Chapter 33

Su Yuxian's knuckles sank into her palms unconsciously.

Alarm bells rang in her brain.

She knew too well what Lu Yizhou's thoughtful gaze meant at this moment; it was the look of a hunter evaluating the value of prey.

He hesitated.

About the marriage.

"Baozhen was scared by the dog at Lin Zhao's house." She said, avoiding the important and dwelling on the trivial.

"Lin Zhao?" That lotus-like face he had seen on the road once appeared before Lu Yizhou's eyes.

He subconsciously compared Su Yuxian with Lin Zhao, and regretfully discovered that whether it was appearance or family background, she couldn't compare to Lin Zhao.

An inexplicable emotion welled up in Lu Yizhou's heart, and even Su Yuxian's coarse cloth clothes looked glaring.

And she was already over twenty.

In an instant, the little thought of remarriage in Lu Yizhou's heart disappeared for the most part.

Su Yuxian didn't know that the golden turtle son-in-law she had finally climbed up to didn't want to get married for the time being.

Ten minutes later, Lu Baozhen ran back to the Lu house; she had tasted the mockery of fate.

"The marriage... let's slow down." Lu Yizhou said.

At that moment, Su Yuxian's face twisted, but fortunately, she lowered her head in time so it wasn't seen by Lu Yizhou.

"Why?" Her voice was trembling, she tried hard to suppress her emotions, and didn't roar out.

What does Lu Yizhou take her for?

A nanny in a landlord's house in the old era!

He must marry her!!

Lu Yizhou's eyes were indifferent; this expression was unusually strange on his upright face, "I only have a few days of leave, I don't have time to get married, I'm afraid of wronging you."

Su Yuxian smiled, stepped forward a few steps, stood in front of him, looked up and met his eyes, her tail tone soft, "It's okay, we can hold the wedding banquet first."

"My mother said, I'm old, I can't delay any longer." Her voice paused slightly, she lowered her head shyly, and continued, "Besides, the whole brigade knows that our good news is near, I even notified Lin Zhao, if we don't get married, and it spreads to the army, I'm worried there will be bad rumors."

Lu Yizhou hesitated.

A flash of light passed through Su Yuxian's eyes.

She understood Lu Yizhou; he cared about his face more than anyone else, and liked to compete with Gu Chenghuai secretly; mentioning that family, he would compromise.

"Holding the wedding banquet for one day is enough." She reached out and hooked Lu Yizhou's hand, her eyelashes trembling slightly, with nervousness and shyness, but she still mustered the courage to say, "I want to form a family with you, I want to take care of Baozhen openly, take care of your parents, I can do anything, if we get married, I'll do the trivial things at home, you just need to focus on working hard and climbing up. In my heart, you are more capable than Gu Chenghuai, without the burden of a family, you will surpass him."

This last sentence hit Lu Yizhou's heart just right.

He did think so.

Although moved, Lu Yizhou still didn't loosen his mouth; he knew Su Yuxian was more anxious than him, and he didn't want to be manipulated by the Su family.

Gu family's third branch.

Lin Zhao hummed a song and returned to the room; Seeing Dazai beckoned to Hearing Erzai.

Hearing Erzai was catching Da Huang's tail, saw his brother's action, stood up, clapped his hands, and ran over with a "deng deng deng".

"Brother, what's wrong?"

Seeing Dazai kept his bun face serious, "From now on, you are not allowed to play with Lu Baozhen!"

"Why?" Hearing Erzai asked.

Seeing Dazai twisted his brows, "Anyway, you are not allowed to play with her, otherwise I won't pay attention to you."

"I didn't say I wanted to play with her!!" Hearing Erzai said in a panic, "I didn't like playing with girls in the first place, they always cry, cry when they lose games, cry when they fall, cry when there's no candy, cry when they are scolded, it's so troublesome, I only play with Brother Bangbang and the others!"

"You must remember it." Seeing Dazai was afraid his younger brother would forget, so he reminded him again.

