Originally, Gu Cheng listened carefully, but as soon as he heard Gu Erniang ask him to go to the Li family to talk to Gu Daniang about the dowry, he immediately lowered his face: "How can this be done, no matter how I say it, I am an official of the court, how can I go to see her in my daughter's confinement, it won't work, it won't be ......."

"Daddy!"

Gu Erniang became more and more anxious: "Why can't it work, you are the eldest sister's father, you care about the eldest sister, go and see what's wrong, who can say anything?" ”

"Nope." Gu Cheng still resolutely disagreed: "This matter still has to be done by a woman, I am a big man who covets his daughter's idea of dowry, what has become of this." ”

Aunt Fu hung her head, a trace of disdain flashed in her eyes, she despised Gu Cheng the most for dying to save face and suffer the crime, but she had no way to flatter Gu Cheng, so she could only endure it: "What the master said is also true, this is the woman's head, but if the lady goes early, how can a concubine of the slave family be good...... The master doesn't know how the slave family was humiliated when he went to the Li family, he was beaten the last time he went, and this time he called the eldest lady of the Li family to insult him, the concubine was already humble, and it was nothing to be scolded and beaten, but if she couldn't do it well, the concubine couldn't stand the master. ”

As she spoke, Aunt Fu cried again.

"Alas!" Gu Cheng sighed, and before he was about to agree, he saw the housekeeper crawling into the house: "Master, master, it's not good, uncle, uncle has come in." ”

"What?" Gu Cheng was startled and stood up suddenly.

He just stood up at this time, and saw Zhong Mingpeng enter the house in a hurry, with anger on his face. Pulling a face, as soon as he stretched out his hand, he pushed the butler who was about to come to stop him to the side and raised his foot. The chair next to him was kicked down: "Gu Cheng, what do you mean?" ”

"Ming Peng, what kind of anger are you, come to me to spread fire." Gu Cheng also lowered his face and asked in a deep voice.

"Where you get angry, your family suffers." Zhong Mingpeng gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "My wife said it so carefully, I asked you to sort out Sister A's dowry and send it to Wan'er." It's good for you, yin and yang are against you. Okay, when my wife leaves, you will go to Wan'er on the back foot, and want Wan'er to admit that you don't want a dowry. Gu Cheng, you have a good idea, why didn't I see that you are so thick-skinned, if I had known that you were like this, I couldn't ask Sister A to marry you even if I was beaten to death by my father back then......"

Zhong Mingpeng pointed at Gu Cheng's nose and scolded: "Wan'er just gave birth, she had a difficult birth, and she hurt her foundation, you don't say that you sent some things to help her make up for her body, but use these things to annoy her." Just for the sake of Fu Guihua, a slut, for your concubine, you actually threw your concubine aside and ignored it. Gu Cheng, what did you say when I left, and how did you promise me? Have you forgotten, how did you have where you are today, what an ungrateful dog. ”

This scolding made Gu Cheng's face red, and his whole body trembled with anger: "This is the Gu family." It's not your Zhong family, your sister married the Gu family. That's the Gu family, her dowry is also the Gu family, why do you care, Wan'er is my daughter, whether she lives or dies is up to me, where is your room to get ahead. ”

Gu Cheng was also angry, and he lost his mind and scolded.

It didn't matter if he scolded him, but he smiled at Zhong Mingpeng angrily: "Okay, a good Gu family, it's really good......"

He lost his temper as he spoke, and broke a lot of objects in the hall between raising his feet and raising his hands: "I really haven't heard of a family that has taken away the dowry of his deceased wife, and I haven't heard of a face-saving person who lives by pointing to his wife's dowry, Gu Cheng, you can't even afford to support your family, you are a man in vain." ”

Looking up, Zhong Mingpeng glanced at Gu Cheng coldly: "Okay, didn't you say that this is your Gu family's business, I can't control it, Cheng, what did you say back then, I can't control it, I'm looking for someone who can manage it, the evidence that Sister Ah made when she died is still there, and those guarantors are not dead, I don't believe that I will find them out, they dare to say that the dowry should not be given to Wan'er, if no one cares about it, it provokes me, I will sue the royal court, and let the people in the capital see how cold and shameless you Gu Cheng is." ”

As soon as Zhong Mingpeng said that he wanted to find a guarantor and sue the royal court, Gu Cheng's mustered courage suddenly leaked, and he didn't dare to pull his face anymore, so he hurriedly laughed and said: "Mingpeng, I'm just talking angry, you, don't be like me." ”

"Humph!" Zhong Mingpeng sneered: "If you don't want to make a big deal about this, you should get the dowry out earlier, Wan'er is still in a hurry to use it." ”

After speaking, Zhong Mingpeng glanced at Aunt Fu coldly: "Fu Guihua, I know how you have treated Wan'er all these years, I don't care about others as fools, I don't care about Cheng being so brainless, now that I'm back, naturally I can't let you calculate Wan'er anymore, I'll leave the words here today, if you try to make Wan'er feel bad, I'll make you even more sad, you let Wan'er cry, I'll let your son and daughter cry together, you make Wan'er lose a hair, I cut off your son's daughter's arm, After all, I, Zhong Mingpeng, am a bastard, I can do anything, if you don't believe it, just try. ”

Aunt Fu was frightened when she saw Zhong Mingpeng arguing with Gu Cheng as soon as she came, hiding behind and not daring to come out, and when Zhong Mingpeng's threatening words came out, she was even more frightened and almost collapsed on the ground, trembling and supporting Gu Erniang, Aunt Fu's face was white, she lowered her head and said softly: "The slave didn't treat the eldest lady harshly, the slave didn't dare." ”

"Better you don't dare." Zhong Mingpeng sneered: "Give you two more days, if you can't get together Sister A's dowry, let's go to the front of you." ”

Zhong Mingpeng threw his sleeves and left, and Aunt Fu's feet fell to the ground weakly.

