said, "Aunt, it's not your fault that my dad stole the food! It's okay, we catch them every day anyway."

Seeing that he was so sensible, Lin Shu secretly promised that she would never let her eldest brother steal the food in the future.

On the way to school, Lu An was still crying. Most of the cicadas and monkeys were found by them, and they had to share them with others when they returned.

That Lu Cuicui was the most cunning. She didn't find any of them, but she wanted to share the fruits of their labor equally!

What's the basis for that?

And Aunt, they all shared equally with Tiantian and Panpan, but the brother gave them more, but they still stole the food.

Like Lu Ersao, he was sure that Lin Shu must have stolen the food when she cooked.

Lu Ping: "Look at you, your mouth is about to droop down to your stomach, isn't it ugly? Is the food cooked by Third Auntie delicious? Who else can fry cicada monkeys? You don't thank Third Auntie and you even give her a bad face, don't you ask for a beating?"

Lu An was a little embarrassed and stammered: "Then Cuicui doesn't work or look for cicada monkeys, but eats ours."

Lu Ping: "Isn't she a girl? How can you, a grown man, compare yourself with her? How can you be successful?"

Lu An muttered: "I don't want to be successful, I want to eat meat."

Lu Ping: "How about this, let's go to the nursery after school to fry field mice and snakes. We can roast the field mice outside and bring the snakes back to make snake soup."

Third Auntie is so timid that she can't possibly cook field mice. As for the snakes, he will process and cut them into pieces, so it should be fine if she can't see.

The snakes here are not poisonous, and the locals don't eat snakes, only a few people eat this stuff.

Lin Shu went home for dinner. Tiantian and Panpan had already finished their egg custard and were watching the ducklings in the duck pen.

Fang Dihua was still scolding Big Brother Lu because Big Brother Lu was trying to grab someone else's greasy salted duck egg yolk and was hit by her chopsticks a few times, and the back of his hand was red.

Big Sister Lu felt so distressed that she quickly said that she would give him her share.

Fang Dihua looked up and saw Lin Shu, "Give him a separate portion when cooking in the future!"

How could you raise such a glutton? If the family is really divided, won't he eat his wife and children?

What a disgusting thing.

Big Brother Lu still has some sense of shame. He smiled and said that it was not necessary, and he was not that greedy.

Lin Shu had avoided Brother Lu when Fang Dihua was scolding him before, fearing that Brother Lu would be embarrassed. Today, not only did she not avoid him, but she smiled in a sinister way and even rolled her eyes.

Brother Lu saw it. Wasn't the third brother's family a little...wrong?

Fang Dihua said loudly: "I checked all the peaches on the three peach trees today. The third brother's family, keep an eye on them. If anyone dares to eat them before they are ripe, I will break his legs!"

After saying that, she glared at Brother Lu fiercely, scaring him so much that he quickly pulled Brother Lu away.

Although Sister Lu was justified by the man, she still felt a little embarrassed. She felt guilty towards her mother-in-law and Lin Shu for stealing peaches and eating Zhiliao Monkey.

She was careful to make up for Lin Shu, "Old Third, don't be angry with your eldest brother."

Lin Shu wondered, "Sister-in-law, why should I be angry? You can't be angry, and you shouldn't coax me, you should coax Brother Lu Ping."

Sister-in-law Lu didn't think so, "What's so good about coaxing boys."

Lin Shu: "Brother is not a boy?"

Sister-in-law Lu was stunned for a moment, then said, "Then... is it different?"

One is a man and the other is a child. Girls need to be coaxed, but what about boys?

Her two children were brought up by their grandma. She really never raised a child herself. She always went back to their north room to sleep when the children grew up.

Lin Shu was a little speechless and said, "Sister-in-law, men can't always get used to it."

Sister-in-law Lu muttered, "Then our mother is used to father."

Lin Shu: "Is our father good? Isn't it worth getting used to? Besides, our father is also used to mother, is brother used to you?"

Sister-in-law Lu lowered her head, picked her nails, and her voice became smaller, "Then I... am not ugly."

Lin Shu rolled her eyes and went against Brother Lu's brainwashing, " Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you? You are doing bodybuilding! Healthy and beautiful! Look at the athletes in the magazines, the March 8th Red Flag Bearers, which one of them is not like you? Don't try to show off to your big brother all day long. You have so much strength, do so much work, and earn so many work points. You should compete for the Red Flag Bearer. Wait until you get a few Red Flag Bearers, and see if your big brother still says you are ugly. "

Believe it or not, I will turn into a flattering group leader after I become famous! I

will flatter you so much that you don't know east from west, north from south, and you have to pour out all the oil in your head, so that he can be your licker!

