Chapter 5 Gu Family
"Come here, my girl. I made you a bowl of noodles. Eat it first." Gu Yan's mother Zhang Dahua brought a bowl of steaming noodles and placed it in front of Li Wanqing.
"Thank you, Auntie." Li Wanqing didn't hesitate to take the chopsticks and started eating.
To explain why Li Wanqing followed Gu Yan home, we have to start from a few hours ago.
"Sister, what are your plans for the future? I know you must have some unspeakable secrets when you appear here. If you don't want to talk about it, I won't ask.
If you don't have a place to go for the time being, you can stay at my house first. Don't worry, I'm not a bad person." Gu Yan said cautiously, peeking at Li Wanqing's face.
Of course, Gu Yan had selfish motives when he said this. He fell in love with this fair and tender girl at first sight.
Although Li Wanqing is a maid, she is the head maid serving the young lady. She has to serve the young lady carefully and cannot make any mistakes.
But her life is much better than that of an ordinary girl from a farming family. At least she has no worries about food and clothing, and she can learn etiquette from the young lady, and she can also learn a little when the young lady studies.
The original owner was a smart and successful person. He usually followed the young lady and learned a lot secretly.
In some areas, she even learned better than the young lady, but she was smart and never showed it.
And now it was Li Wanqing who traveled through time, and the petty nature of the original owner was gone.
Let me put it this way, when Li Wanqing stands out now, her temperament is better than that of any other young lady.
It’s no wonder that Gu Yan had such thoughts. Compared with the village girls at the foot of the mountain, Li Wanqing is beautiful and has good temperament.
Li Wanqing is not a naive person. Gu Yan is so positive and enthusiastic. She doesn't believe that he has no feelings for her.
But she also had her own considerations. Her current identity was not safe, and she did not want to and could not continue to use Qiu Ju's identity.
So she planned to use her real name, Li Wanqing.
However, she did not have a household registration and did not know whether the government office would approve it.
Besides, she is an orphan and a beautiful one at that, so she may be plotted against wherever she goes.
What if she meets a bad guy and is sold to a brothel or something? That would be the end of her.
Li Wanqing never dared to overestimate human nature. Although she had the original owner's memories, the original owner lived in the backyard and rarely went out. She had no idea about the outside world.
Li Wanqing was also eager to find someone reliable to rely on in this era.
So Li Wanqing did not refuse Gu Yan's kindness.
Of course, Gu Yan's good looks are also crucial. If Gu Yan is not good-looking, he would not consider her even if she was looking for someone to rely on.
It’s hard to say who was more proactive between the two of them, we can only say that they hit it off immediately.
However, although Li Wanqing had that intention, she still needed to observe and see whether Gu Yan's parents were easy to get along with.
Seeing Li Wanqing eating noodles, Zhang Dahua pulled Gu Yan out of the cave.
"Xiao San, what's wrong with this girl?" Zhang Dahua took a look inside and asked in a low voice after making sure that Li Wanqing couldn't hear her.
"Mom, I met Wanqing in the mountains. She came to stay with her relatives, but they moved away and she couldn't find them.
She accidentally got lost in the mountains again. When I saw her, she was almost bitten by a poisonous snake. I saved her. "Gu Yan explained to his mother with a slightly red face.
Zhang Dahua looked at her youngest son's expression and couldn't understand anything: "Why? Are you attracted to this girl?"
Gu Yan's face turned even redder. After all, he was only twenty years old, and he was still a little shy to discuss this topic with his mother.
Seeing her son's expression, Zhang Dahua smiled and said, "Okay, Mom understands. I'll go talk to that girl later."
But that girl doesn’t look like an ordinary person to me, and I don’t know if she would agree?
Also, son, our family is out of money after your second brother's wedding, and I don't know how much your father and his prey can sell for today? If... "
Although Zhang Dahua didn't finish her words, Gu Yan understood the meaning of her words. Isn't it just that his family has no money, so if he wants to get married, he has to find a way himself?
"Humph, he knew it was like this. Others always say that the eldest son and grandson are the lifeblood of the old lady.
This is not the case in their family. His father likes his eldest brother the most because he is the eldest son and will rely on him for support in his old age.
Her mother likes the second brother because he looks the most like her, and he was born in poor health, so her mother took care of him day and night and invested the most effort, so the second brother is the most important in her mother's heart.
He was conceived three months after his mother gave birth to his second brother, so he is one year younger than his second brother.
After he was born, his mother could not take care of two children, and his second brother was in poor health, so she gave him to his grandparents to raise.
How does that saying come about? Children who don't grow up with you always have different emotions from those who do.
This is Gu Yan's situation. It's not that he is not close to his parents, but he just feels like something is missing.
His parents are very nice to him, but when it comes to matters related to his elder and second brothers, he will definitely take the back seat.
It was the same this time. Mingming's mother had chosen a daughter of another hunter in the mountains for him. They all knew each other well, and the bride price was not much.
The second brother thought that the big and strong girl was ugly, so he chose Li Yingdi from the village at the foot of the mountain.
Li Yingdi is the eldest in the family, with several younger brothers and sisters. She has long been of marriageable age, but the reason she has never married is because her family demands a large dowry.
To marry her, he needed ten taels of silver. Ordinary farmers couldn't afford that much money, and those who could afford it didn't want to marry into a family like theirs.
Li Yingdi looked okay, thin and frail, looking like he could be blown away by the wind. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been favored by his second brother.
I don’t know how Li Yingdi fooled her second brother, but he went home and insisted on marrying her.
But his family had already arranged a marriage for him with the daughter of another hunter in the mountains, and the betrothal gift had been given, so how could he go back on his word?
My parents didn't agree, so my second brother went on a hunger strike. In the end, my parents had no choice but to fulfill his wish.
Originally, this had nothing to do with Gu Yan, but he didn't expect that his mother was reluctant to give out the betrothal gift (according to the local custom, the betrothal gift cannot be taken back if the man regrets the engagement, and he must compensate the woman), and actually wanted him to marry the woman his second brother didn't want.
He also said that he was only one year younger than the second brother and was suitable for that woman.
How could Gu Yan pick up a woman that others don't want? Although it is a bit unfair to the woman, she is innocent after all.
But he is innocent too. It’s impossible for the elder brother to do something bad and let the younger brother pay for it, right?
Of course Gu Yan disagreed, and the family quarreled for two days. Finally, he got angry and said that if his parents continued to force him, he would separate and leave the family. Only then did he give up.
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