Now that she had finally gotten rid of
the girl and gained two taels, Mrs. Gu was in a very good mood. Smiling, she
said to her man, “Husband, we didn’t waste all our time on that girl. She was
somewhat useful after all! This two taels are enough for Da Zhuang to get a
wife!”
“Hey! You are going to use the money from
my daughter to get your son a wife! You wish!” Gu Qiao tried to take the
money from her.
Mrs. Gu dodged from him moving unusually
agilely for her body size. Seeing that her man was upset, she quickly added,
“What do you mean your son / my son? Why does it matter? When Da Zhuang is all
grown up and find himself a wife, of course they will take care of you too!
Besides, Gu Ming is almost 12, he will be looking for a wife too in just a
couple of years. Who do you think will be the one doing all the run arounds for
him?”
When
it came to his youngest son, Gu Qiao’s look immediately softened, “You are
right, we will need money for all sorts of things in the future, you be sure to
keep the money somewhere safe!”
After purchasing shaobing and went
back to the spot, Gu Ming could not find his parents or his sister. Worried, he
walked down the streets looking for them. He spotted his parents from afar and
ran up to them carrying the shaobing with him and happened to overhear
their conversation, “Perhaps that chap Gu Ye will even be thankful to us in the
future! Didn’t you say that the mother of these two kids was a maid for some
wealthy family before? And that they awarded her with more money than she could
spend every month? If she was sold to some wealthy family, her days would be
much better than what they would be in a remote mountain village….”
“What? You sold mei mei?” Gu Ming
ran up to them. When he saw the money in Mrs. Gu’s hand, his eyes turned red.
“Where did you see her? Give me the money! I will go get her back!”
“Go away!” Gu Qiao took a step up and
grabbed Gu Ming’s shoulder as he was reaching out for the money. Gu Ming fell
onto the ground with a shove from his father.
“Dad! I don’t understand you. Sure, mei
mei is a girl, but she was your flesh and blood after all. It is the Gu’s
blood in her veins. Dad, what is your heart made out of? How could you sell
your own daughter?” Gu Ming looked at his father through his teary eyes as if
he was looking at a stranger.
Gu Qiao’s mouth moved, it looked like he
was just about to blurt out something. But he was also worried about
consequences that they could not handled if he had said what he wanted to say.
He changed his mind and kept his mouth shut. With stiffness, he said, “Your
sister will have a much better life if she was picked by a wealthy family. It’d
be much better than being at our place and not having enough food to eat or
clothes to keep warm!”
“Dad, what have you promised mom back
then? You promised her that you’d never sold us into servitude! It has only
been a few years since mom was gone. Have you forgotten it all already? How
will you be able to face her a hundred years from now?” Gu Ming struggled to
get back up onto his feet. He looked straight at Gu Qiao and denounced him over
and over again.
Gu Qiao smacked him on his cheek and
shouted, “Don’t you dare mention your mother in front of me! If it wasn’t for
her, I’d still be second shopkeeper in Yan. You think I’d be stuck in that
remote village in the mountains and dare not to leave? She should be the one
who’d be ashamed to face me!”
Gu Ming wiped away his tears and looked
at him with disappointment. He stumbled backward slowly and said, “Dad, you
have changed. You have changed so much that I don’t even know you anymore! You
don’t think of her as your daughter, but I think of her as my sister! I am
going to go look for her!” Gu Ming ran off after he finished saying that.
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So Gu Ye is not his kid. Thanks for the chapter!
ReplyDeleteGu ye anak sultan sebenarnya, horang kaya, 😂😂😂
ReplyDelete@JA Of course Gu Ye was his kid from his first wife. Ming and Ye were twins. What Ming meant was that even if their dad doesn't treat them like his own flesh and blood, it would never change the fact that they are.
ReplyDeleteWait. Never mind. Something about the father about to say some thing suggests Gu Ye may not be his own daughter and his first wife was the duchess' trusted maid -- and they had to hide out in the mountains to stick to the duchess' plans. Yup, that makes sense. Though if that were the case then why would they sell Gu Ye to a slave trader instead of returning her to the duchess for more money? Guess we'll find out in the next chapters.
DeleteOf course they aren't twin. I've read on the previous chapters telling us about a pair of Duke and Duchess with their missing child. The seventh child, the only girl in the family with ,6 brothers above her.
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