Chapter 125: Using Connections
"Don't be angry, don't be angry. Look, now we have got back everything with interest. After the family is divided, without this money, the eldest family will have a hard time. It's not worth it for you to be angry with him."
Gu Tang held the silver in her hand and presented it to her father for him to see carefully.
Whether it was the silver that was stolen from her, the allowance given by Feng, or Wei's own dowry, she now took them all back.
So, what are you angry about? There is nothing to be angry about.
Gu Lianshan paused and thought, indeed, what his daughter said made sense.
After relaxing the expression on his face, he asked Gu Tang to put the silver away and talked about having drinks in the afternoon.
"Dad is willing to split up the family, but your grandma and your grandpa definitely don't agree. It's not enough to just rely on the clan leader to help us, so Dad is thinking of using some connections elsewhere.
Take out the unfinished green wine, and bring it with you when I go to your uncle Dazhu's house for a drink. Don't look down on your brothers, they live in poverty. Take your uncle Dazhu for example, the head of our Gu clan is his second uncle, his grandfather died early, and his father was not very old at that time, and it was all protected by this second uncle!
As long as Dad can convince your uncle Dazhu to help persuade the elders, and with the help of the clan leader, the division of the family can be justified. As long as it is justified, no matter whether your grandparents agree or not, the division will not ruin the reputation of our family. "
Gu Tang nodded, understanding what her father meant.
They are all from the same clan. If you count carefully, every family has its own connections and networks, and no one should be underestimated.
Since her father was drinking this time to ask someone for a favor, it might not be enough to just take the leftover green wine.
Gu Tang secretly thought about what else she could bring back for her father besides the green wine.
At the beginning of the You hour, Gu Tang packed up a lot of things, divided them into five portions, wrapped each portion with oil paper, put them together with the green wine in a backpack, covered them with cloth, and asked her father to carry them to Gu Dazhu's house.
"What do you have in here?" Gu Lianshan lifted the cloth and saw only bulging oil paper packages. He couldn't tell what was inside.
"Tea, cakes, and candies are the only three things I have in my house. There aren't many. I only put a little in each package. Let's make do with them as gifts. When the division of the family is done, we'll invite them to the restaurant in Bei'an City for a meal."
Having said that, Gu Tang thought that these three gifts were not shabby. In the village, everything was a good thing!
Gu Lianshan also thought so, with a distressed look on his face: "They are all good things! If such gifts are just mediocre, then the gifts from others will probably not be appreciated by your uncles."
"You are soft-hearted! If you don't show your courtesy, who will care whether we split up or not? This is not a good thing. If you don't do it well, you will get into trouble!"
Gu Tang covered the basket with cloth again and urged her father to go quickly: "The beginning of the evening hour is almost over. If you don't go, my uncle Dazhu will think you are not going. I am afraid that everyone will be eaten."
The time had indeed passed, and Gu Lianshan didn't dare to dawdle any longer. He put on his backpack and prepared to go out the back door.
Before leaving, he did not forget to remind Gu Tang a few words: "Your grandpa and grandma just woke up for a moment, and now they are asleep again. Don't go to the main room. If they open their eyes again, they will definitely catch you and scold you."
"Got it. I won't go to the main room. If something really happens, I'll call Ping An to go."
Probably because she heard Gu Lianshan was about to go out, Gu Tang sent her father out through the back door and returned to the front yard. Then she heard the creaking and banging sounds of a door opening and closing in the main room, followed by a burst of messy footsteps.
Immediately afterwards, Gu Liansheng's ghostly cries and screams suddenly came from the east room of the main hall, scaring people!
"Dad! Mom! Wake up! The second son and his daughter are trying to poison me—"
Gu Tang rolled his eyes. If anyone didn’t know, they would have thought that the two elders of the Gu family had passed away!
He is in his sixties and when something happens, he either calls for his father or his mother. Feng must have done a lot of sins in her previous life to give birth to such a son!
Cry, cry, it would be great if you could cry the two elders of the Gu family to death.
Gu Tang was looking forward to it, so she pretended not to hear the crying. She shouted towards her father's room, called out Gu Ping'an, and handed him the key to the east ear room.
"Go get some rice and flour, cook some porridge, and make some fried cakes. We'll have these two for dinner. I'll go to Dad's room and bring the bedding and other things back to my room."
"Oh!" Gu Ping'an responded happily, took the key and went to the east ear room.
After Gu Tang finished moving the things, he went to the kitchen and took a look, and found that only Gu Ping'an was busy there. Neither Gu Mei nor Gu Laian showed up.
Gu Tang didn't say anything. He sat in front of the stove and helped to light the fire. He asked Gu Ping'an to scoop out some rice and flour, saying that the two of them couldn't eat so much.
Gu Pingan understood what he meant and without saying a word, he scooped out the rice flour and hid it in the jar.
It is easy to prepare a meal for two people. Just half a pot of rice porridge, four fried cakes, and a bowl of pickles.
Gu Tang was full after eating a bowl of rice porridge and a piece of bread, and gave the rest to Gu Ping'an.
Gu Ping'an was halfway through his meal when Gu Mei and Gu Laian, brother and sister, came to the kitchen.
As soon as the brother and sister arrived, they went straight to the stove, lifted the lid of the pot and saw that the pot was empty, with all the rice porridge and fried cakes gone.
Gu Mei's face immediately darkened, but because she was afraid of Gu Tang, she didn't dare to speak too harshly: "You siblings have eaten your fill, but where are our rice porridge and fried cakes?"
"I owe you?" Gu Tang replied without even raising his head.
Gu Mei was speechless for a while before she said, "Now the key to the east wing is in your hand. Since you don't want to cook for us, you can give me the key to the east wing and we can take the rice and flour and cook for ourselves."
Want the key to the east wing?
Gu Tang curled the corner of her mouth. Before she checked the east wing room once, no one was allowed to go to the east wing room to look for things!
"You've eaten so much meat and rice during the day, you won't starve to death if you skip this meal at night! Right now, your uncle is crying in the main hall, and he's making people feel irritated! If you keep complaining, you'll be in trouble!"
Gu Mei's face turned pale and she dared not say anything. She stood there stiffly for a while, then ran out of the kitchen with red eyes.
When Gu Laian saw that his elder sister had run away, he didn't dare to stay in front of Gu Tang. He shrank his neck and lowered his head, and ran away closely behind Gu Mei.
After dinner, Gu Ping'an asked Gu Tang to wash up with the hot water in the kitchen, and then asked her to go back to the house, saying that he would wait in the yard for their father to come back.
Not long after Gu Tang returned to the house, Gu Liansheng in the main room probably stopped crying, probably because he was tired of crying.
Gu Ping'an, who was washing dishes and pots in the kitchen, breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, the crying stopped. The noise was giving people a headache!
Before I could even breathe a sigh of relief, there was a sudden noise at the gate of the courtyard.
Gu Ping'an quickly put down the work in his hands, took a rag, wiped his hands and walked out.
Judging from the time, his father shouldn't be back.
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