"Mm-hmm-hmm." Hearing Erzai nodded several times.

"I won't play."

After promising, he still couldn't restrain his curiosity and asked again, "Brother, why don't you let me play with her? You didn't care before."

Seeing Dazai didn't say it was because he felt Mother didn't want them to be too close to Lu Baozhen, only saying, "She scolded you, her mother scolded us, her mother also spoke ill of Mother, Mother and that Little Su are not friends, we shouldn't be friends with her children either! If you play with her, you betrayed Mother, betrayed me!"

Hearing Erzai had always been heartless, hearing his brother say it so seriously, he widened his eyes, his hands waving into afterimages, "I won't play! I'll run away when I see her in the future!"

The little friend was scared out of psychological shadows by his own brother.

Seeing Dazai touched his chin, "That's not impossible, to avoid her pestering you."

"Why would she pester me?" Hearing Erzai looked terrified.

Seeing Dazai thought for a few moments and said seriously, "She wants to trick Mother into giving us the food and drink she made."

"Don't even think about it!" Hearing Erzai said fiercely.

Tie Chui came to find Seeing Dazai and Hearing Erzai to play, and as soon as he arrived, he heard this, "Hearing Erzai, what are you saying?"

Hearing Erzai couldn't hide his words and immediately told Lu Baozhen's "plan" to Tie Chui.

Tie Chui was dumbfounded, "She has so many schemes even though she's so small!? How scary!"

"Yeah, yeah, you have to stay away from her in the future, be careful she tricks your candy." Hearing Erzai said as if it were true.

Tie Chui nodded like a garlic masher, "I remember!"

He looked moved, "Hearing Erzai, you really are my good brother."

"You are also my good brother." Hearing Erzai said.

"Did you eat watermelon?"

Tie Chui said "mm-hmm" twice, his little face shining, he licked his mouth, his voice was loud, like a bird jumping in spring, wrapped in the purest happiness, "Ate it, did you eat it? Watermelon is really sweet, really delicious, better than the wild strawberries on the mountain."

"My mother bought it in the county." Gu Hearing Erzai said as soon as he opened his mouth.

Lin Zhao took out some dog food to feed Da Huang.

Da Huang looked up at its master; its head was missing a tuft of hair here, and pink flesh was exposed there, messy as if it had been kissed by a typhoon, ugly to the point of being unbearable to look at.

It rubbed its head against its master's knees, and only then buried its head to eat.

Hu Po stretched its head directly into the basin, eating with a big movement, anxiously almost turning over the food basin.

Da Huang roared at it in a low voice, and seeing it didn't listen, gave it a slap with its right paw, fanning the little guy to fall to the ground on the spot, and a grievance whimper came from its mouth.

"Ah?" Seeing Dazai widened his eyes, "Da Huang also hits its own children?!"

His expression was particularly cute, Lin Zhao suppressed a laugh, "Of course, children are naughty and make mistakes, the mother will definitely teach it."

"Mother never hit us." Seeing Dazai carefully hid the little joy surging in his heart, his body swaying unconsciously, "It must be because we are obedient, so Mother never beats us."

Tie Chui followed up, "I'm also obedient, my mother still beats me."

Seeing Dazai asked, "Why does your mother beat you?"

"Because I wet the bed." Tie Chui said honestly.

A small animal-like purr came from Hearing Erzai's throat, shocked on the spot, "You still wet the bed now??! My brother and I haven't wet the bed for a long time."

Tie Chui hurriedly waved his hand, explaining, "Not now, it was during the winter."

Hearing Erzai stopped talking instantly; he also wet the bed last winter, "It's okay, Grandma says it's normal for children to wet the bed, when we grow up we won't wet the bed anymore."

Lin Zhao was happy to death, the little friends discussing a topic seriously, child language, it was really funny.

In the afternoon, the Gu family's third branch ate braised pork ribs, and Da Huang and its cubs also had a beautiful meal of meat bones, eating until the dog mother and child's tails swung into afterimages; even if immortals came, they wouldn't trade these days.

