Peasant woman's day

Chapter 16

Gu Qingchen's movements paused, and he smiled lowly: "Miss, don't you reconcile with your husband now?"

Blush crept up behind Fu Rong's ears.She couldn't help but cleared her throat in embarrassment: "I'm serious, don't be an apprentice. We're going to open a medical clinic, and you're not that tired, and you can continue to study for exams and so on."

Gu Qingchen raised his head and looked at Furong, as if he wanted to find something on her face.After a long while, he lowered his head again: "Let's talk about it. It's not just opening it." As he spoke, he poured out the pot of medicine he had ground, and seemed to be talking to himself: "It should be enough. Anyway, it's not. This medicine is used to cure the disease." He said, wrapped the wild jujube kernels in paper, and went into the house.

Fu Rong looked at his back and held her chin: It seems that this man really has a lot of things hidden in his heart.What did Second Sister Gu do, and why did he avoid seeing his elder sister?

After staying at her mother's house for five days, Fu Rong and the others set off to return to Gu's house.As soon as the room was opened, a foul smell rushed over.Could it be something moldy? Furong covered her nose and went in, and when she saw the furnishings in the room, she was stunned.

The curtain was half-drafted, with only one side still hanging from a hook.The bedding on the bed was messy, and there were suspicious black marks on the pillow.On the table, there is an overturned cup, and the water in it is still dripping on the table.The wardrobe door was wide open, and several clothes fell on the floor.Fu Rong's heart tightened, she stepped forward to feel inside, and found out the empty money box she had left behind when she left.When she took it out and opened it, there were many signs of prying beside the lock, and it was only because of the clever design of the lock that it was not pried open.Fu Rong thought of the lock that had no abnormality when she opened the door just now, and her face turned dark immediately.

Gu Qingchen was holding Yuanyuan and carrying things behind, and only then entered the room.As soon as he entered the room and saw this situation, he was also stunned. Seeing that Furong was looking at the box on the table with a worried expression, he didn't say a word.He put down Yuanyuan, walked over, picked up the box, looked at it for a while, but didn't speak.

"The lock on the door is good. I won't leave this matter alone." Fu Rong's voice was almost squeezed out of her throat.

Gu Qingchen raised his head, looked at Fu Rong, and slowly tightened his hand holding the box.

Furong took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down: "Apart from us, she is the only one who has the key." She paused, and said again: "I believe she didn't do it. However, it cannot be said that it has nothing to do with her!" When Gu Qingchen gave the house key to Furong, he said that he gave Mrs. Gu a key in case of emergency.In fact, according to the usual relationship, Fu Rong believed that Mrs. Gu would not do this.But it doesn't mean that no one else has touched this key.

Gu Qingchen was silent for a while, before saying: "I'll go with you."

Fu Rong breathed a sigh of relief: she was so angry that she didn't mean to make a big deal out of it.She was wondering whether he would stop her, whether he was the kind of son who could give in unconditionally for his mother.She didn't expect him to be just.After all, one is the mother who has raised her for so many years, and the other is the wife who has just been married for less than a month. Furong would not be so stupid as to ask him whether he is saving the mother or the wife. It is not popular in ancient times. Besides, the answer must be If it makes her unhappy, why bother to ask for trouble.

As soon as Mrs. Gu saw Gu Qingchen and Fu Rong appearing in front of her, she sat up straight, brushed her hair with her hands, and said: "The third and elder sister came here. I have no place to live, so I borrowed your room .”

She really knew it.Fu Rong was silent.

Gu Qingchen responded softly, then put the box in front of Mrs. Gu, and shouted in a low voice: "Mother, this is the box for the daily expenses of our third room, and it is the innermost one in the closet." Gu Qingchen deliberately Turn the side with the lock towards Mrs. Gu.

Mrs. Gu just glanced at it, her complexion changed drastically.She clenched her hand into a ball, then let it go again, and glanced at Furong, her expression darkened: "Third brother, what do you mean! Are you questioning me?"

Gu Qingchen lifted the front of his clothes, knelt down, and looked at Mrs. Gu: "Mother, you know that's not what I meant. I respect you, and I know that you would not do such a thing. But, this is money for my son to live on."

Mrs. Gu's face was uncertain: "She is your eldest sister."

Gu Qingchen's back was very straight, and he looked at Mrs. Gu and said word by word: "I have always regarded her as the eldest sister. Even if that happened. But mother, did she consider me her younger brother?"

