Chapter 23: Reckoning

Gu Yunyao looked at Li Zheng with a smile on her face, and Li Zheng's eyelids suddenly jumped fiercely.

Gu Yunyao stretched out her fingers and carefully calculated with Lizheng.

"Uncle Lizheng, the imperial court has been conscripted for many years, military service is the obligation of the people, military service is a felony but it is still repeatedly prohibited, you also know the reason, my father knew that he was going to serve in the military, but he went to the border to serve the country without saying a word, you also said back then, my father should be a model for the village to emulate in the prime of life, I remember that the mayor of the town also took my father as a model, and now my father is back, no less arms and no legs, to our ten miles and eight villages is a comfort, isn't it? In the future, it will be easier to recruit soldiers, with my father as an example. ”

"But ......," Gu Yunyao looked at Old Man Gu and Meng.

"My father served the country, and when he returned to his hometown, before he lived in the house, someone wanted to sell his children, and he made a bunch of excuses, and buttoned his hat to my father, my father is filial, and there are a lot of adults who don't care so much, and they just want to split up, but they are asked to leave the house, isn't this too chilling? When this matter spreads, who will be willing to serve my Dacang Dynasty in the future? ”

Gu Yunyao's words were loud, Li Zheng nodded with a gloomy face, what Gu Yunyao said really poked at his weakness.

This matter is a big trouble, who will go to the border in the future, the conscription is not good, he is not having a good time here, and he may even have to be punished with a cane.

When Meng Shi and Old Man Gu heard this, their faces were clouded, Gu Yunyao's words, this is to cut the flesh of the Gu family fiercely.

Old man Gu took out a cigarette stick, put tobacco leaves on it and lit it, and smoked it, there were many petitioners, and the air was already turbid, but when he smoked, the upper room was even more smoky. "Yao girl, then what do you think you want to do?" Old Man Gu asked unhappily.

Gu Yunyao looked at Old Man Gu, stretched out a finger and waved, "Grandpa, I don't want to do anything, since the eldest grandmother is ruthless, then my father should go back to my own grandfather and set up a household, I won't cheat you, this Gu family's old mansion should be my father's things, all of them will be returned to my father, not a single acre of land!" ”

"What?!" Meng Shi screamed directly, Gu Chuanfu also jumped up with a whoosh, Gu Chuanshou's face was also gloomy, and Gu Qing'er's face was even whiter.

Gu Yunyao is going to go back all the property left by Gu Chuanhai's father, how can this be done?

Give this out, and the Gu family's life will not have to live!

Not to mention gruel and wild vegetables, I can't even drink the northwest wind.

"You money-loser, you're going to kill this family!" Meng Shi was about to go down to the ground as he spoke, and came towards Gu Yunyao with his teeth and claws. "I think you've drowned a long time ago, you've turned into a ghost and come back to ask this family to go to hell together! I'm going to strangle you little slut today! ”

Meng Shi was mad, Old Man Gu was so shocked by Gu Yunyao's request that he was already staying there, he had long thought that Sifang would not be willing to leave the house, but he never expected that Gu Yunyao would ask for so much, it was just too much, and he didn't know how many catties and taels he would lose.

Gu Qing'er was also angry, and rushed to the front with Meng Shi viciously, looking at it to make Gu Chuanhai and Gu Yunyao look good.

Li Zheng looked at the two of them and snorted coldly. "When did the Gu family take charge of the mother-in-law?!"

These words directly pulled Old Man Gu's thoughts back, and he hurriedly drank Meng Shi and Gu Qing'er, if this word spreads, doesn't it mean that his boss is still a soft bone? Don't be laughed to death by the villagers?

Seeing Li Zheng make a move, the stone in Gu Yunyao's heart fell to the ground in an instant, it was related to Li Zheng's vital interests, this was not a matter of selling the Gu family's face, weighing the pros and cons, Li Zheng could only look at their father and daughter now.

