Chapter 72 Self-improvement

He didn’t even think about his mother being bullied, he just felt the passion in front of him burning even more.

He was going blind.

Wherever she was, everyone else was just a foil, the world was dim.

She had a power that no one else had, a power that made her shine brightly.

He wanted to grasp that power, he wanted to possess that power.

Then there would be a sun on his endless wasteland.

Someone saw him and shouted, "Teacher Xu is back, come and see, your son has burned his feet."

Mother Xu stood up and staggered to Xu Shihua, "Hua Zi, it's all my fault. I didn't take good care of Yaoyao and let his feet burn... They said it was all my fault. I thought about it and it was my fault. Why was I afraid of him crying? Let him cry if he wants. If I knew..."

Xu Shihua supported her, "Mom, it's not your fault. You are too tired."

Mother Xu found an outlet for the grievances that Lin Shu and others had brought out. She covered her face and started to cry.

Lu Hehuan had been holding the child. She turned her head and said to Xu Shihua, "Shihua, come and take my place for a while. My legs are numb."

Xu Shihua stepped forward to hold the child, and Mother Xu's eyes went dark and she fell to the ground.

Xu Shihua was startled and turned to help her.

Mrs. Qiu had already grabbed Xu's mother and pinched her philtrum hard. Xu's mother cried "Ah——" and immediately regained consciousness.

Mrs. Qiu: "It's okay, don't worry."

She asked the maids in the back village to take Xu's mother back. "You are not feeling well, so go home and rest. Don't stay here stubbornly. People who don't know will think you are making trouble on purpose."

Xu's mother felt wronged and angry, and she was shaking all over. She was obviously worried about her grandson, but how could these people think she was making trouble on purpose?

Was her worry fake? They

were trying to discredit her.

She would not leave.

Lu Hehuan: "Mom, stop making trouble, go back and rest, what if you faint again?"

Xu's mother was so angry that she kept wiping her tears, "Shihua..."

Xu Shihua: "Mom, go back and lie down for a while and rest."

Xu's mother had to walk away with three steps in a row.

When Xu Yaoyao was first scalded, he felt pain and cried, but then his scalded feet became numb and he didn't feel anything.

After soaking in water for a long time and applying ointment, he felt pain and started crying.

Xu's mother heard it halfway and immediately gained strength as if she was recharged, "Ah, my dear grandson, it hurts so much..."

The good grandson needs her!

She wants to accompany her good grandson in suffering.

Mother-in-law Lin Aidi immediately held her back, "Don't go, you look like you'll fall down if the wind blows. But I'm telling you the truth, your son and daughter-in-law both get paid, so they should have a better life than us, so why are you so hungry? Isn't it Shihua who is unfilial and doesn't give you food?"

Mother-in-law Lin Aidi used to believe when Xu's mother said her daughter-in-law was bad.

But she also saw that Lu Hehuan didn't cook, and it was Xu's mother who took care of the household affairs. It was absolutely impossible to say that Lu Hehuan treated her mother-in-law harshly and didn't give her food.

It could only be Xu Shihua who didn't give her food.

"No, that's not the case! My Huazi is the most filial, he bought me brown sugar to drink in water, and also bought me malt milk."

Mother-in-law Lin Aidi: "Then what about you..."

Mother Xu saw that her eyes were full of suspicion and pity, and she felt very hurt.

She starved herself, firstly because of the habit of not having enough to eat when she was a child, secondly because there was no food during the famine years, she was reluctant to eat and wanted to save it for her children, and thirdly because she wanted everyone to praise her for being a good person and giving so much for her children, and to praise her for her hard work, difficulty, and love for her children too much.

She didn't want people to suspect that she deserved it.

When Xu Shihua took her son and Lu Hehuan home, Xu's mother fell on the kang with a look of despair.

Why did she suffer so much all her life?

What right did they have to say that about her?

She heard her grandson crying and jumping off the kang, crying: "My dear grandson, it hurts, and milk hurts too, milk will blow for you..."

She wanted to pick up the child, but Xu Shihua put him directly on the kang.

