Chapter 81

Yard.

Lin Shisheng took brown sugar from his daddy and mommy's room, met his sister's strange gaze, touched his head, looking puzzled.

He turned his head to ask his brother-in-law: "Chenghuai, what does Zhaozhao's expression mean?"

How would Gu Chenghuai know.

"Why doesn't second brother go ask?" He lightly arched his eyebrows, throwing the topic back.

Lin Shisheng just acted like he didn't hear.

Not asking.

Always felt it wasn't a good thing.

After her second brother avoided her gaze, Lin Zhao withdrew her line of sight, looked at Chen Yu again, her eyes burning, and whispered: "Related to the Qiu family?"

"Should be." Meeting her sister-in-law's curious eyes, she shook her head and said: "I don't know any more than that, you have to go ask your second brother."

Private matters are hard to ask about.

Lin Zhao sighed, and instead inquired about the matter of dividing the class status in the Dongfeng Brigade, "Mommy, I heard that every brigade is re-dividing class status now?"

"Yes, why did you suddenly ask about this?" Lin Mu's action of adding firewood paused slightly, and she looked at her, "Does Chenghuai have any inside information?"

Fearing Zhaozhao would worry, she immediately said: "Our family's status won't have any problems, I went to find the brigade leader after work yesterday, he has a count in his heart."

Heling's status is a bomb, she knows.

She is paying attention to any movements outside.

"You went to find him yesterday?" Lin Zhao murmured.

So that's it.

Mommy originally valued the matter of status very much.

In the original book, perhaps because she died early, her daddy couldn't bear the pain of losing his daughter and was bedridden, while mommy was busy with household affairs and didn't pay attention to the division of status, which was why the Lin family was taken advantage of by people with ulterior motives and became a "you" faction.

"Mommy, who is responsible for this matter in our brigade?" Lin Zhao's lowered eyes were cold.

Thinking of Dadan, Xibao, and the others being bullied by the bad children in the brigade for ten years because of their bad family status, wasting the most precious ten years, living a sad life for a lifetime, and unable to lift their heads, she really hated it!

Lin Mu felt Zhaozhao was strange.

In the past, she never cared about this problem.

"... The Liu family."

"Why are you asking this?" She observed her daughter's expression calmly and raised the importance of the status matter even higher.

Lin Zhao didn't whitewash the peace and said straight: "Mommy, pay attention, I'm worried someone is digging a pit for our family."

According to the original book, there were indeed people who couldn't stand her family, tripped them up behind their backs, and even succeeded!

It's impossible for them to succeed in calculating this lifetime.

However.

There is a poisonous snake staring behind them, it must be pulled out!

Who knows what shady tricks they will play next.

Lin Mu knew Zhaozhao never shot without a target; if she could say this, she definitely had a basis.

Cold light flashed quickly in her eyes, and the style of the "Queen of Flowers" from her youth could still be vaguely seen.

"Set your heart at ease, I will pay attention."

Lin Zhao's mood relaxed, and she smiled with curved eyes, "With Mommy here, I'm not afraid."

Seeing her smile, Lin Mu also followed and smiled.

While talking and laughing, the kitchen emitted a fragrance.

Dadan and Lin Er Dan were like they were clinging to the chimney, without anyone calling, they pushed the bicycle into the door at mealtime.

"Aunt, we know how to ride a bike now!" Dadan washed his face, cleaning the sweat on his forehead, his voice excited.

Lin Er Dan added: "Aunt, my brother and I didn't hurt ourselves, and we didn't drop the bicycle."

"Really great! Worthy of being children of our Lin family, the learning efficiency is really high," Lin Zhao praised.

Dadan and Lin Er Dan smiled until they saw their teeth and couldn't see their eyes.

In the corner, Lin Xuan was taking the four cubs to wash their hands; the little girl's eyebrows and eyes were beautiful, quiet and introverted, always working silently, not loving to talk much.

"Wash the back of your hands too," she said softly.

Gu Da Cai and Ercai liked this big sister and grinned: "We know."

Xibao and Lin Zheng set the table, chairs, bowls, and chopsticks.

Yuan Xiang consciously served the dishes.

Everything was ready soon.

Qiu Lian pretended to be dead and didn't come out to work, but she came out at mealtime.

People in the yard looked over.

Wanting to see just how thick her skin was.

Qiu Lian just acted like she didn't see, her body twisting and turning, both hands touching the braids on her shoulders, being as affected and pretentious as possible.

"The meal is ready..."

