Chapter 322 Returning to My Mother's Home for New Year's Greetings
Tian Ying and Gu Hai had gloomy faces when they took the children out. Gu Qiuye and Gu Bin both noticed that something was wrong with their parents and couldn't help but feel worried.
Only Gu Yangyang was young and didn't feel anything. He held his sister's hand and skipped along, happy to be going to his grandparents' house.
After the few people who came to pay New Year's greetings left, the house felt a little quieter.
The three Gu Dong brothers were a little uncomfortable with their older brother Gu Bin not being at home, but not long after, the children from the village came to them and went to the river to play kick-off.
It is said that if you smash a hole in the ice in the river, then light a firecracker and throw it into the hole, the water will explode high.
"Mom." Gu Dong wanted to go.
Yu Hui fed Beibei pumpkin seeds and said, "You can't go. The ice on the river bank isn't solid. If you fall in, you'll catch a cold."
"Let's just play kickball outside in the yard."
These two days, they went out to play with Binbin, and she reminded Binbin not to take them to the river.
"Oh." Gu Dong responded unhappily.
"It's too dangerous to play by the river. Let's play kicking a ball." Gu Dong turned to the children in the village and asked.
"What's so dangerous about the river? You city kids are so timid."
"That's right." The children turned around and ran away.
The three brothers Gu Dong, Gu Nan and Gu Xixi were playing kick a ball in the yard.
Today, Gu Qiuyue came back, and Zhao Changying asked her to cook half of the beef that Yu Hui and the others brought back, kill a big rooster, and stew only half of it, boil two pieces of sausage, and stir-fry two dishes.
These days, if you visit relatives and friends during the New Year, having three meat dishes on the table is considered a very high standard of treatment.
Yu Hui decided on the menu: beef with radish, stewed rooster with day lilies, stir-fried sweet and sour cabbage, and fried eggs with wood ear mushrooms.
Zheng Rong and Gu Hongmei went to the kitchen to prepare the dishes first, and she would go to cook after the dishes were ready.
"Mommy, eat..." Beibei drooled and fed the peeled pumpkin seeds to his mother's mouth.
Yu Hui caught it with her mouth, picked up the bib pinned on Beibei's collar, and wiped her saliva.
"Thank you, Beibei. The melon seeds are really delicious."
"Hehe..." Beibei grinned.
At this moment, there was a loud cry outside.
Zhao Changying: "What happened? Go out and take a look."
Yu Hui, Zhao Changying, Gu Pingshan, Gu Huai, and the three children all walked to the gate of the courtyard to see.
Gu Qiuyu was not at home. The supply and marketing cooperative did not have a holiday on the second day of the Lunar New Year, so someone had to be on duty. She went on duty, but would come back for lunch.
Zhao Changying soon saw that Wang Qiuli, who was at odds with him, was coming over here carrying her grandson Zhao Chuanzi, followed by some adults and children.
Water was still dripping from Zhao Chuanzi's body, obviously he had fallen into the water.
"Is this a claw?" Gu Pingshan walked up and asked.
Wang Qiuli was crying so hard she couldn't speak. The villagers nearby said, "Zhao Chuanzi and some children from the village went to the river to play with firecrackers. They stepped on the ice and fell into the river. When they were pulled out, their faces were blue."
Gu Pingshan hurriedly checked the child's breath with his hand and said, "He's still breathing."
"Village chief, please, please ask your Gu Huai to drive us to the hospital and save my Chuanzi." Wang Qiuli bowed her head to the Gu family for the first time.
Ever since she had a fight with Zhao Changying when she was young, she had been enemies with Zhao Changying and even regarded everyone in the Gu family as enemies.
Her family was considered a troublemaker in the village, and they often contradicted the village chief, Gu Pingshan.
Wang Qiuli never thought that there would be a day when she would have to ask for help from the Gu family.
"Have you vomited out the water in your stomach?" Gu Huai asked.
"He vomited. I just vomited it out while carrying him upside down. He woke up for a moment, cried twice, and then fainted again."
