The road of the farmer's fortune and the imperial examination

Chapter 182
By the time the rented ox cart arrived at Shangling Village, it was already afternoon and Shen Shichu.

Sun Xian and Ye Zhiqiu had already got off the bullock cart in the town, and they were going to take the bullock cart back again.Gu Chengyu got out of the bullock cart with the big package and baggage he brought from the county, and gave Gu Wanhua the toys in the baggage by the way.

Gu Chengyu and Gu Laopa entered the yard, Gu Chengyu wanted to call out and tell his mother that they are back!But before he called out, he heard a noise coming from the inner courtyard of the Gu family.

Gu Chengyu asked Father Gu to go in first, and then he hurriedly put the things in his hands into the cubicle of the study, and rushed to the backyard without tidying them up.

"Hmph! Taoer! We are still your elder brother and sister-in-law, right? You are so heartless? In the past few years, you have been married, and you didn't say that you came back to see your parents. Your parents are still alive! Now they are old You're not too young anymore, I miss you so much, I want to come and see you. We are sisters-in-law, so we brought two old ones here. I didn't expect that you wouldn't even let us drink your saliva when your natal family came?"

One of the sharp sopranos seemed to pierce the sky, speaking indignantly, as if he had been greatly wronged.

This high-pitched shout has already attracted the daughter-in-law of Zhang's family next door to probe her head. At this moment, she is standing outside the courtyard gate of Gu's family looking in.The Gu family is now a big family, and the house is on the second entrance, so she is too embarrassed to enter other people's yards at will.

"What did you say back then? You said that I, the Gu family, were poor, and I would never go into your house again. Now you are still blaming me. For what you said, go ask Dayang Village, whose family Didn’t you hear? Just bring anyone here and they can testify to me. Don’t I miss my parents? Is it because you don’t want me to go back and see my parents?”

During the two years when Mrs. Lu just got married, she went back every year and festival, but her elder brother and sister-in-law disliked her family's poverty, so they always spoke sarcasticly and sometimes satirically to them.Father and mother are going to live in the hands of their son again, although they feel sorry for their daughter, but they are still afraid that their son will be angry, so they don't care about their old couple anymore, so they have to persuade their daughter to be patient.Mrs. Lu has always had a high spirit, how can she bear this anger? No, she hasn't been in contact with her for many years.

Gu Chengyu was a little strange, it was said that if we hadn't seen each other for a few years, then we would live in peace, why did we come here today?
"Mom! Dad and I are back!" Gu Chengyu saw that Mrs. Lu was a little excited, so she stepped forward to comfort her.

"Is it Xiaobao who's back? Come here and let mother see if you've lost weight?" Sure enough, when Lu Shi saw that the youngest son had returned, he immediately raised a smile. It took him ten days to leave, but he really wanted to kill her .

"It's the younger brother who's back?" Gu Wan originally stood by and shared the same hatred with her mother, but when she saw the younger brother came back, she happily stepped forward to pull Gu Chengyu.

"Second sister! Third sister-in-law! Where are the third brother, the eldest brother, and the second brother?" Gu Chengyu asked curiously when he saw that there were only a few female relatives standing in the yard.Fourth brother doesn't need to ask, of course he belongs to Li Langzhong's house.

"They went to the field and haven't come back yet! I'll call them!" The mother-in-law's natal family came, but they came suddenly, and she hadn't figured out what happened, and she was still confused at the moment, but, This mother-in-law's family doesn't seem to be a good person!It looks like something is wrong!
"Oh! This is my little nephew, isn't it? She looks really good! She looks like a sister-in-law! The poor baby has grown up and doesn't know your grandpa or grandma. I'm your aunt! This is your uncle! Listen! Say you are still a scholar? Where did you get this?"

Gu Chengyu turned his head and looked at the woman who was speaking, and saw that the woman was about forty years old, her hair was not combed very neatly, unlike his mother, when she combed her hair, she would always get wet and her hair would be pressed into a bun.

The double eyelids, the eyes that might have been quite big at first, are now covered by the wrinkles around the eyes, making them look much smaller. The skin is very rough, and I am afraid that they are often exposed to the wind and sun in the fields.She is wearing a blue collared coarse cloth jacket with two patches on it. This is a woman from an ordinary peasant family.

At this time, she was pulling a tall and thin man beside him. The man looked older than Papa Gu, and she couldn't tell whether he was older than Papa Gu, because Papa Gu had eaten well in the past two years and looked young.

The so-called uncle has a Shen character face, protruding cheekbones, and a sharp and thin chin. It may be that he does not eat well, so he looks very thin.

Gu Chengyu glanced at them and said nothing. They treated his mother badly. Back then, his mother was a servant of a rich family, and it was this uncle who sold her.

There was still an elderly couple standing in the corner of the inner courtyard, their heads were covered with silver frost, and the clothes on their bodies were more torn than that of the woman just now. Single clothes, covered with a thicker blouse.

At this time, the two old men were looking up at him, and the old woman's eyes were still filled with tears. Gu Chengyu couldn't bear the weather-beaten eyes.His mother mentioned her grandfather's family before. Needless to say, her elder brother and sister-in-law are unforgiving.However, the grandfather and grandmother were good to their mother, but they had no opinion and followed the traditional thinking, pointing at this one son to provide for the elderly, so they dared not speak out.

Seeing that Gu Chengyu didn't call her, the woman couldn't hold back her face.

Gu Chengyu also understood that it was only because he saw that his family was doing well that he thought of knocking on the door, or wanted to move the relatives around.As for why he didn't come a few years ago, I'm afraid that Carpenter Sun didn't talk too much when he went back?The Lu family always thought that the Lu family was having a bad time!

There are quite a few people from the Gu family in Shangling Village, but it is rumored that the Gu family is living a good life, and those who don't know about it may not know which Gu family it is.

"What kind of aunt are you? You have a thick skin! You came here to recognize your relatives indiscriminately?" Lu's sister-in-law was deeply disgusted with her. When she was not sold, she was often bullied by this sister-in-law at her mother's house. Even her being sold was instigated by her sister-in-law.

While cursing back, Mrs. Lu looked towards the corner of the yard. These are her parents. She hasn't seen them for many years. She didn't expect them to be so old now.The silver frost all over her head hurt her eyes, and looking at the thin clothes, her heart ached even more.She hasn't returned to her natal family for so many years, and she never thought that her elder brother and sister-in-law would treat her father and mother like this!

Back then, she still resented her parents for their cowardice.But now seeing her parents so old and so thin, even if there was resentment in her heart, it almost disappeared!
It's just that she doesn't intend to forgive this brother and sister-in-law.

"Huh! Brother-in-law! My sister is not sensible, so don't you, a man? I am your uncle! This broken bone is connected to the tendon, so you don't recognize it if you want to? Moreover, you two old I don't care what I do, just enjoy my own happiness, is this reasonable?"

Lu Yang looked around the Gu family's yard, his eyes shining brightly as he spoke.

(End of this chapter)