After cleaning up all the eggs on her scalp, Chen Xuanxuan felt much more relaxed.
"You kids, don't go to bed yet, come here. We're sleeping on a new bed today, so we can't keep fleas on our bodies."
Seeing Chen Xuanxuan's expression that she couldn't stand fleas and lice, Gu Yanzhang thought about it and took the initiative to ask for permission, "Wife, how about you shave my hair first and wash these bugs on my head?"
Last night, Gu Yanzhang actually noticed that his wife was holding a few new hats with very good workmanship and fiddling with them seriously.
He was still wondering at the time, where did these hats come from and who they were for?
Now it seems that his wife has prepared them for the whole family.
Thinking about the recent period of time, his wife always complained about their slovenly appearance, saying that they were unhygienic, and every night when they went to bed, they would scratch their hair vigorously with an irritable look on their face. Gu Yanzhang thought that he might as well agree to her.
It would be good to make her happy and comfortable.
Seeing that Gu Yanzhang was so cooperative and didn't say anything, Chen Xuanxuan smiled at the time when she heard such a sour and particularly ignorant remark, "The skin of the body is given by parents, and it should not be damaged."
"Okay, I'll shave your hair now, and then use the soap my eldest brother gave me to wash and rub it for you."
Chen Xuanxuan didn't care about Gu Yanzhang's parents who slept in the stove. Gu Yanzhang and the six children were all shaved bald by Chen Xuanxuan. They used the loofah to scrub their whole bodies clean over and over again.
The children treated it like a holiday. They were so happy to see the new hats in their hands.
They were reluctant to take off their hats when they went to bed at night.
...
After a night, Chen Xuanxuan followed her usual pace and cooked a delicious meal for everyone in the family.
Since there was a lot of oil in the meal, everyone started to feel hot after eating.
Chen Xuanxuan didn't like to eat those wild vegetables. Because they were too bitter and tasted bad.
She thought about the people at home who would have to serve in the labor service soon. Chen Xuanxuan explained to them in detail, "Starting from today, we have to eat three meals a day! And, at least three meals a day."
"I will feel at ease when you gain weight and look stronger." When
Gu Yanzhang heard that they had to eat three meals a day, he shook his head and said, "How can we do that?"
"The conditions at home are already difficult. If we eat three meals a day now, we will not be able to survive in the future?"
Chen Xuanxuan replied with a smile, "Why can't we survive?"
"No matter how carefully you live your life, you can't just focus on the present. I'm thinking about our family. If you don't eat enough and your body is not strong, you won't be able to exert your strength during labor service. The supervisors will think you are cutting corners and they will whip you."
"Besides, more than 20 days of labor is not a short time! If you don't have a good foundation, when you come back, you will most likely catch a cold or fever, or get a serious illness. If you get sick, our family will definitely think of a way to borrow money from everywhere to treat you..."
Gu Yu'an, who was sitting nearby, listened and nodded in agreement.
"Brother Yan, just listen to your wife."
"Your wife is a wise person. She thinks more comprehensively than us."
Hearing his father say this, Gu Yanzhang thought about it, hesitated for a while, blushed, and nodded in agreement.
He ate three meals a day... Aren't the meals brought by his wife's family?
When he thought that he had become a gigolo, Gu Yanzhang felt extremely ashamed in his heart.
In the past, he didn't want his wife to look down on him. However, life at home has been getting worse and worse in the past ten years.
No matter how hard he tried, it seemed difficult for his wife to live a good life with meat to eat every day and good clothes to wear.
When he thought of this, Gu Yanzhang hated his incompetence very much.
Seeing the shame, guilt and anger on Gu Yanzhang's face, Chen Xuanxuan, who was sitting next to him drinking porridge, shrugged helplessly.
She didn't really love her cheap husband. Of course, she didn't hate him, nor did she like him. Even
if she had the memories of the original owner, she always regarded the man in front of her, including the whole family in front of her, as familiar strangers.
It hasn't even been a month since she came here, and she doesn't really have any deep feelings for them.
She has always been a relatively stable person, and never impatient.
After she traveled through time, she always thought in her heart that she had to slowly change her current living environment.
Because once she changed too much, whether it was the people at home or those in the village, they would definitely wonder why she had all those good things? Why could she make so many delicious things?
Where did she make her fortune?
Chen Xuanxuan was familiar with the people in the countryside.
The rural environment seemed simple, but it was actually very complicated. Especially in terms of interpersonal communication.
If her changes were too radical and too big, those gossipy men and women would come to her house all day long, stand by her door every day, or stand on the village road, sit together, and say bad things about her.
Since wild vegetables picked from the mountains must be eaten, Chen Xuanxuan cooked normal soybean porridge or other porridge for them every morning, noon and evening. She would also put a little oil from the spicy snail meat to make a few meals of wild vegetable porridge for these people.
They ate seven meals a day at most and five meals a day at least. In less than ten days, all the people in the family gained weight and became stronger.
In the past, all the people in the Gu family had high cheekbones, protruding ribs, and were as thin as skeletons. But now, they have gained a lot of meat on their bodies. Their faces look rounder. They
used to be pale and thin, but now they have become a little more rosy. They look like healthy people.
With more flesh and health, Gu Yanzhang took his family to the mountains and rivers to look for food, which made him more energetic.
Gu Yanzhang was a good fisherman.
Every two or three days, he would catch one or two big fish weighing several kilograms and bring them home.
The villagers in Gujiagang always saw Gu Yanzhang and his friends carrying fish or carrying a load of wild vegetables. They also noticed that they had gained weight and became stronger. They would ask them everywhere, "The fish in this river are so slippery, Brother Yan, how did you catch them?"