CHAPTER XXII
Gu Xiaofeng blushed, pinched the placket of his clothes, cleared his throat, and replied in a low voice with a smile: "I'm afraid it's just a good temper, but I can't see anything else." ”
Aunt Liang glanced at the hall and saw that the child had knocked over the teacup on the table, and the tea had flowed on the table, and she was stretching out her two little hands to keep patting the water stains on the table, giggling happily.
The man holding her was not annoyed, just rolled up his sleeves for the child, let her pat it, and took a washed handkerchief of unknown color to cover the child on his chest, for fear of wetting her clothes.
"Xiaofeng, our neighborhoods for many years, can I harm you? My nephew is indeed a good person, but his life is harder, and he is not a lazy person, he has the strength to endure hardships and do things. It's just that over the years, the mother-in-law he married has been sick since she gave birth to her first child, and she has been looking for medical advice every day, and has hollowed out her already thin family foundation, I'm afraid that you still owe a lot of foreign debts, and I'm afraid that you can't get used to such a hard life. Aunt Liang took Gu Xiaofeng's hand, sat on the edge of the kang, and said in a low voice.
"What is bitter or not, as long as people are not lazy and willing to do things, they will always live well." Gu Xiaofeng's cheeks turned red, and he said in a low voice.
When Aunt Liang heard this, she laughed like a flower, clapped her hands and said: "With your words, I will take you as an agreement, and I have to tell Dachuan that he will go home and give up his life to take out some dowry gifts, and find a matchmaker to go to your house to propose marriage." ”
Gu Xiaofeng fiddled with his fingers and sighed: "I'm afraid that he won't like me, you have to make it clear to others that the fortune teller said that I am a Kefu fate, which is not good for him." ”
"I said this a long time ago, in fact, I don't need to say it, he also knows, but Dachuan also told me, he doesn't believe in this, what is not a husband, people's lives have their own destiny, those are all days, what does it have to do with others." Aunt Liang said with a smile.
A shy smile appeared on the corner of Gu Xiaofeng's mouth, and he refused to say more.
Aunt Liang was about to make a few jokes, but she heard Liang Mingshi calling her in the yard and asking her to bring hot water to scald the chicken feathers.
Aunt Liang teased her legs and went down to the kang, Gu Xiaofeng wanted to go with her, but Aunt Liang held her with both hands, didn't let her get up, and said with a smile: "You sit for a while and then leave, I'll go out to help the handle, and the chicken will be scalded first, but this braised chicken wants you to help make it, you also know, my daughter-in-law's child is quick to work, but she is careless, and the food she cooks can be eaten, which is not as exquisite as what you make." ”
Gu Xiaofeng didn't excuse her, sat down, and watched her walk out.
The man in the hall said hello to Aunt Liang, holding the child to leave, but he didn't know what Aunt Liang said to him, so he also stopped, and still sat on the chair, but he was restless, wanting to look into the inner room, but he didn't dare to look.
The child in her arms is tight-skinned, and if she doesn't look good for a while, she will cause trouble, and seeing that her father is absent-minded and has no time to take care of her, the two lotus-like little arms only swept on the table, and swept the teapot on the table with two teacups to the ground!
"Ouch, my little girl, how can I say this, but I've caused a big disaster." The man came back to his senses and shouted, not to clean up the teacup, but to pull the child's clothes first to see if the child was burned.
The child was not hot, still giggling happily, and his two little hands were slapping in the tea on the table.
The man held the child in one hand, squatted down to clean up the broken porcelain slag on the ground, but the child was not honest in his arms, always reached out to grab his turban, pulled his hair and scattered, he coaxed her, while cleaning up, and he didn't clean up for a long time.
Gu Xiaofeng, who was sitting on the edge of the kang, couldn't see it, walked out, took the child from him, turned around and went to the back room, and lowered the door curtain.
The child didn't recognize his life, he didn't even cry when he was taken away by the living, he still smiled and raised his chubby little hand to pull Gu Xiaofeng's hair.
Gu Xiaofeng put her on the kang and coaxed her with a thread ball, she was also obedient, playing with the thread ball like a kitten, pulling a rope, pulling hard, dragging it, while looking up at Gu Xiaofeng, babbling something in her mouth, the baby who was more than nine months old couldn't tell anything, but Gu Xiaofeng was drunk when she heard it.
She has never raised a child, but she is warmed by the child in front of her. This little thing is so cute, waving its little hands, it looks so cute.
The man coughed heavily outside, and Gu Xiaofeng asked him through the curtain, "But it's finished?" ”
"Hmm." The man responded, and after a while, he said again: "Baby, thank you very much." ”
Gu Xiaofeng bit her lip, but still opened her mouth: "You know my condition, right?" It's a kefu, just a few days after getting married, my husband is gone, everyone says that my life is hard, not only everyone says, but the fortune teller also says so. ”
There was silence outside for a long time, and suddenly he spoke again: "As long as you don't dislike me, there was a fortune teller who told me that day, I am a wife, if this is the case, my wife was fine when she married me, and suddenly left like this, it can be seen that my life is also hard, but I am afraid that it will affect you." ”
When Gu Xiaofeng heard his words, his heart was sour, and tears flowed down.
