Chapter nine
In the evening, the Mei family sat in their yard, chatting about daily life, waiting for the midnight meal to burn the baggage.
The weather is clear during the day today, and the sky is filled with stars at night. Among the stars in the sky, there is also a big, round moon. The moonlight is cool and the gentle breeze removes the heat of summer. The cool evening breeze of early autumn makes people feel refreshed both physically and mentally.
Farmers are busy, and there are few such pleasant days in a year.
Gu Nanfeng was pulled by Mei Aniang to sit next to her, and Mei Xiaomei sat on the other side, surrounded by two children on the left and right. Mei Aniang's face was full of smiles, and she occasionally took the initiative Feeding Gu Nanfeng food, it seemed that he had not yet accepted that he had become an adult, and still treated him as the twelve-year-old child he was back then.
There is nothing more pleasant than sitting together as a family, laughing and playing, watching the moon and eating. Dad Mei also took advantage of this time to continue talking about Gu Nanfeng building a house.
After half a month, the autumn harvest will come. After the harvest of the buds in the fields, it will be time to harvest the rice. Both of these are big inputs for the family, so there can be no delay.
Fortunately, there is about half a month between harvesting corn and millet. This half month can help build the house.
"You don't have to worry about building a house, and you don't have to think about going to the village to find someone. It's just a few huts. Why spend that wasted money? Your eldest brother, second brother and your cousin are enough." Uncle Mei's house But there are three brothers and four or five young men who can build three huts. This is enough manpower.
Although Gu Nanfeng didn't want to be the son of the Mei family like he had been six years ago, but listening to the name Mei Dad said, it was obvious that he still regarded him as a member of the family. He felt comforted in his heart and silently nodded in agreement.
He didn't have much money in hand. After building the house, he still had to buy land. Naturally, he could save as much money as he could.
The best paddy fields in their Gu family village cost 10 taels of silver per acre, and the dry land cost 5 taels of silver. But this was the price of good land, and the price of the worse land was only one tael of silver less. It was also very expensive. He had to buy an acre. Only two acres of land is enough. Only with the land can we survive.
The house Gu Nanfeng wanted to build required a lot of white grass and bamboo. Cutting bamboo and mowing grass were not heavy tasks. Dad Mei asked Gu Nanfeng to go to the mountains to cut grass and stockpile it. After harvesting the corn at home, Start building the house directly.
Gu Nanfeng knows better than anyone how important the autumn harvest is. Naturally, he will not force others to build a house for him during such an important and busy day. And at this time, even if he is willing to spend money to let other people in the village help, he will also No one has time.
When you are comfortable and comfortable, time always passes quickly. In the blink of an eye, it is midnight, and it is time to burn the burden at the gate of the courtyard.
Gu Nanfeng was not a member of the Mei family, so he could not follow him out to burn the bundles. When all the Mei family members went out, he suddenly shivered in the yard alone. He raised his eyes and looked around, and suddenly felt that there were people everywhere. Even the swaying branches look like people.
Fortunately, Mei Qingshan left and came back quickly, so Gu Nanfeng didn't have to worry anymore.
Gu Nanfeng was no longer afraid if he had someone to accompany him, but he didn't know that the people outside who were still burning baggage were complaining about the people who came in to accompany him.
"What happened to this second boy? He was the one who refused to stay, but now he rushes in to accompany her. He still remembers that Nanfeng is afraid of ghosts."
It turned out that this was not the first month and a half that Gu Nanfeng had spent at home. When he arrived at Mei's house that year, he had already spent a month and a half at Mei's house.
"Maybe he's out of temper. The two of them had a good relationship before, so don't worry about it." You have to ask your own family members to burn the trouble, and no outsiders can participate.
Mei Aniang glanced at the room and sighed, thinking that it would be great if Nanfeng was willing to be her son. Now they and their family can burn bundles for their ancestors here.
