Chapter 40

After returning to the Gu family, she took the food to the kitchen and used clean chopsticks to take out some of the food - these were for her, Old Mrs. Gu, Mrs. Gu Chen, and Gu Qiuhe. The rest would be taken outside and arranged.

On the one hand, when men are drinking, women are not allowed to sit at the table. This is because men may get drunk and start talking nonsense, especially when women are present. This can easily lead to confusion and cause embarrassment.

On the one hand, it cannot be served on the table.

Of course Gu Xinxin was resentful, but this was not the modern world, and she did not have the character to go against the world while she was still a young seedling in order to die early, so following the customs was not something unbearable.

Gu Chen didn't want to go out, fearing embarrassment, but she was really hungry. She hadn't eaten since she was at Chen's house, and now it was already half a day. If she didn't eat, she was afraid she would starve to death.

She came out with a headscarf wrapped around her head and went to the kitchen in a secretive manner.

Gu Xinxin was dividing the chopsticks. She looked up and almost laughed out loud. The colorful expressions on Gu Chen's face were really beautiful.

Gu Chen glared at her: "Is it funny?"

Gu Xinxin laughed openly: "I didn't laugh just now, but if you insist on asking, even if I did laugh, what can you do to me?"

Gu Chen was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Do you want to teach your uncle how to make money?"

Gu Xinxin looked outside and raised her eyebrows: "Did Gu Wenshu say that?"

"Don't worry about who said it. Do you want to teach your uncle how to make money?" Gu Chen asked with a somewhat sinister look on her face. But unfortunately, with the colorful colors on her face, this sinister expression only had a funny effect.

Gu Xinxin nodded: "Yes."

Anyway, this matter cannot be concealed, so it makes no difference whether I tell it now or later.

Gu Chen slammed the table: "I don't agree!"

"Stepmother, you should understand your identity. You are just a stepmother. I make my own decisions about my affairs. It is not your turn to help me make decisions." Gu Xinxin raised her eyebrows and said. Gu Chen was so angry that she wanted to die. Why did Gu Daniu refuse when she wanted to teach the Chen family and had to take her to the Chen family to ask for money, but Gu Xinxin could make the decision herself if she wanted to teach the Wang family?

Just by looking at her expression, Gu Xinxin could guess what she was thinking, and a half-smile appeared on her face: "Stepmother, this idea of ​​making money is mine. Even if the Gu family can make money now, it is because of me, do you understand? If you have an idea of ​​making money, then just tell me, or go and do it. If you can make money, I promise not to ask for a penny. Whether you teach it to the Chen family or any of the Zhang, Wang, Li, and Zhao families, I don't care, and I can't control it. Similarly, I can give my idea to whoever I want, let alone the Wang family. Even if it's a beggar on the street, if I like him, I can give him this idea for free."

She asked, "Do you understand?"

Gu Chen gritted her teeth and said, "As long as you haven't married yet, you are a member of the Gu family, and all your ideas belong to the Gu family!"

When alive, he is a member of the Gu family; when dead, he is a ghost of the Gu family. Even his body and soul belong to the Gu family, so naturally the ideas in his mind also belong to the Gu family.

Gu Xinxin wanted to argue with her, but she swallowed the words back. There was really no point in arguing with someone like her. If you talked about human rights and women's rights with her, not only would she not understand, she would even think you were possessed by some ghost.

There is a saying on the Internet that you can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep. Gu Chen was not only pretending to be asleep, she was even pretending to be dead.

Oh, maybe it’s not fake, but real.

So no matter how much Gu Xinxin said, it would be a waste of words.

Old Mrs. Gu said nothing, but just kept shoveling food into her bowl - this was food from a restaurant in town, and it was rare to even smell it, let alone eat it.

Gu Xinxin also hurriedly picked up some food and started eating. As for Gu Qiuhe, although she was young, she used chopsticks very skillfully, and the food she picked up was almost leaving afterimages.

Seeing no one paying attention to her, Gu Chen became even angrier. But she really didn't dare to hit Gu Xinxin at this moment. After all, Uncle Wang was sitting outside. She had been beaten by Aunt Wang before, and now she still has some psychological trauma.

Uncle Wang asked to leave early the next morning, and Gu Daniu said, "Originally, Xinxin wanted to go back with you. After all, it's been a long time since we last saw the two elders. But you know, our family can't do without Xinxin right now."

Gu Daniu added, "Xiang Rong also wants to study... How about this, wait until Mid-Autumn Festival. I'll personally take them over to visit their parents-in-law and say hello to them."

Uncle Wang frowned, but Gu Xinxin, carrying her small package, said, "Dad, it's okay if our business is off for a few days. Besides, doesn't stepmother know how to do it? If she can teach the Chen family, wouldn't it be easy for me to do it myself?"

Gu Daniu was a little confused: "The Chen family can't make it... The food the Chen family makes doesn't taste right."

So he didn't make much money these days. He took back three taels, and the remaining one tael was the Chen family's original savings.

It’s been at least three days, and I’ve only earned two taels... It shows how unpalatable the Chen family’s fried dough twists are.

Gu Xinxin waved her hand: "Anyway, I have to stay at Wang's house for a few days. My uncle and I have agreed that I will teach him a cooking method."

Gu Daniu's face darkened. "I said you are not allowed to go, so you are not allowed to go. You are the head of the family, and you are in charge of the daily expenses. If you go to the Wang family, what will happen to the family? If you want to teach me, just ask your aunt to come."

Then he looked at Wang Fengshou and said, "Uncle, you see, our family really can't do without Xinxin... If you want to learn a skill, logically speaking, it should be someone from your family who learns, right? Apprenticeship can only be done by visiting the family, so how can a master come here to learn from the family? There's no such rule, right?"

Gu Xinxin looked at Gu Chen - what kind of whispering did Gu Chen give to Gu Daniu last night?

"Dad, are you worried about the business these days?" Gu Xinxin asked. Gu Daniu didn't say anything. Gu Xinxin said, "Business doesn't have to be done every day. If you go every day, people might not be interested anymore. If you go every once in a while, they won't be able to eat for a long time, and they might start to miss it."

This is called hunger marketing. You feed the market all at once, but they get tired of it after a few days. Who would be willing to continue eating?

Gu Daniu waved his hand: "You don't understand. Anyway, you are not allowed to go, so just stay at home."

Wang Fengshou sneered: "You think I'm dead? What? My eldest sister is gone, so you want to sever ties with my Wang family, right?"

Gu Daniu waved his hand. "I didn't say we were breaking off the relationship. You said that yourself. I was just saying that I'm busy these days and Xinxin needs to help out at home. At her age, you can ask around the village and see which girl of her age spends all day just thinking about visiting relatives? Aren't they all supposed to work at home and help with things at home?"