Chapter 97 Asking for Witnesses
Lin Lang stopped talking and stood aside with his head down, tacitly agreeing to Zhang's decision.
Gu Liansheng was completely panicked, and subconsciously asked Feng for help: "Mom! Please quickly persuade my sister-in-law! If this confession is signed, not only will it ruin my second brother's family of children, but even my son's family will have no future!"
Feng's heart trembled, and she looked at her son intently, unable to express herself in words.
After a long time, she finally got up tremblingly. No matter how angry she was, she had to clean up the mess for her son!
She first scolded Gu Tang with gritted teeth: "You are a girl who has never married yet, and you are forcing your mother to divorce? Do you still have any dignity left?!
If someone like you makes trouble in front of the elders, you will be hanged in a pond! How can you still be so arrogant and domineering? Now we are helping you to conceal it, but you don't know what's good for you!"
After scolding Gu Tang, she turned around and scolded Zhang with a gloomy face: "She is your child, but you can't control her! You have done such a bad job as a mother, and you still have the nerve to live? You can sign the confession!
Listen to me, sell the Lin family's house and use the money to make up for the loss. Make up as much as you can. If it's not enough, I'll allow you to owe it and pay it back slowly in the future..."
Zhang's face froze, her eyes flickered and shifted, her drooping eyelids hiding the panic in her eyes.
The large blue brick house that the Lin family lives in now was secretly sold by her a few days ago.
The old lady was seriously ill and was afraid that she would not live through the New Year. It didn't matter that she died, but she owed the clan money that had never been repaid.
Over the years, she sent a lot of money back home, but the old lady was still resentful and kept finding excuses to delay returning it.
When the person dies, the clan will definitely ask for the big blue brick house as compensation.
The Lin family's house has three main rooms and three rooms in the east wing, a total of six rooms, all made of blue bricks and black tiles.
It was built when the Lin family was prosperous. It cost nearly twenty taels of silver and the materials used were excellent.
But now the house is being sold secretly to prevent outsiders from knowing about it. The Lin family has to continue living in it before the old lady dies.
In addition, the buyer must keep it confidential and not disclose the matter to anyone.
Therefore, the price of the house was lowered very much and it was sold for only ten taels of silver.
If these ten taels of silver were to be exposed, not only would the account not be settled, but the silver would also be lost in the end!
The little beast she gave birth to will definitely snatch the silver!
"You tell me whether you agree or not! How come you have become a gourd with its mouth sawed off!" Feng was so angry that she stepped forward and wanted to pinch Zhang, but Zhang dodged.
"What you said is useless. Can you control her?" Zhang glanced at Gu Tang with a mocking tone.
Feng paused, and before she could speak, she heard Gu Tang yelling over there, "Grandma, what you said sounds better than singing, but it's useless even if you say it like flowers. Unless you can make up the money for me, otherwise, I will make a big fuss about this matter today! The bigger the better!
I still say the same thing, we, the second branch, don't care about our reputation! At worst, we can just move out, but when the time comes, you will have to take care of this mess!"
Zhang immediately mocked Feng with cold words: "You said I couldn't control her, but you should control her and let me open my eyes! From now on, I will stare at her and see how she steps on your head and jumps around!"
Feng had a ferocious look on her face and her hands were shaking.
She saw her second son coming out of the main hall out of the corner of her eye, and as if she saw hope, she quickly complained to her son: "Second son! Do you still want to discipline your daughter? Now she is so evil and vicious! She even forced your wife to sign a confession and asked her to divorce! Is this something she, a girl, can say or control?"
Hearing this, Gu Lianshan looked at Gu Tang in astonishment: "Daughter?"
"I asked her to choose between the two..." Gu Tang told her father the two choices she had proposed earlier, and finally said, "She chose one herself, so it's settled. Go find a tight-lipped elder in the village and ask him to be a witness."
"Why do we need a witness?" Zhang looked flustered and unwilling.
"To prevent you from saying in the future that my Gu family tortured you into confessing and forced you to sign a confession! It's better for this matter to be 'consensual'."
Gu Tang sneered twice, and Zhang's face instantly darkened.
Gu Lianshan sighed, "The most tight-lipped person in the village is your third uncle, who is also literate. Now that you are alone, it is most appropriate for him to come."
After saying this, he walked out.
Zhang glanced at him, feeling a little unhappy.
When he heard that he was forced to divorce her, he didn't even say a word of advice. He was so anxious to ask people to be witnesses. I'm afraid he had wanted to divorce her for a long time!
Fortunately, I haven't been close to him over the years. Such a heartless person is really not a good match for me!
If I hadn't been really desperate, I wouldn't have married into the Gu family!
Zhang pursed her lips, looking angry.
Before Gu Lianshan reached the gate of the courtyard, Feng grabbed his arm with a pale face, followed by Gu Liansheng who looked frightened.
"Don't go! If you dare to go today, I will die in front of you!"
"Second brother! If something happens to mom, will you be okay? Just for mom's sake, let's forget about this..."
"Get out!" Gu Lianshan suddenly became furious and roared ferociously, with veins bulging on his forehead and a fierce look on his face.
Mother and son Feng shuddered all over, their scalps went numb, and they stood there in a daze, feeling timid.
Feng subconsciously let go of his hand, no longer daring to stop him, and watched him leave the yard.
After the people left, the mother and son were so panicked that they had no idea what to do, so they started looking for help from Mr. Gu.
But when I looked around the yard, I saw no one.
Thinking of her second son just coming out of the main room, Feng's heart sank. She was afraid that her husband might be so angry that he would have a seizure again!
Her heart was in a knot and she no longer cared about her eldest son. She staggered back to the main room.
"Mom!" Gu Liansheng was angry and anxious when he saw this. He didn't understand why the old lady went back to the house, so he had to let his son support him and follow her.
Seeing the mother and son in a panic, Gu Tang curled his lips and took the opportunity to run to the east wing to rummage around, and brought the writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone that Gu Liansheng had just completed to the yard.
Wait for Third Uncle to come over and let him write a confession according to her dictation.
He glanced at Zhang, who was standing with the Lin brothers and sisters at this time. She was comforting Lin Lang while asking about Lin Yue's arm with concern.
Seeing Gu Tang taking out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, the tenderness and distress on Zhang's face quickly disappeared, and she glared at Gu Tang with a cold look.
"I admit what I did! What about what you did? First you broke Sister Yue's arm, and then you used a rope to strangle me. How do you account for these two things?"
Gu Tang lied to her without blinking, "Why are you in such a hurry? Since you admit your guilt, I admit it too! Once you sign the confession, I will pay you every penny of the money I owe you!
Just like my uncle said, I have plenty of money to spend now, the most I can give you is three or five taels of silver, which I can still afford!"
Zhang felt resentful and hateful. Since he was not short of money, why did he hold on to these dozens of taels of silver?
Since the little beast is so vicious, don't blame her for asking for such a high price!
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