From Folly to Fortune：I Rewrite My Life After Rebirth!

”Once life stabilizes, I’ll take your older brother to find you, the three of us will live a good life together! Isn’t that great?”

Gu Jiulian opened her mouth, speaking only of herself and her son.

Lu Yuanfeng’s biological father, Lu Xiao, had long been left behind in her mind.

Even living a good life, she would not include him.

”If you really like Wang San so much, why don’t you marry him? You’re younger than him, he’d definitely like you!”

Xia Guagua retorted.

Gu Jiulian didn’t get angry, ”I would like that too, but Wang San doesn’t fancy me, what can I do! If he liked me, I’d marry him, and by then, I’d take you and your older brother to live happily!”

”Hmph!” Xia Guagua snorted coldly, clearly not believing Gu Jiulian’s nonsense.

”Gua Gua, there’s really not much food left at home. How about you bring some money out, let mom get two pounds of meat, and we’ll at least have a bit of a festive atmosphere!

Other families are all slaughtering pigs or sheep, eating chickens, and here we are, so poor and pathetic. This afternoon someone asked what our family was eating, I was too embarrassed to answer!”

Gu Jiulian tried various ways to wrangle some money from Xia Guagua.

”You’re good at talking, but when my money runs out, who will earn more for me? Learn from you? First marry a drunkard, then a gambler, didn’t earn a penny, just turned yourself into something neither human nor ghost!” Xia Guagua sneered, clearly looking down on Gu Jiulian.

”If you want to eat, why come asking me for money, just go steal, rob, or cheat, or at worst, spread your legs and sleep with a man, wouldn’t that solve everything!”

”You girl, how can you talk so nastily? What do you mean by spreading legs? I’m Gu Jiulian, and I have dignity too. Even though that guy wronged me, I can’t do something so unethical!”

Gu Jiulian looked resolute, as if she really were some chaste woman of high morals.

But Xia Guagua slapped her down again.

”Ethical? I don’t know who it was, in the middle of the night, doing unspeakable things with Mu Danian in the Mu Family’s latrine!”

”You... you...”

Gu Jiulian’s face instantly flushed the color of pig liver.

”Mom, let me be clear with you, all your dirty deeds, I know them all. If you want to stay here peacefully with my older brother in some rat hole, with some thin porridge and pickled vegetables, then be honest with me.

Don’t mention Wang San in front of me, and don’t make decisions for me without consulting me. I, Xia Guagua, am not someone to mess with. Push me too far, and I’ll let the entire village know what great deeds you’ve done!”

After saying this, Xia Guagua slammed the rice bowl in her hand to the ground.

The clay bowl shattered into countless pieces instantly, the porridge spilled, the pickled vegetables scattered on the ground, mixed with the wet mud, looking even more disgusting.

”Do it again! I want to eat chicken, go stew me a chicken!” Xia Guagua ordered.

”Chicken? Where would we have chicken? Gua Gua, you know the situation at home, whatever was worth anything was taken by that damn gambler!

Your older brother is growing and I haven’t had anything good to give him, and now you want chicken, where am I supposed to get it from!”

Gu Jiulian asked, her face looking mournful.

”I don’t care! If you don’t want to, fine, but I’ll tell everyone in the village you and Mu Danian have an affair and I saw it!

Mu Danian has a scholar brother who’s not in the village, so it doesn’t concern him, but you’re different, you’re not even separated from the Lu guy yet, and if you’re caught, you’ll be drowned in the pig cage, don’t blame me then!”

Gu Jiulian was scared by Xia Guagua’s words, nobody knew better than her how tough this daughter could be. In the past, she was no pushover, and now with money, she’s even more ruthless!

”I’ll go, I’ll go, just don’t tell others, I’m going right now!”

Gu Jiulian scrambled out hastily.

She headed straight to Old Lady Lu’s house as soon as she left, and told Old Lady Lu, ”Gua Gua’s room is dirty, go clean it up!

You have one night to get a chicken for Gua Gua. If you can’t get it, I’ll kick both you and that bedridden old man out of the house!”

”Chicken? Where am I supposed to find a chicken?”

Old Lady Lu’s hunched body trembled, her face showing a shocked expression.

”I don’t care, whether you can or can’t get it, you must! If you dare shirk it off, you know what kind of methods I, Gu Jiulian, have!”

Old Lady Lu certainly knew, since Old Sir Lu had fallen ill, she was threatened by Gu Jiulian daily to do this and that.

In the dead of winter, she had to wash clothes on the ice-covered lake.

Had to cook for the entire family from early morning, if she didn’t work she’d be beaten, or else be forced to feed Old Sir Lu.

Even someone like Old Lady Lu who wasn’t ill couldn’t stand it, let alone Old Sir Lu who was sick.

So his illness only got worse, even getting up was hard now.

In the past, when Fengzi was around, at least he could go find a doctor, now there’s not even anyone around to care.

”Jiulian, I’m an old woman begging you, I really can’t get a chicken, I have no money left!”

”You have no money, but your grandson does!” Gu Jiulian said matter-of-factly.

”What? You mean Fengzi? He’s not in the village now, and there’s always been a grudge between us, he might not even...”

”Who said that kid? I’m talking about that kid’s brother, he’s living with the Third Branch of the Old Mu Family, and it’s the holiday season, who knows how many red envelopes they got from relatives!

Go ask that boy, after all, you raised him, there’s still some affection there!”

Gu Jiulian said.

”But...”

”It’s fine if you don’t want to ask that boy, go find Mu Shuangshuang, she’s back! That damn girl is technically that boy’s fiancée, considered half a granddaughter-in-law by you.

What’s more, she has money, and if she knows how bad you’re living, she’ll certainly let you fleece some money. Give me all the money you get from them, and I won’t blame you!”

Gu Jiulian had her plan, and even decided how Old Lady Lu should execute it.

It’s just that, Old Lady Lu wasn’t too willing.

”Jiulian, as people, we should have a conscience, in the past, we wronged Fengzi’s mother, wronged Fengzi, how can we now go harm Yuanbao, harm Shuang?”

Old Lady Lu tried to persuade Gu Jiulian to give up that idea.

”I wronged Lu Yuanfeng’s mother? What are you talking about, I wasn’t even in the picture when you sold Lu Yuanfeng’s mother!

If there’s anyone to truly blame, it’s that fourth branch, they married into the family with the money from selling that woman, it has nothing to do with me! Stop trying to put a dirty token on my head, or I’ll be rude to you!”

Gu Jiulian said, hands on her hips, with an unpleasant tone.

”Yes, yes, it’s my fault, you... you...”

Before Old Lady Lu could finish, she was interrupted by Gu Jiulian, ”Enough, old hag! Stop acting pitiful here to win sympathy!

If I tell you to go, then go, stop with the nonsense, or I’ll send you to the brothel and have you serve men even in your old age!”