"This is my darling grandson. His face looks like the sea, and his nose and eyes look like rocks. They say nephews look like their uncles, and it's true."
Zhao Hong looked at her new grandson with a face full of love.
"Really? Let me see." Gu Xia Shi didn't like his elder sister-in-law, nor did he like the little bully she gave birth to, who had a bad temper and lacked discipline. However, he had a good relationship with his younger sister's nieces. As long as he had some money in his pocket, he would buy some snacks and visit them.
When he heard that his little nephew looked like him, he rubbed his hands, excitedly took off his shoes, got on the kang, crawled to his mother, and looked at the baby who had just lost his red skin.
Jiang Yilu has been reborn for so long but still doesn't know what he looks like now. Thinking about what his grandmother said, he can't imagine what his father's face would look like if it was replaced with his uncle's eyes and nose.
Jiang Dahai is a typical farm boy, with a strong physique and ordinary looks. He has a square face, thick and messy eyebrows, a pair of eyes that are neither big nor small, a high nose bridge, but thick lips. He looks honest when he smiles, and his skin is tanned from years of farming. Others would think that he is an honest and reliable ordinary person.
Compared with Jiang Dahai, Gu Xiashi is much more outstanding in appearance. As he was a premature baby, his physique is much weaker than that of ordinary people and he cannot do heavy work. Therefore, his skin is much whiter than that of the villagers, and he has delicate features and looks like a city person. He is no less outstanding than those educated youth who went to the countryside.
He has an eccentric personality and always likes to hang out in the county town or other places. No one knows what he is doing. If Zhao Hong hadn't been looking after him, the work points he earned wouldn't even be enough to support himself. The villagers secretly put him together with those idle scoundrels. No wonder his sister-in-law Niu Fang dislikes him.
Nowadays, girls looking for a partner are not interested in those pretty boys. What they care about is whether the man is honest and hardworking, or whether he is a worker in the city with a stable job. Someone like Gu Xiashi who is unable to lift anything is really not a good partner. No wonder he is almost 30 years old but still can't find a wife.
In her previous life, Jiang Yilu was the one who looked most like her second uncle among her sisters, except that her facial features and edges were softer. If she dressed up carefully, she could be a little beauty. Unfortunately, due to her family situation, she never had a boyfriend in her life.
Gu Xiashi has no wife or children, and the one he favors most among his nieces is Jiang Yiluo, who looks most like him. He thinks that if he is reborn as a boy in this life and still looks like his uncle, it would be a good choice.
Zhao Hong looked at her grandchildren on the kang, then glanced at her old son. Once her old son found a partner, she would have the face to meet the old man in the afterlife.
"Little sister, he grabbed my finger. Hey, he's quite strong." Gu Xia Shi poked his nephew's finger, which was grabbed by his little fleshy hand, and he held it tightly and refused to let go.
"My little nephew likes me and doesn't want to let me go." Gu Xiashi grinned happily. He also liked his niece, but there were always differences between boys and girls. There were some fun things he couldn't do with them together. Now it was different. He had a little nephew, and when he grew up, he could take him to play.
"Why are you so silly? All children are like this, they just like to hold on to things." Zhao Hong rolled her eyes at her silly son, then looked at her little grandson happily: "This child will definitely be strong in the future. He is so strong at such a young age. His sisters were not as strong as him when they were the same age as him."
As soon as Zhao Hong finished speaking, she felt a little regretful. Why were her granddaughters so thin? It was because Miao didn't take good care of them during the confinement period. If their mother didn't eat well, how could she have milk to feed the children? She slapped her mouth embarrassedly and took out a handful of bills from her trouser pocket.
"Mom, what are you doing?"
Gu Dongmei took a look at the tickets and pushed them back hurriedly. There were several flour tickets and rice tickets in them. These were all fine grains. Her mother must have spent a lot of money to get these things. Didn't she know the family conditions clearly? Her mother and second brother must have been tightening their belts to make ends meet these days.
"You also know that my father-in-law is now receiving a regimental-level subsidy, and the fine grain he gets every month is enough for me to eat. You don't have to worry about this. You can take these food coupons back. My second brother is not a child anymore, and we have to save some money for him to get married." Gu Dongmei felt touched and sad.
After hearing what her daughter said, Zhao Hong carefully pointed to the east, which was the home of Jiang Dahai's younger brother Jiang Dachuan.
Gu Dongmei lowered her voice and whispered carefully in Zhao Hong's ear, "It seems that they did something to anger the old man, and he has forbidden them to come over again. Moreover, when we divided the family, we agreed that the old man and the old lady would live with us, and the subsidy would belong to our family. Now that I have given birth to a son, the old man and the old lady would like to treat Xiaobao like the apple of their eye, so how could they miss out on his things?"
Xiaobao is the nickname that Old Man Jiang came up with. The real name is too formal and doesn’t seem intimate enough.
Zhao Hong heaved a sigh of relief when she heard this. She smiled and tapped her daughter's forehead, "You are lucky, girl. As long as the old couple above don't have any outside interests, you will always have good things. But you must not learn from your parents-in-law. They forgot about their daughters when they had a son. We in the Gu family don't favor boys over girls."
Zhao Hong said this in a warning manner. Gu Dongmei looked at her two daughters who were happily drinking the sugar water one by one, and nodded her head like beating drums.
Jiang Yilu was busy developing relationships with her uncle and scoffed at her mother's words. If she cared about her sisters, she would not have harmed them like that in her previous life.
