FIMA Ch101: Husband

Although the idea of separating the family was brought up, Father and Mother Gu roughly understood their two sons’ intentions.

But splitting the family—for the time being, separating was impossible.

Father and Mother Gu had ready-made excuses. Gu Lao Si (Fourth Son) was currently attending a technical secondary school and still had a few months until graduation; Gu Lili hadn’t been matchmade yet either.

The two youngest hadn’t started their own families. If the eldest and third son, as older brothers, separated the family now, it would be heartless and disregarding their younger brothers’ livelihoods.

Anyway, no matter what, they would have to wait until Gu Lao Si and Gu Lili also started families before talking about it.

Naturally, Gu Siyuan had anticipated this long ago.

The matter of separating the family was never something that could be achieved in one step.

However, at this point in time, as the protagonist bottom, Gu Lili was about to get together with the protagonist top Feng Keng and start getting involved in his speculation and profiteering business.

When that time came, given Gu Lili’s character, he would probably be terrified that they would rub off on his success and take advantage of him, and he would be the one eagerly urging them to separate the family…

And at that time, the ones holding the initiative and the moral high ground would be Gu Siyuan and his wife.

But…

Gu Siyuan gave the few of them a cold look. Even if they couldn’t separate the family right now, it was impossible for Gu Lili to continue living as comfortably as before.

It just so happened he could use this opportunity to push the development of events forward.

“Not separating the family is fine. But starting today, either Gu Lili also goes down to the fields to work, or Yangyang will stay home with him. There is no logic in everyone else suffering while Gu Lili alone happily enjoys himself. He is already eighteen years old, not an eight-year-old child.”

Seeing Gu Siyuan target her precious ger again, Mother Gu immediately flipped her face and said: “You really think with your wife’s coquettish appearance, he can actually do much work? I’m too embarrassed to even say it. Other gers earn seven or eight work points a day, but he only earns three or four, four or five, just half of what others do. Who truly cares about his tiny bit of work?”

Naturally, Xie Yiyang wouldn’t endure this in vain, immediately replying: “So what if I get four or five work points? I only have one mouth to feed; I earn enough to take care of myself. Besides, our Laosan knows how to work; he will raise me. Unlike Gu Lili, who doesn’t even have a single work point, yet eats and drinks for free every day and has people serve him? A person like him is a parasite of the state and the collective!”

“Who are you calling a parasite? You dare to scold Lili right to my face?” Mother Gu was furious and reached out her hand to pinch him.

Xie Yiyang hurriedly hid behind Gu Siyuan, but didn’t forget to stick his little head out to continue arguing: “I’m telling the truth, what’s wrong with it? He is a parasite.”

Shielding him solidly behind his back, Gu Siyuan looked up and said coldly to Mother Gu: “Mother, you don’t need to argue with Yangyang. I’ve already laid out the compromise. There are no other options. Now, either everyone enjoys life together, or everyone works together.”

“You…” Mother Gu was so angry she was left speechless.

…

Whether or not to separate the family was a matter for the future, but right now, there was a more pressing issue waiting for him.

After washing up in the evening.

Gu Siyuan glanced at the bed right in front of him and narrowed his eyes. There was only one bed, which meant the two of them had to sleep together tonight.

Mm, he originally just came to execute a mission…

Xie Yiyang had already automatically and consciously gotten onto the bed, wrapped himself into a ball with the quilt, and even rolled around in satisfaction.

It wasn’t until he noticed a gaze staring at him that he clutched the corner of the quilt and stared blankly for a moment.

Then, he slowly yielded a little bit of his quilt and asked in a wavering voice: “Are you going to sleep with me…?”

Seeing this appearance of his, Gu Siyuan, who had been slightly hesitant, immediately lay down decisively and said coldly: “What else?”

He had always been someone who hated trouble, but he wasn’t someone willing to wrong himself either.

If they didn’t sleep together today, then they would never be able to sleep together in the future.

Since that was the case, it was better to follow his heart.

