Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Chapter 286: Marrying the Mountain God 08

Gu Jiazu's return home finally alarmed Gu's grandmother who lived at the end of the village. Gu's grandmother had three sons. The eldest son died before he reached adulthood. The second son was Gu Jiande. Gu's grandmother did not live with Gu Jiande, but lived with the youngest son, Gu Jianzhang.

The reason is that she and Fang don't get along.

Grandma Gu didn't like Fang, and as a result, she didn't like to come to Gu Jiande's house, and she didn't pay much attention to Gu Jiande's children.

But he still treats Gu Jiande, his little grandson who loves reading, differently.

The moment she saw Old Mrs. Gu come in, Gu Li's eyes suddenly lit up.

Aren't they just relying on the name of their parents to bully her? How could she forget that Gu Jiande also belongs to her?

Nowadays, almost everyone in the village knows that the famous scholar from the neighboring village was thrown into prison for murder.

The old lady secretly laughed at that shrewish woman Fang for begging for a marriage for her own daughter, but she ended up losing more than she gained. Who would have thought that now this woman wanted to push her own granddaughter out to ward off disaster for the bastard she brought in from outside.

But Fang is still pregnant with Gu's child, so the old lady can't make a fuss. She can only blame Gu Jixia, the ungrateful and restless person.

When the old lady heard that Wenquxing's grandson was also sent back from the academy because of this incident, she could no longer sit still.

"Ji Xia must marry him!" The old lady said, and the third uncle's family following behind her added weight to her words.

Fang, who had a natural grudge against the old lady, sat down on the ground and burst into tears, saying that the Gu family bullied her and her daughter. It was clearly Gu Li's marriage, but in the end they pushed her daughter into the fire.

Gu Jiande didn't care and stood aside without saying anything. He was always the one who waited until the last moment to make the final decision.

Because of his biological mother, Gu Jiazu was obviously much closer to the eldest sister than to Gu Li. He supported Fang and looked at the old lady pleadingly.

The old lady's eyes were vague. Everyone knew that they had to protect their own family. Compared with Fang's ex-husband's daughter, the old lady certainly valued Gu Li, who had Gu family blood.

After seeing enough of the group of people's hard work, Gu Li walked up to the old lady and knelt down, "Grandma, this marriage was originally mine, but my stepmother and stepsister were jealous of the eldest brother's status as a scholar and snatched him away. Now they are eager to push me out to protect my stepsister because of something like that. As long as you agree to a few of my requests, I am willing to marry my stepsister, who is more favored by my father, for the last time!"

She called him stepmother and stepsister all the time, and she was his favorite. Gu Jiande's temples were throbbing.

Gu Li repeated her several requests, except that the third request, which was to sever the marriage, was changed to adoption.

"You want to be adopted by your uncle?" The old lady's voice suddenly rose after listening to Gu Li's story.

The old lady's eldest son had always been the child she relied on the most. Unfortunately, he died of a cold before he got married, and he didn't even leave any bloodline.

It's not that she hadn't thought about adopting a child for the eldest son, but the second son was more fussy and Fang was difficult to deal with; although the third son's family had many children, she still had to rely on them to make a living. If she rashly made such a request, she was worried that the third daughter-in-law would be unhappy.

Now that Gu Li had taken the initiative to propose it, she had no choice but to agree with both hands.

"No!" Fang was the first to jump out and disagree. This was even more difficult for her to accept than breaking off the engagement.

Even though the relationship was severed, she could still force Gu Li to be filial by relying on the fact that she had no support from her natal family. As long as they were both alive, she was still her mother in name only.

But if she were to be adopted, that damn girl Gu Li would no longer be under her control.

How could she swallow this?

The old lady was not happy about it. What people care about most is the inheritance of the incense. If it concerns the incense of her eldest son, it would touch the old lady's sore spot.

The old lady turned around and told her third son, "Go and invite the clan leader and the village head. Mancang, go to the village and invite a few respected uncles."

The third son and the eldest son looked at each other and ran out of the yard.

Before Gu Jiande could even open his mouth, the old lady stopped him from talking. "If you dare to say any more nonsense about what happened today, I will expel you from the Gu family tree. Second son, you don't want to be branded as an unfilial son, do you?"

Gu Jiande knew that his mother might be trying to scare him by saying he would be expelled from the family tree, but the sentence that followed was not a joke.

After taking a look at his precious son, Gu Jiande said nothing more in the end. He just wanted to resolve the Lian family's issue as soon as possible.

Seeing that Fang was still trying to howl, Gu Jiande grabbed Fang's arm and lifted her up, "Think about our son and be quiet!"

Fang finally quieted down.

It wasn't that she didn't want to make trouble anymore, but her stomach was aching slightly and she didn't have the energy to make trouble anymore.

Soon, several elderly uncles and clan leaders in the village came.

"As his daughter, I cannot stop the marriage that my father has arranged for me. However, this is the last time I will fulfill my duty as a daughter to you." After saying this, Gu Li supported the old lady and followed the clan leader to the ancestral hall.

The villagers who came to watch the fun had already surrounded the Gu family's courtyard. They said all kinds of things, but most of them were lamenting that Gu Jiande was not doing the right thing and allowing his stepmother to mistreat the children left by his father.

The final topic always comes back to the same point: if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather, and a child without a mother is like a weed.

In the Gu clan ancestral hall, witnessed by the village chief, the clan leader crossed out Gu Li's name and wrote it under Gu Jianbang's name.

Careful yet casual.

On the way back, Gu Jixia stopped Gu Li proudly and said, "You are no longer a member of my family. How dare you follow me back?"

"Oh, the Lian family's childhood sweetheart is the second uncle's daughter. So, if you say so, I don't have to be a widow for you now?"

"you----"

Gu Li ignored Gu Jixia who was defeated repeatedly and walked around her and continued forward.

Gu Jiazu, who was standing by, couldn't help but take a few more glances at his second sister's thin back. Is this still his taciturn sister?

When did he become so sharp-tongued that he even won the argument with his elder sister.

If Gu Li knew about Gu Jiazu's feelings, she would definitely roll her eyes to the sky. In the face of absolute strength, all reactionaries are just paper tigers!

The old lady valued Gu Li, the newly born granddaughter of the eldest wife, very much. She accompanied Gu Li back home in person, forced Gu Jiande to take out two taels of silver, and asked the people from the third wife to move away all the dowry that Fang had prepared for Gu Jixia.

Gu Li was sent to the Lian family by the old lady that day along with her dowry.

On the way, the old lady talked about Gu Jianbang intermittently, hoping that in the limited time, Gu Li could establish some extraordinary father-daughter relationship with her deceased father whom she had never met.