He still clearly remembered that on the second day after his eldest sister got engaged, his grandmother came from Daqian Village, exhausted and beat his mother. But so what? His eldest sister still married the widower, and his second sister married the cripple. If Gu Dongmei had fought back once, he would have remembered her kindness as a mother. Unfortunately, she only hid behind and shed tears secretly, and never said a word for his eldest sister.
Perhaps from that day on, he was truly disappointed with this family.
Jiang Yilu shook his head and stopped thinking about his past life. Anyway, no matter what, he would not let the tragedy of his past life happen again in this life. As for his parents and grandparents in this life...
He was a little dazed. They had been very good to him in this life, but all this was based on the fact that he was a boy. Jiang Yilu felt that he was trapped in a vicious circle, a vicious circle involving the entanglement of men and women, past lives and this life.
They have been very good to him in this life, but he may never be able to respect them without any reservations again.
As an aunt, Jiang Dazhen would certainly not miss such an important day as the full moon. Not only did she come by herself, she also brought her husband and children with her.
Jiang Dazhen's son Meng Xiangxue is three years old this year. Because he eats well, he is plump, can run and jump, and is very strong. Jiang Dazhen, his mother, can hardly hold him back, as he is clamoring to see his little cousin.
"Little sister, you are here."
Gu Dongmei heard the noise outside and came out carrying her little daughter. As for her son, he was clinging to Gu Xiashi's arms.
"Cousin, I want to see my little cousin." Meng Xiangxue thought that the person in his aunt's arms was his little cousin, so he jumped around while hugging Gu Dongmei's legs, wanting to see what his little cousin looked like.
"This is your cousin, not your younger cousin. Your younger cousin is over there." Gu Dongmei squatted down and pointed at Gu Xiashi. When Meng Xiangxue heard this, he ran towards Gu Xiashi again and pestered him to look after his brother.
"Xiangxue is a really strong kid." Gu Dongmei sighed, and hurriedly asked her sister-in-law and son-in-law to sit down.
Meng Pingchuan is a gentle man, but a little old. He wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and has his hair combed neatly. He doesn't look like a worker, but more like a teacher from old times.
"Why didn't Xiangwen come with us?" Gu Dongmei looked behind them and asked puzzledly. Meng Xiangwen is the daughter left by Meng Pingchuan's previous wife. She is already ten years old this year. She has a good relationship with her stepmother Jiang Dazhen. Jiang Dazhen is a smart person and naturally would not make things difficult for a little girl and let people gossip about her for no reason, which would also hurt the relationship between husband and wife.
"She went back to her grandmother's house today, so she won't come with us."
The grandma Jiang Dazhen mentioned is of course Meng Xiangwen's biological grandma and her family. Although she is not a wicked stepmother, others may not think so. Meng Pingchuan's ex-wife and her family always felt that she would harm their precious granddaughter, so they took the child away every few days. A few days ago, when they knew that she was going to take the child back to her parents' home, they took her away in a hurry.
Jiang Dazhen sneered at this but did not stop them. After all, she was the one who was wronged. The more they did, the further Meng Pingchuan's heart would be pushed away.
Isn't it obvious that they are so defensive because they suspect Meng Pingchuan as a father? He has tried to sow discord between her and Meng Xiangwen time and time again, and a good child has been taught to behave in a weird way. She thinks Meng Pingchuan won't be able to tolerate this for much longer.
Being a stepmother is difficult, but Gu Dongmei didn't mention these disappointing things. She handed the child to her mother and went to the kitchen with Jiang Dazhen to help. There were many people today and a lot of food to prepare, so Grandma Miao couldn't handle it all by herself.
The Jiang family members came back one after another soon and helped set the table. The Jiang family only had one large wooden table, which was obviously not enough to seat everyone. Old man Jiang specially borrowed a large round table top from the production team and placed it on his own eight-immortals table. This way, more people could sit down.
Today's meal was surprisingly sumptuous. Old Mrs. Miao was so determined that she steamed a large sea fish, cut a plate of salted bacon, and made a pot of seaweed and egg drop soup, and added a few vegetarian dishes and a few plates of pickled side dishes. This was the standard of the meal for the New Year.
After arranging all these, it was not over yet. Old lady Miao brought in a pot of old hen soup from the kitchen. She had started stewing this early in the morning, and had stewed it until the skin was crispy and the bones were rotten. These were old hens raised at home, specially for laying eggs. Old lady Miao's heart was trembling when she started cooking, but when she thought that today was a good day that would only come once in her precious grandson's life, she hardened her heart and chose the fattest old hen to slaughter.
Jiang Yilu had been drinking milk for a month, and when he saw the food on the table, his mouth was watering. Although Mrs. Miao was a mean person, her cooking skills were second to none in the surrounding area, especially the side dishes she pickled by herself. With that, he could finish three bowls of porridge.
But now, he could only watch and satisfy his desire.
Except for Meng Pingchuan's family, no one present had much money, so when they saw such a sumptuous meal, they tried their best to stuff it into their stomachs. Even Meng Pingchuan's family was not much better off. Although they were well-off, they could not have meat every meal, let alone the rare sea fish.
"My brother is drooling, aunt, please feed him." Meng Xiangxue was held in Jiang Dazhen's arms and was being fed. Seeing that his cousin's bib was almost soaked by his oral sex, but his aunt had no intention of feeding him, she suddenly became anxious and shook Gu Dongmei's hand and said anxiously.
When Jiang Yilu heard this, he subconsciously closed his mouth, but children's saliva is so developed that it flows like tap water.
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