Lan Jiaojiao shook her head and smiled gently at Gu Nan: "It's nothing, I just suddenly thought of my parents."
Gu Nan felt a pang of heartache; he knew about Lan Jiaojiao's parents' passing.
He hugged her and whispered comfortingly, "Don't worry, I'll always be by your side."
"good."
"Oh, this young couple seems quite affectionate," Gu's aunt's voice rang out.
Gu Nan glanced at her indifferently: "Aunt, of course we're in love. Do you expect us to be unhappy?"
During the Lunar New Year, this married woman with children insisted on coming back on New Year's Eve. Doesn't she know that married women are not allowed to come back on New Year's Eve or the first day of the Lunar New Year?
They usually return to their parents' home on the second day of the Lunar New Year. However, some families don't allow their married daughters to return until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
Upon hearing Gu Nan's words, Gu's younger sister became displeased: "I only said one thing to you. Why are you taking it personally against me?"
"When did I humiliate you? No one else spoke up, but you insisted on speaking. What do you mean by that?"
Since returning to the Gu family, Gu Nan has felt that he has become overly sensitive.
The youngest daughter of the Gu family immediately became unhappy and called out to the old man, "Dad, look at your grandson! He's so disrespectful!"
Grandpa Gu raised his eyelids slightly: "You can go outside and argue. I'm an old man, and I don't want to hear you arguing."
Gu Nan: ...
Gu Xiaogu: ...
Okay!
The old man was warning them not to argue during the Chinese New Year.
Uncle Gu also spoke up sternly: "Can't you two behave yourselves? You're noisy all day and all afternoon. What, don't you want people to have a peaceful New Year?"
Since Uncle Gu had said that, the others looked at each other and naturally didn't dare to speak.
The meal was unusually quiet, and it was rather tasteless.
After everyone finished eating, Gu Nan and Lan Jiaojiao prepared to leave.
Aunt Gu spoke up directly: "Gu Nan, it's one thing for your wife not to cook the New Year's Eve dinner, but she's not even going to do the dumpling-making tonight? Is she, a newly married woman, just going to watch us old folks do all the work? It's not good for word to get out."
Wang Fenglan looked at Gu Nan expressionlessly: "Your third aunt is right. Your sisters-in-law and younger siblings are also helping with the work."
Some of them are pregnant too. We were understanding because you had just returned from the train journey. You younger generation shouldn't be so inconsiderate.”
Since Wang Fenglan had already said that, Gu Nan couldn't say anything to help Lan Jiaojiao.
Lan Jiaojiao gently squeezed Gu Nan's fingers: "I know you want to help me, Brother Nan. I appreciate your kindness. As your wife, I can't be so tactless as to let you fight for me."
So, this is the job I should do. Otherwise, people will say, "Brother Nan, you're unfilial."
Gu Nan looked distressed: "If I had known there were so many things going on at home, I would have waited until after the New Year to come back, so you wouldn't have had to put up with this."
"I'm not in a difficult position at all! I'm not in a difficult position at all because of Brother Nan."
Aunt Gu pursed her lips and walked over to Wang Fenglan, whispering, "Sister-in-law, your newlywed wife is no pushover."
Although the others remained silent, their eyes conveyed the same message.
Wang Fenglan: "It's alright. My father-in-law is going to separate the family after the New Year, right? We'll just let them leave home and go there on their own. That way, we won't have to see them and get annoyed."
"Sister-in-law, you have such a broad mind. If it were me..."
Wang Fenglan ignored her third sister-in-law, who always liked to stir up trouble. She greeted Lan Jiaojiao expressionlessly, "Lan Jiaojiao, come here. We're going to make dumplings."
Lan Jiaojiao left Gu Nan, who was reluctant to part with her, and walked shyly to Wang Fenglan's side: "I'm sorry to have troubled you, Mom. It's all our fault."
Wang Fenglan ignored her words and pointed to the meat on the counter, saying to Lan Jiaojiao, "Take this and chop it into minced meat."
As soon as Lan Jiaojiao saw the piece of meat, she instinctively covered her mouth, looking troubled. "Mom, I feel like throwing up when I see meat. Can you give me something else to cook?"
What's wrong with the Gu family? They even make their pregnant daughter-in-law do chores?
Wow, I never would have guessed they were from such a family.
Wang Fenglan was straightforward: "Then go chop the chives."
These days, you can hardly find any chives. It's lucky that they were able to get any.
Otherwise, during the Lunar New Year, you can only make two kinds of fillings: one is sauerkraut and pork filling, and the other is cabbage and pork filling.
This year we have chive and egg filling, and Gu Zixiao recently sent some zucchini. We can make zucchini and egg filling.
These days, it's quite difficult to come up with something special for the Chinese New Year.
There's no way around it; this is an era of scarcity.
Lan Jiaojiao said "Oh," and took the chives directly. Looking at the mud on the chives, a hint of disgust flashed quickly in her eyes.
This stuff smells bad and has a pungent odor. When she was at the Lan family's house, this kind of thing never appeared on the Lan family's dining table.
As it turned out, this kind of thing actually appeared in the Gu family.
As expected, a peasant is just a peasant; he can never amount to anything.
Unfortunately, she was unlucky and couldn't find a way to get the Lan family's things.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have married Gu Nan.
Lan Jiaojiao took a large bunch of chives and asked Wang Fenglan, "Mom, where do we wash these?"
Wang Fenglan pointed to the water vat outside: "Go to the water vat outside and scoop some water to wash there."
Lan Jiaojiao nodded and gave Wang Fenglan a sweet smile: "Thank you, Mom."
She took the chives and walked out of the kitchen. Gu Nan, who had been waiting not far from the kitchen, saw Lan Jiaojiao come out with a large bunch of chives and stepped forward to ask, "Did my mom ask you to wash the chives? I'll do this."
"Okay. Thank you, Brother Nan. To be honest, you're the one who cares about me the most. I'm pregnant right now, and it's the dead of winter, so I really can't touch cold water."
"Yes, I know. How could I not know what kind of body my wife is in? So, I'll take care of the washing."
Gu Nan naturally scooped up some water and began to wash the chives carefully.
To be honest, this was the first time Gu Nan had helped with chores in his twenties at the Gu family.
Those who were looking out from the kitchen couldn't help but look at Wang Fenglan upon seeing this scene.
Wang Fenglan pretended not to see the way everyone was looking at her, but in fact, her heart was in turmoil, and she even wondered what was the point of raising such a son.
As the old saying goes, once you have a wife, you forget your mother.
Look, now she has a perfect example.
It really hurt her.
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