Among the scraps, in addition to the five taels of silver that the brothers and sisters sold, there were also two silver ingots of ten taels, as well as scattered pieces of silver, adding up to several taels of silver.
Gu Ming's eyes were attracted by the familiar pieces of jewelry among the fragments of the crock pot: "Isn't this my mother's hairpin and bracelet?"
"Mine! Those jewelry are all mine! Don't move!!" Liu Shi, who was lying on the kang, wanted to turn over to grab it, but couldn't move. He blushed and roared anxiously.
Gu Ming picked up the jewelry one by one, brushed off the dust on them with love, and gently stroked them. After a long time, he looked up at Gu Qiao, his eyes were full of disappointment and anger: "This is my mother's favorite jewelry, and I usually don't want to wear it. Because it was given to her by the lady of her original host." , These jewelry will be used as a dowry for my sister in the future. Didn't you say that all these jewelry were pawned in order to get my sister to see a doctor and get medicine?"
Without allowing Gu Qiao to speak, he staggered back a few steps, with tears in his eyes: "Yes, I'm too stupid! Since you can condone Liu Shi's wicked mother-in-law not to feed her sister, you can only watch her take the food. How could my sister be willing to pay for her treatment when she was thrown into the Valley of the Evil Wolf? Those medicine sisters only took those medicines to make her condition worse, so she couldn't even get on a kang, right?"
"Ming'er, I" Gu Qiao spoke with difficulty, trying to explain, but couldn't.
"How can you be so cruel!" Gu Ming roared frantically at the two of them, "Father! Not to mention his own daughter, even distant relatives in the clan who have no food or money for medical treatment, you can give him everything. Borrowing him some money to get medicine with a bowl of rice, why can't he bear to watch his daughter die of starvation and illness when it comes to his daughter?!"
"It's a year of severe disasters. The family is so poor that they can't open the pot. The family can't survive, so they have to abandon the girls in the family. But what about you? Daughter. Touch your conscience, who are you worthy of?" Gu Ming picked up the silver and copper plates on the ground and smashed them heavily on Gu Qiao and his wife, shouting hysterically.
"Ye'er she's not" Gu Qiao swallowed hard as soon as the words reached her lips. When the Miao's master's family was in trouble, they were left alone. Last time, when he went to town, someone seemed to be checking up on that kid. If it is made public, if someone pursues it, he, as well as his family, may be implicated. No, this secret must not be known to the second person!
Mrs Liu, who was on the kang, shouted loudly, "Nonsense, all the money is mine, and all the jewelry is mine. You robbers, put your things down!!"
"Shut up!" Gu Ming stared at Liu Shi with hateful eyes, and sneered, "Yours? When you married, you only brought a rag bottle, Da Zhuang, with you. Tell me Me, in just four short years, how did you save more than 20 taels of silver and jewelry worth 50 taels? Could it be that money fell from the sky and hit you Liu Shi's head?"
"This money is all that my father and I have earned by living frugally and working hard. The jewelry was bought for me by your father. If you don't believe me, ask your father. Master, please say something!" Liu Shi was so anxious Almost fell off the kang.
Gu Ming clutched the jewelry left by her mother, and said to Gu Mo who was beside her: "Ninth Uncle, your family has more mountains than mine, and you are more capable than my father. Let me ask you, how much money do you have left in a year?"
Gu Mo glanced at Gu Qiao, who didn't dare to look at his son, and sighed: "Our mountains are barren, and the annual output is not enough for the family to eat. In addition to the money from picking up and selling mountain goods, we can save A few hundred dollars is enough to make a living. For a fighter like Zhang Hu, he may not have ten taels of silver left in a year.”
"You can't have money left, it doesn't mean that others can't! You don't know the situation of other people's homes, don't chew your tongue! You will be punished!!" Liu glared at Gu Qiao with cannibalistic eyes.
Seeing the man being scolded, Ninth Aunt was unhappy: "You are the one who deserves the retribution! You mistreat the child in the front room and occupy other people's money, and there is no sign of repentance at all. If God wants to hack, you will be hacked first! "
These hairpins and bracelets were worn once by the Miao clan when they participated in the 50th birthday of the patriarch, and they were envied by many women at that time. Aunt Ninth has naturally seen it.
"You said you earned the money, tell me, what did you earn?" Gu Ming asked with a sneer.
"I'm in charge, and you watch me being bullied by outsiders, but you say something!" Liu's eyes turned to Gu Qiao for help.
With complicated eyes, Gu Qiao looked at the sad and angry Gu Ming and the calm-faced Gu Ye. The two children have completely separated from him, and his life will go on. Looking at the little son hiding outside, Gu Qiao suppressed a trace of guilt in her heart and said:
"The silver I earned when I was the second shopkeeper in Yancheng. When I went back to the village with Miao, I brought fifty taels of silver. After building the house and buying the property, there were still more than thirty taels left. Your sister When I was young, I was weak and often fell ill, so I spent a lot of money on these jewelry to treat her illness."
