Chapter 12
There was thunder outside, and the old Gu family was in a state of chaos.
It was raining, and the eldest son came home quietly with a body covered in rain mist. Zhang Cuilan was surprised and happy. She hurriedly pulled him into the house and sent the youngest son to call Gu Mancang, who had fallen asleep. She wiped her hands with her apron and muttered something.
Gu Chunmei was also very happy to see her eldest brother. She clapped her hands and went to the kitchen to cook brown sugar wine and eggs.
Lin Yao hurried to help. She was not mentally prepared to meet her cheap husband suddenly.
Forget it, we will take it one step at a time.
"You kid, it's raining so hard outside, why don't you call home when you get home and ask your dad to pick you up at the bus station? What, are you afraid that your dad will be tired? Your dad is thick-skinned, why would he be tired? You all are so troublesome. It's windy and rainy in the yard. Look at how wet you are. Hurry back to the house to change clothes and take a hot shower, otherwise you will catch a cold."
Gu Shi'an has been listening to his mother's nagging since he was a child and he has gotten used to it. His mother hurried to change clothes and felt helpless. He changed his military uniform every day and took a shower every day in the army. When he came back, he wore a raincoat when he came home. After entering the house, he fetched water and rubbed soap to wash his hands. He didn't need to take a shower or change clothes at all.
Comrade Zhang Cuilan was not used to this bad habit of her son, so she scolded him without explanation and even beat him with a small bed broom: "You little bastard, I told you not to be obedient and not take a bath, do you want to stink your mother to death?"
Gu Mancang was used to going to bed early, and he was snoring in the room, so Gu Shidong woke him up. When he heard that his eldest son had returned,
the dozing old father lost all sleepiness, got out of bed immediately and rushed to see his son. As soon as he entered the room, he saw the old woman beating her son with a small broom.
Gu Mancang ran over to break up the fight, "Cuilan, what are you doing? Why are you hitting the child? We don't allow hitting children in our family. If you really don't want to, hit me twice to vent your anger."
Gu Shidong, who was hiding outside the door, also jumped out, opened his arms to protect Gu Shian, with a sad face, "Mom, don't hit big brother, I'll take the beating for big brother!"
Zhang Cuilan was stunned at first, and then she laughed out of anger. Great, this father is kind and the brother is filial, and she is the only bad person in the family, and the others are all good!
Zhang Cuilan sneered, and Gu Mancang and his son trembled.
Lin Yao heard it clearly through the door, and could only sigh, and went into the house to deliver brown sugar wine and eggs to help them out.
"Auntie, there is a loose tile in the kitchen, and it's leaking somewhere. Don't you want to go and have a look?"
"When did it happen? It was fine yesterday. How come it leaks suddenly?"
"Just now, Sister Chunmei put a clay basin there."
"What's the use of just putting a clay basin there? A loose tile is not a small problem. No, I'll go and take a look."
Coincidentally, at this moment, a muffled thunder sounded above the courtyard. Zhang Cuilan didn't have the heart to care about these three guys, and hurried to the kitchen to check.
As soon as Zhang Cuilan left, Gu Shidong breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed his face with his hands, and sat down next to Lin Yao: "Sister-in-law, you are still amazing. My mother left after just a few words. If you hadn't come, my butt would have been broken."
Gu Mancang also smiled honestly, "Yaoyao is smart, and the baby she will give birth to in the future will also be smart."
Lin Yao: "!!!"
Uncle Mancang, if you can't speak, just shut up, okay?
Lin Yao was so embarrassed that she could only laugh twice, put the brown sugar wine brewed eggs on the table, and let Gu Shian "eat it while it's hot."
Gu Shian glanced at the wine-fermented eggs in the bowl. It was a large bowl filled with four or five eggs. The bright red fermented glutinous rice looked very beautiful and smelled fragrant. It was obvious that they had been prepared with great care.
He nodded slightly and thanked Lin Yao, "Thank you for your hard work."
Lin Yao waved her hands and said, "It's not hard, it's not hard, just eat."
Hurry up and pick up your chopsticks, so she can leave.
Gu Shidong on the side chuckled, "Sister-in-law is worried that big brother is hungry."
Lin Yao secretly glared at the brat, "Little brat, don't talk nonsense if you don't know what to do! "
Gu Shian misunderstood, and his cold eyebrows softened. It would have been better if he didn't smile, but when he smiled, Lin Yao's heart skipped a beat.
What are you laughing at?
This cheap husband wouldn't think that she is interested in him and come to sell him.
Lin Yao's mind was in a mess. Speaking of which, Gu Shian was only 28 years old this year, full of vigor and vitality. The two of them had just got married. In the eyes of the older generation, they were husband and wife after the wedding.
If they were husband and wife, they had to sleep in the same bed. Besides, all the rooms in the old Gu family were full. When
Gu Shian came back, wouldn't he have to sleep in the same room with her at night and then consummate the marriage?
Lin Yao was shocked by herself. She took another peek at Gu Shian. The man had taken off his military uniform and was wearing a clean white shirt with his sleeves rolled up, revealing a slender and strong arm. His eyebrows were regular and he was very handsome.
Gu Shian was a rare outstanding young man in the brothel. If Grandpa Gu had not arranged a marriage for his grandson, the girls around him would have gone to great lengths to win over such a handsome young man, and Lin Yao would not have accidentally married into the Gu family.
She admitted that the cheap husband in front of her was quite attractive, but she and Gu Shian... were not close enough to sleep in the same bed after just one meeting!
