Chapter 280 The brain is different from ordinary people
These words made Li Shunzi feel choked up.
They were all aware of Gu Liansheng's actions, and they had looked down on him before.
But when he was at the Gu family, Gu Liansheng did some calculations in front of them. The old couple of the Gu family had suffered a stroke, which was a disease of the rich that cost a lot of money!
If we were to send the old couple from the Gu family to Bei'an City, it would cost at least ten taels of silver to hire a doctor and pay for the medicine.
For a family like them who had been digging the land for generations, ten taels of silver was an astronomical price! It was something they couldn't even imagine!
After knowing these things, they no longer disliked Gu Liansheng's choice of wedding to bring good luck. He had no choice but to do it.
Li Shunzi tried to make amends for Gu Liansheng, saying, "There's nothing we can do about it. Going to Bei'an City for treatment will cost at least ten taels of silver. Who can afford that?
They said they would hold a wedding first to see how things went. If that didn't work, they would go out and borrow money from everywhere, and then they could send the old couple to get medical treatment."
This is just a lie!
A disease like stroke will only get more troublesome the longer it is delayed. By the time Gu Liansheng marries his new wife and then goes back to her parents' home, it will take at least four days to heal her!
Looking at the condition of Mrs. Feng and Mr. Gu, can they last for four days?
If anything were to happen, he would die at any moment.
Gu Tang knew it clearly in his mind, but he didn't say it out loud.
If the sons weren't worried, she, an outsider, wouldn't have to worry either.
She forced a smile and said, "There's nothing they can do over there, and there's nothing we can do either. My relatives are coming today, and my father wants to stay home to entertain them. He really can't leave. You should find someone else."
"Yes! My family has relatives coming over today, and I have to stay home to entertain them. I don't have time to help Gu Liansheng pick up his new wife! While it's still early, you should quickly invite someone else!"
Gu Lianshan didn't think about it too much and just continued speaking according to Gu Tang's words.
Li Shunzi didn't believe it. "What relatives are coming to your house in this heavy snow? I think you just don't want to take this job!"
"So you're neither blind nor stupid?" Gu Lianshan said in surprise. "If you understand everything, why do you have to keep hounding me? All the men in the village are at home, who can't be invited? Why do you have to invite me? Don't you know that I had a falling out with Gu Liansheng?"
The series of questions made Li Shunzi panic for a moment. He had other thoughts in his mind, and it was as if his deepest secret was exposed. He felt very guilty, and his eyes moved away evasively, not daring to meet Gu Lianshan's gaze.
Being slapped in the face in front of so many people, he felt guilty and angry at the same time. He shouted fiercely but weakly: "You are talking nonsense. To put it bluntly, you just don't want to go!"
"Yes! I just don't want to go!" Gu Lianshan didn't make excuses this time and responded directly.
He said, "You came here once the other day, and I told you that day not to come to me about this matter. I won't go! I thought you understood, but I didn't expect you to come again today!
Well, I'll say it again in front of everyone today: I'm not going, so do whatever you want!"
Li Shunzi stood up suddenly, clenched his fists, and the veins on his forehead were bulging. It was obvious that he was also angry.
The men who had come with him hurriedly stood up and stopped him: "What's going on? Brother Lianshan has fallen out with them, so it's understandable that he doesn't want to go. We can just find someone else. Why are you getting so angry in the middle of this?"
After persuading Li Shunzi, several people went to persuade Gu Lianshan: "Shunzi has no bad intentions, he just wants to take this opportunity to let you two brothers ease the relationship.
This wasn't his idea. Your old man personally found Shunzi the other day and wanted Shunzi to mediate and ask you to come back often..."
Gu Lianshan was fed up with hearing these words. He wanted to retort to all of them one by one, but someone secretly kicked him, signaling him to shut up.
He glanced sideways and saw that it was his own daughter who kicked him.
After Gu Tang kicked the man, his uncle spoke up: "Since they want to ease the relationship, I will talk to Lianshan about this matter later.
As for asking him to pick up his new wife, forget it. There really is something going on at home today!"
Gu Tang also explained: "Not long ago, I rescued a young man in Bei'an City. That young man had a great affinity with my father, so he recognized my father as his uncle.
It was decided a few days ago that he would come to our house for dinner today. He also needed to inform the clan members and set up a few tables for the family reunion banquet so that everyone in the clan could meet him."
"Is this really true?"
