Chapter 3
The big compound where the Gu family lived was an old street built in the Republic of China. Most of the people living here are ordinary people.
The supply and marketing cooperative is located in the busiest neighborhood of Yunshui County. It passes by the moat along the way. The clear moat runs through the street. It takes more than half an hour to walk back and forth two or three miles from the big compound.
Usually, when the old Gu family is short of oil, salt, or other daily necessities, most of them are brought back by Gu Chunmei after work, or Gu Mancang rides a bicycle to buy them.
Dongzi is used to slacking off, and usually the family can't call him.
But today is different!
Sister Lin Yao...sister-in-law told him to buy a can of lotus root starch, a pound of egg cake, half a pound of salt, three pieces of jasmine soap, and some small things.
Zhang Cuilan loves lotus root starch, and egg cake is Uncle Mancang's favorite.
As for jasmine soap, Lin Yao wants to share one piece with Aunt Cuilan and Gu Chunmei.
It's very hot now, and taking a bath with jasmine soap at night will make you sleep more comfortably.
Lin Yao didn't touch the money Zhang Cuilan gave him. He took out ten yuan from his small purse, gave a few snack tickets and candy tickets to Dongzi, and the remaining dimes were for the little guy's errands.
Gu Shidong calculated the bills, soap was 30 cents a piece, salt was 15 cents a pound..., there was still more than 30 cents left!
Zhang Cuilan only gave her son one dime a week as pocket money.
Hehehe!
Gu Shidongxing jumped up three feet high, without Zhang Cuilan's shouting, he picked up the bamboo basket and ran out of the compound.
At this moment, Gu Chunmei, who was going home from work, was pushing her bicycle across the threshold. The siblings, one lowered her head to lift the bicycle, the other was secretly happy in her heart, and neither of them paid attention to their feet, and almost bumped into each other and fell on their buttocks.
Fortunately, Gu Shidong braked in time, and the bad boy complained first, with his hands on his hips, and said to his sister, "Second sister, why didn't you look at the road when you walked? You hit me, how are you going to compensate?"
Gu Chunmei is 22 years old this year, tall and thin, with a standard oval face, fair skin, and a big braid as thick as her wrist that was thrown to one side. Her eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to Zhang Cuilan, but she is a little more delicate than her mother. At first glance, she is a dignified and generous girl.
The siblings of the Gu family often quarreled with each other. Gu Chunmei didn't buy into her brother's words. She rolled her eyes and sneered, "A good dog doesn't block the road. Get out of the way!"
"Hey, I'm a dog. What are you, second sister?"
"I'm your aunt!"
"Tsk, second sister, you can't do this. We are engaged after all. You are such a tigress. Be careful not to scare your brother-in-law away..."
Gu Chunmei was embarrassed and annoyed when she heard her brother talking nonsense. She didn't even want her bicycle and went around the yard looking for a stick to beat the stinky boy to death.
Fortunately, Gu Shidong ran away quickly. He ran up the stone pillar like a monkey in three or two steps and disappeared.
Gu Chunmei was so angry that she went back to the house and hummed in anger.
Zhang Cuilan came over, took a look, and saw that there was nothing to do and went back to the kitchen to busy herself.
It's not a rare thing. The second daughter and the eldest son have been quarreling since they were young.
How can the daughter and the son have meat?
She has to go to the kitchen to pick up pig offal.
Comrade Zhang Cuilan, as an advanced model of the state-owned pig farm, brings back a bag of pig offal from the pig farm every now and then. She is an old employee and has benefits, such as pig stomach, pig heart, pig liver, and pig large intestine. She doesn't need to pay a ticket to bring them home, and the price is cheaper than outside.
Don't look down on these inconspicuous pig offal. In this big mixed courtyard where people don't eat meat a few times a month, it is definitely a leader!
Every time the old customers improve the food for their friends, the old ladies in the courtyard are greedy and their eyes are green!
Lin Yao was bored in the wing for a long time, and couldn't bear it any longer. She begged Zhang Rui and Cuilan, and finally got permission to walk in the yard for half an hour.
The Gu family lived in the easternmost part of the large compound. Because Grandpa Gu was an old revolutionary, when the government distributed houses, the Gu family had a large population, so they were allocated three wing rooms, plus a kitchen and an ear room for storing miscellaneous items.
Grandpa Gu and his wife lived in the largest east wing, Gu Mancang and his wife lived in the west wing and living room, and the three children lived in the south wing.
Later, Grandpa Gu and his wife passed away one after another, and Gu Shi'an and his three siblings grew up. The east wing was given to the eldest son, which was the room Lin Yao decorated when he got married.
The unmarried daughter Gu Chunmei lived in the south wing, and the youngest son Gu Shidong was a restless sleeper, burping, grinding his teeth and farting, so his parents threw him into the side room.
The boy didn't care at all, and even felt comfortable and at ease living alone.
Before liberation, the large courtyards in Yunshui County were all private residences of wealthy families, with flying eaves on all four corners and bluestone paved roads in the courtyards.
Zhang Cuilan loved cleanliness, and she kept the house spotless inside and outside. She planted cannas and roses in the corners of the walls, and built a small shed on the wall of the side room, which was the Gu family's "bathroom" for summer.
The toilets in the compound are all public. On the street, the male and female toilets are separated. Every day, the residents of the street take turns to clean them, so it is relatively clean and sanitary.
The compound is so small, and Lin Yao wrapped a white gauze on her head, and she didn't want to wander around and attract attention.
She strolled outside for a few minutes and planned to go back to the house.
Passing by the south wing, she saw Gu Chunmei looking depressed, so she went back to the house, took out a pink scarf from the space supermarket, and walked into the south wing with a smile.
