A Happy Wife in a Rural Family

Chapter 2: Chapter 2. Breaking Off The Engagement

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Her neighbor Zhang Qiaozui was at home. This person had a rotten mouth, and everything that came out of her mouth would have a different meaning.

She was very annoying but had a son who could be harmed in his academic achievements. If it weren’t for the fact that it would affect her son’s career, her mouth would have been more unbearable.

“Yo! Er Nizi still dares to come back? Tsk, tsk, tsk,” Zhang Qiaozui came out to get something and said when she saw Gu Qingli on her way back.

Gu Qingli’s heart skipped a beat. Did someone see it?

“What do you mean by that, clever mouth?”

“What do you mean? You’ll know when you get home.” Zhang Qiaozui said with a slanted brow.

Gu Qingli hurried forward.

“Girl! Cough, cough, cough!” Just as she walked to the courtyard entrance, a woman ran out from inside. She looked sickly and couldn’t stop coughing even after running a few steps.

The woman’s facial features were more attractive than the average person’s, but unfortunately, she had a pair of puffy eyes. She was wearing a coarse cloth dress and a wooden hairpin on her head. Her thin body looked like it was about to collapse from coughing.

“Tuberculosis!” Gu Qingli knew it at a glance.

“Mother, why are you in such a hurry?” Gu Qingli supported her. This woman was the original owner’s mother, Mrs. Wu.

Mrs. Wu glanced at Gu Qingli and pulled her into the yard, crying. She asked Gu Qingli to put down her basket and went into the central room.

Gu Qingli glanced at the people in the room. The host’s grandparents, uncle, aunt, father, a woman who was about 37 or 38 years old, and a handsome young man who was about 16 or 17 years old were all in the room.

When she saw the young man, she suddenly remembered that he was the fiancé of the body’s original owner, from the same village, Chen Erlang.

That woman was his mother, Mrs. Liu. Mrs. Liu was looking at her with anger burning in her eyes.

Not only Mrs. Liu but even the original owner’s granny, grandma Hua, her uncle Gu Dashan, Aunt Yun, and her father Gu Dalin were all staring at her angrily.

Only old man Gu, Gu Changhai, was smoking a pipe.

Mrs. Liu’s astute eyes looked her up and down a few times and said to Madam Hua, sitting further away: “Aunt Hua, now that your family’s second girl’s body has been defiled, my family’s second son will be leaving next year. Wouldn’t keeping such a broken shoe ruin my son’s reputation? Today, I’ve brought Erlang and the engagement gift, so let’s call off the engagement.”

As she spoke, she took out a small silver locket and placed it on the table.

Madam Hua smacked it over and then looked at Mrs. Wu.

Mrs. Wu trembled as she took out a jade pendant of average quality and was about to hand it over to Lady Liu.

Gu Qingli took the jade pendant from Mrs. Wu’s hand.

Mrs. Wu looked surprised at her, not knowing what she would do. Er Nizi was a little different today. She didn’t cry or make a fuss over such a significant matter as breaking off the engagement.

Moreover, the indescribable aura on her body made her unable to refuse.

The other people in the room also looked at her in surprise, especially Chen Erlang. He had never wanted to break off the engagement. So what if she was a broken shoe? But she was good-looking, and he didn’t mind. At most, he wouldn’t let her be his wife in the future.

But he couldn’t suppress his mother, so he had no choice but to come.

It wasn’t that Gu Qingli didn’t want to break off the engagement, but she had seen that the tiny silver locket was exquisite and worth much more than this broken jade pendant.

“Er Nizi, what are you doing? Not willing to break off the engagement? Look at you, worn-out trash, and you still want to marry my son? Dream on! Hurry up and give me the token; it’ll be bad luck if we stay any longer.” Mrs. Liu thought Gu Qingli didn’t want to break off the engagement. She couldn’t take it anymore, so she stood up and scolded her.

Gu Qingli didn’t mind. She didn’t want to get married in the future. “If you want to break off my engagement, you can exchange the token with me. Why are you so agitated?”

When Mrs. Liu heard this, her face turned black, and she turned to look at Madam Hua.

Madam Hua was ordinary-looking, but her eyes were pretty good. She couldn’t dare to glare at Gu Qingli.

“Er Nizi, hurry up and give the jade pendant to your aunt Liu.”

“Give me the silver locket in exchange.”

Mrs. Liu instantly understood. It turned out that it was Madam Hua who didn’t put down the silver locket of these broken shoes.

“Aunt Hua, give it to me,” she said, reaching out.

Madam Hua: “What do you mean by that? Isn’t she my granddaughter? What’s wrong with me keeping the silver locket for her?”

Mrs. Wu finally understood what Gu Qingli meant.

“Mother, this silver locket originally belonged to Er Nizi; let her keep it for herself,” she whispered to Madam Hua.

Madam Hua’s eyes widened in anger. “Bullsh*t! It’s none of your business what I do.”

Mrs. Wu was so frightened by Madam Hua that she trembled and didn’t dare to make another sound.

Gu Qingli glanced at old Gu, who was still smoking as if this had nothing to do with him.

On the other hand, big Gu and his wife were unperturbed.

Second brother Gu glanced at Gu Qingli, his daughter, in silence.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk. I say, aunt Hua, it’s good that I came to break off this engagement today. Otherwise, I won’t know what kind of life Er Nizi lived. A grandmother not willing to give up my granddaughter’s things.” Mrs. Liu’s eyes turned. She shook her head and clicked her tongue a few times, looking meaningfully at Madam Hua.

It meant that if she acted like this in front of an outsider like her, then behind the scenes …

“Madam Hua, give it to her.” Old Gu finally spoke. If he did not take Er Nizi’s things in front of outsiders today, he did not know what kind of rumors would have spread in the village.

“Old man,” Madam Hua cried out in alarm.

“Give it to her,” Old Gu was furious. He shouted, “Ignorant woman, you only have money in your eyes, not the future of your son and grandchild.”

If his reputation was ruined, how would his son and grandchild be able to pass the examinations?

Stupid!

Madam Hua was startled by old Gu’s shout and quickly threw the silver locket on the table. Mrs. Liu grabbed it and walked to Gu Qingli to change the jade pendant.

“Er Nizi, in the future, you and our Erlang will go your separate ways. Don’t come and bother him.” Mrs. Liu glared at her fiercely and also glanced at Chen Erlang.

If she hadn’t come up the mountain and accidentally seen Gu Qingli lying on the ground with her clothes in a mess, her son would have been cuckolded in the future.

If she didn’t even pass this gate, how could she be so frugal in the future?

When Chen Erlang saw that the token had been exchanged, he felt a sense of loss. Mrs. Liu glared at him, and he lowered his head again.

He sighed in his heart, ‘Forget it, but she’s no longer a Virgin, so it’s fine if she retreats.”

In the future, if his classmates found out that he was a scholar, they would laugh at him.

If he left next year, the headmaster would say that he had written a good article and his future would be limitless.

Gu Qingli nodded. “Don’t worry, Auntie. I won’t bother your son.”

The host liked Chen Erlang, but she didn’t.

Mrs. Liu snorted and pulled Chen Erlang away.

Seeing that Mrs. Liu and Erlang had left, Gu Qingli pulled Mrs. Wu’s hand and was about to leave.

“Stop there.” It was old Gu who spoke.

Gu Qingli pulled her foot back and looked at the man who usually didn’t care about anything.

Old Gu glanced at the people in the room and said, “Second brother, you know that your third brother and your nephew will join the battle next year after what happened to Er Nizi. So from today on, your second branch can live alone.”