Everyone was amazed, then smiled and congratulated: "Congratulations! This is great news! When will the banquet be held? We can come and celebrate then!"
"It's almost there." Gu Tang replied to them with a smile.
"If you come today, tell the tribe this afternoon and ask the tribe leaders and elders to help choose a good day. Then just come to our house for a drink!"
Except for Li Shunzi who still had a stern face, everyone else smiled and said yes, then pulled Li Shunzi away.
Third Uncle sent them to the gate of the courtyard. Looking at the heavy snow outside, he couldn't help but worry.
"It's snowing so heavily, and San'an Town is not close to us. You must be careful along the way."
"Uncle Jiu, don't worry. We all understand and would rather go slowly than rush."
"That's right."
As they were talking, they saw a horse-drawn carriage coming up the village road.
"Oh! Is that a carriage? It's really rare!"
"It's really rare. Why did you come to our village? Could you be someone's relative?"
"Nonsense! In a poor place like ours, if someone's relatives had a carriage, the news would have spread all over the village!"
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Everyone was chattering and shivering in the wind and snow under their hats, but no one urged them to hurry up and get on the ox cart and continue on their journey. Everyone looked towards the east curiously, staring at the carriage.
The heavy snow obscured some of the view, and Third Uncle couldn't see clearly. He couldn't tell whether the carriage in the distance belonged to someone.
He whispered to Gu Tang, "Did you see the carriage clearly? Is it Gu Sanlang's?"
Gu Tang only glanced at it and nodded with certainty: "It's his."
There is a contract between her and Agou. The closer they are, the stronger their perception of each other will be.
At this moment, she could clearly sense that the person driving the carriage in the east was Agou.
She murmured to her uncle, "What a coincidence! He just said he would come today, and I didn't expect him to actually show up..."
Third Uncle was very happy: "It's good that you came! It's a good opportunity for them to see that we really have something to do today, and we are not just lying to them."
Seeing the carriage slowly approaching, everyone became excited. Even the sullen-looking Li Shunzi became alert, and his eyes followed the movement of the carriage.
After a while, the carriage stopped in front of the Gu family's door.
Everyone looked dazed and didn't react for a moment. They stared blankly at the coachman who took off his fur blanket covered with snow, jumped off the carriage nimbly, and walked towards the Gu family with a smile on his face.
Agou was wearing a royal blue brocade deerskin robe today, with a belt of the same color tied around his waist, and a Pisces jade pendant carved from mutton-fat jade hanging on his side. Combined with his elegant and handsome face, in Gu Tang's words, he was a complete scoundrel!
"Master, cousin, I'm back."
The shout of "Master" woke everyone up.
"Uncle Jiu! This is..."
Agou's outfit was truly luxurious. In their eyes, he must be a noble young man from a wealthy family.
But it was this noble young man who actually called Uncle Jiu "Master"!!!
Does Uncle Jiu have such wealthy relatives?
No! Even if they are rich relatives, you shouldn't call them "Grandpa"!
The more they thought about it, the more confused they became, and their heads were almost in a tangle.
But no matter how they thought about it, no one thought about recognizing their relatives.
Even if they had ten times the courage, they would not dare to imagine that a nobleman would recognize a farmer as his uncle!
The Third Uncle didn't seem to notice the change in everyone's expressions. He smiled and introduced, "This is the young man I mentioned just now in the house. My girl saved him, and he acknowledged Lianshan as his uncle.
You have things to do today, so I won't go into details. Let's have a feast at home and drink together, and then we can talk about it in detail."
After saying this, Third Uncle didn't care about everyone's reaction and invited Agou into the yard.
As for the carriage, he asked Gu Tang to go back and call her father out and let her father lead the carriage.
Just as Gu Tang agreed, Agou waved his hand and said no, "Grandson is the younger generation, and uncle is the elder. How can we let the elder come out to pull the cart? Let the grandson do it himself."
As he spoke, he kindly asked the crowd to make way for him and led the carriage into the yard.
"I have something to do at home. We can chat when we are free. You guys should get up quickly too. The snow is getting heavier."
Third Uncle waved at them and walked into the yard with a smile on his face.
Gu Tang fell behind and closed the gate with a bang.
The stunned crowd came to their senses and immediately started talking in an uproar.
"Wow! Lianshan's luck has changed! He actually adopted a noble young man as his nephew?! How dare he!"
"Did you see how that noble young man is dressed? Just look at what he's wearing. If your family doesn't have ten thousand taels of silver, you can't afford to wear it!"
