"Then I'm going to spend all of this." Lu Qingyan looked at Gu Mingze, shook the banknotes in her hand, and said with a smile.
"Spend it. I earn money for you. This is not enough. You still have some money. Spend it as much as you want." Gu Mingze looked at his wife's little appearance and said with doting eyes.
"That won't work. The money you gave me is my own private money. I can't touch it." Lu Qingyan has already regarded the passbook as her own little treasury. How could she possibly spend it?
"No, no, then I'll give you some pocket money every month so you can spend as much as you want." Gu Mingze reached out and rubbed his wife's head, his face full of unstoppable smiles.
"Yeah." Lu Qingyan nodded repeatedly after hearing this.
"If these two people continue to live like this, they probably won't be able to save a penny." Mother Lu was cutting vegetables beside them, watching them, and then said to the old man
"That's not possible. Mingze already earns a hundred dollars a month," Father Lu shook his head when he heard this.
"Why not? Look at how many things you buy every time you go out. The money you earn is probably not enough to spend." When Mother Lu thought of her daughter spending money lavishly, her heart ached.
It's not that I care about anything else, I just think, these two people should spend as much as they have, then what will they do after the baby is born?
"Don't think about it. I think Mingze is not without a plan." Seeing that the old woman wanted to say more, Father Lu glared at her and said, "Okay, how they spend their money is their business. Don't nag about it. If you make your son-in-law unhappy, what will you do?"
"Okay, okay, okay, I won't say anything." Seeing the old man like this, Mother Lu patted her mouth with her hand, took out the steamed rice from the pot, carefully wiped a layer of oil into the pot, and started cooking.
"The weather has cleared up these past few days. I guess my hometown has received the telegram." Gu Mingze sat aside and looked at the door and said
"It should be here. Don't worry. Your parents will write back to you once they see it." Lu Qingyan looked at the man and knew that he was thinking about home again. But she could do nothing but comfort him.
"Well, I'm just worried about mom. I wonder if my eldest brother and second brother have taken mom to the city to see her." Gu Mingze sighed, and when he heard his mother-in-law say it was time for dinner, he had no choice but to stand up and get the bowl and chopsticks.
It is said that the Gu family received a telegram from Gu Mingze one evening.
After thanking the postman, Gu Mingtao took the telegram to his parents' room and said with a smile: "Mom and Dad, there's a telegram from the fourth child."
"What did you say?" Lin Dacui's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she asked anxiously.
"He told me to go back and tell him how you are doing and whether you have been to the city." Gu Mingtao looked at the words on the telegram, guessed that this was the meaning, and said it out loud.
"Nothing else?" Lin Dacui said disappointedly when she heard these few words.
"Mom, this telegram is so expensive. What else do you want Lao Si to say?" Gu Mingtao looked at his mother like this and frowned and said, "This is Lao Si. If it were us, we would not be willing to send a telegram."
"Yes, then you can write a letter to the fourth son and write about my current situation and the fact that Niu Lili took all the money from our family and ran away." Lin Dacui listened to her eldest son and knew what was going on. She urged him to write the letter quickly and write down everything that had happened at home recently.
"Mom, the fourth child was asking about your health, why did he include my family's affairs in it?" Gu Mingtao didn't want his family's affairs to be spread outside, so when he heard his mother's words, he said reluctantly.
"I asked you to write, so you wrote. Why are you talking so much nonsense?" Lin Dacui stared at her disobedient eldest son and said
"Okay, okay, okay, I'll listen to you, isn't that enough?" Gu Mingtao had no choice but to compromise when he saw his mother like this.
"Also include the story of your mother and I following the second son, and tell him to send money home on time in the future. As for the New Year and other festivals, it depends on his feelings." Old man Gu sat on the side, puffing on a cigarette, and when the eldest son started writing the letter, he suddenly said
"Got it, Dad, do you have anything else to say?" Gu Mingtao also went to school for a few years, so he usually wrote the family's letters.
At this moment, I picked up the pen and quickly wrote down all the major events that had happened in my family recently.
He emphasized that they did not take their mother to the city, and that the two elders would live with the second son in the future.
I also told him to send back his pension on time in the future, and the rest depends on his feelings.
"Nothing more, let's just leave it at that." Old Man Gu shook his head and said
"Boss, ask him in the letter when he will be back. I am sick and paralyzed in bed. They have to come back to see me anyway, right?" Lin Dacui was sitting against the wall at the moment. After the boss was about to finish writing, she said
"If you ask me, it's the fourth son who comes back on his own, but his wife definitely can't come back." Gu Mingtao said this while writing quickly with his hands.
"If you don't want to come back, forget it. I don't want to see her. I'll be angry if I see her like that." Lin Dacui curled her lips and said after listening to her eldest son's words.
He thought to himself, if it weren't for her, the fourth brother wouldn't have become estranged from him, and he wouldn't even come back to see his own mother who was lying on the kang.
"Look at why she's so angry. It wasn't you who went to her parents' house to cause trouble, and it wouldn't have turned out like this." Gu Mingtao still couldn't understand why his mother changed so suddenly.
When the fourth son first got married, his mother was very enthusiastic.
After this person came back from accompanying the army, his attitude changed, which really caught them all off guard.
"Why should I make trouble? It's because of Niu Lili, who keeps nagging me every day." Lin Dacui got even angrier when she heard this, and couldn't help but say:
"Ever since the day the fourth son's wife married into our family, he has been saying bad things about his wife in front of me.
I didn’t take it seriously at first, but as time went by, I slowly took it to heart.
So when the fourth son’s wife came back last time, I was angry at her.
Besides, she is so old, and she is still so delicate when she is pregnant. Look at the girls in our team, they are about to give birth, but they are still working in the fields. How many children are born in the fields? "
"Mom, the fourth son's wife is different from the other wives in our team." Gu Mingtao felt his head buzzing as he listened to his mother's words.
"Why are they different? They all come from the countryside." Lin Dacui said with a pout.
"Look, look, have you forgotten what you said before? You said that the fourth son's wife is a high school student, well-educated, and spoiled at home. Now that she has come to our house, we must treat her well." Gu Mingtao sat on the stool and said seriously, imitating what his mother said before.
"Bah, I didn't know she could be so hypocritical at the time. If I had known, I would never let her enter our Gu family." Lin Dacui watched her eldest son imitate what she had said, panting with anger.
"Okay, okay, hurry up and write the letter, then go back to your room..."