Seventy Buddha Cannon Fodder

Qian Zhiyi's escape caused an uproar, but after a few months, the production team in Shanghe Village had already calmed down.

Apart from Aunt Liu's obsession with this, the educated youths cursed secretly when it was difficult to go out, and the members of the commune would only bring this up after dinner.

Gu Mingdong took advantage of the busy farming season, and when everyone finished their work, they immediately lay down and went into the mountains several times in the middle of the night.

But without exception, whether it was through supernatural perception or with his own eyes, he had never been able to find the sapphire blue lake.

Gu Mingdong had nothing but the ten big treasure chests, so that he began to doubt whether the dream was true or not, or maybe it was a huge change of landform in the mountains.

Since he couldn't find it all the time, Gu Mingdong temporarily let go of this idea.

After entering the mountain several times, he also found a lot of harvest. There are a large field of wild chestnuts and hickory in the deep mountain, but it is too remote, and it is not easy to bring people in.

Gu Mingdong had no choice but to pick up a bamboo basket and go home.

Gu Liangxing looked at it and said in surprise, "Dad, are there still chestnuts on the mountain now?"

It's almost May. It stands to reason that last year's chestnuts have long since disappeared, and this year's chestnuts have not yet borne fruit.

Gu Mingdong explained: "The ones left on the tree last year may still be edible, but the taste is definitely not as good as fresh."

"I'll open one and try it." Gu Liangxing said, without using scissors, he pinched a chestnut ball and put it on the ground, stepping on it with both feet, pressing hard, and the brown chestnut inside was exposed.

The chestnut ball of wild chestnut is not too big, there is only one chestnut inside, but it is very plump.

Gu Liangxing directly hurt his teeth and clicked, and the fresh and tender flesh entered his mouth: "It's still edible, it's very fresh."

After finishing speaking, he called his younger brothers and sisters to come and eat. He became addicted to peeling chestnuts, and soon a pile of round chestnuts was piled up there.

Gu Liangchen was not that interested in chestnuts, he dug out a bunch of egg-sized green fruits from under the bamboo basket: "What is this?"

"Wild pecans." Gu Mingdong explained.

There are chestnut trees in Shanghe Village, but hickory nuts are rare, especially since this thing needs to be processed. When the children see it, only the hard nuts inside are left.

Gu Mingdong simply picked up one, drew a vertical line on it, turned around and drew another line, forming a cross cut.

When you pull it hard, the peel will fall off, revealing the brown fruit inside.

With another hard knock, the hickory nut was opened. Gu Liangchen took it and tasted it, frowning in bitterness.

Gu Mingdong laughed: "Forget that the pecans have to be cooked first to get rid of the bitterness."

Gu Liangchen stuck out his tongue: "I'll peel it, and eat it after peeling and cooking."

Compared with the thorn balls of chestnuts, the skin of hickory nuts looks round and seems to be easier to peel, but in fact it is difficult to peel, and the juice will directly stick to the palm of the hand, turning black and smelling .

When Aunt Gu came to the door, she saw Gu Mingdong squatting at the door with a child, and when she looked again, she was packing wild goods.

She couldn't help laughing and said, "In our production team, you are the only one who has the patience to clean up the children's snacks."

"It's just for fun." Gu Mingdong also likes to eat, so he is willing to toss.

"Auntie, why are you here now? What's the matter?"

Only then did Aunt Gu remember the real thing: "Your two sister-in-laws are about to give birth. I counted the number of eggs in the house and it was not enough, so I wanted to ask if you have any in your house. If you have any, keep some. to change."

Red eggs have to be sent to announce the good news when a child is born. Even if extravagance and waste are not advocated now, there are still a lot of them.

The two daughters-in-law of Aunt Gu's family were pregnant one after the other, and the time to give birth was about the same, so she thought about getting up early.

This is not a troublesome matter, Gu Mingdong readily agreed.

"I don't have much savings at home now, when will Auntie want it?"

Aunt Gu knew that the other members of the production team saved eggs and sold them for firewood, rice, oil and salt, but Gu Ming's family never kept them for their own food.

"It's too late, at least a month."

She didn't just find a family, but negotiated with all the well-off families in the production team, so as not to be in a hurry.

