Chapter 150 Contradiction (two chapters in one chapter)
A sudden autumn rain and a sudden cold. Although the provincial capital is located south of the Yangtze River, the power of autumn still affects it.
Every day the workers in the courtyard have endless amounts of fallen leaves to clean up.
The dampness and coldness of late autumn was chilling to the bones. Wang Suzhen had already lit a charcoal fire a few days ago and put it in the living room to keep warm.
Lin Shu's pregnancy has been more than four months. Pregnant people are not so afraid of the cold. It is like holding a stove in her arms. Let her warm herself up by the fire. She would rather go back to her room and lie on the bed to rest or read a book and walk around. Visit the system mall.
After dinner that day, Gu Jiu had not yet returned home from a social event. There was his second sister-in-law chatting with Wang Suzhen in the living room. After dinner, Lin Shu went upstairs to go back to the room.
In addition to the rooms of Gu's father and Wang Suzhen on the second floor, the rooms of the other three brothers and sisters-in-law are also on the second floor. The eldest brother and sister-in-law have grown up children, and they usually live in the work dormitory during work hours.
The second brother sometimes comes back to live in the second room, and the second sister-in-law has to take care of the children. Usually she spends more time at home.
Finally, Gu Zhiyuan and Gu Jiu, who have three bedrooms, live at home.
On the way back to the room today, Lin Shu noticed that the door of the third room was not closed tightly, and the sound of the third room couple quarreling came from inside.
Originally, Lin Shu had no intention of listening to what was said in the corner, but when their voices came from the crack in the door, she couldn't help but listen.
When Gu Jiu came back in the evening, Lin Shu locked the last stitch of the sweater and put away the knitting needles and the knitted sweater.
Gu Jiu came out of the bathroom and wiped his hair while asking: "I just saw the needlework you started yesterday, and you have knitted it today?"
"Well, only furry clothes It doesn't take much effort." After Lin Shu put away his clothes, he went to the bathroom to wash his hands.
"Now that your belly is getting bigger, why don't you stop sitting and knitting all day long? Are you afraid that you will have no clothes to wear when the baby is born? When I went upstairs, I saw that my mother was also knitting woolen clothes. .”
"It's enough to knit these two sets. The newborn's fur will grow old, and knitting too much is a waste. It won't be able to wear them." Lin Shu came out of the bathroom, moved her limbs and neck, and then lay back on the bed.
Lie back on the bed, stretch out your limbs, and sigh: "It's still more comfortable to lie down."
Sitting and knitting, with my head down for a long time, my neck is sore, and my whole body feels sore while lying on the bed. My heart is relaxed, not to mention how comfortable it is.
Gu Jiu dried his hair, lifted the quilt and lay in, reaching out to touch her swollen belly.
As soon as they touched it, Lin Shu slapped it away mercilessly, "Your hands are cold, please wait until they are warm before touching them."
Gu Jiu rubbed his hands under the quilt and said with a smile: "I have finished my work today. I can leave some finishing work to Chen Fei and the others. I will accompany you to the prenatal check-up tomorrow?"
The last prenatal check-up, In the hospital, only pregnancy was checked, and other items were not checked. Whatever I say this time, I have to check it carefully.
"Okay, I might as well go for a pregnancy test. Have you noticed it recently? My belly is bigger than other pregnant women. Do you think there could be twins inside?"
"Twins?" Gu Jiu was stunned, and then his eyes widened. Hehe giggled: "I'm so powerful, I kill two birds with one stone?"
"That's not necessarily true, I'll find out when I go check it out tomorrow." Lin Shu felt a little uneasy, if it was twins, was he pregnant with twins? A son from a previous life?
Thinking of the good eldest son in the previous life, maybe they only had one life of fate as mother and son. If there is no fate in this life, everything will just happen.
Gu Jiu rubbed his hands to warm them and put his big palm on his pregnant belly, "Honey, your intuition may be right. There may be twins here."
"You also think so. The belly is bigger than the normal pregnancy belly?”
