69novels Chapter 225 Dependency
Chapter 225 Dependency
After getting a satisfactory answer, Gu Xiuxiu suddenly regained her spirits, riding a bicycle on the way home was full of wind.
Halfway on the way, Gu Xiuxiu felt that something was wrong, stopped the car and asked, "Old Sun, why do I feel that something is wrong?"
Sun Guodong was sitting in the back of the car. The food at the old Gu's family was so delicious that he ate too much at night, and now he was a little drowsy.
Braking the brakes suddenly, Sun Guodong slammed into his wife's back: "What's the matter?"
Gu Xiuxiu turned her head, frowned and asked, "Is that kid Adong lying to me?"
When Sun Guodong heard about this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and comforted him: "How come, that kid Adong spits every nail and never fools anyone."
Gu Xiuxiu said, "But he agreed too easily today, why did he suddenly change his mind?"
"Hey, I said you just think too much." Sun Guodong said helplessly, "A Dong doesn't like you to worry about it, but now that you have promised, you still worry about it, and you can't stop worrying about it all day long."
"Our children have grown up, and we have grandchildren, so you can't enjoy the happiness at home?"
Probably because he has experienced the difficulty of being paralyzed in bed, Sun Guodong is more open to many parents, so he is too lazy to care about his son and daughter, let alone Gu Mingdong.
It's just that Gu Xiuxiu wanted to take care of it, but Sun Guodong had no choice but to follow along.
Gu Xiuxiu said angrily: "Brother and sister-in-law died early, and Adong is only my aunt. If I succeed no matter what, will I really watch him die alone?"
Sun Guodong murmured: "You were already dead when he was old, so how can you tell?"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Gu Xiuxiu stretched out her hand to him.
Sun Guodong is very innocent: "I'm not wrong."
Gu Xiuxiu glared at him, and said: "Don't I know that I am annoying, but the child is not sensible, I can't just watch, what should I do when he grows old and regrets it?"
Sun Guodong said: "You are always urging to find a partner to get married. What if you find a partner and get married and find that the two are not suitable? Then you have to blame you."
Gu Xiuxiu was even more angry: "You can't expect the child to be well."
Sun Guodong sighed: "Xiuxiu, what I mean is that children and grandchildren have their own blessings. You are an aunt, and Adong is willing to honor you. We have never missed our family's things during the holidays. These are all because you took care of them back then. For their affection."
"But A Dong is so old, and he is a very thoughtful person. The next two sons and one daughter have grown up, so you have to take care of it."
Gu Xiuxiu didn't know this truth in her heart, but she couldn't let it go: "But I can't just let it go."
"If Ah Dong is alone in the future, how will I explain to my eldest brother and sister-in-law after I die?"
Sun Guodong knew what his wife was thinking, but it was because a group of nephews and nieces in her natal family were orphaned at a young age and had no parents to take care of her.
But remembering what Gu Mingdong had said before he secretly held him back, Sun Guodong continued to persuade: "Is there anything difficult to explain?"
"Don't mention anything else, among the boys and girls in the ten miles and eight towns, which family has the future of the old Gu's family, from the eldest to the youngest to study, work, and work, is it not much better than other families?"
Gu Xiuxiu pursed her lips, unable to refute.
Sun Guodong said again: "You have said everything you should say today. If Ah Dong is willing, then he will definitely look for it by himself. Why do you need to rush? If you don't want to, you keep pushing like this. Broken the relationship between relatives."
Gu Xiuxiu's heart skipped a beat, and she pretended to be calm and said, "Ah Dong won't have a relationship with me."
"He's not your own son. Even if he is your own son, if you take too much control, Ah Qiang will choke on you twice."
As soon as Gu Xiuxiu mentioned her son, she became angry: "That brat's wings are hardened, and I get angry when I look at him."
Sun Guodong continued to pierce her heart: "Shumei and Nanshan said they wouldn't do it and they would not do it. They just focused on doing small business. You persuaded and scolded, did they listen?"
"You said you can't worry about your own children, why do you have to worry about things here? As an aunt, you are more nagging than other people's parents."
