coobybook Chapter 118 The Village's Information Network
Chapter 118 The Village's Information Network
Yang Zhu looked at him with disdain: "Later, it was my aunt and her sister-in-law who dragged their clan chief's wife to their house."
It is said that the elders of the Gu clan gathered together to discuss the matter, and finally sent Gu Yulin, who drove an oxcart with two young men, to the county to bring Gu Yaohui back.
I want him to explain things clearly in person.
Unfortunately, the person who went didn't bring the person back, saying they went to class. However, they did find out quite a few things.
It is indeed true that Gu Yaohui frequented Wanhualou in the county.
You have no idea, the small courtyard where Gu Yaohui lives in the county was bought for him by his wife for three hundred taels of silver.
They had previously bought him several servants to look after him, but now only a cook and a page are left.
"I heard that he sold all the maids who used to serve him."
When those people returned, they said that according to Gu Yaohui's neighbors, he had a bad temper and was violent, often beating and scolding his servant.
Although the voice was very soft, some people still witnessed it and said that if the page had dared to shout, he would have been beaten even more severely.
You said he's lost all his popularity; only Clan Chief Gu still believes in him.
After hearing these things, Dongfang Jin knew that although they had been passed through many people and changed several times, they all pointed to the fact that Gu Yaohui was a person of questionable character.
"A hypocrite is unworthy of being a scholar."
Yang Zhu nodded: "I think so too. The person who went to pick up Gu Yaohui only said that he was in class and that he didn't pick him up."
Those who inquired about those matters did not tell the clan elders…
Whenever Gu Yaohui returned to the village and someone greeted him, he would pretend not to see them.
When someone came up to talk to him, he not only ignored them but also avoided them, looking at them as if they were something dirty.
Over time, the villagers stopped greeting him whenever they saw him return to the village.
They all watched him from a distance, including the children, who all kept their distance from him.
After hearing her words, Dongfang Jin became curious about the big locust tree in the village.
Okay? The central area of information, huh?
There, you could hear news about Lingwu Village and several surrounding villages.
This includes what each family ate today and how many meals they had.
This daughter-in-law was scolded by her mother-in-law for smacking her lips while eating, while that daughter-in-law stole things from her family and sent them to her parents' home.
If a daughter-in-law cheats on her husband, the mother-in-law will sneak into her son's room and rummage through her daughter-in-law's things.
So-and-so's family got into a huge fight because the elder brother-in-law glanced at his younger brother's wife too much; so-and-so's younger brother-in-law stole his sister-in-law's underwear...
There is so much information, all kinds of things, you can't imagine it, it's even more advanced than modern internet information.
After hearing that Chief Gu's wife didn't end up leaving, and that she was escorted through the gate by Aunt Gu and Chun Sheng's mother, she was persuaded to go back by several older women in the clan.
After the clan chief's wife made such a scene and revealed the truth, the Gu clan was no longer united.
They had only heard that the clan chief always gave money to Gu Qingshan's family before, but they never took it seriously. This time, however, it was different.
If the clan chief's wife said it herself, and under what circumstances, then it's 100% true.
Over the years, apart from Granny Gu, no member of the Gu clan has been able to borrow money, including grain, from the clan head's family.
Dongfang Jin thought to herself, "Of course they'd lend you any. They're tightening their belts themselves and selling their surplus grain to their grandsons."
If we lend you more grain, what will that family eat?
Money? Absolutely not. Even if there were, Chief Gu would probably save it for Gu Yaohui.
A family like this, with a patriarch who is incapable of distinguishing between inside and outside the family, selfish, and willful, is destined not to go far. If it wants to go far, it will have to change its patriarch.
However, that is also a long process.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Trust is something that is very difficult to establish.
Chief Gu's wife is a bit like someone who hurts the enemy a thousand but also hurts herself eight hundred.
Dongfang Jin also understood the implication that each clan leader was like an emperor, a position passed down through generations.
interesting.
No wonder Chief Gu was so confident and biased towards that family.
Is it because he feels destined that no one will compete with him for the position of clan leader?
