Chapter 24: The Year Ahead Will Be a Harvest Year

"Ouch, where's the girl? Whoa? ”

When Gu Yuehuai was deep in thought, Gu Zhifeng's voice came from outside.

Gu Yuehuai came back to her senses, put down the colored pencil, and walked out of the house.

Gu Zhifeng sat on the kang outside, as if he had just woken up, his eyes were still a little confused, but the faint fear on his face was very conspicuous.

Gu Yuehuai was slightly surprised and called him: "Dad? What happened to you? ”

As soon as Gu Zhifeng saw her, he jumped off the kang barefoot, grabbed her arm and looked up and down several times, and after a while, he breathed a long sigh of relief, raised his hand and touched the cold sweat on the corner of his forehead and said, "Dad had a dream, it's weird and terrible." ”

Gu Yuehuai's movements paused slightly, raised her eyes to look at Gu Zhifeng, she originally wanted to ask what kind of dream it was, but the last words she said were: "It's just a dream, Dad, don't worry, our family's life will get better soon." ”

It's just a nightmare, what's so scary about her, the "evil ghost" who picked up a life?

Gu Zhifeng nodded, and cast Gu Yuehuai a positive look: "Don't worry, Ming'er's father will take your brother to the black ......" As soon as he said this, he blinked dumbly, and suddenly remembered that he had promised his daughter not to go to the black market again.

Gu Yuehuai also glanced at him dangerously, and her voice was very heavy: "Dad! You promised me not to go again! You can't break your word and get fat! Tomorrow, you and your eldest brother will go to work collectively in the fields and earn a share of your work! ”

Gu Zhifeng smiled awkwardly and nodded again and again: "Done!" My daughter says anything! ”

He reacted after agreeing, and wondered: "Go with your eldest brother?" Then what should you do with your second brother and third brother? Sitting at home? Then when will our family have to repay this debt? If it doesn't work out, they can't sit idle and drink the northwest wind. ”

Gu Yuehuai's calm eyes were a little calm: "Dad, Ren Tianxiang just said that our family is doing small business on the black market all day long, speculating, and our family will go to work the next day, isn't it clear that there is a problem?" ”

"Take your time, if someone asks you why you don't come back to work as a street slicker, you can say that the branch secretary said that the sons of the family are about to marry wives, and if they are unstable, they will have to pick up the fool's wife and come back."

Gu Yuehuai's tone was very calm, and when she said this, she was clear and coherent, and she really couldn't find anything wrong.

As the so-called unfilial piety has three, no queen is greater.

No matter how unobtrusive the Gu family is, they always have to marry a wife for their son, if they don't do it properly when they are street slickers all day long, whose serious daughter is willing to marry into the Gu family?

Hearing this, Gu Zhifeng slapped his thigh and praised again and again: "It's still our family that is smart!" ”

While the two were talking, there was a sudden sound of rain outside.

The door of the inner room opened, Gu Tinghuai and Gu Ruihuai ran out with their clothes on, Gu Yuehuai stood at the door, watching the two of them hurriedly collect the haystacks and firewood in the yard, and smiled.

Gu Zhifeng played with two walnuts in his hand, and said with a smile: "It's raining, water the wheat, the coming year will definitely be a bumper harvest year!" ”

Listening to his words, Gu Yuehuai didn't say a word.

A good year?

This year's grain harvest has been reduced by 60 percent, and in a famine year, everyone has not enough to eat, and they are so hungry that they have yellow faces and thin muscles, and they cannot spare the strength to work in the fields.

These disasters were not as serious as the food shortage crisis of the "three-year difficult period", but they also made people have not enough to eat, and this situation lasted for more than two years, and the life of the members of the brigade gradually improved.

Gu Tinghuai and Gu Ruihuai packed up the things in the yard before returning to the house with wet hair.

Gu Yuehuai handed over two dry towels embroidered with pink peony flowers.

