Beat her up and send her back?
Gu Dafu had foreseen that Sister i could not escape the beating today and could only nod in agreent: "Sister i is at fault first, and deserves to be beaten."
"Father!" Gu Yui sobbed, "Isn’t an apology enough?"
Gu Jinli laughed, stood up, and walked towards Gu Yui.
Gu Yui, seeing her approaching, was so terrified that she hid behind Gu Dafu, shivering, "What, what are you going to do? I said I would apologize."
Gu Jinli beckoned to her: "If you don’t want to be punished more severely, then co out with so responsibility and stand properly!"
The words ’stand properly’ were almost roared by Gu Jinli, frightening Gu Yui into quickly stepping forward.
Gu Jinli looked at the shivering Gu Yui with a mocking smile on her face and slapped her twice.
Slap slap!
Gu Yui, stupefied by the slaps, covered her face and cried, "Gu Xiaoyu, you, you hit ? I didn’t hit you, what right do you have to hit ? Today, I hit Aunt Xu Wang."
Gu Jinli laughed: "First, Aunt Xu Wang is a servant bought by my family. You hit my family’s servant; not only will I hit you, but you’ll also have to compensate."
"Second, don’t misunderstand. These two slaps are not punishnt for the wrong you did today, but a rebuttal to what you said just now, ’Isn’t an apology enough?’"
Gu Yui didn’t understand what Gu Jinli was saying until Gu Jinli said to her, "I hit you, now I apologize, do you accept it?"
Instinctively, Gu Yui responded, "Of course not, why should a simple apology from you be enough to settle it?!"
Gu Jinli smiled sweeter: "Right, so why do you think that by hitting Aunt Xu and apologizing, you can just let it go? Gu Yui, who do you think you are? A princess? You’re nothing but a peasant girl, a useless thing that cannot farm, cannot do work, and has a rotten brain!"
She was truly fed up with Gu Yui. If she could, she really wanted to poison her, to put her to death.
Gu Yui, hearing Gu Jinli’s words, trembled with anger: "You, you..."
"What ’you, you’... enough with your ’yous’. Those two slaps just now don’t count. Stand properly, let Aunt Xu’s family hit you back, otherwise, we can’t let this matter go today." Gu Jinli turned to look at Aunt Xu Wang, "Aunt Xu, it was supposed to be you who hit Gu Yui, but now you are too weak to hurt her; that would let her off too easily."
She looked towards Wang Yongfu and Ms. Wang Ma, asking, "Uncle Wang, Aunt Wang, which of you two will hit her?"
Wang Yongfu and Ms. Wang Ma were shocked – were they really supposed to hit her? Gu Yui is after all Gu Dafu’s own daughter and one of the workshop’s young mistresses. If they really hit her, how will the two families get along in the future?
This ti, Third Grandma no longer indulged Gu Yui, telling Wang Yongfu and Ms. Wang Ma, "You two need not worry about anything. Sister i did wrong, and she deserves to be beaten in return."
Sister i today has not only hit Aunt Xu Wang but also tarnished her reputation, and a woman’s reputation is more important than anything.
Furthermore, Aunt Xu Wang is a widow. Widows are easily criticized by others, and with today’s incident and the slanders spoken by Gu Yui, Aunt Xu Wang will surely be pointed at and gossiped about in the village in the future.
The villagers won’t care whether she was wronged or not, only assuming she lacks propriety; otherwise, why would soone else’s daughter speak of her in such a manner?
Third Grandma felt for Aunt Xu Wang - her husband was dead, and life was already hard enough raising a son alone, now it was even harder.
Gu Dafu felt guilty and wanted to teach Sister i a lesson, so he said to Wang Yongfu, "Brother Wang, you do it. Sister i indeed needs a lesson. I don’t bla you. Today’s matter is really our family’s fault towards yours."
"Dad! This is the workshop, and you let the Wang Family people beat here... How will I face anyone after this?" Gu Yui cried, her tears were particularly sorrowful, almost wishing that she could just cry herself to death.