It's good for this man to be afraid, listening to Aunt Liang's words, his wife was sick in confinement, but he blamed himself for not doing his best, hating himself for not doing his best, when he said this, his voice was trembling, and it can be seen that he still remembers his wife.
"They are all hard-working people."
After a long time, Gu Xiaofeng wiped away his tears, sighed, picked up the child from the kang, and regardless of any rules and etiquette, he lifted the curtain and walked out, standing face to face with him.
The man rubbed his hands a little uneasily and smiled at her.
"Mother-" The child in Gu Xiaofeng's arms suddenly hugged her neck and shouted out clearly.
"Ouch, this kid, look, ouch, I took my life, Gu family lady, don't think elsewhere, this kid hasn't been able to speak, what's wrong with this today, look at this thing......"
The man was frightened, and hurriedly reached out to snatch the child from her arms, and explained incoherently with a red face.
"Mother, mother, mother, mother-" The child refused to stop, giggling and screaming.
The man reached out to cover her mouth, but the child bared his little teeth and bit his hand, he was in pain, retracted his hand, and made a gesture to fight, scaring the child, but the child was not afraid of him, and the little teeth clattered.
"Niuniu, it's all because my father is not good, I didn't keep your mother, and my father can't stand you and my two sisters." The man hugged the child tightly, turned his face away, and said in a sad tone.
Gu Xiaofeng blushed, pulled the child from his arms, and sang like a mosquito: "If you don't dislike it, I will be the mother of this child, I'm afraid that if I say this, I will annoy you." ”
"Don't dare, don't dare, the Gu family's lady Hugh said this, you are willing to look down on our grandfather, it is the blessing of the three of her, and it is the blessing of my Liang Dachuan." The man went on for a long time.
Aunt Liang called Gu Xiaofeng outside and asked her to make braised chicken.
Gu Xiaofeng responded and went out with the child in his arms, but Liang Dachuan was still stunned and bowed down to do the album, and he didn't get up for a long time.
When Aunt Liang saw her coming out with the child in her arms, she came out of the kitchen overjoyed, clapped her hands and smiled: "Xiaofeng, look how clingy this child is, how close he is to you!" It can be seen that you should have been a family long ago. ”
Gu Xiaofeng teased the child and laughed: "Aunt Liang, I'm not a big girl who is married for the first time, and I don't care about decent rules, just look at each other." ”
"Auntie knows that you are a cheerful person, but there is one thing, I want to make it clear to you first, Dachuan is not capable of giving much dowry, I am afraid that your old lady will not be able to look down on her and will not be able to agree." Aunt Liang said with a smile.
Gu Xiaofeng smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I have eaten dead food in my mother's house for the past few years, who doesn't regard me as a thorn in the eye, and wishes I could get married, but I know this, just find a matchmaker to mention it, there is no disagreement." ”
"That's good, that's good, from now on our two families are also relatives, haha......" Aunt Liang took the child from her hand and asked her to hurry up and cook and eat together.
Gu Xiaofeng knew that her move was to let Liang Dachuan understand her cooking skills, so as to know that although she was wealthy, she was not a pampered eldest lady, so she did her best to make a table of delicious dishes, although there were no big fish and meat, only a chicken and some home-grown vegetables, but under Gu Xiaofeng's careful cooking, it was also full of color, flavor and flavor, and people who watched it were pleasing to the eye, and those who ate it were fragrant.
Let's say that Mrs. Gu didn't see Gu Xiaofeng at lunch, so she asked Ruan Jiao where she went, Ruan Jiao was about to tell a lie for her, but she saw Gu Xiaofeng coming in from outside with a smile, giving the old lady a slight salute, and said with a smile: "I'm late, forgive me." ”
The old lady frowned: "There is a smell of fireworks on your body, and your heart is too soft, you must help someone to cook without asking." ”
"It's just Aunt Liang's family, someone from her mother's family, you know her daughter-in-law, she is a good hand at working in the field, but she can't do it in terms of cooking skills, so she bothered me to help her cook a meal, and people didn't use me for nothing, and gave me a bag of dried radish and bean strips that were dried this year, knowing that the old lady loves this bite!" Gu Xiaofeng said with a smile.
"Grandma, didn't you stay there to eat together?" Feng asked with a smile, before the words fell, he only heard Aunt Liang's loud voice from the courtyard: "Old lady, two grandmothers, and a few uncles, are aunts and grandmothers back?" Tell me about her, why is it so difficult to let her stay for a meal? ”
"Call you." Ruan Jiao smiled and pushed Gu Xiaofeng.
Gu Xiaofeng walked out, came in after a while, and asked the old lady if she wanted to go.
"Since she came to call you, it's hypocritical for you not to go, go ahead." The old lady laughed.
Gu Xiaofeng responded and walked out of the door.
Feng's chopsticks and dishes, but he didn't eat them, put them in the rice bowl and pulled them, and sneered: "Old lady, I'm afraid that this Aunt Liang has bad intentions." ”
The old lady put down the porridge bowl and stared at her, waiting for her to finish, but she said again: "Her mother's nephew died last month, I'm afraid it's not my aunt and grandmother?" ”
"Eyeing my aunt? Jokes! Who doesn't know that she is Kefu's life, who dares to ask her! Liu sneered and sneered, but was glared at by the old lady, lowered her head, and didn't dare to say anything more.