20: Chapter 20 Just Showing Off
20 -20 Just Showing Off
Gu Youyou listened to the conversation outside and couldn’t help but roll her eyes.
Huang Xiangwen really was too much.
With that look of hers, was she worth making up stories about?
Although Wang Shun was a young man who hadn’t married yet, once she said that, he understood what Huang Xiangwen meant, and his face suddenly turned red.
“Gu Family Second Aunt, what…
what nonsense are you talking about?
Of course, I know that Big Brother Jin isn’t home.” He pointed to the firewood on the ground and said, “Look, this is what Big Brother Jin asked me to bring over, he’ll be back soon.”
After speaking, he stared at what was in Huang Xiangwen’s hands with ill-intent and said, “But what about you, Gu Family Second Aunt?
Taking so much stuff from my Big Brother Jin’s house, where are you off to with that?”
Gu Youyou had heard someone approaching, but wasn’t sure who it was.
After hearing what Wang Shun said, she felt at ease, knowing that since he was part of Jin Zijin’s crowd, he probably wouldn’t let Huang Xiangwen take the items away.
Turning the topic back to the items in her hands, Huang Xiangwen’s face looked somewhat unnatural, yet she still loudly and aggressively shouted, “What do you mean, your Big Brother Jin’s stuff?
This is the stuff that was carried out from our Gu Family yesterday, mind you!
I’m taking things from the Gu Family, what’s it to you?”
Her voice was rather loud, attracting several villagers who were busy in the nearby fields.
In ancient times, people had few entertainments.
In such villages, especially the village women, their only pleasure was to listen to gossip and watch spectacles.
It wasn’t just about arguments, even if someone found a nest of mice in a house, they’d have a few words to share about it.
In response to Huang Xiangwen’s outburst, Wang Shun simply said, “So that’s my sister-in-law’s dowry, huh?
Gu Family Second Aunt, since your Gu Family’s daughter has married my Big Brother Jin, this dowry naturally counts as Big Brother Jin’s now, you…
are you sure you want to take it away?”
Seeing several busybodies coming to watch the commotion, Wang Shun felt a bit more assured.
Being a young man, he had some strength, but when it came to arguing with a village woman like Huang Xiangwen, even if he had ten mouths, he wouldn’t win the argument.
Huang Xiangwen had come to take someone’s dowry the day after Gu Youyou’s wedding, which was plainly unreasonable to everyone.
Seeing that a few villagers who loved a spectacle were looking in her direction, she could only curse under her breath and abandoned the idea of taking the items then and there.
It was just that she was too impatient.
Gu Youyou was bedridden and didn’t move, while Jin Zijin was often not at home.
When would it not be okay for her to come?
It was only the second day.
After thinking for a while, she suddenly let out a wail and loudly said to the women outside, “Oh dear, it’s so pitiful.
Our Youyou has married into hardship by wedding this hunter.
This shabby house, neither windproof nor waterproof, and there she lies alone in the room uncared for.
Taking time out of my busy farming schedule as her second aunt, I came to see her and found the cloth in her room all damp, so I was going to take it out to air it.
But look at that hunter, letting that scoundrel from the Wang Family stand guard here.
As soon as I stepped out the door, he caught me, saying I was stealing these things.
What do you all think?
These were originally from our Gu Family; why would I need to steal them?
This heartless wretch, what on earth is he thinking…”
While cursing, she pushed away Wang Shun, who was standing in her way, and pretentiously began hanging up the cloth she was carrying onto the bamboo poles in the yard.
Watching her, it seemed like she had a point.
The women didn’t find the drama they hoped for began to mutter among themselves, criticizing Wang Shun for being too suspicious.