delicious little cook

Chapter 903 Public Opinion
Mrs. Gan was in the house ordering the girl to pack her luggage. First, she packed up the dowry clothes that were going to be sent to her brother-in-law's house. Gu Xu didn't go out at home today. The two houses that used to be glass workshops are now vacant, and they can be moved there after calling the foreman and spending ten or so days to renovate and clean them.

Gu Xu has no objection to this, it is easy for him to find a temporary transitional house so quickly, and he has no idea where the new house will be settled in the future, he also wants to go to the street from time to time to look around and ask.

Gan was talking to her husband about the fact that the two houses were adjacent to each other, and when she heard the noise outside, her mother-in-law threw off the servants who were blocking her, and rushed in aggressively.

"Ganshi, you are so courageous!"

Gan stood up quickly, and took a few steps back, keeping a distance from her mother-in-law, watching her every move vigilantly.

"Why did the mother-in-law say that? The daughter-in-law doesn't understand."

"Mom, what's the matter? If you have something to say, talk it out!" Gu Xu stood in front of his mother, but he didn't deliberately protect his wife, but Gan first opened the distance between the three of them, just to prevent her mother-in-law from going crazy.

"Ask your good wife, has she just found a good house?!"

"I've found it. I borrowed the idle house that Gu Yun used to use as a workshop. After some renovations, I can move out in about ten days. Mom, what's the problem?"

"Yesterday, the old lady just said that she wants to separate the family. She has found a house today. She moved so fast. My son, why are you so stupid?"

"Why am I stupid? Gu Yun has a ready-made idle house, isn't it great that he is willing to lend it to us?"

"Son, your father is the old lady's own son. If someone hadn't instigated her, how could she have said to separate now?! Let me tell you, your daughter-in-law found a house so quickly because she knew what to do. She instigated the separation of the family! She instigated discord in our family, son, do you know that?!"

"This is impossible, mother, you think too much."

"How is it impossible?! How is it impossible?! It's not someone instigating, how could the old lady talk about separation? You are her eldest grandson, and she likes you the most. Since she was born, she has to see you several times a day, she said The time limit is one month. Even if we don’t move on the last day, she can really drive us out? The old man just talks angrily, and she can change her mind after coaxing her. Why move in a hurry? Your wife said she was optimistic about it when she went out The house, just so impatient?! Didn’t she have a premeditated plan?!”

"Grandmother, you swear that I instigated the old lady, you must have evidence for what you say!"

"What evidence do you want? How dare you say no?"

"no!"

"Can you swear you don't?"

"I swear not!"

"You dare to swear?!"

"Okay, if I instigate the old matriarch, Gu Xu will be struck by lightning when he goes out! There will be five thunderbolts!"

"what?!"

Mrs. Gu and Gu Xu were suddenly stunned, and the servants around them were also stunned.

"What's with me?!"

"Poisonous woman! Poisonous woman! She even swears poisonously on my son!!!" Mrs. Gu jumped up and cursed angrily.

"Gu Xu is my man, the pillar of the family. Isn't it the most important thing to swear to? Why can't I swear on Gu Xu? If he is really killed by lightning, I will become a widow. Can you be willing to be a widow and curse your husband to die?" Gan's reasons are sufficient, "So I solemnly swear here, and all the gods in the sky will witness that if I instigate the old lady to separate the family, Gu Xu will be struck by lightning every day when he goes out. , with sores on the top of the head, pus on the soles of the feet, and the disease of willows when visiting brothels, and there is no place to bury him when he dies."

Following Gan's loud oath, the room suddenly fell silent, even Mrs. Gu forgot to make a sound. It sounds weird to take Gu Xu to make such a poisonous oath, but the explanation is very reasonable. Gu Xu is the eldest son of the second wife , the most honorable young master, it seems that there is nothing wrong with using it to swear poisonous oaths, but it just feels strange, and there is something that doesn't make sense.

"Mother, you have made such a heavy oath, you should believe it? It was not instigated by your daughter-in-law, it was the old lady's own idea. Didn't uncle be reprimanded by the court? Although I am the eldest grandson, uncle He is the eldest son, so of course the old matriarch will take care of the eldest son first, otherwise, if something happens to the eldest son, our entire Ye State Duke's mansion will not be able to keep it. Fortunately, it is just a separation now. As long as the eldest son is stable, the uncle will help Dad , we will still be able to stand up in the future.”

Mrs. Gu has no reason to continue the quarrel at this moment. Although she still suspects that her daughter-in-law instigated the old lady to separate the family, she has sworn against her husband. For the sake of her son, Mrs. Gu wants to forget it , But after thinking about it, I was a little unwilling.

"When did your wife agree with Gu Yun to borrow his house?"

"Gu Yun asked us to find Bai Kou. The two houses where the glass workshop used to be were just unused. Bai Kou had the key. I went out to have a look and thought it was okay so I borrowed it." Gu Xu was finally smart. Once.

"Can people live in a workshop house?!"

"The residents are definitely able to live, but they are smaller and can't accommodate too many servants. Mother, you have to arrange all your servants elsewhere, and only bring personal servants. You can bring them back when you find a big house in the future. to serve you."

"You can't even bring more people to serve? The house is so small?!" Upon hearing that the number of people to serve would be greatly reduced, Second Madam Gu became unhappy.

"Yeah, it's very small. It's a civilian house that can't accommodate too many people. We live in it, and we just need to bring a few close-fitting and coarse-looking ones. Any extra ones will have to be housed elsewhere."

