Chapter 116: Redwood Coffin

"Wang Yaozu is not a good child, you can't bully other children who don't have brothers just because you have many brothers, do you know?" Lin Zhao held the twins and walked back.

Beside her, Gu Chenghuai easily held the twins, letting the two children do whatever they wanted on him, pinching his face, touching his chin.

Gu Da Cai said seriously: "I am a good child, I don't bully others."

"I don't bully either!" Ercai tried hard to show off, jumped, stepped on the dry fallen leaves on the ground, heard the leaves make a crunching sound, and bent his eyes and smiled, "I not only don't bully, but I will also protect them, I am a soldier's child, punishing evil and promoting good is my duty and mission."

Lin Zhao: "..."

These words had a lot of the flavor of the cub's father.

It must have been learned from Gu Chenghuai.

"Okay, okay, it's your duty and mission, Comrade Gu Ercai also needs to pay attention to his own safety." She exhorted.

Ercai smiled, "Hey, I know."

"Your grandmother and grandfather let me bring back pomegranates for you, wait until you finish eating and share them." Lin Zhao told the greedy little guy that there were pomegranates at home.

Tie Chui turned his head and asked impolitely: "Third Aunt, is there any for me?"

"Yes, your brothers and the others have them too." Lin Zhao smiled.

She liked generous children, if they wanted to eat, they would say it, and she would definitely give it, after all, they were her own children.

The Gu family children were all happy and thanked Lin Zhao one after another.

The fourth cub patted her father's shoulder, moved her pink little mouth, "I want! I want!"

The voice was soft, but it carried a bit of undeniable domineering energy. It was all spoiled by her father.

Lin Zhao glared at the man, look, she knew that men couldn't be relied on to bring children, it had only been a few days and she was already so fierce!

Thinking this way, the look in her eyes toward her daughter was full of softness.

The third cub buried himself in his father's neck, blinking his long eyelashes, his little eyebrows frowning, seemingly not knowing what his sister was making a fuss about.

Gu Chenghuai pressed the back of his daughter's head and directly suppressed her, "Behave."

His well-behaved daughter really didn't make a fuss anymore, rubbing her head against his neck, and a weak light hum came from her nasal cavity.

Lin Zhao: Really sensible.

Ercai talked a lot, especially loved to show off how good his mother was to their brothers, remembered one thing, and rushed to Gu's mother: "Grandma, I want to raise a cat, my mother agreed!"

"Raise a cat? Why did you suddenly think of raising a cat?" Gu's mother had no opinion, just curious about where this thought came from.

"I want to hold it while sleeping." Ercai said.

"Then raise it."

Ercai climbed up the pole, "Grandma, do you know where there are good-looking cats? I can't find a cat."

Gu's mother said immediately: "Grandma will find one for you."

Ercai's mouth was sweet, blowing a rainbow fart, "Grandma is really good, Grandma is better than all the children's grandmothers, I like Grandma the most! Grandma, when I grow up, I will definitely be filial to you, give you meat that you can't finish, and new clothes that you can't finish."

Gu's mother smiled so her mouth couldn't close for a long time.

She had many grandsons, but not many who were sweet-mouthed, who didn't like to hear good words, she also liked to hear them.

"Good, good, good, Grandma is waiting for our Ercai's filial piety. Grandma will find you a tabby cat that is the most well-behaved and best-looking."

Ercai: "Also the most powerful!"

Gu's mother smiled: "How can a tabby cat not be powerful."

"That's fine, Grandma, you choose." Ercai couldn't be quiet, without leaves to step on, he started kicking stones, one kick didn't fly, the stone got into his sandals, he raised his toes to pour it out, poured it out and kicked it again.

"Don't kick stones." Lin Zhao pinched her son's hand, "If the stone is sharp, your feet will be scratched and bleed, bleeding means going to the hospital, and if it's serious, you have to get stitches, do you know what stitches are?"

Ercai had seen his mother sewing clothes, one stitch after another sewing the fabric together, and imagined the doctor sewing his own flesh, and immediately became peaceful.

Gu Da Cai had also said this to his younger brother before, he would listen at the time, forget it when he turned around, seeing Ercai remember it in his heart, he curled his lips, remembered something, and asked: "Mother, does Maodan need stitches?"