Mrs. Lu's eyes lit up, "Really? The Red Flag Bearer is pretty?"

Lin Shu sneered and continued to flatter her, "You are the Red Flag Bearer, and you will be at the commendation meeting. If he dares to say that you are ugly, that means the Red Flag Bearer is ugly, then you can beat him up!"

Mrs. Lu waved her hands, "No, no, no, no."

She would feel bad if she beat him up.

"Your eldest brother is very good to me."

Lin Shu: "..." Okay, as long as you are happy.

After Mrs. Lu and the second sister-in-law left, Lu Cuicui came to visit.

Compared to usual, she was a little late today.

She hurried over and reached out to grab the thin noodle rolls from the rice basket.

Seeing that her hands were black and obviously unwashed, Lin Shu hurriedly reminded her, "Cuicui, wash your hands first."

Lu Cuicui turned her head and glared at her, her eyes full of vigilance and hostility, "Why, don't you let me eat?"

She knew that her thin noodle roll had been eaten by her mother, and subconsciously thought that Lin Shu didn't allow her to eat.

Lin Shu frowned slightly and said patiently, "No, I mean to wash your hands before eating to avoid stomachache."

Lu Cuicui said fiercely, "Don't mind your own business!"

She ran out with the thin noodle roll. It happened that Panpan and Tiantian were washing their hands at the door and were about to go into the house. Tiantian in front of her was bumped by her and fell backwards. Panpan immediately reached out to support her, and the two of them sat on the ground with their buttocks.

Lu Cuicui didn't care, she grabbed her schoolbag and ran out while chewing the roll.

Lin Shu rushed forward to help the two children up, feeling very distressed, and kept rubbing their butts, "Does it hurt?"

She must talk to her second sister-in-law later and let her teach her a lesson.

Tiantian shook her head and smiled, "I sat on Panpan, it doesn't hurt."

Lin Shu rubbed Panpan, "My poor children, your butt is broken in two pieces, right?"

Panpan also giggled and touched her butt with her chubby little hands, "Mom, my butt is already divided into two parts."

Tiantian: "Mom, you don't have to feel sorry for him. Boys have thick skin and flesh. They eat so much rice and have so much flesh. It won't hurt if they fall."

Rural children play outside every day. Falling is commonplace and no one takes it seriously.

Lin Shu felt sorry for them. Her grandmother loved her when she was a child. She also wanted to love her own children like her grandmother did.

She brought the two children into the house and made maltose

for them to drink. Tiantian and Panpan immediately let her drink first.

Lin Shu was not polite either. She drank a sip from the bowl and gave them a spoon to drink.

Looking at the two children puffing up their cheeks and slurping the maltose, their white and tender faces and big black eyes were so cute.

Lin Shu felt that she was very lucky. She could travel through time after death and meet such a good son and parents-in-law, and there was no man to bother her.

Yeah, she was really lucky.

I don’t know where the original owner went. I hope she can go to an environment where she doesn’t feel depressed and live happily from then on.

Lin Shu wondered what was wrong with Lu Cuicui. She was obviously very normal in front of other people, but why was she so fierce in front of herself and her children?

Usually the original owner was very good to her. Sometimes when the second sister-in-law beat her, the original owner comforted her and made her some delicious food. But this is the result?

She is a 9-year-old girl. She wouldn’t step on the original owner just because she was easy to bully, right?

Is it necessary... Lin Shu frowned and said to the two children, "Stay away from your sister Cuicui."

The two children nodded vigorously and said sweetly, "Mom, we don't play with our sister, we play with our brother, and..." She glanced at Panpan, "Flowers, Red, Juanjuan, Lili, Round..."

Panpan laughed.

Lin Shu also laughed, armed the two children, and sent them out.

There is no need to keep children at home all the time, let them go to the street to play.

The two children basically play in front of their house and on the street corners, they don't run around, and there are old ladies like Mrs. Qiu watching them, so the adults are relieved.

"Mom, bye." The two children waved to Lin Shu, which they just learned from Lin Shu yesterday.

Lin Shu blew a motherly kiss, "Bye, baby, have fun."

Pan Pan: "Bye, baby."

Tian Tian rolled her eyes at him, "Mom calls you baby, you should say mom bye."

Pan Pan: "Mom baby bye!"

Lin Shu was amused and laughed, waved, "Go play."