She just made a sound.

Lin Shisheng's face sank, and he said coldly: "Roll back to your room!"

Being scolded in front of outsiders, Qiu Lian felt she had no face, her face flushed red with shame, and she said angrily: "I am the daughter-in-law of the Lin family, why can't I eat."

"Lin Shisheng, you have no conscience, you want to starve me to death, let's go, let's go out and find the brigade leader to judge, see if you are reasonable, or if I am reasonable," she cried loudly, looking very aggrieved.

"Shut up, if you howl again, I'll send you back to your maiden home right now," Lin Shisheng was very impatient and coldly interrupted her performance.

Lin Zhao raised her hand, "Second brother, I have a bicycle."

Her tone was light, watching the fun without fearing it was too big.

Gu Chenghuai hugged her neck from behind, his slender, powerful hand lightly covering her mouth, and took her away from the battlefield.

A low and deep voice rang in Lin Zhao's ear, accompanied by a damp heat.

"Zhaozhao, don't be so quick with your mouth, let people hold a grudge against you."

"Let them hold it, I'm not afraid of her Qiu family. The Qiu family is second brother's maternal family, it has nothing to do with me, at worst, we'll just fight," Lin Zhao pulled his hand down and said unconvinced, her pitch-black eyes dancing with light, shining brightly.

"Zhaozhao, give second brother some face," Gu Chenghuai advised gently.

"I know you don't like..." he paused slightly, "We don't even know the situation now, this matter... at least we have to know second brother's thoughts first, right, let's see, hmm?"

Lin Zhao listened to the advice, "Fine."

She really hated Qiu Lian; seeing her made her think of second brother's tragic ending, and she wished she could slap her ten or twenty times.

"Good." Gu Chenghuai's expression relaxed.

Lin Zhao punched his arm, "Go away, I'm not the four cubs, stop using the tone of coaxing cubs to talk, be careful I punch you."

Gu Chenghuai glanced at his strong arm that was punched and said helplessly: "You already punched."

"..." Lin Zhao quickly withdrew her hand, and when her line of sight swept over the center of the excitement, she raised her hand again to rub his arm for him.

Gu Chenghuai's eyes instantly turned soft, his deep black, sharp eyes looking like rippling spring water.

With a lover by one's side, one's eyes will quietly wander away from one's body.

With meat to eat, Qiu Lian didn't want to miss the opportunity even if she died, and just as she was about to sit down shamelessly, Lin Shisheng walked over.

His tall figure was full of oppression.

His expression was cold, he locked Qiu Lian's arm and threw her to the side.

"Don't add trouble to the family here, go back to your room."

Remembering what he had heard from his friends, Lin Shisheng's heart was filled with mixed feelings, but more of it was lightness; he could soon escape the sea of suffering, how could he not be light?

It's a pity he didn't catch her on the spot, otherwise this woman would have been sent to the farm long ago!

"You ask why there is no food for you, did you work, did you help cook, you didn't do anything but want to eat, think of a fart."

Qiu Lian was almost thrown to the ground, barely stabilizing her figure.

She roared: "Why didn't I help work, it's all because of that good sister of yours, she gave eldest sister-in-law red dates and brown sugar, what about me, this second sister-in-law, she didn't even want to give me a candy wrapper, why should I cook for her family, I don't owe her..."

Lin Zhao looked at Gu Chenghuai, pointing her index finger at the tip of her nose, her face full of speechlessness.

What does it have to do with her?

Gu Chenghuai touched his wife's hair, and the look in his eyes when he glanced at Qiu Lian carried a trace of coldness.

Lin Shisheng sneered, interrupting Qiu Lian's madness: "Zhaozhao doesn't owe you either! Your appearance of never finishing taking advantage of people makes my eyes hurt from ugliness!"

"I am her second sister-in-law, if she doesn't give it to me, it means she looks down on you, this second brother," the woman was so angry, and started sowing discord again.

"So what, I didn't even care, why do you care so much," Lin Shisheng was annoyed to death by this dead woman; he just wanted to eat a meal quietly, why was it so difficult.

One shouldn't be a good person.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be entangled by such a disaster.

Damn it!

The Lin family had long been used to Qiu Lian's entanglement and didn't take it to heart, eating and drinking as they should.

The four cubs rarely saw such a scene, their eyes as bright as stars, their line of sight turning between their second uncle and second aunt.

Watching and watching, they forgot to eat.

Ercai's jaw almost dropped in shock.

"Eat while watching," Lin Zhao reminded the four cubs.