Xu's mother turned her head and didn't see Xu Xiaoyou. She stared at Lu Hehuan fiercely: "Where is she? I have to take care of Yaoyao, let her come back to cook."

Lu Hehuan: "She is so lazy, so stupid, and so weak, how can she cook? She will get herself into trouble again?"

Xu's mother looked at her in disbelief. She...she actually bullied herself like this.

Did Lin Shu teach her this?

Okay, you bully me.

Xu's mother burst into tears immediately, "I know you despise me, you despise me because I'm old, useless, and a burden..."

Xu Shihua immediately said, "Mom, it's nothing, didn't you say Xiaoyou is clumsy and can't do work, I was afraid that she would mess up and you would be even more angry."

Xu's mother: "You don't listen to me, you don't listen to me! You really forgot your mother after you got a wife, I..."

Lu Hehuan suddenly shouted: "Okay! Yaoyao is like this, isn't it messy enough?"

So annoying.

She ate half a nest in the morning because her mother-in-law hid all the dry food, and only half at noon, and she hadn't eaten dinner yet.

At this moment, she was so hungry that her eyes were dizzy and her temper was irritable. She

didn't even have the energy to be a lady in front of Xu Shihua.

Xu Shihua glanced at her and was a little surprised.

Xu's mother was frightened by Lu Hehuan, "What are you doing? Are you yelling at me?"

Xu Shihua told her to have a good rest, as his son still needed someone to take care of him.

He said to Lu Hehuan, "My mother is not feeling well. Can you please take care of Yaoyao for a few days?"

Lu Hehuan, "Then I have to go to work."

Xu Shihua didn't care, "They are just a bunch of elementary school students. No one is studying seriously anyway. Just assign them some homework."

Lu Hehuan lowered his voice, "No, I have to work..."

Xu Shihua: "So you mean I should stay at home to take care of Yaoyao? He is not your son anyway, so I will take a leave..."

Lu Hehuan surrendered immediately, "Okay, I will take care

of him." Xu's mother: "I am not dead yet, it is not your turn to take care of him, I will take care of my grandson. If you don't work hard, what if they deduct your salary?"

Lu Hehuan was so hungry that she felt dizzy and went to find something to eat without telling her.

A pile of steamed buns were placed on the table, which looked terrible. There was no steamed buns at home, and Xu's mother didn't steam them either. Did she mean that she would be hungry tomorrow?

Her mother-in-law was reluctant to give her steamed buns.

Lu Hehuan felt wronged for a moment. When she was at her mother's house, had she ever been hungry for a meal?

Even if the parents didn't ask, the third sister-in-law would ask if she was hungry. She would make some egg custard for her .

How long had she not tasted egg custard?

At this time, Xu Shihua said that she was hungry.

Xu's mother immediately wanted to cook.

Xu Shihua: "Mom, just take a rest."

He couldn't tell her not to make trouble, that was her sore spot.

He looked at Lu Hehuan. Lu

Hehuan went to cook.

Lu Hehuan didn't know how to cook.

She boiled water and made some corn paste, and added some white flour dumplings.

She and Xu's mother drank the corn paste, and gave Xu Shihua the white flour dumplings.

Xu's mother began to feel bad for the steamed buns again, "They haven't gone bad yet, I'll clean them up and steam them in a pot."

Lu Hehuan: "Mom, leave them there, I'll steam them."

Xu's mother: "By the time you steam them, they'll all go bad."

Lu Hehuan went to wash the pot and steamed the dusty buns again. Fortunately, they hadn't gone bad yet, but they were just too fermented and the smell was too sour.

Xu Yaoyao started crying again on the kang. He was in pain and his wound was itchy.

Xu Shihua asked him not to scratch, and he reasoned with Xu Yaoyao: "If you scratch, your skin will break and water will ooze, and you'll have scars. You have to be strong, you have to..."

What reason does a child understand? When it's itchy, even the gods can't help it, so how can he bear it?

Xu Shihua felt that the child was annoying and stupid, and life was really a mess.

It was so boring.

