Not long after this incident, Gu Changning heard some rumors in the village.

"That girl of the Gu family, tsk, she looks like she attracts bees and butterflies, and she will attract the group of flowers to pay attention to her, if you want me to say, what's the use of girls looking so beautiful? It's easy to get into trouble for yourself. An aunt who was washing clothes by the river said "tsk" twice while washing, and there was something to say.

"That is to say, I don't know which kid married this girl in the future, and this family will not be remembered by thieves in the future?" The second aunt also gloated.

"When you marry a wife, you should marry a virtuous woman, who is a mother-in-law who doesn't pay attention to her daughter-in-law's virtues, words, and merits? This kind of appearance is the least important. The third aunt slapped her clothes with a mallet, and said casually with a knocking sound, "Her appearance is still suitable for being an aunt in a big family." ”

"Isn't that it?" The more the aunts talked, the more they became more and more confused, and they finished washing their clothes in the midst of all kinds of laughter, and gossiped all the way back with the basin containing the clothes.

At this time, at the other end of the river, where there was a forest to cover it, Chen Shuang cautiously glanced at Gu Changning, and called out worriedly: "Ningning......"

"Huh?" Gu Changning replied in a lazy tone, and continued to dig the earthworm with a small shovel without any pause.

Weng Lao said that earthworms can also improve the probability of laying eggs after being cooked and fed to chickens, and earthworms are not a rare thing, and they are very common in the field, so she came early in the morning, thinking that while everyone is not paying attention, catch some and try them back.

After all, these are all "home remedies", and Gu Changning doesn't want to be talked about by others, so he wants to keep a low profile.

As a result, as soon as I walked on the road, I met Chen Shuang, who had just finished washing clothes and was about to go home.

When Chen Shuang heard that she was going to dig earthworms to feed the chickens, she also thought about it, hurried home to dry the washed clothes, and came with her own small shovel and bamboo basket.

Unexpectedly, not long after the two dug up, the aunts who were washing clothes appeared by the river, and they didn't expect that they actually chatted about Gu Changning in public, with sarcasm in their language, which made Chen Shuang a little overwhelmed and very uncomfortable.

Now that she saw that Gu Changning, the client, was more calm than her, she couldn't help but be surprised: "Ning Ning, aren't you angry?" ”

was said to be like that, and she was also ridiculed for going to be a concubine in the future, which was going to be replaced by herself, and she would have gone home crying a long time ago.

Where are you still in the mood to continue digging earthworms?

"Angry what?" Gu Changning said with a natural face.

"That's...... What those aunts just said......"

"Why be angry? Aren't the aunts complimenting me on my good looks? Gu Changning blinked and asked strangely.

"Yes, yes?" Chen Shuang was stunned by her, and his reaction was a little dumbfounded.

"Of course, are the aunts on the left that the Gu family's girl is good-looking, and the right sentence is the Gu family's girl beautiful? Isn't that a compliment to me? ”

"Oh, it seems to be."

"So, what's there to be angry about." Seeing that he had succeeded in flickering, Gu Changning said with a faint smile.

Chen Shuang nodded ignorantly, didn't say anything more, lowered his head and continued to rummage through the earthworms.

Earthworms like to live in moist and soft soil, and the soil on the banks of rivers is very wet/moist and soft, so you can find a lot of them by rummaging through them.

Gu Changning and Chen Shuang grabbed for a while, and soon they were almost done, and the two of them carried this basket of earthworms to the village.

"Ning Ning, you know a lot." When the two were walking side by side on the road, Chen Shuang suddenly sighed.

"What?" Gu Changning was stunned and looked at her puzzled.

"Look, you know that snails and earthworms can be fed to chickens, how awesome is that." Chen Shuang said enviously.

"Hmm...... I've heard about this from others, and I don't know if it's or not, but I just want to give it a try, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't hurt. Gu Changning replied modestly.

"Actually, Ning Ning, I am somewhat envious of you." Chen Shuang said in a low voice.

"Envy me?" Gu Changning was surprised, "Why?" ”

"Although your family has a bad relationship with your step-grandmother's family, and you usually solve everything by yourself, Uncle Gu Shan has never let you suffer from your step-grandmother, and Uncle Gu Shan and Aunt Gu are both capable people, and they are just as good to you as Brother Huai'an, never distinguished, think about our family, I sometimes think, if only I could be born in your family."

The eagerness in his tone was obvious.

Gu Changning was slightly stunned, looking at the dirt road in front of him and was silent.

Is their family so good?

Although A-Niang had told her before, Daddy's dedication to the family, but because she had experienced a life in her previous life, she knew that she was not dead, and this incident pierced her heart like a thorn, so that she could never forget it.

But now hearing these words from Shuang'er's mouth, Gu Changning was confused.

Yes, before this incident, Daddy had always protected them behind him, and he would face any wind and rain by himself, no matter what calculations the people of the Gu family had over there, Daddy would not let them suffer.

Will such a father really do the act of abandoning his wife and children?

Gu Changning has always felt that he knows the truth of the whole thing, but is this really the truth of the matter itself?

