Chapter 11 The Actress Gets Up
If the Zheng family really recognized her, Tong Huaqiong would leave the Gu family quickly.
But it's all in imagination.
Mr. Zheng recovered and pointed at Matchmaker Wang with a gloomy face and asked, "What's going on?"
No wonder he didn’t make it clear before which girl it was. It turns out she was setting a trap and waiting here.
Mr. Zheng felt that matchmaker Wang and the Gu family were in cahoots with each other and had brought an old widow who was a grandmother to fool him.
Mrs. Zheng was so angry that her chest was gasping for breath.
What are the old widows in the countryside thinking? They already have grandchildren, and their son cannot be someone else's grandfather.
Even if all that is left for his son is a memorial tablet, he still wants to marry a virgin girl.
"Mr. Zheng, you asked me...but Widow Tong and I agreed that it was her daughter." Matchmaker Wang pointed at the fat Taohua and defended.
"Bullshit, that's not what you said in my house. You were obviously proposing marriage to me. No wonder you agreed so quickly when I told you I was bringing peach blossoms to your house. So you were setting a trap here. You were just waiting to bring my daughter and me in like fat sheep and slaughter us, right?"
"Master Zheng, you have seen my daughter's figure and appearance. She is said to be blessed wherever she goes. Every day, people come to propose marriage and crowd the door. A wealthy family in the city wants to pay 500 taels of silver as a deposit just for her good fortune. I didn't agree. You only gave 200 taels. How can it be possible that she is a peach blossom?"
"Sister Wang, you can't be so deceiving. Yesterday I burned a love letter to my dead man, and today you told me that I chose the wrong person. My Gu family is like cabbage, so you can just pick it at will? Do you think I'm easy to bully just because I'm a widow?"
"Dad, if you hadn't died early, would I have been bullied like this?"
Tong Huaqiong clapped her hands and started to act like a spoiled brat.
Anyway, the original owner had this set of movements deeply ingrained in his muscle memory and could do it with ease.
"Auntie Wang, you are lying with your mouth wide open. You clearly said that it was my mother you were going to marry, so how come it became me when I got to the Zheng family? You want me to marry a living dead person for two hundred taels of silver? Pah! My mother is a widow, so you think I am willing to be a widow too? Being a widow is not like having land that can be passed on to future generations."
"I am an innocent girl and you have promised me to someone else without my knowledge. If this gets out, will I still be alive? You are ruining my marriage. I will not live any longer. I will just hit my head against a pillar and die here."
Gu Taohua often cooperated with Tong Huaqiong in acting out to gain benefits. Seeing Tong Huaqiong throwing a tantrum, her blood boiled and she immediately followed the plot as she was familiar with it.
Others familiar with the plot include Gu Dashu and Liu Yue'e.
Liu Yue'e went up and grabbed Gu Taohua's arm. She wanted to hug her around the waist, but her sister-in-law was too fat and she couldn't hug her.
"My poor sister-in-law, you can't be so unhappy."
"Auntie Wang, look at what you have done. First you deceived my mother-in-law, and now you are forcing my sister-in-law to die. You are usually the matchmaker to arrange weddings for people, not funerals."
"I told my family that this was a trap. No matter how bad the eldest son of the Zheng family is, he can't marry a widow with grandchildren. But my mother didn't believe me and said that Aunt Wang is kind and wouldn't lie. Now she believes me."
Gu Dashu opened his eyes wide and clenched his fists, saying, "Although I don't want a stepfather, I can't let you bully my mother. I originally sent my mother to remarry, and now you say you have chosen my sister. Don't you, the Zheng family, claim to be scholars? Are your morals so corrupt?"
"If you think my family is poor and you tricked us into coming here and asked us to sell our sister to you for auspiciousness, then you are making a wrong decision."
Matchmaker Wang suffered a heart attack due to anger.
Widow Tong raised a bunch of good kids, but that’s not what she said at home!
This bastard named Gu Dashu was the most enthusiastic in trying to get his niece in.
Why do things become so confusing when it comes to the Zheng family?
"I'm not going to live anymore. The whole Qinghe Bay knows that I'm going to remarry into the Zheng family. Now I've been slapped in the face. How can I face people?" Tong Huaqiong continued to clap and throw a tantrum.
"How dare you, a widow, deserve this!" Mrs. Zheng recovered her breath and pointed at Tong Huaqiong and said in a trembling voice.
"I think I'm a good match! I'm used to being a widow anyway, and I can keep it just as well in your house." Tong Huaqiong said.