"Why am I nagging? I'm always kind."
"Then no one needs such kindness."
Gu Xiuxiu pursed her lips, feeling in her heart that what her husband said made sense, but she didn't want to admit it.
"So, children have their own ideas. If they are filial, we can enjoy it. If they are not filial, there is nothing we can do. Don't worry about it so much as an old man. Talking too much is annoying." Sun Guodong added.
Gu Xiuxiu frowned, stared at him and said, "Why are you talking so much today?"
"What did A Dong tell you just now?"
Sun Guodong shook his head quickly: "I didn't say anything."
Gu Xiuxiu didn't believe it that much, and finally sighed and said, "Ah Dong agreed, let's see."
Sun Guodong added another sentence: "If it doesn't work anymore, don't worry about it."
"I know, I know, I'm not my real mother, and now even my real mother can't arrange a marriage." Gu Xiuxiu said impatiently.
She rode the bicycle vigorously, and when she was almost at Xiyuan Town, she suddenly asked: "Did I really annoy you just now?"
Sun Guodong immediately said: "You only know."
Gu Xiuxiu sighed: "Hey, people talk a lot when they are old, and they do bad things with good intentions."
Sun Guodong smiled and said, "Ah Dong and the others know that you have good intentions, and it's all for their own good."
Gu Xiuxiu said again: "Forget it, I've said everything I need to say. If Ah Dong is really not happy, I have no other choice."
Sun Guodong breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.
On the other side, after sending off the aunt's family, the sisters of the Gu family looked at their elder brother curiously.
What should Gu Mingdong do, there is nothing wrong with his face.
Gu Mingxi couldn't bear it anymore, and asked, "Brother, are you really planning to find someone?"
Gu Mingdong raised his eyebrows, but did not answer.
Gu Mingxi smiled and said, "Actually, we don't object, as long as you're happy, you can do whatever you want."
After finishing speaking, she was afraid that her elder brother might misunderstand her, so she added: "If you find another one, we also welcome a new sister-in-law. If you don't, you don't have to worry about things when you get old. We will take care of you."
After hearing this, Gu Mingdong heaved a long sigh, and said: "Listening to what you said, I thought I was going to be seventy or eighty."
Gu Mingxi chuckled: "Damn, brother is young, he doesn't look old at all."
Gu Mingbei immediately said, "Brother is not old."
Even though the younger sisters said so, Gu Mingdong couldn't help but look in the mirror when he entered the room.
Because of the ability to continuously improve his physical condition, Gu Mingdong's body is getting healthier and healthier, and he is also nearly forty years old, which is not obvious from the outside.
Farming all the year round, Gu Mingdong's skin color is also dark, but it is not charred like other members of the commune. Instead, it is a beautiful and healthy wheat color, smooth and not rough.
If you look closely, his body is covered with a thin layer of muscles, not exaggerated, but full of strength.
Gu Mingdong turned around, and suddenly found that this body was tending towards his former self.
Looking at the mirror, Gu Mingdong was thoughtful.
The ability jumped out with some joy, and circled around his master, looking very happy.
Gu Mingdong stretched out his fingers to hook his small leaves, and said with a smile: "With you here, I shouldn't be bedridden and need someone to take care of excrement and urine, right?"
Thinking of that scene, Gu Mingdong couldn't help shivering.
The ability didn't know if he understood, but he rubbed against his cheek proudly.
"Will it become an old monster?" Gu Mingdong asked again.
But looking at the fine lines at the corners of his eyes in the mirror, Gu Mingdong laughed: "It doesn't seem very good."
It is said that he looks young, but if you look closely, you can still see the sense of age, but the speed of aging slows down, not not aging at all, which makes Gu Mingdong heave a sigh of relief.
After all, if he was really young and not old, he was afraid that he would be arrested and quartered for research.
After watching, seeing enough, Gu Mingdong walked out of the house.
Zheng Tong came back at some point, and was sitting at the door eating peanuts. He didn't like soft boiled ones, but fried ones.
One bite at a time, crunchy.