Da Huang made a great contribution today, it must be rewarded.

After eating, Da Huang curled up with its cubs in the doghouse Gu Fu made, its bald hair rising and falling with its breathing, occasionally making a soft purring sound, facing the sunset, unusually comfortable.

The twins played next to them, and when the two little balls were about to fall, Da Huang stood up and rushed over at high speed to stabilize them.

"Da Huang is really capable." Lin Zhao patted its head.

Da Huang's tail swung faster.

The next day, early morning.

Around six o'clock, Lin Zhao woke up, washed up, braided her hair, put on a light green dress, the doll collar like two mint paper-cut lotus leaves, and paired it with the white round-toed small leather shoes Gu Chenghuai bought for her, with a square buckle across the shoe surface, fashionable and good-looking.

She had just applied face cream, and Gu Mu came over?

Seeing Lin Zhao's attire, she was stunned, didn't say anything to spoil the fun, and praised, "Dressing like this is good-looking, you look like a girl from the city."

Lin Zhao smiled generously, "It will be hard for Mother from now on."

Gu Mu only felt that the third son's wife was worthy of being a high school student, really knowing how to speak, and hurriedly smiled and said, "What's hard about taking care of your own biological grandchildren? Third son's wife, you are the one who is hard-working, you go to work well, Seeing Dazai and the others will be handed over to me, there are so many people in the old house, how could they not take good care of a few children."

Not to mention that the third son's wife also gave rations according to the high standard, the other two daughters-in-law of the Gu family didn't have any opinions at all, and agreed with both hands and feet to take over the matter of taking care of Seeing Dazai and the others.

Lin Zhao cooked two bowls of noodles, decorated with a few simple green vegetables and green onions, added some meat sauce, and fried two eggs, which could smell fragrant to death.

"Mother, one bowl for you and one for me, hurry and eat, otherwise it will get mushy."

Gu Mu wanted to say something, but saw Seeing Dazai's mother bury her head and eat, moved her mouth, but didn't say anything in the end, and ate the noodles.

She had lived for more than half a lifetime and had never eaten such white noodles, and these eggs, they were fried with oil, right, really fragrant.

"Zhaozhao, your craftsmanship is really good." Gu Mu said, the ingredients were also good, but the third son's wife's cooking skills were indeed top-notch.

Lin Zhao was not humble, "That's right, I didn't learn much, but I just know how to do it, and the food I make is also delicious."

"Then you belong to the type of person with a talent for cooking." Gu Mu said, "You also have a talent for learning, Seeing Dazai and Hearing Erzai also follow you, and they will definitely be able to get into high school in the future."

High school?

This education is too low!

The book says that the college entrance examination will be restored in the future, and Seeing Dazai and the others just happen to catch up with a good time, so they must get into the door of a university.

"What high school, how good it would be to go to university."

Gu Mu, of course, wished that the children would have more and more of a future. Lin Zhao's words made her feel that the third son's wife was attentive to Seeing Dazai and the others and was willing to teach them, and she was very happy in her heart, saying, "Right! University! I heard there are worker-peasant-soldier universities, we'll find a way to run relationships when the time comes."

Gu Mu had four sons, and the one she favored most was Gu Chenghuai, who left home when he was young. The so-called loving the house and its crow, she liked Seeing Dazai and the others even more.

Lin Zhao padded her stomach, estimated the time was almost up, and hurriedly went to work.

"There still needs to be a bicycle, how tired it must be to walk over, I don't know if the third son can get the coupons." Gu Mu muttered.

Speaking of the third son, longing flashed in her old eyes.

This emotion was fleeting.

She washed her and Lin Zhao's bowls, swept the yard and the backyard, and watered the vegetables in the vegetable garden.

Seeing Dazai and Hearing Erzai just woke up in a daze.

"Grandma? Where is Mother?" Seeing Dazai woke up instantly when he saw Gu Mu, scanning left and right, looking for Lin Zhao's figure.