"Sister Chunmei."
Gu Chunmei looked up when she heard the voice, and saw Lin Yao standing at the door, with a pair of sparkling almond eyes and a small teardrop mole at the end of her eyes. She looked over like this, charming and seductive.
However, Lin Yao was a patient now, and the gauze on her forehead had not been removed yet, so Gu Chunmei quickly pulled her into the house.
"It's so hot outside, and you're still standing at the door, drying your milk in the yard?"
Gu Chunmei scolded, but she didn't hesitate to pour Lin Yao a cup of refreshing cold tea.
Lin Yao dragged a small stool and sat down, smiling and drinking the cold tea, "It's really sweet, maybe there's old rock sugar in it."
Gu Chunmei pulled her wound and looked at it, and said casually, "That's right, you are a picky girl, my brother said that if it's not sweet, someone won't drink it."
Lin Yao: "........"
This is Gu Shian's fault, she won't take the blame.
Lin Yao has been playing with Gu Chunmei since she was a child. She is one year younger than Gu Chunmei. Although Lin Yao is now "married" to Gu Shian and is Gu Chunmei's sister-in-law in name, Lin Daguo's
family is afraid that the marriage substitution will be exposed, so they propose to let Gu Shian and the bride have their wedding first, and then get the marriage certificate...
This move resulted in Lin Yao and Gu Shian not getting married yet, but just having a wedding.
According to the customs of Yunshui County, Lin Yao is also considered the daughter-in-law of the Gu family.
But... who knows what will happen in the future.
Anyway, Gu Chunmei is still used to calling Lin Yao a little girl.
She is younger than her, but she is still a little girl.
Gu Shian is already 28 years old. If he wants to have sex with a young girl, it depends on whether he has the ability! Gu
Shian, who was far away in the army: "......."
After Gu Chunmei complained about her elder brother in her heart, she checked the scar on Lin Yao's head and made sure everything was OK.
The two sisters sat together and chatted, and Lin Yao took out the pink gauze scarf, saying that it was a gift for Gu Chunmei's engagement.
Gu Chunmei took it in her hand in surprise. It was soft and cool to the touch. There was a pink plum blossom embroidered on the gauze. She liked it very much.
"This gauze is so soft and beautiful. Our supply and marketing cooperative doesn't have this kind of gauze. The price is not cheap."
Although Gu Chunmei couldn't let it go, she was embarrassed to accept it.
Lin Yao said nonsense seriously, saying that the price was not expensive, she was lucky, she bought it from the supply and marketing cooperative in the country, and when Sister Chunmei put on the gauze, her lips were red and her teeth were white. She looked like a fairy from heaven.
She chattered and coaxed Gu Chunmei to turn around dizzy.
Gu Mancang was in the yard, and heard the laughter in the house, and smiled and rubbed his hands.
Gu Chunmei was in high spirits the whole night, and the brat Gu Shidong went home ready to be beaten.
He trembled and poked his head out of the door.
He was afraid that the next second, his second sister would come out with a stick like a tigress.
Who knew that his second sister smiled all night and even gave him a piece of pig heart for the first time.
Gu Shidong: Wow, the moon is rising from the east today!
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There are many thunderstorms in June. Last night, there was a heavy rain in Linjiazhuang.
The muddy road in the village was full of puddles. Lin Daguo's wife Li Aifeng accidentally stepped into a mud puddle when she came home from work. She was so angry that she kept cursing.
A girl in the village laughed a few times, and this arrogant woman chased her into the yard and even scolded her ancestors.
The girl was only in her early twenties, and she was very shy. She was about to cry in the yard.
The villagers could not bear to see this and came to persuade her. Only then did Li Aifeng return to her own blue brick yard with a grumble.
Speaking of which, Lin Daguo's conditions were considered above average in the village. The old man of the Lin family worked as a worker in a furniture factory. He had been fed by the government for half his life, earning 30 yuan a month, plus the work points earned by the Lin family working in the fields.
The old man of the Lin family also saved a fortune.
This blue brick yard in the family was bought by the old man.
The Lin family's courtyard has three main rooms. To the south is a mud stove, to the north is the family's own vegetable field, and in the cage in the corner of the west wall are three old hens.
These days, country folks eat eggs from old hens.
The small room to the north has an old indigo-colored coarse cloth curtain that has been washed so much that it is pale. That is where Lin Hongna lives.
Since Lin Daguo treated her like a human being and married his niece to the old Gu family,
Lin Hongna has not left the house for several days. She eats three meals a day in the house and does not work or do any labor.
Lin Daguo is arrogant at home, but he is terrified outside. When the men in the village laugh at him, he dares not even fart when he hears it.
Lin Hongwu, the eldest son of the Lin family, worked as a temporary worker in the light bulb factory in the town. He asked someone to help him get the job and spent a lot of money. He was paid 18 yuan a month. Although it was not a formal job, it was better than digging for food in the countryside. He had just hooked up with a girl in the town. He was afraid that his family's mess would be known to the girl and he would break up. He had not been home for a long time.
Li Aifeng was responsible for all the work inside and outside the Lin family.
She was lazy again. When Lin Yao was there, she did all the housework. Why did she have to do cooking, sweeping the yard, and feeding the chickens?
Just like now, as soon as you enter the yard, there is a yard full of stinky chicken shit and no one sweeps it.
Seeing that no one was in the yard, Li Aifeng rushed into the kitchen. There was nothing to cook. She suddenly became angry and was about to open her mouth to curse.
Lin Hongna, who had slept in the house all afternoon, came out yawning and asked bluntly, "Mom, what time is it? Why don't you cook?"
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