Gu Wei Qiang smiled, "My uncle and aunt love me." Gu An An, who was standing next to him, was stunned. She didn't expect that her father was so popular that so many people came to help. To be honest, before, when An An asked Gu Wei Qiang to call her dad, she felt a little awkward, but now she can call him smoothly. "Dad, you are really great."
No father doesn't like the admiring look in his daughter's eyes. Gu Wei Qiang is no exception. He felt as comfortable as drinking iced water in the hot summer.
Gu Dong Dong patted his chest like a little adult, "I'm grown up, and I must be like my dad, popular as well."
"Okay." Gu Wei Qiang squatted down, put Gu Dong Dong on his shoulders, and rode a horse.
Dongdong laughed so hard that he couldn't stop.
When they arrived at Gu's house, the eight-year-old Gu Dongdong knew that the atmosphere was not right and stopped laughing immediately. The people who followed behind, without Gu Weiqiang saying anything, all went into the house spontaneously.
Following Gu Weiqiang's instructions, they moved out all the things that needed to be moved from the main room. In fact, after careful calculation, there was nothing in the main room that Gu Weiqiang liked. There were basically some tables and chairs, which he could always ask his third brother in the county to make some.
Wang Daying was in the east room. She was beaten and was sitting on the kang wiping her tears. When she heard the noise outside, she stood up immediately, fearing that Gu Weiqiang had moved all the things. She stood at the door of the main room, like a door god. She would scrutinize other people's things when she saw them moving things.
If you say that people remember to eat but not to be beaten, it is people like Wang Daying. Sure enough, Zhou Aiju, who was helping at the side, saw it and felt unhappy. "What are you looking at? The fourth child is moving his share, and you don't allow him to move it???"
Wang Daying was finally arguing. She muttered and turned to go into her room. She finally understood that with the old witch around, even if she was tight, it would not be enough to make up for what the old witch let slip through her fingers.
No one looked at Wang Daying, they just kept moving.
Before leaving the house, Gu Wei Qiang shouted, "Mom, I moved three chairs to use first. I'll return them after my third brother helps me make the chairs in a few days."
Zhou Aiju took down the two strings of red peppers hanging on the window and put them on the chairs. Her eyes were red and she said, "Move it. This is what you deserve. Don't mention whether to return it or not. Come and get more peppers when you don't have enough." The fourth child loves to eat peppers and can't live without spicy food. There are only so many people in the family. When the eldest child just moved, he moved three chairs. Now there are only three people in the fourth child's family. She is not a vicious stepmother who can't bear to part with even a chair.
As soon as he turned around, he saw Wang Daying standing at the door of the east room, looking out, "Gonggonggong, standing at the door as a door god!"
While everyone was helping to move things, Gu Weiqiang called his mother to the private plot.
He felt around and found more than 70 yuan, which he handed over to Zhou Aiju, "Mom, this is all the money I have now. I'll make it 100 yuan when I get my salary later. Don't be angry. To be honest, after the separation, the burden on my shoulders has suddenly become much lighter, and I feel comfortable all over."
The snow outside was originally everywhere, but after the sun came out, it turned into a pool of water, and the sun in the sky became dazzling.
As soon as Zhou Aiju raised her head, tears came out. She pushed the money back and said, "You have just separated from the family, and it is time for you to use the money. If you wait until the day when mom is out of money, I will ask you for it." That's what she said, but with Zhou Aiju's personality, as long as she can make ends meet, she will not ask her children for a penny. She asked the youngest son to pay before, but that was before the family was separated. The family's food, drink, defecation and urination all cost money. What's more, the four sons are all her flesh and blood. As the head of the family, she wants to make life easier for this family. How can she not feel distressed after she has wronged the fourth son for so many years!
Seeing that his mother really didn't want it, Gu Weiqiang didn't refuse anymore and put the money back in his pocket. "Mom, do you blame me? I broke up this family and didn't support Gu Shu to go to high school."
