PDLP Chapter 180: Female Supporting Character in the Period Literature (15)
Chapter 180: Female Supporting Character in the Period Literature (15)
After returning to the village, Lu Changqing suggested to the team leader that he divide the existing eggs into two batches according to size, and take out the small eggs to distribute to the members as rewards. He believed that the village could not open a chicken farm if the villagers themselves could not eat eggs.
Regarding the rules for distributing egg rewards, Lu Changqing suggested that it should be based on the usual work points. For the sake of fairness, it should be calculated based on individual work points rather than by account.
The account books of the chicken farm have always been with Lu Changqing. The current accounting method is very sloppy, and it is not the debit and credit accounting method that was implemented later.
Lu Changqing also followed the local customs and recorded all the expenses of the chicken farm in a way that the team leader could understand.
By December, the weather was getting colder, so Lu Changqing simply gave the children a winter vacation.
That day, Lu Changqing took the account book to Ruan's house to reconcile the accounts with the team leader, and also went to see Du Hongmei who was still on maternity leave.
After sitting in the house and chatting with Du Hongmei and her three sisters-in-law for a while, Lu Changqing got up and prepared to return to the chicken farm.
When he came out of the house, he happened to meet Ruan Tang coming out of her room. When Lu Changqing saw her, he greeted her politely, turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by her.
"Teacher Su, wait a minute, I have something to ask you."
Now, few people in the village call her Su Zqing anymore. They all call her Teacher Su instead.
Ruan Tang took Lu Changqing to the bamboo forest next to her home and said without any context, "You have a good relationship with my third sister-in-law."
Lu Changqing was full of questions and felt that what Ruan Tang said was a bit confusing.
Ruan Tang put her hands behind her back and kicked the mud under her feet from time to time. "My relationship with her is not very good. My relationship with my eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law is not very good either."
Lu Changqing said "Oh" and then fell silent.
Ruan Tang: ...Does this guy know how to chat?
Ruan Tang snorted and said helplessly, "Can't you just ask me why?"
Lu Changqing pretended to be curious and asked, "Why?"
Ruan Tang curled her lips and said, "Because they don't like me."
Now Lu Changqing knew why Ruan Tang asked her to do so. It turned out that she couldn't find anyone in the village to complain to about her "restless" sisters-in-law at home, so she came to complain to her, a foreigner.
"Then why don't they like you?"
Ruan Tang said indifferently, "Why else? They think I'm lazy, or they're jealous of my family spoiling me."
Lu Changqing asked back: "Don't you think they shouldn't or can't have this kind of jealous mentality?"
"No, of course they can be jealous of me, but there is no need to make the family restless just because of jealousy."
Ruan Tang frowned and complained, "Ever since you spoke up for my third sister-in-law in the yard, she has suddenly changed. She pretended to be sick because she was pregnant and stayed at home, not going to work or doing housework. Later, she even dragged my eldest and second sisters-in-law into the trouble. How can this be!"
Lu Changqing: ???
"So you think your father is not wrong, your brothers are not wrong, your mother is not wrong, you are not wrong, it's my fault, it's your three sisters-in-law's fault?"
Seeing that Lu Changqing had misunderstood, Ruan Tang quickly clarified: "Teacher Su, you misunderstood. I didn't say it was your fault. This matter has nothing to do with you."
"So what you mean is that it's your three sisters-in-law's fault, they shouldn't make a fuss, they shouldn't have any emotions, they should just work hard for your family without complaint?"
"That's not what I meant. I just... I just think they don't need to make things so ugly."
Lu Changqing asked seriously: "Do you think it was wrong for you not to participate in collective labor and not to do housework before?"
Ruan Tang felt a little guilty, but still said, "My parents can support me."
Lu Changqing said, "What you mean is that because your parents can support you, you don't have to do housework or work, and they can't blame you. But your parents won't support your three sisters-in-law for nothing, so they must work hard and participate in the labor, so that they are qualified to stay at home?"
Seeing that Lu Changqing had misinterpreted her meaning again, Ruan Tang explained, "I didn't say they couldn't blame me, but they shouldn't have made such a fuss with my mother. I'm out earning work points now, but they're still unwilling to help my mother with the housework."
Lu Changqing was speechless. Is it a big deal to earn work points? Since Ruan Tang's three sisters-in-law got married, haven't they earned enough work points for the family in the past few years?
"You feel sorry for your mom, so why don't you go up and help yourself? Why don't you ask your four brothers to help? Why don't you ask your dad to help? Are you only focusing on your three sisters-in-law? What did they owe your family in their past lives?"
"You three sisters-in-law are the only ones who eat in this family, and the rest of you are starving? They are your sisters-in-law, not servants bought by your family to be treated like slaves!"
Lu Changqing's questioning made Ruan Tang anxious.
"I don't think of them as servants. I just think they shouldn't keep throwing tantrums and making my mother so tired."
Lu Changqing felt that he couldn't communicate with this person, and their thinking was not on the same channel.
"I still say the same thing. If you don't feel sorry for your own mother, don't blame others for not taking her seriously."
Ruan Tang retorted unhappily: "How can I not feel sorry for my mother?"
Lu Changqing ruthlessly exposed the other party's behavior, "Your so-called heartache is just talk. If you really care about it, you should go help your mother with work now, or scold your father and your four useless brothers. You don't know how to feel sorry for your wife, and you don't know how to be filial to your own mother. You wait for your daughter-in-law to be filial. Are they all dead?"
Ruan Tang stamped her feet anxiously, "How can you scold my father and brother like that? They are obviously working very hard too!"
Lu Changqing suddenly understood why Ruan Tang was willing to go home and take care of the baby in the plot.
She really feels so distressed!
"I thought you only had yourself in your eyes, but I didn't expect that in your eyes, your father who does nothing at home and your useless brother are better than your mother who loves you wholeheartedly and doesn't want you to suffer. If I were your mother, I would definitely slap you twice."
"Don't you see that your mother and your sisters-in-law have to work in the fields with your brothers? Don't you see that they have to cook for your whole family after they come home? Don't you see the unfair treatment your sisters-in-law receive at home?
You see it all and know it all, but you dare not admit it because you are the beneficiary. "
"You console yourself by saying that human nature is selfish, and that it is absolutely right to do so. Moreover, they did it voluntarily, and you did not force them. Moreover, being lazy and evading labor is not illegal, and it is not a big deal at all. So you think that your sisters-in-law should not complain, and that they deserve to work hard for your family without complaint."
"Besides, their families are poorer than each other. Your whole family knows that they dare not divorce, let alone go back to their families, so they just enjoy the service of your sisters-in-law with peace of mind."
"Excuse me for being blunt, but the root cause of your family's unrest is not your three sisters-in-law, nor your biased mother, nor your lazy self, but your father and his four useless sons!"