Chapter 15: Fairy Grandmother

"Is it better that she changed, or better that she didn't?" Huang Xiulan asked her with a smile.

"Of course it's better that she changed. For the past few years, Gu Da Cai and the others had a mother but were like they didn't. I felt sorry for them. Having a biological mother's care is always different. I hope Third Sister-in-law really figured it out," Zhao Liuniang hoped sincerely.

The Gu family only had one promising person, the third son. She hoped he would do better and better in the army so he could help her own children in the future. Correspondingly, she also hoped that the third branch would be well. She knew that the third brother's profession wasn't easy to be distracted in.

Huang Xiulan agreed with Zhao Liuniang's words, she said: "Third Sister-in-law married in at a young age and got pregnant and had children very quickly. The first few years should have been an adjustment period. Once she adapts, she'll be fine."

The two sides lived far apart, and even if Lin Zhao made a mess, she couldn't make it in front of the two sisters-in-law. Over the past few years, Huang Xiulan and Zhao Liuniang's impression of her had gradually changed.

This was 'distance makes the heart grow fonder'.

Uh, although it wasn't that far.

Gu Mu put away the laundry soap and was in a good mood all night.

"Rare," Gu Fu commented sharply.

"What do you know? This is the first time I've gotten something from the third daughter-in-law. It's precious."

Gu Fu: "..."

Gu Da Cai and Ercai showed off at the old house and didn't run into the annoying little aunt. When they returned home, the arc of their mouths didn't go down.

Lin Zhao was making underwear for Gu Da Cai and Ercai, two pairs for each cub, and was currently making the last pair.

"Mother!" Gu Da Cai's voice calling people was full of joy.

The joy in the small voice made people's hearts soft.

"What's wrong?"

Gu Da Cai took a small stool and sat next to Lin Zhao, turning his head to look at her, thinking that Mother was really good-looking.

"Nothing, I'm happy."

Lin Zhao smiled: "Really, I'm happy too."

"What is Mother happy about?" Ercai sat on the other side of his mother, propping his chin, and asked curiously.

"Because you are obedient, I am happy when you are obedient," Lin Zhao said casually.

Gu Da Cai said: "Then we will be obedient every day, so Mother will be happy every day."

"Okay, I will be a good mother in the future, and I will make you happy every day," Lin Zhao said, following her son's words.

"Mother is already a good mother!" Gu Da Cai smiled shyly, but his eyes were very serious, "Grandmother said Mother is a little girl who doesn't know how to take care of children, and she will know how to take care of children when she grows up. Mother has grown up now, so she knows how to take care of me and my younger brother and sister, and we will also take care of Mother."

Lin Zhao didn't know what it felt like in her heart, and asked: "Did Grandmother say all that?"

"Mm-hmm," Gu Da Cai nodded.

Lin Zhao: "..." What kind of fairy grandmother is this!

Gu Da Cai and Ercai didn't resent her, and still treated her as their mother. Half of the credit went to the grandmother!

One laundry soap was too little!

"How about making pickled cabbage fish later?" Lin Zhao asked for Gu Da Cai and Ercai's opinion after finishing the last pair of small pants for the two cubs.

"What kind of fish is pickled cabbage fish?" Ercai's big eyes were full of curiosity. He hadn't eaten pickled cabbage fish.

"Okay," Gu Da Cai said, "Everything Mother makes is delicious!"

Hearing his brother say this, Ercai didn't ask anymore, hurriedly saying: "Pickled cabbage fish is fine, everything Mother makes is delicious."

"I'm going to cook, you two wash the small pants, hang them up, and they can be worn tomorrow," Lin Zhao handed the four pairs of small pants she had just made to the two children.

Gu Da Cai smiled brightly, "Got it."

He took his younger brother to wash the clothes.

Lin Zhao came to the kitchen and started to clean the grass carp sent by her mother and second brother. This fish weighed more than two catties, had plenty of meat, and was suitable for making pickled cabbage fish.

It was just that there was no pickled cabbage at home.

