On the way, I specially called a few clan elders, preparing to tell everything this time, lest Liu's mother-in-law would come to the door every three days to look for trouble.
Unexpectedly, before entering the door, I heard Liu's shouting, asking Gu Xiao to give her two hundred taels of silver as compensation for raising two children. Could she be crazy? Two hundred taels of silver, not to mention two children, even if she raised twenty or thirty children, she wouldn't need so much money!
For the sake of the money, the Liu family risked everything, and even the patriarch dared to reply: "Why are you making a fool of yourself, we have raised children for him for so many years, and they are golden children who can earn money, so I asked him what he wanted for two hundred taels of silver. ? That dead girl made more than one hundred and sixty taels in one trip to the town, didn't she earn all the money back in two trips?"
Sure enough, it was for the money Gu Ye earned. With a sneer on Gu Xiao's face, he said, "You just heard that Xiaoye Ye made money, do you know how the money came from?"
"Of course I do, I've already figured it out!" Liu's look like you don't want to lie to me, "Isn't it just the money from that dead girl for selling medicine and the thank you gift for saving people?"
"Humph! Confused!! Then Wu Danggui also went to town to sell medicine. With his decades of pharmaceutical experience, how could he not be able to sell it at a high price of dozens of taels? Xiaoye only learned how to concoct medicine with her master in less than a month, and can Made a more powerful medicine than Doctor Wu? Is she possessed by an immortal?" The village chief couldn't listen anymore and couldn't help but ask questions.
Gu Xiaochong nodded at the village chief and said, "The village chief is right! Among the medicines we brought in the past, the most valuable ones were made by Master Xiaoye Ye's hand, so they sold at such a high price."
After a pause, he continued: "As for the 100 taels of silver that was given to the thank-you for saving people, it's purely false! The person was rescued. The few medicines that Xiaoye gave him in his mouth, right to his symptoms, Ding Dashao for the hundred taels of silver actually wanted to buy this medicine. And this medicine is also Master Xiaoye. All. So, as soon as the money comes back, it will be given to Xiao Ye’s master.”
"Impossible! More than one hundred and sixty taels belonged to her master? Could it be that the medicine she made is worthless?" Liu Shi seriously doubted, staring at Gu Xiao, trying to find out from his expression Deceptive clues.
Gu Xiao has been wandering outside for so many years, how can she be a country woman who can see through it? There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he said: "Who said that the medicines made by my family's leaves are not worth it? The other than one hundred and sixty are all the money that she sold. Xiaoye, give the money you earned to me. Look at your seventh aunt. Lest she scold you for being a money loser who only eats."
Gu Ye held back a smile, took out five taels of silver from his arms, and said, "Hey, except for the money for buying paper and pens for brother and winter clothes for master, it's all here. Four baskets of pure medicine sold for six taels of silver, It's no wonder that Doctor Wu doesn't farm and pick up mountain goods, so he can still live so well in his childhood. Pharmaceuticals are really a good business to make money!" He said, and deliberately showed a smug look.
Logically speaking, earning six taels of silver in less than a month is indeed a lot of income. But Liu's came for the one hundred and sixty taels of silver, so how could this small five tael of silver catch her eye
"I don't believe it! Your grandfather and grandson must have joined forces to deceive us! You are an unfilial thing, you have so much money in your hand, your father and your brother are almost out of food, but you only care about yourself. I'm going to sue you. This beast is not as good as that!" Liu shi scolded her with her hands on her hips, the fat on her body trembling with her movements.
"What are you screaming about? The old man can't see the medical skills because of the quarrel, be careful that I will take a medicine, and you will be speechless for the rest of your life!!" His most beloved little disciple was scolded as an unfilial little beast, and Yaosheng was not happy. .
How well-behaved he is, he has such a precious pharmacopoeia in his hand but does not hide it, and he is also a genius in learning pharmacy. He uses Hua Tuo's divine skills to heal the dead. What a good child, but her parents didn't know how to cherish it, and they tossed her day and night. Her father doesn't love her, and he, the master who loves his disciple, naturally wants to come out and speak for her.
At any time, people in the world have a kind of reverence for doctors from the bottom of their hearts, and Liu's is the same. Aunt Wu told her that Gu Ye used the method taught by her master to save a dead man, which was more powerful than a god. When people eat whole grains and miscellaneous grains, how can they not get sick, maybe one day they will ask to appear in front of the old doctor. In the face of Yao Sheng, Liu shi didn't dare to jump around.
