Chapter 20: Something's Wrong with You
Gu Lianshan nodded in agreement: "You know what, your grandfather and your grandmother did think so. Your grandmother even planned to send the eldest son and his wife to the imperial examination if there was another flood."
Gu Tang: ...Feng is thinking that if you don’t have enough strength, you can make up for it with luck?
"Eat. You didn't eat last night. Eat a little first. Dad will go to the village to ask if there are any people who go into the mountains to catch stone chickens. If there are, Dad will buy one with copper coins and kill it for you at noon."
Gu Lianshan knew that Gu Tang didn't like millet porridge, but there was really nothing available at the moment. Even the salty and bitter pickles were locked in the cabinet in the main room by his mother.
This was his mother's usual method of controlling the second wife. Whenever the second wife did not do what she wanted, her mother would immediately cut off her food supply.
"No, I'm still setting traps on the mountain. I'll go up the mountain in a while. If I can catch a rabbit, I'll kill one and eat it today."
Gu Tang gritted his teeth and said this, taking a deep breath, picking up the bowl and swallowing in big gulps, not wanting to savor it at all. The more he savored, the harder it was to swallow.
The tasteless paste is sticky and irritating to the throat. It tastes a bit like snot in the mouth, and a bit like the slugs we played with when we were children...
Hiccup——
I can’t think about it. I’m going to vomit if I think about it again!
Gu Tang put down the bowl and rushed out of the kitchen immediately.
The pastries she bought yesterday were in her backpack. She went back to her room, took out a few pieces and ate them to suppress the nausea in her throat.
The pastries here have less oil and sugar, and are as dry and hard as unleavened cakes. The taste is really bad, but compared to millet porridge, Gu Tang still prefers to eat pastries, because at least they have a hint of sweetness.
He returned to the house and took out a packet. Gu Tang frowned and ate two pieces. He couldn't swallow any more.
Suddenly, I felt an endless sense of frustration.
This time travel is such a living torture!
Eat, eat poorly.
Wearing it won’t keep you warm.
And then you still get scolded and humiliated!
This is simply not a life for human beings!
Gu Tang felt a surge of anger in his heart, and he cursed the bastard soul-catcher a thousand times again.
Taking the remaining cakes back to the kitchen, Gu Tang distributed all the cakes to her father and stepbrother.
"Dad is a healthy person, why would he eat this? Don't waste it!" Gu Lianshan refused to take it and waved his hands repeatedly, "Put it away carefully and eat a piece when you feel hungry. Dad doesn't like to eat this."
Seeing that his father refused to take it, Gu Ping'an obediently put the cake back even though his mouth was drooling. He stared at the cake for a long time before moving his eyes away.
Gu Tang frowned, "I don't like to hear that. What do you mean by wasting things? The father and son of the eldest house buy a bag of cakes every now and then to sweeten their mouths. Even such a useless person can eat them, so why can't you?"
As he said that, he took a piece of cake and stuffed it into Gu Ping'an's mouth, letting him eat first: "Don't pay attention to Dad, just eat yours."
Then he side-glanced at her father and said, "It's just a few cakes. How can they be as expensive as the green wine yesterday?"
Gu Ping'an was stuffing pastries into his mouth, and he choked immediately when he heard these words!
He grabbed the ladle, scooped up some warm water from the clay stove and took a few big gulps, finally swallowing the pastry in his throat.
He coughed twice and asked in a low voice: "Did Dad really buy green wine?!"
"I bought it. It cost me a hundred coppers."
"Where's the wine?" Gu Ping'an asked curiously.
“It’s all gone.”
Gu Ping'an was dumbfounded: "You ate it all right after you bought it?"
"Nonsense!" Gu Lianshan's face turned red. "Who said they ate it all? There was still some left yesterday!"
"Where is it?"
"Why... are you asking this?!" Gu Lianshan hid the remaining green wine and did not tell anyone. When he heard his son's question, he looked suspicious.
Gu Ping'an licked his face and smiled apologetically: "Dad, please let me have a taste... Ouch!" Before he could finish his words, he was slapped on the head by Gu Tang!
"I think you deserve a beating! You're so young, yet you're addicted to alcohol! Tell me! How many times have you cheated on me?" Gu Tang looked angry.
This is the "investment stock" she chose. If she loses her brain because of drinking, she will be so angry!
“No, no, no!” Gu Ping’an waved his hands hastily. “I have never drunk wine secretly! It was Gu Tianbao who showed off in front of me, saying that my uncle gave him wine. I heard him say it was so good, so I wanted to try it too…”
"Don't even think about it!" Gu Tang interrupted him directly, "If I find out that you're drinking behind people's backs, watch out for your skin!"
Gu Ping'an was so scared that he shrank his neck and kept saying he didn't dare.
Gu Lianshan laughed and scolded: "You deserve it! You are greedy!"
"Second brother! Get out!"
As they were talking, Feng's angry shout suddenly came from the main room.
The smile on Gu Lianshan's face disappeared immediately.
Gu Tang took a glance, put away the pastries with swift hands, and stuffed them all to Gu Ping'an, asking him to hide them and eat them slowly.
"I'm afraid you're here to ask about the rabbit skin." Gu Tang gathered the rabbit skin on his body and lowered his head to admire it for a few seconds.
Well, the more she looked at it, the more beautiful it became. She couldn’t wait to show it in front of Feng.
Gu Lianshan's face darkened. Needless to say, he knew that his parents were too short-sighted to even see. Now that they knew his daughter had rabbit skins, they must be anxiously thinking about how to ask for it! .
Taking a deep breath, he didn't want to see his mother at all at this moment.
But Feng was still yelling in the main hall: "Second brother! Second brother! What! Now even I, your mother, can't call you?"
"Dad, you're not going out? Then I'll go out." Gu Tang didn't care about her father's reaction and walked out of the house happily.
When Gu Lianshan saw her eager look, his right eyelid twitched and he hurriedly followed her.
"Grandma, you're yelling for trouble so early in the morning, don't you think it's unlucky?"
Gu Tang arrived before he did, and as soon as he finished speaking, he left the kitchen.
Feng put her hands on her hips, her gloomy old face drooped. When she heard this, she was so angry that her face twitched.
When Gu Tang came out, Feng saw that he was really wrapped in a rabbit skin blanket. She became furious and started scolding Gu Tang.
"You ungrateful bitch! Are you talking to me? I'm your grandmother! You have no respect for others, you bastard! If the tribe knows about this, I'll put you in a pig cage tomorrow!"
"Don't wait until tomorrow! Go and tell them now and see whether the clan believes you or me!" Gu Tang's voice was louder than hers.
Gu Tang pointed outside the courtyard and said, "You just stay at home and show off to the younger generation! In recent years, you haven't even left the courtyard. What do you say about being a virtuous woman who never leaves the front door or the back door? Ha! Do you really think I don't know what's going on here?"
Feng's body froze for a moment, her ears buzzed as if with thunder, and her vision went dark.
What followed was a surge of anger rushing straight to my head!
"You lowly little whore! I don't know which gossip you listened to, and now you come back to frame me! I'm going to kill you today, or I'll never see anyone alive again!"
Her eyes were red, her cheeks were twisted, and she stared at Gu Tang with a fierce and sinister look. Her voice was so sharp that it was almost breaking, which made people shudder!
After cursing, Feng frantically looked around for something handy. From the look of her face, it seemed that she really wanted to beat Gu Tang to death.
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