"Mom, we haven't eaten yet. Can you help us cook now?"

Chen Xuanxuan looked at her eldest son and said, "Okay, then you can help me boil water and wash the pots and dishes. And heat the chopsticks."

"I'll give you the key now, and you can also mix all the bowls of gray noodles in the cupboard into balls..."

Gu Dazhu was still a little dissatisfied when he heard his mother's instructions. He felt that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen, and as a man, he should not do those things in the kitchen.

However, when he looked up and noticed his father staring at him with an unsatisfied look, he thought about it, hesitated for a moment, and felt that he had to do it himself.

He thought to himself that he was still young, his father was still young, and he and his brothers had not yet separated. It would be really unwise to offend his parents for no reason at this time.

Don't look at Gu Dazhu, who always says that his family is too poor and has no assets. But in fact, he has already thought about some things in the family.

For example, the six houses in the house.

Two old houses, three new houses, and a woodshed.

Compared with those people in the village who still live in thatched houses, these houses are really a considerable amount of property.

Gu Dazhu already knew that some families in the village secretly called themselves wealthy families.

Six spacious houses like this are something that ordinary people can't get even if they work hard all their lives.

And there are those skills in my mother's hands. How can ordinary people do these things?

Take pickled garlic, pickled cucumbers, and pickled preserved eggs for example!

These things made by my mother are really delicious and much better than those made by ordinary people.

Gu Dazhu actually had been thinking about it in his heart for a long time. He wanted to wait until his father died. If his mother was still alive, he would make his mother make these for him every day at home!

Then, he would carry the basket and take them to the county town or the prefectural city to sell. In this way, wouldn't his family make a lot of money?

What's more, the skills in my mother's hands can be passed on to his descendants. From this generation to the next, all the descendants will have something to rely on.

When thinking of this, Gu Dazhu couldn't help but lift the corners of his mouth.

He felt that the days to come would be pretty good. It didn't matter if he was idle now.

As long as he could endure these days slowly, he would be able to get through it one day.

After Gu Dazhu mixed all the gray flour into a ball, he raised his head and shouted, "Mom, I have prepared the flour." After

hearing this, Gu Yanzhang couldn't help but reply to him, "It's done, why are you yelling!"

Then, Gu Yanzhang went directly to the oven and started to bake big cakes.

Gu Yanzhang was still quite self-conscious during this period.

He had heard his wife tell him that she stayed in the kitchen every day to cook, and the smoke and fire made her face dirty. After a long time, she would easily become a yellow-faced woman. Moreover, her hands became rough these days. And she didn't have to do anything during the year she lived in her parents' home.

She didn't have to wash clothes, cook, or do all kinds of housework.

Gu Yanzhang was actually a very smart man. Hearing what his wife said, he immediately understood that his wife was really going to give up her job.

As her man, if he forced her to work, or even beat or scolded her, then he would definitely run back to her parents' home and stop living with him.

After all, she had lived a very comfortable life at her parents' home.

Gu Yanzhang still hoped that he could continue to live with his wife.

Isn't it just washing clothes, cooking, raising children?

If women can do it, can't men do it?

With this idea in mind, Gu Yanzhang had already gotten used to washing, cooking and raising children a month and a half ago.

...

Gu Dazhu saw his father making pancakes very skillfully. At this moment, not only did his mouth twitch, but even his intestines and stomach shook violently.

Sometimes, Gu Dazhu really wanted to pull up his father's collar and question him righteously, "Dad, is it worth it for you to do this for a woman?"

What about the dignity of a man?

However, Gu Yanzhang knew nothing about the depression in his eldest son's heart.

Even if he knew, he felt that his eldest son thought too much and his ideas were particularly ridiculous.

In his opinion, isn't this man living with a woman just for practicality?

His wife's family is powerful, his mother-in-law is capable, his uncles and brothers-in-law are all extraordinary, and his wife's biological father, the former captain Gao, was said to have been promoted and became a county magistrate...

Gu Yanzhang felt that these people in his family might be able to ask for help in the future? !

So, why did he and his wife make the relationship so awkward?

Besides, his wife is indeed more beautiful now.

She is fatter, younger and whiter than before. With a wife like her by his side, he feels more proud when he goes out.

Don’t look at those people in the village who are married or even unmarried. Once they meet him, they will say sarcastic words to him. They say that his wife is not good in this way and that way.

However, as long as his plump white wife goes back to her parents’ home, those shameless bachelors have the guts to hire a matchmaker and run to his mother-in-law to propose marriage!

Whenever Gu Yanzhang thought about the possibility that he would make his wife unhappy one day, or that he did something that made her uncomfortable, or that she would be pried off by someone else, Gu Yanzhang's strength in making pancakes suddenly increased. When Gu

Dazhu saw his father like this, he hesitated for a moment, then asked hesitantly, "Dad, do you think our mother is too much?"

Noticing that his father didn't seem to be dissatisfied, Gu Dazhu suddenly became more confident in saying bad things about his mother.

"Dad, think about it yourself, other people's mothers... get up before dawn in the morning, and mend clothes under the moonlight in the dark at night. Moreover, other people's mothers are good at washing clothes, cooking, cleaning, farming, and everything else. They give birth to eight or ten sons in one breath without even taking a breath..."

Gu Yanzhang's face changed drastically when he heard this. It happened that he had already baked all the cakes at this time.

Before Gu Dazhu could react, he slapped him heavily on the back of his head with his big hand like a palm leaf fan, "Are you talking about me, or an old donkey?"

"You are my biological child! If you were not my biological child, I would have killed you long ago..."