By the time Lao Gutou found out, Changsheng had been able to squat for an hour on her own, but her face was still pale. Her health was so bad that she couldn't bear this level of training.
It happened that on this day, Changsheng was squatting in the corner of the yard, smoking a cigarette with his head absentmindedly, when slow footsteps gradually approached, and then he knocked on the door.
"Second child, it's me."
Changsheng saw Lao Gu move his head, but did not get up. The person who knocked on the door saw no movement. After a pause, he opened the door directly, and then he saw an old man and a young man doing their own thing.
He was an old man with gray beard and hair, very thin, his face was as full of wrinkles as Lao Gu's head, and he only had a pair of eyes, which were deep and firm.
He stood at the gate and looked at his half-brother. For a moment, a strange aura arose between the two of them. It was an atmosphere that I don't know how to describe in words.
.The two of them are obviously each other's only brothers, but when they meet now, they don't look like brothers, friends don't look like friends, and enemies don't look like enemies.
After a long time, the old man took the lead and slowly walked over. Old Gu, who had been in low spirits for the past two days, slowly straightened his back, as if he had returned to his youth, still the stubborn and powerful Erlang of the Gu family.
This pair of brothers had actually not seen each other for a long time, but when they met now, they both felt that they were still damn familiar with each other.
Village Chief Gu looked away from his brother's stern eyes and looked at Changsheng who was immersed in Zamabu, and couldn't help but frown.
"Is this the granddaughter you recognize?"
Without waiting for Lao Gutou to answer, Village Chief Gu frowned and looked up and down at Changsheng for a while.
"She looks like she is only five or six years old, so you ask her to walk on horseback? Aren't you afraid of ruining her body? Were you so impatient when you first started learning martial arts?"
"What does this have to do with you?"
Village Chief Gu was choked, but he didn't come here for immortality in the first place. When he saw Old Gu talking to him, he directly stated his purpose of coming.
"The outside of the village is not peaceful these days. The village has decided to form a guard team. You are also considered the most skilled person in the village. If you have nothing to do these days, you can teach the young men a thing or two. Don't worry, the village will not
I'm treating you badly, I'll give you money on a daily basis, and I'll also subsidize you with some food..."
"Did I say I was going?"
Lao Gutou sneered and refused directly.
"I'm just a veteran, how can I teach others? I'd better leave it to them to understand. I'm very busy and have no time!"
"Aside from hunting in the mountains, do you have other serious things to do all day long? You don't farm, so where do you get the food? Why don't you just watch these prey?"
Old Gutou looked at Village Chief Gu expressionlessly, his expression colder than ever before.
"I don't farm because my mother gave all that land to whom?"
Village Chief Gu looked uncomfortable for a moment, but then his face turned ugly after what Old Gutou said next.
"Sometimes I really wonder, between the two of us, who is mother's biological son."
"What did you say?!"
"Isn't it? I am mother's biological son, but I have nothing! I was the one who went to be a soldier, and I was the one who narrowly escaped death on the battlefield! It was me who had nothing after I came back! I was said to be worse than
It was me who died outside! I was her biological son. In the end, I didn’t even get an acre of land! You took everything, now come here and be a good person in front of me! Gu Quan
!Do you think what you say is interesting?"
Village Chief Gu's face became increasingly ugly, but Old Gu Tou still hadn't finished speaking. He was in a bad mood these days, and Village Chief Gu just bumped into him. Who else could he scold him?!
I saw Lao Gu changing his head to a more comfortable position and looking coldly at Village Chief Gu, who was clearly standing but not as comfortable as he was.
"Back then, you were weak, so you went to study, okay! I didn't mind! I went to be a blacksmith, I went to learn a craft, and I could still live a good life! I was diligent, neither stealing nor robbing, and I was filial to my parents.
Dear brother and sister, I have clearly never done anything to harm anyone! In the end, it was me who lost everything! Do you know what my mother said to me before she died? She said, 'Why did you come back?
What? What will your eldest brother do when you come back? What will the people in the village think of your eldest brother? 'Listen, listen! This is what my mother said to her son!"
"I know she has been partial to you since she was a child! But this partiality is too much!"
"You are so presumptuous! That's our mother! How dare you treat her..."
"Gu Quan, I'll tell you! Don't drag your scholar's book in front of me! Brothers and sisters respect each other, so the elder brother has to be the first, and the younger brother is the last! I don't believe you can't see your mother's preference for you.
It hurts, but you just enjoy all this with peace of mind! Not only do you think it is natural, but you also feel it is not enough! It was not you who was eating the wind and drinking sand in the frontier! It was not you who was almost hacked to death on the battlefield! In the cold winter, you even have a fever in your mouth.
It’s not you who can’t even drink water! It’s not you who has lost a leg!”
"Since you are not me and have not suffered what I have suffered, don't pretend to be a good person here! Because you are not worthy! Want to show your brother's record in front of me? Okay, then you have to suffer all the sins I have suffered, otherwise
, you don’t deserve to stand here and say these words to me!”
This series of words was spoken directly by Lao Gutou without even thinking about it. It can be seen that he has been holding it in his heart for many years.
For so many years, the young people in the village only thought that Lao Gutou was a stubborn old man. He was the only brother of the village chief, but he did not do his job properly and always had a gloomy face. He did not look like a good person. But what about all the unfair treatment he received?
Who would say a word more for him? He was just a teenager at that time. When he went to the battlefield, his legs were shaking. When he cut down the first enemy, he vomited all night when he went back! Who of his relatives was worried about him?
?
On the battlefield, his comrades would be stabbed to save him, but at home, his loved ones would stab him in the heart!
This is a relative...
Ah!
Hasn't he been sad and sad in these years? But all of this is of no use! Now that I think of his usefulness, I come to him. I really think that I am the legendary filial son and don't care about anything!
What a beautiful thought!
Village Chief Gu's face turned red from suppressing his emotions. He really didn't expect that his second brother, who didn't like to talk before, would become so eloquent that he couldn't even utter a word to refute him. In fact, deep down in his heart
, he knew what Lao Gutou said was right.
It's just that he doesn't want to admit it.
Even though he has read books from saints and sages for so many years, he is still a common person. Being a common person will have greed, anger, obsession, hatred, and jealousy.
Now looking at the stubborn and unconvinced expression on Lao Gu's wrinkled face, Village Chief Gu saw in a trance the high-spirited young man from back then, as swift as the wind and as vigorous as the sprouts sprouting in spring.