Although Xie Yiyang’s personality was a bit fierce and spoiled, it didn’t make him dislike him.

“…” Xie Yiyang puffed his cheeks.

So fierce!

But could he be blamed? You ran out on the second day of marriage, and I’ve been sleeping alone for half a year. Suddenly there’s an extra person; shouldn’t I get to adapt for a while first?

Just at this moment, Xie Yiyang suddenly felt a heat on his waist. The large palm of the person beside him had gripped onto it.

His eyes widened slightly. For some reason, he remembered what Gu Siyuan had said to Gu Lili during the day—something about not seeing each other for a long time, so doing the things husbands should do…

Ah ah.

Is Gu Siyuan going to do that kind of thing to him?

The thing they didn’t even do on the night they got married.

The next moment, he found his body shoved to the side, pushed from lying flat onto his side.

Next, Gu Siyuan’s indifferent voice sounded by his ear: “You’re crushing my clothes.”

“…” Xie Yiyang.

Is this guy impotent or what?

Holding onto this question—which, if known, would definitely get him fiercely stir-fried—Xie Yiyang, this heartless guy, still fell asleep.

When Gu Siyuan woke up the next day, he looked at the person who had automatically drilled into his embrace in the middle of the night and was sleeping sweetly. He felt that this scene was inexplicably familiar, as if it had been played out countless times before.

Just as he was thinking this, Xie Yiyang’s soft cheek gently rubbed against his arm. He shifted his body, seemingly finding the most comfortable position, and continued to sleep.

Gu Siyuan observed for a moment, reached out, and gently pinched the flesh of his cheek.

The tactile feel was pretty good.

Xie Yiyang half-opened his eyes, looked at him blurrily, and immediately closed his eyes again, humming and groaning in his embrace: “Mm… is it time to get up?”

Gu Siyuan found his reaction very interesting, as if the two of them were already so familiar with each other they couldn’t be any more familiar, like an old married couple who had accompanied each other for half a lifetime.

However, this feeling didn’t seem annoying.

He narrowed his eyes and responded softly: “Didn’t I say yesterday, today you just stay at home like Gu Lili.”

“Okay…” Lying in his embrace, Xie Yiyang dragged out his voice and responded sleepily.

Gu Siyuan slowly set the person down, got up, dressed, and washed up.

He thought his movements were extremely light.

But almost the instant his aura disappeared from the room, Xie Yiyang’s sweet sleep became restless.

Being able to sleep in was originally the thing that made Xie Yiyang the happiest.

But today, for some unknown reason, after Gu Siyuan left, he quickly woke up too. Afterward, he rolled back and forth on the bed several times, but just couldn’t fall back asleep.

He lay there for a while longer.

The sun had risen very high, and Xie Yiyang hurriedly climbed out of bed.

When he walked out of the room, he saw at a glance Gu Lili sitting by the table eating breakfast, holding an egg in his hand and gently knocking it against the corner of the table.

Xie Yiyang immediately widened his eyes in anger: “It’s truly a good thing I didn’t go down to the fields today, otherwise how would I have seen you secretly eating an egg alone at home? Gu Lili, how do you have the nerve?”

In this period of material scarcity, an egg was a rare meat dish for a farming family.

Gu Lili, a person who did absolutely nothing, was actually eating an egg at home.

Gu Lili stopped his egg-knocking action, tightly gripped it in his palm, and looked disdainfully at Xie Yiyang: “Didn’t you also not go to the fields today? Besides, Mother gave me the egg; what does it have to do with you?”

Xie Yiyang glared: “How does it have nothing to do with me? Even if I didn’t go to the fields today, I earned work points for the family before. Our Laosan earns the most, and you are the only one in the whole family eating free food. If I don’t get to eat an egg, you absolutely shouldn’t be eating one either!”

Saying this, he immediately charged forward aggressively.

Xie Yiyang’s strength was not worth mentioning when working in the fields, but as a similarly delicate ger, he was about on par with Gu Lili. Moreover, his obsession with food was the most powerful.

After the two struggled for a while, the egg was actually snatched away by him.