Last ti, although she was beaten severely, it was in her own ho, and only so elders from a few families were present, so no one would spread the news.
But now, it was in the workshop, with so many people watching, and all these people were workers hired by the workshop. To let the workers witness her, the Dong Family’s daughter, being beaten, it would be better for her to just die!
Gu Jinli could barely contain his laughter: "You were the one who beat Aunt Xu in the workshop, so it’s only natural for the Wang Family to retaliate in the workshop. Don’t always think you’re above everyone else, that everyone has to respect you. We’re not fools; why should anyone respect a good-for-nothing like you?"
If you want respect, you have to prove your worth, not just put on the airs of a young lady to earn people’s respect.
Mrs. Chen thought that they had lost enough face for the day and didn’t want to stay and be humiliated any longer. She urged Gu Yui, "Hurry up and stand properly, let Brother Wang’s family finish beating you, and then we can go ho quickly. How much longer do you want to embarrass yourself?"
Gu Yui saw that no one was speaking up for her, and her crying was almost breathless.
Ms. Wang Ma had already co over and said, "Young Master, I’ll do it."
Wang Yongfu, being a man with strong fists and kicks, might knock Gu Yui out with a single slap.
Gu Jinli nodded, "Alright. But make sure it’s eight slaps."
"Eight, eight slaps..." Gu Yui shuddered like a sieve upon hearing this, and cried out, "I only slapped her four tis, why are you letting Ms. Wang Ma slap eight tis?"
Gu Jinli replied, "Never heard of returning the favor double? If you haven’t heard of it, then go read more books. Don’t go around pretending to be a well-bred lady while being illiterate; you’ll only make a laughingstock of yourself."
"You, you..." Gu Yui was so angry she could barely breathe.
Ms. Wang Ma didn’t go easy and with a series of slaps, she delivered eight slaps to Gu Yui, knocking her out cold.
Gu Dafu watched with heartache but didn’t utter a word of bla towards the Wang Family.
"Useless," Mrs. Chen scolded Gu Yui, then ran over to check on her. Seeing that she had only fainted and wasn’t seriously injured, she was relieved and turned to Gu Jinli with a smile on her face, "Xiao Yu, Sister i has been punished. This should settle the matter, right?"
Hoping there wouldn’t be any more fines, for their family hadn’t received dividends for several months. If fined again, they really wouldn’t be able to bear it.
Unfortunately, Gu Jinli then said, "Aunt Xu was injured; you should give her so silver to help her recover. We won’t ask for much this ti. Just give thirty taels of silver to Aunt Xu and forfeit one month’s dividends, and it will be fine."
"What? Pay compensation and lose the dividends!" Mrs. Chen felt like dying, pleading quickly, "Xiao Yu, Sister i was wrong, and we are willing to compensate Ms. Xu Wang with money... But let’s not lose the dividends, after all, this matter is between the Wang Family and our family, it hasn’t hard the workshop at all, has it?"
Before Gu Jinli could respond, Third Grandma had already spoken, "How hasn’t it hard the workshop? Because of Sister i’s lack of sense, everyone had to stop working. If that’s not harming the workshop, what is?"
Mrs. Chen was left speechless and, fearful of being fined even more dividends if the quarrel continued, quickly agreed. She carried Gu Yui on her back, with Gu Dafu following behind, and they hurried ho.
On the way, Mrs. Chen complained, "Big Brother, don’t bla for being heartless, but Sister i is a blight that cannot stay. Every day she just brings calamity upon our house. Since she likes the Wan Family, just agree to it. Our shop is in town; if the Wan Family mistreats Sister i, we can quickly intervene. You don’t have to worry about her being bullied after marrying into the Wan Family."
Gu Dafu, exhausted by Gu Yui’s troublemaking, finally relented, "Alright, if the Wan Family cos to propose again, I will agree."
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