Chapter 309 will be revised later
By the time Zhu Youshou and Gu Mei put on their clothes and came out of the house, Gu Lianshan had calmed down.
He stared at the two of them with a cold gaze, making them turn pale and their legs weak, especially Zhu Youshou. In the middle of winter, sweat broke out on his forehead and he covered his mouth and coughed continuously.
Yan's face was filled with heartache. She patted his back gently with her hand and habitually ordered Gu Mei to come over.
"What are you still standing there for? There's warm water in the room, pour me a bowl!"
If it were the old Gu Mei, she would have immediately argued with Yan without saying a word and would never have obediently poured water if she had heard such a domineering tone.
But now Gu Mei actually responded and turned back to the house to pour water.
There was no reluctance in his eyes.
Gu Lianshan took a deep breath and shouted angrily, "Stand in the yard right here! You're not allowed to go anywhere!"
Gu Mei froze in place, not daring to move an inch.
This angry shout made Zhu Youshou even more frightened. He not only coughed, but his whole body was shaking.
Yan was both angry and anxious, but she didn't dare to provoke Gu Lianshan at this time, so she could only force a smile and say, "My dear relative..."
"Which one is your relative?!" Gu Lianshan immediately glared at him with a fierce look.
"This rebellious girl has long since severed ties with me. I'm not a relative of your Zhu family, so I can't even get close to her!"
These words touched upon the frustration in Gu Mei's heart, and she boldly retorted, "If you don't acknowledge me, then what are you making a fuss about? We're no longer father and daughter, so why are you causing trouble and kicking the door? What's your reason?"
"You ask me? I actually want to ask you something! Someone saw your belly bulging, and everyone is saying that you're pregnant. And the Zhu family is telling everyone that you're Zhu Youshou's cousin!
What's the matter? You filthy, smelly bunch of you want to drag me down with you? Pah! If the day comes, I'll kill you all, Zhu family!"
Gu Lianshan didn't give her any face at all and told her the rumors outside to her face.
Gu Mei's face first turned red, then pale, with panic and guilt in her eyes.
Obviously, the reason why there were rumors that she was pregnant was obviously related to herself.
No one knows a daughter better than her father. Gu Mei is stupid again. Gu Lianshan knew at a glance that she had done something stupid again.
Seeing that Gu Lianshan knew about this, Mr. Zhu stepped forward and invited him into the house to talk.
"You can't blame Mei for this. She was just confused for a moment. Let's go inside first and I'll tell you the details."
Gu Lianshan wanted to find out what was going on.
He just glanced at Gu Mei's belly, and it wasn't bulging, nor did she look like she was pregnant. So, what were those rumors outside really about?
With doubts in his mind, Gu Lianshan went to the Zhu family's main hall with a dark face.
Agou followed closely behind him, attracting the inquiring gazes of the Zhu family.
Gu Mei also noticed Agou. It was the first time she saw such a handsome and wealthy man.
Seeing that he had been following her father, she couldn't help but stare at him curiously.
Noticing that a pair of eyes were staring at him, Agou looked back and happened to meet Gu Mei's gaze.
Gu Mei blushed again and quickly lowered her head, her heart beating wildly.
Agou's eyes were cold, he just glanced at her and then looked away.
The two elders of the Zhu family entered the main hall together, while the first and second wives hid back in their own rooms.
Zhu Laosan also wanted to hide, but he couldn't. Zhu Youshou was his son. The son made a mistake, and the father still wanted to hide?
Given that bastard Gu Lianshan's temper, if he dares to hide, his only child will definitely suffer.
After taking a look at his son who was still coughing, Zhu Laosan went into the house with his head held high.
Only Yan, Zhu Youshou and Gu Mei were left in the narrow courtyard.
Now that Gu Lianshan was no longer in the courtyard, Yan became arrogant again and reached out to twist Gu Mei's waist.
"Bitch! You'd chase after any man you could find! How did Youshou end up with a slut like you?!"
Gu Mei screamed in pain, stared at Yan with eyes blazing with fire, and quickly dodged backwards.
Just as she was about to turn hostile and start cursing, Yan scolded her again, "Little whore! How can you marry Youshou with your temper? In my opinion, you'd better continue to work on your temper!"
After scolding, Yan helped her son back to the house and left Gu Mei, who was standing there in a daze, in the yard.
Gu Mei said nothing, but she began to panic, fearing that Yan would cause trouble again and continue to postpone the marriage.
Tears welled up in her eyes, but she tried hard to hold them back. After Yan came into the room, she raised her hand and wiped away the tears.
