“I think Uncle Gu is a good person. Although his eyesight is not good and he is a bit rough, if Mom is interested in that, we won’t stop her.”
Having received her husband's affirmation, Xue Ru felt more at ease.
When she was with Gu Guanhai again, she was less wary and vigilant, and more scrutinizing and examining him.
What if my mother-in-law really ends up with Uncle Gu?
She has to help her mother-in-law make the selections.
Gu Guanhai keenly noticed the change in Xue Ru's attitude, but he said nothing and continued to do what he was supposed to do every day.
That day.
As usual, Yu Mingxiang went up the mountain to collect herbs in the morning, while Gu Guanhai chopped firewood not far from her.
Thinking of the mountain of firewood already piled up in the front yard, she finally couldn't help but say, "We already have enough firewood at home. You don't need to accompany me up the mountain every day. I'll just gather some common medicinal herbs on the outskirts of the mountain, and I won't encounter any danger."
Upon hearing this, Gu Guanhai turned to look at her.
"That little bit of firewood isn't enough."
He smiled and said, "Not only do we need firewood for cooking, but the winters in Northeast China are also cold, so we need to heat the kang (a traditional heated platform bed) at home. I was just about to ask you if you want to build a kang in the backyard?"
Yu Mingxiang was taken aback upon hearing this: "But I've already made the bed..."
"It's alright, sleeping on a bed is cool in the summer and warm on a kang (heated brick bed) in the winter."
Gu Guanhai smiled and said, "I'll start laying bricks when I get back, and I'll build two kang beds in your backyard in the next few days. Two should be enough, right? One for you and one for Weiguo. As for that kid Xiangdong, he can sleep with me in the winter."
Actually, in their area, most families just have one large kang (heated brick bed), where the whole family squeezes together to sleep in the winter. It's warm, but...
He figured the woman wouldn't be used to it, so he didn't mention it.
Yu Mingxiang: ...
Judging from his words, he wasn't in a hurry to leave, but...
Having received so much help from them, she now feels awkward about kicking them out.
Yu Mingxiang remained silent.
In the afternoon, when Yu Mingxiang took her daughter-in-law out, Gu Guanhai indeed found some bricks and began mixing mud by the river in front of his house...
Yu Mingxiang greeted him and went to the clinic as usual.
But even she didn't expect that a problem was waiting for her at the clinic.
Zhao Tengfei was discharged from the town hospital after staying there for about ten days.
After waking up, he kept howling that he had encountered a ghost. Since they couldn't find the assailant who hit him, his family naturally had to bear the medical expenses.
Zhao Tiezhu and Li Guihua were worried about the money, so when they heard that the village clinic had opened, they brought their son back and carried him to the clinic's entrance.
"What did you say?"
Yu Mingxiang was stunned when she heard the family's purpose for coming. "You said you want to put Zhao Tengfei in the clinic so that my mother-in-law and I can take care of him?"
Is there a problem?
Li Guihua glanced at her, then retorted, "Isn't the village clinic supposed to serve the villagers? My son is sick now, so it's your responsibility to take care of him!"
She had heard about Yu Mingxiang's family coming to the village, but she hadn't made a scene at their house these past few days. She figured Yu Mingxiang probably hadn't noticed that they had secretly switched their daughters.
Furthermore, they were even more relieved to learn that their biological daughter had already married in the city.
As for their son Zhao Tengfei's injury, they initially suspected that Yu Mingxiang's family had discovered something and were secretly sabotaging them, but then they thought it was impossible.
The Yu family are all cultured and unassuming people; they wouldn't do something like this, but...
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