Chapter 49: Compared with Si Ya? No hope!
The two sisters lowered their heads, and it was impossible to see the expressions on their faces. They said nothing and just stood there obediently to be scolded.
Gu Liansheng became annoyed when he saw how cowardly they were: "Look at how useless you two are! You are both girls, but look at this little girl! She is only seven or eight years old and she only knows how to get money from her family!
What about you? One of you is sneaky and cunning, and the other is timid! It would be better to raise a dog than you! At least a dog can guard the door and bark a few times! "
The two sisters' eyes turned red with embarrassment at these words, and Gu Lian even wiped her tears and sobbed.
Gu Liansheng became even angrier!
He grabbed the pillow on the bed and threw it at me: "How dare you cry?! What did you accomplish that I told you to do?
I asked you sisters to look for your mother, but you didn't find her! Now I asked you to follow Si Ya into the mountains, but you actually got lost in the mountains?! Tell me, what else can you do?!"
The two sisters still said nothing, but this time they stopped crying.
This attitude cannot be said to be bad, but Gu Liansheng just felt aggrieved and angry!
After a while, he seemed to be discouraged and drove the two sisters away with a gloomy face.
He and Gu Tianbao were the only ones left in the room.
Gu Tianbao was like a quail, hiding aside with his neck shrunk, not daring to breathe, for fear that his father's anger would spread to him.
But after the sisters Gu Qing and Gu Lian left, the atmosphere in the room became more depressing and suffocating, and Gu Tianbao's scalp felt numb.
He glanced at his father stealthily, swallowed his saliva, and asked tentatively: "Dad? You haven't taken your medicine today, shall I go and make some for you?"
Hearing his son's concern, Gu Liansheng's mood warmed up.
Although his son is a little stupid, he is still very filial to his father.
"Why would you be needed to make medicine? Just ask your elder sister and the second sister to do it, and you can sit down and continue reading your book."
Gu Tianbao breathed a sigh of relief.
Judging from the tone of his father's voice, he should not be angry with him.
"Then I'll go call my eldest sister and second sister."
The fear that lingered in his heart disappeared, and Gu Tianbao returned to his usual natural self, walking briskly out to call for help.
So, the two sisters, who had just been scolded, came to the corridor with downcast faces to boil medicine.
In the past, this was Gu Lian’s job, and Gu Qing would always find various excuses to avoid it.
Between the two sisters, Wei favors Gu Qing, so even though Gu Lian knows that she is lazy and unwilling to work, she doesn't dare to complain.
But at this moment, Gu Qing would also be scolded, and Wei was not at home, so no one would stand on her side.
She wanted to continue hiding, but Gu Lian would not tolerate her and told her bluntly that either they should go to the corridor to boil medicine together, or neither of them should go and wait to be scolded again.
Gu Qing is not Gu Lian. She is used to being scolded and is a bit like a tough guy. She is not that thick-skinned, so she can only agree to go and boil the medicine together.
The stove in the corridor was about to be lit, and Feng, who heard the noise in the main room, came out with a bag of medicine.
"Boil your grandfather's medicine as well." Feng handed over the medicine without any hesitation and ordered the two sisters to do it, which was very easy.
Facing Feng, the two sisters didn't dare to show any dignity. They nodded, took the medicine bag, and lit another stove.
Feng stared at them for a while, and when she couldn't find any fault with them, she ignored the two sisters and went back to the house.
It's much warmer inside the house than outside in such a cold day.
After Feng closed the door, Gu Qing put down the medicine bag and cursed in a low voice with a frown: "Is everyone in this family sick and unable to get out of bed? How can they be ordered around by us?!"
"Hush..." Gu Lian glared at her hastily, "If you want to say this, you have to go back to the house and say it! If you say it outside, what if Si Ya hears it? You don't know if she will scold you!"
Gu Qing's face froze, and he instantly became angry.
Just as he was about to explode, he saw the door of the west wing opposite was pushed open, and Gu Tang walked out of the room with his sleeves rolled up.
Gu Qing's expression changed immediately. He lowered his head hastily and pretended to add firewood to the stove. He no longer dared to say anything nonsense.
Gu Lian also shuddered subconsciously. Not to mention raising her head, even her movements became much lighter, for fear that Gu Tang would find fault with her and accuse her of making noise.
Gu Tang glanced at the two sisters and ignored them. He just shouted towards the kitchen: "Ping An! Light the stove and boil some hot water."
"Got it." Gu Ping'an's voice came from the kitchen. He was very obedient. He boiled hot water when asked to do so without even asking the reason.
Gu Lian took a secret glance and felt very jealous.
Although Tianbao sometimes protects himself, to be fair, he is not as obedient as Gu Ping'an.
Fortunately, Tianbao’s strength is not being obedient, his strength is studying.
When she passes the imperial examination in the future, she will also be able to benefit from it. Not to mention, when she gets married, she will be looked up to by her husband's family!
Ping'an is different. No matter how obedient he is, he is just a peasant digging for food in the fields. He has no skills and no means of livelihood. Even if he wants to help Si Ya in the future, who will care about him?
Si Ya is even less presentable!
Which girl is like her, going into the mountains and showing off her face every day, with a unique and strong personality? Her mother said that girls from decent families all value chastity, tranquility and gentleness!
Si Ya's personality is very much like that of a man. Which man would be willing to marry a wife who is more powerful than himself?
The more Gu Lian thought about it, the more proud she felt, and the frustration in her heart dissipated a lot.
Noticing the furtive glances from the opposite side, Gu Tang ignored them and went straight to the kitchen to get the knife.
When they saw the knife, sisters Gu Qing and Gu Lian turned pale and shrank back, trying to reduce their presence.
Gu Tang didn't hold the knife to scare them. She took out all the tied rabbits and pheasants from the house, sat on the porch and started to skin and bleed them.
First, Gu Tang cut the necks of the two pheasants, collected the blood in a bowl, and threw them into the yard, leaving them to struggle and flutter as they pleased. It wouldn't be long before they died.
After killing the chicken, Gu Tang broke the necks of the two rabbits, and then began to skin and gut them.
The two sisters were so frightened by Gu Tang's skillful technique that their eyes could not move!
I always feel that Si Ya did this on purpose for them to see!
After cleaning the rabbit, the hot water for Gu Ping'an was also boiled.
Gu Tang called him out to scald and pluck the chicken, and then give it to her to gut it later.
When Gu Ping'an saw her kill two chickens and two rabbits, his mouth immediately filled with saliva. He happily scooped up some hot water and squatted under the porch to scald the chickens and pluck their feathers.
Taking advantage of this time, Gu Tang took the cleaned rabbit to the kitchen to wash it, then chopped it into small pieces and put it in a clay pot, added water and put it on the stove to blanch it.
After the rabbit was blanched, Gu Ping'an also took out the chicken.
He didn't let Gu Tang do the gutting, as he could do it himself. After plucking all the feathers, he gutted the two chickens and cleaned them up.
Keep the edible offal and put the inedible ones aside for now and use them as bait to catch fish.
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