bookcurios Chapter 120 The Li Family Arrives
Chapter 120 The Li Family Arrives
Sun Laibao took the bowl of water, gulped down half of it, and wiped his mouth: "Today, Xiaozhuang and I went to the mountain to pick chestnuts. We just got back and saw a lot of people gathered around Gu Tongsheng's house..."
After listening for a while, the four finally understood that Gu Yaozong's former father-in-law, the Li family, had come looking for them.
You should know that Gu Yaozong worked as a waiter at the Li Family Restaurant before he got married.
Later, due to his connection with the Ye family, he became an apprentice to the manager of the Li family restaurant.
Later, after he got involved with the Li family, the Li family dismissed the restaurant manager and put Gu Yaozong in charge of the restaurant.
The restaurant business has been sluggish in recent years, and the Li family knows that business is difficult because they have other businesses as well.
So they didn't put too much effort into the restaurant, thinking that it would be convenient for their sister to spend the money if Gu Yaozong managed it.
never thought...
Before Lai Bao could finish speaking, Gu Chunsheng and his wife came over carrying shovels.
These past few days, whenever they have free time in the afternoon, they come to the orchard and help out for about an hour.
When this couple arrived, they talked back and forth, and they explained things much more clearly than Sun Laibao.
The Li family arrived with six oxcarts and a group of people. As soon as they got off the carts, they not only kicked down the large wooden door of Gu Qingshan's house, but also rushed in and started smashing things.
Several strong young men rushed into his backyard and killed all the pigs, chickens, and ducks the Gu family raised, then loaded them onto a truck.
Upon hearing this, Dongfang Jin felt as if the Li family were bandits.
However, she enjoyed listening to it.
I cheered for the Li family in my heart!
Besides Gu Qingshan, who works in the fields, and Gu Yaohui, who studies in the county.
The other members of the Gu family who were at home, including Ye Shilan, were all beaten up by the women from the Li family.
well played!
Deserve a beating!
It's really a wave of upheaval.
Old Mrs. Gu lay in the yard, throwing a tantrum and shouting, attracting many villagers to watch the spectacle.
None of the onlookers stepped forward to help stop them, which shows the character of this family.
When the Gu clan chief and his son arrived at Gu Qingshan's house and saw the scene, they shouted that they would report it to the authorities.
Li's father glanced disdainfully at Clan Chief Gu, then immediately made the decision: "Report it! Report it to the authorities right away; they'll be waiting."
Another young man boasted that none of the people he brought would leave, and urged the Gu family to report the matter to the authorities immediately.
Li's mother said that not only did she divorce her daughter, but she also dared to make her leave with nothing.
If the Gu family doesn't give a clear explanation, the Li family won't let it go.
Chief Gu was dumbfounded; he didn't know whether to report it or not.
Are you stupid?
I was outmaneuvered.
The eldest brother of the Li family even took out a stack of account books, saying that it showed how Gu Yaozong falsified accounts during his management of the Li Family Restaurant.
How they cut corners, how they used the Li Family Restaurant as a front to collect money, and how they sent children who wanted to go to school to their uncle's private school.
One by one, the Li family revealed everything to him.
The second brother of the Li family was a cook, a big, strong man, and tall. He pushed the clan leader, urging him to hurry up and report to the authorities.
The family waited there, and it was only after Lin Lizheng intervened that the Li family calmed down.
Yang Tao said that back then, Chief Gu was like a grandson.
Sure enough, when Granny Gu saw Lin Lizheng and the clan chief come to her house, she felt a surge of pride.
He then began to berate Li Shi as a barren hen, saying that in ten years of marriage she had only given birth to two money-losing children and had not produced a single grandson for the Gu family.
Li's mother didn't tolerate her either, and stepped forward to slap her several times.
She also said that if it weren't for her instigating Gu Yaozong to seduce her daughter and ruin her daughter's reputation, how could the Li family have married their daughter to such a shameless family?
If it weren't for her daughter, how could the Li family have tolerated Gu Yaozong's falsification of accounts?
If it weren't for the fact that her daughter couldn't give birth to a son, the Li family wouldn't have been able to keep it a secret from her that Gu Yaozong was having affairs.
