The Evil Mother-in-law: Torment Children, Work Hard, Be Rich!-Chapter 29: No Gamblers in the Gu Family

"By the way, Mom, I was so happy earlier that I forgot to tell you, Big Sister came home today."

After Liu Tiechui left, Tong Huaqiong returned home, and Chen Sufen mentioned Gu Baishuang’s visit to the Gu Family.

Gu Baishuang’s visit to the Gu Family was even more unexpected for Tong Huaqiong than Liu Tiechui giving Liu Yueer silver.

Didn’t Gu Baishuang cut ties with her family?

"What’s Gu Baishuang doing here? Didn’t she sever ties with our family?" Gu Taohua was quite displeased when she mentioned her eldest sister.

Tong Huaqiong gave her a sideways glance.

It’s obvious that Gu Baishuang didn’t come to the Gu Family to mend relationships.

"... Big Sister gave me fifty taels of silver, saying that after all, Yaozu is her nephew, and she couldn’t just watch him being sent away."

Chen Sufen took out a packet of silver and handed it to Tong Huaqiong.

Tong Huaqiong weighed the silver without saying a word.

If Gu Baishuang’s act of repaying evil with good to her family were posted online in modern times, she would be criticized off the internet by netizens.

"She wants me to personally hand over the silver to you, Mom, as a loan to the second brother. She didn’t mention when to repay it, she only put forward one condition..."

Chen Sufen paused here, not daring to continue.

She was afraid that if the condition was proposed, her mother-in-law would fly into a rage and if she went to town to confront Gu Baishuang, it wouldn’t be good.

"What’s the condition? It’s okay, you can say it." Tong Huaqiong said.

"Big Sister says... she hopes that her mother’s memorial tablet can be placed alongside Dad’s and that our family would give offerings to them." Chen Sufen gritted her teeth and stated Gu Baishuang’s condition.

After speaking, she looked apprehensively at her mother-in-law.

Back then, this issue caused such a scene in front of the father-in-law’s altar, and the clan leader was angered by Tong Huaqiong and Gu Dashi.

Now Big Sister-in-law took the opportunity to bring up this request again, would mother-in-law agree?

Tong Huaqiong chuckled brightly after hearing it.

To her, Gu Baishuang’s request was nothing. Not to mention placing their mother’s tablet alongside her late father’s, she wouldn’t mind if their ashes were stacked together.

"... Gu Dashi, you heartless man, these ten taels of silver are hard-earned by my father, and you want to use it as the principal for gambling, are you still a person?"

"How would you women understand? I’m not gambling, I’m trying to save Yaozu. Wife, trust me, if I use these ten taels as the principal, I can surely win back fifty taels."

Tong Huaqiong was about to call Gu Dashi and Liu Yueer inside to talk when she heard their quarrel.

Tong Huaqiong suddenly stood up and went to the door, seeing Gu Dashi trying to pull the money bag outside, while Liu Yueer clung tightly to his clothes.

The couple was tangled together.

This bastard Gu Dashi, walking the crooked path with such ease, still placed his hope on gambling at this point.

Gambling, drugs, and prostitution are the worst.

In Tong Huaqiong’s modern memory, even Olympic champions could fall from grace if they gambled, losing all conscience to the point of recording secret videos of their girlfriend to cover gambling debts.

She couldn’t bear the thought of gambling appearing in the Gu Family.

Without a word, Tong Huaqiong grabbed a fire poker and dashed between Gu Dashi and Liu Yueer, the poker nearly knocking Gu Dashi unconscious.

"Mom..." Gu Dashi clutched his head, crouching in pain.

"You, Gu Dashi, where did you get the nerve to gamble? Shameless, always walking the crooked path. I’ll let you gamble! I’ll let you gamble!"

Tong Huaqiong cursed while wildly swinging the fire poker.

Gu Dashi, enduring the pain, dashed around the courtyard, a shadow flitting around under the moonlight.

"You cucumber, I think you’re just asking for a chop. Taohua, go to the kitchen and bring me a knife, I’ll chop off his fingers."

Gu Taohua stood, not daring to move.

Mom was taking this too far, she was afraid that if she brought out the kitchen knife, her mom would really cut up her second brother.

Tong Huaqiong saw that Gu Taohua didn’t move, so she personally ran inside, grabbed a knife, and came out. Gu Dashi was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he plopped down on his knees in front of Tong Huaqiong.

