GBP Chapter 147 Lin's Reluctant Mother
Chapter 147 Lin's Reluctant Mother
The Gu family was busy building their house, and Gu Jinniu would peek inside every day when he passed by.
Sometimes when Gu Dachui saw him, he would pretend not to see him, because he simply couldn't bring himself to greet this old man with a cheerful smile.
He really can't do it!
Gu Jinniu returned home in silence. Li Guixiang was happy to see him return, but she didn't dare to go up to him.
You can only stop and look at him from about a meter away.
"Taurus, you're back! How was work today? Tired?"
Gu Jinniu was putting away his tools when he heard this and stopped to look at Li Guixiang: "Do you want me to work too hard?"
Li Guixiang was at a loss for words when asked this question, so she quickly turned and ran to the kitchen.
Then she brought out a bowl of sweet soup and handed it to Gu Jinniu: "Jinniu, you've walked so far, are you thirsty? This is sweet soup for you..."
Before he could finish speaking, there was the sound of a bowl falling to the ground and shattering, followed by Gu Jinniu's fierce voice.
"You spendthrift woman, do you have a lot of money at home? Are you rich? You clearly have nothing at home, yet you still dare to make sweet soup to drink."
"I work myself to the bone every day, is this how you spend the money I earn?"
After Gu Jinniu finished speaking, he kicked Li Guixiang, who was standing, and she fell to the ground.
Gu Yinniu, who came out of the second room to relieve himself, frowned when he saw this scene.
His older brother has always had a very mild temper and is not the kind of man who hits women, so what's wrong with him now?
It was one thing to hit him before, probably because he was angry and couldn't help but hit him, but why did his older brother hit him again today for no reason?
Gu Yinniu couldn't understand it. After standing at the door for a while, he couldn't hold back any longer and turned around and ran to the outhouse.
As soon as Gu Yinniu entered the outhouse, Gu Jinniu went straight to Li Guixiang, grabbed her hair, and dragged her into the room.
Li Guixiang was already in tears. She wanted to call for help, but after opening her mouth, she couldn't make a sound.
She was dragged into the room by her hair, and then she was met with a beating.
When Gu Jinniu got tired and stopped hitting her, Li Guixiang hugged herself and curled up into a ball, squatting in the corner by the bed, her body still trembling.
Gu Jinniu sat on the chair next to her, quietly looking at her: "It wasn't that I wanted to hit you on purpose, you forced me to hit you."
“My father is dead, leaving my mother all alone. But look at what you’ve done. With what you’ve done, it wouldn’t be too much for me to divorce you.”
Upon hearing this, Li Guixiang immediately scrambled to her feet and rushed over to hug Gu Jinniu's leg.
"Taurus, I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, I will behave and listen to you, please don't divorce me."
"I promise you, I will do whatever you say from now on, and I will never disobey you. I will really be obedient. Please don't divorce me."
Li Guixiang was really afraid that Gu Jinniu would divorce her, because a divorced woman could only go back to her parents' home or become a nun.
She neither wanted to nor desired to return to her parents' home, much less become a nun, so she absolutely could not be divorced.
Her son hasn't become the top scholar in the imperial examination yet, and she, as his mother, hasn't enjoyed her life's blessings. She absolutely cannot leave the Gu family, and she absolutely cannot be divorced.
Seeing the woman clinging to his leg and begging for mercy, Gu Jinniu finally felt a little better. He grabbed the woman's hair with his right hand and gently stroked it.
"If you don't want me to divorce you, then remember what you said. If I find out that you are two-faced, don't blame me for being ruthless."
"No, no, it can't be, my love, don't worry, I'll definitely listen to you obediently..."
Gu Jinniu was very satisfied with Li Guixiang now. It turned out that all women were like that, and if they didn't listen, he could just beat them up.
Isn't this woman in front of you the best example?
Only that one...
Gu Jinniu's face turned sinister as he seemed to think of someone, and he unconsciously tightened his grip on Li Guixiang's hair.
Li Guixiang felt the pulling between her hair and scalp, and a painful expression instantly appeared on her face.
No matter how much pain she was in, she didn't utter a sound, and she certainly didn't ask Gu Jinniu to let go.
When the pain in her head subsided, she was pulled away and thrown onto the bed.
On the other hand, because she needed to provide lunch for the workers, Lin Cai had already asked Lin Bao to go to town to buy a lot of flour and some coarse grains.
Seeing her daughter turn all that flour into steamed buns, Lin's mother felt heartbroken.
"Cai Cai, can't we just make a few more coarse grain buns? This white flour bun is so expensive, how much money would it cost!"
"Mom, they're helping us with the work. If we don't eat well, how can they work with their hearts?"
"What's wrong with it? What's wrong with it? Coarse grain buns with stewed meat, we can't even get such a good meal during the New Year, how can it be bad?"
Lin's mother was absolutely right. Wealthy families eat meat more frequently, while even slightly better-off families only have the opportunity to eat meat once or twice a month.
Poor families might not have the opportunity to eat meat even once a month or half a year.
Furthermore, they eat meat by the slice, with each person eating at most one slice, and some even half a slice, but this is already very good for them.
To encourage them to work hard, Lin Cai prepared yam stew with meat for them at noon.
It's more like a stewed bone broth with some meat added than a stewed meat dish.
Eating steamed buns and cornbread is already quite dry, and without some soup or broth, it would be difficult to swallow. That's why Lin Cai made such a pot of soup.
Since Gu Zhan had dug up a lot of sweet potatoes before, and using them all to make desserts would be too much, she took some out and stewed them directly into soup.
Lin's mother felt sorry for the flour, and her heart ached even more when she saw the pot of meat soup.
"Look at you, this is only the first meal and you've already prepared such a good meal for them. What are you going to do next?"
"You're saying this dish with white flour and meat broth isn't good? Tell me what's wrong with it then?"
"Back when your father and I were fleeing famine with your brother and the others, we ate tree bark and weeds from the ground, and we still survived, didn't we?"
"Only a spendthrift like you would give such good food to outsiders, and they still get paid the same amount of wages, don't they?"
When the topic of the workers' wages came up, Lin's mother felt another pang of heartache. She sat on the doorstep, pounding her chest and sighing. She looked so pitiful!
Upon hearing what her mother said, Lin Cai glanced at the flour she had just taken out and then sealed the bag.