Gu Erniang hurriedly helped her, and Gu Cheng sighed a few times: "Fu Shi, prepare the dowry to send it to Wan'er, you can also see it, this, this Zhong family is all bastards, we can't afford to mess with it." ”

Aunt Fu didn't dare to say a word anymore, and got up from the ground crying to sort out the dowry left by the Zhong family back then.

Gu Erniang was a little unhappy, and caught up with Aunt Fu and asked, "Mother, what's wrong with you?" Why are you so afraid of the surname Zhong, you are not the girl of the Zhong family now, what can he do to you, if you give the dowry to the eldest sister, what can I do? ”

Aunt Fu whispered: "Don't say more, you don't know how powerful the Zhong family is, I have seen a lot when I was still in the Zhong family, and now he has been in the army for many years, and he is afraid that his temper will be even worse. ”

Gu Erniang still didn't believe it, so Aunt Fu had to whisper to her about what Zhong Mingpeng did back then.

When the old lady of the Zhong family was still there, once a girl with a big heart in the Zhong family wanted to hook up with the old lady Zhong, but was seen by Zhong Mingpeng, and immediately dragged the girl out and beat her up, which was not relieved, he actually threw the girl into the pit, rolled the feces and urine, and when she fished it up, the girl only had air out but not in, and she swallowed her breath after a long time.

Another time, the second housekeeper of the Zhong family embezzled money and shoddy, so that Zhong Mingpeng found out, and he said at that time that he would ask the second housekeeper to spit out all the money he was greedy for, otherwise, his family would not live in peace.

The second housekeeper took out some money, but he didn't take it all, Zhong Mingpeng angrily carried him and threw him into the small river outside the city, and sold all his wife and children to the coal kiln to do the hardest and most tiring work, that is, Master Zhong wanted to intercede for the second housekeeper, Zhong Mingpeng dared to quarrel with Master Zhong, this Master Zhong was very old to get such a baby son as Zhong Mingpeng, usually doting on him, not to mention Zhong Mingpeng quarreled with him, that is, Zhong Mingpeng cut him with a knife, it is estimated that Master Zhong can stick out his head to cut him, so on, Master Zhong didn't dare to keep the second butler, and he sighed and tossed by Zhong Mingpeng.

After Aunt Fu finished speaking one by one, Gu Erniang's face changed in fright: "It's so powerful, why is the eldest sister not like him." ”

"Hmph." Aunt Fu sneered: "It would be good if your eldest sister was like his uncle, I wouldn't dare to bully her like this, but ...... Speaking of which, it is not a blood relative, how can it be like. ”

"Mother?" Gu Erniang was taken aback: "This, isn't this the eldest sister's uncle?" What the hell is going on? ”

After a long while, Aunt Fu said: "Our deceased wife is not the daughter of the Zhong family, it was picked up by Master Zhong and Mrs. Zhong outside, at that time the old couple did not have a child, it snowed heavily that year, they went out to incense, who knew that they picked up a child in the snow, and when they came back, they really liked it, it really hurt to the bones, this child is your eldest sister's mother, she is also a little blessed, the front foot picked her up, and the back foot Mrs. Zhong was pregnant, and gave birth to Uncle Zhong the following year." ”

"I see." Gu Erniang nodded: "I see that the surname Zhong is so good to the eldest sister, I thought it was a kiss, but I don't know that it has nothing to do with it." ”

"Yes, even my own flesh and blood are afraid that there is no such thing." Aunt Fu sighed: "Let's think we're unlucky, who told this bastard to come back, if we don't take out the dowry, who knows what he can do, if he is behind his back, we will lose more than we gain." ”

"I'm always a little unwilling." Gu Erniang pouted, a little annoyed.

"You." Aunt Fu patted her: "Don't think so much, after all, you have a good marriage, if Xu Dalang is the slaughter of the official in the future, wouldn't you be much better than the eldest lady, she just married a fool, what's the use of getting more money, if you really want to become an official wife, she can't say that she still has to slap you, and when the time comes, you can't get much money." ”

Gu Erniang thought about it for a while, and then she also looked away a little: "When I see Da Lang, and then talk to him well, I want him to look down on the eldest sister even more." ”

"If only you could think so." Aunt Fu dragged Gu Erniang to the treasury to pack up the dowry, over there, Gu Cheng was angry with her son and became worried again, next year Brother Ying will be out of the exam, when the time comes, visit the teacher, and go out with classmates to participate in the literary meeting, this is all for silver, without the dowry left by the Zhong family, how to maintain this family. (To be continued) R655