Traveling to ancient times with a sign-in system

Chapter 142 What is shameless? This is called shameless!

The kid from the second brother's family was able to spend money to get into Changshan Academy, so why didn't his family want to spend money to send him to Changshan Academy?
If he had been sent to Changshan Academy earlier, he would have been admitted to the imperial examination by now!
Gu Liansheng lost his mind due to jealousy. He glared at Gu Lianshan beside him with a vicious look: "You are born stupid, and so are the girls and boys in your house! Why don't you just stay in your place and know who you are, and squander that one hundred taels of silver?

Are you doing this on purpose? Are you resentful that my parents favored me, and you're planning to squander all the money in the family so that I won't have enough to study in the future?"

Hearing this, Gu Lianshan didn't even look at him. He just rolled his eyes to the sky and imitated Gu Tang, poking Gu Liansheng in the heart.

"What kind of bullshit is that? You and I were both born of the same parents, and we share the same blood. I was born stupid? What? Do you think you're smart? You've studied for decades, and you haven't even earned the title of scholar. You deserve to be called stupid!"

"You!" Gu Liansheng stood up suddenly, and the next moment, he felt dizzy and sat back down immediately.

Maybe he was sick from being angry, or maybe he got up too fast, but the sudden dizziness made Gu Liansheng's face turn pale.

If I hadn't held onto the table next to me, I would have fallen off the stool.

Mr. Gu's face was in a panic: "But you're dizzy again?"

Gu Liansheng didn't say anything, just closed his eyes, leaned on the table and slowly recovered from the dizziness.

"Second!"

Seeing his eldest son like this, Old Master Gu raised his eyes and scolded his second son: "You know your eldest brother can't be angry, but you still dare to deliberately anger him like this! How can you compare with your eldest brother? He was born with a destiny of being an official!"

"Yes, yes, yes! He was born with the luck to be an official, but he studied for decades and still couldn't even become a scholar! I can't compare with him! What bad luck!" Gu Lianshan said very venomously.

These words successfully made Mr. Gu furious.

But at this moment, Gu Tang suddenly added fuel to the fire. He went out and called Gu Ping'an, asking him to come into the main room.

Gu Ping'an was boiling water in the kitchen. He was going to the backyard to kill a chicken later and boil some hot water to burn the chicken feathers.

Hearing Gu Tang calling him, he didn't think much about it. He pushed the burning firewood in the stove inside, then closed the kitchen door and quickly went to the main room.

When someone came in, the eyes of everyone in the room looked at him with joy, hatred, complexity, etc., which were intertwined with each other and extremely hot, making Gu Ping'an's hair stand on end!

Gu Ping'an didn't know what was going on, and he forced himself to remain calm and greeted the elders one by one.

The clan leaders and elders all responded with smiles, praising him non-stop: "What a gifted young man! He has such an extraordinary temperament at such a young age. He will definitely become a great man in the future..."

Gu Pingan:……!!!
What's wrong with the clan leaders and elders? They haven't been drinking, so why are they talking nonsense?!

What about someone with a beautiful mind, extraordinary temperament, and destined to become a great person? Who is this talking about?!

No matter how thick-skinned he is, he would not dare to accept these compliments!

It's no wonder that the clan leaders and elders would say this. Gu Ping'an's appearance is like Zhang's, but he also combines the advantages of his father Gu Lianshan. Although he is not very old, he has beautiful eyes and clear eyebrows.

Her skin color was also like Zhang's, fair and rosy. No matter how tanned she got in the summer, her skin would quickly turn white in winter.

With this appearance, it is hard to find anyone who can match him, not only in the Gu family, but also in the surrounding villages.

Even the Lin brothers and sisters who were born of the same mother cannot compare to them.

In the eyes of the clan leaders and elders, this is what a scholar should look like, much better than Gu Liansheng!

Faced with everyone's inexplicable praise, Gu Ping'an felt uneasy.

He secretly glanced at his father, but got no response. He then secretly glanced at Gu Tang, and got a look in response.

Before he could figure out what this look meant, Old Man Gu, who was sitting in the main seat, suddenly interrupted the clan leaders and elders' praise and belittled Gu Ping'an.

"Sanlang has never even touched a book, how can he deserve such praise? He is also a dull-witted person. No matter what work he does, he will not move until you tell him. He also ignores his brothers and sisters at home. He has no tact and no warmth..."

This was such an obvious and deliberate put-down that everyone in the room could hear it.

Gu Tang ignored him, thinking he was just farting, and continued talking to Gu Ping'an: "When you were listening to your uncle reading at home, you memorized a few articles. Now you recite those articles and let me and your uncle listen. We didn't spend a penny, but we are still better than those who spent countless silver."