She noticed that second brother had no warmth for Qiu Lian at all, his eyes full of impatience.

But.

It also seemed like he was suppressing something.

Why?

Waiting for the opportunity, a strike to hit the mark...!?

She had all kinds of guesses in her heart.

Gu Chenghuai saw his wife's undisguised expression, lightly pinched her hand, and lowered his voice to say: "... Restrain yourself."

"Oh." Lin Zhao cleared her throat and restrained her emotions.

She really wanted to know.

Seeing Qiu Lian settle down, Lin Shisheng sat down with a big heart and ate his meal in big mouthfuls.

It's really fragrant.

There was only one seat left at the table, next to Lin Mu.

Qiu Lian only dared to howl at Lin Shisheng, not daring to provoke her fierce mother-in-law; this was a mother tiger who had killed bandits, one slap could make her spin like a top in place.

She rubbed her empty stomach and looked at the Lin Xuan and Lin Zheng sisters, wanting the two money-losing goods to leave a few bites of meat.

Today's dishes had the fragrance of meat, making her drool until it almost reached her toes; she hadn't tasted meat for a long time, and at her maiden home, she didn't even have the qualification to eat an egg, and her stomach had no oil or water at all.

Even so, Qiu Lian didn't blame her maiden home; she understood her daddy and mommy, the family was poor, and it was right to give eggs to her younger brother; her younger brother was a male, he had to carry on the family line.

Lin Xuan and Lin Zheng lowered their heads to eat, not looking at her.

Qiu Lian cursed in her heart, dead little girls are just useless.

She pulled a long face and sneaked into the kitchen, wanting to roast a sweet potato, but found that the fire under the stove had gone out.

She was so angry she didn't have a sense of weight in her hands.

The clattering sound reached the yard.

Lin Mu issued a warning, "Second branch's, if you break a bowl, your maiden home will pay for one."

Hearing this, Qiu Lian's hand shook, her lips trembling with anger, not daring to make any more trouble, her movements becoming much lighter.

No one in the Lin family cared.

The family sat around the dining table, harmonious and happy, the atmosphere warm.

The Lin family saw the clingy side of their son-in-law (brother-in-law) after a long time.

"Zhaozhao, drink some soup."

"Wife, don't you love eating the chili-fried meat slices Mommy made, I picked out the fat meat, there's only lean meat, eat it."

Gu Chenghuai was thoughtful and patient, wishing he could feed it into his wife's mouth.

Yet the person was calm and casual, as if they, who were showing expressions of toothache, were making a fuss over nothing.

Gu Da Cai and Ercai didn't feel it was strange; taking care of Mommy is what should be done.

The two brothers even imitated their daddy and picked food for their mommy.

"Mommy eat egg, egg is delicious."

Lin Zhao's eyes were brimming with smiles, "Thank you, Gu Da Cai and Ercai."

Quiet San Zai scooped up a spoonful of egg custard with a small wooden spoon and sent it to Mommy's mouth, his eyebrows and eyes calm, "Mommy eat."

Lin Zhao didn't mind and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Thank you, Quiet San Zai," she said softly.

Quiet San Zai curved his eyes, his pitch-black eyes shining brightly.

Sizai also wanted to imitate, but was pressed on her little shoulder by her daddy's big palm, amusedly saying: "Don't move, if you get it on your mommy's skirt, be careful of getting hit."

The little milk ball didn't know her daddy was doing it for her own good, struggled hard, couldn't move, and her little face was flushed red with urgency.

Even if she was anxious, she didn't scream, just puffed up her cheeks and said in a soft little voice: "Bad, Daddy bad."

Xibao was so cute her heart trembled, put down her chopsticks, leaned over, and kissed her chubby little face.

Sizai was kissed until her little face was dazed, her curled eyelashes trembling lightly a few times, staring at her blankly.

To little Sizai, this big sister was somewhat unfamiliar.

Everyone else thought the child was about to cry, but she didn't cry, and actually gave Xibao a sweet smile.

Then she sent the other side of her cheek over.

"Auntie, does Sizai still want me to kiss her...?" The carefree Xibao was shocked into stuttering.

She thought she would get a slap.

"Yes." Lin Zhao was amused by Xibao's expression, laughing until her body couldn't sit straight, leaning to one side.

Gu Chenghuai put his hand on her slender shoulder, helping her stabilize her figure.

Xibao happily kissed Sizai again.

The heart of the face-control was satisfied, beaming with joy.

