Soon, a woman wearing a dark-coloured coarse cloth cross-collar top and blue trousers walked in from the courtyard. However, there were two large patches on her top and trousers.
Gu Chengyu looked at the woman in front of him. The woman's face was a bit dark, and she had a square face that was very similar to Mr. Gu's. Her eyes were a bit big. But at this time, there was a sad look on her face.
"Sister!" Gu Chengyu had met Gu Xi before. Gu Xi would visit home every second day of the Lunar New Year and usually leave after lunch.
Gu Xi doesn't talk much, and even when she comes back, she is a little unfamiliar with these younger brothers. However, it can be seen that she is quite good to the eldest brother and the second brother, because she speaks to the eldest brother and the second brother in a completely different tone and attitude.
It's different, there's a sense of intimacy that comes from the heart.
"Hey! Is Xiaobao writing? I heard that dad sent you to town?" Gu Xi saw his little brother writing and was stunned for a long time before he remembered that he heard some time ago that dad sent Xiaobao to town.
Her feelings for this little brother are undoubtedly complicated. They are not born from the same mother, so she always feels that she cannot get close to her little brother. What's more, the little brother is especially favored at home, and her father holds him in the palm of his hand.
Gu Xi looked at the face carefully. She had never seen such a beautiful little baby before. She looked very much like that woman.
She still remembered that when she was nine years old, it was the first time she met Mr. Lu. At that time, the village said that his father had found a stepmother for them again, and now she had come into the house. After hearing this, she felt panicked.
, led her younger brother to follow her eldest brother back from the fields. She had been hearing from people in the village that the stepmother would not be much better to the children born to the previous woman! She might even beat and scold them on the way back.
, she was also scared in her heart.
My father had a lot of debt because of my mother's medical treatment, so he had to work as a waiter in a restaurant in Fucheng recommended by his uncle. The monthly salary of working in Fucheng was more than that in the town. The eldest brother was already ten years old and could already support himself.
To start a family, my father would ask someone to bring money back every month. Although life was difficult, there was no need to worry.
Her family was poor and she thought her life would go on like this. Who knew that a year later, her father brought back a woman from Fucheng. She still remembers that the first time she met Lu, she was stunned. There could really be such a thing in this world.
A good-looking person?
She has a small face, snow-white and delicate skin, and a pair of eyes that are indescribably beautiful. The clothes she is wearing are made of unknown materials. The color is beautiful, and the material is something she has never seen before. If the woman hadn't stood still and stood still.
There, the expression on his face was so impatient that she almost thought she was a fairy from the sky!
But she saw that the woman was carrying a bundle, and her father was holding a small box. She understood that this woman must be the stepmother her father had brought back.
No matter what she thinks, life has to go on. On weekdays, Ms. Lu doesn't care about anything. As long as she is served food, she will eat it. After eating, she doesn't wash the dishes or anything. She just throws the bowl away and lies on the kang.
Sometimes, they would lose their temper, but her father would let them go and tell them not to make their stepmother angry. In fact, if it were her, she would not be willing to make such a good-looking person angry.
But such a day suddenly changed one day. That day, the stepmother suddenly vomited while eating, and invited the doctor to come and see her. The doctor looked at it, but said congratulations, which she couldn't understand, but her father was very happy.
She had a gut feeling that it would not be a good thing for them. Sure enough, her father said that her stepmother was going to give birth to a younger brother for them.
After that, their life became more and more difficult, because the stepmother's temper became more and more irritable, and she often scolded them for trivial matters, and sometimes even refused to feed them. From there, Gu Xi began to hate this woman,
Lu was not good to them, but her father seemed to be no longer their father, treating them no better than before.
Gu Xi fell into her memories, and Gu Chengyu was curious as to why the eldest sister looked at him with complicated eyes, but she remained motionless, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Sister!" Gu Wan sat on the kang and shouted to Gu Xi. Gu Wan felt a little strange to Gu Xi. Gu Xi got married just after she gave birth. On weekdays, she only saw her once during the New Year.
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"Xizi? Why are you back at this time?" Father Gu saw his eldest daughter and stepped into the main room. He looked at Xiaobao and wondered what he was thinking. He immediately asked.
"Dad!" Gu Xi came back to his senses after Father Gu spoke out and looked in the direction of Father Gu. Then he also saw Mrs. Lu sitting next to Father Gu.
Gu Xi paused, then shouted softly, "Mom!"
"Yeah!" Mrs. Lu didn't know what to say to this cheap girl. When she got married, Gu Xi was already nine years old, so she was only a few years older than Gu Xi.
"Xizi, have you eaten? If you haven't eaten, ask your sister-in-law to bring you something?" It takes half an hour to walk from Xialing Village to Shangling Village, and Father Gu doesn't know if Gu Xi has eaten.
"I'm not busy anymore! I've eaten." Gu Xi waved her hands and said. At this moment, she was hiding something in her heart. Even if the meat was put in front of her, she had no appetite.
"Sister, why are you back at this time? It's getting dark. When you go back, can you see the dark lights on the road? Why didn't my brother-in-law come with you?" This is Gu Chengyi and his wife who came over. Gu Chengyi heard his eldest brother shouting in the west wing.
The eldest sister came back and quickly put on her shoes and came out.
Mrs. Fang led Daya and the others into the main room.
Gu Xi usually only comes back once during the Chinese New Year, and never stays for a night when he returns home. Firstly, it is not too far away, and secondly, the Gu family's house is small and crowded, and there is no room for Gu Xi, his wife and their two children to sleep.
The married daughter was a guest when she returned to her parents' house, and it was a rare occasion to see her. Gu Chengyi and the others still missed Gu Xi.
"There is something going on at home. Your brother-in-law is at home! Dad! I heard that the family bought land?" Gu Xi turned around and asked Dad Gu.
"Ah! I bought fifty-five acres and am preparing to plow the land in the next two days! Your place is close, so I will help look after it in the future." Father Gu thought that the news had spread throughout Xialing Village some time ago, and that
It's not surprising for the eldest daughter to know.
"Didn't we spend a lot of money on that land? It's more than four hundred taels at least? Did our family really dig ginseng in the mountain?" Gu Xi still can't believe it. Such a good thing can really happen? And it's also
Did the Gu family run into him?
"Well! Xiaobao and I saw the ginseng when we went up the mountain! Your brother is lucky. Our family has sold four to five hundred taels of silver on this ginseng. Isn't that right? I just bought the land some time ago. In a few days,
We are still planning to build a house. Do you have any free time in your family? Maybe you can come and help on the day of building the house?" Even if Gu Xi doesn't come today, Father Gu plans to go to Gu Xi's house to report a message the day before building the house.
Building a house is a big deal, as my daughter and son-in-law always say.
"We still need to build a house? Yes, we have a big family, and we really can't live in it without building a house." Gu Xi didn't find it strange when he heard this. The Gu family should have built a house a long time ago. They have money to buy land, so they can build a few more houses.
, we can’t miss this amount of money.
Of course, that's because she doesn't know yet that the Gu family is going to build a large blue brick house with two entrances, otherwise, she will definitely be shocked.
"That's the reason. After the house is built, you and your son-in-law can live in the house with their children when you return to your parents' home." Father Gu didn't mention the matter of building a large brick house with tiles at the moment. Anyway, he will know about it in the future.
. He guessed that the eldest daughter had something to do when she came back so late, and maybe it was related to the corvee he was talking about during the day.
Gu Chengyu had already put away his pen and ink, and expected that he would not be able to write today. The eldest sister came so late, so she must have gone to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. She didn't need to think about it, she already knew what it was.