Gu Xiashi extra
Gu Xiashi first met Jin Yayan when he was seventeen years old.
That day, Jin Yayan was wearing a blue modified cheongsam with a black pleated skirt that just reached her calves, revealing a section of her white and tender calves. Her slanted almond-shaped eyes gave Gu Xiashi a nonchalant side glance, and Gu Xiashi's heart began to beat wildly.
He felt that he was in love. At first sight, he fell in love with the girl who seemed out of his reach.
Jin Yayan fled here with her father. After they arrived at Daqian Village, they built a small hut at the foot of the mountain and lived there ever since.
The second time Gu Xiashi saw Jin Yayan was at the riverside at the entrance of Daqian Village. The proud girl was washing clothes in a basin in a disorderly manner, with the washing stick making snapping sounds. It didn't seem like she was washing clothes, but rather like she was facing her enemy. She seemed to have vented her anger, her eyes wide open, her face frightened, and she angrily threw the bucket of clothes into the river and left without looking back.
Gu Xiashi thought at that time that there were girls who looked so pretty when they were angry. He might be a superficial person. Even though everyone in the village said that the daughter of the new Jin family had a spoiled temper, he still thought she was good in every way.
That day, Gu Xiashi picked up the bucket of clothes that she had thrown away, asked his sister to help clean it, and then secretly placed it at the gate of the Jin family's yard.
Later, Gu Xiashi became more and more courageous and shameless, always finding various reasons to go to the Jin family. Gradually, he became familiar with Mr. Jin and slowly started to communicate with Jin Yayan.
He knew that she was unwilling to do so, and that she was not happy to stay in their small place. She wanted to find her aunt, the woman who was said to have gone to the other side of the strait. She said that this was not the life she wanted to live.
The last scene in Gu Xiashi's memory was sending the girl on the bus to the provincial capital and watching the girl completely disappear from his life. At that time, Gu Xiashi thought that it was better this way, as she shouldn't have belonged to this place.
Life after that was dull and boring. He had reached age and the issue of marriage was on the agenda, but every girl was not him, so the marriage was postponed indefinitely until it came to nothing. Perhaps Jin Yayan was a disaster in Gu Xiashi's dull life.
After that, Gu Xiashi seldom thought about Jin Yayan. Perhaps he deliberately forgot about her. He began to put all his energy on his youngest sister, Gu Dongmei.
This sister is so worrying. She gave birth to four daughters in succession and no sons. This is a very shameful thing in the countryside. If the mother was tough, perhaps life could be better. But Gu Dongmei was still so stubborn and only raised her daughters into little girls. They suffered all kinds of bullying from the old couple and the second branch of the Jiang family.
Fortunately, the fifth pregnancy finally gave birth to a son, and Gu Xia Shi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
This nephew is different from other children. He is very smart and clever. Gu Xiashi sometimes wonders if he and Yayan have a child, will the child be like Xiaobao? This thought rarely appears in his mind because he knows that it is just wishful thinking.
Since his nephew was doing well and his sister could no longer support him, Gu Xiashi simply focused on raising his nephew Xiaobao. Although his life was dull after that, with a new child, he finally had a little more hope.
The child grew up, and Gu Xiashi also grew old. He never thought that he would be able to see the girl in his memory again before he passed away.
She has changed a lot. Gu Xiashi can hardly find the shadow of that girl in her. Jin Yayan was still arrogant, but there was still vitality in her eyes, which was something that Miss Jin, who had seen a lot and became mature and smooth, did not have. Too much time had passed between them. The familiarity at the beginning had been diluted by time. Even when they were face to face, Gu Xiashi could not find any topics to talk about.
They are people from two different worlds.
After sending her away once again, Gu Xiashi no longer had too many regrets in his heart. The only regret he had was that he did not try to keep the Jin Yayan of that year.
When he was dying, Gu Xiashi's whole life flashed through his mind.
He had a woman he loved deeply, and nephews and nieces who were not his biological children but were better than his own. Although his life was plain, it was not boring.
When he closed his eyes, Gu Xiashi was smiling. In his hand, he was holding a photo. The photo showed a girl in a school uniform, looking very young and beautiful.
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Yu Xiaocao's Previous Life
Yu Xiaocao's parents died in an accident.
Yu Xiaocao became an orphan at the age of five. She had no grandparents. Her grandparents were unwilling to raise her as a burden, so they occupied their house and abandoned her.
Every day, Yu Xiaocao ate the leftovers given by their family. If there were no leftovers, she would go hungry or chew grass roots. At that time, every household was short of food, and no one would let their family members starve just for a little sympathy. In this way, Yu Xiaocao managed to hold on until her aunt appeared.
Yu Xiaocao's aunt had married and moved to another place a long time ago. Since then, she had no contact with her family. Originally, it was just someone in the village who couldn't stand it, so he tentatively sent a telegram to the address given by Yu Xiaocao's aunt after she got married. He didn't expect too much, but unexpectedly, this person really showed up.
