Chapter 71 Burns

Lin Shu never hid anything from Fang Dihua, after all, she was her supporter and thigh, so Lin Shu told her as soon as Fang Dihua came back at noon.

Lin Shu: "That Zhang Sigu makes clothes, I think why not make money? She didn't make men's clothes, so she let him take them back."

Fang Dihua: "You did the right thing."

Later, she still had to give Zhao Meifeng a lesson, so that she wouldn't dream all day long that her brother's wife would remarry a big man to get benefits for her.

She also wondered if the third daughter-in-law could have such a big change, why couldn't the second daughter-in-law and the concubine?

If possible, she really wanted the concubine to take the lesson of Ma Shenxian and change her mind.

Houtun Xu family.

Xu's mother was boiling water and cooking. Her grandson fell asleep. She tied a blanket to her back, which made her bent.

Lin Aidi's mother-in-law came to borrow a hammer to make hemp ropes. Seeing her, she advised her, "He's already asleep. Put him on the kang. You must be tired carrying him all day long."

Xu's mother sighed, "No, this child has lost his mother since he was born. He is timid and can't leave me. As soon as I put him down, he wakes up and cries. I have to comfort him. He cries several times at night. I have to get up several times to comfort him. Oh, no, I can't sleep all night."

She looked like she was seriously sleep deprived.

Grandma Lin Aidi: "You are so tired. It's really too hard. You raised Huazi with great difficulty, and now you have to raise a son for Huazi. It's not easy."

Xu's mother felt relieved and said, "Who doesn't say that? As parents, we are destined to work like slaves. Just bear it, there will always be a day when you can close your eyes."

Grandma Lin Aidi urged her again, "Bring Xiaoyou back home quickly. Don't you know that people outside say bad things? People don't say that the stepmother, the daughter-in-law, despises her concubine's daughter. People say that you, the mother-in-law, despises your granddaughter and takes advantage of your in-laws." It

is true that she, Lu Hehuan, is a stepmother, but when she sends her stepdaughter to her parents' home, people will only say that Lu Hehuan sucks blood from her parents' home to subsidize her in-laws' home, and they will not say that she is a mean stepmother.

At first, Xu's mother thought that Lu Hehuan sent her granddaughter to the Lu family, saving the family's food and making a profit for herself. But later, Fang Dihua came to ask for food, Lin Shu came to make a fuss and asked for eggs and flour, and even scolded Xu Shihua on the street for taking advantage of her father-in-law's family. Xu's mother was angry enough and felt that sending her granddaughter to the Lu family was a big loss.

Now hearing what mother-in-law Lin Aidi said, she felt even more that she didn't get any advantage and still suffered a loss, and she didn't count it. When

Lu Hehuan came back from outside, she was so hungry that she ate a piece of steamed bread at noon, and she couldn't eat it until the evening, so she had to go back to find something to eat.

She casually greeted him and went to the dining cabinet to look for steamed bread, but there was none at all.

She asked Xu's mother: "Mom, where are the noodles? I'm starving, give me some."

Xu's mother frowned and suddenly became gloomy, "What about the noodles your sister-in-law took away?"

Lu Hehuan: "Didn't I bring back two kilograms of food coupons?"

Those were given to her by an acquaintance in the commune when she was substituting for a teacher. She would have to find another chance next time.

Xu's mother: "What about the remaining three pounds?"

Lu Hehuan, a primary school teacher, had no food coupons, only work points from the brigade. She said, "That depends on when they ask me to substitute for their class."

She glanced at Yaoyao on Xu's mother's back, "He's already asleep, why are you still carrying him? Look, he's not comfortable at all, and you're tired too, really." When Xu's

mother heard her implying that she was asking for trouble and making her grandson uncomfortable, she immediately got furious and said hatefully, "What did you say? Why does my grandson's sleep bother you? You just can't stand this and that. Xiaoyou got out quickly, and now you want to get out again..."

Lu Hehuan was afraid of her and said quickly, "Just carry him on your back. I don't care. I just think you don't need to be so tired."

Lin Aidi's mother also quickly persuaded Xu's mother not to be angry.

Lu Hehuan couldn't find anything to eat, so she ran away and asked Lin Aidi for two cucumbers.

Xu's mother called Lu Hehuan again: "Hurry up and send my granddaughter back to me, don't let people poke my spine and say that I don't raise my granddaughter and let my in-laws raise the child."

She now thinks it's better to come back, compared to her granddaughter eating that little food, her granddaughter is better at doing work.

