Chapter 80
Not long after Shen Mingzheng returned to his room, Gu Yuanyang also came over.
As soon as he entered, he asked, "Xixi, how badly are you hurt? Should we go to the hospital to get it checked out?"
Gu Xi came out of the kitchen and saw his anxious, sweaty appearance, and wanted to sigh.
Before she could even appease Commander Shen, her brother rushed over in a panic.
Gu Yuanyang met his sister-in-law from the family compound on the way. She told him that his sister was injured, with a cut on her face. He was immediately very worried and rushed over to check on her.
When he saw Gu Xi's face, he said with heartache, "How did it get so bad? Come on, I'll take you to the hospital." Seeing Shen Mingzheng come out of the house, he said unhappily, "Old Shen, how did Xi Xi fall like this? You weren't more careful."
Gu Xi wouldn't allow anyone to slander her older brother, so she quickly explained, "I fell at the train station in the city yesterday, it has nothing to do with my older brother."
In her haste, she didn't pay attention to how she addressed people.
Gu Yuanyang felt extremely sad. Shen Mingzheng was the "elder brother," but his own elder brother could only be reduced to a "brother."
But he couldn't say anything, after all, there was a historical reason why she called Shen Mingzheng "elder brother". In the end, it was because she was switched at birth and suffered so much in the Xu family. It was Feng Min who took her away from the Xu family and was about to adopt her. Isn't Shen Mingzheng her elder brother?
I'm afraid that in her heart, Shen Mingzheng is the "big brother" she wants to acknowledge, not this big brother who has never done anything for her.
The Xu sisters, who were in the kitchen, also heard their eldest sister call him "Big Brother." When they saw Gu Yuanyang's expression, Xu Yuansheng almost laughed.
So it turns out the older sister calls her boyfriend "Big Brother".
My older brother was clearly heartbroken, but he didn't object, probably because he felt he was in the wrong.
After much persuasion, Gu Xi finally convinced Gu Yuanyang to give up the idea of taking her to the hospital. She then turned around and called over her two younger sisters from the kitchen to introduce them to him.
“Brother, this is Xu Yuansheng, and this is Xu Huaisheng, my two younger sisters,” Gu Xi said. “Yuansheng, Huaisheng, this is my brother Gu Yuanyang, you can just call him brother.”
Xu Huaisheng: "Brother!"
Xu Yuansheng: "..."
Gu Yuanyang: "..."
Xu Yuansheng obediently followed suit and called him "brother," then glanced at his brother-in-law standing there, and then at Gu Yuanyang, whose expression seemed a bit off, and secretly took a deep breath.
It seems that when my eldest sister wrote those letters before, she concealed many things, such as her unfavorable situation after returning to the Gu family.
However, one can guess a little. After all, the Gu family was willing to give Xu Dagui and his wife a sum of money to keep the fake daughter they had raised. This shows that her "older sister" was very favored in the Gu family, and that her older sister's situation was worse than she had imagined after returning home.
This speculation made Xu Yuansheng's expression turn sour, but because Gu Yuanyang was there, she barely managed to hold it in, her expression appearing quite indifferent.
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Gu Yuanyang asked Gu Xi how she fell and how she could have fallen so badly.
Judging from the injury on her face, it must have been caused by intense friction. Even after a day, it still looks terrible.
Gu Xi didn't hide anything from him and told him about the train station again.
Gu Yuanyang's face changed upon hearing this; he was frightened by her. He quickly asked, "Are you alright? Do you have any other injuries? How could you be so reckless?"
Child traffickers who dare to snatch children in public are all vicious criminals, and they might even be carrying knives or something. If you stab her on the spot...
Seeing Gu Yuanyang's disapproving expression, and even his statement that some human traffickers might carry knives, Gu Xi felt that this was possible, but she still had a headache listening to it.
Without even looking, it's obvious that Commander Shen is probably angry again.
She could only helplessly promise, "I understand, I'll be more careful in the future! This happened so suddenly, I didn't have time to react. I promise it won't happen again."
