I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 116 Gu Family's Relatives

Less than half a cup of tea had passed since Gu Tao arrived at the Gu family's house when she, her husband, children, and grandchildren were driven out without any explanation. Not only was she humiliated, but her plans were also completely ruined.

She got on the hired carriage in a state of depression. However, her husband and children actually blamed her for being so ruthless in her actions and completely offending the second branch of the Gu family.

She was so angry that she yelled at her husband, "That's not what you and your parents said at the beginning! You even praised me for doing a good job! Besides, I don't have eyes, how can I know which cloud will bring rain?!"

Her husband was speechless and could only glare at her. Her younger generations saw that she was angry and did not dare to talk nonsense anymore. The group left in disgrace, but Gu Tao did not stop.

So, the next day after she visited, Gu Wenxuan’s great-grandfather Gu Jin and his family also visited.

Gu Jin's family hasn't been back to the village for a long time. At the beginning, Gu Wenxuan's third uncle Gu Tong proposed to split the family business in anger because his father and eldest brother refused to treat Gu Yongming's injuries. However, he was stopped by old man Gu who pretended to faint.

From then on, the first and third wives lived together with Old Man and Old Lady Gu, and the third wife became the family that always suffered losses.

If it were just that it would be fine, but before old man Gu died, Gu Jin went to great lengths to trick Gu Tong.

When Old Man Gu was seriously ill, Gu Jin offered to serve his father at night. Gu Tong naively thought that although Gu Jin was unkind to his brothers and nephews, he still had some filial piety towards Old Man Gu who had always been partial to him, so he agreed.

But in fact, Gu Jin was not doing this for filial piety. He just wanted to take the money and land deeds that old man Gu had held in his hands for a lifetime.

After succeeding, Gu Jin immediately moved the things away, and then he refused to serve Old Man Gu anymore.

It was not until his father was buried that Gu Tong invited the head of the village and the elders to help with the division of the property. Only then did he discover that there were only a few copper coins left in the box that contained valuables at home.

Gu Tong was stunned for a moment, but he quickly recalled that something was wrong with Gu Jin at that time.

He was furious, pointing out that the other party usually never got close to his father, but during those two days he abnormally took the initiative to serve his father at night. He must have taken the opportunity to move the things away while his father was asleep.

Of course Gu Jin would not admit it, but Gu Tong was stubborn and he knew that this was not something he could get away with by simply not admitting it.

Gu Tong didn't listen to his explanation at all. He just said that he, who is barefoot, is not afraid of those who wear shoes. If Gu Jin doesn't return the things, he will go to the restaurant where the other party works to make trouble every day, so that Gu Jin will be disgraced and will never have a good reputation or a good job in the future.

Gu Jin never dreamed that the stupid henpecked bastard he had always looked down upon could actually be so shrewd and so bold. Forced into a corner, he had no choice but to say, "You must not have looked carefully enough. I'll go look for it myself later!" while hurried back to his room to find the deed. Taking the opportunity of "going to look for it", he secretly stuffed the deed into a crack in the wall of his father's room, pretending that his father had moved the place where he had hidden it.

As for the silver and money he stole, that thing is different from the land deed. Whether he hired people to cultivate the land or sold it directly, there would be evidence left. But even if he spent the silver and money, others would have no way to prove that he stole it from the old man. He would be stupid to take it back and give it to others.

He was not afraid of Gu Tongsou. As soon as he succeeded, he asked his son to use all the private money that their family had saved for many years, as well as the money he had stolen from the old man, to buy a house in the town.

In other words, there is not even a copper coin in the rooms where they live in the big house. They are cleaner than the old man’s cash box.

He was fearless and acted like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water. Gu Tong was so angry that he wanted to continue making trouble, but his wife did not dare to offend the first wife.

She pulled Gu Tong's sleeve and cried, asking him to think about herself and the child and not to offend Gu Jin, who had made great achievements.

The head of the village and the elders at that time also advised Gu Tong, suggesting that instead of continuing to make trouble, he should be given more houses, food, poultry, livestock and various utensils.

Gu Tong also knew that his good brother must have transferred the money away, otherwise he would not have been so fearless. Gu Tong was furious, but he had no choice but to accept the proposal of the head of the village and the elders.

But he also suggested that the family property should not be divided between him and the eldest wife alone. Apart from anything else, at least the second wife should have a share of the retirement land for his parents. After all, his second brother also gave him retirement money.

The head of the village and the village elders thought what he said made sense, but his eldest brother's family refused to agree.

The two sides could not reach an agreement on the dispute, so the head of the village and the elders had to call Gu Wenxuan's grandfather to ask him what he thought.

Old Master Gu glanced at Gu Jin with disgust, and then stated that his family could give up the land, but they wanted to sever the relationship with the eldest branch and write a document to sever the relationship.

Gu Jin agreed without hesitation.

When Gu Tong saw this, he also proposed to break off the engagement with the first wife.

In the end, the first and third wives divided the family's land, grain, chickens, pigs and cows roughly in half according to the estimated amount of silver.

It is worth mentioning that because the third branch’s money disappeared and Gu Jin was a strong suspect, with the help of the head of the village and the elders, his family got all the houses, yards and belongings of the Gu family’s old house.

The division of the family was thus declared over, and the eldest branch of the Gu family moved to their newly bought house in the town in a grand manner. When Mrs. Gu Tong heard the news, she cursed the eldest branch for being heartless and cried non-stop.

Why? Because the old house of the Gu family and all the things in the house were not worth thirty taels of silver, but the house that Gu Jin's family bought in the town required at least one hundred and twenty taels of silver.

In terms of their respective values, the three houses undoubtedly suffered a great loss.

Honest and hardworking but weak-willed Mrs. Gu Tong kept crying. Not only did Mrs. Gu Tong not comfort her, she also stabbed her in the back without any hesitation.

"You know how to cry now? Who stopped me when we were dividing the family, saying that if I continued to make trouble, I would not let you and the child live?"

"And when my second brother and his family were kicked out, didn't you stop me from speaking for them and from moving out with them?"

"Now you know you regret it? It's too late!"

Mrs. Gu Tong was filled with anger and regret, and she forced herself to fall ill. However, her illness was obviously unable to recover any losses for the third house. Not only could she not recover the losses, but her family had to spend an extra ten copper coins to buy medicine for her.

At this point, the first wife had completely offended everyone in the third wife.

But they don't care, because they get the benefits anyway.