Gu Changning looked at the village road where there were no people on the left and right, stopped in place for a moment, turned around and walked home.

As a result, as soon as he walked to Gu Huai'an's side, a warm big hand suddenly fell on his head, Gu Changning was stunned, raised his head and looked at his brother, looking confused.

"Ning Ning, in the future, I will leave this kind of matter to my brother to deal with, my brother is a man, and he doesn't care so much about his reputation."

He just didn't have much experience in dealing with things when they happened, and he wasn't an unsophisticated person in his heart, and he was somewhat aware of his sister's later actions, and he said something unpleasant at the moment.

"Reputation?" Gu Changning frowned, deliberately made an innocent look and said, "Brother, what are you talking about?" What reputation? ”

"No, it......'s nothing," Gu Huai'an prevaricated and said, "It's not early, I'll go back to the room to copy the book first." ”

"Okay." Gu Changning replied sweetly, looking at Gu Huai'an's back as he disappeared into the door, his smile slowly lowered.

Yes, it's just for fame, not only for her, but also for my brother.

After all, the reputation of a scholar is also very important, no less than a woman, she is afraid that she will not handle it properly, and it will affect her brother, which is really not a pity.

Shaking his head, Gu Changning put aside these distractions and went to Yang Huiyun's house with his needlework basket.

Gu Changning knew that she couldn't hide it from Aunt Zhou because she was arguing at the door, even if she didn't say it now, could A-Niang still break off contact with the people in the village?

After three months of filial piety, A-Niang can walk around the village normally, the village is full of mouths, maybe someone will hear about it from someone's mouth at that time, in case it is still after adding oil and vinegar, things will only get worse.

After Gu Changning figured it out, he honestly told Ah Niang about it, but his ears were twisted by Ah Niang.

"It hurts!" Gu Changning hurriedly rubbed his reddened ears and shouted.

"It hurts! How can you make a longer memory if it doesn't hurt! Yang Huiyun said with a very angry smile, "You are a girl, and you are holding a broom in front of so many people to confront Aunt Zhou, you are going to be angry with me!" ”

"What does A-Niang mean that I should just stand obediently and not fight back, and let Aunt Zhou splash dirty water on our house?!" Gu Changning pouted, looking unconvinced.

"Who wants you to stand still and not fight back, of course A-Niang doesn't want you to endure this matter, but you have to deal with it in a different way!"

Gu Changning continued to rub his ears: "How to change?" ”

"Aunt Zhou is an elder, you are a junior, even if she is at fault, you should not lose her face in public." Yang Huiyun thought that her daughter was still young, and she didn't quite understand many truths, and it was not Gu Changning's fault in the final analysis, so she slowed down her voice and said, "In this way, in other people's hearts, it is not yours to some extent." ”

Gu Changning lowered his head and didn't say a word.

It's not that she doesn't understand these truths, but maybe it's because the emotions that have been pressed in her heart in her previous life for too long, and she didn't control herself at that moment, and she broke out in an instant.

But don't say it, after she had a big fight with Aunt Zhou, she felt much more comfortable.

Yang Huiyun saw her bowing her head and holding the needlework basket, without saying a word, sighed slightly in her heart, stroked the top of her daughter's hair, and said: "Ning Ning, A-Niang knows that you are angry in your heart, but you are still young and don't know what is powerful in it. A-Niang is not worried about anything else, or she is afraid that if you get a fierce reputation in the village, it will be difficult to find your in-laws in the future. ”

Gu Changning puffed out his cheeks at first to express his displeasure, and when he heard her suddenly mention looking for her mother-in-law, he felt a little uncomfortable, lowered his head, and replied weakly: "Oh." ”

Yang Huiyun saw her reluctance, afraid that she was just talking about it, and didn't take it to heart at all, so she said a few more words, "Don't look at those girls who said it in the end, but who are they talking about?" A-Niang doesn't expect you to marry a wealthy family in the future, she just hopes that the other party has a good character and treats you well. ”

“…… Well. Gu Changning looked at A-Niang's expectant look and nodded slowly.

Yang Huiyun saw that her attitude seemed to take her words to heart, so she put her mind at ease.

Gu Changning is a smart child, and he has been more precocious than others since he was a child, originally Yang Huiyun would feel awkward if he put this on other eight-year-old girls, but it was much more natural when he was put on Gu Changning.

The mother and daughter did needlework in the house for a while, and Gu Changning got up to make dinner, and Aunt Zhou's matter passed like this in the Gu family.

However, in Xinghua Village, this is just the beginning.

The next day, the morning light was faint, Gu Huai'an had already gone to the school with his bookbag on his back, Yang Huiyun was feeding the chickens in the chicken shed, and Gu Changning had just cleaned up the yard at this time, and there was a knock on the door with a "bang".

"Changning, Ningning, Gu Changning-"

Chen Shuang's voice sounded along with the knock on the door, Gu Changning hurriedly opened the door for her, and saw her appear at the door of her house with Yang Jin and Meng Yaqin, each carrying something in their hands.

