The brigade captain thought something had happened, and hurried over.
After he understood the whole process, he first looked at Gu Yijia, who was being supported by two old aunties.
The young girl’s face was pale. It was obvious that she had been hit hard by the matter of her relatives forcing her into marriage for a city job opening. She looked listless, her eyelids lowered slightly, a pitiful sight.
When Aunt Wang came to talk to her about matchmaking, she had also clearly refused. She did not like that Director Jiang.
Since she didn’t like him, then she wouldn’t marry him. There was nothing wrong with that! Who said that if someone from the city came to propose, the girls in their village had to rush to marry?
The brigade captain was biased toward Gu Yijia in his heart, not only because Gu Yijia was a member of the brigade, but also because she had an capable older brother.
The others did not know what was going on with Gu Mingcheng in the army, but he knew clearly in his heart.
Gu Mingcheng was very capable, and now he was already a regiment-level cadre. This was their brigade’s glory. If Gu Mingcheng did not like to be in the spotlight, and the attention and disturbance brought to his wife, children, and younger sister were too much, this matter would have already spread everywhere.
Because of this, the brigade also took very good care of his wife, children, and younger sister, and would never allow others to bully them.
What was more, this time the matter was originally that Second Aunt Gu and the Gu family were being unreasonable, actually forcing their niece to marry for a city job opening.
If they had the ability, they should go get a city job opening themselves. What did it count as to suck blood off their niece’s back?
The brigade captain’s face was dark as he scolded Second Aunt Gu: “Our brigade’s girls don’t want to marry, then they don’t marry. There’s no such thing as forcing marriage! Meng Dahua, if you dare take benefits from outsiders and force the girls of our commune to marry, I’ll immediately notify the commune side and have the commune issue a public criticism against you!”
Second Aunt Gu was so frightened that her face turned white.
Although the current situation was not as serious as it had been a few years ago, she still remembered what those people who lived in the ox sheds, were dragged up onto the stage, and had to be criticized every day looked like back then. If she were also dragged up, then perhaps Second Uncle Gu would divorce her, and her children would also ignore her.
Second Aunt Gu left in defeat.
Gu Yijia, who had been hit hard by her relatives, was also sent home, and many people looked at her sympathetically.
Although they felt that Jiang Jinwang’s conditions were quite good, Gu Yijia’s concerns also made sense. If the other party was only interested in her face, who knew whether it could last? Not to mention that her body really was not suited to marriage, and there was no guarantee that after enough time had passed, the other party would regret it.
Very quickly, South Mountain Commune had a new rumor.
That Director Jiang from the steel factory in the city had actually, in order to marry the little daughter of Old Gu’s eldest family, promised the Gu family a city job opening, and had the Gu family force Gu Yijia into marriage.
This time, even the commune members from the neighboring brigade became curious. Just how beautiful was this Gu Yijia, to actually make that Director Jiang spend so much to want to marry her home?
When Chen Aifang heard this news, she was almost enraged to death, and directly picked up a broom and went to Second Aunt Gu’s house, smashing and wrecking it all.
Second Aunt Gu sat on the ground, howling earth-shatteringly.
“Chen Aifang, you actually dare smash my house, I fuck your #￥%!…”
Hearing the commotion here, the people from the neighboring houses all ran over one after another to watch the excitement.
If Chen Aifang were afraid of her, then she wouldn’t be Chen Aifang.
Someone came to stop her, but her movements were nimble and she smashed quickly. By the time the other people from the Gu family’s second branch came back, she had already finished smashing, and the room was in complete chaos.
Yu Xiaolan and the people from the third branch also hurried over after hearing the news.
Seeing the situation here, Yu Xiaolan and the people from the third branch were all greatly shocked, and their expressions immediately became somewhat ugly.
Chen Aifang dared to come smash the second branch, what was there that she wouldn’t dare smash?
Chen Aifang was not the least bit afraid of the murderous-looking gazes of this group of Gu family people. She said with a cold face, “I’m putting my words here. Whoever dares to run to Jia Jia’s face again and spout nonsense, I’ll beat them one by one!”
Her sharp gaze swept over everyone in the Gu family.
The Gu family members were all frightened by her vicious look.
This Chen Aifang was a狠 one, and she did what she said. I’m afraid that when the time came, she would really directly come over and smash their homes.
“You, you this…” Second Uncle Gu was so angry he was about to die, and didn’t know how to curse. In the end he jumped up and down and said, “I’m going to make Mingcheng divorce you!”
Chen Aifang sneered. “Second Uncle, what era is it now? Between men and women there’s only divorce, there’s no such thing as one person divorcing another! Also, if I call Mingcheng, do you think it will be Mingcheng who divorces me, or will he directly come find you all and chat about how exactly you bullied his younger sister?”
Hearing this, everyone fell silent.
Gu Mingcheng was far away in the army thousands of miles away, and the army had few holidays. He did not come back even once in a year.
Over time, they had almost forgotten that Gu Mingcheng was also not someone easy to provoke.
