Chapter 136
Gu Chunmei and her family were naturally indispensable when making dumplings at the Gu family.
That afternoon, Gu Chunmei carried two slaughtered old hens and went back to her parents' home with her family, one for each of them.
When the sun set, except for Xu Tangyuan who was studying in another city, the three members of the Xu family went home with a full stomach and burped.
The Gu Shian brothers were responsible for washing the dishes. Zhang Cuilan glanced at the old son and went back to the house to nag Gu Mancang.
"Old man, I think Dongzi is worried."
"What worries? The child is grown up and can handle any big problem."
Gu Mancang is old and has a more open mind about the affairs of his descendants.
Zhang Cuilan thought so too. When they were young, they had experienced wars, disasters, famines and plagues. They had survived everything.
The two elders felt at ease and turned on the light to go to bed.
The thief Gu Shidong hid in the kitchen. After seeing that his parents had turned off the light, he tiptoed out with the water.
Yuanyuan was in the small bedroom, looking out.
"Uncle, what are you doing?"
The thief was as cunning as a country weasel.
Gu Shidong jumped up and gestured to Yuanyuan.
"Little ancestor, keep your voice down."
Originally, at the dinner table, his elder brother and sister-in-law looked at him with strange eyes, and his old mother also looked thoughtful. He finally waited until everyone in the family fell asleep before the cat came out to wash his stinky socks.
Yuanyuan woke up Comrade Cuilan and then caught him for interrogation. Gu Shidong couldn't imagine the beautiful scene.
Yuanyuan covered her mouth and closed the window. Gu Shidong sighed and squatted down to wash his stinky socks.
In fact, at his age, he also wanted a wife and children to live in a warm bed. However, for him to be a sucker for his eldest brother-in-law, there was no way!
After washing his socks, Gu Shidong put on his slippers to hang up his socks, and yawned as he returned to the house.
After taking a bath, Yuanyuan hugged her rabbit doll and ran to the master bedroom, intending to be naughty and sleep with her mother.
The little girl poked her head into her parents' room. There was only a small lamp on the bedside of the master bedroom. Her father, who was usually cold and stern, was rubbing her mother
's temples with a tender look in his eyes. Yuanyuan sighed in her heart and quickly rolled away with her rabbit in her arms.
She should go back to her own little bed to sleep.
Sleeping alone is better than being a light bulb for her loving parents!
During the summer vacation of Yuanyuan's second year in high school, the older man Gu Shidong finally got married.
Gu Shidong graduated from university and joined the provincial power supply bureau. The bureau took care of college students and gave him a 60-square-meter building.
Gu Shidong was well-off, the young man was handsome and had a respectable job. Once he started working, matchmakers came to Gu's house to propose marriages.
Zhang Cuilan was happy, but she also checked for her son. The old lady had lived a lifetime and could judge people. The
old mother looked around here, and Lin Yao also worried about her mother-in-law. Occasionally, when Gu Shi'an came back, he would take his wife to "accidentally meet" a girl.
The eldest and second uncles from the countryside also came to the provincial capital when they had time.
Uncle Zhang and Uncle Zhang lived a good life. They had a new house, a row of bright tiled houses with brick and tile walls. The two uncles ran a pig farm, and the aunt and the second aunt farmed, raised chickens and planted fruit trees at home. The children worked to earn money, and they lived a prosperous life.
The land in the village was contracted to each household, and Uncle Zhang bought a six-wheel tractor. He drove the tractor to harvest grain during the busy farming season, and contracted the tractor out during the free time, making a lot of money every day.
The aunt and the second aunt were doing well, and they began to worry about Gu Shidong's marriage.
Gu Shidong was definitely considered an older youth in the village.
Everyone in the family was busy, but they didn't expect that Gu Shidong brought his fiancée back home.
Gu Shidong's fiancée is called Meng Xin, with an oval face, willow-leaf eyebrows, a pair of crescent eyes, and a sweet smile. Her tone of voice is also soft, just like a white sugar cake, every bite is sweet.
I heard that the girl was born and raised in Haicheng, her parents are both teachers, and she is only 21 years old this year. The girl just started working last year. She is beautiful and kind, and she is a teacher in the school. Many boys are obsessed with her.
The power supply bureau where Gu Shidong works is next to the provincial capital's central primary school. The boy met the girl a few times and started to think about her, running to the school whenever he had something to do.
In this way, he chased the girl home.
Pretty girls are always popular. When Meng Xin came to visit for the first time, Gu Shi'an was serious, tall and stern. Lin Yao was afraid that he would scare people, so she simply sent him away.
Zhang Cuilan and her husband were very satisfied with Meng Xin. When Meng's parents saw Gu Shidong, they also smiled from ear to ear.
Both parents hit it off and quickly held a wedding for the newlyweds.
Lin Yao and Gu Shi'an went to the 60-square-meter small apartment that Gu Shidong had allocated. There was a public kitchen outside the corridor. Four households shared a toilet and washroom. The residents were all family members of the power supply bureau, and they took turns cleaning the corridor.
The white walls on the top and green on the bottom, the cement floor, the green-painted windows, and the umbrella-shaped bamboo lampshades hanging on the ceiling were very much in the style of life in the 1980s. When
the couple came back, they paid for a set of furniture for the young couple, including a double-door wardrobe, a dressing mirror, a bed, and a desk.
At Gu Shidong's wedding, the newlyweds bowed solemnly to their elder brother and his wife, and the family members were all red-eyed.
After returning in July, the provincial capital became hotter and hotter, and the house was stuffy all day long. The cicadas on the sycamore tree behind the house were also silent.