"Huh? What do you guys do here? Gu Changning was surprised.

She saw that all three of them had a basin of clothes in their hands, and knew that they were going to the river to wash their clothes, but she did not understand why they were at her door.

"We're going to go to the river to do laundry, so I'll stop by and ask you for a piece." Chen explained to her.

"Oh...... Then you wait, I'll go and talk to A-Niang. Gu Changning was stunned for a moment, thinking that the clothes he changed last night hadn't been washed yet, so he immediately dropped this sentence and went to the backyard to find Yang Huiyun.

The three little girls stood at the door of Gu's house and waited for her, and the village road was very quiet at this time, and no one passed by.

Meng Yaqin, who was standing on the left, glanced at the empty front yard of the Gu family, suddenly turned her face sideways and said softly to Chen Shuang and Yang Jin: "Wouldn't it be good for us to ask Changning to go to the river to wash clothes together?" ”

"Why isn't it good?" Chen Shuang asked with a puzzled expression.

Yang Jin, who was standing on Chen Shuang's right side, glanced at Meng Yaqin lightly, as if he knew what she wanted to say, and didn't ask anything.

"That's it, it's ......" Meng Yaqin looked at Chen Shuang with an ignorant look, frowned slightly, with an embarrassed expression on her face, and said very worriedly, "Yesterday, the matter between Changning and Aunt Zhou has spread in the village, and there must be a lot of aunts washing clothes by the river at this time, Changning appears at this time, will it cause the aunts to discuss?" ”

"Yes, probably not, right?" Chen Shuang blinked and hesitated.

"You don't want to call Ning Ning together, so why did you mention her just now." Yang Jin took over lightly.

Chen Shuang's family and Meng Yaqin's family lived next door, and when she went to Chen Shuang's house to ask Chen Shuang to go to the river to wash clothes, Meng Yaqin saw it, Meng Yaqin said that she also wanted to follow them, Chen Shuang agreed, and Yang Jin acquiesced.

As a result, after the three of them walked out for a while, Meng Yaqin suddenly mentioned Gu Changning as if she was inadvertent, saying that she couldn't walk around the village now, Gu Huai'an was going to school again, and she was the only child in the family, so she didn't know how lonely it was.

Now that a few of them have stood at the door of the Gu family, Meng Yaqin suddenly said this, Yang Jin snorted coldly in his heart, and his expression was very indifferent.

"I didn't want to call Changning together, I was just worried about ......" Meng Yaqin was so lukewarmly replied by her, her face suddenly turned ugly, and she was about to explain to her.

However, before he finished speaking, he was unceremoniously interrupted by Yang Jin.

"Ning Ning is out."

Meng Yaqin and Chen Shuang looked back and saw that Gu Changning also had a basin with clothes in his hand and was walking towards them.

"Let's go, let's go, I'm ready!" Gu Changning was afraid that they would wait for a long time, so he hurriedly quickened his pace and said as he walked.

Seeing this, Meng Yaqin could only swallow back when she was interrupted, she looked at Yang Jin angrily, and walked with them to the river with some reluctance.

"Ning Ning, are we here by mistake?" Chen Shuang was still thinking about Meng Yaqin's words, and asked uneasily.

"Wrong? What's wrong......" Gu Changning's dark pupils looked at her, puzzled.

"Didn't you quarrel with Aunt Zhou yesterday at the door of your house, many people in the village know about it, and there are many people washing clothes by the river at this time, I'm afraid of you......"

Gu Changning blinked, feeling a little surprised by what Chen Shuang said.

She turned her gaze, looked at Yang Jin, and immediately understood something after seeing her nodding slightly, deliberately not looking at Meng Yaqin, and said to Chen Shuang: "It's okay, everyone lives in the same village, can I avoid today, can I avoid tomorrow?" Sooner or later, things are coming, and it's no worse to be a day earlier or a day later. ”

"Oh." Chen Shuang saw that she really didn't care, and swallowed her worry back into her stomach.

The four of them walked silently on the village road, and Chen Shuang could clearly feel that the atmosphere was a little strange.

Forget about Yang Jin, she has always been like this and has a somewhat cold appearance, but in fact, she is a person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and her enthusiasm will only appear in front of people who have good feelings.

Meng Yaqin also showed some indifference today, but Chen Shuang didn't doubt it, after all, Meng Yaqin has always been relatively proud in this group of friends, and she has to put up a shelf from time to time.

Speaking of which, this is related to her family background, Meng Yaqin is the best one among the four.

Her father is the bookkeeper of a restaurant in the town, because he has won the trust of the owner, and he has been a bookkeeper for more than ten years, and the treatment in the restaurant is good.

This is only a month's income of Meng Yaqin's father, and their family still has 20 acres of land, all of which are rented to landless villagers in the village to plant, and the annual harvest of 30% of grain is considered land rent, which alone is enough for the family to eat.

Therefore, the Meng family is in the village, and it can be regarded as a wealthy family.