"Auntie, Sizai is so well-behaved."

Lin Zhao arched her eyebrows, looking at her with brimming eyes, "You were also well-behaved at this age."

Xibao didn't hear the subtext of her aunt, just thinking her aunt was praising herself, the little girl was happy.

"Auntie, Sizai's little skirt and hair clips are all so good-looking, did you buy them for her?" she asked again.

"No, your uncle bought them," Lin Zhao said.

Remembering the few pieces of clothing she brought, she said again: "I brought a few old clothes, let your mommy alter them for you."

Xibao's eyes lit up in a flash, she didn't even eat her meal, rushed back and hugged Lin Zhao's neck, shaking and shaking, like a happy little bird.

"Auntie, Auntie is really good. Auntie, you really are my own aunt."

Lin Zhao patted her arm, "Go eat, the meat is about to be eaten up by your brothers."

Xibao looked back, the two brothers were eating very fiercely, and hurriedly went to compete with the two eggs for meat.

Lin Zhao didn't ignore Lin Xuan and Lin Zheng, "Xuanxuan, Zhengzheng, I'll measure your sizes later, and when I alter the clothes, I'll send them to you."

The girls of the Lin family all knew that their aunt had many clothes, basically no patches, and the colors were also good-looking, making their little faces shine with joy.

"Thank you, Auntie," the two little girls said in unison.

"Thank you, Zhaozhao," Chen Yu looked at her sister-in-law with gratitude.

After thanking her, she said again: "I crocheted two pairs of tiger-head shoes for Quiet San Zai and Sizai, I'll give them to you after eating."

That bit of wool was crocheted by unraveling her own old sweater.

"Fine," Lin Zhao didn't decline.

Ercai swallowed the meat in his mouth and asked curiously: "Mommy, are they the tiger-head shoes that my brothers all have?"

"Yes, your tiger-head shoes were also crocheted by your eldest aunt."

The eldest sister-in-law was a decent person who didn't like to take advantage of others; whatever she got from her, she would always find a way to return it; the shoes she crocheted, the small dishes she made... the things weren't expensive, but they were all heartfelt.

"Thank you, eldest aunt," Gu Da Cai and Ercai thanked politely.

Chen Yu felt these two children were really likable and smiled: "No need to thank."

Yuan Xiang sat in the corner, not opening her mouth much, however, her limbs were stretched, and her whole body was relaxed.

She felt the atmosphere in her aunt's house was really good; it wasn't about how much they ate or how well they lived, but that being inside made one feel warm all over.

After eating.

Yuan Xiang nimbly cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, completely not needing anyone else's help.

"Xiangxiang Jie is really capable," Lin Zhao sighed.

Such a diligent and good girl, no matter who she marries, can live a good life.

Lin Mu nodded.

"Very like your eldest aunt, your eldest aunt can't stand people who aren't diligent."

"Is that so?" Lin Zhao was surprised.

Realizing later: "No wonder I always felt before that the look my eldest aunt gave me was strange, with a bit of a feeling of wanting to say something but stopping."

Lin Mu was brewing chrysanthemum tea; drinking a few cups of tea after a meal was Lin Heling's habit, and after decades, the couple had both gotten used to it.

"Your eldest aunt has been diligent since she was small, she's a temperament that can't stay idle, it's normal that she can't stand you being lazy."

"Zhaozhao isn't lazy," Lin Heling feared his daughter would be unhappy and said gently: "Going to school is also very hard, it uses the brain; after Zhaozhao finishes studying, she definitely needs time to empty herself; eldest sister just happened to see it and felt Zhaozhao was lazy, that doesn't seem very objective."

Lin Mu handed him half a jar of tea and smiled helplessly: "You just spoil your daughter."

Lin Heling took the tea, his ten fingers slightly thick, but slender and good-looking.

"Daddy, I'll send you a tea set another day," Lin Zhao suddenly said, the best things for the best daddy.

Drinking tea with an enamel jar doesn't match her daddy's temperament.

"Fine, I'll wait," a gentle and slow voice rang out.

The Lin family yard had an old pomegranate tree, and under the tree was a wooden rocking chair; Lin Heling lay on it, casually taking a cattail-leaf fan, fanning himself slowly.

The sunset glow fell, and even the air was dyed with a layer of warm light.

Lin Zhao took a stool and sat next to Lin Shisheng under the tree.

Glancing at this scene, Lin Heling's eyes bloomed with smiles, closing his eyes to rest his mind.

