Chapter 26 Mother and son fall out
Speak clearly and ask Lin Mei to help escort Xie Chunlei out of the village. Watching two figures one after the other turning the corner, Lin Shu withdrew his gaze and turned around and entered the house.
I checked the balance of the system. Yesterday I sold medicinal materials and purchased supplies. I went in and out. After excluding the 550 yuan I gave to my family and the 180 yuan I spent on buying a bicycle, plus some odds and ends, now The balance is only 260 yuan.
Yesterday I had a huge sum of 1,000 yuan, but now I am back to extreme poverty.
“It seems that as long as you live in this world, there is no time when you can really lie down. Reality forces you to move forward all the time.”
Just like her, she only has more than two hundred yuan left now. If she doesn't work hard, she can only sit in vain.
Check the tools in the basket, put on your straw hat and prepare to go up the mountain.
Let’s talk about Lin Mei who sent Jie Chunlei out of the village.
Walking on the path out of the village, Lin Mei thought for a while and then asked: "Brother Chunlei, how was your discussion with my cousin? Is she willing to accept you again?"
< br>Xie Chunlei looked at the people working in the distance and sighed in his heart. After several years of guarding, he originally thought that he would be successful, but he didn't want to be the mother who gave birth to him and raised him.
"Brother Chunlei?"
Xie Chunlei felt sad and shook his head, "She gave up and gave up our relationship over the past few years."
Suddenly, he stopped and turned around to look Lin Mei asked: "If Lin Shu marries me, can he Living with me in the dormitory of the township supply and marketing cooperative, you can say that you don’t have to work in the fields from now on. It’s such a good marriage, do you know why she regretted the marriage?”
After hearing what he said, Lin Mei curled her lips secretly, The two of them were not engaged, so it was not considered regretful.
However, on the surface, she still acted as if she felt the same as Xie Chunlei, frowning sadly, "I don't know what my cousin is thinking. If she doesn't marry such an outstanding man as Brother Chunlei, she What kind of man does she want to marry? Does she prefer a man like an educated youth who can’t carry his arms? ”
"Are you saying that Lin Shu broke off the engagement with me because he fell in love with an educated youth?" Jie Chunlei looked at Lin Mei in shock. When he heard the news, he first felt that his head was green.
Lin Mei met Jie Chunlei's disbelieving eyes and waved her hand, "I don't know, I'm just guessing."
Jie Chunlei nodded with suppressed anger and said calmly He said "Oh" and walked out of the village again, "Just give it to me." Come here, Comrade Lin, you don’t need to send me any more, I will go back by myself, please stay.”
“Okay, I won’t send you any more, Brother Chunlei, please go slowly.”
Xie Chunlei didn't even look at Lin Mei, and left without looking back.
"Mei Zi, Chun Lei is gone?" Li Xiu walked over from the field ridge carrying a basket of pigweed.
"Well, I'm home."
Li Xiu glared at her with hatred, "Why didn't you invite him to your house to have a cup of tea before leaving?"
Lin Mei lowered her head and stepped forward to take the basket from Li Xiu’s hand, “Brother Chunlei’s house I still have something to do, so I am rushing back this time. I will invite him next time he comes to our village."
Li Xiu pursed her lips and frowned slightly as she looked at the back of her son-in-law. It's a good choice, but it's too uncontrollable. I don't know if he and his daughter can make it work?
It usually takes half an hour to get from the Xiaohe production team to the Jiejia production team. Jie Chunlei was in a hurry to go home and figure out the situation, and arrived home in 20 minutes.
"Where did you go just now? You haven't seen anyone since breakfast, and your father wants you to carry a load of millet to grind."
Just arrived at the door of the house, Jie's mother was drying her clothes. He spoke dissatisfiedly.
Xie Chunlei entered the room without saying a word, poured a glass of water and drank it in one gulp. When he saw Jie’s mother following behind him, he asked straight to the point: “Mom, Lin Shu and I are both quite young. Now, is it time for you to go to the Lin family with your matchmaker to talk about the marriage?”
After hearing this, Xie’s mother was slightly startled, “Why did you suddenly think of this? It was the Lin family that urged you? ?”
Xie Chunlei denied, "No, I want to start a family."
Xie's mother obviously didn't believe it, "I asked you why you disappeared after breakfast. Did you go to the Xiaohe Production Team?"
Xie Chunlei did not say a word.
Jie’s mother was so angry in her heart, “I’m just telling you why you suddenly went crazy. It turns out that the girl from the Lin family couldn’t wait any longer. When we wanted to get married, they used Qiao, but now they know they’re in a hurry.”< br>
“According to I think we should take advantage of Qiao and make them feel anxious. Don't think that having a daughter is a big deal, and you still want the groom's family to coax them and accommodate them. How can there be such a good thing in the world? .”
Xie Chunlei looked at Jie's mother in shock, as if she had never known her before. When did her mother, who was gentle to others in her mind, become so mean?
