bestfiction Chapter 191 Generous Gift
Chapter 191 Generous Gift
Gu Jia hurried forward, "Wuyan's leg just recovered, and you must be exhausted after walking on the snowy road for such a long time. I'll let Gu Zhuangzhuang lead you to the west hall to rest."
After saying this, Gu Jia called out to the inside of the house, "Zhuangzhuang, come out quickly and take your brother-in-law to the west hall to rest."
As she finished her words, Gu Zhuangzhuang had already walked out of the house, "Brother-in-law, I'll take you there.
Gu Qingqing carried a bamboo basket on her arm, looked at Wen Wuyan's back, turned her head and asked Gu Jia quietly, "Isn't he in that room?"
Although Gu Qingqing only used "he", Gu Jia knew who she was asking about.
"He's not here. He moved to the east room these days. He complains every day that the kang in the west room isn't warm enough, and his temper is getting weirder and weirder. So I asked Zhuangzhuang to move him to the east room to keep mother company."
Gu Qingqing felt relieved only when she learned that Gu Daquan was not in the west hall.
He went into the east room again carrying the bamboo basket.
The east room of the Gu family is very small. As soon as you enter the door, you will see two large jars placed against the wall, which are filled with grain.
In the past, the vat was used to store miscellaneous items, and in the past it was the kang.
"Sister." Lu Xiaocao, with a towel wrapped around her head, had already sat up on the kang. It looked like she was about to get up and put on her shoes.
Seeing this, Gu Qingqing hurriedly shouted, "Xiao Cao, don't move. Lie down quickly."
Seeing Xiaocao was about to get down, Gu Jia also said, "Xiaocao, your sister is not an outsider. She won't blame you if you don't get up. Go back and lie down. If you hurt yourself, it will be difficult to give birth later."
"Sister, then I won't get up." Xiaocao said with a slightly tired look on her face.
"You're sorry. There's no need to be so distant with my sister." Gu Qingqing said as she put down the bamboo basket on her arm, stepped back, and then began to gently brush the snow off her body.
Gu Jia helped take pictures of the places she couldn't see, while muttering, "It's snowing again after just two days of stopping. I asked Zhuangzhuang to tell you that the grass has grown and you don't need to worry about it. I didn't know you would come here in the snow."
"The Gu family has a successor, so as an aunt, I have to come and see my nephew. I can't wait for the child to crawl on the ground and not see him. When I need support from my mother's family in the future, how can I have the face to ask for help?" Gu Qingqing joked with them familiarly.
Lu Xiaocao thought her elder sister was worried about her three daughters and worried that she would be alone when she got married. She didn't know how to comfort her, so she just said honestly, "Sister, if you don't mind, I will let the child come to your place more often in the future. You just need to let him work."
"Hahaha, by the time he can work, I'll be over 40!" Gu Qingqing obviously didn't understand Lu Xiaocao's other meaning.
After she shook off the snow on her body, she didn't rush over to check on the sleeping child.
The truth was that she was so cold from all the walking that if she got close and brought the cold to the child, she would be committing a great sin.
Lu Xiaocao saw what her elder sister meant and hurriedly said, "It's okay, elder sister. Just come over. The kang is warm. This child is not that precious."
"How can it not be precious? Even if the child is precious, the mother is precious. You two are the main protected persons of the family now, and no accidents can happen to you. I am already here, so I don't mind waiting for a while. I will go over after the coldness in my body subsides."
The kang here needs to be heated up with firewood outside the house. If they are barbecuing inside the house, Gu Qingqing can get closer to the stove and warm herself up first.
So now, Gu Qingqing could only talk to them in a low voice in a place in the house away from the mother and son.
After she drank two bowls of hot water her mother poured for her, her body warmed up and her clothes were no longer so cold, so she walked to the kang.
The child in the blanket had a very small and thin face, had not fully grown yet, and had slight wrinkles on his body.
"Qingqing, I think the child looks more like Xiaocao, but Xiaocao says he looks more like Zhuangzhuang. Who do you think he looks like?"
Gu Qingqing only took a glance and immediately recognized that his facial features did not look like his father's.
She didn't need to go out of her way to please anyone, she just smiled and said directly, "I think this child looks like grass, I hope his character will be like grass in the future, tough and capable, but not as lazy as his father."
At the end, Gu Qingqing did not forget to criticize Gu Zhuangzhuang.
Lu Xiaocao felt a little embarrassed by his praise, and her cheeks flushed slightly. "How can I be as good as what Sister said. Besides, Zhuangzhuang is much better now. Sister's ideas are still effective."
Gu Qingqing smiled and did not deny it.
Seeing Lu Xiaocao sitting on the kang wearing a thin cotton jacket and a quilt covering her lower body, he waved at her and said, "Lie down and have a rest. Don't sit up. Sitting for a long time is bad for your waist. Oh, by the way..."
After Gu Qingqing finished speaking, she started to move the two bamboo baskets she brought with her. "I don't know what to bring either, so I brought a few feet of fine cotton cloth for the child. You and mother can discuss what to make for the child in the future. There is also a piece of meat."
As Gu Qingqing spoke, she took out the piece of pork that Luo Meihua had brought back.
"Mother, it's cold now and the meat can stand the test of time. You can slowly cook this piece of meat for Xiaocao. I also brought four corn bones. Don't think there's no meat on these two corn bones. When you cook, use an axe to cut them in half, clean them and put them in the pot. Boil some firewood into water and use the water to cook noodles or porridge for Xiaocao."
As Gu Qingqing took out all the things, the broken table next to her was almost full.
Three pounds of white rice didn't take up much space, but the steamed buns weighing six taels each took up the most space.
A piece of meat, four corn bones, a small bag of brown sugar, and a piece of fine cloth.
"Mother, I don't know if it's appropriate to send flour? Your son-in-law said that you need to eat better after giving birth, so we brought another six pounds of wheat flour. Here is also a basket of eggs to supplement Xiaocao."
Seeing this scene on the kang, Lu Xiaocao hurried over to the small table. The steamed buns that her sister brought were large, weighing at least six taels. To make twenty buns, she needed ten kilograms of flour, so she brought six kilograms of white flour and eggs...
"Sister, why did you bring so many precious things? We have food at home. Mother specially ground some white flour for me a few days ago."
Gu Jia was also anxious, "My silly girl, you just separated this year, and there is no surplus food at home. The food you eat is all bought in town. Why do you give it to us? I will keep the cloth, rice, steamed buns, and bones. You can take the flour, sugar, and meat back home for the children. How can you take them just because your son-in-law asks you to? How can you support your mother's family like this? Don't hurt your son-in-law because of this."
Gu Jia felt very warm in her heart, but she was also worried that her daughter would upset her son-in-law by bringing so much money, which would make the couple's life unhappy.
Gu Qingqing smiled and consoled him, "Your son-in-law asked me to take it. If I didn't take it, he would say I was ignorant!"
Just as they were talking, a voice suddenly rang out, "Gu Qingqing, you are an unfilial daughter. You came home but didn't come to see me, your father, and didn't show filial piety to me. Do you think I'm dead?"