Chapter 253 Is She Unworthy?
"Gu Dong, what are your family doing?" Yu Li smelled the aroma of fried dough twists and swallowed his saliva.
Gu Dong turned around and glanced in the direction of the kitchen. "They're frying fried dough twists. After they're done, they're going to fry small fish."
"That's great." Yu Lixin said enviously.
Gu Huai looked at the Yu Jianshe brothers and said, "Don't go back. Stay here and eat the fried dough twists when they're ready."
Yu Lixin: "Great."
"Mom has gone back to cook noodles." Yu Jianshe pulled his brother's sleeve.
Cook noodles?
"Haven't you had lunch yet?" Gu Dong asked curiously.
Yu Lixin sighed and said, "You don't know, there are so many people in the city today that there's no food at the state-owned restaurants. We just had a few biscuits, and the bus was too crowded, so we had to walk back."
Hearing this, the three Gu Dong brothers looked at each other and were relieved that "it's a good thing we didn't go into the city."
If they had gone into the city in the morning, they would probably have been like Brother Lixin and the others, not even able to eat.
"Yu Lixin~" Qian Lan shouted from the next yard.
"Let's go back first and come back later." Yu Jianshe pulled Yu Lixin back.
The two brothers came over after eating noodles at home. All the fried dough twists were ready and they were frying fish.
After the two brothers Yu Jianshe and Yu Lixin had their fill of fried dough twists, Yu Hui picked up eight more and asked them to take them back to their parents.
There weren’t many fried crucian carps, so we didn’t send them home, but they ate two of them at Gu’s house.
It was already four o'clock when the small crucian carp was fried. The party to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day was to start at seven o'clock. Gu Huai's troupe had a show to perform, so they had to go there early, so the meal had to be prepared in advance.
Yu Hui stewed the chicken soup and started kneading the dough, while the others worked together to process the crayfish.
There is strength in numbers, and the bucket of crayfish can be processed quickly.
At half past five, the Gu family started having dinner.
The delicious chicken soup stewed with mushrooms is served with noodles mixed with crayfish covered in sauce. The crayfish meat is fresh and chewy. Gu Hongmei and Gu He, who were eating it for the first time, were amazed by their taste buds and were speechless after eating it.
After dinner, Gu Huai washed his face, put on his military uniform and left.
After Yu Hui and the others finished packing and dressed up, they went to the camp's auditorium with the Yu family at 6:30.
"Xiao Yu, look, what do you think of my pair of leather shoes?" When they walked under the street light, Qian Lan stretched out her feet wearing new leather shoes and asked Yu Hui.
Yu Hui, Gu Hongmei and Gu Qiuyan all looked at her feet.
She polished her new leather shoes with shoe polish until they were so shiny that they reflected some light under the street lights.
"It looks pretty good." Yu Hui said.
Gu Hongmei also said: "Sister-in-law, your leather shoes are really nice. You look more upright in them."
"It's ten dollars." Qian Lan said.
Qian Lan was happy to hear Yu Hui and the others praising her beautiful little leather shoes, but she still felt sad when she thought about the ten dollars she spent.
Gu Qiuyan raised her eyebrows. It was really expensive. Fortunately, she didn’t like wearing leather shoes.
"They're all genuine leather, so they're bound to be expensive," Yu Hui said. "As long as you like them and they look good on you, don't worry about the money."
Qian Lan glared at Yu Qiang, who was walking in front of Gu He. "Yu Qiang was still scolding me, saying that I was old and still buying leather shoes like young people. He was just too rich to handle and kept nagging me along the way."
She also bought him an eight-dollar belt, but he didn't say anything. But when she bought something for herself with her own money, he kept talking about it.
Qian Lan's joy in buying shoes was completely washed away by his muttering. She always felt that he was not worthy of buying such expensive shoes.
He didn't say anything when she bought him a belt, nor did he say anything when she bought new shoes for the two children. But when it was her turn to buy him a pair of good shoes, he, a man who usually didn't talk much, never stopped talking.