Although she made a solemn promise, no one present believed her.
Given her personality, if something like this happened again, I don't believe she could resist doing nothing.
Gu Yuanyang looked at his thin, delicate, and frail younger sister with deep concern. Her beautiful face was now covered in such severe scars. He really didn't know what to do.
I can't bring myself to scold her, even though I'm telling her she's useless. What can I do?
I can only be more careful in the future.
Gu Xi was afraid he would say something else, so she quickly changed the subject. Just then, the aroma of hand-pulled mutton rice filled the air, and she said, "Brother, I made a lot of hand-pulled mutton rice. Why don't you, your wife, and Tuantuan come and eat with us?"
Gu Yuanyang didn't want to trouble them. Ji Ya was working overtime today and hadn't come back yet. He had to go back and cook, and would deliver the food to Ji Ya later.
Gu Xi insisted, "Since your sister-in-law is working overtime, then you can bring Tuantuan over. After you finish eating, you can bring her the food." Then she added, "Yuansheng and Huaisheng are coming today, and I was thinking of introducing them to you."
Upon hearing this, Gu Yuanyang stopped refusing and went to pick up his daughter from kindergarten.
When Gu Tuantuan saw the injury on Gu Xi's face, her eyes reddened and tears streamed down her face.
Thinking she had frightened her, Gu Xi quickly said, "Tuantuan, don't be afraid. It just looks serious, but it's nothing serious. If you're scared, Auntie can go away."
Gu Tuantuan pouted, her little hands tugging at Gu Xi's hand. As Gu Xi bent down, Gu Tuantuan cautiously leaned closer, puffed out her cheeks, and blew on the wound, asking in a tearful voice, "Auntie, does it hurt a lot?"
"Hmm...it's alright, it doesn't really hurt."
"Auntie is lying. It looks like it hurts a lot." Gu Tuantuan pouted, tears welling up in her eyes. "Auntie, you have to be careful in the future."
Gu Xi quickly comforted her, "We'll be careful, Tuantuan, don't cry."
Fearing she would continue crying, I quickly introduced her two younger sisters to the little girl so they could play together.
Gu Tuantuan accepted having two more aunts and sweetly called them "Second Aunt" and "Little Aunt." Xu Yuansheng and Xu Huaisheng also liked the little girl. She was fair-skinned, had a sweet tongue, and seemed very well-behaved, not the kind of naughty child that people disliked.
After dinner, Gu Yuanyang went to the hospital to deliver food to Ji Ya.
Gu Tuantuan stayed behind to wait for her parents to return.
Gu Xi took out a set of paints, brushes, and a sketchbook that she had bought from the city and gave them to her niece, which elicited a joyful scream from the little girl.
Ji Ya returned quite late, and the couple came to pick up their daughter after they got back.
Seeing the injury on Gu Xi's face, Ji Ya frowned, not expecting it to be so serious.
She cupped Gu Xi's face in her hands, examining it closely under the light, and said, "I brought you a special wound medicine for scar removal. Using this will help the wound heal faster and prevent scarring."
Gu Xi hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law, I picked up the medicine at the hospital in the city."
Ji Ya had looked at the wound medicine the hospital prescribed for her and told her not to use it, but to use the wound medicine she had brought back first. This was a military hospital, and they had a special wound medicine for soldiers that was more effective.
After hearing this, Gu Xi decided to use the medicine her sister-in-law had brought back.
Having a doctor in the family is great; whether you're sick or injured, having a reliable doctor puts your mind at ease.
After her brother and sister-in-law left, Gu Xi turned to Shen Mingzheng and said, "Brother, my sister-in-law said that after using the medicine she brought back, there won't be any scars left. So don't worry."
Shen Mingzheng felt that she was misrepresenting the facts, "Dr. Ji only said that it is not easy to leave scars."
That doesn't mean there won't be a scar; we can't be sure until her injury heals.
More than the possibility of a scar, he was actually more concerned about her injury. Even though she said it didn't hurt, how could it not hurt? If only he had been there…
Gu Xi pouted, finding him quite stubborn, and felt a bit of a headache, so she quickly changed the subject: "It's too late, let's take a shower and go to bed."
