Chapter 107 Never Let the Counterattack Come Too Late
The old man named Huang Chunsheng was stunned at the time. How could she know his own name?
How did she know what was happening in her family?
"You, you...you are really going too far!"
Gu Ruanci still greeted him with a smile: "Don't worry, don't you think these are trivial matters? After all, the Zhang family and I don't have an engagement. They came to cancel the engagement and wanted to make me lose face for the rest of my life, and even wanted to kill me. In your eyes, these are all trivial matters. Why can't you be so magnanimous when it comes to you?"
Then, Gu Ruanci looked at the other two old men who had just cooperated with him and said, "Hong Sheng, Lan Dawon, I will make your wives, daughters, and grandchildren go through the same thing. As long as you are willing to accept it and sign here, I will immediately apologize to the Zhang family. I will be responsible for the grand funeral of Mei. In addition, if anyone here feels that I have gone too far, or that our Gu family has gone too far, I can make you feel the same way. You don't have to hide. After all, you have been gathered at the gate for a long time. Someone is here to help you remember who said what."
"This Dizhou City is under the feet of the emperor, how could there be no place for reason? I think before asking others to be magnanimous, you must have experienced the same thing yourself to be qualified."
"Ladies and gentlemen, am I right?"
When Gu Ruanci said the names of the other two old men, Zhang Jian was dumbfounded.
This reaction was completely different from what he had expected.
The three old men were also completely frightened, thinking that Gu Ruanci had accurately said their names, which meant that he had already obtained their information.
"You are abusing your power for personal gain. Aren't you afraid of bringing trouble to the Shouguo Mansion?" Huang Chunsheng still insisted.
Gu Ruanci said indifferently, "You're fanning the flames here, constantly vilifying our Shouguo Mansion. Aren't you just trying to bring disaster upon us? Now I'm following your wishes and inviting trouble upon myself. I'm not taking you with me, I'm taking all the women from your families with me. Why are you unhappy again?"
"How innocent are they?" Huang Chunsheng became anxious.
Gu Ruanci smiled. "So what wrong did I do to have my engagement broken off based on a fabricated contract? You know that once a woman in your family is divorced and abandoned, she will be humiliated for the rest of her life, so I should just endure this undeserved disaster, right? You know the pain of having your woman forced to death, but facing the Zhang family mother and son who plotted to murder me, and who were members of the Zhang family that my father had supported for a long time, you ask my parents to treat them leniently. What kind of bastard are you? Do you really think that just because you've lived long enough, you're justified?"
When they heard her suddenly start swearing, the elderly people did not follow her momentum.
Gu Yulou finally didn't feel so aggrieved anymore. It seemed that his younger sister was going to settle accounts with them.
As expected, Gu Ruanci said to Zhang Jian, "Master Zhang, your wife and son have come to humiliate me. If they succeed in this, I will have no place to stay in Dizhou City. If I were a bit more aggressive, I would have ended my life with a white silk thread. So their actions are an attempt to murder me. Do you admit it?"
Zhang Jian was completely stunned, but he still tried to argue: "How could that be? You are now the high and mighty county lord, and you have the Gu family to protect you. There is no need for you to die..."
Gu Ruanci sneered, "So you fully understand the extent of your wife and son's malicious intent. Even I, a county lady personally appointed by the emperor, needed my family's protection to avoid death. I classify their actions as attempted murder. Do you agree?"
Zhang Jian tried to argue again: "They definitely didn't mean that at the time..."
"So what do they mean? Since I returned to Imperial State, I've never had any bad blood with the Zhang family, yet they came to my house for no reason and spoke out in front of my mother. My father and mother regard your wife and son, who tried to kill their own daughter, as enemies. What's wrong with that? Because I'm fine, my father refrained from taking your son's life outright, and didn't even file a complaint. Instead, he severed all ties with you. He's done the most. Do you acknowledge that?"
This time, without waiting for Zhang Jian to reply, Gu Ruanci continued, "Or do you think they should damage my reputation or even kill me, so that my father and mother will be qualified to help me seek justice?"
She then shouted loudly to the onlookers, "A woman's reputation is above all else. If anyone feels that their sister or daughter's reputation has been insulted and they shouldn't sever ties with the person, please make sure to tell the women in your family about your feelings and let them know that they were born to be wasted."
The onlookers didn't dare to speak, and the atmosphere that had just been stirred up had already died down.
"Master Zhang, our Gu family just severed ties with you and didn't do anything else, right?"
Gu Ruanci's questioning left Zhang Jian speechless.
He could only nod helplessly, with a helpless expression.
"As for how your Zhang family faces their own mistakes, the emperor's punishment for your lax management of the household, and how you handle family affairs, does this still have anything to do with our Gu family?"
Zhang Jian was anxious. He knew that if he allowed Gu Ruanci to continue speaking so calmly, his wife would have died in vain.
"County Lady, if it wasn't for giving the Gu family an explanation, why would I have driven my wife, who has been with me for so many years and never left me, to the farm?"
Gu Ruanci was waiting for him to say this: "It was you who wanted to give the Gu family an explanation, not the Gu family who asked for an explanation from you. No matter who you did this to, when you take responsibility for the mistake, you will punish your wife, right? You decided the punishment measures, and you sent the servants who followed your wife. Your wife committed suicide because she couldn't get over it. It was definitely not because she felt guilty about me, but because she felt ashamed to face others. I really don't understand why these old guys just said that killing is not enough, and put this life on our Gu family. Otherwise, explain it to me?"
Zhang Jian was originally a military general, so naturally he didn't have Gu Ruanci's eloquence.
Now, she was increasingly annoyed by Gu Ruanci's pressure.
"This mistake was made by your wife and son together. To please Zhou Qinzhu, your son was determined to help the Zhou family regain face, so he came to your wife for help. Your wife, who loved her son so much, actually agreed to this ridiculous idea. So, isn't your son the culprit of all this? How come he was confined to his house, while your wife took all the blame and was sent to the manor by you? Did she volunteer to take everything for her son, or did someone say that if she didn't go, her son and daughter would be ruined? Lord Zhang, wasn't your family's combined efforts to force your wife to death?"
Zhang Jian felt like his head was buzzing. How did Gu Ruanci know all this?
Before Gu Ruanci could finish her words, she asked again, "And where did you find these people who are fanning the flames?"
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