Recalling when she first arrived at the Niu family, she had ten taels of silver in her hand, which made everyone in the Zhu family flatter her.
The marriage was also arranged early, for fear that she would refuse to marry.
But the good times didn't last long, she was coaxed into losing her virginity to Zhu Youshou.
From then on, the Zhu family looked at her with strange eyes, especially Yan, whose contempt was very direct in her words and deeds, and it was obvious that she looked down on her.
At that time, she still had money in her hand. Even though Yan looked down on her, she did not dare to go too far for the sake of the money.
Later, in order to buy a wedding dress, she had a quarrel with the Zhu family in Bei'an City.
In the end, for some unknown reason, she unknowingly revealed her wealth and became the target of thieves.
She was squeezed into the crowd, surrounded by a group of women, and the silver in her arms was taken away at that moment.
She didn't know it at first, but when she returned to Zhu's house she discovered that the silver was missing!
She was panicked at the time and looked for the silver like crazy, so much so that the whole Zhu family knew about it.
After losing the silver, all the Zhu family members scolded and blamed her, as if she had lost the Zhu family's silver.
Yan completely changed her attitude towards her, criticizing her every day and ordering her to do things from time to time.
If she didn't do it, Yan would beat her.
She complained to her grandparents, but they said that Yan was her future mother-in-law and was teaching her how to be a daughter-in-law.
Especially since the wedding had not yet taken place, but she and Zhu Youshou had already slept together. Yan had to be strict with her for this behavior.
This is different from what the two elders promised.
It had been agreed before that she wouldn't have to do anything after arriving at the Zhu family and her life would remain the same as before.
But now, the wedding has not yet taken place, so she has to learn how to be a daughter-in-law first.
The two elders said that all this was her own fault. First, she was shameless and slept with Zhu Youshou before marriage, and then she lost the ten taels of silver!
If any daughter-in-law behaved like this, she would have been beaten to death and buried in a grave!
Now that she is allowed to live and her marriage is not cancelled, she is just allowed to be taught by Yan. This is already a great favor.
If you don’t want to, just go back home!
Looking back at home...
Gu Mei looked dazed. She wanted to go back home that day, but her innocence was gone, and the two elders dragged her to see the crazy young woman at the village entrance.
It is said that this crazy woman lost her virginity to a man outside her family, and was later married off to an old cripple in his early forties!
That old cripple is not a human being. He treats this crazy woman as a prostitute. No matter her age, as long as he pays copper coins, he can take her to bed.
In less than a year, the crazy woman became ill and went crazy.
The old cripple thought the crazy woman was useless, so he sent her back without a care in the world. Now she wanders around the village all day long, and is often dragged into a haystack by bachelors and hooligans to be bullied.
The two elders asked her if she wanted to become the second crazy woman.
She didn't want to become the second crazy woman. She just wanted to get married quickly and become Zhu Youshou's wife in a legitimate way.
The two elders said that if soft methods didn’t work, they would try hard methods. They tied an inflated bubble on her belly and asked her to walk around the village.
When the villagers find out, they will definitely ruin Zhu Youshou's reputation, cut off his chance of marrying another woman, and make matchmakers from outside afraid to come to his house to propose marriage to him.
As time goes by, sooner or later Mrs. Yan will agree to let her marry in.
Gu Mei didn't know what was wrong. She had just let the two elders control her without knowing what was going on. She did whatever they said.
Now that she thinks about it, she cut off Zhu Youshou's way to marry another woman, but she also cut off all her own escape routes.
"What's the point of dying outside?"
Yan started ordering people around again.
"Go to the kitchen and boil some hot water so Youshou can soak his feet and calm his spirits!"
Gu Mei came to her senses and felt resistance.
Her father is here today, and she doesn't want him to see her in such a miserable state.
Yan came out of the house with a gloomy face, "Since you are disobedient, why don't you go back with your father later! My temple is small and can't accommodate a big Buddha like you."
go back?
Gu Mei thought of the days she spent at home. If she could really go back, she would be willing to do so.
But she was afraid of becoming the second crazy woman!
Pursing her cracked lips, Gu Mei whispered, "I'll go boil some water..."
Walking through the yard, the kitchen was opposite. She was huddled together, her hair not combed yet. With her skinny figure, she was obviously a young girl of 28, but now she looked a bit like an old woman.
Yan spat at her back, and the resentment that had been pent up in her heart for years was relieved a little, and she felt extremely relieved.
Zhu Xiuer, oh Zhu Xiuer, I will take revenge on you from your daughter for the sins you have committed!