"I see it clearly! Wow! That dress is so beautiful! The color is so bright! And that jade! It's so white! Oh, tell me, when people say white jade, is this what they mean?"
"That must be it! Tsk! Lianshan is so lucky!"
"That's not his good fortune, it's that he gave birth to a good daughter! Uncle Jiu said it was Lianshan's daughter who saved this noble young man's life! Lianshan depends entirely on his daughter!"
When Gu Tang was mentioned, everyone's eyes lit up and they nodded in agreement. Indeed, Gu Lianshan's good luck was all thanks to his daughter!
A few smart people rolled their eyes and said, "Since the man was saved by Lianshan's daughter, when Lianshan's daughter gets married, she will probably get a huge dowry!
If a little leaks between their fingers, it would be enough for the whole family to eat and drink for a lifetime!"
This reminded everyone. Some families with sons asked anxiously, "Does anyone know how old Lianshan's daughter is this year?"
"Was she fourteen or fifteen? I can't remember the younger daughter, but I do remember the older one. After the twelfth lunar month, her fifteenth birthday would have passed. Logically speaking, she would have been sixteen!"
"His eldest daughter is not good enough..."
"That's enough!" Li Shunzi suddenly interrupted everyone.
Everyone was stunned and fell silent instantly.
Li Shunzi glanced at them and scolded them impatiently: "Don't you know who Gu Lianshan is? If there is really a good thing, he will let you have a little bit of it?
And that little girl of his, what a cold-hearted, unfilial thing! She even instigated her father to divorce her mother! Is that something a human could do?!
How dare you marry your son off to a girl like this? Be careful, she'll mess things up and make your whole family live in turmoil!"
Facing Li Shunzi's rebuke, everyone remained silent and looked at him strangely, as if they realized for the first time that Li Shunzi's brain seemed to be not normal.
If a family were to encounter such a good thing, who would let outsiders take advantage of it? Everyone would hide it and be on guard!
There is also the matter of Gu Lianshan divorcing his wife.
Zhang is not wronged at all!
She stole the silver that the girls in Lianshan had saved and used it all to support the daughter and son left by her previous husband. It was said that she stole about thirty taels of silver.
In other words, Gu Lianshan was kind-hearted and just divorced her without pursuing the matter of the money.
If it were them, they would have directly kidnapped Zhang and the Lin brothers and sisters, secretly sold them to human traffickers, and told others that the mother and son were afraid of the incident and ran away with the money!
Without anyone noticing, he could get rid of his treacherous wife and ungrateful people, and at the same time, earn some money to fill his empty-handed family fortune.
Finally, there is the girl from Lianshan.
This person is truly remarkable!
Who mentions it and who doesn’t give a thumbs up?
At such a young age, he had saved dozens of taels of silver by collecting herbs! He surpassed all the top men in the village!
Not to mention that Gu Lianshan loves such a daughter, if they had such a daughter, they would put her on a pedestal and worship her every day!
If I could marry my son to her, it would be a great blessing for three generations!
Only a fool would dislike this girl's bad temper.
When you marry a wife, you have to marry one with a strong temper. If there is any problem in the family, she can bear it with you.
If there is something wrong with the man in the family, such a daughter-in-law can quickly support the family and protect the old and young!
Everyone kept complaining in their hearts and began to feel that Li Shunzi was an eyesore.
What an idiot!
This is the last time we work together today, so it’s better to stay away from us in the future.
Li Shunzi didn't know that everyone had redefined him, labeled him a fool, and refused to have any contact with him in the future.
He had a gloomy face and was driving the ox cart eastwards.
Those who were left behind looked at each other, but no one was angry. They followed slowly. There was no need to get angry over a fool.
In the Gu family courtyard, Gu Lianshan was helping Agou unload the carriage.
He took off the harness and asked Gu Ping'an to lead Agou to lead the horse to the cowshed in the backyard, so that it could keep the cows company at home.
The carriage had to be pulled to the backyard because there was no room in the front yard.
But before pulling it to the backyard, you have to take the things out of the car first.
The east wing where Agou lived before he came here has not been moved. It still looks the same as when he left.
Gu Lianshan moved all the things in the carriage to the east wing and let Agou sort them out by himself later.
In the backyard, Agou knew that the horse had a fierce temper, so he tied it to the other end of the cowshed to keep it away from the docile cows.
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