When Gu Mingbei came back, Gu Mingdong explained the matter to her. After all, the food, rice noodles and eggs in the house belonged to her.

When Gu Mingbei heard this, he smiled and said, "Brother, our family needs to save more eggs. When the second brother gets married at the end of the year, maybe he will have a nephew in two months. Pregnant women are not allowed to supplement nutrition." .”

After all, the production team can't pick out a family like theirs that eats eggs openly and eats meat from time to time.

If you eat well and search for something, maybe this time the second brother gets married, the money will not be tight.

"If you can't afford it, just spend money to buy it. You can always buy eggs." Gu Mingdong said indifferently.

While talking, he touched the little heads of the two sons: "If you treat anyone badly, you can't treat our own mouth and stomach badly."

Gu Mingbei just said, she looked at the hen looking for food in the yard: "It would be great if I could raise a few more chickens."

Aunt Gu said it would take another month, and Gu Mingbei counted the eggs, and felt that it would be no problem to share a basket by then.

Who knew that only two days later, there was news that she was born.

"Why are you giving birth now? Didn't you say it will take a month?" Gu Mingbei asked strangely.

Gu Mingxi is old, but he knows a little bit: "The time when a woman gives birth is uncertain, since the report has come, let's hurry up and bring things over there."

At this time, the disadvantages of Gu Mingdong's lack of a wife came to the fore. In the countryside, it was usually the married daughter-in-law and mother-in-law who came and went.

But the situation in the old Gu family was different. Gu Mingdong had no daughter-in-law, and there were only two unmarried younger sisters in the family, so he had to do it by himself.

Gu Mingdong and Gu Mingxi came to the door together, and only after entering the door did they find that the atmosphere was not right.

"Uncle, I'll bring the eggs here first." Gu Mingdong put down his things and didn't see Aunt Gu.

Uncle Gu was sulking, he raised his head when he heard their voices, and forced a smile: "Ah Dong has a heart, hey, the Bao family has a new son, Wei Guo has a daughter, both of your sister-in-laws are at the other end of the new house .”

"You see it's not convenient for us to go there, so we simply took the old house." Gu Mingdong said.

"It's okay, anyway, it's your aunt who takes care of it, and she'll be back soon."

After walking out, Gu Mingxi asked: "Brother, do you see that Uncle's expression is not quite right."

"It was supposed to take another month to give birth, but it turned out to be born now. Do you think there is something wrong here?"

"Brother Wei Guo has another daughter, Mr. Uncle won't be angry because of this, right?"

Gu Mingdong shook his head and said, "Uncle is not such a person."

Gu Mingxi pouted, and hummed: "Uncle is okay, but auntie is not necessarily."

Gu Mingdong is not close to the two cousins, the main reason is that there is a gap in their age, and the relationship between the original owner and them has always been weak.

Even because Uncle Gu has been taking too much care of his eldest nephew, which caused the dissatisfaction of the two cousins ​​and sisters-in-law, before he crossed over, even the most tempered Gu Baojia had no objections to the original owner.

So upon hearing this, Gu Mingdong said, "Anyway, with my uncle watching, there won't be any big trouble."

Gu Mingxi thought about it, anyway, since she wasn't her own sister-in-law, she couldn't care less if she wanted to.

Not long after the brothers and sisters of the Gu family left, Aunt Gu came back with a sullen face.

As soon as he saw her, Uncle Gu pointed to the two baskets of eggs: "Adong and Xiaoxi just brought them here, and they probably brought all the eggs in the house."

When Aunt Gu saw it, her eyes were sore, she patted her thigh and cursed: "What sin did I do, this son and wife are not as caring as the nephew and niece in the next room. This is a debt owed in the previous life, and I have to pay them back in this life." ah."

Uncle Gu sighed: "Okay, keep your voice down, and let others see it if you spread the word?"

"I just want everyone to know what it is. She has given birth to two daughters for Wei Guo for so many years since she entered the house. Have I treated her badly?"

"For so many years, she has all the chrysanthemums. What is she dissatisfied with? Why did she want to kill my grandson?"