Xie Yiyang preciously placed the egg into his pocket, while fiercely glaring at Gu Lili: “You just wait, I’m also staying home every day now. I will definitely keep a close eye on you. Don’t even think about enjoying any special treatment anymore.”

Gu Lili was rendered completely speechless by his unreasonable and shrewish behavior.

He looked at the fingernail scratches on his hand and said angrily: “You lunatic, you ignorant lunatic who’s never seen the world, acting crazy just over an egg.”

Xie Yiyang became even angrier: “What do you mean ‘just over an egg’? Not to mention how our Laosan is doing at the canal, just look at Eldest Brother and Eldest Sister-in-law, the ones who work the hardest in the family—how long has it been since they’ve had an egg? You still have the nerve to say ‘just an egg’? If you don’t care about eggs, why are you secretly eating one instead of yielding it to someone else!”

“You! What business is it of yours!” Gu Lili was so angry he couldn’t even eat his meal. He directly ran out the door in a flurry, preparing to go find Feng Keng for some comfort.

Xie Yiyang looked at his back figure and gave a smug humph.

Sitting by the table, he drank all the mixed-grain porridge in the basin that hadn’t been touched yet.

After eating breakfast and clearing the plates and bowls into the kitchen, he looked at the increasingly glaring sun outside. He went to the kitchen to fill a kettle with cool water, put on a straw hat, and tucking his newly snatched precious egg in his pocket, he headed to the fields.

Yesterday’s water carrying was mostly done.

Today was mainly about plowing and preparing the fields.

The three production brigades of Yunxi Village only had one public tractor. During the busy farming season, it could only be rotated among each production brigade for a few days.

These past few days, it just so happened to be their Qianjin Production Brigade’s turn.

Plowing the fields with a tractor was naturally much easier than manual labor, but they only had it for a few days. Therefore, to ensure that seedling raising and rice transplanting weren’t delayed, they had to use manual labor and the tractor simultaneously.

Gu Siyuan was currently swinging a hoe in the fields.

In his own original lifetime, he had grown up in the countryside, so he knew how to do basic farm work, and did it very well.

His cold, handsome face, clean and fluid movements, and beautifully undulating muscles immediately attracted the gazes of quite a few older sisters-in-law and gers.

When Xie Yiyang walked to the head of the field in high spirits, he saw this familiar scene that was just like yesterday, and immediately quickened his pace in a huff.

Without caring about his footing, he ran toward Gu Siyuan carrying the water kettle.

Gu Siyuan was concentrating on swinging the hoe when someone abruptly stood right in front of him.

Even Gu Siyuan, who was always calm, was startled by this action.

He stopped his hoe, looked at the person, and said coldly: “Are you crazy, standing there? It was about to smash directly onto your head.”

Xie Yiyang originally came over enthusiastically to claim credit. Now, having first been angered by those older sisters-in-law, and then scolded by Gu Siyuan, he instantly puffed up his cheeks unhappily.

“Are you annoyed that I came over and ruined your good thing?”

“…” Gu Siyuan.

This mission target was mostly very cute, but sometimes he was also a bit neurotic and eccentric.

He softened his expression, lowered his eyes, and caught sight of the water kettle in Xie Yiyang’s hand, asking gently: “Came to deliver water?”

Xie Yiyang glared at him: “Deliver what deliver? I’m not delivering it anymore, I’m leaving right now.”

After speaking, he genuinely turned around, about to go back.

Although Gu Siyuan didn’t know what he was throwing a tantrum over, if he really let the person leave now, there would inevitably be an even bigger tantrum waiting for him later.

He had always been someone who loathed trouble.

If there was an issue, it was best to clear it up directly on the spot.

He put the hoe aside and reached out to hold the person’s slender wrist.

Xie Yiyang curled his lip and struggled unresignedly a couple of times.

However, his tiny bit of strength was only enough to deal with Gu Lili. In Gu Siyuan’s hands, it was no different from a kitten scratching an itch.

Soon, he was led to sit on the field ridge beside them.

