Chapter 15: Family Conflict
"Second brother, third brother."
I miss you guys so much.
Gu Yuehuai silently responded to these words in her heart. The past filled with blood and tears has become a thing of the past. From now on, she will lead them to live well and live a long life.
Gu Ruihuai scratched his ears and made a shocked expression: "Did you take the wrong medicine?"
Gu Yuehuai smiled bitterly. It was no wonder that her second brother was surprised. She had a strange and paranoid personality since she was a child. She was arrogant and domineering. She longed to go to the city to find her mother and hoped to become a city dweller who ate commercial grain.
She has always disliked the few "mud-legged people" in her family.
Her father and elder brother were okay. They treated her well without any principles, so she was still able to maintain some politeness.
As for her second and third brothers, they were no different from invisible people in her eyes. After she grew up, she seldom called them and always called them Gu Ruihuai and Gu Xihuai.
Gu Xihuai was also shocked. He turned around and looked at Gu Ruihuai. He had no idea what Gu Yuehuai was up to.
"Get out! Get out of here! Did I ask you to come back to teach our daughter a lesson?" Gu Zhifeng was so angry that she raised her hand and slapped Gu Ruihuai and Gu Xihuai on the head twice with lightning speed.
Gu Ruihuai's slender eyes were filled with anger and he glared at Gu Yuehuai fiercely.
He said in a cold voice: "She just needs to be taught a lesson! An ungrateful wolf! No matter how good you are to her, she pretends not to see anything. Old Gu, I advise you to think more about yourself, and don't let Gu Yuehuai force you into jail one day."
Gu Yuehuai felt a tightness in his chest and trembled in pain.
It turns out that some things had been foreshadowed, and she really was an ungrateful person.
Gu Xihuai also said: "Gu Yuehuai, do you want to ask us for money again and give it to Chen Yuesheng?"
As soon as he said this, he felt that he had guessed right. Otherwise, he couldn't explain why Gu Yuehuai, who had always been so arrogant, suddenly called them brothers. It had happened before. She didn't even give a reason when she asked for money and simply treated them as money bags.
It would be fine if she spent the money herself, but isn't it ridiculous that she used it to support a man?
Gu Ruihuai was so angry that he was shaking. That money was earned by them brothers at the risk of being caught, and now they had to use it to pay off debts!
This damn Gu Yuehuai!
"I should have asked you to get out with that woman! It would have saved the family a mouthful of food!"
"Do you know how much coarse grains you can get from the fine grains you eat? In the market, a pound of coarse grains costs 1.3 cents, and fine grains cost 30 cents, or even 35 cents! We can't get fine grains in our village, so we have to take coarse grains to exchange with people in the city!"
"There are so many mouths to feed in our family, Gu Yuehuai, think about whether you are still a human being?"
There was one more thing he didn't say. If Gu Yuehuai hadn't always clamored for fine grains, with so many young and strong laborers in their family, even if they only earned work points, it would be enough for the whole family to have enough food in a year.
Now he can only hang around in the black market, like a thief, and has to bear the label of a "street scoundrel".
Gu Ruihuai was sarcastic and sneered, as if he was revealing years of resentment in one day.
At this moment, the look he gave his ignorant sister was even full of hatred.
Gu Yuehuai's body was shaking like a sieve. She was angry and resentful, but all these emotions were directed at herself. She knew that she was a bastard, but listening to her second brother's harsh accusations, her heart ached as if it was bleeding.
Her eyes felt a little hot and she opened her mouth to explain, but when she thought of the past, she found it difficult to speak.
She has undoubtedly become a habitual offender in front of her brothers. They will not believe anything she says. Instead of explaining, it is better to prove her changes with actions, which is more effective than saying more.
Gu Zhifeng looked at Gu Yuehuai with pity.
His tiger eyes widened, and he said sternly: "Shut up! If you bring this up again, don't blame me for being merciless! Nannan is my daughter, and it's my duty to earn money to buy her fine food. Is it your turn to make irresponsible remarks?"
"Go home now! Stop embarrassing yourself in public!"
After that, Gu Zhifeng rubbed his hands again, and smiled and pulled Gu Yuehuai to walk into the house: "Nannan, let's go home. Look what Dad brought you back. They are all good and fashionable things from the supply and marketing cooperative!"