The more Aunt Gu talked, the more sad she came from it. She admitted that she was a little unhappy that her daughter-in-law only had two daughters and did not have a son.

But she asked herself that at home, a bowl of water has always been level. Occasionally, because the elders want to provide for the elderly, she is a little bit biased, but the big face is not far from it.

When the two sons wanted to build a new house, the old couple also contributed money and effort.

When the two daughter-in-laws were pregnant at the same time, Aunt Gu even took care of the youngest daughter-in-law, because she felt that the couple did not have a son under their knees, and she wanted to take good care of her so that she could give birth to one sooner.

But who knew that everything was fine, and something like this was about to happen.

It turned out that the confinement period was approaching, and the sisters-in-law were almost two months old. As the days got closer, the aunts and sixesses of the production team began to guess the boy and girl in their stomachs.

There are sour girls on the left and right, the round belly is the daughter, the pointed belly is the son, and so on.

However, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Gu family has a pointed belly, but the younger daughter-in-law has a round belly.

Everyone joked that the old man was afraid that he was going to have a second son, and the younger one would be miserable, and he probably had a daughter.

Gu Bao's family just laughed when they heard it. She already had two sons before her, and she felt that it didn't matter if they had boys or girls.

However, Gu Weiguo took it to heart, and scolded the person who spoke bloody in his heart. When he got home, he didn't touch any dishes with chili added, and drank more vinegar every day.

But the more she stopped eating, the more she wanted to eat. Gu Weiguo's wife couldn't move when she saw the chili bowl, and her mouth was full of saliva.

Gu Weiguo's daughter-in-law just felt dizzy in her heart, and felt that her birth must be another daughter.

She was worried that she couldn't eat well and sleep well. Aunt Gu fed eggs and pork, but she lost weight while pregnant.

At this time, her natal mother gave an idea - Zhuantaiwan.

I heard that others have used it and it is useful, it can turn a daughter in the stomach into a son!

Gu Weiguo's daughter-in-law was moved when she heard this, and asked her natal mother to get two. She ate one that day, but secretly stuffed the other into the brown sugar water, hoping that her sister-in-law could drink it.

The daughter-in-law of Gu Bao's family is astute. Seeing her expression was not right, she took a sip of the brown sugar water and felt that the taste was not right. She immediately coaxed and frightened her to find out the matter.

Waiting to find out what the sister-in-law put in the teacup, this will scare the eldest daughter-in-law enough.

Angry and angry, her stomach began to hurt, and she didn't know if it was a psychological effect. The sip of brown sugar water she drank just now made her tremble all over.

Seeing her sister-in-law seeing Hong, Wei Guo's daughter-in-law finally knew she was afraid, and hurriedly called Aunt Gu for help.

As a result, the eldest daughter-in-law had just been sent to the delivery room, and the other Weiguo daughter-in-law also started to have a stomachache. She consciously took the Zhuantai pill, but she was full of confidence and planned to give birth to a child.

Seeing that something was wrong, Aunt Gu hurried to call her two sons home, while she was busy at both ends.

Fortunately, both the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law are women who have given birth to two children. During pregnancy, they were well nourished and in good health. Although it was a little earlier, the child was born smoothly.

Aunt Gu took a look, the elder family's was indeed a son, and the second family's was a daughter.

Before she could be disappointed, the old man grabbed her hand and told the disgusting things the second family did.

The eldest daughter-in-law was lying on the bed, rarely showing a bit of hatred: "Mom, she is trying to kill me and the child in my womb. How can she be an aunt like this? I used to think she was narrow-minded, but now I know Bad heart."

"Such a sister-in-law, I will never dare to get along with her again in the future."

Aunt Gu couldn't believe her ears: "The second child's family is a bit petty, but, this is not enough?"

"Mom, the brown sugar water is still on the table outside, if you don't believe me, go and see for yourself."

Aunt Gu walked outside with a dark face, and there was indeed a bowl of brown sugar water on the table, with a lot of brown sugar added in it, it looked very dark in color.

When I lowered my head and smelled it, even though it was suppressed by the brown sugar, I could vaguely smell a strange medicinal smell.

After seeing and smelling it, Aunt Gu believed it for the most part.

