Chapter 25 Master
Just then, Gu Jiao walked over from the direction of the backyard carrying a small basket on her back.
"It takes so long to go to the toilet!" Feng Lin muttered to himself.
Xiao Liulang's gaze fell on Gu Jiao. When she approached, he asked her, "Where do you feel unwell? Let the doctor take a look."
"No, let's go," Gu Jiao said.
She certainly didn't look sick. Xiao Liulang went to get the medicine, and when he paid, he found that half a month's worth of medicine cost less than one tael of silver: "Is there a mistake?"
"No, that's the price," the waiter said.
"I told you before, their business isn't doing well, so they've lowered their prices," Feng Lin whispered in his ear.
But the price drop was... way too outrageous.
But apart from that, Xiao Liulang couldn't think of any other reason. It couldn't be that some benefactor was secretly helping him.
The group left Huichuntang.
The second boss personally escorted her to the door. As he brushed past Gu Jiao, the second boss smiled and held up five fingers at Gu Jiao.
The medicine will cost five taels of silver; put it on your tab now.
Gu Jiao gave him a domineering look and deducted the money from the consultation fee!
That said, the second boss hasn't asked her to treat anyone yet, so who knows what kind of business she'll get when the time comes.
“Brother Xiao, I’ll take you back,” Feng Lin said.
Xiao Liulang said without giving any room for refusal, "No need. Uncle Luo's oxcart is right there. Go back to the academy and study hard. You'll be taking the exam next year."
This gave Feng Lin a headache. His scholarship wasn't actually that good. His teacher always said his essays were too rigid and lacked originality. He was fine with conservative examiners, but if he encountered a modern one, he would definitely fail.
Feng Lin sighed, "Alright, I'll go to the academy first. Be careful on the way."
After saying that, he glared at Gu Jiao again, as if worried that she would cause trouble for Xiao Liulang. However, ever since Xiao Liulang said that she had a name, he never called her "little shrew" again.
After Feng Lin left, Gu Jiao and Xiao Liulang did not return to the village immediately, but instead went to the shop to buy some things.
Gu Jiao bought some candied fruit, peanuts, and melon seeds. She found that the old lady was quite easy to coax; as long as she was given food, she could stay in the house all day.
Xiao Liulang bought some brown sugar, which he had borrowed from Aunt Zhang's house last time and hadn't returned to her yet.
As the two men loaded their belongings onto the oxcart, Uncle Luo smiled and said, "Buying New Year's goods? It's time to get started, the end of the year is just around the corner."
The two of them were both stunned for a moment.
I suddenly realized that the end of the year is approaching.
In truth, the two weren't living aimlessly, but they simply lacked the habit and plans for celebrating the Lunar New Year. For them, the eve of the Lunar New Year, a time of family reunions and countless lights in every home, was always the loneliest day.
In her previous life, Gu Jiao left home at the age of eight and lived in the organization's experimental base. The organization would give everyone a holiday on New Year's Eve, leaving her alone in the empty base.
Gu Jiao didn't know much about Xiao Liulang's situation. Perhaps he had his share of excitement, but it all disappeared afterward.
She was a lonely soul from another world, and he was a lonely traveler from a foreign land.
Uncle Luo's words left the two of them somewhat at a loss.
But the two of them said nothing, and silently got onto the oxcart with their belongings in their hands.
The oxcart moved slowly, and it was already dark when it arrived at the village.
Uncle Luo drove the oxcart back to his home, Gu Jiao threw all her things into her small basket, and walked towards her home with Xiao Liulang.
I had only gone halfway when I saw in the distance that something seemed to have happened in front of my house. A crowd of people had gathered, three or four deep, making it impossible to move. I could hear cursing coming from inside.
Aunt Zhang, who was at the door feeding her two grandsons and couldn't leave, shouted at the two of them, "Oh dear, Liu Lang, why are you only coming back now? Something happened at your house!"
"What happened, Aunt Zhang?" Xiao Liulang asked.
