Chapter 289 Dislike of the Small Gift
Gu Baoshan, who was lying on Guan's body, paused crying and felt panic in his heart.
The Guan family has six sons!
They are all tall and strong.
If they saw Guan's miserable condition, would he be able to survive?
Jiang, who was standing in the snow cave, was unhappy when she heard this. She struggled to walk to the corridor, yelling and cursing Gu Lianshan.
"Bah! You evil-hearted bastard! They were trapped under the roof beam and froze to death! What does this have to do with my son?!"
What can he do if the Guan family comes? Can he lie and put the blame on my son?
Everyone looked at Jiang, only to see her walking towards them, covered in snow, followed by Gu Chuntao, who was shivering with cold.
When Gu Baoshan saw the look on his mother and sister's faces, his eyes widened: "Mom! What's wrong with you? Why are you like this?"
It would have been fine if this matter hadn't been mentioned. As soon as it was mentioned, Jiang glared at Gu Tang viciously: "It's all because of this black-hearted little whore! You and your daughter are both equally black-hearted!"
Gu Tang felt a little wronged.
It wasn't her who kicked someone just now!
That was kicked by Agou!
Are you throwing dirty water on her?
Good, good, good! No one knows this routine better than her!
She stopped her third uncle who was looking gloomy and wanted to settle the score with Jiang, and glared at her father Gu Lianshan who wanted to curse for her.
Gu Tang spat at Jiang in front of everyone: "Bah! This is really a case of the thief crying thief! What did my father say wrong? Three of the four walls are cracked, why doesn't your son move in?
What were you planning on forcing Aunt Guan and her daughter to move in? Did you really think others didn't know? And the house collapsed. Didn't your whole family hear the loud noise?
The noise that could wake up the dead couldn't even wake up the three of you! You're really amazing! When the Guan family arrives, they'll skin your entire family alive and no one from the clan will come to help you!
"I'll learn from you. No matter how loud the noise is, I just can't hear it! Let the Guan family kill you all! In order to prevent this matter from getting out, let outsiders say that our Gu family is a place of tigers and wolves, and they only harm other people's girls!"
Gu Tang's words were like poison. She tore off the fig leaf that everyone was too embarrassed to uncover, and pointed out the unreasonable logic directly, making it impossible for anyone to avoid it.
After cursing, Gu Tang still felt unsatisfied. She pointed at the Guan mother and daughter who had already died, and deliberately frightened Jiang.
"As the saying goes, those who have been murdered harbor deep resentment! My Aunt Guan is a vengeful person, and her only daughter has also gone with her. Just wait, I want to see what happens to your family!"
People of this era believe in ghosts and gods the most. Gu Tang's words made the guilty mother and son look terrified.
Gu Baoshan reacted the most, his face turned pale, and he stepped back repeatedly, not daring to get close to Guan's mother and daughter.
When everyone saw his reaction, they had nothing to understand.
This really made Lianshan's daughter say it. The death of Guan's mother and daughter was most likely a trap set up deliberately by them.
Jiang shuddered, her lips trembling as she defended her family, "We didn't harm them! They were..."
"Didn't you do anything? In this courtyard, besides the main hall, there are two unoccupied rooms in the east wing. Why don't you let them live in the east wing? Who let them live in the west wing?"
Who is...
Jiang didn't dare to admit that she was the one who forced Guan and her daughter to live in the west wing.
Before the snow started, Guan mentioned this matter and said that she wanted to move to the east wing because she was worried that the house in the west wing would not be able to withstand the snow.
She did not agree to this, saying that she had other uses for the east wing.
When it started to snow, Guan mentioned the matter again, but was rejected again.
Yesterday afternoon, Guan, who could no longer bear it, smashed the door lock of the east wing and insisted on moving in with her daughter.
She was so angry that she asked her son to beat her and her daughter, and locked them in the west wing. She never opened the door for them and didn't give them any food.
If someone from the Guan family comes, I wonder if they will check the bodies of Guan's mother and daughter. If they do, I wonder if the injuries on the mother and daughter can be concealed.
Seeing that Jiang had remained silent, Gu Tang asked again, "The house collapsed, with such a loud noise, how dare you say that your family didn't hear it?
If you dare to say this in front of the Guan family, they will definitely come to your house in the middle of the night and set fire to your house and tear down the wall! Let you also experience the feeling of having no one to turn to for help! "
Jiang couldn't refute this either.
How could you not hear the loud noise of the house collapsing?
After the house collapsed last night, the whole family got dressed, opened the door and went out to see what was happening.
Seeing that the west wing finally collapsed, they were happy but also very nervous. Standing on the west wing, they could still hear the cries for help from Guan's mother and daughter.