"No need, only if the wound is big and deep do you need stitches. Maodan has no wounds on his body, so he doesn't need stitches, I don't know if he needs a blood draw." Lin Zhao was not a doctor and couldn't be sure.

"Hiss! Blood draw?" Gu Da Cai was shocked.

Ercai was scared into an expression pack, his eyes wide open, "Ah?"

"Blood draw is a necessary means, sometimes it will be used." Lin Zhao explained.

"It must hurt a lot." Gu Da Cai frowned, his eyes full of worry for his good brother Maodan.

It must hurt.

"Mother, I want to raise myself to be strong, eat well, and not go to the hospital no matter what." Ercai said fearfully.

The lawless Gu Ercai finally had something he was afraid of.

"Not getting sick means not going to the hospital, if you feel uncomfortable, you still have to go, you can't hold on hard." Lin Zhao was afraid that the children would avoid the doctor, and added seriously again.

"... Okay." Ercai agreed reluctantly.

"Don't be okay, you have to keep it in your heart, small illnesses will drag into big illnesses, you can't drag it." Lin Zhao thought, no matter what, she had to instill the principle of going to the hospital when sick into her son's brain.

"Mm-hmm." Gu Da Cai said solemnly, "Mother, I will supervise Ercai."

Ercai felt his brother was stupid, "Brother, Mother is here, if we get sick, it must be Mother taking us to the hospital, you don't need to stare at me, whatever Mother says is what it is, if Mother takes me, I'm not afraid no matter where I go."

A mother-dependent baby is like this.

Lin Zhao felt hot in her heart, children have a natural closeness and trust in their mother.

She pinched her son's soft little hand and looked at Ercai's little hair swirl with soft eyes.

Gu Da Cai said to Ercai: "I will supervise you, if you get sick, I will tell Mother the first time."

Ercai suddenly realized, "Okay."

The eloquent little child only had the share of being persuaded when facing his own brother.

"Mother, are there any more cat ears at home? I didn't eat enough." Ercai shook Lin Zhao's arm and dragged out his tone to act like a spoiled child.

Gu Chenghuai saw his wife being pestered by his son all the way, looked at Lin Zhao with heartache, raising children is really tiring, more tiring than him going out to do tasks, Zhaozhao is really hard.

"What is enough for you?" Lin Zhao asked amusedly, but she didn't think there was a problem, children, it's normal to be greedy, not to mention that food is scarce in this era, it's also because she has a very easy-to-use lottery system, otherwise it wouldn't be easy to get some good things.

Ercai: "Mother~!"

"There are still some at home." Lin Zhao said.

Zhao Liuniang asked curiously: "Did you buy that thing in the county? It looks like pasta, it's crispy when eaten, and a bit sweet, is it deep-fried?"

"Yes, bought in the county." Lin Zhao didn't panic at all.

She did meet people selling various snacks quietly, they didn't sell cat ears, but there were similar ones, taking a small basket and walking through the streets to try their luck, she had even been stopped by people.

No way, Lin Zhao looked like she didn't lack money, like she would buy.

This was also the reason why she dared to take out this snack, she wouldn't do things that had risks of sticking out.

Zhao Liuniang was not surprised, "County people really know how to eat."

"Mother, can we eat after dinner?" Ercai pressed.

"Yes, eat at most three pieces each, it's not good to eat too much before sleeping." Lin Zhao said.

"Okay." Ercai was not greedy.

It's good to have something to eat, Yuan Bao and the others didn't have any to eat.

Returning home, the Gu family children saw at a glance the wild chicken hanging on the front of the bicycle.

"There's a chicken on the bike!" Tie Dan and Lai Mei rushed over and took down the wild chicken on the front of the bike.

The chicken had been shaken and bumped all the way, fainted, and only woke up after a while, flapping its wings, scaring the two big children.

"It's alive!" Tie Dan exclaimed.

Isn't it alive, her mother wouldn't give her a dead chicken to eat, Lin Zhao thought proudly.

"Cub's father, you go kill the chicken."

Gu Chenghuai went to sharpen the knife without saying a word.

After sharpening the knife, he grabbed the chicken with his left hand, waved the knife with his right hand, cut the wild chicken's throat, and gave it a quick end.

Gu's mother came over with a porcelain bowl with salt, "Don't waste the chicken blood, make a chicken blood tofu."