Gu Siyuan laid a large leaf down for him to sit on and asked calmly: “What exactly is wrong? Explain clearly.”

“They are all looking at you.”

Xie Yiyang held it in for a moment, but still hummed and grumbled it out.

“…” Gu Siyuan was slightly stunned.

After a long while, he narrowed his eyes and looked straight at Xie Yiyang: “So, you are eating vinegar (jealous).”

Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, Xie Yiyang immediately said: “Eating vinegar, eating what vinegar? Who’s eating vinegar! I just feel they are too unreserved. You’re just an ordinary, married grown man; what point is there in looking at you?”

Although he denied it decisively and even took the opportunity to belittle Gu Siyuan a bit.

Gu Siyuan was a thoroughly smart person; how could he not see through this?

This mission target has indeed fallen deeply in love with him.

The deep grace of a beauty has always been hard to disappoint.

Gu Siyuan narrowed his eyes.

After a while, he deliberately and softly replied: “Let them look. Anyway… I won’t look at them.”

Thinking for a moment, he added: “I will only look at you.”

Answering like this should be no problem, right?

“…” Xie Yiyang.

How does he know how to speak so well?

Or was my own performance too obvious?

Gu Siyuan looked at the water kettle in Xie Yiyang’s hand and said faintly: “Give it to me.”

“Oh.” Xie Yiyang hurriedly nodded and handed it over very actively, instantly forgetting his previous words of refusal.

He even propped his chin on his hands with great interest and began to stare fixedly at Gu Siyuan drinking water, as if it were some beautiful scenery he had never seen before.

Holding the kettle, Gu Siyuan directly tilted his head and started chugging.

His neck was very slender, but not the delicate slenderness of Xie Yiyang; rather, it was a mature man’s sexy and straight posture. As the water entered his thin lips, his Adam’s apple bobbed up and down, making a gulping sound.

The lid of the kettle wasn’t steady, and a few drops of water trailed down his neck, flowing into Gu Siyuan’s clothes.

Watching this scene, Xie Yiyang thought of the hard and distinct muscles he had bumped into while lying in his embrace this morning, and immediately couldn’t help but blush.

Gu Siyuan didn’t notice his wife’s strange state. After drinking his fill, he put the water kettle aside and said calmly: “You’ve worked hard.”

Xie Yiyang looked up, his eyes sparkling brightly as he looked at him: “It wasn’t hard work. Is the water tasty?”

“…” Gu Siyuan narrowed his eyes.

Isn’t it just plain water? What special taste could it have?

If it were in the past, and someone asked him such a boring question, he definitely wouldn’t even bother to pay attention.

But Xie Yiyang’s eyes were sparkling, looking at him so expectantly, as if they held a sky full of shattered stars.

Gu Siyuan hesitated for a moment and said faintly: “Very sweet.”

“Hehe…” Cupping his chin in his hands, Xie Yiyang laughed softly.

Gu Siyuan lowered his eyes and thought to himself: His smile is actually quite cute. In that case, casually coaxing him a bit really is nothing.

Just at this moment, Xie Yiyang suddenly tugged on his sleeve again, saying very joyfully: “I have something even better.”

Gu Siyuan nodded: “Oh.”

Xie Yiyang said mysteriously: “Hey, take a guess? It’s something good.”

Gu Siyuan swept a leisurely glance at him and noticed his peripheral vision was subconsciously darting toward his upper jacket pocket. And looking at the shape bulging in that pocket, it genuinely couldn’t be easier to guess.

He replied calmly: “I guess, you brought an egg.”

“…” Xie Yiyang.

I told you to guess, not directly report the correct answer.

Why is he like this? Now there’s no surprise at all.

Seeing his suddenly lowered spirit, Gu Siyuan wondered: Did I guess wrong?

He asked deliberately: “How about I guess again?”

Xie Yiyang shook his head and very preciously fished the egg out of his pocket.

After holding it for a while, his mood soared high once again, and he said smugly: “Although you guessed right about the egg, guess where I got the egg from?”