When provoking Chen Aifang, at most the house would be smashed once by her, but if they provoked Gu Mingcheng…
Many people shivered, especially the Gu family’s cousins and younger male cousins, and only felt that all the bones in their bodies seemed to be hurting.
Back when they had once gone astray, they were all whipped with a belt by Gu Mingcheng, their oldest cousin, and he really did whip them to death.
In the end, they were still afraid of Gu Mingcheng. If Chen Aifang really called Gu Mingcheng back… they did not dare imagine the consequences.
When Chen Aifang carried the broom back home, she saw Gu Yijia standing at the door with the two children, looking over worriedly.
She smiled at them and said easily, “No need to worry. They won’t dare come again after this.”
Baohua immediately let out a breath, and said with a face full of admiration, “Mom is amazing. I want to be like Mom in the future too!”
“Don’t you ever!” Chen Aifang hurriedly said, “What your mom did is actually not right. It’s just that this is a special time, so we can only use special methods.”
If they were reasonable people, she wouldn’t need to be like this, but that bunch of Gu family people…
Chen Aifang secretly shook her head. Better to use the broom. This was the handiest thing to use, and after beating them, they also didn’t dare make a sound.
Baohua half-understood, and expressed confusion.
“You don’t need to understand now. You’ll understand when you grow up.” Chen Aifang pulled them inside.
Gu Yijia poured her a bowl of mung bean soup chilled in the well to cool her down from the heat, and said, “Sister-in-law, thank you. I’ve troubled you again.”
She was truly sincere, and felt that this sister-in-law was really too good.
The original host had such a sister-in-law, which was why she could live smoothly to this day; but precisely because her older brother and sister-in-law were really too good, it made her feel even more guilty, always feeling that it was she who was dragging them down.
If not for her, her sister-in-law could have long since joined the army, bringing the children to reunite with her older brother.
Gu Yijia secretly made up her mind that she must recover her health as soon as possible, at the very least she could not keep being this frail and sickly, unable even to go on a long trip.
She wanted her sister-in-law to be able to bring the children and join the army, reunite with her older brother, and no longer live apart in two places.
But before that, Jiang Jinwang still had to be dealt with.
With Chen Aifang’s outburst this time, or rather, this threat, finally no one dared to come and chatter in front of Gu Yijia anymore.
Everyone in the Gu family was very quiet and obedient. Even the cousins and younger female cousins who envied Gu Yijia for being looked at by the city factory director’s son did not dare say anything sarcastic.
They were actually also quite afraid of Gu Mingcheng, this oldest and most capable cousin.
Gu Yijia was not especially happy, and she also did not relax her guard.
As long as she thought of the original host’s fate, her heart would not be at ease.
Unfortunately, this body was really not good, with too many restrictions. Otherwise, she would have long since directly acted to solve it, rather than always having to pretend to faint. So far, pretending to faint was the thing she was best at. Anyway, no one knew what her body was really like. Once she fainted there, even fewer people would suspect her.
Who told the original host’s frail image to be so deeply rooted?
Gu Yijia began to think about how to deal with Jiang Jinwang. As long as he still wanted to marry her, even if she did not follow in the original host’s footsteps, she was afraid that life would still not be smooth.
She did not want to be harassed all the time.
This time Chen Aifang had intimidated the Gu family members. Who knew whether there would be a next time?
If Jiang Jinwang used benefits to tempt the Gu family members again, no one knew what the Gu family members would do then. She could not gamble on human nature, and could not wait until things were right in front of her before responding.
The best way was to solve it from the source.
Jiang Jinwang was the source of all of this.
Gu Yijia thought for several days and decided to make a trip to the county town.
She said to her sister-in-law, “Sister-in-law, I’ve already finished making Big Brother’s clothes. I want to go to the county town post office to send them to him, and by the way write him a letter.”
After Chen Aifang heard this, she nodded and said, “Indeed, it’s time to write your brother a letter.”
Baoshan and Baohua, the sibling pair, heard this and happily went to find stationery and stamps, wanting to write a letter to their father.
After they finished writing the letters, Gu Yijia also brought out the clothes she had made for her older brother and put them together with the letter.
“Jia Jia, on Sunday I’ll go to the county town with you, and then we can send them together,” Chen Aifang said while sticking on the stamp.
Who would have thought that Gu Yijia would say, “Sister-in-law, no need. Tomorrow Sister Pingping is going to the county town to buy things, and I’ll go with her.”
Chen Aifang was stunned for a moment. “Going with Pingping?”
“Yes, and there are other people from the brigade too,” Gu Yijia said. “The brigade is sending mountain goods to the county town, so I can take the tractor there.”
After Chen Aifang heard this, she did not stop her.
If there were brigade members going together, then there really was no need to worry. Not to mention anything else, their brigade was still quite united, and knowing that Gu Yijia’s health was poor, they would more or less take care of her.
In the past, Gu Yijia also went to the county town by herself, only after the aftereffects of heatstroke last time were too severe did her body keep being bad, which was why she had been so nervous.