She gave birth to three daughters in a row, and was kicked out by her mother-in-law who favored boys

Before Gu Qingqing reached home by pulling the cart, she saw Erhua, who had originally run back home, running out again.

"Mom, mom, grandpa is here, at our house."

Gu Qingqing paused while pulling the cart and continued walking towards home, "Grandpa is the only one here?"

Erhua nodded.

Gu Qingqing felt that she might have guessed why he came.

She came back with the cart, first smiled at Wen Wuyan, then greeted Wen Dacheng, "Dad, you're here!"

Wen Dacheng nodded at her and asked, "Did you go to town?"

"Well, I made some food and want to sell it in town." After saying this, Gu Qingqing parked the car and did not rush to move the things out of the car. She went to wash her hands first.

When Wen Dacheng saw her coming back, he didn't stay here for long. He said, "I just came to take a look," and then got up and left.

Seeing him walk a long way away, Gu Qingqing hurriedly approached Wen Wuyan and started gossiping, "Dad, what are you doing here?"

Wen Wuyan shook his head. "He didn't say it explicitly, and I didn't ask, but he gave it to me."

Wen Wuyan opened his palm and revealed a jade tile the size of an ordinary mahjong piece.

Gu Qingqing took it in her hand and looked at it again and again. There was a small lotus carved on the front of the jade plaque, but it was not very lifelike.

The back looks like a small mountain, and the lines are not very clear.

Without any words, she couldn't tell what it was. The only thing she could be sure of was that the quality of the jade was above average.

"When dad brought it to me, did he tell me what it was?" Gu Qingqing asked.

Wen Wuyan shook his head again, "No, he just said that we are no longer related, and there must be a family heirloom, so he sent this to me and asked me to keep it well."

"I guess he doesn't know how to tell us about your life story. Maybe in his eyes, although we are no longer related, you are still his son and a native of Niutoushan Village. It's better to make it clear without saying it, so as to avoid us having any thoughts that we shouldn't have. In the future, our family will just live our lives well. But this should be related to your identity, so keep it to yourself."

Gu Qingqing couldn't say many words of comfort. Perhaps all she could give Wen Wuyan was companionship in the future.

At the same time, he returned the jade token to Wen Wuyan after he had looked at it enough.

Wen Wuyan did not take it. Instead, he wrapped his hands around Gu Qingqing's and said, "Qingqing, please keep it for me. All the valuable things in the house belong to you."

Gu Qingqing smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will lose it?"

"It's lost, so it is lost. As long as Qingqing is here, it's fine." Wen Wuyan looked at her lovingly.

Gu Qingqing felt her face getting hot when he looked at her, so she could only pretend to be angry and glare at him, "How is it? Is Sanhua okay today?"

Wen Wuyan thought for a moment and said, "It's fine, but I didn't sleep much today. I was playing alone. How about you? Did you have a smooth trip to town today? Did you eat? I still have the pork belly soup from yesterday. I'll go heat it up for you."

"No need to trouble you. Erhua and I had wontons in town. Let's eat the soup in the pot together tonight."

Gu Qingqing finished speaking, with a little pride on her face, and continued, "Business is very good. The pig intestines were sold out in less than an hour. On the contrary, the roast pork was not selling well, so it took a little longer."

"Oh, and one more thing. When I passed by a tailor's shop, I bought a thin coat for everyone in my family, so they can wear it when the weather gets cold in the morning and evening. I also bought three quilt covers. When the time comes, I'll ask if anyone has extra cotton wool to sell. We need to buy some to make a few more quilts."

"Then we can go and ask later." Wen Wuyan agreed.

Dahua, who was standing nearby, heard about buying new clothes and quickly ran over to ask, "Mom, are you buying us new clothes again?"

"Yes, this time I bought a thin jacket. It's in the bamboo basket in the car. Take your sister to get it? Also, don't spill the money in the basket. We'll count the money together when we get back in the evening."

After Gu Qingqing finished speaking to Dahua, she walked to the kitchen door carrying the tofu and suddenly turned back to ask Wen Wuyan, "Have you delivered the pig intestines reserved for the village chief's family today?"

Wen Wuyan smiled, "Not yet. I want to go with you."

Gu Qingqing looked up to the sky and yelled, "Wen Wuyan, how old are you? Why do you want me to go with you just to deliver something?"

"We are more sincere if we go together. Didn't you say that this is to thank the village chief for taking care of us?" Wen Wuyan said this, but he was thinking that the effect would definitely be different if he said it was Qingqing who did it and went with Qingqing. Besides, the effect would definitely be different if he said it was Qingqing who did it.

Gu Qingqing didn't understand Wen Wuyan's intention, so she shamelessly complained, "Wen Wuyan, you don't feel sorry for me at all. I drove the cart to the town and was very tired."

She said she was tired, but she didn't look tired at all in her movements or spirit.

"I'll boil some more water for you tonight. Soak your feet in it before going to sleep, and you'll feel better."

When Wen Wuyan saw her sneer at him, he felt inexplicably good.

