Chapter 45 Arrival at the Provincial Capital
Gu Siqing and the others didn't take Zhang Shuangping and the others seriously. Compared with going to the provincial capital, the grudge with the Zhang family was nothing.
By the evening, everything was basically packed. Everything piled up like a mountain. Even then, Wang Yueju still felt it wasn't enough, and kept muttering, "Look, there's something missing. If I forget to take this, I'll have to buy it later. How much will it cost!"
After hearing her words, Gu Yimin and Gu Erhui carefully sorted out these things again, and then filled in a few more items.
Gu Jianguo came back the next afternoon. He was obviously thinner than when he left, but he was in good spirits. However, Wang Yueju still felt very distressed.
"I'm fine." Gu Jianguo felt warm at the sight of his wife's distressed eyes. He patted her hands and said, "I'll go to the Han family first and pick up my sister-in-law and the two children. We'll leave together tomorrow."
Wang Yueju hummed, and after he left, she started making dumplings with Yimin and Erhui. Even if the man didn't say it, she knew he must have suffered a lot during this trip, so she made dumplings to nourish him.
When Gu Siqing and Gu Sanjing got home from school, they saw their mother and others busily making dumplings in the kitchen. They immediately looked for Gu Jianguo in the yard. She was waiting to hear about his experience of purchasing goods, but she couldn't find him after searching for a long time.
"Don't look for him anymore, let's go to your Uncle Han's house." Wang Yueju said.
Gu Siqing put down her schoolbag, washed her hands and joined in making dumplings. After a while, Gu Jianguo and Tian Huiying came over, followed by Han Zhengping and Han Erpang.
Tian Huiying put down her things and started making dumplings. The two families had a lively dinner with dumplings.
After dinner, Gu Siqing pulled Han Zhengping aside and asked quietly, "Does Deng Zhiming's matter have anything to do with you?"
"Don't worry about the child." When he said this, his expression did not change at all. Gu Siqing curled her lips. I am a child, but you are not?
However, even if Han Zhengping didn't say that he did it, Gu Siqing was still certain that he had something to do with it.
She couldn't help but look at this fair-skinned and handsome young boy again. At the age of thirteen or fourteen, he was able to do such a big thing with his meticulous thinking. What would he be like when he grows up?
Deng Zhiming's affair with the young widow seemed simple, but it wasn't. First, they had to confirm that Deng Zhiming was with the young widow that day, then they had to find the right person to catch them, and then they had to get themselves out of the situation.
This series of things is not easy even for an adult to handle.
"Xiao Si, can I sleep with you tonight?" Han Erpang came over and asked. Han Zhengping grabbed his collar and went to wash up, saying, "You are a boy and she is a girl. You can't sleep together."
"We used to sleep together."
"The past was the past, and the present is the present."
Gu Siqing listened to the conversation between the two brothers and returned to the house. Today, her mother and Aunt Huiying would sleep with them, and Gu Jianguo would sleep in another room with the two Han brothers.
Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, Gu Jianguo took his two daughters and Tian Huiying and set off for the provincial capital. Because they took a lot of things, they caused quite a stir in the village. Many people asked Gu Jianguo what they were going to do.
Gu Jianguo vaguely said that something happened, but he definitely wouldn't say what it was.
Zhang Chuntao and Wang Dani naturally knew about this. They went to Wang Yueju and asked what Gu Jianguo was doing. Wang Yueju didn't know the answer to any of their questions. Wang Dani was so angry that she wanted to hit him.
But now is a new society, unlike the old society where mothers-in-law can beat and scold their daughters-in-law at will. She could only leave angrily and go find Gu Jiancheng.
Gu Jiancheng was playing mahjong with someone, and when he saw his mother coming to him, he was very impatient, "Mom, the land has been planted, there is nothing to do, can't I play mahjong?"
Wang Dani was so disappointed that she whispered, "You know about your elder brother's situation, right?"
Gu Jiancheng nodded impatiently, "I saw it with my own eyes and even said a few words to him."
"What did he say? Did he say what he was going to do?"
"Mom, I'm telling you again, don't think that my eldest brother's family business will all belong to Xuebin and Xueqiang in the future. It's impossible." After saying that, he went back to playing mahjong. Wang Dani was so angry that her heart ached.
It was already around 5 or 6 p.m. when Gu Jianguo and his friends arrived in the provincial capital. Fortunately, there were buses available. They took the bus to their rented house on Zhongshan Road.
Along the way, Gu Yimin and Gu Erhui almost couldn't keep their eyes open. It was their first time in a city as big as Lizhou, and everything they saw was new to them.
The buildings here are tall, the streets are wide and clean, and cars pass by from time to time. They feel that the people living in Lizhou are so happy. After entering the rented house, they looked around and carefully touched the snow-white walls. Gu Erhui whispered to Gu Yimin, "This is too white."
Gu Yimin also touched it, smiled and nodded. Everything here was different from the village.
Tian Huiying was no better than the other two, also looking and touching everywhere. Gu Jianguo and Han Deyi sat on a small stool watching them and laughing, feeling satisfied and looking forward to the future.
"Don't just look, go upstairs and clean up, otherwise we'll have nowhere to stay tonight." Han Deyi walked upstairs with his luggage, and Gu Yimin and the others hurriedly followed.
The upstairs room was the same size as the downstairs room, both about 30 square meters. There was a bed and a simple cabinet in the room, and nothing else.
"You three will live upstairs," Han Deyi said as he placed his luggage on the bed. "Jianguo and I will live downstairs."
Tian Huiying frowned when she heard this and said, "There's no bed downstairs, how are you going to sleep?"
In fact, the bed above is very crowded even for three people.
Han Deyi waved his hand nonchalantly, "We'll sleep on the floor." He walked to the door and pointed to the coal stove and chopping board outside, saying, "You can cook here, and there's a toilet over there. There's a sink outside the toilet for washing."
It was dinner time, and two other families were cooking. I heard them talking, turned my head to look at them, then continued cooking without saying anything.
Gu Yimin and Gu Erhui knew the general layout of the place, so they took out the noodles and pots they had brought from their luggage and prepared to cook. They hadn't eaten much along the way.
Neither of them knew how to use the coal stove, so Han Deyi taught them how to use it, and then went back to the room to unpack the luggage and make the bed with Tian Huiying.
Gu Yimin rolled up her sleeves and carefully washed the pot, while Gu Erhui took out a head of cabbage and cut it. The two sisters worked very well together. The woman in her thirties or forties who was cooking next to them looked the sisters up and down and asked, "Are you the clothes seller downstairs?"
Gu Erhui stopped washing the vegetables and smiled at the woman, "Yes."
"What kind of clothes are you selling?" the woman asked again.
Gu Erhui put the washed cabbage on the chopping board and said, "We just got here and don't know."
The woman hummed and continued to cook. Gu Erhui had cut the vegetables and Gu Yimin had already washed the pot. She put the pot on the coal stove.
Actually, Gu Erhui was a little nervous talking to the woman just now. When a country person sees a city person, they will feel inferior. But she suppressed her inner unnaturalness and nervousness.
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