It was cold, and all she wanted to do was snuggle up in her warm blankets.
Gu Xi called her two younger sisters to take a bath, took out the daily necessities she had prepared for them, and told them which bucket was for bathing and which was for washing their feet.
In this house, everyone has their own private bath tub and foot basin, which are used separately by everyone.
Xu Yuansheng and his companion had new bath tubs and foot basins, and they were also provided with separate soaps for washing their faces, which was very thoughtful of them.
Xu Yuansheng and Xu Huaisheng were surprised that their eldest sister had become so particular after five years apart, but they didn't think much of it and assumed that this was how people in the city were.
They took a shower first. When it was Gu Xi's turn to shower, Xu Yuansheng said worriedly, "Big sister, do you want me to help you wash? Be careful not to get your wound wet!"
Shen Mingzheng brought over the clean clothes and said, "Otherwise, don't wash them tonight."
He was also worried that the wound on her face might accidentally get wet.
"No way! I didn't shower last night, and I was out all day. I have to shower tonight. No showering, no bed!" Gu Xi said righteously. "It's a family rule: no showering, no bed."
After the two got married, they naturally went through a period of adjustment.
Although Shen Mingzheng is considered a relatively clean person, after so many years in the army, he still has some bad habits. Fortunately, he is willing to accommodate her and knows that she is a clean person. Every day after returning home, she will clean herself up first and cannot go to bed without taking a shower.
Shen Mingzheng said, "Special circumstances require special treatment. I don't mind that you haven't showered."
"I despise myself!" Gu Xi snorted, took the clothes from his hand, and said, "I'll wash them myself, I don't need your help."
Xu Yuansheng glanced at her brother-in-law standing there, then at her eldest sister, and decisively pulled her younger sister back to the room, closing the door behind them.
Xu Huaisheng, still confused, asked, "Second sister, didn't you say you were going to help eldest sister take a bath?"
“I don’t need to help,” Xu Yuansheng said. “My brother-in-law is here.”
Xu Huaisheng scratched his head, not thinking much of it.
Just then, she heard her second sister mutter, "Once we're settled, we'll still need to find a place to move out..."
The eldest sister and brother-in-law clearly have a very good relationship, and as newlyweds, it's inevitable that they'll sometimes act impulsively. Just since the meal started, she's seen her eldest sister pulling, touching, and groping her brother-in-law more than once. Although her brother-in-law has been relatively restrained because of the presence of others, he hasn't rejected her advances.
Moreover, the eldest sister is quite oblivious to this, and doesn't think there's anything wrong with what she's doing, treating them like family at all.
Xu Yuansheng felt that she and her younger sister were really an eyesore in this house, and they shouldn't be here.
Fortunately, she never intended to rely on her older sister forever. She believes that if she has the opportunity in the future, she must move out so as not to disturb them.
Actually, she's only happy when her older sister and brother-in-law have a good relationship.
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After taking a shower, Gu Xi put on a warm coat and went to the guest room to check on her two younger sisters.
She knocked on the door and went in, only to find that her two younger sisters were also getting ready for bed.
People in the countryside go to bed early; they have always maintained the good habit of going to bed early and getting up early.
Gu Xi asked, "Are you getting ready to sleep? Are you settling in alright?"
"Of course I'm used to it!" Xu Huaisheng rolled around on the bed, saying happily, "Big sister, the blanket is so thick and warm, better than the blankets at home."
For Xu Huaisheng, as long as her eldest and second eldest sisters were around, she felt at ease wherever she went.
Xu Yuansheng opened the bottle of face cream, wiped her face with it, and then pulled her younger sister over to apply it to her face.
While she was busy, she kept an eye on Gu Xi, and after making sure that the wound on her face hadn't gotten wet, she asked, "Big sister, is your husband... good to you?"
Although she could tell, she still wanted to ask.