Although Xu Xiaoyou is not big, he can make fire and cook, so he can help her.

Lu Hehuan deliberately refused to take Xu Xiaoyou back. She didn't like Xu Xiaoyou that much, but she didn't dislike him. What's more, Xu Xiaoyou was so old that he could eat, sleep, and take care of himself. He could also help with cooking and housework. He was not tired and was a little helper. What was there for her to dislike?

She just... couldn't bear to see Xu Xiaoyou being tortured by Xu's mother.

Who could stand such a small child being deprived of sleep for nights?

She ate little, and Xu's mother didn't give her any food. Look at her, she was so hungry that her skin and bones were exposed, and her ribs were all broken. It was so pitiful.

Lu Hehuan subconsciously thought that her parents, brother and sister-in-law were capable, and the family had money and food, so it would not be a big deal to give Xu Xiaoyou a few more bites, so she sent the child back to her sister-in-law without thinking too much.

Her mother did not refuse, so she felt that she was doing the right thing, and her parents acquiesced.

Now that her sister-in-law is willing to take care of the child and has taken away the food, why bring him back?

Seeing that Lu Hehuan ignored her, Xu's mother was angry again and complained to mother-in-law Lin Aidi.

People comforted her and left quickly, feeling a little unbearable.

After the neighbors left, Xu's mother hurried to cook. Originally, she was not going to cook dinner, but today there was no thin flour buns, so she had to steam them quickly so that her son could eat when he came back.

Seeing that the steamed buns in the east room had risen, she hurriedly lifted the lid of the pot to put the buns in.

The baby's sling loosened, and the child's head suddenly tilted. He woke up in shock and started crying.

Mother Xu did not put him down, and carried him on her back, shaking him, "Oh, Yaoyao, be good. Grandma will steam some white buns for you. Your sister and stepmother can't have them."

But Xu Yaoyao kept crying, his arms and legs began to stiffen, and he cried loudly.

Mother Xu held the lid with one hand and supported the child's butt with the other hand, "Don't cry, dear baby. Grandma will feed you milk in a while."

She hurriedly walked to the main room with the buns, and Xu Yaoyao on her back was still struggling. When she was almost to the pot, she tripped over the small stool in her hurry, and the lid tilted, and the two buns slipped off.

She was so anxious that she screamed and tried to grab the steamed bun, but she was still holding the lid in her hand

. The more anxious she was, the more confused she became. She twisted her body in a very strange position, and Xu Yaoyao on her back was struggling. Suddenly, he flew out and fell on the stove, with one foot falling into the pot.

"Ah——"

Soon, the neighbors heard the child crying and Xu's mother screaming.

Lin Shu happened to be leading Tiantian, Panpan and Xu Xiaoyou to Xujiatun. She wanted to ask Xu's mother for more food.

A child of Xu Xiaoyou's age needs at least 15 kilograms of food a month. Xu's

mother is not the kind of savage and shameless old woman who runs around the streets and makes trouble. She just pretends to be miserable and suffers. To put it bluntly, she is just selling her personality. Such a person is so easy to deal with. As long as you don't fall for her tricks, she will be helpless.

Look at Lu Ersao, isn't she sulking all day long? How can she pretend?

She will make Xu's mother unable to pretend.

As a result, before they even arrived at Xu's house, they heard shouts like slaughtering pigs from the back village.

Then Lu Hehuan ran out holding her stepson, followed by Xu's mother, who stumbled and fell after crying.

Lin Shu had a feeling that, whether intentionally or not, Xu's mother could turn this stretch of road into her personal stage, and she would not wait for the curtain call without falling a dozen times and crying miserably.

Xu Xiaoyou was frightened and thought his brother was dead.

Lin Shu asked and found out that Xu Yaoyao's feet were scalded.

She thought Xu's mother put boiling water on the table, and the child accidentally spilled it and scalded his feet. But the person said that the child fell into the pot and was scalded.

Lin Shu: "?"

Are you kidding me? How could he fall into the pot when I told you that he was fine?

He was so young that he couldn't cook like Xu Xiaoyou in the book, so how could he fall into the pot?

Lu Hehuan took the child to the brigade clinic. Zhang Peijin was so scared that she didn't dare to take him and asked him to rush to the commune health center.

He shouted: "... What was applied to this? Ah, what is this? Shit?"

Grandma Lin Aidi: "His grandmother sprinkled salt on it and said it was for disinfection, and also applied soy sauce and soybean paste..."

