Gu's mother looked at Gu's father blankly, this... just didn't borrow it?

"Didn't you borrow a penny?" she asked, unwilling to give up.

Father Gu snorted coldly, "You don't need to borrow a penny. They send you to beggars. Do you think I want it?"

Gu's mother thought so. Even if Zhihua didn't pass the exam, he would still be a scholar.

Even if the Gu family doesn't have that hundred acres of fertile land, they are still a wealthy family doing small business in Wanghai County. A penny? They would rather starve to death!

"Shuhua."

"Aunt, I'm here, what are your orders?"

"Go and bring my jewelry box to your uncle."

"Um."

Shuhua stood up, took the jewelry box to the table over there, and pushed it in front of Father Gu.

"Open it." Mother Gu ordered again.

"Um."

With a click, the hidden clasp of the jewelry box popped open, and the jewels shone onto Father Gu's face.

His eyes lit up and he looked at the contents of the jewelry box. "So many?"

Mother Gu said, "Well, we women are different from you men. When we have money, we just want to buy some jewelry for ourselves to show off. I originally thought that when Zhihua is admitted to the Jinshi, I will go and talk to the bigger officials outside."

Ladies drink tea without missing noodles..."

"Check it out. Whether you sell it or pawn it, at least you can collect the five hundred taels of silver to rescue your son. You can keep the green hills without fear of running out of firewood. Shuhua, do you think I'm right?

"

Shuhua was staring at the jewelry in the jewelry box and was slightly lost in thought. When she heard Mother Gu's question, she quickly came back to her senses.

"My aunt is right, I don't have anything valuable, but these silver earrings on my ears can get me three melons and two dates." As she spoke, she had already taken off the silver earrings on her ears and put them on the table, "

As long as Zhihua can come back, Xin'er and I will have something to rely on, and so will the one in my belly."

Gu's mother was moved by Shuhua's words. She took off the bracelets and rings in her hands, "You can risk your life for Zhihua. I am a mother who can do better. Zhihua father, don't hesitate, take these jewelry and exchange them."

Money, look back and see how much is missing, and then we can think of something else."

Father Gu locked the jewelry box again, put it under his arm and stood up, "That's good, I also have a few things in there that I use to support the occasion, so I'll take them all and sell them."

Father Gu took two steps and was stopped by Mother Gu again.

"What? You still have something to give me?" he asked.

Gu's mother smiled bitterly, "No more, and I'm an old bone, worthless."

"Then why are you calling me?" he asked again.

Mother Gu said, "I'm telling you to be careful and don't let others trick you. Bring Uncle Gen and his son with you. They have been in our family for several years and they are considered servants who know everything."

Father Gu waved his hand, "I have been in business for decades, what kind of monsters have I not seen? Okay, okay, don't worry about it, just rest and recover!"

After Gu's father left, Gu's mother took a few sips of medicine and asked Shuhua, who was waiting at the bedside, "How long has your uncle been gone?"

Shuhua glanced at the hourglass on the bedside and said, "The hourglass has been bouncing back and forth four times, so it's been nearly two hours!"

"Two hours? It's time to come back!" Gu's mother said.

Shuhua glanced at the door of the house and said, "Maybe he's on the way back."

"Shuhua, my aunt's heart is beating so fast, she feels very uneasy!"

"Auntie, don't worry. My uncle is well-informed and has Uncle Gen and his son with him. Everything will be fine."

"Well, I hope so, Shuhua, help me go to the small Buddhist hall to offer incense to the gods and Buddhas, and ask the gods and Buddhas to bless our family to overcome the disaster as soon as possible."

"Hey, I'll go right away."

Shuhua stood up, tucked in the quilt for Gu's mother, and then turned around and left the house.

Before the stick of incense was burned, Father Gu came back.

He didn't walk back by himself, but was carried back by Old Uncle Gen's son. Old Uncle Gen trotted behind him, supporting Father Gu with his hands, because as soon as he let go, the unconscious Father Gu would slide off his back.

Come down.

After entering the courtyard gate, several maids and servants at home exclaimed when they saw this, and made noisy noises all the way to the backyard.

"My dear Master Ditian, what's going on here? You walked out so well, why do you come back like this?"

Gu's mother heard the noise and was helped out of the house by Shuhua. She happened to see Uncle Gen's son carrying Gu's father into the house next door.

Father Gu was lying on the man's back, his eyes tightly closed, his face was as sallow as the yellow paper, without any human color at all.

Gu's mother screamed and staggered into the house after her.

Father Gu was lying on the bed. Although he was awake, his whole soul was gone.

He stared straight at the ceiling of the tent, unable to even pour in the brown sugar water.

No matter how much Gu's mother cried or shouted, Gu's father just ignored her, as if he was stupid.

After asking Uncle Gen and his son, Shuhua found out that the jewelry that Gu's father had brought out, as well as several antique vases he had collected over the years, had been stolen halfway through.

"It's just such a small thing. You have three people and six eyes. Why did you just give it to someone else?" Gu's mother roared hysterically.

Uncle Gen was so frightened that he quickly pulled his son to his knees, buried his head on the ground and knocked hard, "It's because we were useless and didn't keep an eye on..."

On the bed, Gu's father suddenly raised his finger.

"Aunt, uncle has reacted!" Shuhua reminded quickly.

Gu's mother quickly turned around, lying on the bedside and holding Gu's father's hand. "You goddammit, tell me quickly what's going on. Where are the things? Where have all the things been done?"

Father Gu's eyes turned to Mother Gu's side with difficulty, and the corners of his mouth trembled. Before he could speak, two lines of old tears rolled out.

"...I'm useless, I'm useless. I was greedy and believed the words of a liar..."

As Gu's father told him intermittently, Gu's mother and Shuhua finally understood what was going on.

Father Gu wanted to sell those things at a good price. He thought that the pawnshops and banks on the street that had signs of serious business might have heard about the Gu family and knew that the Gu family was in urgent need of money and deliberately lowered their prices.

.

So Gu's father confirmed his guess after visiting two families to try.

Suddenly, Father Gu thought of an underground bank on the outskirts of the city. It was said that the man behind the bank was named Xu.

So Gu's father wanted to go to Xu Mang's underground bank to try his luck. But Xu Mang was not there, and the person who received her was a middle-aged man. The middle-aged man claimed that he was the acting shopkeeper there, and brought Gu's father and Uncle Gen's father and son.

Please go to the inner room in the backyard to greet you and look at the goods.

"The man saw my goods and the price was still very low. I didn't want to sell it to him anymore, so I got up, packed my things and left."

"After much thought, I planned to send it to a pawn shop, but when I took it out, all the items inside had been dropped. They were all scraps of copper and iron. The two antiques had not been dropped, but the two old men at the pawn shop had not dumped them.

After the master saw it, he said it was a fake. I spent a lot of money to buy a fake and kept it at home like a treasure..."

Unable to bear the double blow, Father Gu vomited a mouthful of blood after speaking, and lay there with only air coming in and no air coming out.

Nine Heavens God Emperor

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