Chapter 53: Borer
Fang Dihua came back with Father Lu at night. Seeing Xu Xiaoyou, Fang Dihua's face darkened and she said to Second Sister-in-law Lu: "Hurry up and send the child back to your sister-in-law. This is her daughter-in-law who asked her to take care of the child herself."
Xu Xiaoyou shivered with fear and subconsciously shrank behind Lin Shu.
Although this grandmother didn't hit her, she had a loud voice and looked fierce. She didn't look good to her, so she was afraid.
Lin Shu said: "Mom, it's okay. Let Xiaoyou and Tiantian Panpan play together for two days."
Seeing that Lin Shu didn't force herself and seemed to like Xu Xiaoyou, Fang Dihua breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't mean to drive Xu Xiaoyou away. She just wanted to protect her third daughter-in-law.
If Lin Shu is not willing to take care of the child, then just send the child back. If Lin Shu doesn't mind, then take care of the child for a few days.
This child is also pitiful. Look at how skinny she is, just like a bean sprout.
In order to make Xu Xiaoyou grateful to Lin Shu for taking her in, Fang Dihua deliberately acted a little fierce. She didn't mind people saying bad things about her.
The two children first pulled their grandma into the house to talk about the letter.
Father Lu and Fang Dihua were instantly happy again and decided to read the letter later at night.
Second Sister-in-law Lu was outside, watching the four grandparents whispering in the house, and instantly wondered if they were eating delicious food behind her back, or saying bad things about her.
Xu Xiaoyou was a little scared and shrank back. He followed Lin Shu obediently and wanted to help her set the tableware and the small stool for eating.
In order to save lamp oil and keep cool in the summer, people always eat outside.
During the meal, Lin Shu told Fang Dihua to build a stove outside so that it would not be so hot to cook.
Fang Dihua glanced at Brother Lu and his second sister-in-law, "They have kangs in their rooms, too. Let's go back and light a fire in their room." Brother Lu
did not object, but looked a little absent-minded, as if even the eggplant stewed with soybean paste was not fragrant.
He missed his wife, and he missed her after being apart for a long time.
His wife was not at home tonight, so there was no one to wash his clothes, and no one to massage his back and waist. He would sleep on the empty kang by himself at night.
He didn't know what his dark and strong wife was doing. Was there any pretty boy trying to hook up with her?
Probably not, she was so ugly.
She loved him so much, she wouldn't love another bastard.
But Second Sister-in-law Lu disagreed. How hot would it be to light a fire on her kang in the summer?
She said with a smile: "Mom, it's not good for the Third Brother's family to come into our room, right? After all, we have Second Uncle..."
Fang Dihua: "You are not at home during the day, so what's wrong with just cooking?"
Father Lu: "Let's build a stove outside."
Several people discussed whether it was more convenient to build a stove in the open space in front of the main hall or to go to the open space on the east and west walls.
Fang Dihua: "The stove must be built so that it is convenient for eating. Wouldn't it be troublesome to move it from far away? Just build it here in front of the main room, make a circle around the fire path and then build a chimney. This way, sparks won't fly and cause a fire. And then build a high chimney to drain the ashes higher."
The chimney was too low, and the ashes were collected in the yard, which was annoying.
Lin Shu immediately started to flatter him, "That's great! Mom still has a way."
Father Lu: "Then let's build the shed in front of the building."
Second Brother Lu: "The wood we just killed at home can't be used. We have to find someone to replace it with dried boards."
Fang Dihua: "Then change it. Who doesn't need to change it in a hurry?"
Fang Dihua's action is very fast, without any procrastination.
After she finished her meal, she started to pick up the stored bricks and stones in the corners of the wall, and then asked Second Brother Lu to find the nearest house in the village to buy some stored bricks and tiles, and then asked Second Brother Lu to exchange wood.
Tiantian and Panpan followed their two brothers to find cicada monkeys, but Xu Xiaoyou did not go out, but went to the vegetable garden to catch insects and grasshoppers.
