Chapter 51 Sister-
in-law Father Lin and Lin Yue also had to go for training. Although Father Lin was too old to be assigned to the logistics department, he was a fast learner, so the leader asked him to go with them.
After breakfast, they went to the Lu Family Manor.
Father Lin came to see the daughter and the children, and then thanked Fang Dihua and Father Lu.
Fang Dihua had taken Second Brother Lu to the private plot early, and then went back to work.
Father Lu helped entertain Father Lin.
Father Lu: "His grandmother passed the exam to become a tractor operator. Congratulations. You've worked hard these days."
He was not a gossipy person and never dug into other people's pain, so he didn't ask about the divorce.
Although it was not easy for Father Lin, he refused to admit it. Although he was soft in the face of things, he was very competitive and boastful to good people. He smiled and said, "It's not hard. I'm a few years younger than you. I feel like I'm ten years younger now."
He also showed his biceps to Father Lu.
Father Lu: "..."
Father Lin asked Father Lu how about being a doctor, and boasted that he was a fast learner. If he had studied hard, he would have become a county doctor.
Father Lu: "You are so good, why don't you continue to study with me? Go back and become a doctor in the county."
Father Lin immediately laughed and said: "No, no, I can't compete with you for a living, Brother Lu. Didn't I pass the exam to be a tractor driver? We are not cowards, so we will definitely do it if we study hard."
He straightened his back again, feeling very proud.
Originally, he was worried that his son would be laughed at if he got divorced, but he and his son both became tractor drivers. They brought back eight pounds of meat and ribs and treated the neighbors who were helping his son to get a good meal with him.
Not only did the people in the village not laugh, but they were extremely envious.
Auntie Lin and Zhou's mother, as the main force, had a sense of accomplishment in saving the distressed, and they boasted, saying "After the divorce, bad luck will come and good luck will come", "Just wait and see, your life will get better and better".
The old Li family and Lin Aidi's father had come to him to say something sour, saying that if he went back to ask his son to get a divorce, maybe the family's luck would change.
Originally, he was afraid that his grandson's family would come to his house to make trouble, but they were very peaceful these days and no one came to make trouble.
He thought it must be because of his and his son's admission to the tractor driver exam!
Father Lin was immediately proud.
Father Lu had to go to the infirmary and didn't chat with him for long.
Father Lin talked to his daughter again, mainly asking Lin Shu to go to Linjiatun more often to accompany Lin's mother, so that she wouldn't be scared when he and Lin Yue were not at home.
Lin Shu agreed readily. It wasn't far anyway, so she would just take it as a walk to exercise her body.
Panpan and Tiantian looked at Lin Yue. Tiantian wondered, "Uncle, why do I think you look better?"
Panpan said bluntly, "Yes, I looked a little... now you look good."
Lin Shu laughed. Before the divorce, Lin Yue was controlled by Sun Xiaohong. Although he was handsome, his temperament was always a little vulgar. Now he is more relaxed and sunny. Even
the children can see it.
Lin Yue laughed.
At first he was not used to sleeping alone, but the exam to become a tractor operator made him fully focused. After passing the exam, he was very happy. Neighbors came to congratulate him, and the brigade cadres also talked to him. He was so busy that he had no time to think about it, and gradually he got used to it.
Lin Shu asked them to visit the second sister when they went to the city, talk about family matters, and write a letter to the eldest sister to tell her. Panpan,
who had been sitting in grandma's arms, suddenly got up, ran to grandma's room, stepped on the windowsill and took down the small box on the window. It was a small coin box prepared by grandpa for him.
He looked outside and saw that there was no one, so he took out the key from under the kang mat and opened the small coin box.
It was full of money!
A big one, a small one or two cents, and some Mao bills.
He hesitated for a moment, but still took out two yuan, pressed his dirty little heart, oh, it hurt a little.
He sighed, gritted his teeth and put the money on the kang, locked the small box and put it away, then took the two yuan and went to find grandma and the others.