Finally, the Li family also revealed that Gu Yaozong was keeping a young widow in Liushutun, Changhe Town.
This time, the Li family also brought that woman along. Yang Tao said that the woman was pregnant.
Dongfang Jin listened, thinking how dramatic the Gu family was.
This Gu Yaozong, why is he so fixated on the young widows?
What kind of quirk is this?
When Chief Gu saw the account books and the pregnant woman sent by the Li family, he remained silent.
He looked at the family with a gloomy expression, his eyes filled with disappointment.
Even though Old Lady Gu was beaten, she didn't dare to retaliate. She could only vent her frustration by occasionally cursing the Li family.
With each sentence she uttered, Li's mother and her two daughters-in-law would reveal some things about the Gu family.
It is said that Gu Meixiang was either beaten by her mother-in-law or by her husband at her husband's home.
It was also revealed that Gu Meiyu had already been fired by Mr. Mei, the embroidery master.
Because once, Mr. Mei's nephew passed through this place while traveling for his studies and came to visit his aunt.
Unexpectedly, Gu Meiyu found out that the man was a scholar, so she secretly put drugs in his water, intending to sleep with him.
Fortunately, the servant discovered it in time. The effects of the medicine wore off, and the person also caught a chill, taking more than half a month to recover.
In a fit of anger, Mr. Mei dismissed Gu Meiyu.
Because of this matter, Mr. Mei also sought out the head of the Ye family.
Now that the head of the Ye family is Gu Pozi's older brother, after the Ye family found out about this, they told Gu Meiyu not to come to her maternal family anymore.
Gu Meiyu didn't mention this when she came back, and Gu's family still doesn't know.
The villagers were stunned by the Li family's revelation. How could Gu Meiyu be so bold?
The crowd was buzzing with discussion, and some, not wanting to miss out on the drama, went straight to asking about Mr. Mei's identity.
Li's eldest sister-in-law didn't hide anything, saying that this Mr. Mei was from Jiangnan, and that his family had fled here after their hometown was flooded.
The Mei family is somewhat famous in Jiangnan; it's said that their ancestors once made dragon robes for the emperor...
When they fled here, Mr. Mei was of marriageable age, and the family they stayed with was quite good, so they married Mr. Mei to the youngest son of this family.
After the two families became related by marriage, the floods in Jiangnan subsided, and the Mei family returned to their ancestral home, leaving Mr. Mei alone with the properties acquired by the Mei family here...
Mr. Mei was skilled at embroidery, and he quickly gained fame in Changhe Town.
Her parents-in-law and husband were also very understanding, so they cleared out a small courtyard in their home for her to teach some women embroidery.
It just so happened that her husband's uncle owned a cloth shop in Changhe Town, and over time, her reputation grew.
Any woman who had learned embroidery from her would receive high praise from her future in-laws when she reached marriageable age, upon hearing that she had learned embroidery from Mr. Mei.
Upon hearing this, Dongfang Jin realized that in ancient times, when a woman was looking for a husband, the husband's family could judge her character by looking at her embroidery.
No wonder Aunt Hui insisted on having Xian'er keep embroidering. Even her daughter Gu Caiwei can embroider very well now, though she can only embroider a small flower or a leaf.
She didn't stop him; kids should be allowed to do what they like.
Hearing this, Dongfang Jin sighed that Gu Meiyu's marriage was probably doomed; a good family would never choose such a wife.
Putting aside what happened before, the recent revelations from the Li family, coupled with their barely open eyelids, are enough.
"and after?"
Yang Tao glanced at Gu Chenglin, and seeing that he didn't react, she said, "Later, Lin Lizheng took charge of the matter and asked the Li family what they wanted to do this time."
Li's mother said she wanted her daughter's dowry back and also wanted the Gu family to sign a letter severing ties with her two granddaughters.
At first, Granny Gu refused, but the Li family insisted on reporting it to the authorities and suing Gu Yaozong.
In the end, Old Lady Gu compromised, returned Li's dowry, and even signed a letter severing ties with her.
Lin Lizheng said that the truckload of livestock should be considered as compensation from the Gu family to the Li family.