Chapter 4 Gu Yuehuai, come out!
Gu Yuehuai pushed open the small door in the fence and looked at the messy yard, the heat in his eyes could hardly be concealed.
She almost forgot about this yard, which only carried her memories of a few years. If the accident had not happened tonight, which forced her to get married in a hurry, perhaps all the tragedies that followed would not have happened.
Gu Yuehuai pushed the door open and looked at the locked wooden door. After a moment of thought, he bent down and clumsily took out the key from the crack in the stone on the ground and opened the door.
She looked at the earthen kang, the boiler stove, and the four-legged low table in the room, raised her hand and wiped away the tears from her eyes.
"Dad? Brother?" Gu Yuehuai took a deep breath and shouted towards the inner room, but no one answered.
She took two quick steps, lifted the door curtain with a bright red peony print on it, and looked inside. There was only a large earthen kang in the inner room, with pillows and quilts piled together in a mess.
This was the room they lived in. They were all grown men who didn't like cleanliness and didn't know how to tidy up. Plus, she was a lazy person who always depended on others for food, so she naturally wouldn't have the time to help her father and brother tidy up the kang.
Gu Yuehuai left the inner room and went to the other side to take a look at his room.
There was a rare bed in the room, covered with sheets and quilts that were about 80% new and had no patches. There was also a red lacquered wooden wardrobe and boxes beside the bed. The furnishings were no different from those in the city.
Gu Yuehuai stared at it for a while before turning around and leaving the room.
She looked at the unwashed stove and iron pot, pursed her lips, rolled up her sleeves and started cleaning up.
The memory was too distant, she could no longer remember where they went at this time, but her eldest brother would come back later, and he would bring back a man who had ruined her life.
Gu Yuehuai's eyes deepened and he decided not to think about this matter for the time being.
She cleaned the stove, tidied the bed and bedding on the kang, took out the dirty and starched quilt covers and washed them. She was busy for the whole afternoon. Sometimes someone passed by outside the fenced yard and saw her washing clothes and drying quilts, and they were almost shocked.
Is this really the Gu Yuehuai who is lazy and only knows how to chase men all day?
Gu Yuehuai smiled at everyone he met. His chubby face and eyes looked like crescents when he smiled. His temperament changed and he looked more energetic. However, when people called him "uncle, aunt, sister-in-law", Gu Yuehuai's face became stiff when he smiled.
She looked at the clean and fresh sheets and quilt flying in the wind, and raised her hand to rub her stiff cheeks.
In this era, caution and enthusiasm are emphasized. It is always better to be kind to others than to be deserted by friends and relatives in the previous life.
After cleaning the house from inside to outside, it was getting dark.
Gu Yuehuai pounded his aching waist, wiped the sweat off his face with his hand, and seeing that it was almost time, he prepared to cook dinner.
In the corner of the stove stood a noodle jar and a bulging grain bag, and next to it was a broken basket for vegetables.
Gu Yuehuai bent down and looked through the food. The cornmeal in the flour jar was almost gone. There were not many vegetables in the basket, only two sweet potatoes, a cabbage and a few potatoes.
She paused, then opened the grain bag and took a look. It was filled with wheat flour.
Gu Yuehuai pursed his lips.
She had never cooked before she got married, but she knew that what she ate was different from what her father and brothers ate. While they were drinking corn porridge, she could eat steamed buns and dumplings made from wheat flour.
In the Gu family, she is the only one who can eat fine grains.
Gu Yuehuai put the past aside and poured out most of the wheat flour from the grain bag. Today was the first day of her rebirth, her new life, so she had to make some white flour pancakes to celebrate.
She scooped water and kneaded the dough with smooth movements.
She has lived alone for more than ten years, and she often studies cooking, improving her cooking skills day by day. As long as she has the ingredients, even if it's just a pile of leftovers, she can make delicious food.
As soon as they made peace with each other and woke up, they heard Chen Yuesheng's suppressed angry voice outside.
"Gu Yuehuai! Come out!"
Gu Yuehuai wiped his hands clean, then took out the potatoes, peeled them, cut them into shreds, and soaked them in water. After all the dishes were prepared, he slowly opened the door and walked out.
She looked at Chen Yuesheng standing outside the fence and suddenly laughed.
When she came back again, she didn't see the person she was eager to see, but instead met these "enemies" one after another.
Chen Yuesheng is a young talent in Dalaozi Village. As the saying goes, a man you marry provides you with food and clothing. The two production team leaders of the Chen family live a good life and have been rated as a model worker family. Which unmarried girl would not eye this piece of fat meat?
She didn't think about it at first, but one time when Chen Yuesheng went into the mountains to collect firewood he encountered a wolf and his legs were bitten. It was her eldest brother who carried him out of the mountains, which was a life-saving grace.
