Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

Chapter 45 Proper Handling
In the main hall, after listening to Gu Yunji's whole story, Gu Kaizhen and Mrs. Wang's expressions were gloomy and they didn't say a word.

After a while, Gu Kaizhen didn't see Gu Yunxiao's figure, and asked, "Where's Xiaoer?"

Gu Yunji said: "Big Brother and Shizi went shopping."

Hearing that the foreign guests were not here, the Gu family's face was saved. Gu Kaizhen's face finally improved. He glanced at the pitiful Cui'er kneeling on the ground, and Gu Yunlin who was obviously holding his breath beside him, and said slowly:

"In any case, Cui'er is pregnant with the seed of my Gu family, so I can't ignore it. But Xiao'er's marriage is coming soon, it's not good to let the second child take a concubine at this juncture, it is easy for people to see the clue. Wait for the boss We're married, let's choose another auspicious day, and let the second child lift you up as an aunt. Tweety, what do you think?"

Before Cui'er could react, Gu Yunlin yelled, "No! I'm not married yet, and I took a concubine before marriage. Is there any girl from a good family who would marry me?"

"You have the nerve to say it! This is all your own fault! Taking a concubine before marriage doesn't sound good, does it sound good to let Tong Fang get pregnant before marriage!" Gu Kaizhen was so angry that his chest hurt, and he pointed at his nose and cursed.

Seeing his father getting angry, Gu Yunlin immediately shut up, shrinking back and not daring to look at him again.

Seeing Gu Yunlin's cowardly and fearful appearance, Gu Kaizhen became more and more angry, and cursed bitterly: "My wife is pregnant, and you don't want to deal with it, but you still think about not being able to marry a wife in the future? You see Look at you, do you have the appearance of a man? You have to go down and destroy your own flesh and blood, you have no responsibility at all, coward!"

Hearing what his father said, Gu Yunlin was still a little unconvinced, and curled his lips and said, "Does she also blame me for pouring the Bizitang herself? Besides, I am not the only man in the house. Who said the child must be mine? Where did it come from?" The wild species don't know yet."

At this time, Gu Yunlin is still shirking responsibility, even trying to smear the child's blood, Gu Kaizhen will be laughed out of anger: "Tweety is your housemate, she stays in your inner courtyard every day, servants and servants are not You can’t even get in. Your third brother is not at home, your elder brother is busy with his own marriage every day and has no time to rest, the child is not yours, who else can it be!”

Gu Yunlin muttered in a low voice: "Isn't there still your father..."

"Evil! What are you talking about!" Gu Kaizhen was so angry that blood surged in his chest, his head was a little dizzy, and he touched a teacup next to him, raised his hand, and threw it at Gu Yunlin.

Gu Yunlin ducked his head back, and the teacup passed over his head and landed on the ground behind him, smashing into pieces with a bang.Seeing that he missed, Gu Kaizhen walked over in two or three steps and kicked him to the ground, still not relieved, he raised his foot and wanted to kick him again, but was stopped by Gu Yunji with his arms around his waist.

"Father! Father, calm down! It's better to deal with the matter first. The most important thing is to let the eldest brother marry his sister-in-law smoothly! Now even if the second brother is disabled, it will not help!"

Hearing this, Gu Kaizhen stopped his movements, gave Gu Yunlin a cold look, turned around and tried to suppress the anger in his heart.Then he let out a long breath, returned to his chair, supported his head with his hands, and didn't speak for a long time.

Gu Yunlin, on the other hand, was so frightened that his tears flowed down his face, he shrank and shrank to the ground, not daring to breathe.

After a while, Mrs. Wang finally opened her mouth and said: "It's fine that Cui'er is not good at serving the master as a housekeeper, but she dared to pour Bizi soup to conceive a child privately, and wanted to use it as a threat to get a name. If it is true, it will be done." What she means, other people don't follow suit, so are there any rules in the mansion?"

"In my opinion, the child's poisonous hoarse voice should be knocked out, and she should be sold out, so that everyone will be clean! In this way, the matter can be tightly sealed, and it will not hinder Xiao'er's marriage, nor will it affect the future of the second child. Say dear."

Mrs. Wang hated Gu Yunlin for causing disaster at this juncture, which affected Gu Yunxiao's marriage.But after all, she was not his biological mother, so it was not good for her to grab him and scold him in front of Gu Kaizhen, so she transferred her anger to Tweety and dealt with him mercilessly.

Hearing this, Cui'er suddenly raised her head and looked at Mrs. Wang in disbelief: "Madam really wants to treat me like this? Acting so viciously, is this how your Gu family in Huating County behaves!"

She lowered her eyes, the grief and indignation on her face turned into resentment, and a look of ruthlessness flashed in her eyes: "Since you don't give me a way to survive, then don't think about it too much! Today, I will be bumped to death in this class! Let me see if your Gu family can do it!" His hands and eyes are so good that he can cover up a murder case!"