"Mom!"
Jie's mother was startled by her son's cry of grief and anger, "Why are you shouting so loudly? It scares me."
< br>Xie Chunlei's eyes were full of disappointment, "Mom, I went to the Lin family today, and I learned from them that their family never asked for Lin Shu to stay at home for a few more years!"< br>
"." Jie Mu felt a little guilty.
Then she thought that as long as she didn't admit it, her son couldn't do anything to her, so she pointed at him with her finger, "Do you believe what the Lin family says? Are you my son or their son?"
"It is said that after marrying a daughter-in-law, one forgets one's mother. You and your eldest and second brothers are just the same thing, they are all heartless things! The girl from the Lin family can drive a wedge between our mother and our son before she is married. She will be married in the future. How about we end our family with such a ungrateful daughter-in-law? Get up!”
Listening to the crackling output from Jie's mother's mouth, Xie Chunlei couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Mom, it's not that our Jie family can't afford it, it's the Lin family that doesn't want to jump into our fire pit."
"What do you mean?" Jie’s mother’s eyes widened, “The Lin family doesn’t want to go there. Are we jumping into a fire pit? Do you mean that our house is a fire pit? Did the Lin family say this or you?” Oral engagement canceled ”
"The Lin family has been cancelled?" Xie's mother was overjoyed, but
"They, the Lin family, are nothing, they dare to despise our family, and they have delayed your time for several years, causing you to be twenty-two years old and still not married. Daughter-in-law, they cancel it when they say it. I don’t agree with this. Just wait, I’ll go meet them right away!”
After saying that, Jie’s mother stood up in anger and prepared to go out.
"You know the rights and wrongs of this matter best. If you go over to make trouble at this time, do you want everyone from far and wide to know that I dumped the Lin family girl?"
Listen The son's calm tone made Jie's mother pause for a moment as she walked out the door, turned around and asked, "Let them go like this? Can you swallow this?"
"Otherwise?" Jie Chunlei asked coldly.
Jie's mother came back, faced her son's cold face, and smiled flatteringly: "Since the Lin family has terminated the verbal agreement, it is their loss. Since it is impossible for you now, why don't I ask a matchmaker to help Are you looking for a good girl? Then you take the time to look at each other. If you like her, we will hold a wedding this year and make the Lin family mad!"
Xie Chunlei glanced at his mother, stood up and entered. room, and after a moment, he took a package and walked out the door.
Jie’s mother became anxious when she saw it, and stepped forward to stop her: "Lao San, where are you going?"
Xie Chunlei walked out the door without looking back: "The unit is near The time will be very busy, I won’t go home for the time being.”
"You just came back one night and left. You said you were busy, you are lying!" Jie's mother yelled at the back of the figure who couldn't wait to leave.
Looking at his son who left without mercy, his face turned red with anger.
As expected, that vixen from the Lin family is not a good person!
Even if they break up, it will affect his son.
Lin Shu, who entered the mountain at this time, did not know the situation of the Jie family, but he had long expected that their mother and son would have a quarrel. When she reached the hillside, the system reminded her that the surrounding area was full of plum blossoms.
Wumei plum is a perennial vine of the grape family. It is called sow vine in some places. It looks very similar to Gynostemma pentaphyllum. It is easy to confuse them if you don’t know them.
The whole plant of Gynostemma pentaphyllum is completely green, while every node of Wuxiangmei is reddish, and the tops of the branches are even reddish.
The whole plant can be used as medicine. It has the effects of cooling blood, detoxifying, diuresis and reducing swelling. However, pregnant women should not use it.
Similarly, black plums are collected and purchased by the catty, which costs a dime per catty.
Although the price is cheap, it cannot support the growth of this plant in many places. Moreover, the villagers in the village like to cut this sow vine to feed the pigs, otherwise the name sow vine would not exist.
"System, are there any other medicinal herbs around here?"
[Most of the plants and trees in the world can be used as medicine, but they are just hosts. This system will point out all of them. Are you busy? 】
“.”
Okay, that makes sense.
The system said that the whole plant could be used as medicine. Lin Shu's goal was to dig as little soil as possible without using a hoe, so she just used a sickle to cut off the vines on the surface and sell them to the system.
Not to mention that although the system only paid a dime per catty, the vines of the black plum blossoms were so lush that it didn’t take much effort to harvest them.
As bundles of black plums are thrown into the system, the balance of the system keeps rising.
One pound is a dime, ten pounds is a dollar, and a hundred pounds is ten dollars. Lin Shu cut off a total of 130 pounds and sold it to the system, earning 13 yuan, and the balance showed 275 yuan.
Looking at the sun hanging above his head, Lin Shu decided to go home for dinner first and then go to the other side of the hillside to have a look in the afternoon.
Walking on the path down the mountain, you can occasionally find a few fungi in the grass on the roadside, and sell them to the system for a few cents.