The old Gu family's courtyard was full of flowers and trees. Gu Shian built a three-meter-high bamboo frame next to the sweet-scented osmanthus tree and planted several grape seedlings underneath. Because of the good weather and abundant fertilizer, the grape seedlings grew very fast. In ten days, they climbed all over the frame and were covered with strings of white and green flowers. Zhang Cuilan had nothing to do at home, so she took scissors to prune every day and made the vegetable garden lush and green.
Lin Yao was in high spirits and placed a small stone table under the grape frame, with a few bamboo chairs on both sides, so that she could cool off and drink tea when she had nothing to do.
Gu Chunmei was very fond of her mother's family's courtyard full of flowers. She would call Doubao to look after her own store and come to visit her home whenever she had time.
The canteen she opened was doing very well. She installed a telephone in the canteen and could earn a lot just from the customers making phone calls.
Life was easy and Gu Chunmei had a rosy complexion. The only thing she was worried about was Doubao's grades.
Xu Doubao was different from Yuanyuan. Yuanyuan's grades were not outstanding, but they were in the upper middle level and there was still room for improvement.
Xu Doubao is not a student. During the winter and summer vacations, he starts to have fun. When school starts, he stays at home to do his homework with tears in his eyes.
Big Head Brother and Gu Chunmei watch the show with their arms folded.
What has the bastard been doing?
Yuanyuan doesn't dare to be unruly. Lin Yao is strict. If the little girl dares not to do her homework, she will be beaten.
When her mother gets angry, no one can save her.
In mid-July, Gu Doudou returned home from the capital for summer vacation.
Gu Doudou has grown into a neat and handsome young man. He still wears the white shirt he wore when he left home, and has changed into a pair of army green military pants. The adolescent boy grows very fast.
Lin Yao looked at her son, who had grown up a lot, with handsome eyebrows and bright eyes. He had a gentle smile on his lips when facing his younger brothers and sisters. He was a good boy who had grown up well. Lin Yao
's motherly heart was very relieved.
As a mother, she couldn't help but sigh to Gu Shian, "Our Doudou has grown up and is much more outstanding than you were when you were young."
Zhang Cuilan was also wiping tears, "That's right. When Yaoyao married into the family, the eldest son was almost 30 years old and had become an old fool that no one wanted. Only you didn't despise him."
Gu Shian, who was inexplicably stabbed by his mother, said: "........"
No, how can a man be considered an old fool when he is almost 30?
Then what does he count as now that he is almost 40?
Captain Gu was doubting his life. Gu Doudou came over with Yuanyuan, who was carrying a schoolbag. Nineteen years old was the prime of life.
"Grandma, Dad and Mom."
Lin Yao smiled and said "Hey". Zhang Cuilan saw her grandson and stopped wiping her tears. Seeing that her grandson was wearing a white shirt, the old lady said distressedly, "This child, it's getting cold and it's going to rain, so he wears a shirt to avoid freezing."
Gu Mancang also reminded Doudou to take care of his health.
Gu Doudou's eyebrows were full of smiles, "I know, I will wear more clothes in the future."
"That's about right."
"Did you have lunch, little brat?"
"Not yet."
Gu Shian raised his hand and looked at his watch. It was 12:10, just the time for lunch in the school cafeteria.
It was a rare occasion for the family to meet, so Zhao Chunhua said they went to a hotel outside to have lunch.
* Go to
Sun's house in the town.
In the half-old courtyard, Sun Jialiang was playing with his second-hand magnetic tapes with great interest. In the past few years of reform and opening up, the pop music of Hong Kong has spread to the mainland.
The magnetic tape business in major cities has become prosperous, and Sun Jialiang found a few dealers and followed them to the south to see the new and magnificent world.
Seeing the bosses doing business in the south making a lot of money, he felt itchy in his heart.
Others can make money, why can't he!
Sun Jialiang simply joined the ranks of dealers, reselling pirated second-hand magnetic tapes from the south and selling them in the county town.
The bunch of old-fashioned people in the town all followed the trend and treasured the second-hand magnetic tapes that others didn't want.
Sun Jialiang didn't need to call out to sell them. Whenever he had new goods, they were snapped up.
With the money from reselling magnetic tapes, Sun Jialiang became a millionaire in one fell swoop!
A millionaire in the 1980s, how glorious it was to talk about it.
The Sun family, which had been immersed in the world for many years, became a well-respected existence in the town. Sun's mother held her head high every day, wearing the second-hand watch that Sun Jialiang gave her as a gift, and went from house to house in the town.
The two brothers Sun Tianbao took the college entrance examination two years ago and was admitted to a university in Guangzhou. Sun Zhuang,
the second son of the Sun family, dropped out of school and stayed at home. He wore bell-bottom pants every day and was busy playing disco at home with the radio.
Lin Hongna was disturbed by the deafening music from the radio. She couldn't sleep well and scolded her son.
But Sun's mother protected her son and started to scold Lin Hongna.
Sun Zhuang was bored at home and ran out to ask Sun Jialiang for money. He said, "Dad, I'm going to rent a house outside to live by myself."
Sun Jialiang disagreed.
"How old are you? Why do you want to live outside? Help sell tapes at home!"
"That's right, my dear grandson. Grandma will stew meat for you at home."
Sun Zhuang frowned, leaned against the door frame, snorted coldly, and went into the house and closed the door.
He knew that everyone in the family was partial!
The eldest brother was good at studying and had everything he wanted.
He was not motivated and asked for money as if it was his life. Uncle Cui was still the best to him! In the evening, Sun Zhuang took advantage of the fact
that no one at home was paying attention and slipped out of the house to ask for money from Uncle Cui, who was the best to him.
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