Chapter 52 Huge sum of money

As soon as Lu Hehuan entered the house, he shouted, "Sister-in-law, why didn't you call me when you were eating meat a few days ago?"

Lin Shu: "Don't you know who is the head of our family?"

Lu Hehuan pouted and pushed Xu Xiaoyou, who was drooping and very sleepy, towards Lin Shu, "Call me aunt, don't you have any sense at all?"

Xu Xiaoyou immediately stood up obediently, looking like a little bullied, and whispered: "Aunt."

She was a little scared. Every time her stepmother drove her over, her aunt looked at her with a bit of disgust, as if she didn't want to pay attention to her.

She thought her aunt would ignore her as before, but she smiled and said in a sweet and gentle voice, "Xiaoyou is here? Have you eaten?"

Xu Xiaoyou was no longer sleepy and looked at Lin Shu in surprise. What happened to her aunt?

Lu Hehuan frowned and poked her with a finger, "What are you doing? She has eaten. I don't know how this girl grows up. She has such a big appetite despite her small stature. I didn't see her eat more than me."

Lin Shu: "You are just bragging. She is only five or six years old. How can she eat more than you?"

She took a piece of steamed bun and gave it to Xu Xiaoyou.

Xu Xiaoyou hesitated and shook her head, "Aunt, I'm not hungry, I've eaten."

Lin Shu didn't force her, "Then if you're sleepy, go to sleep for a while, your brother and sister are still sleeping."

Xu Xiaoyou nodded.

Lin Shu led her into the house, carried her to the kang, took off her shoes, and let her lie down next to Tiantian.

Xu Xiaoyou was very sleepy and fell asleep as soon as she lay down.

She slept with her grandma and brother at night, and her stepmother and father.

Grandma always called her at night, either to bring the night pot, pour water for her to drink, or to bring food to her brother... She couldn't sleep all night, and she had no energy during the day.

In the main room, Lu Hehuan said to Lin Aidi, "Oh, by the way, sister-in-law, I'm not here to send Xiaoyou off, I'm here to call Sister Aidi. Your aunt is looking for you."

Lin Aidi's face changed, she said something to Lin Shu, and left quickly.

Lu Hehuan went into the house to find Lin Shu.

Lin Shu was looking at Xu Xiaoyou's clothes. The child was wearing two cloth shirts with patches, and two pairs of small underwear inside.

This Lu Hehuan said that it was not premeditated.

But she did not expose it. Lu Hehuan gave her such a good opportunity to cultivate feelings with the smart, hardworking, kind and righteous heroine in advance.

If she didn't take it, wouldn't it be ignorant?

Lin Shu looked at Lu Hehuan. This person is not getting enough sleep. Look at the bruises under her eyes. Can the mother and daughter sleep and stay up all night?

And the Xu family doesn't give them enough meals? Look at Xu Xiaoyou's skeletal body. Lu Hehuan looks two times thinner than before she got married.

Lu Hehuan yawned, "Sister-in-law, I heard from my father that you have been reading and studying recently? Do you write poetry?"

Lu's father worked as a barefoot doctor, so of course she had to go and see him. After all, she was a primary school teacher and was not far from the brigade.

Lin Shu said bluntly, "Who would write poetry?"

Lu Hehuan frowned and raised her voice, "Third sister-in-law, you are too much! What did the poet do to you?" In order to prove her innocence, she recited: "Reeds are lush, white dew turns to frost, the so-called beauty is on the other side of the water. This is a new poem written by Xu Shihua, so..."

Horrible illiteracy!

Lin Shu interrupted her: "What on earth did you come back for?"

At that time, students were talking about class struggles and almost no traditional Chinese studies. It was normal for Lu Hehuan not to know about the Book of Songs, but Xu Shihua must have known it.

Lu Hehuan pouted, "Third sister-in-law, I'm really greedy for meat, can you make some meat for me?"

Lin Shu: "No, that's what my father sent for me and my son to eat."

Lu Hehuan begged several times, but Lin Shu refused. She was a little annoyed, "You said nicely that we have a good relationship, but in fact you are lying."

Lin Shu: "What you said is that you asked me to look after your children, so what have you done for me?"

Lu Hehuan was stunned, "Third sister-in-law, why... are you like this? You are too calculating, right? You were not like this before."

She looked like I was wrong about you.

Lin Shu never responded to unreasonable people, but followed their lead and took control of the conversation.

She said, "I tell you to be nice to your stepdaughter in the future. Our mother said that you are willing to be a stepmother. If you get a reputation for being mean, our mother will slap you." She was

a little rude to Lu Hehuan.