Seeing him coming out, Zheng Tong greeted with a smile: "Let's have some food together?"
Gu Mingdong raised his eyebrows, walked over, grabbed a handful, stuffed it into his mouth, and ate it heartily.
Zheng Tong smiled when he saw it: "It's nice to be young, with good teeth."
"You're not too old." Gu Mingdong suddenly remembered something, "Old man, how old are you this year?"
Zheng Tong stopped eating peanuts, a little embarrassed: "Why are you asking this?"
"Just curious." Gu Mingdong smiled, "You were like this when you came to Shanghe Village, and you are still like this now, you can't tell your age."
That was all ten years ago. Back then Zheng Tong had gray hair and a white beard. When Gu Jianguo looked at him like this, he didn't dare to let him do heavy manual labor, fearing that the old man would not be able to hold on. directly died.
As a result, ten years passed in a blink of an eye, and Zheng Tong was alive and well, much healthier than Wu Wei.
"Old Zheng, you should live to be at least eighty years old, right?" In this way, it is reasonable to say that you were more than 70 years ago and had gray hair.
Zheng Tong ate another peanut and said quietly, "I'm only 63 this year."
"what?"
Gu Mingdong looked at him in shock.
63, isn't that only 20 years older than myself, and was only 53 ten years ago.
53 is full of white hair, even the beard is white?
Zheng Tong glared at him angrily: "How old is Xiaoyun, how could I be 80 years old."
Gu Mingdong looked at him meaningfully, you were only over 50 when you were old, is it really okay to pretend to be in your [-]s or [-]s to fool people?
Zheng Tongcai ignored him and continued to eat peanuts: "Is it my fault for growing old? I leaked too many secrets back then, so the boy has gray hair."
Gu Mingdong smiled and said, "It's not a teenager either."
Zheng Tong glanced at him: "Not everyone in this world is as lucky as you. People who are almost fifty look like thirty."
But he looked so old, besides his age, the loss of his wife when he was young, the loss of his daughter when he was middle-aged, and the betrayal in his old age were not unrelated to leaking secrets.
Gu Mingdong didn't know that Zheng Tong was unwilling to mention those things back then.
"I'm not yet 40 years old." Gu Mingdong emphasized.
Zheng Tong laughed: "What's wrong with you today, I usually don't care about it."
Gu Mingdong said with emotion: "After listening to my aunt's words, I suddenly feel that everyone is getting old, and now I really can't imagine what I will look like when I get old."
Zheng Tong ate a peanut and said with a smile: "Don't worry about salty carrots, I'm not afraid, you are afraid of a ball."
"That's true." Gu Mingdong wasn't afraid, it's just that his two lifetimes added up, his age is actually not too young, and he is really the same age as Zheng Tong, and occasionally he feels a little emotional.
A plate of peanuts, the two of you eat one and I eat one in a short time.
Zheng Tong took a sip of tea and asked again: "Do you really want to find another one?"
Gu Mingdong also took a sip of tea: "One is not enough, so find a few more."
Zheng Tong looked at him in surprise. After so many years, he thought Gu Mingdong was cold, but it turned out that the old house was on fire?
Gu Mingdong laughed: "It's not because I'm afraid that the children will go out to study. I'm alone at home, and it's not easy to be lively."
"What bad idea are you holding back, kid?"
Gu Mingdong held his chin and said, "I also feel that the children are gone, and the room is a bit empty."
Zheng Tong shook his head, and he knew that Gu Mingdong didn't plan to look for it again, but he didn't know what idea he was holding back.
At the end, the old man stood up and said, "If you don't mind, old man, I can stay here for the elderly. As long as you don't drive me away, I won't leave."
Gu Mingdong asked in surprise: "You don't plan to go back to Beijing?"
"What's the point of going back to that ghostly place." Except for sad things, there is nothing else there.
If it wasn't for Gu Yun, Zheng Tong wouldn't even bother to go to the rehabilitated matter.
Gu Mingdong joked with a smile: "Are you relying on me and planning to let me retire?"
Zheng Tong asked, "Can you rely on it?"