If she remembered correctly, her fourth aunt said that Gu Yongliang had an older brother and an older sister.
They don't seem to have much contact.
It's best to avoid people like that.
However, since they haven't severed ties, I'm afraid...
Sun Xing dug a ditch and said to them, "You two should just stay at home. After their commotion, many people in the village are now saying that Gu Yaohui was corrupted by Cheng Lin."
Dongfang Jin was a little unhappy. What did this have to do with them?
"Let them talk. They say Gu Chenglin corrupted them. Gu Chenglin has only been back for a few days."
Did Gu Yaohui just go to a brothel?
Ma Wencai said that not long after he went to the county, he pretended to be rich and invited some sons of officials to go out and have fun.
Later, the illegitimate son of the county magistrate who was transferred away once cursed Gu Yaohui at his family's restaurant.
Ma Wencai and the others only noticed him after that. He was studying all day? That was just an excuse for him to go home and ask Granny Gu for money.
"A bunch of brainless idiots, they really blame everything on Gu Chenglin."
Yang Zhu snorted coldly: "Anyway, I didn't like Gu Yaohui the first time I met him."
Once, when I passed by his house, I saw Gu Meiyu beating Li's two daughters.
When Gu Yaohui returned from outside and saw it, he ignored it and didn't pay any attention to it.
And then there's Uncle Qingshan. I don't know what he was thinking, but he was the only one talking to Gu Yaohui in that family.
Everyone else ignored him; at first I thought he was mute.
Dongfang Jin looked at Gu Chenglin: "Has he spoken to you?"
His question caused everyone to stop what they were doing.
Gu Chenglin shook his head: "No, when I was little, I wanted him to hold me, but every time I got in front of him, he would push me away."
"Or I can just avoid it; after a while, I'll stop wanting it."
Dongfang Jin...poor thing!
"What about Gu Yaozong and Gu Yaozu? Is he like that too?"
Gu Chenglin thought for a moment: "He never hugged her. Once he even pushed Gu Yaozong and made him fall over. That time, Gu's mother fought with him quite fiercely."
Could it be that Gu Qingshan, Gu Chenglin's father, also knows about Gu Chenglin's background?
If it is, then what about his other sons...?
Is it...
The atmosphere is a bit weird!
Yang Zhu: "Anyway, that family is pretty strange; they say all sorts of things."
As Sun Xing buried soil in the grape vines with a shovel, he said, "People's mouths have two skins; these words can be spread however they want."
Gu Chenglin tamped the soil down with his feet and said to Sun Xing, "Third Brother, don't worry about these things. Let those people talk."
The village head's sesame paste is already being made; once everyone in the village knows, your braised meat will be on the market too.
Sun Xing said with a smile, "It's all thanks to you two. Now Yangzi and Changhua are going to those villages in the north to collect chickens, ducks and eggs."
Chunsheng and Changshan went to the villages in the south to collect chickens, ducks, and eggs.
We finish our work early each day in half a day, which saves us the trouble of setting up a stall to sell our goods.
Gu Chenglin joked, "Hehe, it's mainly because Manager Xue of Ping An Restaurant has such a keen nose."
Sun Xing laughed when he heard this: "You know, Lin Jiang has loved to eat since he was a child. Now that he's grown up and a father, he's still so greedy."
Gu Chenglin laughed too: "That kid is spoiled by Grandma Lin. You know that, right? Grandma Lin always saves the best food for him."
Dongfang Jin found it amusing every time she heard this; this was the first pot of braised meat that Sun Xing had finished making, and he was sharing it with everyone to try.
Just then, his eldest son, Xiaozhuang, was carrying a basket to deliver to the village head's house when he happened to run into Lin Yu and his younger brother, Lin Jiang, delivering sesame paste to Ping'an Restaurant.
At the entrance, Lin Jiang tore off a piece of pig intestine, held it in his hand, and ate it bit by bit along the way.
The aroma distracted Lin Yu so much that he lost all interest in driving. He drove the carriage forward absentmindedly, and the wheels rolled over a small pothole.