Although Lu Hehuan admires literary young men, she is not a serious literary young woman. She is generous. You can scold her, but as long as she thinks you are good or thinks you are doing it for her good, she will not really be annoyed.

This is also a manifestation of love brain, otherwise Xu Shihua would not have let her in step by step.

Seeing that Lin Shu was rude to her and mocked her, Lu Hehuan turned around and ran away in anger.

She was so proud of herself for running away, hehe, she left her stepdaughter to be taken care of by the third sister-in-law again, I am so smart.

Panpan and Tiantian have woken up.

They are studying Xu Xiaoyou.

Tiantian: "She is not dead, is she?"

Panpan: "She is sleeping, look at her body bulging."

Tiantian: "You sleep with your arms and legs spread out, while I sleep lying down, why does she curl up into a ball?"

Panpan: "Maybe she can sleep more soundly this way? I'll try it later."

The two kids murmured for a long time but Xu Xiaoyou didn't wake up, so they got bored and put on their shoes, went downstairs to drink water and then went to find Lin Shu to read the letter.

Panpan looked up at Lin Shu with starry eyes, "Mom, I dreamed of Dad."

Lin Shu smiled and teased him, "What does your dad look like?"

Panpan: "There are photos!"

Tiantian had already run to the east room, first climbed up the rice jar, then tiptoed to reach the photo frame hanging on the wall, where there was a photo of Lu Shaotang.

She took down the photo, climbed down carefully, ran back to the main room, held up the photo and wanted to read the letter together.

Panpan had already taken out the letter.

The two children put Lu Shaotang's photo on the table with a sense of ceremony, each of them took turns to kiss it, and then handed it to Lin Shu, "Mom, you kiss it too."

Lin Shu's cheeks were burning, and she coughed, "Mom is an adult, we can't kiss each other, it's germy."

Tiantian: "Mom, it's okay, Dad doesn't mind."

Lin Shu: "..." I do mind.

Thinking that Lu Shaotang was gone, the letter was written by Chen Yanming, but her parents-in-law and her sons believed that it was written by Lu Shaotang because of empathy, she felt very sad.

She lowered her eyes and looked at the photo of Lu Shaotang, a tall and handsome young man, but his temperament was cold and abstinent. Ah, what a handsome guy, everything about him touched her heart.

It's a pity that he is no longer here.

Her originally excited heart sank.

The two sons looked at her with their big eyes like black grapes, why did their mother's face suddenly sink?

Why is she unhappy?

Well, it must be Dad's fault for not coming home!

The next time I write, I will ask him to come home quickly!

If he doesn't come home, Mom will be very angry, and the consequences will be serious. My son will be angry too!

Lin Shu opened the envelope and poured out the letter paper inside.

It was a thin piece of paper with two folds.

But the handwriting on it was like a silver hook and iron painting, so powerful that it seemed to fly out from the other side.

This person's aura is really... strong.

She suddenly didn't want to read it. The old age of heroes and the white hair of beauties are all tragedies in the world. The hero buried in a nameless place in a foreign land is even more of a tragedy among tragedies.

Panpan and Tiantian had already happily unfolded the letter and began to read: "Dear Father and Mother Lu, Colon, although we have never..."

Panpan didn't know the word "mo", so she started to look at Tiantian.

Tiantian glanced at him and scolded, "If you don't study hard, you will be illiterate. This is the plan of the staff, and it's all in the comic books."

Lin Shu quickly scanned the children's hands. It was a simple letter. Chen Yanming asked about the well-being of the Lu family and said that he would send money home every month in the future.

Lin Shu: This person is quite nice. So much salary and allowances are sent back, what do you eat?

Seeing the latter, she widened her eyes in disbelief. Is this person...sick!

She was instantly furious, as if the golden gradient of cat mint was taken away, and her little paws were about to show!

This Chen Yanming actually gave advice to the Lu family, saying that if Shaotang's daughter-in-law intended to leave, it would be best to help her, and said that he would not stop her from getting close to the children.

Tsk tsk, what kind of good man is this? What kind of great good man is this? Where is

the sense of propriety?

Where is the sense of boundaries?

Do you think you are the US Pacific police, or the Korean country based on Mars to draw the universe, why do you care so much?

I finally changed the image of the original owner in the eyes of my family and formulated a rough plan for the second half of my life: first lie down to my parents-in-law and then lie down to my children, and live a carefree life.

Do you think you are a two-meter-tall Zhangqiu scallion?

Or do you think you are the savior of the elephant just because you have a scallion in your nose?

Do you want to test me to see if I want to stay in the Lu family or remarry as soon as possible?