"Why did you buy so much tofu?" he asked.

"I plan to make some tofu-filled buns tomorrow." After saying that, she went into the kitchen.

Dahua happily put on the pink jacket and ran to the kitchen to ask, "Mom, do I look good in it?"

Gu Qingqing turned around.

"Wow, whose little baby is this? She looks so cute in pink clothes. Give her a kiss." As Gu Qingqing said "give her a kiss", she just touched her forehead against Dahua's.

"Mom, I want one too, I want one too." Erhua, who also came in wearing a pink jacket, saw her mother touching her sister's forehead, and she hurried over.

Gu Qingqing naturally wouldn't favor one over the other and would stick to both.

The whole family is happy here.

the other side.

Wen Dacheng did not rush back to the village after leaving. Instead, he walked along the village road toward the back of the village, muttering to himself, "I still don't know who you are, but I raised your child and established a family!"

"Although he was not welcomed in my home, he grew up safely. I have fulfilled my promise that day. If you are still alive, you should rest in peace."

"You said that you would let me find a chance to give the jade token to Wuyan. It's up to me whether to tell him the truth or not. I gave him the jade token today, but I didn't tell him the truth. As for the two hundred taels of silver, we agreed that as long as we raised Wuyan, it would belong to us. I originally wanted to wait until the family was really divided one day so that I could give Wuyan some money, but now, if you are still alive, you can see the situation of my family. In order to hide his life experience, I have been suppressed for twenty years."

"Hey, if it's about money, don't take your complaints out on the old woman. She's narrow-minded, but he's been with me for decades. If you want to find someone, just look for me."

As Wen Dacheng spoke, his thoughts couldn't help but drift away.

Twenty-three years ago, he was a coolie in Xinzhou Prefecture [1]. One night, a pregnant woman covered in blood suddenly fainted outside the house where he lived.

He saved the woman out of kindness, but the woman gave birth the next night and didn't let him find a midwife.

It was inconvenient for him to go in as a man. Fortunately, when it was almost dawn, he heard a baby crying in the house. After knocking on the door to no avail, he rashly broke in.

The woman seemed to know that she was dying, so she entrusted the child to him and also gave him a jade token and two hundred taels of silver.

"Leave Xinzhou Prefecture and never come back. Just help me raise my child and the silver will be yours. If you dare to harm my child for the silver, I will not let you go even if I become a ghost."

He left Xinzhou Prefecture and returned home with the child. It was only after returning home that he learned that Wen Chen had lost the baby she had been pregnant for more than eight months.

When she was sad, he came back with a strange child.

The old woman insisted that this was his illegitimate child. He tried to refute it, but the old woman didn't believe it. She threatened that if the child had nothing to do with him, she would throw him into the mountains to feed the wolves.

For the sake of the child, he had no choice but to admit that it was his illegitimate child, and gave her so much silver, and the matter was finally settled.

The family was able to get by in the first few years, but after some people in the village said that the child did not look like them, she became more and more dissatisfied with the third child.

Because of this, he was oppressed for half his life.

Tweet, Tweet, Tweet~

A burst of bird song interrupted Wen Dacheng's thoughts.

Until now, he himself couldn't tell, when he brought the child back, was he reluctant to part with the child? Or was he reluctant to part with the two hundred taels of silver?

......

At about three quarters after 3 p.m., Wen Wuyan and his entire family got ready to go out.

Gu Qingqing was walking behind, holding Sanhua and Wen Wuyan. Dahua was carrying a basket with two bowls of braised pork intestines on her arm. Erhua was following closely behind, and Dahei was running between the two sisters.

"When we come back from the village chief's house, you take Dahua to Uncle Zhanghe's house. I'll go home to cook first." Gu Qingqing said to Wen Wuyan.

"Aren't you planning to ask Uncle Zhang He if he has any cotton?" Wen Wuyan asked her.

"When you go to Uncle Zhang He's house, just ask Auntie directly. If they have any extra ones, we can buy them directly from them. By the way, talk to Uncle Zhang He about buying blue bricks. If he is free in the next two days, you can hire an old ox cart in the village to go to the kiln factory in Quxiang Town next door to check out the blue bricks." Gu Qingqing said.

"Okay, then I'll go to Uncle Zhang He's house by myself later."

Even when they reached the village chief's house, Dahua still asked Gu Qingqing uncertainly, "Mom, do we really want to buy wood ash? One penny for a basket?"

"If you don't buy it, how are we going to wash the intestines? When you meet your friends in the village, tell them that if anyone has wood ash, just bring it to our house in a basket. One basket is one penny."

This is also what Gu Qingqing thought when she came back and looked at the curling smoke.

All the wood ash in the house was used up when she washed her intestines yesterday. The wood ash from her family alone is not enough for her to use next time.

It cannot be said that wood ash is completely useless in the countryside. Wood ash is mostly used to be thrown into dry toilets and used for covering.

That's why Dahua asked if it really cost money.

Xinzhou Prefecture: place name!