Chapter 7 Family Affairs
"Wanqing, this is the cave I live in. It was originally where my grandparents lived. After they passed away, they left it to me.
You stay here first, I'll go hunting tomorrow. Don't worry, my second sister-in-law's betrothal gift is ten taels of silver, and I will definitely not let you get less than hers."
Li Wanqing followed Gu Yan back to the cave where he lived.
Li Wanqing thought about it carefully and decided that marrying Gu Yan was still her best choice so far.
She didn't know what the situation was like outside the mountain, so she didn't dare to go out and buy a house and settle down rashly. What if someone targeted her?
She used to feel great when she read novels about time-traveling women who would buy houses and land, do business, or invent things that didn't exist in ancient times, and then get promoted and make money.
I think a time-traveling woman should be like this and kill everyone.
Now that she has traveled through time herself, she realizes that time-traveling women are also human beings and are not omnipotent. They will also be nervous when they first arrive in another world.
Li Wanqing didn't know what others were like, but she didn't dare to do it anyway.
Gu Yan was a decent-looking guy, needless to say. He was also tall, probably around 1.80 meters. His tall and sturdy figure gave him a sense of security.
What touched Li Wanqing the most was that he was not foolishly filial, which could be heard from his conversation with his mother.
Li Wanqing was most afraid of the foolish filial piety of men in ancient times, with their tales of "parents' orders are above all else." If she met a man like that after marriage, Li Wanqing would probably run away without hesitation.
If it were a girl in ancient times, she might think that Gu Yan was not doing this well, but for Li Wanqing, it was just the opposite. This just became a plus for Gu Yan.
She does not oppose men being filial, but she does not want men to be blindly filial. As the saying goes, only when the father is kind can the son be filial. If the parents are not kind, why should the son be filial?
No matter what others think, this is what Li Wanqing thinks.
She admits that she is selfish, and she is willing to be nice to others only when they are nice to her. If others are not nice to her, then sorry, she will treat you the same way.
It doesn’t matter if this person is your parents or in-laws.
"Well, can you tell me about your family? From what you said, your family is not short of money, so why doesn't your mother give you money to marry a wife? This doesn't make sense.
And you said you had two brothers and two sisters-in-law, why didn't I see them today? "Since Li Wanqing wanted to be with Gu Yan, she had to know the situation of his family.
"My family originally lived in the capital. Fifty years ago, King Liu started an uprising and the world was in chaos. My grandfather first moved his family to another place to escape. Later, the world became too chaotic, so my grandfather and his family fled to Qinglong Mountain.
Qinglong Mountain is rich in resources, and people can live a good life by hunting every year. My grandfather and his family have always lived in the mountains.
When my father and his family grew up, they wanted to move out, but a famine struck.
I was not born at that time, and I heard it from my grandfather. He said that it didn't rain for three consecutive years.
Not to mention food outside, even grass roots and tree barks were dug up and eaten. I heard that there were even people who ate people.
After the famine, there was a snowstorm, and then there were riots in various places. In short, he was never idle.
My grandfather saw that life in the mountains was safe, so he has lived there ever since.
There are not many people in my family. My father is Gu Chongshan, and my mother is Zhang Dahua, who is from Dazhang Village at the foot of Qinglong Mountain. I have two brothers. My eldest brother is Gu Nian, and my eldest sister-in-law is Zhang Cuihua, who is my mother's niece. The two of them currently have three children.
The eldest niece Da Niu is eight years old, the second niece Er Niu is six years old, and the youngest nephew is two years old.
My second brother Gu Bei and my second sister-in-law Li Yingdi got married last year and have no children yet.
I also have a younger brother and a younger sister.
I also have a second uncle who is the accountant of a restaurant. However, he and his family moved down the mountain a few years ago.
My second uncle has two cousins, one older and one younger. We don't spend much time together.
By the way, there is another aunt who also married and lived at the foot of the mountain, in the village where my second uncle lives.
If you don't want to live in the mountains, I'll buy a few acres of land in a few years, and we can move out to live." After saying this, Gu Yan didn't forget to express that he could also move out to live.
Li Wanqing has no requirements for where to live. For her, the mountains are safer at the moment.
"Is it true that what you said about getting married doesn't require your parents' permission, and that you will have to separate from them?" Li Wanqing asked again.
"Well, I wasn't taken seriously at home. My mother gave birth to my second brother prematurely, which caused him to be in poor health.
When my second brother was three months pregnant, my mother became pregnant with me again, which caused her to stop producing milk early.
My mother always blamed me, saying that it was because of me that my second brother ran out of milk after drinking it for a few months.
Moreover, after my mother gave birth to me, she couldn't take care of two children, and my second brother was weak, so my grandmother raised me since I came out of the confinement period.
Maybe because I didn’t grow up with them, my parents are not as close to me as the others.
It’s not that they beat or scolded me or anything, it’s just that I felt strange and couldn’t get close to them.
They usually treat me like an older brother, but I know that when something really happens, they will only seriously consider the older brothers and sisters, and will just be perfunctory with me.
I've also figured it out. From now on, we'll just live our own lives, and I won't count on them for help." Gu Yan said as he carefully watched Li Wanqing's face.
He was afraid that Li Wanqing would despise him for being unfilial. After all, everyone believes that filial piety is more important than anything else. If your parents want you to die, you must not die.
If word gets out that he only cares about his own family, he will be criticized.
But he is such a cold-hearted person that only when others are wholeheartedly kind to him can they get 50% kindness from him.
If others are only 50% nice to him, then he is just doing it for face.
Gu Yan was afraid that Li Wanqing would resist his character, but he was unwilling to lie to her.
I don’t know why, but he just loves Li Wanqing so much. Even though it’s the first time they’ve met, he feels that Li Wanqing is the wife God sent him.
He simply felt that he would be willing to give his heart to Li Wanqing. He himself found it strange why he had such an idea.
After all, in his heart, apart from his grandparents who raised him, no one else has any status.
Fortunately, Li Wanqing did not show any contempt, which made Gu Yan feel relieved.
In fact, it was just the opposite. After listening to Gu Yan's words, Li Wanqing not only did not think he was bad, but her impression of him became much better.
Let me put it this way, if Li Wanqing originally had a 60% willingness to marry him, then after hearing what he said, it immediately became 80%.
Li Wanqing saw Gu Yan looking at her cautiously, so she smiled and said, "Your idea is right. I agree with you."
Hearing that Li Wanqing also agreed with his idea, Gu Yan's eyes immediately lit up: "Really?, You really agree with my idea?"
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