Chapter 60
When Lin Yao turned around, Deputy Director Gu was standing behind her. His dark and deep eyes were gentle. His palms were big, with distinct joints, but they felt soft.
Lin Yao was in high spirits, and she shook Gu Shian's big hands, playing with them.
Gu Shian smiled and let her do what she wanted.
The young couple was just getting bored, when Gu Shidong and Uncle Zhang came over one after the other, carrying the big iron pot at home. The brat
shouted at the top of his voice, "Sister-in-law, help me, this pot is about to crush me, what's so fun about my brother's hands."
Uncle Zhang also had an expression that said, "Oh, the young couple has a good relationship, the old man is very pleased."
Lin Yao's face turned red, and she hurried away.
Gu Shi'an's ears felt slightly hot, and he coughed and went to help Gu Mancang carry the five chests.
Zhang Cuilan glared at Gu Shidong and told the bad boy to work honestly and stop making noises.
She was still waiting to hold her grandson, and the bastard was just making trouble.
Gu Shidong was not angry after being scolded, he made a face and smiled and went to move things again.
Uncle Zhang saw this little nephew and loved him very much. Our old nephew has a good temper, is not stubborn, and is a natural optimist. Such a child will be blessed in his life.
Zhang Xiulan didn't know whether he was blessed or not, but her old son would be mad at her.
There are a lot of odds and ends in the old Gu family. The three mud-brick houses in the Gu family's old house are all tidy and bright. The family has put away the large furniture, and the rest is equivalent to moving in with
just a bag. The family is busy, and the little orange cat who has just joined the big family can't sit still. There is also a small vegetable garden in the old house. Zhang Cuilan went outside and picked up a bundle of corn stalks and put them outside the kitchen, intending to use them to burn the earth stove later.
The little orange cat is cunning. As soon as Zhang Cuilan took a step forward, it walked over with its short legs, and its little claws hooked and grabbed the neat corn stalks into a mess in a short while.
Lin Yao squatted beside the rabbit nest and looked at the little rabbits. The little orange cat also came over to make trouble, using its little claws to naughtily dig at the little rabbits in the nest. Lin Yao frowned as she watched from the side. She wanted to take the little orange cat away, but the little guy had just rolled around in the vegetable garden and was covered in mud. She was not happy to take the little cat away, so she called Gu Shian and asked him to take the little orange cat away.
Gu Shian came over and picked up the little orange cat with his big hands. The kitten meowed and kicked its claws.
Lin Yao took the opportunity to rub the little fat cat and said in disdain, "Hey, it's so dirty, is it a male or a female?"
Gu Shian lifted the little cat and took a look, "It's a little male cat."
A male cat, no wonder he is so naughty, little female cats are all cute.
Lin Yao rubbed the cat's head again, "I'll get you a basin of water to take a bath later, little male cats should also be clean and hygienic."
The little orange cat seemed to know who had the final say in the couple, and dared not say anything but "meow", and looked very pitiful.
When Lin Yao felt better, he smiled and walked away with his hands behind his back.
Gu Shi put it down and made a small nest with a small bamboo basket covered with straw mats. The little orange cat jumped into the small bamboo basket and licked its paws obediently. At
nine o'clock in the morning, the old house was almost in order. A painting of a fat baby holding a fish was hung on the wall of the main hall. The eight-immortal table was wiped spotlessly, and the teapot, enamel cups, warm pot, tea tray, etc. were all placed one by one. The earthen kang was surrounded by New Year paintings, and the straw mats and quilts brought from home were spread out and laid out.
Lin Yao filled a basin with hot water, wrung out a rag and wiped the corners of the doors and windows of several rooms with Dongzi. His body was warm in the cold weather.
There were two large earthen stoves in the kitchen, both of which were built on the ground and had never been used. There was a large water tank in the corner of the wall, and next to it was a newly built elm table with a bowl rack and low cabinets on top. They were all newly painted with tung paint and dried in the sun, exuding the fragrance of raw wood.
Gu Mancang opened the cellar and took out the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the cellar to dry them while the weather was good.
The family was busy again. The Red Flag Brigade was also busy before the New Year. Uncle Zhang was the brigade leader and the village could not do without him. After helping his sister clean up the house, Uncle Zhang was about to leave.
Zhang Cuilan also knew her eldest brother's temper. He kept his word and left when he said he would leave. Nine oxen could not pull him back, and he did not force him to stay.
My uncle's family just had a little granddaughter, and his daughter-in-law is still in confinement after childbirth. In the winter, confinement is indispensable for brown sugar, eggs and noodles. My uncle's family
has no shortage of eggs, after all, they have a nest of old hens. Now is not the time to cut off the tail of capitalism, and ordinary people in the countryside are allowed to raise more than three chickens.
Noodles and brown sugar are not easy to redeem.