"Your mother went to work." Gu Mu wiped the sweat from her grandson's face and poured them water to wash their faces, "Hurry and wash, there's sweat on your faces, is it hot?"

Hearing Erzai answered, "Hot, especially hot, I was woken up by the heat."

Gu Mu said, "Endure it a bit more, in two months it won't be this hot. I heard there are fans in the city that can fan themselves, it's just very expensive, and it needs electricity."

Seeing Dazai and Hearing Erzai listened seriously.

"You need electricity to have lights, I know." As a little friend who had been to the county, Hearing Erzai was very proud.

Seeing Dazai asked suspiciously, "Grandma, why is there no electricity here?"

"Right, why is that?" Gu Mu was also puzzled.

"It will all be connected in the future, connecting electricity is very troublesome, I heard you have to pull wires and such, we don't understand it either, some places are connected, some places are not, I think it should be one village after another slowly connecting." She didn't fool the two cubs, but said her own guess.

"I hope it connects quickly, electric lights are so bright, you don't need to light lamps at night, just pull the light rope and it lights up." Hearing Erzai said.

Gu Mu didn't even know it was pulling a rope, "Oh my, pull the rope and the light can turn on? Is it that convenient? How do you know it's pulling a rope? Is that rope the same as the clothesline?" She was full of curiosity.

Hearing Erzai puffed out his little chest, "Mother said so."

"Then it must be true." Gu Mu said, "Your mother is a cultured person and has seen a lot, learn well from your mother, and go to university in the future."

"Mm-hmm." Seeing Dazai's expression was serious; he listened to Mother the most and was willing to learn from Mother.

Hearing Erzai didn't know where his confidence came from, and said loudly, "My brother and I will both go to university!" He said it full of confidence.

Gu Mu's brows were shrouded in worry; one worker-peasant-soldier university quota was hard to get, two was even harder.

Both were treasures of the family, and she didn't want to hurt anyone's heart.

Gu Mu forgot that there was a string of children in the old house; if there really were university quotas, she would be even more worried.

"Grandma, I'm hungry." Hearing Erzai's voice terminated Gu Mu's worry.

"Grandma will go steam egg custard for you." Although Gu Mu felt that two eggs for one cub was a bit extravagant, Lin Zhao had already instructed it, so she would do it as told. Just like what the old man said, the family has split up, splitting up means becoming two families, how to live is up to the cubs' mother.

Lin Zhao arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative before eight o'clock.

There were already people inside.

It looked like a female comrade around thirty.

Her gaze turned around on Lin Zhao's dress, and a smile appeared on her face, "The new comrade, right?"

What a standard girl, Li Fen thought.

"Right, I'm Lin Zhao, hello." Lin Zhao returned a smile.

"My name is Li Fen, I'm a few years older than you, you can call me Sister Fen." Li Fen said with a smile.

Pointing to two counters, "Those are your two counters."

"Thank you, Sister Fen." Lin Zhao smiled gratefully, stuffed a handful of shrimp crisp candy to her, and walked towards the counter.

Li Fen was stunned, accepted the candy, and smiled even more sincerely, "Comrade Lin, if there's anything you don't understand, feel free to come find me."

These words hit Lin Zhao's wish.

"Okay, I'll trouble Sister Fen in the future."

Having received the shrimp crisp candy from Lin Zhao, Li Fen wasn't stingy either, and told her a lot about work—

Such as how to get started quickly when you first come, and how to do it if you want the defective products of the supply and marketing cooperative, how to do a good job of work records, etc.

After listening, Lin Zhao felt that the handful of shrimp crisp candy was really worth it.

When the morning light climbed onto the faded slogan "Develop the economy and guarantee supply," other sales clerks came one after another.

Two were old employees, and one was the same as Lin Zhao, both were new.

One of the old employees swept Lin Zhao and the other new one with an aggressive gaze, snorted coldly, was pulled by the sleeve by her colleague, rolled her eyes, went to her own counter, pulled a long face, and threw things around.