Allure of a Country Maiden

Gu Hongxia lowered her head and rolled her eyes: "I only picked up this piece of paper."

Chu Die took the drawing and bought it with ten taels of silver.

"Who are you lying to? I folded the documents and drawings together. When you picked up the documents, you must have picked up the drawings! Hand them over quickly!" Du Yijin said angrily.

"Miss Chu bought the blueprint for ten taels of silver."

"I lost the drawings." Gu and Gu Hongxia spoke at the same time, but their words were completely different.

"Sold for ten taels of silver! I'm so crazy about the money!" Du Yijin was so angry that she raised her hand and slapped Gu Hongxia.

Why sell her drawings!

"How dare you hit me!" Gu Hongxia said as she rushed towards Du Yijin and stretched out her hand to grab Du Yijin's face.

Du Yijin pulled Gu Shi in front of her face, and Gu Hongxia's hand grabbed Gu Shi's face.

Blood beads immediately appeared from the three red marks, and her face was in burning pain. She couldn't help but touch her face with her hands. She felt wet. She took her hands away and saw red liquid staining her fingertips. She was frightened. She screamed.

Gu Hongxia was also frightened.

"Du Yijin, you are so bold, you are so unfilial." Mrs. Gu said through gritted teeth, she would not be disfigured.

"It wasn't me who caught her!" Du Yijin felt faintly scared when she saw the scratches on her face. Fortunately, it wasn't her own face. She didn't expect Gu Hongxia to be so cruel and show no mercy even though she knew she was hiding from her aunt. .

When Gu Hongxia didn't react, Du Yijin stepped forward and grabbed the purse from Gu Hongxia's waist and opened it. As expected, there was a ten-tael silver ingot and several copper plates inside.

Du Yijin took out the money and threw the purse back to Gu Hongxia.

"Why did you rob me of my money!"

Gu Hongxia hurriedly picked up a few coins that fell on the ground, and then rushed towards Du Yijin, trying to grab the ten taels of silver.

"Is this your money? This is the money from selling my drawings!"

"If you pick up a treasure on the ground, you won't be able to get it back even if you go to heaven or on earth!"

At this time, Du Zhongkai came back. Seeing the three of them at war with each other, he said angrily to Mrs. Gu: "What good things have you done again!"

If the younger son hadn't dragged his ailing mother with him, crying and begging him not to divorce his wife, he would have driven her back to her parents' home, so she wouldn't be able to cause trouble here!

Pity his little boy, who grew up taking pills and pills, and his mother doesn't care much about him. He still pleads for her, and this person doesn't appreciate it either!

"Ms. sir, this is none of my business. I was so disfigured by Yijin." Gu Hong turned her head slightly, revealing one side of her hot face.

"Dad, it wasn't me who caught him, it was Gu Hongxia who caught him."

"Hongxia caught me because you used me as a shield!"

Du Yijin explained the situation at that time to Du Zhongkai.

"Thank you, mother, for helping me block this grab. You are really my good mother for protecting me like this."

Gu:……

"It's your duty as a mother to protect you!" Du Zhongkai snorted coldly, feeling that he had himself to blame.

The expression on Gu's face was like that of constipation: I really want to vomit blood, but that's not the point, okay?

Du Zhongkai looked at Gu Hongxia, who was standing there with her head curled up, looking translucent, and frowned: "Didn't I say that no one from the Gu family is allowed to step into the Du Mansion again, and the two families will never be friends from now on?"

After hearing this, Mrs. Gu hurriedly said: "Ms. sir, Hongxia has done a great favor to our family!"

Du Yijin sneered.

Du Zhongkai's face was filled with disbelief and he said lukewarmly: "What's the deal?"

It would be nice if the Gu family would no longer hinder their own family. I really can't expect help, so just don't make it more difficult.

Mrs. Gu then told the story.

"Ms. sir, you said it would be great to get one hundred and twenty taels of silver more every year!"

Du Zhongkai smiled bitterly, "One hundred and twenty taels. He really didn't care too much before, but now his wife will actually try to make her daughter break her promise for one hundred and twenty taels!"

"If you don't trust someone, you won't be established! The Lord of Rui'an County has already signed a document with Yijin, so there's no way he can do anything wrong."

"If we regret it, we can pay her liquidated damages!" A thousand taels of silver in liquidated damages. If she were the head of Rui'an County, she would be looking forward to breaking the contract! You don’t have to do anything to get a thousand taels. This business is so profitable!

After all, Du Zhongkai was an official in the imperial court and knew a lot of information. Miss Chu and Princess Ling'er were both at odds with County Lord Rui'an, and they clearly had bad intentions.

It's really a fight between gods and mortals.

But who is the princess of Rui'an County? The future sixth prince's concubine, her status is getting more and more noble, and she really can't afford to offend her!

"My family is not short of the one hundred and twenty taels. That Zhuangzi was left to her by Yijin's mother. She can do whatever she wants. Even if I say it, it doesn't count."

What's missing is the one hundred and twenty taels! If you can save one hundred and twenty taels every year, you will have two hundred and forty taels in two years... Ten years later, when Chunkang is fifteen, he will have one thousand, two hundred taels to marry!

Mrs. Gu was so angry that she could no longer feel the pain on her face: "Mr. sir, it's not like you don't know the situation at home. If you can earn an extra ten taels of silver every month, Yijin and his wife can have a more dignified marriage in the future. Right?" No?"

"As long as you don't transfer the money I earned to the Gu family, there will be no problem with the money they get for their marriage."

"Master, that's my mother's family! I can't ignore my mother!" Mrs. Gu jumped in anger.

"The money you gave to my mother-in-law's family is enough to support my mother-in-law for two or three lifetimes. I have done my duty. From now on, I can only support my own children with my money." After saying that, he took out a money bag and handed it to Du Yijin: " This month's salary has just been distributed, please take good care of it."

Du Yijin took it without hesitation and nodded.

When Gu and Gu Hongxia saw this, they felt that the sky was about to collapse.

Does this mean that Gu is no longer in charge of the house?

"Ms. sir, how about giving all the salary and silver to Yijin!" Then she would have to ask Du Yijin for any money she wanted! Where does this put her face? If word gets out about this, she will definitely be laughed to death! How can the mistress be here and ask her daughter to take care of the house!

Doesn't this mean she is incompetent?

"Uncle, if this matter spreads out, it will be bad for my cousin's reputation!" Gu Hongxia was worried that the Gu family would no longer have money in their hands, and their family would have to suffer from the northwest wind!

But the two of them ignored their words.

"Dad, I'll go to Shengpinghou Mansion and return the ten taels of silver to her."

"What ten taels of silver?" Du Zhongkai wondered, when did his daughter owe Rui'an County Lord ten taels of silver?

Gu Hongxia's head shrank again.

"What else can I give you? If I give you the blueprint, it's yours! This money is what our family deserves."

The drawings are hers, and the money belongs to their family! Mrs. Gu really knows how to talk.

Du Yijin told the story about the ten taels of silver.

"Go quickly, we can't delay this matter. Otherwise, we won't be tricked secretly by someone with ulterior motives." Du Zhongkai said quickly.

Du Yijin naturally knew this, and she didn't dare to delay, so she quickly sent someone to prepare the carriage.