She walked to the delivery room of her second child with a sullen face, and before she entered the door, she saw her second child holding the baby, and seeing her look unhappy, she said, "Mom, forget it, the daughter is also my species, they are all the same."

Gu Weiguo thought his mother was angry because his wife gave birth to another daughter.

Aunt Gu went straight into the house.

Wei Guo's daughter-in-law knew that she had given birth to a daughter again, and now she was lying on the bed looking unlovable, and she didn't even look at her daughter's face carefully.

Seeing her mother-in-law coming in angrily, with the brown sugar bowl in her hand, her expression changed immediately.

There was nothing Aunt Gu didn't understand, and she slammed down the bowl: "Second brother, what are you so worried about? It's your sister-in-law, who treats you pretty well after looking down all these years. How could you do such a thing?"

"Mom, what's the matter, why did you drop the bowl?" Gu Weiguo was at a loss.

"Ask her what she did, she hacked her heart."

Facing the eyes of the mother and son, Wei Guo's daughter-in-law covered her face and cried, "Mom, I was just confused for a while, I...I also think about our family, and want to give Wei Guo a son."

"If you want to have a son, you can just eat it yourself. Why do you want your sister-in-law to eat it?"

This is what Aunt Gu can't figure out the most. It's not surprising that she wants to have a son. There are many folk remedies in the countryside, but why does she let her sister-in-law eat it?

"me……"

Gu Weiguo also vaguely understood, stared at his wife and asked, "What did you eat for sister-in-law?"

Wei Guo's daughter-in-law just cried.

Aunt Gu scolded angrily: "Cry, cry, cry, if you cry again, go home and cry. I want to ask my mother-in-law what happened to her daughter, raising a black-hearted bastard like you."

Gu Weiguo also realized that something was wrong, his mother had a bad temper, and occasionally scolded his daughter-in-law, but he had never seen him scold so harshly.

"Mom, what happened?"

Aunt Gu snorted coldly, "Ask your wife."

Without looking at them after speaking, he opened the curtain and went out.

Gu Weiguo had no choice but to ask his wife: "What did you do to make our mother so angry?"

Wei Guo's daughter-in-law put down her hands and looked at the baby in his arms, feeling even more sad: "I've already taken Zhuantai pills, why did I give birth to a daughter!"

"What reincarnation pill?"

Gu Weiguo had read books for a few days at least, and frowned, "Are you going to eat those weird folk remedies again? I told you that those are all lies. If we don't go to the county town to see a doctor, the doctor said, It depends on luck to have a boy or a girl.”

Wei Guo's daughter-in-law patted the bed and shouted: "Then why is she so lucky and I am so unlucky?"

"They're all the same daughter-in-law. She gave birth to two sons in a row, and now she's going to give birth to another one. It's because she gave birth to my share."

Gu Weiguo's face darkened: "So you gave my sister-in-law the birth control pill?"

"Wei Guo, I just want to give birth to a son for you!"

Naturally, Gu Weiguo also wanted a son, after all, he would be ridiculed if he didn't have a son in the village, but at the moment he still couldn't understand what his wife was doing.

Just because the sister-in-law gave birth to a son consecutively, she blamed her sister-in-law for giving birth to her daughter.

Looking at his wife who was crying bitterly on the bed, Gu Weiguo felt extremely strange, as if he no longer knew her.

The family ugliness should not be publicized, for the sake of the old Gu family's face, Aunt Gu persuaded the eldest daughter-in-law to put the matter down.

It's just that from this day on, Aunt Gu never went to the door of the second child's house, and she directly mentioned the old family's eggs and the old hen.

The eldest daughter-in-law was still annoyed at first, feeling that her in-laws were partial to her.

But after a month of cooking, the eggs and chicken soup have not been broken, which made her feel relieved.

The left and right children are fine, and she herself is fine, and there are extra eggs and chicken soup to eat. The eldest daughter-in-law feels that she has received benefits, so she is not angry.

Others didn't know the inside story, seeing that Aunt Gu only cared about the eldest daughter-in-law and didn't even look at the younger daughter-in-law, they all said she was partial.

"Founding the country, even though your youngest has a daughter, you can't ignore it."

