Chapter 75: Attitude towards in-laws
Tong Huaqiong felt relieved that her youngest son had no doubts.
However, sooner or later, the matter of the space could no longer be hidden from Gu Jingzhe, and Tong Huaqiong did not intend to keep it secret from him forever.
The reason why she didn't want to say it now was that she didn't quite believe in Gu Jingzhe, unless he changed completely.
Otherwise, according to Gu Jingzhe's past character of sacrificing his lifelong love Lu Zhaozhao for his future, it is possible that he would have sacrificed his mother to heaven if he knew there was space.
Although Gu Jingzhe could express his filial piety in both his past and present lives, she still didn't dare to block it now.
"In my room."
Tong Huaqiong brought Gu Dahan and Gu Jingzhe to her room.
"The nitrogen fertilizer is here." Tong Huaqiong said, pointing to the fertilizer on the ground.
She wanted to get rid of this thing quickly, as the whole house was filled with a pungent chemical smell.
Gu Jingzhe squatted down and saw the words on the fertilizer bag, and a look of confusion flashed in his eyes.
He had never seen this kind of font before.
He had never seen the material of the packaging bag.
Tong Huaqiong's eyes narrowed.
"Mom, this is..."
"Can this really make our wheat ears grow bigger and greener if we spread it on the ground?" Gu Dahan interrupted Gu Jingzhe.
Gu Dahan couldn't read anyway, so what he cared about was whether the nitrogen fertilizer could increase wheat yields.
"I don't know either, let's give it a try. Anyway, the agricultural official can't be a liar." Tong Huaqiong said.
Gu Dahan nodded with a silly smile on his face.
"Dahan, get this stuff out quickly, it smells terrible. When your second and third brothers come back from town with me, you can take them to apply fertilizer and see if the wheat field can be saved this year." Tong Huaqiong said, "Don't let the bag show when applying fertilizer."
Gu Dahan quickly agreed and said, "Don't worry, mother. I can fertilize those two acres of land by myself."
He was very glad that Tong Huaqiong did not continue to discuss the issues of mother-son and brotherly love with him, but instead focused on farming.
Only the topic of farming can make him feel less nervous and uneasy.
Gu Dahan and Gu Jingzhe started carrying nitrogen fertilizer into the yard.
Gu Dashu smelled the smell and came in, helping to carry the things.
Tong Huaqiong covered her nose, but the three brothers didn't feel anything. After all, this nitrogen fertilizer was nothing compared to the intoxicating smell of natural manure.
"Mom, where does this fertilizer come from?" Gu Jingzhe couldn't help asking after all the nitrogen fertilizers were transported to the yard.
These days he felt that his mother was still the same mother, but there was something strange about her that was not quite right.
He believed the agricultural officials he met, and he also believed that wheat was lacking nitrogen, but he didn't believe that this fertilizer could be bought casually.
"I've changed, okay?" Tong Huaqiong said unhappily.
She knew Gu Jingzhe would ask, but this also showed that Gu Jingzhe was still a teenager after all and was not that cunning yet, and he trusted her as a mother very much.
It would be scary if he had questions but didn't ask them but investigated secretly.
"I'll let you know when it's time for you to know. If I don't let you know, I won't tell you even if you ask me." Tong Huaqiong stared at Gu Jingzhe sharply, and her voice became stern.
Gu Jingzhe also became serious.
"Mom, I know. I won't ask or tell you." Gu Jingzhe said.
He felt that if he continued to ask questions, his mother would dig a hole and bury him on the spot.
"Dashu, this is the nitrogen fertilizer that the agricultural official said can ensure a good wheat harvest. I noticed that the leaves on the field next to ours at your father-in-law's house have turned yellow, so you should send two bags to his house. But tear the bags off for me and just send the fertilizer." After Tong Huaqiong had scolded Gu Jingzhe, she told Gu Dashu to send fertilizer to the Liu family.
Tong Huaqiong has a good impression of Gu Dashu's father-in-law Liu Tiechui.
It's rare to find someone who is willing to spend all his family savings to save his grandson.
Liu Yue'e has been married to the Gu family for so many years, and she and Tong Dajiao, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, have been playing tricks on Ludou for so many years, but she has never thought about her parents' home at all.
The only thing that benefited from Gu Jiaguang's family was the chicken that Tong Huaqiong asked her to send last time.