But in the end they didn't help...
"Can't tell? If the death of Aunt Guan and her daughter has nothing to do with you, then tell me something."
These words angered Gu Chuntao, who had the most explosive temper. She looked terrified, but she was stubborn and refused to admit that the death of Guan's mother and daughter had nothing to do with their family.
"What's there to say?! Your father and his men dug them out from under the house! They were either crushed to death when the house collapsed, or they froze to death! That was their fate! We didn't kill them ourselves!"
Gu Chuntao's statement is just deceiving herself and others.
Gu Tang: "You're still talking nonsense. The Guan family isn't stupid. They won't believe you. If we really beat you up, who will come to help you?"
Gu Chuntao pointed around and named all the people who had just helped to dig out Guan's mother and daughter.
"We are all from the same clan, you all have to come and help!"
"What's wrong with being from the same clan?" Gu Lianshan stood up, unable to bear it any longer. "You're plotting murder! Those of us from the same clan as you will be cursed for the rest of our lives for stepping in to help your family?"
Gu Chuntao screamed in a shrill voice: "No one in my family has killed anyone!"
"What are you yelling about? We're not stupid, and we'll figure things out for ourselves. I'm telling you straight out loud today: I won't get involved in your family's mess! No matter how much your family members make a fuss, that's what you deserve!"
After saying this, Gu Lianshan called his third uncle and Gu Tang to go home.
Agou and Gu Ping'an, who were left behind, hurriedly followed.
After Gu Lianshan left, everyone else also left, leaving only a few to escort the clan leaders and elders back.
Gu Chuntao's face turned pale, and she knew in her heart that her family had been abandoned.
Gu Baoshan squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, feeling so panicked that he didn't know what to do.
He is not a man of his own ideas, nor is he capable of handling things. Whether it is his own affairs or family matters, his mother and sister always make the decisions, and he will just shut up and avoid them.
It was the same now, he squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, trying to escape from the facts before him.
Seeing that things were getting worse and worse, Jiang used her best tricks, sat down on the ground, and cried loudly, crying about her miserable life, crying about Gu Tang slandering her, and crying about the bad luck of Guan and her daughter.
No matter how much they cried, there was only one main idea: their family was wronged!
The death of Guan’s mother and daughter had nothing to do with them!
If the Guan family uses this as an excuse to cause trouble, the clan cannot ignore it.
"What are you howling for!" Clan leader Gu's face turned pale and he shouted angrily, shocking Jiang.
"Carry the Guan mother and daughter to the main hall. Changtian, go find a few people who didn't come out to suffer from the cold today, and ask them to go to the Guan family to report the news..."
"Report the news? You can't report the news, you can't report the news..."
"Bullshit!" an elder cursed. "Guan's dead must be buried! If you don't notify the Guan family, aren't you afraid they'll sue you for murder?!"
Jiang's face turned pale and she collapsed to the ground.
Gu Changtian went to find people according to the instructions of Clan Leader Gu, and the rest of the people also carried Guan's mother and daughter into the main hall according to Clan Leader Gu's instructions.
"All three of you, mother and son, come in with me and kneel down! Kneel down in front of Guan's mother and daughter! Explain this matter to me from beginning to end!
If you dare to hide anything, I will have you all tied up and sent to the Guan family. The Life and Death Clan will not care about you!"
The mother and her two children were all shaking, not sure if it was because of the cold or fear.
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Gu Lianshan came out of Gu Baoshan's house and asked his third uncle and the others to go back first, as he wanted to go to the Gu family at the end of the village to pay his respects.
Gu Tang blinked when he heard this: "You just touched a dead person, wouldn't it be inappropriate to go and pay respects now?"
"What's wrong with that?"
Gu Lianshan started to talk nonsense: "Wouldn't it be better if they chose a day like this for the wedding? Dad is fighting poison with poison, maybe it will bring him good luck!"
Gu Tang: ...You know what, her father’s logic is good!
The family separated from Gu Baoshan's house. Agou escorted his third uncle, Gu Tang and Gu Ping'an back home, while Gu Lianshan went to pay his respects to Gu Liansheng alone.
At this time, many people in the village have come out and started gathering together to clear the snow on the road.
It was definitely impossible to clear a large area, and the snow was still falling, so everyone decided to just clear a small path that was wide enough for one person to walk on, leading to each household.
If this is the case, then every household will have to send someone to help clean up.
When Gu Lianshan passed by, everyone told him about this.
"Okay! I'll go pay my respects first, then I'll go home and get a shovel to clear the path in front of my house."
