As the sun sets, smoke rises from every household in Shangling Village. It is the time to cook dinner, and the people working in the fields are carrying farm tools and preparing to go home.
The men of the Gu family who were working in the fields returned home early today, and Mrs. Lu was instructing the girls in the family to set the table and serve food.
The dinner table was still covered with black batter and cereals, a plate of fried spinach, and some pickled radish strips. There were two boiled eggs on the main table. Lu gave one of them to the injured Gu Chengchi, and returned
Without any hesitation, he gave it to Gu Chengyu.
"Mom, I don't want to eat eggs, let's give them to dad! Dad is going to pick honeysuckle too! When I sell the money tomorrow, mom will buy me steamed buns to eat, okay?" There were so many eyes staring at the dinner table.
Gu Chengyu was embarrassed to blatantly add extra meals. As for who he would give it to, it was just an egg. It would not be good for anyone. If it was given to Father Gu, no one would have any objections.
Father Gu smiled so hard that he couldn't see his teeth. "Xiao Bao is filial, so you should eat it! If you eat it, you will grow taller."
Ms. Lu rolled her eyes at Father Gu, but his son didn't even care about her.
As for the others at the dinner table, they were indifferent. They wouldn't have a share of the eggs anyway.
Gu Chengyu thought that if his father really didn't want it, he would give it to his mother. He held up the egg and was about to speak when he heard the little baby's high-pitched cry. In fact, the sound was not loud, but it was particularly loud at the dinner table where no one was talking.
Attractive.
Gu Chengyu looked in the direction of the sound and found that it was her sister-in-law's daughter Gu Xing. Fang heard Gu Xing shouting and quickly covered her mouth.
Gu Xing is now almost eleven months old. She has been staying in the east wing and has not come out. This is the second time she has come out. In fact, her sister-in-law, Fang, has run out of milk for a long time. She eats less and is only a month old.
She ate a few eggs in her baby, did housework before she was a month old, and when she was tired, she ran out of milk. When Gu Xing was six months old, she drank milk.
His mother watched him so closely that he could only sneak to the east wing once in a while and secretly make some milk powder to feed him. This was done while Da Ya and the others were away from work. She only went there three times in total. The last time she went
It was still more than nine months old.
An eleven-month-old baby should be able to eat eggs, right? Gu Chengyu took the eggs and walked down from the edge of the kang to another table.
"Sister-in-law, give the eggs to your little niece! The little niece is growing taller." Gu Chengyu looked at the little baby in Fang's arms. He was startled when he took a closer look.
To describe this body as bean sprouts is not an exaggeration at all. There is a big head on the small body, and the fleshless face makes the eyes look a bit abnormally large. The whole body is like skin and bones, and the hands holding the hollows are...
It looked like chicken feet, and it was completely different from the baby hands with small fleshy holes that Gu Chengyu had seen.
Why are you so thin? Just like some of the orphans who lost their loved ones and lacked food and clothing two years after the apocalypse. I heard that Gu Xing was very thin when she was born, and Fang locked her in the house and refused to let her out, which made her even more miserable.
People will pay attention to her.
"It can't be done. You can just eat it. She only eats the paste, and she doesn't know if she will eat it. You eat it, you eat it." Fang Shi hugged Gu Xing and hurriedly shrank back, with a panicked look on her face.
She almost got beaten without even eating the eggs. How could the little girl dare to eat eggs again? If she did, could her mother-in-law spare her?
Daya, who was sitting opposite, raised her head and glanced expressionlessly, then lowered her head and drank the paste in front of her.
"His uncle? Your sister-in-law doesn't want these eggs, so give them to me! It's been a long time since Erlang and Sanlang had eaten eggs. Give them a taste and tell them to remember you!" Mr. He only felt a sensation in her mouth.
Her mouth was watering, and she thought that her son had not eaten eggs for more than ten days. Last night, Shang Sanlang was still clamoring for her to buy them secretly.
Gu Chengyu ignored Mrs. He and knew that she would not dare to ask for it if she couldn't explain it to Mrs. Fang. She picked up the egg, cracked the shell on the dining table, and peeled it off. Seeing the white protein falling from the red eggshell
When it was revealed, Gu Xing stared curiously at the egg in Gu Chengyu's hand from Fang's arms.
