Chapter 3: Against the Second Aunt
“Xie Chunlei is very good, but his mother is too strong, and I can’t get along with her.”
Lin Shu sighed inwardly, turned around and went in In the kitchen, I opened the lid of the pot and found that there was water inside, but it was cold water.
Liu Xiao'e followed her into the kitchen and asked, holding back her anger: "What does your mother's strength have to do with the person you and Xie Chunlei are dating? You don't live with her mother. Now Xie Chunlei is just a temporary employee of the township supply and marketing cooperative. Worker, maybe he will live in the countryside after he becomes a full-time employee. If you marry him, you will definitely I want to live with him in the village. He lives in the village and rarely meets him. No matter how strong she is, she can’t affect you!” He's a nice young man, and his daughter can't find anyone with better conditions than him.
Lin Shu took out a box of matches from the crack in the brick wall next to the stove, and pulled out a handful of fir hairs, which are dead leaves of the fir tree, from the bottom of the pile of firewood, and skillfully started a fire and boiled water.
While lighting the fire, she said: "I'm still young, so there's no rush when it comes to finding a partner!"
After hearing her words, Liu Xiao'e was so angry that she couldn't help but raise her voice: "You're still young, We are already twenty, and in two years in our rural areas it will be You are an old girl. If you don’t take advantage of these two years to find a man to marry, do you really want to be an old girl like the old maid in Dongkou Village who is still unmarried in her thirties? "
Lin Shu listened. After saying this, I was slightly stunned for a moment before I remembered who she was talking about.
The Dongkou Village mentioned by Liu Xiao'e is the next village, six or seven miles away from Xiaohe Village.
There is a girl in Dongkou Village who has refused to get married for some unknown reason. She is now in her late twenties and is considered a proper older woman in the countryside. In private, many people mention her without naming her. Just call the old maid.
Liu Xiao'e's mention that the girl was in her thirties was just an exaggeration. In fact, the person's real age was not even three years old.
Lin Shu greeted Lin Mei eight hundred times in his heart. If she hadn't come to cause trouble, he wouldn't have had to face his parents urging him to get married after being reborn.
"We'll talk about this later. I'll take a shower first, and you should hurry up and cook. If you don't cook, my dad and the others will get off work soon."
After being reminded, Liu Xiao'e looked outside The sun patted his thigh: "You see this is a big deal, hurry up and add fuel to the fire. I'll go wash the rice first."
After adding two handfuls of fir hairs, the water in the iron pot began to buzz. Lin Shu waited for a while, and when Liu Xiao'e's rice was ready, he scooped the water into the wooden bucket and returned to his room with the wooden bucket.
They belong to the South China region. The rural areas are basically lived according to clans. Each village has its own surname. The layout of the villagers' houses is basically the same.
The main room is in the middle, with two side rooms, one light and one dark, built on both sides. The door of the main room faces the shrine, and there is a relatively narrow room behind the shrine.
Due to the large population of the Lin family, the small room behind the shrine was divided into two rooms. Lin Shu lived in one of them. There was only a 1.2-meter wooden frame bed in the room. Eighty centimeters free.
The room is small, but fortunately it has its own independent room.
He dragged a large wooden box out from under the bed and found the clothes he wanted to change. Lin Shu pulled out a small mirror tucked into the corner of the wooden box.
Looking down at the girl in the mirror, with a childish face, skin full of collagen, and two shiny black braids hanging on her chest, she looked like she was twenty years old.
From an old woman of sixty or seventy years old back to her twenties, Lin Shu recited Buddha's name for the Lord of Hell in her heart.
I will repay you for your great kindness and kindness by returning to the Palace of Hell.
Lin Shu put down the mirror, took off his dirty clothes, wiped his body clean, and put on clean clothes.
Liu Xiao'e was chopping vegetables in the kitchen. When she heard something moving in the main room, she shouted out the door: "Xiao Shu, there isn't much water in the water tank. Go wash your clothes and come back with a load of water!"
"Got it!" Lin Shu carried the basket of dirty clothes and a load of empty buckets and went out.
The well in Xiaohe Village is at the entrance of the village. Villagers have to cross the main road of the village to fetch water from the well. On this stone road, Lin Shu met Lin Shu who was about to go to her home. The second aunt is Lin Mei’s mother.
"Lin Shu, my Meizi went into her room and cried when she came back from your house. Do you know why? Or did you say something to her?"
Second Aunt Lin questioned her as soon as she arrived, and Lin Shu was furious. Thinking of the hardship she suffered due to her reputation being damaged in her previous life, the tone of her answer was not good.
"Bullshit, what can I say about her? If she doesn't ruin my reputation outside, I will be like Amitabha!"
"What do you mean by that?"
" What do you mean, your Lin Mei herself? She is still a young girl, and she actually came to my door to worry about my marriage. She is more tolerant than my parents. I can't praise her a little."
"Is there any misunderstanding here? ?”
Second Aunt Lin was speechless, mainly because she didn't know what happened between the two sisters.
Lin Shu snorted in his heart, misunderstanding?
In her last life, she, Lin Mei, could deliberately ruin her reputation and make her famous in all the local villages. Who would be willing to marry such a flirtatious woman?
Even the family members have to suffer from gossip and contempt from the people around them.
"Whether it is a misunderstanding or not, Lin Mei knows best. Please tell her that it is her business who she likes. If you have the ability, you can fight for it. Please don't use me as a stepping stone. There will be a next time. , don’t blame me for being rude!”
In her previous life, she and Zhu Zhengliang were bumped into by villagers in the woods. At the same time, Lin Mei ruined her reputation in the village. Now that the two things were connected in series, Lin Shu felt that it might not be a coincidence.
Coming back to this life to resolve this crisis, she hoped that Lin Mei would be wiser and stop provoking her, otherwise, she would settle the accounts with her from the past and present lives.
Back in 1978, many educated youth in the village took advantage of last year's college entrance examination to return to the city. The remaining educated youth in the village failed the exam and had to stay in the countryside.
In her previous life, she only had a primary school education, and then she had the opportunity to study. If she had to do it over again, she would never think about going to school to change her destiny by studying. Now she just wants to make more money, and will not let herself live and go to school. It's just as hard in the last life, and there's also the matter of finding out who the man was who took away his innocence in the last life?
Leaving Aunt Lin and leaving the village, it actually doesn’t take much time to wash a pair of dirty clothes and a pair of shoes, but since leaving the village, the system has been reminding her non-stop.
[Ding, I found purslane, it costs a penny a plant. 】
【Ding, I found the golden grass, you can get one for a penny. 】
【Ding, I found cassia seeds, one penny a plant. 】
[Ding, I found cowgrass, one cent]
"System, let's discuss it. Can you silence me while I'm doing something?"
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【.Sound mute enabled. 】
Lin Shu breathed a sigh of relief. She had already heard the whistle for the end of work. She speeded up her hands, washed the last shoes, picked up a load of water and rushed home.
(End of this chapter)