"Okay, okay, okay. I can't beat you. I'll grow some for you to eat when the time comes." Father Lu glared at his daughter and stopped talking to her.
"Why shouldn't I eat it? I've been smelling it for so long, and you're telling me not to eat it, so I can't eat it?" Lu Qingyan couldn't help but stare at her father when she heard him say this.
"Don't you dislike it? Why are you eating it?" Father Lu curled his lips when he heard this.
"I won't argue with you. Anyway, you have to cook for me when I harvest it." Seeing her father like this, Lu Qingyan waved her hand and said
"My daughter, you said the letter should have reached home by now. It's been several days, why hasn't your brother replied yet?" Mother Lu waited until the father and son stopped bickering before she spoke up.
"It should be here soon, after all, we're not too far away." Lu Qingyan guessed that the letter should have arrived, but she didn't know why her brother and the others hadn't replied yet, or if the letter was still on the way.
It was indeed as they said, Lu Qingshan did receive the letter, but after receiving the letter, he went directly to the second brother's house and asked the third brother to come and read the letter.
"Brother, what did parents say?" Lu Qinglin and Lu Qingmu both knew how to read, but their elder brother was holding the book in his hand and would not show it to them, so they just sat there scratching their heads.
"Dad and Mom are doing well there, and they said the army has given them land, so they don't lack food.
The rest is for us to save some food. It has been raining for such a long time, and we don’t know what the autumn harvest will be like. So we should not produce too much food, but save some for winter. "After reading the letter, Lu Qingshan passed the letter in his hand to the second and third sons.
"Alas, I don't know what year it is. The rain has stopped and autumn is almost here. What can I plant in the fields? What should I do in autumn?" After reading the letter, Lu Qinglin handed it to the third brother and sat there sighing.
"What can we do? We should save the food at home and eat it sparingly. If it doesn't work out, we can go out and see if we can buy some food. If we can, we can buy some more." Lu Qingshan thought that if the food at home is sufficient, it can last until winter, but after winter there will be spring and summer. What should we do then?
"When autumn comes, let's go up the mountain and see if we can find something to eat, even hazelnuts or walnuts." After reading the letter, Lu Qingmu put it on the table and said.
His family is not as good as his two brothers'. His stinky wife lent most of the grain to her parents' family and now she doesn't want it back.
It’s estimated that the food his family has won’t last until autumn, so he has to find a way to get it. It’s okay for the adults to be a little hungry, but he can’t let the children go hungry.
"Okay, let's wait and see when autumn comes. If there's not much work to do in the fields, the three of us will go." After the busy farming season, they would go to the mountains to find some wild goods to take home. These things were not farmed, so whoever found them kept them.
If they really want to go, they should go two days in advance. Otherwise, with so many people around, they probably won’t be able to find much even if they find one.
"Okay, find some paper and pen and write back to your parents. It's been such a long time since they left, so they must be waiting for our reply. Finish writing quickly so I can go to the commune to mail it." Lu Qingshan waited until they finished talking, then asked the second son to find some paper and pen and start writing back to his parents.
After writing the letter, Lu Qingshan put the letter in his arms and went straight home. But before he reached the door, he saw his mother-in-law walking out stealthily with something bulging in her arms.
Her wife was looking around, and it was obvious that she was taking something from home for her mother.
This made him so angry that his eyes turned red. He immediately ran forward and snatched the bag from his mother-in-law's arms.
"Da, Dashan, why are you back?" Chen Juan asked tremblingly when she saw her husband coming back.
"What is this?" Lu Qingshan picked up the thing in his hand and shook it, and asked his wife with red eyes.
"Food, food." Chen Juan had never seen her husband like this before. She was really scared at the moment, but she was also afraid that her husband would say something that would make others laugh at him, so she reached out to pull him back into the house and said,
"Don't touch me. Do you know what I said to you at the beginning?" Lu Qingshan shook Chen Juan's hand away and asked with gritted teeth.
"Son-in-law, don't blame Juanzi. I really have no food at home, so I asked Juanzi to borrow some. But don't worry, I will pay you back after the autumn harvest." Seeing that her son-in-law was getting anxious, Mrs. Chen hurried forward and said
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"Qiu Shou? Mom, do you want you to treat me like a child?" Lu Qingshan snorted coldly after hearing what his mother-in-law said.
"Look at the way you talk, kid. How can your mother lie to you?" Mrs. Chen was displeased when she heard her son-in-law's words. She glared at him and said
"Yes, you can't lie to me, but you can lie to your daughter. Look how obedient she is now. She said you had no food at home, so I gave you the food at home.
Then why didn't you think about it, if you took these two away, how would our family live?" Lu Qingshan's eyes were really red after he said this, and he looked at Chen Juan disappointedly and said, "I told you at the beginning that as long as you give the food to your mother's family, our Lu family can't afford a daughter-in-law like you. Now that your mother is here, you can go back to her mother's family with her."
"Dashan, Dashan, you can't do this. I just gave my mother some food. How can you send me back to my parents' home? I gave birth to two sons for you. You can't do this to me." Chen Juan was really scared when she heard that her husband was going to send her back to her parents' home again. She stepped forward, holding Lu Qingshan's arm and crying.
"Don't cry in front of me. I told you very clearly at the beginning. Since you can't change, then go back to your parents' home and find someone who can change." After Lu Qingshan finished speaking, he shook off Chen Juan's hand, strode into the house, and locked the door.
"Dashan, Lu Qingshan, you can't do this to me. We still have so much food in our family. Give a little to my family. What's wrong with that? How can you be so heartless?" After Chen Juan saw that her husband had locked the door and would not let her in, she stood at the door and yelled, "You heartless thing, I gave birth to two sons for your Lu family, and now you don't want me anymore. There is no such good thing in the world."
"Lu Qingshan, I'm telling you, if you dare to send my daughter back to her parents' home today, I will go and sue you. If the brigade doesn't allow it, I will go to the commune." Seeing that her son-in-law really wanted to send her daughter back to her parents' home, Mrs. Chen stood at the door with her hands on her hips and scolded her daughter.
"You want to sue me? Then go ahead and let me see who in the public society will take care of a woman who sells her own food to her mother's family." Lu Qingshan couldn't stand it anymore, so he opened the door and said coldly
"Dashan, I was wrong, I was really wrong, please give me one chance, I won't dare to do it again." When Chen Juan saw her man coming out, she immediately stepped forward, hugged Lu Qingshan's thighs and knelt down
"You guys are idle all day, aren't you? If you have time, go work in the fields..."