"It's fine if you don't dislike the shabby place here."
The two chatted each other, and suddenly, Zheng Tong asked again: "Have you deciphered that letter?"
Gu Mingdong shook his head helplessly: "I'm at a loss."
In fact, the words above have already been solved, but there are secret words hidden in the ciphertext, one ring after another, and it becomes even more confusing after unraveling the first ring.
Zheng Tong pondered: "The surface layer is ciphertext, and only their own people can understand it after unlocking it."
"My family..." Gu Mingdong remembered that there was another "my family" in Shanghai, maybe he should visit.
But it's still Chinese New Year, Gu Mingdong is not in a hurry to leave.
The Gu family was very curious about how Gu Mingdong would make the family lively.
Gu Mingxi and the sisters watched it for two days, and they knew that the elder brother definitely had no plan to look for him again.
The two muttered curiously: "Could it be that the elder brother plans to raise a few more children?"
Just like Xiaoyun?
Now life is better for the big guys. There are few people in the family who can’t support them, but there are also many patriarchal ones. Some families only want sons, and secretly throw them away after giving birth to daughters.
Gu Mingxi thought for a while, and couldn't help but say, "Brother won't really want to adopt, right?"
"Impossible?" Gu Mingbei also hesitated.
The two sisters looked at each other, thinking that it was really possible.
But this time both sisters guessed wrong, Gu Mingdong really doesn't like children that much, let alone bring the child home, you have to be responsible for him.
A few days later, early this morning, Gu Mingdong said that he would go out for a while.
Gu Mingdong knew what his sisters were guessing, and before leaving, he said meaningfully: "Just wait, the house will definitely be very lively when I get home."
As soon as he left, Gu Mingxi said, "You won't really go to take the child home, will you?"
Gu Mingbei hesitated and said: "Two days ago, I heard that a family in the production team next door had six daughters in a row, and the youngest was only one month old. They said they didn't want to raise them anymore."
The twins were a little dazed when they heard this, but Gu Yun gestured and said: [It's also good to have younger brothers and sisters. 】
"But it's so young, how can big brother take care of it if we're not at home?" Gu Mingbei worried.
When Gu Mingxi heard this, he patted his forehead: "I got myself involved, brother is so afraid of trouble, how could he bring the baby home."
"Then—the bigger one?" Gu Mingbei asked.
Gu Mingxi suddenly looked at his nephew: "Ah Chen, what do you think?"
Gu Liangchen said helplessly: "Three aunts and four aunts, if my father really wants to adopt a child back, he will definitely discuss it with us. How could he not even say anything?"
"It's obviously impossible for him to go out like this."
Gu Liangchen felt that the two aunts were thinking too much, how could his father raise a child anymore, if he really wanted to raise a child, he would not have rejected Gu Ting in the first place.
Gu Mingbei frowned and said: "But the elder brother said before he went out that when he comes home, the house will definitely become lively."
"Anyway, I don't think it's a child." Gu Liangchen was very firm.
Gu Liangxing looked at him, saw that his younger brother was still unwilling to talk to him, and said, "It's unlikely."
"What might be impossible?" Gu Mingnan walked in and asked after hearing what they said.
Gu Mingxi repeated what he just said.
When Gu Mingnan heard this, he laughed loudly and said, "Aren't you stupid? Eldest brother is clearly dealing with aunt. How could he really bring the child back?"
"But……"
Gu Mingnan added: "If he wants to raise a child, I'll send Ayang and Ayue here, it's not much better than other people's."
"It's okay for them to be willing to call their eldest brother their father."
Gu Mingxi rolled his eyes: "You can't think too much about your words, and I'm not afraid that the second sister-in-law will get angry."
"Xiaoru listens to me in everything, so she won't get angry because of such a trivial matter." Gu Mingnan said proudly.
After saying this, Gu Mingnan glanced at the two younger sisters, and said, "If elder brother really likes children, it's not easy to do. If he is willing to give birth to himself, he will give birth to himself. If he is not willing to give birth to himself, let's give birth to him. He wants to raise a few children." Just a few."
