Chapter 249: The Pregnancy That Forces the Parents-in-Laws 6 What? You don’t want your grandson to be…
Gu Yanni felt extremely embarrassed when her evil thoughts were exposed to her face.
She was so angry that she was about to explode, but she needed Lu Yuan to take the lead and help her achieve her evil purpose.
So she could only pretend to be pitiful and innocent. She just started crying, and her hot tears fell on Lu Yuan's hands. She looked like such a weak and helpless little thing.
She sobbed, "I don't understand what you're saying. I admit, I'm seeking a divorce, but that's because we haven't been able to have children after all these years of marriage. It has nothing to do with anyone else."
Lu Yuan sneered and withdrew his hand, looking at the woman silently. Finally, without saying a word, he turned around and left.
Her actions made Gu Yanni feel very anxious, and she hurried back to her mother to discuss countermeasures.
Mother Gu was quite surprised. After a moment's contemplation, she said, "This Lü Yuan must be here to test your attitude. You silly child, you should show some sincerity. First, coax her into leading the charge. We'll see how things develop and decide on our next move. Now that you've driven her away, where can we find another vanguard like her?"
Gu Yanni looked innocent: "But she said that to me, I really felt wronged."
Mother Gu was helpless. Her daughter was really spoiled by her. She only knew how to hide in the back and wait for others to help her fight for things. Even when she should show her sincerity to her partners, she still did not forget to wear a mask and put on a big show.
Forget it, she is my own daughter, I spoil her, so I will just bear with it.
Mother Gu sighed and quickly brought the food to her: "Eat quickly, then take a nap. I'm going to meet that Lu Yuan."
"Mom, this isn't good, let's just forget it." Gu Yanni was so immersed in the role that she never forgot to maintain the image of a gentle and harmless little lamb.
Mother Gu smiled dotingly: "Don't worry about this, just eat quickly."
However, she didn't know where Lu Yuan lived now, so she could only come to the street next to the staff dormitory of the non-staple food factory, push the cart, and slowly wait for Zhang's mother to come out.
The weather in late autumn is always changeable. After waiting for about half an hour, raindrops began to fall from the sky.
Mother Gu had no choice but to bend down and go to the supply and marketing cooperative next door. After waiting for a while, she finally saw Mother Zhang come out.
This time she did not go up to say hello, but followed Zhang's mother from a distance and went to the kindergarten together.
After sending the child off, Zhang's mother went to Lu Yuan's place. She had to run back and forth every day. While taking care of her grandson, she also had to serve Lu Yuan, a pregnant woman. She was very busy and had no idea that the old woman from last time was following her.
Only after she entered the yard and closed the door did Gu's mother stop, move closer to see the house number clearly, and then go back into the rain.
Gu Yanni was just getting ready for work. Seeing her mother soaked, she felt very distressed and quickly took a towel: "Mom, where have you been? Hurry up and make some ginger and brown sugar water to drink, so you don't catch a cold."
"I'm fine, you can go to work." Mother Gu was too lazy to report the progress to her daughter. Anyway, her daughter wanted to be an innocent little poor girl, so as a mother, she naturally had to help her child.
That way, even if plans do change, the children won't be dragged into it.
After wiping her hair and boiling some ginger and brown sugar water, Mother Gu went to the kitchen to prepare something to eat for Lu Yuan.
Osmanthus pastry is too plain and simple, and pork is in short supply at home, so let's just make some fried crucian carp.
She found a raincoat and braved the rain to go to Nanjiao Commune. She went to the fish pond there and bought some thumb-sized crucian carps. This kind of fish only needs to be cleaned a little, sprinkled with some salt, poured with some cooking wine, and marinated with some chopped green onions, ginger, and garlic for half an hour. Then she got an egg, beat it, added some water and flour, stirred it, added some seasonings, and pounded some green onions, ginger, and garlic into it. Mix it into a paste that is neither too thin nor too thick, wrap it around the crucian carps, and finally fry it in a pan. It tastes very good.
Although this method consumes a lot of oil, the remaining oil after frying can be reused for cooking, so even though she felt pained, she still gritted her teeth and went for it.
The rain stopped around four o'clock.
