FIMA Ch101: Husband

Though the idea of splitting the family was raised, Father and Mother Gu roughly understood the intentions of their two sons.

But splitting the family, for now, was out of the question.

They had a ready-made excuse: Gu Lao Si was still in technical school, graduating in a few months, and Gu Lili hadn’t settled down yet.

With the two younger ones unmarried, if the elder brothers split the family now, it would be heartless, abandoning their gers to their fate.

No matter what, they had to wait until Gu Lao Si and Gu Lili got married.

Gu Siyuan had anticipated this.

The idea of splitting the family wasn’t something that could happen overnight.

But at this time, Gu Lili, as the main character, was about to get together with the main character Feng Keng and start participating in his smuggling business.

Given Gu Lili’s character, he might even be eager to push them to split the family, fearing they might benefit from his gains…

At that time, the ones holding the moral high ground and initiative would be them.

However…

Gu Siyuan glanced coldly at the few people. Even if they couldn’t split the family now, it was impossible for Gu Lili to live as comfortably as before.

Just as well, he could push things along.

“Not splitting the family is fine, but from today, either Gu Lili joins in working the fields, or Yangyang stays home with him. There’s no reason for everyone to suffer while Gu Lili enjoys himself. He’s already eighteen, not a child.”

Mother Gu turned her face immediately upon seeing Gu Siyuan target her precious son: “Do you really think your wife, with her delicate demeanor, can do much work? I’m too embarrassed to say it, but while others earn seven or eight work points a day, he only gets three or four, or four or five at best, barely half of what others earn. Who really cares about his few points?”

Xie Yiyang wouldn’t take it lying down, immediately retorting: “What’s wrong with my four or five points? I only have one mouth to feed, I can manage. Besides, our Lao San is a hard worker, he can support me. Unlike Gu Lili, who earns no points, yet eats and drinks for free and gets served by others? He’s a parasite on the state and collective.”

“Who are you calling a parasite? You’re bold enough to insult Lili right in front of me?” Mother Gu was furious, reaching out to grab him.

Xie Yiyang quickly hid behind Gu Siyuan, but didn’t forget to poke his head out and continue arguing: “I’m just stating facts. He is a parasite.”

Gu Siyuan shielded him completely, coldly saying to Mother Gu: “Mother, no need to argue with Yangyang. I’ve already proposed a compromise, no other options. Either everyone enjoys, or everyone works.”

“You…” Mother Gu was so angry she couldn’t speak.

…

Splitting the family was a future issue. Right now, there was a more pressing matter.

After washing up in the evening.

Gu Siyuan glanced at the nearby bed, squinting. There was only one bed, meaning they would sleep together tonight.

Well, he originally came to complete a mission…

Xie Yiyang had already automatically climbed into bed, wrapping himself into a bundle with the quilt, even rolling around contentedly.

It wasn’t until he noticed a gaze on him that he hesitantly lifted a corner of the quilt, timidly asking: “Are you going to sleep with me…”

Seeing his expression, Gu Siyuan, who had been a bit hesitant, immediately lay down decisively, coldly saying: “What else?”

He hated trouble but wasn’t one to wrong himself.

If they didn’t sleep together today, they never would.

Given that, he might as well follow his instincts.

Although Xie Yiyang was a bit flamboyant and spoiled, he didn’t find him annoying.

“…” Xie Yiyang pouted.

So fierce!

But could he be blamed? The other party ran off the day after the wedding, and he had been sleeping alone for half a year. Suddenly having someone here, he need to adjust first, right?

Just then, Xie Yiyang felt warmth on his waist, the large hand of the person beside him resting there.

His eyes widened slightly, recalling what Gu Siyuan said to Gu Lili during the day about doing what husbands do after not seeing each other for a long time…

Ah.

Was Gu Siyuan going to do that to him?

They didn’t even do it on their wedding night.

The next moment, he found himself pushed from lying flat to lying on his side.

Then, Gu Siyuan’s cold voice sounded in his ear: “You’re pressing on my clothes.”

“…” Xie Yiyang.

Is this guy even capable?

With this question that he felt would surely get him scolded if found out, the carefree Xie Yiyang still fell asleep.

