Chapter 3 The Difficulty of Nine Ding
The old lady was thinking that Gui Yuan’s time of naturalization in Shilipu was the same as when Wu married into the family. She was named the head of the household, but it looked like she was a married woman. No matter how much resentment she had, she encountered the word “marriage”, it made the old lady’s heart and courage tremble, and it hurt like a needle.
The woman's eyes fell on Gui Chongyang, thinking that the date of his birth was the same as the day when he lost his mother. In poor opinion, she actually lost her mother. My cousin was a man who was careless. For the sake of his son's good, he should report the evening report of Gui Wu's death for one day. Otherwise, there would be nothing. When Gui Chongyang talks about marriage, the four words "born to defeat his mother" will be revealed. Whether you believe it or not, such a fate makes people picky.
The girl bit her lips and felt a little uncomfortable. After all, this is the Gui family. My aunt and I could live in a mess before. What should I do in the future? Although my aunt has been embroidering work over the years, it is just an ordinary job. She has collected a lot of copper and has to support three people. She has saved up all the money for the late old lady Gui to treat the doctor. In the past two years, she also paid the money from the embroidery workshop in order to send the old man. She has not paid it back yet. How to calculate this bad debt? But if her aunt and nephew are guests, she feels uncomfortable. After all, she and her aunt have lived in the Gui family for more than ten years, and Gui Chongyang only showed up today.
No one spoke in the room for a while. Gui Chongyang lowered his eyes and continued to touch the white cat, thinking about how to deal with it. He could not accept the identity of a concubine's son. No matter what the reason, he would be sorry for his dead mother. However, the woman who had been in the Gui family for more than ten years would not be willing to give up the identity of his original wife. If it was a stalemate, how should he resolve the situation?
The woman spoke first.
The woman looked at Gui Chongyang with a complicated face. After a while, she said: "There is blood inheritance in the Gui family, and my aunt can finally feel at ease when she is underground."
Gui Chongyang's heart moved, raised his head, the woman had already lowered her eyes and said softly: "I and your father are cousins. If it is your original intention, you can call me "cousin."
The old lady turned her head and said with disagreement: "How can I argue like this?"
The woman's shoulders were trembling slightly, and she held the edge of the kang under her hands, barely supporting her, saying, "Second aunt, this is the Gui family. When the eldest aunt took in and protected her, it was the kindness of my aunt. Now that the fourth cousin is gone, it is a great blessing to leave a bloodline. Why bother to worry about those who are weak?"
Mujia Village is just a small village where ordinary farmers live, but the villagers also know that the "Xiao Niang" is not well-obedient.
The stories of legitimate and legitimate illegitimate illegitimate families do not do anything to ordinary people. The Gui family only has three dilapidated houses and cannot grow a few acres of inferior land, and even can't eat enough. It would be a real joke if Gui Chongyang and this woman really competed for the name of "first wife" and "legitimate son".
The old lady looked depressed, but she couldn't write two words "Gui" in one stroke. She stared at Gui Chongyang and said, "What elders are there in your grandma's family, but she was bullied? How could she send you a child back from such a long distance?"
The old man had a disgusting and kind face and a hard tone, but there was a little worry hidden inside.
Time is the best medicine. The old lady cursed Gui Yuan day and night, but more than ten years have passed, and the deepest resentment has faded. If Gui Yuan came back, the old lady would not have to chop people with a pig-killing knife. Now the deceased is the greatest. Even if the old lady is full of depression, she cannot vent her ventilated on a sick orphan.
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The second bedroom of Gui family, the main bedroom.
Gui Chongyang held the little white cat and sat on the stool. Looking at the circle of people surrounding him in front of him, he couldn't help counting in his heart: "One person, two people, three people, four people..."
Including the "cousin" and her niece, there are only six people in front of him, namely Grandpa Gui Er and Grandma Gui Er (black-faced old lady), the widow of Gui Er's uncle Yang, and the eldest son of Yang's family Gui Chun. In addition to the six people in front of him, Gui Chun also has a younger brother who is an apprentice in the grocery store in the town; as for the cousin who was the fifth in the second room mentioned by Gui Yuan, he was not in front of him, and no one mentioned it.
Grandpa Gui Er has a lame leg and gray hair. He is actually less than 60 years old, but looks like he is seventy years old. Yang is a few years older than his "cousin", with his temples and thick hands and feet. He is really a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who is in line with his second grandmother. He looks thicker than an ordinary woman. Gui Chun is eighteen years old, and his figure is taller than a grandparent. He is wearing short-dressed clothes with patches, but unlike ordinary unglossed country boys, it is a bit cleaner and tidy.
The group of people looked at Gui Chongyang with different expressions.
Elders like the second grandfather, second grandmother, and Yang are inevitably in a complicated mood. You should know that the reason why the Gui family is so poor is because Gui Chongyang’s biological father made a big mistake back then.
Thirteen years ago, the imperial court was going to send troops to Mongolia, drawing civil servants from Tongzhou to transport grain to the army, and two draws two draws, two draws, and two draws, two adult male servants in the family, and three adult male servants were trying to draw two draws. Someone got news at that time and learned that the Ding service was difficult, so he sent a message to Gui Dahai, who was the village chief. Gui Dahai asked someone to leave a relationship in the yamen and could give Ding Yin instead of Ding, one ding five liang of official silver.
At that time, money was cheap and silver was expensive, and five taels of official silver cost about six jin of money, which was the income of ordinary farmers for one or two years. The land around Mujia Village was barren, and everyone was not rich in life. However, at the critical moment, each household also tried hard to borrow money everywhere. The families who could afford to pay for the silver were paid, but there was no way for those who couldn't make up for it.
Just two days before the day of the sack, Gui Dahai had paid the silver and was about to go to the county government to go through the procedures. Gui Dahai's youngest son Gui Yuan stole the silver and ran away.
It was Ding Yin, who had dozens of people. Village Chief Gui had to sell land to make up for silver, but in a hurry, how could he buy it? The land worth four or five taels of silver per acre was half the price, and the newly built large blue brick house in his house was also bought by his relatives at a low price.
The three Gui Dahai brothers have long been separated, and each family is just a normal life. Grandpa Gui Er and Grandpa Gui San have a deep relationship with the Gui Dahai brothers. Seeing that the Gui family was in trouble, they agreed to sell their own land. Even so, Ding Yin, who was still missing in the end, still needs to pay Nine Ding. The silver was lost by his own family, so naturally it started from the male member of the Gui family.
Jiuding from Mujia Village followed him to the Dingfu, but during the first food delivery mission, he encountered Mongolian cavalry and nine people were killed.
Among the nine people who died, there were the eldest and second sons of the village chief Gui, the eldest son of the second grandfather Gui, the third grandfather Gui, the brother-in-law of the village chief Gui and his nephew, the nephew of the village chief Gui, and the brother of the village chief Gui's eldest daughter-in-law, and the brother of the village chief Gui's eldest daughter-in-law. There was no outsider, all of them were in-laws.
Chapter completed!