By the time the rented oxcart arrived at Shangling Village, it was already afternoon and early afternoon.
Sun Xian and Ye Zhiqiu had already got off the ox-cart in the town and were about to take the ox-cart back. Gu Chengyu got off the ox-cart with the large bags and bundles brought from the county town, and gave the toys in the bundles to Gu Wanhua.
Gu Chengyu and Dad Gu entered the yard. Gu Chengyu wanted to call out to tell his mother that they were back! But before he could call out, he heard a burst of noise coming from the inner courtyard of the Gu family.
Gu Chengyu asked Father Gu to go in first, and then he hurriedly put the things in his hands into the small cubicle in the study room without tidying them up, and then rushed to the backyard.
"Hmph! Tao'er! We are still your brothers and sisters-in-law after all, right? How can you be so heartless? In the past few years, you have gotten married, and you haven't even mentioned coming back to see your parents. Your parents are still alive! Now they are 20 years old
You are not young anymore. I miss you so much that I want to come and see you. We are brothers and sisters, so we brought two old people here. I didn’t expect that when my mother-in-law is here, you won’t even let us drink water? "
One of the high-pitched sopranos seemed to pierce the sky, speaking angrily, as if she had been greatly wronged.
This high-pitched shouting has already attracted the Zhang family's daughter-in-law next door to poke her head in. At this time, she was standing outside the courtyard door of the Gu family, peering in. The Gu family is now a wealthy family, and the house is on the second floor, so she is too embarrassed to enter other people's homes at will.
's yard.
"What did you say back then? You said that my Gu family was poor and I would never come to your door again. Now you are blaming me. For what you said, go and ask who's family in Dayang Village
Didn’t you hear? Just bring anyone here and they can testify for me. Don’t I miss my parents? Isn’t it because you don’t let me go back to see my parents?”
In the two years after Lu's marriage, she went back every year and festival. However, her brother and sister-in-law disliked her family's poverty, so they always made sarcastic comments to them, and sometimes even made sarcastic remarks. Her parents had to live in the hands of their son again, although they felt distressed.
The daughter, however, was still afraid that her son would be angry, so she no longer cared about the old couple, so she often had to advise her to be patient. Mrs. Lu had always been very angry, so how could she bear this anger? No, they had not been in contact with each other for many years.
Gu Chengyu was a little strange. Normally, if we haven't interacted with each other for a few years, we would naturally be in peace, but why are we here today?
"Mom! Dad and I are back!" Gu Chengyu saw that Mrs. Lu was a little excited, so she stepped forward to comfort her.
"It's Xiaobao who's back? Come here and let me see if you've lost weight?" Sure enough, when Mrs. Lu saw that her youngest son was back, she immediately smiled. She had been gone for ten days, but she really missed her.
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"Is the younger brother back?" Gu Wan was standing aside and sharing the same hatred with her mother. When she saw the younger brother was back, she happily stepped forward and pulled Gu Chengyu.
"Second sister! Third sister-in-law! Where are the third brother and the eldest brother? Where are the second brother?" Gu Chengyu asked curiously when he saw that there were only some female relatives standing in the yard. There is no need to ask the fourth brother, he is naturally at Li Langzhong's house.
"They went to the fields and haven't come back yet! I'm going to call them!" The mother-in-law's family came, but they came suddenly. She hadn't figured out what happened. She was still confused at the moment, but...
This mother-in-law’s family doesn’t seem to be a good person! Something seems wrong!
"Hey! This is my little nephew, right? He looks really good! He looks like a little girl! Poor kid, he's grown up and he still doesn't know your grandpa. Grandma, I'm your aunt! This is your uncle! Listen!
Are you still a human being? Where did you come from?"
Gu Chengyu turned his head and looked at the woman who was speaking. He saw that the woman was about forty years old, and her hair was not neatly combed. Unlike his mother, she would get water on her hair when she combed it, and she would put her hair into a bun.
The eyes with double eyelids, which may have been relatively big originally, have now been covered by wrinkles around the eyes, making them look much smaller, and the skin is very rough, probably from being exposed to the wind and sun in the fields all the time. She is wearing a cyan undershirt.
Wearing a coarse cloth coat with two patches on it, she is a woman from an ordinary farmer's family.
At this time, she was holding a tall and thin man beside her. The man looked older than Father Gu. It was not clear whether he was older than Father Gu, because Father Gu had eaten well in the past two years and looked younger.
The so-called uncle has a "Shen" face, relatively prominent cheekbones, and a pointed and thin chin. He may not have eaten well, so he looks very thin.
Gu Chengyu looked at them and said nothing. They were not good to his mother. Back then, his mother worked as a slave for a wealthy family, and it was this uncle who sold her.
There is an old couple standing in the corner of the inner courtyard, their heads are covered with silver frost, and the clothes they are wearing are worse than that of the woman just now. It is still a biting spring breeze, but the two old people are still wearing their clothes.
Single clothes, covered with a thicker blouse.
At this time, the two old men were looking up at him. The old woman's eyes were still filled with tears. Her weather-beaten eyes made Gu Chengyu feel a little unbearable. His mother had mentioned his maternal grandfather's house before, needless to say, his brother and sister-in-law.
, is intolerant. However, my grandfather and grandmother are still good to my mother, but they have no independent opinions and follow traditional thinking. They only rely on this son to support them in old age, so they dare not speak out.
When the woman saw that Gu Chengyu didn't call her, she felt a little worried about her face.
Gu Chengyu also understood that it was just because he saw that his family was doing well that he thought of coming to knock on the door, or to make this family of relatives move around. As for why he didn't come in the past few years, I'm afraid that Craftsman Sun didn't even come back when he returned.
Are you talking too much? The Lu family always thought that Mrs. Lu was not doing well!
There are quite a few members of the Gu family in Shanngling Village. Even if it is rumored that the Gu family is living a good life, people who don't know about it might not be able to figure out which Gu family it is.
"What kind of aunt are you? You are so thick-skinned! Are you here to recognize your relatives indiscriminately?" Mrs. Lu felt deeply resentful towards her sister-in-law. Before she was sold, she was often bullied by this sister-in-law in her natal family.
Even when she was sold, it was her sister-in-law who instigated her.
Mrs. Lu scolded back and looked at the corner of the yard. These were her parents. She hadn't seen them for many years. She didn't expect them to be so old now. The silver frost on their heads stung her eyes.
, and then looking at the thin clothes, she felt even more distressed. She had not returned to her parents' home for so many years, and she never expected that her brother and sister-in-law would treat her father and mother like this!
Back then, she still resented her parents for their cowardice. But now that she sees her parents so old and so thin, even if she had any resentment in her heart, it has mostly dissipated!
It's just that she doesn't intend to forgive this brother and sister-in-law.
"Humph! Brother-in-law! My sister doesn't understand, so don't you as a man understand? I'm your brother-in-law! You have broken bones and connected tendons, do you want to deny them? Besides, you can't even recognize two old men.
I don’t care about others, I just want to enjoy my own happiness. Is this reasonable?”
Lu Yang looked around the Gu family's yard, his eyes gleaming as he spoke.