He gave one yuan to grandma and one to Lin Yue, and said in a baby voice: "Grandma, uncle, you passed the exam to drive a tractor, which is great. This is a reward and allowance for you. Go to the city to study and eat more." Father
Lu grumbled to them all day long that Lu Shaotang earned wages and allowances to spend at home. He remembered it.
Father Lu and Lin Yue were so excited that their eyes were red.
Why is this child so favored?
Lin Shu was also very surprised. The child was a stingy little man. Except for grandma, mother, and Tiantian, no one else could take a penny from him.
He was basically a little Pixiu who only took in and never gave out. All his bellybands, clothes, and blankets from his infancy were kept. Lin Shu was not allowed to throw away the broken ones, and she was not allowed to give away the good ones!
They were all kept in his grandmother's box.
Tiantian: "Grandma, uncle, I have no money. My money was cheated away by Panpan. I can only congratulate you with my mouth."
Father Lin hugged her tightly, "My dear, congratulations are good, grandma likes it."
He and Lin's mother Lin Yue had discussed that the money they got back from Sun Xiaohong was not small, so they gave Lin Shu twenty as pocket money.
Lin Shu naturally didn't want it, "I don't spend money at home, you keep it well, eat well in the city, don't be reluctant. When you become a tractor driver in the future, you will earn a lot of work points and money, so you should eat as much as you can." Father Lin was too
thin, and he was reluctant to eat even if he was hungry.
After a few words, it was almost time, and the father and son had to go to the commune to gather, so they said goodbye and left.
Panpan and Tiantian sent their grandma and uncle away, and went to the street to play with Huahua Huzi and a few others. Tiantian would tell them stories from comic books.
Looking at the brisk backs of her father and brother, and the two cute children playing on the street, Lin Shu also felt relieved.
After being depressed for several years and paying some price, Lin Yue finally grew up, but the children no longer had to pay a painful price in their lives.
The disaster that Sun Xiaohong brought to the Lin family and the children in the original plot will never happen again.
That's great.
She walked home briskly, took down the small chive sickle hanging on the south window, picked up some flowers and herbs of various colors, and took them to the house for flower arrangement.
Flower arrangement requires a mix of heights and colors.
She arranged flowers in a glass canning jar and placed it on the dining table in the main hall, and in a clay jar with the upper half cracked, which she placed in her own room. She also arranged a small bunch for her parents-in-law and placed them on their windowsill.
After arranging the flowers, the room, which was originally filled with smoke and fire, became much brighter.
"Sister, are you cooking at home?" Lin Aidi came over with a small basket carrying a few cucumbers and persimmons.
She went back to her parents' home and learned about Lin Yue's divorce.
Oh, Lin Shu was too miserable. Her husband had just lost his brother and was getting divorced. He must be laughed at by others. Lin Shu must be very sad, and she wanted to comfort him.
Lin Shu heard the voice and hurriedly called her in.
Seeing the juicy tomatoes, Lin Shu washed them, woven a small rattan basket and sent them to the street for the children to eat.
The vegetable garden was planted late, and now we can't eat all the leafy vegetables, but tomatoes with a long cycle are not good enough. Although we planted a few fruit-bearing trees before, they didn't survive. It's easier for small seedlings to survive .
"Your father, brother, and sister-in-law have all passed the exam to become tractor drivers. Your family... is really lucky." Lin Aidi was happy, but also a little bit upset.
Lin Shu is getting better and better, but she... is not so good.
It's sour.
Lin Shu stuffed a tomato into her, "Your family's is a pink variety with a soft taste. My family grows a red and juicy variety with a sweet taste. You can get me some seeds later."
Lin Aidi thought to herself, how can you only know how to eat?
At this time, the postman's bell rang outside, followed by Zhou Weimin's loud voice: "Lin Shu, there is a letter!"
Lin Shu smiled at Lin Aidi and said, "Sister Aidi, you are really my lucky forecaster. Look, I have good news again."
When Panpan and Tiantian on the street heard that their mother had a letter, they immediately ran over like little birds, and the young women soldiers also surrounded them enviously.
In this day and age, it is a very worthwhile thing for a family to receive a letter from the outside world, and everyone is jealous.