"Mom, Mom, I won’t dare again! I was forced! There’s only one day left, if we can’t gather fifty taels of silver, Yaozu will be taken away. I just thought of this way."

"I’m not gambling for myself, I’m gambling for Yaozu. Mom, believe me, my luck has always been good, I’ve never lost."

Gu Dashi clutched Tong Huaqiong’s legs, pleading.

"You still want to gamble, you still want to gamble! Today I’ll send you to join your dad." Tong Huaqiong threatened with the knife.

Gu Dashi trembled with fear.

"Mom, Mom, hit me, scold me, beat me, but please don’t cut me. Woo woo woo..." Gu Dashi said as he slapped himself hard.

Tong Huaqiong wasn’t moved, she pressed Gu Dashi’s right hand down and raised the knife to slash.

The knife gleamed in the moonlight, blinding Gu Dashi.

With a gulp, Gu Dashi fainted.

Gu Taohua, Liu Yueer, and Chen Sufen were also frightened by Tong Huaqiong’s madness, none dared to step forward and dissuade her.

"Taohua, fetch a basin of water and splash it on him." Tong Huaqiong dropped the knife and said to Gu Taohua.

This time Gu Taohua dared not disobey, she took a large basin of cold water and splashed it over Gu Dashi’s head.

Gu Dashi slowly regained consciousness, raised his right hand, found it intact, sighed in relief, and began to cry.

"Get up!" Tong Huaqiong lifted Gu Dashi by his soaking wet collar and dragged him into the house.

Under Tong Huaqiong’s murderous glare, Gu Dashi was about to pass out again.

Tong Huaqiong slapped him to keep him from closing his eyes.

"Everyone come in and talk."

Tong Huaqiong came to the main room and sat in the chair, with Gu Dashi and Liu Yueer kneeling on the floor.

"Mom, I’ll never gamble again! I swear, I won’t even think about it." Gu Dashi raised his hand and swore.

"How is the silver collection going these days? Can you feel the looming separation from your flesh and blood?" Tong Huaqiong sneered.

Gu Dashi and Liu Yueer dared not speak.

These days have been hard indeed.

Especially for Gu Dashi, who usually strutted around the village, receiving respect whenever he left home, thinking he was popular in Qinghe Bay and well-connected.

But trying to borrow silver, he found he was less than a green onion in Qinghe Bay.

Not only did he fail to borrow any silver, but he also got a lot of sneers and ridicule.

Upon learning that his son would be taken for debt repayment, many said he deserved it, not even bothering to hide it from him as the insults directly reached his ears.

"By the morning after tomorrow, if we still haven’t got the silver, Yaozu will be taken away. Then Yaozu has two options: be a servant in the Zheng Family or, as Wang Pozi suggested, lose his manhood and become a eunuch in the palace. Tsk tsk tsk, what great parents you are."

"Why are you looking at me? I don’t care, Yaozu’s not my son after all. I see Yaozu’s already turned lazy under your care, treated like an ancestor at home. Such a son, discard if you need to, you should start planning for a new child."

Tong Huaqiong’s words came crashing down.

Liu Yueer cried.

"Why are you crying? How much silver have you collected?" Tong Huaqiong asked.

Gu Dashi’s face turned red, he hadn’t managed to collect a single copper coin.

Liu Yueer raised her hand with the cloth bag, choking as she said, "My dad gave me ten taels. Clearly, he has seventeen taels, but he only gave ten."

Tong Huaqiong, speechless, really wanted to pry open Liu Yueer’s head to see what’s inside.

man’s greed knows no bounds.

This woman, even at her husband’s home, complained about her own father.

"If I were your father, I wouldn’t help you at all. Seems the Liu Family raised you in vain, expecting your dad to sell everything to save Yaozu? Something his father couldn’t achieve, relying on the grandpa? Liu Yueer, what were your parents thinking when they raised someone like you."

Liu Yueer looked up with tearful eyes at Tong Huaqiong.

Didn’t mother-in-law usually enjoy cursing her family behind their back? Why’s she defending them now?

Her dad gave ten taels, she was indeed a bit displeased. At such a time, he was unwilling to throw in the remaining seven taels.

After Tong Huaqiong finished scolding the couple, she pulled out a cloth bundle from behind the chair, and a bag of silver gleamed under the dim kerosene lamp.

"Mom."

"Where did the silver come from?"

Gu Dashi and Liu Yueer exclaimed in unison.