Chapter 37 Settlement of Accounts

Zhang Peijin watched as patients flocked to Old Man Lu's place, while his place was deserted. It was really... desolate.

An old woman squeezed in with a child with a fever, "Doctor Lu, my grandson has a fever, please give him an acupuncture!"

Zhang Peijin: "No, he needs to take antipyretics for a fever, what's the point of seeing a Chinese doctor?"

But she refused and insisted that Old Man Lu see her, scraping, massage, etc.

After all, Old Man Lu used to give acupuncture to his own mother, and also treated his own colleagues. Later, he gave acupuncture to Fang Dihua, and yesterday he also helped the team leader's grandson's dislocated arm in front of everyone. This is an achievement that everyone can see.

In the past, it was because old man Lu was afraid of violating the policy and would not see anyone casually. Now that he sees people, who else can they see but him?

Old man Lu knows that antipyretic and anti-inflammatory drugs have serious side effects, especially for children. If there are other ways to reduce fever, it is better not to take them.

He is a kind and stable person, with a good temper and a stable mood. Whether he is an accountant or a doctor, it is very suitable.

Although he is busy, he is not chaotic at all. He arranges everything according to the severity and urgency.

Zhang Peijin is idle enough, but Doctor Lu is busy enough. There are still people here giving injections until lunch at noon.

Zhang Peijin was envious and jealous, "Uncle, you're not going home for dinner?"

Doctor Lu: "Finish seeing this."

Before he could go home, Lin Shu brought two children to bring him food.

Fang Dihua went to the field to bring food, originally for the old man to go home to eat, so it would be more comfortable to go home to eat so soon, but Lin Shu saw that he never came back, and was afraid that he would be too hungry, so she came with the children to bring food.

Tiantian and Panpan, the two little kids, were delicate and beautiful, with crisp and sweet voices, calling "Grandpa, Grandpa", which made old man Lu feel comfortable.

Others were also jealous and envious.

Who doesn't have grandchildren? But whose grandchildren are not so cute.

And the daughter-in-law is not only pretty, but also capable. Look at the rice she cooked. It is obviously cornmeal and vegetables from the garden, just like at home, but why does it look and smell so sweet?

Gluttonous!

Lin Shuxianhui's reputation for being gentle, good at cooking, and good at taking care of children has spread again.

In the afternoon, someone asked Lu Laodie to see a doctor. He had a few patients here. Seeing that Zhang Peijin was bored and envious, he let him go.

When you go to the patient's home for a consultation, the consultation fee is 10 cents if you are in the same village, and it is calculated according to the distance if you are out of the village.

Zhang Peijin was not very happy, thinking that Old Man Lu was ordering him around, but he also wanted this opportunity, so he said awkwardly: "If Second Uncle needs it, I will definitely help."

After all, he knew that he was benefiting from Old Man Lu's increased number of patients, so he took the initiative to help when he saw that Old Man Lu was too busy in the afternoon, and Old Man Lu also took the initiative to share the medical fees with him.

That night, Old Man Lu went home at dinner time, and Panpan and Tiantian had been waiting at the intersection for a while.

The two children wanted to climb up and hug their grandfather's legs, and Old Man Lu hurriedly said: "Grandpa, go home and wash and change clothes."

There are many germs in the clinic where patients are exposed to germs, and he was afraid of passing them on to his own children.

When they got home and waited for Father Lin to finish cleaning up, Panpan could not wait to rush up to him, with her eyes twinkling with money, and asked him in a baby voice, "Grandpa, how much money do you make?"

Father Lu smiled and said, "Grandpa doesn't know, I'm waiting for you to calculate it for me."

While Grandpa was eating, the two children lay on the small table next to him to help him calculate, very seriously.

Father Lu made more money than Zhang Peijin, because in addition to the 5 cents registration fee, acupuncture and massage were also charged extra.

On this first day at work, Zhang Peijin originally thought that he only had a few old women to support him, but he actually saw 32 patients!

There were not so many in the past five days.

After deducting the share of the team leader and Zhang, he actually made 1.31 yuan!

Tiantian: "Wow, so much money!"

Panpan frowned slightly, "Not much, the brazer said he can earn three or five yuan a day."

Tiantian: "How tiring it is for the brazer to carry the load? Grandpa is in the house without the wind or the sun, and no one from the commune catches him."

So it means that grandpa makes a lot of money.

Panpan was happy.

Father Lu: "This is the first day and everyone is new. You won't get so much money in the future."

