Traveling to ancient times with a sign-in system

Chapter 17 Zhang's Former In-Laws
"Your second sister is willing to take out the rabbit skin?" Gu Lianshan looked surprised.

Since the rabbit skin was brought back, his daughter might have hidden it! No one has seen it, and no one knows where she is hiding it.

"I guess it's too cold today. Judging from the way it looks, it looks like it's a robe."

"Then I have to go and take a look! Your second sister got the rabbit skins herself by catching rabbits. If it's not sewn properly and gets damaged, your second sister will be very angry!"

Gu Lianshan took off the apron around his waist, told his son to keep an eye on the porridge in the pot and make sure it didn't overflow, and then hurried out of the kitchen.

In the room, Gu Tang threaded the needle and prepared to sew for the last time. If it still didn't work, he would have to pay someone to help him sew.

Just after a few injections, Gu Lianshan knocked on the door.

The door was not bolted. Gu Lianshan was strong and knocked twice, and the door opened a crack, allowing the cold wind to come in again.

Gu Tang was already irritable at this moment, and the cold wind made him even more angry. He shouted in a bad mood: "Come in!"

As soon as Gu Lianshan heard the tone, he knew that it was his impatience that was coming back, and he would get angry as soon as things didn't go his way.

When he pushed the door open and came in, he saw Gu Tang still struggling with the fur. He closed the door and walked forward to take the work from her hands.

"Ever since you were little, you've never liked mending. You can't even sew clothes properly, and you still want to sew fur coats?"

I took a few glances at the stitching; it was crooked and unevenly dense.

He wanted to bite the thread off with his teeth, but when he glanced over, he saw a pair of scissors next to Gu Tang, so he subconsciously reached out to take it, and with a few clicks, he quickly removed the thread.

Putting down the scissors, Gu Lianshan realized something was wrong: "Where did the scissors come from?"

There is only one pair of scissors in the entire Gu family, and it has always been in the hands of his mother. She treasures it very much and never lends it to others.

His daughter had complained more than once that there were no scissors, and that she had to use her teeth to mend clothes.

Gu Lianshan took the scissors again and looked at them carefully, his expression becoming more and more solemn the more he looked.

The silver scissors were small and sharp, about the size of an adult's palm, and engraved with thin golden vines, looking precious and eye-catching.

You can tell at a glance that this thing is not a cheap item, and the Gu family can't afford it anyway.

"The other day when I was delivering rabbits, I ran into a caravan of merchants from foreign countries. They were hawking some foreign goods.

I followed the man over and took a look. I immediately liked the scissors, so I traded my rabbit for them. "How do you like it? Do you like it?"

Gu Lianshan looked suspicious: "Can this be exchanged for a rabbit?"

Gu Tang calmly snatched the scissors and put them away, saying calmly, "It's just a pair of scissors. We think it's rare, but to someone else, it might not be worth as much as a rabbit."

Gu Lianshan paused and thought about it carefully. Things from foreign countries may seem rare to the people here, but in the eyes of foreigners, they may be common things.

"Dad will sew you a fur coat. The hot water in the kitchen is almost ready. Go wash up quickly. Dad has cooked the porridge."

After carefully putting away the cut fur, Gu Lianshan urged her to get up quickly.

Gu Tang was picking up the debris on the bed and stopped what he was doing when he heard this: "Why are you the one making porridge today? Aren't you afraid that my grandma will see and scold my mother?"

"Didn't Sanlang tell you yesterday? Your mother is not here. She went to the Lin family."

"Why are you going to the Lin family again?" Gu Tang frowned.

The Lin family was Zhang's ex-husband's family. In their early years, there was a scholar in the family, who was Zhang's ex-husband who died early - Lin Chengcai.

Lin Chengcai was much stronger than the eldest son of the Gu family. He passed the imperial examination and became a scholar in his twenties, although he eventually became weak and frail and never took part in the imperial examinations again.

But he had earned his title of scholar through his own hard work, unlike someone else, whose title of student was so exaggerated that it could only be used to raise fish. In his early years, the Lin family was quite wealthy, and they spent money to buy Lin a position as a "chief clerk" in the government office, and the whole family moved to Bei'an City to live.

Later, Mr. Lin died of illness, and the two elders of the Lin family returned to Linjia Village with their grandson, granddaughter and daughter-in-law Zhang.

Not long after, the old man of the Lin family also died of illness, and his remaining meager property was all spent, leaving behind an old house with bare walls, and the women, children and the elderly.

In order to survive, Zhang had to remarry.

But her only requirement for getting married was that she had to bring Old Mrs. Zhang and her two children with her.

This “bring” does not mean that the whole family has to move to the man’s house.

Old Mrs. Zhang and her two children still lived in Linjia Village, while Zhang married there alone.

But after the marriage, the man’s family must produce grain to support the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren.

Although Zhang had given birth to a child and remarried, she was still very popular among the villagers.

The reason is that she was once the daughter-in-law of a scholar, and the key point is that the scholar was an "official"!
In the countryside and villagers, they cannot distinguish between high-ranking and low-ranking officials. They only know that anyone who works for the government is an official.

Being able to marry a "government lady" as a daughter-in-law is a happy thing for the whole family.

But as soon as Zhang's conditions for remarriage were announced, the crowd that had been rushing to get married suddenly dispersed.

It's simple. These days, every family can only barely make ends meet, so how can they have extra food to feed outsiders?

Anyway, no one knows what happened in the end, but her father Gu Lianshan, the unfortunate victim, took over.

Ever since Gu Tang could remember, Zhang would go back to the Lin family once a month to deliver food rations. She would usually go and come back on the same day, and rarely would she stay overnight.

But in the past month, Zhang has returned to the Lin family ten times.

Every time it was the same excuse. They said that the old woman of the Lin family was dying and was about to breathe, so they wanted Zhang to see her for the last time and also send her off.

I went there again yesterday. Could it be that I am using the same excuse again?
"Is it that old lady from the Lin family who is dying again?" Gu Tang couldn't help but ask.

"Yes! He said he can't do it again." Gu Lianshan was also convinced. This was the eleventh time, and every time it was someone who couldn't do it!
"Is it really impossible? Or are you thinking of causing trouble again?" Gu Tang was very disgusted with the old woman of the Lin family.

In the memories left by the original owner, she had seen Old Lady Lin several times.

She was not a kind old lady at all. Her gaze was even more piercing than Feng's. Every time she saw the original owner, she treated her like a maid.

If anything didn't go her way, the old woman would complain to Zhang.

Zhang's heart has always been with the Lin family. When she heard Old Lady Lin complaining, she started to teach the original owner a lesson without saying a word.

Zhang's method of teaching the original owner a lesson was very tricky. She did not hit the original owner, but pinched the original owner's flesh.

The parts that were pinched were those that could not be shown to others. Even if the original owner told others, he could not provide any evidence.

Over the years, the original owner had no idea how many times Zhang had pinched her. Every time she begged for mercy, she got pinched even more.

Although Zhang was the original owner's biological mother, she treated Gu Mei, Gu Laian and Gu Tang and Gu Ping'an equally with indifference and harshness.

But she was a person who cared a lot about her reputation. She didn't dare to withhold Gu Mei's things, so she exploited Gu Tang and Gu Ping'an to the utmost.

From childhood to adulthood, if Gu Tang and Gu Ping'an had anything they liked around them, it would definitely disappear the next day.

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