The next morning, Gu Siyuan looked at the person who had automatically snuggled into his arms in the middle of the night and was sleeping soundly. He felt that this scene was somewhat inexplicably familiar, as if it had happened countless times before.

As he was thinking, Xie Yiyang’s soft cheek lightly rubbed against his arm, and he shifted his body again, seemingly finding the most comfortable position, and continued to sleep.

Gu Siyuan observed for a moment, then reached out and gently pinched his cheek.

The touch felt good.

Xie Yiyang half-opened his eyes, looked at him in a daze, and immediately closed them again, murmuring in his arms, “Mm… Is it time to get up?”

Gu Siyuan found his reaction quite amusing, as if they were already so familiar with each other, like an old married couple who had spent half their lives together.

However, this feeling didn’t seem to be unpleasant.

He squinted his eyes and softly replied, “Didn’t we say yesterday that you could stay at home like Gu Lili today?”

“Okay…” Xie Yiyang lay in his arms, dragging his voice, and responded sleepily.

Gu Siyuan slowly placed him down, got up, dressed, and washed up.

He thought his movements were as light as possible.

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

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

But today, for some reason, after Gu Siyuan left, he woke up soon after. He rolled around on the bed several times but couldn’t fall back asleep.

He lay there for a while longer.

The sun had risen quite high, and Xie Yiyang quickly got up.

As he walked out of the room, he immediately saw Gu Lili sitting at the table having breakfast, holding an egg and gently tapping it against the edge of the table.

Xie Yiyang’s eyes widened in anger, “It’s a good thing I didn’t go to the fields today. Otherwise, how would I have seen you secretly eating an egg at home? Gu Lili, how dare you?”

In such a time of scarcity, an egg was a rare luxury for a farming family.

Gu Lili, who did nothing, was eating an egg at home.

Gu Lili stopped tapping the egg, held it tightly in his palm, and disdainfully looked at Xie Yiyang, “You’re not going to the fields today either. Besides, the egg was given to me by Mother. What does it have to do with you?”

Xie Yiyang glared, “How does it not have to do with me? Even if I’m not going to the fields today, I’ve earned work points for the family before. Our family’s Lao San earns the most, and in the whole family, you’re the only one who eats for free. If I don’t eat the egg, you shouldn’t either.”

As he spoke, he immediately rushed over aggressively.

Xie Yiyang’s strength was insignificant when working in the fields, but as a fellow pampered child, he was about the same as Gu Lili, and his obsession with food was even stronger.

After a brief struggle, he actually managed to snatch the egg away.

Xie Yiyang carefully put the egg into his pocket, still glaring at Gu Lili fiercely, “Just you wait. I’m going to stay home every day now. I’ll keep a close eye on you, and you can forget about enjoying any special treatment.”

Gu Lili was rendered speechless by his tantrum.

Looking at the scratch marks on his hand, he angrily said, “You lunatic, you’ve never seen the world. Going crazy over an egg.”

Xie Yiyang was even more enraged, “What do you mean just an egg? Not to mention how hard our Lao San works in the river, even our eldest brother and sister-in-law, who work the hardest in the family, haven’t had an egg in ages. And you dare say it’s just an egg? If you don’t care about eggs, why are you secretly eating it? Why don’t you give it to someone else?”

“You! What’s it to you!” Gu Lili was so angry he stopped eating and hurriedly ran out the door, planning to find Feng Keng for comfort.

Watching his retreating figure, Xie Yiyang snorted proudly.

He sat at the table and drank all the porridge in the basin that hadn’t been touched yet.

After finishing breakfast and putting the dishes away in the kitchen, he looked at the increasingly bright sun outside, filled a jug with cool water from the kitchen, put on a straw hat, and took the treasured egg he had just snatched to the fields.

The water had been mostly carried yesterday.

Today’s main task was plowing the fields.

In their Yunxi Village, there were three production teams, but only one communal tractor, which had to be rotated among the teams during the busy farming season.

These few days, it was their Forward Production Team’s turn.

Using a tractor to plow the fields was naturally much easier than manual labor, but since it was only for a few days, to ensure the seedlings could be planted on time, both manual labor and the tractor had to work simultaneously.

Gu Siyuan was swinging a hoe in the field.

In his previous life, he had grown up in the countryside and was proficient in basic farm work, doing it quite well.

