Gu Hong's expression was complicated. "It turns out that some friendships are not what they seem on the surface."
"?" Shen Ningsi asked doubtfully: "What do you mean?"
Gu Hong always speaks his mind, but this is the first time that his words are stuck in his throat.
He choked and his face turned red. Finally, he looked away and said, "If you didn't say it, who would know that you have such deep feelings for Gu Hong? You almost can't remember his appearance, and you are willing to be a widow for the rest of your life."
He coughed and said, "If Gu Hong were still alive, knowing your feelings, he would definitely not treat you unfairly!"
Gu Hong rarely began to reflect on himself. "To be honest, Gu Hong is indeed not a competent husband. He left you and your widow here without any escape route."
"If you weren't smart, it would be a problem whether the whole family could survive. Fortunately, you didn't care. If it were anyone else, they would probably hate Gu Hong. But you are the only one who is waiting for him wholeheartedly."
Ana Shen was busy making potatoes into various refreshing side dishes to go with potato porridge.
Hearing this, she couldn't help but laugh and said casually: "It's just a temporary measure to fool people. How could you believe it, General?"
Gu Xiuwen thought to himself, "Mom, how can we let people taste our potatoes?"
"Just put it here. Everyone is curious about dishes they haven't seen before."
"Shut up."
Shen Ningsi paused for a moment and raised his eyes inexplicably.
Gu Hong smirked, "I'm not talking about you. I told this kid to shut up, but you continued talking. How is that a temporary solution?"
Shen Ningsi said "oh" and missed Gu Xiuwen's helpless action of closing his eyes.
"Just like you said, I've almost forgotten what Gu Hong looks like. How could I possibly be willing to be a widow to him?"
Shen Ningsi looked at the two children beside her, her eyes full of tenderness. "But these children are really lovable. I want to take good care of them. I can't be sure whether the men I find will treat them well. I simply don't have any relationship with these men. Being a widow is the best reason to avoid trouble."
The smile on Gu Hong's face froze completely, and he stared at Shen Ningsi with murderous eyes.
"In other words, you don't have any feelings for Gu Hong at all?"
He didn't need Shen Ningsi's answer anymore, Gu Hong's face was dark.
He didn't know whether he was angry at himself for being sentimental or angry that Chen Ningsi really had no feelings for him anymore.
Gu Hong said sinisterly, "It's hard for you to pretend to be so deeply in love!"
“…”
Shen Ningsi realized something was wrong, she raised her eyes, but could only see the man's back as he walked away.
"What the hell is he doing?"
Can this person change his habit of saying incomprehensible things from time to time?
Gu Xiuwen whispered, "Mom, do you really not have any feelings for Dad anymore?"
The original owner might still have feelings for Gu Hong, but how could Shen Ningsi, who came later, like a man she had never met?
"There's nothing wrong with joining the army, and there's nothing wrong with not hearing from him for a long time. After all, we don't know what difficulties he's facing on the battlefield." Shen Ningsi rubbed Gu Xiuwen's head.
"I don't blame him for joining the army, but I also remember how I nearly lost my innocence for a bag of rice, and how I went through the gates of hell to give birth to a child. As long as I remember these things, I won't be able to recall the friendship we had."
Gu Xiuwu bit his lip and said, "Mom is right! Dad is the one who is wrong!"
These words made Gu Xiuwen, who was still hesitating, stunned. He pulled Gu Xiuwu's hand, but his brother shook it off. Gu Xiuwu ran towards the other end of the alley.
Shen Ningsi frowned and was about to chase after him when he suddenly heard an angry shout from the side.
"Don't delay my business! Get out of here!"
Shen Ningsi turned around and saw the owner of the only water shop in Wanning Village waving his hands as if to drive away mosquitoes.
"One dou of rice for ten dou of water, can you afford it?"
The person being scolded was a skinny little girl. After hearing the shopkeeper's words, she could only curl up and seek a sense of security.
Seeing that the girl didn't move, the shopkeeper simply grabbed a branch and hit her with it.
"This isn't some water made by witchcraft! It's spring water that we hired someone to collect drop by drop from a cave ten miles away. Only this kind of water will keep you alive! If you delay my business, I'll beat you to death!"
Ana Shen quickly walked over and protected the little girl behind him, “She’s standing here and hasn’t touched the water, so how can she delay your business?”
Seeing the red marks that instantly appeared on the back of her hand after being hit by a branch, Shen Ningsi's anger intensified.
"You're an adult, and you're bullying a skinny child like this?!"
"Oh!" The shopkeeper with a pointed chin and monkey cheeks was slightly stunned when he saw Shen Ningsi, and his face became even more hateful.
"Isn't this Madam Gu, the current noblewoman of our Wanning Village? Why? Our Wang family doesn't want everyone to be persecuted by the water you made with your sorcery, so we came out to sell water. Are you worried?"
"Isn't this the stinky beggar you hired to disrupt our business?"
Seeing Ana Shen not saying anything, he became more excited, “Are you afraid that more people will survive without drinking your water?”
Shen Ningsi frowned and searched his mind for memories. After a while, he finally remembered what this so-called Wang family was.
Wanning Village has been suffering from drought for a long time. Water is more precious than rice. In most cases, even if you have rice, you still cannot buy water.
The Wang family initially settled on a mountaintop, with a small hill behind them just right for a clear spring. Within a few months, they had traded this spring for a large house and countless gold and silver. During this time of food shortage, the Wang family's granary was never empty.
Just when the Wang family was about to make a fortune from this little water, Shen Ningsi suddenly appeared and brought a method to make water!
Thanks to the water-control technique and the heavy rain, although people are not able to use water indiscriminately, no one will die of thirst, and the number of people in urgent need of water has been greatly reduced.
You know, in the past, the Wang family could exchange a bucket of water for a "small yellow croaker"! Now it is sold at a low price of a bucket of rice. You can imagine how much the Wang family hates Shen Ningsi.
After figuring out where the other party's hostility came from, Shen Ningsi smiled.
"Have you, Shopkeeper Wang, ever drunk the water made using the method I described? It's just water, how can it be made using witchcraft?"
Shen Ningsi pointed to the water bag next to their jar and said, "That's filled with water. Your jar also contains water. Let's pour it out and compare it. Is there any difference?"
Shen Ningsi's eyes were bright, which was completely different from the look of the villagers who had suffered for a long time and whose eyes showed despair.
Shopkeeper Wang was slightly stunned, and his momentum suddenly weakened.
"I'm just an ordinary shopkeeper. What qualifications do I have to compete with Madam Gu to see if the water is the same? You..."
His eyes rolled, "If you want to compete, please go find our master, don't delay my business here!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com