"Wha, what's wrong?" Lin Shisheng felt uncomfortable all over, subconsciously checking his attire; his clothes had patches, but they were very clean, and under his feet... his shoes were dirty and broken, but his big toe wasn't poking out to breathe.

Everything is normal!

"Second brother, you and second sister-in-law..."

Before Lin Zhao finished her sentence, she saw Lin Shisheng's face turn cold, and disgust flashed quickly in his eyes.

"She won't be your second sister-in-law soon! Don't call her second sister-in-law, she doesn't deserve it."

Lin Zhao's mood was complicated.

Qiu Lian is a bomb, and she isn't peaceful; she knew that second brother and her becoming strangers was a matter of time.

But.

Seeing the emotions on second brother's face, she felt both heartache and worry.

Her second brother could have had a harmonious little family like the eldest brother, but it was all ruined by Qiu Lian; this is the heartache.

The worry is that she feared second brother would be impulsive and fall into the same ending as the original book.

"Second brother, no matter what happens, don't be impulsive!" Lin Zhao locked her gaze on Lin Shisheng, her eyelids not blinking once, her expression unusually serious.

"Especially don't use your hands."

Lin Shisheng felt something was wrong.

How...

Zhaozhao seems to have known something long ago?

"Do you know something?"

Lin Heling opened his eyes, light halos flowing in them; he looked at Lin Shisheng and said unhurriedly: "Shisheng, listen to Zhaozhao."

Subtext.

Don't ask so much.

As her own daddy, it's impossible not to see the changes in his daughter.

But, for him and Xiwei, as long as Zhaozhao is still Zhaozhao, for the rest, she will say it if she wants to.

Lin Shisheng didn't ask anymore; he looked at the pair of sisters touching the bicycle not far away and said in a low voice: "Zhaozhao, rest assured, I won't be impulsive."

The most impulsive time had already passed.

What follows is divorce, which is a happy thing.

Lin Zhao patted her second brother's shoulder, comforting him silently.

While Lin Shisheng's heart was warm, he was also somewhat unable to laugh or cry.

"Zhaozhao, your brother isn't that fragile."

"I know, it doesn't hinder me wanting to comfort you, second brother," Lin Zhao felt her second brother was the most unlucky in the whole family, look at how he lived his life.

Remembering that several nephews hadn't taken deworming medicine, she took her satchel, and from the bag, which was actually a storage ring, she took out 5 small pills and beckoned to Dadan and the others.

"Dadan, Lin Er Dan, Xibao, Xuanxuan, Zhengzheng, you guys come over."

Dadan and the others walked over with faces full of confusion.

"Auntie, what's wrong?" Xibao's voice was happy.

Ercai recognized the pills in his mommy's hand, wiped the corner of his mouth, and said loudly: "Mommy wants to give you deworming medicine, it's medicine that can kill the little long worms in your belly. We've all eaten it."

Medicine, huh.

It must be very bitter.

Dadan and the others' smiles instantly disappeared.

The careful Gu Da Cai saw the resistance on the older brothers and sisters' faces, knew what they were worried about, and added: "It's not bitter, it's sweet. Mommy said it's called sugar pills, one child can only eat one."

Ercai nodded his little head, "Really sweet, just like candy. After eating it, you can poop out many little crawling worms."

"There are worms?" Lin Xuan's face turned slightly white, her delicate eyebrows tightly knit, a bit scared.

She didn't like crawling worms.

"Xuanxuan sister, don't be afraid, just poop once and it'll be fine, don't drink unboiled water in the future, wash your hands before and after meals, and there won't be any more worms in your belly," Gu Da Cai comforted his cousin with a crisp voice.

"Mm, I know." Lin Xuan's expression relaxed, her hands clenched into fists to cheer herself on.

Then, the five older children ate the deworming medicine.

"Eh, the taste is actually quite good," Dadan showed surprise.

Lin Er Dan said: "It's clearly candy, can it really kill worms?"

Ercai lightly raised his chin, his little face arrogant, "Whether it can or not, you'll know tomorrow morning."

That "la" dragged out the tone, very cute.

The sunset sank in the west.

Everything that needed to be said and done was completed, and Lin Zhao's family of six left the Dongfeng Brigade.

As soon as they left, Lin Shisheng rushed into the room without a word, packed Qiu Lian's clothes, and forcibly sent her away.

Originally, he was worried about how to send her back, Zhaozhao going back to her maiden home was just the right opportunity.

The opportunity was given to Qiu Lian, he hoped she would grasp it.