Chapter 16 Going Up the Mountain 1

When Gu Aidang arrived home, the whole family sat at the table waiting for him. After he sat down...

Grandma Gu sighed and said, "Second son, this is a year of famine. If we don't get a divorce after something like this happens, it's like letting that Zhang family bleed our whole family dry."

After Grandma Gu finished speaking, she looked up and glanced at her eldest daughter-in-law.

Sister-in-law Gu was startled, but she laughed and said to her mother, "Mother, don't worry, how could I bear to give my son's food rations to someone else?"

Gu Aidang looked at his mother and said with a smile, "Mother, I did listen to you and divorced the child's mother. Don't forget to find another wife for your son, otherwise your son will have no descendants."

Grandma Gu, preoccupied with other things, replied perfunctorily, "I understand."

When Gu Yihan heard her adoptive father talking about marrying another woman, she thought to herself, "This man is so cold-hearted."

It is said that in this era, love is slow, letters are slow, carriages are far, and one can only love one person in a lifetime.

There was no other choice; how could you choose just one person when you had other options?

Gu Meng and Gu Daya sat at the table in silence, like nobody else could hear them. They had no right to speak.

Gu Daya did all the housework that Gu Dasao had to do every day, washing the whole family's clothes. She was so busy that she was practically on her feet, and you could only see her during mealtimes.

Now that Gu Meng has put aside her jealousy and resentment towards Gu Yihan, she thinks every day about how to learn more words so that she can grow up quickly and leave this family.

"From now on, all idle people will go up the mountain to look for food."

After Grandma Gu finished speaking, she thought to herself, "Luckily, we still have some food stored at home, otherwise the whole family would have starved to death."

Grandma Gu led her granddaughter and the others to the foot of the mountain, where they encountered many villagers one after another.

"Aunt Gu, are we going up the mountain?" Gu Yihan, who was walking at the very back, could hear Jiawang's wife's familiar, sharp voice.

She didn't even need to look up to know that this was the middle-aged woman who hadn't gotten any advantage in the grain distribution at the brigade.

Jiawang's wife turned her eyes and saw Gu Yihan with her delicate, fair skin behind her.

With a sneer on her sharp and mean face, she launched into a tirade against Grandma Gu, which was so offensive that even Gu Yihan found it offensive.

"Aunt Gu, look how spoiled you are of your Hanhan! She's never been to the fields before, and this is the first time I've seen her outside like this."

“This girl is a money pit. The more she contributes, the more she suffers. She has to work more and not eat and live for free. You still let her study. In the future, won’t her husband’s family benefit from her marriage?”

"In my opinion, this is a case of a young lady's body but a maid's fate. We should use her now so we can get a few dozen yuan in dowry later."

Before Jiawang's wife could say anything more, Grandma Gu slapped her several times across the face. Before she could react, she kicked her to the ground.

He sat on her, hitting and cursing her: "You heartless bastard! You sold your own daughter and still couldn't get your son a wife, and now you're trying to take advantage of my granddaughter. You must be tired of living."

"Even if you sell yourself, no one will marry your good-for-nothing son. You still want to covet my granddaughter."

"I'll beat you to death today, you foul-mouthed bastard."

Jiawang's wife dodged while saying, "I'm doing this for you, don't be ungrateful."

Jiawang's wife saw that the villagers were watching: "Are they all dead? Don't you know how to break up the fight? You old hag."

The villagers loathe Jiawang's wife so much that they won't meddle in her affairs.

Gu Yihan waited until her grandmother had finished hitting her and vented the anger she had been holding in all day before walking over to her grandmother's side.

"Grandma, calm down. You can't hurt yourself."

Gu Yihan carefully helped Grandma Gu up, looking at her hands which didn't seem to have changed much.

She blew on it tenderly, saying, "Be careful not to hurt your hand; your granddaughter will be worried."

Those around them burst into laughter.

Jiawang's wife, with her face swollen from being slapped by Grandma Gu, was still about to curse when one of the older women interrupted her, saying, "If you want to be beaten again, then say so."

Jiawang's wife got stuck and didn't say anything. She could only mutter curses as she returned to the village.

When Gu Meng and Gu Daya first saw Grandma Gu like this, they were so frightened that they kept their distance.

Gu Yihan looked at her nanny with admiration and flattered her, "Nanny, you're amazing! How can you be so amazing?"

"I never knew you and my mother could argue so elegantly."

Grandma Gu straightened her back and said, "I was just being lenient with your mother. After all, she gave birth to two children for our Gu family, so I certainly couldn't lay a hand on her."

Gu Yihan gave a thumbs-up.

Grandma Gu asked in confusion, "What does this mean?"

Gu Yihan whispered to her, "This means 'Grandma, you're amazing.'"

Grandma Gu laughed out loud.

She glanced at Gu Meng and Gu Daya, who were far away from her. Everyone said she was biased, but who knew that only this granddaughter made her happy every day?

Seeing Grandma Gu and Gu Yihan laughing so loudly, Gu Daya felt truly wronged.

She said to Gu Meng, "Grandma is so biased; she only cares about Big Brother and Gu Yihan."

Gu Meng glanced at her and said, "If you're so capable, you can make Grandma happy every day too."

Gu Meng's current wish is to have her own home and escape from this one. She doesn't care about anything else.