Chapter 235: Don’t Call Me Uncle even to Death
Li Jianguo and Li Long were squatting on the rocks beside the canal outside the courtyard gate, chatting about this matter.
Although I already felt that I and Wu Shufen were on two parallel lines and would never intersect, I was still a little surprised when I heard that she was getting married.
“It’s so fast.” Li Long said.
"Then your sister-in-law will go there then." Li Jianguo said, "We are not going to separate our families. All we need is a gift from our family. Of course, it would be best if he doesn't invite us."
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"That's impossible." Li Long shook his head.
Although Li Jianguo is the youngest among the founders of the village, he is quite heavy and young and powerful. At least among the people in the village, this is how Li Jianguo is described.
So usually, if any family in the village gets married and has a good relationship, they will ask Li Jianguo to be the general manager, because he has been the chief secretary and can always arrange things clearly.
And Li Jianguo still has prestige in the village. Otherwise, the last time he hit Gu Ermao's house with a stick, no one would have stopped him and resisted.
The Gu family arrived relatively early in the village.
"I'm not going. Mom and Dad are here, and something happened on the wheat field. I have to be prepared - by the way, will you participate in the harvesting of wheat in the team this year?"
"No." Li Long Waving his hand, "I won't go and embarrass myself. In the first few years, you and my sister-in-law were the ones doing the work. I was too lazy to go there. If I go now, I'll probably be the slowest. Women can cut faster than me, so why not?" It's embarrassing."
"That's right." Li Jianguo wanted to laugh. He took out the Mohe cigarette box, took out the paper cut out of the newspaper, poured out some cigarettes, and said while rolling:
“I don’t know why I was so lazy in the first two years——”
Li Long lowered his head in embarrassment, thinking that he was stupid, what could he say?
"Fortunately, I'm fine now, I'm grown up now," Li Jianguo was very pleased. As soon as he put the Mohe cigarette in his mouth, Li Long took out a lighter and lit it for him.
Li Jianguo took a sip, glanced at Li Long, and said with a smile:
"It's also mature. Do you think you should also tell me about you and Xiaoxia? Now daddy I’m here. My original intention was to let my father and mother stay in Beijiang for another two years and then just transfer their residence here.”
“Dad. Don’t agree?”
“Yes. It’s okay, I think it’s weird here. Dad said that the ancestral grave is still in my hometown, and the family tree will be continued there. I won’t object in the next two years. We are starting to talk about continuation. He must go back, otherwise our branch... our branch is the direct branch of the real branch, and dad is the oldest in the village..."
Having lived in two generations, Li Long, like many people on the Internet, doesn't have much thought about family trees and entering ancestral graves.
After all, I have been living in northern Xinjiang. There are people from all over the country here. On the contrary, some traditional habits have been lost. Everyone complements each other and gradually adopts some useful or popular customs here. Bring it in and form a unique cultural lifestyle.
Of course, Northern Xinjiang is very big, and Li Long only talked about the village where he was. He didn't know much about other places either.
"Then I'll discuss it with Xiaoxia tomorrow. If it's confirmed, should we get engaged first?" Li Long asked.
"Okay." Li Jianguo smiled, "This matter can be settled first, so that mom and dad can rest assured and Lao Gu doesn't have to think too much. It just gives him an advantage and is better than me. Generations..."
"Brother, will you call him Uncle Gu in the future?" Li Long teased.
"It's up to you to call him shit." Li Jianguo took a puff of Mohe cigarette and said, "He will never let me call him uncle in this life."
Li Long laughed .
After breakfast the next day, Li Jianguo led the horse and roller to the wheat field. Li Long got on his bicycle and took Li Juan out of the village.
He put Li Juan at the gate of the primary school and then went to the middle school.
On the way, he met Meng Zhiqiang who was hurrying along with his pocket on his back. Li Long admired this man quite a lot. He probably made a lot of money by selling fish all the time.
It’s just that I didn’t know him very well in my previous life, and he wasn’t well-known in the team. His family background seemed to have always been relatively average, neither good nor bad.
Will there be changes in this life?
I said hello and then rode directly to the middle school.
It was not yet school time. Li Long rode his bicycle to the door of the teachers' dormitory. The door of Gu Xiaoxia's dormitory was locked. She should have gone to the office.
Li Long opened the dormitory door and prepared to wait in the dormitory.
At this time, Teacher Wang next door saw the bicycle parked outside the door and immediately knew that Li Long was coming. She walked over, stood outside the door and asked:
"Li Long? Do you have something to do with Teacher Gu?”
