Ah Mu also sold the shills, but after a long time he didn't see Ah Mao talking, so he couldn't help but turn his head to look.
Only then did I realize that Ah Mao's face was heavy, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Knowing each other, Ah Shu quickly guessed something, bumped into him and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter, didn't you go to inquire about Lao Gu's family, didn't it go well?"
"Let's go back and talk about it." Amao shook his head and shook the reins abruptly. The speed of the mule cart immediately increased.
The two entered Jiangyu County before the city gate closed, and when they went to the inn where Gu Yundong was, they saw that she and Shao Qingyuan were still waiting.
Several people were talking in Shao Qingyuan's room, and Mrs. Yang was there, but she was sitting alone in the corner doing the puzzle.
Just now, Agou looked good, asked her a few more questions, and made Yang Shi happy, and taught him how to spell like a child.
Ah Shu was the one who spoke first, "I pretended to go to Gujiatun to settle down, and went to the house of the patriarch Gu. Good guy, that old man is a black heart. He actually said that Gujiatun has a large population and it is not easy to settle down. As soon as he opened his mouth, he asked me Ten taels of silver to clear up the relationship. Later, he said that one acre of homestead costs ten taels of silver, and wasteland also costs money. He thinks I'm stupid? Now the whole Yongning Mansion is short of people, and only the one who asks you to settle down, he doesn't want this. face."
He was still a little angry when he said it, even though he originally used the guise of settling down to inquire about Patriarch Gu's affairs, and finally pretended to be dissatisfied and left. But really chatting with the surnamed Gu, his dissatisfaction has reached its peak, such a shameless thing.
"By the way, the old man also came back from the famine, but although he suffered a little hardship this time, he is in good spirits." Ah Mu calmed down, became mysterious again, and said with a touch of gossip. , "This old man is old and strong, but he actually brought a woman back and took that woman into the door as a concubine."
"Pfft...cough cough." Gu Yundong choked on the tea, and Shao Qingyuan hurriedly patted her back.
Amao and the others looked at the movements of the two, and tacitly lowered their heads and did not look at them.
Gu Yundong wiped his mouth before asking incredulously, "Concubine? Then Gu Gang is fifty?"
Fifty is an old age. Now many people in their thirties can be grandfathers, and they can be grandpas at fifty.
"It's just fifty this year." Ah Shu said, "The girl is only nineteen. I heard that her parents were gone on the way to escape the deserted land, and she almost died on the side of the road all alone. She was Gu Gang's sixteen-year-old grandson at the time. He took a fancy to bringing someone, but Gu Gang cut him off. But he promised to find a better one for his eldest grandson, and his grandson didn't make trouble. It's his mother-in-law who is now scolding at home every day."
Gu Yundong simply admired Gu Gang, she had long known that this person's selfishness must be reported to be something that has no lower limit, but did not expect that there would be such a low limit.
Ah Shu said and shook his head, "But I can see that the concubine doesn't like Gu Gang at all, and her eyes are full of disgust. But she is also scheming. Just when I was at Gu's house for a while, she gave Gu Gang to her. That mother-in-law stumbled twice, but the Gu family just didn't see it."
If it wasn't for his well-informed experience, he met a lot of duplicitous guys on the street, plus he was an outsider, he wouldn't have seen it.
Gu Yundong wanted to know, how can a nineteen-year-old young girl look like a fifty-year-old old man?
What do you picture him? No money, no face, no good temper, nothing but old things.
She looked at Ah Mao, "Where is the Gu family?"
Chapter 308
Amao pursed his lips, glanced at her hesitantly, and said after a while, "I saw Bian Yuanzhi, he... had a bad time."
Gu Yundong took a sip of water, "Speak, I'm mentally prepared."
The virtues of the old Gu family, she could not be more clear.
Amao explained Bian Yuanzhi, whom he had seen when he entered the village, and what the two of them had said, his fears at that time, and the work he was going to do at Gu's house.
Not only Gu Yundong's face turned ashen when he heard it, but the mouse, dog and pig on the side were also filled with righteous indignation.
Although they also lived a hard life and were accustomed to seeing the warmth and affection of human beings, it was also because they had no relatives and no reason. When their parents and grandparents were still alive, even if they weren't the best, they wouldn't be so bad. Besides, they still have brothers looking after each other.
Gu Yundong let out a light breath, and slowly tightened his hand holding the water glass.
A Zhu stood up directly, "Let's just touch Gujiatun and steal him out."
"Yes, the Gu family doesn't care about him anyway."
"The child suffered too much there, these people are not things."
Only Ah Mao sat there and didn't follow along. Shao Qingyuan glanced at him and asked, "Why did the Gu family take him in?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone else was stunned.
That's right, since the Gu family doesn't like this child so much, why did Ding Jincheng give it and they accept it? Bian Mulan was entrusted to the Ding family.
Ah Mao said, "Old Gu's family really doesn't want to take him in. At that time, Ding Jincheng's parents just left the child at the door of Lao Gu's house, and the old man Gu didn't even look at it, it was so cold at that time, Bian Yuanzhi It was frozen at the door all night, but some people in Gujiatun couldn't stand it and brought them home for a drink of hot water. But it was impossible for them to take in the child, and it was difficult for everyone at that time. Fortunately, Jiang Yu The newly appointed magistrate of the county just made a private visit to each village to learn about people's livelihood."
The county magistrate met Bian Yuanzhi, whose face was flushed from the cold, and thought that Gujiatun was too difficult, so he asked a few more questions, and then he understood the situation.
The county magistrate was angry at that time. How many people died in Yongning House because of a famine. At this time, it was really a time to vigorously develop manpower. The new emperor encouraged widows to remarry and have more children.
And this Gujiatun, finally had a child who survived the famine. He had relatives and blood, and he was close to the grandfather's house, but he refused to take him in. He was about to freeze to death.
He called the old Gu family and the Ding family. After repeated inquiries and evaluations, he finally let the Gu family take in the child.
Therefore, Bian Yuanzhi has been registered in the eyes of the magistrate. If he suddenly disappears and disappears, whether it is the Gu family or other people in Gujiatun, they have to worry about whether they will be convicted by the magistrate. This matter may cause trouble. how big.
And now Bian Yuanzhi's household registration has fallen to Lao Gu's family. If he takes it away like this, he will become a black household, and it will be very troublesome in the future.
To bring people out, we still have to start from other aspects.
A mouse and a few people became a little dejected after hearing this. Is it so difficult?
"How about giving some money to the old Gu family?"
Amao hit him, "What kind of bad idea did you come up with? I know that the family is greedy, and if you give money, you won't necessarily give people to you."
"what is it now?"
Shao Qingyuan looked at Gu Yundong, who had been silent, "Do you have an idea in mind?"