Chapter 172 The whole situation
Tong Zhijie had his knife taken away from him, and angrily pointed at Gu Dahan's nose and said, "When will it be your turn to be the boss of this family?"
Tong Zhijie doesn't take Gu Dahan seriously at all.
How can my aunt's stepson compare to him?
He has the same surname as my aunt, so not only Gu Dahan but even Gu Dashu wouldn't dare to stop him from catching chickens.
Dad is right. What's wrong with him eating a chicken at my aunt's house? As long as my aunt is around, he should have a share of the Gu family's food.
Thinking of this, Tong Zhijie grabbed a hen and took it out of the chicken coop.
The hen flapped its wings in Tong Zhijie's hands.
Gu Dahan is most familiar with the chickens, ducks and geese in the family. Tong Zhijie caught a laying hen, which contributes at least one egg to the family every day.
Gu Dahan was so heartbroken.
Gu Dahan said to Tong Zhijie: "This chicken lays eggs. No one can eat it."
Tong Zhijie ignored Gu Dahan and was about to leave with the chicken. Tong Zhaodi saw her brother grab the chicken, so she turned and went into the kitchen to boil hot water to remove the chicken's feathers.
Tong Zhijie ignored Gu Dahan's advice, which angered Gu Dahan.
Gu Dahan grabbed Tong Zhijie's wrist, rescued the hen and put it back into the chicken coop. The hen cried and hid in the chicken coop.
Gu Dahan threatened Tong Zhijie: "If my chickens lose even a hair, I will hold you responsible."
Tong Zhijie was raised to be very delicate. Gu Dahan used all his strength and his wrist hit Gu Dahan's palm, causing him to cry out in pain.
Suddenly, the Gu family's yard was in chaos.
"Dahan, what are you doing? Do you want to kill someone?" Tong Fusheng sat up from the recliner.
When Wang heard her son's wailing, she came out from the upper room, rushed to Gu Dahan and hit him with her head.
He bumped into her and cursed, "What's wrong with him eating his aunt's chicken? How dare you, a stepson, care about their aunt-nephew business? Did I give you the face that allowed you, my stepson, to be violent to my Zhijie?"
Gu Dahan couldn't stand Wang's pestering anymore and let go of her hand.
This cheap aunt is even more difficult to deal with than my previous stepmother.
Tong Zhijie's hand was swollen from being pinched by Gu Dahan, and Wang was heartbroken.
She had never beaten the Tong family's precious son, but he was pinched by her sister-in-law's stepson.
Can she bear it?
Wang clapped her hands and jumped towards Gu Dahan, but Gu Dahan had experienced training under Tong Dajiao when he was young, so he dodged skillfully when he saw this move.
Wang couldn't stop herself and sat down on the ground, pulling Tong Zhijie down with her.
Tong Zhijie was leaning against the chicken coop, and fell down and hit the fence of the chicken coop. There was a loud "bang", and the chickens in the coop flapped their wings and flew away in fear.
Some chickens were even so frightened that they became incontinent, and their droppings fell on Wang and Tong Zhijie's bodies and faces.
Tong Zhijie was smearing chicken shit, feeling like crying but without tears.
He was the son of a respectable and handsome scholar. His hair and face were polished and his clothes were new, but now they were all soiled by chicken shit.
Wang also had chicken shit all over her hands.
When Gu Dahan saw Wang fall, he thought that after all, she was his stepmother's sister-in-law and his elder, so he should be more respectful, so he stepped forward to pull her up.
Wang was so angry that she smeared chicken shit on Gu Dahan's face.
Gu Dahan held his breath and endured it.
Tong Fusheng sat on Tong Huaqiong's recliner, seemingly accustomed to this farce.
As long as the farce does not affect Tong Fusheng, he can ignore it.
However, he was still unhappy because his son was "bullied" by his sister's stepson, and he scolded Gu Dahan loudly.
"......Uncle, it's not that I don't let Zhijie kill the chicken, but my mother said that the chicken cannot be killed. If you want to eat, I will cook for you." Gu Dahan said to Tong Fusheng.
Even though Tong Huaqiong clearly stated that she intended to sever ties with the Tong family.