The toothless 93-year-old uncle was mumbling again: "Shaotang has written back another letter."
The old woman retorted to him and whispered: "You are getting old and confused. Shaotang is gone."
The old uncle: "I'm not deaf, I can hear. Besides Shaotang, who else writes to his wife?"
Zhou Weimin became a temporary postman, wearing a green postman's uniform, with a beaming face. His eyes sparkled when he saw Lin Shu.
"Sister Lin Shu, is your letter from the elder sister and the second sister in the city?"
Before Lin Shu could say anything, Lin Aidi said unhappily, "Zhou Weimin, can't you see me at my age? Is your eyesight not good?"
Zhou Weimin said hurriedly, "I saw it, but I didn't have time to say hello to you."
Lin Shu thought it was a letter from her elder sister, but it turned out to be... Chen Yanming again?
Oh, this Chen Yanming was saving money for his comrades' families, how could he write to his comrades' families?
Could he really have some feelings for her?
No, no, they had never met before, she should not be so self-indulgent, otherwise it would be embarrassing if she made a joke.
Zhou Weimin wanted to talk more with Lin Shu, but Lin Aidi was staring at him covetously, and Lin Shu looked very busy, so he was embarrassed to say more.
Lin Shu: "Brother Weimin, are you busy? Would you like a bowl of water?"
The weather is hot, and these postmen are very hard-working.
Zhou Weimin immediately grinned from ear to ear, smiling brilliantly, "Yes."
Lin Aidi: "Wait, I'll bring it to you."
Can you dream of having my sister?
Lin Aidi personally brought Zhou Weimin a bowl of boiled water, watched him finish drinking, took the bowl back, and drove him away.
Back in the house, she put the bowl on the table, "Sister, why don't you read the letter?"
Lin Shu: "My father-in-law reads the letters in our family, and I can't read them all."
Of course I can't read it in front of you, what if there is something in it?
Panpan and Tiantian were very sensible. Although they wanted to read the letter immediately, they still held back and put the letter in a medical book in their grandparents' room.
Seeing that it was time for dinner and Lin Aidi had no intention of leaving, Lin Shu took the initiative to invite her to stay for dinner.
Lin Aidi was not the kind of person who would take advantage of others and eat for free. She guessed that there was something she wanted to say.
She asked Lin Aidi to help heat the griddle.
We will continue to make pancakes at noon today. Everyone didn't eat enough last night and said they wanted to eat them every day. They are a hundred times more delicious than cornmeal dumplings.
The millet and melon stems are not soaked enough yet, so we will continue to soak them and make them tomorrow morning. We will continue to boil the dough and roll the pancakes today.
Lin Aidi looked at Lin Shu's operation in surprise, "This... rolling pancakes? Who did you learn from?"
Lin Shu is really so... so different from before.
Lin Shu found an excuse to fool her, saying that it was her mother-in-law's idea. Anyway, she could always keep everything to her mother-in-law, and her mother-in-law knew about her class with Teacher Ma.
Lin Aidi was curious and asked about the method, wanting to learn from her.
She tasted it and found that the pancake was indeed delicious, much better than steamed buns.
She didn't roll the vegetables, but just rolled up a pancake with green onions and ate it, "Burp, it smells so good!"
After spreading the pancakes, Lin Shu started cooking again, first boiling water and filling two soup pots.
She really drank enough water for steaming steamed buns, and refreshing water tasted better.
Leave some water in the pot, bring it to a boil, and then blanch various vegetables. Cut the cucumber into strips and mix it with the sauce, grate the pumpkin and add it to the eggs to make a soup.
At noon, Fang Dihua went to the infirmary to see the old man. She wanted to ask him to go home for dinner, but he was too busy to go home for dinner, so she had to send him home first.
Ten eggs were collected in the morning, and Father Lu asked Fang Dihua to take them back.
When Fang Dihua got home, she put the eggs down. Seeing Lin Aidi here, she was quite surprised. She greeted Lin Shu and said, "Make two eggs for Tiantian and Panpan every day in the future. You can cook rolls or stew egg custard."
San'er has been through life and death outside, so she has to take good care of his wife and children.