Yu Xiaocao's aunt was a fierce woman. Although she came alone, she still managed to snatch back the custody of Yu Xiaocao and also asked for one hundred yuan. With this money, she bought out the house left to her by Yu Xiaocao's parents and also cut off all her ties with them.
When she first arrived in Qingshan Village, Yu Xiaocao was uneasy. Her aunt had a bad temper, and the family she married into did not welcome her as a burden. They would quarrel over her every few days. Yu Xiaocao was afraid of being abandoned again, so she worked hard to show her value. She only ate until she was 50% full, for fear that eating too much would displease the family. Almost every day, she lived in the anxiety of being abandoned.
Later, she began to learn to observe, observe everyone in Qingshan Village. She knew that the person with the most power here was Mo Dashuan, so she tried to make friends with Mo Dashuan's daughter. The girl was very silly and simple. As long as she pretended to be pitiful, the other party would save her own rations and secretly help her, sometimes it was a steamed bun, sometimes it was a rare piece of meat. As long as she had it, she would leave a portion for her.
When she was older, Mo Xiangfang went to study in the county town, but because of the opposition of her aunt and her in-laws, she went home to work after finishing elementary school and earn some work points to supplement the family income. She did not blame her aunt. After all, for a girl in the countryside, it was already good enough to finish elementary school. Look at the five girls in the eldest branch of the Jiang family. They had never attended school for a day, and the five sisters worked like slaves for the second branch. She only had to do some groceries for the family. When the other party was a little older, they were required to earn work points. At that time, Yu Xiaocao was still content.
The first time I felt a sense of crisis was when I heard the news of Jiang Dani’s death.
The two eldest granddaughters of the Jiang family, one married a widower and the other married a cripple. This was known to everyone in the village, and almost all families were secretly stabbing the old couple in the Jiang family's spine. Their life in Qingshan Village was not bad, but they still married their granddaughters to such a family for the sake of the bride price.
Yu Xiaocao also didn't understand. Although she was a girl, her parents were very good to her when they were alive. But how could Jiang Dani's parents be so cruel to push their daughter into the wolf's den without any care just to satisfy the second wife's selfish desires.
After hearing the news of Jiang Dani's death, Yu Xiaocao began to think about himself.
She is already twenty years old. If she were in the countryside, she should have married long ago. However, her aunt's mother-in-law wanted her to help with housework for a few more years and insisted on dragging her to twenty. Yu Xiaocao thought, according to this trend, when she has to get married, what kind of in-laws will her family help her find?
She didn't want to be like Jiang Dani, she wanted to live a good life. Yu Xiaocao thought of Mo Xiangfang who was far away in the capital.
Mo Xiangfang was lucky enough to be admitted to a good normal school in the first year after the resumption of the college entrance examination. After graduation, she was assigned to a primary school in the capital. When Yu Xiaocao asked her for help, Mo Xiangfang agreed very enthusiastically, helped her arrange accommodation, and introduced her then boyfriend Zhang Ze to her. Finally, Zhang Ze also helped her find a temporary job in a pharmaceutical factory. The salary was not high, but it was enough to cover the rent and daily expenses.
Originally, when things had come to this point, Yu Xiaocao should have settled down, but she gradually discovered that Mo Xiangfang's boyfriend, who looked simple and honest, was not honest at all in private.
She has been living under someone else's roof for so many years, so her judgment of people cannot be wrong. That Zhang Ze flirted with the female workers in the factory, and accepted all the temporary workers who wanted to get close to him. Yu Xiaocao hinted at Mo Xiangfang several times, but Mo Xiangfang did not react at all and unconditionally believed in the man with superb acting skills.
Afterwards, the man focused his gaze on her.
When Yu Xiaocao first came to the capital, she was thin, yellow and rustic. After two months in the capital, she has eaten well and lived well, and her whole personality has undergone a qualitative leap. Her skin has become whiter, and although she is still thin, she has become more lovable. She is not tall and is petite, which can arouse men's desire to protect her.
To be honest, Zhang Ze's conditions are not bad. He has a good job and is an only child. Although he doesn't have a house in the capital, according to his qualifications, it is only a matter of time before he gets a house.
Yu Xiaocao thought that Mo Xiangfang was a person who could not tolerate any sand in her eyes. If she was really with Zhang Ze, she would be sad sooner or later after seeing his true face. But she was different. All she wanted was Zhang Ze's stable job and a comfortable life. As for how he might cheat on her after marriage, she didn't care.
So, she reluctantly got together with Zhang Ze. After she got pregnant, the test showed that it was a boy. Without her intervention, Zhang Ze's mother began to persuade Zhang Ze and Mo Xiangfang to break up. Now family planning is in force, and Zhang Ze's family has only one son for three generations. This grandson is extremely important to the Zhang family.
As Yu Xiaocao planned, she married Zhang Ze. Mo Xiangfang was depressed, but she finally cheered up.
After that, she no longer had any friends who cared about her, and her life was just so-so, with no worries about food and drink. Zhang Ze had constant affairs, but she didn't care because of their son. Even when Zhang Ze became rich, he never divorced her.
She spent the rest of her life taking care of her son, money and house.
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