"What is chicken blood tofu, I haven't eaten it." Ercai walked over, watching the adult kill the chicken, he wasn't afraid at all. Instead, little Tie Chui ran fast, facing the corner of the wall, covering his eyes with both hands.

"Grandma will make it for you." Gu's mother said with a smile.

"Good."

At this time, Lin Zhao went to the kitchen to prepare first, she wanted to make today's chicken herself.

She plucked a few whiskers from the ginseng sent back to her maiden home, planning to put them in the soup later.

Gu Chenghuai had been a soldier for many years, had suffered many injuries, and his body needed to be supplemented.

Huang Xiulan and Zhao Liuniang were also not idle, and were also cooking. Thanks to the Gu family's kitchen not being small, otherwise it wouldn't be convenient.

The pot of the third room was brought back to the old house, and there was no lack of pots to use, two stoves were burning at the same time, Gu Lan was burning the fire, looking at Lin Zhao from time to time.

Seeing that she had the heart to learn, Lin Zhao didn't hide it and taught the little girl.

"Today we eat one chicken in two ways, stew a chicken soup, and then make a braised chicken block..." As soon as Lin Zhao spoke, everyone in the kitchen swallowed their saliva subconsciously.

Don't look at the Gu family eating meat quite diligently, the whole family's stomach was still lacking oil and water, after all, there were many people in the family, there was only a meat flavor in the dishes, no one could eat to their heart's content, so they were very looking forward to eating meat every time.

Gu Chenghuai sent the processed meat into the kitchen, didn't rush out, walked to Lin Zhao's side, and asked his wife's opinion: "Chop into blocks?"

Lin Zhao saw that he took the initiative to help, and didn't refuse, "Yes."

The man picked up the knife and chopped the chicken, he had great strength, bang bang bang a few times, and the meat was chopped.

"Is there anything else that needs help?" Gu Chenghuai looked at his wife.

"No need, you go out, I'll do it, it'll be very fast, if you're hungry, go back to the room and find something to eat to pad your stomach first." Lin Zhao sent him out and got busy.

She was used to passing the meat through water once to wash away the fishy smell.

The fire was burning in the kitchen, it must be stuffy and hot. Gu Chenghuai opened all the windows by the way, let the wind blow in, and then walked out.

Zhao Liuniang envied, "They are all own brothers, why is the third brother so observant, he can see all the work."

Thinking of her own man's conduct, she said angrily: "If it were my man, sister-in-law, do you believe he could throw the chicken directly to me, turn his head and go out, and still mutter, it's so hot in the kitchen?"

Huang Xiulan said: "Why don't I believe it? These men rarely have work in their eyes."

Her man was still okay, although not careful, but what you said, he would do.

Lin Zhao couldn't help but laugh.

"Just say what you need directly." She said, "Let them form a habit, and in the future, you don't need to say it, he will take the initiative to do it." This is called boiling a frog in warm water.

Was Gu Chenghuai's having work in his eyes born? Definitely not, wasn't it taught by her.

When they were first talking about a partner, Gu Chenghuai was very pure and dull, he said if she had any requirements, just mention them, she would mention it once and he would remember it, don't let him guess, he hadn't talked about a partner, didn't understand the girl's thoughts, he was afraid he wouldn't guess right, and still make her angry.

What was rare was that she said words, he all remembered.

Zhao Liuniang looked at Lin Zhao, interested, "Useful?"

"Whether it's useful, try it first." Lin Zhao didn't guarantee.

"Makes sense. If it's useful, I'll treat you to candy." Zhao Liuniang planned to try it.

"Good." Lin Zhao didn't refuse politely.

Gu Lan laughed secretly.

Time flew by.

The Gu family kitchen emitted an intoxicating fragrance, a string of small heads hung from the door and windows, several pairs of bright eyes stared at the place where the fragrance overflowed, tightly holding their mouths, afraid that saliva would drip out.

Amber had been disciplined by Gu Chenghuai, no longer rushed into the kitchen, only kept scratching the door panel with its front paws, making a harsh clicking sound.

The steady Seeing Da Huang couldn't hold back either, sat at the door, eyes looking at the stove, spitting out its big tongue.

Lin Zhao smiled lightly at the cubs, "Wait a little longer, it'll be ready soon."