"System, the medicinal herbs in our mountains here don't seem to be very valuable. If you go to Changbai Mountain in the northeast, how do you purchase the ginseng there?"
[There is no specific price, mainly Depending on the year and the quality of the medicine, there are actually many valuable medicinal herbs in the mountains here, such as Phellinus linteus, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Polygonum multiflorum, etc. Rather than abandoning the near and seeking the far away, the host is better off gathering herbs. As long as he can endure the pain and fatigue of digging for herbs, he will be able to get rich soon. 】
Lin Shu really wanted to make a fortune, but he didn't listen to his poisonous chicken soup at this moment.
“I think it is definitely not as fast to make a fortune from digging for medicines as to make a fortune from purchasing medicinal materials.”
It's just that this era is not suitable for blatantly purchasing medicinal materials everywhere.
“Youngest!”
As soon as she reached the foot of the mountain, she heard someone calling her. When Lin Shu looked up, she saw Lin Gang running over carrying a hoe.
"Why are you here when you don't go to work? Are you cheating and peeing again?"
Lin Gang slammed the hoe that was still wet with muddy water on the ground, " Who are you talking to? And why don’t I like to hear what you say? What do you think I can’t get off work after I finish my work?
Lin Shu glanced at him, passed him and walked home: "Lazy people poop and pee a lot, and that's people like you."
"Vulgar!" Lin Gang caught up with her: "Girl, that's all , pay attention to your image when you speak, who will dare to marry you if you can't get married?"
"Lin Gang, you are looking for a beating!" Lin Shu raised his foot and kicked him. .
Lin Gang cleverly jumped to the side and escaped. Seeing that she still wanted to take action, he said, "Hey, hey, a gentleman talks but never moves his hands."
"I never believe in the saying of a gentleman. , If you see someone unhappy, beat him up first!" Lin Shu used a sickle to cut a thin branch from the roadside and chased after him.
"Oh, don't do it!"
"You're so mean!" Lin Shu chased after him and slapped him on the back.
"Holy shit! Hiss!"
The sudden pain made Lin Gang jump to his feet, "You little girl, are you really convulsed?"
"What are you doing? Isn’t it time to see me being serious?”
Lin Shu thought of all the bastard things this kid had done in his previous life, and wished he could slap him a few more times. How could he be merciful?
Lin Gang really suffered a few blows, and the pain was unbearable, so he decided not to play with her anymore, so the wind blew under his feet and he ran away without a trace.
Lin Shu snorted, this guy was just here to see her joke. Last time he went up the mountain, he had great luck and picked up Phellinus mulberry. Today, he saw that she had no harvest, so he dared to verbally humiliate her, "I can't beat you to death!"
Back home, Liu Xiao'e came out of the kitchen and glared at her, "You girl, you are really cruel to your third brother!"
Lin Shu was stunned for a moment, then his face changed slightly and he snorted coldly. Said: "He deserves a beating!"
"Damn girl, who do you think deserves a beating?" Lin Gang stood at the door of the hall with his hands on his hips, looking fierce.
"I'm just telling you, what's wrong?" If you don't accept it, do it!
The brother and sister have been fighting each other since childhood, and they have lived for decades longer. She doesn’t mind fighting with him again.
“What’s the fuss about?” Liu Xiao’e bluffed, “Hurry up and wash up, we’re going to eat soon.”
After working all morning, we are exhausted, but the brother and sister still have the energy to fight, it seems. The morning's work was too easy.
The lunch meal consists of a plate of fried lettuce, a plate of fried cabbage, a plate of aged salted vegetables, and the staple food sorghum porridge. It can be said that it is basically the standard on the dining tables in rural areas during this season.
Lin Shu had been working on the mountain all morning and was already hungry. As soon as he finished a bowl of porridge, he heard the sound of firecrackers in the village.
She raised her head and looked confused. What does setting off firecrackers at this time mean?
Just before she could ask, she noticed that the expressions of the other adults in the family changed.
“What’s wrong?” Lin Shu was startled.
Lin Dashan quickly pulled the porridge from the bowl into his mouth, wiped his mouth and stood up, "Boss and second brother, come with me to help."
Lin Wei and Lin Guang took a few mouthfuls of the porridge in their bowls. After finishing the porridge, he followed Lin Dashan out the door.
This speed
"Mom, what happened in the village?"
"Eat your food and don't ask any more questions." Liu Xiao'e scolded.
Lin Shu looked at the elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law.
He Caiyun sighed and whispered to explain her confusion: "The sound of firecrackers should be caused by an old man in the village. The firecrackers are set off firstly to send off the deceased, and secondly to inform everyone that the villagers will hear With the sound of firecrackers like this, no one would have to inform them before they would help automatically."
Lin Shu frowned. It seemed that there was such a custom in the village, but no one seemed to have died at this time in his previous life?
(End of this chapter)