Gu Dahan wasn't sure whether Tong Huaqiong really thought so or was just saying it out of anger.
Especially Tong Zhijie, who had lived in the Gu family for a few years. Tong Huaqiong treated Tong Zhijie like her own son.
Even if Tong Huaqiong severed her relationship with Tong's brothers and sisters-in-law, she could not ignore Tong Zhijie.
Therefore, Gu Dahan was quite uneasy about pinching Tong Zhijie's hand and making it swollen, so he softened his tone when entertaining Tong Fusheng, which also meant to apologize.
Tong Fusheng said he was not in a hurry and asked Gu Dahan all sorts of questions, focusing on whether Tong Huaqiong had really opened a shop in the town.
Gu Dahan was very honest. He knew that he couldn't hide the matter, so he told it directly.
"Why are you the only one at home? Where are your wife and Dashu Taohua and the others?" Tong Fusheng asked.
"I went to work in a shop in town." said Gu Dahan.
These words made Tong Fusheng's eyes light up.
The shop needs so many people to help, which shows that my sister's shop is quite large.
The shop was large in scale and brought in money every day, which would provide Tong Fusheng with money to participate in the next spring imperial examination. Tong Fusheng even planned to ask Tong Huaqiong for some money to go to the capital. He felt that the reason why he always failed the spring imperial examination and had not even got a scholar was simply because the teacher he met was not good enough. If he went to the capital to study with a famous teacher, he would definitely be able to pass the examination from a scholar to a Jinshi.
What's wrong with becoming a Jinshi even at an old age? Jiang Taigong could have a good future at the age of eighty, not to mention that he was only fifty.
Wang asked Tong Zhaodi to boil some hot water and pulled Tong Zhijie to the yard to wash him.
Upon learning that all the people from the Gu family were helping in the shop, he planned to let Tong Zhijie and Tong Zhaodi go to the shop as well.
"Brother Dahan, I see that there is no food in the kitchen. How are you going to prepare meals for my parents and Zhijie?" Tong Zhaodi searched the entire kitchen and found nothing except flour, so she asked Gu Dahan.
Gu Dahan then remembered that there was no vegetables at home, and said, "There is no vegetables at home, I will go to the field to pick some vegetables."
Since the family opened a shop, Tong Huaqiong and others ate lunch in the shop. If they came early, they would have dinner at home. Every time they ate at home, Tong Huaqiong would buy chicken, duck, fish and meat in the town and bring them home.
Gu Dahan often just made do with one meal at home, so there were no vegetables in the kitchen.
Tong Fusheng asked Gu Dahan: "We are here, do you think we should get some chicken, duck, fish or meat? It would be too shabby to just give us vegetables."
Gu Dahan said with an embarrassed look on his face: "I would like to buy chicken, duck, fish and meat to treat you, but I don't have any money."
Gu Dahan did not lie to Tong Fusheng.
During this period, Tong Huaqiong gave private money to the first and second wives, but Gu Dahan did not touch the money, and all the money was in Chen Sufen's hands.
Gu Dahan really wanted to go to the village to buy some chickens, ducks and fish, but he had no money.
Tong Fusheng knew the situation of the Gu family very well, and his sister would never give money to her stepson.
Tong Fusheng sighed, took out two taels of silver from his pocket, handed it to Gu Dahan and said, "Go to the village and buy some meat, vegetables and wine."
Gu Dahan accepted it without thinking.
After Gu Dahan left, Wang said to Tong Fusheng in dissatisfaction: "Are you crazy or what? Why are you giving him money to buy vegetables? We only have two taels of silver in our family."
Tong Fusheng lay down on the recliner and said, "What do you know? This money is just a temporary advance from me. Let's buy some wine and food. When my sister comes home, I'll ask her for it. How can she not give it to me? Anyway, I'm using my sister's money."
Wang understood it immediately.
Yes, that’s exactly the truth.
When my sister-in-law comes home, she will definitely fill in the two taels of silver.
Not only can they have a delicious meal, but they also don't have to spend any money.
Just like when my brother-in-law had his funeral, my sister-in-law not only made up for the funeral expenses paid by the Tong family, but also gave an extra five taels.