Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder's Comeback in the Era Tales

Chapter 41: Chapter 41: Miserable Woman

After finishing the meal, Gu Zhishu sat for a while before he bid farewell and left.

A few days later, Yuan Chun discovered that the Gu family’s house was being renovated, with the village head leading quite a few people, replacing the straw on the roof with tiles.

The grass in the yard was also cleaned thoroughly.

The collapsed chicken coop was rebuilt with mud.

A new earthen stove was constructed.

The broken doors and windows were repaired.

Yuan Chun walked inside, took a look around, and asked her father, who was moving tiles, ”Dad, is someone going to live in this house after the renovation?”

”Yes, Gu Zhishu is coming back to live here. He said he’s coming back to reestablish the Gu family.” Feng Xisheng expressed his relief, ”The Gu family’s legacy continues. Your Grandpa Gu would know from the afterlife and be at peace now.”

Gu Zhishu moved in half a month later.

The day after moving in, he went around the village with brown sugar and cloth tickets, exchanging them with the villagers for a big rooster, thirty eggs, a large bag of dried mushrooms and wood ear, and a heap of vegetables.

He also bought one hundred jin of grain from the village team.

On the third day, he went to the town and bought pork and tofu, inviting the village head’s wife and Qiu Guihua and her sister-in-law to help him prepare four tables of dishes, treating the village’s prominent elders and those who helped him with the house renovation to a warm meal.

That day happened to be the weekend, so Yuan Chun didn’t have to go to school, and Gu Zhishu invited her entire family.

During the meal, Yuan Chun overheard the village head chatting with Gu Zhishu and learned that he was in the military, working as an educated soldier. His rank was quite high, a deputy regiment level, just working ten miles away from Feng Family Village.

The day after the warm meal gathering, Gu Zhishu went to work.

When Yuan Chun saw him again, it was almost New Year, the day the village was slaughtering pigs and dividing the meat.

”Yuan Chun.”

Seeing her, Gu Zhishu approached her side, complaining with a hint of grievance, ”Why didn’t you reply to the letter I sent you?”

Yuan Chun rolled her eyes at him, ”I have to study, complete my winter break homework, and tutor my elder and younger siblings. I barely have time to go to town and send you a letter.”

She glanced at him again, lowering her voice a bit, ”About what you mentioned, I need to think it over; after all, I’m still studying, at least a year and a half until I graduate from high school. If you’re not willing to wait...”

”I am willing to wait, Yuan Chun. No matter how long, I’m willing to wait.” Gu Zhishu, who was initially despondent, instantly brightened up, ”Does this mean you’ll agree to be with me?”

”Hmm... let’s start by spending time together.”

”Okay.”

With his beloved agreeing, Gu Zhishu smiled so widely his eyes squinted from excitement.

His heart was pounding.

That evening, Gu Zhishu was invited to dinner at Yuan Chun’s home. Regarding their relationship, the Feng family had no objections but did ask Gu Zhishu about his past.

After all, Gu Zhishu still had a mother.

A woman who silently took away her husband’s entire pension and left with a pair of children, disregarding her in-laws’ survival, was not an easy mother-in-law to deal with.

Grandma Feng felt she needed to inquire clearly.

Gu Zhishu: ”My mother remarried when I was three years old. I was raised by my grandparents, uncle, and aunt. When I was sixteen, my grandparents passed away one after another, so I joined the military.”

”Recently, my mother found me, wanting me to arrange a job for her younger son. She told me I still had a grandfather alive, trading his address with me to force my agreement. I didn’t consent.”