Phi-Fic Chapter 10 Taking the Child Home
Chapter 10 Taking the Child Home
Back then, Gu Yaozong had studied at his maternal grandparents' house for a few years, and later became an apprentice at the Li Family Restaurant under the manager... and then married the owner's youngest daughter.
Gu Yaozong has two daughters, Gu Min, who is 8 years old, and Gu Ning, who is 5 years old.
The third brother, Gu Yaozu, is 24 years old. He married Ye Shilan, the daughter of a collateral branch of the Ye family in Changhe Town. They have a 7-year-old son named Gu Jinsuo.
The younger sister, Gu Meixiang, married into the Ye family in Changhe Town at the age of 20. Gu's paternal uncle's family had a son and a daughter. Her husband's family ran a general store in Changhe Town.
This younger sister rarely comes back.
The second younger sister, Gu Meiyu, was the one who came that day. She was 17 years old and unmarried.
The reason why she doesn't go out now is that she wants to wait until her youngest son passes the imperial examination next year and then find her a good marriage.
Haha, is this what a normal parent should be like? What about her?
The third brother, Gu Yaohui, is 15 years old. He passed the imperial examination for the first degree this year and is currently studying at Yunshu Academy in Ling'an County.
Aunt Gu said that Yunshu Academy in the county only admits students who have passed the preliminary examination or above.
Aunt Gu said that Gu Chenglin's family disliked him since he was a child. They would beat and scold him, and it was common for them not to give him food.
When the family's sons reached school age, Old Lady Gu sent them all to her parents' home to attend private schools, but Gu Chenglin never let him attend a private school for even a single day.
Dongfang Jin had doubts again!
Dongfang Jin thought of the Gu family: Gu Yaozong, Gu Yaozu, Gu Yaohui, Meixiang, and Meiyu. They sounded like a family.
Logically speaking, Gu Chenglin is the eldest son in the family, so this shouldn't be the case.
Aunt Gu also said that Cheng Lin's name was given by the former clan chief. At that time, the former clan chief was already old and passed away in the winter of the year Gu Cheng Lin was born.
Everyone assumed that this was the reason why Old Lady Gu disliked her eldest son.
The older generation all know that Gu Yeshi, Gu Chenglin's mother, was introduced to Gu Qingshan by the former head of the Gu clan.
But now that she thinks about it, she finds the whole thing strange.
According to Aunt Gu, Gu Pozi's family was quite wealthy, and as the only daughter in the family, she was a pampered one.
In such cases, the parents and siblings would usually do their best to marry their daughter off to someone nearby, or suggest that she marry into a family better than the Ye family.
The ancients' insistence on marriage between people of equal social standing was ingrained in their very bones, especially in families that produced two students who passed the imperial examinations and one who passed the county-level examinations.
The Ye family is considered a scholarly family, so why did they marry their only daughter off to a neighboring family, and to such a remote and impoverished place as Lingwu Village?
Why would the Ye family let her marry so far away? And why would they marry Gu Qingshan, an honest but illiterate man?
Is it really as Aunt Gu said, that Gu Qingshan is the only one left in his family, so he can take charge of the household and not be bullied by his in-laws?
I don't believe it! How could she possibly let her daughters marry into families better than hers?
Didn't her parents know?
Moreover, she had seen the Gu family's appearance; putting aside their looks, just their height alone made Gu Chenglin stand out from the rest of the family.
Seriously, this guy is too tall. Although she only looked around for a short while yesterday, none of the men here were over 1.8 meters tall.
This guy is at least 185cm tall, and all the family-oriented people here are as short as pigs...
It's strange in every way!
It was already dark when Gu Chenglin and the children returned, and Aunt Gu didn't come either. It seemed they really were living over there.
Come to think of it, Gu Chenglin was away from home for five years, before his daughter was even born, and now look at him...
Just as Dongfang Jin was thinking of staying in her spatial dimension for the night, there was a commotion in the courtyard. She took out a silenced gun from her spatial dimension and slowly approached the door.
Only when she heard voices did she realize that it was Gu Chenglin who had returned.
She quickly sent the items in her hand into her spatial storage. These weapons were bought for her on the black market by her second brother when he visited her while she was studying abroad.
She knew that because of her second brother's identity and the family's situation, she was the only weakness and a breakthrough point for those political enemies.
Peering through the crack in the door at the "dark figure" that had just left, I realized that it was probably Aunt Gu's nephew, Gu Chunsheng.
Dongfang Jin lit the lamps, turning on both to make the room as bright as possible.
"Gu Chenglin, bring the child to this room."
It wasn't that she wouldn't let them into the room next door; it was because she had just opened the door and smelled a foul odor, and the odor was moving around.
When the person reached the door, Dongfang Jin saw two children through the dim light, which startled her. Were these people?
They look more like African refugees than African refugees themselves.
She looked at Gu Chenglin and asked, "Why are you back so late? Have you eaten?"
Her words brought Gu Chenglin back to reality. Looking at the neat and tidy person and the clean and tidy house, he was somewhat dazed.
"No?" The voice was somewhat cold.
"Wait!"
Dongfang Jin returned to the house, rolled up the quilts on the kang (a heated brick bed), put them on the box, and arranged the food that Aunt Gu had brought. Fortunately, she had heated it up in her space beforehand.
"You take the children to eat first, I'll go boil some water."
Before Gu Chenglin could speak, Dongfang Jin ran to the kitchen.
"Dad, is this your new wife?" the boy asked, mustering his courage as he entered the house.
"Okay, let's eat on the kang (heated brick bed)."
The boy looked at the vegetables and meat in the bowl and asked his father, "Dad, can we really eat this?"
"Eat?" Gu Chenglin said, suppressing the stinging pain in his heart.
The girl sniffed and said weakly, "Brother, I can smell meat."
“Hmm, Dad doesn’t have chopsticks,” the boy said, glancing at the table.
Gu Chenglin stood up: "I'll take it to you."
Dongfang Jin walked in carrying two bowls, chopsticks between her armpits, and said to Gu Chenglin, "Get the chopsticks."
As she spoke, she placed two bowls of thick white rice porridge in front of the two children; she had just ladled it out from her spatial dimension.
Luckily, she made extra porridge today, since she doesn't eat much porridge, otherwise it would be too late to make more now.
He placed the small bowl of pickled vegetables in front of them: "You are young, and it's evening, so have this pickled vegetable with your porridge. This flatbread and vegetables are for your father."
After Dongfang Jin finished speaking, the two children saw her and hugged each other in fear, looking at her with dread.
Is she that scary?
Turning to Gu Chenglin, she asked, "What did you say to them?"
Gu Chenglin did not answer her question, but stared at the two bowls of white rice porridge.
Dongfang Jin noticed this too and lied, saying, "These are all from the dowry. I cooked the porridge at noon."
When Gu Chenglin heard her say that, he looked at the boxes again and saw that the double happiness symbol was gone. But when did they send rice into their dowry?
This rice was clearly all plump, high-quality rice; you should know that most of the rice sold in the county grain stores was broken rice. This kind of high-quality rice was usually delivered directly to wealthy families and was never displayed outside.
He thought that even the nobles in the capital might not be able to afford such fine rice.
He still had some understanding of what the Eastern Lin Kingdom was like.
He gave the new bride a deep look, then lowered his eyes and picked up the pancake to eat.
He didn't ask anything, nor did he care whether the child ate or not; he was lost in his own world.
The girl looked at Dongfang Jin, nestled in the boy's arms, and said weakly to Gu Chenglin, "Dad... I... I want to eat meat."