When Wu Shufen heard her talk about her nephew, she felt angry. She threw the broom on the ground with a bang, looked at her and said, "I told you not to worry about it! Can't you understand human language?"
An old bachelor in his forties, his hands and feet were unclean, and one of his legs was crippled after being beaten. Her family, Lin Lan, would not marry such a person even if she had to be a widow for the rest of her life.
"Hey!" Second Aunt Lin rolled her eyes at Wu Shufen, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing looking like this? Although my nephew is a little older, he is still a young man, so why is he not worthy of your Xiaolan? A
The widow still wants to pick a flower!"
Wu Shufen glanced at her sideways and said with a faint smile: "My Xiaolan is a widow but she still has to pick and choose, and she still has to pick flowers. I'm not convinced!"
Second Aunt Lin curled her lips and sneered: "As long as I'm not dead, I can see what kind of second-rate short-lived ghost that immoral person in your family will choose to come back."
Second Aunt Lin hurt Wu Shufen's heart. Remembering that she had spread Lin Lan's story everywhere in the past, she became furious. She picked up the broom and hit her: "Get out of here~"
Second Aunt Lin got a slap on her butt, ran to the door of the courtyard and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Wu, you are so overbearing, your Xiaolan can do it, why don't you tell others!"
Wu Shufen picked up the broom and chased her out. Aunt Lin opened her stance and prepared to face the enemy. She turned around and saw Lin Changyou approaching with his hands behind his back. She hurriedly dropped Wu Shufen and turned around to leave.
Lin Changyou walked up to his wife, who was looking at her with red eyes, and persuaded her with a smile: "Don't be angry, just think that she is pushing shit and farting - spitting shit with her mouth full."
Wu Shufen glanced at him angrily: "You are the only one who is generous."
Lin Changyou said with a smile: "What's wrong with not being lenient? If you two start a fight, you don't even have to buy a ticket to watch the Monkey Show. Do you think it's worth it?"
Wu Shufen rolled her eyes at him, took the broom into the yard, and went to the room to see Xiaodouzi taking a nap.
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Lin Lan, Zhang Xiuqing, and Zhao Xiaolan went to the mountain and found that the mountain was covered with yellow gardenias, and the mountain was filled with the fragrance of yellow gardenias.
She happily pointed to the place where the petals had fallen off and said to Zhang Xiuqing: "Sister-in-law, when the gardenias get old and yellow, help me pick more and dry them. I will need them when I make things."
Zhang Xiuqing nodded and said with a smile: "Either now, I have it at home."
"Yes, yes!" Lin Lan happily held Zhang Xiuqing's arm, "Sister-in-law, when did you take it back?"
Zhang Xiuqing said with a smile: "My mother-in-law can weave cloth, and she asks me to help her pick it back and boil it in water to dye the cloth every year."
Zhao Xiaohui felt sour when she saw the two of them being so intimate.
The Lin family spread ramie seeds on the mountain, and the ramie grew lush green. In no time, the three aunts and sisters cut their backs all over, and carried pigweed down the mountain on their backs.
At the foot of the mountain, I met a thin woman who looked at Lin Lan with a smile.
Zhang Xiuqing whispered to Lin Lan: "She is Yuezhen, do you remember? Her man disliked her for being mute and unable to give birth, so he drove her back. Her mother left again years ago, and her sister-in-law treated her like a cow.
Not even enough food to eat.
Her mother saw how pitiful she was and would occasionally ask her to come home to have a good meal. Her sister-in-law would also criticize Huai, saying that we pretended to be good people, so why didn't we take her home to live with her. From then on, her stepmother called her to come home, but she didn't come either.
Afraid that her sister-in-law will act up."
Zhao Xiaohui said with a look of disgust: "Her sister-in-law is just like the black-hearted landlady from before. I don't think Yuezhen can survive in her house for a few years."
Lin Lan thought for a moment and remembered that Yuezhen was the cousin in the next room of the Lin family. Her mother and Wu Shufen were married in the same place, and they had a very good relationship.