Gu's mother prepared a small pot of fried crucian carp, collected the remaining oil, and did not wash the pot, leaving it for cooking in the evening.
Mother Gu hurried out and found Lu Yuan's residence based on the route she remembered.
She knocked on the door politely: "Hello, I am Gu Yanni's mother."
As for who she was looking for, she didn't mention it. She knew that Lu Yuan had been in prison and had to keep a low profile after being released.
Lu Yuan in the yard suddenly looked up and looked towards the gate. It was not simple. Gu Yanni's mother actually came here!
Lu Yuan got up to open the door, and Gu's mother quickly handed her a bowl of fried small crucian carp, which was still a little warm and smelled very fragrant and tempting.
Lu Yuan was indeed a little greedy. After all, pregnant women need to supplement nutrition, so she opened the door and let Gu's mother in.
As she closed the door, she had already picked up a small crucian carp and stuffed it into her mouth: "Hmm, it tastes good. Auntie, are you such a good cook?"
"I just made some. Thank you for the compliment." Mother Gu looked around Lu Yuan's residence. It was a run-down little courtyard with no decent furniture. Everything was dented or broken. She couldn't help but say with a pang of heartache, "I can't believe you, the wife of a factory director, actually live in such a shabby place. That Yao Zhizhi is really causing trouble."
Lu Yuan didn't say anything and continued to taste the fried crucian carp, but her eyes spoke, with a light of joy flashing in them, encouraging Mother Gu to continue.
Mother Gu knew she had found the right person. She smiled, rolled up her sleeves, and turned to help Lu Yuan tidy up the yard. "It's normal for your mother-in-law to be too busy taking care of the children. If you have any inconveniences in the future, just let me know. I'll come and help you when I'm free. After all, you used to work with my Yanni. A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor, don't you think?"
The latter part of the sentence was purely forced, but Lu Yuan did not interrupt. Instead, she smiled and said, "Auntie is so enthusiastic, how can I say no? Auntie, do you want some water? I'll go get some."
"Boiled water will be enough, thank you." Mother Gu continued to clean up. In fact, she was not thirsty, but she and Lu Yuan were both smart people and could hear the signals sent by each other. Naturally, she had to give Lu Yuan this face, even if it was just to hold the cup and wet her lips.
She moved quickly and dismantled all the broken chairs and tables piled up in the yard. She then asked Lu Yuan for an axe and chopped them all into firewood, which she neatly stacked in the kitchen. After cleaning up, she picked up the broom and started cleaning.
Finally, I even pulled out a few weeds in the yard, cleaned the kitchen stove, and took out the trash in the room...
This busy work lasted for more than an hour. Gu's mother thought she had shown enough sincerity, so she washed her hands, picked up the boiled water that had long since cooled, and asked, "Can you give me some more hot water?"
Lv Yuan smiled, turned around, brought a bright red kettle, and said straight to the point, "Auntie, I appreciate your concern. If you have anything to say, just tell me."
Mother Gu took a sip of water and looked at Lu Yuan with a smile: "Are you interested in joining forces and making that Yao go back to being her housewife?"
Lu Yuan liked Mother Gu's straightforward personality, so she also showed her sincerity: "What plans do you have? Tell me about it."
Half an hour later, Mother Gu left Lu Yuan's residence with a smile.
When Zhang's mother came over the next day, Lu Yuan handed her a thick stack of hand-written newspapers.
The handwriting was deliberately crooked, as if it was written by an elementary school student, so as to avoid being recognized.
Mother Zhang didn't understand and asked curiously, "What is this for?"
Lu Yuan ordered, "Later, I'll have someone distract Zhang Wang and Xie Dayou who are guarding the gate. You stuff these handwritten newspapers into their desks."
Mother Zhang frowned: "Tell me first, what did you write?"
"What? Don't you want your grandson to be reunited with his family?" Lu Yuan was unhappy. As an uneducated mother-in-law, she didn't know anything. It was useless to say anything.
Mother Zhang was embarrassed and could only sigh: "Okay, then are you sure you can lead them away?"
"Sure." Lu Yuan would not go there herself, and Gu's mother would pretend to be passing by and fall.