Zhou Aiju raised her voice, "How could it be? It was Wang Daying, that fool, who broke up this family. It was the second son's family who didn't know what was good for them. In mom's eyes, Weiqiang is the most capable one. He holds up half the sky. As for Gu Shu, I thought about it carefully. If he was more frugal, the second son could support him to go to high school." The old lady was sensible, and Gu Weiqiang felt better.
The two talked in private again and went into the house.
At this time, the family had almost moved in. The temporary fence in the yard was more than half a person high. The west house was officially separated from the old Gu family.
This was the real home of the fourth branch of the Gu family. There was no need to worry about what to eat, no need to be criticized for buying clothes for the daughter, and no need to be criticized for buying good exercise books for the youngest son.
To be honest, when Gu Weiqiang stood at the door of the yard of the west house and looked inside, his heart was very open.
All the people who helped in the house had left, leaving only his two children.
When Gu Anan saw Gu Wei Qiang coming in, her eyes lit up. She pointed to a pile of things in the corner and said, "Dad, this is what Uncle Huazi and the uncle and aunt next door left for us when they left. They said we could have a hot meal in the evening. I asked them to take it away, but they ran away so quickly."
Gu Wei Qiang also saw that there was a pile of things half a person's height in the corner. There were two pumpkins, half a winter melon, seven or eight white radishes, and three cabbages that had just been dug out of the snow, still covered with ice chips.
Two or three pounds of fine white rice, a pinch of salt, two handfuls of dried beans, and two pieces of bacon, but mostly fat. These days, no one wants to eat lean meat. They all like fat meat, which can make oil and is good for hunger.
When Gu Weiguo saw these dishes, his eyes were red.
He said, "An'an, Dongdong, come here, remember who sent the gifts. This is a favor, and we should remember to return it when the time comes." Sometimes, those outsiders are much better than relatives.
Gu Anan nodded and counted on her fingers, "The pumpkin was given by Aunt Guifang, the winter melon was given by Grandma Sangu, the radish and cabbage were dug out of the ground by Pinellia, and the white rice, dried beans and basil were secretly stuffed into my hands from the backyard wall by Grandma when no one was paying attention. Oh, and she also stuffed fifty yuan into my pocket, but I refused."
At this point, Anan said seriously, "Dad, they are all good people," including her grandma.
"Yes! Wait for me to go out for a while." After saying that, Gu Weiqiang went out.
Anan and Dongdong stared at each other. Although Anan had never cooked before, her original self could!
Looking at these dishes, her hands itched! She picked them up consciously and started to prepare dinner. This was their first meal after they separated, so they had to eat well to make Wang Daying mad, huh! I also need to call grandma over.
Let's eat together, otherwise it will be too uncomfortable for grandma to eat alone.
But after a few days of getting along, An An really integrated himself into this environment. Grandma, Dad, and Uncle Huazi are all the best people.
Instructing Dong Dong to light the fire, while he was not looking, An An replaced the bacon and rice with the ingredients in the supermarket. The rice that grandma brought was finely chopped rice, which is also rice, but it is far inferior to the fragrant rice in the supermarket.
There was also bacon, two palm-sized pieces of bacon. Although they looked good, they were too hard and mostly fat. If she were to eat them, An An would be reluctant. She simply turned her left hand and picked a piece of fat and lean bacon from it.
As for other foods, she didn't dare to take them out for fear that the stuffing would be exposed.
An An learned cooking from Aunt Juxiang and her aunt. She started cooking at the age of eight and was very good at it.
She looked at the things on the chopping board and planned to make a bacon pot rice. You know, this is an earthen stove. Once the firewood is stuffed into the stove, the pot rice will be simmered over a high fire. It smells very good.
When Gu Weiqiang came back, An An had already fried some winter melon slices and some spicy and sour cabbage. As for the vinegar, of course she took it out from the space, and the chili peppers were hung on the windowsill of the west room. There were a lot of bunches of them. Just picking three or five would be spicy enough.