When Yuezhen was ten years old, she fell ill and became speechless after she recovered.
At this time, Yuezhen walked up to several people. She looked at Lin Lan gesticulating at her and asked her when she would be back.
Lin Lan smiled and said: "Sister Yuezhen, I came back at noon. Did you go up the mountain to cut the grass?"
Yuezhen nodded with a smile and gestured to let her have a good time.
Lin Lan smiled and nodded: "Okay, Auntie, you are doing well too."
Yuezhen nodded and walked towards the mountain with the bamboo pole on her back.
Lin Lan and her two sisters-in-law returned home and saw more than a dozen sacks of beans and barrels of rapeseed oil piled in the main room.
When Zhao Xiaohui saw those sacks, her face suddenly darkened, she made an excuse and went home.
Lin Lan saw that she left with a sullen face, knowing that she had misunderstood that the money for buying these was money from her family, and wanted to wait for Lin Guodong to come back and let him have a good talk with her, so as to avoid estrangement between the family.
Before dark, the three Lin brothers brought back several sacks of beans and a bucket of rapeseed oil.
Lin Guoliang told her with a smile that the members of the China-Singapore Brigade learned that his father-in-law was exchanging beans and rapeseed oil at the black market price.
When the three brothers arrived at his father-in-law's house, Accountant Zhang had already collected several sacks of beans and piled them on the eaves of the steps. One after another, members of the commune were bringing beans and rapeseed oil in exchange for money.
In one afternoon, all the money Lin Lan brought was exchanged for beans, peas... rapeseed oil. Lin Changyou advanced some money for her and promised to continue helping Yang Liying harvest beans tomorrow.
Lin Lan asked Zhang Xiuqing to help buy a lot of dried mushrooms, and also brought several baskets to her house, ready to take them back and give them away.
People in the mountains didn't care about these, but people in the city liked them. Lin Lan bought them back and planned to give them to the old lady, Li Xiangyang, and Li Hongmei and Master Chen at the station.
Lin Guodong went home and gave Zhao Xiaohui a lesson, telling her that Lin Lan could make money on her own now and that the beans at home were all bought with her money.
He also said that even if she couldn't make money, Lin Lan was his sister and he would have to take care of her at all times, so she had better keep her petty thoughts to herself.
Zhao Xiaohui nodded repeatedly and went to help the two elders with a smile. She felt that as long as her sister-in-law did not go home to raid the two elders, they would get more money.
Wu Shufen shook her head repeatedly after seeing this, feeling that the second daughter-in-law was still a mere two hundred and fifty, even if she was petty.
After dinner, the family gathered around the Eight Immortals Table and chatted until about ten o'clock, then they went back to sleep.
After breakfast the next morning, Lin Lan was ready to go home.
Lin Changyou learned that Lin Lan had agreed with the bus driver that he would help carry the goods, and asked the three brothers Lin Guoliang to take Lin Lan and her son to the town.
He took Douzi into the house, took out a ten-dollar bill from the box beside the bed, took two more pieces from his pocket, tore up some red paper, wrapped them, and put them in Xiao Douzi's pocket.
She rubbed his head and looked at him with a smile: "My good grandson, put it up and don't drop it. Go back and put it for your mother to buy Douzi a doll book."
Xiaodouzi pressed his pockets with his hands and looked at him with a smile: "This is money, I won't throw it away!"
Lin Changyou nodded happily: "Little clever one!"
Outside the house, Wu Shufen reluctantly told Lin Lan: "You are alone and you are still young. You should take care of your body and not get too tired. When the dozen fat pigs in the pen are released, I will go to Lexing to help you."
Lin Lan looked at her and nodded repeatedly: "You and dad, don't be too tired, don't worry about me."
Wu Shufen nodded, looked at her daughter with relief, and felt that the stone in her heart relaxed a little.
Zhang Xiuqing and Zhao Xiaohui each caught a hen for her and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, the hen just started laying eggs. There are two eggs a day, so you don't need to buy eggs."