There were not many people who agreed as readily as Gu Lianshan did. The group of people breathed a sigh of relief and smiled as they told him to go and pay his respects quickly.
A short distance had been cleared at the end of the village, which was convenient for Gu Lianshan. He finally didn't have to step into the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the hems of his cotton pants and coat were wet.
Fortunately, he was wearing leather cotton trousers. If it were any other pair of trousers, they would have been soaked and frozen to death by now!
I walked all the way to the gate of Gu's house at the end of the village, and suddenly I smelled the aroma of meat.
Is there meat on the table today?
Very good! When the banquet starts later, you can bring your whole family over to eat.
Anyway, he has given a gift money, so it would be a waste not to eat it!
When I entered the yard, I saw that the door of the kitchen was open, white hot steam was constantly coming out, and a few women were coming in and out from time to time.
All the snow in the Gu family yard had been cleared away. Gu Lianshan stepped on the ground and was very surprised.
This was definitely not cleaned by Gu Liansheng. He must have spent a lot of money to hire someone to come to his house to clean it.
Coming to the corridor of the main hall and taking off the bamboo hat on his head, Gu Lianshan carefully patted his clothes to shake off all the snow on his body, tidied himself up, and then went to the main hall.
When he opened the curtain at the door, a wave of heat rushed towards him and Gu Lianshan narrowed his eyes.
That's not right. He remembered that there were only a few pieces of firewood left in the Gu family. Gu Liansheng didn't go to the mountains to chop firewood. He had to make a fire to prepare a banquet today and burn the stove in the house to keep warm.
Where did you get this firewood?
Could it be that you bought it with copper coins?
Gu Lianshan raised his eyebrows. If that was the case, then the Gu family’s financial resources were truly extraordinary.
The life that this family has been living these years has been a joke. Maybe others are making fun of them behind their backs and calling them stupid.
There were not many people in the house, only Gu Liansheng, Li Shunzi, Gu Dajiang and the two brothers Gu Dahe, just the four of them.
Gu Liansheng was the one who kept the gift account, and it seemed that he was very unhappy because of this.
Li Shunzi was quite happy, sitting next to the Gu Dajiang brothers, talking and laughing. Those who didn't know him would think he was the groom.
Of course, Li Shunzi's smile didn't last long. When he saw Gu Lianshan coming in in a fur coat, the smile on his face immediately disappeared.
Gu Liansheng was the same, his face was long, as if Gu Lianshan owed him money.
Only the brothers Gu Dajiang and Gu Dahe stood up and greeted Gu Lianshan with a smile.
Gu Lianshan replied to them with a smile, then came to Gu Liansheng, who was keeping the account of gifts, and reached into his arms to touch the copper coins.
This action made Gu Liansheng look forward to it.
Ever since Gu Lianshan was adopted, whether Gu Liansheng admits it or not, Gu Lianshan's life has indeed been getting better and better.
Now that life has gotten better, as his elder brother's wedding, shouldn't he, as his younger brother, give more gift money?
You can't be like the other people in the village, who give five copper coins, ten copper coins, and the highest is only fifteen copper coins!
What is this for?
Even if all the copper coins were added together, it would not be enough to cover the cost of his table!
Now it depends on how much his younger brother can give.
Gu Lianshan put his right hand into his arms, fumbled around, and finally took out a small string of copper coins. He counted them roughly and found that there were about ten copper coins.
This number is not small considering the relationship between cousins.
If we compare it to brothers, it is a little less, but for many poor families in the village, it is not too little and it is acceptable.
Just like the brothers Gu Dajiang and Gu Dahe who are present here.
The brothers' lives were not easy. They were in their thirties and still hadn't married. Now when they saw these ten copper coins, they didn't think it was too little at all.
But when Gu Liansheng saw this string of copper coins, his face turned black.
Gu Lianshan ignored him, knowing that he was a man of dignity and would not complain about the small gift money in front of outsiders.
Putting the copper coins on the table, Gu Lianshan didn't care whether he remembered it or not, and asked Li Shunzi and the others on his own.
"What time does the banquet start?"
"The banquet will be held at the beginning of the afternoon. Just bring your daughters and sons to the banquet."
"At the beginning of the afternoon? Why choose this hour to start the banquet?" Gu Lianshan didn't understand.
Gu Liansheng took over the conversation in a bad tone: "This is the time to ask the master to judge the fortune! You have never been to school, how could you know that scholars' marriages are very particular!
There are rules and regulations for when to perform the ceremony and when to start the banquet. They must be based on the eight characters. Even if I tell you, you may not understand!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the room suddenly became quiet and the atmosphere became solemn.
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