Chapter 16 Gu Yan is sick
Aunt Sun looked at the frail girl, her eyes filled with stubbornness. For a moment, she didn't know what to say. She sighed and said, "It would be best if you could join the team. Although it's hard and dangerous over there, I can ask Qiliang to take care of you. Girl, if you need any help, just let me know."
"Okay, thank you, auntie."
Aunt Sun didn't stay here for long. After saying this, she left.
Gu Yan turned around and went back to the west room. She packed a few clothes that looked wearable, a pair of green rubber shoes, and a pair of yellowed white shoes and put them all into her schoolbag.
After doing all this, she lifted the kang mat and found a small flattened cloth bag underneath. When she opened it, she found more than fifty star coins that she had saved over the years.
Zhang Lan naturally didn't know about this money.
Even Gu Moli, who had been sleeping on the same kang with Gu Yan, didn't know about it.
Afterwards, Gu Yan cooked herself a big pot of noodle soup and roasted two sweet potatoes and two potatoes in the stove. After they cooled down, she wrapped them in newspaper.
She also filled the empty grass-green kettle with cold water.
Gu Yan put all the things in her schoolbag and put it in order, then hid the schoolbag in the kang cabinet.
After eating and drinking her fill and putting everything away, Gu Yan took the washbasin and splashed water all over the floor, especially on the floor in the west room. Then she covered herself with the quilt and lay on the kang, ignoring everything else.
Didn’t Zhang Lan and the others say that she was possessed by evil spirits?
Then she'll show them!
However, Gu Yan still took out the jade pendant hanging around her neck and saw that the seedling inside still had drooping leaves, and the green light could not be summoned out.
Gu Yan was puzzled.
Zhang Lan did not come back at noon. She was accompanied by Li the matchmaker and went to the home of Wang the blacksmith at the east end of the village. Wang the blacksmith was in his forties, but he had married two wives, both of whom died, leaving behind only a daughter who was sixteen or seventeen years old. However, his daughter was very timid and would run away when she saw people. Most of the time, he lived in the village chief's house with the village chief's daughter.
To be honest, this blacksmith Wang is somewhat related to the village chief, otherwise he would not be able to live in the east end of the village.
After understanding the purpose of Zhang Lan and Matchmaker Li's visit, Wang the blacksmith, who was in his forties, glanced at Zhang Lan's plump body and agreed immediately.
He is a big man with a thick beard.
Blacksmith Wang immediately took out a stack of ten-dollar star coins. He grinned and said, "This is my betrothal gift for your daughter!"
Matchmaker Li, who was standing next to them, saw this and her eyes lit up, and she couldn't help drooling.
That's one hundred star coins!
When Zhang Lan worked as a nanny, she could earn more than 100 yuan a month, but since the child was exchanged, she dared not stay in the Bai family and found an excuse to return to the village.
Their family hasn't had much money in recent years, so when Zhang Lan saw the hundred yuan, a greedy look appeared in her eyes.
She said, "I'm so embarrassed. I haven't prepared any betrothal gifts for your girl." But she reached out to take the money.
Blacksmith Wang touched her hand with his big hand, very boldly, and did not avoid the matchmaker Li who was standing next to him at all.
Especially when he saw that Zhang Lan was not angry at all, and even glared at him coquettishly, Wang the blacksmith felt even more itchy in his heart.
While we were discussing the matter here, Gu Dagang returned home first.
He forgot to bring water when he went to the fields at noon, so he decided to go home for lunch and then go back to work in the afternoon.
As soon as I entered the yard, I saw the pigs in the pen grunting and crying out in hunger, and there was no sound in the house.
Gu Dagang's heart skipped a beat and he immediately went into the house. He saw water all over the floor and went to the east room first. There was no one there, so he went straight to the west room.
He saw Gu Yan lying on the kang with his eyes closed and his face pale.
Gu Dagang was anxious, "Yan, wake up quickly, what's wrong with you?"
(End of this chapter)
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