Chapter 8： Gu Xi

Chapter 8 Gu Xi

There are many family members, so we sat at two tables during the meal.

Men sit at the same table with men, and women sit at the same table with women.

Niu Niu sat obediently next to Zhang Yunniang. Although she was very hungry, she still knew the rules when she saw a table of food. She was not like the other two cousins ​​Gu Daya and Gu Xiaoya who wanted to pounce on it.

Seeing Niuniu's performance, Mrs. Gu was very satisfied and couldn't help but nodded.

"Grandma, aren't you ready to serve dinner? I'm so hungry!" Gu Daya covered her stomach and acted coquettishly towards Mrs. Gu.

Mrs. Gu glared at her and said, "How old are you? You only know how to eat! You don't know any rules!"

Gu Daya was scolded, but she didn't feel too embarrassed. She still urged Mrs. Gu to share the meal with a shy face.

Mrs. Gu stopped torturing people. She picked up the big rice bowl and distributed the coarse grains in it according to the head.

There weren't many dishes on the table, just a plate of fried radishes and a plate of wild vegetables.

The stir-fried radishes and water-cooked wild vegetables obviously didn't add much oil. They looked sloppy and lacked the luster that food should have.

Even so, this is still a rare good meal for Niu Niu.

After all, when she was in the Zhang family, she couldn't even eat young wild vegetables. She could only eat old wild vegetable stalks that ordinary people couldn't chew. She could count how many grains of coarse rice in the bowl.

Gu Daya couldn't help complaining: "I haven't eaten meat for more than ten days, and I haven't even eaten an egg!"

Mrs. Gu immediately looked at Chen Chunhua, Gu's mother-in-law: "Your daughter is going to be taught to be a eldest lady. What are the conditions of our family? We eat meat and eggs at all times. We should be like other families. Our daughter only gives Eat half a bowl!”

Chen Chunhua smiled when she heard this. The Gu family was different from other families. In the environment where the whole village favored boys over girls, Mrs. Gu did not suffer from such bad habits at all.

Although I cannot serve a bowl of water to my grandchildren, I will not starve my granddaughter and only feed my grandson.

"Mom, why don't you scramble some eggs tonight? It's been a long time since we've seen meat in our house!" Chen Chunhua said shamelessly.

Mrs. Gu glared at her fiercely and said, "You are so beautiful!"

Chen Chunhua said nothing more, but her eyes noticed that Niu Niu stretched out her chopsticks, preparing to pick up a piece of fried radish, and she immediately coughed lightly.

When Niuniu looked up, she saw the stern look in the eyes of the uncle who didn't like her. She was so frightened that she shrunk her chopsticks and no longer dared to pick up food.

When Niu Niu came to this house, Zhang Yunniang had been paying attention to the child's movements. When she saw this situation, as if she didn't see her sister-in-law's murderous eyes, she fiercely picked up a chopstick and put the fried radish into Niu Niu's bowl.

"Is it enough to eat? If it's not enough, my mother will pick it up for you." As she spoke, Zhang Yunniang picked up another large piece of wild vegetables with chopsticks and put it into Niu Niu's bowl.

Chen Chunhua was unhappy and said: "Second brother and sister, how old is Niuniu? Have you eaten so much? Don't waste it."

Rural people are most taboo about wasting food.

Everyone else on the table immediately looked at Niu Niu.

But Niu Niu was only so big, and she wanted to bury her face in the bowl while eating.

She has a small face, but she wields the chopsticks very quickly, so fast that afterimages appear.

She was clearly devouring her food, but her eating appearance was very beautiful, like a painting.

After a while, she finished a bowl of whole grains that was bigger than her face.

"My dear mother, there is a loser in our family!" Chen Chunhua said angrily.

Niuniu lowered her head in shame.

Although she is small and thin, she has always had a larger appetite than ordinary people. When she was in the Zhang family, she ate with open stomach. Occasionally when she was so hungry that she chewed grass, the Zhang family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law saw her and asked for a good meal.

"It's a blessing to be able to eat. My Niuniu eats well. Only in this way can she keep her body strong and mother can rest assured." Zhang Yunniang smiled and patted Niuniu on the shoulder.

Niu Niu immediately raised her head when she heard this. She stared at Zhang Yunniang's eyes carefully, and indeed she didn't see the slightest hint of disgust, and she felt relieved.

But she still clenched her little fists and said: "Mom, I will try to eat less in the future. I can light a fire, go up the mountain to collect firewood, collect pig grass, and wash clothes. You can just leave these tasks to me in the future!"

Niuniu was only five years old, but she had already formed simple values. She had no thoughts of cheating or cheating at all.

Zhang Yuniang was saddened to see this. Although little girls from the countryside could help their families with farm work very early, there were very few who could do so many things at the age of five.

Zhang Yunniang did not refuse, but said: "Okay, mother is waiting for Niuniu to come and help."

Seeing that she was useful in this family, Niu Niu immediately grinned.

Zhang Yunniang asked again: "Are you full?"

When Niuniu heard this, she immediately fell silent. She didn't want to deceive her adoptive mother, but her stomach was only five minutes full.