The kitchen was hot, her cheeks were red, and she smiled slightly, like pear blossom dew kissed by light fog, looking very good.

Ercai's tone was proud, "Mother is really good-looking."

And used a tone of negotiation, "Mother, when I grow up, can you be my wife?"

Lin Zhao almost twisted her foot.

A child of five or so really has an idea every minute, this is not strange, calm down!

Bang bang patted Ercai's younger brother's head, "No! Those with blood relations cannot marry."

Ercai understood half-understand, children don't know what blood relations are, he just wanted to stick to his mother.

"Okay, then I still don't want a wife. The money I earn must be given to Mother!"

Seeing Gu's father and mother, he added: "Also have to buy redwood coffins for Grandpa and Grandma."

"..."

"!"

Silence.

Dead silence.

Only the sound of the wind and the water boiling on the stove.

"Gu Ercai!" Lin Zhao's iron spoon almost fell to the ground, her head hurt badly, "Who taught you this?!"

Ercai saw the seriousness on his mother's face, was a bit scared, the smile on his face was gone, facing his little hands, weakly said: "I, I heard it from people in the village."

The child showed grievance, "The old grandfather in the village said, if you can prepare a redwood coffin to send yourself off, that's the top-most face, I also want Grandpa and Grandma to have face. Why is Mother so fierce, what did I say wrong?"

Lin Zhao hadn't spoken yet, Gu's mother felt heartache first, "Third daughter-in-law, don't be fierce to Ercai, Ercai has a heart of filial piety, whose grandson can think of Grandpa and Grandma when there's something good, what does a child understand, don't be too calculating."

She didn't feel it was unlucky, instead, her heart was warm, holding Ercai and calling him heart and meat, "Oh, my precious Ercai, our Ercai is really filial, Grandma only hopes you have a future, live well, and don't ask for anything else."

The love of elders is always simple and selfless.

Ercai was coaxed by Gu's mother instantly, and he wasn't aggrieved anymore, revealing a smile.

Gu Da Cai looked at Gu Chenghuai, "Father, what's wrong with what Ercai just said, why was everyone weird just now?"

What's wrong with buying a redwood coffin? The old grandfather in the village all wanted it.

Gu Chenghuai was pondering how to reply.

Bang bang said: "Because that word of his is easily misunderstood as cursing Grandpa and Grandma."

"Ercai wouldn't curse Grandpa and Grandma, we all like Grandpa and Grandma, we want to be filial to Grandpa and Grandma." Gu Da Cai hurriedly said.

The child was full of seriousness, even Gu's father felt warm in his heart.

"Grandpa knows our Gu Da Cai and Ercai are filial children." He didn't care about his grandson's childish words like the old woman, everyone will die, what's there to be taboo about, having such good grandsons, he felt death was nothing to be afraid of.

"Third daughter-in-law, childish words are not taboo, don't blame Ercai." Gu's father, who was usually silent and rarely said a few words to his daughter-in-law in a year, spoke good words for his precious grandson.

What else could Lin Zhao say, "Okay, I won't say it. Ercai, you can't say this kind of thing in the future, okay." She reminded Ercai.

"Mother, you were fierce to me just now." The child complained with grievance.

Before Lin Zhao could speak, he leaned against the door, his little finger digging on the wood, and said seriously: "Mother, I will listen to whatever you say, can you not be fierce, my heart will break."

Lin Zhao was stunned, "I wasn't fierce to you, I was just a bit excited, was Mother's voice a bit loud, did it scare you?"

Seeing Ercai nod his little head, she softened her voice: "Mother apologizes to you, I shouldn't have been so loud."

Ercai was coaxed well immediately, and bent his eyes and smiled, "I don't blame Mother."

He was not afraid of heaven or earth, he was most afraid that his mother wouldn't like him.

Lin Zhao smiled, "Thank you, generous Ercai, I'll give you a chicken leg today."

The child smiled even more happily, "Good!"

The redwood coffin matter passed just like that, childish words are not taboo, after the whole family spat, no one cared.

After the meal, Lin Zhao served a bowl of chicken soup, with a few pieces of chicken in it, and let Gu Chenghuai send it to the Ning family, the twins were thinking about Maodan, and jumped and followed. ===== CHAPTER 117 =====