After saying that, Tweety got up and wanted to bump into the pillar next to her.

Surprised and angry, Gu Kaizhen stood up abruptly, and shouted: "Stop her!" The crowd immediately swarmed up and restrained Tweety, pinning her to the ground so that she could not move.

Seeing this, Gu Kaizhen finally heaved a sigh of relief, the successive changes exhausted his mind, at this moment the blood in his chest was surging, making him feel dizzy, and he sat back on the chair.

In the early years of the dynasty, a decree on keeping slaves was promulgated, and there were strict regulations on the number of slaves that people of different official ranks could keep.Now that more than a hundred years have passed, it has become common practice for the people to keep slaves. Not to mention officials big and small, even ordinary wealthy businessmen can raise hundreds of thousands of slaves. The decree has almost become a piece of empty paper.

If it is normal, the government will turn a blind eye and will not take the initiative to check whose number of servants exceeds the regulations, but if there is a death, it is impossible to ignore it.The Gu family has hundreds of servants in the entire family, how can they resist the investigation?

Although the government is concerned about Songjiang Gu's power, there will be no substantive punishment, but in order to make things look good, they will show more or less, and reprimanding and fines are inevitable.But Gu Yunxiao is about to get married, and no one wants to cause trouble at this juncture.

What's more, it is precisely because of the lax enforcement of slave-raising regulations that the personal rights of slaves are not guaranteed, and it is common for masters to beat, scold and sell them at will.During the Taiping period, although the slaves who were bullied felt dissatisfied, they endured it due to their power.Whenever there is a natural or man-made disaster and the current situation becomes turbulent, it is necessary to prevent these servants from taking advantage of the situation to gather a crowd to rebel and take revenge and kill the master to seize property.

Therefore, as long as they are decent people, they will not treat their servants particularly harshly, not only for their own reputation, but also for their future personal safety.If Cui'er died in this hall today, the Gu family would be disgraced and reprimanded by the government, and it would chill the hearts of other servants in the government.

Tweety, a roommate who served her master personally, ended up like this, so what about herself?In order to punish the servants, the Gu family can even ignore the children who are related by blood. If they make mistakes in the future, will they still have a way out?
Once the servants have such thoughts, the members of the Gu family will not be able to sleep well in the future, and they have to be on guard against the servants stabbing them in the back at all times.Now it seems that it is not enough to use hard, but to be soft, to appease Tweety, and to calm things down as soon as possible is the most important thing.

Gu Yunji was also taken aback, and it took him a while to recover.He walked up to Tweety and said, "Don't worry, just now my mother just said casually, she won't really do anything to you, let's sit down and discuss it, okay?"

Seeing that committing suicide was impossible, Cui'er had no other choice, she felt desperate, and sneered: "Hmph, I'm just a little servant girl, how can I beat you? It was you who discussed it with me today, and turned around and regretted it." , find someone to beat me to death with a sap, what can I do?"

Gu Yunji was not annoyed, and comforted him softly: "You are not even afraid of death, so what worries do you have? Anyway, you have nothing else to do, why don't you just talk about your request, what if we agree?" Let go of Tweety.

Hearing this, Tweet stood up hesitantly, and hesitated for a long time before saying: "Originally, I thought that it would be enough for the second young master to give me the title of aunt after the eldest young master gets married. But just now I heard what Madam said , I don't want to wait any longer, I want the second young master to carry me in with drums and gongs tomorrow!"

"You're dreaming..." Mrs. Wang was about to have a fit, but she saw Gu Yunji shaking his head slightly at her, so she had to sit back again.

Gu Yunji did not immediately agree to Cui'er's request, but asked instead: "Tui'er, tell me, do you really want to be my second brother's aunt and stay with him for the rest of your life? Pregnant again, so no choice?"

Tweety bit her lip and didn't answer.

Gu Yunji understood, and continued: "Before you said that my second brother is lecherous and loves the new and dislikes the old. He will be unreliable in the future, so you want to have a child. But can you change him by having a child? What's more, if you make such a fuss today, he will definitely If you despise your mother and son even more, what good will you get from him in the future? And your child, a concubine who is disliked by his father, will have a hard time."

Cui'er was shaken in her heart, but she was helpless: "But I have a body, what else can I do if I don't become his aunt?"

Gu Yunji knew that she had listened, so he slowed down his tone and said persuasively: "Let me show you a clear way, we can take off your cheap status, and then send you to Zhuangzi until the child is born. You have a lot of money, the child stays, and where do you want to go, how about it?"

"I know you have a family. You can move away with your family immediately after taking the money, move to a place where no one knows you, and start your life again. The reason why I didn't keep you in the mansion was because I was afraid that you would not trust us , I’m worried that someone will harm you. Master Zhuangzi has few people, so if you don’t worry, we can change a new batch of servants, and you can go to Ren Yazi’s to choose people yourself.”