"Ning Ning, what's wrong with you? Did what I say upset you? Chen Shuang saw that she had been silent and didn't speak, and thought that she had made her angry, so he quickly explained, "I, I don't mean anything else, I just suddenly sighed, don't be angry, I won't say such things in the future." ”

"Huh? I'm not angry, I just didn't think it through......" Gu Changning saw that he had misunderstood Chen Shuang, and clarified it.

"Didn't think it through? What didn't you think clearly? Knowing that she wasn't angry with herself, Chen Shuang was relieved and looked at her suspiciously.

"Well, I don't know how to explain it, anyway, there is something that has been in my heart for a long time, but this matter can't be said ...... now" Gu Changning sighed and said.

"Is it a serious matter?"

"Count, yes...... Don't count......"

It is said that it is serious because this matter is related to this family, and it is not serious because Gu Shan is now a "deceased" person in the hearts of everyone, and his existence has no impact on everyone.

Although Chen Shuang didn't know what she was holding in her heart, she also comforted: "Since you can't say it now, then don't worry about it, anyway, there will always be a day when you can say it, let's talk about it then, it's useless to think more now." ”

"Well, that's what you're talking about!" Gu Changning nodded and returned home with the earthworm.

She didn't pay attention to what the aunts were talking about before.

Anyway, she thinks very openly, and she won't lose a piece of meat if she is used as a talking point to talk about a few words, so she doesn't bother to care about them.

Soon, however, she couldn't think so.

***

"Ning Ning, I asked my aunt, part of our chickens are sold to restaurants, and some are sold to large families."

On this day, the sun was shining, the sky was clear, and the third day after Gu Changning was rescued by the guards of the Guogong Mansion was also July 18, which was the season when wild walnuts began to ripen.

So Gu Changning carried the bamboo basket on his back early in the morning and went up the mountain with his friends to pick wild walnuts and came back.

Apricot walked beside her on the way, talking as she walked.

"Sell to a big family?" Gu Changning was stunned for a moment, and immediately figured out the joints inside.

Large families eat fish and meat at every meal, especially in winter, and prefer to eat these meat-stained dishes, mainly related to the weather.

Like summer, because of the hot and humid weather, people's tastes will become lighter, and their appetite will be relatively easy to digest.

However, in winter, the weather is cold, and people are hungry quickly, so they naturally prefer to eat some hard vegetables.

Although poultry meat is not as much meat as pigs, it is convenient to buy and can be slaughtered and eaten.

Therefore, large families will also hoard some live chickens and ducks, and these chickens and ducks are naturally bought from the people.

"In this way, help me say thank you to Aunt Chunhua, and say I know." Gu Changning smiled at her.

"Okay." Xing'er nodded, and continued, "Actually, my aunt also said, if you need it, you can take the chicken to our house, and my aunt will sell it together. ”

When Xing'er said the last sentence, her head leaned towards Gu Changning's side, her voice was lowered, and Meng Yaqin, who was walking on the other side, narrowed her eyes.

"Yao Xing'er, what are you talking to Gu Changning? Is there something that God is secretive about us? ”

She shouted in this voice, and Chen Shuang and Yang Jin also looked at it curiously.

"Huh? I didn't say anything, but Changning asked me a question about raising chickens before, and I answered it for her. Apricot blinked, an innocent expression.

Although she is a little outspoken and doesn't have so many hearts, she is not stupid, on the contrary, her reaction to some things is quite shrewd, and Meng Yaqin's potential dislike for Gu Changning is clear.

Therefore, she never mentioned that Gu Changning wanted to sell the chickens in the family.

"What do you know about raising chickens?" Meng Yaqin said with a little disgust when she heard it, "If you want to ask, you also want to ask Aunt Chunhua, right?" ”

"That's right, Ning Ning asked me to ask my aunt, I'll go back to her." Apricot responds to her problem very naturally.

Meng Yaqin saw that Yao Xing'er could answer every question, although she was a little unhappy in her heart, but in the end she didn't continue to ask.

Yao Xing'er saw her stop asking, turned her face sideways to look at Gu Changning, and made a strange expression at her, Gu Changning, who was looking at her, felt funny in her heart, stretched out her hand and pulled her face, asking her to look at the road carefully.

Yang Jin, who was walking on the other side of Gu Changning, couldn't help but roll his eyes when he saw it, and felt speechless at Yao Xing'er.

Meng Yaqin and Chen Shuang walked on the other end, and when she caught a glimpse of each other looking at each other and smiling, she immediately felt a new unhappiness in her heart, deliberately narrowed the distance between her and Chen Shuang, and told her loudly and ostentatiously about what jewelry had been bought for her at home recently.

Chen Shuang's face was relatively thin, and he was embarrassed to brush Meng Yaqin's intentions, so he had to accompany her to listen to her talk about these topics.

This is also why Meng Yaqin likes to get close to Chen Shuang, because she will not take the opportunity to steal the conversation, or show off her things more loudly and make her feel disgusted.

Xing'er inadvertently glanced at such a picture when she glanced at her eyes, and immediately wrinkled her eyebrows, and whispered to Gu Changning and Yang Jin: "Why is this Meng Yaqin always haunting Shuang'er so ghostly?" Is it because she has a good temper and doesn't know how to refuse? ”