"We can't make it today, we don't have enough materials. It rained the past two days, but it's sunny today. Xinxin, take me to the back mountain, I'll go find some things, and we can also get some dried leaves," Gu Nian said.
“Okay! Let’s go call Sister Huihui and Sister Sisi to come together! I usually go with them to cut wild vegetables and gather firewood.” Gu Xin nodded and suggested.
"Okay, sure." Gu Nian had a pretty good impression of her two cousins.
The two sisters changed their clothes and went out with baskets and sickles on their backs, which also contained burlap sacks.
Gu Nian wondered if it was due to genetics, but she noticed that the daughters of the Gu family seemed to be quite strong. They weren't as strong as Grandma Gu, but they were stronger than the average girl. Anyway, they could do some work without any problem, so she added a sack.
"Are you really not going to do embroidery anymore? Are you going to be a peasant from now on?" Gu Hui couldn't help but ask as the four sisters went out together.
"Sister Huihui, are you worried about me?" Gu Nian asked with a smile.
"Tch, who cares about you? I'm telling you, Gu Nian, I've noticed you're getting more and more shameless lately!" Gu Hui vehemently denied it.
"Oh! Sister Huihui, you have to say what you care about. If you don't say it, no one will know. It's not good for you to keep a straight face like that, it will make you look ugly, right, Xinxin, Sisi!" Gu Nian took Gu Hui's hand and then called to her two younger sisters.
Gu Si: "..."
Why are you suddenly replying to me? Sister Niannian is so strange.
“That’s right, Sister Huihui. Grandpa said that family members should express their care through words. Uncle also said that we shouldn’t always have a frown, otherwise we’ll become ugly when we grow up and won’t be able to get married.” Gu Xin nodded in agreement.
"Nonsense! Let's go. Don't talk while walking, it's tiring!" Gu Hui was speechless after being confronted by the two sisters from the second branch of the family, so she simply stopped talking.
Gu Nian laughed even harder. The eldest daughter of the first wife was really awkward and arrogant, and she quite liked it.
“Da Ya! It really is Da Ya! How come you…” As they passed Zhang Lizheng’s house, a little girl about the same age as Gu Nian ran out. She was wearing a pretty dress and looked at Gu Nian with a terrified expression.
Gu Nian knew this was Zhang Lizheng's house. Cai Xiaolian often gave her introductions to the people in Sanchakou Village.
Although she had never met the girl in front of her, Cai Xiaolian had mentioned that she was Zhang Lizheng's youngest daughter, the younger sister of that burly Zhang Yungui, Zhang Yunyun, who had grown up with Gu Nian. She hadn't appeared a few days ago because she had gone to her ancestral home in the next county to celebrate a birthday.
When Gu Xin saw Zhang Yunyun, she instinctively hid behind Gu Nian.
"Oh my, Da Ya, you actually carried a dirty basket on your back and took Er Ya out with you! Are you out of your mind? Did you get your brain caught in a door? Didn't you say Er Ya was the ugliest in the whole village? You don't even want to admit she's your sister anymore, what are you doing?" Gu Xin's little actions were noticed by Zhang Yunyun. She gave Gu Xin a disgusted look and then went to pull Gu Nian.
Gu Xin lowered her head in self-consciousness.
“Zhang Yunyun, you…”
"Sister Huihui, let me do it!" Gu Nian pulled the hot-tempered Gu Hui and took a step forward with Gu Xin.
“Da Ya, I’m not trying to be mean, but you…” Zhang Yunyun raised an eyebrow at Gu Hui triumphantly, but Gu Nian interrupted her.
"Shut up!" Gu Nian said without any politeness.
Zhang Yunyun looked at Gu Nian in disbelief. Had Da Ya gone mad? She had never spoken to her like that before.
"Xin Xin, are you going to listen to your sister?" Gu Nian tugged at Gu Xin.
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