Meng Shi saw that Old Man Gu's good face had made another mistake, so he simply sat on the kang and burst into tears. "You old immortal, good face, look at our family, how poor are they? You are a rich man, you don't want to live, you sell your bones to them, I have to want my children to live, if you want to divide the family, you will leave the house and ask for money? There are no doors! ”

Meng simply sprinkled.

Old Man Gu had a headache, but he was obviously smarter than Meng Shi, and after taking a puff of cigarette, Old Man Gu said to Gu Chuanhai faintly. "Fourth, the property left to you by your father, you have used up your childhood study, how can this family still owe you money? If you want to go back to your father, I don't care about you, but you can't loot me like this, I have raised you for 20 years, and I have raised a grudge. ”

Old man Gu is not a good person.

This excuse Old Man Gu has prevaricated Gu Chuanhai for twenty years, Gu Yunyao sneered. "Grandpa, I heard that you worked in a carpenter shop when you were young, and they all said that you are a craftsman's ingenuity, do you want me to settle accounts with you?"

"You ......" As soon as Old Man Gu spit out a word, Gu Yunyao pushed him back.

I only heard Gu Yunyao say coldly: "My father passed on to you at the age of eight, and the property he brought with him was thirty-five acres of second-class paddy fields, worth four taels per mu, ten acres of third-class dry land, worth three taels per mu, a two-entry house in the town, and a small courtyard at the end of the village, two properties worth more than one hundred taels, and twenty taels of silver, these are worth a total of two hundred and ninety taels, only a little less, my father went to school for five years, and the annual bundle is two taels of silver, and he should give a gift to Mr. during the New Year's holidays, but grandpa, you and grandma said that the family is poor, and my father is never allowed to give half a gift, My father has taken the Tongsheng exam twice, and each exam costs one or two taels of silver, and there are Confucian lectures, and my father is not allowed to listen, these are only twelve taels of silver. ”

Gu Yunyao shook these numbers out, Old Man Gu and Meng's faces were as pale as gold paper, they never expected Gu Yunyao to calculate so finely.

Gu Chuanfu was anxious on the side, and directly choked: "Yao girl, our family has raised your father for 20 years, and has raised you for 12 years, and returned to your father to marry, your mother asked for a dowry of 20 taels at that time!" You don't need money to feed you who eat dry food! ”

Gu Chuanhai's heart was dripping blood by Gu Yunyao's count, his distress was not lost to Old Man Gu and the Meng family at all, the Gu family has many sons, five grandsons, three of them were born to him, this Gu family will be separated in the future, their house must be the big head, how can Gu Yunyao let the property go?

Gu Yunyao sighed. "Uncle, are you embarrassed to say? The most dry people in this Gu family are you and your sister-in-law. But if you don't say it, I'll forget. My father's dowry for marrying my mother is twenty taels, but my mother's dowry is thirty taels of silver, and my mother said before she died that those things were left to me, what about my mother's dowry? ”

Gu Yunyao stretched out his hand to Gu Chuanfu to ask for it, Gu Chuanfu was so angry that his face turned blue, if there was no outsider, he would definitely beat Gu Yunyao, a cheap girl, but it was inside, Gu Chuanfu could only swallow this breath back.

"Fart, then the old Zhang family is selling their daughters, you are embarrassed to ask for a dowry, and I still want my twenty taels of silver." Meng Shi exploded again, and his face was full of distress. "Bought her into the door, and died without even doing housework for me for a year, this is to buy a rough mother-in-law who can't get that money!"

When Gu Yunyao heard this, she took back the hand that was stretched out to Gu Chuanfu, the dowry left by the original owner's mother had actually been looted away by the Meng family.

Gu Yunyao looked at Meng Shi and continued with a smile, "The twenty taels are the money that my father left to my father, grandma, but not your money, since the uncle said it, then I have to calculate it even more, my mother's dowry is also indispensable, but the uncle said to support me and my father, then I will not pit the old house, I and my father's use, one penny of silver a month, the two of us together are three hundred and eighty-four months, that is, it cost thirty-eight taels and four dollars to support death." ”