12dz Chapter 130 They even took their coffin money.
Chapter 130 They even took their coffin money.
Lin Cai dug up all the sweet potatoes, filling the entire basket. Some were broken, which Lin Cai hugged tightly. Just as she arrived at the fork in the road, Lin Cai saw Scar sitting on a rock.
He sat there leaning against a tree, resting with his eyes closed, while several wild rabbits and pheasants were piled up next to him.
Those wild rabbits were much bigger than the ones Big Gray had found. Scarface opened his eyes as soon as he walked over.
"Why did it take you so long? I've been waiting for you here for ages. I thought you went back alone."
Scarface stood up, bent down and picked up the rabbits and pheasants. Just as he was about to hand them to Lin Cai, he saw that Lin Cai was holding a bundle of things in her arms.
He frowned as he looked at the dark, hairy bumps: "Hey, Lin, is there no food at home?"
"Just say you don't have anything to eat. I'm not someone who just eats for nothing. I can get you at least a hundred or two hundred pounds to fill your stomach."
Scarface believed that Lin Cai was eating these black lumps because she had nothing else to eat, but Lin Cai found his words rather strange.
Sweet potatoes are edible, but she brought them back to make pastries and flour. Did he think she was going to bring them back to eat as a meal?
However, Lin Cai didn't want to tell Scarface about this, especially since this person had just said he had a hundred or two hundred catties of grain, right?
Since he already believes the Gu family has no food left, and he has eaten quite a bit at the Gu family's place recently, then let him bring those hundred or eighty catties of grain to the Gu family's place.
Consider it payment for his food and rent during the time he stayed there.
"A hundred or two hundred catties of grain? You have that much grain?"
"I don't have that much food, but I can get you some."
Lin Cai originally thought that he had so much grain, but it turned out that he was the one who was able to get so much grain.
It's not surprising that she could get it; she could get just as much herself, and what she got was something that this place didn't have.
The two of them, one after the other, carried their spoils back to the Gu family home. Just as they reached the gate, they heard a sound coming from the courtyard.
"Oh my goodness, what are you doing here? Do you know how long I've been looking for you? How did you end up here? Is it that Lin woman? Is it that widow who's been keeping you here?"
"I knew it, I knew it, I knew that woman surnamed Lin was no good at all. Although she is your daughter-in-law, she is still a widow. Mother, how could you believe what a widow said!"
Before the two people even entered the door, they heard Li Guixiang in the courtyard, saying things like "the one surnamed Lin" and "widow" repeatedly. In short, every sentence that included these two words was anything but kind.
Lin Cai, holding the baby in her arms, kicked the door open with a loud bang, startling everyone inside.
Li Guixiang reacted and glared angrily at Lin Cai: "Lin Cai! You heartless wretch! You took Mother away without even telling me. Do you think that if you don't tell us, you can take over the old house after Mother dies?"
"I'm telling you, it's impossible. There's no way you'll succeed. The old Gu family house has always belonged to the eldest and second sons. Your third sons have already separated, and the old house has nothing to do with you anymore. Stop daydreaming."
Before Lin Cai could say anything or even put her things down, Li Guixiang launched into a long, rapid-fire speech.
Hearing those words, Lin Cai went into the house without turning her head. She put the sweet potato in the kitchen and when she came out, she saw Li Guixiang acting suspiciously in the yard.
Previously, the door to the main room was locked, only the woodshed was unlocked. It seems that Li Guixiang couldn't get into the main room, so she ran to the woodshed.
Seeing Lin Cai come out, Li Guixiang took a few steps back. She wanted to grab the old lady, but the old lady wouldn't let her.
In order to avoid Li Guixiang, she went directly behind Scarface. Li Guixiang stopped in her tracks as soon as she saw Scarface's fierce face.
"Mother, I am your daughter-in-law, Guixiang! Don't you recognize me? I've come to take you back."
"You have no idea how worried your family has been since you got lost. If you don't come back with me soon, Taurus and the others will be frantic with worry!"
Li Guixiang spoke while crying, but whether there were actually tears on her face was probably only known to herself.
Despite all that she said, the old lady didn't react at all, not even allowing her to get close, which made Li Guixiang furious.
She hadn't forgotten what the old woman looked like when she first saw her.
Such a fine quilt, such a fine bed, and such a fine cotton-padded coat and trousers—it's such a waste to wear them on this old woman.
She wanted to take the old woman back with her, along with all the cotton-padded clothes, trousers, and quilts. She would leave the quilts for Xuewen's family, and alter the cotton-padded clothes and trousers to give to their daughter.
Good things should be used by her children; it's a waste to give them to this dying old woman.
The wheel of good fortune was spinning in her mind, but Li Guixiang forgot that if she wanted to take the old lady back, she first had to get past Lin Cai.
Seeing Lin Cai come out, Li Guixiang turned to look at her: "Gu Linshi, although Tie Niu is dead, at least he still has a few children here."
"When he separated from his family, he made it very clear that his life or death had nothing to do with the old house. All he needed to do was give them five taels of silver a year for their old age."
“But in the years since Tie Niu died, we haven’t asked you for anything. Yet you, instead of being grateful, have dragged your mother into this mess. Are you trying to take advantage of your mother because you’re short of money?”
Hearing this, Lin Cai almost laughed out of anger. She had no money to spend and was trying to scheme against an old lady.
Is this person talking about herself or her?
"Li Guixiang, I may call you sister-in-law when I'm in a good mood, but you can't just act like a big shot and come to someone's house to falsely accuse them without even knowing the facts, can you?"
"Do I need to find out exactly how Mother came to be here?"
"If you need it, I can get my brother to help you right away, and I guarantee he'll investigate thoroughly and there won't be a single mistake."
Li Guixiang's expression changed upon hearing this. She looked at Lin Cai and said, "What are you investigating? What's there to investigate? Aren't the facts right in front of us?"
"Mother is in the Gu family, isn't she?"
"You've lived here for a long time, haven't you?"
"And when Mother disappeared, she took all the money she had saved for her funeral."