The room suddenly became quiet. Everyone knew who Gu Tang was talking about when he said "the person who spent so much money".

Gu Ping'an was still confused, but he always listened to Gu Tang.

Gu Tang asked him to carry it on his back, so he just did it.

"Then let's recite 'The Great Learning'? That's the one my uncle taught my brother the most. 'The Way of the Great Learning is to manifest the bright virtue, to love the people, and to abstain from the highest good…'"

The young man's voice with ups and downs rang in everyone's ears, with accurate punctuation and sincere tone, without any pause or hesitation, and the whole article was extremely smooth.

Obviously, Gu Ping'an really remembered this "Great Learning" by heart.

The article of more than a thousand words was quickly memorized, and Mr. Gu could no longer utter the four words "木头木木闹".

Gu Liansheng, who was feeling dizzy, was not only feeling dizzy at this moment, his head was buzzing and he felt excruciating pain!
Patriarch Gu was also a scholar, but he failed the exams for a long time and gradually gave up.

Although he no longer took the imperial examination, he never gave up studying.

Seeing that Gu Ping'an had truly recited the article today, word for word, he felt delighted and couldn't help but challenge him to a question.

"Even though you've memorized it, do you understand its meaning?"

"I understand a little bit. I wrote it down when my uncle and cousin were explaining it."

"Okay, let me ask you, what does this opening sentence mean?"

The opening sentence...

Gu Ping'an thought about it and said quickly, "The first sentence is about 'The way of university is to promote upright and honest virtues and to make people abandon the old and pursue the new①..."

"Everything has its root and its branches, every matter has its end and its beginning. If you know what comes first and what comes later, you are close to the right path."

"Everything has its roots and branches, its beginning and its end. If one can understand the principles of beginning and end, one can approach the laws governing the course of things in this world..."

……

Gu Ping'an did not apply all of Gu Liansheng's explanations. After all, anyone who was educated knew these explanations.

At the end of his explanation, he shared some of his own insights, some of which were right and some were wrong, but they made Patriarch Gu even happier!

Clan leader Gu, who originally only intended to preside over the division of the family and had no intention of getting involved in these matters, turned around and scolded Grandpa Gu: "You have been blind all your life. You have avoided all the good things, whether they are people or things, and only picked those inappropriate loves! Now that your grandson's cleverness is in front of me, I'd like to see if you are going to continue to be blind!" Grandpa Gu's old face turned pale and blue, his eyes were complicated and difficult to discern, and his heart was full of unwillingness.

Why didn’t this cleverness fall on the eldest brother and his son?

It happened to fall into the second brother’s room!

Compared to Mr. Gu's unwillingness, Gu Liansheng was frightened and his gloomy face was hideous and terrifying!
The look he gave Gu Ping'an was full of malice, which made the elders on the opposite side frown and secretly say that something was wrong.

The eldest son of the Gu family must be very upset, and this family must be divided!

One of the most senior elders looked at Old Man Gu intently and said, "Although unmarried girls cannot have private property, it is not absolute. As long as her parents agree, it's fine.

Now that Zhang has been divorced, as long as your second son has no objection, then the one hundred taels of silver should belong to your fourth daughter."

Old Master Gu and Gu Liansheng, father and son, froze in a trance and became furious. They had not expected that the clan elders would so blatantly favor the second branch!

The elder ignored the anger on the father and son's faces and continued, "Your Si Ya is a good girl. It was originally her own money, but she didn't spend it at all. She spent it all on your San Lang, buying him a better future.

Just for this reason, you must not mention the matter of the hundred taels of silver again, and don't even think about splitting it. Sanlang is a man of great potential in the future. If you make things difficult for the second wife today, how will you face her when the child becomes successful?

These words softened Mr. Gu's heart a little, but when his eyes swept over his sick eldest son and Sanlang who was looking at him coldly, the soft feeling disappeared immediately.

"In the past, I would have let this money go, but now I'm sick and can't work. His mother is even worse off than me, paralyzed in bed and unable to even walk."

"My second son said yesterday that my mother needs to take medicine all year round, one packet a day, and each packet costs fifty copper coins, which means eighteen taels of silver a year! If I don't take this silver, I'm afraid I can only watch my mother die of illness!"

Hearing this, Gu Lianshan was so angry that he almost laughed, and then he told everyone that his mother was not seriously ill, but just couldn't walk.

He also told everyone what the doctor from Bei'an City said and what Feng had done, without missing a word.