"We can divide the work and cooperate. I will have three, you will have three, Xiaobei will have three, and there will be nine in total. When Ah Xing, Ah Chen, and Xiaoyun continue to have children in the future, then our family will have more than ten children every minute." , Enough for big brother to support."
Gu Mingxi was originally full of doubts, but now he became irritable.
Listening to the words of the second child, Gu Mingxi mentioned again the feeling of being pissed off by his brother: "Can you shut up and stop talking nonsense, are children toys? Are we sows?"
Gu Mingnan hurriedly said: "Of course not, a sow can give birth to twelve in one litter."
If it wasn't for the New Year's Eve, Gu Mingxi would have jumped on him to make him look good.
"Hey, hey, what are you pinching me for, Gu Mingxi, let me tell you, I'm married now, if you pinch me again, I, I, I'll tell your sister-in-law to teach you a lesson." Gu Mingnan yelled .
"I'm doing well for you, and I asked my sister-in-law to help you out. You go, go and see who my sister-in-law is teaching you."
All of a sudden, the old Gu family jumped up and down.
Gu Mingbei couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "In the world, only the second brother can make the third sister angry like this."
Gu Mingnan finally got rid of his sister's clutches, and said with a smile: "Don't be angry, I'm telling the truth."
"I think you guys are too busy, so you think about it. How can you raise a child when you are alone and carefree?"
"He has worked so hard to bring us up, and now we are finally able to enjoy the blessings. Why are you making trouble with your aunt? She likes to think wildly when she is old. You two have received the education of the new era, so you are so old-fashioned ?”
After being taught a hard lesson, Gu Mingxi also regained his composure.
She withdrew her claws, a little embarrassingly: "I, I'm just afraid that my brother will be alone."
Gu Mingbei followed suit and nodded.
Gu Mingnan glanced at them: "Aren't you guys stupid? Big brother is so happy to be at ease."
"Besides, it's actually because we are all reluctant to leave home, always thinking about wanting to come back, and it's not that he can't leave us."
A word to awaken the dreamer.
Gu Mingxi opened his mouth, but he couldn't refute.
Yes, in fact, they are used to relying on the elder brother, always want to stay with the elder brother, and feel that the elder brother will be lonely by himself.
In fact, my brother didn't think so at all.
During the college entrance examination that year, the Gu family sisters hesitated again and again whether to go to the distant Beijing. In the end, it was the elder brother's strong support that allowed the sisters to sign up cruelly.
When they were in school, the sisters were always thinking about their family. They always felt that without their care, the family would not be able to live well.
In fact, everything is fine at home, and they are not needed that much at all.
The Gu family sisters looked at each other and lowered their heads, realizing that this fact made them panic.
The same is true for the twins and Gu Yun, who were lost in thought for a moment. Before, they always felt that they were gone, and Gu Mingdong would be alone, unable to take care of himself.
After thinking about it, I suddenly realized that the root of all this was their reluctance to leave home, not Gu Mingdong's reluctance to leave them.
For a moment, the hearts of several people were sour and lost.
Gu Mingnan was careless, and now he still had the mood to smile: "What are the expressions on each of you that you realize this?"
Gu Mingxi glared at him: "It's just that I suddenly feel that it's us who need Big Brother all this time, not him who needs us."
Gu Mingnan joked, "You just found out?"
"I discovered it in Daishan City. I always feel very at ease when my elder brother is there. My elder brother is far away. I can't get up and down in my heart. I always want to come back."
Gu Mingnan sat down, and said: "But there is no way, who made us grow up, we can't be like unweaned children, always follow behind the big brother's ass."
Gu Mingxi didn't speak.
She suddenly remembered what her elder brother said to them before the college entrance examination, that the fledglings are destined to leave home when they grow up.
Did the eldest brother also realize that they were too dependent, so he wanted them to stay away from home?
Several people fell silent.
Suddenly, there was a sound from outside, and Gu Mingdong came back.
A few people looked around and saw Gu Mingdong happily carrying a big bamboo basket on his back. When they took a closer look, they saw clearly what was inside, and they were all dumbfounded.