Wang Xu opened his one eye and glanced at her, then paused for two seconds, let go of her hand and sat up, picked up the warm cotton jacket at the end of the kang, put it on Gu Xi, and then took out a pair of thick cotton trousers and asked her to put them on.
When Gu Xi saw these Northeast cotton pants for the first time, she said, "Where did these pants come from? They are so ugly."
Wang Xu also thought it was ugly: "I happened to see it when I went out a few days ago. All the ready-made ones were like this. I wore it anyway. I'm at home and don't wear it out. You sleep in short-sleeved shirts and shorts, and it's more convenient to go to the toilet with this cotton coat and pants."
Gu Xi really didn't feel cold at all when she went out wearing this. It was really convenient. But when she took off her pants to go to the toilet, her butt was frozen, so she had to get rid of it quickly.
After leaving the toilet, Wang Xu had already put on his clothes and was preparing to wash up in the yard: "Do you want to sleep a little longer or get up and wash up?"
Gu Xi was already fully awake: "Wash up and get up, I'm a little hungry."
Wang Xu helped her add hot water to the toothbrush cup, and the two of them stood by the water tank to brush their teeth together. They were a young couple in love, and their eyes were so beautiful that they could draw lines even when they looked at each other unintentionally.
Wang Xu had already wrapped and put aside the dumplings cooked for breakfast before he went out. The temperature was now five or six degrees below zero, like a natural refrigerator.
Wang Xu was fast. After finishing his meal, he looked at Gu Xi and said, "I'll go to Zhou He's house later, and then take you to town. Buy some more things to stock up. The New Year is only two weeks away. I'll send some New Year's goods back to your family."
Gu Xi couldn't help but go back to the room and take out paper and pen: "I'll write a letter, but what New Year's goods should I send back?"
Wang Xu saw that she was just talking nonsense, so he took the bowl and fed her the two dumplings left in the bowl: "Open your mouth, you don't even know how to finish eating before writing a letter, you are just like a child."
Gu Xi glared at him: "Who are you calling a kid? Say it again?"
Wang Xu immediately cleared the table: "She said you are as fair and tender as a child, and your skin is as smooth as egg white. The more I look at you, the more I like you. How can my wife be so beautiful? I am so lucky. Tomorrow I will burn some paper for my mother to thank her for giving me a beautiful body that can please my wife."
Gu Xi was originally pretending to be fierce, and was amused by a few words: "Wang Xu, you used to be such a good guy, handsome, fierce, cold, and frugal with words. Look at you now, you are so smooth-talking."
Wang Xu replied without thinking, "As long as you keep company with the bad, you will be bad. No... I asked the aunt in the village to prepare New Year's goods for my parents and my brother-in-law. I made some dried meat, pickled preserved eggs, and some soy sauce meat. I will go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some more sausages later."
Gu Xi didn't expect him to prepare so much: "You didn't even tell me, and you prepared it silently? You make me, your own daughter, seem unfilial."
Wang Xu took the dishes to the kitchen to wash them, and came out after washing his hands: "What I prepared is what you prepared. My people are yours, what's the difference?"
This made Gu Xi have bad associations again, and she lowered her head to write the letter seriously. Wang Xu looked at her and laughed: "Wife, why is your face red?"
Gu Xi buried her head even lower, wrote furiously, and didn't answer.
Wang Xu laughed even more happily, but did not dare to laugh too loudly, for fear that Gu Xi would get angry and embarrassed.
When they arrived at Zhou He's house, the two children had red and swollen eyes from crying, and Li Tieshi seemed to have aged ten years. Although he was a scumbag, they still had feelings for each other for many years. When he saw Gu Xi and Wang Xu coming, he nodded to express his gratitude to them. Gu Xi and Wang Xu each gave him one dollar.
When the two children saw Gu Xi, Pan Di was able to hold back her anger, but Nian Di rushed over and hugged Gu Xi as if she had seen a relative and cried, "Gu Zhiqing, my mother is dead. I am a motherless child now."
