Chapter 19: Lack of Fortune

Mrs. Gu was quite clean. Her hair was neatly combed, her mouth had no smell, her neck and behind her ears were clean, and her clothes were clean and tidy.

My father and I wash our feet every night, whether it is winter or summer.

The house is even more clean, and the cabinet is wiped every day.

Although it is a mud house, everything in the house is clean and tidy.

So isn't this a human problem? It's not a rural or urban problem.

Not to mention other houses in the city, even their neighbors' homes are quite messy.

The reason I'm asking is that I'm tired and too lazy to clean up.

Su He learned how to iron clothes from her mother. When they were young, her mother would iron the clothes of the four children, regardless of whether they had pudding or not.

Then she found that the ironed clothes looked like new clothes and looked particularly beautiful when she wore them.

From then on, she had to iron the clothes she wore every day.

"Mrs. Ge, there's nothing to be picky about. I'm just being diligent. If you want, you can also iron the clothes you wear every day." Su He also said with a smile.

Li Yinhua responded quickly, "Teacher Su, we don't have the time here. We have to go to the fields to work at dawn, unlike you who work in the city."

The tone is a bit envious and a bit sour.

Ge Cuilan, "That's right. I don't even have a chance to fart from the time I wake up in the morning to the time I go to bed at night. I'm busy like a top."

When it comes to this question, Ge Cuilan thinks of her second sister Gu and immediately starts to mock her, "Your second aunt is so lucky. She lives on her own after the family split up, and she has three girls to help with the housework."

"Unlike my family, which only has a few naughty boys."

Li Yinhua also said, "That's right. Sons are not as caring as daughters. It's a pity that we are not destined to have daughters. Your second aunt is the lucky one!"

hehe!

Su He understood what they meant. On the surface, they regretted that they had no daughter, but in fact they were showing off that they had several sons and mocking Second Sister Gu for not having a son.

Take this person for example. You can mock her if you want, but you mock her right in front of her. You are really sick.

Su He sneered in his heart and followed their words.

"That's true. The two sisters-in-law are so unlucky."

Li Yinhua Ge Cuilan, "............"

Is the child too young to understand what they mean, or is she saying that on purpose? Most people who hear this would say that it is better to have a son, that sons are better than daughters, etc.!

Why doesn't she follow the routine?

Ge Cuilan, "But the advantage of having many sons is that you don't have to worry about having no one to take care of you when you are old."

Su He sighed at this.

Li Yinhua, "Teacher Su, why are you sighing?"

Su He pretended to shake his head, "Nothing."

Nothing?

Ge Cuilan and Li Yinhua looked at each other. Why did they feel that Su He's sigh was directed at them? But why was she sighing at them?

Su He didn't say anything either.

The two of them were puzzled.

Su He: She just wanted to sigh!

The three of them did not continue the conversation, mainly because Su He unilaterally did not want to talk anymore.

Talking to them hurts.

We arrived at the village half an hour later.

As time goes by, enemies often meet on a narrow road. As soon as she got off the carriage, she met Gu's second aunt Zhang Xiuying. Gu's mother disliked her sister-in-law, and Su He disliked her as well. She heard most of what Gu's mother said to her that morning.

You have a bad mouth. Just take care of your own family instead of meddling in other people's affairs.

The book also mentions her daughter a lot.

She said that she disliked everyone in the second branch of the Gu family. In her heart, she hated everyone in the second branch equally. The reason why the second branch of the Gu family was able to rise was because they climbed up by stepping on the heads of the sons and daughters of the Su family.

Everyone in the second branch of the Gu family, including the married third daughter Gu Jinzhu, has benefited from the heroine Gu Li. I can’t say how much, but it must have benefited a lot.

As the saying goes, when one person succeeds, everyone around him benefits; this is exactly the case with the second branch of the Gu family.

"Xiao He is back from get off work." Zhang Xiuying is also a smiling tiger.

Su He, "Yes, Auntie, did you just come back from the field?"

Zhang Xiuying wanted to say no, but she had the hoe in her hand.

"Yes, I just came back from the ground."

It's a pity that her three sons, three daughters-in-law and several grandchildren still have to work in the fields.

Zhang Xiuying suddenly felt that she was not as good as her mother Gu. Her mother Gu was about the same age as her, and she did not go to the fields as often as she did. She would just rest when she felt unwell occasionally.

She has to endure it and will only rest when she really can't stand it anymore.

She was afraid that if she didn't work in the fields, her sons and daughters-in-law would dislike her. After all, she was still young, only in her early fifties.

One more year of work is one more year of hard work.

"Then you are busy, Auntie. I'm going back now." Su He didn't say anything to her.

Zhang Xiuying nodded and looked at the cloth bag in Su He's hand, thinking that this must be another gift from Su He's parents.

How could she not be so lucky to meet such in-laws!

The father-in-law and mother-in-law of her third child were very stingy. Not to mention giving them gifts, they never even gave them a pig's hair.

Su He has arrived home.

Mother Gu was cooking. She prepared two dishes, fried eggs with tomatoes and spicy and sour shredded potatoes, and the staple food was cornmeal cakes.

While cooking, Gu's mother asked, "Xiao He, what are you carrying? This big bag?"

Su He put the bag on the chopping board and said, "My eldest and third brothers mailed it to me."

As he spoke, he took out the things inside one by one.

"My third brother mailed the noodles from Beijing."

"My eldest brother mailed the malted milk powder and candy to me. They heard that I was pregnant and told me to eat something good to replenish my body."

"Mom, let Dad hang the bones in the well and eat them tomorrow morning."

Gu's mother didn't know what to say. She just thought her daughter-in-law's brothers were really good. She said, "These are all rare things. I'll thank my uncle and his family tomorrow."

Su He nodded and asked, "Mom, when will our team kill the cow? I will make some beef jerky for them then."

Mother Gu said, "Oh, that's hard to say. The last time we killed the cow, it was because its leg was broken and it couldn't survive."

Su He wilted, "Okay."

Their brigade would occasionally kill some cattle or sheep, and they even killed one at the beginning of this year. If the villagers wanted to buy the beef, they would sell it to them, but most of it was sold to the commune.

Beef is more expensive than pork, who buys it?

Mother Gu said, "Xiao He, you can send some milk tofu. The hard milk tofu is easier to preserve."

Su He, "Okay, Mom, but don't worry, let's talk about it after the holiday."

After dinner, Su He gave a bag of milk powder and some noodles to Gu's mother. She didn't cook the noodles, so Gu's mother cooked and gave them to her.

Mother Gu took the noodles and said, "I'll hide them for you. We won't eat them. I'll cook you a bowl every morning."

"You kid, why are you drinking these when we're not pregnant? Drink it if you want, and take it and put it in the cupboard." I don't want the milk powder.

Su He knew that Gu's mother didn't want it, but she still had to go through the process.

This is what her mother taught her. She said that if your parents-in-law have anything delicious, they will definitely give it to you first, so if you get something good, you should give it to them and ask them if they want to eat it.

Even if you know they won't accept it, you still have to go through the formalities as a daughter-in-law.