Chapter 10 10. Numbers
This land has been plowed over and over again, and after walking for a long time, everyone's hands are still empty.
While everyone was discussing whether to go back, Gu Yuanlei stared at one place for a long time without blinking, "Brother, do you see a house over there?"
Everyone's heart tightened. Although they were taking the official road, they tried to choose a place far away from the village. Could it be that the head of the village and his men had not found out the situation here clearly?
"Why don't we go over and ask? There should be water where there are people. We can even ask for water." Gu Yuanmu touched the bamboo tube he carried with him. Some of it had been used up in the past half day. If it could be filled up, the people at home could drink a few more sips.
Naturally, no one else had any objection, except Gu Wenheng, who was worried about Jin Qianqian. However, it was not easy for him to object at this moment, so he followed everyone to the house they had seen before.
He had seen many dilapidated houses along the way before, but when he really saw them in front of him, Gu Wenheng felt a little uncomfortable. Such dilapidated houses were the homes of thousands of farmers.
"Is anyone home?" Gu Yuanjin looked at the closed door and called out.
But the only response he got was the echo from the surrounding valleys, and there was no response at all from inside the house.
Gu Wenheng, "No one should live here. Look at the layer of dust on the door threshold. They must have fled the famine."
"Isn't that a wasted trip?" Gu Yuanshui said with a bitter face, "I was thinking I could bring some water back for the child to drink, but I didn't expect that I would have wasted my energy going in."
After saying that, he sat down on the ground in despair. "It's dry everywhere. Did we go in the wrong direction?"
Gu Wenheng also pursed his lips. Although he had attended a private school for several years, he had never seen a real map. He only had a rough idea of the division of the map in his mind based on the description given by his mentor Li Xiucai.
The current capital is not the North City in later generations, but in a place he has never heard of.
If you really want to understand the world, you should go to a bookstore in the city and look for books on geography when you have the chance.
"No matter we have taken the wrong path or not, at least we have a way to survive. Otherwise, given the severity of the drought at home, we might all be dead now." Gu Yuanhuo stared at the house, his eyes rolling around.
"There's not many people here anyway, why don't we go in and take a look?"
"Isn't this bad?" The honest Gu Yuantu waved his hands repeatedly, "..."
Before he could finish his words, Gu Yuanmu pushed the door open and walked in. It turned out that the door was only half-closed and not bolted.
Gu Wenheng looked at the brothers who walked in one after the other, knowing that it would be useless to say anything at this time, so he gritted his teeth and followed them in.
"What? There's nothing." Gu Yuanlei looked at the empty house. Apart from a bed made of a few wooden boards, there was not even a pot or a basin.
Gu Wenheng breathed a sigh of relief. He finally didn't have to worry about whether to go along with the other brothers. Otherwise, he would never be able to get over the hurdle in his heart for the rest of his life.
After all this time of going back and forth, by the time they returned to the resting place, it was already dark.
I saw clusters of bonfires had been lit beside the official road, and the aroma of food was wafting in the air.
The Gu brothers couldn't help but quicken their pace, and even ignored Gu Wenheng, who had always been holding everyone back in the past, but this time he was able to follow them steadily.
"Seventh Uncle," Gu Leshun was more affectionate to Gu Wenheng than to his biological father, and he kept waving from afar.
"When did this brat become so close to you?" Gu Yuantu felt a pain in his chest. "I carried him all this way for nothing."
Gu Wenheng knew the reason, but he smiled and said, "I am the child's uncle. It is normal for Le Shun to be close to me. This is blood relationship."
The expression on Gu Yuantu's face immediately brightened. If the child pays attention to the relationship between uncle and nephew, then he will definitely pay more attention to the relationship between father and son, and will be filial to himself. He will definitely be good in the future.
As for the other brothers, they didn't take it seriously. They thought that the seventh brother had just teased the children on the way, and that children's intimacy came and went quickly.
Gu Wenheng looked at Jin Qianqian who was still sleeping there, picked up Gu Leshun, and quietly stuffed two milk tablets into his hands. "Our Leshun is really well behaved. This time he helped Uncle Qi a lot. Uncle Qi thanks you."
Gu Leshun clenched his palms, smiling so hard that his face almost narrowed into a line, "Uncle Qi, you're welcome, I've been watching Aunt Qi the whole time."
Hong Daya also smiled and spoke up for her son, "That's not true. This kid didn't even blink, he just stared at his Seventh Aunt. No matter how I called him, he ignored me."
"Our Le Shun has grown into a little man. He knows how to keep his word. It seems that he will have great potential in the future." Gu Wenheng was happy to praise such a well-behaved child as he looked at him.
There is no parent who doesn't like their child to be praised. The old fifth couple immediately looked at Gu Leshun with loving faces. This kid made them proud.
"Now that you're back, why not eat a few bites and go to bed early? We have to travel tomorrow." Li Cuicui didn't care about all that. Seeing that they were still chatting here, she interrupted their conversation in a direct and aggressive tone.
Gu Wenheng quickly put the child down and patted his head, "Go find your parents."
Li Cuicui pulled him aside and asked, "What's wrong with your wife? Can she still hold on?"
Gu Wenheng, "..."
"I think your wife will die young. If she really can't hold on, you should have this in your heart." Seeing that Gu Wenheng didn't understand what she meant, Li Cuicui simply put it more bluntly.
"Jin is fine, but she's a little tired these two days. I'll let her rest more." Gu Wenheng's face was dark. Even though he was an atheist, he didn't want anyone to curse Jin Qianqian like that.
"Just treat her as a treasure. I'm telling you this now. You can't let her drag down our entire family.
I gave you some food today, if she can't hold on, you can't waste it on her."
Gu Wenheng clenched his palms, "How can this be called a waste? She is the daughter-in-law I married into the family. She is a member of our Gu family. If I have a bite to eat, she will definitely not be left out."
What's more, I'm still counting on my wife to support me now? Gu Wenheng added silently in his heart.
"You're such a blockhead," Li Cuicui looked at her son with a complicated expression, "You've been in a private school for a few years, you must have read so much that you've become stupid, right?
At this point, who wouldn't protect themselves first? "
Gu Wenheng was impatient to hear her say this, "Don't worry, old man, I know what's going on. Everything will be fine."
Li Cuicui glared and became angry, "You have a count? You have a count? That depends on whether you have a count of the grain. You will regret it later."
(End of this chapter)
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