Gu Chengyu smiled at her, scaring her so much that she shrank back again.
"Xiaobao, what are you doing? Why don't you come over for dinner? Not everyone can eat those eggs." Mrs. Lu looked at Fang with side eyes, thinking that she knew what was going on.
Gu Chengyu said nothing, broke the egg in half, quickly put one half into Fang's bowl, and put the other half in front of Gu Mei, who was watching eagerly.
Everyone was stunned. Although the Gu family didn't abuse their girls, they didn't necessarily dote on them very much. In most families in the village, the girls' lives were not as good as those of the Gu family. It was good to just give them food and drink. They had to help the family with work.
Of course, the expensive food is not for them. Of course, Gu Wan is excluded.
"Just give it to my niece, who is the youngest, and Sanya will play with me tomorrow." He usually ignored Gu Mei, and the little girl had no sense of presence in the Gu family, and usually followed Da Ya.
After Gu Chengyu finished speaking, he stood aside and watched. Although Gu Mei was timid, she couldn't resist the charm of eggs. She picked up the eggs with chopsticks and ate them in small bites. She narrowed her eyes happily. The last time she ate eggs, her uncle gave her to her.
Yes! I still have eggs to eat with my uncle.
When Mrs. Fang saw Gu Mei eating, she stopped refusing and cut the egg into small pieces and put them into Gu Xing's mouth.
When Gu Chengyu saw them eating, she returned to the dining table above. Once it was in their stomachs, she was not afraid of others coming to snatch it, especially He, whose eyes seemed to burst into flames when she looked at Gu Mei and Gu Xing.
As soon as she sat down, she saw Gu Wan threw her chopsticks on the table, said "I'm full!" and went back to the back room angrily. After entering the back room, she lay on the bed aggrievedly, even if her mother gave her eggs, she didn't even get a share.
It's just partiality, Xiaobao would rather give it to the niece of the eldest brother's family than to her. Isn't she closer to Xiaobao than them?
Gu Chengyu frowned and looked at the back room. Gu Wan usually ate eggs. This kind of temper is not good. People can't always be self-centered. If they don't get what they want, they will have an attack. They will always suffer big losses in the future. Leave her alone for two days.
, when no one pays attention to her, she will be unable to bear it anymore.
Father Gu was originally quite pleased to see that Gu Chengyu had known how to care for his younger generation since he was a child. However, he was a little angry when he thought that Gu Wan was so unruly.
"Who is she trying to show off to? Where did she learn the rules? She is a grown-up girl, why don't you care about her? I think you are usually too indulgent towards her, and you dare to show off to your elders. Hmph!"
"Then why don't you care? Aren't you her father? Are you still relying on me?" Mrs. Lu also darkened her face. This girl must be taken care of.
Gu Chengchi pinched the egg and said, "How about giving it to the girl? My legs are much better."
As for Gu Chenglian on the side, he was just a nut and thought he was an adult. He usually gave the boiled eggs to the baby as a snack, so he didn't have much idea.
"You eat your own food, don't worry about her, she's used to it." Ms. Lu waved her hand impatiently.
"Eat quickly, we are going to pick honeysuckle. Boss, the second brother will take the backpack and leave first after finishing. If anyone asks, just say that you are going up the mountain to collect more firewood." Father Gu was impatient to care about the thoughts of these young children.
It would be better to pick the honeysuckle earlier and sell it for money.
"None of you touch this basket of grass, wait until I come back to feed it." Father Gu thought of the treasure in the basket on his back. There were so many people now that he couldn't take it out before it was too late. He was afraid that if he went to pick flowers, someone would dump the treasure into the pig pen.
Was he humped by the pig in the pen?
"It's just a basket of grass, why are you so precious? Still hiding it in the house?" Madam Lu spat at Father Gu, which was a little difficult to understand.
"Anyway, if I say don't move, don't move. If anyone moves, I will be in trouble with him." Father Gu yelled and winked at Ms. Lu.
Madam Lu suddenly became furious and opened her mouth to scold her, but when she saw Father Gu blinking at her, she suddenly realized, could the baby be in this basket? She glanced to the side, fearing that others would notice something strange.
"You can't move even if you say you can't! You stubborn old man."