“Yes.”
“Teacher Gu is in the first class. If you are not particularly anxious, I will tell her after class. Then, ask her to come to you.”
"Thank you, I'll be waiting here." Li Long walked to the door and thanked Teacher Wang.
Teacher Wang smiled and nodded, locked the dormitory with the book under his arm, and went to the office.
"Li Long is here?" Gu Xiaoxia was already preparing to go to the classroom with her textbooks. When she heard Teacher Wang's words, she was very surprised, "He is in the dormitory?"
"Yes, I have told him You have to go to class in the first period, and he said he would wait for you in the dormitory. "Then I will go find him after class." Gu Xiaoxia couldn't guess what happened to Li Long, but she could wait until she finished the first period. class, it shouldn’t be a particularly urgent matter.
Most of the students at this time were relatively obedient. Although Gu Xiaoxia was a new teacher, she prepared lessons carefully and was friendly, so she was quite popular in class.
But in today’s class, Teacher Gu seemed a little anxious. Although he did not teach anything wrong, he looked out from time to time, which made the students a little strange.
After finally staying up until the bell rang outside, Gu Xiaoxia hurriedly said goodbye to the students, left the classroom, and headed to the dormitory.
Li Long stood at the door of the dormitory and looked over here, watching Gu Xiaoxia hurried over and looking at her with a smile.
"Did something happen in the team... in the village?" Gu Xiaoxia asked when she was three or four meters away from Li Long.
"It's okay. I haven't started cutting the wheat yet, so there's nothing wrong."
"Then come here this time..."
"I have something to discuss with you." Li Long entered the dormitory first, She said at the door: "Come in and talk."
Gu Xiaoxia carried the textbook into the dormitory and looked at Li Long with some confusion.
“Sit down first and then I’ll tell you.”
Gu Xiaoxia sat beside the bed, and Li Long pulled up the chair and sat opposite her, saying:
"That's it. I thought it was more complicated before, thinking that you just work after all, and we need to confirm the relationship. If so, it will have an impact on your future development, and I think we have established a relationship too quickly now. If we are planning to get married, do we feel a little rushed, so I told you that..."
Gu Xiaoxia was a little confused. I don't understand why Li Long said this.
"Now, I find that I was careless. We are both very young, so..." Gu Xiaoxia suddenly asked:
"You don't want to think about it now. Get married?”
"No, no, no, that's not what I meant, but my idea is, if you have no objection, why don't we... get engaged first?"
Li Long was afraid that he would speak too slowly. This caused Gu Xiaoxia's misunderstanding, so she expressed her thoughts directly:
"My father and mother happen to be here now, and your father is also here. My idea is to take advantage of the fact that there are not many things going on, so we can put our The matter is settled. As for when to get married, let's discuss it, but the engagement can be decided first...
I told my elder brother that I also went to your house yesterday and met with Gu. Uncle, I think your dad doesn’t have any objections either, so what I mean is that I’ll discuss it with you first. If you don’t have any objections, then my eldest brother, or my father and mother, will invite someone to your house..."
"This..." Gu Xiaoxia didn't expect this to happen so suddenly, but she felt that there seemed to be nothing to hesitate about. After thinking about it, she said:
"Then... ok, I think it's okay to settle it first... …Can I ask you something seriously?”
“Say.”
“Do you have me in your heart?”
Li Long raised his head. , looking into Gu Xiaoxia's eyes.
The beautiful girl in front of her didn't seem so confident and a little uncertain in her eyes.
He looked at the other person's eyes seriously and said:
"Yes, I have you in my heart, and I like you."
These words made Gu Xiaoxia suddenly He lowered his head, a blush covering his cheeks. Girls of this era could not accept such a straightforward statement.
After a while, Gu Xiaoxia said:
"Then...you can find someone to come to my house...I have no objection."
Originally, Li Long wanted to take Gu Xiaoxia around the county by bicycle, but looking at Gu Xiaoxia's current condition , it seems not quite suitable to go out now.
Li Long then asked: "Then you...do you have anything else to say?"
"No. I heard that Wu Shufen was getting married - she asked someone to give it to me. The invitation has been sent, will you go then? ”
"If I don't go, I don't think she will invite me. I have to go to the mountains in the next two days." Li Long said, "After we get our engagement done, we can go to the mountains to do some side business. I have to get married first. Earn a fortune ”
Li Long said it so naturally that Gu Xiaoxia's originally unconfident heart suddenly calmed down.
