Chapter 63: Finding the Old Man in the City

She was really panicked.

My father-in-law is alive and well, and my mother-in-law is about to pass away. By then...by then, won’t their family be laughed at to death in the brigade?

Xu Ancheng quickly ran over to help her up and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Something…something happened."

When she said something happened, Xu Ancheng and the others also panicked, "What happened?"

"Mother, it's mother..."

Now Xu Huaishan's expression also changed.

Xu Ancheng held her arm tightly, "Don't panic, talk properly, what's the matter?"

Zhang Fen took a deep breath and exhaled, then she spoke fluently. "Second aunt, second aunt came home and said that our mother found an old man in the city," Zhang Fen started to cry at the end.

This was the first time in her life that she had encountered such a thing, and it happened to her. She felt like the sky was falling.

"Bang," the shovel in Xu Huaishan's hand fell directly to the ground.

Xu Anming was standing behind him and jumped up holding his feet.

The head of his father's shovel fell directly on his feet, hitting him so hard that it hurt.

But fortunately it was the back and not the front, otherwise it would be more than just painful.

Xu Huaishan didn't care about his eldest son who was so angry that he jumped up and down. He just ran to his eldest brother-in-law's house.

It was a sunny day and Xu Huaishan felt that he could not see the road clearly.

Along the way, some people greeted him, but he ignored them and just kept running.

He ran in front, and the other members of the Xu family followed behind.

Someone in the team saw it and asked, "What happened to Xu Huaishan's family?"

They soon found out because He Lianlian, that big mouth, didn't even cook and started telling her neighbors the big secret she knew, which was that Gu Jinnian was over fifty and was going to find an old man in the city and live in a building in the city.

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, “Is this true?”

"You may have heard it wrong, right?"

He Lianlian immediately said, "It must be true. The Gu family said it themselves. How could it be false?"

Someone said, "No wonder we saw Xu Huaishan and his family running towards Gu's house in a panic. Could it be that they are about to be picked up by the old man in the city?"

There is not much entertainment in the countryside at this time, but if there is a little excitement, everyone will squeeze in to take a look.

So when we heard that an old man from the city might come to pick up Gu Jin, we looked at each other as we were listening to the gossip, and then we started walking towards Gu's house in unison.

When Xu Huaishan and others arrived at Gu's house, Zhong Meixian and Gu Jin's sister-in-law were kneading dough in the kitchen, and Wen Tang and Chi Yue were sitting at the kitchen door picking onions.

As Gu Jin was making noodles, he suddenly thought of Xu Huaishan's kindness, and said to Zhong Meixian, "An Cheng's father was not without some good qualities. At that time, everyone was poor and had nothing to eat. He often went hungry and saved food for the three of us."

Zhong Meixian also advised, "This is how life is. Everything is sweet, but we will go through life with ups and downs."

"Besides, men are sometimes careless and not as careful as women."

As the two were talking, Xu Huaishan came to Gu's house.

When he entered the yard, he saw that there was no one in the main room. Wen Tang and Chi Yue were sitting at the kitchen door. He knew that Gu Jin must be in the kitchen.

Just let the kitchen go.

Wen Tang and Chi Yue tactfully moved their stools to make room near the door and continued to pick onions, but they also said to the kitchen, "Mom, aunt, uncle is here."

Then Xu Ancheng and the others followed into the yard.

Wen Tang added, "Cousin, the cousins are here too."

When Gu Jin looked up, she saw Xu Huaishan standing at the kitchen door with his fists clenched and his eyes wide open, staring at her. The first thing he said was, "Go home quickly and stop embarrassing yourself here."

Gu Jin had been looking at his expression, and had heard Wen Tang say that Xu Ancheng and the others had come together, so he guessed that perhaps something had happened and wanted to ask.

She got angry and decided not to live with Xu Huaishan.

But after all, several decades have passed, and she has given birth to Xu Ancheng's three children, and has so many grandchildren. She can't just ignore him completely.

But Xu Huaishan started off in a bad mood, and Gu Jin also got angry.

He threw the dough he was kneading onto the table, and Gu Jin asked him, "What kind of person am I embarrassing?"

"Besides, I'm at my own mother's house. Even if I was embarrassed, I didn't go to your Xu's house. Why do you have to take care of it?"

Xu Huaishan was so angry at this that he was speechless.

Xu Anming poked his head out, "Mom, don't be angry with Dad. This... even if you want to make a fuss, you can't go to the old man in the city!"

"Won't others laugh at our family?"

"Besides, is it necessary for you to make such a fuss over a basin of foot washing water?"

"Looking for..." Gu Jin was also confused about the old man in the city, but he felt chilled by his son's next words.

It was all about a basin of foot washing water. Even her niece-in-law knew it. It was clearly the last straw that broke the camel's back. But this biological son...

Wen Tang heard the old man in the city and raised his hand weakly, "Where did you hear that?"

Zhang Fen quickly said, "My second aunt told me, and she also said...she also said that my aunt said it herself." Zhang Fen didn't dare to look Zhong Meixian in the eye, because she was not sure whether what He Lianlian said was true.

Zhong Meixian also threw the noodles in her hand onto the table after hearing this. "Bullshit, who said that?"

Wen Tang silently raised his hand a little higher, "...Maybe, it could be me."

Everyone's eyes were focused on Wen Tang.

Gu Yanli also came out of the house.

He was just packing up his things in the house. He would be leaving the day after tomorrow, so he had to prepare some things first. Some things that needed to be mended had to be mended tomorrow.

It had been ten days since he came back, and he really had no time to look through his luggage.

Just like that, it felt like ten days had passed in the blink of an eye.

As for why time seemed to pass so quickly, it was because I didn’t eat enough meat.

Wen Tang finished speaking and quickly added, "But what I said was definitely not that my aunt found an old man in the city."

She glanced at the Xu family and said unconvincingly, "I just said that my aunt had bad taste when she was young. She was so pretty, but... she chose my uncle."

Xu Huaishan: "..."

Wen Tang was right. When Gu Jin was young, she was indeed a rare beauty in the area.

Heads began to pop up one after another on the wall of Gu family's courtyard.

Gu Yanli stood at the door of the main room, his eyes sweeping over those heads. Those heads all smiled at Gu Yanli ingratiatingly, but still lay on the wall.

Wen Tang didn't know that there were many people watching over him on the wall behind him, and he kept saying, "I didn't say anything else. I just said that if my aunt had found someone from the city, the old men in the city would not only have high salaries, but also high quality."

Chi Yue nodded and said, "Yes, I can wash pots and dishes, and I don't need anyone to pour water for washing my feet."

Xu Huaishan: "..."

You can't pass through this foot washing water, right?

Zhong Meixian also testified for her daughter-in-law, "Yes, Huaishan, Xiaotang didn't say anything else. She just met Xu Laoer's family and heard her bullying Xiaojin, so she said something about Xiaojin marrying an old man in the city. It was just nonsense."

Zhang Fen turned around and saw He Lianlian and a group of women crowding at the entrance of Gu's courtyard. She went over and grabbed them and brought them in. "Second aunt, didn't you tell me before that mother was going to look for an old man in the city?"