If it wasn't that there was no way out, Cui'er really didn't want to be Gu Yunlin's aunt. At this time, she was very tempted by Gu Yunji's proposal, but she doubted its authenticity: "What if you go back on your word? There are children, I'm leaving. How are you going to deal with the child?"

"The child is naturally raised in the mansion. When the second brother gets married in the future, it will be recorded in the name of the first wife. A motherless concubine child is not a threat. I believe that the future second sister-in-law will not treat him badly. For the second brother Said, this is much better than having a concubine before marriage, concubine room and pregnancy reputation."

As he said that, Gu Yunji said again: "As for fearing that we will go back on our word, is there any other way for you to go now? It's better than hitting your head to death in the hall right now? If you still don't believe me, we can give you a sum right now." Money, you can send it to your family immediately, at least their life will be easier."

Seeing that Cui'er seemed to be wavering, Gu Kaizhen immediately said: "Come here, give her 200 taels of silver! When you give birth to a child, I'll give you another 200 taels of silver, how about it?"

Holding the banknote tightly in her hand, Tweety finally made up her mind, knelt down and said, "I agree! Thank you, Master, Third Young Master for your kindness!"

Seeing this, Gu Kaizhen's face finally relaxed, and immediately asked someone to arrange for Cui'er to go to Zhuangzi. Gu Yunji also heaved a sigh of relief, and the big stone in his heart fell.

It wasn't until Cui'er walked away that the figure could no longer be seen, so Gu Kaizhen said with a cold face: "Second young master Gu Yunlin made a big mistake, which almost caused my Gu family's reputation to be ruined. I was punished with a stick for [-] years and banned for a month. Xiao'er You don’t need to attend your wedding anymore, just stay in the room and reflect on yourself, if anyone asks, just say he’s sick and shameful!”

After all, regardless of Gu Yunlin begging for mercy in every possible way, he walked out without turning his head.Gu Yunji and Mrs. Wang didn't bother to talk to him, and went back separately.

Soon, there was the sound of being hit with a stick and Gu Yunlin's wailing from behind. The sound was so shrill that one couldn't help covering their ears.

In the evening, after Gu Yunxiao came back and listened to the way to deal with the matter, he couldn't help sighing to Gu Yunji: "The third brother is still doing things properly. If it were me, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to do it so well."

Gu Yunji remembered Gu Yunlin's screams during the day, and asked, "How is the second brother?"

Gu Yunxiao sighed: "The injury was quite serious. The doctor said that he would not be able to get out of bed for at least a month. My father was very angry this time, and he showed no mercy. Although the main reason for this incident was that Cui'er dumped Bizi privately. Soup, but the root of the trouble is still the second child."

"If he could have put away all his efforts to study hard at the beginning, would not be so fond of the new and dislike the old, or if he had taken responsibility after finding out that Cui'er was pregnant, comforted her, and given her a title, would things have turned into what they are today? For Du Cui It took such a big price for my son's mouth, but it was finally resolved."

As he said that, he shook his head: "The second child is too, too incompetent. He was neglected to discipline him in the past, and he almost made a big mess. Let him learn a lesson this time, and hope he can improve in the future, otherwise But how come."

Seeing that he was worried, Gu Yunji smiled and said: "Brother will be the bridegroom's official in two days, why are you still showing a bitter face? Be careful when the sister-in-law sees you frowning, she is not willing to go with you!"

After being teased by him like this, Gu Yunxiao felt a little more relaxed, and a smile finally appeared on his face.

　Some people may think that the Gu family is too soft-hearted towards Tweety, here is an explanation:
　　Although a servant is a servant in a lowly status and can be beaten and sold by his master, he is still a human being after all, and he also has thoughts and emotions.Even if the government didn't protect their rights, they would still hate and be angry. If they really sold Tweety as Mrs. Wang said, it would chill the hearts of other servants and wait for an opportunity to retaliate in the future.For example, in the incident of the Jiangnan slave uprising at the end of Ming Dynasty, it was the slaves who took advantage of the chaos to gather to rebel and kill the master. Xu Xiake's son was killed here.

　　In the previous chapter, the Cui'er that everyone criticized was too bold and rude. Naturally, a little servant girl like her couldn't ruin Gu Yunlin's imperial examination, but she blurted it out in a fit of anger. Pregnancy will indeed cause some obstacles to Gu Yunlin's marriage, and it will bring him a bad reputation.

　　Also, although the Gu family in Songjiang is a famous family, they are also from a clean family. They are not bullies who run amok in the village regardless of human life. Whether it is from the perspective of profit or conscience, they will not treat Cui'er too harshly.

　　A little spoiler for everyone: This plot seems unnecessary, but in fact, the child in Tweety's stomach still has a role behind it, so it must be kept.

　　Of course, thank you all for your suggestions!

　　
　
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