Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

As soon as Grandma Zhang arrived, she took over Gu Li's job of picking and washing vegetables. Gu Li put the black fish aside to thaw, turned around to get the cell phone holder, set it up above the vegetable counter, and adjusted the angle.

"Hey, Xiaoli, what are you doing?"

"Take a picture of us cooking today."

The two old ladies didn't quite understand what young people were thinking. They just looked at each other for a few more seconds and then started chatting about other things.

Lunch was arranged in the main room, using a large round table. There were eight people at the table, and the table was filled with dishes.

A big pot of pickled fish, halved fish head with chopped pepper, Enshi small potatoes stewed with beef brisket, salt and pepper prawns, cabbage meat rolls, stir-fried amaranth with minced garlic, braised eggs with leek, scrambled eggs with lettuce and mushrooms, three cold dishes and a pot of fish soup.

There are twelve dishes on the table. Although the dishes are not many, the quantity is sufficient.

Grandpa Zhang and the masters did not drink the white wine prepared by Gu Li. Grandpa Zhang brought the medicinal wine he made himself. The men drank and chatted, and their laughter almost shook the dust off the roof of the old house.

The meal took almost two hours and the food had gone cold. During this time, Gu Li took it to the kitchen to heat up some hot dishes so that they could eat it all in no time.

Grandpa Zhang was drunk and was helped back home by Tang Qiaoyue. Grandma Zhang followed behind him, muttering and scolding him for making trouble in other people's homes.

After helping Gu Li clean up the table of dishes and chopsticks and taking them to the kitchen, my aunt was so tired that she started yawning.

Gu Li asked her to go to her room upstairs for a nap, but the old lady said that her legs and feet were inconvenient and she didn't want to go upstairs. She just asked Gu Li to go to the west room and move out an old bamboo lounge chair that was about to fall apart, put it in the sun under the eaves, and covered it with a blanket for a nap.

Facing the pots and pans that couldn't even fit in the sink, Gu Li just wanted to sigh. Should she consider installing a new dishwasher in the kitchen?

She likes cooking, and likes watching all kinds of ingredients mixed into delicious dishes with her seasonings, but she really doesn't like to organize it afterwards.

Like most girls, she doesn't like oil and dirt.

Gu Li added some hot water to the sink and resigned herself to putting on gloves. But just as she was about to pick up a bowl from the water, a deep male voice sounded behind her, "Let me wash it."

Gu Li was startled by the sudden approaching sound and almost threw the bowl in her hand away. She knew who was coming without turning around.

She turned around in confusion and saw Tang Qiaoyue looking at her with some guilt. He saw her body suddenly shrank and knew that she was frightened by his sudden voice.

"I'm sorry, did I scare you? When I came here, I saw Grandma You sleeping outside, so I subconsciously lowered my voice."

Gu Li curled her lips and smiled, "It's okay, why are you back again, how is Grandpa Tang?"

"He went back and fell asleep on the bed. My grandma is taking care of him." Tang Qiaoyue said as he rolled up his sleeves. "You've been busy all day, and I didn't do anything and I ate your meal for nothing. I should do the dishes."

Gu Li:-----

Gu Li saw that both of his sleeves had been rolled up to his elbows, revealing his strong forearms, and she really wanted to wash the dishes.

As for human relationships, there is give and take, and isn't that how they are built up slowly?

Gu Li stepped aside to make room, took off her rubber gloves, and said with some embarrassment: "We only have small-sized gloves at home, and it seems like you can't wear them!"

Tang Qiaoyue only took a look at the pink rubber gloves and chuckled, "I don't need that."

While Tang Qiaoyue was washing the dishes, Gu Li was cleaning the stove and the kitchen. The two people of similar age soon started chatting in the small kitchen.

Gu Li was curious about why Tang Qiaoyue stayed in the village. He could drive luxury cars, and she had seen more than one of them. How could such a person be willing to stay in a secluded rural area?

Tang Qiaoyue didn't look back, but he spoke to her in a relaxed voice mixed with the sound of rushing water.

According to Tang Qiaoyue, his parents went to Haishi to develop when they were young, built their own careers, and settled down there. However, the elderly in the family did not want to leave their hometown and chose to stay.

Tang Qiaoyue was born and raised here. When he was old enough to go to school, his parents took him back to Hai City to attend school. However, he would return here to accompany his grandparents during every winter and summer vacation.

Two years ago, his grandmother fell ill, and he came back to accompany her for a month and didn't want to go back.

He suddenly had an idea. He wanted to build and develop his hometown, his own village.

"Do you remember that there used to be a big pit in the north of Tangjia Village, which was full of weeds?"

Although his question was a bit strange, Gu Li still answered, "Yes, I saw it when I was a child and occasionally visited my aunt. The weeds at that time were as tall as me. In my memory, it was like a terrifying forest, very desolate."

After Gu Li finished speaking, she seemed to hear a very light laugh.

"That's because you were still young and not very tall at that time, so you thought the weeds looked like a forest. In fact, there were a lot of rabbit holes in it, and the brave boys loved to go in and explore."

Gu Li stopped wiping and tilted her head to look at the back of someone's meticulously combed head. She finally understood what was wrong with Tang Qiaoyue's tone. She slowly asked, "Did you know me before?"

Tang Qiaoyue had almost finished washing all the dishes in the sink. His tall body felt a little uncomfortable bending like that, so he had to speed up his movements.

"I come back every winter and summer vacation. I have seen you several times when you came to visit Grandma You." Tang Qiaoyue washed another basin and put it into the clean water next to him.

"Really? Haha." Gu Li smiled politely. She had no impression of him at all.

This is a bit embarrassing,

Every time she and her grandmother came to her aunt's house, it was during her winter and summer vacations, but she would not stay too long, at most one or two days.

She was naturally slow to warm up and of course she wouldn't play with other children in the village.

Every time she followed her grandmother around the yard, at most she would use the money her grandmother gave her to buy some snacks at the village store, or go to the small woods behind her aunt's house to play on the swings.

Thinking of this, Gu Li wanted to laugh, "I just remember that I always loved to go to the woods at the back and ask my aunt to hang a swing for me to play on."

At that time, the swings were made of nylon hemp ropes that could cover the bottom of rural carrying baskets and were hung on big trees.

People are like that big basket, sitting in the net rope, and if they are not careful they will fall through the huge holes in the net to the ground.

Unexpectedly, Tang Qiaoyue hummed, "I remember too, someone accidentally fell from the net hole to the ground, hit a stone, and cried breathlessly."

Gu Li was so shocked that her mouth opened wide and she even stuttered, "You, you are not talking about me, right? Not me."

How could she cry so hard just because she fell?

She's a reserved person, all right.