"If you haven't eaten, add it. We, the old Gu family, are not the kind of people who can't afford to eat!" Mrs. Gu added a large spoonful of whole grains to Niu Niu's bowl with a cold face.

Niu Niu was immediately flattered and said with a smile: "Thank you, grandma."

When Mrs. Gu saw Niuniu finally smiling at her, a subtle smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. The man's table didn't have that much drama, so he quickly finished his meal and cleared the table.

Niu Niu carefully observed the situation of the Gu family, which was so different from when she was in the Zhang family.

Family-oriented men know how to do housework. After finishing their work at the table, they will run over to help the women.

Zhang Guangzong, however, always waited for Mr. Cai to clean up the dishes every time. He always waited for others to put it in his hands when eating. He stretched his arms and legs at home every day and did not do any housework.

Gu Mingda saw the little girl's puzzled look, which looked so cute, so he couldn't help it and pinched her soft little face.

"Yunniang, bring Niuniu with you later." Gu Mingda warned.

Niu Niu was confused.

After the kitchen was tidied up and the Gu family had no other work to do, Niuniu finally knew what to do.

In a corner of the yard, there were several small sand tables placed on the ground.

The boys in the first and third rooms all had sad faces.

"Second uncle, I just want to farm, I don't want to study!" Gu Yun, the grandson of Gu's eldest son, said.

Gu Mingda also had a headache. His eyes passed over his nephew Gu Yun and landed on Boss Gu who was not far away. The father and son looked exactly the same, and their temperament was also very real.

Another nephew, Gu Jin, also said quickly: "Second uncle, I don't want to learn either, so please don't embarrass me."

Even though Gu Mingda was very smart, there was nothing he could do when he met these two nephews who were tired of studying.

Boss Gu, on the other hand, came over with a stick and scolded: "You two useless things, your second uncle teaches you with good intentions, but you don't appreciate it!"

The two brothers, Gu Yun and Gu Jin, didn't look very smart, but they were very good at dealing with their own father.

"Is it our fault that we don't like reading? We just followed your roots!"

"Yes, if reading was really that easy, why don't you read, dad?"

The two brothers sang in harmony and helped Boss Gu stand up.

The grandchildren of the Gu family have not been sent to private schools. They have always adopted an economical method: they are taught by the only scholar Gu Mingda.

Nowadays, this scene of discord between father and son has been played out many times in the old Gu family, and Gu Mingda has long been used to it.

If his nephews were willing to learn, he would teach them more. If their nephews were unwilling to learn, he would watch them get beaten.

Although the brothers Gu Yun and Gu Jin had strong mouths, Gu Gu's stick was even more powerful. After beating the two brothers severely, the two brothers were almost forced to sit in front of the sand table.

Gu Mingda picked up a piece of paper and wrote the word "xi" on it with a pen.

When the brothers Gu Yun and Gu Jin saw such complicated words, their faces suddenly wrinkled.

It was Gu Mingda's biological son, thirteen-year-old Gu Yan, who immediately looked at Niu Niu.

Niu Niu still didn't know what this word meant to her. She just tilted her little head and looked at the piece of paper strangely, thinking to herself, is this the legendary word recognition?

In the Zhang family, even if Niu Niu couldn't read, she would probably be beaten even if she touched Zhang Guangzong's books.

Gu Mingda said to Niu Niu: "The word "Xi Xi" means "Xi Xi", which means that the road to the future is bright and bright like the rising sun. You must remember that your name is Gu Xi.

For Gu Mingda's generation, the names were sorted as "Ming", and for Gu Yun's generation, the names were sorted as "日".

Apparently, Gu Mingda gave this title to his adopted daughter without consulting his family.

It was just a name for their daughter's family, and Gu Lao and Gu Lao Er both looked indifferent.

Chen Chunhua and Liu Erni are both illiterate and have no idea how special this word is, but they are the kind of people who feel as uncomfortable as crawling ants if they don't take advantage of it.

Chen Chunhua directly pushed her daughter Da Ya forward and said with a dry smile: "Her second uncle, you can't just name Niu Niu. My Da Ya is also your biological niece!"

Liu Erni also pushed her daughter Xiaoya in front of Gu Mingda, her intention was obvious.

Gu Mingda did not refuse and named the two children Gu Qing and Gu Xing respectively.

After Niuniu learned that this character was her name, she stared at the big characters without blinking, wishing she could learn how to write it now.

Gu Mingda did not treat one favorably and gave Niu Niu a branch and a sand table to practice calligraphy on the sand table.

Gu Daya's eyes grew hot when she saw it, and she turned to Chen Chunhua and said, "Mom, I also want to learn to read. Why should only the eldest and second brothers learn it and not me?"

Chen Chunhua slapped her on the forehead and lectured: "Why are you, a little girl, learning to read? Do you have a sand table? Have you finished the clothes I asked you to sew?"

On the other hand, Gu Yun, the eldest brother, maybe out of brother-sister affection, maybe because he really didn't want to learn such complicated characters, shouted anxiously: "Mom, I have a sand table, I'll lend it to my sister! Let her learn to read, I Not learn!"

(End of chapter)