Chapter 392 - 0392 Casual Dinner Chat 4_1
This situation was one that outsiders could comment on, but they couldn’t provide a solution.
After all, Wang Zhengguo and Wang Zhengjun were brothers by blood, and they were just bystanders.
After hearing Wang Zhengguo’s words, Uncle Xu gave a faint smile, "There are many ways to handle this, but I don’t know which one you would choose. You could either remove the root of the problem, or, you could turn a blind eye."
Wang Zhengguo sighed. When he had consulted Lu’s father previously, he had said the same thing.
"If I were heartless, I would really want to remove the root of the problem and let their family return to farming with a mark of disgrace. But what good would coming back do? They’ve grown accustomed to city life; they surely wouldn’t be willing to work on the farm to earn work points. Whether they’re doing well or not in the city, they will always project an image of endless prosperity. It’s better for us to not see any of it; there would be fewer times that their presence here would trouble us. If they were really here, my family and the families of my younger siblings wouldn’t be able to live in peace. My brother is vindictive, selfish and excessively proud due to his deep inferiority complex. I’m most afraid that they would disrupt the peacefulness of our production brigade and disrupt our peaceful lives."
The Wanglou Brigade was made up of twelve production teams, with each team having families varying from fifteen to twenty households. The Lu Family alone accounted for about twenty households, some of which were assigned to their seventh production team, while others were in other production teams. At the time of the founding of the nation, some families were struggling and were classified as middle or low-income peasants, but there was also a handful who were classified as wealthy peasants.
Because of the Lu Family’s ancestry, being classified as wealthy peasants was not exactly considered good.
Lu’s father being a landlord meant he was in an even worse category. He became a subject for labor reformation, having to write a self-criticism every year to show his repentance. In recent years, through the achievements of his son and daughter-in-law, the others have turned a blind eye, and due to his strict management, not allowing the common folk to criticize others without restriction, he and his grandchildren were able to live peacefully.