At this time, the bacon rice in the pot was almost ready. Dongdong sat in front of the stove. The blazing fire in the stove made his little face red and he kept swallowing his saliva. He stuck his neck out and urged, "Sister, when will the bacon rice be ready?"
Anan wiped the sweat off her face and opened the wooden lid on the pot, leaving only a crack. She took a look and said, "Wait a few more minutes, Dongdong. The fire in the stove is a little smaller. It's cooking now!" What's more, Anan opened a crack, and the aroma in the pot wafted out uncontrollably. Gu Weiqiang was holding a chicken in his hand. When he smelled the aroma, he even wondered if the chicken was not as fragrant as the bacon made by his own daughter.
He pushed open the small door, put the cleaned and killed chicken on the chopping board, and asked, "An An! What are you cooking? It smells so good, I can smell it when I walk outside."
An An turned around and saw the chicken in her father's hand. Her eyes lit up, "All we need is some old hen soup!"
"We'll have bacon hotpot rice tonight, and a radish stewed old hen soup, with two vegetarian dishes, it will definitely be delicious." It's not cooked yet! Gu Weiqiang just listened and swallowed his saliva with Dong Dong.
He scooped a gourd of icy water from the water tank and poured it into the bucket. He poured three scoops of water in a row, washed it clean, chopped the chicken into pieces, and then handed it to An An.
An An was in charge of stewing the soup. After sending Dong Dong and her father out, she searched around in the supermarket and found the seasoning section. She picked out a bag of ingredients for stewed hen soup, including longan, red dates, and wolfberry. She also picked out two large pieces of ginger. The stewed chicken soup was fishy.
The ginger helped to remove the odor.
Cooking in a big pot is fast. With the blazing fire in the oven, the chicken was soon stewed. When it was almost time to take the pot off, An An deliberately pulled out the small bag of seasoning by the string and threw it into the supermarket to destroy the body.
At least from the inside of the pot, it was just radish stewed chicken soup, without any other ingredients, but the smell was different from the past, almost fragrant.
The old hen soup was cooked, and the fragrant rice in the pot, the layer sticking to the top of the pot, had already turned into golden potstickers. As soon as the pot lid was opened, An An took out a bottle of sesame oil and the sauce for making potstickers and poured them on the rice, and shouted, "Dinner is ready!" Only then did she realize that the supermarket she brought was a complete cheating expert! It was great for improving life.
Gu Weiqiang and Dongdong, who were sticking to the kitchen door, pushed open the kitchen door in an instant, and the smell spread into the yard.
It spread to the next door, and then they separated. Unlike An An's side, there were many people next door in the afternoon, so they cleaned it up in a hurry.
Over there, the eldest and second sons' families shared a stove, and because they had just separated, there was nothing good to eat, so they made some pickled cabbage noodles in the evening. The noodles were made from wheat grown at home, ground into coarse flour, and rolled out with a rolling pin. They were half brown and a bit irritating to the throat.
Wang Daying cooked like pigs, making pickled cabbage noodles and stir-frying some pickled cabbage. He was reluctant to add oil, so he used a piece of gauze to dip in the oil and wiped it around the edge of the pot twice, just for the sake of courtesy.
In addition to Zhou Aiju, the five people from the second room, plus Grandpa Gu, sat around the table. When Wang Daying smelled the fragrance from next door, he dared to say that he had never tasted such a fragrant thing in his life.
The bacon was really fragrant to the bone.
The whole family was poking at the sauerkraut noodles in their bowls. Gu Shuang couldn't help it and slammed the bowl on the table. The soup in the bowl spilled everywhere, and he howled, "Mom, I want to eat delicious meat, not disgusting sauerkraut noodles."
Wang Daying, who usually loves her youngest son very much, knocked on Gu Shuang's head with a chopstick, "Eat, eat, eat, you only know how to eat, how can you eat that meat???" She deliberately raised her voice, "That was brought back by your fourth uncle from outside, who are you? You are not their son, you have no share."
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