“I don’t know, but my intuition is that there are two hairs in it.”
The couple chatted about whether the baby in the belly was a boy or a girl. Who will it look like?
While chatting, Lin Shu thought of Gu Zhiyuan and his wife in the next room, "Did you hear the quarrel next door when you came back?"
"No, what's wrong?" Gu Jiu put his ear close to his belly and listened. After listening to her words, he raised his eyebrows and looked at her, "Did the couple quarrel?"
"I don't know exactly what they were quarreling about, but it seemed to be about work."
"Oh." Gu Jiu responded lightly and stopped paying attention.
But Gu Jiu didn't pay attention. The next morning, the two came back from the hospital for a pregnancy check-up. As soon as they entered the house, they heard the couple arguing.
"Gu Zhiyuan, you have a quota on hand, why is it so difficult for you to do a favor?"
"I have a quota on hand, but that quota is for the factory, not for me personally. You If you continue to mess around like this, you are totally trying to make things difficult for me.”
“Huh, that sounds grand. If it was your brother who asked you to arrange work today, would you push back and forth like this? To put it bluntly, you are treating my family as outsiders!"
Gu Jiu and Lin Shu looked at each other, not expecting that the couple could still quarrel. Involving him, Gu Jiu scratched his eyebrows, took Lin Shu's hand and walked in calmly.
"You two are quarreling, so don't involve me."
The couple in the third room were arguing without any scruples. Lin Shu thought there was no one at home, but she didn't want to go in and found Wang Suzhen and the nanny sitting at the dining table watching a show.
Gu Jiu pulled Lin Shu to sit next to Wang Suzhen and said half-truthfully, "Mom, why don't you try to persuade them when they quarrel."
Wang Suzhen rolled her eyes at him. He said angrily: "You let me How to advise, should you advise your sister-in-law not to embarrass your brother, or should you advise your brother not to worry too much, how big a deal is it to arrange a job for her brother? "
Lin Shu glanced at Gu Jiu and poured it for himself? Drink a glass of warm water and look towards the living room.
When the couple came in, Gu Zhiyuan couldn't stand the quarrel anymore and sat on the sofa sulking.
Jiang Chaohong also sat on the sofa on the other side and took a deep breath, "Tell me, how do you plan to solve my brother's work problem?"
Gu Zhiyuan was irritated by her entanglement like this, and brushed his hair. He lowered his voice and shouted: "I didn't plan, I said the quota It's from the factory, not mine. I can't arrange it for your brother who hasn't even graduated from elementary school!"
Jiang Chaohong noticed the people sitting in the restaurant watching the show, and felt extremely angry. He gritted his teeth and pointed at Gu! Jiu asked: "What if it was Lao Jiu who asked you to arrange work today? Will you refuse so firmly?"
Gu Zhiyuan asked Lao Jiu again, feeling extremely annoyed, "If you insist on getting involved with him, then I will tell you the truth. Lao Jiu wants to join our factory. , I will arrange for him to take the exam according to the normal procedures, and if he passes it, he will naturally join our factory. My brother, let him take the exam. Can he understand the meaning of the test paper? Can he write all the words in the answer? "
"It's not his fault that my brother is uneducated. You don't have to take it all the time. Are you going to attack me with this weakness? Gu Zhiyuan, are you still a man?" Jiang Chaohong became angry.
Gu Zhiyuan rubbed his face, exhausted mentally and physically, "Okay, I'm too lazy to argue with you, but you will be unreasonable when it comes to your mother's family."
After that, Gu Zhiyuan picked up his briefcase Out the door.
Jiang Chaohong didn't know whether he lost face or was stimulated by Gu Zhiyuan's words. He sat on the sofa and sobbed silently.
Lin Shu was thinking about whether she should go over to comfort her, but before she could take action, Jiang Chaohong took her bag and ran up to the second floor, and then the door to the room on the second floor closed with a bang.
"Is this okay?" You won't get divorced, right?
Wang Suzhen waved her hands and said nonchalantly: "I already have two children, what can happen?"