Not a big problem, wait for Gu Da Cai and Ercai to finish washing the small pants, and go to the old house to ask for some.

Lin Zhao killed the fish, and her good son came to help after washing the clothes. Gu Da Cai raised his little face, "Mother, I'll light the fire."

"Not yet, you and Ercai go to the old house and ask for some pickled cabbage."

Gu Da Cai liked helping his mother the most, so he immediately pulled his younger brother to the old house.

Running all the way, it made the people in the village very curious.

Arrived at the old house.

"Grandmother!" Gu Da Cai shouted.

Generally speaking, such a loud voice should be Ercai. Gu Da Cai shouted like this, and Gu Mu thought something had happened. She wiped her wet hands and hurriedly came out of the kitchen.

"What's wrong?"

"Grandmother, Mother is making pickled cabbage fish, let me come ask for pickled cabbage," Gu Da Cai said.

Gu Mu breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Asking for pickled cabbage, there's plenty at home, Grandmother will fill it for you."

While speaking, she turned into the kitchen and filled a full bowl.

Outside the house.

Tie Dan sucked his saliva and leaned in front of Ercai, "Ercai, is your mother going to make fish for you?"

"Mm-hmm," Ercai was particularly fond of sharing, saying: "My second uncle gave us a big fish."

He stretched out his arms to gesture, "It's this long, Mother said she would make pickled cabbage fish for us. I haven't eaten pickled cabbage fish, but everything Mother makes is delicious, and the pickled cabbage fish she makes must be super, super delicious."

"What is super?" Tie Chui asked honestly.

"Super means the most delicious," Ercai explained.

Tie Chui agreed, "Third Aunt's cooking is super, super delicious!"

Bang Bang envied even more, "Your uncle is really good."

His uncle never gave him anything good to eat and even snatched his candy.

Ercai's tone was excited, "I have three uncles, my uncles are all very good. Tomorrow Mother is taking my brother and me back to her maternal home, Grandmother will definitely make us delicious food!"

"Sigh!" Bang Bang sighed with a bitter face, thinking of his own uncle, his mood was affected, "My uncle is not good at all, I don't like going back to my mother's maternal home with my mother."

Ercai didn't understand why Bang Bang brother's uncle was a bad uncle.

Gu Mu came out of the kitchen with a bowl of pickled cabbage and handed it to Gu Da Cai. The two cubs left the old house.

Tie Dan looked at Gu Mu eagerly, "Grandmother, when can our family eat fish? I want to eat meat."

"Greedy boy! Who doesn't want to eat meat!" Gu Mu deliberately kept a straight face, but she felt sorry for her grandson, so she added: "Let your father try his luck another day. If he can catch a fish, I'll make it for you."

"Yay!" Tie Dan jumped up excitedly.

The other children in the Gu family were also very happy.

Gu Da Cai and Ercai asked for pickled cabbage and went home. Lin Zhao had already made preparations. As soon as the pickled cabbage arrived, she started making it immediately.

The two children sat side by side, burning the fire, looking at their mother from time to time, their faces full of smiles.

"Mother, I will help you burn the fire every time you cook in the future!" Gu Da Cai said.

Ercai competed to show himself, "I'll wash the dishes!"

Lin Zhao looked at her two sons in her spare time and smiled: "Good."

Gu Da Cai and Ercai felt beautiful in their hearts.

In the small kitchen, the two children watched their mother cook without blinking. Mother cooked really fast, and Mother was good-looking. This scene left a deep mark on the brothers' hearts.

Not long after.

A sour and spicy fragrance came out. Just smelling the scent made people drool.

Ercai couldn't sit still, sprang up from the small stool, his upturned nose twitched, and he said excitedly: "Mother, it's so fragrant!"

Lin Zhao put two pieces of fish meat into a bowl, carefully picked out the small thorns, and fed them to Ercai, "Taste the flavor. I picked out the fish thorns, but eat slowly."

"Mm-hmm-hmm." Ercai swallowed it in one gulp.