It’s a pity that you wrote a letter but didn’t show up in person, otherwise I would definitely beat you up so badly that your parents would not recognize you.

The two kids were still commenting,

"Mom can go wherever she wants, grandpa never cares."

"Mom is very kind to us, muah."

Panpan's saliva dripped accidentally, and Tiantian's little hand was quick, she caught it instantly, and wiped it on Panpan with disgust, "Ah~"

Lin Shu read it over and over again, always feeling that the letter was a bit weird, this Chen Yanming... Why didn't I hear that he had such a good relationship with the Lu family before?

In the past, the original owner never read the letters Lu Shaotang wrote back. She didn't know many words and was embarrassed to read them, and even felt that it had nothing to do with her. After all, she didn't have a good impression of Lu Shaotang. She always felt that he was too tall, too cold, and too fierce. Thinking of this name made her feel short of breath.

Lin Shu asked the two children: "Has Chen Yanming written a letter before?"

Tiantian shook her head, "No."

Panpan: "I'll go look for it."

In fact, Lu Shaotang didn't write many letters before. He was a rebellious teenager, so how could he write letters often?

It's weird.

Anyway, his uncle would write to his father to explain the situation.

When he was older, he started to go on missions. He didn't know where he was. It was inconvenient to write letters and he was not allowed to write letters casually. Anyway , he

told the logistics department to remit money to the family on time every month. If there was something at home, he would write to his leader and the leader would collect and read it on his behalf. If there was something special, he would contact him and he would ask the leader to help reply to report that he was safe.

When he received his mother's marriage telegram, the leader contacted him by radio and asked him to go home and get married urgently.

As for handwritten letters, there were also two or three.

Grandma never hid her things from the two children, because they were sensible and never talked nonsense or took things without permission.

The key to Fang Dihua's box was hidden in the crack of the window wall.

Panpan dug out to open the big suitcase at the end of the kang, and then tried to take out a small box from it.

"Gudong" he fell directly into it, but fortunately there were clothes and bedding inside, so he was not injured.

Lin Shu hurried over to help move the box out, bringing out a strong smell of camphor.

Panpan opened the box again.

There were some items neatly arranged inside, including a marriage certificate, marriage certificate, martyr certificate tied with red rope, a pile of letters, a plastic-covered account book with some tickets and change sandwiched in front and back, and a bundle of newspapers... a big reunion bundle, judging by the number, it should be the 800 yuan pension. There was another envelope, which

contained some old and new big reunion bundles, about 200 yuan.

She searched again and found a passbook at the bottom of the small box. The account holder was not Lu Laodi but Lu Shaotang.

Looking at the passbook, the account opening date was actually ten years ago.

Lu Shaotang was about 14 years old at that time? He started to make money now?

The first time he saved was not much, only two yuan, and he saved it for three consecutive months.

The difficult period had just passed at that time, and it was difficult to even have food to eat at home. It was really amazing that Fang Dihua was still able to save money.

After five months, the savings increased, ten, fifteen, and after saving for several months, it grew to thirty, forty.

Later, the frequency was three or four times a month, sometimes forty, sometimes fifty.

This continued until this spring.

I looked at the total amount.

Wow!

The young man can really make money!

It's only 71 years, and Lu Shaotang has saved two thousand yuan with salary allowances and bonuses.

Look at the deposit-withdrawal ratio, wow, the old lady has been saving money year after year without taking a penny.

No.

Lin Shu remembered the remittance list given by Chen Yanming, and then thought about Lu Shaotang's position. He had saved eight or ninety-one months a long time ago, and later it rose to over a hundred.

So, there should be some money left?

She rummaged through it again, and sure enough, she found a few bulging envelopes in the clothes under the big wooden box, with a pungent smell of mothballs.

Each of these envelopes contained... a big reunion! Inside the envelopes

were remittance slips stapled together with needle and thread and accounts recorded by Father Lu, all of which were earned by Lu Shaotang.

Lin Shu counted them, what a good fellow, what a good fellow!!!

There is actually 3,460 yuan in it!!!

Adding it up, that's 5,460 yuan, a huge sum of money!

Have you been saving money for the past ten years without eating or drinking?

Go back to the capital and buy a few yards, what are you struggling for in this life?

She was surprised and worried that it was not safe to hide money in this broken house.

No wonder the family was robbed in the original plot. How could others not pry open this money box that a little kid could open?

The original owner was fine at home before, but later the original owner died and there was no one at home, so it was robbed?

Whether it was an outside thief who climbed over the wall or an insider who stole it, the original plot did not say.

