Gu Shuo raised his hand and touched Gu Shu's head, "Well, I'm back!"
Grabbed a handful of candies from the storage bag: "Here!"
Gu Shu's eyes lit up, he quickly put the candy into his pocket, peeled off a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, then narrowed his eyes.
"Brother Shuo!"
"Brother Shuo!"
The group of children ran over one after another and surrounded Gu Shuo. Gu Shuo began to divide the candy. While doing so, he asked Gu Shu:
"Is my family okay?"
"Yeah!" Gu Mu nodded.
Gu Shuo patted Gu Mu on the head and walked towards home, with the children following behind him noisily.
The commotion alarmed Gujia Village. Men and women walked out of the door one after another, and then they recognized Gu Shuo. After all, they had only been separated for less than two years.
"Shuozi is back."
"Xiaowu of the Gu family is back!"
"Third uncle, I'm back!"
"Auntie, your body and bones are still so strong."
"…………"
When Gu Shuo saw these people, a stream of memories came to his mind. While greeting the neighbors, he walked towards his home. There were children who had already gone to report the news.
"Xiao Wu!" A man who looked similar to Gu Shuo but was much older strode towards him with a look of surprise on his face.
"Second brother!"
Gu Shuo's heart was filled with emotions and his eyes were moist as he faced his second brother.
"It's really you! It's great to be back. Is it hard to be in Qingyun Sect?" The second brother looked concerned.
"Shuiko!"
An old voice sounded, and the crowd parted, and they saw an old man walking slowly with a cane.
"Clan leader!"
"Chief!" the crowd shouted.
Patriarch Gu Mu saw Gu Shuo's clothes and the blue cloud on Gu Shuo's chest, and his turbid eyes lit up:
"Have you entered the Immortal Sect?"
The people around him were silent. They had just ignored Gu Shuo's clothes. At this time, they couldn't help but focus on Gu Shuo, especially the blue cloud on his chest.
"Finally someone noticed!"
A bright smile immediately appeared on Gu Shuo's face: "Chief, this boy is lucky enough to step into the Immortal Sect."
"Tsk tsk..." The patriarch walked up to Gu Shuo, stretched out his cane and pulled Gu Shuo's second brother aside, staring at the blue cloud on Gu Shuo's chest:
"It is not that there are no people in Gujia Village who have entered the Immortal Sect, and there are even those with higher cultivation levels, but you are really the first to enter the Immortal Sect within two years. This is the glory of Gujia Village, and it is also the spirit of the ancestors of the Gujia Village!
Shuozi, first come with me to the ancestral hall to pay homage to our ancestors."
"good!"
After a lot of trouble, by the time Gu Shuo returned home with his parents, it was already night.
A large family gathered in their parents' yard. The eldest brother and the second brother were married and each had a child. The eldest brother's child was a son, and the second brother's child was a daughter. A family of fourteen people gathered around.
Sitting at a big table, poor people are not so particular about it, so even their two children sit at the table.
My parents and two sisters-in-law arranged a meal, including fish and meat. The fish was caught by my third brother, and the meat was from the only three chickens in the family, one of which was killed by the old mother. The rest were some home-cooked dishes.
Both children stared at the only meat dish, chicken, and kept swallowing their saliva.
Gu Shuo did not take out the things he brought immediately. He always wanted to give his family a way to express their welcome and let himself and this body experience family affection.
"Shuozi, eat!" Mother picked up a chicken leg and put it in Gushuo's bowl, her eyes full of heartache: "You shouldn't have been allowed to go to Qingyun Sect in the first place. I don't know how much you suffered.
A handyman should not be treated like a human being as soon as he hears it."
"Don't talk nonsense!" his father scolded: "Shuozi is now a member of the Immortal Sect. How could Shuozi be where he is today if he stayed at home?"
The elder brother, younger brother, and sister-in-law were all silent, and the mother murmured in a low voice: "You just saw Shuozi enter the immortal sect, but you didn't see the hardships Shuozi suffered. Shuozi, tell me how you ended up in Qingyun Sect."
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Gu Shuo thought for a while and then recounted the life of an ordinary handyman disciple. He couldn't say that he didn't suffer much in his life. If he said it was too easy, his brothers would inevitably want to join Qingyun.
Zong. He was not opposed to his elder brother and younger brother entering the Qingyun Sect. In the Qingyun Sect, he could still take care of his elder brother and younger brother to some extent. But after his elder brother and younger brother entered the sect, he found that his mentality was not what he said.
It would be unbearable. So he told other people's stories in an orderly manner, impartially, with difficulties but also hope. Hearing this made the old mother burst into tears.
The meal lasted for more than an hour. During the dinner, I learned that the third brother already had a lover, but the family was in trouble and could not afford to marry him. I asked the third brother and he was also interested, but his family did not agree.
The eight men of the Gu family are the food holes. They are so poor that they don’t have enough to eat every day, otherwise Gu Shuo would not have been able to go to the Qingyun Sect.
"Father, mother, let's go into the house and talk. Big brother, second brother, you guys come in too." Gu Shuo stood up.
The two sisters-in-law and other brothers stayed in the yard, with some speculation in their minds. They looked at the closed door of the main hall, full of expectation.
Inside the hall.
Gu Shuo took out a thousand taels of gold, which immediately made his parents, eldest and second brothers in the room look stunned.
"Eldest brother, second brother." Gu Shuo took out one hundred taels of gold, divided it into two parts, each of fifty taels, and gave it to the eldest brother and second brother: "My parents are here, so we can't separate. But you two also have to have something."
Money. Let the two sisters-in-law hold their chests high at their parents' house. Each of you will have fifty taels."
"This..." The two people's eyes were bright, but they still looked at their father.
"Take it, your brother gave it to you." The wrinkles on my father's face also broke out into a smile.
"Xiao Wu, thank you." The two brothers held up the gold, their faces flushed with excitement.
"Father, mother, of the remaining nine hundred taels, if any brother or younger brother gets married, I will give them fifty taels."
"Yeah!" Dad and mom nodded.
"So there are still six hundred taels left. Take out two hundred taels and rebuild the house and build a big garden so that the family can live in a spacious place. Even if the elder brother and younger brother get married again, they will live in a spacious place. Two hundred taels should be enough.
Alright?"
"Enough, enough, this is gold." Mother nodded repeatedly: "And we will use the villagers, who will take care of the food when the time comes. When other people build houses, your brothers will also help, and they will also take care of the food."
"Mom, in addition to taking care of the food, we should give you some wages. Our family is not short of money."
"But your brothers worked for nothing before!"
"Just do as Xiao Wu said." The father knocked on the table with his pipe pot.
"The remaining four hundred taels will be left for my parents to take care of themselves in old age. I will bring back some chickens, ducks, fish, meat and grain. I will set up a few tables tomorrow and invite the clan chiefs and village elders. Then I will talk to them about building a house. Yes.