City B, Lotus Village.
Seeing that Gu Shutong, who was supposed to be working in the fields, was still sitting on the eaves smoking, Ma Hongmei was so angry that she threw her sickle in the yard and deliberately made trouble: "We can live this life if we can, but if we can't, we should break up as soon as possible. What's the point of a grown man like you staying at home all day and all night? Aren't you going to earn work points?"
Gu Shutong narrowed his narrow eyes, still thinking about Su Niannian's words. Hearing this, he said impatiently, "Those old ladies in the village talk too much. I'll go to work later."
"You dare to do it but you are afraid of what others say. If you hadn't shamelessly harassed Su Niannian, would the captain and the others have caught you? I am so ashamed now. Except for that face, how can I be inferior to that vixen? I let you do such a shameful thing behind my back. Gu Shutong, I tell you, you will always owe me..."
"I said I didn't take it..." Gu Shutong's face twitched fiercely. At this point, he even suspected that he was tricked by Su Niannian.
"Yes, you didn't take the clothes! But was the delicious meal on the table in the yard made by that ancestor? Or were the captain and the others blind and didn't see you being dragged out of my second brother's room? Su Niannian must be crazy to use her own innocence to slander you. Why didn't I realize how shameless you are before..."
The scar was revealed again, Ma Hongmei's eyes turned red, and she vented all the unhappiness of that day. She was deceived by Gu Shutong's face and mistakenly believed that he was an honest man.
In fact, if he could even covet someone else's wife, how could he be a good person? When Ma Hongmei thought about how Gu Shutong, the eldest son, did such a thing before her mother-in-law's body was even cold, she couldn't help but spit fiercely, "Bah! What a thing!"
The villagers talked about him in all kinds of ways, and just despised and ridiculed him.
Even Ma Hongmei has this attitude now.
This really made Gu Shutong very angry. He gritted his teeth and said, "I am your man!"
"If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known. If I had known you were this kind of man, I would have married a pig or a dog instead of you!"
A vulgar rural woman could say such words. Gu Shutong was so angry that he pointed at Ma Hongmei with a trembling finger and said angrily: "What kind of virtue is this?! Did I do something wrong? She should have been my wife. If you hadn't been so eager to marry me, the current situation would be completely different..."
The scene fell into silence for a while. Ma Hongmei's tears fell. Just as she was about to rush up to fight with the man, there was a sound of something heavy falling to the ground at the door. Then, Gu Shutong's face turned pale in an instant. His back hunched over inexplicably, and his voice became lower: "Second... Second brother?"
Gu Zhiye, wearing a military uniform, stood at the door with a cold look on his face.
"Brother, take me to see my mother's grave."
"oh."
Gu Shutong quickly put down his pipe, went into the house to find some paper money to burn for the old man, then glared at Ma Hongmei before leaving with Gu Zhiye.
A husband and wife for a day are bound by a hundred days of grace.
Even if Ma Hongmei was unhappy with her man, she knew what was important at this moment. Gu Zhiye must have heard what she said just now, and Su Niannian had been whispering in his ear. Now that Gu Zhiye had returned, he must be going to settle old scores. Gu Shutong's few moves were not enough to fill his brother's teeth. Ma Hongmei didn't care about anything else and hurried to the captain's house.
…
Burning paper money was flying halfway up the mountain.
The two Gu brothers squatted in front of the grave. From a distance, they didn't seem to see anything unusual. Perhaps, Su Niannian was too embarrassed to say those words out of face. Ma Hongmei ran all the way and finally caught up with them. She put her hands on her hips and said breathlessly, "Zhiye, Nian Nian... Why didn't Nian Nian come back with you?"
Gu Zhiye said simply: "She has something to do."
Ma Hongmei and Gu Shutong looked at each other.
The former cleared his throat and suddenly said, "Zhiye, there is something I don't know whether I should say or not."
Gu Zhiye stood up, with an inexplicable look on his face: "Just say what you want to say."
"In fact, it's not our turn to say anything if you marry this wife, but she is really a bit spoiled. She can't even take care of mom, and she made mom so angry that her blood pressure soared. In order to leave Lotus Village, she dared to throw all kinds of dirty water on me and your brother. If you don't believe me, go and ask around in the village now. Your brother's reputation is really stinking!
You two are brothers of the same blood. Su Niannian can do such a thing. You must discipline her properly in the future, or she will embarrass you in the army——!"
Ma Hongmei's words were flawless.
Gu Shutong was very satisfied. He even added fuel to the fire and said, "It is said that brothers are like limbs and women are like clothes. If it really doesn't work out, just leave her..."
"Will it be a good deal for you if you leave her?!" Gu Zhiye's voice was filled with a hint of sarcasm. Unknowingly, he raised his hand and unbuttoned his military uniform, one by one, slowly. Then, he carefully put the clothes aside.
This action is simply inexplicable.
Ma Hongmei was stunned and asked, "Zhiye, what are you doing?"
Before they even had time to react, Gu Zhiye moved. He swept his leg and knocked his eldest brother to the ground, then rained down his fists.
No matter how Ma Hongmei screamed and stomped her feet, it was of no use.
Gu Zhiye grabbed his brother's collar tightly, his eyes frighteningly cold: "Do you really think that in this huge Lotus Village, you two are the only ones who can talk? You bully my mother and insult my new wife, you are not worthy of being a human being--!"
The two brothers wrestled in front of the grave, punching each other in the face.
When Captain Song and his men arrived, Gu Shutong's face was bruised again, and Gu Zhiye's white lining was stained with blood. It looked shocking, and the villagers were frightened. Captain Song ran to Gu Zhiye's side in two or three steps, turned around and angrily scolded Gu Shutong: "Gu Dawa——! He is your brother, a soldier of the country, you are beating him to death... Do you want to live?!"
Gu Shutong felt extremely wronged, and the feeling of that day came flooding back to him again, causing him to blurt out, "If I hadn't broken my leg, he wouldn't have been a soldier!"
“Really? Then why don’t you tell us how you broke your leg.” Gu Zhiye stopped the captain from checking his injury and said word by word, “Back then, after the quota for the county seat came down, you took me to the mountains to hunt rabbits. It was you who wanted to push me, but you missed and fell. I tried to save you, and we both fell off the cliff.
I have not told the truth for the sake of my mother over the years. I believe you know why. I thought you would restrain yourself. In this case, it doesn’t matter if the Gu family’s reputation is gone…”
One stone caused a thousand ripples and everyone was in an uproar.
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