Soon the army of young ladies gathered outside the Lu family's door, and surrounded the siblings.

Lin Shu was so happy to see that having a son who is so popular is really a sweet burden.

I hope it won't affect the son's view of choosing a spouse in the future.

After returning home, Lin Shu first practiced a set of Ba Duan Jin to stretch her muscles and bones. It was really refreshing to sweat.

Looking up at the blue sky, the big cotton candy-like white clouds, and the birds flying leisurely, Lin Shu's mood became more and more happy and relaxed.

She has been living a very comfortable life these days.

Her mother-in-law treats her well, her eldest sister-in-law treats her well, and her children treat her even better.

It feels so happy to be favored and protected!

She hasn't been loved so much since her grandmother passed away in her previous life.

She washed her hands and wiped the sweat off her face with a towel, then stood in the middle to look at the large vegetable garden. The vegetable patch in the yard was basically formed. The originally messy vegetable patch had been corrected, but there were still a few details that needed to be fixed. In addition, the fish pond had not been dug yet, but there was no rush.

She also turned around to look at the fruit trees in the yard.

Country people don't spend money to buy fruits to eat. Generally, they plant one or two trees in the vacant land at home. You plant peach trees, I plant apricot trees, and his family has pomegranates, plums, apples, etc. When they are ripe, the neighbors share a portion, and everyone can eat them in turn and have a sweet mouth.

The Lu family originally had two large courtyards planted with various fruit trees. Father Lu was good at taking care of them. After a few years, there were so many fruits that they could not be eaten by themselves and had to be distributed to relatives and friends.

The year when grandfather Lu passed away, more than ten pomegranate trees, peach trees, and apricot trees died at once.

After the family split up, this was replanted by father Lu.

At this time, there is a big persimmon tree between the gatehouse and the screen wall, a duck pear tree between the straw shed and the toilet, a big jujube tree next to the pig pen, an apricot tree next to the chicken and duck pen, an old pomegranate tree with bright red flowers in the west, a big Chinese toon tree, an apple tree and a peach tree outside the west wall of the second brother Lu's house, and an old peach tree outside the east wall of the eldest brother Lu's house.

At that time, pesticides were not popular, and fruit trees were prone to insects. Common pests included longhorn beetle larvae, wood borers, and a kind of white larvae, which specialized in drilling into the tree trunk and eating the heart of the tree, which would bite the fruit tree to death.

Lin Shu found an iron chisel and poked the holes of borers on the trunk, killing many pests. However, there was really no way to kill the ones inside, so she could only go back and get some pesticides for drip irrigation.

She picked some peach gum from the peach tree, which she could stew later. She

had just eaten sweet apricots during the wheat harvest, and now the peaches were almost grown and ready to eat when they turned red.

Lin Shu looked around, and the few red ones she liked yesterday were gone? !

This is often the case with fruit trees at home. As long as the flowers don’t get angry, there will be fewer fruits every day before they mature. In the end, except for the ones that can’t be eaten, the biggest and reddest ones below can’t wait until they mature.

In fact, if you take good care of a fruit tree, the fruits of a fruit tree are enough for the whole family to eat for a while.

She first finished sewing her cotton-padded jacket, then sewed the soles of her shoes for a while, and then started to make lunch.

To stew pumpkin today, she kneaded fine flour and cornmeal into a paste, and put her hands on the edge of the pot with salt water to simmer the pot.

"The third brother's!" Zhao Meifeng from next door walked in quickly.

Oh, did she really take the sewing machine back?

Lin Shu was a little expectant, and greeted her with a tilted body, "Sister-in-law, you...you were...beaten by my eldest brother?"

Oh, how come it feels like a long time after just one day?

Zhao Meifeng's face was...swollen, and there were a few purple and blue slap marks on it, and there were two...scratches on her neck?

In addition to Lu Shaocai, who else dared to beat Zhao Meifeng?

Zhao Meifeng knew that she couldn't cover it with her hands, so she simply took them off and stopped covering it. She was really embarrassed and angry, and said with a wronged and complaining tone: "Hey, isn't it for you?"

Lin Shu: "What do you mean?"

I told you to charge and break through the enemy lines? Song Chunfang was gossiping behind me, but you didn't fight for me?

Zhao Meifeng: "Didn't I go to Sun's Manor to get you a sewing machine?"

Oh, the best sister-in-law fights the best sister-in-law's family!

There's melon!

Lin Shu stared at her with her beautiful eyes, excited, and signaled her to continue cutting the melon... Tell her what happened.