Chapter 88 Climbing the Wall

Gu Yihan left the guesthouse and walked quickly towards her home.

She finally got a day off, but she was so busy that she didn't even have time to eat, and she starved to death.

Gu Yihan went straight to the kitchen after arriving home, wanting to eat braised pork, even though she wasn't good at cooking.

But she was incredibly hungry for food. Although she couldn't compare to the chefs at state-run restaurants, she still knew how to cook home-style dishes.

Gu Yihan took out a piece of pork belly from her spatial storage and muttered to herself, "First, cut it into pieces, blanch it, add oil, fry the pork belly until the oil is rendered, then add water to stew it, and add some other seasonings, that should be enough."

Gu Yihan squatted next to the coal stove, and could smell the aroma of meat. She was overjoyed; it must have been a success.

Wang's family

Lancao was washing the whole family's clothes in the yard. She sniffed hard; it smelled like meat.

Lan Cao put down her clothes, walked to the wall, and confirmed that the smell of meat was coming from Gu Yihan's house. She muttered to herself, "This little wench is secretly eating meat at home."

"What are you doing sneaking around like that? Have you finished washing the clothes?" Deputy Battalion Commander Wang's mother shouted.

Lancao was startled by her mother-in-law's voice and turned to look at her: "Mother, isn't this because I feel sorry for Commander Lu? His husband isn't home, and his wife is eating alone."

The thing that Deputy Battalion Commander Wang's mother disliked most about her daughter-in-law was: "What does it matter to you what other people eat?"

"You feel sorry for her? Why don't you feel sorry for your own man and give him a healthy baby boy? It's been so long and you haven't even laid an egg yet."

Lancao clenched her fists, her eyes filled with anger as she glared at her mother-in-law. She had had enough; she had been married for three years and had been scolded by her mother-in-law for three years.

Looking at Lan Cao's expression, Deputy Battalion Commander Wang's mother said, "What kind of look is that? How dare you glare at me? Don't you have any manners?"

Lan Cao completely broke down, trembling all over, and roared at Deputy Battalion Commander Wang's mother, "Why are you doing this to me? Do you think I don't want to have children?"

Gu Yihan had just picked up a piece of braised pork when she was startled by Lan Cao's angry roar, and the meat fell to the ground. Looking at the meat on the ground, her heart ached.

Gu Yihan ladled the braised pork into a bowl, holding the bowl in one hand and pinching the meat with the other to put it in her mouth. Anyway, she was alone at home, and no one could see her.

She came out of the kitchen carrying a bowl, her eyes fixed on Aunt Chen who was perched on the wall.

She said impatiently, "Aunt Chen, can you please stop climbing the wall?"

Aunt Chen, however, failed to detect the impatience in Gu Yihan's tone. She looked at Gu Yihan with a smile and asked, "Did your neighbors have a fight?"

"I don't know." After saying that, Gu Yihan carried the bowl into the living room.

As Aunt Chen watched the other person's retreating figure, she belatedly realized that Commander Lu's wife might be angry. She climbed down from the wall and went back into the house.

Aunt Chen looked at her two children eating dried sweet potatoes and muttered, "Commander Lu's wife is angry for some reason."

Aunt Chen had three children: her eldest daughter Zhou Hua, her youngest daughter Zhou Lian, and her youngest son Zhou Yaozu. Her eldest daughter went to the countryside to work as an educated youth.

The youngest daughter, Zhou Lian, stopped what she was doing, looked up at her mother speechlessly, and said, "Mom, my dad was at least a political commissar."

"When it came to doing ideological work, we neglected you."

"You're always climbing over people's walls, no wonder they don't like it and get angry."

Zhou Yaozu chimed in, "That's right. Even though I'm young, I'm not happy if people take my things or look at my things without my permission."

Hearing her daughter and son's conversation, Aunt Chen muttered, "Before your Aunt Guan left, I used to chat with her every day while we were perched on the wall. Why didn't she get angry then?"

"Commander Lu's wife is too stingy." After saying that, she went straight out the door.

The next day

After finishing breakfast, Gu Yihan locked the courtyard, rode her bicycle to work, and this was the lifestyle she preferred.

The office staff work in a harmonious environment, their relationships are not complicated, and they speak without being cryptic or indirect, making them difficult to understand.

Textile factory

Gu Yihan parked her bicycle and almost bumped into Qiao Shuhui as she turned around. She quickly stepped back and noticed the obvious dark circles under Qiao Shuhui's eyes.

Qiao Shuhui raised her chin slightly, glanced at Gu Yihan sideways, and said arrogantly, "Can you please not show up in front of Lin Yifei?"

Gu Yihan was completely bewildered by the other person's seemingly random question: "Are you sick?"

Seeing that Qiao Shuhui was still walking in her direction, Gu Yihan backed away and shouted urgently, "Stop! Are you trying to scam me?"

It's no wonder Gu Yihan thought that way. What if the baby in her belly wasn't healthy? She might deliberately provoke her, causing an accidental fall during the argument.

If something goes wrong and they try to pin the blame on her, in this day and age there are no surveillance cameras, she'll never be able to clear her name.

Qiao Shuhui was startled by Gu Yihan's urgent call.

While the other party was stunned, Gu Yihan turned and ran. If she couldn't afford to offend them, couldn't she at least avoid them?