Chapter 38
Lin Hongna never thought that the next time she heard news about the Gu family, it was that Gu Shian had returned from military service and became the deputy director of the county public security bureau!
It was obviously not like this in his previous life!
She remembered clearly that when Gu Shian came back due to injuries, his right hand was in a cast and he had to rest for three months before he could move. Later, Gu Shian joined the steel rolling mill and became a technician in the technical department.
A good military officer became a factory worker, earning a salary of about 30 yuan and living a tight life.
Then, Lin Hongna started her miserable second half of life...
Lin Hongna shook her head, shaking off those unbearable past events, and felt a constant panic in her heart, as if she was reborn again, and everything had changed.
When she thought of Lin Yao being a government official's wife in the county town, while she could only be like a peasant woman in the countryside, breaking corns in the loess of the Northern Dynasty every day, sweating profusely from exhaustion. People who have not lived in the countryside don't know that farm work is dirty and tiring, and they have to go out in the rain and wind all day long. Few rural girls have delicate skin. Grandma Lin was born with fair skin, and her skin was better than other old women in the countryside all her life.
The Lin sisters all inherited the good skin of Grandma Lin, and Lin Yao was even better than her. She had a slender figure, fair skin, and a face like a peach blossom. She smiled and shone, and her smiles were charming.
Lin Hongna was not so outstanding. Compared with Lin Yao, she was proud of her big breasts and round buttocks.
Now her breasts were sagging for some reason. What made her even more crazy was that her fingernails were black, yellow, and cracked because of work. The cracks in her fingernails were full of dirt that was difficult to clean. It felt prickly to the touch, and her face also had sun spots.
If this continued, she would be no different from those yellow-faced women in the countryside!
Lin Hongna deliberately pushed Lin Yao into the fire pit of the Gu family, not to see her enjoy herself!
She lowered her eyes, and there was a haze in her eyes that was about to burst out.
What went wrong!
Lin Hongna racked her brains but couldn't figure it out. Lin Daguo and his wife were as sloppy as ever.
Li Aifeng, apart from going to work, would fight with Lin Daguo at home. After the fight, she would carry her horse to the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village and talk to a bunch of gossips about other people's affairs, such as whose sister-in-law was picky about men, who was an old aunt in her early twenties and still hadn't found a husband, and who would probably never get married, or whose sisters-in-law were not getting along, one gave birth to a son and the other gave birth to a girl, and the mother-in-law treated them differently.
Anyway, wherever there is gossip, there is Li Aifeng.
Ever since Lin Daguo was caught by his wife having an affair with Lao Baihua, he has become less and less willing to stay at home. He goes to the town to play cards before dawn every day. Don’t underestimate the small amount of money you play. In this era, every penny counts. Lin Daguo loses whatever money he has in his pocket. His face is cleaner than his buttocks. When he loses money, he asks Lin Hongna for money to buy wine. When he comes back drunk, Li Aifeng rubs his face into a cat-like face...
Well, how should I put it? The couple is busy every day, and it’s quite fulfilling.
In the big compound, the summer vacation is almost over, and the old Gu family is also busy.
Gu Shidong was doing homework at home, and Zhang Cuilan took Lin Yao and Gu Chunmei to pick the eggplants, cucumbers, beans, and loofahs that had been planted in the vegetable garden all summer, and dried them to keep for winter.
Lin Yao was greedy and wanted to eat some fresh fruits and melons, so Gu Shian opened up a few acres of land next to the vegetable garden, built a bamboo rack, planted grape seedlings, and planted melons at the corners of the wall.
Deputy Director Gu watered and weeded every day, and applied fertilizer every few days. After more than a month, the grapes under the grape racks were bunched up, sweet and juicy.
The melons tasted sweet, too. Lin Yao had a plate in the morning and another in the afternoon. He was so happy that he didn't even want to eat.
Zhang Cuilan kept complaining when she saw him, saying that it was no wonder that Yaoyao didn't grow any weight since he ate fruits every day instead of rice.
The Gu family listened but smiled and said nothing.
This is just someone's habit.
It was a cool breeze that evening. Lin Yao had slept at home all day. In the afternoon, he washed and dried the bottles, jars, small cups and other things in the kitchen and put them on the cupboard to drain. There was
a lot of clanging in the kitchen. Gu Shidong moved a small table under the shade of the tree and hummed and moaned as he did his homework.
Lin Yao washed the bottles and ate grapes while staring at him.
The bad boy was very cunning. He also studied in the yard in the morning. He ran away in the blink of an eye after turning two pages of the book in his hand.
Zhang Cuilan went out to look for him, but Gou'erzi ran out with Hutou from the next yard to pick up coal lumps from the coal cart.
Coal trucks from Yunshui County go out of the city several times a day. The roads are not easy to travel on, and many broken coal pieces fall off the coal trucks along the way. Children in the city carry small baskets to pick them up.
A basket of good quality coal can be sold for three cents, and the poor quality coal is kept for burning at home.
The mother dragged her son home, and the boy still argued that he had to earn money to pay for his own tuition and support himself.
Lin Yao laughed out loud when he heard this. The naughty child is so naive. You are a little kid who is more than ten years old. You can only pick up a basket of broken coal pieces in a day outside. If you are lucky, you can sell it for three cents, but if you are unlucky
, you can't catch a penny. You fish for three days and dry the net for two days, what can you earn! The son of a bitch
keeps talking nonsense but never does his job.
