Chapter 68: Chapter 68: What an Uproar
Mrs. Gu saw her son, who had always listened whenever she spoke, daring to rebut her, and she immediately understood why Mr. Gu had been sighing these past few days.
This is turning the world upside down.
This can’t be tolerated.
She immediately slapped Gu Ruhai, scratching his face, leaving several marks with blood on his face.
Gu Xiaoqing couldn’t bear to watch this, wondering what was going on.
Her small body directly bumped into them, wedging herself between Mrs. Gu and Gu Ruhai, forcibly separating the two.
"You’re an unfilial son. Do you know who is good for you and who harms you? With those two heads of yours, doing business? If I don’t make you pay dearly, I’m your mother, for whom do I do this if not for you? Do you still think that Li Family are good people?
You heartless fool, take a good look at what sort of woman your wife is. All she does is stir up trouble, making you alienate us with such wicked intentions. You were blind to insist on bringing such a piece back.
Look at what a mess our family is in now. You still listen to her, you’re a grown man, ruled by a woman, what kind of man are you, don’t you shame the Gu Family?"
These words had already gone too far, Gu Xiaoqing could no longer bear to listen.
All the recent disputes were being blamed on Li Xuemei, and now they were planning to deal with this couple.
Gu Xiaoqing was about to curse, but Gu Ruhai pulled her aside, then faced Mrs. Gu while wiping the bloodstains from his face and said: "Mom, you’re so old, don’t you know what kind of person my wife is after all these years, or haven’t you realized it in your heart? Saying this is truly against your conscience.
What’s wrong with me doing business? Are you really my mother? What family relies on the son to lose everything? Even my father-in-law sincerely hopes our days will improve, constantly helping us. When you say things like this, I can’t accept it."
Gu Ruhai saw his daughter stepping forward to argue, but Mrs. Gu was not Mr. Gu, she had been domineering at home for many years, she wouldn’t reason with you properly.
Causing a scene was common, and the slap he just received was a regular occurrence. He could take the beating since she was his mother, but his daughter was still young, she couldn’t be allowed to suffer.
So he mustered his strength and pulled Gu Xiaoqing to the side.
Facing Mrs. Gu alone.
Mrs. Gu promptly spat, and a mouthful landed on Gu Ruhai’s face, leaving him embarrassed and unsure how to react.
In front of the three children in the yard, seeing his mother behave this way was truly humiliating.
"I’m your mother, I can’t just sit by while that troublemaker ruins your family, nor can I watch you be controlled by the Li Family. Today, one word from me, stop that business, honestly guard the family industry, there’s enough harvest from the fields to eat, tomorrow take the family’s labor force to help second brother with the wheat harvest in the field." These words were meant to be decisions.
It’s mainly that things have always been handled this way.
Mrs. Gu has always had this demeanor; in her eyes, her words are law, and no one can defy them, even Mr. Gu usually listened to her.
What’s more, this eldest son, surely he would follow her words.
Gu Xiaoqing was outraged, just about to speak, but again Gu Ruhai was faster.
Gu Ruhai wiped the spit from his face, then turned to ask Mr. Gu: "Dad, is this your intention too?"
He already knew the answer but was still unwilling to give up.
Even if only Mr. Gu would offer comforting words, a slightest hint of remorse, Gu Ruhai wouldn’t decide to carry out this plan.
Throughout Gu Ruhai’s forty-odd years of life, he always held his parents in high regard in his heart.
And all these years, Gu Ruhai never received a shred of warmth and care from his parents, always striving to please the two elders, willing to follow willingly their arrangements, just hoping to gain even a fraction of the care and love given to Gu Rushan and Gu Ruhe.
But it seems that doing so always results in cost and no gain.
What it yielded was each time a colder heart.
Perhaps no amount of devotion and warmth could withstand these constant little abrasions.
Mr. Gu was taken aback, not expecting Gu Ruhai to ask him, as it was typically unnecessary for Mr. Gu to speak, only during major events did he exercise authority as family’s patriarch.
But seeing Gu Ruhe with a hint of hopeful eyes and faint eager expression, Mr. Gu seemed instantly fulfilled.
The recent days being thoroughly disheartened and disappointed seemed momentarily elevated, revived with a sense of satisfaction.
That feeling of being the high-standing patriarch of the family seemed to return.
Look, how arrogant you were days ago, now you’re not still hoping for my forgiveness.
Mr. Gu was not oblivious to Gu Ruhai’s desires, which were precisely manipulated over the years, such little expectations and hopes that he carefully controlled all facets of Gu Ruhai’s life.
Just these unattainable desires and craving for fulfillment kept Gu Ruhai compromising on everything.
Yet what initially had a hint of compassion has now morphed in Mr. Gu’s heart into a twisted kind of satisfaction.
For those years passing away and the loss of all authority, only in Gu Ruhai can he find and reclaim this satisfaction.
Mr. Gu coughed and then gravely said: "Eldest, your mother is looking out for you, I mean the same. Listen to us, we won’t harm you, besides your annual yield is enough for the whole family’s expenses. Why take that risk, knowing people’s faces but not hearts? Also with all the work on second brother’s fields, if you don’t help him, are you still brothers?"
These words were already clear.
Gu Rushan heard his matters being mentioned, so he found it hard not to speak up, he sheepishly said with a grin: "Big brother, actually mom and dad aren’t looking out for me, my own family can finish within ten days, I don’t necessarily need big brother’s help, mainly mom and dad are looking out for you, afraid if you lose money, the whole family would suffer. They’re just using me as an excuse."
This was directly distancing himself from the matter, leaving no room for gossip.
Gu Ruhai’s heart grew cold.
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