I was a stepmother in ancient times, and I led my whole family to wealth.

Chapter 21 You can read?

Listening to those people's complaints, isn't that right? Dongfang Jin is here, following her, can you endure hardship? What a joke, her life will definitely get better and better.

Dongfang Jin nodded to the village head and the others: "If it's a guessing game at the yamen gate, then it is indeed me."

Lin Peisheng looked at his youngest son: "How did you know?"

Lin Jiang said with a little excitement, "When I took Ziyao to school, it happened to be market day in the county, so I took a stroll around and heard the scholars talking about this."

Lin Peisheng looked at Dongfang Jin and asked in surprise, "You can read?"

Dongfang Jin nodded: "I recognize a few."

When Lin Peisheng looked at Gu Chenglin again, his eyes changed. You see, very few women in rural families could read.

At this moment, the Sun clan chief spoke up: "Chenglin, the Gu clan doesn't want you. Come with our Sun clan."

Gu Chenglin bowed deeply to Clan Chief Sun: "Thank you, Grandpa Sun. There are plenty of independent households in our village, so I won't cause any trouble for the Sun clan. Once I'm done here, I'll invite you to my home for a meal and drinks."

When Chief Sun heard him say that, he smiled and said, "Alright, you and Sun Xing have been good friends since childhood. Just let me know if you need anything."

Gu Chenglin bowed to him again: "Okay."

Dongfang Jin was speechless as she watched Gu Chenglin bow and greet him. There were so many troubles in ancient times. Didn't he know that he still had an injury on his waist?

Lin Peisheng looked at the Gu family members and said seriously, "You yourselves asked Gu Chenglin to write the letter severing ties, and as for expelling him from the clan, that's your own business."

"Mrs. Gu, it's not good if someone can eat what they vomit."

Grandma Gu looked indignant and shouted, "I'm his mother, so he has to be filial to me. No matter where you look, I'm still his mother."

Gu Chenglin glanced at his wife, Gu, almost imperceptibly. His mother? Heh!

Lin Peisheng was also angered by her: "Gu Ye, are you deliberately trying to make this a big deal and spread this to Yaohui?"

Old Granny Gu, still defiant as ever, shouted, "If this gets back to Yaohui, I'll be his mother too, and he'll have to be filial to me. If he's not, he's unfilial."

At this moment, Chief Gu angrily rebuked them: "Go away, stop making trouble. If this gets to Yaohui, it might ruin his future."

He figured it out: Gu Chenglin's wife wasn't a good person, and now that the county magistrate was backing her up, Lin Peisheng was clearly on his side too. Regardless of whether it was true or not, he'd deal with it later.

He was determined to drive that bastard out of Lingwu Village, as well as that rebellious son Gu Chenglin.

Granny Gu was terrified: "Clan leader, is this true?"

That won't do. Her son is destined to be the top scholar in the imperial examinations. She can't let this slut and this wicked son, Gu Chenglin, ruin it.

Dongfang Jin looked at them and sneered, thinking to herself, "Your son's future has been ruined by your ignorance."

The fact that the Gu family could remove a soldier who served the country from their genealogy meant that Gu Yaohui's path to education had already become a weakness.

Just as the Gu family members were leaving, Dongfang Jin stopped them and pointed at Gu Meiyu: "Take the things out."

Gu Meiyu's eyes darted away, and she tried to hide behind her mother: "I didn't take anything from your house."

Dongfang Jin stopped her, scoffing, "Didn't take it? If you didn't take it... then you're pregnant?"

Gu Meiyu was angered by her words and reached out to hit Dongfang Jin, but just as she was about to strike, her stomach sagged, and she quickly covered it, saying, "You...you're the one who's pregnant."

Dongfang Jin pointed at her stomach and asked loudly, "Then what's in your stomach?"

Gu Meiyu blushed and cried out to her, "I...I ate too much!"

"Oh," Dongfang Jin said, then took out a tael of silver and tossed it twice in her hand. She turned around and shouted to the crowd of onlookers outside, "Whoever takes out what's inside her stomach gets this tael of silver."

A man dressed in tattered clothes came out and said, "Really?"

Dongfang Jin glared at him: "Brother, I was talking about the aunties and sisters-in-law. You're a grown man, don't get close to them. You should have some principles."

“I’ll do it,” a woman who looked quite fierce stepped forward, grabbed Gu Meiyu by the neck and started hitting her.

Granny Gu, Madam Gu, and Ye Shilan stepped forward to stop them: "Zhao Cuihua, you slut, let go of my daughter..."

When the woman saw them coming, she waved and several young women suddenly emerged from the crowd.

Gu Meiyu shouted angrily and embarrassedly, "Let me go! Let me go!"

"Zhao Da'e, let go of my daughter..."

"Lin Xiang's family, let go of my aunt..."

"You bunch of scumbags, you'll do anything for money..."

"Ye Shilan, we are doing this openly and honestly, which is much better than you stealing from others."

……

In no time, the group had stripped Gu Meiyu clean.

When Grandma Gu saw the young women taking so many things out of her daughter, she was dumbfounded.

Pointing at the women, his finger trembled with anger: "You...you..."

"Goodness, so many..."

"Gu Meiyu really does steal things..."

"Haha, that's hilarious! Gu Meiyu said she ate too much, and I almost believed her..."

"Pah, what a disgraceful piece of trash..."

"Exactly, it's embarrassing and disgraceful, she's not even married yet..."

……

"What is this? Who will want a young, unmarried girl who steals things?" Madam Feng, the wife of the village head, said sarcastically as she looked at Old Lady Gu pointing at the things.

This old man is always showing off. So what if his youngest son passed the imperial examination? What's he so smug about?

Even if she becomes the top scholar in the imperial examination, her Lin family will not benefit from her Gu family's success at all.

Judging from what Fang Jin pulled out of Gu Meiyu, they were probably clothes that Fang Jin had bought for Gu Chenglin's children.

Dongfang Jin held up several red ribbons: "What are these? Is this what you eat? You, Gu family girl, are truly gifted."

If I'm not mistaken, you're still unmarried, aren't you? You're a thief before even getting married…tsk tsk, impressive.”

Gu Meiyu shouted at Dongfang Jin, "This is my older brother's house."

Dongfang Jin looked at her and smiled: "Hehe, are you five or six years old, or a little girl of seven or eight?"

The brain is a good thing. It doesn't matter if you have a small brain or an empty one. The key is to keep it dry, okay?

I bought and picked out these clothes myself. And you just say you ate too much? That's an excuse I can laugh about for the rest of my life.

He, Gu Chenglin, is no longer your brother.

Don't forget to pat yourself on the back; you call yourself a "child of scholars"? You're all illiterate!

After Dongfang Jin finished speaking, he took the clothes from the woman's hand and gave her the silver in his hand as well.

Looking at the one tael of silver in her hand, Lin Li asked excitedly, "Really?"

Dongfang Jin smiled and said, "Take it. I keep my word."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, you deserve it."

"Hehe, okay, if you need any help at home, just go down to the big locust tree in the village and you'll find us."

"Okay, if I need anything, I'll definitely come to you." See, the tailor has come, hasn't he?

While they were talking, the Gu family members and the Gu clan leader's family had already hurriedly left in a disheveled state.

Gu Meiyu walked a long way, still looking indignant. "Fang Jin, you bitch, just you wait!"