Chapter 67 It's not me, it's my elder sister

Gu Dachuan, the head of the Gu family, is the team leader. He and Wang Dongni have four sons from east, west, south and north.

The eldest son Gu Qingdong and the second son Gu Qingxi farm at home. Both of them are hardworking and can get full work points.

The third child, Gu Qingnan, works in a machinery factory in the county, earning a monthly salary of more than 20 yuan. Since the family had spent a lot of money looking for a job at that time, most of Gu Qingnan's salary is now directly handed over to his family.

Uncle Pei had already discussed with the old Gu family before Lingxi and her husband got married that Gu Si and Lingxi would live separately after marriage.

Since she doesn't live with them, Lingxi can at most say hello to this old man, uncle and elder brother-in-law when they meet. She will just need to recognize who is who by then, and she doesn't need to worry about anything else.

The people Lingxi is likely to come into contact with and deal with are several women in the family.

Comrade Wang Dongni, Gu Si's adopted mother, is an elder, so she naturally has an advantage over Lingxi.

But Wang Dongni wanted to "marry" her son, who was too weak to carry anything, so that he would have a stable life for the rest of his life, and it would be best if the man was capable and could support her fourth child.

Now that Lingxi has the old Pei family as the scapegoat, her son is not at home and is a burden to others. She wants to worship Lingxi.

As for the eldest and second daughters-in-law...

They look like ordinary young wives and sisters-in-law in the village.

The eldest son’s wife has two sons and two daughters. The two sons are twins, twelve years old this year. They have an older sister and a younger sister. The older sister, Daya, is fifteen years old this year, and the younger sister, Siya, is only seven years old.

The second son’s wife gave birth to three daughters. Erya and Sanya are twins, who are eleven years old this year. There is also a fifth daughter, who is only four years old this year.

The second son's wife felt inferior to the eldest son's wife because she had never given birth to a boy.

However, the second daughter-in-law is a distant relative of Wang Dongni's mother's family. With Wang Dongni's occasional care, she and the eldest daughter-in-law can be considered on equal terms.

Occasionally, the two of them would quarrel over whether your family had an extra piece of meat or a bowl of soup was missing from their family. However, these two daughters-in-law were efficient at work and had the highest work points in the women's group.

As for the younger generation below...

Lingxi is just an aunt. These younger generations have their own parents and naturally have nothing to do with Lingxi.

Lingxi listened carefully to Gu Si's analysis. What her fourth brother said was almost the same as what her second uncle and second aunt had inquired about. She felt more at ease.

However, Lingxi was a little curious.

"Yesterday, there was a guy wearing black and red plaid, about fourteen or fifteen years old.

Her hair was sparse and scattered, and she tied it up with a handkerchief and gathered it at the back. Is that Daya?"

Lingxi saw this girl when she got off the sedan chair in front of the door. She was standing next to Wang Dongni at the time.

Lingxi is very sensitive to people's emotions.

The look in the girl's eyes when she and her fourth brother were extremely strange.

When she looked at Lingxi, she used a look of pity, as if she was crazy, and when the girl looked at Gu Si, her eyes were full of disgust and disdain.

There was also a kind of inexplicable sense of complacency and superiority, a bit like the feeling Pei Fuzhu had after she spent ten yuan to buy the bead from Minghui. She kept her chin up and looked at everyone else as if they were not worthy of her.

Lingxi was a little unhappy at the time, but it was a happy day and it was that time, so she couldn't turn her face against him.

She finally held back. Now that she remembered it, Lingxi naturally wanted to complain.

Gu Si was amused by Lingxi's description and laughed softly.

"I have to go there later to recognize him and see if he is the right one."

While he was talking, he took an egg, peeled the eggshell, put it in a bowl, and crushed it with a pair of clean chopsticks. He added a spoonful of honey and poured water, and brought the bowl to Lingxi. Then he said, "There's no need to be unhappy. Some people don't know how to use their eyes. That's not necessary. Fourth Brother will take care of it."

However, Lingxi was unhappy only because others looked at him unkindly, which made Gu Si feel very happy.

Lingxi: “…”

Ah, this...

OK!

She smiled again, peeled the remaining egg and handed it to Gu Si.

The two of them ate a sticky meal that took them half an hour to finish.

Lingxi and Gu Si then walked out of the courtyard side by side.

Lingxi was still dressed in red at this time. She wore a dark red long skirt with a large hem, and a stand-up collar of the same color. The collar, cuffs and hem of the skirt were embroidered with twined branches in gold and silver threads. Gu Si specially asked a master craftsman to make it for her, and it looked very beautiful.

The old Gu family is in the center of the village. To the east is the brigade headquarters. To the west, past the private plot, is Zhao Jianan’s burned stone house with a fenced courtyard, and next door is the cowshed.

Gu Si and Lingxi went out and walked south, passed the courtyard of Zhao Jianan's former landlord father's house, went around the cowshed and walked east. After only a few dozen meters, they arrived at the destination.

In total, it only took a few minutes as Gu Si introduced Lingxi as they walked.

There were not many houses on the road, but there were many onlookers standing at the intersection looking in from afar, and some children were clamoring to see the bride.

Gu Si was in a rare good mood. When he heard the children in the village praising the bride for her beauty and saying that she looked like a fairy, he would grab a few candies from the baskets they were carrying and share them with them.

Lingxi just needs to smile throughout the whole process.

There were a lot of people in the old Gu family. When Lingxi and Gu Si arrived, there were people surrounding them inside and outside.

Lingxi looked at Gu Si in surprise. Gu Si originally thought that they were relatives from the family and clan waiting for the new bride to recognize them, but after thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong. Now it is not like before, when after getting married, the elders from the family and clan would wait to drink tea with the bride the next day.

The conditions are not there now, and marriage is a family matter, with all the aunts and uncles around. When you meet after the marriage, you can introduce the couple to each other and just call them.

The two of them walked around the crowd and entered the yard, only to see Wang Dongni chasing a skinny girl of seven or eight years old with a broom.

"I told you to run, but you are so short-sighted? You are a starving ghost! Why don't you eat me?"

Si Ya screamed, tears and snot all over her face, and howled at the top of her lungs: "It's not me, it's Big Sister, Big Sister..."

"You haven't wiped the grease off your mouth yet, and you're still fooling me..." Wang Dongni hit him with the broom again.

There were also a few unfamiliar sisters-in-law and aunts who stopped the girl, saying that the little girl was greedy and would be fine when she grew up.

It turned out that Lingxi and her family had a lively wedding banquet yesterday, and there were still a lot of dishes left from the family's preparations. Some was given to the kitchen helper, and Wang Dongni left some for Gu Si and his friends. The rest was taken back to the old Gu family. However, in just one night, the big bowl of meat was finished.

Lingxi felt that the little girl looked familiar.

Gu Si lowered his voice and said, "The one in the sun drying yard."

Lingxi cried out, and suddenly she realized that the girl whom she had asked Gu Si if he knew her while they were eating was standing against the wall with her chin raised, and from time to time she glanced at the farce in the yard with contempt.

Lingxi: “…”

Following Lingxi's gaze, Gu Si, who also took in the scene, said: "..."

(End of this chapter)