Chapter 121

In just one week, Lu Desheng became darker, thinner, and much older, but he was in good spirits.

When Ruan Qiqi and the others arrived, Lu Desheng was making lunch. He cooked noodles and fried two eggs, one for him and one for Lin Manyun.

He only knew how to cook noodles, and since Lin Manyun fell ill, he had noodles for three meals a day.

“Have you eaten?”

Lu Desheng was putting food into the pot, his face shrouded in the steaming white steam, and his back seemed to be more hunched.

He was carrying soil in the morning, and his trouser legs were rolled up, one higher than the other. His clothes and trousers were covered with a lot of dirt, and he looked very miserable.

Lu Ye had prepared a lot of rebellious words, but when he saw the old man like this, he couldn’t say them.

“I’ve eaten, Dad, why are you cooking? Where’s Aunt Lin?”

Ruan Qiqi asked with concern.

“She’s sick.”

Lu Desheng served a bowl of noodles and took it to the inner room. Lin Manyun was lying on the bed.

He was assigned a room, which was divided into two rooms with a curtain. The stove was set up outside. Although the conditions were difficult, Lu Desheng was very content. Compared with the hardships during the war, it was now like heaven.

Lu Desheng picked up a big bowl of noodles and ate it in big mouthfuls.

Ruan Qiqi took out a lunch box of braised pork from her bag and put it on the table.

Lu Desheng’s eyes lit up. He was not afraid of hardship and fatigue. The only thing that made him unhappy was not having meat. He had not eaten meat for a week and his mouth was dry.

After eating several pieces of braised pork in a row, Lu Desheng felt much better in his mouth. He also wanted to send meat to Lin Manyun in the inner room. Although he was a little disappointed with her, she was his cousin after all, and he could not eat alone.

“Dad, I’ll go check Aunt Lin’s pulse!”

Ruan Qiqi followed him in.

Lin Manyun sat weakly on the bed eating noodles. She did not look very well, but she ate a lot of noodles.

Seeing Ruan Qiqi, Lin Manyun’s heart skipped a beat. She didn’t eat the remaining half bowl of noodles, and groaned, “Old Lu, I’m so dizzy, I don’t want to eat anymore.”

“If you feel dizzy, just lie down. If you can’t, go back to the city to see a doctor!”

Lu Desheng didn’t doubt him, and didn’t notice the flash of joy in Lin Manyun’s eyes.

But Ruan Qiqi saw it, and it turned out to be fake.

She rolled her eyes, didn’t feel Lin Manyun’s pulse, walked out and whispered a few words in Lu Ye’s ear, Lu Ye’s eyes sparkled, and he ran out happily.

A quarter of an hour later, Lu Ye came back, with a mouse in his left pocket and a small snake in his right pocket.

Lu Desheng was concentrating on eating meat and didn’t notice their interaction.

Ruan Qiqi took out the mouse and the small snake from Lu Ye’s pocket, picked up one in each hand, went to the inner room, and without saying a word, stuffed them into Lin Manyun’s collar.

The mouse was stuffed in the front and the small snake was stuffed in the back.

“Ah…what are those?”

Lin Manyun’s screams resounded through the sky. She didn’t see the snake or the mouse, but only knew that there were two slippery things moving around in her clothes. She was so frightened that she jumped off the bed neatly, twisting her body like a cramp.

It worked. The mouse and the snake got into her pants and then fell out of her pants.

“Ahhh…”

Lin Manyun’s soprano voice filled the entire farm. She ran very fast. Lu Desheng only felt a gust of wind passing by him, and then disappeared.

Ruan Qiqi picked up the mouse and the snake from the ground and quietly released them.

From beginning to end, Lu Desheng didn’t know what happened. He only knew that the sick Lin Manyun suddenly became energetic and ran a marathon.

“Oh, your little wife is quite strong. She runs faster than a dog!” Lu Ye said sarcastically.

“Dad, Aunt Lin looks much healthier than you. You can’t run as fast as her!” Ruan Qiqi immediately followed.

“He pretends to be sick when he is not sick, and he asks you to cook and serve him in order to avoid working. It’s really strange. I have never heard of the master serving the concubine!”

“Dad, you spoil Aunt Lin too much. Although she is a concubine, you can’t spoil her like this. She can’t stand a little bit of work and pretends to be sick to avoid it. If Shi Jinghong knows about it, she will definitely make a fuss about it again!” Ruan Qiqi taught him righteously.

Lu Desheng’s heart trembled and his face became heavy.

“Dad, Aunt Lin doesn’t care about you at all. You work so hard, but you can’t even have hot meals when you go home, and you have to serve her. I have never seen such an ignorant concubine!” Ruan Qiqi was jealous again.

“She is not a concubine at all, she is clearly a concubine. Of course, the concubine doesn’t care about the master, and she can’t wait for the master to die soon!”

Lu Ye sneered.

Lu Desheng glared at him fiercely, but he felt very uncomfortable in his heart, and he was even more disappointed with Lin Manyun.

“Old Lu, they are too much of a bully. They don’t even look down on me as their elder. They even put snakes and rats in my clothes. Do you want to do anything about it?”

Lin Manyun came back angrily. After the intense exercise, her face was flushed, she was full of energy, and her voice was full of energy.

“Are you not dizzy anymore?”

Lu Desheng looked at her mockingly.

Lin Manyun’s face changed drastically, and she finally realized that she was now a bedridden patient.

She quickly held her head with her hands and said weakly: “I… I was just scared, and I felt even dizzier after running a lap. Old Lu, they are too much of a bully. Do you want to do anything about it?”

“Who cares!”

Lu Desheng stood up suddenly and slapped Lin Manyun hard. Lin Manyun fell to the ground and blood flowed from the corner of her mouth.

“Why did you come to the cadre school if you don’t want to work? He even pretended to be sick. I’m working hard outside, but you’re pretending to be sick at home, Lin Manyun, you’re really two-faced!”

Lu Desheng was very disappointed with Lin Manyun. The woman he had lived with for 22 years was so strange and ugly at this moment.

“Dad, calm down. Aunt Lin has just lived a good life for too long and has forgotten her roots. We just need to change her back.”

Ruan Qiqi handed over the teacup and pretended to reconcile.

“It’s easier to change a country than a person’s nature. It’s easier for the sun to rise from the west!” Lu Ye started to make sarcastic remarks again.

“You can’t say that. The Quotations from Confucius said it well. All new things are forged from hard struggles. Aunt Lin’s petty bourgeois problems should be reformed through hard work, and there will definitely be results!” Ruan Qiqi said.

“That’s right, the old man will definitely not be wrong!”

The two of them sang in unison, and Lu Desheng was easily moved. He also felt that Lin Manyun really needed to use hard work to reform her bad habits.

After lunch, Lu Desheng went to find the person in charge of the farm and took the initiative to ask Lin Manyun to carry earth. Women generally don’t do this job. Lin Manyun is the first female comrade on the farm to carry earth.

In the afternoon, Ruan Qiqi and Lu Ye went to appreciate the miserable scene of Lin Manyun working. The heavy earth pressed her waist so hard that she couldn’t even straighten it. She didn’t even dare to be lazy. Lu Desheng was staring at her covetously!

After only working for an afternoon, Lin Manyun was half exhausted. The resentment in her heart deepened, but she endured it.

Her son will definitely come to rescue her!

Three days later, the Lu Jiefang brothers did come back, but they came to Lin Manyun for help. It was a bolt from the blue. They were actually sent to the border. How could they make achievements? They would never go to the border even if they were beaten to death!