"Yeah, didn't you say that you are not patriarchal, and now you have revealed your truth?"

"As for the captain's wife, you can't do it with such awareness."

No matter what others say, Aunt Gu just said: "The family has already been separated, and I can take care of whoever I like."

She would rather bear the scapegoat of patriarchal patriarchy than to take another look at the second child's house, for she was afraid that she would be pissed off.

When the mother of the second mother came over, she heard the rumors and was still aggrieved. Looking at her haggard daughter, she said, "That's how their family treats you. I'll go find them. What's wrong with having a daughter? The leaders say that it's a boy. All women are the same."

The second daughter-in-law grabbed her mother's hand: "Mom, don't provoke my mother-in-law."

"Don't worry, mom isn't afraid of her, see if I don't scold her bloody today."

Seeing that the second daughter-in-law couldn't hide it, she actually told what she had done.

Her mother was dumbfounded when she heard it: "No, you just have to give birth to a son and eat it yourself. Why give it to your sister-in-law?"

If you just eat it, you don't say anything about being caught, but you admit it after being bluffed a few times on the spot, isn't that stupid?

There is no wall in the world that does not leak. Even though Aunt Gu avoided talking about it, and the old family's wife did not speak out, but soon the production team still had some gossip.

After a while, Gu Liangxing returned home after wandering outside, and when he entered the door, he asked, "Dad, what is Zhuantaiwan?"

Gu Mingdong frowned when he heard it: "Where did you hear that?"

Gu Liangxing leaned against his ear, and said mysteriously, "I heard what Little Huzi's aunt told his aunt."

Gu Mingdong patted his forehead: "It's not a good thing to be listened to everywhere."

Gu Liangxing chuckled: "I heard them say that it's amazing. After taking the Zhuantai pill, the child in the belly who wasn't a son would give birth to a daughter, and what was originally a daughter would give birth to a son, just like an elixir."

Gu Mingdong frowned: "Fart!"

"Dad, why are you still swearing?" Gu Liangxing didn't understand.

Seeing that all the children were looking at him, Gu Mingdong simply dragged them all over for scientific popularization: "This thing is not a elixir, but a poison. After eating, it is not good for the pregnant daughter, and it is not good for the child in the stomach. Cause miscarriage, this kind of rural folk remedy is not credible."

"If you explain it now, you may not understand it, but when you read more, you will know that this kind of thing will only harm people."

The Zhuantai pill spread among the people contains a lot of male hormones, which can even cause the fetus to become a deformed intersex person. Ignorance and ignorance are enough to cause many tragedies.

Gu Liangxing tilted his head and asked, "Then what they said was false?"

"Of course it's false, you have to learn to judge for yourself, you know?"

The children nodded frequently.

Gu Liangchen said suddenly: "I also think it's fake. They also said that Aunt Datang was originally a daughter in her stomach, and she became a son after taking Zhuantai pills. Aunt Ertang was originally a son, but turned into a daughter."

"If children can change and change, then everyone can have whatever they want."

Is this still related to the old Gu's family?

Gu Mingdong frowned, and suddenly remembered the reluctant expression of Gu Shu and Aunt Gu.

"The gender of the child is not important. In our family, both sons and daughters are the same." Gu Mingdong said.

After hearing this, Gu Mingnan also said: "I think my daughter is good, she is caring, unlike a brat who only quarrels with me."

Gu Liangxing's attention was diverted: "Second Uncle, I suspect you are talking about me."

"I'm just talking about you. You said that your kid has no use other than quarreling with me and grabbing delicious and fun things from me."

After finishing speaking, she picked up Gu Yun and said, "It's better for our little Yun'er, who always thinks of me when there are good things."

The children burst into laughter immediately.

Gu Mingdong sighed, and felt lucky for his uncle's family when he found out the ins and outs of the matter.

After all, when his two daughters-in-law took Zhuantai Pills, the baby in their womb was about to give birth, so it wouldn't cause irreparable impact. If it was a few months earlier, it would be bad.

But it didn't sound good when it got out, so Uncle Gu's family kept silent.

Gu Mingdong originally thought that this was the end of the matter, but who knew that after a while, this matter had something to do with them again.