Lin Shu agreed. If you can't eat meat every day and don't have milk to drink, then give your child eggs to supplement vitamins.
There is no such thing as excess nutrition these days.
After Fang Dihua left, Lin Shu let the two children walk around the yard to digest their food, and then they went to bed for a nap.
They no longer needed adults to coax them to sleep. The two siblings could fall asleep after chatting for a while like adults.
Lin Aidi looked at Lin Shu's sewing machine and touched it enviously, "It's easier to do needlework with a sewing machine, right?"
Lin Shu: "Yes, it used to take a whole day to sew, but now it can be done in a few minutes. I can even make a pair of insoles while cooking. Sister Aidi, if you have needlework, bring the fabric and thread, and I'll help you."
Practice more and improve your skills. In the future, she can also make money by making clothes.
Lin Aidi agreed.
Seeing that she was still not leaving, Lin Shu thought she had something to say, so she didn't ask and just let her stay.
She continued to pile some vegetable leaves, tree leaves, etc. into her green fertilizer pit. After twenty days, they could be used as fertilizer, and the humus soil was also very fertile.
Lin Aidi helped Lin Shu with the work, and she wanted to say something but stopped herself several times.
She could no longer press her head and say that Lin Shu was miserable, and she couldn't find a balance from Lin Shu, because Lin Shu was not miserable, and she lived a very comfortable life.
Look at her fair and translucent skin, which looks almost like a child. You can tell at a glance that she doesn't need to be exposed to the wind, sun, rain, and eats well.
Lin Aidi never thought that Lin Shu could get the sewing machine back, and she never thought that Lin Shu could make Lin Yue divorce Sun Xiaohong.
When the Sun family came to force a marriage, their angry look could really scare people, right?
Now they don't make trouble?
Anyway, everyone said that Lin Shu went back to her parents' home, and Lin Yue came to Lujiazhuang, and they had to get a divorce when they returned. It would be strange to say that it was not Lin Shu who instigated
it. It seems that Lin Shu has a solution. When did she become so smart?
Maybe it's not Lin Shu who has a solution, but Fang Dihua is sensible and protects her because her son is gone?
Lin Aidi was very jealous of Lin Shu's mother-in-law's protection. When she went back to her parents' home, she asked her sister-in-law to be her bodyguard. It was said that the gossipers were frightened by her sister-in-law and their faces changed. No one dared to approach.
Hey, why does her mother-in-law always make trouble?
Thinking of her own annoying mother-in-law, Lin Aidi magically compared it to Lin Shu's sister-in-law
's mother-in-law. She must be equally annoying. She said, "Your sister-in-law's mother-in-law is really a character. She is obviously very harsh to her granddaughter. On the surface, it seems that she loves her grandchildren very much, but it is your sister-in-law's stepmother who treats her stepdaughter badly."
Lin Shu: "My sister-in-law beat my stepdaughter?" Lu
Hehuan, you better be careful before you die. That is the heroine of the original book, the chosen daughter of heaven, and you are not a mortal woman like you who can beat her.
If you beat her today, you may end up in a miserable situation tomorrow.
In the original book, the heroine spoke for Lu Pan and finally helped Lu Tian clear her grievances. Lin Shu was still very grateful to her and didn't want her to be bullied by her grandmother and stepmother again.
Speaking of which, Lu Hehuan was also a person who deserved a beating, just like Lin Yue.
Lin Shu searched her memory and had more impressions of her sister-in-law.
When Lu Hehuan was born, the row of large albizzia trees on the village road were in full bloom, so Lu's father named his daughter Hehuan.
Lu Hehuan was a lively and pretty girl. Because she was the youngest and the most spoiled, she didn't have to do any work since she was a child and studied until high school.
Although she likes literary youths, she actually doesn't have the temperament of a literary youth, nor is she the kind of literary youth who is skinny and wears a white cotton skirt. On the contrary, she is very pretty.
Because she couldn't go to college due to the movement, all the city students had to go to the countryside, so she had no choice but to go home.