If this happened in ancient times, Chen Yuesheng would have to marry her to the sister of her savior.
Her ancestors were landlords, and when she was a child she often heard her grandmother tell stories about rich girls and poor boys. In her opinion, since her elder brother saved him, Chen Yuesheng had to marry her.
However, not everything can go as planned.
Although Chen Yuesheng looked down on her, she was determined to make the deal of "repaying his life-saving grace with her body" and would come to "harass" him from time to time. This was also the reason why she obeyed Chen Yin's words.
She is fat and rude, how can she compare to Tian Jing's gentleness and kindness?
Chen Yuesheng looked at Gu Yuehuai with disgust, his hands hanging by his side clenched into fists, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Gu Yuehuai! How did Xiaoyin offend you that you want to hurt her like this?"
Before he came back from the fields, he heard that Chen Yin was taken to the brigade for criticism and education. The team even deprived her of her right to earn work points, saying it was a punishment for harming a class comrade!
Once this matter came to light, the Chen family felt like the sky had fallen.
"My mother fainted when she heard about Xiaoyin. She was just carried back from the field. My father was so angry that he couldn't go to work." "Gu Yuehuai, I was very grateful to your eldest brother for saving me. Afterwards, he brought ten kilograms of wheat flour and ten yuan. I don't owe your family anything, so why do you keep pestering me? And now you've even hurt my sister!"
As he said this, veins in Chen Yuesheng's neck throbbed, and it was obvious that he had endured to the limit.
Gu Yuehuai smiled faintly.
This life is different from the previous one.
In his previous life, in order to get rid of her, Chen Yuesheng directly instructed Chen Yin to humiliate her. In this life, because Chen Yin failed and even suffered heavy losses, Chen Yuesheng came directly to his house.
Yes, after her elder brother rescued her, he brought food and money to her house. However, he later cheated these things back from her with various reasons. If Chen Yuesheng had been so disgusted and avoided her from the beginning, she would not have been so shameless to stick to him, and even became a well-known "girl who wants to get married" in the surrounding area.
Thinking of this, Gu Yuehuai looked at Chen Yuesheng seriously.
Come to think of it, she hadn't seen this man for more than ten years.
When he was young, Chen Yuesheng was about 1.8 meters tall. His face was not handsome, but it was angular. His thick eyebrows made him look very energetic. In addition, he wore a military green cotton jacket that was different from that of ordinary farmers, which gave him an indescribable charm.
"Comrade Chen, how come I harmed your sister?"
As Gu Yuehuai spoke, he raised his hand and touched his forehead which was wrapped in a snow-white bandage.
Chen Yuesheng frowned, he knew Chen Yin's character very well. Today, she was probably a little angry when she spoke and started fighting, which made Gu Yuehuai, the idiot, find fault with her.
However, as long as Gu Yuehuai is willing to go back on his word, the brigade will give his family face and turn a blind eye to it.
Thinking of this, Chen Yuesheng's facial muscles moved and he forced a smile: "Yuehuai, Xiaoyin is still young and naive. You should not argue with her. I apologize to you on her behalf. I hope you can forgive her."
Gu Yuehuai looked at him with a half-smile, and suddenly said, "Comrade Chen, I am one year younger than Chen Yin."
After these words were spoken, Chen Yuesheng's expression froze.
"Comrade Chen is the team leader of our Dalaozi Production Brigade. He is also a big shot in our village. How come his sister made a mistake, but he doesn't repent and even forces the victim to forgive her?"
"Your mom fainted, and your dad doesn't want to go to work?"
“Does your whole family have a tendency to resist criticizing relatives’ capitalism?”
As he spoke, Gu Yuehuai's tone was filled with shock, and he even took two steps back, looking at Chen Yuesheng as if he were looking at some malignant tumor.
Chen Yuesheng's face turned pale.
If this word gets out, he will definitely not be able to be the leader of the Sixth Production Team.
Do I really have to sacrifice my entire family for Chen Yin?
Chen Yuesheng was somewhat rational after all, and he quickly reacted and said calmly: "Gu Yuehuai, don't put the blame on me. I came here to apologize for Chen Yin. As for the mistakes she made, the team gave her fair and just punishment, and our whole family accepted it calmly. Since you are unwilling to forgive her, then I won't say anything."
Gu Yuehuai shrugged, turned and left.
Chen Yuesheng's face was gloomy, but he felt a little annoyed and stunned in his heart. If he had known that asking Chen Yin to "cut the Gordian knot" would make Gu Yuehuai desperate, he would have let him do it. However, this woman with sharp words, was she really Gu Yuehuai?
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