Gu Huai went into the house, took the car keys, opened the car door, asked Wang Qiuli to sit in the back seat, and Gu Pingshan helped get the child into the car.
At this moment, Wang Qiuli's husband Zhao Shi also came from home with money and clothes for the children. Gu Pingshan asked him to get in the car quickly.
The car drove away. The villagers looked at it getting farther and farther away and said, "These kids just don't listen. We told them not to play by the river, not to play by the river, but they went to play with firecrackers by the river."
"Isn't it? You only know how to be afraid when something happens." The woman who said this slapped her child on the back of the head.
Her children were also among those who went to the river to play with firecrackers.
When the car disappeared, the villagers dispersed, and several children were even dragged back by their parents by their ears.
Among them was a child who came to call Gu Dong and the others to go play by the river.
Gu Nan patted his chest and said, "Fortunately, we didn't go to the river with them."
Gu Dong nodded, and indeed he had to listen to his mother.
Gu Pingshan looked at his grandchildren and said, "No matter what time it is, as long as you are not accompanied by an adult, you are not allowed to go to the river to play. Falling into the water is no joke."
Almost every year, children from the neighboring villages fall into the river and drown.
The three brothers nodded vigorously, "I understand."
Not long after Gu Huai left, Gu Mingyue and his wife arrived.
Gu Mingyue’s man is called Wu Hao. He works in the town’s commune and is an accountant there.
Gu Mingyue walked into the yard with her slightly bulging belly and saw three boys playing football.
"Brother, someone is coming." Gu Xixi stopped and said to the two people who walked into the yard.
Gu Dong took a look and shouted, "Father-in-law, mother-in-law, elder sister and brother-in-law are back."
Gu Mingyue smiled and said, "You are Dongdong, Nannan, and Xixi, right?"
Gu Xixi nodded and said sweetly, "Big sister, happy new year to my brother-in-law, and may you be prosperous."
"Happy New Year, and best wishes for prosperity." Gu Dong and Gu Nan also said.
Gu Mingyue winked at her husband, and Wu Hao took out the red envelope he had prepared.
"I'll give each of you a small red envelope." The red envelopes were not big, only 20 cents each.
"Thank you, brother-in-law, big sister." The three of them took the red envelopes and thanked them very politely.
"Come on, come in quickly, it's cold outside." Zhao Changying waved at the door.
At this time, Zheng Rong, Gu Hongmei and Yu Hui also came out of the kitchen.
Gu Mingyue didn't rush into the house, but called someone first.
"Mom, little aunt, little mom." Seeing Yu Hui, whom she once treated like a younger sister, Gu Mingyue was a little hesitant to call her little mom for a while.
Wu Hao also called out for help, and his voice sounded a little unnatural when he called out to his mother.
Before he came, he heard Mingyue say that Yao Ma was very young, so he was mentally prepared, but he was still surprised when he saw her in person. She was too young.
Gu Mingyue and his wife entered the house and sat down. Gu Mingyue looked around and asked, "Where's my dad?"
Zheng Rong took the two packets of candy, a pack of biscuits, and a bottle of wine handed to her by her son-in-law and said, "Chuanzi fell into the river. Your father drove him to the hospital."
Gu Mingyue frowned, "How could something like this happen during Chinese New Year?"
She is going to be a mother and can't stand hearing this kind of thing.
Zhao Changying: "When children are disobedient and adults don't keep a close eye on them, things can easily get into trouble."
Yu Hui went back to the room and took out the vanishing cream and hairpins, as well as two red envelopes.
"How many months old is the baby?" Yu Hui walked up to Gu Mingyue and asked.
Gu Mingyue touched her belly, a maternal glow emanating from her young face. "It's almost five months."
"This is the vanishing cream and hairpin I bought for you. Qiuyu and Qiuye both have them, so you can't be left out either."
Gu Mingyue looked up in surprise and took it with both hands, "Thank you, Mom."
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