When the prince of no descendants found out that he had a baby, he went crazy

Chapter 3 Gu Hua versus the Gu Clan Elders

That day, Gu Hua had just returned from the farm when he saw Ergui, the youngest son of Gu Fu, the housekeeper of the mansion, running over in a hurry. "Master, several elders from the clan are here. Please invite them to the hall."

Gu Hua frowned slightly. Both the original owner and Gu Hua who had integrated his memories disliked the Gu family members who wanted to take over the family business after the death of the original owner's parents.

Although he didn't know why they came today, based on what Gu Hua knew from the original owner's memory, he had a hunch that these people were not here for good.

Sure enough, as soon as Gu Hua walked into the hall, he was questioned by an old voice.

"Gu Hua, do you still take us elders seriously? Last time I informed you that the clan's ancestral hall needs 15,000 taels of silver for repairs, why haven't you sent anyone to deliver it yet?"

Gu Hua looked at the two old men with wrinkled faces sitting in the main seats in the center of the hall, staring at him with cold eyes. There was also an old man sitting below them with his head down, constantly looking at him with worried eyes.

The oldest should be the third uncle in the original owner's clan, and sitting next to him is his cousin, the fifth uncle. The one sitting below the two is the fourth grandfather, who is the brother of the original owner's grandfather and ranks fourth among the older generation in the clan.

There were also several other members of the Gu family sitting below, including the fourth grandfather's son, the original owner's uncle Gu Jiqing and cousin Gu Chen.

The group of people made Gu Hua act as if he had committed some crime and was here for trial.

Gu Hua looked indifferently at her fifth uncle who wanted to show her a warning as soon as he entered the room. She did not answer his harsh question, but walked up to him and pointed to the place where he was sitting.

He said something that made everyone's jaw drop: "You're sitting in the wrong seat."

The hall fell into complete silence.

Then came the fifth uncle’s angry roar.

"This is outrageous! This is outrageous!"

"How could our Gu family produce such a disobedient and unfilial descendant like you? I am your elder, what's wrong with me sitting here?"

Gu Hua caught a glimpse of her third uncle looking at her with gloomy eyes. From the original owner's memory, she knew that this old guy was more insidious. Compared with the violent and brainless fifth uncle, this old man was much more scheming.

Except for the people from the fourth house, other clansmen looked at Gu Hua disapprovingly.

"Gu Hua, as a junior, how can you speak to your fifth uncle like this?" Gu Jintang, the eldest son of the third uncle, scolded harshly.

"Did I say something wrong?" Gu Hua pointed at where Fourth Grandpa was sitting, his eyes sneerful, "Don't we Gu family members even understand the rules of respecting elders and young people?"

Everyone looked at the seat in the middle of the hall where the fifth uncle was sitting, and then looked again at the fourth uncle, who was ranked fourth in the family, sitting on the chair at the bottom. Everyone turned their heads away and no one said a word.

Normally, because the fifth uncle is the cousin of the third uncle, the patriarch of the Gu family, everyone forgets about the taciturn fourth uncle. As the elder, he should sit in the seat above the fifth uncle who is younger than him.

Now, no matter how badly Fifth Uncle had a bad temper, he could only open his mouth but couldn't say a word in rebuttal.

"Old Five and your fourth brother, switch seats," the third uncle pursed his beard to hide the sinister look in his eyes, "You are disrespectful, Old Four usually gives in to you, but you can't be ignorant of the rules."

Gu Hua curled the corners of his lips.

As expected of the thoughtful Third Uncle, he turned Fifth Uncle's disrespect for elders into the yielding between Fourth Grandfather and his brothers with just one sentence, making it seem like she, a junior, was meddling in other people's business.

Gu Mingdong, the fourth grandfather who was the brother of the original owner's grandfather, waved his hand hastily, "Uh... or the fifth one will sit..."

"Dad," Gu Mingdong's eldest son Gu Jiqing reached out and pulled him, pressing him on the chair vacated by his fifth uncle, "Since my fifth uncle already knows that he is sitting in the wrong seat, you will make things difficult for him if you continue to be humble." Gu Jiqing blinked his sore eyes, helped his father sit down, and looked at Gu Hua with satisfaction.

Ever since his cousin and his wife were robbed and killed by bandits while inspecting shops in the surrounding towns three years ago, their two branches have been suppressed by the clan. He didn't expect that this cousin, who always looked gloomy, would support their two branches.

"Now you can always tell me why you didn't send the money for repairing the ancestral hall?"

Gu Hua looked at her third uncle who was asking her for money with confidence, and smiled widely, "I wonder how many families there are in our clan?"

Gu Chen, who was worried that his cousin would be bullied by this group of old men, found that no one answered and said, "If you count all the big and small families that have been divided out, there are nearly a hundred families."

Gu Hua nodded to Gu Chen with gratitude, then turned to look at his uncle and the others, "We are all descendants of the Gu family. I wonder how much money you are prepared to contribute to the renovation of the ancestral hall?"

"This……"

"Uh...uh..."

Everyone else was stunned by Gu Huawen.

In the past, the clan leader came to the Gu Mansion to ask for money under various pretexts. Perhaps because the amount was not as huge as this time, although Gu Hua obviously looked unhappy, he was always able to give one or two thousand silver to the clan after some discussion.

Gu Hua realized that these people always took advantage of the original owner.

So he stopped being polite and said, "During the New Year, I just gave my clan five thousand taels of silver to use for the ancestor worship."

"How about you uncles show me the account books of where all the money I paid to the clan in the past three years was spent? It won't be too late to pay the 15,000 taels of silver for repairing the ancestral hall later."

Third Uncle said with a gloomy face, "You...are you going to settle accounts with the clan?"

"Just asking me to take the silver but not letting me see the flowers, this doesn't make sense at all." Gu Hua replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.

The Gu family's people were silenced by Gu Hua's rebuke.

Gu Hua insisted that she could continue to take the money, but she had to check the accounts of where the money given to the clan went every time. Now even her fifth uncle, who was good at calculating and glaring at her, was defeated.

Gu Hua looked at her third uncle with sneer in her eyes as he left with a group of clansmen who were biased towards their cousins. How could she not guess that most of the money that the original owner had given to the clan would probably go into the pockets of these two families.

As the two men left, they looked at her with sinister and vicious eyes, and it was obvious that they hated her.

The original owner would do something to get peace and quiet for money, but Gu Hua didn't want to do that.

Because she knew that the appetite of greedy people would only get bigger and bigger, and she was afraid that in the end it would not be possible to get rid of this group of bone-eating maggots by just paying a few thousand or tens of thousands of taels of silver.

"Hua'er, you have offended the third and fifth brothers this time." Fourth Grandfather Gu Mingdong looked at Gu Hua worriedly and sighed, "If you encounter any problems in the future, I'm afraid it will be difficult to count on the clan for help."

Gu Chen said bluntly: "Grandpa, can't you see it?"

"Whenever there is any benefit in the clan, the third and fifth branches will take it first, followed by the families that are closest to them by blood. Only when they want to contribute money and effort will they think of us."

(End of this chapter)