In the original plot, Lu Pan recalled that when he was a child, it was mostly because of the kindness of his grandma, aunt, second uncle, eldest brother and others to him, and the difficulties of his grandma later. The conflicts in the family were basically glossed over without thinking about it in detail.

Lin Shu thought that Lu Shaocai was a big suspect, and of course it was not ruled out that he was a thief in the village.

So it's best to deposit all the money in the bank.

Of course, passbooks are not safe either.

You can withdraw money with the personal seal and passbook left at the counter, so the passbook and seal must be kept separately.

Now Lu Shaotang's small seal is in the envelope.

She must discuss it with her mother-in-law in the evening.

Lin Shu put the money and passbook away, and then began to read the letters.

Panpan, the little money-grubber, was stunned by the sight of so much money, "Wow, wow, wow..." Tiantian

pushed him down on the kang and told him not to read it.

Lin Shu flipped through the old letters, and many of them were wet. There were only a few words on a piece of letter paper, and they were all written in blue pen. They were soaked by water and could not be seen clearly.

The letter paper and envelope were wrinkled because of being wet and dried, but they were ironed flat, which showed that the parents-in-law cherished them very much.

Tiantian immediately complained, "The letter was wet by my aunt!"

"Grandma said that my aunt was clumsy and knocked over the teacup, hum!"

"We will never show her this letter!"

Lin Shu: "Okay."

She flipped through it and there should be no other letters from Chen Yanming. There were two letters that were readable, probably written by Lu Shaotang.

Looking at the neat and beautiful small regular script, Lin Shu couldn't help but praise it. Although Lu Shaotang has such a cold temperament, his handwriting is good, very much like an old cadre.

There is nothing special. After reading it, she locked the big suitcase again.

外面母雞咯噠咯噠地叫喚，這是下蛋了，倆崽兒飛奔出去，“拾蛋咯~”

林姝開始準備做飯，晌午有林愛娣幫忙燒鏊子，她做了不少煎餅，這會兒就燒水加炖菜便好。

It was hot in summer and she couldn't bear to cook and burn it on the kang at night, so she cooked it early.

Grandma feels sorry for her children and usually lets them burn their house down at night.

Lin Shu planned to build a stove in the yard and move the pot out for cooking so that the house would be cooler.

On the kang in the west room, Xu Xiaoyou didn't wake up until now.

She sat on the kang and looked around blankly, feeling as if she didn't know where she was. Suddenly her face changed and she was so frightened that she immediately crawled to the ground.

I wasn't lazy, I just fell asleep accidentally!

I have to help look after my brother, I have to light a fire, I have to pick vegetables, I have to...

She was in a hurry to get off the kang, but she was not familiar with the location of Lin Shu's house, and she fell down with a thud.

Lin Shu hurried into the house and carried her onto the kang, and said with concern: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, are you hurt?"

Xu Xiaoyou was stunned. Her aunt-in-law was so sweet and soft, so gentle, is this her aunt-in-law?

She had never been treated so gently before. When her mother was still alive, she always disliked her for being a girl and just wanted to have a younger brother as soon as possible.

She went to her grandmother's house, and her grandmother said that it was better to be a girl first, because she could help with the housework and take care of her younger brother, so as soon as she arrived, her grandmother ordered her to do this and that.

When she couldn't move her grandmother, she told her to use all her strength. When she fell, she didn't help her, and told her to get up quickly so as not to embarrass herself.

Her grandmother disliked her even more, saying that the Xu family had only one son for three generations, and that she was not a boy, and that the Xu family almost died out.

She didn't understand what it meant to have only one son for three generations or to have no descendants, but she remembered the way her grandmother said this very clearly. She tilted her head, looked at her with a look of extreme disdain, and pursed her lips to one side.

Others said that her grandmother was kind, but she was very afraid of her grandmother.

Why did her aunt-in-law suddenly treat her so well?

Although her aunt-in-law was not bad to her before, she didn't beat or scold her, and even gave her food, but she was not affectionate, and her eyes were a little disdainful.

She was sensitive and thought that maybe she didn't dislike her, but maybe she disliked her stepmother for bringing her here. She felt embarrassed and ashamed, but...but there was nothing she could do.

Her stepmother asked her to come, so she had to come.

She actually likes coming here because her aunt doesn't need to call her, feeds her well and lets her sleep as she pleases, and grandma can't beat or scold her in private.

She suddenly feels like it would be better if her aunt is my stepmother.

I heard grandma and stepmother quarreling and said that dad wanted to marry her aunt, but grandma Lin thought the Xu family didn't have many servants.