NOVEL NEXT 72: The Name
Gu Yu’s apparent dislike for Yang Cao made Gu Mengyao simply nod after hearing his words, indicating that she understood, without saying anything more.
When Gu Yu saw how obediently Gu Mengyao listened, he wondered if he was overthinking things. Even if others were overflowing with sympathy, his little wife certainly wasn’t!
From previous incidents, Gu Mengyao’s reactions had been very much to Gu Yu’s liking… If his little wife were a descending saint, Gu Yu felt he would worry himself to death in this lifetime.
Fortunately, due to losing her parents early, Gu Mengyao didn’t have the indecisiveness typical of young girls. She only hesitated when dealing with people she cared about… discovering this made Gu Yu very satisfied.
After all, Gu Mengyao wasn’t a cold-blooded, cruel person; she just didn’t misuse her sympathy.
She was quite good to her own people—this was evident from looking at Gu Qingheng.
“By the way, here’s the land deed.”
After discussing Yang Cao, Gu Yu suddenly remembered the land deed he had obtained from the Village Head. As he reached into his robe, he directly took out the land deed from his spatial storage, intending to give it to Gu Mengyao for safekeeping.
Although keeping it in the spatial storage was very safe, Gu Yu felt it would be better to entrust it to Gu Mengyao.
Even though Gu Yu didn’t have a partner before transmigrating, he couldn’t ignore that everyone around him did… According to Gu Yu’s observations, when men acquired good things, they generally surrendered them voluntarily.
Hence, this act of giving the land deed.
“You should keep it. Although to outsiders, Ah Yu, you’re a son-in-law who married into our family, there’s no need for this within our home.”
“Mengyao, don’t overthink it. I just thought… women like to keep valuable things in the family.”
“Brother-in-law, you’re so good to my sister! I’ll keep it for my sister!”
However, Gu Mengyao didn’t care about the land deed and worried that Gu Yu’s male dignity might be hurt, so she quickly declined to take it.
Gu Qingheng, sitting nearby, saw the two going back and forth, neither willing to take it. He was less polite and directly reached out to take the land deed, brazenly saying he would help keep it.
This made a row of black lines appear on Gu Yu’s forehead, and he felt an urge to kick his convenient little brother-in-law to death.
“Eh? The name written on this land deed is my sister’s!”
After getting the land deed, Gu Qingheng glanced at it a few times and immediately exclaimed in surprise when he discovered that the name written on it was actually “Gu Mengyao.”
Likewise, when Gu Mengyao heard that her name was on the land deed, her expression froze, clearly not understanding… why her name would appear on the land deed.
Even though Gu Mengyao was now the household head, all the silver had been earned by Gu Yu. The money from selling the wild boar wasn’t even enough for the blue-brick house and surrounding wall they were building, so obviously Gu Yu had to contribute extra.
Although it wasn’t good to talk about such things within a family, Gu Mengyao truly hadn’t expected her name to be on the land deed.
Because this meant… after the house was built, the ownership rights would belong solely to Gu Mengyao.
If Gu Yu made Gu Mengyao angry in the future, she could expel him from the house with nothing but the clothes on his back… Although Gu Mengyao would never do such a thing.
But this still surprised her greatly!
Gu Yu, having been prepared for this, merely chuckled when both siblings showed shocked expressions.
Clearly, this move of his was quite unconventional in the male-dominated ancient times.
However, with his spatial storage, Gu Yu could earn money very quickly, so he didn’t care much about the deed to these two mu of wasteland. Additionally, since he was now a son-in-law who had married into the Gu family, it wouldn’t be appropriate to write his name.
This point was evident when the Village Head didn’t object when Gu Yu said he wanted to write Gu Mengyao’s name.
Moreover, with those bloodsuckers from the old Yang family in Yang Village, Gu Yu didn’t want the things he earned with his money to benefit them later.
With these considerations, the name on the land deed became “Gu Mengyao.”
But, could this little brat Gu Qingheng actually read???
From what Gu Yu knew… When the Gu family patriarch died, since he was a skilled hunter who could earn money, the family wasn’t short on silver to spend. When Gu Qingheng was five years old, they sent him to a school in town for enlightenment education.
Unfortunately, half a year later, the Gu family patriarch died in the mountains.
That means Gu Qingheng started school at five and only attended for half a year, but three years later, he could still read?
Although Gu Yu knew Gu Qingheng was clever and quick-witted, surely this little devil couldn’t have such an amazingly good memory!