The pain made him want to write poetry, so he ignored Xu's mother and son and went back to his room to think about his poetry.

Lu Hehuan steamed the steamed buns, and when she went back to drink the corn paste, she found that only the bottom of the bowl was left, and the rest was drunk by her mother-in-law. After

she steamed the steamed buns, she carefully picked up the buns for fear of sticking to them. In the end, some of the buns were stuck to her fingers and the edge of the pot. She stuffed the bun skin stuck to her fingers into her mouth and found that it was sour and sweet, and it tasted so good.

She sucked her fingers and cried silently.

Xu's mother was still on the kang, coaxing her grandson and shouting: "Daughter-in-law, don't steal the white steamed buns, they are the food for Shihua and Yaoyao."

Lu Hehuan took the steamed buns to Xu's mother's room.

The old woman had to keep an eye on them, for fear that she would steal them.

Lu Hehuan got on the kang despite being hungry, but she didn't have the energy to listen to Xu Shihua reading his new work.

Tonight was the first time that Xu Shihua took the initiative to ask for sex, but Lu Hehuan refused.

She was too tired and uncomfortable, so she turned her back to him.

In the past, she took the initiative but he was not interested, so he refused her.

But this time, she was the one who refused him.

Xu Shihua was a little annoyed.

Lu Hehuan's shoulders twitched slightly, hoping that he could comfort her, but she only heard a light snort from his nose, and he turned his back to her and fell asleep.

In the dark, Xu Shihua squinted her eyes, thinking in her heart: Why are you being so hypocritical? I didn't beg you to marry me, why are you pretending to be a rich lady?

Waiting for him to comfort you? Are you worthy?

The Lu family is conducting in-depth safety education for their children.

Although Tiantian and Panpan are very well behaved, they won't get angry or go to the water, but as they grow up, they will become naughty.

After all, they are still young, only 5 years old now. When they are 7 or 8 years old, even cats and dogs will dislike them. Even the best children will have a rebellious period due to the imbalance of the development of various body functions.

Lin Shu thinks that she still needs to be mentally prepared for this. She can't be irritable or disappointed because the children have always been well behaved and suddenly become disobedient. That will hurt their mother-child relationship.

She needs to plan ahead, love them well before they rebel, brainwash them more, and instill all kinds of self-protection knowledge in them.

Even if they rebel in the future, they will not do things that may bring harm.

After Lin Shu finished speaking, Panpan repeated it, and Tiantian wrote it in the notebook.

Xu Xiaoyou looked at them enviously. Tiantian was so good. She also wanted to learn how to write.

After Tiantian and Panpan fell asleep, Xu Xiaoyou snuggled up to Lin Shu and whispered, "Aunt, I have to go home tomorrow."

Grandma complained about her uncle's house today. If she stayed here, grandma would resent her uncle and say bad things about her to others.

She didn't want others to say bad things about her uncle.

Lin Shu knew that the little heroine in the original book was sensible, but she didn't expect her to be so sensible that she could understand the problems of adults and think about problems with adults.

It's no wonder that she is the heroine of the original book.

Lin Shu said softly, "You are a child, you don't need to think so much, your grandma can't do anything to me."

Xu Xiaoyou: "But... I don't want to."

Although she was young, she already knew her grandma's temper and would scold her very badly. She

scolded her grandma and stepmother very badly behind her back, and Xu Xiaoyou didn't like it.

She also told others that her stepmother beat her and didn't feed her, which was not good for her. But her stepmother obviously didn't do that, but it was her grandma who did that. But when she told others that, no one believed her. They believed her grandma because she was an adult.

People said that no stepmother would treat children well, so she shouldn't be afraid of her stepmother and shouldn't be fooled by her stepmother.

Lin Shu turned over and faced her. Although it was dark and she couldn't see anything clearly, she felt that talking face to face would make her voice easier to convey to her heart.

"Xiaoyou, if you go back, your grandma will definitely take it out on you, beat you, scold you, and even not feed you enough."