“Great!” Gu Xi said without hesitation. “As long as he’s home, he does all the housework. I usually sleep until dawn, and he’ll buy breakfast from the cafeteria and keep it warm in a pot… Of course, his cooking is just average. If I want something better, I’ll cook for myself, and he’ll help me.”
"By the way, you don't need to get up too early to make breakfast tomorrow. Sleep in a little longer and just eat breakfast at the cafeteria."
Both sisters agreed.
They had just arrived and hadn't figured out the situation yet, so naturally they listened to their eldest sister.
Gu Xi chatted with them for a while, and seeing that it was almost time, she told them to go to sleep and got up to go back to her room.
Back in the room, she saw Shen Mingzheng sitting on the edge of the bed reading a book while waiting for her.
Gu Xi took off the coat she was wearing and hung it on the rack, then climbed onto the bed and snuggled into his warm embrace.
Shen Mingzheng put his arm around her, and with his other hand pulled the blanket over her, saying, "Be careful, don't rub your face against the injury."
"I know." Gu Xi shifted her position and muttered, "Last night, I accidentally rubbed against it several times while sleeping, and it woke me up in pain each time..."
When it's cold, she likes to curl up in bed.
Although she slept in her own bed last night, her wound kept accidentally brushing against the blanket in her sleep, waking her up in pain several times, so she couldn't get a good night's sleep at all.
Gu Xi sighed and said, "Originally, I wanted to sleep with Yuansheng and Huaisheng these past few nights, like before, and chat with them, but because of the injury on my face, I have to give up on that idea."
Shen Mingzheng was speechless.
If she didn't have any injuries on her face, does that mean she's been sleeping with her two younger sisters every night for the past few days?
“You don’t know, back in the Xu family, Yuansheng, Huaisheng, and I shared a room. There was only one bed in the room, and the three of us slept in the same bed since we were little. My two younger sisters were used to sleeping with me, and I was used to them snuggling up to me at night.” Gu Xi couldn’t help but laugh as she said this, and said to him, “If it weren’t for my two younger sisters training me from a young age, after we got married, a normal person wouldn’t be able to sleep well in the way you sleep, the way you hug people to sleep.”
Shen Mingzheng was speechless again. So he had to thank his two sisters-in-law for training her from a young age to be able to fall asleep peacefully even when being strangled?
He doesn't necessarily want to sleep while holding someone; he just wants to sleep while holding his wife. What's wrong with that?
Gu Xi muttered to herself for a while, then suddenly remembered something and got out of bed.
She ran to the cabinet, took out the metal box containing the tickets, found a sewing machine ticket inside, and said to Shen Mingzheng, "Big brother, you should ask the logistics department to bring a sewing machine back from the city another day. With a sewing machine, Second Sister can make clothes for people and earn money."
Shen Mingzheng agreed. The sewing machine plane ticket was prepared by Feng Min; she originally intended it for her to buy a sewing machine here.
However, Gu Xi had never touched a needle and thread except for sewing curtains, and had never thought of buying one. Now that Xu Yuansheng was here, she could use it.
After she put the sewing ticket away, Shen Mingzheng reached out and pulled her into the bed. "Be careful, don't wander around in just your pajamas. You might catch a cold and get sick again."
He was extremely worried about her when she was sick; the way she coughed made it seem like she was going to cough up her lungs.
Her body is still weak, and she is prone to illness.
When he tucked her into bed, Gu Xi grinned, wrapped her arms around his neck, and said, "Big brother, you're not angry anymore?"
Shen Mingzheng's expression was indifferent. "What do I have to be angry about?"
That's what he said, but judging from his expression, he seemed to be sulking again.
Gu Xi leaned over and kissed him on the cheek, looking obedient: "I swear, I will be more careful in the future, so please don't be angry. It was just an accident."
Shen Mingzheng sighed inwardly. What could he do?
He couldn't hit her, he couldn't scold her, yet she still clung to him softly, coaxing him in a spoiled and delicate way...
It has to be said that men are susceptible to this, and Shen Mingzheng was no exception. No matter how many negative emotions he had, she could coax them away.
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