Zhang Peijin held his head and said madly: "Oh my God, oh my God... I have told you so many times, if you have a burn, rinse it with water first and then send it here, don't mess with it yourself, you will definitely get an inflammation if you do this, I can't bear it, I can't bear it."

Father Lu had already asked someone to fetch clean well water and asked Lu Hehuan to put the child's feet in to soak.

It was still hot, and the child was not wearing shoes or socks, so he got burned.

The child's delicate skin was red, swollen, and blisters appeared.

When it happened, Xu's mother quickly used the folk remedies she knew to treat him. She washed her eyes with salt water to disinfect them because her eyes were uncomfortable. She thought that salt should also be used to disinfect burns. She also thought that sugar could be used to stop bleeding when cutting a finger while cutting vegetables, so she sprinkled sugar on it. She also remembered that burns could be soaked in soy sauce and soybean paste, so she did everything.

When Lu Hehuan rushed home, she was busy cutting pumpkins, and it seemed that she cut her fingers. Anyway...

you say she doesn't understand, but she seems to know a lot. You say she is useless, but she sprinkled salt and sugar on a lot of things in a short time.

Several women blamed Xu's mother.

Zhang Peijin also expressed her incomprehension. Why did you do it yourself when there was a barefoot doctor? This is not your granddaughter. You are reluctant to spend a few cents on the five-cent consultation fee and a few dimes on the medicine. Isn't this your precious grandson?

But Lu's father was calm and efficient. He didn't blame her at all. Instead, he comforted the patient and told her not to worry.

Xu's mother cried bitterly, "My dear, you must not let our child have scars. If he has scars, how can he find a wife in the future?"

Several women began to retort her, "Whether there will be scars or not is a question of how badly you burn your feet. What does it have to do with the doctor?"

"That's right. How can you not find a wife with scars on your feet? It's not like you'll be lame."

Father Lu was glad that he had learned a new prescription from a medical book. When he went to the county a few days ago, he brought back a sack of herbs. With the herbs he collected in the village, he learned to make Sanhuang ointment.

The main ingredients are Phellodendron, Coptis chinensis, Scutellaria baicalensis, and Gardenia jasminoides, which have a good therapeutic effect on the early stages of redness and swelling caused by burns.

After soaking for a few minutes, Father Lu asked someone to change the water and continue soaking.

Xu's mother started to feel distressed again and cried, "The well water is so cold, we can't soak like this, our Yaoyao is still young and can't stand the cold."

Father Lu didn't like to argue with people, so he ignored her.

Lin Shu couldn't let her slander her father-in-law here, so she said to Zhang Peijin, "Doctor Zhang, you studied Western medicine, and learned a lot of knowledge about burns, right? It's a good opportunity to promote it to everyone."

Zhang Peijin was reminded by her and immediately came to his senses, and said to Xu's mother, "Are you the doctor or are we the doctors?"

Although his medical skills were not very good, he still knew what medicine to prescribe for these superficial symptoms, after all,

practice makes perfect. The training was not in vain!

He shouted out the tips for treating burns, "Remember this for the future. Soak the burn in clean well water for a meal's time before applying medicine. This way it will heal faster and less likely to leave scars. If you cover it up or bandage it, it will get rotten, inflamed, and fester."

He turned his head and glared at Xu's mother, shouting, "Don't add salt!"

You're stewing meat, why are you sprinkling some salt, sugar, soy sauce, and soybean paste?

Mother Xu was scolded, not convinced, and aggrieved, so she started crying, "I'm useless, I... I don't understand, I'm cooking, and there's no one to help me look after the child, his sister asked her daughter-in-law to send the child to her parents' home, and her daughter-in-law went to someone else's house, I... I can't handle it myself."

Lin Shu didn't want to pay attention to her at first. She must be sad that her grandson's feet were burned, but she not only didn't reflect on her mistakes, but she actually started to blame others?

You want to cry and make this matter into a matter of your own exhaustion, and blame Lu Hehuan and the Lu family to gain sympathy?

Lin Shu was not polite.

She said to Xu's mother, "Auntie, why don't you put the child on the kang when he's asleep? He's so old, but you insist on carrying him on your back. Aren't you asking for trouble? You're tired, and he's not comfortable. You thought you loved him and kissed him, but ended up burning his feet like this."

Her voice was soft and sweet, but with a sonorous power. Naturally, it was infinitely more beautiful than Xu's mother's snot and tears, and it was easier to be liked.

To deal with someone like Xu's mother, you have to deny her meaningless hardship.