Xu Xiaoyou subconsciously straightened her thin back and whispered, "I will... use my brain. Panpan said that people need to use their brains. If someone hits you, you have to run away. Look at my uncle. My grandma is so powerful, but she can't hit him. Tiantian also said that the comic book says that among the thirty-six strategies, running away is the best strategy, and there is also the strategy of besieging Wei to save Zhao, and there is..."

Maybe because she couldn't see clearly at night, she was not so shy and nervous, or maybe because she trusted Lin Shu so much, so she spoke fluently.

These days, she was with Tiantian and Panpan, but she didn't stay in vain. She had been reading comic books and studying.

The methods of the Eighth Route Army to deal with the Japanese and puppet soldiers, the methods of the smart protagonist tenant to deal with the bad landlord, and the methods of the clever daughter-in-law to deal with the bad mother-in-law...

all of these are written in the comic book.

Lin Shu was very surprised. Usually, when she saw the children reading comic books, she thought they were just reading for fun, imitating fighting and catching spies. She didn't expect that they could learn this.

In this respect, she and Panpan are a bit similar. Tiantian is more simple. Maybe she was spoiled and cared for since she was a child, so the child doesn't think about it in that way.

The three children are also smart. For example, Huzi and Huahua, let alone reading a comic book, even if you break it down and tell them, they can't understand what you say.

Xu Xiaoyou, this child, can actually learn life wisdom from comic books. She is worthy of being the heroine. This is natural intelligence.

It seems that books can really inspire people's wisdom.

Although the current society advocates the theory that reading is useless, in fact, reading can change life itself, which is for wise people. If you feed those fools and ask them to learn to read, they will also refuse.

Wise people will take the initiative to seek enlightenment of wisdom.

Whether it is a book, a story told by an old man, or learning lessons from other people's experiences.

Lin Shu did not go against Xu Xiaoyou's decision. Although she is young, she has her own opinions and should be respected.

Xu Xiaoyou is the heroine of the original book, not a poor little useless person who can only wait to be saved.

Xu Xiaoyou is a little eagle, so she can't treat him like a chick and take him under her wings to protect him completely.

The little eagle needs to face the ups and downs of life on its own to strengthen its wings.

She just needs to watch over it from the side.

Lin Shu told Fang Dihua about this early the next morning.

Fang Dihua didn't doubt that Lin Shu didn't want to take care of the child, she just felt that the third daughter-in-law must have special arrangements.

Now she has a very thick filter for Lin Shu, and she is quite confident.

She didn't show any strange emotions to Xu Xiaoyou, and nodded, "If you have any problems, run to the infirmary, your Grandpa Lu is there."

Xu Xiaoyou thanked everyone very seriously.

Tiantian: "Sister Youyou, will you come to play with us?"

Xu Xiaoyou smiled and said, "Of course I will. If I have nothing to do, I will come. Anyway, I know the way."

Panpan hesitated for a moment, and despite the pain, he grabbed three pieces of candy and gave them to Xu Xiaoyou, "Sister Youyou, hide them and don't give them to others. If your grandma hits you, just eat one secretly."

Xu Xiaoyou: "I feel so sweet when I think about you."

Mother Lin looked at the three children and said to Fang Dihua curiously, "How come these three children are so sensible?"

Not to mention herself, just look at the other children around, all of them are still silly.

Baoer is even more slow, only knows how to eat and sleep all day long, and is particularly slow in learning to speak.

And the children on the street, they are all little fools.

Hearing that Xu Xiaoyou was leaving, Mrs. Lu showed a sarcastic look again, thinking that Lin Shu was just saying nice things and would not really be good to other people's children.

Lin's mother helped Lin Shu cook, and Fang Dihua took her sons to work in the vegetable garden and private plot as usual.

After dinner, Lin Shu sent Xu Xiaoyou back.

Tiantian and Panpan had nothing to do, so they naturally followed, and Huahua, Huzi and others followed.

So the villagers saw Lin Shu like a preschool teacher, with a string of little kids following behind.

Huahua, Juanjuan and others even looked at Lin Shu secretly, twisting and turning to imitate the way she walked.

When they arrived at the back village, Lin Shu and the others went straight to Xu's house.