"How did you find such a small house? Gu Yun doesn't have a bigger one?"

"The land price in Shangfang is so expensive, how can my third uncle afford a big house at the beginning of his business, but they are quite famous in Xiafang area now, if mother-in-law doesn't mind, can our whole family move to Xiafang?" Gan suddenly interrupted, "Bai Kou said that the whole house can be rented in Xiafang, but you have to move fast. Next year in the spring, it's time for people from all over the country to come to Beijing. The people in Zhili have almost arrived. After winter comes , let alone a house, it’s hard to rent even a firewood house.”

"Xiafang? Who is going to Xiafang?! Zhongfang is not allowed! We must live in Shangfang, and we must not leave! Once people like us leave the circle of Shangfang, it will be difficult to come back! Son, listen to your mother , you must stay in Shangfang, you can’t go anywhere! Do you hear me?”

"Okay, do your best."

"It's not trying! It's for sure! Zhongfang and Xiafang have poor public security, who can bear to be stared at by thieves every day when you live there? It's not a place for people to live at all!"

After hearing this, Mrs. Gan was not happy. Her elder brother and sister-in-law lived in Zhongfang, and the money to buy an ordinary house in Shangfang could buy a big one in Zhongfang. There were a lot of servants. I don’t know how comfortable it is to live in. The neighbors all know this. It is the house of the sons of the aristocratic family, and there is no one to disturb it on weekdays.

Of course, this can only be slandered in my heart, and Gan will not say it out. She also wants to see if the money she gets is enough to buy a car in Shangfang according to her mother-in-law's request. A house that suits her heart.

Gu Xu didn't want to spoil his mother's interest, he nodded at whatever she said, and didn't think about such irresponsible casual promises. If his mother couldn't fulfill them in the future, what kind of chaos would be turned upside down by his mother. When his mother went out, he got a headache when she spoke.

Mrs. Gu was coaxed by her son, and took her away with her. She was still muttering that the house that Gu Yun borrowed was too small, and she asked his son to hurry up and find a bigger one elsewhere. , What does it look like to live in a small house.

Gu Xu nodded again and again, and promised to find a good house in Shangfang for the family to live and work happily.

Gan didn't listen to their mother and son's chatter, and turned to tell the maids to continue to work, and prepared a pen and ink to write a letter to her elder brother and sister-in-law. Gu Xu sent her mother back to her room, but she didn't get up to greet her, she was too busy.

In the afternoon, Gan Yuwen and his wife received a letter from their younger sister, and they replied the next day. Not only did they agree to help her temporarily store the dowry to accommodate her servants, but they also asked her what kind of new house she wanted to find, which neighborhood she planned to live in, and how she could help Just tell your brother and sister-in-law.

If there are only three members of the younger sister and brother-in-law's family, the second brother Gan is definitely willing to take over to his own house for the transition of these few months, but this is a separated family, and the in-laws are brought along. I also feel sorry for my sister, so I naturally want my sister's new home to live closer to my own, so that I can watch over and help each other in daily life.

While exchanging letters with her elder brother and sister-in-law, Gan was packing and hired a large car dealership from the district family to send the more than ten boxes of clothes she had changed seasons to her elder brother-in-law's home as the first batch of luggage.

The foreman's side is also progressing smoothly. Cleaning the house is very simple, and it can be completed in a day or two. The main reason is that the ground needs to be re-paved and various mud tiles. , can move at any time.

So Gan went to see the house again, it was really bright and clean, she readily settled the final payment, and arranged for the servants to move in the necessities needed for daily life one after another, and she will definitely do what she said when moving within a month , will not be dragged out until the end by the old lady.

Mrs. Gu also went to see it in a small sedan chair. Although she was dissatisfied and had no other choice, she wanted to live with her son. She went to the next door, and only the three of them and the necessary servants lived here, and her brother and sister-in-law helped arrange the rest of the staff.

It's really great for the Gan family that these two houses are adjacent but not connected.

It has been so many days, and the news that the family of the third family in Ye State’s mansion is going to be separated has slowly spread. The elder Gu Yun’an has been comforted by many people, and they all feel that he can finally unload the scapegoat he has carried for the past few years. .

And the people's feelings about the disaster relief case of King Yu, which has been brewing for so long, have also accumulated to the peak. People from all over Beijing wrote petitions every day, and the crowd was furious. They strongly demanded to thoroughly investigate the truth about the disaster relief, restore the crown prince's reputation, severely punish King Yu, and hold Dacheng accountable. The crimes committed by all officials and squires in the government should be treated with justice in the world.

Among the petitioners, those from neighboring prefectures and counties of Dacheng Mansion were the loudest. They gave various examples to prove that Dacheng Mansion had been a swindler for many years. Officials who take office must worship their wharfs first, and work with them to secure their positions, otherwise they will be accused of various crimes and dismissed from office, and there have been countless injustices over the past few decades.

Once these secrets that only the locals knew were made public, they caused an uproar, and there were even crowds of people besieged outside the gates of Prince Yu's Mansion and the Princess's Mansion and cursed inside, but there was no one behind the gates, even if they were servants I don't like being scolded like that.

The imperial court, which had been silent for a long time, finally responded to public opinion, and sent the Minister of the Household Department as the imperial envoy to Dacheng Mansion to check every inch of land.

(End of this chapter)