Chapter 24: I have to learn to survive
Yu sighed secretly and blamed herself, "It's all my negligence. I didn't even wake them up."
After saying that, he ran to call for help.
Tu Su Minfei and Tu Su Minyang walked out of the room with angry expressions on their faces. Yu tugged at their clothes, signaling them to be patient for a while.
Gu Yuexuan watched this spectacle from the sidelines, a sly smile forming on her face. She looked at the old man, blinked, and whispered softly, "Grandfather, if you have no objection to the matter I just mentioned, can we make a final decision after dinner?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the gazes that were already full of resentment towards her fell on her again like a rainstorm.
Gu Yuexuan didn't care at all. She never hid her little thoughts because that was just who she was.
At this moment, the old grandfather felt for the first time that even the most ordinary porridge on weekdays became difficult to swallow.
He looked at Gu Yuexuan with complicated eyes, only to see that she was calm and composed, with no intention of dodging. So he asked in a deep voice, "Do you really think it's okay to do this?"
Gu Yuexuan nodded repeatedly and answered firmly and decisively: "As long as everyone does their job and works together, our lives will naturally have hope and will get better and better!"
The old grandfather sighed and pondered for a moment before saying, "Okay, then do as you wish."
Li, who had been silent beside him, was startled when she heard this. She couldn't help but muster up the courage to ask, "Grandfather, what's going on?"
Gu Yuexuan quietly reached some kind of tacit understanding with the old man, but no one knew the specific content.
Although the old lady listened attentively throughout the whole process, she was unable to find any opportunity for rebuttal. Seeing that Li and Yu still looked confused, as if they were out of the matter, she could not help but sneer in anger.
These two ignorant people!
The two ignorant people seemed a little uneasy, but Gu Yuexuan had a confident and calm smile on her face because she was recognized.
Seeing that she remained silent, the old man knew that he had to shoulder this difficult responsibility. So he paused for a moment, then announced in an unquestionable tone: "From now on, all matters of the household, big or small, must be shared equally among the three families. The three people who are away are not included in this. The rest of the people must perform their duties."
"Bo'er's wife will draw up a detailed list of everyone's daily responsibilities. Tasks will be assigned daily in a rotating pattern, from washing clothes and cooking to tending the vegetable garden. Everything will be equally distributed, and no shirking or delay will be allowed. Do you have any objections to this?"
In short, Gu Yuexuan proposed a simplified version of the personal responsibility system.
Assign household chores, big and small, to each person one by one to ensure that everyone has tasks to complete every day.
In order to silence everyone as much as possible, she also cleverly designed a rotation system, so that the person who is responsible for laundry today will take over the kitchen tomorrow, and this cycle will repeat itself.
In short, she had only one goal: to get everyone present moving, without any exceptions!
If this proposal came from Gu Yuexuan or anyone else present, it would surely trigger a wave of opposition.
However, unexpectedly, these words came from the old man's mouth.
Gu Yuexuan's eyes moved, cleverly hiding her pride, while Yu and Li could only swallow their anger in the face of the sudden burden.
Seeing that the situation was settled, the old lady went along with it and said, following the old man's wishes, "That's very good."
"We can't just dwell on the past. Our family really needs some new things."
Gu Yuexuan keenly grasped the old lady's attitude and immediately nodded in agreement, saying, "Grandpa and Grandma are so wise. Your decision is truly far-sighted!"
The old man gave her a complicated look, and a rare hint of softness appeared on his originally serious face.
He put down his cutlery, stood up and said, "Then hurry up and make that list so everyone knows their responsibilities."
"I'm going to go around the village later."
Gu Yuexuan responded briskly: "Okay, Grandpa, please walk slowly and be careful."
At the edge of this ancient village, a white-haired old man stepped out of his home for the first time, heading out into the unknown. The villagers, who had previously complained about their laziness, now felt a deep sense of helplessness, forced by reality and unable to control their own destiny.
The old woman seemed to sense the coming storm and consciously went into the house to avoid the approaching storm.
Yu's eyes were filled with worry. Watching Tu Su Min Fei struggling to carry the bucket, her heart felt like it had been bitten hard, and the pain made her clench her teeth tightly. "I'll go wash the clothes now. Min Fei, you go carry the water. Including the Second Master who's already out, we only have three people from the Second House!"
"The eldest son's family has only three laborers."
Gu Yuexuan responded calmly, without a trace of fluctuation in her tone: "Tu Subo is out working, I'm responsible for taking care of the kitchen, and my mother-in-law is responsible for weeding the vegetable garden. We are not short of manpower."
"Second Aunt, Third Aunt's whole family was mobilized. Your family is lucky that at least one person was able to rest."
As soon as she finished speaking, she ignored Yu's grumbling, turned around, picked up Tu Su Yunxi, and said gently: "Grandma, come with me, I will teach you how to weed."
Xi Lanfang was afraid of being blamed again, so she hurriedly picked up the basket and followed him. However, when they arrived at the vegetable garden, it was Gu Yuexuan who took action first.
Although her words were firm, Xi Lanfang's physical strength was far inferior to that of a skilled laborer.
Xi Lanfang held the hoe awkwardly and tried to turn over the soil, but her several futile swings made her look at Gu Yuexuan for help.
In this predicament that was like hell for everyone in the Tu Su family, Gu Yuexuan adapted at an astonishing speed.
Seeing Gu Yuexuan deftly cutting and tying up the knee-high weeds, Xi Lanfang couldn't help but wonder, "How on earth did you master these skills?"
Gu Yuexuan's mind flashed back to the countless odd jobs she had done to make a living in her previous life. She lowered her head and replied, "In order to survive, I had to learn."
Although this was true, Xi Lanfang's first thought was about the difficult years she had lived in her mother's home as a concubine's daughter.
As everyone knows, the Gu family values the children born to the main wife, but treats the children born out of wedlock very harshly.
Is Gu Yuexuan's life at her mother's home so difficult?
Xi Lanfang's expression became complicated and unpredictable.
Gu Yuexuan noticed her silence and mistakenly thought that she felt the work was too hard, so she mentioned the hard work Tu Subo had to endure moving bricks outside.
"Mother-in-law, Minxu and Yunxi are still young. We can't rely on Tu Subo's hard work alone. If we want to take root in this land, we must also contribute our own strength."
What you mean is, can you bear to let your precious son bear all the suffering alone?
Of course Xi Lanfang couldn't bear it.
Thinking of Tu Subo's rubbed shoulders, her eyes couldn't help but redden, and then she buried her head in her work, giving it her all.
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