Today the weather is very sunny, Gu Yu'an and Gu Yanzhang, father and son, took the children out.
Picking wild vegetables in the mountains is the best time after the rain.
At noon, Chen Xuanxuan was still thinking about what she should buy to eat. As a result, when she bought 200 grams of dried longan, Gu Yanzhang, who had been out for a long time, came back with an excited look on his face.
"Wife, wife, look what I caught?"
Chen Xuanxuan went out and saw that Gu Yanzhang had two big black carps in his hands, and her eyes lit up at that time.
"These two fish together probably weigh more than 10 kilograms. Boss, where did you get them from?"
Gu Yanzhang heard this and said happily, "I was on the beach upstream."
Hearing that Gu Yanzhang was going there, Chen Xuanxuan asked seriously, "Why did you go there?"
"That's a swamp!"
It's just upstream. The water doesn't look deep. But the silt there is very thick.
If you are not careful, you may fall into it.
Chen Xuanxuan, who felt that it was too dangerous for Gu Yanzhang to go there and actually despised him for being useless, suddenly had no grudge against him.
In fact, it's not his fault that this family lives like this.
He works hard.
He is not a lazy person who likes to eat and is rough with his wife and children.
She couldn't have high expectations or blame a man who hadn't read many books. So
, Chen Xuanxuan walked over and wanted to take the two fish from his hand.
As a result, Gu Yanzhang refused to let her, "Wife, these two fish are still alive!"
"They were shaking their heads and tails vigorously just now, and they are very big. If you don't pay attention, they will run away. I have to put them in a basin at home and cut them up..."
After saying that, he started to deal with the fish.
After killing the fish, Gu Yanzhang just said hello to Chen Xuanxuan and ran out in a hurry. Looking at him, it seemed that he had left something outside.
Seeing how anxious he was, Chen Xuanxuan thought about it and quickly bought a bag of hot pot base.
Then, she washed the 10-pound fish, cut it into pieces, and stewed it. After
the thick soup boiled for an hour, the tempting aroma of the hot pot could be smelled from a long distance.
When Gu Yanzhang and his friends returned home again, they heard their stomachs growling.
"Wife, what did you do today?"
Chen Xuanxuan saw that they had gained a lot today, and she smiled widely, "What else can I do?"
"Isn't it just stewing the two fish you killed?"
"Come on, quickly take down the backpack. Let me see what you found."
After Gu Yanzhang carefully put down the backpack, he said happily, "Wife, we went early today. We found a lot of wild duck eggs in the reeds by the beach. We also caught several kilograms of loaches. Look, with these things, we can last at least five or six days!"
Seeing the more than 30 green-skinned duck eggs and the dozens of densely packed loaches in front of her, Chen Xuanxuan was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling.
"Boss, you are really capable!"
"Not bad. With these good things, our bodies can at least recover a little."
Seeing Chen Xuanxuan's sincere praise for him, Gu Yanzhang couldn't help but show off, "Wife, we still have more!"
"Look at how many mushrooms our Dazhu found today?"
As she said that, she gently poured the basket on Gu Dazhu's back to the ground. More than ten pounds of mushrooms and various wild vegetables in it were poured out just like that.
Seeing the black mushrooms, Chen Xuanxuan frowned subconsciously.
"Master, are these mushrooms edible?"
Gu Yu'an, who was standing nearby, came over happily after hearing this, "Daughter-in-law, these mushrooms are edible!"
"The poor people in our area pick these mushrooms in the mountains every year at this time..."
Gu Yu'an knew that the daughter-in-law his son married was an extraordinary one.
Those who lived in Gujiagang, as long as they were older, generally knew that decades ago, the daughter-in-law's mother had found a few lovers outside, all of whom were capable officials. Their whole family relied on those two, eating white rice every day and a few meals of meat every two or three days.
They ate well and drank well, and their whole family was fat and white.
Unfortunately, such good days did not last long.
After the man followed the county magistrate to get promoted, the Chen family's life was no longer the same as before.
However, compared to those of them who were penniless, their family was still much better off!
Gu Yu'an thought he was not old yet.
He had seen the changes in his daughter-in-law clearly in these days.
That morning, the daughter-in-law only went back to her parents' home, but she brought back a lot of things.
Just that day, there were almost ten kilograms of grain displayed!
In addition, that night, his son's eldest brother-in-law came over with a basket on his shoulder, even though it was so late and the rain was so heavy, and he still gave his family 6 eggs and a bag of pickled cabbage... It can be seen that the daughter-in-law's family still values her very much.
Gu Yu'an and Yu were very receptive to the fact that their daughter-in-law could bring out fresh food every day.
While they were happy, they couldn't help but remind their son to do better and work harder.
If the powerful old lady Liu knew about this, her daughter couldn't make ends meet even with the financial support from her parents. Then she would definitely come with a large group of people and ask her daughter to divorce the man.
After all, such things have happened before.
The eldest daughter of the old lady Liu had married such a useless lazy man before. His
family didn't cultivate the few acres of dry land at home. He ordered her daughter to do all the work.
Her daughter did it for a few days, but there was nothing she could do, and her husband's whole family beat her up.
After the old lady Liu knew about the eldest daughter's affair, she brought the Chen and Liu families, as well as several chief constables from the government, to Huangtuling to make a scene. After successfully getting the eldest daughter to divorce, the old lady Liu married her back to her nephew from her natal family, Liujiazhuang.
It has been more than ten years since that incident, and there are still people in Gujiagang who like to talk about it every day.
When Gu Yu'an went to the upstream beach today, some busybodies deliberately told him about this.
On the surface, these clansmen said that they cared about him and told him to be careful and not let his daughter-in-law run away. In fact, those people just wanted to see the joke on his family.
Gujiagang is so close to Chenjia Village.
Gu Yu'an dared to pat his chest and guarantee that if his family dared to discipline their daughter-in-law roughly, locked her up at home every day, and did not let her go back to her parents' home, ... the clansmen who had warned him before would definitely run to Liu and inform her.
After all, everyone knew that this would be a great benefit to her.