His cold and handsome face, clean and fluid movements, and attractive muscles immediately drew the attention of many older sisters and gers.

When Xie Yiyang cheerfully arrived at the field, he saw the familiar scene from yesterday and immediately hurried over in a huff.

Not caring about his steps, he ran to Gu Siyuan with the jug of water.

Gu Siyuan was focused on his hoeing when Xie Yiyang abruptly stood in front of him.

Even someone as calm as Gu Siyuan was startled by his actions.

He stopped his hoe and looked at him coldly, “Are you crazy, standing there? I might hit your head later.”

Xie Yiyang had come over happily to show off, but first, he was annoyed by the older sisters, and now he was being scolded by Gu Siyuan, making him puff out his cheeks in displeasure.

“Are you mad that I came and ruined your good time?”

“…” Gu Siyuan.

This mission target was mostly cute, but sometimes also a bit neurotic.

He softened his expression, glanced at the water jug in Xie Yiyang’s hand, and asked warmly, “Did you bring water?”

Xie Yiyang glared at him, “Bring what water? No, I’m leaving now.”

With that, he really turned around and started to leave.

Gu Siyuan didn’t know why he was being so sulky, but if he really let him leave now, there would surely be even bigger trouble waiting for him later.

He had always disliked trouble.

If there was anything, it was best to clear it up on the spot.

He put the hoe aside and reached out to grab the slender wrist.

Xie Yiyang pouted and struggled a couple of times unwillingly.

However, his strength was only enough to deal with Gu Lili; in Gu Siyuan’s hand, it was like a kitten scratching an itch.

Soon, he was led to the edge of the field and sat down.

Gu Siyuan placed a large leaf under him and asked in a calm voice, “What’s the matter, speak clearly.”

“They are all watching you.”

Xie Yiyang held back but still muttered softly.

“…” Gu Siyuan was slightly stunned.

After a while, he squinted his eyes and looked directly at Xie Yiyang, “So, you are jealous.”

Xie Yiyang immediately reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, “Jealous? Jealous of what? Who’s jealous? I just think they are too unreserved. What’s the point of watching a plain married man like you?”

Although he denied it firmly and took the opportunity to belittle Gu Siyuan a few times.

But Gu Siyuan was undeniably a smart person. Wasn’t it clear enough?

This mission target really had deeply fallen for him.

The grace of a beauty was always hard to bear.

Gu Siyuan squinted his eyes.

After a while, he deliberated and replied softly, “Let them watch. After all… I won’t look at them.”

After thinking for a moment, he added, “I will only look at you.”

That should be the right answer, right?

“…” Xie Yiyang.

How could he be so good with words?

Or was it that he had shown his feelings too obviously?

Gu Siyuan looked at the water jug in Xie Yiyang’s hand and said calmly, “Give it to me.”

“Oh.” Xie Yiyang nodded quickly and handed it over very enthusiastically, immediately forgetting his previous refusal.

He even rested his chin on his hand, watching Gu Siyuan drink water with great interest, as if it was a rare and beautiful sight.

Gu Siyuan took the jug and started drinking directly.

His neck was long, not in the slender way of Xie Yiyang’s, but with a mature man’s sexy and upright appearance. As the water entered his thin lips, his Adam’s apple moved up and down, making a gulping sound.

The lid of the jug wasn’t secure, and a few streams of water flowed down Gu Siyuan’s neck into his clothes.

Watching this scene, Xie Yiyang couldn’t help but blush, thinking about the hard and defined muscles he had felt while lying in his arms this morning.

Gu Siyuan didn’t notice his wife’s strange state. After drinking his fill, he put the jug aside and said calmly, “Thanks for your hard work.”

Xie Yiyang looked up at him with bright eyes, “It’s not hard. Was the water good?”

“…” Gu Siyuan squinted.

It was just plain water, what special taste could it have?

If it were anyone else asking him such a boring question, he wouldn’t even bother to respond.

But Xie Yiyang’s eyes were so bright, looking at him expectantly, as if they were filled with countless stars.

Gu Siyuan hesitated for a moment and said softly, “Very sweet.”

“Hehe…” Xie Yiyang laughed softly with his chin resting on his hand.

Gu Siyuan lowered his eyes and thought: His smile is quite cute. If that’s the case, saying a sweet word to him isn’t a big deal.

