Brother-in-law personally came over, so the Su family brothers certainly couldn’t slack off.
Quickly splitting into two groups, those who knew how to work as masons helped renovate the house. Set up the brick bed, painted the walls with whitewash, even the floors inside and outside were made of cement. The stoves were re-built, and window frames and doorframes were painted a striking sky blue.
The third, fifth, and eighth members of the Su family, who were already masters at the furniture factory, didn’t take leave to personally work on this set of furniture. Instead, at the factory, they got a batch and directly made a new style full set of furniture.
When Liu Shouren went to pick up the furniture with the note, the eighth member, Su Yanyi, cheerfully handed him a sewing machine voucher.
Seeing this, Liu Shouren’s eyes lit up, didn’t they?
God knows he had been quite busy lately, going through great efforts to finally obtain bicycle, semiconductor, and watch tickets, yet he was just missing this one sewing machine voucher. Now that he got the pillow when he was sleepy, how could he not be overjoyed? Right then, he shook Su Yanyi’s hand for a good while, saying a basketful of thank-you words.
The eighth Su family member casually smiled: "We’re family; why thank or not? It’s all thanks to Shuzhen’s blessings that the three of us could enter the city to become workers. Otherwise, even if we wanted to put in the effort, we’d have no way, isn’t it? If you really want to thank someone, thank our sister for her full head of quirky ideas, thank her for always being considerate and caring for relatives at every moment."
Liu Shouren nodded repeatedly, also feeling that it was his younger sister who first planted the seeds of kindness, now as the elder brother, he too benefited from the fruits of kindness.
When Shuzhen heard the relay, she helplessly rubbed her forehead: At best, she only provided some general blueprints and ideas, ultimately, it was the Su family brothers who were skilled, with solid craftsmanship and good character, wasn’t it?
Anyhow, that said, this family’s character was really quite good.
Shuzhen smiled, and also wrapped a pound of optimized cabbage and radish seeds to give to the Su family as a return gift prepared for the villagers. Drought-resistant, water-resistant and frost-resistant, these are high-quality, high-yield, and tasty good seeds. Although they don’t seem as valuable as gifts of chickens, ducks, and eggs, once the name of the good seeds from Beijing comes out. If carefully cultivated and managed, can you believe an average yield of ten to twenty thousand jin per mu?
Just planting a few plots in the front and rear gardens is enough to meet the family’s vegetable needs, pickling needs, and a little extra pocket money.
In any case, Shuzhen and Lianshan were generous in their giving, with shares for every household in the village. The members happily received them and, after entering autumn, started planting them in their own small gardens. The production team also planted ten acres of cabbage and thirty acres of radish in the empty spaces left by the early wheat and millet.
Shuzhen mischievously only said the yield was high but didn’t specify just how high. She’s waiting for the unprecedented harvest of cabbage and radish in autumn to drop the jaws of her elder brother and the members, then tell them that these things were actually developed by her and her husband.
Facts are right in front of you, so while the members are joyfully excited, they will certainly become even more faithful and admiring towards her and her husband.
This way, when next year’s spring comes for planting, won’t she be able to propose and smoothly implement ideas like seed selection, interplanting, and reasonable close planting?
With outcomes witnessed again by facts, the title of college student really deserves the reputation, isn’t it a smooth transition for her and her husband to continue developing even higher-yield, more disease-resistant seeds!
While eagerly preparing gifts for her elder brother’s wedding, she also envisioned her family’s future development path. Carefully protecting the little lady in her belly, she also had to spare time to educate Little Lian’en with various thoughts on being a good brother and a good son. Shuzhen felt her life was truly busy yet happy.
Days passed like flowing water, quietly slipping away, until golden autumn in September arrived, at the time of elder brother Liu Shouren marrying Wu Yinghong.
In the newly decorated house, the triple turn with a loud sound and red happiness characters pasted on it. Liu Shouyi and his wife sent a full set of combination furniture painted duck egg green, Shuzhen and her husband’s contribution were four sets of new cotton quilts, two thick and two thin.
Just these hardware alone were enough to dazzle people, not to mention the groom with a brand-new Mao suit, standing straight with the air of a city cadre.
It literally made the intestines of many young women and wives regretfully green with envy!
If only they knew earlier that being shameless could achieve something, what were they being reserved for?
Heartache, regrets flowed like a river, until they saw the beauty who walked shoulder to shoulder with Accountant Liu, who just faintly brushed her brows, lightly applied rouge and powder, and lightly touched her lips yet looked so stunningly like a fairy they couldn’t look away. Finally, like defeated roosters, they all drooped their heads. Yet even with pent-up frustration, they had to admit, these two are truly a match made in heaven.
The wedding night, the best times to get one’s name on the golden list, are moments of ultimate joy in life.
Unfortunately, Liu Shouren hadn’t had time to immerse in the tenderness for a few days before the bugle call for autumn harvest sounded.
As the newly confirmed production team captain in Liu Family Village, overseeing the autumn harvest was the most important part of his work.
Especially as this year’s small cabbages and radishes crafted a major story, causing a stir and directly getting onto national newspapers. Liu Shouren finally learned that these so-called Beijing seeds were actually developed by his sister and brother-in-law together.
An average yield of fifteen thousand jin per mu of cabbage, over ten thousand jin per mu of radishes...
If it wasn’t for seeing the mountain-like piles of radishes and cabbages himself, Liu Shouren would suspect he too had been infected by the exaggerated style. To achieve results while blindly boasting, touting how daring people are, and how big the yield can be.
Hahaha, his sister and brother-in-law are really good examples!
Liu Shouren was overjoyed, deciding to celebrate these talents, the heroes who put Liu Family Village in front of the national populace.
Stop work for a day, slaughter chickens and ducks, then a pig for the entire village celebration.
Upon hearing this, whole village cheered, continuously praising the captain for knowing the way, truly understanding how to care for us hard-working members. During such arduous autumn, being able to have a hearty meat meal is simply the most beautiful enjoyment on earth. The generous Lianshan couple, who provided this enjoyment, are so capable and much adored!
Meanwhile, a thousand miles away.
Dai Weimin’s wife, having examined the newspaper repeatedly, finally confirmed that the person in it was her former sister-in-law, Liu Shuzhen. Her lips involuntarily curled into a malevolent smile. Humph, you surnamed Bai, always acted like a daffodil pretending to be garlic, constantly looking down on our rural sister-in-law. Well, don’t blame us for being ruthless, stabbing right at your heart!
Who asked you to boast about how great everything was before, but don’t plan to deliver now?
Not keeping one’s word is wrong; it needs to be amended!