Chapter 13
Gu Shian went to sleep in the small side room, and this news greatly pleased Lin Yao.
Gu Shian came back in a hurry, and there were no extra washbasins and towels at home. Lin Yao generously contributed her unused small washbasin and towels for him to use.
Gu Shian lowered his eyes and looked at the washbasin with small orchid flowers on a white background, and the brand new pink towel on it. His eyebrows jumped, and he stood there for a long time before he went to wash up in silence.
Lin Yao didn't see this scene, she was happily fumigating mosquitoes in the room.
There have been continuous thunderstorms recently, and the humid environment has brought more mosquitoes. Several times, Lin Yao saw geckos lying on the wall waiting in the house. The geckos are not a big deal, but the buzzing big flower-winged mosquitoes are circling around the mosquito net, disturbing people's sleep, and are also ready to move outside, finding loopholes to drill into the mosquito net.
Lin Yao is very vigilant. He fumigates with wormwood every day, and secretly takes a bottle of floral water from the space supermarket, drops a few drops into the basin, and sprinkles it in the house, so that he can have a good sleep all night until dawn.
Earlier, Gu Chunmei didn't close the mosquito net properly, and mosquitoes got in, biting her body and leaving several big lumps. It was so itchy, so Lin Yao dropped two drops of floral water on it and asked Gu Chunmei to scrub it, and then applied the remaining ointment and Tiger Balm that Dongzi had applied, and finally the itching stopped.
From then on, Gu Chunmei was thinking about Lin Yao's "mosquito fumigation water". Every night when she was a little sleepy, she would come to her house to get some mosquito fumigation water to sprinkle back, and secretly ask where the mosquito water came from.
Lin Yao was speechless. She couldn't say that this was not "mosquito fumigation water", it was called floral water, taken out from the Space Supermarket, and it was a must-have item for summer home in the 21st century. It
was just a joke. If she really said that, Lin Yao would definitely be in trouble.
Finally, she could only make an excuse that she used the juice extracted from the picked honeysuckle, mint and alcohol, and she was just messing around at home.
Gu Chunmei tilted her head and thought about it. Yunshui County is rich in honeysuckle, mint and hawthorn. In summer, there are old farmers carrying baskets on the street selling flowers, such as hydrangeas, phalaenopsis, gardenias, jasmines and the like. There are also old farmers selling honeysuckle, mushrooms, dried hawthorns, and auricularia that they picked and dried from the mountains.
However, the most popular product now is jasmine, which can be bought for a penny. When Lin Yao is free at home, she often buys baskets of flowers and plants or mushrooms and honeysuckle. Whether they are soaked in water or kept in a vase, the room is filled with fragrance.
Gu Chunmei was delighted and asked Lin Yao to prepare two bottles of honeysuckle juice for her.
Lin Yao felt that she was being stupid. Wasn't this just shooting herself in the foot? She
had no choice but to dry the honeysuckle and mint leaves. During the day, when everyone in the family was at work, she tried to steam the juice at home. She got dirty and finally made it.
Lin Yao put the steamed flower juice into several palm-sized white porcelain bottles, stuffed them with wooden stoppers, and gave each person in the Gu family a bottle.
The whole family treated it like a treasure, usually hiding it in the cupboard and not taking it out easily. Only Dongzi showed it off everywhere. At night, he sprinkled a few drops on the mosquito net. The bad boy specially held a lantern to watch the mosquitoes twitching and kicking on the ground. He himself stepped on the bench, put his hands on his hips and laughed happily, which was quite happy that a great revenge had been taken.
Gu Shidong lived in a small side room by himself, and he was used to being free.
This time his brother slept with him, and the bad boy grumbled and was always reluctant.
No matter how reluctant he was, it would not work. Comrade Zhang Cuilan said that if he was not willing to sleep in the same room with his elder brother, he should go out and sleep on the floor.
Gu Shidong's room was only eight or nine square meters. As soon as you entered the room, you saw a large sycamore wood wardrobe and a wooden bed. On the left was a carved desk and a chair. On the desk were a pile of books, pencils, and exercise books, as well as an enamel pot for drinking water.
Gu Shian went in and saw that the desk was the only messy part of the room. The rest of the room was fairly clean. He raised his eyebrows. Has the brat changed?
In the past, the brat's room was so dirty that you couldn't even step in. Even the cats and dogs complained about it.
Gu Shidong came over with a pillow in his arms. As soon as he saw his brother standing there, he knew what he was thinking. He jumped up and down in anger. "Brother, what's that expression on your face? My sister-in-law said that when a man has not seen each other for three days, he should look at each other with open eyes. My second sister can be the first to fly. She embroidered a duck handkerchief for her brother-in-law. Can't I love to be clean and pure?"
Gu Chunmei, who was brushing her teeth in the yard, roared, "Gu Shidong is talking nonsense. That's a duck, a duck!"
But she embroidered it into a duck.
Yaoyao was right. Who cares if it's a duck or a duck? As long as Big Head Brother likes it, that's fine.
A hint of smile flashed in Gu Shian's dark eyes, "Wrong."
Gu Shidong: "What's wrong?"
"The proverb you just said."
Gu Shidong shook his head in confusion, "What is a proverb?"
Gu Chunmei, who was washing in the yard, rolled her eyes and couldn't help complaining, "Stupid, a man who has not seen you for three days should be looked at with new eyes is a proverb. What did you just say?"
