Chapter 17 Zhang's Former In-Laws
"Your second sister is willing to take out the rabbit skin?" Gu Lianshan looked surprised.
Since the rabbit skin was brought back, his daughter might have hidden it! No one saw it, and no one knew where she hid it.
"It's probably too cold today. Judging from the posture, it looks like it's a robe."
"Then I have to go and take a look! The rabbit skins were all obtained by your second sister herself by catching rabbits. If they are not sewn properly and damaged, your second sister will be very angry again!"
Gu Lianshan took off the apron around his waist, told his son to keep an eye on the porridge in the pot and make sure it didn't overflow, and then hurried out of the kitchen.
Inside the room, Gu Tang threaded the needle and prepared to sew for the last time. If it still didn't work, he would have to pay someone to help him sew.
Just after a few injections, Gu Lianshan knocked on the door.
The door was not bolted. Gu Lianshan was very strong and knocked twice, and the door opened a crack, allowing the cold wind to come in again.
Gu Tang was already irritable at this moment, and the cold wind made him even more angry. He shouted angrily, "Come in!"
As soon as Gu Lianshan heard the tone, he knew that this was the result of his impatient temper, and he would get angry as soon as things didn't go his way.
He pushed the door open and saw Gu Tang still struggling with the fur. He closed the door and walked forward to take over the work in her hands.
"You have never liked sewing since you were a kid. You can't even sew clothes properly, and you still want to sew fur coats?"
I took a few glances at the stitching and found it was crooked, dense and uneven.
He wanted to bite off the thread with his teeth, but when he glanced over, he saw a pair of scissors next to Gu Tang. He subconsciously reached out to take it, and with a few clicks, he quickly removed the thread.
Putting down the scissors, Gu Lianshan realized something was wrong: "Where did the scissors come from?"
There is only one pair of scissors in the entire Gu family, and it has always been in the hands of his mother. She treats it very preciously and never lends it to others.
His daughter had complained more than once that there were no scissors to use, and that she had to use her teeth to mend clothes.
Gu Lianshan took the scissors again and looked at them carefully, his expression becoming more and more solemn the more he looked.
The silver scissors were small and sharp, about the size of an adult's palm, with fine golden vines engraved on them, looking both precious and eye-catching.
You can tell at a glance that this thing is not a cheap item, and the Gu family can’t afford it anyway.
"When I was delivering rabbits the other day, I ran into a caravan of merchants from foreign countries. They were selling some foreign goods everywhere.
I followed the man and took a look at it. I liked the scissors at first sight, so I traded the rabbit for them. How do you think it is? Do you like it? "
Gu Lianshan looked suspicious: "Can this thing be exchanged for a rabbit?"
Gu Tang calmly snatched the scissors and put them away, saying calmly: "It's just a pair of scissors. We think it's rare, but maybe in someone's possession, it's not even as valuable as a rabbit."
Gu Lianshan paused and thought about it carefully. The people here may think that things from foreign countries are rare, but in the eyes of foreign people, they may be common things.
"Dad will sew you a fur coat. The hot water in the kitchen is almost ready. Go wash up quickly. Dad has cooked the porridge."
After carefully putting away the cut fur, Gu Lianshan urged her to get up quickly.
Gu Tang was cleaning up the debris on the bed. He stopped what he was doing when he heard this: "Why are you the one cooking porridge today? Aren't you afraid that my grandma will see and scold my mother?"
"Didn't Sanlang tell you yesterday? Your mother is not here. She went to the Lin family."
"Why are you going to the Lin family again?" Gu Tang frowned.
The Lin family was Zhang's former husband's family. In their early years, there was a scholar in the family, who was Zhang's ex-husband who died early - Lin Chengcai.
Lin Chengcai was much stronger than the eldest son of the Gu family. He passed the imperial examination and became a scholar in his twenties, although he eventually fell ill and did not take part in the imperial examinations again.
But he got the title of scholar through his own hard work, unlike someone else, whose title of student is just a water-glass title that can only be used to raise fish.
In his early years, the Lin family was quite wealthy. They spent money to buy Lin Xiucai a position as a "chief clerk" in the government office, and the whole family moved to Bei'an City to live.
Later, Mr. Lin died of illness, and the two elders of the Lin family returned to Linjia Village with their grandson, granddaughter and daughter-in-law Zhang.
Not long after, the old man of the Lin family also died of illness, and his remaining meager property was all spent, leaving behind an old house with bare walls, and only women, children and the elderly could live here.
In order to make a living, Zhang had to remarry.
But her only requirement for getting married was to bring Old Mrs. Zhang and her two children with her.
This “bring with” does not mean that the whole family has to move to the man’s house.
Old Mrs. Zhang and her two children still lived in Linjia Village, while Zhang married and moved there alone.
But after the marriage, the man’s family must produce export grain to support the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren.
Although Zhang had given birth to a child and remarried, she was still very popular among the villagers.
The reason is that she was once the daughter-in-law of a scholar, and the key point is that the scholar was an "official"!
In the countryside and among the villagers, they cannot distinguish between high-ranking and low-ranking officials. They only know that those who work for the government are officials.
Being able to marry a "government wife" as a daughter-in-law would make the whole family happy.
But as soon as Zhang's conditions for remarrying were announced, the crowd that had been rushing to get married suddenly dispersed.
There is no other reason. These days, every family can only barely get half full, so how can there be extra food to feed outsiders?
Anyway, no one knows what happened in the end, but her father Gu Lianshan, the unfortunate victim, took over.
Ever since Gu Tang could remember, Zhang went back to the Lin family once a month to deliver food rations. Most of the time, she went and came back on the same day, and rarely stayed overnight.
But in the past month, Zhang has returned to the Lin family ten times.
Every time he made the same excuse, saying that the old woman of the Lin family was not doing well and was about to die, and he wanted Zhang to see her for the last time and also send her off.
I went there again yesterday. Could it be that I’m using the same excuse again?
"Is it that old lady from the Lin family who is dying again?" Gu Tang couldn't help but ask.
"Yes! He said he can't do it again." Gu Lianshan was also convinced. This was the eleventh time, and every time it was someone who couldn't do it!
"Is it really useless? Or are you thinking of causing trouble again?" Gu Tang was very disgusted with the old woman of the Lin family.
In the memories left by the original owner, she had seen Old Lady Lin several times.
She was not a kind old lady at all. Her gaze was even more piercing than Feng's. Every time she saw the original owner, she treated her like a maid.
If anything didn't go her way, the old woman would complain to Zhang.
Zhang's heart has always been in the Lin family. When she heard Old Lady Lin complaining, she started to teach the original owner a lesson without saying a word.
Zhang's method of teaching the original owner a lesson was very tricky. She did not hit the original owner, but pinched the original owner's flesh.
The parts that were pinched were those that could not be shown to others. Even if the original owner told others, he could not provide any evidence.
Over the years, the original owner had no idea how many times Zhang had pinched her in secret, and every time she begged for mercy, she got even worse.
Although Zhang was the original owner's biological mother, she was indifferent and harsh to Gu Mei, Gu Laian and Gu Tang and Gu Ping'an.
But she was a very proud person, so she didn't dare to withhold anything from Gu Mei and her brother, so she exploited Gu Tang and Gu Ping'an to the utmost.
Since childhood, if Gu Tang and Gu Ping'an saw anything they liked, it would disappear the next day.
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