Instantly, it became an expression pack, his bright big eyes narrowed, and the slits of his eyes overflowed with satisfaction.

"Delicious!!"

Lin Zhao beckoned to her eldest son, "No need to watch the fire, Gu Da Cai, come over and taste it too."

There were many children in the family, she didn't favor anyone, trying to keep the bowl of water level.

Gu Da Cai patted the dust off his hands and walked over.

"Gu Da Cai, be careful of the thorns too," Lin Zhao reminded again.

"I know," Gu Da Cai said, and then was fed a piece of fish by his mother.

Tasting the flavor, Gu family's Gu Da Cai felt at this moment that pickled cabbage fish was the most delicious thing he had ever eaten!

"Mother, pickled cabbage fish is really delicious!"

Lin Zhao made the fish weighing more than two catties, served a portion separately in a bowl, put the bowl in a small bamboo basket, and said to the two cubs: "Gu Da Cai, Ercai, send this bowl of pickled cabbage fish to the old house. The pickled cabbage was asked from your grandmother, and she stood up for us at the river this afternoon, we have to express it."

Ercai's mouth was faster than anything, his expression puzzled, "Grandmother helped us before, Mother said we are family and don't need to be polite, and never expressed it before."

Lin Zhao's expression stiffened.

Her second son's mouth was really fast and sharp.

Gu Da Cai keenly noticed that Ercai had poked his mother's pain point. Afraid that his mother would be angry from embarrassment, he hurriedly changed the subject: "Ercai, let's go send the pickled cabbage fish quickly, I'm hungry, let's eat after sending it."

Ercai was led astray, "I'm hungry too! Let's go send it quickly."

Holding hands with his brother, they went to the old house.

Lin Zhao: Gu Da Cai is really her good eldest son! A warm cotton-padded jacket!

The time Gu Da Cai and Ercai went out was just mealtime, and there were quite a few people squatting at the door eating with bowls.

They smelled the meat fragrance from the Gu family long ago. Seeing the two cubs, they thought the Gu family's third daughter-in-law didn't let them eat again, and they despised Lin Zhao fiercely in their hearts.

What kind of mother is this!

"Gu Da Cai, Ercai, going to your grandmother's to eat?" said the aunt next door to the Gu family.

Ercai stopped, his little head held high, his expression arrogant, "No, Mother let my brother and me send pickled cabbage fish to Grandfather and Grandmother."

"My grandmother and second uncle sent the fish, Mother made it into pickled cabbage fish herself, super delicious!" Gu Da Cai added, his face also full of pride.

Leaving behind a bomb, the brothers left, leaving the onlookers full of astonishment.

"Hey, did you notice, Chenghuai's family giving fish to Old Gu and Old Gu's wife? The sun came out from the west?!" an old man about the same age as Gu Fu exclaimed.

"Hey, did you notice, Chenghuai's family has been a bit strange these days! She actually started to manage the cubs, and I don't know what medicine she is selling in her gourd," said Zhao Grandmother, another neighbor of the Gu family's third branch. "Gu Da Cai and the others are all good children, it's a pity they ended up with an unreliable mother."

Her daughter-in-law gave birth to three girls in a row, and she was very envious of the Gu family's boys.

Because of this, Zhao Grandmother, who had a rotten reputation in the village and was sharp-tongued, was actually okay to Gu Da Cai and the others, and even gave them food.

Gu Da Cai and Ercai came to the old house again.

The Gu family was eating.

Seeing the two cubs, they were all stunned.

Gu Chan sneered.

She knew Lin Zhao was a hypocritical person. How long had she been pretending? Not even two days, and she stopped pretending, heh.

Gu Mu's first sentence was: "Gu Da Cai, Ercai, have you eaten? If not, hurry and sit down, Grandmother will make you something to eat."

Huang Xiulan and Zhao Liuniang looked at each other, full of helplessness, and even flashed with dissatisfaction.

Third Sister-in-law is not managing her cubs again?

