Gu Changzheng's face darkened.
His gaze was fixed on Lu Huaijiao, who was holding a large bunch of wildflowers and had her face buried in them.
"Separate the family?"
"Yes. We're married now, when are we going to separate our households?"
Lu Huaijiao was completely unaware of the strange expression on Gu Changzheng's face. She sniffed the flowers she was holding; they had a refreshing fragrance that instantly lifted her spirits.
"Not distinguishable."
Gu Changzheng spoke coldly.
"ah?"
Lu Huaijiao looked up in surprise. If she remembered correctly, they had separated their households after getting married in her previous life. Although they didn't separate immediately, if they were going to separate, why couldn't they do it sooner?
Why?
Lu Huaijiao really didn't understand.
Gu Changzheng glanced at her indifferently: "While parents are alive, the family doesn't need to separate."
"Oh!" Lu Huaijiao nodded, but the next second she realized, no, that's not how it is. "No, we're separating the family so that Mom and Dad can live with us, that way they can help us take care of the kids, right?"
"..."
Gu Changzheng, who had intended to dissuade her from separating from the family, hesitated slightly when he heard her casually mention the word "child."
"Who told you about separating the family? Isn't it good for the family to live together?"
Unlike Lu Huaijiao, who was an only child, Gu Changzheng was raised by his older brothers and had a deep attachment to his extended family.
Lu Huaijiao thought for a moment and shook her head.
“No, I don’t like doing chores. If we don’t separate the households, my sisters-in-law will have objections.”
Gu Changzheng: ...
So she chose to be lazy in their own small family after the family split up because she didn't want to be lazy in the extended family?
"You're not going to work now that the family is splitting up?"
"How could that be? I'll definitely do it. I can help keep track of the work points."
"..."
Gu Changzheng didn't want to talk to her anymore.
They carried their luggage back to the Gu family home and piled it all up in the small room next to their new house.
Lu Huaijiao blinked: "What are you doing? Putting things over there instead of in the bedroom makes it inconvenient when I need them."
"I disagree with your decision to separate the family."
"so what?"
Lu Huaijiao seemed a little out of sorts.
“Our views clash, and we need to calm down.” He wanted to say that the marriage didn’t need to continue, but she was the girl he had cared about since childhood, and he couldn’t bring himself to say it.
Lu Huaijiao was stunned.
Lu Huaijiao didn't react until the door to the room was closed.
Is Gu Changzheng angry? Because she brought up the topic of dividing the family property?
But why?
She couldn't understand it.
Everyone has their own families now, so why do we still live together? Shouldn't married couples have their own private space? What's the point of having the whole family all together?
Lu Huaijiao couldn't understand it.
She sat down on the edge of the bed, propped her chin on her hand, and thought for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out.
"Never mind, I don't want to think about it anymore."
Who knows what kind of temper Gu Changzheng might have? She'd be better off using that time to check how much money she has left. She should count out some bills and call her father in town tomorrow.
Lu Huaijiao was pampered by her father since she was a child. Even when she later went to the countryside as an educated youth, she never lacked money or coupons every month.
From the time she went to the countryside in 1973 until now, for two whole years, she has received 70 yuan from her father every month, along with various receipts. So while other educated youth were working hard, Lu Huaijiao was exchanging money and receipts with the villagers for food.
A few days later, they went to the state-run restaurant in town for a treat, taking Li Xiaoya with them.
So she has spent a lot of money in the past two years.
After opening the wooden box and counting, she found that she only had less than five hundred yuan left. She had eaten and spent the rest.
Lu Huaijiao felt a pang of heartache at the thought that half of the money she had spent had been eaten by Li Xiaoya. The memory of Li Xiaoya flaunting her relationship with her boyfriend in front of her after Gu Changzheng's death in her past life made her feel nauseous.
She vowed that from now on, even if she lost her money or fed it to the dogs, she would never let Li Xiaoya take advantage of her again.
Lu Huaijiao gritted her teeth, making a grinding sound.
He hid his money at the bottom of the cabinet and locked it from the outside. Then he slowly unpacked the luggage he had brought back from the educated youth settlement and arranged it in various places in the room.
These peeling walls need to be painted white, and the floor needs to be cemented too. The bathroom needs to be bigger, big enough to fit a bathtub, and there also needs to be a small kitchen…
The more she thought about it, the more problems she felt.
What kind of mindset did she have in her past life to live in such an environment for three years in a daze?
Lu Huaijiao couldn't remember.
In short, I can't tolerate this for the rest of my life.
In the evening, everyone in the Gu family went home from work.
The aroma of food wafted from the kitchen, and the Gu family members, carrying hoes, all wore smiles.
Xu Honglian and Zhang Cuifang, who were walking behind, said in low voices, "This fourth sister-in-law is quite sensible. She knows to stay home and rest and prepare dinner."
The speaker was Xu Honglian, Gu Lao Er's wife.
Zhang Cuifang, the third son's wife, glanced at her second sister-in-law beside her and said with a smile, "A newlywed girl doesn't have to work on her first day."
“How can she not work? More than a dozen people in the family are working, and she still expects us to come back and serve her?” Xu Honglian didn’t like Lu Huaijiao very much.
I always felt that my mother-in-law was too lenient with her fourth brother's wife.
The mother-in-law always dotes on the fourth son, and now that he's married, she can't treat him equally. The daughters-in-law won't stand for that.
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