In the evening, my wife would bring back some cooked meat and a few handfuls of vegetables, sometimes roasted pork belly or roast chicken, sometimes roast duck or braised goose.
He could eat such delicious meat one meal a day, and he didn't have to worry about his younger brother or sister-in-law being malnourished.
They have just started a small family and their income is not stable yet. As brothers, we should help them whenever we can.
"The rice is cooked and the vegetables have been washed." Gu Qi explained: "Wait for them to come back and cook, then we can eat."
He is not very good at cooking, he can only steam rice and wash vegetables.
Gu Yi had little rice or vegetables at noon, and was already starving.
"Brother, how about I cook? We can have dinner right away when sister-in-law and Xiao Xing come back."
Gu Qi asked doubtfully: "Can you cook?"
"Of course." Gu Yi explained with a smile: "When I went to the countryside, I was in charge of the food for our team of educated youth for two or three years. I learned a little bit about frying, stir-frying and cooking."
"You-why didn't you cook before?" Gu Qi couldn't help asking.
Gu Yi shrugged, "Xiao Xing can do it! I can just help out, housework has to be done by women. Brother, don't say I didn't remind you! Once you do housework, you have to do it all in the future. There are some rules that we men must stick to and can't just give up casually."
"What are the rules?" Gu Qi frowned slightly. "What are the rules?"
Gu Yili answered confidently: "Housework is supposed to be done by women. We can help out a little, but we can't take it all on. If you take it all on, you'll be miserable in the future!"
Gu Qi pulled the corner of his mouth and asked back: "Home belongs to you and Xiao Xing, right? She has to make money to help support the family, and you also have to make money to support the family. Why should she have to do all the housework when she comes home, while you are helping her by doing it?"
Gu Yi was speechless for a moment.
The elder brother did not give him any face and scolded him: "The ancients said that men are responsible for the outside affairs and women are responsible for the inside affairs. If you can earn money to support the family by yourself and take care of everything, Xiaoxing will rely on you for support and she will do more housework, then it is reasonable. But the facts have proved that you can do it? Relying on you to earn money, the small family is tight, so Xiaoxing has to help earn money. In this case, shouldn't you share the housework? It's a family job, do we need to care about you and me? What are you talking about!"
Gu Yi shrank his neck and said in a low voice with grievance: "Brother, I...aren't most men like this? I'm not the first one."
"If others can do this, can you do this?" Gu Qi said coldly, "Is your wife yours? Or someone else's? If you don't feel sorry for your wife, will others feel sorry for you? If there is a problem in your family one day and your wife hates you like a mountain, will others care about you and help you? Ah?"
Gu Yi nodded repeatedly after being taught a lesson. He quickly took the chopping board, cleaned it, and started cutting vegetables.
Little Tiger was giggling on the side.
Gu Yi glared at him secretly and buried his head in his work seriously.
Gu Qi picked up the broom and cleaned up the water stains.
"Even if Xiao Xing doesn't need to help earn money to support the family in the future, you can't have such thoughts. There are houseworks every day, and three meals a day must be eaten every day. There is really a lot of work. If you do more, Xiao Xing can do less, and one more person to help can save half the time. If you stay at home every day and do only housework, would you like it?"
"...No." Gu Yi laughed bitterly: "I will probably collapse."
Gu Qi said in a deep voice: "Put yourself in her shoes and think about it. Don't let your wife suffer for the sake of a man's face."
In his opinion, men who don't even care about their own wives either don't love their wives or are mentally ill.
Hardworking and kind-hearted fathers' wives like Xing'er and Xiaoxing help to make money to support the family outside and are busy with various tasks at home. How can we not cherish such virtuous and hardworking fathers' wives!
Gu Yi didn't dare to refute and just buried his head in cooking.
The little tiger on the side added slyly: "What is face? Is it noodles? Can it be eaten? How much is it worth?"
Forehead?
Gu Yi's face flushed red and he secretly glared at Xiao Huzi.
"What the hell do you know, little brat! Who taught you to talk like that?"
Little Tiger laughed: "That's what Wang Qin and Senior Brother Li said! I thought it was interesting, so I quoted it here!"
"Go away!" Gu Yi laughed and scolded, "Little brat, you are imitating the way adults talk!"
Gu Qi took his son down from the stool and threw a rag to him.
