Because Gu Changning had been facing away from Gu Huai'an, his hands were still busy sprinkling water gently, and he couldn't see what was going on behind him.

Gu Huai'an looked at his sister's small figure working in the vegetable garden, silent, not knowing what he was thinking, his expression was a little solemn, and he continued after a while: "In the future, every day after dinner, I will also go to collect some firewood and come back." ”

After dinner, he had half an hour to continue copying books, after which the light in the house was dark, but it was not completely dark outside, and he thought that he could use this time to pick up some dead branches and trunks in the nearby woods or at the foot of the mountain, and come back, so as to lighten his sister's burden.

"No, no, brother, you are so busy every day, you have to read and practice calligraphy and copy books for money, and how hard it is to pick up firewood!" Gu Changning hurriedly got up and replied to him, "I'm idle anyway, in addition to learning embroidery with A-Niang every day, I just cook and clean the yard or something, it's very idle, and I'll leave the matter of collecting firewood to me!" ”

"However, you haven't done any rough work, chopping wood is hard work, you have to chop wood so suddenly, you will definitely have blisters on your hands, and if you accidentally don't hold the woodcutter, where will it hit yourself......" Gu Huaian still looked at her with no relief.

“…… Brother, can you hope that I will be better! "Is it really good to speak so upright!

Gu Changning's face darkened, and he said with three black lines on his forehead, "Besides, I don't specifically go to chop firewood, it's Shuang'er and the others who have to go up the mountain to cut pigweed every day, and I walk with them, this is also a matter of the way, brother, don't worry." ”

After speaking, she added, "Let's blister it, just blister, just pick up the blister." ”

To be honest, her hands were already blistered after only half a day's work, but she didn't want her brother to feel distressed, and tried to show that there was nothing abnormal to comfort her brother's heart.

Maybe Gu Changning's performance was too calm, as if it was a very common thing for her to cut down trees, and she was infected by her calmness, Gu Huai'an really persuaded her, and she didn't raise any objections.

It's just a little bit of a requirement for her, it's okay to cut down trees, but at most you can only cut the trunk of an arm, and a thicker one can't.

Gu Changning nodded again and again, was silent for a few seconds, and still couldn't help but say: "Brother, you are too worried, even if I want to cut a thicker trunk back, I don't have the strength." ”

Gu Huai'an doesn't care so much, his sister has been a ghost since she was a child, and she has a lot of ghost ideas, and she always comes up with many small ideas with a crooked head.

He wasn't afraid of anything else, he was afraid that she would cut first and then play, so he had to tell her first.

Putting these things aside, when Gu Changning was talking to Gu Huai'an about winter, he once again remembered that this winter was a great cold winter that had not been encountered in fifty years, and once again thought of the sad and miserable situation of their family at that time, his heart sank, and the hand holding the gourd scoop tightened suddenly, his lips pursed slightly, and his eyes were gloomy, and he decided to make more preparations in his heart.

This winter took A-Niang's life, and she will never let the same thing happen again!

"Ning Ning, what's wrong with you?" Gu Huai'an saw his sister talking and talking, the expression on his face suddenly became solemn, and he asked in wonder.

"Huh? It's okay, I just hate that I have too few hands, if only I had a three-headed six-armed man who could do a lot of things at the same time. Gu Changning sighed, there were so many things she wanted to do when she came back from rebirth, so much that she wished she could have two of herself, and now she could only come step by step, which made her a little anxious.

Gu Huai'an didn't know what she was thinking, but she was really busy during this time, she was busy selling things in the market, increasing the variety of vegetables in the vegetable garden, taking the initiative to contract all the affairs of the family, and going to the mountains to chop firewood and come back, so she didn't stop for a moment.

Gu Huai'an couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart when he thought of this, walked to Gu Changning's side, and watered the vegetable garden while holding water from the bucket with his hand, and said softly: "Ningning, with us, my brother and A-Niang have always been by your side, and you are not alone." ”

Gu Changning's hand shaking as he poured the water shook before he nodded slowly after a while: "Hmm." ”

Gu Huai'an smiled, raised his hand and rubbed her soft hair, then stood up and said to her, "Then I'll go back to the room to copy the book first." ”

"Okay."

Gu Changning looked at his brother's distant back, pursed his lips, and couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

She knew that her brother had seen her fear, and he would say this.

These days, she thinks that she is hiding it well, thinking that she has put aside the past of her previous life, but she still can't hide it from anyone, because deep in her heart, she is still the helpless, declining, and lonely Gu Changning.

In his previous life, Gu Changning was a person who lived in uneasiness and confusion all the time.

Gu Changning suddenly flattened his mouth, stared back at the vegetable garden for a moment, and suddenly poured all the vegetable seeds with water in one go, then put the bucket away, clapped his hands, turned his head, and went back to his house.

Whatever, whether it's in the previous life or in this life, it's me Gu Changning!

