roccoschili Chapter 127 Want to have a share
Chapter 127 Want to have a share
Gu Wenxuan's eyes widened, her face showing undisguised anger. "Everyone in my team is carefully selected by me, and they are indeed useful in the mountains. Those who only cause me trouble and want to take benefits for free, stay away from me as soon as possible!"
What kind of people are these? They know their son will only be a hindrance if he goes there, but they still want to send him here to share the benefits, and even shamelessly say that they want them to protect him. How funny? Why should they protect him?
Gu Tong's old wife was speechless after being confronted by Gu Wenxuan. She curled her lips and tears started to flow.
Li and Lin Shuzhen came over to smooth things over, while Gu Yongming quickly winked at his daughter, signaling her to take it easy.
"Don't be offended, Third Madam." Li patted her sister-in-law's hand and gently persuaded her, "Wenxuan is just so straightforward. She doesn't mean any harm."
Lin Shuzhen agreed, "Yes, Third Aunt, Wenxuan is also angry that you don't take her cousin's life seriously, so she yelled at you."
Gu Tong's wife felt that she was wronged. Why didn't she take her son's life seriously? She only had one son. How could she not love him?
Gu Yongming put the basket of chestnuts on the shelf and said, "Aunt San, let alone letting Yongkang follow us, even if we form a circle and trap him in the crowd, he won't be absolutely safe."
"Let me give you an analogy. If we were to encounter a leopard, tiger, wolf, or black bear in the mountains, we certainly wouldn't just stand there and wait for them to eat us, right?"
"Should we run away or climb a tree as soon as possible? Then everyone will run around in a mess, and who will be able to protect others?"
"You can't ask us to wait for Yongkang to run away before we each run our own way, right? Would we still be able to survive if we did that?"
"Not to mention the poisonous snakes and insects in the mountains. You have no idea where they are hiding in the weeds or on the top of a tree until they bite you."
"What if Yongkang gets bitten by a poisonous snake or insect that appears out of nowhere while we're walking? Then, those of us who brought him into the mountains, do we have to pay him with our own lives?"
Gu Tong's wife was frightened by what he said, but she still asked, "What about you? Don't you have to deal with these things too?"
"We are good at fighting." Gu Yongming pointed at Jia Yuelan who was squatting quietly working on the side, "Let alone the Fang brothers, my niece is better at fighting than Yongkang."
Gu Tong's wife looked skeptical.
Gu Yongming smiled, "If you don't believe me, call Yongkang to my house right now and let him fight with my niece."
He had exaggerated the two moves. With Jia Yuelan's current skills, Gu Yongkang would be knocked down by her in one encounter. This was assuming that the girl didn't use any weapons.
If the little girl was given a long stick, she could knock down at least ten Gu Yongkangs by herself.
Bai Jingshan and Ning Qirui, who are older than her, have not practiced martial arts for as long as she has, are not as good as her in using bows and arrows, and do not have as much experience in going into the mountains as she does, but their age is there, and they still have an advantage over Jia Yuelan in carrying things.
In short, these three that seem the most useless are actually very useful.
As for Bai Chong, although he has never practiced martial arts, he is a doctor, so the job of collecting herbs depends on him.
Moreover, Bai Chong has rich experience in going into the mountains. Apart from anything else, he can completely defend himself against poisonous snakes and insects. If he encounters a difficult-to-deal with medium or large wild beast, he can hide himself without panicking.
If they are useful and can protect themselves, then they are eligible to join the team. On the contrary, if they are useless and cannot protect themselves, Gu Wenxuan will never let them join the team to hinder them.
Seeing Gu Tong's wife hesitate, Li added, "It's not that the children don't want to take Yongkang with them. Look at those cousins in Jingzhou, didn't they take any of them with them?"
Lin Shuzhen also said: "Yes, Third Aunt, if you don't believe it, just let Yongkang fight Yuelan for a few moves."
Gu Tong's wife thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll go back and ask him and his father."
Li nodded and sent her away with a smile.
Gu Tong's old wife returned to her home with red eyes. As soon as she saw her husband and son, her tears immediately started to flow again.
Gu Tong frowned, "Why are you crying?"
"I..." Gu Tong's old wife cried and complained to her family, saying that Gu Wenxuan helped her cousins but not her uncle, and most importantly, she humiliated her in front of so many people.
Gu Tong felt annoyed. He asked very straightforwardly, "You are being unreasonable, and then you blame the child for not giving you face? Tell me, what is wrong with what Wenxuan said?"
"You know about my second sister's children. They are all really tall and strong. Not only have they practiced martial arts for more than half a year, but they are also stronger than ordinary people."
"Wenxuan is willing to take them with her because they can really help. But if she takes our Yongkang with her, what help can Yongkang give to her?"
Gu Tong's wife was not convinced, "But they also brought three half-grown children with them! And Bai Chong, didn't he also practice martial arts?"
"Mom." Seeing his father about to lose his temper again, Gu Yongkang quickly took over the conversation and explained, "Although Doctor Bai has never practiced martial arts, he often goes into the mountains to collect herbs. Before Wenxuan and Jingzhou were not with him, he went into the mountains and came out safely, didn't he?"
Gu Tong was less angry now that his son was sensible. He nodded to Gu Yongkang and said, "Yongkang is right. Doctor Bai is not only able to protect himself, but he also knows the herbs in the mountains. Among their group, only he and Jingzhou know the herbs."
"As for those three half-grown kids you mentioned, they have also practiced martial arts for more than half a year, okay?"
He had a good relationship with Grandpa Gu, his second brother, and he often went to the end of the village. As he went there so often, he was bound to run into Gu Wenxuan and others, whose exercise volume was increasing day by day, practicing martial arts on the wasteland outside the Gu family's house.
He didn't dare to say anything about Jia Yuelan, after all, he had never had much contact with the three children, but he had seen Bai Jingshan and Ning Qirui sparring with Gu Yongming and Jia Guizhi with his own eyes.
Gu Tong remembered that Grandpa Gu once expressed his admiration for the importance of guidance from famous teachers because of the rapid progress of these two people.
"That, that doesn't mean you have to be useful or powerful to get involved, right?" Gu Tong's wife wiped her tears and a new idea popped up in her mind, "I see they bring back so many things every day. It shouldn't be possible for their own family to clean up all of them, right?"
Gu Tong frowned, "You'd better not think of this as soon as possible! Even if Second Brother's family is really too busy, you are not allowed to ask for things under the banner of helping others."
Doing chores for relatives and wanting to get a share of the benefits, isn't that crazy? It's not like they haven't helped them before.