Chapter 399: The 80s' 'Five Grains of Harvest' 5
Chapter 399: The 80s' 'Five Grains of Harvest' 5
Just when everyone thought that the matter could be resolved soon, Guard Gu parked his tricycle and trotted over. He only took one look at the little daughter squatting on the ground, then stood next to Yinfeng's mother like a quail.
He even pulled Yinfeng's mother's clothes in a very strange way and asked her in a low voice: "What's wrong? Did Yinfeng make you angry again?"
Everyone: ------
Yin Feng's mother slapped Gu Weibing on the back with a loud slap. "You are useless. You are always gone and I am left alone to take care of everything at home. Why did I marry a useless and cowardly thing like you?"
Gu Weibing didn't dare to say a word, and quickly reached into his pocket and said flatteringly: "Suzhen, there is a reason why I came back late today. I took a job before going home and earned an extra five dollars. Look-----"
Yinfeng's mother slapped Gu Weibing on the back again and said, "Go back and tell me when you have time!" This stupid idiot, there are so many people around him, how can he say anything outside!
Yinfeng's mother dragged Gu Weibing home. Gu Weibing took two steps, turned back and whispered to Yinfeng: "Yinfeng, Yinfeng, why don't you go home quickly!"
Yinfeng's mother cursed, "She's grown up now. She didn't work for a day. Why did I want her to come back? She just caused trouble for me!"
Yu Bo's mother pulled Yin Feng up from the ground and whispered, "Go back quickly, be careful your mother may lock the door!"
Yinfeng stood up with the support of her knees, buried her head, and followed her father silently, staggering back home.
The crowd dispersed, and Gu Li saw Gu Min and Gu Yubo standing in the front line.
Before he could finish his words, Gu Jie's loud voice came from a distance: "Gu Min, where the hell have you been? Come home quickly, Dad is waiting for you to boil water for a bath!"
"Coming!" Gu Min didn't delay at all and ran away like a gust of wind.
Gu Yubo sighed and followed her parents home.
Gu Li was the only one left at the scene.
At this time, her hardworking parents should have returned home from the fields. Gu Li didn't plan to go to the fields to look for them and went straight home.
When she passed by Gu Dandan's house, she was playing with her family in the yard outside the door. Seeing Gu Li coming from a distance, Dandan's mother asked, "Why are you going home so late? Do you want to come to my house for a meal?"
Gu Li's family and Gu Dandan's family are from the same family. In terms of seniority, Gu Dandan should call Gu Li "little aunt". "Thank you, Sister Qinghua. I'm not hungry yet."
It was already this late, and saying that she wasn't hungry was not a good excuse, but seeing the pile of bowls and plates on the table in front of the door, she couldn't think of a better excuse.
Dandan, who was surrounded by many people, ran over and asked hurriedly, "What happened at the village entrance just now?"
"Yinfeng was afraid of being beaten, so she hid in the river. When she was found, she was almost drowned." Gu Li said concisely.
"Ah!" Dandan looked worried, "I was taking a shower just now, is Yinfeng okay?"
"She should be fine. She went home with her parents!" After saying goodbye to Dandan's family, Gu Li hurried home.
Even if Dandan wasn't taking a bath, her parents wouldn't let her watch such a scene.
Dandan should be the happiest child in the whole village.
There are four generations living together, but she is the only one younger than him.
Although she is a girl, she is very precious and her family spoils her to no end. She even has her own snack cabinet, which is filled with snacks all year round.
This made Gu Li, who had never had a penny of pocket money in her life, so envious that she felt like tears were boiling all over her body.
After crossing a small dam and passing three houses, Gu Li finally saw her own house.
The three rooms that blended into the night were still pitch black.
The rumbling of her stomach drowned out the chirping of insects and frogs around her. Gu Li suddenly lost her strength. She stood there with her head hung, not knowing where to go.
After her eldest sister's job stabilized, she shared a house with someone in the city and seldom came back. My second sister became a disciple of a master and had to go to the master's house to help with the work during the busy farming season. She hadn't come back yet either. I guess she will be staying at the master's house tonight.
"Xiao Li?"
Gu Li looked back and saw someone carrying a load on his shoulder on the straight ridge of the field, swaying rhythmically towards her.
"Xiao Li, is that you? It's pitch black, what are you doing standing there? Why don't you come to the field to get the key? You're such a grown-up girl, but you don't even come home early to cook for us. You come home to an empty stove and you want me to start all over again. Why did I give birth to a bunch of you girls? Are you really here to collect debts? I don't know how much debt I owed your Gu family in my previous life-----"
Gu Li walked home silently as Comrade Zhang Yuhua kept talking to her.
Comrade Zhang Yuhua is a bit talkative, and she is a bit rude when she gets too excited. Although she is not as gentle as Dandan's mother, she is much better than Yinfeng's mother.
How to put it, not as good as the best, but better than the worst.
Comrade Zhang Yuhua walked quickly and caught up with Gu Li without saying a few words.
"You silly girl, didn't you know to go back home by crawling through the threshold before? Where have you been having so much fun that you only know to go home now? Look around the village, is there any girl as wild as you who doesn't even know to go home after dark? Even if I have a dog, I know to go home at the right time-----"
Gu Li stretched out her hand and picked up the carrying rope, wanting to help Comrade Zhang Yuhua reduce some of the weight, but Comrade Zhang Yuhua rejected her.
"Let go, do I need you to make things worse? I'm swaying just right."
Gu Lishanshan let go and took a step back, allowing Comrade Zhang Yuhua to walk ahead.
Gu Xilin was also carrying a load, but his was an empty load.
"Xiao Li, do you want to sit on Daddy's shoulder pole?"
"what?"
"When you were a kid, you loved sitting on a shoulder pole. You could fall asleep after rocking a few times."
Comrade Zhang Yuhua, who was walking in front, disagreed. "You've done heavy work all day, why do you have to waste your energy? She's not young anymore, she's already in the fourth grade."
For some unknown reason, Gu Li endured the shame and finally sat on the load carried by her father. On the other side, Gu Xilin shoveled a few shovels of mud into the dustpan.
Under the bright moonlight, Gu Li sat cross-legged on the load her father carried for her, holding the rope tightly.
In the dark and hungry night, Comrade Zhang Yuhua kept muttering. Although Gu Li didn't remember what she was muttering at all, there was a lot of activity around her.
The image of Comrade Zhang Yuhua's back, which was not bent by the heavy burden, swayed back and forth and was deeply engraved in Gu Li's mind for a long, long time.
People’s joys and sorrows are not shared, and four more years of this went on.
"Gu Li, you know, Gu Min has found a job in the city. She won't come to school anymore." Gu Yubo pulled Gu Li towards the village.
The school was not far from their home, so they would walk home together for lunch.
The high school entrance exam is in a week, but Gu Min hasn't come to school for several days.
It turns out that he has gone to work in the city.
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