The young man in front of me is working hard to build a small family for the two of them, so he shouldn't think so much about it.
"Then I'll go back first." Li Long stood up and said, "You have no objection, then I may go to your house this weekend. Will you go back then?"
< br>“Return.”
“Then I’ll come and pick you up?”
"No, no, it's not far. I'll just walk back."
Li Long thought Gu Xiaoxia was shy, so he didn't say much.
When he went out to open the car and was about to walk back, Li Long suddenly stopped and said to Gu Xiaoxia, who had come to the door to watch him off:
"Xiaoxia, how many days will you... I’ll take you to learn to ride a bicycle when you’re free.”
“Okay.” Gu Xiaoxia nodded without thinking much.
Back home, the whole family is there. Li Jianguo had returned from the wheat field, and Li Long told Li Jianguo about the situation.
Li Jianguo couldn't sit still after hearing this. He said directly:
"I will go to Lao Gu's house to tell him about this matter... We have agreed, and then we will follow the procedures. . ”
Liang Yuemei looked at them with a smile, it was a good thing that there was a happy event in the family.
When Li Jianguo went to Gu's house, Gu Boyuan was tidying up the remaining splendens and wire in the yard. Xu Chengjun had already distributed the money to each household to make brooms, but the remaining kilograms of wire Gu Boyuan said he wanted to send to him. He asked Gu Boyuan to put it at home first and wait until it would be useful.
Gu Boyuan was a little surprised when he saw Li Jianguo coming over. While busy with his work, he asked:
"Why do you, such a busy man, have time to come to my place?"
"Telling you Talk about Xiaolong and Xiaoxia."
"Yesterday. Did Tian Xiaolong go back and tell you?"
"I told you." Li Jianguo nodded, took a piece of wood from the side and sat down, "I told you when I came back that I didn't think well before. I’m here, should I settle this matter?”
"It's okay, the boy is not stupid." Although Gu Boyuan's eyes were inevitably a little picky, he was quite satisfied with Li Long's reaction at the moment.
"Xiaolong went to school today to ask Xiaoxia, and Xiaoxia also agreed to get engaged first. So what I mean is, let's settle things between the two of us as soon as possible. We are not young anymore..."< br>
“Okay.” Gu Boyuan nodded, and then sighed, “Unknowingly, it’s so big...”
“Here The good thing about the team is that we don’t have to look for any auspicious days. Look, Xiaoxia is also taking a break this Sunday. Should we come over here?”
“Okay,” Gu Boyuan said. Since the two babies are interested in each other, there is no need to delay it any longer. It will be fine on the weekend. Xiaoxia will also come back, so you can find someone here."
"Then I'll prepare things here... The six-color gift must be prepared..."
"It doesn't have to be so troublesome, and I'm not an outsider." Gu Boyuan waved his hand, "I believe that Xiaolong can treat Xiaolong after we get married. "Xia is good, of course, if it's bad, my stick can't hit someone..."
"Then don't worry, if Xiaolong treats Xiaoxia badly, you don't need to hit him, I'll have the stick in my hand." Li Jianguo promised at this time. After all, Gu Xiaoxia had no mother, and Gu Boyuan did not let her suffer any injustice when she was at home. If Li Long treats Gu Xiaoxia badly, then Li Jianguo and his wife will definitely not favor Li Long.
Gu Boyuan was really satisfied with Li Jianguo’s statement. He sighed again:
“Your Xiaolong has changed so much in the past six months. If it hadn’t changed like this, I wouldn’t have changed either. Dare to give Xiaoxia to him.”
"I was still talking to him yesterday, and he himself said that he didn't know how to be such a fool a few years ago - but fortunately he has grown up and has become more responsible... I am not afraid to tell you that the pressure of being a big brother is not big. Xiao, with such a promising younger brother, I I feel like if I can’t do something anymore, people will gossip about me.”
“That’s true, I understand... But Jianguo, you say... Xiaolong calls you Big Brother and me Uncle Gu, you see. This generation..."
"Get out!" Li Jianguo's expression changed upon hearing this, "Let me tell you, we have our own business! Don't expect me to be a generation younger than you... I know you didn't hold it in!"
“Hahahaha,” Gu Boyuan looked at Li Jian Guo was angry, but smiled instead, "That's what I meant. Everyone has their own opinions. After all, we have lived in the same house. How can I let you call me uncle? Hahahaha..."
(End of Chapter)