Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

In the afternoon, Gu Jiu followed his eldest nephew Lin Dongfa to the private plot to dig sweet potatoes. Comrade Liu Xiao'e was perming the hair of a pig's head in the kitchen. The others went to school or work.

Lin Shu was the only one left at home with nothing to do. After waking up from her lunch break, she bought some white cotton cloth from the system and prepared to make some long-sleeved shirts for the children at home.

Lin Xiaoyu and Lin Xiaoshuang are girls, and their shirt collars and cuffs are made into ruffles, while Xiaojun, the boy, has a formal style.

However, she doesn't know how to embroider, so it would look better if the girl's lotus leaf collar could be decorated with a few small flowers.

After cutting the small shirts for the three people, Lin Shu thought about it and bought a piece of blue cloth from the system, preparing to cut a pair of overalls for each of them.

When a few children came home from school, they smelled the aroma of meat coming from the kitchen. They took a few deep breaths, ran into the house, threw their schoolbags away and rushed to the kitchen door.

But just as they reached the door, they were stopped by Liu Xiaoe, who gave each of them a fried dough stick and said, "You can come and go as you please in the kitchen. Each of you has a fried dough stick and goes to do your homework."

"Grandma, did you buy meat at home?" Lin Xiaoyu asked as she took the fried dough sticks.

Xiaojun took the fried dough stick and took a bite impatiently, "Grandma, this is fried dough sticks and meat, are there guests at home?"

Liu Xiao'e laughed and scolded: "You are so cunning, it's your uncle who is here, and he bought these fried dough sticks for you to eat."

Xiaojun: "Where is my uncle? I'll go and thank him."

Liu Xiao'e was a little impatient being surrounded by several children, and hurriedly said to drive them away: "I'm going to dig sweet potatoes with your brother Dongfa. Don't hang around here. Hurry up and do your homework. If you don't want to do your homework, help me chop pig grass."

Several children were driven into the house to do their homework, but before they took out their homework books, they heard the sound of sewing machines coming from the house.

I ran to the small room behind the shrine and found Lin Shu operating the sewing machine.

"Sister."

"Aunt, did you and uncle-in-law come back together today?"

Lin Shu glanced at them and replied while pedaling the sewing machine: "Yes, I came back in the morning. Have you finished your homework after school?"

Xiaojun raised the dough sticks in his hand and said, "We just came back. I'll write it as soon as we finish eating the dough sticks."

"Okay, wait until you finish your homework. If you get everything right, I'll reward you with another gift."

Xiaojun: "What gift?"

"Keep it a secret for now." Lin Shu smiled and urged them to do their homework.

Lin Xiaoyu noticed the small pants that Lin Shu was sewing, joy flashed in her eyes, and she quickly pulled her brother and sister away.

Lin Shu looked at Lin Xiaoyu who was running away with her younger brother and sister, and thought to himself that what a cunning little sister.

When the family members came back from work and the children had almost finished their homework, Lin Shu took out the three sets of clothes they had made.

"Aunt, we have finished our homework. Where is our reward?" Xiaojun put his books into his schoolbag and trotted over.

Lin Shu handed him the suit that belonged to him: "Go take a shower and try it on to see if it looks good?"

He stuffed the remaining two sets to Xiaoyu and Xiaoshuang, "Try putting them on after you take a shower tonight."

When Lu Yinhua saw Lin Shu gave each of her children a set of clothes, she was shocked and glanced at Gu Jiu carefully, fearing that her brother-in-law would have an opinion because of Lin Shu's generosity.

Gu Jiu calmly sat beside them, drinking water and chatting quietly with Lin Dashan, not paying any attention to them at all.

Lin Shu looked up and noticed the look that his sister-in-law was putting on the clothes. He smiled and said, "Today we have limited time. I will make another set of clothes for Dongfa next time when I am free."

Lin Shu tries his best to treat his nephews and nieces equally, and does the same for the older ones as he does for the younger ones.

Fortunately, the system mall sells cloth. If I really rely on cloth coupons to buy cloth, it wouldn’t even be enough for me to wear.

The eldest sister-in-law He Caiyun said politely: "You can just help the younger ones. Dongfa is already a big man, so why would we let you spend money to make clothes for him?"

Lin Shu: "Even if Dongfa is a grown-up, he is still my nephew."

He Caiyun glanced at Gu Jiu, smiled and did not refuse.

The next day, Lin Shu and Gu Jiu went into the mountains again. Each of them came back carrying a load of snakeskin bags. Before they even entered the house, they heard Xiaojun's loud crying.

When they got home and put down their burdens, they saw Lin Xiaojun wearing the white shirt he had made yesterday, with his lower body naked, standing at the door of the main room with his head raised and crying.

"Huh, so tired." Lin Shu put down her burden and breathed a sigh of relief. Running in the mountains is really more tiring than doing farm work. If it weren't for the good harvest every time, she really didn't know if she could persist.

Gu Jiu wiped his sweat and asked, "What happened?"

Lu Yinhua forced a smile at Gu Jiu and said, "This kid deserves a beating. Don't worry about it, brother-in-law. Go into the house and have a drink of water."

Gu Jiu nodded, looked at Xiaojun sympathetically and went into the house.

Seeing that her second sister-in-law was holding a bamboo stick in her hand, Lin Shu had no intention of interfering with her in educating the child. She went into the house, drank two glasses of water, sat down to rest, and asked Comrade Liu Xiao'e who was picking vegetables.

"Mom, what did Xiaojun do to deserve being beaten with a bamboo stick by Second Sister-in-law?"

Liu Xiao'e picked up the small pants thrown on the ground and showed them to her, "Look, you made him a new pair of pants yesterday, and he wore them to the Bald Ridge Slate today. The good new pants were ruined by him in just one day. Who else should I punish if not him?"

Bald Ridge is a barren mountain not far from Xiaohe Village. The mountain is not very big, but it is mostly covered with basalt. The children in the village like to take straw and slide on the slope of the mountain.

Lin Shu took the pants and looked at them. There were two holes on the buttocks, and the areas around the holes were badly worn.

To say that this kid deserved the beating he received today, other kids would be smart enough to use straw to pad their buttocks when sliding down the slide. But he, judging by the wear and tear on his pants, didn't use anything to pad his buttocks, and directly used the cloth under his buttocks to fight against the rough basalt.

"Aunt, my pants are torn. Please make me a new pair. My mother won't beat me if you make me another pair." Lin Xiaojun noticed that Lin Shu was looking at the hole in his pants, so he shouted at the top of his voice.

Lin Shu threw the torn pants to the ground and clapped his hands: "You wish! I just made you a new pair of pants yesterday, and you ruined them today. I think your mother didn't punish you too lightly!"

"His aunt is right. I'll beat you up so you'll remember this lesson!" Lu Yinhua felt her teeth itching just thinking about it. She finally got a new pair of pants but they were torn by the naughty kid. She deserved to be beaten.

Two whips were given, and Lin Xiaojun's cries broke through the roof.

Lin Shu picked his ears and said, "It's no use crying. For someone like you who doesn't take care of clothes, I won't make them for you next time. I just happened to have some scraps of cloth yesterday, so I'll ask your mother to sew a piece for you so you can continue to wear it."

"I'm innocent. I didn't know the stone would tear my pants." Lin Xiaojun defended himself while crying.

"What's going on? I can hear this kid howling from a distance."

At this time, Lin Dashan walked in from outside with his hands behind his back.

Liu Xiao'e explained, and Lin Dashan glared at Lin Xiaojun, "You deserve it, good job, give me two more lashes."

These words were met with another earth-shattering cry from Lin Xiaojun!