A Happy Wife in a Rural Family - Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Chapter 5. The Marriage is Settled

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Madam Hua was holding the soles of her shoes and was about to take them in when she saw Madam Qiu turn back. Was there still a good thing?

“What’s the good news?” she greeted her with a smile.

‘Could it be that someone was trying to matchmake her eldest granddaughter?’

Madam Qiu glanced at Gu Qingli, standing at the kitchen door, thinking that this used shoe was in high demand.

Madam Hua followed her gaze and saw Gu Qingli, and her old face fell.

Madam Qiu turned around and patted Madam Hua’s hand, “Mrs. Jiang just asked me to come and propose marriage for her third son. She has prepared ten taels of silver. If sister-in-law Hua agrees, they can get engaged immediately. They can even get married. It all depends on sister-in-law Hua’s opinion.

“Ten taels?” Madam Hua only cared about the amount of money, not who the other party was.

Madam Qiu nodded. “Yes, yes. What does sister-in-law Hua think?”

If this matchmaker were successful, she would be able to get a tael of silver as thanks. That Niu Ergou didn’t have much, so she had to make it happen no matter what.

As for jinxing his wife, he said he would get married immediately without delay, so why would he jinx her?

As long as the silver was in her hands, what did it have to do with her if he died in the future?

“Alright. Aunt, let’s go inside and talk. The elders will serve tea for you.” Madam Hua pulled Madam Qiu into the central room, not forgetting to shout at Madam Yun.

Gu Qingli frowned, wondering what third son Xiao meant.

When Mrs. Wu heard it was third son, Xiao, she cried again.

Niu Ergou was old, but he didn’t jinx his wife. Xiao Lao San(third son) had jinxed three fiancées to death in a row. With Granny’s personality, she would choose Xiao Lao San.

Her poor second girl.

“Er Nizi, listen to mother. You leave.” Mrs. Wu made up her mind. She pulled Gu Qingli back to the west room and closed the door, leaving the three outside.

Mrs. Wu walked around the corner for a while before coming out with a package. She opened the box and took out a jade pendant in the shape of a Phoenix. She put it in Gu Qingli’s hand and said in a low voice, “Li ‘er, take this jade pendant to the capital city and find Gu Xicheng from the Gu residence. He, he’s your biological father, and I’m not your mother.

Not long after you were born, Madam took you to burn incense. When we came back, Madam was being hunted down. She gave me a hundred taels of silver and ordered me to run away with you.

“I carried you and ran. Madam went to draw away the killers. Not long after, I escaped from there and took a ride back to the capital. Who knew that the family did not return to the capital? When I reached Qiyang County, they let me go. I could not tell north from south or east from the west at that time. I had never left the capital. I was terrified and uneasy.

After I spent all my money, I came to this south town and met your father, so I married him.”

Gu Qingli rubbed the jade pendant in her hand. Her suspicion was correct. She wasn’t the daughter of the Gu family.

No wonder Madam Hua didn’t like her.

Second brother Gu had never given the original owner fatherly love. What a cold family.

But the problem was, was she going to the capital to find her family?

Or stay here to get married?

Seeing that she didn’t speak for a long time, Mrs. Wu became anxious. “Li ‘er, listen to your mother and leave quickly. Your grandma will let you marry the Xiao family’s third son. He jinxed three fiancées to death; you can’t be ….”

“Mother, I’m not leaving. It’s not time yet. I want to stay.” Gu Qingli shook her head.

Just now, she suddenly thought that Xiao Lao San could do the same if she could kill people without anyone knowing.

She didn’t believe that he could jinx his wife so accurately.

It seemed that third brother Xiao was not as simple as outsiders thought.

Also, if she rashly returned to the capital to look for her relatives. She was not clear about her current situation and did not want to escape from the tiger’s mouth and enter the wolf’s den.

In this world, chastity was more important than life. If she returned with a broken shoe, wouldn’t she be embarrassing others?

She didn’t want to be involved in an enormous whirlpool of right and wrong.

Forget all about it. She would get married here. If third brother Xiao didn’t mind that she was a used shoe, then she would get married first.

At most, they would separate in the future.

She had to escape her current predicament and couldn’t let go of Mrs. Wu, Da Shuang, and Xiao Shuang.

Mrs. Wu was a little sad. She couldn’t win an argument against Gu Qingli, but she didn’t feel so depressed after telling her what she had been hiding in her heart all these years.

“Ai! Mother can’t do anything for you.” Mrs. Wu sighed deeply.

Although Gu Qingli had a soft personality, she was very stubborn.

Mrs. Wu wiped her tears and went out to get breakfast. It was early in the morning, and breakfast had not yet been served. She would be scolded again in a while.

Sure enough, it didn’t take long for Madam Qiu to reply to Madam Jiang with a smile.

When Madam Jiang received the Qiu family’s reply, she had no choice but to let Madam Qiu handle the following matter.

She didn’t understand why San Er (Third son) wanted to marry the Gu family’s girl. She had even asked if he had done what happened yesterday.

San Er denied it again.

Ultimately, she couldn’t change his mind and agreed to the marriage.

She hoped that San Er could curse Gu Qingli to death this time. She didn’t know if the ancestors of the Xiao family would jump up and scold her if she told them about a girl who had lost her virginity.

The following matters went very smoothly. The Xiao family sent over their birth characters. When they closed them, everyone was dumbfounded. It was a perfect marriage.

The person with his eight characters formed was an elder of the Gu clan. The Xiao clan invited him. He specialized in red and white wedding matters.

After so many years, this was the first time that the eight characters were the most compatible with each other.

Madam Hua was the happiest. As long as Gu Qingli didn’t die from the curse, even the best marriage in the world had nothing to do with her.

She was still looking down on the Xiao family in her heart. They were just used shoe, but they acted like an ordinary family. They even wanted her to come and take the money to get married.

In the end, the wedding date was decided. Madam Hua couldn’t wait for the Xiao family to pick her up the next day. Still, the Xiao family insisted on a suitable date, so Madam Hua decided on the latest date, half a month later.

It was the 28th of October.

From the beginning to the end, no one from the Gu family’s second branch participated, and no one asked Gu Qingli about it except for Mrs. Wu and her two sons. The decision was made just like that.

There was still half a month left, and Gu Qingli could finally take a break. She also had a chance to cure Mrs. Wu’s illness, and Da Shuang and Xiao Shuang’s bodies needed to be adjusted.

As for second brother Gu, I’m sorry, but I’m the one who holds grudges the most. He didn’t take me seriously, so I won’t go and make things difficult for him.

As for the fact that Mrs. Wu had not told her about the original owner’s identity for so many years, it had nothing to do with her, so she would not fuss about it.

There was no point in haggling over it. This place was so far from the capital, and with Mrs. Wu’s personality, they also didn’t have any money.

The poor and the rich are on the road, so they can’t ask for food to go on the road.

The next day, Gu Qingli went to town with Da Shuang. The city wasn’t far away, so the siblings walked there. When they arrived, they found a medicine shop called Renhe Hall, which would collect their herbs.

Seeing some weeds in the herbs, the medicine boy told Gu Qingli, in a good mood. He picked them out but would not accept them next time.

Gu Qingli was very grateful.