Lu's dad went to see the letter quietly, and after reading it, what did the third child mean
? Son murmured. Fang Dihua glanced at Lin Shu who was collecting fallen leaves and old vegetable leaves, and whispered: "Calm down, how could San'er be like that? He must feel sorry for his wife because he can't come back for a while, and he wants to give her a chance to choose for herself." Old Man Lu was relieved, "You are too concerned, you misunderstood San'er, then why don't you ask her?" Fang Dihua: "No, she has already taken the initiative to tell me that she doesn't want to, and didn't she say that Ma Shenxian is hers?" The implication is that San'er, as Lin Shu said, is still alive, and naturally will not remarry. Old Man Lu was happy in his heart, but then he sighed again, thinking that he had wronged her, and marrying here would be like being a widow. Xu Xiaoyou was catching insects very hard over there, and her movements were agile, and she caught a lot of jumping grasshoppers. Lin Shu took a look and saw that this child who was not liked by the family, especially a girl, was really sensitive and strong-willed by nature. She knew that not letting Xu Xiaoyou do work would make the other party panic, so she praised him a few more times. Xu Xiaoyou worked even harder to catch mosquitoes. In the evening, when the Lu Ping brothers brought Tiantian and Panpan back home with a full load, Lin Shu had already killed the mosquitoes. The little kids were washed and peeled in the yard, and Fang Dihua carried them to the kang with their naked butts. They put on their pants and bellybands and started to sleep in a row. Lin Shu arranged Xu Xiaoyou on her kang. She spread the mosquito net to both sides and let Xu Xiaoyou sleep at the head of the kang. She slept in the middle of the two girls, and Panpan was still outside Tiantian. Tiantian slept well and could stay beside her all night without moving. Panpan looks like a good sleeper, but he actually does boxing and somersaults all night long, turning around and sleeping on the pillow in the morning. He can't move around by leaning against the wall, so he has to sleep on the outside to occupy the outside space, and the price is mosquito bites. Panpan told him about Hu Zi's bad luck when he was looking for cicada monkeys, and fell asleep in less than two minutes. As soon as he yawned, Tiantian fell asleep.
Although Xu Xiaoyou slept for a long time during the day, he fell asleep immediately after smelling the fragrance of Lin Shu.
Lin Shu called Fang Dihua.
Fang Dihua had just taken a shower and was wearing a large cotton shirt, "Can you sleep well? If not, let Panpan go to our room."
Lin Shu: "Yes."
She whispered: "Mom, Panpan will open the box today to show me the old letters."
Fang Dihua didn't know why she wanted to see the old letters, she just said: "They are all soaked, I can't read them, what do you want to find?"
She didn't doubt that Lin Shu wanted to take money or something.
Lin Shu whispered, "Mom, do you think that valuables should be hidden properly?"
Fang Dihua: "I locked it, both of them."
Lin Shu: "... If Panpan can open it, then the key can be found by others, and even if there is no key, they can still pick the lock, right?"
Fang Dihua didn't think so, "Who dares to come to our house to steal things? Are you tired of living?"
Lin Shu: "..."
Now it is true that as long as I am alive, grandpa is alive, and grandma's eyes are fine, no one dares to come to our house to steal things.
But it's better to be prepared for a rainy day? Besides, it's better to be safe than sorry.
"Mom, you should save the pension, what if someone wants to kill you? If you save it, the passbook is always easier to hide."
As long as the passbook and the seal are hidden separately, others can't take the money even if they steal the passbook.
Fang Dihua pondered, "The money should be returned to the government."
Her son was fine, so of course he didn't want the pension, and he didn't want to take advantage of it.
Lin Shu: "Then save it, and you can withdraw it directly when the time comes."
Seeing Fang Dihua's thoughts, she said, "Mom, I think we should withdraw the money from the credit union and deposit it in a big bank in the city, which is safer."
There is an agricultural bank in the county, which is naturally safer than the rural credit union in the countryside.
In the original plot, the rural credit union suddenly collapsed in 1977, losing as much as 110,000 yuan.
Later, the municipal bureau came to investigate the case and arrested an accountant and a cashier of the credit union. The accountant was sentenced to death and the cashier was sentenced to 12 years.
In the end, only one third of the money was recovered. That was the hard-earned money that the brigades had deposited in the credit union to buy tractors, seeds, fertilizers and pesticides. Many brigade cadres either became sick due to anxiety or resigned.
Can an accountant and a cashier hide the fact that everyone lost 110,000 yuan without being discovered?
Lin Shu was a little skeptical. Sure enough
, in the early 1990s, when the male and female protagonists were developing their careers, a vice president was found out, and then his affairs in the rural credit union were dragged out.
He was the fish that slipped through the net!
It's only 1971, they should have started less than two years ago?
At that time, the deposits were small, and they were still timid, so they should not have stolen much.
Can you think of a way to find them out? At least make them dare not continue to do bad things?
Since she believed that Lin Shu was taking classes with Ma Shenxian, Fang Dihua believed the words of her third daughter-in-law without a doubt.
The third daughter-in-law said to deposit in the bank, which means that the bank is better and should be deposited.
"In that case, I will go to the credit union tomorrow to tell him, and then go to the county to deposit the money after I withdraw money."
It is okay to withdraw one or two hundred yuan at a time from the credit union, but if it exceeds one thousand, it must be approved in advance.