Brown sugar wine and eggs are the most nourishing, especially when you are cold on a rainy day, drinking a bowl of it can dispel the cold and nourish the body.
A few years ago, Gu Mancang was still a third-level worker, earning only 30 yuan a month. Gu Shi'an and his three siblings were all in school, and they relied on the 50 yuan a month salary of the couple.
The Gu family of five had to pay for food and clothing, textbooks for three children, tuition fees, and various social interactions at home, so they lived a tight life.
At that time, it was good enough for the family to have enough food.
In such harsh conditions, one winter, the wind was biting cold, and it felt like ice knives when it blew on the face. Zhang Cuilan came back from the pig farm and fell in the snow. She was frozen and got typhoid fever. She wanted to eat a bowl of brown sugar wine and eggs while recuperating at home.
At that time, the old Gu family was very poor, let alone brown sugar, and even eggs could not be bought.
It was Zhang's uncle who sent five or six eggs to my sister.
Eggs are a good match even without brown sugar.
Gu Shian put aside his studies and helped carry grain at the county grain station. He was paid two cents for a bag of grain. He didn't want money, but only two taels of brown sugar tickets. He carried sacks of grain at the grain station for a week, and his shoulders were rubbed and bleeding. He exchanged a thin brown sugar ticket for it.
That night, Zhang Cuilan drank hot brown sugar wine and eggs.
She didn't drink it herself. The five members of the Gu family drank up the bowl of brown sugar wine and eggs with red eyes.
The next year, the eighteen-year-old Gu Shian graduated from high school and joined the army. Every year when he went home, he would drink a bowl of brown sugar wine-brewed eggs.
The porcelain bowl on the table exuded the heat of brown sugar. Gu Shian went home in the wind and rain, and he was indeed a little damp and cold. He drank the boiling brown sugar water, which drove away the dampness and coldness, and his body was warm and comfortable.
The wine-brewed eggs were sweet, and Gu Shian ate them in big mouthfuls, almost one at a time. It didn't take long before a large bowl of hot wine-brewed eggs was empty.
Gu Shian's brows relaxed, and he was about to say something to Lin Yao.
Who knew that the little girl opposite stood up suddenly, glared at him angrily, and ran away like a little rabbit.
The look on her face made people who didn't know her think Gu Shian was plotting something bad towards her.
When Gu Shidong saw his sister-in-law ran away, the brat got furious. He had been getting along very well with his sister-in-law recently. He folded his hands and complained to his brother in anger, "Brother, it's all your fault. Why do you look so cold? You scared my sister-in-law away. You'll have to work tonight."
Gu Mancang also frowned and said, "That's right. It's not good for a grown man to be so rude. Anzi, you should learn to be gentler to your wife. Yaoyao is a good child. She came to our house to buy snacks and fabrics. She is sincerely kind to our family, but you still scare her. No wonder your mother beat you."
Gu Shian, who was shot for no reason, said: ".........."
He didn't mean to be cold-faced. He was used to it after training new recruits in the army.
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The rain came violently that night, with strong winds and heavy rain hitting pedestrians in the face.
The muddy water in the big courtyard was over the ankles. Zhang Cuilan went to the kitchen to take a look. It was windy and rainy recently, and a few tiles on the roof were blown loose, and small raindrops leaked out here and there.
Zhang Cuilan put on her shoes and stepped on the muddy water to go back to the house, washed her hands and face, made a bowl of lotus root powder and drank it, and pulled a towel to sit on the edge of the bed to wipe her hair. Gu
Mancang lit a bunch of wormwood in the corner of the wall to smoke mosquitoes.
Zhang Cuilan said that the kitchen tiles were not firm, and asked Gu Mancang to pick a time to carry a ladder up to fix it.
Don't underestimate Gu Mancang, he is a clamp worker. When he was young, he lived in the countryside and worked as a bricklayer to make a living. Now he is old but still as skilled as ever, and can easily build walls with mud.
Gu Mancang responded.
Zhang Cuilan dried her hair and asked him to drink a bowl of lotus root powder, "This lotus root powder is sweet, better than malted milk. Yaoyao bought it for us to nourish our bodies. Don't let the child down."
Gu Mancang thought of the egg cake his daughter-in-law bought for him, and his dark and shiny face could not hide the smile at this time: "Yaoyao is a good girl, and our family is blessed to have Anzi."
Zhang Cuilan nodded, "Yes, it's fortunate that Yaoyao married into our family. If it was Lin Hongna from Lin Daguo, our family would not have a peaceful birthday. "Anzi is a troublemaker, he is always annoying wherever he goes. I won't talk to you anymore. I will go to the small side room to make some arrangements. Let Anzi sleep in the east room tonight."
Gu Mancang scratched his head, not quite understanding, "Anzi finally came back, why don't you let the young couple spend more time together, why sleep in the east room?"
Zhang Cuilan pouted, "I can't explain it to you, a blockhead."
As a mother-in-law, she is eager to let the two children sleep in the same room, but Yaoyao has to be happy, right?
Don't look at Yaoyao, this child, smiling at home, with a soft temper and easy to talk to, but in fact this girl is a little stubborn, just like her mother, with a proud temper and stubborn personality, and once she makes up her mind, eight mules can't pull her back.
It is true that Yaoyao married into the old Gu family, but she privately observed that Anzi had not yet entered Yaoyao's heart, let alone entered her heart. This stupid son did not even touch the window.
Even so, the old man wanted the two children to sleep together to consummate the marriage.
It was a beautiful idea!
So, on the first night that Gu Shian returned home, he kicked off the bed with his mother and his younger brother.
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