Gu Tingzhi said coldly, "I don't know if you can climb up to the Lu family, but I do know that your family wants to climb up to me."
“You…” Liang Yue and her niece blushed deeply, because Gu Tingzhi’s words were too blunt and too harsh.
Although... it is true.
"Thunder!"
Meng Fuyan's voice rang out from behind him. Gu Tingzhi, who was just about to leave, turned around and saw Meng Fuyan pushing her bicycle over.
Upon seeing Meng Fuyan, Liang Yue and her niece's expressions changed.
Gu Tingzhi is young and promising, and he is unmarried. Many of the major families in Kyoto have designs on him, so it is definitely a good thing for the Lu family that he has fallen into their hands so quickly.
The Lu family currently has three grandsons and only one daughter, the one in front of us. Regardless of whether she is their biological daughter or not, her relationship with the Lu family is extraordinary. Gu Tingzhi's marriage to her clearly puts him in the Lu family's camp.
Lu Guozhong would certainly be happy to see this happen.
If Lu Guozhong knew that someone was coming to steal his wife at this time, he would definitely be unhappy.
The Liang family cannot afford to offend Lu Guozhong.
They dared to confront Gu Tingzhi because even if they failed, Gu Tingzhi probably wouldn't tell anyone.
He was probably secretly pleased, after all, he was so popular, but if he said it out loud, it might offend Lu Guozhong. What if Lu Guozhong thought he had something to do with the Liang family?
If they succeed, Gu Tingzhi will already be their son-in-law, and they can push him towards Old Master Gu's side. Even if Lu Guozhong is dissatisfied with the Liang family because of this, they will have obtained Gu Tingzhi, a potential asset, so paying a price is worthwhile.
But right now, things haven't gone smoothly, and Meng Fuyan saw it all. I wonder how long she's been there and how much she's heard?
What if she goes back and complains to Lu Guozhong?
Gu Tingzhi was somewhat surprised to see her. "Where are you going?"
Meng Fuyan smiled and said, "Let's go to the farmers' market to buy some things!"
As she spoke, she glanced at Liang Yue and the other person, "You know them?"
Gu Tingzhi immediately shook his head, "I don't know him."
Liang Yue and her niece looked even more displeased.
Meng Fuyan smiled, "I've been here for a while, and seeing you talking to them, I thought you knew them!"
Liang Yue's face turned even uglier, and she seemed a little flustered. Had she really arrived a long time ago?
Gu Tingzhi wanted to explain further, but Meng Fuyan didn't want to say more. "If you're free at noon, come back for lunch. I'll cook for you myself. Go to work!"
Gu Tingzhi nodded. "Okay, then go ahead and come back soon."
"Um!"
After saying that, Meng Fuyan rode away on her bicycle without giving Liang Yue and the other person a second glance.
Gu Tingzhi glanced at them, said nothing more, and turned to go to work.
After everyone left, Liang Yue's niece finally couldn't hold back her tears. After all, she was just a teenage girl. Since her older sister was so capable, she thought her family was already very powerful, and she thought marrying Gu Tingzhi was a certainty.
With her aunts paving the way, all of whom married older men and became stepmothers, she thought she could finally escape this fate.
Gu Tingzhi was young, promising, and handsome. She had even imagined the glory of marriage, but she never expected that he would not even look at her.
"What are you crying for? All you do is cry. The person was right here. Didn't you know how to behave? You just stood there without saying a word, like a dead person. Is this how you're always raised at home?"
The Liang family operates on a nepotistic system, and their daughters are naturally trained in how to win a man's heart—that's a required course for them.
But today, my niece didn't react at all when she saw Gu Tingzhi. All the things I taught her were completely useless.
The niece was already upset, and then she was scolded, which made her even more unhappy. She turned around and left without paying any attention to Liang Yue.
Meng Fuyan rode her bicycle to the farmers' market outside. The place was quite large. Presumably because there was a military region nearby, many of the people who came here were military dependents. Military dependents usually had money and tickets, so there were a lot of ordinary people who came here to exchange goods.
Military dependents have the most valuable items, and the military's supplies are more abundant than those of many other units.
After looking around, I saw that most of the products were agricultural products, along with some handicrafts such as baskets, wooden buckets, and furniture.
I saw an old man with a weathered face. His skin was dark and wrinkled, and his hands had many cuts. Even though the weather wasn't cold yet, his hands showed signs of years of hard work, with frostbite and cracks left by the years.
In front of him were two large roosters, several baskets and hampers, some chestnuts, vegetables from his private plot, and some dried mountain produce.
Grain cannot be sold, but mountain products are allowed.
Meng Fuyan took a liking to some of these and asked, "Uncle, what...why would you like to exchange them for?"
The old man could tell from the sight that the other person was a fair-skinned young girl, well-dressed and pushing a bicycle, that she was clearly from a good family.
The old man smiled kindly. "Girl, what do you want? I want brown sugar, milk powder, and fine cotton cloth. If not, money or tickets will do."
In reality, most people still want goods, so they can get them directly. Even if you go to buy something with a ration coupon, you might not be able to buy it, and the supply and marketing cooperative doesn't always have stock.
Meng Fuyan glanced at the items on his stall and said, "I'll take them all."
As she spoke, she lifted the bag that was tied to the back seat of the car and reached inside to rummage around, actually putting some things in.
"I have pretty much everything you want here. Here, take it all. Is that enough for you?"
The old man took the bag and looked inside. There were quite a few things inside: a bag of brown sugar, which was quite heavy. He reached out and weighed it in his hand; it was about four pounds. There were also four bags of milk powder, a piece of fine cotton cloth, which was folded up, and judging from its thickness, it was a large piece of cloth. There was also a small bag of White Rabbit milk candy, two cans of malted milk powder, two pieces of steamed egg cake in a kraft paper bag, about a pound of sandwich cookies, and a jar. The old man opened it and immediately closed it again, astonished.
Lard, it's actually lard.
The old man looked at his belongings and realized that apart from two large roosters, he didn't have anything of value. The girl, on the other hand, had given him all sorts of good things.
"Girl, are you going to trade these with me?"
Meng Fuyan smiled slowly and said, "Someone in your family has had a baby, right? I'll give them all to you. Is that enough?"
The old man was overjoyed; he had finally met a kind person!
"That's enough, that's enough. My daughter-in-law gave birth to two grandsons for me, twins. I really need these things for postpartum care! I'll pack them for you."
The old man was overjoyed to suddenly have two grandsons.
However, the daughter-in-law's breast milk was not enough for the two babies, so she took some things out to exchange for some formula.
In the countryside, milk powder is really hard to come by, but it's different for military families. I heard that families with children have a fixed supply of it, and they just need to bring their money and coupons to buy it.
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