"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
"Gu Shouxin! Three days are up! Get the hell out here now!"
"Open the door! Open the door now!"
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
Gu Xin was fantasizing about whether her older sister was the kind of sister she wanted when she was startled by the sudden knocking on the door.
She instinctively hid under the window of the main room.
She was already very familiar with this situation—debt collectors.
Her father often gambled and then borrowed money from the gambling den.
She used to live in the old house. Her grandmother was fierce, and those people who came to the house were beaten.
But after this happened too many times, her grandmother stopped helping her father and kicked the second branch of the family out.
Every time her father opened the door, he would get beaten up, and then he would go to the old house to borrow money from his grandfather, his eldest uncle, and his fourth uncle.
Although she was scared, Gu Xin was still a little worried about her father.
So he quietly stood up again and looked out the window.
She saw that the figure she liked so much, head held high, opening the door, completely unlike before when he was timid and hesitant.
Her mother, who usually hid at such times, did not hide today. With her hands behind her back and a wood-chopping knife in one hand, she walked to the vegetable garden in the yard and squatted down to grab a handful of soil.
Then she saw a third person.
Her sister suddenly appeared not far behind her mother, making strange movements with her hands and feet.
He rotated his wrists, stood on his tiptoes, and rotated his feet as well.
Although she didn't understand her sister's action, she felt that it was a preparation for a fight.
Gu Xin was stunned.
What's going on between my mother and sister?
This has never happened before, what's wrong today?
Oh no! Neither Mom nor my sister have ever been in a fight. What if they get hurt?
No, I need to go find Grandma.
With that thought in mind, Gu Xin didn't delay any longer. She turned around, passed through the main room, climbed up the earthen slope from the back ditch, and ran towards the old house through the soil.
As she ran, she thought to herself, "Luckily, the old house isn't far away. Even if I can't call my grandma, I can call my uncle and fourth uncle."
The eldest uncle and the fourth uncle were still very willing to help their family.
Sigh, Dad shouldn't have gambled. He should have been like my eldest uncle and fourth uncle, either farming or doing something else.
No, Dad used to farm, and he was quite good at it. But when he stopped farming, he would go out drinking and gambling.
Oh well, never mind, I need to go get some help.
...
Looking at the ten people standing at the door, Gu Shouxin already knew what they were up to.
Before he arrived, Gu Shouxin had lost money gambling at the casino, and he also had money borrowed from his mother at the old house to pay for his youngest daughter's medical treatment. Knowing that he would be severely beaten by his mother when he returned, he decided to win it back.
Then he borrowed money from the gambling house, but ended up losing everything and owing the gambling house two hundred taels.
This brain-dead idiot even used his wife and two daughters as stakes, and he lost completely.
The people at the gambling den said that paying back three hundred taels would be enough.
Three hundred taels of silver was an astronomical sum for a villager who toiled in the fields.
Gu Shouxin didn't want to be beaten by his own mother, nor did he want to see his wife and daughter being taken away. So, he went to the pharmacy and bought medicine to prevent snakes, insects, and rodents. He put it on his food when he got home, and his whole family died.
Even the people at the gambling den couldn't do anything to his mother's side.
As a result, the original Gu Shouxin died, but he, the current Ninth Prince of the Daye Dynasty, came to power.
Although the Ninth Prince still hasn't figured out why his wife and daughter didn't die after eating it, he is still very fortunate, after all, he didn't have a wife or daughter before.
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