Chapter Forty-Eight: Excluded
"Grandpa Shao, I have made up my mind. Today, the villagers have good things to say for me, and are even willing to give food to help me tide over the difficulties. ”
Whoever is good to her, she will be good to whom, this is her principle of life.
Seeing her gaze, Old Man Shao rubbed his chin with satisfaction.
Although he lives in Xiaolongkan like a marginal person, but after so many years of living in seclusion, he has long been familiar with the people in the village, these villagers are very kind in nature, but the family is poor, so they will seem indifferent to the affairs of others.
However, the behavior of the Gu family today really surprised him.
Thinking of the Gu family, Old Man Shao couldn't help but shake his head.
"Lan girl, your grandmother and their side, don't blame you too much."
Gu Lan twisted her face to the side and didn't answer.
She has always had revenge, grievances and complaints, and her grievances are very clear.
Originally, she didn't regard the Gu family as relatives, how could she have such relatives who forced a few orphans to death?
If the Gu family says a good word for her today, she may be kind to the Gu family.
But today, the Gu family didn't even say a word, and the whole family ran home, for fear that the food would fall on them.
I didn't even think about it, if Gu Xinghua hadn't taken the initiative to provoke and ask, how could she have ended up in today's situation?
Seeing that Gu Lan was unmoved, Old Man Shao sighed and changed the topic.
"How are you going to tell the people in the village that the kudzu can be eaten?"
If it was to rely on one mouth, then Gu Lan would definitely have to spend more words.
Gu Lan raised her eyes to see the sky, it was already afternoon, and most of the men in the village began to carry grain to the town, she wanted to promote cassava flour, but she could only let the people in the village take the initiative, not let her take the initiative.
so as not to be held accountable in the future.
You can't blame Gu Lan for having so many eyes, they are all forced by the environment.
When she returned home, Gu Lan remembered that she hadn't seen Aji today, and for some reason, she always felt that Grandpa Shao seemed to be deliberately reducing the number of times Aji appeared in front of people.
But soon, Gu Lan threw herself into the process of making cassava flour and left this matter behind.
On the other side, the Gu family hid at home in a dull atmosphere.
"You say, will Gu Lan have been hacked to death?"
Gu Xinghua broke the silence, and a series of sighs appeared in the house.
"It's her own life! Who made her think about escaping the food tax! We are not to blame for this! ”
"You can't say that, if it weren't for your Xinghua deliberately going to ask the official errand, who would have found out that Gu Lan didn't pay the grain? If Gu Lan's girl is really dead, Xinghua is a fierce beast! ”
The eldest daughter-in-law, Li, gloated with a look of schadenfreude: "Second brother and sister, I heard that if people are unjustly hanged, they will become ghosts, and I don't know if you will be able to sleep in the future!" ”
"Yo yo yo, sister-in-law wants to throw the pot on our heads so quickly, and she doesn't look at who it was just now, she desperately pulls our mother back, for fear that she will pay for Gu Lan!"
"I don't have that food alone! Deliver food for Gu Lan, what else do we eat? Can't you starve to death with her? If you want to blame it, you have to blame it! ”
"Blame you!"
"Blame you!"
"Don't make any noise!"
Mrs. Gu slapped heavily on the table, watching her eldest daughter-in-law and second daughter-in-law fighting like old hens, with complicated eyes.
For a moment, the atmosphere was silent again.
"Xinghua, you kneel." Mrs. Gu looked coldly at Gu Xinghua, who was hiding behind Chen's back, and her voice was as cold as ice.
"Grandma," Gu Xinghua was a little reluctant, even now, she didn't feel that she had done anything wrong, but she was a little happy in her heart, now Gu Lan is dead, and Zhao Fusheng will only have her in her eyes in the future!
"Mother, you really can't blame Xing ...... for this."
"Shut up!" Mrs. Gu slapped the table again, panting for breath.
"If it weren't for you, the doting daughter of a mother, how could Xinghua do such a thing today? Even now, you're still saying good things for her! ”
Mrs. Gu looked at her second daughter-in-law with hatred.
"Do you know what the people in the village will think of us when this incident happens today?"
Chen was scolded, and he was a little unconvinced, and muttered: "What else can you think, let's not live with them, just live our own lives!" ””
"You fart! Do you want to go to the big river in the winter? Do you want to borrow something at home? Living in the village, making others look down on you and unwilling to take care of you, do you think this kind of life is better? ”
When Mrs. Gu thought of the way those people looked at her today, she only felt that her heart was as uncomfortable as a pinprick.
She knows very well that living in the village must have a good relationship with the villagers.
For a long time, she drove Gu Lan's children out of the house, but provided them with shelter, and the people in the village knew her difficulties, and they turned a blind eye when they saw that she hadn't done too much.
At most, she said behind her back that she was ruthless, but she was trying to save the lives of her whole family, and no one would say anything.
Today, Gu Xinghua openly sued, forcing Gu Lan to a dead end, and the nature is already different.
"Mother, look at what you said, how can it be so serious, my second brother and the fourth brother are men anyway, and the people in the village don't take us with them on patrol, it's their losses."
Gu Dahe didn't want to listen to his mother say that the matter was so serious, so he also persuaded him.
In his opinion, his mother is soft-hearted and wants to help Gu Lan.
But they are the ones who work hard to farm, the third brother has spent so much money in the family when he is sick, and now that he is dead, he can't ask for it, how can he continue to raise children.
If people do not do it for themselves, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed.
Mrs. Gu didn't want to talk at all, her granddaughter was vicious, her daughter-in-law was short-sighted, and even her son was stupid.
She is now old and useless in speaking, Mrs. Gu staggered back to the room, and it seemed that she would get a lot older after a while.
Gu Xinghua looked at her grandmother's back, and couldn't help but stick out her tongue, she was partial to Gu Lan.
Fortunately, Gu Lan is going to die, otherwise she will definitely be hungry and thin this winter.
"Okay, let's not talk about this, my second brother and my fourth brother will send food to the town, you stay at home well, don't go out these days."
It will take at least two days to go back and forth to the town, and Gu Dahe will leave the house with his younger brother after arranging it.
Jingguo is mountainous and the road is far away, and they send grain to the town on weekdays, all in company with the villagers.
But today is really strange, those people in the village, as soon as they saw Gu Dahe and a few people, they scattered like birds and beasts, as if they had some strange disease, and after a while, only the three of them walked side by side.
Gu Dahe opened his mouth to shout, but the others walked in a hurry, and they didn't mean to talk to him at all.
Finally, someone took care of him.
He is a good old man who is always good at talking in the village.
Seeing Gu Dahe, there was no smile on his face.
Instead, he asked impatiently, "What do you want me to do?" ”