Chapter 39 I took direct action
Just as the group had timed it perfectly and prepared the dishes to serve, Mr. and Mrs. Gu pushed open the courtyard gate and came in.
When they returned, neither of them looked too good, but when they saw the steaming, fragrant food on the table, which was clearly made by Su Xiangwan, they first inquired about her condition.
"Dad, Mom, I'm not tired. Actually, seeing that you enjoy the food I cook makes me very happy."
As Su Xiangwan spoke, she served Gu's father and mother a bowl of corn porridge and placed a cornbread in front of each of them before asking, "Did something happen at work today?"
Although that's how she asked the question, Su Xiangwan already had a pretty good idea of what was going on.
This was already demonstrated by the fact that Gu Yanfei and Gu Yanxiao returned together.
Gu's mother glanced at her, while Gu Yanfei, who was enjoying her corn porridge and completely unaware of anything, glared at her in annoyance.
Gu Yanfei, who was inexplicably given a pair of eye rolls, was completely bewildered: What's wrong?
Why are you glaring at her?
What did she do wrong this time?
Why do I feel like my status in this family is getting lower and lower?
Even the dozen or so chickens in the coop were more pampered than he was.
When Mom and Dad came home and found out they had laid eggs that day, they praised them a lot!
When Gu's mother met her innocent gaze, she sighed and recounted in detail what had happened after she and her siblings left that day, and how Cai Chunhua had come to find her.
This girl can't go down there so foolishly anymore; she's being watched without even realizing it.
Sure enough, after hearing that someone actually wanted to marry her as their daughter-in-law...
Gu Yanfei immediately jumped up: "What the hell? She actually wants me to marry her son? Has she gone mad?!"
If Gu Yanfei wanted to get married, countless talented young men in the military compound would have lined up for her to choose from.
Who is this Tong Xiaojun? She's never even met him, yet he wants to marry her?
After finishing her rant, Gu Yanfei sat down again and took another sip of corn porridge.
I don't know why, but my sister-in-law's corn porridge tastes better than my mom's, and even her steamed cornbread is more fragrant.
Su Xiangwan placed a piece of cured meat on Gu Yanfei's plate and said, "Little sister, do you understand what I meant yesterday now?"
"Understood."
Gu Yanfei swallowed the corn porridge in her mouth, snorted coldly, and said, "That Tong Xiaojun had better not mess with me. If he dares to say these things in front of me, I'll beat him until he calls me 'Grandma'."
Su Xiangwan nodded in agreement: "Yeah, go ahead and beat them up."
Gu Yanfei's eyes lit up. She thought Su Xiangwan would disagree with her using violence to solve the problem: "Sister-in-law, do you also agree that I should take action directly?"
“Agreed! Why not?” Su Xiangwan’s lips curled slightly, her eyes cold: “As the ancients said, petty people fear power but not virtue. Sometimes, the only way to deal with some scoundrels is to beat them until they are afraid.”
"Xiang Wan..." Gu's mother was startled by her words: "What if she beats up the other person..."
"Mom." Su Xiangwan patted her hand reassuringly and said, "We are educated youth from outside the village. Even without renting a house or digging a well, just based on my younger sister's appearance—no, even if she weren't that pretty—as long as she is a woman and unmarried, she will inevitably become the target of those single men in the village."
"Since we'll be targeted no matter what, we might as well act ruthlessly to protect ourselves. No matter what means we use, it's not too much."
"Besides, even if Tong Xiaojun was beaten, he's a grown man, how could he possibly stand up to a woman? And even if he did, who would dare to criticize Xiaomei over this?"
Father Gu looked at Su Xiangwan with approval: "Xiangwan is right. The children of the Gu family are not to be trifled with. If anyone dares to make a move on you, just fight back. If anything happens, Dad will take care of you."
He is now very glad that he never stopped training Gu Yanfei just because she was a girl.
Based on her skills, most men would probably be no match for her, even if there were two of them.
But this is my daughter-in-law.
As if she understood what her father was thinking, Su Xiangwan smiled and said, "Dad, actually, I do have ways to defend myself."
As she spoke, she took a bottle of pepper spray out of her pocket.
Pepper spray?
After hearing her explain the uses of the pepper spray, Gu Yanfei's eyes lit up: "Sister-in-law, do you have any more? I want to take a bottle with me too!"
If anyone dares to bully her, she'll let them taste the flavor of this chili water.
"Of course it's for you."
Su Xiangwan smiled and nodded. Even if Gu Yanfei hadn't said anything, she had already prepared hers.
They even gave a bottle to Gu's mother because they had some left over.
"Xiang Wan is such a smart and thoughtful child." Gu's mother carefully put the bottle of chili water into her pocket. Although she was an old woman and didn't need it, the child's thoughtfulness was the most precious thing.
While the Gu family courtyard was filled with joy and harmony, the educated youth settlement was deathly still.
Li Aiping added another ladle of water to the already thin rice porridge, which was so watery that one could see their reflection in it, her eyes filled with sorrow.
A few days ago, my husband, Shao Guoyang, was injured in the leg by a wild boar and was bedridden for more than a month, spending all of his remaining savings.
This made their already difficult days even worse.
Now, although they've managed to get out of bed, they can't even earn seven centimeters.
If this continues, I'm afraid they won't even have enough food to eat by winter.
Not only her, but Chen Zhaodi on the other side was also cooking while cursing and swearing.
For no other reason than that, when Liu Jiabao returned from work and passed by the Gu family's courtyard, he smelled the aroma wafting from inside and started making a ruckus, trying to rush in and grab some food.
Having witnessed the Gu family's forceful methods, she knew that even if she swallowed her pride and knocked on the door, she wouldn't get anything in return, so she could only walk away with her son in her arms.
The inevitable result was that her precious son scratched her face all over again.
After finally getting the food to the table, Liu Jiabao saw that it was sweet potatoes and brown rice buns again, and immediately started making a fuss: "I don't want to eat this, I want to go next door and eat dumplings and meat..."
This commotion caused the sweet potato porridge to spill.
Seeing this, Liu Heping slapped Chen Zhaodi across the face: "How can you take care of children? Don't you know how to make a living? Wasting food like this?"
"Hit her! Beat her to death! It's because she wouldn't let me eat dumplings yesterday!" Liu Jiabao said, and then slapped Chen Zhaodi across the face.
In an instant, the entire educated youth settlement was filled with Liu Jiabao's cries, Liu Heping's curses, and Chen Zhaodi's pleas for mercy...
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