He quickly covered his lips with his hand to hide the corners of his mouth that were turned up, and coughed lightly, "Well, you should be more careful in the future! It's one thing to talk business, but don't get yourself into trouble."
"Yanbai, does this count as a work injury?"
"Fine! All the profits from this deal are yours!" After all, so much has been sacrificed, and both physically and mentally have been harmed; it's only right that you take more.
"That's more like it."
………
Before you know it, Xiaxia is already in elementary school, but Gu Yanliu is still living a carefree life at home.
The old man couldn't sit still any longer.
He came straight to their house. As soon as Gu Yanliu saw him arrive, she hurriedly took off her apron and planned to run away through the back door.
"Gu Yanliu, you stop right there."
Still trying to run away? Let me tell you, you absolutely have to come with me to meet them today.
You're twenty-five this year, not fifteen! I'm not trying to be mean, but why aren't you worried at all?
"I'm not going. I don't know anyone here, what's the point of meeting them?" Gu Yanliu had no choice but to obediently return.
"Then you'll get to know each other once you meet, right?"
Your brother and sister-in-law didn't even know each other, but they're doing just fine now, aren't they?
"My brother... never mind, you wouldn't understand even if I told you. Anyway, I'm not going, you've already turned it down." Her brother had been planning this for a long time, how could he not be happy?
Didn't you see her sister-in-law come in? Her stubborn temper has almost disappeared!
"You have to go today, whether you like it or not. Let me tell you, that young man has a proper job; I heard he sells pork at the supply and marketing cooperative!"
Gu Yanliu burst out laughing. "What's wrong, Grandpa? Are you craving meat?"
"You should have told me sooner! I would have bought you ten or eight pounds, so you could eat your fill."
Looking at her grinning face, the old man really wanted to give her a good beating.
"You brat, do you think I'd marry you off for a little bit of pork?"
I'm just thinking that since he has a respectable job, you'll be able to live a stable life after you marry him, right?
"Grandpa, stop!"
This is still in the early stages, and you're already talking about marriage? It's not a good match.
Besides, I don't like butchers. I had someone calculate my birth chart, and they said that butchers and I are incompatible according to our birth charts.
The old man looked at him with suspicion. "No, when did you start believing in this stuff?"
"I guess it's because I'm getting older! That's why I've started to believe in these things." Gu Yanliu made up a reason.
"Knowing you're getting old, aren't you worried?"
All you do all day is fiddle with those two pieces of tofu. I have no idea what you're thinking all day long. The old man's eyes gleamed. Was this girl lying to him?
Gu Yanliu said solemnly, "Grandpa, I really had someone calculate it, and he and I are not suitable for each other. You don't want me to suffer any bloodshed, do you?"
"What nonsense are you spouting? How can you just say things like that?" The old man glared at him.
Older people tend to be a bit superstitious, and the old man was no exception.
"Grandpa, it's better to believe it's true!"
"Alright, alright, I won't talk to you anymore, good grandpa, just go and push it!" Gu Yanliu pulled the old man's arm and shook it, looking charming and innocent.
The old man looked at her intently for a long time before finally nodding in agreement.
Under the old man's gaze, she didn't dare to breathe loudly, afraid that he would see through her disguise.
She only breathed a sigh of relief after the old man left the house.
"Are you planning to keep lying like this? If you can deny it this time, there will be a next time!"
"What excuse will you use next time? Grandpa isn't easily fooled!" Su Nianxue frowned as she looked at her.
"I don't want to either, but I really don't want to go. Let's just put it off for now, and if there really is a next time... we'll see then!" Gu Yanliu said dejectedly.
"How about I ask your brother to help you find someone reliable, and you can go and meet them?"
"No, sister-in-law, I don't want to compromise at all, really!"
I just want to find someone I like, and someone who likes me too.
Life is short, just a few decades, and I want to live it to the fullest. Gu Yanliu was unusually persistent about this.
Even after all these years, and as girls her age in the village have gotten married one after another, she still hasn't changed her mind in the slightest.
Su Nianxue sighed, "Of course I understand. But I'm afraid Grandpa won't let you wait like this."
"I know, that's why I'm annoyed."
Sister-in-law, tell me, what did I do to deserve this?
What does it matter to them whether I get married or not? I haven't eaten their rice, so why do those people keep talking about me behind my back?
"Aren't these people too idle?" The "them" she was referring to were, of course, the elderly women in the village.
Old Master Gu had a lot of contact with them and had heard a lot of gossip, which made him even more anxious.
Well, she was a little unsure how to answer that question.
There's always a lot of gossip and trouble in the village.
And at her age, she was already considered an older single woman in the village.
That was all she could say to comfort her was, "They really do have a lot of free time."
Just then, Xiaxia walked in with her hair all messy and disheveled.
"Gu Yusu, where's your braid?" In less than half a day, the neatly combed braid had turned into a messy tangled mess.
Su Nianxue was quite troubled; how could this girl act like this?
Xiaxia tugged at the hem of her clothes and mumbled, "When I went up the mountain to raid bird nests, I don't know when my hair tie came off, and then, this is what happened."
"You went up the mountain again?" I don't know how she has so much energy every day, she never seems to rest.
All he knew was running around wildly with the village kids.
That wasn't all. Looking at the two of them covered in mud, she asked again, "Tell me, where else did you go?"
“We also went to the riverbank,” Gu Yuchu added.
"Going up the mountain is one thing. But who told you to go to the river? It's so dangerous! What if you accidentally fell in?" Su Nianxue was furious and could no longer hide her desire to beat them up.
"It wasn't dangerous at all. Today the dam released water to catch fish, and we just went to watch for a while. Everyone went, it wasn't just the two of us." Xiaxia said stubbornly, not feeling that she had done anything wrong.
"We even caught loaches!"
"Loach? Where?"
Under her watchful gaze, the two men each pulled a loach from their small pockets.
"It's so slippery, how did you manage to catch it?" she asked purely out of curiosity.
"That's easy, just use clips!" Xiaxia said with a smug look on her face.
"Where did the clip come from?" She had already considered one possibility.
Sure enough, Xiaxia's words confirmed her guess, "Dad made it for us!"
"Gu! Yan! Bai!"
Seeing the anger on her face grow stronger, Xiaxia consciously stretched out her hands, and Yu Chu followed suit.
Su Nianxue...
She pinched the bridge of her nose. She had scolded him and even hit him, but he just wouldn't change his ways!
This personality of hers really leaves you speechless!
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