You say you're suffering, tired, and miserable?

Your son and daughter-in-law are both teachers, they get paid, and their family lives a good life. How can you be suffering, tired, and miserable?

Your suffering and hardship are all your own fault!

You're using your suffering and hardship as a tool to kidnap your son and daughter-in-law, and now you're harming your grandson.

Humph, if you continue to work so hard, your whole family will be killed by you!

Really, if you don't stay away from someone like Xu's mother, you will only be driven crazy by her in the end.

Lin Shu hopes that Lu Hehuan will raise her eyelids and look at Xu's mother's character. No man would want such a mother-in-law.

Xu's mother didn't seem to expect that someone would press her head and say that she was harming her grandson. How could she be the one who harmed him?

She works herself to death every day, doesn't have enough to eat, doesn't have warm clothes, can't sleep, takes care of the children, cooks and does housework every day. She works so hard, how could she be the one who harmed him?

It was obviously Lu Hehuan. If she had brought her granddaughter back and let her light the fire to cook, then her grandson wouldn't have been scalded!

It's Lu Hehuan's fault, it's Xu Xiaoyou's fault, not her fault!

Why did your Lu family interfere in our Xu family's affairs?

Are you greedy for my granddaughter to work for your family?

She turned around and saw Xu Xiaoyou standing there, and burst into tears on the spot, "Xiaoyou, how can you be so cold-hearted? You don't feel sorry for your brother who got burned like that. You live in someone else's house every day, is it because they don't let you go home, or do you just not want to go home?" You

are going to rely on the Lu family.

You threw your child to the Lu family, and they raised him for a few days. Is that wrong?

Mrs. Qiu scolded her immediately, "Mrs. Xu, stop pretending. Why did your daughter-in-law send Youyou to her parents' home? Wasn't it because you didn't give your granddaughter food and drink, and beat and scolded the child every day? Do you think we are blind and can't see what the child looks like? When she went to Lu's house, she was skin and bones, and her bones were ridged, one by one, and her body was covered with bruises from you pinching her."

Mrs. Xu was so angry that her eyes swam, "What are you talking about? I... I fed the child everywhere.

How could she grow up so big if I didn't feed her?" She pointed at Xu Xiaoyou and said angrily, "Who among you hasn't beaten a child? If a child is disobedient, shouldn't he be beaten? Why do you all beat your children, but I can't?"

Lin Shu looked at her She changed the subject again, "Auntie, you also said that children should be beaten if they are disobedient, but how obedient is Xiaoyou? Let's ask the neighbors, is this child disobedient? She is so young, but she doesn't light the fire and cook for you? She doesn't feed the pigs and sweep the yard for you? Or she doesn't take care of the children for you?"

Xu's mother usually complains and cries about her misery to the neighbors, saying things like "This granddaughter is so selfish, she snatches food, she looks like a starving ghost reincarnated, she eats more than me", "This girl is lazy, she won't get up unless her butt is in the sun, she won't get off the kang unless she is beaten, and I can't get her to do any work if I ask her to, I have to do it myself", "This girl is so stupid, she can't do anything well, and I have to clean up after her"...

too many.

She stared at Xu Xiaoyou and found fault with him all day long. Xu Xiaoyou did nothing right, even her breathing was wrong.

But Lin Shu found how good this child Xiaoyou was?

She didn't look like a child at all. Whose child is so sensible? Whose child is so capable?

When you sell pancakes, she heats the griddle for you, and she bakes them so well.

When you cook, she lights the fire for you.

When you clean the table, she washes the dishes for you.

...

She is just this young, how capable do you expect her to be?

Just for this, you still think she is lazy, stupid, and greedy?

Mother Xu rolled her eyes at Lin Shu's retort and wanted to faint. She was too miserable and tired. She was heartbroken when her grandson got into trouble. These people didn't understand her, so why did they scold her?

That was her precious grandson. She was afraid it would melt if she held it in her mouth. How could she possibly harm her grandson?

Before she could faint, Father Lu gave her a shot, ensuring that her mind was clear.

Mother Xu felt like she was crying out to heaven and earth for help but no one would respond. She felt like she was being driven to death by Lin Shu. Her

daughter-in-law didn't speak up for her. She did it on purpose. She was bullying her.

Where's Shihua? Why hasn't she come back yet?

Mother is suffering.

Xu Shihua really came back. He was standing outside under the big tree, pushing his bicycle.

He had even come back for a while and stood here listening for a long time.

He even heard Lin Shu scolding his mother.