Burning rice cakes in the middle of July is not a unique custom in Meijia Village. Several nearby counties have this custom. On this day, the Gu family in Gujia Village did not go to Dafang as in previous years, and the family had a good time.
Because of Gu Nanfeng's matter, the two sides had a quarrel and had not spoken for several days.
It turned out that after Uncle Gu learned the reason for the quarrel between Gu Nanfeng and his mother that day, he went back to reprimand Gu's mother and told her not to do anything unethical. Gu Qingyao and the Liu family were not allowed to be mentioned again. .
Moreover, they take care of their family, and they have to go to the Liu family to ask for an explanation, so that the Liu family will not have any whims in the future. Xiao thought that the two brothers from the Mei family would serve one person together, so that people would treat Gu Nanfeng badly.
There are many families with the Gu family name in Gujia Village, but this room in Gu Nanfeng's family has the highest seniority. Although Gu's mother is not very old now, she is the highest seniority person in the Gu family, just like her uncle.
Gu's mother was of high seniority, she was widowed at a young age, and she never remarried. She raised the four children of the Gu family by herself, so she was very respected in the Gu family.
When she was raising her children alone, despite the hard work, Gu's mother never suffered from idleness, and her spirit was very high.
Gu's mother was originally worried about Gu Nanfeng, but after being scolded by her uncle, she felt resentful and felt that it was because of Gu Nanfeng's disobedience that things got into trouble.
She and his third brother were doing it for his own good, but he didn't know what was good for him!
While Gu's mother resented Gu Nanfeng, she was also a little worried. She was afraid that Gu Nanfeng would really take the documents to the government and cross the road. In the future, they would no longer have the name of mother and son. Gu Nanfeng would no longer have any scruples. The family was causing trouble to Gu Qingyao.
Gu's mother, who was very worried, rushed to the Liu family with Gu Qingyao the next day. She wanted to work with the Liu family to persuade Gu Nanfeng and let him know that if he didn't listen to the arrangement, he would be in trouble with his mother-in-law's family in the future. No more, let’s see what he does.
Gu's mother went to Liu's house angrily, but when she arrived at Liu's house, she found out that Gu Nanfeng had already taken the Liu family's letter of departure, and she panicked.
But at this time, Gu's mother was not the only one who was panicking. Liu Muyuan also panicked when he learned that Gu Nanfeng had not returned to her parents' home.
He didn't know how to explain it to his mother, and what to do with the family affairs? Gu Nanfeng has always taken care of things at home. Now that he is gone, what will happen to so many things at home?
"How could you really give him a divorce letter? Nanfeng is really your biological son?" Liu Muyuan himself found it incredible. He didn't expect that he just had this idea, but Gu's mother could actually do this. He and Gu Nanfeng broke off their relationship.
Suddenly feeling regretful, Liu Muyuan was immediately uneasy. Gu Nanfeng took his letter and Li Shu and broke off the relationship with her mother's family. One of his brothers was out alone, so he had to be found quickly! Otherwise, if his mother comes back, he won't be able to explain it.
The two parties were anxious to find someone and went directly to Gu Jinyu, the second eldest son of the Gu family. However, when they arrived at Gu Jinyu's place, they found out that Gu Nanfeng had never gone to find his second sister at all.
Gu Jinyu is different from the rest of the family. Of her two younger brothers, she loves Gu Nanfeng more. They have a good relationship with each other. Now that Gu Nanfeng has nowhere to go, but does not go to his second sister, Gu's mother becomes anxious. It really gave birth to the feeling in my heart that my son was really lost.
Gu Jinyu didn't find anyone there, so the group hurriedly went to the boss Gu Zhixia's house. Naturally, they missed it and no one was found.
No one was found anywhere, and everyone realized that things did not develop as they expected. Gu Nanfeng seemed to really intend to break off relations with them. After realizing this, they looked at each other with a bit of resentment. Liu Muyuan was the first to calm down and decided to go to the county.
Gu Nanfeng had two documents in his hand. If he was determined to sever ties with his family, he would definitely go to the county.
