Road to Rebirth

Chapter 87

The couple handed over the things at home to Gu Xiaoying and Gu Xiaoqing, and went out with the New Year gift.

Sure enough, as soon as he went out, he bumped into Sister-in-law Osmanthus at the back door. With just a glance, she could see what the couple were going to do.

Cheerful greeting: "Xuemei, where are you going?"

I also inadvertently wanted to lift the cloth on the basket with my hand.

Li Xuemei didn't have anything to look at, but she was also generous, and she replied with a smile: "Sister-in-law, we went to his grandparents' house to give New Year's gifts, and it was a bit late to pack, so we only went out now."

With one hand, he covered the opened cloth again.

Osmanthus fragrans inadvertently twitched the corner of her mouth. What she saw just now was a five-jin piece of pork. This year, Gu Ruhai's family didn't kill pigs. The village is all neighbors, and no one knows about the other.

Gu Ruhai and Li Xuemei went to the town's market to do business every day, and they didn't even bother to kill the pigs at home. This is not the case in the twelfth lunar month, they just let the pig dealers go straight away.

No, looking at this New Year's gift is only five catties of pork, which is not grand, it seems that the couple must not have earned any money, otherwise it is only five catties of pork.

There are some people in the village who give New Year's ceremony generously. Yesterday, the team leader Gu Changhai's family gave the New Year's ceremony to the family's parents, and it was a show that filled the village for a long time. That piece of pork weighed a full twenty catties.

So Gu Ruhai's pork, in the eyes of sister-in-law Osmanthus, is really nothing, it is the most common annual gift, not special, not outstanding, strict and well-behaved, neither wrong nor outstanding .

"Then you two hurry up, it's late, it's time for lunch. It's Xuemei's peace of mind, the two daughters in the family are grown up, and they can bear the hard work, you two can be regarded as hard work. .”

It's not that Osmanthus looked down on Gu Ruhai, it's just that this family has always been unremarkable, so that's what it means.

They separated in two strokes.

Li Xuemei gave Gu Ruhai a hand, and the two turned to the house of Mr. and Mrs. Gu. They met many people on the way, mainly because at this time, they were all visiting relatives to give New Year gifts, and it was not Gu Ruhai's family. You can run into acquaintances everywhere.

Those who came and went all this time knew that these two couples came here specially for New Year's gifts.

Behind Gu Ruhai's back, people would talk about it, but they all know that Gu Ruhai is an honest person, and the filial thoughts are still the same, at least if they follow the way of taking care of the old man and Mrs. Gu for so many years, they will be so stubborn, but really Dare to deny parents.

But Gu Ruhai is still giving it as a New Year's gift, he's still being honest.

I am used to being bullied, so I don't know how to get angry and rebel.

But who knows what's going on inside.

Arriving at the door of Mr. Gu, the door was half-closed, Gu Ruhai and Li Xuemei opened the door and greeted: "Father, mother, are you home?"

White smoke billowed from the chimney on the roof, and it was obvious that someone was lighting a fire inside.

Mr. Gu's voice came: "Come in. Your mother and I are in the room."

The couple lifted the curtain and walked in.

There were not only Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu in the room, but also Gu Rushan, Jiang Xiulan, and Gu Xiaocheng. There were two baskets on the table, which seemed to be here to give New Year's gifts.

Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu were sitting cross-legged on the kang. When Gu Rushan and Jiang Xiulan saw Gu Ruhai and Li Xuemei standing up quickly, Gu Rushan felt annoyed, but he still greeted Gu Ruhai with a smile on his face: "Brother, Sister-in-law, are you here to give New Year gifts to your parents?"

However, Gu Ruhai and Li Xuemei were very uncomfortable with the appearance of smiling but not smiling.

But without reaching out to hit the smiling face, the couple still agreed to walk in.

"Yes, let's give New Year gifts to parents."

He also put the basket in his hand on the table.

"Father and mother, are you two old men in good shape? Are the clothes still suitable?"

This is Li Xuemei asking, at least let people know what she is doing.

Mr. Gu replied with a bit of embarrassment on his face: "Okay, okay, your mother and I are fine. After you take a break, clean up the house and celebrate the New Year."

Both Gu Ruhai and Li Xuemei didn't know what the guilt on Mr. Gu's face was, but since they said so, they couldn't say anything.

It's not their turn to be the juniors to blame the old man.

Because Gu Xiaocheng is in college, he hasn't done farm work for the past few years, his skin is fair, he wears a pair of glasses, and looks gentle. Seeing Gu Ruhai and Li Xuemei also come up to say hello: "Uncle, aunt."

Gu Ruhai agreed, the problems he had with his younger brother had nothing to do with Gu Xiaocheng, so he was good to Gu Xiaocheng.

Cheerful.

"Come back, are you going to graduate soon?"

"Yes, come on, it will be a few months."

Gu Xiaocheng is a bit reluctant to talk, it's not that Gu Xiaocheng is dull by nature, it's that Gu Xiaocheng looks down on this dull-tempered uncle, the uncle's family has no skills, it's not like the third uncle earns a salary in a public company, and the conditions are good, so in Gu Xiaocheng's eyes, Gu Ruhai is not someone he cares about.

So the answer is also very perfunctory.

Gu Ruhai saw that Gu Xiaocheng didn't intend to flirt with him, so he closed his mouth and turned to Mr. Gu.

Mrs. Gu lifted the cloth on the basket a long time ago, and when she saw the four-color gift, she looked disgusted, and from time to time she muttered, whose pork weighs ten catties, whose carp weighs It weighs five catties, who else has anything.

That means that it is not clear that the four-color ceremony in your family is like this.

Gu Ruhai didn't say anything, Li Xuemei couldn't hold back her anger.

This is what my son did.

Going up, he lifted the cloth on the basket of Gu Rushan's house. There was only a thin strip of pork in it, at most three catties. Two carps probably added up to three catties would be good, obviously. It shrank a circle.

The two chickens are not bad, but they look sluggish, and I don't know if they are sick.

Li Xuemei burst out laughing, then covered her mouth, and sat next to Gu Ruhai.

The old lady Gu stopped talking all of a sudden.

Gouging out Li Xuemei with his eyes, he wanted to scold Li Xuemei to death, but he didn't dare to say anything.

It's okay to be biased, but it's turned away by someone so bright.

This comparison down, what else to say.

Gu Rushan and Jiang Xiulan were also a little embarrassed.

Jiang Xiulan was especially angry. She covered her face and lifted the cloth on the basket. If she did, she would slap her in the face. This daughter-in-law dared to be so rampant in front of her mother-in-law, and Li Xuemei couldn't be counted.

(End of this chapter)