Chapter 219: Chapter 218: Heartache Chapter 219: Chapter 218: Heartache Having just split from the Gu Family, the fifth brother, Gu Jianghai, and his wife, Mrs. Chu, still had many things to take care of in their house. After helping Su Yunjin set up the stove, Gu Jianghai and Mrs. Chu also needed to go back and tidy up their things.
Su Yunjin invited Gu Jianghai and Mrs. Chu to stay for a meal, but they hadn’t eaten and said they needed to go back to sort through their belongings. Knowing that Mrs. Chu had a lot to organize, Su Yunjin didn’t insist on keeping them.
This time, Mr. and Mrs. Gu Jianghai had assisted her and Gu Ya. She would find an opportunity to repay them in the future.
There was no rush at the moment.
After Mr. and Mrs. Gu Jianghai left, Su Yunjin looked at the dirty and messy kitchen, deciding to clean it up a bit.
With the kitchen in such a state, cooking or storing anything was simply out of the question.
Su Yunjin planned to first clean the kitchen thoroughly and then move the firewood, rice, oil, salt, and other items she got from the family division into the kitchen.
No sooner said than done.
Rolling up her sleeves, Su Yunjin began to tidy up.
Their kitchen had previously served as the Gu Family’s storage room. Although most of the clutter was removed after the room was allocated to them, some useless items were still piled inside.
Su Yunjin started by throwing out the large, space-occupying items and then meticulously swept the room with a broom.
After cleaning the room and without taking a rest, Su Yunjin began to wipe down everything with a cloth, starting with the tables and stools, and then moving on to the stove and the pots.
Gu Ya lay in bed, watching his wife bustle about. When she entered the room again, he couldn’t help but speak up, “Yunjin, take a break if you’re tired!”
His wife’s face was covered in sweat, and he was genuinely concerned she might overexert herself.
If it weren’t for his disability, since his legs were broken and made moving inconvenient, these chores really should have been done by him, a grown man.
Now, because his legs were broken and he couldn’t walk, all these tasks fell on his wife.
“Husband, I’m not tired! I’ve already finished cleaning the kitchen; now I’m going to take the rice and the condiments into the kitchen!” Su Yunjin continued with her tasks, unfazed.
After a bit of tidying up, she finally managed to get the kitchen in shape to cook a meal.
It was already past midday. When Su Yunjin was about to start cooking, Gu Ya said again, “There’s no rush, Yunjin; sit down and rest for a while first!”
“Aren’t you hungry?” Su Yunjin turned to Gu Ya.
Having worked all morning without a break, she now felt a bit hungry herself.
Of course, Gu Ya was hungry too, given the late hour. However, seeing his wife’s hard morning’s work, he couldn’t bear to have her start cooking right away, so he urged her to rest a bit.
“Yunjin, don’t we still have a sesame cake? If you’re hungry, you can eat that to stave off the hunger,” he commented. Earlier, Su Yunjin had bought several sesame cakes at the market. She ate one, gave two to Gu Jianghai and his wife, and kept the remaining for Gu Ya.
Since the kitchen was now sorted, Su Yunjin planned to cook something simple to eat right away, but as for the sesame cake, she intended to give it to Gu Ya. “Husband, you eat the sesame cake! I’ll go cook some rice now!”
As Su Yunjin handed the sesame cake to Gu Ya, he split it in two, keeping one half for himself and offering the other to her. “Yunjin, let’s each have half.”
Su Yunjin indeed felt hungry, and since Gu Ya had divided the sesame cake for her, she didn’t refuse. In the end, the couple shared the pastry between them.