Li Xi clutched her handkerchief, her gaze slowly shifting towards her two brothers, clearly moved.
Li Xi couldn’t help but shout, "Gu i, stop giving your mother bad ideas. She’s married, how can she just go back to live with her family?"
Gu i chuckled and said, "But my father is gone."
"He’s said to be missing, but it’s been so long, he must be gone. My mother is a widow now, isn’t it just right for her to return to her family?"
Li Xi, hearing Gu i’s words, shook her head in fright. "No, your father... he wouldn’t."
Gu i, with a cold face, "You’re dreaming."
"I advise you to wake up fast!"
"It’s been a year. If he wasn’t dead, he would have co back by now!"
"And you’ve squandered all of our family wealth. Even if he were to co back soday and see the state of the house now, he’d divorce you!"
Li Xi burst into tears.
Yun Jiao watched Gu i coldly; it seed her resentnt towards Li Xi was no less than her own.
After speaking, Gu i suddenly took out a tael of silver from her pouch, "I’ll give this for the eldercare fund."
"But I only have this much right now. I’ll give one tael first, then in half a year, I’ll give the remaining tael."
She looked around, "I need to write a note, mother, you leave your fingerprint, so later you can’t say I didn’t give the silver."
She quickly found paper and pen, wrote a note, and then forced Li Xi to leave a fingerprint.
The eldest and second uncle frowned, but seeing Gu i giving the silver, they tolerated her rough behavior and said nothing.
After giving the silver, Gu i continued to persuade Li Xi, "Mother, I’m serious, you, a frail woman, can’t survive at ho alone."
"Both Yun Jiao and I are married and live with our husbands, even if we want to care for you, we can’t."
"You should take the silver and go back to your family."
"And rember, this silver is for your own use, don’t give it to anyone."
The eldest and second uncle’s faces turned dark, was she suggesting Li Xi return ho to freeload?
Yun Jiao pulled Gu Chuan to stand up, smiling, "Mother, sister is right. It’s not safe for you to live alone. I think you should pack up quickly and go ho with the two uncles."
"There’s nothing valuable in this house anyway. I’ll tell uncle and third uncle later to check in often."
Hearing this from her two daughters, Li Xi quickly looked to Li Xi, "Big brother, second brother, wait for to pack a few clothes and I’ll be ready."
Li Xi frowned, "Sister, there are already many people at ho, and your eldest nephew is about to get married. There’s no place for you to stay if you go back."
"Look at this large house, it’s better to stay here."
Yun Jiao smiled, "Eldest uncle, my mother isn’t picky, as long as she has a bed and so food, it’s enough."
"Mother’s health is weak and delicate; she needs soone to care for her. You should take her ho to care for her in her old age, otherwise, how can you feel at ease?"
Yun Jiao finished speaking and quickly pulled Gu Chuan out.
Gu i, being just as shrewd, followed Yun Jiao out.
The sisters raced as if in a contest, each taking quicker strides than the other.
After walking far, Gu i looked back to see no one following, then sighed in relief.
Before they reached the village entrance, Yun Jiao saw Suo Zhu sitting atop a mule cart, hands tucked inside his sleeves, his nose reddened from the cold, evidently waiting for a long ti.
Gu i brightened up, "Husband—"
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