Gu Xiangwen took a lot of things and prepared to go home for the holidays.

When he arrived at the door of his house, he remembered the greedy nature of his family members, so he took out half of the grapes from the fruit box and gave them to his childhood friend Xiao Tao.

He originally thought that nothing would happen and it was just normal human interaction.

But Gu Xiangwen returned home, but did not enter the house. Instead, he took the things and went to Xiao Tao's house first. This scene was seen by his greedy elder brother and sister-in-law.

As soon as the couple returned home, they told his parents the story with exaggerated details.

His parents were also angry and were waiting for Gu Xiangwen to come back to deal with him.

On the other side, Xiao Tao took the fruits from Gu Xiangwen and gave him two bags of mooncakes in return.

Only then did Gu Xiangwen turn around and go home.

Before he returned home, he saw his seventh brother Gu Xiangrong waiting for him outside the alley.

As soon as Gu Xiangrong saw Gu Xiangwen, he came forward and said, "Brother, don't go home yet. I'm telling you, my eldest brother and his wife just said that you didn't go home even when you were at the doorstep, but took a bunch of gifts to Xiao Tao's house. They said that you are unfilial, that you only remember other people when you have good things, and don't remember to be filial to your parents. You are an ungrateful person."

When Gu Xiangwen heard this, a hint of bitterness flashed through his heart.

He looked into his seventh brother's eyes, which were filled with concern, and said with a faint smile, "It's okay. Everything I brought is here. If they dare to talk nonsense again, they can't eat it."

When the seventh brother Gu Xiangrong heard the last sentence, he sensed a hint of coldness.

Not only was he not afraid of this kind of third brother, he felt somewhat relieved instead.

The third brother really stood up!

In the future, he will learn from his third brother and become a capable man like him, and no longer suffer from the bullying of those bad people in the family.

Gu Xiangwen suddenly thought of his sister again and asked Gu Xiangrong, "Seventh Brother, have you ever been to my eldest sister's house? Is she doing well?"

Gu Xiangwen came back in such a hurry last time that he didn't have time to visit his sister.

His eldest sister is also a miserable person. She has not had a good life for many years.

When he was in school, his eldest sister got married and would always give him one or two pieces of silver when she came back to her parents' home.

Although the money is not much, it is also what my eldest sister saved from her fingers.

For him at that time, these one or two dollars were like a huge sum of money, which allowed him to buy some school supplies and deal with urgent needs.

Now that he is capable, he should repay his elder sister's kindness.

The seventh brother, Gu Xiangrong, replied, "Third brother, the weekend after you came back, my eldest sister and her husband came back with their three children. I saw that they didn't look well and looked haggard."

Gu Xianghui, the eldest sister of the Gu family, has a husband whose mother has been paralyzed in bed. All the other brothers and sisters-in-law avoid her as much as possible, but she and her husband are the only ones who have a conscience and have been serving her.

His eldest sister has to take care of an elderly man paralyzed in bed, three children, and work as a temporary worker. She is really working herself like a workhorse.

Fortunately, their family split up. Although life was hard, his brother-in-law was good to his sister and the children were filial. Even though his eldest sister lived a hard life, she was happy with it.

Gu Xiangwen immediately took out the things he had brought back, including a bag of pastries, a can of meat sauce, and two large bunches of grapes, and put them in his big bag.

He said to Gu Xiangrong, "I'm going to visit my eldest sister first. You take these things back first. No matter what they say, don't argue with them. Wait until I come back. I'll be back for dinner."

Gu Xiangrong nodded sensibly, "I understand, Third Brother, go quickly, the sooner you go the sooner you can return."

Gu Xiangwen patted his seventh brother on the shoulder and said, "I'm leaving now. We'll talk again when I come back."

Gu Xiangrong nodded, "Okay."

Gu Xiangwen strode away.

He first went to Xiao Tao's house, borrowed a bicycle from him, and then rode the bicycle quickly to his eldest sister's house.

When Gu Xiangwen arrived at his eldest sister's house, he was exhausted and sweating.

Gu Xiangwen's eldest brother-in-law is an employee of the electric motor factory.

Their family also lived in a dormitory assigned to them by the motor factory. There was only one room, and six people in the family lived together in it.

Normally they use public toilets, take baths in public baths, and cook on a stove set up in the corridor.

When Gu Xiangwen arrived at his eldest sister Gu Xianghui's house, Gu Xianghui was busy preparing the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion dinner at home.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Even those who are reluctant to eat will still go and buy some meat and vegetables to eat.

When Gu Xianghui saw Gu Xiangwen, she was stunned for a moment.

Gu Xiangwen is now dressed much more decently, not as shabby as he was when he first returned to the city.

Jun Ning told them that for the sake of their Junlin Company's image, she gave three sets of clothes to each of Gu Xiangwen, Xiao Yanru, and Luo Dali.

Regardless of gender, everyone wore a white shirt with black pants.

Such clothes are fashionable in this era.

Jun Ning asked the three of them to wear these three sets of clothes as work clothes.

In Gu Xianghui's impression, the younger brothers always picked up the older brother's clothes to wear, and they always wore tattered and patched clothes.

This was the first time that Gu Xianghui saw Gu Xiangwen dressed so decently.

Gu Xiangwen hadn't seen his eldest sister for many years. Now he saw that his eldest sister was only 32 years old, but her eyes were full of wrinkles and her thin face was full of haggardness and fatigue.

His eyes instantly turned red, and he choked up and shouted, "Big Sister..."

Gu Xianghui also shouted excitedly, "Xiang Wen, it's really you. I couldn't recognize you just now. Come on, come in and sit down."

A neighbor who was also cooking festival dishes nearby looked at Gu Xiangwen, who had a good temperament and was well-dressed, and immediately asked Gu Xianghui, "Ah Hui, is this your relative?"

Gu Xianghui smiled and replied, "Yes, he is my third brother. He just returned to the city from the countryside and is now working in Yucheng."

The neighbor looked Gu Xiangwen up and down again, and seeing that he looked ruddy and not thin, he smiled and said, "Oh, your brother just came back to the city not long ago. Seeing that your brother is doing so well now, he must be doing well, right?"

"It's just so-so. Let's go in first!"

Gu Xianghui poured a little water into the dish, covered it with a lid and simmered it, then led Gu Xiangwen into the house.

A room divided into two halves by a curtain.

The front half is used as the living room, where we entertain guests, eat, and let the children do their homework.

The other half was filled with three bunk beds, and the whole family slept in such a small space.

When the siblings went in, the three children were doing their homework at the table.

Gu Xianghui smiled and said to the children, "Qingguo, Qinggang, Qingxia, this is your third uncle, call him uncle."

Her two sons, the eldest, Bi Qingguo, is already twelve years old.

The second child, Bi Qinggang, is also ten years old.

The youngest is daughter Bi Qingxia, who is only six years old.

(End of this chapter)