The next morning, Fang Dihua got up and took her two sons to prepare for the stove. Mrs. Qiu's eldest son sent a wooden wheelbarrow of adobe bricks, which is a must for building a stove.
Fang Dihua asked Lin Shu to give him a few eggs to take back for the children.
Qiu Da declined and took them away.
Father Lu went to take a look at his private plot, and as expected, Xu Laonian was working there again.
Lin Shu also got up early to cook. She first made three large teacups of egg drop soup, so that eggs could be saved and everyone could drink it. If there was not enough sugar, she would sprinkle a little salt.
She asked Lu Ping to send a teacup to Jin Ping'er's house. No matter whether the old or the young drank it, it was still a token of the parents-in-law's care.
While making breakfast, Lin Shu took a basin out to grind millet paste so that she could make millet pancakes at noon.
The three children also got up and came down to help Lin Shu push the mill.
The small stone mill was not big, and a long stick was inserted into it, which was just right for the three children to push together.
"Squeaky, squeaky", the stone mill turned, and golden millet paste flowed out.
Lin Shu put a clean clay basin on the ground to catch it.
Fang Dihua called out to Second Sister-in-law Lu when she saw this: "Second Sister-in-law, why don't you help your younger sister-in-law every morning and evening? Do you want to eat pancakes if you don't make the dough?"
Second Sister-in-law Lu, who was chewing cucumber and combing her hair in her living room, was furious. She was so angry at Lin Shu that her smiling face turned into a drooping one, and now it was drooping even more.
She felt that she had already gone to work in the fields, and all the things at home should be done by Lin Shu.
But since her mother-in-law had spoken, she had to go and help no matter how reluctant she was.
She took over the three children who were exhausted and pouted at Lin Shu, "Third Sister-in-law, where are my shoes? Are they done?"
The first pair was made for her, the second pair was made for her mother-in-law, and the third pair should have been given to her, but it was made for the eldest sister-in-law.
What about now? You have to make it for yourself, right?
Lin Shu was busy scooping the batter. She had to stay still for two hours so that she could make pancakes at noon.
She said in a neutral tone, "Second sister-in-law, I'll make it for you when I'm free."
As for when I'm free, of course, that's up to me.
Second sister-in-law Lu's nose is crooked again, and she's afraid that her mother-in-law will say that her nostrils are bulging.
She was really jealous that Lin Shu didn't have to go to work, but now eldest sister-in-law Lu doesn't go to work either. Among the three daughters-in-law in the family, she's the only one who has to work in the fields under the scorching sun.
It's too unfair.
Although she was dissatisfied, she didn't dare to say anything. After all, eldest sister-in-law was able to pass the exam to become a tractor driver, but she didn't even dare to sign up.
She looks eloquent and smart, but she's actually not good at studying.
When she was in the first and second grades, she was always at the bottom of the class and couldn't understand anything she was learning. After a few days in the third grade, she found it was getting harder and harder. It was time for her to stay home and do housework and take care of the kids, so she stopped going.
After breakfast, everyone who went to school or work left, but Lu Ersao was still lingering. She was so angry that she wanted to vent it on Lin Shu.
Last night, she was lying on the wall of her living room and heard Lin Shu and her mother-in-law whispering something. She couldn't hear clearly but she was sure that Lin Shu was going to steal her shoes and complain to her mother-in-law.
Last time she went back to her parents' home to give peaches, she planned to wear new shoes and show off to her sisters. How could she know that Lin Shu didn't make them for her, but gave them to her mother-in-law first!
She wanted to quarrel with Lin Shu at that time, but she held back when she heard that Lin Shu was taking the tractor driver exam.
Now there is nothing to do at home, and Lin Shu still doesn't make shoes for her. Why should she tolerate her?
She deliberately lingered and waited for Fang Dihua to leave, and she blocked Lin Shu after Fang Dihua left.
The second sister-in-law, who always smiled and was angry with the original owner, was deformed by her anger, and Lin Shu was also very happy.
She felt that the second sister-in-law's life was so fake, not real at all.
She is obviously not the kind of person who is silly and cheerful, but she has to smile all day long, but she turns around and frowns, how scary.
We are all sisters-in-law living under the same roof, so we should be more real and say what we have to say, and it is better not to wear a mask.
Those who are sweet-mouthed but treacherous are usually cunning people, and people can tolerate it. It is obvious that Lu Ersao is not that cunning, she is just pretending, and then finds a sense of superiority from the original owner's sullenness and the eldest sister-in-law's stupidity.
Lin Shu specializes in treating her like this.
Second Sister-in-law Lu stared at Lin Shu and snorted, "Old Third's, you think I'm easy to bully, right?"
