On New Year's Eve, people from different generations would sit together and eat dumplings.
Gu Chen hadn't returned home for three years.
He didn't mention it, but Ji Pianran knew that no one didn't want to go home.
Gu Chen didn't expect Ji Pianran to suddenly propose going back to his family for the New Year.
His pupils trembled, and his expression was a little awkward.
In fact, Gu Chen's relationship with his family is, how should I put it?
Indifferent.
Just like him and Ji Pianran.
Indifferent to the extreme.
The main reason is that his family married him to Ji Pianran.
No matter how much he hated this marriage, he hated this move by his parents even more.
When avoiding Ji Pianran, he also avoided his parents together.
Gu Chen also had two older brothers. The Gu family did not actually live in the current village. As for why Gu Chen was here, it was because he had been split off.
Yes, split off!
Others might think that being split off was a good thing, but young Gu Chen did not feel that way.
He was the youngest, and clearly should have been like his older brothers, under his parents' watchful eye, supported by them.
However, he was the first to be separated, which made him feel even worse.
Later, he moved to the city and got a job in an electronics factory.
That made him even less willing to go home.
He was young and had never seen the world.
He always thought that he had already achieved a lot by escaping from the countryside and getting a job in the city.
He was the best in the world!
He had no idea that there were people with even greater achievements.
In fact, when I think about it now, I was really ignorant.
I took my ignorance as a source of pride.
He thought of his mother in her previous life, sitting in the courtyard with white hair, washing clothes for Tang Tang.
Gu Chen felt like something had pricked his heart.
He owed it to Tang Tang, to Ji Pianran, and also to his own mother.
Seeing that Gu Chen was frozen and not speaking, Ji Pianran pursed her lips.
She thought she had said something wrong.
She blinked nervously, 'Well, I think that since it's the New Year, we're still family, and we should go back and visit.'
Gu Chen had three children at home, and he also had two older brothers.
Originally, their family all lived in the neighbouring Zhangxian village, but since each of the two brothers had been given a room when they got married, there was really no extra room at home for Gu Chen.
So when it was Gu Chen's turn, his mother Shen Qiongzhi had to go to the neighbouring village and spend a few thousand yuan to buy this small courtyard.
In fact, the two villages are only two li apart, and it takes just 20 minutes to walk there.
What's more, the village where Gu Chen now lives was populated by refugees earlier, and the houses were cheap.
So Shen Qiongzhi bought a house here.
It was like giving Gu Chen a home.
What she didn't know was that this was also a knot in Gu Chen's heart, one of the reasons why he didn't go home.
Gu Chen felt as if he had been abandoned by his parents.
He had married some random woman and then left him in the other village.
He was like a lonely ghost.
But now, having lived a new life, and with his experience growing, there are some things that he has come to understand completely.
His mother had her own difficulties in doing what she did back then.
Unlike his two brothers, Gu Chen bought his own house!
The brothers did not get along well, and the eldest and second eldest both lived in their own courtyard, while Gu Chen bought a house.
If he was not allocated a separate house, it was feared that the relationship between the three brothers would be difficult.
Shen Qiongzhi did this entirely to protect Gu Chen.
To protect this large family.
Now, when I think about it, I can only say:
Parents who love their children plan for the future.
Gu Chen looked at Ji Pianran and said after a while, 'Do you want to go back?'
He still couldn't figure out why Ji Pianran had suddenly mentioned going home for the New Year.
He was curious, why?
Upon hearing this, Ji Pianran gave a small smile, 'I feel that after three years, it's time to go back and take a look.'
What she didn't say was that she hoped Gu Chen could get over the hurdle in his heart.
After all, those were his biological parents.
Gu Chen smiled, 'Okay, let's go again on New Year's Day!'
'Okay!'
Ji Pianran nodded.
'Okay, I'm leaving, take care of yourself at home.'
Gu Chen finished speaking, turned around and walked out of the living room towards the courtyard door.
Before he reached the door, he heard rustling footsteps behind him, 'Gu Chen!'
It was Ji Pianran's voice.
Gu Chen turned back in surprise, 'What's wrong?'
'Come back early, tomorrow is the New Year's Eve, I'll boil the water for you, you can have a comfortable bath.'
Ji Pianran said, blushing shyly.
After all, it's New Year's Eve, she wants to get rid of the bad luck for Gu Chen.
Strive to be stronger and stronger every year!
Gu Chen froze for a moment, then his face broke into a smile.
'Okay!'
He realised that Ji Pianran was really becoming more and more concerned about him.
And Gu Chen particularly enjoyed this kind of concern.
After all, only he knew how hard it had been to get this far.
Once they entered the city and reached the entrance to the city hospital, Gu Chen did not go to sell the wolfberries first, but instead went to a relatively large shop that sold Chinese patent medicines to buy medicine for Auntie Zhang.
It was 8:30 in the morning, and the owner of the pharmacy had just opened the door.
He was sitting at the counter eating a hot bun when he saw Gu Chen walk in, looking tired and dusty.
He frowned, thinking that the man looked familiar.
After a long pause, he said, 'You, you're the guy selling wolfberries at the hospital entrance, aren't you?'
His wolfberries had gone viral at the hospital yesterday afternoon.
Several people who came to buy medicine were carrying quite a lot of wolfberries in their hands.
Gu Chen laughed, 'You know me?'
He had only sold wolfberries for half a day yesterday, and yet he had already attracted the attention of the people around him, and they were from a pharmacy. He always felt a bit embarrassed.
It was as if he had taken business away from them.
The boss was a bit excited when he saw that he was indeed the young man selling wolfberries at the hospital entrance.
'Oh, it really is you. My daughter also went and bought five catties of wolfberries. I must say, when I tasted them, they really were delicious.'
In fact, he had seen that everyone was carrying them yesterday.
He couldn't help but be curious, so he asked his daughter to buy some too. He took them home to see what exactly was so popular about wolfberries.
Unexpectedly, when he tried them, the taste was really good.
After all, he was in business, and after eating Gu Chen's wolfberries, an idea immediately came to the boss's mind.
Since this stuff is good and has medicinal value,
why not take what Gu Chen sells and sell it yourself!
It doesn't matter if I sell a lot or a little, as long as Gu Chen is not in the area, I can sell twenty myself, just with the taste and flavour of the wolfberries.
There will definitely be no shortage of buyers.
I was planning to go to the hospital today and talk to him, but I didn't expect the kid to actually come into my store.
What a coincidence.
Gu Chen didn't say anything, just smiled.
Seeing that Gu Chen was just smiling, the boss quickly added, 'Young man, do you grow all your own wolfberries? Or...'