Seeing that Wu Guoliang didn't quite believe her, Su Yue said, "Second Brother, what Fu Shen meant by 'wait and see' is that it might take a few years."
Fu Shen turned to look at Su Yue, wondering how she knew it would be a few years.
Wu Guoliang sighed and said, "In a few years, I'll be so old. People will only hire young and strong men. What use is an old man like me?"
Fu Shen couldn't stand Wu Guoliang saying such discouraging things, so he said seriously, "Even in ten or twenty years, you won't be old. If no one wants to hire you, I'll support you."
After thinking for a moment, she added, "If I get old and can't earn money anymore, I still have my and Yueyue's child. They will take care of you. Don't worry about being useless when you get old."
...
Wu Guoliang returned to the kitchen with the dried fish. Wang Xiaohua noticed him looking up at the ceiling beam with his eyes blinking, and asked curiously, "Did the dried fish go bad? Did it sting your eyes?"
As she spoke, she reached out and took the bowl of dried fish from Wu Guoliang's hand, lowered her head, brought her nose close, and smelled it.
She looked up, about to say it tasted bland, when she suddenly noticed Wu Guoliang's eyes were red-rimmed. She immediately became anxious, "Why are you crying?"
Wu Guoliang quickly wiped his eyes, sniffed, and said, "I'm not crying, I'm just happy."
Wang Xiaohua frowned, looking puzzled: "You were so happy you cried when I asked you to get a dried fish?"
Wu Guoliang: "Fu Shen just told my brother and sister-in-law that he would take us out in a few years and help us find a job. I said that in a few years I would be old and useless, and no one would want me. Fu Shen said that if no one wanted me, he would support me. He also said that he and my brother and sister-in-law's children would support us. How could you not be happy to hear that?"
Hearing this, Wang Xiaohua felt a warm glow in her heart and was deeply moved. She pressed for an answer, "Did Fu Shen really say that?"
As Wu Guoliang poured hot water into the bowl containing dried anchovies, he said, "How could this be fake? We just went to the cattle pen and mentioned to Fu Shen that his and his sister-in-law's children will be our children, and he agreed. Now that we're back, he's told his sister-in-law, and she must have agreed too. He's thinking about our future."
"Hmph, so what if I, Wu Guoliang, have never had any children in my life? I can easily take care of my retirement."
Wang Xiaohua said with a hint of guilt, "I've dragged you into this."
Wu Guoliang immediately looked at Wang Xiaohua, his brows furrowed, and said, "What are you implicating? If you hadn't married me, you wouldn't have met that wretched Zhang Hongying. You might already have several children, and you wouldn't have to suffer like this. If anyone is implicating you, it's me who's implicating you."
Wang Xiaohua sighed and scolded, "I only said one sentence, and you rattled off a whole bunch of things. Okay, I know, I won't say this again. Hurry up and cook the dishes."
Wu Guoliang turned away, muttering under his breath, "Wasn't it you who said it was all your fault for causing trouble..."
The dish was cooked quickly.
On the table was a dried eggplant, stir-fried eggs with chili peppers, a plate of green vegetables, and a bowl of egg soup with goji leaves.
Everyone sat down, and Wang Xiaohua said somewhat embarrassedly, "It's just simple food, I hope you don't mind."
Su Yue smiled and said, "Second sister-in-law, don't say that. This is not just simple food. Before I married Fu Shen, there was often only a plate of green vegetables on the table, and sometimes even a plate of wild vegetables. Compared with what you made, it is simply incomparable."
And look at this stir-fried eggs with chili peppers and egg soup with goji berries, I bet my second sister-in-law took out all those dozen or so eggs from the kitchen and cooked them.
When Wu Guoliang and Wang Xiaohua heard Su Yue say that in the past, the only vegetables on the table were green vegetables and wild vegetables, they subconsciously looked at each other, a hint of surprise flashing in their eyes.
Wang Xiaohua couldn't help but ask, "Sister-in-law, aren't you from the city?"
Wu Guoliang chimed in, "Your sister-in-law really looks like a city person."
Su Yue: "I'm also from the countryside."
Wang Xiaohua shook her head repeatedly and said, "It doesn't look like it at all."
Every girl in the village was tanned yellow by the sun, but Su Yue's face was as white and tender as an egg in a big soup bowl.
The educated youth from the city spent a month digging in the fields, and their already delicate faces suddenly became dull and pale.
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