Chapter 51 Being Ridiculed
"Second brother, third brother!"
"My mother and I are here."
Gu Taohua stood up and waved to Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe.
"Mom, sister."
The two men pushed the flatbed cart and quickly came to Uncle Xu's car.
In fact, there was no need to shout at Gu Taohua. She was too conspicuous sitting there. Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe had already noticed her.
As business was booming, Taohua Desserts had a successful initial success, so Tong Huaqiong was in a good mood seeing her two adopted sons.
"Mom, my third brother and I deliberately took a detour through the town, hoping to run into you and my sister." Gu Dashu said.
The two brothers went to the Sushi Garden first, but they looked around but couldn't find anyone. They happened to meet someone asking about Taohua Dessert, and the lady selling wontons next to them said that the stall had been closed. So the two brothers pulled the piglet and came to where Uncle Xu parked.
"You two are really fast runners. You just caught up with me and your sister as we were packing up our stall and heading home."
Tong Huaqiong looked at the piglet on the flatbed cart. The piglet grunted a few times. Maybe it was Tong Huaqiong's illusion, she felt that the piglet shrank when it met her eyes.
Poor little boar, go home and give him a few big meals to make up for it.
In addition to feeding it the freshest green grass, it also mixes in wheat bran and corn.
"Hey, Dashu, where are you and your brother from? Have you bought new piglets?" Aunt Wang asked as she glanced at the pigs on the flatbed cart.
Everyone looked at the flatbed cart and couldn't help but smile.
The piglet looked a little big and not in good spirits. It lay listlessly on the flatbed, grunting from time to time.
It's obviously a sick pig.
Gu Dashu is a foodie who only loves to eat, while Gu Jingzhe is stupid because of studying too much. These two brothers are a useless couple. They must have been cheated when buying a pig, and they are still happy after buying a sick pig.
"This is not a new piglet..."
Tong Huaqiong quickly interrupted Gu Dashu and said, "This is the piglet from our family. It hasn't been eating well recently, so I asked my two brothers to take it to Pingchuan to see a veterinarian."
Tong Huaqiong didn't want the villagers to know that her pigs had been slaughtered, so she found an excuse to get away with it.
However, Tong Huaqiong's nonsense still caused a small-scale commotion.
What?
See a veterinarian.
The people on the bus found it unbelievable. They thought it was not cost-effective to take a pig to Pingchuan County for medical treatment.
When most people in Qinghewan get sick, they go to the mountains to pick some herbs and boil them. If they really can’t afford it, they will ask the village doctor for help. No one goes to Pingchuan to see a doctor.
What's more, it's a pig.
Widow Tong's actions are becoming more and more beyond our understanding.
Since Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe were pushing the cart, there was no need for Tong Huaqiong and Gu Taohua to ride in Uncle Xu's carriage.
There are more people in Uncle Xu's car today than usual. Tong Huaqiong has been standing all day selling cakes and now she can't even stretch her legs sitting in the car.
Let her two sons take her back today. She is the mother and it is her sons' duty to serve her.
Anyway, Uncle Xu hasn't come back and the fare hasn't been paid, so there's no need to argue.
Tong Huaqiong and Gu Taohua jumped off the carriage.
"Mom, you closed your stall very quickly." Gu Jingzhe said with a smile as he carried his own things from Uncle Xu's car.
The quick closure of the stall meant that business was good, and he was very happy for his mother and sister.
"Business is good today. Not a single cake is left. Now the whole town knows about Taohua desserts." Gu Taohua happily showed off to her two brothers.
She originally wanted to tell her two brothers how much money she had earned today, but after looking at the people in the car, she shut her mouth.
Her mother warned her not to show her wealth to others, and she remembered it well.
"Isn't this Jingzhe? I heard that you don't want to study anymore. Tsk tsk tsk, you are the first student in our village. In the future you will become the top scholar and an official. You are different from us. Can the hand that holds a pen carry a hoe?" A young man about the same age as Gu Dashu looked Gu Jingzhe up and down and said with a smile.
The other people in the car looked at Gu Jingzhe with surprise, sarcasm, and disdain in their eyes...
Although Gu Jingzhe was not very enthusiastic towards the villagers in the past, he was at least polite. However, since he passed the examination to become a student, he has become arrogant and looks up at the sky when he looks at the villagers.
His face is full of the pretentious air of "We are different, I want to be an official in the future"!
Tong Huaqiong didn't say anything, she also wanted to see Gu Jingzhe's reaction.
"Brother Wang, you got the point wrong. My family is a farming family. I'm no different from everyone else. If you ask me, a hoe is a little heavier than a pen, but you get used to it after touching it for a long time." Gu Jingzhe picked up a bag of flour and looked at the young man named Wang, as if he didn't hear the strong sarcasm in his tone.
The young man surnamed Wang felt lost and embarrassed for a moment.
This was different from what he had imagined. He thought Gu Jingzhe would be angry and embarrassed.
Tong Huaqiong carefully observed the reactions of others, and several of them also showed disappointment in their eyes.
These people were just waiting for Gu Jingzhe to get angry and embarrassed so that they could take the opportunity to add insult to injury and ridicule him.
Unexpectedly, Gu Jingzhe not only did not get angry, but accepted the sarcasm very calmly. They didn't know what to do.
"Dear brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts, please don't tease me in the future. I really don't study anymore. I am farming like everyone else. I may go out to work in the future. If you tease me, you are also teasing yourself." Gu Jingzhe said seriously.
The man named Wang who started the trouble was speechless.
Gu Jingzhe's frank attitude made other people in the village feel a little embarrassed.
"Jingzhe is a literate person after all. He can take on responsibilities and let go of things. Even if he doesn't study and does other things, he will still be a promising person." An old lady sighed.
"Yep."
"Yes Yes."
Someone echoed.
We all live in the same village. There is no benefit in offending Gu Jingzhe. What if he becomes rich?
Don’t say it’s impossible. The peach blossom dessert made by Widow Tong became popular in the whole town in just a few days. Who knows where the peak of the Gu family is waiting.
Anyway, if we give each other some leeway, we can get along better in the future.
Gu Jingzhe stopped talking, and he and Gu Dashu carried all the things Tong Huaqiong bought to their own flatbed carts, and then arranged them neatly.
"You did very well."
"Do not be happy with things, nor sad with yourself."
Tong Huaqiong patted Gu Jingzhe's hand and encouraged him with a smile.
Gu Jingzhe had already gotten used to his mother's frequent golden sentences recently. He smiled and said, "That's what my mother taught me."
Tong Huaqiong jumped onto the cart holding the shaft, scaring the piglet so much that it snorted even louder.
It was also my first time to ride in a car with a pig.
On the flatbed cart, the pigs took up a space, Tong Huaqiong was slumped over and took up a large space, and there was half a cart of shopping stuff. Gu Taohua stood in front of the cart, with one foot raised, thinking about where she should sit.
"Taohua, are you getting in the car too?" Gu Dashu looked terrified.
The car was already full, and if Gu Taohua's rock-hard figure pressed on them, the car would probably overturn.
"if not."
"I've been shouting all day and I'm tired. Do you really want me to walk home? You are so cruel!"
Gu Taohua clenched her fists and punched Gu Dashu, causing him to almost lose his balance.
"Ouch, whose hand is that!"
Tong Huaqiong was watching Gu Taohua and Gu Dashu bickering with a smile on her face when she heard a cry of surprise coming from Uncle Xu's ox cart.