Zhang Wang and Xie Dayou are both upright people and will not sit idly by.
Zhang's mother said stubbornly, "Okay, be careful."
*
Yao Zhizhi always felt that her colleagues' eyes were a little strange today.
Sometimes when she went to the tea room to order some hot water, she would see people deliberately avoiding her gaze.
He couldn't help but frown and called Xiao Song over: "What's wrong today? Everyone is looking at me like that?"
Xiao Song was afraid of hurting Yao Zhizhi's pride and didn't know how to start. After hesitating for a moment, he called Zhou Juan in and said, "Go ahead."
Zhou Juan is always chatty, so it's most appropriate to let her speak.
But Zhou Juan also hesitated this time, obviously having some concerns, and finally Yao Zhizhi had no choice but to call Xiao Jiang in.
"Just say what you want to say. Don't be so hesitant. I don't like it." Yao Zhizhi sat opposite the desk with a serious face.
The three female comrades looked at each other, and finally Xiao Jiang gritted her teeth and went to the drawer at her workstation to get a hand-written newspaper.
Yao Zhizhi took it and looked at it, then laughed: "I thought it was something else, just this?"
Xiao Jiang sighed silently, "We were afraid you'd be upset, so we didn't dare tell you. Editor-in-Chief Yao, don't worry. I've already asked someone to find out the source. Once I've found out—"
Yao Zhizhi didn't wait for her to finish and waved her hand: "No need to ask, I can guess who it is."
Xiao Jiang and the others weren't surprised, but worriedly said, "But we have no evidence, and Gu Yanni has been very active and serious at work lately. Even if we try to cause trouble for her, it won't be easy."
"That's fine. Let's start with our own internal affairs and get to the bottom of this." Yao Zhizhi glanced over the work schedule in her hand and stood up. "No time is worse than today. Let's call everyone here for a meeting."
Yao Zhizhi didn't feel guilty, so there was no reason for her to be afraid. However, she couldn't just ignore these rumors. She should unite internally and then think about other things.
Soon, everyone in the editorial department arrived, even Xiao Gu, who was in charge of distribution, came.
Yao Zhizhi looked at everyone and said calmly, "I know you all received a copy of the handwritten newspaper. So, everyone come up with a topic, and then we'll vote on it. Once we've decided on one, we'll all write on the spot and compete."
"Ah?" Zhang Datong and others were obviously unwilling. If they had high skills, they would have been promoted to editors long ago. It was impossible for them to stay in the proofreading position.
They don't want to embarrass themselves.
But Yao Zhizhi insisted on doing it, and everyone had no choice but to write a topic and hand it in.
The final vote chose a semi-propositional article - My lover is ______.
"Okay, the time limit is one hour, there is no limit on the subject matter, and the word count is controlled at around 800 words. Everyone must remain anonymous. After you finish writing, everyone will score it. The highest and lowest scores will be removed, and the average score will be taken as the final score. Let's begin." Yao Zhizhi took out paper and pen, sat down with everyone, and performed on the spot.
After all this commotion, the editorial office remained quiet until the end of the working day.
Qi Changxiao came to wait for Yao Zhizhi, and seeing that the door of the editorial office was closed, he thought they were in a meeting, so he didn't knock on the door. He just stood in the corridor, folded his arms, and waited patiently.
As for the other people in the art department, except Gu Yanni and Xiao Wei who went to the bathroom, everyone else left.
Gu Yanni thought no one was around, so she actually walked up the stairs. She approached Qi Changxiao and smiled shyly: "Last time you praised my illustrations. I made another set these days. Can you give me some comments?"
Qi Changxiao's face darkened as he rejected the idea outright: "Did I praise you? I was just saying that your painting was the only one that matched the theme. Speaking of technique, you're not as outstanding as Zhang Baojian."
This is equivalent to saying that he is just speaking the truth and please don't add drama to yourself.
But Gu Yanni wouldn't listen to him at all. She just thought he was trying to avoid suspicion, after all, he was still working in the publishing house.
So she stuffed her drawing into Qi Changxiao's arms and said, "Just help me take a look at it."
Qi Changxiao simply spread his arms and let the drawing fall to the ground: "I'm busy, go find someone else."
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