coobybook Chapter 40 Unintentional Use of Sequences
Chapter 40 Unintentional Use of Sequences
Upon hearing these words, Gu Chenglin lowered his eyes. Anyang County? It seems that Gu Yeshi swapped him with his own mother at that inn.
How did Gu Ye know that his mother had an accident and that her son had died tragically?
It seems there's definitely something fishy going on here. Otherwise, as his uncle said, his mother not only had two maids who knew martial arts, but also quite a few guards.
There were eight maids and servants, so how did Madam Gu manage to switch him without them noticing?
If he hadn't led a team to support Gu Yunxiang back then, he wouldn't have been recognized, and his uncle wouldn't have come to confirm it in person.
Thinking about it, my hand unconsciously went to touch my left shoulder, where there was a birthmark that looked like a plum blossom. My uncle said that only the direct descendants of the Hua family had it.
His uncle personally examined the stillborn baby in his mother's arms and found no such birthmark. Therefore, his uncle became suspicious and has been secretly investigating the matter for years…
Dongfang Jin curled her lips: "What does this have to do with a baby? Besides, no matter how much you hate him, he's still your own flesh and blood!"
Why do you hate him so much? Why doesn't Granny Gu treat the other five children like this?
Furthermore, you said that Gu Chenglin was raised by his grandmother until he was three years old, and only returned to his parents' home after her death. Does that mean he was already working at the age of three?
Lin Lizheng listened to her words and fell into reminiscence: "Pretty much. Back then, Cheng Lin was so young that he went up the mountain to chop firewood. Everyone who saw him felt sorry for him."
Whenever someone tries to help him, his mother sees it and starts arguing with them, sometimes even going to their doorstep to hurl insults.
Every time something like this happened, Chenglin would not only be beaten by her, but she would also deny him food and forbid him from sleeping in the house.
Looking back now, he also had doubts. Could it be that Chenglin really wasn't born to Ye?
She looked up and carefully examined Gu Chenglin, but couldn't see anything wrong with him.
Hearing these words, Dongfang Jin also fell into her own strange circle, insisting on her own idea: "Then it's even stranger. I seriously suspect that Gu Chenglin is not her son."
Gu Chenglin was speechless, but he saw through it without saying anything: "Xiao Jin!"
This guy has already gotten enough information out of me today. If he keeps talking, the village head will be on guard, and he probably won't be able to find anything in the future.
Today, things got a bit complicated, and with Master Xu around, no one would have brought this up under normal circumstances.
He vividly remembered the year Xu Ernai gave him a piece of cake, which Gu Yeshi saw. Afterwards, Gu Yeshi sent him to Xu Ernai's house…
Master Xu asked her why she treated him this way, since even tigers don't eat their cubs.
Gu Ye said he was not her son; her son was dead.
Later, perhaps realizing he had said something wrong, he accused her of preventing her from seeing her mother one last time… Looking back now…
Lin Li was trying to figure it out and stopped thinking about it, but Gu Chenglin's shout brought him back to his senses. He suddenly realized that his previous suspicions were too absurd: "Impossible! You can't make such a guess."
Xiao Jin, you must never say such things again, it will ruin Cheng Lin's reputation.
Upon seeing this, Dongfang Jin pursed her lips and remained silent. She just found it strange! How did it get linked to ruining one's reputation?
On the way to the village head's house
Master Xu and A Dong also learned why those people had gathered at Gu Chenglin's house.
No wonder they were all furious and smashed his house like that. If it were him, he might have thrown a couple of stones in too.
Master Xu and Ah Dong shook their heads in unison when they saw that Dongfang Jin looked completely unaffected. This girl is really carefree.
When they arrived at the village head's house, they did not go inside.
Gu Chenglin and Lin Yu unloaded the truck. After they finished, the village head gave Gu Chenglin his family's newly issued household registration booklet.
Dongfang Jin packed up the new clothes the family had bought that day and took them with her; she would pick up the rest when they returned.
Lin Yu drove the oxcart, taking Gu Chenglin and his family of four directly to the county.
……
After Dongfang Jin and the others left, her family was in an uproar.
Gu Chenglin and Dongfang Jin gave everything in their family to Sun Xing of the Sun family, Gu Chunsheng of the Gu family's branch of the family, and Xu Changhua and Xu Changshan of the Xu family.
The Gu family objected; Fang Jin's dowry was her obsession.
She didn't want anything else, just those four boxes, which were brand new. They were prepared long ago by Madam Fang You for her eldest daughter; they were made of camphor wood.
They're calling out to their whole family to go in and rob us. Are the Gu, Xu, and Sun families capable of anything?
These four families were related by marriage. With the four sisters and their sisters-in-law standing there, their presence was so imposing that even Granny Gu's family didn't dare to approach.
Seeing this, Gu Xiaocui's father slapped her across the face, angrily scolding her for being good for nothing and good for making things worse. After glancing at Gu Qingshan's family, he turned and left in resentment.
The women who had caused the most trouble at Gu Chenglin's house were now somewhat apprehensive when they saw that Chenglin's family had really left with Master Xu.
Who would have thought that the county clerk would know Gu Chenglin's newlywed wife?
They even sent someone to the village in person to invite him, and they let Master Xu see this scene. Surely the county magistrate will know about this.
One of the women cried out in surprise, saying that Cheng Lin's family had the county magistrate's jade token. This made the other women even more regretful.
They all glared at Gu Meiyu with hatred in their eyes. If it weren't for Gu Yaohui, they would have definitely ganged up on her and given her a beating.
The last woman from the Sun family said to Gu Meiyu and Gu Xiaocui that if Gu Chenglin wanted compensation, they had to pay it, or it wouldn't end there.
The matter was originally over and done with, and the women, out of fear, didn't think much of it.
However, on their way back, they overheard Gu Xiaocui's mother saying that they were all fools who believed everything and were easily swayed, which directly provoked the crowd's anger.
These people were already seething with anger because Gu Yaohui didn't dare to touch Gu Meiyu.
No one in Gu Fugui's family wanted to become the top scholar. The group exchanged glances and saw the frustration in each other's eyes.
The group rushed over and started beating up Gu Xiaocui's mother, making quite a scene.
Bystanders saw Gu Qingshan's family walk past the group of people fighting, and no one even stepped forward to break them up.
The two daughters-in-law, Xiao Ye and Li, watched the spectacle with schadenfreude for a while before leaving.
Those people who saw all this shook their heads at Gu Qingshan and his family.
Even if Gu Yaohui becomes the top scholar in the imperial examination, can such a family truly help their village?
Those who are interested have raised questions, and quite a few of them do.
……
When Gu Yucheng got home, he told his parents what he had seen that day.
After saying that, he looked at his father. His father, the clan chief, was extremely unwilling to expel Gu Chenglin from the clan, but in the end, he could not overcome his father's insistence.
Upon hearing her son's words, the clan chief's wife asked in surprise, "You mean Chenglin's wife was called away by Master Xu?"
Gu Yucheng nodded, his expression somewhat unpleasant: "Yes, I heard it clearly. Master Xu said he came to invite her. Mother, did Master Xu really say 'invite'?"
"No matter the reason, the fact that a clerk could personally come to invite her, Mother, means that Chenglin's wife is no ordinary person."
Gu Yucheng's wife, Wang, asked curiously, "Wasn't Fang Jin also expelled from the Fang family and cut off from all ties?"
"Didn't Lin Songshu's wife say she'd never left the Fang family's gate? How could she be literate? And how did she know Master Xu? Don't you find that strange?"