"Okay." Gu Dashu said.
He also wanted to repair his relationship with his father-in-law's family, but Tong Da Jiao was preventing him from doing so.
Because the Liu family did not allow Liu Yue'e to marry Gu Dashu, Tong Dajiao became enemies with the Liu family, and she never allowed Gu Dashu to take the initiative to interact with the Liu family.
Now that Tong Huaqiong asked him to take the initiative to interact with the Liu family, he was very happy.
Liu Yue'e was serving rice when she heard her mother-in-law ask Gu Dashu to send the Liu family fertilizer that would ensure a good wheat harvest. She was so excited that she almost couldn't stand.
Her parents always said that she married the wrong person and that they had raised a daughter in vain.
Now my mother-in-law is taking the initiative to send gifts to the Liu family to give her face.
"Mom, Dashu and I will go together to see you off." Liu Yue'e's voice was cheerful.
"Bring a plate of date cake and honey-covered dumplings to your parents' home." Tong Huaqiong rarely showed her gentle side to Liu Yue'e.
"Okay." Liu Yue'e's voice became lighter.
Chen Sufen was serving rice in the kitchen when she heard her mother-in-law asking the second son and his wife to send fertilizer and cakes to the Liu family. She felt a pang of sadness in her heart.
She hasn't been back to her parents' home for many years.
To be honest, her parents were not very kind to her. She had to cook for the whole family and wash clothes since she was a child.
After marrying into the Gu family, she was treated harshly by her mother-in-law and bullied by her sisters-in-law. At first, she went home to complain, but her mother said that every daughter-in-law went through the same thing. Her sister-in-law even rolled her eyes at her and thought she could not help her nephews and brothers and could only complain.
Gradually she stopped going back.
But that was the home where she had lived since she was a child, and it would be a lie to say that she didn't miss it.
In addition, in this era, basically all the girls she saw came from families like her. There were not many girls who were treated well by their parents' families like her sister-in-law Gu Taohua and sister-in-law Liu Yue'e, so Chen Sufen did not think from the bottom of her heart that her parents' family treated her badly.
Seeing her mother-in-law's attitude towards the Liu family, she also wanted to go back to her parents' home.
"Why are you wiping your tears?" Tong Huaqiong walked into the kitchen and asked when she saw Chen Sufen's red eyes.
Chen Sufen smiled sheepishly and said, "There's dust in my eyes."
Tong Huaqiong naturally didn't believe it. After thinking for a while, she said, "You want to go back to your mother's home, right? If you want to go back, go ahead and let Dahan and Man'er go with you."
Chen Sufen was so excited that her voice choked with sobs as she said, "Mom, I'll go after I'm done with these few days. I'll go and come back quickly so as not to delay work."
Tong Huaqiong smiled and said nothing.
She must let Chen Sufen go back to her parents' home.
Only in this way can Chen Sufen dispel her fantasy about her mother's family.
Chen Sufen's parents were not only bad to her, they were cruel to her.
After Chen Sufen died in her previous life, Tong Dajiao used twenty taels of silver to send Chen Sufen's parents and brothers away.
Her two brothers even had a big fight over the division of twenty taels of silver.
After learning that Man'er was in the Zheng family, the two brothers of the Chen family ran to the Zheng family to establish relations with her.
One was arranged by the Zheng family to work as a clerk in a shop, one became the second housekeeper of the Zheng family, and even Chen Sufen's nephew was arranged to work as a servant for the young master of the Zheng family.
One time, Man'er escaped from Zheng's home and had nowhere to go, so she went to the shop to ask her uncle for help, but was caught by her uncle and sent back to Zheng's home.
On that occasion, the eldest son of the Zheng family, who was already terminally ill, ordered his men to lock Man'er in the woodshed and did not give her any water or rice for three days and three nights.
Man'er was accused of seducing the young master of the Zheng family, and it was her cheap cousin who helped the young master to plan this.
With a family like this, it’s better to be separated from my parents as soon as possible and have a new one.
If she doesn't let Chen Sufen move around, no matter how bad her family is, it will be filtered through her, making it even harder to break up in the future.
Therefore, Tong Huaqiong not only supported Chen Sufen's activities, but also prepared generous gifts for her. She even planned to tell the Chen family through the villagers of Chen Sufen's mother's family that the Gu family had become rich, and Chen Sufen lived a life of luxury in the Gu family.