"Go, clean the dining table."
Little Tiger went there happily.
Quickly, Gu Yi fried the dishes.
Gu Qi brought the dishes to the table and casually instructed, "Wash them clean and wipe the stove."
"Oh oh." Gu Yi hurriedly did as he was told.
When Chen Xingling came back exhausted with Xiao Xing in his car, the vegetables had been cooked and the rice was on the table.
Gu Yi took out the roast chicken hanging in front of his bicycle, chopped it up a few times, put it on a plate, and brought it to the table.
"Wow!" Chen Xingling praised, "It's the first time I get home and wash my hands before I can eat - it's amazing!"
Zhao Xiaoxing was also deeply moved and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"Yes...I think so too."
Gu Yi saw that she was tanned a lot, her face was dark and red, her brows were full of fatigue from work, her clothes were covered with dust, and her cloth shoes were stained with dirt. He couldn't help but feel his heart twitching.
Big brother is right to scold!
If he could make a lot of money and take care of the family, Xiao Xing wouldn't have to go out to do such hard work. But he still cared about "the so-called man's face" and wanted to be lazy!
——What a fucking bastard!
He said softly, "Xing'er, eat quickly."
"Hey!" Zhao Xiaoxing smiled happily, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.
After dinner, some people washed the dishes, some cleaned up, and some swept the floor, and everything was cleaned up quickly.
Gu Yi and Zhao Xiaoxing went back, and Gu Qi took his son upstairs to take a bath.
Chen Xingling went to the study room with his schoolbag on his back, quickly finished the homework assigned by the teacher, and carefully registered today's purchase order for the construction site and the daily workers' payroll.
There are not many classes in college. There are more than 60 students in two accounting classes. We are crowded into one classroom every day, and it is packed with people.
Accounting was her major, and she glanced at the textbooks handed out and found that they were all basic courses, which were a piece of cake for her.
There are not many classes in the first semester, eighteen classes a week, and there are no classes in most afternoons.
She was not a boarding student and had a lot of freedom, so she often went to the construction site to work and didn't care whether the teacher called her name or not.
Nowadays, most students love to study. They are rarely late or leave early, and skipping classes is even rarer.
Because of this, almost all teachers did not take roll call. In addition, the two classes often had classes together, with dozens of students gathered together, and the teachers could not find out who was missing.
The construction site is close to Chongqing University, so she often goes to class before the last period, asks her classmates what homework they have that day, then goes to class the next morning, and then looks for an opportunity to skip class and slip away.
Compared to her "audacity", Ma Dali seemed much more cautious.
The teaching major was easier, with fewer classes and the content of the texts was not difficult. Ma Dali found it easy to study on his own and secretly disliked the time wasted in class, so he also skipped classes and went to the construction site like her.
He was very nervous at first, but gradually he found that he could keep up with the progress by studying at night, so he started to skip classes every day.
While Chen Xingling did his homework and read books at night, he stayed up all night studying at the construction site. He put down his hoe and picked up his pen only after dark. He would get up early and usually work for an hour or two before going to school.
On the first day of construction, Chen Xingling asked the workers to build three small houses on the side. One was used as a temporary kitchen, one was used as a temporary office and Ma Dali's bedroom, and the last one was a bathroom.
There are still occasional thunderstorms during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chongqing. Once heavy rain comes, people hide in the kitchen or office without worrying about having nowhere to hide from the rain.
Ma Dali liked the temporary office very much. He moved in the day after the construction started. He had three meals a day and kept watch there at night. He almost treated the construction site as his own home.
With him guarding closely and her keeping a close eye on it, the project is currently progressing very smoothly and Uncle Liao is very satisfied.
"Xing'er!" Gu Qi walked in with wet hair, wearing a white shirt and shorts, with a fresh and gentle temperament: "Are you done with your work? Go take a shower quickly, I've diluted the water."
Chen Xingling answered.
Little Tiger followed behind and said with a smile: "Mom, please go upstairs quickly. Dad and I are going to play chess tonight!"
As Chen Xingling packed his schoolbag, he said, "We're just going to play chess. Bring the chessboard upstairs and turn off the lights downstairs."
"No." Gu Qi explained: "Brother Liu may come over as a guest."
Speaking of Cao Yao, here she comes.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door!
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