Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Chapter 403: The 80s' 'Five Grains of Harvest' 5

"Xiao Li, your third aunt called today. She was very happy to know that you were admitted to high school. She said she is willing to lend you money to go to high school. Do you want to go?"

All Gu Xilin kept asking was: "Do you want to go?"

As long as his daughter said she wanted to go to school, he would support her.

"Did cousin Zhen pass the exam?"

Cousin Azhen from my third aunt’s family is the same age as Gu Li, but three months younger. He also took the high school entrance examination this year.

Comrade Zhang Yuhua, whose forehead was covered with sweat from working on the fire, smiled smugly, "How could that kid Ah Zhen possibly pass the exam? His grades are usually at the bottom of the class. If he could pass the high school entrance exam, would your third aunt have been able to bear it and not tell us relatives until now? She would have invited him to a banquet long ago!"

Gu Li and her daughter had long been accustomed to Comrade Zhang Yuhua's sarcasm and turned a deaf ear to what she said.

The third aunt is the third sister of Comrade Zhang Yuhua, and she married better than Zhang Yuhua. When Comrade Zhang Yuhua was still washing diapers after her confinement, the third uncle rode his bicycle and happily brought the red eggs that the third aunt gave birth to.

My third uncle was so happy that he couldn't even stop laughing. After giving the red eggs, he didn't even have time to drink a sip of water. He turned the car around and went back to see his son and daughter-in-law.

Comrade Zhang Yuhua was so angry that she threw away her diaper and burst into tears.

The younger sister, who was born from the same mother, gave birth to a son and won the favor of her husband and mother-in-law. However, she was divided by her mother-in-law and gave birth to a daughter.

From then on, Comrade Zhang Yuhua treated every woman who gave birth to a son equally.

She always felt that others would laugh at her for not having a son.

So what if she has a son? He still can’t score lower than her daughter in the exam!

I can’t even get into high school!

Zhang Yuhua waved the fire tongs to make the fire in the stove even more intense. Under the light of the fire, beads of sweat on Zhang Yuhua's face sparkled.

Gu Li smiled and asked, "Mom, do you want me to always make you proud?"

Comrade Zhang Yuhua turned away in confusion.

"I will study hard in the future, go higher and further than others, and make you the most enviable old lady in the village!"

Zhang Yuhua's mouth twitched, and finally said: "Go ahead if you want to. Anyway, your third aunt said that you can borrow money from her for your high school education. When you get a job, you will pay it back. If you can't pay it back, you will become Ah Zhen's wife!"

Gu Li:-----

"Mom, do you know what you are saying?" Gu Li's eyelids twitched.

"Your third aunt is very smart. She is investing in you in advance, thinking of spending the least amount of money to find a good wife for her son who can't even fart in three days."

"Mom, Ah Zhen and I are close relatives."

"What's wrong with close relatives? In the past, the marriage between cousins ​​was just right. This is called keeping the wealth within the family!"

Gu Li was about to explode, "Mom, your idea is very dangerous. The country prohibits close relatives from marrying!"

Gu Li was afraid that Comrade Zhang Yuhua would really promise her to be his daughter-in-law to his third aunt's family in order to save her tuition fees.

Oh my god, you’re going to hurt me!

Gu Li turned her head and looked at her father, "Dad?"

Gu Xilin glanced at the simple-minded Zhang Yuhua and said, "Don't listen to your uneducated mother's nonsense. Dandan's grandparents were a cousin who married a cousin. Look, they had six children, one died young, two were disabled, and only three were left healthy."

Gu Li took a deep breath. It was the first time she heard about the things about Gu Dandan's grandparents.

However, she knew that Dandan's aunt was a polio patient who could only take care of herself and married a man whose family was too poor to find a wife.

Dandan's uncle is a dwarf, less than 1.4 meters tall. He probably won't be able to marry in his lifetime, so he treats Dandan like his own child.

It turns out it was because of inbreeding.

Gu Li turned her head and looked at Comrade Zhang Yuhua, "Mom, did you hear that? You're not even old yet, but your mind is already muddled. Old and corrupt ideas are unacceptable. They harm others and yourself!"

"You silly girl, your wings haven't even grown strong yet, and I, your mother, am getting senile and confused?" Comrade Zhang Yuhua threw away the fire tongs in his hand and pretended to stand up and beat someone up.

"That's right. You can't sell the daughter you raised with so much effort just for a small amount of money. I want to continue to make you proud."

Comrade Zhang Yuhua snorted coldly, "Why was it sold? Your third aunt was so lucky. When she first married into her husband's family, her family still lived in a thatched house when we sisters went to see her off. There wasn't even a decent road in the village, so we had to walk along the ridges of the fields to get to her house. Who would have thought that within two years, a factory was built there, and not only was a road repaired, but it got better and better, and now it has expanded into the city. If you could marry there, you would be considered a city dweller!"

Gu Li:-----

Why do I smell the sour smell of aged vinegar?

"What nonsense are you talking about? I see that your third sister truly treats Xiaoli as her daughter. Don't talk nonsense." Gu Xilin said.

"Oh, I'm not kidding. My third sister did mention this to me before." Comrade Zhang Yuhua glanced at Gu Li, who looked as if she had been struck by lightning. "But since her family got better and better, renovated the house, and rented out most of the rooms in the house to employees from nearby factories, she never mentioned it again."

"But I'm not the kind of person who would try to curry favor with someone. Since she didn't even mention it, I wouldn't go and ask her about it."

"Whether life is good or bad, it is all my own decision." Comrade Zhang Yuhua said, "I don't rely on others."

Gu Li pouted, "Aren't you counting on me to give you honor?"

Comrade Zhang Yuhua glared at this troublesome daughter fiercely, "You are a piece of flesh that fell from my body, are you someone else?"

Gu Li:-----

She wanted to say, she was!

But she was too lazy to argue any more.

From that day on, Gu Li no longer followed her second sister to the tailor shop and returned to being a villager in Gujia Village.

When I passed by Dandan's house, I saw her grandmother, who had a weak leg, sitting on a rattan chair under the eaves, sewing shoe soles.

"Grandma, is Dandan home?"

"Oh, it's Xiaoli from Yuhua's family. Dandan went to her uncle's house."

"Oh, grandma, I'm leaving now. I'll come back to play with Dandan later!" Gu Li didn't stop. After she finished speaking, she had already walked past the east mountain wall, climbed up the Xiaoba Bridge and went to the village entrance to find Gu Yubo.

Gu Yun lives behind Dandan's house, but she doesn't want to go. Uncle San always feels that Gu Li's playful nature will lead Gu Yun astray, and he has never liked Gu Li going to his house.

Gu Li is also very tactful.

I just don’t know what her third uncle would think when Gu Yun failed to get into high school despite such strict surveillance.

It has been a long time since I last met with my friends, so Gu Li walked very fast.

Gu Yubo helps her mother make eyebrow pencil at home.

This is another handicraft in the village besides winding cotton ropes, and all of it is done by bringing back from nearby factories.

There are many people doing odd jobs in the village.

When Gu Li was at home, Comrade Zhang Yuhua would also bring back some cotton ropes, but she had never brought back eyebrow pencils, as that thing required carefulness and patience.

Comrade Zhang Yuhua has neither of these two qualities.