The two kids were still very happy. Earning six or seven cents a day was better than working in the fields with grandpa, who was so tired and only earned three or four cents.

After breakfast the next day, when everyone else had left, Fang Dihua discussed with Lin Shu, "Should we write a letter to his father? You learned a lot of words from Teacher Ma, you can write it."

Lin Shu: "..."

The original owner had never written a single word to Lu Shaotang. She could write a little, but she was embarrassed.

She said, "Mom, it's not good for me to write to his comrade."

Fang Dihua: "It's okay, they understand and will pass it on to him."

Lin Shu: "Mom, it's better to be careful, just let my dad write a thank-you letter."

But Fang Dihua insisted that she write it.

San'er passed away three days after his marriage. As a mother, she would not say that the young couple had a deep relationship against her conscience. What kind of relationship could they have?

Since San'er's daughter-in-law is very different from before, why not start cultivating feelings from now on?

The mother-in-law gave the order, and Lin Shu could only follow it.

She asked Tiantian to write a letter to thank Uncle Chen Yanming for the remittance, and used pinyin instead for the words she didn't know.

Panpan was a lazy boy who didn't like writing, but he was not lazy when it came to writing a letter to his father. He stuck his little butt out on the table and started drawing.

Well, it was a simple sketch, similar to a stickman.

A stickman cursed and was beaten by another stickman so that he couldn't get off the bed.

A stickman carried a big load to kidnap a child, and a family of stickmen made plans. In the end, a group of stickmen found a big well and rescued a few little stickmen.

The mother and her two children were praised.

After writing, he begged Tiantian to help him make notes.

Tiantian was originally worried that she couldn't write so many words and couldn't explain it clearly to her father, but now she can just read the book and write.

Lin Shu was so amused.

The two children spent the whole morning drawing and painting. They didn't go out to play, but filled up... a whole notebook.

Lin Shu was a little worried: "Do we have to send a package?

Is it okay to send a letter?" Fang Dihua came back at noon to bring lunch. She looked at the letters from the two children and laughed happily, "Why can't we send it? We can put extra stamps on it. We are not short of money."

Little money-loving Panpan put his hands on his hips: "Yes, we are not short of money!"

Fang Dihua thought that Lin Shu must have written it, but she was embarrassed and afraid that others would see it, so she didn't take it out.

She took out an envelope from the drawer and gave it to Lin Shu, asking her to put the letter in it, and wait for Grandpa to go to the county in two days and send it out.

Somewhere on the border.

Lu Shaotang and Chen Yanming led the team to eliminate a secret spy contact base.

Those enemy spies are cunning, and some will stay outside the border for safety.

In short, Lu Shaotang must find a way to get rid of them. If it weren't for them, he wouldn't have been so desperately chased and fell into the mountain ditch.

After getting rid of the target, they quickly evacuated in small groups and then met in the tropical jungle.

Chen Yanming entered the safe agreed location, but he couldn't find Lu Shaotang no matter what.

This man is more alert than a wolf! He can hide better than a mole!

He made several secret signals, the agreed eagle cry, bird call, owl call... He learned them all, but Lu Shaotang didn't respond.

Chen Yanming was so scared that his heart sank. Could he be in trouble again?

But... the sign showed that he was safe. Could it be that his old injury had relapsed? He hasn't fully recovered yet.

Damn!

Chen Yanming looked up aimlessly and shouted in a low voice, "You good old Lu, you dare to play tricks on me! I'll spank you!"

Lu Shaotang squatted on a tall Parashorea chinensis, watching Chen Yanming below imitate the monkey's call and the owl's, and he was very excited.

Finally, seeing that Chen Yanming really had no more performances to perform and was getting impatient, he jumped down the tree trunk.

Chen Yanming really wanted to punch him, "Does your wound hurt?"

Lu Shaotang: "Don't worry, it's okay."

Chen Yanming enviously said: "Old Lu, you are really an animal, your recovery speed is not comparable to ours."

Lu Shaotang: "The mission here is completed, let's go to the brother troops to have a look."

There are nails on the line there, which must be removed.

The leaders have already greeted each other, and they took people to go there in the name of exchange and discussion.

After talking about work, the two rested on the spot and ate dry food.

Chen Yanming: "I received the news that the remittance slip has been sent and the package is still on the way. I think my sister-in-law will definitely write a letter to thank me."

Lu Shaotang leaned quietly against the trunk of the tree and retracted her gaze from the distance. She couldn't do that, but her parents could write.

