Chapter 7
The first one to slam the door and leave was Gu Daniu, because apart from Gu Daniu, no one else in the family was qualified to slam the door for the time being.
"Calling for souls so early in the morning?" Gu Daniu stood at the door, his eyes blazing as he looked at Gu Chenshi. "Listen, who in this village is making as much noise as you? Are you planning to call the whole village over to watch the joke?"
Gu Chen was aggrieved: "Xinxin didn't open the door and even hit Qiuhe. Didn't you tell her yesterday to do the housework?"
Gu Daniu was silent for a moment, then knocked on Gu Xinxin's door: "Gu Xinxin, get up, did you hit your sister?"
Gu Xinxin spoke from inside: "No, Gu Qiuhe has been talking nonsense since she was a child. Dad knows it. Besides, with her stepmother here, I wouldn't dare hit Gu Qiuhe even if I had ten guts."
Gu Qiuhe started crying and jumping up and down: "Yes, he hit me on the back several times!"
Gu Xinxin opened the door and sighed, "Qiuhe, why are you lying like this again? I was so sick the past two days that I couldn't get up, and you said I didn't want to eat, but you still ate all my food. If Xiangrong hadn't been afraid that I would starve to death and gave me his food, I wouldn't have even had the strength to get up the day before yesterday. And the past two days, you insisted that I tore your clothes, and then it was Erya next door who said that you scratched them against a tree. And a few days ago, Dad asked you to cook, but you forgot, and you blamed me, saying that I didn't light a fire for you..."
It is simply too numerous to list in words.
Gu Qiuhe cried and hiccuped: "No, this time you really hit me..."
Gu Daniu said impatiently: "Shut up, Gu Xinxin go cook."
There is no such thing as solving a case simply and crudely.
Gu Xinxin went to cook, and she couldn't just sit there and do nothing, otherwise Gu Daniu would not be able to bear to see her get married. Besides, she still had to eat, and she was afraid that Gu Chen would spit in her bowl.
After lighting a fire, he cooked porridge first, then opened the flour bag and got some white flour according to his memory. The Gu family's life was considered upper middle class in the village. They had three meals a day, one of which was white rice and flour, and meat every three or five days, or three times a month.
As for eggs, you can eat them once every two or three days.
Old Mrs. Gu was just greedy.
Gu Xinxin planned to make an egg pancake, pair it with millet porridge, and pickles could be considered... the best combination.
Let her use as much lard as she wants. After making a few pancakes, there was a large spoonful of lard missing from the oil tank.
When she brought out the food, Gu Chen's eyes were as big as copper bells, but Gu Daniu didn't seem too surprised. He just took an egg pancake and stuffed it into his mouth.
Gu Xinxin was quick to put down her bowl and chopsticks and picked up two egg pancakes, one for Gu Xiangrong and one for herself: "I made them based on the number of people, because Dad has to hunt to make money for the family, so Dad eats two, and the rest of the people get one."
One piece of bread is definitely not enough to fill you up, but that’s okay, you can drink more porridge.
Gu Chen's face was gloomy: "As a girl, you can just eat half..."
She reached out to grab the egg pancake from Gu Xinxin's hand, but Gu Xinxin took it away from Gu Qiuhe's hand: "Qiuhe is a girl and she is young, so she can't even eat half of it. Just take a bite and taste it."
Seeing Gu Qiuhe was about to grab it, she immediately put Gu Qiuhe's portion into Old Lady Gu's bowl: "Grandma is old, you need to drink more good milk so that you can be healthy and live a long life."
Gu Qiuhe stood there in a daze. It would be wrong to rush over and grab it, but if she didn't rush over... the egg pancake smelled so good that she was drooling just by smelling it.
When I went to look at Gu Xinxin again, she had already eaten half of her meal in just a few bites. She stood up and hid behind Gu Daniu: "Dad, do we not get food even if we work in this family?"
Gu Daniu knocked on the table with his chopsticks: "Everyone, be quiet."
Gu Qiuhe burst into tears: "I want to eat egg pancakes, I want to eat them!"
Gu Chen looked at Old Lady Gu, who had bitten the egg pancake with a few bites, leaving a circle of teeth marks. There was nothing she could do. She was old and didn't have the speed and teeth of Gu Xinxin. Gu Chen had no choice but to give half of hers to Gu Qiuhe.
Gu Xinxin sighed, "People who don't know would think our family is so poor that we have to divide even an egg pancake like this. Dad, if others see how poor our family is and can't even afford to eat, they'll probably look down on us."
Gu Daniu paused for a moment, and Gu Xinxin continued, "When it comes to marriage, it's also important to be well-matched, right? If our family is so poor that we can't even afford a single meal, I don't think I'd marry. Otherwise, if I marry someone so poor, I'll have to rely on you, Dad, to subsidize me."
Gu Daniu drank the last mouthful of porridge and called Gu Xiangrong: "Come up the mountain with me first."
During this season, the weather is hot and the animals in the mountains are lazy, mostly coming out in the morning and evening. So hunting should be done early, because it is difficult to see clearly and it is easy to get into danger if you go too late.
Gu Xiangrong hurriedly caught up, looking back at Gu Xinxin as he walked, and Gu Xinxin waved at him.
As soon as the father and son left, Gu Chen couldn't help it. She stood up and rushed towards Gu Xinxin, reaching out to grab Gu Xinxin's hair. This was something she was used to doing. She would grab Gu Xinxin by the hair and give her two big slaps, and she would definitely beat her into submission.
However, she had a bad start today. Before she could grab Gu Xinxin's hair, she didn't know what happened under her feet. Suddenly, a stool appeared. Her knees hit it and her body fell forward along the stool.
Gu Xinxin immediately stood up and stepped back: "Oh."
Helping Gu Chenshi, she fell headfirst to the ground. She called out to Gu Wenshu and Gu Qiuhe, "Pull me up!"
Gu Wenshu quickly put down his bowl and chopsticks. Everyone else had finished eating, but he was still a little hungry and was dawdling on the pickles on the table. Now he came over and grabbed Gu Chen's arm, pulling hard: "Get up."
Gu Chen stood up in a panic, her face ferocious, and rushed towards Gu Xinxin again. Gu Xinxin immediately ran towards the door, shouting as she ran: "Dad, help me, my stepmother is going to beat me to death..."
Gu Chenshi stopped moving immediately. She hadn't forgotten what Gu Daniu had told her last night - if she ruined Gu Xinxin's reputation...
If she ran out and yelled like that, it wouldn't be her own reputation that would be ruined, but the reputation of the Gu Chen family.
Why didn’t I know before that this damn girl was so annoying?
She hurriedly tidied her clothes so that no one would know that she had fought. Even if a stepmother was right, she would still lose three points. She quickly followed Gu Xinxin out: "Xinxin, you misunderstood. I asked you to clean up the kitchen. Why did you run away?"
Facing her neighbors, she looked helpless: "I asked Xinxin to cook this morning, and she was a little reluctant. I was just saying, how could a grown-up girl not know how to cook? If she can't cook and doesn't want to do it, who would be willing to marry her in the future?"
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