Chapter 9 An orphan girl is not worthy of inheriting the family property?
Gu Qingye stopped outside the main hall door and said with a sweet smile, "Sister Xixi, please come in and sit down first. I'll go boil some water for you."
Gu Xixi knew very well that there was a Hongmen Banquet ahead, so how could she let Gu Qingye escape?
She reached out and grabbed him, saying, "I'm not thirsty. We're family, so there's no need to be polite." She forcibly pulled Gu Qingye aside and lifted the curtain to go into the house.
The room was full of people, and except for Liu, all the others were men.
Although Gu Xixi did not recognize her, the original book also wrote that Gu's relatives coveted the orphan's property.
I think these people are allies found by Gu Laosan.
She smiled and moved a stool for herself to sit down, saying, "It's just the rent of a few acres of land, and I have to trouble all the elders to help witness it. It really makes me feel uneasy."
Liu glared at Gu Xixi and scolded her own daughter, "The adults are talking about serious matters, why are you, a little girl, interfering in this? You insist on imitating that lowly little whore and forgetting your duty!"
A sneer flashed across Gu Xixi's eyes. This indirect criticism was too obvious.
Gu Qingye naturally knew what was going on, but she felt really embarrassed to be insulted by her own mother in front of everyone.
She didn't dare to open her mouth to argue and could only stand there with her head down, feeling even more disgusted with Gu Xixi.
Gu Xixi smiled and said, "Our Gu family has been an honest farming family for generations. Third Aunt said that my cousin secretly met a prostitute. If this word gets out..."
"It's fine for me, but what about the other daughters of the Gu family who are still unengaged?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's faces turned unhappy.
The white-haired old man sitting by the table on the kang said in a deep voice, "Third brother, your wife has a bad mouth. You should control her."
Gu Laosan's ears turned red with embarrassment, and he gritted his teeth and agreed, "Uncle is right."
He turned around and scolded Liu, "Qingye is unruly. It's because you, as his mother, didn't teach him well! Why don't you get out of here!"
Liu stood up reluctantly, gave Xixi a fierce look, and then pulled her daughter out.
Gu Xixi looked at the people sitting on the kang. Except for Gu Laosan, the one who had just spoken was Uncle Gu, and the man with gray hair sitting opposite him must be Uncle Gu Er.
The rest of the people sitting around, judging by their ages, should be the sons and grandsons of their two families.
There was also a young man who had been standing behind Liu. He must be Gu Qingye’s elder brother, Gu Tiezhu.
As his eyes passed by, Gu Tiezhu suddenly grinned and blinked obscenely.
Xixi felt nauseous and lowered her eyes with a cold face.
After a moment of silence, Grandpa Gu finally spoke, "Girl, I'm not saying anything to you."
"The third brother is your uncle. It's a piece of unused land. Why not let him use it instead of wasting it? Why did you have to ask for money?"
The tone was kind, but the content was a condescending criticism.
Gu Xixi hid a sneer and asked with some admiration, "I heard that Grandpa has two acres of vegetable fields, with more varieties than other families, and he can even sell them in the city for money."
The vegetable garden is the treasure of Uncle Gu’s family.
He brought vegetable seeds from other places that year, some of which were varieties not available locally.
In addition to growing vegetables for our own consumption, we can also pick two loads of vegetables every now and then and set up stalls in the city.
Just by selling vegetables, Uncle Gu and his family live better than anyone else in the same clan.
As expected, Mr. Gu showed a proud look, "Of course."
"People in the county are scrambling to get our winter melons and beans!"
Gu Xixi smiled innocently and said, "Then I won't be polite. Since Grandpa has said that relatives shouldn't talk about money, I'll go to your house to pick them whenever I want to eat them."
"Oh, I want to grow some vegetables recently. Grandpa, it would be better if you could give me some more seeds."
Except for Grandpa Gu's family, everyone else in the room looked at them sideways, wanting to laugh but not daring to do it too obviously.
Who doesn’t know that no outsiders are allowed to touch Mr. Gu’s dishes?
Especially the vegetable seeds, which were regarded as a unique secret recipe by Uncle Gu. Even if relatives offered to buy them, he would definitely refuse.
Uncle Gu's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. His lips trembled for a moment before he squeezed out a word from his teeth:
“Nonsense!”
Gu Xixi was obedient and puzzled, "Hmm?"
Master Gu was a man of short temper. When he saw his elder brother being humiliated, he immediately spoke up in a rough voice:
"Why waste your words on her? A daughter who is married off is like spilled water. According to our ancestral rules, an orphan girl who is about to get married cannot continue to take care of the Gu family's land!"
"The elders love her and have given her a dowry, which is good enough."
Everyone present could hardly contain their excitement. Thirty-two acres of land was a considerable amount for each family.
Gu Laosan was the first to express his opinion, "I agree with what Second Uncle said."
Although he could not monopolize all the fields as he wished, it was better to have something than nothing.
not to mention……
Let's all teach this rampant girl a lesson, it will make everyone happy!
Gu Xixi looked at the group of greedy people in front of her, and her eyes suddenly became gloomy.
This makes sense, but do you want to just rob people openly?
She was about to stand up when she heard a deep male voice behind her sneer, "According to the laws of this dynasty, the person whose name is on the land deed is the owner of the land."
"There is also Article 34 of the Criminal Law, which states that forcibly seizing the property of others is punishable by one year's imprisonment and 40 lashes."
Gu Xixi turned her head and saw Mu Nanzhao standing at the door, with a layer of light all around him.
He walked over, stopped beside Gu Xixi, and looked around at everyone with an indifferent expression.
"You are so aggressive, are you trying to break the law?"
The men in the Gu family were so shocked by such a powerful demeanor that they just stood there in a daze for a long time without saying a word.
Gu Xixi smiled secretly in her heart, and her accumulated anger subsided a lot.
She sat up straight and said, "When my father was alive, he transferred all the land deeds to my name."
"So the land belongs to me, not the Gu family. The rules you all say with your empty words can't override the laws set by the court, right?"
Master Gu's momentum was already weakened, but he still tried to argue, "But if you get married, all the family property will become yours. How can you be worthy of your father and the ancestors of the Gu family!"
Mu Nanzhao sneered, "Ancestors? For a small family that doesn't even have a clan temple or genealogy, I'm afraid they don't even know what the three generations ago were called."
Except for Xixi, everyone with the surname Gu blushed.
Gu Xixi looked at Mu Nanzhao with admiration. Even though he was so cruel and heartbreaking, she couldn't admit defeat.
"My elders, please remind me. I will go to the government office tomorrow to register myself as a female household."
Master Gu was shocked, "A woman is the head of a household. What do you think of your man?"
Gu Xixi and Mu Nanzhao looked at each other with sweet eyes, "I have discussed it with Chen Fang, and he has no objection."
Mu Nanzhao naturally saw that the woman was acting.
He raised his hand and stroked the hair hanging down from her temples, his eyes full of tenderness and doting, "Everything is up to you."
Xixi felt a chill, but still kept smiling and looked at him affectionately.
She turned to Gu Lao San and said, "Tomorrow I will help Uncle San harvest the wheat as usual. As we are relatives, I won't take a penny."
That’s all I have to say.
Mu Nanzhao calmly shook Xixi's hand and said, "We have something else to do. Goodbye."
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