Lu Shaotang didn't have much impression of his wife.

He had the opportunity to stay in the Capital Military Region directly and was promoted quickly, but he refused.

He didn't like being a political cadre, didn't like doing ideological work, and didn't like playing tricks on others. He liked the exciting feeling of being on the front line.

His mother said that she had found a wife for him, and she and his father were very satisfied. He asked his mother, "Have you told them that I haven't been home for many years in the army?" His mother said that the lady didn't mind.

He agreed to go home and get married.

He rushed back from thousands of miles away on the wedding day.

Originally, he thought he would see a cheerful, optimistic, strong and strong woman. After all, a woman who can accept her husband's long-term absence from home must be optimistic and strong. If she is not optimistic and strong, she will not agree, right?

As a result, when he saw his young wife, he didn't see what she looked like at first glance. He only saw her black head, which was almost like a flamingo sticking its head into its chest.

After that, it was the wedding reception and toasting. He remembered that he was fed more than a jar of wine.

In the bridal chamber, he relied on the alcohol to want to see what she looked like. Her face was as red as blood. Later... she acted as if he was a bad guy who was going to violate her.

He did see what she looked like. She was too... weak, not his type.

Since she resisted him so much, and so... despised her, they slept separately for the next two nights.

If he wasn't afraid of being beaten by his mother, he really didn't want to sleep on the same kang with her, because she always gave him the feeling that he was a bad guy.

When she saw him, she trembled all over, and he even wondered if he had beaten her up without her knowing? And beat her up badly? That's why he left such a big shadow on her.

Otherwise, it really couldn't explain why she was so afraid of him.

In the end, he concluded that it might be because he looked too fierce, and the aura of toughness and ferocity that he had developed as a young man following the army, even the most fierce wild horses on the grassland would involuntarily retreat when they saw him. It was

understandable that she was afraid of him.

After waking up from the danger this time, he thought about giving her freedom, and as long as she wanted to remarry, he would fulfill her wish.

He had to think about how to tell his mother about this.

Of course, he must not let Chen Yanming know.

Chen Yanming has always envied him for having a beautiful wife and two lovely children. If he knew the truth, wouldn’t he be very embarrassed?

Others don’t matter, but you can’t lose face in front of Chen Yanming and those brothers.

These are the people who want the other party to call themselves dad!

It is impossible to ask Chen Yanming to help write a letter.

Or, write a letter to my family in the name of Chen Yanming?

This idea is not bad!

Lu Shaotang felt that he was quite quick-witted.

Time flies, and the peaches at home are all ripe. It rained for several days in a row, and they were washed clean.

When it rained, the fields were muddy and we couldn't work in the fields, so we organized the members to repair farm tools and houses, and reminded those who were sick to see a doctor as soon as possible, and to apply plasters and get acupuncture when necessary, so as not to wait until the busy autumn harvest when the pain was too severe to get up from the kang, delaying the work points.

In the past few days, except for the old man Lu, the rest of the Lu family had a little free time. Lin Shu helped her father-in-law copy medical books, and the second brother Lu made straw sandals.

Fang Dihua and her family picked all the ripe peaches, leaving only a few small ones for the children to pick slowly.

This kind of mature peach tree will produce a lot of fruits if it is well cared for. Excluding the fallen fruits and the bad fruits bitten by insects, there will be about 200 kilograms of peaches a year.

Of course, this is because Old Man Lu is able to take care of it and has spent a lot of energy on it. Those who have no experience and no time to manage it can only produce a hundred peaches on a tree, but only thirty or fifty of them can be eaten in the end.

Today, Fang Dihua first distributed some peaches to her good neighbors in the village, and then sent Brother Lu An and his wife to deliver peaches to the homes of Lu Hehuan and Lin Aidi in Houtun, as well as to the eldest daughter and granddaughter of the commune.

Fang Dihua's parents' home, Old Man Lu's sister's home, and the parents' homes of the three daughters-in-law, and asked the three daughters-in-law to go back to their parents' homes.

During the week, they don’t have time to visit relatives because they are at work. Usually, they go there after work in the evening and come back quickly. The proper time to visit relatives is after the wheat harvest, during the New Year, or when the elderly celebrate their birthdays. Of course, those who are rich and have time are not included in this category.

The old man has to go to work, so Fang Dihua has to stay at home to cook. She asked her eldest brother Lu to send her to her mother’s house, and her second brother Lu to send her to her aunt’s house.

