sturdy landlady

Chapter 85
"Mother, please put away the banknotes first. The national teacher Ji Li and I are old acquaintances. I'll ask him for help. It shouldn't be a problem if I don't give you the money. Then deal with Li Sheng's mother and daughter, if they are willing to come back, mother can't stop them." Gu Yumian looked at the old lady and said in a low voice.

"What did you say? You and the national teacher are old acquaintances? Why didn't I know?" The old lady was shocked after hearing what her daughter said.

"Daughter can't tell mother everything, it's normal that you don't know about some things." Gu Yumian frowned.

"Okay, okay...that's really great. I heard that the national teacher is only 27 or [-] years old this year, and he is about the same age as you, so it's a good match. If..."

"Mother!" Before the old lady finished speaking, Gu Yumian interrupted her without politeness, and said in a deep voice: "Mother, don't say anything like this, otherwise the national teacher will definitely refuse to help. My daughter and him Although they are old acquaintances, they don't have the slightest personal relationship with their children. According to my conditions just now, if my mother agrees, I will help, and if I don't agree, let it be."

"Agreed, I agree. Of course I agree not to give money." The old lady happily put away the bank note and said with a smile.

"I have to communicate with the second and third wards about this matter. If they don't agree, I won't ask the national teacher." Gu Yumian said coldly.

"They will definitely agree. For the sake of the faces of those two girls, how dare your two sisters-in-law say a word 'no'. I'm afraid that Lisheng and her daughter won't come back." The old lady said with a smile.

"I don't need to bother my mother. I will protect them and guard them for the rest of my life. Li Sheng is definitely willing to come back. Who wants to stay in the poor countryside in the northwest? She is the eldest lady of our family after all, and she can't eat that. What a pain, I will go to the northwest to pick them up when I find a suitable opportunity." Gu Yumian said in a low voice.

"Don't worry, although the northwest is a poor place, there is our ancestral property there after all. There are thousands of acres of fertile land and a big house. There are so many slaves serving them. Their mother and daughter are not suffering at all." The old lady hurriedly Said.

She was very afraid that her daughter would know the inside story, and she had already planned in her heart that she would send someone to bring Gu Xiaoxiao's mother and daughter back secretly.

"Mother, let me ask you again, is the death of elder brother really not related to you?" Gu Yumian suddenly looked at the old lady and asked with a sullen face.

"Why don't you believe in your mother, girl? Your eldest brother grew up with your father in the army, and he is not very close to me. I admit this, but I can't possibly kill my own son, right? Mother No matter how ruthless they are, it is impossible for their brothers to kill each other, and I believe that the second child will never dare to do anything to the boss." The old lady said with a frown.

"Yes." Gu Yumian nodded upon hearing the words: "As long as the people in the second and third rooms swear in front of me that they will not embarrass Li Sheng and sister-in-law in the future, I will help them and ask the national teacher to treat them personally." Injury, if you don’t want to, forget it.”

"Okay, okay, I see." The old lady nodded quickly.

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In the Ye family's house in the capital city, Gu Xiaoxiao went around a few times, but she didn't see a single person. It was pitch black everywhere. After she found a house at random and went in, she found that the dust inside was very thick. It seemed that no one had lived in it for a long time. .

Sighing softly, Gu Xiaoxiao left Ye's house, found an inn to live in, and planned to leave early tomorrow morning to visit Ye's ancestral house in Shuofang County.

She really didn't expect that there would be no one in the Ye family in the capital, and she didn't know if something happened, or the Ye family had completely abandoned everything in the capital, so they didn't even want to keep a single servant.

That night, Gu Xiao didn't sleep well, and woke up several times from his sleep, and the dream was full of bad things.

Compared with the Gu family, although the Ye family can only be regarded as a rich family of merchants and does not have much power, they are doing well in general.

From the grandfather to the uncle and cousin, they are all talents in business, and they can make connections, and they get along very well in the capital.

But now it has reached such a point.

If my grandfather and uncle were in the capital that day, and my grandmother hadn't sent my cousin to Gu's family for the funeral, would everything have been different?
Early the next morning, Gu Xiaoxiao left the capital and rushed to Shuofang County.

Five hundred miles away, she arrived in half a day. After entering the county town, Gu Xiaoxiao was a little hesitant to move forward.

She didn't know the exact location of the Ye family, because even if Gu Lisheng had been here before, as a lady of the family at that time, she was still sitting in a carriage, so she didn't have to know the way.

However, Ye's family is a big family in Shuofang County, Gu Xiaoxiao asked casually, and someone pointed her in the right direction.

At the gate of Ye's house, Gu Xiaoxiao looked up and saw the two familiar big stone lions.

When Gu Lisheng was a child, when she came to her grandfather's house with her mother, Ye Shi, one year it happened to be a few days of Chinese New Year, and she and her cousin Ye Ding'an set off firecrackers in front of the stone lion.

Because she inherited all of Gu Lisheng's memories, Gu Xiaoxiao felt the same way. The past scenes came to her eyes, and her eyes couldn't help but get moist.

In his memory, his cousin Ye Ding'an loved her only cousin extremely, as if he was his own sister, following her and relying on her in everything.

Therefore, this has also become a knot in Gu Xiaoxiao's heart. If she does not destroy the Ye family and avenge her cousin, then she will not be able to live in peace in this life.

The Ye family is one of the most wealthy families in Shuofang County, and the guards guarding the gate are so majestic that people dare not look directly at them.

But now, the door of the Ye family is tightly closed.

Moreover, Gu Xiaoxiao noticed with sharp eyes that some of the vermilion paint on the gate had fallen off, but had not been patched up.

One must know that such a situation should never have happened in the past for a family as prestigious as the Ye family.

Could it be that something really happened to the Ye family?
Gu Xiaoxiao was anxious, and hurried forward to knock on the door.

However, after waiting for almost a quarter of an hour, no one came to open the door.

Gu Xiaoxiao couldn't wait any longer, she immediately walked back from the alley beside the front door to the side door, flew directly onto the wall, and entered the Ye family's mansion.

At this moment, in the main hall of the Ye family, Gu Xiaoxiao's grandfather, Ye Hongfeng, the head of the Ye family, was sitting on a carved rosewood chair in the middle of the high place.

His two hands were tightly clasped together. Although he was old with gray temples, his eyes were piercing, but at this moment, his eyes were more worried.

Gu Xiaoxiao's grandmother Tian and aunt Yang sat on the chairs below.

There were two people kneeling on the ground in the hall, a little terrified.

"How much money do they want to release him?" Ye Hongfeng asked in a deep voice.

(End of this chapter)