Gu Siyuan casually said: “You took it from Gu Lili?”

Without it being a holiday or festival, Gu Lili was the only one in the whole family who could possibly eat an egg.

“…” Xie Yiyang.

This life is impossible to live.

Why is his husband like this?

He huffily stuffed the egg into Gu Siyuan’s hand: “Fine, fine, playing this with you is no fun at all. After using so much brainpower, here, you eat the egg.”

Taking the egg, Gu Siyuan silently looked at Xie Yiyang.

From the original plot’s description, he knew Xie Yiyang was someone who knew how to cherish himself the most; if there was anything good, he would definitely hold onto it tightly and not let go.

However, in just this short day or two of interaction, he was truly good to him.

Gu Siyuan slowly peeled the eggshell. The white, tender, and smooth egg white looked extremely enticing.

Xie Yiyang couldn’t help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

His fingers pinched the flesh of his own leg. Right now, it was his husband working alone, having to support the two of them. It was very hard work; he couldn’t fight him for good things.

Naturally, Gu Siyuan noticed his reaction.

Instantly, his heart softened even more.

Although his body belonged to this world, his consciousness had just arrived, so his demand for a food like an egg wasn’t that pressing.

He looked up at Xie Yiyang and chuckled lightly: “Ah…”

Xie Yiyang subconsciously followed with an “Ah.”

The next moment, an egg was stuffed into his mouth.

Xie Yiyang was stunned.

Then he glared huffily at Gu Siyuan.

Gu Siyuan reminded coldly: “Don’t speak, eat quickly, careful not to let it fall out.”

Having no other choice, Xie Yiyang bit off the small half that was stuffed into his mouth, and took the remaining half sticking out with his hand.

He chewed slowly. It took a long time before he reluctantly swallowed that small half in his mouth. His beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, looking as happy as if he had just eaten a Manchu-Han Imperial Feast.

Then very quickly, he remembered the main business. Aiming his gaze at the culprit beside him, he said angrily: “The egg was for you to eat! Why are you like this?”

Gu Siyuan said indifferently: “Didn’t I say yesterday that I’m going to raise you to be fair and tender?”

“…” Xie Yiyang’s cheeks reddened slightly.

Why did he take it seriously?

Could it be… his husband truly likes fair and tender gers?

Xie Yiyang, who normally had such a glib tongue, frowned in distress at this moment.

It was a good while before he mumbled and hummed: “I know, when the sun is strong in the future, I will try to pay attention not to get tanned. However, that half an egg I just had was enough. You must eat this remaining half.”

Gu Siyuan shook his head: “No need, I’m not hungry, you eat it.”

Xie Yiyang widened his eyes round: “Are you disdaining me? We’re already married!”

Xie Yiyang ate very politely.

The bite marks on this half of the egg were also very neat and cute.

Gu Siyuan, who was originally someone with a bit of a germaphobia, somehow didn’t feel it was strange or disgusting at all.

He directly took the egg and stuffed it into his mouth.

Xie Yiyang became happy instantly, immediately tilting his face up to act cute and seek praise: “How is it? The egg is tasty, right?”

Rubbing his head, Gu Siyuan nodded: “Mm.”

Xie Yiyang continued to smugly complain: “Hmph, good thing I stayed home this morning, so I could discover Gu Lili was actually secretly eating an egg. I will keep a close eye on him; I absolutely won’t let him have secret special meals alone.”

Gu Siyuan narrowed his eyes and chuckled lightly: “Then keep a tight watch on him. He’s used to a good life, the things he hides definitely aren’t limited to just eggs. If you snatch his things away every time, probably after a long time, he will be the first one who can’t stand it, and will urge Father and Mother to separate us out.”

Xie Yiyang’s eyes lit up: “That’s right! Husband, you’re so smart.”

“…” Gu Siyuan.

Why did he suddenly call me Husband?

Is it because I’ve been indulging him all day today, so Xie Yiyang is acting spoiled relying on my favor?

Then… I will have to treat Xie Yiyang even better in the future.

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