Lu Dabo’s sisters gave Lu Shaocai to let him go by himself. Lu Shaocai asked his uncle’s family for another basket of peaches. If the peaches were ripe and not eaten, they would go bad. Fang Dihua gave it to him without asking for money.

As for the parents’ homes of the daughters-in-law, they were allowed to go by themselves.

It was no problem for Lu’s eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, but it would be difficult for Lin Shu to carry a basket of peaches by herself and take care of her two children.

Mrs. Lu: "Don't worry, Third Sister-in-law. I'll carry a bag to take you back to your parents' home, and then go to my parents' home. I'll pick you up when I come back."

Ever since Lin Shu was praised and received a certificate of honor, Mrs. Lu's attitude towards her suddenly changed from looking down on her to looking up to her, without even an equal transition period.

Sister-in-law is a reflection of her respect for Lin Shu, and she no longer calls her the Third Sister.

Lin Shu: "Thank you, Sister-in-law."

Originally, when Lu Shaotang lost Lin Shu, it was considered a period of mourning, and relatives were not allowed to visit within a hundred days.

But Fang Dihua never let Lin Shu and the two children wear mourning, and the villagers didn't take it seriously, thinking that the martyr's family didn't need this.

As for the original owner's family, Grandma Lin didn't care about these. At the beginning, she said that a daughter-in-law doesn't wear mourning for other people's parents? A lady doesn't wear mourning for her parents-in-law? Because of this, the daughter-in-law is not allowed to return home? She said it doesn't matter as long as she doesn't wear mourning clothes.

After breakfast the next day, Sister Lu packed up, rolled up her trouser legs and went barefoot, "Third brother's family, Tiantian, Panpan, let's go." The

rain stopped at this time, but it had rained for five or six days in a row, and the ground was muddy, so they still walked barefoot.

The road was basically mud, and there were no dangerous items such as glass nails, so it was not very dangerous to walk barefoot.

However, Lin Shu's skin was tender and she was afraid of being pricked by stones, so she still wore straw sandals.

Sister Lu carried a basket with a basket of peaches on each end, and then put Panpan and Tiantian on each end.

The two children had eaten enough peaches, so Lin Shu gave each of them a cucumber to chew.

Panpan asked the aunt to put Taozi on one side, and he and Tiantian stayed on the other side, so that there would be someone to talk to.

The two sisters-in-law carried the children on their shoulders and set off on the road, becoming a moving landscape on the road, causing passers-by to lean over and look, "Look at those two children, they are so handsome!" "Look at the sisters-in-law in the Lu family, they have a really good relationship, unlike some families who quarrel all the time."

When passing a particularly muddy section of the road, Sister-in-law Lu carried the burden and walked steadily, while Lin Shu almost fell into the mud when she walked by herself.

Sister-in-law Lu carried the burden and the children over, and then turned back to give them to Lin Shu.

Lin Shu was sincerely grateful and envious, "Sister-in-law, you are really... amazing."

Look at her big feet, which are wider than hers, otherwise she would not be able to walk steadily.

Mrs. Lu smiled shyly, "I'll brag to your brother when I get a chance."

Lin Shu: "... Don't worry, I will brag."

As soon as they entered the village, they met an old man in his forties. He was shirtless, his pants were so shabby that they almost fell off his buttocks, and he had a basket of grass on his arm.

When he saw Lin Shu, he grinned, revealing his black and yellow teeth, "Hey, Bai Niuniu is back?"

Seeing this man, Lin Shu was really jealous of her enemies.

Isn't this the bastard Zhao Lao San who always secretly blocked the original owner's way when she was a child, showing a lewd expression and asking Bai Niuniu to give me a nice kiss?

He also often took off his pants in front of the timid little girl!

After the original owner got married and returned to her parents' home, this bastard dared to block her and say rude words!

Lin Shu shouted to Sister-in-law Lu, "Sister-

in-law, beat her up!" Although Sister-in-law Lu was as tall and strong as her mother-in-law Fang Dihua, she was not as fierce and tough as her mother-in-law. But when she heard Lin Shu asking her to beat him up, she put down the carrying pole as a conditioned reflex, picked up the flat pole, and slammed the man to the ground. The man screamed in pain, as if he had been raped.

Lin Shu snorted coldly, "Zhao Laosan, I will definitely find a chance to break all three of your legs!"

This kind of rubbish will never change, and will commit crimes when he gets the chance.

Zhao Laosan was so scared that he rolled and crawled away, not even caring about picking up the basket.

He only knows how to scare little girls, but he dare not challenge fierce women.