Chapter 221 222. Purpose

Gu Yuanfeng looked at the baby in the cradle with a hint of unwillingness in his eyes. Everyone had said before that she was carrying a boy, so how come it turned out to be a girl?

What's the use of a girl? The He family doesn't like her, and it's even more impossible for the seventh brother to take the child over.

If she had known this would be the result, she should have listened to her mother and taken that packet of medicine and wouldn't be suffering now.

Li Cuicui came in with some soup and saw that her tears were still falling. She sighed again, "Don't cry. If you cry your eyes out, you'll regret it someday."

"Mom, how come it's a girl? What's the use of such a money-loser?" Gu Yuanfeng wiped away his tears, "The He family will definitely not want her."

Li Cuicui put the bowl on the kang cabinet and said, "I've long said that their family is unreliable, but you just don't believe it. Do you really think I don't know that you met with He Tuping behind my back?

I was too lazy to care about it, and I thought that after all, this was the He family's flesh and blood, and giving birth to the baby and bringing it back to them was the best option.

Now that the baby is born, let your brothers and others help you send the baby back."

"This?" Gu Yuanfeng hesitated, "How about waiting a little longer?"

"What are you waiting for?" Li Cuicui said sarcastically, "Waiting for them to come and pick you up? I'm telling you this, if you go to the He family again, you won't be able to come back to your parents' home in the future."

"Tsuchida..."

"Shut up. Mention it again and you can leave now."

The baby's crying made Li Cuicui endure it, "Drink the soup quickly, I have to feed the baby."

"What kind of soup is this?" Gu Yuanfeng took a look at the preserved vegetable soup, "Mom, is there no meat at home?"

Li Cuicui, "No one is going to the market, where will the meat come from for you to eat?

The chickens I raised in the spring have not laid any eggs so far."

Gu Yuanfeng, "Can't you just kill a chicken?"

"This chicken is about to lay eggs. It would be a shame to kill it. Besides, it was you two who were greedy a while ago and killed all the roosters in the house."

"Mom, my brothers didn't come home to visit today?" Gu Yuanfeng asked while drinking the soup.

Li Cuicui leaned over to take a look at the little girl and found that she was sucking on her little mouth. Her facial features were somewhat similar to Gu Yuanfeng's. "What's there to see? You are staying at home now. They are helping your seventh brother in the county town during this period. They are probably not at home at this time."

"My sisters-in-law are always at home, right? They don't even know how to come and take a look at this place that is so close to us."

Li Cuicui saw her put down the bowl, picked it up and walked out, "You still complain when I serve you? You should be content. When you were giving birth to Xiaocao, you went to the fields to cook for the whole family that day. I spoiled you."

Gu Yuanfeng curled his lips and turned to stare at the baby in the swaddling clothes. "What a useless child! Why isn't it a son? If it was a son, he would have enjoyed endless blessings."

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"Why are you back today?" Li Cuicui just walked out of the door and saw Gu Wenheng and Jin Qianqian pushing the door open.

"Mom, I came back to see you," Gu Wenheng took the hoe from her hand, "Where's my dad?"

"I don't know where he's going so early in the morning," Li Cuicui's tone was full of helplessness. Anyway, Gu Dashi had a feeling of having nothing to lose, and he didn't want to do any work, whether it was housework or farm work.

After all the arguments and scolding, Li Cuicui had given up long ago and just treated him as a mascot and placed him at home. At least she didn't have to bear the label of a widow.

Gu Wenheng called Mrs. Song and Luo Gang to Li Cuicui and asked them to greet each other one by one, "Mrs. Song usually helps you with some chores at home, so you don't have to work so hard.

If you want to do the work in the fields, let Luo Gang do it."

Li Cuicui's eyes widened. "No, this won't do. I've been doing farm work all my life, why would I need someone to serve me?

There are many people who are needed there, please take them back quickly."

Jin Qianqian walked over and took Li Cuicui's arm, "Mom, you've been busy all day and night, it's really too hard, and now that your son is capable, he will naturally let you live a good life. If you want to do it in the future, you can do it. If you don't want to do it, we can just walk around the village."

"But this is too expensive. Besides, we have no place to live at home." Li Cuicui looked embarrassed. She even had to use servants, but she didn't even have a place to live.

Jin Qianqian smiled and said, "We have already thought about this. They will work here during the day and stay with us at night. They can also help us clean up the house."

"This," Li Cuicui was still a little uneasy, "We are still in good health, but those people in this village don't know how to be polite to us?"

Jin Qianqian helped her walk inside, "Mom, it's enough for us to live comfortably, and you can't let my husband and I live a good life in the city, so you continue to suffer here!

To be honest, with them here with you, Gu Wenheng can feel more at ease outside."

"Is the seventh brother going on a long journey again?" Li Cuicui immediately looked up at Gu Wenheng. The son in front of her gave her a feeling of both familiarity and unfamiliarity. He was still the same person, but she didn't know when he had grown up to the point where she couldn't recognize him.

Jin Qianqian quickly told Gu Wenheng the date of the provincial examination, "I have to go there a few days earlier this time. It will take a long time for me to come back to see you."

Li Cuicui put her hands together and kept praying to the sky, "May all gods bless my son and have a smooth exam..."

"Mom, there are visitors at home." Gu Yuanfeng, who was hiding in the room, shouted loudly, "I think I heard the voices of Lao Qi and the others. Are they back?"

Li Cuicui then remembered that there was another big Buddha statue at home. "Your sixth sister gave birth to a girl yesterday, but you, Seventh Brother, don't go in. She is preparing for the imperial examination. Don't go in and disturb her."

Gu Wenheng didn't want to go in to visit in the first place, but now that the old lady had found an explanation for him, he just sat there quietly.

"What's the matter? As his elder sister, I can't let him come to visit." Gu Yuanfeng lifted the curtain and was about to walk out, but was stopped by Li Cuicui.

"What are you doing out there?"

“This isn’t Old Seven, they’re back, I’m going out to talk to them about something.

If they don't come into my room, I can go out and meet them, right?" Gu Yuanfeng wanted to go around Li Cuicui, but Li Cuicui grabbed her hand and made her unable to move.

"Just keep quiet. Old Seven is preparing to take the imperial examination. Don't you know what your situation is now?"

"The seventh son is going to take the imperial examination?" Gu Yuanfeng was a little surprised. "The seventh son has only studied with the old scholar for a few years, how can he be so capable?"

"That's because the seventh son is lucky and smart," Li Cuicui said with pride, "by then he will be a juren."

(End of this chapter)