Even though Old Man Lu was so shameless and didn't do favors, he went to the commune for her and hoped to give his daughter a chance to take the test and let her become a junior high school teacher.
She graduated from high school and was more than qualified to teach Chinese in junior high school.
As a result, she picked up an anonymous handwritten poetry collection at a learning exchange meeting and was attracted by those poems.
She felt that those poems were talented and the author must be a talented person.
Well, the so-called talent is the kind of poetry that sounds like whining without any reason. A married man tells how desolate and lonely his heart is all day long, and no one understands and no one can enter his heart that is like a wasteland.
Later, she accidentally found out that the collection of poems belonged to Xu Shihua, so she secretly paid attention to him and found that he always held a book, his brows were always tightly wrinkled, as if hiding a lot of sorrow. He would do some strange actions to others, looking up at the blue sky, gazing at the green leaves, observing the reflection in the water...
She thought he was infinitely charming.
But Xu Shihua still had a wife at that time, so she didn't have any other thoughts.
As a result, Xu Shihua's wife died of dystocia last spring. Lu Hehuan read a few of his anonymous poems and felt sorry for him.
She felt that what he wrote, "The silhouette printed on the cold window, silent and speechless, wanting to say something but not saying it", made her want to talk to him and give him warmth, and she had to marry him.
She even exchanged her junior high school teacher job with Xu Shihua... Now she is a Chinese teacher at Lujiazhuang Primary School, and Xu Shihua is a junior high school teacher.
Whether she took the initiative to get close to him or Xu Shihua flirted with her intentionally or unintentionally, only they know.
A rich lady insisted on being Xu Shihua's second wife to serve him and his children, but her parents naturally disagreed.
Fang Dihua said, "It's not that easy to be a stepmother," but her sister-in-law said, "You just think it's embarrassing for you to marry a second-married man, you are not considering me at all."
Fang Dihua loved the young lady the most. She was so angry that she scolded her, "He wrote two sour poems, which is literature. Do you think you have been captivated by them? There are so many poets in the past five thousand years. Wouldn't your soul be shattered by them?"
Sister-in-law: "You don't understand. Love is a feeling, a fate, and a priceless treasure!"
Fang Dihua: "Love is bullshit. How can it be eaten? He doesn't work, and you can't work either. What will you do then?"
Sister-in-law: "You are vulgar. Love is dedication, not asking. I don't ask him to do anything for me."
Fang Dihua first starved her twice, but she said that she was happy to drink boiled water. She also said that one should enjoy life while it is possible, and should pursue the romance in front of you, and not care about the trivialities in the future.
Fang Dihua was no match for her, and told Father Lu that Father Lu was reasonable, while her sister-in-law was unreasonable, and they were no match.
So last winter, her sister-in-law happily married Xu Shihua.
Fang Dihua actually didn't care whether she married a first-time or second-time man, the key was that she knew what kind of character her daughter was, and she was not a patient person.
As expected, right after getting married, the sister-in-law found that she didn't like taking care of children. Although Xu Xiaoyou looked well-behaved, she was still annoyed and always wanted to throw her back to her parents' home to be taken care of by Lin Shu.
In fact, the sister-in-law got along well with the original owner before she got married. She lived in fantasy, so she disdained the petty tricks in life, was too lazy to care about food and clothing, and didn't bully the original owner.
She felt that she had a good relationship with the original owner's sister-in-law, so she always wanted to throw her stepdaughter to the original owner, but the original owner didn't like to take care of other people's children, but was embarrassed to say it, so she felt uncomfortable.
The little heroine is like Panpan Tiantian. She is a born good baby and doesn't bother people. She can take care of herself at such an age.
If Lu Hehuan brings her food, Lin Shu doesn't mind helping her take care of the child.
Anyway, let Xu Xiaoyou play with the children.
It's good for the children to develop feelings with the little heroine. After all, childhood friendship is very deep and precious. With this friendship, if the child conflicts with the hero again in the future, Xu Xiaoyou can help and not take sides.
The heroine still has a big halo.
Speak of the devil, the devil appears.
Lu Hehuan led Xu Xiaoyou back in a hurry.