The child's simple and straightforward words made the adults present shed tears. Gu Xi bent down and hugged Nian Di, looking at Pan Di: "The process of growing up is a process of constant farewell. The people you love will say goodbye to you one by one. This is probably the price of growing up.
The fate between people is time-limited, and the same goes for parents. Growing up means constantly watching their backs gradually going away. You stand at one end of the road, watching them gradually disappear at the bend of the road. They use their backs to tell you that there is no need to chase them.
Cry, after crying it will be a new beginning. Cherish the people around you and live a good life. "
These words silenced everyone who heard it, and for a moment, only the crying of two children could be heard in the room.
Li Tieshi suddenly slapped himself and burst out in silence: "Zhou He, I am a beast. You were right to call me that. I regret it, but it's too late. I'm sorry. I won't think about anything else in the future. I will take care of the two children. I didn't expect you to be so determined, Zhou He."
From the time the dispute started until now, Li Tieshi had quarreled, been afraid, and complained, but he had never cried. Only at this moment, he didn't know which words of Gu Xi touched him or the crying of his two daughters, but the collapse of an adult happened in an instant.
He knelt in front of Zhou He's coffin, with his head against it. After a period of wailing, he burst into tears and then cried silently. No one knew what he was thinking in the end.
Seeing him lying there crying, many people were moved, but Gu Xi was not touched at all. She looked at Li Tieshi indifferently. The tears of a betrayer are not worthy of sympathy. Crying cannot solve the problem, and no one cries to truly solve the problem. Belated affection is cheaper than grass.
After that, Li Tieshi seemed to have been reborn. He no longer contacted Huang Qin, and buried his head in working to earn work points, with his whole heart focused on raising his two children.
At the beginning, Chang Ru did ask Zhou He whether she should call the police to report Li Tieshi and have him arrested. Zhou He remained silent for a long time with tears in her eyes, and finally chose not to call the police.
"Chang Ru, I regretted it the moment I drank it, but it's too late. Now that I've been sentenced to death, I finally understand that in the face of life and death, everything else is trivial.
I have spent half my life with Li Tieshi and we have two children. He has always been nice to me. Who would have thought it would turn out like this? I used to hate and resent him but now I have let it go. I just hope he can raise the two children. There is nothing else I can't let go of. "
For both Li Tieshi and Zhou He, it was too late for them to repent. The price they paid with their lives was too heavy. As for the two children, when they learned about this as they grew up and had their own thoughts, whether they chose to forgive or not was up to their own karma.
Wang Xu's backpack was almost full of New Year's goods for Gu Xi's family. Gu Xi hugged Wang Xu's waist, leaned on his back, and looked at the snow-covered ground.
"There's no such accumulation of snow in the south. Every time it snows a little, everyone gets excited and rushes into the snow to play. It's so strange. I never thought that one day, I would live in this world of ice and snow."
Wang Xu rode his bike and listened to her mumbling: "Wait a week, when the temperature is lower, I will teach you how to make a big ice bucket. You can store vegetables and meat in the big ice bucket."
It was a rare sunny day today without snow, and Gu Xi felt quite comfortable basking in the sun: "I want to eat hot pot, Wang Xu."
"hot pot?"
The more Gu Xi thought about it, the more greedy she became. "It's a Beijing copper pot. Put carbon in the middle and the pot will heat up by itself. Put meat and vegetables in the pot and dip them in soy sauce or sesame sauce. It's especially delicious. It's best suited for hot pot in winter."
Without looking back, Wang Xu knew that Gu Xi was drooling with greed: "Then let's go to town and see if there is a copper pot for sale. If there is, I will cook hot pot for you."
Gu Xi thought for a moment and said, "If we don't have a copper pot, we can just eat on the kitchen stove. No one can stop a foodie from overcoming all difficulties and eating."
Wang Xu was amused by her again. He felt that in the past six months since Gu Xi came, he had laughed more than in the past twenty years.
"Okay, my wife wants to eat it, so I have to eat it no matter what."
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