In this life, since Gu Shichu didn't seize this opportunity in time, she would not be polite, Li Danyang thought ambitiously, she would also be a good stepmother and raise those four children who were destined to have great prospects.
"Aunt Zhou, they say a forced melon is not sweet. Since Gu Shichu looks down on this marriage, even if she finally agrees to marry Zhou Weiguo, she may be unwilling to do so. In this case, how can she be good to the four children? So Aunt Zhou, you have to choose a virtuous wife for Brother Zhou." Li Danyang said calmly.
"Of course. Zhou Weiguo is my husband's nephew. How could I, as his aunt, not consider him? This time I went to sound out Gu girl because Zhou Weiguo saw that she was pretty and asked me to ask her! Otherwise, how could I be interested in her, a girl who has lost both her parents?" Aunt Zhou said, patting her chest.
Li Danyang's eyes darkened. Did Zhou Weiguo choose Gu Shichu himself? But it didn't matter. Gu Shichu didn't like him.
Li Danyang was very confident. Although she was not as pretty as Gu Shichu, she was young after all. As long as she showed off in front of Zhou Weiguo, Zhou Weiguo would not refuse. She was a virgin, while he was in his thirties and the father of four children. She did not despise him for being a second marriage, so what right did he have to despise her
She was determined to snatch Zhou Weiguo from Gu Shichu, so she was even more devoted to Aunt Zhou, and subtly inquired about Zhou Weiguo's preferences, hoping to please him.
Aunt Zhou had no idea what Li Danyang was thinking, so she asked her a lot of questions.
Shi Chu had no idea that being a stepmother, something she was avoiding at all costs, was something that someone was actually trying to get. Now that she had become Gu Shi Chu, she had to face reality.
After she finished looking at the shabby house of the Gu family, she couldn't help but sigh. In her previous life, she was a noble lady, living in a spacious manor house, with fine clothes and delicious food, surrounded by servants, and she lived a happy life.
But now she has become a poor peasant in the countryside with no surplus food, her house is bare and her clothes are ragged... It is true that it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
Gu Shichu touched his hungry stomach, sighed, picked up a broken earthenware jar on the stove, cleaned it carefully, and then took rice from his own space to cook.
Fortunately, she had a companion space, otherwise she would have to go up the mountain on an empty stomach to find food.
In the countryside these days, basically everyone is not well fed. The wild vegetables and fruits in the mountains have been picked countless times. Small prey such as pheasants and rabbits are almost being hunted to extinction and can only be found in deep mountains.
The original owner's father broke his leg because he ran deep into the mountains to find some meat to eat.
I had just hastily filled my stomach when I heard the village radio ringing. It was the signal for work. It was the summer harvest time and everyone was very busy. Work was assigned to everyone.
Now that she has become Gu Shichu, she naturally has to go to work.
She put on her straw hat and walked towards the fields following her memory.
"Gu Shichu, what are you dawdling about? Get to work!" Seeing Shichu walking slowly, in stark contrast to the people who were hurrying to the fields, the team leader couldn't help but urge him.
"Captain, I'm just a little dizzy, so I'm walking slowly." Gu Shichu said weakly.
Seeing that her face was indeed completely pale, the captain believed her and reminded her, "Can you still work? If not, just go back and take a rest."
Team leader Zhou Dahang was in his forties. He thought Gu Shichu was extremely sad because her father had just passed away, so he felt a little sorry for her.
Gu Shichu shook his head, gave a weak smile, and said, "No, I'm not dizzy anymore, I can still do the work slowly."
"Okay then." Seeing that she insisted, the captain didn't say much.
Gu Shichu took a sickle and went down to the field. Her job was to cut the rice, which was not an easy job. If she didn't control the strength well, it would be difficult to cut through the rice stalks. If she used too much force, she would have to worry about cutting herself.
Moreover, when you hold the straw and move the sickle, all kinds of flying insects on the straw will flutter out and fly everywhere, landing on your face and neck, making you feel itchy and painful, which is so uncomfortable.
What's more, it is midsummer now, the sun is as strong as a furnace, and people will sweat all over after working for a while.
It took Gu Shichu a long time to get used to this tough job. Now she didn't have the confidence to be picky, so she could only make the best of it.
Fortunately, she was not a spoiled human being, so she didn't have to worry about not being able to bear the gap from a noble lady to a country girl. She had even been to the primitive world where people ate raw meat and drank blood. Now she only needed to do some farm work. Although it was hard, she would not worry about her life no matter how hard it was, and she didn't have to eat raw meat or drink raw blood.
Although Gu Shichu loved to enjoy life, she was a person who knew the times. If it wasn't the 1970s, the era of the strictest regulation, she might have run to the city and done any job to support herself.
Unfortunately, nowadays, one needs a note from the village chief to leave the village, and a letter of introduction to stay in a hotel in the city. She can only "a good cook cannot cook without rice", and cannot use all her skills.
Gu Shichu sighed silently, turned his grief and anger into strength, and started to work hard to cut the rice.
The captain occasionally saw her working so hard and nodded with satisfaction, thinking that although this girl from the Gu family had lost her parents, she worked so efficiently and could support herself.
When the work was finally finished and Gu Shichu got off work, he looked like he had emerged from the water. His clothes were soaked with sweat and he looked disheveled.
But we are all the same, no one dislikes anyone.
"Look! The kid from the landlord's family is coming over here carrying a load of rice... Wow, look at his bulging arms and strong waist, hehe, so strong..." A sister-in-law in her thirties said to the woman next to her with a wink.
“Hehe, that tattered shirt can’t even hide the muscles on his body. I wonder which girl will marry him in the future…” Another woman also looked ahead with shining eyes.
"Bah! You two shameless people, if you feel itchy, just let your men do it at night, what nonsense are you talking about here!" another older aunt scolded with a smile.
Gu Shichu listened to a group of women in front of him laughing and commenting on the men carrying rice, saying such ferocious words, and he couldn't help but look forward curiously.
As soon as she looked up, she saw a young man who looked particularly different among a group of dark men. He was much taller than the other men, with a tall and straight figure, broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and just the right amount of muscles all over his body. He was completely different from the gray men around him, standing out like a crane among chickens.