Chapter 28 Building or Not to Build
Gu Yu merely let the siblings Gu Mengyao and her brother see the silver, then Gu Yu pretended to put it in his embrace, but actually took the opportunity to throw it into the spatial dimension before deciding to bring up the idea of building a house.
Gu Yu was not a pure ancient person, nor did he have the traditional idea that the men in the family had the final say. Although he sometimes wanted Gu Mengyao to be obedient, he was not the type of person who liked to force others.
Regarding the matter of building a house, although Gu Yu considered that it would be too cold in winter and the house was too dilapidated, and he was worried that the three of them would be frozen, he felt it would be disrespectful to them to build it without notifying the siblings.
After all, the family was now living together as three people, not just Gu Yu alone.
“Mengyao, now that the family has money, I want to find the village chief tomorrow to allocate a piece of land and build the house.”
“Build a house? Won’t that attract too much attention?”
“If it attracts attention, should we not build it? The family’s situation now is not the time to consider these things. Before I earned money, I always thought about building a house, otherwise, when winter comes, even if we don’t freeze to death, we will be injured by the cold.”
After Gu Yu brought up the idea of building a house, Gu Mengyao did not show any unwillingness, but judging from her words, she clearly did not want to be too high-profile.
However, Gu Yu did not think so.
If Wu Changlin sold the wild boar that Gu Mengyao caught, their family would probably remain as peaceful as before. But now, they had directly refused Wu Changlin, and their relationship with him had even dropped to freezing point.
Just from what Wu Changlin had said before, it was clear that he was petty.
Now, no matter how much money Gu Yu got from selling the wild boar, Wu Changlin would trip them up behind their backs, trying to make their family miserable.
Therefore, there was no need to hide anything.
“Sister, brother-in-law is right. We are living our own lives, why should we care so much about others! I think building a house is a good idea. The house is leaky everywhere, and I always wake up from the cold at night.”
“Qingheng is right, we don’t need to be at the mercy of others. This money wasn’t stolen or robbed, so we have the confidence to spend it.”
Compared to Gu Mengyao, the inexpensive younger brother-in-law was more open-minded, and his words at this moment were even more to Gu Yu’s liking.
Gu Mengyao was too concerned about everything, which was why she hesitated, while Gu Qingheng did not care about these things.
In his eyes, only by building a house would the family not be gossiped about behind their backs.
Before the eldest son of the Gu family died, he lived a good life, with a harmonious and happy family, which was the envy of all the villagers! After all, the man hunted and earned money, the woman was beautiful and took care of the family, plus a pair of clever and cute children, they were truly envied by others.
However, after the eldest son of the Gu family died on the mountain, their family gradually became poorer.
It couldn’t be helped, the Gu family’s widowed mother and orphaned children couldn’t possibly do well.
When the widowed mother also passed away from grief and melancholy, the lives of the Gu siblings became even more difficult.
Although there were no cruel elders to abuse them, the two children had no means of survival and could only accept relief from one family to another to barely survive.
However, some people who had been envious of the Gu family before started spreading bad rumors about the Gu siblings.
It was nothing more than saying that the children in the family were hard-fated and would bring misfortune to their parents, that the eldest son of the Gu family died unjustly, and that getting close to them was a disaster for the whole family… Anyway, both the husband and wife of the Gu family were dead, so no one would refute these words.
The good-hearted people in the village gradually moved away from the siblings because of these words, and finally, out of desperation, Gu Mengyao picked up her bow and arrows and went up the mountain.
So, even if it was to save face, Gu Qingheng wanted the family to build a house, and the more grand it was, the better, to make those people so jealous that they would die.
With the support of his inexpensive younger brother-in-law, Gu Yu felt even more confident.
It wasn’t that Gu Yu wanted to be so conspicuous just because he made money, but rather that the person pulling the ox cart he found in the village today had eyes shining with desire as he looked at the wild boar. It was likely that the entire village would know that Gu Yu had sold a wild boar tomorrow.
Selling a fat pig weighing several hundred jin that they raised themselves could fetch more than ten taels of silver, let alone a wild boar.
Gu Yu could already imagine the ‘grand occasion’ at home tomorrow, which would definitely be very troublesome.
Fortunately, Gu Mengyao was the head of the household now. The Gu family had no other relatives in Yang Family Village, and Gu Yu was just a son-in-law who married into the wife’s family. Although he had a high status in the family, in the eyes of the villagers, he was a pretty boy who lived off women.
In an era when men were superior to women, no man in the village would be able to tolerate being thought of that way.
However, Gu Yu was an exception.
Gu Yu had been depressed before because he didn’t want Gu Mengyao to go up the mountain to hunt at great risk. After earning money, coupled with Gu Mengyao’s injury preventing her from going up the mountain, the crisis was resolved, and Gu Yu no longer cared what others said.
Anyway, even if they spoke ill of him, Gu Yu wouldn’t lose a piece of flesh.
When they saw that his family had a blue brick and tile house, many people would probably be extremely envious.
Gu Yu’s current worry was that after the villagers got the news of the pig sale tomorrow, the group from the old Yang family residence would also come to interfere.
Fortunately, Gu Yu was no longer the Gu Yu of the past. Now, even if people from the old Yang family residence came, they wouldn’t be able to gain much advantage.
However, he still needed to inform Gu Mengyao about this in advance, so as to prevent his wife from agreeing to any unreasonable requests out of consideration for him.
