Chapter 33: Knowing Teenagers 2
The Gu family had no idea that the educated youth were coming to the Pingxi Production Brigade.
Helping to build the house? The Gu family has plenty of strong laborers, so it wouldn't be a big deal to lend a hand. Besides, if a strong laborer learns how to build a house, he can go back and build his own. There are four sons in the family, and sooner or later they'll have to go out and live on their own. When the grandchildren grow up, the house won't be big enough for them. Building a house of their own is inevitable.
Finally, the rations were distributed. That was something the production team had to consider, and the Gu family had no time to think about that.
For a child like Fubao, the educated youth were less attractive than a dozen pigeon eggs that he happened to pick up.
Fubao and Gu Shengtian happily brought the pigeon eggs back in their clothes pockets and handed them to Miao Xiuju. Miao Xiuju looked at them, secretly hid five of them, and then cooked the remaining eleven and gave one to each of the children in the family.
Gu Niudan didn't care: "I'm already this old, why should I eat this stuff? Give it to Dongni, Fubao and the others."
Dongni and Fubao are both little girls, and they are still young in Gu Niudan's eyes. Gu Niudan thinks that he should take better care of them.
He has a different personality from his mother. He is the eldest child in the Gu family. He has always felt that his younger brothers and sisters are his own family, and as the eldest brother, he has to take care of them more.
After hearing this, Shen Hongying secretly spitted and felt very angry.
How could I give birth to such a stupid son?
But Miao Xiuju finally let Gu Niudan eat the pigeon egg: "You little brat has bankrupted me. Now is the time to eat. A pigeon egg is just a mouthful. Eat it."
Shen Hongying stared at Gu Niudan, and Gu Niudan had no choice but to take it.
After Miao Xiuju divided the pigeon eggs, she put the remaining five pigeon eggs in her pocket. When Liu Guizhi entered the kitchen, she stuffed them into her hands and said, "Don't be silly and shout about it. Give them to Fubao and Shengtian when they are hungry tonight."
Liu Guizhi was shocked. She had never been treated like this before. Besides, Miao Xiuju was not the kind of mother-in-law who would favor one person over another.
Miao Xiuju looked at Liu Guizhi's surprised expression and immediately frowned: "Why are you looking at me like that? Aren't these bird eggs found by Fubao and Shengtian? What's wrong with giving them a few more? They have the ability to pick them up, so they should enjoy it!"
Liu Guizhi thought about it and agreed, but she didn't expect Miao Xiujiu to have such thoughts. She suddenly thought of the old Yuan that Fubao mentioned.
Fubao didn't let anyone know after he found Old Yuantou, so Miao Xiujiu secretly put it away and planned to sell it for the money and leave it to Fubao.
At that moment, he suddenly understood Miao Xiuju's thoughts, looked at Miao Xiuju with gratitude, nodded, and accepted the pigeon egg.
So at night, when Fubao and Gu Shengtian were about to go to bed, Liu Guizhi closed the doors and windows and took out the pigeon eggs for them to eat secretly.
The two little guys didn't expect that there were still some left. They carefully peeled the pigeon eggs and ate them in small bites. Fubao looked at Liu Guizhi and pestered her to feed her a bite. The mother and her two children ate happily on the kang.
After eating pigeon eggs, it was Chinese New Year. Even the poorest families bought firecrackers. Gu Niudan and Gu Yuejin took their younger brothers to set off firecrackers early in the morning. The firecrackers were crackling. Miao Xiujiu and her wives also cooked dumplings.
In the past, they would worship God, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Kitchen God and so on during the Chinese New Year. Now they don’t worship the gods anymore. They just hold dumplings in their hands and shake them at the door, silently chanting a few times, “Ancestors eat dumplings, gods eat dumplings”, to show the older people’s obsession with worshipping gods during the Chinese New Year.
After offering sacrifices to the gods, you can eat dumplings. They are fragrant cabbage and meat residue dumplings. Even the dumplings are generously made of a mixture of corn flour and white flour, which is almost unimaginable under normal circumstances.
After each person had a small half bowl of dumplings, they moved on to other dishes. Chinese New Year was the most enjoyable time, with all sorts of goodies available. Miao Xiuju was a skilled cook, and the other wives were all capable. They fried lotus root clams, steamed vermicelli balls, radish ball cakes, and so on. The table was filled with all sorts of elaborate snacks, and everyone could have whatever they wanted.
The children at home had never eaten these before, so they grabbed them one by one and ate them without stopping.
Normally, Miao Xiuju would feel bad seeing everyone eating so much, but not today: "Eat as much as you want. It's Chinese New Year, so we have to eat to our heart's content."
When she said this, everyone laughed.
It’s great to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
After dinner, Fubao followed his brothers out to play on the street. Regardless of whether they were rich or poor, all the children were dressed neatly today. Those from well-off families even had pear syrup candies or fried peanuts in their pockets.
In Fubao's pocket were the White Rabbit milk candies and popcorn that his grandmother had given him. Whenever he thought of them, he would eat a piece and immediately feel that his life was wonderful.
Compared to Fubao's love for snacks, Gu Shengtian didn't care much. He gave his White Rabbit milk candy to Fubao, took a bunch of small firecrackers, found a place on the street, leaned over and lit them with a match, and then ran away quickly.
With a "bang", the firecrackers went off and the children burst into laughter.
Several wives who were visiting on the street saw this scene and couldn't help but say, "This little Fubao is getting more and more popular as he grows up. The dumb wife of the old Gu family is really lucky. She gave birth to three sons, and now she has such a pretty girl out of nowhere."