Lin Shu glanced at the second floor, eager to gossip, "What is the situation of the third sister-in-law and her brother? I think the third brother refuses to arrange a job."
Wang Suzhen: "You are a street kid who didn't learn well since he was a child. He followed the young people everywhere before graduating from high school. Then he went to work in the countryside for a few years, and now he is back, waiting for a job to be arranged. "Oh, just wait for a job to be arranged. There will always be a job suitable for him."
Lin Shu thought about Jiang Chaohong's younger brother's resume, which should be more than that simple. Otherwise, it wouldn't be difficult for Gu Zhiyuan and his brothers to arrange a job that does not require education. Wang Suzhen shook her head, "If he had worked honestly, there wouldn't have been such a quarrel between the couple. Her brother is uneducated. As long as he is willing to work hard, he can't find a suitable job. He was previously arranged to work in a mine in the town under his jurisdiction. The miner ran back after one day's work, saying that he couldn't bear the hardship. Her brother also claimed that the third child wanted his life for giving him such a job. "
"Hiss!" Lin Shu took a breath, his good intentions were not rewarded, these words were vicious enough.
"Last time I saw Sister-in-law Three, her mother seemed to be a reasonable old lady. How come she gave birth to such a bastard son?"
"The nine sons born from a dragon are all different." Wang Suzhen did not say anything. Yes, Mother Jiang is sharp-tongued outside, but that doesn't mean she is really reasonable.
Being reasonable in front of outsiders is because her interests are not touched. If someone touches her interests, she may break up and turn against them.
"Tsk, who kind of dragon are their people?" Gu Jiu couldn't help but snort when he heard this.
Wang Suzhen slapped him angrily, "I'm just making a metaphor."
Gu Jiu exclaimed in pain and rubbed his arm: "Mom, can you be a little gentle? , look, my arms are all red.”
< br>Wang Suzhen was amused by him, "You wear such thick clothes, I can barely do iron sand palm."
As if thinking of something, she immediately asked: "Hey, you guys went to the hospital for a check-up, how is the situation? What did the doctor say? ”
Speaking of this, Gu Jiu and Lin Shu could not stop smiling.
"Mom, everything is fine after checking today. Moreover, the doctor said that my wife is pregnant with twins."
"Twins?" The surprise came unexpectedly, Wang Suzhen was stunned. Look at Lin Shu.
Lin Shu smiled and nodded, "Twins."
"Oh, Bodhisattva bless, Bodhisattva bless. Our family has accumulated great virtues, otherwise why would we have twins in one child?" Wang Suzhen exclaimed, staring directly at Lin Shu's belly.
"I was just wondering why your belly is so big after more than four months. It turns out that you are pregnant with two Maomaos. Shu Shu, are you still suffering from morning sickness recently?"
Lin Shu shook his head: "You've already passed that. stage.”
“ "Okay, okay, as long as you don't have morning sickness, you can eat it alone and three people can digest it. We can take more supplements in the future, but we can't let the child grow too small." Wang Suzhen thought about this period, and most of the food at home was light. , it seems that it needs to be changed.
In the afternoon, Lin Shu woke up at noon. It was already past four in the afternoon.
Just as they were sitting in the living room eating an orange, Gu Youming and Gu Youxing ran in from outside carrying small schoolbags.
Gu Jiu came in after them. Lin Shu saw this and asked, "Did you pick them up?"
"Well, on the way back, I stopped by the Meat Factory and bought one. Come back and let Sister Liu fry the pig heart for free tonight." Gu Jiu said and walked to the kitchen.
Lin Shu frowned slightly when she saw the dark red pig heart. She would not eat this. It's just that if she doesn't want to eat, her family still needs to eat, so she doesn't make a decision after thinking about it.
In the evening, Gu Zhiyuan did not come back for dinner.
Jiang Chaohong's eyes were as swollen as walnuts. Seeing that everyone was only focused on eating, no one said anything wrong with Gu Zhiyuan, and no one came to comfort her, she felt aggrieved. She didn't eat and just shed tears without talking.
