After he left, Su Nianxue glanced at the messy bed and felt a flush on her face.
He removed the quilt cover and mattress, threw them all into a wooden basin, and then shouted into Gu Yanliu's room.
"Yanliu, I want to go to the river to wash my clothes. Do you have any dirty clothes? Bring them over and I can wash them too!"
"Sister-in-law, let me go with you!" Gu Yanliu quickly brought out two pieces of clothing from the room. "Let's go, I'll take you to the river."
Gu Yanliu skipped and hopped ahead, leading the way. Su Nianxue looked at her lively sister-in-law with a smile on her face.
"Yanliu, how old are you this year?"
"I'm sixteen years old this year!"
Gu Yanliu has a baby face, and when she smiles, she has two sweet dimples, making it impossible to tell that she is already sixteen years old.
"Yanliu, you still look like a child, not sixteen at all?"
"Haha, a lot of people say that." Gu Yanliu's hearty laughter echoed far and wide from the edge of the lush green wheat field.
"Yanliu, your name is so beautiful!"
Speaking of this, Gu Yanliu looked very proud, "Our names were all chosen by our father."
Grandpa said he's read a lot of books and can even recite poetry!
Moreover, he was good-looking and was a well-known handsome young man in the surrounding villages!
My brother looks just like him, but his personality is quite different.
He's so mischievous. His name is Yanbai, but he finds writing "bai" troublesome and never writes the radical.
Over time, he became Gu Yanbai. Gu Yanliu laughed heartily as he talked about Gu Yanbai's shameful deeds.
Su Nianxue laughed too; this was indeed like his personality—he had little patience.
"By the way, when did Grandpa pass away?"
Although Grandpa Gu looked somewhat serious, Su Nianxue knew from his words last night that he was an easy-going old man.
It's a pity I didn't see him today.
"Oh, Grandpa goes back tonight. He goes up the mountain to herd sheep every day."
Gu Yanliu was used to this phenomenon and spoke about it very casually.
The two walked and talked, and soon a wide stream appeared in front of them.
The aunties gathered in twos and threes, chatting and washing clothes.
Upon seeing Gu Yanliu, it became clear that the person following behind her was Gu Yanbai's new wife.
The aunties all looked at her curiously, wondering which family's daughter she was and why she was so desperate.
She had so many good men in the village, yet she chose to marry that scoundrel Gu Yanbai.
Su Nianxue smiled at the kind aunties, then carried the wooden basin to a secluded spot.
She had just arrived in the village and wasn't familiar with these people yet, so it wasn't appropriate for her to join them.
He wet the clothes in the basin, applied some laundry detergent to the dirty areas, and then started banging them with a mallet.
Gu Yanliu finished washing the clothes in no time. "Sister-in-law, let me wash them with you!"
But Su Nianxue remembered the obvious marks on the sheets and felt a little embarrassed to ask her for help.
"Yanliu, I saw some small shrimp in the river. Why don't you catch some and take them home? I'll fry them for you for lunch."
Gu Yanliu got excited as soon as she heard this. Her sister-in-law was so kind; she was giving her a chance to play in the water.
Whether I eat it or not doesn't matter, the most important thing is to have fun. "Okay, sister-in-law, I'll go back and get the winnowing basket."
She quickly put on her shoes and ran home like a gust of wind.
When he returned, he was carrying a wooden bucket and a bamboo woven dustpan.
She rolled up her trousers and sleeves and went into the water.
There are many shrimp in the river, but the villagers dislike them because they have no meat and frying them would waste too much oil.
Therefore, not many people are willing to fish for it; at most, they fish it back to feed chickens and ducks.
The women behind her, upon hearing that she wanted to eat fried shrimp, all wore intriguing expressions.
This young wife is so bad at managing her household!
Who in their right mind would eat that stuff?
Shrimp are small, with little meat besides the shell, and frying them is too much oil, so what's so good about them?
Gu Yanliu didn't care what they thought and quickly scooped up most of the bucket.
"We'll choose the big ones to fry and eat, and take the smaller ones back to feed the chickens."
Gu Yanliu waved the dustpan in his hand, wiped the water droplets from his face with his sleeve, and said with a grin.
"Let's fry the shrimp later and take some to Grandpa. He'll be very happy."
The women by the river were all secretly exchanging glances.
Old Master Gu has had a tough life, finally managing to raise his four grandchildren.
But his eldest grandson went to another village to marry into a family, and he might not come back even once a year.
Putting everything else aside, just look at Gu Yanbai's wedding yesterday. He didn't even come back with his wife and kids. It's like he's been raising this grandson for nothing.
This grandson is a good-for-nothing, and his wife is a glutton. How will this family manage in the future?
Su Nianxue carried a basin of clothes, and Gu Yanliu carried half a bucket of rice shrimp. The two sisters-in-law happily went back.
What they didn't know was that from that moment on, Su Nianxue's reputation for being a good eater spread throughout the entire Hongxi Village.
Many people secretly sympathized with Old Master Gu.
As soon as she got home, Gu Yanliu started picking out the shrimp from the bucket.
But I only picked one small bowl and then stopped.
Su Nianxue asked, "What can you do with so little?"
Gu Yanliu hesitated, "Sister-in-law, it's enough for you and Grandpa. I don't like this stuff; there's no meat at all."
Su Nianxue knew exactly what she meant; she was worried about wasting oil!
"Alright, Yanliu, pick some more. I rarely fry shrimp, so let's all try some."
Unexpectedly, she made a fortune after getting married.
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