The clan leaders and elders had heard a few things about Feng's medical treatment, but they didn't know the details.

After hearing what Gu Lianshan said today, he looked at Old Man Gu meaningfully and didn't know what to say.

This old couple...it's really hard to describe!

One person is clearly fine, but insists that he will die if he doesn't take medicine.

A man who knew that the medicine was useless still forced his son to buy it, and refused to come back until he bought enough for a year!

How could I not understand what life was like at home? Why were everyone suddenly more confused than the other?
Glancing at the brother and sister standing aside, everyone understood that the old couple was probably trying to use the medicine incident to get away with the one hundred taels of silver from their fourth daughter.

For a moment, everyone looked at Mr. Gu with disdain, looking down on his behavior, which was not worthy of being treated like a decent person!

Noticing that the clan leaders and elders were looking at him in the wrong light, Mr. Gu felt ashamed and angry, and wanted to kill his second son right away!

He took a deep breath and decided to go all out. "No matter what the mother's condition is, it's true that she needs money for treatment! I don't ask for more than the hundred taels of silver. You must hand over half!"

Clan leader Gu was furious: "Didn't you hear me just now? The money has been spent. Where can I get more money for you?"

"Then write an IOU! Have all the second-house family, regardless of age, put their fingerprints on it!" Old Master Gu's eyes were gloomy.

As soon as these words were spoken, they instantly aroused public anger.

Gu Tang secretly glanced at the old man and couldn't help but curl his lips. It was such a beautiful thought, like a dream.

They forced the second wife to write an IOU and had the whole family put their fingerprints on it. This was because they wanted to continue to control the second wife afterwards.

Faced with his father's shamelessness, the bad-tempered Gu Lianshan finally couldn't hold back and said, "If that's how you want to calculate, then let's calculate how much money my eldest brother has spent in the family over the past few decades. I don't want more, I just want half!"

Mr. Gu was not at all panicked and said something shocking: "Your eldest brother is the eldest son. The eldest son inherits the family business. The money in this family originally belongs to your eldest brother. No matter how much he spends, it is what he deserves. What does it have to do with you?"

"Wait a moment!" Clan leader Gu, who noticed something was wrong, immediately interrupted.

He asked seriously, "From what you said, you don't intend to share anything in this house with your second son?"

"No difference." Old Master Gu said calmly, lowering his eyes and not looking at his son.

Then he continued to defend himself: "Our family is poor and cannot afford the hassle of dividing the family property, so I simply won't give the second son anything. They can continue to live in the west wing, which can be regarded as a share for them."

Anger appeared on Patriarch Gu’s face.

But before he could lose his temper, he heard Gu Lianshan on the opposite side readily agree to it!
"Okay! Just do as my father wishes!"

The clan leaders and elders all looked over and looked at Gu Lianshan with an expression that said, "Are you stupid?"

Gu Lianshan wiped his face and said, "My second branch doesn't want any of the family's belongings. We don't want the west wing either. We'll move out soon! But, we won't ask about anything concerning you or my mother, and we won't offer any gifts during festivals!"

"Unfilial thing!" Old Master Gu was furious and threw the crutch in his hand directly.

Gu Lianshan dodged swiftly and was not hit.

This made Old Master Gu even angrier: "You are not the eldest son, and the things in this house have nothing to do with you! You want to use this to threaten me, but you won't listen no matter how hard you try! Your mother and I gave birth to you and raised you. This is a great favor! You must repay the favor!"
I'll make it clear to you now. Hand over the fifty taels of silver, and your mother and I will live with your eldest brother. You will pay for all your mother's monthly medicine, and your eldest brother will pay for mine.

In addition, you must give me 50 kilograms of rice and flour every month. Your mother and I need to take care of ourselves, and rice and flour are good for us, so we can't go without them!"

What is shameless?
This is called shameless!

The clan leaders and elders were amazed and gradually came to their senses.

No wonder he suddenly changed his mind and agreed to split the family. Under this condition, after the split, the Gu family will still be supported by the second branch, but the second branch cannot touch a single cent of the Gu family's things!

What a good plan, it’s really a good plan!

When things got to this point, Gu Lianshan suddenly stopped being angry.

He stood up and knelt before the patriarch: "Today this family will not be divided."

No more separation?
The clan leaders and elders looked at each other in confusion.

You've already knelt down, and now you say you don't want to separate?

The clan leaders and elders had no idea what Gu Lianshan was saying and could only wait in silence for him to continue.

Old Master Gu, who was sitting in the main seat, felt a pang in his heart when he saw his son like this, and thought to himself, this is not good, he is up to some bad intentions again!
①②From Wikipedia