Joe's Farming

Gu Sanxi and Gu Chengkai left home early in the morning and it took them two full hours to walk from Shangxi Village to Shangtian Village.

He was hungry and cold at the moment. Although Gu Chengkai's family was poor, his father and grandmother doted on him very much.

Especially his grandmother, everything in the family was given to him. It can be said that he had never suffered such hardship before.

Now I have to go back the same way and still haven't gotten anything, so I start to complain.

He said to his father in a muffled voice, "Dad, let's go find a bullock cart. I really can't walk any more."

Gu Sanxi was also angry and said irritably: "Why are you sitting in the ox cart? You just know how to be lazy. What's wrong with walking a few steps? Isn't your father walking too? Are you tired or am I not?"

Gu Chengkai exploded!

"You were the one who insisted on me coming with you! Why are you so angry? I told you that Gu Feng wouldn't give you any money, but you refused to believe me!"

Gu Sanxi also got angry and yelled at Gu Chengkai: "Why do you want money? It's for you to marry a wife! What kind of fairy came down from heaven? She deserves ten taels of silver?"

Gu Chengkai couldn't bear to hear his father talking about his sweetheart like this, and he got angry: "Cui'er is like a fairy from heaven, our Gu family is so lucky to have her as a bride!"

When Gu Sanxi thought about how this brat was yelling at his own father for a wife who hadn't even married him yet, he just slapped him.

The two men started fighting on the snow-covered road.

When I got home, it was already the hour of Xu.

When Gu Sanxi's wife Cui opened the door and saw the two men with bruised faces and noses, she almost fainted from fright.

"Oh my God, what happened? Did that brat Gu Feng beat you up?"

The father and son looked at each other. Gu Sanxi pushed the door open and strode into the house. "He dared? He accidentally fell into the ditch. Why don't you go and make us something to eat? Do you want to starve us to death?"

Cui quickly agreed, but she was still wondering in her heart: What kind of ditch is this? Can a father and son climb into it together?

Old Mrs. Gu heard the noise in the yard and walked out of the house.

"How's it going? Was the person you saw last time Gangzi?"

Gu Sanxi shook off the snow on his body and changed his wet shoes before replying gloomily, "It's him. He's alive and well. He's wearing new coats. Xiaofeng is even more amazing. He married a rich man and built him a big brick and tile house. I counted, there are seven or eight rooms."

Gu Chengkai said unhappily, "Not only that, the villagers said that his family also bought a servant, and that servant is so strong."

Gu Chengkai gestured towards his breast.

Old Lady Gu was stingy and didn’t turn on the lights at night. When she got closer, she discovered the wound on her grandson’s face and immediately howled:

"Did that bastard, that unfilial thing, hit you?!"

Gu Chengkai said with a guilty conscience: "Mom, Xiaokai and I accidentally fell into the ditch when we were coming back."

Old Mrs. Gu cried out “Ouch” and said distressedly, “Why are you so careless?”

Neither the father nor the son responded, and the room became very quiet for a while.

The three younger sisters in the next room had already fallen asleep. They were woken up by the noise. They couldn’t fall asleep but didn’t dare to talk, so they could only hug each other and continue pretending to sleep.

Old Mrs. Gu waited for a long time without a reply, so she stopped asking questions and only cared about another question: "Since that brat is so rich now, has the money arrived?"

Gu Sanxi shook his head angrily.

"Grandma, not only did he not give me money, he also let the guy he married humiliate me. He...he also threw me out of his house. You must take care of your grandson!" Gu Chengkai interrupted and wailed at the right time.

"He, he, he... is outrageous! How dare he do this to you? Tomorrow I will go find the clan leader and ask him to apologize to you!

Otherwise, he will be removed from the family tree! How dare he do that? He really takes after his mother. I am so mad at him." Mrs. Gu was so angry that she could hardly stand.

Gu Chengkai quickly helped her sit down: "Grandma, don't hurt yourself. But I don't think he is afraid of the clan leader. He dared to move to Shangtian Village at the age of fifteen, just because he didn't take you seriously."

Old Mrs. Gu became even angrier when she thought of this. She had finally found Gu Feng's shabby little house and begged him to come back to do corvée labor in place of his third uncle, but he refused.

Fortunately, the corvée labor was light that year, and the third brother returned unharmed the next year.

Otherwise, she would never let this little bastard go.

"Mom, you go back to sleep first. Gu Feng said that he wants to move his parents' graves. We can't let him get away with it when the time comes." Gu Sanxi said angrily.

"Bah! You wish! That's the grave of my son and daughter-in-law. It's not his turn to speak. When he comes, I will have a good talk with him."

After scolding them, Mrs. Gu told them to have a good rest before returning to her room.

Cui had also prepared the meal by now, which was two bowls of mixed noodle dumpling soup.

Gu Sanxi and Gu Chengkai had been hungry all day, so they wolfed down the meal and still felt it was not enough.

Gu Sanxi: "You only cook this little, how about feeding the chickens?"

Cui felt wronged. She had searched for a long time before she found this little bit of noodles. The cabinet where the refined noodles and white rice were kept was locked by Old Lady Gu. She didn't dare to ask for it now: "Master, there is only this little noodles in the kitchen. You know that the good old lady locked it up."

Gu Sanxi curled his lips and threw the bowl to Cui: "I'm sleepy, get me some hot water to wash my feet, and go to sleep."

Gu Chengkai also handed the bowl to his mother: "Mom, please cook more. My feet are frozen."

Cui said "eh" and went back to the kitchen to busy herself.

After a while, Mrs. Gu scolded, "Why are you wasting firewood again in the middle of the night? Is it easy to collect firewood in the middle of winter?"

Cui squatted in the kitchen silently and wiped away her tears. It was all her fault that her belly was not good enough, and the next three babies were all girls.

She still remembers how nice her mother-in-law was to her when Xiaokai was first born.

Actually, it’s not that good, but it’s much better than the first and second rooms.

Although the eldest daughter-in-law has two sons, her mother-in-law and the eldest daughter-in-law do not get along, and as a result, she dislikes her two grandsons.

The second wife gave birth to two daughters in succession. Later, my second uncle and Gangzi were sent to perform labor service and were said to be dead. Each of them was compensated with 20 taels of silver, which was all taken away by my mother-in-law.

Of course, most of the money was eventually used by their third room, and she couldn't say anything.

But ever since my second sister-in-law remarried with her two daughters, life has become more and more difficult.

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In the Gu family's new house, Qiao Yu lay on the warm kang and hugged her husband.

"Today's father and son were so infuriating. Who are they to have the nerve to ask us for money?"

Seeing that her husband was still thinking, Gu Feng comforted him, "Don't be angry, I'm fine. I'm used to it. Their whole family is like this."

Qiao Yu said worriedly, "I heard you say at that time that you were going to move your parents-in-law's graves? You never mentioned this to me before."

Gu Feng hugged his husband tighter: "I never thought about getting involved with them before. But my eldest brother is back, and we all want to move our parents' graves here. We can sweep their graves during the holidays, so that they know that we are living a good life now."

Gu Feng thought for a while and said, "There is also my second uncle's family. When I left, my second aunt was still living with them. I heard that she remarried later. My eldest brother and I also want to go and see them. My second aunt was also very nice to us when we were young."

"Okay, let's go and see it when it doesn't snow." Qiao Yu said softly.