Chapter 003: Don't go begging anymore
Apart from having no mother, Gu Chuhan has never been worried about food and money. Now she is letting her lie on the bed, waiting for an old woman and a little girl to come back to beg for food for her, but she can't eat it!
"Jiulang..." Mrs. Gu was shocked.
Gu Ran's mother suddenly turned red, "Jiulang! This is not... it was not something I asked for!" She wanted to cover it up again.
"If it weren't for the steamed buns from someone's business, who would have some flowers on the steamed white buns from someone's steamed buns!" Gu Chuhan exposes them directly.
Mrs. Gu and Gu Ran's mother walked dozens of miles. When they heard that a family had twin grandsons to hold a wedding, they rushed over and waited early to ask for these buns. The skin of the red flowers had been snatched off. Mrs. Gu was reluctant to waste it, and the oil lamp was too bright, so they couldn't see clearly and didn't pick it clean.
"Jiulang! Grandma is not capable! We all can't really starve to death here!" Mrs. Gu called out to Jiulang and couldn't help crying.
Gu Ran's mother also lowered her head and kept crying.
Gu Shilang and Gu Ruoniang also wiped their tears.
Seeing that several people were crying, Gu Chuhan clenched his fists and said in a deep voice, "I, Gu Chuhan, even if I am really disabled, I will not really starve us all to death! I will definitely let you have enough food! Eat big white noodles and meat!"
Even if Mrs. Gu heard this, she knew that she had no choice, "Jiulang..."
Gu Ranniang said sadly, "I'll sell me tomorrow! I'll be a maid for someone, and I'll sell a few taels of silver first, so our family will have food! I can also go to wealthy families to eat and drink!"
If you sell yourself as a slave, there is no way out.
"No one sells it!" Gu Chuhan frowned and said in a deep voice.
Gu Ran's mother looked at her and couldn't help but cry. If she didn't sell herself, what should they do in the future? The family still owed debts, and the uncle and the second uncle now were afraid that they would hate them because their grandmother sold land and houses to save their father! Even grandmother was unwilling to care! At least she went to sell herself to work and could get some money back every month and buy some food for her family!
"How much money do we have?" Gu Chuhan asked.
Mrs. Gu looked a little desperate.
"There is no money?" Gu Chuhan asked.
Mrs. Gu lowered her head in shame. If she had a penny, she would buy him an egg to replenish it. Her son was exiled and her daughter-in-law died. Her legs were not healed yet. Her daughter-in-law was hanged to save him. If the disease became a sloppy foot...
There was not a penny at all! Gu Chuhan opened his mouth slightly and said for a while, "You go to chop wood tomorrow. How many pennys can you sell? If you sell it, buy a rope! I still have a pair of cotton boots, and I can't wear it even if I lay on the bed. Please ask someone if it's going to be. I'll give you two pennys!"
When Gu Ran's mother heard that he took out the cotton boots for money, she couldn't help crying loudly, "Those cotton boots were made by my mother, and I didn't want to wear them last year!"
Gu Chuhan was speechless for a moment, "...Let's get firewood first!"
Mrs. Gu asked her what she was going to do, "I'll borrow some from your fourth uncle!"
Gu Junshan, the fourth brother of the Gu family, is the richest brother, but the fourth brother's wife is also the most sarcastic.
"Today, an aunt Hua came over and asked her that it was sold in the county town by incense powder and luozi. I thought of two new tricks, let's try it first!" Gu Chuhan said, taking out the straw-woven ones.
She is a boy to the outside world, so she naturally doesn't do the work of these girls. She didn't know how to do it herself, but she learned it from the front and back desks when she was in school, and she vaguely remembered her appearance.
Luozi sells fresh flowers, and exquisite ones can sell more. Gu Ran's mother is also good at embroidery work, but she doesn't have a penny in her hand, so she can afford needlework and thread and silk cloth. When she saw that she was woven and not very good, but the novel style Luozi immediately lit up. "If she could make such a Luozi, she could make it more exquisitely, and she could sell it for five cents each!"
"So tomorrow I'll collect firewood first and get a few cents to buy strings." Gu Chuhan responded.
Several people suddenly had some hope.
But Mrs. Gu turned and couldn't sleep. The next day, she got up, and went straight to her fourth son's house.
Old Man Gu and Mrs. Gu were very open-minded. They were afraid that if they had too many sons, they would marry their wives, and they would still squeeze together to hold too many conflicts, so they divided the five sons.
After raising pigs for half of his life, Old Man Gu also saved some family business, one for each son, and he and Mrs. Gu left one for each. After they went there, I will talk about this one.
But subconsciously, the eldest son and grandson inherited the family business and distributed the family property equally, which made the eldest son dissatisfied with him. He made many promises that he would send the two elders to the end, and the property of Old Man Gu and Mrs. Gu belonged to him, the eldest son.
The death of Old Man Gu was indeed managed by the boss Gu Chengshan. No matter whether his money was spent or not, the other brothers were dissatisfied, but they also knew that once Mrs. Gu left, the old man and the old lady's property belonged to the old man and his wife.
As a result, Xie was seriously ill, Gu Lingshan beat someone to death and went to prison. In order to save his son, Gu Woo sold all the houses and land. To save Gu Lingshan, he only asked for money for the sale. Gu Lingshan was exiled for three thousand miles.
Boss Gu's hope was all gone, and he hated Gu Lingshan Xie in his heart, and also resented Mrs. Gu. Seeing her coming out of the two thatched houses and coming towards them, his face was gloomy, and his mother didn't shout, "What are you here to do? If you want food, you still need money!"
Seeing his face full of gloomy mockery and contempt, Mrs. Gu felt so uncomfortable that she shrank her body and whispered, "No!"
But Boss Gu didn't believe it, so he blocked her first, "I haven't given me what I owe me yet. I want food and money. Let's die!"
Mrs. Gu did not stop for a long time and continued to move forward.
When he arrived outside Gu Laoer's house, Mrs. Gu slowed down but did not dare to knock on the door again.
Gu Lao Er's youngest son was holding a chicken leg and gnawing in the door. When he saw Mrs. Gu hurriedly hid behind him and shouted loudly inside, "Dad! Mom! Grandma is here to ask for food again!"
Upon hearing this, Gu Lao Er and Lian immediately asked their eldest daughter and eldest son to pack up the delicious food and came out of the house, "Oh! Mom is here again! Our family has just finished eating, and I don't know that Mom is here again today, but Wulang has some porridge just now, so I won't let him eat it, so let's give it even for Mom to eat!"
Although Mrs. Gu was a little embarrassed, she thought that a bowl of porridge would save a meal, so she didn't say a word to come in.
Lian Shi didn't let her enter the main hall, so she directly went to the kitchen. She added half a bowl of leftover porridge, added half a bowl of water to wash the pot, soaked two leftover noodles steamed buns, and took them out, sighing, "Mom also knows that our family is not easy, so the few families count our family's poor life. The third brother borrowed money from my family a few times, and now I don't know when I can pay it back! Our family is wearing a belt, eating pickles every day, and there is no oil or water at all!"
Mrs. Gu looked at Gu Qilang's hand behind her back. Lian Shi's mouth was not wiped clean. She looked at the leftover porridge mixed with water in the bowl. She didn't say anything, and took it with a slight trembling hand.
Chapter completed!