NOVEL NEXT 34: News Spreads
The Gu family has struck it rich.
This news swept through the entire village like a wildfire in the early morning.
Adding to this, some troublemakers were stirring things up, with the momentum of spreading the news beyond the village.
If it had been someone else making money, the villagers wouldn’t have had such a strong reaction. But there was too much gossip about the Gu family, making them the favorite topic of conversation. People needed to talk about them just to feel satisfied.
After all, comparison breeds beauty! Life was hard for everyone in the village, and suddenly the poor little Gu family transformed and made big money, making many people feel unbalanced.
They didn’t care about the danger Gu Mengyao faced when hunting the wild boar; they only saw the large sum of silver from selling it.
Especially given that all three members of the Gu family were young, this made many people extremely envious.
Some even thought about jumping over the wall at night to secretly steal the money.
Of course, some might truly be planning this…
After all, the Gu family had no adults. Even if they were discovered, it wouldn’t matter. At worst, they could just beat up the Gu children to scare them into silence.
Gu Yu didn’t care what others were thinking. Even if he heard about it, he would just laugh it off.
The silver was all in Gu Yu’s spatial storage. Anyone who could steal it would be quite impressive!
As for safety concerns, when he discovered that Gu Mengyao was hiding some secrets, Gu Yu instinctively knew that even if wild beasts came down from the mountains, their family would be fine.
Moreover, Gu Mengyao had mentioned today… that she had set up many traps in the courtyard, telling Gu Yu to be careful not to step on them.
So, after agreeing with the village chief to come for the land deed tomorrow, Gu Yu was satisfied as he sauntered out of the village chief’s home.
Although the land deed was already written, it still needed to be stamped with a red seal at the town’s government office to be considered effective.
Despite the fact that stamping required a few copper coins as a service fee, without the red seal, there would be no backup registration at the government office. Even a contract with signatures wouldn’t be valid in the end.
For buying wasteland in the village to build a house, getting a seal at the government office didn’t cost money. Only transactions between individuals required service fees.
“Hey, Goudan, I heard your family made money! Lend your auntie some to spend, won’t you?”
Just as Gu Yu had finished his business and was preparing to go home, a fat woman suddenly appeared, blocking the road ahead.
Her corpulent body stood in the middle of the path with the air of ‘I planted this tree, I opened this road,’ just short of directly asking Gu Yu to pay a toll.
And the words that subsequently came out of her mouth weren’t much different from robbery.
Give her some money to spend?
Gu Yu rolled his eyes helplessly, looking at the fat woman blocking his way. Realizing it was the same person who had called him a pretty boy yesterday, he became even more impatient.
How could he run into her everywhere!
These familiar squinty eyes—he didn’t know what relationship Chen Gouzi had with this fat woman.
“My family has no money. Mengyao is injured now. Why don’t you lend me some money instead, Auntie? I guarantee I’ll pay it back within ten years. If I can’t pay it back…”
Gu Yu only said half of what he intended. Although he promised to repay at the beginning, the unspoken part at the end seemed to imply that if he couldn’t repay, then that would be that.
Hmph, if these shameless people could borrow money, Gu Yu could do the same in reverse.
After hearing Gu Yu’s words, the fat woman immediately showed a contemptuous expression on her face.
Her small eyes scanned Gu Yu’s tattered clothes, noticing the faded fabric and several patches. Realizing that Gu Yu was even poorer than her, she immediately said nothing and walked away.
The fat woman left decisively, presumably her initial words were just a probe.
Seeing this, Gu Yu shook his head and continued swaying his body as he walked home.
Now that people were coming out to block the road, the news about selling the wild boar must have spread throughout the village. He wondered if visitors had also come to their home and whether Gu Mengyao and her brother could handle them.
Sometimes, living in a village was quite troublesome.
When neighbors came to visit, as the host, you couldn’t just drive them out with a broom. If you did that, it would definitely spread throughout the entire village by the next day, and people would point fingers behind your back.
But buying a house in town, after losing the mountain as a treasure trove for making money, Gu Yu couldn’t guarantee that the family would still have silver to spend.
So, everything has its pros and cons. For now, the Gu family couldn’t leave Yang Village.