Wang Fugui's wife happened to be there too: "That's right, this Fubao is very sweet, and he seems sensible. He will definitely be a good companion in the future."
When talking about Fubao, people naturally talk about the old Nie family.
Nie Laosan can now walk around with the help of a cane and do some work, but it will take some time for her to fully recover. Nie Laosan's daughter, Nv Yin, fell into a well last time and was seriously injured. She has been a little dazed and dazed. Sometimes she sits there stupidly and doesn't know what she is thinking. Everyone says that her brain is damaged.
Nie Laosan's wife was in a state of worry, either scolding her husband or beating her daughter. I heard that they didn't even make dumplings for the New Year this year, so they just steamed some vegetarian vermicelli meatballs to get by.
There was a wife who curled her lips and said, "How can we celebrate the New Year like this? What's the point of living like this!" Wang Fugui's wife chuckled, "Don't you think that ever since Fubao went to the old Gu family, the old Gu family's fourth branch has been doing well in everything? They are living such a prosperous and exciting life. Look at the Nie family, let alone a good life. Even drinking water gets stuck in their teeth, and even farting can hit their heels. This is really unlucky. If you ask me, there must be a mystery here!"
When she said this, everyone was puzzled: "What's the secret?"
While they were chattering like this, Nie Laosan's wife happened to be passing by on the street. When she heard what they were saying, she stopped in her tracks and hid in a corner to listen to them.
Wang Fugui's wife began to speak: "Fubao was raised in a nunnery. I heard that children in nunneries are gifted with spiritual energy. After Nie Laosan's family raised Fubao, they were blessed with twins. Now that they don't have the child anymore, they've started to have bad luck! And have you noticed, the twins at Nie Laosan's family are facing so many misfortunes now? Not to mention the one with silver, they first fell into a muddy puddle and then into a well. How unlucky is that? And the one with gold, I heard it's not good either. They've been coughing a lot lately and it looks like they have tuberculosis."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Thinking back, they all felt that this was really mysterious. It was not the case. They were amazed for a moment and said, "This is really strange. I heard that nunnery was quite spiritual in the past. Now I think about it, maybe people who came out of Fubao Nunnery are just blessed."
As the group of wives were chattering, Nie Laosan's wife frowned.
She thought to herself, could this be the case? Fubao was born with good fortune, and if she left Fubao, not only would her family be in trouble, but her twins would also be in poor health?
Nie Laosan's wife was a little nervous and began to feel unsure...
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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the daughter-in-law and son of the old Gu family did not work for the whole day. According to Miao Xiujiu, if they are idle on the first day of the Lunar New Year, they will have no work to do for the whole year. If they are busy on this day, they will have no work to do for the whole year.
After a day of leisure, the second day of the Lunar New Year began with visiting relatives. Fubao went back to the Liu family with Liu Guizhi. The Liu family was doing well, and the old lady was generous. Liu Guizhi's mother directly gave Fubao and Gu Shengtian two cents as New Year's money, put melon seeds and milk candy in their pockets, and gave the two children a large bowl of malted milk.
Fubao licked his lips and whispered to Gu Shengtian, "It's such a treat to come to grandma's house."
Seeing her greedy look, Gu Shengtian couldn't help but rub her head: "I'll leave you at grandma's house."
Fubao quickly shook his head: "No, I still think mother is good, I have to follow her."
Liu Guizhi happened to hear this and laughed. She also touched Fubao's head, but she thought of what Gu Weidong said.
When Gu Weidong said this, she didn't feel much. She thought that whether they were poor or rich, as long as the family lived a peaceful life, that was enough.
But now, she began to think, if Gu Weidong really made a lot of money as he thought, would Fubao and Gu Shengtian be able to live a good life drinking malted milk every day?
Fubao is not her biological daughter, but for some reason, she just wants to pamper Fubao.
However, Liu Guizhi just kept this idea in her heart. She couldn't speak and couldn't tell others.
After returning from their mother's home on the second day of the Chinese New Year, the men were called over on the third day to build houses for the educated youth. On the sixth day, the educated youth arrived.
That day, the children all got up early and ran to the production brigade to see the educated youth, and Fubao also went with them.
The educated youth were brought back from the county by Chen Youfu, along with the production team cadres and several able-bodied men, driving two donkey carts.
There were thirteen educated youths this time, both men and women, most of them were in their teens, and the oldest was said to be only twenty-two years old.
Most of the educated youth were fair-skinned and gentle-looking, which was very different from the people who worked in the countryside. The clothes they wore also looked fashionable and fresh.
The villagers looked out to see what was new and chattered about it.
Fubao stood beside Gu Shengtian, slowly took out a popcorn from her small pocket and put it in her mouth. As she smelled the sweet aroma of the popcorn, she felt a pair of eyes staring at her.
My heart was slightly startled, like the ripples caused by the wind blowing across a pond in the summer.
The hand that had already put the popcorn to his mouth stopped moving.
Her eyelashes moved slightly, she raised her eyes and looked in the direction of that gaze.
A teenager stood among the educated youth, his body straight, his expression indifferent, but his eyebrows and eyes were as cold as a knife.
The young man's eyes were fixed on Fubao at this moment, staring at him intently, his deep and cold eyes emitting a fiery light.
Fubao's chest skipped a beat.
She tilted her head and looked at the young man, feeling that he seemed familiar, as if in her distant and vague memory, there was such a person who looked at her with such eyes.
A very greedy look, as if it could swallow me in one bite.
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