Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 998 Don't Follow
Gu Erzhu quickly waved to his two sons not to follow. He was enough to accompany the child and grandmother back to the old house; there was no need for his sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons to come along.

The old man will think that his three sons are easy to control, no wonder he thinks they are not so easy to manage. As the son, he has no choice but to keep his son and grandson away from the old man.

Seeing his father waving and winking at him to not go to the old courtyard, Gu Wenxuan obeyed his father, watched the carriage leave, picked up his nephew, and walked back.

"You should send someone over there to keep watch. When your father-in-law and the others are almost at the old house, you can go and pick them up. I'll take care of things at home. You just go about your business."

"No need. My father-in-law and his family won't stay long. They have a lot of important business to attend to today. They'll just have some tea at the old courtyard and then leave."

Furthermore, Dad wouldn't give the old man a chance to say anything irrelevant. Dad will definitely work with my father-in-law to keep him from staying in the old house for too long.

However, these words were not suitable to be spoken by the servants or pageboys beside him. Gu Wenxuan took a deep look at Gu Erlang, who was walking beside him.

Gu Erlang smiled and shook his head, "Look at my memory, besides having a lot of important things to do, I almost forgot that there is a lunch banquet at the Master's house today and I need to go there early."

"Yes, I heard they're setting up quite a few tables. I'll have to go over there later to see if there's anything I can help with, otherwise Uncle Changping won't be able to manage all by himself."

If you put it that way, I, your brother, will be speechless. A proper son-in-law wouldn't go to his in-laws' house every morning to lend a hand, making you indispensable.

At this moment, Old Lady Gu shared the same thought as Gu Erlang. When her son told her that he was going to visit her uncle's house later, she was speechless.

So you're the only one who's your uncle's real nephew. Your uncle has way too many legitimate nephews, and you're the one who has to go and pay your respects to him early in the morning.

"...It's not that your son intentionally didn't want to stay with you at the old house a little longer. You didn't listen to what Liu Lang had told you at the beginning about what my uncle gave to Yuan Ge'er."

Liu Lang doesn't understand. How could you not know that the wolf fang was passed down from my great-grandfather to my uncle? I should go and thank him first, and then have Liu Lang go there later.

If Liu Lang hadn't been tied up this morning, and San Ya and her mother hadn't had trouble going out, do you think I should have taken the three of them to my uncle's house first?

This is the proper etiquette.

Grandma Gu didn't want to praise her son, but what he said made sense. It was a small gift with great meaning. As long as her son's uncle was willing to give up that wolf tooth, he should go there in person.

But what does this have to do with what you said about not going inside when you get to the door? It's just a matter of going to your uncle's house a little earlier or later. How much time will it take you?

"Besides, why don't you go inside first and see what needs to be done and what's missing? When our son comes back from his uncle's house, he can do exactly what you say."

"Ha!" Old Mrs. Gu sneered, "You talk as if you're obedient and do as I say. Do you think I don't know what you're up to?"

"What are you saying, Mother? Am I disobedient? Not to brag, but aside from not listening to you and getting married, when have I ever not done whatever you said?"

"Stop!" Old Mrs. Gu rolled her eyes at her son, annoyed. "Are you afraid people will forget how you married your wife? You keep bringing it up every day, as if you're afraid your wife won't hold a grudge against your old woman?"

Finally, she didn't insist on coming inside together. Gu Erzhu knew he had passed the test when he heard the tone of Gu Laotai's words. "Hehe, now it's just the two of us."

Even if my wife overheard, it wouldn't matter. It was me who insisted on marrying her, which caused you to misunderstand. It's not your fault, nor is it hers; it's my fault.

Back then, our son was still too young to understand. He didn't realize you were worried he'd forget his mother after getting married. He even told you he only wanted her and no one else. Aren't you worried that if I married her, I'd listen to her in everything, and then she'd come home and try to stop me from supporting our eldest son's education and helping you support the family? If we relied on my father, our family would be in dire straits—"

Grandma Gu, unable to bear it any longer, pinched her son hard.

"Ouch, that hurts so much!" That's what mothers are for, she's playing tricks on her son again, there's no escaping it. Gu Erzhu rubbed his waist with both hands in pain.

"I'll make you suffer! I should have sewed your mouth shut a long time ago, so you wouldn't blurt out all that nonsense!" Old Mrs. Gu threatened through gritted teeth.

"...I'm definitely the fake son you picked up outside!"

Grandma Gu laughed angrily, "I wish you weren't my son! Of all the children I've given birth to, having you and your brother was the most painful. What are you hiding for? Come here!"

Having just been tricked, Gu Erzhu dared not sit too close to the old lady now, worried that she might not be able to sit still. He quickly shook his head and said, "Speak, I can hear you."

"come over!"

"No!"

"Say what?"

"Your son can hear you continuing to talk about how you carried him for ten months and gave birth to him. That year, before the family divided their property, your eldest aunt and second aunt were pregnant one after the other..."

Damn boy!
Seeing her son reminiscing about the past with a look on his face, and even making a gesture of hugging and patting the child's back, Grandma Gu immediately turned to look out the car window.

"...I couldn't sleep all night and had to force myself to close my eyes." Seeing this, Gu Erzhu immediately stopped while he was ahead. "I know, Mother, you've suffered."

So my son has been naughty with my dad since he was little, but he never dares to raise his voice in front of you. If you tell me to listen to my dad, I will accept it no matter how wronged I feel.

How could my son not know how good it is to go to school? He managed to appease his second aunt that time. Why didn't he go to school later? It wasn't my father who told me to give in and let my older brother go to school first. It was you who hugged me and cried.

How could a son not feel sorry for his mother? I knew back then that if I didn't listen to my father, he couldn't stop me, but he would argue with me. If I got angry and went back to my maternal grandparents' house, people would gossip about me. I might as well wait until I was older before going to school.

When I got a little older, my eldest and second uncles said they would at least let me go to school for a few days to learn a few words. My father said that the teacher praised my eldest brother for being good at studying and wanted to support him to pass the imperial examination. My father said that supporting him to pass the imperial examination would starve the whole family, and we argued.

I dare say I only want to study for two years so that I can be literate and do math like my second uncle. My dad already warned me beforehand, saying that my older brother would teach me the same things when he came back. Then he said something else, telling me not to delay my older brother's studies.

To be honest, I've basically ignored everything my dad says since I was little. I don't think I have to do whatever he says. But it's you, Mom, that I take your words to heart.

Supporting a family, with an old man who only talks but doesn't do anything, supporting his eldest brother's imperial examinations, and getting his two younger brothers married, and finally getting the fourth son married, then one nephew after another comes along, it's endless, the son must be exhausted.

Several times, my son almost swore that he would take care of himself and never want to worry about anything again. But my fate is such that every time I have this thought, something happens in the family. Either I worry and can't sleep, or I cry in secret.

"With you acting like this, how can our son feel at ease and not take care of anything? That's why he wants to separate from the family. Whatever my father wants to do, once we separate, and you stop taking care of the household, what can my father do to you? You're even having trouble sleeping and crying because of this; you've brought this trouble upon yourself."