Chapter 214: Chapter 214 No Rejection Chapter 214: Chapter 214 No Rejection They would live separately.
Meaning that they had to build their own cooking stove.
From now on, meals would no longer be shared in one room, as they had been in the Gu Family.
When cooking alone, pots, pans, ladles, and essentials such as firewood, rice, oil, and salt were all indispensable.
During the division of the family, Su Yunjin and the others got their share of these various trifles. Su Yunjin couldn’t carry heavy stuff like grain, but she had absolutely no problem moving these miscellaneous items.
Gu Jianghai, the fifth brother, went to help Su Yunjin and the others move the grain, while Su Yunjin decided to go to the kitchen and move back the pots, pans, ladles, and such that Mrs. An, their mother-in-law, had divided among them.
Gu Ya had no idea what Su Yunjin was up to! Seeing her about to leave, he instinctively asked, “Yunjin, where are you going?”
“Husband, I’m also going out to move things!” Su Yunjin looked at Gu Ya and said, “Mother-in-law has divided her pots and pans among us, and I need to move them back now.”
In the village, no matter which family was dividing, they all split these kitchen utensils. Knowing what the daughter-in-law was going to do!
Gu Ya nodded, “Okay, Yunjin, then go move them!” He wasn’t worried that the daughter-in-law couldn’t move the small items, although she couldn’t move the big ones.
When Su Yunjin arrived at the kitchen, Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Han had already moved the items they had divided into their own rooms. Mrs. Chu, the wife of the fifth brother, had just moved back the pots and pans divided by Mrs. An, leaving only Su Yunjin’s share still in the kitchen.
Looking around, Su Yunjin saw that she and Gu Ya didn’t get much: one pot, a few old clay bowls, along with a wooden ladle and wooden basin.
She moved all of these in two trips.
As for the firewood, rice, oil, and salt, Su Yunjin and her husband Gu Ya also did not receive much: half a bag of rice, about thirty pounds, half a jar of salt, a pound of oil, and nothing more.
Soon, Su Yunjin had transferred all these items to her and Gu Ya’s room. By the time Su Yunjin had moved these small items, Gu Jianghai on the other side had also moved all the baskets of grain given by Mrs. An to them.
“Third brother, third sister-in-law, it’s done, I’ve moved all the grain back for you,” said Gu Jianghai, dripping with sweat from exhaustion, as he put down the last basket of grain.
Even his speech was a bit breathless.
Su Yunjin handed him a cup of water, “Fifth brother, you’ve worked hard. Here, have a drink!”
Taking the cup from Su Yunjin’s hand, Gu Jianghai gulped down the water and placed the empty cup on the table. Wiping his mouth, he said to Su Yunjin and Gu Ya, “Third brother, third sister-in-law, I have a lot of things to take care of at home since we’ve just split the family. Now, I’ll go and set up a cooking stove. Once ours is ready, I’ll come over and help you set up yours.”
Gu Ya’s legs were broken.
He clearly couldn’t undertake tasks like building a stove.
Vigorous in offering, Gu Jianghai was the first to suggest building a stove for Su Yunjin and her husband.
“Fifth brother, as for building the stove, third brother will have to trouble you with that,” said Gu Ya, his legs really being an inconvenience. You couldn’t expect his wife, a woman, to take on such a job.
Gu Jianghai offered his help.
Gu Ya did not refuse.