"Did you tell your mother?" Gu Jianhua asked.
Gu Changzheng smiled and said, "No, I came to talk to Dad first, asking you to talk to Mom and persuade her. As the brigade leader, aren't you supposed to be solving problems for the people?"
When it comes to your own father, you should always say nice things when it's appropriate.
Gu Jianhua glanced at his youngest son and sighed helplessly, "You brat, you think you can bribe your old man to work for you with just a pack of cigarettes?"
As he spoke, he raised his hand, as if to hit Gu Changzheng.
Gu Changzheng stepped aside: "Dad, you can't say things like that. Didn't my wife buy you a lot of cigarettes and alcohol last night?"
"That belongs to your wife, how dare you claim it as your own?"
"Why not? Aren't we family?"
Gu Changzheng didn't treat himself as an outsider at all.
Gu Jianhua laughed in anger, waved his hand while holding a cigarette, and told Gu Changzheng to get lost: "Don't get in my way, go do what you're supposed to do."
"Yes, Captain!"
After Gu Changzheng finished speaking, he left. Gu Jianhua watched Gu Changzheng's departing figure, then looked up at the village shrouded in rain and mist in the distance, and sighed.
Well, just because something hasn't happened before doesn't mean it can't happen now or in the future. So, as the brigade leader, he took the lead and divided the family property.
How should we approach the ideological work with Lao He?
…………
After giving Xu Honglian a severe scolding, He Meizhu finally let her go to work. Xu Honglian was so badly scolded that she couldn't even lift her head. When she came out of the backyard and saw that the door was still tightly closed, she felt both angry and resentful.
Ignoring the scolding she had just received, she strode up to He Meizhu, who was about to leave, and shouted, "Mom, why is it that we're all family, but the fourth brother's family doesn't have to work? The eldest brother, the third brother's family, and I all have to work!"
He Meizhu stopped in her tracks, let out a "yo," and looked up at Xu Honglian: "You're not going to work? You're not going to eat?"
"But Jin Dan's aunt didn't come either, and she still ate, didn't she? Mother, they're all your daughters-in-law. You can't just indulge her like this because she's an educated youth from the city, can you? You can't be so biased."
“If she doesn’t go to work, I won’t go to work either. I’m also very tired from working, and I don’t want to use my work points to support a lazy adult.”
Xu Honglian was determined to compete with Lu Huaijiao.
Gu Changzheng, who had just returned from the end of the village, heard Xu Honglian's words before even entering the courtyard. Gu Changzheng's face turned very ugly, and he reached out and pushed open the courtyard gate.
"Second sister-in-law, when did I ever say that I wanted you to support my Jiaojiao?"
Gu Changzheng walked in from outside with a dark expression.
Xu Honglian was startled by Gu Changzheng's sudden appearance. She subconsciously took a step back, but considering that things had already come to this point, she decided to lay it all out.
“Uncle, isn’t that right? You don’t work much in this family to begin with, and now we have an aunt who sleeps in all day and doesn’t work. Doesn’t that mean we brothers have to support her?”
"Xu Honglian!" He Meizhu was furious. She hadn't expected that Xu Honglian hadn't listened to anything she'd just said. This short-sighted woman, didn't she realize that the reason the family could eat meat five times a month was all because of the fourth son?
He Meizhu thought Xu Honglian was incredibly stupid.
At the same time, because Xu Honglian kept harping on this matter, He Meizhu was very unhappy: "If you can't speak properly, then shut your mouth. When did Lao Si and his wife ever ask you to support them?"
"Then go to work if you don't want us to support you!" Xu Honglian shouted loudly, deliberately yelling towards the room where Lu Huaijiao was sleeping. Was she trying to wake Lu Huaijiao up on purpose?
Gu Changzheng frowned: "Xu Honglian, I'll call you sister-in-law for my second brother's sake, but don't push your luck."
"Fourth brother, what you're saying is really funny. When have I ever been unreasonable? I just want things to be fair, so what?" Xu Honglian was not afraid of Gu Changzheng.
She paused, then continued, "We're all mother's daughters-in-law. Does that mean only your family is so precious? You think we can just ignore our lives?"
"Xu Honglian!"
He Meizhu roared and reached out to drag the person away.
"Second sister-in-law."
The soft sound of Lu Huaijiao's mulberry leaves rang out from the side. The tightly closed door was opened, and Lu Huaijiao, wearing a pink dress and with her long hair loose, stood at the doorway watching the people arguing in the courtyard.
She had just woken up; her skin was fair with a rosy glow, and her beautiful almond-shaped eyes were slightly narrowed, not fully open. Her bright red lips seemed a little swollen.
Lu Huaijiao raised her hand and rubbed her eyes: "I have a man, and my man will take care of me, so you don't need to worry about that."
She was beautiful, and standing at the door without makeup, she resembled a languid fairy who had just woken up. Her delicate features held a hint of drowsiness and impatience.
It's the impatience after being woken up.
It was also out of impatience with Xu Honglian, who took herself too seriously.
"Don't you want us to support you? Fourth son, mother, tell me the truth, has the fourth son ever worked in all these years? Yes, he has worked some jobs in the last two years, but who were he working for? Everything he eats and wears comes from the family."
"It would be one thing if it were just him alone, but now there's another one. Are they trying to kill us?"
Xu Honglian had a lot of opinions.
Every word he uttered criticized Gu Changzheng and his group.
Lu Huaijiao blinked and looked at Gu Changzheng curiously: "Gu Changzheng, are you so lazy?" As she spoke, she wrinkled her nose, her words carrying a hint of disdain.
Gu Changzheng's lips twitched slightly.
He never dreamed that he would be disliked by the world's laziest little troublemaker, especially since she was the one who disliked his laziness. Just as he was about to speak, Lu Huaijiao suddenly smiled.
"It seems there's truth to the saying 'birds of a feather flock together.' Because you're so lazy, that's why you married someone as lazy as me."
"..."
Gu Changzheng remained silent.
This doesn't sound like a compliment, so why is Lu Huaijiao still smiling so sweetly?
Xu Honglian, who was standing to the side, realized that she had been ignored again, so she immediately chimed in: "It seems that his fourth aunt also knows that he has been lazy."
"Yes, don't you want to slack off, Second Sister-in-law? I just heard you telling Mom that if I don't go to work today, you won't go either!" Lu Huaijiao said with a smile.
Xu Honglian was speechless at these words.
Lu Huaijiao glanced at Xu Honglian, then looked at He Meizhu beside her and said, "Mom, I have to go to work."
Upon hearing this, the three people at the courtyard gate were stunned.
Gu Changzheng didn't even have time to be angry with Xu Honglian. He walked a few steps from the courtyard gate to the door.
"Didn't you say you weren't going to work?" Her tone was full of concern and anxiety that Gu Changzheng himself didn't realize. It was as if Lu Huaijiao was saying that she had some serious illness, not that she was going to work.
Lu Huaijiao grunted and looked up at Gu Changzheng with a puzzled expression: "Gu Changzheng, do you like lazy women?"
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