She was about to make a scene when she saw Fang Dihua suddenly come back from outside. She was startled and hurriedly put on a smile to explain that she was delayed by something and would go to work soon. However, she saw Fang Dihua took out two yuan from her pocket and handed it to her.
Second Sister-in-law Lu's belly was swollen with anger and she was surprised and said, "Mom?"
It's not a festival, why are you giving her money?
Although she was usually jealous of her mother-in-law's money and wanted money, she didn't expect to get extra. If
Fang Dihua really gave her money, she would be a little confused, after all, she didn't give it to the eldest and third brothers... No, Mom must have given them more behind her back!
Fang Dihua glanced at her and said, "Don't ask for things from the third brother's family in the future. If you want something, check first to see if you have it at home. If not, go out and get it. There are weaving cloth people in your mother's village. Go back and buy a few feet of cloth, and then ask the third brother's family if they have time to make shoes for you." You
ask for other people's things, and order them to work for you as if they owe you something. The third brother's daughter-in-law was stupid before, but now she is taking classes with Ma Shenxian, and she has more tricks than the stars in the sky. What can you calculate? I guarantee she will be angry and embarrassed later.
Didn't you see that Zhao Meifeng next door was fooled by her and had to run to the city with all her money?
Hey, this is the daughter-in-law she chose, she can't just kill her with one blow. The second brother is a fool and doesn't teach his daughter-in-law at all, so she, the old woman, has to teach her herself.
Second Sister-in-law Lu felt awkward and uncomfortable, and she also felt sour and jealous. Her mother-in-law was partial to the third sister-in-law's family!
This was Lin Shu's stealing of her shoes again, and her mother-in-law was afraid that she would have to ask Lin Shu to get two yuan for her to send her off.
Why did her mother-in-law and eldest sister-in-law favor Lin Shu and treat her badly? Why
didn't she let Lin Shu return the shoes she had occupied?
She didn't think about the fact that she had occupied the original owner's things before, and Fang Dihua didn't ask her to return them. That was their own business as sisters-in-law, and the mother-in-law shouldn't get involved.
Fang Dihua was a daughter-in-law only once, and a mother-in-law for a lifetime. She didn't have much experience, but she taught based on her own experience in dealing with people.
She had taught the original owner twice before, but the original owner didn't stand up, so she didn't get angry.
Now she teaches Second Sister-in-law Lu in the same way, listen if she wants, and don’t listen if she doesn’t want.
She is also open-minded, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, don’t be a slave to them.
Some people will not turn back until they hit the south wall.
Isn’t the third sister-in-law turning back?
Fang Dihua could see that the second daughter-in-law didn’t think that she was doing it for her own good, but was full of suspicion, so she didn’t say anything. Second Sister-
in-law Lu was originally very angry and wanted to quarrel with Lin Shu, but after being persuaded by her mother-in-law (she thought it was a warning), she didn’t want to quarrel with Lin Shu.
She forced a smile, and the corners of her mouth twitched a few times, "Third sister-in-law, I will buy some cloth later. Do you have time to make it for me? This time it’s all mine, right?"
The previous jacket was from home, the uppers were from Lin Shu, and the cloth edge covering the soles was hers.
Lin Shu got the better of her!
Now that she bought the cloth to make her own coat, there was no reason for her to steal her own shoes, right?
Lin Shu thought her second sister-in-law would be furious, but she actually endured it and made an appointment for the next time, which was funny.
If she was like her eldest sister-in-law, who took the cloth and asked her to make shoes in a nice way, how could she not help?
After all, while others worked in the fields, she cooked and did housework at home, and she was happy to make shoes and clothes.
She smiled and said, "Don't worry, sister-in-law. I swear to the ancestors of our Lu family that I will make shoes for you if you bring me the cloth. I also have some clothes here that are enough to make soles for you."
Sister-in-law Lu didn't feel the pleasure of taking advantage of others at all. Instead, she was even more angry, feeling that Lin Shu was setting a trap for her again. "No, I dare not take advantage of you, or all the aunts and uncles will come to deal with me."
Didn't you see that the mother-in-law and the eldest sister-in-law were both manipulated by Lin Shu to treat them badly?
This pair of shoes is completely made of her own cloth. If Lin Shu dares to do anything, she will tear it apart completely!
After sending the three children to play on the street, Lin Shu went home to clean up and then copy some books. When
she was tired of copying, she went to the yard to appreciate the flowers and take a walk, thinking about how to deal with the dog accountant of the credit union.
She had no clear evidence, so reporting directly would not work, and anonymous reporting might not attract attention.
She picked a few chrysanthemums, washed them, and put them in a teacup to soak. As she sipped the rich chrysanthemum water, an idea suddenly occurred to her: I have a solution!