latelenovela Chapter 4 Dongfang Jin was so angry that she collapsed.
Chapter 4 Dongfang Jin was so angry that she collapsed.
"Oh, is there any food?"
"Wait, I'll get it for you."
Watching him leave, Dongfang Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief; the guy's mere presence here was incredibly intimidating.
She could imagine that this guy could lift the house up with his bare hands.
With my leg and back injured, I feel uncomfortable even bending over when I go out.
He came in again, bending over, carrying a chipped bowl.
Those hands, holy crap, are dirtier than a scavenger's hands. And that broken bowl, is that what beggars use?
What's that dark, unappetizing thing in the bowl? Is it edible?
Gu Chenglin looked at her and said gently, "These are some cornbread that your fourth aunt sent over. Have some to tide you over, and I'll cook you dinner tonight."
Upon seeing the thing, Dongfang Jin shifted back slightly: "Wowo? Brother, are you sure this thing is edible?"
Dongfang Jin didn't take it. He felt nauseous just looking at these things, and his hunger vanished instantly.
This looks exactly like some kind of animal excrement! I won't eat it, absolutely not!
Seeing her like this, Gu Chenglin didn't say anything. He put the bowl on the kang table on the bed and sat down. "Fourth Aunt sent six. I ate four. These two were specially saved for you. I've been keeping them warm in the pot."
Dongfang Jin didn't respond to his question, but pointed outside and asked, "What's going on? Why did you split up the family?"
When Gu Chenglin saw her ask this question, he stared at her for a while and said, "This is what my family promised me when I agreed to marry you, that we would separate from the family."
When I moved, they tried to keep your dowry, but you were unconscious at the time, so I didn't give it to you.
My mother probably thinks I'm disobedient and unfilial, and she also thinks it's not worth it..."
Dongfang Jin glared at him: "How is it not a good deal? Didn't the Fang family give them 20 taels of silver?"
Gu Chenglin looked somewhat blank, and his voice was also wooden: "I asked, and she said it was compensation from the eldest daughter of the Fang family and my younger brother for canceling their engagement."
"Didn't your sister already become someone's concubine? She might be using that as leverage. Besides, both of my younger brothers' wives handed over their dowries when they married."
Dongfang Jin scoffed, "You know that? But your family is quite unusual, the daughter-in-law hands over her dowry."
Gu Chenglin did not answer his question directly, thinking to himself, "He's probably the only one who accepts his daughter-in-law's dowry."
“Before I married you, I went to Fangjia Village and met someone I knew. He told me that your sister had become the concubine of the richest man in Meng County.”
Dongfang Jin pointed to himself and asked, puzzled, "You knew I looked like this, so why did you still marry me?"
Gu Chenglin's deep black eyes revealed no emotion as he looked at her: "My first wife was bought by my mother for one tael of silver, but... she jumped into the river and committed suicide, and her body was never found."
"You've been married, no, you've even been married?"
Dongfang Jin was stunned.
Holy crap! Second marriage! She hasn't even been in a serious relationship yet!
After that, she couldn't catch her breath and fainted; she couldn't hear anything after that.
After she fainted, the house and the surrounding area became a complete mess.
Anyway, Dongfang Jin doesn't know either.
Because she is now standing blankly in a place that is so familiar it is almost unrecognizable.
Her home, her modern home, her villa, her garden, her small farm—all of these are there.
However, on the other side of her villa, there was a small brick and tile house with one door and three windows. The wooden gate at the entrance of the courtyard had the three large characters "You Ran Ju" written on it.
A winding path, only 80cm wide, leads to the doorway, lined with a profusion of beautiful flowers on both sides.
In the center of the courtyard, there is a small artificial hill with a spring on top. The spring water flows out and passes over the rock wall, where large soup bowls inlaid with five different colors: gold, blue, navy blue, red, and brown.
Below the five large soup bowls is a large white porcelain urn with a mouth diameter of one meter.
Inside was crystal-clear spring water. Dongfang Jin stared at it for a long time as the spring water flowed from top to bottom through the five bowls and into the urn.
The water in the jar showed no signs of overflowing, which was quite amazing!
When Dongfang Jin floated to the door and opened it, she realized that she was floating.
Her body was completely transparent! Holy crap! Was she a human or a ghost?
She thought that her own home was familiar to her and she didn't need to visit it, but this place was unfamiliar, so she came to take a look first. Only when she opened the door did she realize that she was different, because she couldn't open the door.
Then she floated to the roof and saw everything there. There was nothing at the end of her back garden and her little farm, just a dark void.
Apart from the things in the yard, the area around the villas and new houses is mostly open black soil, covering an area of about a thousand acres. That's a huge amount of space!
These lands are all bare, but judging from the color of the soil, they seem quite fertile.
But why is there no water source in the field? Could it be...?
Looking up closely, this area of visibility seemed to be inside a glass dome, like a crystal ball or a glass marble.
Thinking of this, she floated towards her home and saw the furnishings inside, with all the appliances complete.
After she had looked around and found that everything was there, she went into the kitchen, stood by the faucet, and used her mind to turn it on.
"Splash..." The water was turned on, and there was water.
And the fire? — Turn it on.
"Whoosh..." The gas turned on. Whoosh...
Silently repeat, "Turn off," and the water tap and gas stove will both stop.
She was horrified. What was going on? How could this thing...?
Never mind where she got it from, as long as it works, that's fine. Excitedly, I went to the few refrigerators she had recently added, opened them, and sure enough, they were open, and there was food inside.
She seems to be in a spirit state right now; she can't eat, she can only look.
I feel a little heartbroken, but mostly confused.
Back in the living room, she sat on the sofa and looked at the TV on the wall. She turned it on, and it was playing the TV series "Empresses in the Palace" that she had watched when she left that day.
She fell into deep thought, unable to find a solution.
……
"Grandpa Xu, how is she?" Gu Chenglin asked, his face full of worry.
Grandpa Xu stroked his beard and sighed, "Chenglin, I'm afraid... I'm afraid he won't make it to tomorrow."
"But she was perfectly fine during the day?" Gu Chenglin asked anxiously.
“Chenglin, that…that might just be a final burst of energy before death. Don’t be sad, you’re still young.”
After saying this, Grandpa Xu sighed and left, carrying his medicine box.
This Linwazi has a hard life. He was disliked by his parents since he was a child, and they would beat and scold him all the time.
They have endless chores to do all day long, and they're not even given food. They barely survive to adulthood, and when they reach marriageable age, they still have to prioritize the second child.
If it weren't for the elders in the clan who couldn't stand it anymore and forced Gu Ye to find him a wife, his family would never have even considered doing so.
He spent a tael of silver to get married, and less than a month after the wedding, he took his younger brother Gu Yaozong's place to perform corvée labor. He was gone for three years, and when he returned, his son was already three years old.
Logically, the corvée labor should only last two years, but who could have imagined that he would be caught up in the imperial court's rush to complete the project? He returned from three years of corvée labor in less than half a year.
Then came the military service. His mother, heartbroken for her third son, secretly went to the county government office and reported his name without telling the village, the clan chief, or the village head.
When the roll call was taken, they discovered he hadn't arrived. It wasn't until the officials came in shackles to arrest him that the situation became clear.
Gu Chenglin and the villagers who were watching only then realized what a terrible thing Gu Ye had done.
There was no way to change things now that things had come to this. The names had already been submitted, and these people would have to be registered when they arrived at their destination. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and go serve in the military for Gu Yaozu again.