Chapter 10 It’s such a pity for Captain Gu
"Burp..." Gu Dong collapsed on the long chair, touched his stomach and burped, the burp was mixed with the aroma of meat and onions.
It has been a long time since I had such a satisfying breakfast. In the past, Yu Hui had sweet potato porridge in the morning, with dried radishes brought by her grandmother from the countryside.
He didn't like sweet potatoes and only drank porridge with dried radish and mixed vegetables. By the time he was in the second class at school, his stomach was growling with hunger.
Every day he would go hungry for two classes at school before running home for lunch. Lunch was still sweet potato rice, and the only dish was stir-fried shredded potatoes and vegetables, which was not tasty at all.
"I'm so full. The scallion pancake is so delicious." Gu Xi also leaned back in the chair, touching his round belly with his little hands, still savoring the taste of the scallion pancake.
“I wish I could eat such delicious scallion pancakes every day.”
"Brother." Gu Xi turned his head to look at Gu Dong, "Let's take a bath tonight."
Because his stepmother made scallion pancakes for them after they took a bath, he wanted to continue taking a bath so that he could eat scallion pancakes for breakfast tomorrow.
Gu Nan rolled his eyes in disdain at his younger brother, thinking that he was a little stupid.
Gu Dong: "It's only May now, who takes a shower every day?"
Although it is a bit hot at noon, it is still very cool in the morning and evening. I don’t sweat much all day. What’s the point of taking a shower every day?
"Besides, tap water is free!"
The military compound where Gu Dong and his friends live is close to the urban area, so it is also equipped with running water, making it very convenient to use water.
Gu Xi pouted, "Then I won't be able to eat scallion pancakes tomorrow morning?"
After washing the dishes, Yu Hui walked into the main room carrying the spicy rice crackers she had made yesterday. "Tomorrow morning we'll have pork and scallion stuffed buns. We'll start making them in the afternoon and have buns in the evening as well."
"Really?" Gu Xi's round little face was full of surprise.
"Of course it's true, but you all have to stay home this morning and don't run around or act up. I'll make dumplings for you in the afternoon after I get back from the city."
Gu Dong frowned and snorted.
Gu Nan also put on a look of disdain, but in fact his mind was full of buns stuffed with pork and green onions.
"I promise to be a good boy, and I will watch over my big brother and second brother." Gu Xi raised his little hand, but just as he finished speaking, he was glared at by his two brothers.
Although he was a little timid, he still did not put his hand down. In order to eat the delicious buns, he would risk being beaten and stop his brothers from running around and making mischief.
Yu Hui pointed at Gu Xi and said seriously, "Then this family will be handed over to you."
Gu Xi slid down from the long bench, put his feet together, and saluted. "I promise to complete the mission."
"Hehe..." Yu Hui was so touched by the child's cuteness that she laughed out loud.
Gu Xi is a very interesting kid.
Gu Dong and Gu Nan looked at their younger brother with disdain, thinking that his thinking had slipped a bit and that he had been corrupted by his stepmother's sugar-coated bullets. They planned to give him a good education after his stepmother left.
"I'll put this rice crust on the table. You can eat it when you're hungry. There's some candy in the drawer of the chest of drawers. You can take it yourself if you want to eat it, but don't eat too much, or you'll break your teeth."
When they heard there was candy, the three children became alert and looked towards the chest of drawers in the corner.
Yu Hui picked up the big cloth bag and held Beibei in the cradle. "I'm going to the city to buy milk powder. I'll take Beibei to the next door and ask your Aunt Qian to help look after him."
"You guys stay at home and keep an eye on Beibei."
Gu Dong and Gu Nan didn't say anything, only Gu Xi said okay and followed Yu Hui to the Yu family next door.
When Qian Lan learned that Yu Hui wanted her to help look after Beibei for a while, she readily agreed. She also kept praising the scallion pancakes made by Yu Hui and said she would ask her for the recipe some other day.
After Yu Hui settled Beibei down, she hurried out.
It's already half past eight, and she will try to get back before eleven so as not to delay Mrs. Qian from making lunch.
There was a bus stop outside the compound. It was five stops to the store she wanted to go to, and the fare was only five cents.
At this hour, there were only four people waiting for the bus at the bus stop.
People in the compound leave very early to go to the city to work, shop or do business.
The four people were all girls, and they seemed to know each other and were chatting all the time.
One of the girls was very fair-skinned, with long black hair. She wore a round-necked blue long-sleeved dress with floral patterns, carried an embroidered cloth bag, and wore leather shoes. She looked particularly youthful and pretty.
The other few, although not as well dressed as the girl, were also wearing white shirts and army green pants.
Based on their attire, Yu Hui guessed that they were most likely in the military.
Yu Hui looked at the clothes worn by other young girls, and then looked at her own old blue cloth jacket and old black cloth pants, and she felt that she was very unfashionable.
The original owner only had a few clothes, and this was the best dress she had chosen.
No, this is not the best. The red dress suit that the original owner wore at her wedding was the best.
She bought it for six dollars when she got married, but she was so dark as coal that she couldn't wear it out.
The original owner was often ridiculed when she wore that outfit at her wedding.
Yu Hui took all the cloth coupons at home with her. She would go to the state-owned store later and buy some cloth to make some bright clothes for herself.
The sleeves and trouser legs of those children's clothes are a bit short, and it's time to make new ones.
The Gu family has a sewing machine, and she happens to know how to use it.
She learned this from the director's mother when she was in the orphanage. After she grew up and started working, she bought a sewing machine. Many of the clothes that her colleagues praised were made by her.
The Gu family's sewing machine was the betrothal gift when he married Lin Siyu. Gu Huai liked Lin Siyu very much, so the betrothal gift was made according to the highest standards in the city, with three turns and one ring.
A watch, a bicycle, a sewing machine, and a radio.
The Lin family left behind the watch, bicycle, and radio, but no one used the sewing machine, so Lin Siyu brought it as a dowry.
Apart from this, there was no other dowry.
In addition to these, the Lin family also asked for a cash gift of one hundred yuan. Although the brothers in the army felt that it was a bit too much, Gu Huai liked Lin Siyu, so he paid it without saying a word.
In order to marry Lin Siyu, Gu Huai could be said to have emptied his family's assets.
"Isn't that the rural woman that Captain Gu married?" Liu Qian pointed at the woman who was two or three meters away from them, with dry yellow hair, dark skin, and rustic clothes, and said to her three good sisters.
"That?" The other three stretched their necks to look in the direction she pointed, and frowned when they saw the person she was talking about.
"It seems so. I heard that she also abused Captain Gu's child." Xu Jiao frowned and said with disdain.
"She is ugly and has such a bad heart. It's a pity that Captain Gu, such a good man, marries a wife like this." Wu Hongyan, who has short hair that reaches her ears, shook her head and said with regret.
Zhang Ying, who had her hair tied in a ponytail, curled her lips. "Director Sun is even trying to match Captain Gu with someone from our art troupe. If he didn't have four children, I don't know how many girls in our art troupe would want to marry him."
It’s just that Captain Gu has too many children, four in total, and one of them is still breastfeeding. If there were only two or three fewer, she would be willing to marry him.
"Xue Lian, don't you think so?" Zhang Ying nudged Ye Xue Lian, who was wearing a floral dress, with her elbow.
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