Mrs. Gu's body shook violently, and after a long while, she said: "Third son, I know you are a good boy, and Fu Rong is also a good boy. I know what happened before, you have prejudice against your eldest sister. But, this Time, can you bear it again?"

The light in Gu Qingchen's eyes faded, he pursed his lips and did not speak.The sunlight came in from the window, elongating his figure, and cast it directly at Furong's feet.

Just when Furong thought that Gu Qingchen was going to compromise on this, Gu Qingchen kowtowed slowly to Mrs. Gu, then straightened up and said word by word: "Mother, I don't think I owe anyone in the family. I don't want mother It’s difficult, and I hope my mother won’t make it difficult for me. This is not the first time. In the past, I could hide in the town. But now that I’m married, I don’t want Fu Rong to suffer the same grievances as me. Mother, when my aunt pushed I lost you, when you lost my younger brother who never saw the light of day, you felt bad."

Mrs. Gu shook her body, her face turned pale, and her fingers clenched the hem of the skirt tightly.She wanted to say something, but nothing came out.How could she forget that matter, how could she forget it.She thought that at least there would be justice, but the next day, when her mother-in-law came to see her, she just said that her sister-in-law was ignorant, and she had three children anyway, which made her want to open up a bit.Resting on the bed, listening to the giggle of the culprit outside, how could she forget the pain in her heart.She raised her head and slowly let go of her hands.

Gu Qingchen still knelt up straight: "Mother, from when I was studying to when I got married, you have worried about me. But if I can't even keep my own home, I will be my mother's son in vain. If my mother really If it’s difficult, why don’t you let your son live alone.”

Mrs. Gu looked at Gu Qingchen in disbelief, but unexpectedly saw a little light in the corner of his eyes under the sun.Over the years, she felt that she owed her elder son and daughter, and even her second son had devoted herself to doing business for him.Only the youngest son who is the most sensible, because he is too sensible, I always ignore him.The marriage was dragged on until he was almost twenty, and it was only when Aunt Huang reminded him that he remembered this youngest son.After all these years, where did my heart go?Old lady Gu raised her hands to cover her face, tears streaming down her face.

Fu Rong stood aside quietly, turning her face away slightly.Turns out, that's why he's been in town.He knew, he always knew.Family love is innate and cannot be given up.While he valued this family relationship, who in this family valued him, even his closest parents never valued him.What could be more chilling to a son's heart than this matter.

"Third." In the quiet room, Papa Gu's voice suddenly sounded.

Fu Rong hurriedly turned her head away.Old man Gu opened the curtain by himself and came in. Perhaps he had washed his feet after coming back from the ground. He was wearing a pair of straw sandals, and his calves and feet were still wet.He put the cigarette rod in his hand on the kang table, and when he sat down, he naturally crossed one leg up, and said after a long while: "I am the master, your mother will return the key to you. No more meddling. If you have been wronged, just tell me. I know what your elder sister owes you, and what your second brother's family owes you. I will put my words here first, and I will definitely ask them to pay back. Separate the family I pretend I didn’t hear about it today, and I won’t bring it up again in the future.”

Gu Qingchen stood up slowly.Old lady Gu got up to get the key and handed it to Gu Qingchen.Gu Qingchen lowered his head, stuffed the key into his bosom, and was about to go out, when Father Gu suddenly said: "Third son, you are not too old. If you want to study again, you should. If you want to open a drugstore, money is tight. Just talk to your father. The third daughter-in-law, the third child is a person who keeps things in his heart, and you are sensible. If you have something to say, don't hold it in your heart. "

This is a major statement.Fu Rong turned around, solemnly agreed, and went forward to open the curtain.Gu Qingchen lowered his head and was stunned for a moment, then left without saying a word.

The sound of their footsteps gradually faded away.Old lady Gu sat down again, bowed her head and said nothing.

"Usually you are biased, and I turned a blind eye and didn't see it. Don't blame the third child, and don't blame the third daughter-in-law. It's their family's living money. If it is really taken by Ting'er Now that we're gone, what will the three of us do for a living?" Father Gu knocked the cigarette stick on the table several times, and spoke slowly.

Mrs. Gu has already wiped away her tears: "Am I the kind of person who doesn't distinguish between black and white? It's just that he never said, I thought, I thought..." She thought that she was doing a good job, being impartial, Very fair.Thinking about what she said just now for the sake of Ting'er, she couldn't bear the burden of the third child, let alone the third child, who should be the most sympathetic to him.

(End of this chapter)