Professor Gu's daily life in the countryside after his rebirth

Chapter 147: The lab bench and the cooking stove...are similar

After learning that the cattle farm of Shanghe Village Production Brigade will become a research base of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xia Yu became more concerned about the cattle farm.

Especially when teaching a few breeders, I pay more attention and explain very clearly in practice some details that they usually don’t notice.

During the Chinese New Year, Xia Yu had no staff to replace him and had to stay in Shanghe Village to celebrate the New Year.

Considering that he did not return home because of the incident in Shanghe Village, the brigade bought some melon seeds and peanuts and sent them to him. They also gave Xia Yu a piece of pork when they slaughtered the pig.

This scene in the brigade made the educated youth who came to the educated youth center envious, but after all, Xia Yu was a researcher sent by the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, so his status was there.

On New Year's Eve, after lunch, Gu Zhan went to the educated youth site and invited Xia Yu to his home to celebrate the New Year.

Xia Yu was flattered and quickly stood up and said, "How can this be embarrassing? It's Chinese New Year and it's a time for families to get together. It wouldn't be nice for me to go alone."

Gu Zhan also understood Xia Yu's feelings. He explained, "My family is simple. It's just me, my wife, and my daughter. There's no one else."

When Gu Zhan said he had a wife and a daughter, Xia Yu was stunned for a moment: "You are married?"

Gu Zhan glanced at Xia Yu in surprise: "Well, you don't know?"

"do not know!"

Xia Yu felt that he had once again refreshed his understanding of Gu Zhan. He actually thought that someone like Gu Zhan, who was so aloof from others, would get married very late. Who would have known that he had already gotten married early and even had a child.

In the end, Xia Yu accepted Gu Zhan's invitation out of curiosity. He wanted to see what kind of woman could win over a man like Gu Zhan.

In the evening, before it got dark, Xia Yu went to Gu Zhan's house with gifts.

When he arrived, Liu Xiaoxi was coaxing the child in the main room, and Gu Zhan was preparing to cook in the kitchen.

The door was half open. Xia Yu observed that there was no dog at home, so he pushed the door open and went in.

When Gu Zhan heard the sound of the door being pushed open, he knew that Xia Yu had arrived.

He walked out of the kitchen, took the things from Xia Yu's hand calmly and said, "Are you here?"

"Yeah, I thought I'd come over early to see if I could help."

"Yeah, that's perfect. Help me cook."

“What? Oh, okay!”

Xia Yu was not used to seeing Gu Zhan wearing an apron and cooking in the kitchen. Whenever he saw Gu Zhan, he always had an illusion that Gu Zhan should be the kind of cold and aloof man who would hang around a test bench.

At this moment, Xia Yu comforted himself: Forget it, the test bench and the stove... are almost there.

In the kitchen, Gu Zhan had already cut the side dishes and was about to cook.

Xia Yu stood on the ground at a loss.

Gu Zhan finished cleaning up the dishes and pointed at the wooden block next to the stove and asked, "Do you know how to light a fire?"

"Yes, I used to make fires often."

"That's good, help me light the fire."

Xia Yu was lighting the fire while watching Gu Zhan cooking. After a short while, four dishes were out of the pot, and all four were meat dishes.

This is a huge expense. I'm afraid that ordinary working-class families in the city don't have this standard of living.

However, he heard that Gu Zhan was currently translating information from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, so he thought he should be able to make some money.

Liu Xiaoxi had already seen people through the glass when Xia Yu entered the room, but her daughter was very fussy at that time, and she started to cry when she was put on the kang. The child was too young and the weather was cold, so she couldn't take her out. She could only stay in the main room and coax the child to sleep before she could leave and go to the kitchen.

Gu Zhan was about to ask Xia Yu to serve the dishes when he looked up and saw Liu Xiaoxi walking into the kitchen.

"Xinxin is asleep?"

"Yeah, I just fell asleep. There were some firecrackers outside today. It seemed like it was scared and was making a fuss and refusing to go to sleep."

"I'll hold her while we eat later. By the way, wife, this is Researcher Xia Yu whom I told you about before. Xia Yu, and this is my wife Liu Xiaoxi." Gu Zhan introduced the two to each other.

Liu Xiaoxi smiled and greeted Xia Yu: "Hello, Researcher Xia, I welcome you to my home for the New Year."

Xia Yu scratched his hair in embarrassment.

Logically speaking, since he was older than Gu Zhan, it wouldn't be wrong for him to call Liu Xiaoxi "sister-in-law" at this time. However, due to Gu Zhan's aura, which was similar to Guo Zhida's, he couldn't bring himself to say "sister-in-law" at this time. He could only hold it in for a long time before saying, "Hello! I'm sorry to bother you by coming to your house for the New Year."

After the introducers got to know each other, several people began to carry the food to the main hall.

In the main room, little baby Gu Xinxin was sleeping, but she didn't sleep very well today, especially when they just entered the door and a loud firecracker sounded outside, startling her and waving her little hands.

Liu Xiaoxi looked at Gu Zhan helplessly, sighed with heartache, put the dishes in her hand on the table, walked to the kang and held the child who was struggling to wake up in her arms.

Unexpectedly, this hug woke the child up completely. Little baby Gu Xinxin, who was still asleep, also got angry and started crying loudly while Liu Xiaoxi held her in her arms.

Xia Yu looked at the child in Liu Xiaoxi's arms curiously. Her tender little face had turned red from crying. He said nervously, "Hurry up and comfort her. Look, her face is red from crying."

Liu Xiaoxi looked at Gu Zhan helplessly. She didn't know who this childish boy inherited his temperament from. At such a young age, his whole body turned red when he cried, which made people feel distressed.

Gu Zhan walked over, took his crying daughter and held her in his arms. Then, in front of Xia Yu, a magical scene happened.

After Gu Xinxin fell into Gu Zhan's arms, her crying seemed to be paused. She only hummed softly a few times, then opened her big watery eyes and looked at the stranger Xia Yu.

If it weren't for the tears on her face and the red skin that hadn't faded, Xia Yu would have thought that the crying sounds just now were fake.

Xia Yu looked at the couple in confusion. Liu Xiaoxi smiled and said, "This little guy stopped crying when he was in his daddy's arms."

"This is amazing, I want a hug too!"

"Okay, you try it!" Liu Xiaoxi said.

Xia Yu imitated Gu Zhan's posture and took Gu Xinxin from Gu Zhan's hands. Who knew that before he could hold her in his arms, little baby Xia Xinxin started crying again.

"Hurry up, I'm going to cry."

Gu Zhan took the child calmly. Xia Yu looked down and saw that the little guy's expression of wanting to cry but not wanting to was gone completely.

Then, during the entire meal, Gu Xinxin looked at Xia Yu with a defensive look on her face.

After dinner, Xia Yu stuffed the red envelope he had prepared in advance into the quilt of little baby Xia Xinxin. Liu Xiaoxi hurriedly refused, but was stopped by Xia Yu righteously: "You...you don't refuse, this is our rule, and it's also my little gift."

Helplessly, Liu Xiaoxi glanced at Gu Zhan, and seeing that he did not refuse, he politely accepted the red envelope.