Chapter 241 The Rich Woman is by My Side
Gu Huai didn't get home from get off work until 6:30. As soon as he saw him, Gu He, who hadn't seen him for three or four years, smiled and hugged him.
"Youngest."
"Second brother."
The two brothers let go of each other. Gu He looked at Gu Huai and said, "You are still the same as you were four years ago. You haven't changed at all. You still look so young."
"The same goes for you, second brother." Gu Huai followed.
Gu He smiled and said, "I'm not young anymore. I'm old and have white hair."
As he spoke, he wiped his hair with his hand. Gu Huai saw quite a few white hairs, and he felt inexplicably sad.
"Not many." Gu Huai's voice was muffled.
Gu He didn't notice his brother's sadness, and said with a smile: "I am old now, and my son should be getting married."
Hearing this, Gu Huai's sadness eased a little.
Gu Hongmei walked into the main room carrying the smashed cucumbers. Seeing her fourth brother, she smiled and called out, "Fourth brother."
"Hongmei." Gu Huai looked at his younger sister and called out with some heartache.
She has been married for only four years and is only 25 years old now, but her face shows some traces of time, and she looks haggard and tired. It can be seen how unhappy her life has been during these years of marriage.
When Gu Hongmei heard her fourth brother calling her with concern, her nose felt sore. She quickly turned sideways and put the dish in her hand on the table.
"Gu Huai, come and help me serve the dishes." Yu Hui's voice came from the kitchen.
Gu Huai left the main room to serve the dishes. Gu Hongmei widened her eyes, took a deep breath, and tilted her head back to let the tears fall back.
Fortunately, Fourth Sister-in-law called Fourth Brother away, otherwise she really would not be able to hold back her tears.
Gu Huai brought a large iron pot of stewed goose to the table.
Gu He was shocked. "This is too much. How can we finish it?"
I have to say, this stewed goose is really delicious.
Gu Huai smiled and said, "If you can't finish it, you can eat more tomorrow. It's not that hot now, so it won't go bad if you leave it overnight."
Gu Dong sent a bowl of meat to the Yu family. After returning, he went back into the kitchen and brought out the corn cakes that were used when stewing the goose.
When the food was served, Yu Hui put Beibei in the baby chair, put a bib on her, mixed the rice and egg custard, and placed it in front of her, letting her eat by herself.
Gu Hongmei looked at Beibei in surprise, "Beibei can eat by himself now?"
Without waiting for Yu Hui to answer, Beibei answered with his own action. He scooped a large spoonful of egg custard mixed with rice with a spoon and steadily put it into his open little mouth.
"Not bad, you can eat so well by yourself. When your sister Qiuyan was this old, she could only eat with her hands." Gu He said with a smile looking at Beibei.
Gu Nan frowned, "Won't it be dirty if I grab it with my hands?"
Gu He: "What's dirty about it? It won't make you sick if you eat something unclean."
Gu Huai picked up a piece of goose meat for Yu Hui and looked at Gu Nan and said, "When you were this old, you still liked to eat with your hands."
“!”
Gu Nan's world seemed to have collapsed.
"Impossible, I won't use my hands to grab it, Dad, you are talking nonsense."
He loves cleanliness the most, so he won't eat with his hands.
"I'm not talking nonsense. I used a spoon to feed you at that time, but you didn't want to. You cried at the top of your lungs and insisted on eating with your hands." Gu Huai said it with details.
Gu Nan: “…”
Gu He and Gu Hongmei both looked at him and laughed, and he lowered his head in embarrassment. He still thought that Sister Qiuyan made food dirty by eating with her hands when she was a child, but he didn't expect that he was the one who was dirty.
"Eat some food, eat some food." Yu Hui invited Gu He and Gu Hongmei to eat some food, and even picked up a piece of goose leg meat for Gu Hongmei.
Gu He and Gu Hongmei took a bite of the goose meat and both praised Yu Hui's cooking skills.
After dinner, Gu He and Gu Huai sat in the main room and talked, while Yu Hui, Gu Hongmei and Gu Dong took the dishes into the kitchen to wash.
"Mom, let me wash the dishes." Gu Dong said, rolling up his sleeves.
Yu Hui shook her head, "You won't wash it today. The basin is too big and you can't wash it clean."
Seeing Gu Dong volunteering to wash the dishes, Gu Hongmei praised him again: "Dongdong is so capable and sensible."
It is said that children from poor families grow up early. In the countryside, there are not many boys who are as capable and sensible as Gu Dong and who would take the initiative to ask to wash dishes.
Household chores such as cooking and washing dishes are basically done by the girls in the family.
Gu Dong smiled embarrassedly and said, "Then I'll go sweep the floor." Then he ran out.
When he walked into the main room, Gu Nan was already sweeping with a broom. Gu Dong, who had nothing to do, poured a cup of tea for his father and second father.
After cleaning up the kitchen and resting for a while, the family went to the bathhouse to take a bath. Since it was Gu Hongmei's first time to take a bath in the bathhouse here, Yu Hui carried Beibei and went with her.
"You wash first today and see if you can get used to it. If you are not used to it, we can boil water at home to wash." Yu Hui said to Gu Hongmei while holding Beibei's little hand.
"Boil water and waste a lot of coal. I used to go to the bathhouse to take a bath in the county town." People from several streets took a bath in that bathhouse, so there were more people and it was more diverse.
Yu Hui: "That's fine."
After entering the bathhouse, Yu Hui did not take off her clothes, but gave Beibei a bath first.
Whenever someone she knew asked Gu Hongmei about it, she would truthfully tell her that she was Gu Huai's biological sister and had come from her hometown to help out in her noodle shop.
When people heard that she had help, they asked her to prepare more noodles in the future.
When Yu Hui and Gu Hongmei finished their shower and walked out of the bathhouse with Beibei, Gu Huai and the others were already waiting. Men have shorter hair, so they always wash much faster.
"Baba..." Beibei ran towards his father with his short legs, opening his arms for a hug.
Gu Huai bent down, held his daughter, who had been washed and smelled delicious, in his arms, kissed her soft little face, raised his head to look at his wife and sister and said, "Let's go home."
Yu Hui nodded, and while chatting with Gu Hongmei, she followed Gu Huai and the others home.
The three Gu Dong brothers followed obediently for a while, and then started chasing and playing with other children in the compound.
After returning home, Qian Lan came over, recognized her, took Gu Hongmei by the hand and said a few words, then went back.
After Qian Lan left, Yu Hui told Gu Hongmei, "Qian Lan is Deputy Battalion Commander Yu's wife. We opened the noodle shop together. I own 90% and she owns 10%. We'll split the profits at the end of the month. I'll start with a salary of 20 yuan for your first month here, and I'll personally give you a bonus at the end of the month."
Gu Hongmei shook her head. "No bonus required. Twenty yuan a month is already a lot."
"Yes, yes." Yu Hui insisted.
"Fourth sister-in-law, is there a bank nearby?" Gu Hongmei looked at Yu Hui and asked.
Yu Hui shook her head. "There's no bank nearby. You have to take the bus to the city center to find the Postal Service Bank."
"Do you want to withdraw money?"
Gu Hongmei shook her head. "I'm not withdrawing money, I'm saving it. The money the You family compensated me with, plus the money I earned from selling my work, is nearly five thousand yuan. I have it all with me. Mom asked me to bring it here and deposit it in the bank."
Five thousand!
Yu Hui: There is a rich woman next to me.
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