Although dissatisfied, the sisters-in-law didn't reveal their dissatisfaction. Gu Da Cai and Ercai were still children, what did they know? They couldn't help it if their biological mother didn't manage them.

Ercai said loudly: "No need, Mother cooked, Mother let my brother and me send pickled cabbage fish, we'll go back to eat after sending it."

While speaking, Ercai and his brother put the small bamboo basket on the table and lifted the lid. Instantly, a thick fragrance came out.

Smelling this scent, even Gu Da Cai and Ercai, who had tasted the flavor, swallowed their saliva. The others in the Gu family couldn't stand it. The adults were better, but the children looked at the fish meat in the bowl with fiery eyes, swallowing constantly.

"Third Aunt is really good!" Tie Chui sighed first, then said with regret: "Why am I not Third Aunt's child."

His mother Huang Xiulan wanted to hit her child.

Gu Yuan Shan (Gu Eldest) laughed loudly, teasing his youngest son, "No way, who told you to be born in the wrong womb."

Tie Chui sighed with deep hatred.

Ercai was in a hurry to go back to eat pickled cabbage fish, urging his grandmother, "Grandmother, pour out the meat, I want to go home to eat!"

"Look at me, I forgot." Gu Mu patted her head and hurriedly went to the kitchen to get a bowl.

It wasn't that she was making a fuss, but the third daughter-in-law had been married to the Gu family for almost six years, and she and the old man hadn't even gotten a vegetable bun from Lin Zhao's hands. Gu Da Cai suddenly sending them fish made her surprised and shocked.

Gu Mu poured out the fish meat, Gu Da Cai put the bowl back into the small bamboo basket, covered it again, said goodbye to his grandfather, grandmother, and others, and left with his younger brother.

The two children held a grudge and ignored Gu Chan the whole time.

Gu Chan was complaining in her heart, but didn't dare to say it out loud.

She was afraid her mother wouldn't give her meat to eat.

The Gu family hadn't separated, and the family's rations were limited. The daily meals were distributed by Gu Mu, which could avoid many conflicts and also prevent some people from eating endlessly.

This bowl of pickled cabbage fish was also distributed by Gu Mu.

She first distributed it to the head of the family, Gu Fu, and herself.

Then distributed it to the two sons, then to the two daughters-in-law, and finally to the grandsons and granddaughters.

There was no share for Gu Chan!

Gu Chan saw that the meat in the bowl was distributed, leaving only oily soup, and was very unhappy, feeling very aggrieved in her heart.

She didn't dare to make trouble, only saying: "Mother, you didn't give me a share."

Gu Mu hardened her heart to rectify Gu Chan, not even looking at her, saying: "No share for you."

"Why?" Gu Chan was trembling with anger, her voice sharp.

The younger generation of the Gu family covered their ears tacitly, Little Aunt was really noisy.

"You ask why? The pickled cabbage fish was sent by Gu Da Cai and Ercai's mother. You don't treat Gu Da Cai and Ercai like they are human, and you still want to eat the dishes their mother made. Why is your skin so thick!" Gu Mu only felt that the little aunt was raised by her mother-in-law to be shameless and completely annoying.

She must straighten out this annoying temperament!

Gu Chan was speechless.

Gu Mu's mouth didn't stop: "The fish meat was sent by Gu Da Cai and Ercai's biological uncle, and it has even less to do with you."

After speaking, she stopped paying attention to the ignorant little daughter and lowered her head to taste the third daughter-in-law's good craftsmanship.

"Pickled cabbage fish is really good, the taste is sour and spicy, appetizing." Gu Mu had been cooking for half a lifetime, and only then did she know that fish and pickled cabbage could be put together.

Gu Chan saw that everyone in the family had meat, but she didn't, and pushed the bowl away in anger, suddenly getting up, the wooden stool making a harsh sound.

"I'm not eating!"

She ran back to her room angrily and slammed the door shut.

The Gu family, old and young, didn't even lift their eyelids. No way, Gu Chan made a scene every three days, and the whole family was desensitized. ===== CHAPTER 16 =====