Just then, Xie Yiyang suddenly pulled his sleeve and said excitedly, “I have something even better.”

Gu Siyuan nodded, “Oh?”

Xie Yiyang said mysteriously, “Hey, want to guess? It’s something good.”

Gu Siyuan’s eyes slowly swept over him and saw his gaze unconsciously drifting towards his chest pocket. Judging by the shape of the pocket, it was not hard to guess.

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

“…” Xie Yiyang.

I asked you to guess, not to directly give the correct answer.

How could he do this? There’s no surprise at all.

Seeing his suddenly deflated spirit, Gu Siyuan wondered if he had guessed wrong?

He hesitated and asked, “How about I guess again?”

Xie Yiyang shook his head and carefully took the egg out of his pocket.

After a while, his mood became high again, and he said proudly, “Even though you guessed the egg, can you guess where the egg came from?”

Gu Siyuan replied casually, “Took it from Gu Lili?”

With no special occasion, only Gu Lili might have an egg.

“…” Xie Yiyang.

This life is unbearable.

How could his husband be like this?

He angrily stuffed the egg into Gu Siyuan’s hand, “Alright, alright, there’s no fun playing with you. I used so much brainpower, take the egg and eat it.”

Gu Siyuan took the egg and silently glanced at Xie Yiyang.

From the description in the original plot, he knew that Xie Yiyang was someone who cared the most about himself. Any good thing would be tightly kept for himself.

However, from this short interaction, he was genuinely good to him.

Gu Siyuan slowly peeled the egg, the smooth, white egg white looked extremely enticing.

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

His fingers pinched the flesh on his thigh; now it was his husband working alone to support the two of them, working so hard. He couldn’t take the good stuff from him.

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 desire for food like eggs was not that strong.

He looked up at Xie Yiyang and smiled lightly, “Open your mouth…”

Xie Yiyang instinctively said, “Ah.”

The next moment, his mouth was filled with the egg.

Xie Yiyang was stunned.

He then angrily glared at Gu Siyuan.

Gu Siyuan coldly reminded him, “Don’t talk, eat quickly, be careful it doesn’t fall out.”

Xie Yiyang had no choice but to bite off the half that was in his mouth, and he took the remaining half with his hand.

He chewed slowly, and after a long while, he reluctantly swallowed the small half in his mouth, his beautiful eyes slightly squinting, feeling as happy as if he had eaten a Manchu-Han Imperial Feast.

Then, he quickly remembered the important matter, and angrily looked at the culprit beside him, “The egg was for you, why did you do that?”

Gu Siyuan nonchalantly said, “Didn’t I say yesterday that I wanted to raise you to be fair and tender?”

“…” Xie Yiyang’s cheeks turned slightly red.

Did he really take it seriously?

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

Xie Yiyang, usually a quick-witted person, furrowed his brows in frustration at this moment.

After a while, he hummed and said, “I got it. From now on, when the sun is out, I’ll make sure not to get tanned. But, I had half of the egg just now, it was enough for me. You must eat the remaining half.”

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

Xie Yiyang widened his eyes, “Are you despising me? We’re married, aren’t we?”

Xie Yiyang ate very elegantly.

The teeth marks on this half of the egg were neat and cute.

Gu Siyuan, who originally had some cleanliness issues, somehow didn’t find it strange or disgusting at all.

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

Xie Yiyang immediately became happy, raising his face and acting cute, “How is it, the egg is delicious, right?”

Gu Siyuan patted his head and nodded, “Yes.”

Xie Yiyang continued to complain proudly, “Hmph, it’s a good thing I stayed at home this morning, I discovered that Gu Lili was secretly eating an egg. I’ll keep an eye on him, and definitely not let him have special treats alone.”

Gu Siyuan squinted his eyes and chuckled, “Then keep a close watch. He’s used to living the good life, and the things he hides are definitely more than just eggs. If you keep taking his things, after a while, he’ll be the first to urge our parents to split us up.”

Xie Yiyang’s eyes lit up, “Oh, husband, you’re so smart.”

“…” Gu Siyuan.

How did he suddenly start calling him husband?

Was it because he had been indulgent today, so Xie Yiyang was acting spoiled?

Then… he should treat Xie Yiyang even better in the future.