Mrs. Zheng was so angry that she almost suffocated.
Her son is not dead yet.
This is a living curse.
"I stopped my mother from remarrying at that time. Butler He allowed me to be the shopkeeper and said that my son could be a companion to Young Master Zheng. I thought that for the sake of my son's future, I had to do this. Besides, it was raining and I couldn't do anything about my mother remarrying. Now you are saying that you chose the wrong person. Are you bullying me because there is no one in the Gu family? My mother and sister are at your disposal."
"We must give our Gu family an explanation for what happened today!"
Gu Dashu was very impatient. He saw Tong Huaqiong's plan, which was to make the Zheng family give up the idea of marrying into the Gu family.
He must cooperate!
Although he was still reluctant to part with the two hundred taels of silver, his widowed mother had given up her reputation to act in a play, and he would be sorry for his dead father if he did not act with her.
"Yes, I must give you an explanation. Don't bully me just because I'm a widow. Otherwise, let's report to the police and let the county magistrate make a judgment." Tong Huaqiong said, "You just deny me with a single word, and even my family's peach blossom marriage is damaged. How can I accept that?"
"Report to the authorities! The county magistrate will never bully an orphan and a widow." Gu Dashu said.
The phrase "orphan and widow" was well used, and Tong Huaqiong's eyes turned red. The reason why she said she wanted to see the official was that she searched her memory and found that the county magistrate was raised by a widow since childhood, and she had natural sympathy for the widow in her heart.
If Mr. Zheng really agreed to sue the officials, she might not lose.
Mr. Zheng was so angry at the scoundrels of the Shanggu family that he almost wanted to die.
It’s definitely not an option to report it to the police.
In Pingchuan County, he created the image of a kind-hearted man who cherishes the poor and the weak.
Since he is a kind-hearted person, he should not do anything to bring good luck to his son.
Everyone knows that his son won't live for many days, and if he lets a good young girl become a widow after marrying into the family, it will affect the reputation of the Zheng family.
The Zheng family’s shop still needs to be run, and the Zheng family’s youngest son still needs to study and become an official.
At this moment, he really regretted letting matchmaker Wang find such a family for him.
Originally, he thought that the woman was from the country, had a widowed mother, and was from a poor family, so she would be easy to control, so he agreed to let her in without even asking any questions. However, he didn't expect that not only did he target the wrong person, but also that this family was too powerful.
What was she thinking? How could the widow come up with the idea of marrying his son?
He didn't know whether it was because Matchmaker Wang didn't explain clearly and caused Widow Tong to misunderstand, or whether Widow Tong was deliberately trying to cause trouble.
In short, he no longer wanted to know the truth, he just wanted to get rid of this bunch of plague gods.
He will settle the accounts with Matchmaker Wang and Butler He later!
"Master Zheng, please give us an explanation for our orphan and widow."
"Do you want to see the official?"
"Don't even think about my peach blossoms."
Tong Huaqiong continued to be possessed by Tong Dajiao, while Taohua cooperated with Tong Huaqiong and cried and shouted that she wanted to hit the wall. Liu Yue'e and Gu Dashu supported Taohua on the left and right to prevent her from hitting the wall. Gu Yaozu opened his mouth and cried at the right time...
The entire Zheng family was in chaos.
Matchmaker Wang, who is always eloquent, wants to run away.
"Oh no, the eldest son is vomiting blood."
When everyone's attention was focused on Tong Huaqiong and his group, no one noticed that Young Master Zheng was so irritated that he coughed up blood.
Young Master Zheng's maid yelled and drew everyone's attention to Young Master Zheng.
"My son."
"Hurry up, call the doctor."
Mrs. Zheng hurried over and held down her eldest son.
"Kick them out! Kick out these black-hearted guys who are trying to take advantage of us." Mr. Zheng pointed at Tong Huaqiong and yelled.
Tong Huaqiong quickly stopped talking, untied the bag on his body, threw it to Mr. Zheng and said, "This is the agreement you made. Four ingots of gold, two hundred taels of silver, pay back one hundred and fifty taels first, and the remaining fifty taels of silver will be delivered to your door in a month. As for the five rolls of cloth, only three are left, and the other two will be used as compensation for my reputation."
Mr. Zheng wished that Tong Huaqiong would disappear immediately, so he picked up a gold ingot and threw it at Tong Huaqiong.
"Get out of here!"
Then the second piece of gold was thrown at Matchmaker Wang.
"You get out too!"