Wang Suzhen took care of her two children's meals. As the father-in-law, Gu Changsheng had many things to say to his daughter-in-law.
Gu Jiu didn't care about anything, and his second sister-in-law didn't say a word while taking care of the two girls for dinner.
Lin Shu should have had a good appetite after the morning sickness, but there was a person crying silently next to him, so no matter how good his appetite was, he still couldn't eat.
The main thing is not that she is cold-blooded, but that she doesn’t know how to persuade?
She had better not get involved in this kind of principled issue, otherwise, if someone targets Gu Zhiyuan, she will become a sinner.
I believe everyone ate this meal to the point where they didn’t know how to taste it. Even a few children ate with their heads down and didn’t dare to say a word.
The next morning, Lin Shu woke up early and had breakfast with everyone, but he still didn't see Gu Zhiyuan. After asking, he found out that he didn't come back to sleep last night.
Jiang Chaohong didn’t cry this time, but her eyes were as swollen as walnuts.
With such an image, I didn’t even go to class, I just called and asked for leave, and I just lay there and left it at home.
Gu Jiu and Lin Shu sent the two children to kindergarten together.
After the couple dropped off their children, they went to the train station and ordered a batch of goods in the provincial capital to be shipped out today.
“With this batch of goods, the products of our canteen have been enriched. I don’t know if Dongfa’s shop in the city has been rented?” Lin Shu stood outside the train station, looking at the speed in the distance. said the departing train.
Gu Jiu: "Last time he called and the license has been processed. It should be easier to rent a store. You don't have to worry. We will wait for a while to make sure that you won't have morning sickness. We will buy a ticket and go back to live there. How about a while?”
“This is what you said, but you must keep your word!” Lin Shu’s eyes lit up when he heard that he could go back to the county.
Gu Jiu took Lin Shu out of the station and saw Gu Youhui still setting up a stall at the same place.
However, there was a middle-aged woman selling steamed buns next to him.
"Uncle, aunt, why are you at the train station today?" Gu Youhui greeted them while collecting money.
The sugar cane piled up by Lin Shu in the dilapidated house has been cleared by this boy. The sugar cane he sells now is wholesaled from Gu Jiu's fruit shop. In addition to sugar cane, he also wholesales pineapples.
Sugar cane is cut into sections and sold for five cents per section. Peel the pineapple and cut it into pieces, stick them in with bamboo skewers, they cost a dime a piece.
A pineapple cut into eight pieces can be sold for 80 cents. Excluding the wholesale cost of 50 cents, a pineapple can earn 30 cents.
Looking at Gu Youhui, who was quick and skillful in greeting customers, Gu Jiu felt a little mixed, "We came here to consign a batch of goods. Your business is good."
"Thanks to you, business is okay. "Gu Youhui hummed in his heart, it's better than going to work.
He turned around and greeted Lin Shu: "Little aunt, do you want to eat pineapple?"
Lin Shu waved his hand: "This thing is too sour, I won't eat it. You are busy with your business, no need to Leave us alone."
Seeing that he had another guest, Gu Jiu took Lin Shu and left, "Let's go!"
On the way home, Lin Shu rode a bicycle alongside him and said, "Youhui's business here is good. When my eldest brother heard that his small stall made more than 100 a day, he was shocked and speechless."
"Now you can earn more by setting up a stall outside than working. Why are some people unwilling to take this step?" Gu Jiu shook his head.
Lin Shu knew that he was talking about Jiang Chaohong's younger brother and the unemployed young people who stayed at home with nothing to do, just waiting for jobs to be arranged by the superiors.
It’s just that people in this world have their own ambitions. In more than ten years, self-employment will still be a lowly industry in the eyes of some people. What's more, in this era where people are proud of their iron rice bowl.
It is unseemly to be self-employed, not to mention being a hawker in a small stall exposed to the wind and sun. That is simply embarrassing, and it would be too shameful to speak out.
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