Gu Changzheng once again recognized this cruel reality.
But it seems he has no choice but to accept his fate? He can't exactly yell at his pregnant wife with three children, can he? What if she gets upset and starts crying again?
"Then you rest for a bit, and I'll go find my second brother?"
Gu Changzheng inquired.
Lu Huaijiao pouted.
"You're just going to go see him like this? What if he thinks you're a henpecked husband who only listens to his wife? What are you going to do then?"
She truly had a change of heart today and actually started to consider Gu Changzheng's feelings.
Gu Changzheng clicked his tongue and reached out to ruffle her hair.
"Isn't it only natural to listen to your wife?"
"That makes sense. After all, when you're young, you have to listen to your mother, but when you grow up, you have to listen to your wife. That's a mission a man should follow throughout his life."
Lu Huaijiao pointed at her round head with a serious expression and said in a solemn tone, "I don't know who invented this 'man's mission.'"
Gu Changzheng laughed out loud.
He realized that other people's relationships with their partners are so sweet it's almost sickening, but when he's with his partner, he often finds himself laughing so hard at what she says.
He'll have a lot more wrinkles now, I wonder if the little darling will take responsibility?
After the couple talked for a while, Gu Changzheng turned around and went to the kitchen to cook porridge. Then he left their yard and went through the small gate to Gu Jianhua's side.
Because Gu Jianhua and his group were using the old well, there was a door connecting their courtyard to Xu Honglian's.
The well was located in the open space between their courtyards, and each family had opened a small door for easy access to water.
The door is always closed when no water is being drawn.
Gu Changzheng hired someone to dig a well in their new courtyard, so they didn't have to share a well with the other families, and therefore didn't need to open an extra door.
The reason for opening that gate leading to Gu Jianhua's courtyard was simply to make it easier to visit his parents.
There's really no need to have such frequent interactions with my older brother and sister-in-law.
At this moment, Gu Changzheng crossed the well and arrived at Gu Changqing's courtyard.
Gu Changqing's courtyard was enclosed by several other families, forming a natural courtyard. He didn't have to contribute a single brick before the courtyard was sealed off.
They really got a lot of benefits this way.
When Gu Changzheng arrived at the second room, Xu Honglian's wailing and howling came from the kitchen. Gu Jindan and Gu Baodan, the two brothers, were urinating and playing in the mud, getting themselves all dirty, their faces almost unrecognizable.
Gu Changqing sat on a low stool with bamboo strips at his feet and another bamboo strip in his hand, seemingly weaving a bamboo hat.
Gu Changqing may not have many other merits, but he is skilled in bamboo weaving. When he was young, Gu Jianhua and He Meizhu sent Gu Changqing to learn the craft properly from a bamboo craftsman for several years.
The things he wove, like straw hats or winnowing baskets, were very popular in the village.
Especially his straw hat; many educated youths would trade him for other things.
Gu Changzheng noticed that there were still a few loops of cloth that Gu Changqing had finished making but hadn't started weaving yet, and he knew that this was probably another new educated youth asking him to weave a bamboo hat.
"Second brother..."
Gu Changzheng walked over to Gu Changqing and pulled up a small stool to sit down.
Gu Changqing looked up at Gu Changzheng, then looked away and continued working.
I don't know if he didn't see the fourth brother, or if he simply didn't want to talk to him.
Gu Changzheng didn't care about Gu Changqing's cold face. He curled his thin lips into a slight smile, picked up a very thin and broken bamboo strip at his feet, and said with a half-smile, "The bamboo weaver who taught my second brother to weave bamboo strips was really skilled!"
"I remember Mom originally wanted to send my eldest brother, right? But somehow it turned out to be my second brother instead?"
Gu Changzheng was young before, but that doesn't mean he doesn't remember anything.
After hearing Gu Changzheng's words, Gu Changqing raised his head and glanced at Gu Changzheng.
"Just say what you want to say, no need to beat around the bush. I'm not as well-read or as smart as you. I don't have time to play games with you."
Gu Changqing spoke in a very harsh tone.
This is clearly emotionally charged.
Gu Changzheng sneered.
"I didn't mean to say anything, I just wanted to say that you shouldn't focus on things outside all the time. You should spend more time taking care of your two children."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Changqing suddenly raised his head, and the bamboo strips in his hand trembled.
"Fourth brother, don't you feel any remorse saying that?"
Gu Changqing's eyes were filled with anger.
Gu Changqing, who was usually an honest man, was showing such an expression to someone for the first time, especially his own younger brother.
However, Gu Changzheng was not intimidated.
He always knew what kind of person his second brother was, so naturally he wasn't intimidated by his brother's true colors.
"What? Second Brother thinks I'm wrong?"
"You're not wrong?"
Gu Changqing's voice also rose: "Among us brothers, you are the youngest, and your wife is not old either. She is from the city and is a sent-down youth who has never suffered hardship. I understand that."
"But does that give you the right to bully the older ones? Just because your wife is a sent-down youth from the city, does that give you the right to bully people at will? Even if that person is your sister-in-law, you can just hit her or scold her as you please?"
"Fourth brother, I'm already being very lenient by not coming to you, and instead you come to me asking me to keep an eye on Golden Egg and Treasure Egg? Are you afraid they'll upset your wife or something?"
Gu Changqing opened his mouth and said a lot of things.
Gu Jindan and Gu Baodan, who were playing in the mud nearby, saw their usually quiet father suddenly speak and look quite intimidating. They stood there dumbfounded, even forgetting to play in the mud.
Gu Changzheng's smile grew colder and colder. After Gu Changqing finished speaking and made sure he wouldn't say anything more, he glanced at his second brother with a cold smile and a chilling glint in his eyes.
“Second brother, I call you second brother because we have the same parents. But that doesn’t mean you can distort the truth and throw mud at my wife.”
"My wife being spoiled is my business and has nothing to do with you. I'm happy to pamper her, and no one has the right to criticize. You say your wife and children were beaten, why don't you go and ask why? What did they do to deserve this?"
Gu Changqing was speechless at Gu Changzheng's words.
Yes, he heard Xu Honglian crying and saying that she and her child had been beaten by Lu Huaijiao, and he also saw with his own eyes Xu Honglian's swollen cheeks and swollen buttocks...
But Gu Changqing didn't ask why they were beaten.
Gu Changzheng knew it would be like this.
He continued with a sneer, "You didn't care that Xu Honglian ordered Gu Jindan and Gu Baodan to steal things, but when my wife took care of it for you, you felt that we younger ones were bullying the older ones? Second brother, aren't you afraid that these two brats will get shot when they grow up?"
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