Zhang Cuilan, the aunt, had prepared them for her niece-in-law. She went into the house and came back with a net bag in her hand. Inside was a pound of brown sugar and two pounds of noodles, as well as a thick stack of labor insurance gloves.
The old Gu family has three large factory employees. The factory issues a pair of labor insurance gloves every month, which can't be used up.
Zhang Cuilan handed the net bag to Uncle Zhang and told him, "Brother, this winter is cold. When you and your second brother work, wear a pair of cotton gloves inside and another pair outside. These are cotton gloves. Wear them to work and you won't get frostbite on your hands."
Uncle Zhang and his aunt worked in the fields all year round. They plowed the fields and repaired canals in winter. In previous years, their hands were frozen and red and swollen like carrots. Uncle
Zhang took the cotton gloves, looked at them carefully, and put them in his pocket, saying happily, "The material of the labor insurance gloves in the county is still good. The ones issued by Shunzi Factory only have a layer of cloth on the outside, and your sister-in-law cut them all and pasted them on the soles."
Aunt Zhang was impatient, and this was indeed something she could do.
Uncle Zhang smiled, and took out a large piece of frozen pork and a sack of cabbage from the big bag on the donkey cart, grinning, "Life has been hard this year, but our family is lucky. It was freezing cold with ice and snow, and the wild boars in the back mountain had nothing to eat, so they ran all the way to the vegetable cellar in Huohuo Village at the foot of the mountain. The second son brought a group of young men and took away the whole litter of wild boars. The six pigs weighed a thousand kilograms in total. Our production team is not short of meat this year, and our family has distributed 70 to 80 kilograms of meat. Our mother said to leave a few kilograms for you and your brother-in-law and nephew, and give you a few dozen kilograms of cabbage for the New Year."
As he said this, Uncle Zhang carried the large piece of frozen pork and the sack of cabbage on his shoulders . .
Both items were too heavy for Uncle Zhang to carry.
The meat was very heavy. Uncle Zhang said it was a few pounds, but Lin Yao estimated that it was at least ten pounds. A sack of cabbage was several dozen pounds heavier.
Uncle Zhang had a hard time carrying it, and even Gu Mancang, an old man, had trouble walking with it.
Zhang Cuilan cried out, "Oh my!" Her brother was too bold to take the meat out in broad daylight. She quickly looked around to make sure that no one was around, and then went home to call her eldest son. Gu
Shi'an was in the yard cleaning the coal shed with a rake. When he heard his mother calling him, he put down the rake and strode out of the yard. When he saw the piece of frozen pork on Uncle's cart, his handsome eyebrows jumped, and then he calmed down.
He was not surprised by the meat in his uncle's hand. After all, when the Gu brothers and sisters were young, the uncle and the second uncle often sent meat to the family.
At this time, the benefits of living in the countryside can be seen. The Red Flag Brigade is close to the mountains. The mountains are rich in resources. Wild boars, pheasants and rabbits are everywhere. If you know hunting skills, life is really better than in the city.
Gu Shian easily carried the frozen meat and cabbage back to the yard.
This made Gu Shidong envious. He wondered when he could grow to 1.8 meters like his elder brother, walk with a majestic demeanor, and look down at people. He would be absolutely handsome.
Uncle Zhang sighed, time waits for no one, covered his dog-skin hat, jumped on the old donkey car and returned to the Red Flag Brigade.
After seeing off Uncle Zhang, the old Gu family looked at the old clock in the main hall. Hey, it was already half past ten. After being busy all morning, it was time to prepare lunch.
The corn stalks for burning firewood were torn into pieces by the little orange cat. Gu Shian could only take a machete and go to the woods outside to chop some branches and bring them back for burning.
Lin Yao didn't know how to use the earthen stove that Teng went to the countryside to use. The stove was connected to a bellows. She had only seen this ancient stove on a certain audio platform.
Gu Shian came back with dry firewood and saw the little girl studying how to burn the earthen stove. The little orange cat squatted beside her and looked with his head tilted.
Hearing the noise outside, the man and the cat turned around to look, and their expressions were particularly cute.
Lin Yao just got her hands full of dust by the stove, and she didn't notice that it rubbed onto her face, making her pretty face black. She didn't even know it, and still excitedly waved to Gu Shian.
"Old Gu, come and see how to use this earthen stove? I've been looking at it for a long time but I still don't know how to use it..."
Deputy Director Gu said enthusiastically: "......."
Haha, when you need it, you call me a good brother, and when you don't need it, he becomes Old Gu.
In the end, Lin Yao didn't learn how to use the earthen stove.
She glanced at Gu Shian, who was sitting at the stove and pulling the bellows, and thought, since Old Gu is here, it doesn't matter if she doesn't learn how to use the earthen stove.
The first lunch after the old Gu family moved into their new home was just heating up a few steamed buns, cooking a pot of golden millet porridge, cutting some sour bamboo shoots and pickled cabbage, and sitting in the yard to eat.