The father and daughter went into the house, leaving behind Gu Tinghuai with a helpless look and the two brothers who were sulking.
Gu Tinghuai sighed and said, "Okay, Nannan is our sister, are you really angry with her?"
Gu Ruihuai said with a cold face, "So what if I'm angry with her? Look at what Old Gu has spoiled her to be like? She wants to marry Chen Yuesheng even though she's like this? Tsk, if I were Chen Yuesheng, I wouldn't even bother to look at her!"
Gu Tinghuai frowned: "That's too much!"
"Is what Second Brother said wrong? Gu Yuehuai is showing weakness to us now. He must be thinking of something bad again and is going to use the things at home to please Chen Yin. Big Brother, do you believe it? The shoes that Dad bought for her this time will definitely be worn by Chen Yin in two days!"
Gu Xihuai spoke in a decisive tone, and his tone was full of sarcasm.
Gu Tinghuai looked at his two younger brothers, listening to their undisguised rejection of Gu Yuehuai, feeling somewhat powerless. He shook his head and said, "Alright, let's go back. I have something else to say."
After saying that, he walked into the house first.
Gu Xihuai looked at his elder brother's slightly heavy back and frowned, "Something big must have happened at home."
Gu Ruihuai rolled his eyes: "Nonsense, otherwise the eldest brother would be in a hurry to call us back? Let's go inside, if it's any later, Old Gu will scold us again. I don't know if the three of us were picked up, and Gu Yuehuai is the only biological child?"
The two followed Gu Tinghuai into the house with dissatisfaction.
As soon as they stepped over the threshold, they heard Gu Yuehuai say "thank you" to Gu Zhifeng in a low voice.
Gu Ruihuai couldn't help but sneered again: "You should say thank you. Do you know how much the shoes in your hand cost? Two dollars and fifty cents! Old Gu can't earn that much even if he stands in the cold wind for two days!"
"You little rascal! You're the only one who talks too much! Go and cook!" Gu Zhifeng glared at Gu Ruihuai again and thought to herself, I wonder who this naughty boy resembles, he's so annoying.
Gu Ruihuai snorted coldly and went to light the fire and cook, while Gu Tinghuai helped him.
"Nannan, don't listen to your second brother's nonsense. Dad can make money! He will definitely raise our Nannan like a girl in the city!" Gu Zhifeng patted Gu Yuehuai's head gently, his love for his daughter was sincere and warm.
Gu Yuehuai lowered his eyes and looked at the clean and beautiful little white shoes in the box. His eyes were full of sadness. He bit his lips hard and didn't say anything.
This pair of white mesh shoes worth two dollars and fifty cents brought back the unspeakable pain in her memory.
At that time, she was already married and sat at home with Ren Tianxiang doing nothing every day, relying on her father and brother for support.
She couldn't sit still. One day, when she was sitting in the yard basking in the sun, she heard Chen Yin and Tian Jing talking about the fashionable things in the city. They said that the supply and marketing cooperative had purchased a batch of shoes, all white, which were worn by foreign girls in the city.
There are two kinds of white shoes. One is the white mesh shoes in her hand, which are relatively cheap, a little over two yuan a pair. The other is the Huili white shoes, which cost more than four yuan and most people cannot afford them.
When she heard this, she asked her father for Huili shoes, but what she got in the end was a pair of white mesh shoes.
She was ignorant of the sufferings of the world and squandered her father's love. When she failed to achieve her goal, she angrily threw her brand new white mesh shoes into the burning stove. Looking at the little white shoes being engulfed by the flames, she laughed.
But what greeted her was a trembling slap from her father.
That was the first time her father hit her, but seeing his face look more than ten years older, she didn't feel the slightest bit of pity. In the end, she retaliated for his slap by going on a hunger strike. Not long afterward, as if to make amends, he gritted his teeth and bought back the Warrior shoes.
The four-yuan Huili shoes made the already poor family even worse off. Seeing that the fine grains were running out, the father had no choice but to commit crimes when the town was investigating strictly, thinking of selling some rice dumplings leaves to exchange for the fine grains for her.
After that time, he never came back.
The pair of white mesh shoes in her hand turned out to be the death warrant for her father Gu Zhifeng.
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