"The Gu family came to our door and got into a fight with your... auntie!"
Aunt?
When did such a person arrive at their house?
Could it be... an old lady?
The old lady has dementia and will be bullied terribly!
Gu Jiao turned to Xiao Liulang and said, "I'll go take a look first."
Aunt Zhang hurriedly said, "You go quickly! Your grandma is no pushover!"
Gu Jiao had been here for so long but had never met the original owner's grandmother. She only knew that her surname was Wu, and that she was a shrew in her youth before marrying Old Master Gu. Old Master Gu was a scholar who later became the village head. Logically, Wu should have become more restrained after marrying him, but instead, she became even more arrogant.
In the village, no one was more formidable than Wu, which is why Aunt Zhang was worried that Xiao Liulang's "aunt" would be bullied.
When Gu Jiao arrived at her door, she found that all the women of the Gu family had come, including Wu Shi and her two daughters-in-law, Zhou Shi and Liu Shi.
Of course, Gu Xiaoshun and Gu Ershun were also there.
Gu Ershun stood next to her mother, while Gu Xiaoshun stood next to the old lady.
However, unlike Aunt Zhang's description, it seems that the three Wus were the ones who were scolded until their faces turned red and their necks bulged!
"You, you, you, you...you dare repeat what you just said!" Mrs. Wu stood with her hands on her hips, pointing her finger at the old lady.
The old lady had someone bring her a stool, and she sat down on it with a flourish, crossed her legs, grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds, and casually said while cracking them open, "Why should I say it again? Are you not smart enough to understand, or are you deaf and can't hear me?"
Wu had been a tyrant in the village for so many years, and no one had ever treated her like this before.
No wonder the two daughters-in-law invited her over to have a fight; the old woman's skills were simply too much for them to handle!
"I don't care! He must bring me this tael of silver tonight!" When Wu couldn't win the argument, she started to act like a liar.
The old woman spat a face full of sunflower seed shells at her: "Pah! Did he eat your rice or drink your porridge? Even prostitutes have more shame than you! He wouldn't give you a single copper coin, let alone an ounce of silver!"
They actually compared Wu to those disreputable women in brothels, which infuriated Wu!
Wu: "You you you you..."
The old lady didn't give Wu a chance to speak: "Also, don't say that my Jiaojiao ate it. How much did she eat? And how much did you ask Liulang for? My Jiaojiao was originally going to find a husband for the Gu family, but you went and kicked them out. Now that they're gone, it has nothing to do with your Gu family!"
Madam Wu trembled with anger: "That...that was just a division of the family!" What do you mean by rushing or not? If this kind of talk gets out, what will become of the Gu family's reputation?
The old lady cracked another melon seed: "Oh, so you admit you've separated the family! If you've separated the family, why are you still making Liu Lang give you money to subsidize you? Where's your face? Go use it to wallpaper the walls!"
Ms. Wu was so choked up that her eyes rolled back.
Where did this crazy woman come from? She's absolutely infuriating!
The villagers, however, were practically dying of laughter.
Wu's mouth was so sharp that she never lost a verbal fight in the village, but today she was completely shut down.
The division of the family property was originally done unfairly by the Gu family. However, at that time, the Gu family claimed to the outside world that it was Xiao Liulang's idea, and that Xiao Liulang did not want to live with the Gu family, so the villagers did not say much.
Everyone in the village knew that Gu Jiao had been eating at the Gu family's house, but no one expected that the Gu family had actually accepted money from her!
Gu Jiao was only a fourteen-year-old girl. How much rice could she possibly eat? Yet the Gu family made Xiao Liulang give them one tael of rice every month!
Isn't this extortion?
One tael of silver is enough to feed a whole family for two months!
Zhou and Liu only came to ask for the money because Xiao Liulang hadn't given them any household allowance this month. Little did they expect it to escalate into such an uncontrollable situation.
What should we do now?
Old lady: I've argued with everyone in the court! ╭(╯^╰)╮
(End of this chapter)
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