B5SB -Chapter 310 Increase in Living Allowance

Grandma Gu stepped forward and tightly grabbed Gu Yihan’s sleeve, afraid that she might slip away if she wasn’t careful.

Seeing her actions, Gu Yihan was just about to speak and ask her to stay.

At that moment, Lu Huailin spoke up, “Grandma, Xiaohan and I also want to take you with us.”

Hearing this, Grandma Gu’s eyes lit up, and her heart instantly filled with excitement. As long as Lu Huailin didn’t stop her, she was certain she could go with them.

“But…”

Before she could be happy for long, that single “but” made her heart leap into her throat again.

She stared at him intently.

Lu Huailin looked at her and said helplessly, “Grandma, you don’t have a letter of introduction. You can’t buy a train ticket.”

Hearing this, Grandma Gu felt as if she had been struck by lightning. She had actually forgotten such an important matter.

“How about going to the police station and asking them to buy you a ticket to send you back to Gujia Village? After you return and get the team leader to issue you a letter of introduction, you can come to Beijing to find Xiaohan and me,” Lu Huailin continued.

“No… I won’t go back.”

As soon as she heard about returning, Grandma Gu’s face turned pale. She shook her head repeatedly.

Seeing how frightened she looked, Gu Yihan shot Lu Huailin an annoyed glance.

She patted Grandma Gu’s hand gently and said softly, “Grandma, Huailin makes sense. You should go back first…”

Before she could finish, Grandma Gu interrupted sharply, “Xiaohan, Grandma will not go back! Even if I die outside, I won’t go back!”

Gu Yihan stared at her in shock, not understanding why she reacted so strongly to the idea of returning.

Lu Huailin sneered inwardly.

His wife didn’t know the reason.

But he did.

Gu Aidang’s wife disliked Grandma Gu for not working in the fields to earn work points. The two had a loud argument, and in the chaos, she accidentally pushed Chen Xiu, who had just become pregnant.

Gu Aidang was furious and drove her out.

With nowhere else to go, she had no choice but to come and seek refuge with his wife.

Gradually, Grandma Gu calmed down. She knew that without a letter of introduction, there was no way she could go with her granddaughter.

She looked up at Gu Yihan and asked, “Xiaohan, how has Grandma treated you?”

Gu Yihan froze for a moment and replied honestly, “Grandma has always been good to me. Without you, I wouldn’t have lived so smoothly.”

She was telling the truth.

No matter how many schemes Grandma Gu had, before Gu Yihan could take care of herself, she had given her a chance to survive.

Otherwise, with Zhang Cuihua’s hatred toward her, she might have been drowned in a chamber pot or left to starve.

In those days, if one or two girls died in a family, no one cared.

So the fact that she could go to school and leave Gujia Village alone was enough for Gu Yihan to be grateful to Grandma Gu for a lifetime.

Seeing that her granddaughter still hadn’t held a grudge, Grandma Gu felt relieved.

She sighed softly and said with some sadness, “Grandma is old now. I won’t trouble you anymore. Otherwise, you’ll get tired of seeing this old face.”

Looking at her pitiful expression, Gu Yihan’s heart softened again. After all, she was the elder who had raised her.

She couldn’t be so heartless.

“Grandma, you’re not old. You’re still young,” she said gently.

Out of the corner of her eye, Grandma Gu glanced at Lu Huailin, who remained expressionless.

Her granddaughter was soft-hearted, but this grandson-in-law was extremely tough.

She had to strike while the iron was hot and ask for more support.

“Xiaohan, Grandma originally didn’t want to burden you,” she said.

“But I really have no choice. Qin Shou doesn’t give me living expenses. He even charges me five yuan just to stay there. I really have no other way. That’s why I had to put aside my pride.”

Gu Yihan listened quietly. She already more or less understood Grandma Gu’s purpose.

“Xiaohan, I just want to ask—when you said you’d support me in my old age, did you mean it?”

Gu Yihan looked at her for a long moment and replied flatly, “Yes, I did.”

Tears immediately welled up in Grandma Gu’s eyes. She clutched Gu Yihan’s hand tightly and said “Good, good, good” three times in a row.

Then she added, “At least I didn’t travel thousands of miles for nothing to help you give birth, do confinement, and raise Haohua.”

As she spoke, she patted Gu Yihan’s hand, her gaze falling on Haohua, who was curled up in Lu Huailin’s arms.

Feeling uncomfortable under her stare, Haohua buried his head into Lu Huailin’s neck.

Lu Huailin sneered inwardly.

Since she couldn’t follow them to Beijing, she was now playing the emotional card to get more money.

“After you leave, Grandma will be all alone in Kun City. I’ll have to buy expensive grain. Xiaohan, can you give me thirty yuan and thirty jin of grain coupons every month?”

Lu Huailin shot her a sideways glance.

A regular worker didn’t even earn forty yuan a month, let alone thirty jin of grain coupons.

She really dared to ask.

Still, as long as money could solve the problem and she didn’t come to bother his wife, it wasn’t a big deal.

Gu Yihan felt a dull ache in her heart.

Even though she knew Grandma Gu’s intentions weren’t pure, she had still hoped there was some genuine affection.

So be it.

She would treat this as repayment for her upbringing. From now on, they wouldn’t see each other again.

Taking a deep breath, she looked into Grandma Gu’s hopeful eyes.

“Grandma, I agree. I’ll mail you your living allowance every month.”

“Oh, I knew it. Xiaohan is filial, sensible, and knows how to repay kindness,” Grandma Gu said happily.

Then she turned to Lu Huailin and smiled. “Grandson-in-law, it’s getting late. I won’t delay you from catching the train.”

She picked up her bundle from the ground and walked away briskly.

Seeing Gu Yihan’s low spirits, Lu Huailin said gently, “Wife, don’t be sad. You still have me and Haohua.”

Gu Yihan looked at him and forced a smile that looked worse than crying.

“Treating her like an ordinary relative is fine.”

The family of three entered the station.

Half an hour later, the train finally arrived. Lu Huailin held Haohua in his left arm and tightly held his wife’s hand with his right, afraid she might be swept away by the crowd.

Although there were fewer passengers than during the New Year period, it was still crowded.

It was Haohua’s first time on a train. He looked around curiously and exclaimed, “How can there be such a big car?”

Lu Huailin laughed softly. “This is a train. It’s different from the buses you’ve ridden.”

Gu Yihan found their sleeper berth, put down her shoulder bag, took Haohua and laid him on the bed.

Lu Huailin stuffed the big bag under the berth and sat beside his wife.

Smiling, he said, “Wife, you’ve been busy all day. I’ll watch Haohua. You get some sleep.”

Gu Yihan nodded. She really was tired.

She had gotten up early, given away everything she couldn’t take, and had He Shengli mail the rest to Beijing in advance.

Thinking about how she’d have to raise chickens again after arriving in Beijing, she soon fell asleep.