"These jewelry were left to the two children by the Miao family, and I can testify!" The head of the Gu family, supported by the eldest son, walked in from the outside.
Gu Qiao beat Liu's head to the ground, and Da Zhuang was afraid that his mother would be beaten, so he ran to the patriarch's house for help. What Gu Qiao and Liu Shi did, the patriarch couldn't bear to see it. This time, I didn't want to come here, and I was afraid of causing people's lives, so I delayed coming here at this time.
The patriarch listened to the conversation in the house, but he couldn't listen any longer when he was outside, so he pushed the door and came in.
"Mr. Miao once dragged her seriously ill body to my house to let me be a witness. How to distribute the property she left behind was written on a piece of paper. I brought this piece of paper, and she pressed it on it. Fingerprints. Gu Qiao, come and see! You don't think I will lie to you, do you?" The patriarch took a piece of paper from his son and handed it to Gu Qiao.
Gu Qiao took it over and saw that it was Miao's handwriting. It lists all the property of the family at that time: 32 taels of silver, a silver hairpin for magpies, a pair of rich and noble bracelets, and some silver earrings. It is also specially stated that the jewelry is reserved for Gu Ye'er's dowry.
Liu Shi couldn't move, the expression on his face seemed to be eating people, and he said sternly: "Gu Ming and Gu Ye'er have gone out adoptively, and they are not from our family. These properties have nothing to do with them!"
The old patriarch glanced at her with contempt, and said, "No matter who the Gu Ming brothers and sisters inherit, they are Miao's own blood. There was a sarcastic smile at the corner of his mouth, passing the big Zhuang who was staring at him.
Gu Ming rubbed the silver hairpin with a slightly deformed tip. When he was a child, he was very naughty, and quietly took his mother's hairpin and carved words on the stone. Seeing the deformed hairpin, my mother just patted his chubby little butt and reprimanded in a low voice. In my memory, my mother was the most beautiful, gentle, and most loving mother to her children. It's a pity that good people don't live long
"Grandpa, the patriarch, the money left by mother should be left to Uncle Seven. After all, they are married." Gu Qiao's words just now completely broke Gu Ming's heart. From now on, Gu Qiao was just his and his sister's distant clan uncle, that's all.
"However, these jewelry were left to my sister by mother. Although they are not valuable, they are the only thoughts that mother left us. We must take them away!!" Gu Ming's tone was extremely firm.
The old patriarch looked at Gu Qiao and asked solemnly, "Lao Qi, do you have anything else to say?"
Despite being extremely reluctant, Gu Qiao was not ashamed, to the point of disregarding anything for the sake of money: "Jewelry, you can take it."
As if someone had cut his flesh, Liu wailed endlessly: "Head of the family, those jewelry are reserved for Xiao Zhuang to marry his wife in the future. They can't let them take it away! You robbers and bullies!"
"Gu Qiao, take care of this troublemaker in your family. If something happens again, don't blame me, the uncle of the clan, for being ruthless!" The old patriarch gave Gu Qiao a disappointed look.
At first, he was really blind, thinking that he was the most promising in the clan. Now look at it, if it weren't for Miao's presence, this old seventh is simply a mud that can't support the wall. I heard that he recently got very close to a few rogues in the village, playing with money, bragging, and doing nothing right. well! After Mr. Miao left, the seventh was considered a waste!
No matter how Liu Shi cried, Gu Ming still took the jewelry. Gu Qiao regretted it very much, knowing that, Liu's wound was just wrapped in grass and ash. Well now, dozens of taels of silver have flown. It's all to blame for this woman, she was injured at the wrong time. Gu Qiao's disgust for Liu's became a little deeper.
After leaving the gate of Gu Qiao's house, the old patriarch looked at the silent Gu Ye, pondered for a moment, and said, "Ye'er girl, your mother still left something with me, and specially told me to wait until the right time. Hand it over to you. Now, will it be handed over to you together?"
Gu Ye looked at the old patriarch with wide and curious eyes, wondering in his heart: What is the good thing, and my mother asked the old patriarch to keep it so solemnly
The three grandparents came to the old patriarch's house together. The old patriarch pulled out a box from the bottom of the box and opened the lock on it with a key, revealing a slightly faded red satin swaddle. The old patriarch took out the swaddle, which was wrapped in a crystal clear jade lock.
The jade lock is the best mutton fat warm jade, with delicate texture, no flaws, and exquisite carving. The front is engraved with the words "longevity hundred years old" in seal script, and the corner of the auspicious decoration on the back is engraved with a small "treasure". Character. At first glance, it is the longevity lock that the baby wears, but this longevity jade lock, even Gu Ye, who only knows a little about jade, can see its great value at a glance.