"Isn't it only one hundred and sixty taels of silver? This old man is more than the price of a Rongyang pill! Disciple, what nonsense are you talking to them, come in and fight with the master! You don't want to learn that or something, the practice of quick-acting heart-saving pills Is it? That member's family paid a deposit of 100 taels and ordered ten bottles. Our master and apprentice quickly made the medicine and made more money for the New Year!" Yao Sheng didn't look at Gu Qiao and his wife, and rushed to the disciple. He waved his hand and entered the house again.
Gu Ye greeted the elders in the courtyard obediently, and walked towards the east room where the master lived. Passing by Liu's side, he made a big face at her.
"Hey, the head of the family, you have to say something!" Liu Shi stomped his feet in a hurry when he saw that the master was called away.
"Wait!" Gu Qiao finally spoke at the moment before Gu Ye stepped into the East Room.
He raised his head, looked at the patriarch and the elders, and finally said to Gu Xiao: "Five uncles, you adopted a child, but it is only for you to support you, and you will beat the flag and smash the pot a hundred years later. Those are all things boys do. Ye'er is the only girl in our family. After she left home, I still miss her. I think it's better for Ming'er to stay in your house, and Ye'er to be brought back by me."
"No!!" The first one who jumped out to object was, of course, Gu Ming, the girl-protecting madman. With red eyes, he stared at Gu Qiao, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's take it back and throw it on the mountain to feed the wolves? Will you sell her again?"
"You child, what are you talking about! Ye'er is my daughter, how can I do such a thing as a father? Those things were all done by your stepmother without telling me. Now I know , how can you allow her to continue to mess around? Don't worry, I will protect my daughter." Gu Qiao looked at Gu Ye and put on a loving expression.
"Dad, this is the last time I will call you Daddy! It's not because I passed it on to Grandpa, but because you don't deserve it!!" Gu Ming burst into tears, looking at Gu Qiao with disappointment in her eyes, and said slowly,
"In the past, when my sister was about to starve to death, why didn't you protect her; when she was so young, when she was asked to cook, do laundry, feed pigs, chop wood, and go to the ground, why didn't you protect her? Why didn't you protect her when you tricked it into the town and sold it to Jasmine? Now that she can make money and shave off her body, you want to take someone back and say that you will protect her. It's just a tool for making money, just like Meizi's father in Qianwa Village!!"
The plums from Qianwa Village are good at embroidering. A handkerchief can be sold for ten cents more than others, and a pair of pillows can be sold for a good price of one or two silvers. In order to extract more money from her, her father forced her to do embroidery work day and night without telling her, and even left her until the age of twenty, still not telling her about her husband's family.
Meizi is only in her thirties, but her eyes have become blurred due to overuse of her eyes for a long time, and she cannot do embroidery work. Her father didn't want to raise a useless waste, so he sold her to a bad-tempered old widower.
"Tiger poison doesn't eat children! How can there be such cruel fathers in the world!!" Gu Ming burst into tears.
"You bastard! You don't say anything to your father!! You unfilial thing, dare to scold your father like this? Uncles, this bastard should let him kneel in the ancestral hall and apologize to the ancestors!" Gu Qiao listened to his son's voice. Accused, his face was red and white. He couldn't come up with any words to refute, only put on the air of an elder and condemned Gu Ming as a sin of unfilial piety.
Gu Xiao snorted coldly, stared at him, and his whole body burst out with momentum: "Gu Qiao! Gu Ming is now my Gu Xiao's grandson, why do you decide for me? Besides, what he said was wrong? Should I kneel at the ancestral hall? It's not him, but you ungrateful, unkind and unkind thing!!"
The old patriarch also looked at Gu Qiao in disappointment and said, "Gu Qiao, which of the things you have done over the years can stand up to others? This is the end of the matter, Gu Ming and Gu Ye, these two Children, they have been adopted by the fifth, and they have nothing to do with you. They are too poor to eat, and they will not come to your house to ask for a bite; If you allow your mother-in-law to mess around with our Gu family, we will expel your family from the family.
People in this world place great importance on their clan. If it is expelled from the clan, it is like a lost dog, like duckweed without a root system. Gu Qiao did not expect this incident to have such serious consequences, and immediately closed her mouth, daring not to say another word.
"But" Liu Shi, who was unwilling, muttered softly in his mouth, "We can't raise children for more than ten years in vain. Fifth Uncle, you have to make some compensation."
Gu Ming walked up to her sister and said to her, "Sister, borrow the five taels of silver to my brother first." Without saying a word, Gu Ye handed the silver to his brother.
"You were in town and sold your sister for 2 taels of silver." Gu Ming walked up to his father, looked at him with disappointed and determined eyes, and said slowly, "This is 5 taels of silver, just treat me as if you You and my sister have all been sold. From now on, you are nothing more than our seventh uncle from a distant house! Apart from that, our brothers and sisters have nothing to do with you any more!"