Chapter 16 16. Is this too much?
When they arrived at the grain shop, they didn't even dare to look at the yellow rice, black rice, and white flour. They were sold at such high prices, and there were even worms crawling on them. They had never seen such a scene before, and they shuddered in their hearts.
The two men hurriedly weighed a large basket of bran, bought some coarse salt, and ran towards the city gate.
They didn't know that within a short time after they entered, the Gu family had already been in an uproar about their entry into the city.
Several daughters-in-law of the Gu family surrounded Li Cuicui as they watched them line up to pay.
"Mom, how did Lao Qi and the others get in?"
"Yeah! What are they going to do in there? If they need help, they can just ask someone else to help take them there. Why waste that money?"
"Where did Old Seven and his friends get the money to go in? Mom, you didn't lend it to them, did you?"
"This old man really doesn't know how to live. He thought he was going in for fun and brought his wife with him."
Gu Dashi listened to the wives talking to each other, but he didn't react. "Did Lao Qi and the others go in?"
“…”
Everyone's eyes were on Li Cuicui, who was whispering with Lao Qi at the end, wanting to hear her explanation.
Li Cuicui knew that these people at home were troublesome, but she didn't expect that they were unwilling to even wait for Lao Qi and the others to come in and then surround her.
She drooped her eyes. "You just want to know if I gave money to Old Seven? I did."
“……”Everyone couldn’t believe that the old lady actually admitted it like that.
Gu Dasao spoke first, "Mom, it's 100 coins per person to enter the city? Lao Qi and his wife are going in together, don't they plan to live like this?"
Although the mother-in-law's money is their own, when it comes to the last step, can they, as the son and daughter-in-law, just watch the old couple starve? In the end, these things will have to fall on their shoulders.
The second son's wife was also anxious, "That's right, you said before that you would not care about the division of the family property, why are you letting them squander the family property like this now?"
Even the usually silent Gu Dashi could no longer sit still. He pointed at Li Cuicui and trembled, "You woman, have you been fooled by your son? You won't give all our belongings to him?"
Gu Yuanlei was even more nervous, because that was his capital for marrying a wife in the future. If it was really taken away by Seventh Brother, he would really be single.
Everyone's eyes were accusing, and Li Cuicui couldn't stand it anymore. "I just lent it to him, I didn't say I would give it to him. Is there any need for you to make such a fuss here?"
"Lend? How can Old Seven pay it back?" Wang Caiyue's voice became sharp. "How much did you lend him?"
Yi Cuicui stared at Wang Caiyue with gloomy eyes, "Second brother's wife, how can you talk to me like that? You have to decide what I do. You are being unfilial."
There was a glimmer of fear in Wang Caiyue's eyes. She was too impatient just now and forgot that the person in front of her was her mother-in-law.
Seeing that the man was temporarily intimidated, Li Cuicui put her hands on her hips and said, "I know what you are thinking. You are just afraid that Old Seven will take advantage of you.
Not to mention that you have all separated, can't I make my own decisions with my own money?
I know my own son, and I know that Lao Qi will not do anything unreliable. You will know when he comes back."
These unfilial descendants only have their eyes on the little money they have, just because they are afraid that the two old guys will depend on them in the future.
Li Cuicui was impatient to look at these people and didn't want to deal with them anymore, so she simply put on a gloomy face and scared away those who wanted to cause trouble.
"Maybe they won't come back," Liu Liu muttered softly, and even secretly tugged at the corner of her husband's clothes, "If they just run away like this, will we be implicated?"
Gu Yuanshui was also upset. "What's the point of saying this now? Mom has given all the money. We can only see if that boy has a conscience and will harm our family."
"Then we're just going to wait like this?" Liu Liuping looked around calmly, "How about we take the children and hide for a while. If we really get implicated, let's see if we can avoid it first?"
Gu Yuanshui was somewhat tempted, so he pulled Liu Liu and quietly returned to where he had put his luggage. While no one was paying attention, he held the child and squeezed into the corner as much as possible.
Several other sisters-in-law also had the idea, but in the end they were suppressed by their men. However, they always glanced at the city gate from time to time.
It was not until the two familiar figures appeared at the city gate that all the Gu family members breathed a sigh of relief.
Even Li Cuicui, who had a dark face, had the corners of her mouth slightly raised.
"You damn old man, I've already told you that my son would never do anything that would violate his conscience. Look, it's out now."
"You are so careless that you spend two hundred coins to go around the city. Let me see what he can use to pay you back when the time comes." Gu Dashi sighed, feeling that this old woman was becoming more and more unreliable. He wondered whether he should take the remaining money in her hand.
"Then you just wait and see," Li Cuicui's face was full of confidence. She had never seen or heard of such a rare thing, so it was hard for Jin to keep it secret for so long.
"Hey, old man, do you still remember how Mrs. Jin came to our village?"
"Which Jin Po?" Gu Dashi didn't react for a moment.
"Who else could it be? Jin's grandmother. I remember she wasn't from our village, right?"
Gu Dashi scratched his back and recalled for a long time, "Their family moved here decades ago, just before we got married. At that time, the Jin family was a family of three. They bought the old house of the previous village chief, and their life was pretty good.
It's a pity that the family was unlucky, and their son and daughter-in-law were all sickly. Otherwise, they wouldn't have had a daughter like Jin after so many years."
If the health of those two men had not dragged the family down, Granny Jin would not have married her granddaughter off under such conditions.
"Does anyone in our village know what they used to do?" Li Cuicui lowered her voice and asked mysteriously.
"I seem to have heard my parents say that they used to be peddlers, the kind that walked the streets. Unfortunately, by the time of Brother Jin's generation, their health was not good and it was difficult for them to be peddlers anymore, so they moved to our village after the head of the family passed away."
Gu Dashi looked at Li Cuicui with some curiosity, "Why are you suddenly curious about these things? I remember telling you about this before, have you forgotten?"
Of course Li Cuicui did not forget. Everyone had already made these things known before the children got married. She just wanted to find out more clearly.
"A peddler? That makes sense." Li Cuicui ignored her husband and found out where the things her son took out came from.
"Mom, we're back." Gu Wenheng felt that he was getting more and more comfortable addressing Li Cuicui. However, this gentle and cheerful word "mom" scared Li Cuicui so much that she rubbed her arms.
(End of this chapter)
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