novelraw Chapter 94: Settlement! The more you settle, the more you get!
Chapter 94: Settlement! The more you settle, the more you get!
Chapter 94: Settlement! The more you settle, the more you get!
Gu Tang rolled his eyes: "Of course you're taking this opportunity to get some benefits! Once you get the benefits, you can write a letter of divorce to my mother and let this matter go!"
"If that's the case, then this matter will be impossible!" Gu Lianshan glared.
"Why don't you care about him? We've got the benefits anyway, so we don't care about the rest!"
Gu Lianshan paused and said, that’s right, as long as they get the benefits, the big things really don’t matter to them.
Not long after, Feng came out from the east wing. She first glared at her son fiercely, then quickly glanced at Gu Tang. Even though she was angry and hated him, she didn't dare to provoke Gu Tang at this moment.
The way he strangled his own mother just now is still vivid in my mind. This evil creature must be a reincarnated evil spirit! Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to kill his mother!
If they dare to kill her own mother, I'm afraid they will kill her wet nurse as well!
When Feng thought of this, her neck felt uncomfortable. Her collar seemed to have suddenly become much tighter, and it felt a bit tight!
"Alright, Second Son's wife, stop sitting on the floor and crying. Come up to the main room. You have to give an explanation for the situation that has caused so much trouble."
Feng's loose eyelids drooped and she glanced at Zhang with a vicious look in her eyes.
Zhang didn't even glance at Feng. She just stood up and went to help her son and daughter up. Without even looking up, she said, "We need to borrow an ox cart to take Sister Yue to the Bei'an City Clinic to have her arm checked. A broken arm is no small matter!"
This matter-of-fact tone infuriated Feng so much that she almost cursed. She endured it again and again, then snapped impatiently, "No one is allowed to leave until everything is clear! Regarding the treatment of the arm, we can talk about it after everything is clear!"
After being the daughter-in-law of the Gu family for so many years, Zhang was still a little afraid of Feng.
Seeing Feng getting angry, Zhang pursed her lips. She didn't want to really tear her face off and go to court, so she could only follow her instructions and take her two children to the main hall first.
"What are you still standing there for? Let's go to the main hall together!" Seeing that her son didn't move, Feng urged him angrily.
Old Master Gu suddenly stabbed the ground with his cane and said, "Second brother! When will you be able to make the family worry-free?"
After saying this, he walked away with a look of deep sorrow on his face.
Seeing that her husband looked unhappy, Feng was afraid that he might be angry, so she hurried over to support him.
Gu Lianshan and Gu Tang, the father and daughter, were left standing on the spot, almost laughing in anger. What was going on? Was he trying to put the blame on them?!
The father and daughter each sneered and walked towards the main room.
When they entered the main hall, they saw the two elders of the Gu family sitting on either side of the eight-immortals table, looking at the father and daughter who came in with serious faces.
"Go ahead and tell me about this from the beginning!" Feng slammed the table, trying to intimidate the father and daughter.
Unfortunately, the father and daughter were both more rude than each other and neither of them paid any attention to Feng.
Feng was so angry that she fell backwards. She could only glare at Zhang and said, "Tell me! What exactly is going on with the stolen silver?"
Zhang's face froze. Although the truth was exposed, she still felt embarrassed when asked to say it again in person.
How could she say that? She stole her husband's and daughter's money to support the Lin family?
Zhang bit her lower lip tightly and couldn't utter a word.
Feng's expression grew increasingly grim. Gu Tang scoffed, glancing at Zhang. "She calls herself a respectable person, yet she did something so shameful behind someone's back. How can she possibly say that? Grandma, if you want to know, it's best if I tell you myself..."
Zhang immediately looked at Gu Tang with resentment, and hated her so much that she wanted to eat her alive!
Gu Tang met her gaze with a sneer on his face, neither dodging nor avoiding.
Then, she started talking about the time when the original owner was able to earn money, and counted all the money that Zhang had taken from the original owner over the years, both openly and secretly.
The least was only a few dozen copper coins, and the most was one or two taels of silver coins. From the time the original owner went up the mountain to collect herbs when he was seven or eight years old, until this year, in the past five or six years, Feng had robbed and secretly stolen a total of fifteen taels of silver from the original owner!
In addition to these, there were also the medicinal herbs dug by the original owner. Zhang picked up many valuable ones and took them away, saying that they were to treat the old woman of the Lin family and replenish her body.
This is a lie!
Zhang was not a doctor and didn't even know the medicine. She asked the original owner about the herbs. After finding out which ones were valuable and which ones were worthless, she picked out all the valuable ones and took them away.
There is no doubt that it was sold privately for silver, and the silver was most likely given to the Lin family!
Silver and medicinal herbs are the most valuable, and the rest are clothes and food.
Before Gu Tang came here, the original owner's clothes were all patched up, and any decent clothes would disappear after a few days.
It would have been fine if the original owner didn't ask, but if she had asked, Zhang would have said that Lin Yue had no clothes to wear, so she would lend them to Lin Yue first and then buy them for her later.
After two days, Zhang would bring back a piece of worn-out clothing that she had gotten from somewhere unknown, and then give it to the original owner, saying it was compensation.
"...Forget about the clothes, there are fifteen taels of silver, and those herbs can be sold for ten or so. In total, the money stolen from me alone is over twenty taels. The twenty taels I mentioned earlier only counted the cash, not anything else."
After hearing what Gu Tang said, Gu Lianshan was stunned. He knew some of these things, but not others.
"Why haven't I ever heard you tell me these things?"
Gu Tang was silent. In the original owner's heart, no matter how bad Zhang was, she was still her biological mother. In addition, Zhang often nagging the original owner, saying that the original owner was a girl and was born by a stepmother. In this family, apart from her, the mother, who would love the original owner?
Not only did Zhang say these words, she would also give a sweet reward after a beating. As a mother, as long as she was humble and coaxed the child a few times, it would be a very happy thing for the original owner who was timid and lacked love, and she could endure any grievance.
Seeing that Gu Tang was silent, Gu Lianshan thought that he was being blamed, and he was completely dejected: "Dad was careless. Your mother said that you are a girl, and it is not appropriate for a father to be too close to you. Dad thought that since she can tolerate your older brother and sister, there is no reason for her not to love her own child. Who would have thought..."
Gu Tang sighed inwardly. In this matter, both father and daughter were wrong. One trusted Zhang too much. Although she later discovered that Zhang might be mistreating the original owner, the original owner never told the truth.
As a father, he can't take the initiative to say bad things about Zhang. It would be disastrous if his daughter thought he was trying to sow discord between mother and daughter.
The original owner was the same, he liked to keep everything in his heart, bearing all the good and bad by himself, unwilling and afraid to say it.
I'm afraid if I say it, there will be a quarrel and I'll be scolded as a troublemaker!
This was also the result of Zhang often whispering in the original owner's ear, saying that the original owner was not tolerant enough, not generous and decent enough, and that it would be ugly if things got out of hand. If outsiders knew about it, they would scold the original owner for being restless and a troublemaker!
Under Zhang's long-term suppression and brainwashing, the original owner was already sensitive by nature, so after hearing what Zhang said, he naturally did not dare to make a fuss.
After being tolerant for a long time, whenever something happened, the original owner would subconsciously endure and give in. He was like a quail, and anyone could step on him.
As soon as Gu Lianshan discovered that Zhang was not doing well, he tried to take care of the original owner as much as possible, but the original owner's temperament had already been formed.
In ancient times when people got married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, even if the original owner continued to live, her future life was destined to be unhappy and miserable.