Zhang Cuilan ignored the son of a bitch and waited for Deputy Director Gu to come back from work, then threw the brat over to give him some practice. Gu Shian had been waiting for his mother to speak. Dongzi, the bastard, was smart but he just didn't use his intelligence in the right place. Don't look at Gu Shian facing Lin Yao, who was as tough as steel and as soft as silk, and did whatever the little girl said. In fact, only the coquettish Lin Yao could subdue him. Except for his parents, uncles, and a few other elders, Gu Shian was equally cold and ruthless to everyone else. Especially Dongzi was a little boy, even though he hadn't grown all his hair yet. In his brother's eyes, he was also a little man. A man should act like a man, and he cannot tolerate frivolous behavior. When Gu Shidong saw his elder brother, he immediately crossed his legs and stood like a straight little white poplar. His eyes rolled around, wondering how his brother would punish him. Should he be punished by standing or beaten with a bamboo stick? He had been used to standing since he was a child, and standing for half an hour or an hour was a piece of cake. Beating with a bamboo stick was nothing, he would just be beaten once, and he would be full of energy again after lying in bed for a night. The brat was fearless. Gu Shian raised his eyebrows, knowing what the naughty boy was thinking without even looking, and he pulled out a wicker stick from the pile of firewood.
Gu Shidong walked over and automatically stuck out his buttocks, clearly waiting to be beaten.
Unexpectedly, his brother did not start to beat him, but smiled instead.
Lin Yao, who was peeking at the melon-eating in the east room, felt a jolt in his heart. Oh no, things are not good.
Lin Yao has also figured out Gu Shian's temper and character in this period.
This guy usually doesn't smile much, and he has a stern face eight out of ten days. A stern face does not mean that he is in a bad mood.
On the contrary, the better this person's mood is, the more expressionless his face is.
But now he only has a smile on his mouth, but no smile in his eyes.
Lin Yao can be sure that Dongzi, the bastard, has met a tough guy.
Sure enough, Gu Shian shook the reed in his hand and said slowly, "Starting tomorrow morning, follow me to do running exercises."
Gu Shidong: !!!
Oh my god, big brother is serious!
The brat regretted it so much that tears welled up in his heart.
Before dawn the next day, he was dragged out of the house by his big brother, running around in the alley while shouting slogans. If he was not honest, his brother would whip his butt with a willow branch.
The force was not strong, and it hurt so much that he grimaced.
In the morning, Gu Shidong was paralyzed on the steps and couldn't get up. Gu Chunmei couldn't pull him up.
Lin Yao called him to have breakfast, but the bastard didn't move and pretended to be dead.
Gu Shian came over with a willow branch in his hand. The family immediately jumped up, washed their hands with soap and water, and ate rice with their bowls.
Gu Mancang couldn't bear to see this. The old Gu family was a typical strict mother and kind father. There were three children in the family plus Lin Yao. In Gu Mancang's heart, they were all his flesh and blood. It would be uncomfortable for a father to be beaten.
Gu Mancang was silent for a while before he opened his mouth to discuss with Zhang Cuilan, "Cuilan, Dongzi is still a child, why don't we..."
Before he finished speaking, he scolded Zhang Cuilan.
"What a kid! The bastard will be eleven next year. He eats three meals a day and eats more than a piglet. Whose kid eats so much! Kind fathers often spoil their children. Stay out of your family affairs! It's useless if you can't find a useful child among the three. You're used to being a dead old man! If jade is not polished, it won't become a useful thing. If you really want the bastard to be good, just shut up! Otherwise, roll on the ground and make a living!"
Uncle Mancang didn't want to make a living, so he shut up.
Zhang Cuilan snorted coldly, turned over and continued to sleep in her comfortable sleep.
Today's breakfast was half a basket of wowotou and a can of shepherd's purse porridge. The old Gu family cut a few sour and crispy dried radishes, which tasted refreshing and were best with porridge.
After breakfast, the family went out.
Lin Yao fed two gray rabbits, looked at the mother rabbit's big belly happily, and imagined the spicy rabbit meat and braised rabbit meat she would eat in the future. She planned to wait for Gu Shi'an to come back and let him build another nest for the unborn rabbits.
Rabbits have a strong reproductive capacity and can lay a litter of puppies in one to two months.
When the weather gets colder, she can roast rabbit meat with one hand and hold the beautiful Deputy Head Gu with the other. That life will be so beautiful.
The more Lin Yao thought about it, the more beautiful it became. She hummed a little song while knitting a sweater in the house. Her ordinary life became better because of the beautiful expectations, just like the calm sea surface stirring up layers of waves, and her whole mood became better.
She knitted for the whole morning. Gu Chunmei came back at noon, and Lin Yao went for a stroll on the street with her.
There was a new movie poster posted at the door of the cinema. I heard that a new movie was released.
Lin Yao took a look and it turned out to be "Heroic Sons and Daughters", which is also a classic movie and has been remade several times.
But Lin Yao was not interested. She had watched countless movies in the future. It was better to go home and take a nap than to watch a movie.
Gu Chunmei was quite interested and wanted to wait for Big Head Brother to get off work to watch it together.
The family was busy these days, and someone didn't bother her at night.
Lin Yao was very satisfied with Deputy Director Gu's performance. The young couple took a nap at noon according to their biological clock.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, Gu Shi'an opened his eyes on time, and felt something was wrong as soon as he opened his eyes. He looked down and saw the sleeping little girl clinging to him like an octopus.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
