Gu Guanhai stepped forward and asked, "It's almost lunchtime. Aren't you cooking? Are you feeling unwell?"

As he spoke, he reached out to touch her forehead.

Yu Mingxiang snapped out of her daze and immediately took a step back to avoid it.

She looked up at the man in front of her.

Don't you have anything to say to me?

Their eyes met.

Gu Guanhai remained silent.

Yu Mingxiang pursed her lips.

She was not an innocent young girl; she was widowed in her thirties and a mother of three. Although she appeared to be in her forties, she had the heart of a woman in her seventies or eighties.

She knew very well what the look in Gu Guanhai's eyes meant.

She is waiting.

She waited for Gu Guanhai to take credit, waited for him to break the ice, and then she clearly rejected him, but...

"hehe."

Gu Guanhai chuckled softly, then said with great interest, "What should I say? What do I want to eat? I want sweet and sour pork, spicy chicken..."

He rattled off several dish names.

Yu Mingxiang: "!!"

Watching him shamelessly order food, I took a deep breath and turned to go into the kitchen.

In her previous life, she was sent to the countryside and did farm work, the hardest and most tiring kind of work.

The hardship of farm work was too much for her to bear, let alone her daughter-in-law.

She could refuse Gu Guanhai's help, but what about her daughter-in-law?

Her daughter-in-law was six months pregnant, and she dared not take any risks, so...

Since Gu Guanhai didn't say anything, she didn't press him further, because she really couldn't refuse his kindness.

In the courtyard.

Gu Guanhai stood there for a while before going back inside.

Dinner was ready an hour or two later.

Gu Guanhai came out and saw the sweet and sour pork and braised chicken on the table; his eyes flickered slightly.

"Mom, can you and Xiaoru really not go to work?"

Qin Weiguo was overjoyed to learn that his mother and wife wouldn't have to go to work. "This is wonderful! I was worried that your health wouldn't be able to handle it..."

Qin Xiangdong was also very happy. He turned to Gu Guanhai and said, "Uncle Gu, do you have any wine at home? Such a good thing deserves a drink!"

Gu Guanhai didn't say anything, but went back into the house and brought out a pot of his treasured old wine.

The three men started drinking and chatting.

As they chatted, the way the two brothers looked at Gu Guanhai changed.

They discovered that no matter what topic they discussed, Gu Guanhai, despite his rough-and-tumble appearance, could always keep up with the conversation and get to the point.

"Uncle Gu, aren't you a native of Hedao Village? How do you know so much?"

Qin Weiguo looked at him in surprise and said, "You even know the development trend of world physics. You're amazing. You don't seem like a country bumpkin."

"Ha ha!"

Gu Guanhai laughed loudly upon hearing this, "I went out to make my way in the world when I was fourteen or fifteen, during the war..."

He paused at this point.

Yu Mingxiang, who was sitting opposite him, also subconsciously looked up at him.

A true hero doesn't dwell on past glories!

Gu Guanhai composed himself, raised his wine cup, and aptly changed the subject, "Come on, let's keep drinking!"

Yu Mingxiang watched the three people clinking glasses and exchanging toasts in silence.

Although he didn't take advantage of her kindness, she remembered it.

The two children have to go to work tomorrow, so the three of them had a few drinks.