***

"Ning Ning, this raspberry is so sweet, it's delicious!" Chen Shuang sat on the stone under the tree, eating raspberries and said happily.

"Do you like it? Well, here you go, I've picked a lot. Gu Changning saw that she seemed to like it very much, and hurriedly handed over the big leaf with raspberries in his hand and asked her to eat more.

"Where did you find so many raspberries?" Apricot asked curiously, biting the raspberry meat in her mouth.

"On the mountain road in front of my house, a little further to the side, there is a row of raspberries in the place where it is blocked by a man's tall weeds!" Gu Changning thought that she was not going to sell the remaining raspberries, so she simply shared them with her friends, and even told them the location without hesitation.

Yang Jin sat on the other side and listened to their conversation, eating raspberries without saying a word.

"Are there a lot of them?" Xing'er's eyes widened and asked, "How many?" ”

"About seven or eight bushes, I didn't count them much, and when I picked them, I chose the reddest ones on each bush, and I ignored the rest of the lighter ones."

"Does that mean the fruit is still growing? Great, there are still some to eat later! Apricot said excitedly.

Gu Changning smiled at her, responded crisply, and watched Xing'er talk to Chen Shuang about other things.

When Yang Jin saw this scene, he suddenly reached out and pulled Gu Changning's hem, and after seeing her turn around and look back at herself suspiciously, he lowered his voice and approached and said, "You found that the raspberries are just to be sold, why do you still take them out and share them with everyone?" ”

"Don't mention it, I sold it when I was in the market before, and the results were not ideal, there were a lot of people who tasted it, and there were no people who bought it!" When Gu Changning heard her words, he sat beside her and said in a low voice, "And for this, A-Niang also got angry." ”

"What's wrong?" Yang Jin was stunned, selling a raspberry is not a big deal, right?

"That's it, that's ......" Gu Changning thought of the reason why A-Niang was angry, and was a little sneering for a while, "Isn't my brother going to school, as soon as I saw that the time had come, I hurriedly urged my brother to go to the school, and I stayed in the market to sell raspberries, and then A-Niang knew ......about it."

Yang Jin understood when he heard this, and looked at her with a dark face, "You are too bold, you dare to set up a stall in the market by yourself when you are only eight years old, I am two years older than you, I don't dare, Aunt Gu is not wrong, you should be scolded!" ”

"Okay, okay, I already know it's wrong, don't read me anymore, next time I won't go to the stall alone, okay?" Gu Changning listened to Yang Jin's words similar to A-Niang, and couldn't help but beg for mercy, "I have really realized my mistake!" ”

Yang Jin looked at her flattering appearance, glanced at her, and was ready to let her go, "Okay, okay, since you already know ......"

The sound stopped abruptly here, Yang Jin frowned, glanced to the side, and saw two aunts passing by on the village road of the rammed earth road, and their faces changed in an instant when they saw Gu Changning, and they all looked disdainful, and even when they passed by, they tried to walk away from Gu Changning, as if she was a dirty thing, and they were afraid that they would be contaminated with bad luck if they got close.

Xing'er and Chen Shuang, who were gossiping on the side, also noticed the abnormality here, and the two looked at the two aunts in a daze, full of confusion.

What's going on?

Gu Changning looked at the two aunts very calmly, and there were no waves in his clear black eyes.

"Look at it, look at it, that's the girl of the Gu family, tsk, she looks smart, I didn't expect it to be such a temperament, but it's really unseemly......" said a woman with a gray headscarf on her head on the left.

"Then Yang Huiyun heard that she is also the daughter of a scholar, she usually looks knowledgeable, gentle and gentle, how did she give birth to a daughter......" The young woman on the right who had a bun of her hair suddenly let out a chuckle, and the rest of the words were hidden deep in it, self-evident.

Although she deliberately lowered her voice, because the people on Gu Changning's side were quiet and did not speak, the words of this aunt still came clearly, and with the contempt in her words, the four little girls heard it clearly.

Chen Shuang secretly glanced at Gu Changning very worriedly, and saw that her expression was indifferent, and he quickly took it back, pretending that he hadn't heard anything, and that casual appearance was quite a bit of a stealing bell.

Xing'er, who was sitting next to Chen Shuang, frowned and looked at the two aunts, her expression full of dissatisfaction with their discussions.

Yang Jin, who was next to Gu Changning, glanced over there briefly, and then opened his mouth to change the topic and said, "Where did we just go?" Oh yes, Apricot, you just said your family is going to start hatching chicks again? ”

Just now, a few of them were still talking about the situation in their respective families these days, and Xing'er said by the way that her aunt had prepared a few nests of eggs, and was about to take them to hatch for the old hens at home.

"Yes, my aunt has prepared sixty or seventy eggs, and she is waiting for the old hen to hold the nest and hatch the eggs." Xing'er's attention instantly withdrew from the two village women, turned her face to look at them, and nodded.