Gu Shidong shrank his neck and said nothing.
What did he just say, a man who has not seen you for three days should be looked at with new eyes?
It's over, he has been spotted by the eldest brother!
The stinky boy quickly crawled into the mosquito net and acted like a quail.
Sure enough, before going to bed, Gu Shian said calmly, "Get up early tomorrow and I will check your homework."
Gu Shidong: "..."
*
The rain stopped in the middle of the night.
The next morning, it was another hot and sunny day.
The leaves of the roses in the yard were curled up by the sun in the early morning. Taking advantage of the good weather, Zhang Cuilan took the quilts out of the house and hung them on bamboo poles to dry.
Lin Yao also ran around to help. God knows that her house was so damp during the rainy days. Although it was not wet, the dampness was everywhere.
The first thing Aunt Cuilan dried was the quilt in her room. What was it for her not to help?
In the past, when drying the bedding, Zhang Cuilan asked her maids to help, and Gu Chunmei was in a mess. It took a long time to do the work. This time, with Lin Yao, it was much easier. After the bedding
was set up, Zhang Cuilan took a bamboo stick and banged it vigorously in the yard.
"Hey, Cuilan, are you drying the quilt? Hey? My husband went for a walk. My baby is born, so I exchanged half a basket of eggs with my relatives in my hometown and brought them back to keep for the baby during the confinement period."
Zhang Cuilan was busy, and the rich lady next door came back to the big courtyard happily with half a basket of eggs.
The wealthy couple has two daughters. The elder daughter followed the army to join the troops, and the younger daughter, Jia Xin, married in this county. Now she is more than eight months pregnant and is about to give birth, but she hasn't even prepared the brown sugar egg noodles for her confinement.
Even though Dafu was the workshop manager, he got half a pound of meat coupons and three ounces of oil coupons more than the average worker in a month, but he didn't get any brown sugar coupons or eggs.
Dafu's wife was so anxious that her mouth was almost blistered. She went back to her hometown and used ten feet of cloth coupons and a few industrial coupons to get all these things.
Zhang Cuilan put down the bamboo pole in her hand and sighed, "It's the same now. You don't need a ticket to buy anything outside. When we were young, let alone eggs and brown sugar, it was a luxury to have a bowl of fine grains."
"Yes, we didn't have much before. But now it's like this. We ordinary people eat in the canteen every day and benefit from the government."
The two old sisters were talking when Lin Yao, holding the quilt, poked her head out and said, "Auntie, can we
dry the quilt?" "Sure, Yaoyao, walk slowly. The quilt is heavy, don't get tired."
"Yeah."
Lin Yao responded crisply, and greeted Dafu's auntie with a smile, "Hello, auntie."
Dafu's auntie was stunned for a moment and said "Hey" quickly.
After Lin Yao walked away, he retracted his stretched neck, and was amazed in his heart. Has the daughter-in-law
of the old Gu family changed her personality? On the day of the wedding, she was still timid and didn't dare to show her appearance to others. She was pretty, but her petty temperament was really embarrassing.
At that time, there were rumors in the big compound that the Gu family would not have a peaceful life in the future.
Now look at their lives. This child hit her head, and after she recovered, she was like a different person. She was diligent and sweet to everyone. I don't know how this girl looks like. She came from the country, with skin as white as a tender egg, a face like a lotus peach blossom, and watery eyebrows and eyes. She smiled at you like that. Oh, she is so cute that it makes people's hearts melt.
When the canteen of the commune was not open, the child dried some mushrooms and black fungus, and her family also got a handful, and took them home to make a pot of mushroom soup, which was delicious.
Anyway, the rich lady liked Lin Yao very much and kept praising her to Zhang Cuilan.
Zhang Cuilan's face was full of smiles, she was proud and smug: "My Yaoyao and Chunmei are thoughtful. Look at the two idiots at home, they are clumsy and just like their father!"
Gu Shi'an, who happened to be back from the canteen, said: "..."
Lin Yao put on the quilt and came over. Maybe she had a good sleep last night and was in a good mood. For the first time, she took the initiative to run over and talk to Gu Shi'an,
"You're back from getting lunch. What are we having in the canteen today?"
Lin Yao hadn't finished her meal early in the morning. She came over and looked at the lunch box in Gu Shi'an's hand. She was wearing a pink dress and her long black hair was tied into a pigtail. Her fair face had tender skin. When she smiled, dimples were revealed on her cheeks, and she had a light peach fragrance lingering on her body.
Gu Shian still had an expressionless and handsome face, but his ears were slightly hot.
Lin Yaocai had no time to observe her cheap husband's expression. She was so hungry and anxious to eat! The
food in the cafeteria today was no different from usual, corn porridge, small pickled vegetables, and two-grain cakes mixed with lard. The food was not very good, but the food in the cafeteria was like this. It was good to be full. The working class was not picky about food! There were
also a few greasy duck eggs on the Gu family's dining table.
The duck eggs were pickled by the old Gu family. Gu Mancang worked in the workshop all day long, so he had to eat something good.
Lin Yao held the steaming corn porridge in his hands and sipped it. He thought that the weather was too hot, so he would soak some green beans and boil some green bean soup. After it was cooled, he would add more sugar. It would taste sweet and cool.
Lin Yao was thinking happily, when he suddenly heard Zhang Cuilan yelling from the next room.
"What the hell, you've quit your job and returned to your hometown!"
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