In the main hall, the statements of the two elders of the Zhu family were roughly the same as those of Gu Mei, except for some details that had changed.
"...The girl lost her dowry, and she was afraid Youshou wouldn't want to marry her again because of this, so...she ended up sleeping in the same room with Youshou without thinking.
Afterwards, she tied an inflated bubble to her belly and walked around the village a few times, saying she wanted to ruin Youshou's reputation so that he couldn't marry anyone else but her!
Gu Lianshan's face remained gloomy: "Didn't you ever think of stopping her?"
"Don't you know what kind of personality your daughter has? She knew we would stop her, so she didn't say a word about it. It was only after someone came and asked about it that the family found out what she had done.
By then, it was too late. She had done everything she should and shouldn't have done. No matter how we explained, it was useless. Yan was also angry because of this and insisted on postponing the wedding, saying that she had to change Mei's temper..."
At this point, Zhu Laosan on the side quickly interrupted and said, "It's not that we don't want to marry Mei, we just want to change her temper. Let you talk about this matter yourself. With what she has done now, which family would dare to marry a daughter-in-law like her?"
Gu Lianshan kept staring at the two elders of the Zhu family, and he could probably guess that of what the two elders said, seven minutes was true and three minutes was false.
He did not blindly believe what they said, he also wanted to ask Gu Mei.
He asked Agou to go out and call Gu Mei in. He wanted to ask Gu Mei in person and also ask her if she knew she was wrong after what had happened.
Agou moved quickly and when he reached the yard he sensed Gu Mei was lighting a fire in the kitchen.
When they got to the kitchen, Agou asked her to go to the main room to talk, saying that her father Gu Lianshan had something to tell her.
Gu Mei didn't want to go at first because she didn't want to see her father.
Agou advised her: "Don't you really want to marry Zhu Youshou? It just so happens that your father is here, you can ask him to help you."
These words really hit the mark of Gu Mei's thoughts.
If her father could help her without holding grudges, she would be able to live her life with dignity in the Zhu family in the future, and Yan would also be more restrained.
With this in mind, she put down the firewood and followed Agou to the main room.
The atmosphere in the main hall was extremely depressing. The two elders of the Zhu family had strange expressions on their faces. They looked a little worried and a little uneasy.
It was obvious at a glance that he had not told the truth just now, as he was afraid that Gu Mei would come to reconcile the accounts.
Gu Lianshan had no intention of reconciling accounts with Gu Mei. When he saw her come in, he asked her directly what she was thinking at the moment.
Should I continue to stay at Zhu's house, or go back with him quietly.
Gu Mei didn't understand what he meant: "What do you mean by going back with you quietly?"
"What you've done now is shameful, your reputation is completely ruined, and your family won't tolerate you.
Come back with me quietly, and I'll ask someone to go to a place far away to arrange a marriage for you. From now on, you can live a peaceful life in hiding."
Gu Mei's face looked grim, her head was buzzing, and she suddenly thought of the crazy woman at the village entrance.
Grandma and grandpa said that if she went back, she would most likely become the second crazy woman.
She had doubted it before, but now it seems that she will indeed become the second crazy woman.
"I'm not going back!" Gu Mei said stiffly, "I'm staying at Zhu's house and not going anywhere!"
"Okay!" Gu Lianshan said without hesitation, "In that case, I'll go back and find someone to take care of the funeral, and tell everyone that you died of illness.
As soon as the funeral is over, even if you tell everyone you are my daughter, outsiders will no longer believe you.
Whether you lost your virginity before marriage, got pregnant before marriage, or did something else dirty and smelly, it will no longer bring trouble to your family."
When these words were spoken, the two elders of the Zhu family were shocked. If the funeral really took place, they would never have any contact with each other again until they died.
Zhu Laosan was also anxious. They wanted to marry Gu Mei to their son, one for the dowry money, and the other for the money in Gu Lianshan's hands.
Now that the dowry is lost, if Gu Lianshan holds Gu Mei's "funeral" again, then Gu Mei, who lives in their Zhu family, will really become an "orphan".
Since she is an orphan, who would be willing to marry her?
There's no point in marrying an orphan!
Having said everything that needed to be said, Gu Lianshan stood up and walked out, intending to go home.
Seeing this, the second elder and the third elder of the Zhu family were all panicked.
"Lianshan!"
“Brother-in-law!
The three men stepped forward to stop Gu Lianshan, smiling apologetically: "If you have any dissatisfaction, just tell us and we will discuss it slowly. We can't hold a funeral for a living person!"
"Lianshan!"
“Brother-in-law!
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