After a busy morning, everyone was tired.
This winter is weird. The sun came out in the morning, but after eleven o'clock, it was gloomy and cold outside, and it looked like it was going to snow.
The earthen kang in the house was tidied up, but the family did not have enough firewood for the winter. It was cold today, so Gu Shian and his old father went outside for half an hour and dragged back more than twenty bundles of firewood.
The family quickly heated the earthen kang, put a small red clay stove on the stove, and the water was boiling.
Lin Yao laid a few thick cotton mattresses on the kang, with floral patterns, which she sewed herself, to ensure that lying on them was comfortable.
The old couple Gu Mancang and Dongzi also had two in their rooms.
Zhang Cuilan couldn't stand the cold weather, so she went back to her room to lie down first. Gu Mancang worked in the vegetable garden in the yard for a while, and then went back to the room when snowflakes started hanging outside. Dongzi,
the naughty boy, couldn't sleep. He was thinking about the frozen pork that his uncle had sent him. It was such a big piece of pork, and his sister-in-law would definitely cut a piece of fried pork dregs. When he thought about eating a bite of fried golden and crispy pork dregs during the New Year, his mouth was watering.
Even without frying, it is still okay to eat meatballs during the New Year. The pork fat smells so good when you take a bite.
Gu Shidong stared and couldn't fall asleep, so he went to pester his sister-in-law.
Lin Yao was feeling sleepy, so he could only agree to fry pork fat residue for the brat in the evening. The brat also left with satisfaction.
The earthen kang in the room was so hot that people were drowsy. Lin Yao only wore a thin sweater and comfortably snuggled into Deputy Director Gu's arms to take a nap.
Lin Hongna, who was dozens of miles away, was not in such a comfortable mood.
Lin Hongna, who should have been in high spirits, paced back and forth in the room, looking annoyed and anxious.
Li Aifeng jumped up and down at home and cursed, "What does the old Sun family mean by this? They want to marry our Nana, but they don't give us a gift, they don't hold a wedding banquet, and they don't get a marriage certificate. How can they let our Nana enter the house naked? They have a good plan! Nana, you have to listen to mom, you can't agree to it. Every girl's marriage has a gift and a wedding banquet. This has been a long-standing tradition. When Xi Que, the poorest girl in our village, got married, her in-laws also gave her five yuan gift! The woman from the Sun family is deliberately trying to get you. My daughter, I'm not afraid. You are pregnant with the grandson of the old Sun family. If the old Sun family doesn't give you three hundred yuan as a gift, don't think about marrying my daughter!"
"Mom, what are you thinking about? Now it's the grandson's family who's holding us in check. If Nana doesn't marry, they really dare not marry her. Then it will be hard to get her married with a big belly."
Lin Hongwu crossed his legs and sneered at his mother.
Which man would want a woman with a big belly these days?
No one is stupid enough to rush to be a cuckold.
Lin Daguo finally said something sensible, "Hongwu is right. Now it's important for Nana to marry into the grandson's family. The betrothal gifts and banquets are not important. In the county, marriages don't care about the appearance and banquets. What else do people care about in the countryside?"
The most important thing is that if no one wants the daughter-in-law, Lin Daguo is lazy and can't afford to support her.
After Lin Daguo said this, Li Aifeng was like eating dynamite, and rolled her eyes. "You two fools, it is only natural to ask for a dowry when marrying a daughter of a noble family. I am such a beautiful girl, and I can't even pay a penny to marry into their family! What, our daughter of a noble family grew up drinking dew, it's not easy for me to raise a daughter of a noble family with my own hands, you old man, it's not easy for you to raise a daughter of a noble family with your own hands, you old man, You don't feel sorry for the meat that has been cut off! It's all because of you two, father and son, who are useless? When encountering such a thing, if your brothers from your mother's family don't step forward, who will? You two, father and son, go to your grandson's family. I don't believe that your grandson's family dares to confront them head-on. It just so happens that everyone in our Lin family is a useless piece of rotten mud that can't even stand up against the wall! "
Li Aifeng's saliva was flying everywhere. Lin Daguo and his son moved back tacitly to avoid her saliva spraying on their faces.
Lin Hongwu lazily changed her leg and let Li Aifeng scold her.
After scolding Lin Daguo and his son, Li Aifeng started to scold Lin Hongna.
"In the end, it's because you are such a loser. You are pregnant, but the other person doesn't want you. If it was that vixen Lin Yao, she could sell for a good price just for her face! If you don't get a marriage certificate, you are officially married. In the old society, you need to have a document to take a concubine. You are worse than a concubine!"
Li Aifeng was so angry and anxious after hearing these words. She couldn't understand why her daughter was not as good as that bastard's daughter.
Lin Hongna was so angry that she didn't know what she thought of when she heard Lin Yao's name. She gritted her teeth and stomped her feet and decided to get married without getting a marriage certificate!
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