Gu Tinghuai grinned, showed a mouthful of big white teeth, and said with a smile: "Thank you." ”

"Hmph." Gu Ruihuai snorted coldly, and returned to the back room with a string of wet footprints, unwilling to accept Gu Yuehuai's overtures at all, in his opinion, Gu Yuehuai was still the annoying Gu Yuehuai before.

The act he made made Gu Zhifeng's face darken again, and he scolded towards the back room: "I don't know what kind of stinky boy, what kind of young master are you?" I handed you a towel, that is worthy of you! Pretending! ”

Gu Ruihuai didn't bother to pay attention to Gu Zhifeng's words, and went in and out of his left ear and right ear.

Gu Tinghuai is a good man, and took another towel from Gu Yuehuai's hand: "Okay, okay, don't be angry, it's just that the eldest brother has a big head, and one can't be wiped dry!" Let's think about what to eat at night! ”

As he spoke, he bumped Gu Zhifeng with his shoulder again, and said helplessly: "Dad, what are you eating?" ”

Gu Zhifeng said angrily: "What do you eat!" ”

Gu Yuehuai was not angry, and said with a smile: "Big brother, rest, I'll cook." ”

"You do?" Gu Tinghuai glanced at the empty grain bags, there was not much fine grain left, there were some cornmeal, sorghum noodles and bean noodles left, every time they mixed them up, they were afraid that they would not be used to eating them.

Gu Yuehuai followed his line of sight and said, "I'll do it." ”

She walked to the stove, looked at the braised pork and rice that were still warm in the pot, muttered for a while, burned the fire and added water, continued to heat, saved for the evening to add vegetables, and mixed bean flour and cornmeal together to make noodles.

The bean noodles are tough and chewy, sticky, and tough, and they are very beautiful with braised broth as a topping.

Four bowls of noodles were served on the table, Gu Zhifeng smelled the fragrant noodles, tears were about to fall, wiped his eyes and said: "My family has grown up, and I didn't even know the next gnocchi before, but now the noodles are made with uniform thickness and fragrant."

Gu Tinghuai said helplessly: "Dad, you have these two sentences every time." ”

"What? Think what you said is not right? Don't think it's delicious? Gu Zhifeng glanced at Gu Tinghuai, his eyes drifted towards him like a knife, but if he dared to say yes, his fist was estimated to be smashed.

Gu Yuehuai smiled: "I'm here with my father, and I will always be a child." ”

Gu Zhifeng was stunned for a while, and then nodded with satisfaction, but the wetness in his eyes was even worse.

"I'll call the second brother and the third brother." Gu Yuehuai didn't want to see her father crying, so after speaking, she turned around and knocked on the door of the back room: "Second brother and third brother, the meal is ready!" ”

After speaking, she didn't wait for the two to respond, and went to the stove to wash.

Seeing this, Gu Tinghuai asked in surprise: "Nannan, you made four bowls of noodles?" ”

Gu Zhifeng pouted and said, "Four bowls? Isn't it for the second child? You're doing the right thing! That bastard boy should be hungry and let him know how powerful, otherwise who will be willing to marry him as a wife in the future with his ghostly appearance? ”

Gu Ruihuai was pulled out by Gu Xihuai, and when he heard that Gu Yuehuai only made four bowls of rice, he sneered.

He knew that how could someone like Gu Yuehuai really make a change? She will always find an opportunity to take revenge, no, take advantage of the evening to eat, only make four bowls, purely to see his jokes, to see him embarrassed!

Gu Ruihuai thought so, his hand clenched into a fist, and his expression was gloomy.

Gu Xihuai frowned, and just as he was about to open his mouth to give his bowl of rice to the second brother to eat, he listened to Gu Yuehuai finish the pot and said with a light smile: "The second brother will definitely marry a virtuous and beautiful wife in the future." ”

"I'm going to lose weight, so I'm not going to eat dinner."