Yu Hui said, "Let him talk. Just treat him as a buzzing fly. We spend our own money to buy what we need and like. No one else can interfere."
Qian Lan: "I feel the same way, but when I hear him say that about me, I feel really bad. Before, when I didn't make any money, I always bought things for him and the kids. Now that I make money, I buy him and the kids belts and shoes, and I pick out the best ones. Why can't I do the same for myself?"
"Don't I deserve a pair of good leather shoes?"
While I feel unhappy, I also feel more aggrieved.
Yu Hui patted Qian Lan on the shoulder and said, "You deserve it!"
"Don't even mention that you earn money now and spend your own money. Even if you don't earn money and are still a housewife, you still deserve to have a pair of good shoes. You take care of the family and raise two sons. Your contribution to the family is no less than that of Brother Yu."
"Take Brother Yu's promotion to deputy battalion commander, for example. You deserve half the credit. If you hadn't managed the household so well and raised the two children well, he wouldn't have been able to focus on his work without any worries. He got the promotion because of your outstanding work ability."
"The leaders have said that women hold up half the sky. Aren't you holding up half the sky at home?"
Gu Qiuyan nodded repeatedly, feeling that what her mother said was absolutely right.
"That's right." Qian Lan gritted her teeth and said, "I have contributed to Yu Qiang's success today. I, Qian Lan, have contributed as much to our family as Yu Qiang has."
"In the past, I was always thinking about taking care of them, and I couldn't bear to eat or wear good things for myself. Yu Qiang thought I shouldn't eat or wear good things, and he would nag me about buying a pair of shoes."
"I will buy them. Tomorrow I will go to town to buy silk scarves and vanishing cream, and also buy a few feet of good cloth to make myself two nice sets of clothes."
Yu Hui patted her shoulder and said, "That's how it should be. We women should be nicer to ourselves."
"Yeah." Qian Lan nodded vigorously.
In front, Yu Qiang was also complaining about Qian Lan to Gu He.
"She bought the ten-dollar shoes just because she said so. They are enough for my parents to spend for two or three months in the countryside." Yu Qiang said, shaking his head.
Gu He: “…”
"So she spent the living expenses that should have been given to your parents?"
"...That's not the case. She earned it herself," Yu Qiang whispered. "But ten yuan for a pair of shoes is too expensive. Besides, she's already old. Why would she want to act like a young girl? Why buy her some leather shoes?"
"That's not the case. I see many white-haired old ladies in your compound wearing leather shoes." Leather shoes are rarely worn in their countryside, but since he came to the city, he has seen many people wearing them, regardless of age.
"Your sister-in-law isn't too old, probably in her early thirties. People say that city people look younger than country people, but I think your sister-in-law looks about the same as the women in our country who are in their early thirties. She must have worked hard over the years, right?" Gu He looked at Yu Qiang and asked.
Yu Qiang touched his nose and said, "Both our families are not well off, so we have to provide financial support from time to time. She is the one who takes care of the house and the children, so she is really worried."
Gu He said, "Your sister-in-law has worked so hard for so many years, so what if she bought you a pair of leather shoes? It's okay if they're a little expensive. Didn't you just say that your sister-in-law bought you this new belt? That's her money, right?"
Yu Qiang looked a little embarrassed, but he didn't deny it.
He thought that if he complained with Gu He, Gu He would definitely understand him and think that Qian Lan shouldn't buy a pair of ten-dollar leather shoes.
Unexpectedly...
"Why don't you think it's expensive when your sister-in-law buys you an eight-dollar belt, but you think it's expensive when she buys you a pair of leather shoes? And you're spending your own money?" Gu He turned his head and looked at Yu Qiang and asked.
As a man, Gu He can hardly understand Yu Qiang.
If he spent the money he earned, he would have some reason to complain. But it was not his money he earned, and he was a grown man who was supposed to support his wife and children, so what else could he complain about?
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