Aunt Zheng was the first to react, and she quickly went to help the old lady.
"Oh, my arm is broken. Go and ask my brother over. I want to ask him whether he cares about Ye Jintang being such a bastard."
"Old madam, you may have forgotten that my grandfather caught a cold occasionally and has closed the door to thank guests. If you want to sue me, you have to wait until he recovers."
"Someone, please send Mrs. Gu out."
"Let me see who dares to touch me. This is the Wen family. My surname is Wen. Who dares to touch me?"
Mrs. Gu held on to her arms and managed to stand still. The bump she had just made on the canopy bed was not a light one, and her arms were aching now.
"What if it were me, asking the old lady to leave?"
Wen Ziqiu strode into the house and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Ye Jintang was not injured.
He just heard that Mrs. Gu and Ye Jintang came to Gu Wan'er's place together. He was shocked and feared that Ye Jintang would suffer a loss, so he hurried over to take a look.
"Wen Ziqiu, don't forget, you are just my eldest brother's adopted grandson brought back from Bianzhi."
"So what if I raise a grandson? From now on, I will provide for my grandfather until his death. As for the old lady, besides coming to the Wen family to ask for money, what else will she do?"
"Someone is here to take Mrs. Gu back."
Wen Ziqiu gave the order, and several rough ladies came forward immediately.
"Okay, very good, Wen Ziqiu, just wait for me."
Seeing that Wen Ziqiu and Ye Jintang were obviously colluding, Mrs. Gu couldn't please her if she continued to stay here, so she could only glare at them fiercely and leave unwillingly.
"Jintang, are you okay?"
When Wen Ziqiu saw Ye Jintang holding a dagger in his hand, he immediately became vigilant.
"It's okay, Mrs. Gu can't get any advantage from me."
"It's okay."
Wen Ziqiu's eyes never left Ye Jintang from the moment he entered the room.
It is said that the authorities are obsessed with the onlookers. Ye Jintang felt nothing, but Gu Wan'er on the side saw the clues.
She felt a little bitter in her heart, because the man she asked for, but she couldn't get it, Ye Jintang regarded him as her brother.
"Cousin, aren't you going to sort out the bills that the Gu family has spent on the Wen family over the years? How are you doing?"
"Just sort out some accounts that can be checked immediately. Guess how much money the Gu family has taken from the Wen family in the past ten years."
"One hundred thousand taels?"
Tian Qin's money was still very valuable and its purchasing power was strong. No matter how many concubines Gu Xiucai raised, he probably wouldn't be able to spend much money.
"If it's one hundred thousand taels, I wouldn't be surprised. It's 800,000 taels."
"Do you know how much 800,000 taels is? The current monthly income of the imperial concubine is only 800 taels. She, a scholar, uses 80,000 taels a year, which is more than the imperial concubine."
The Wen family is a wealthy man in Xingnan City, but 800,000 taels of silver is not a small sum. If this continues, the Wen family's wealth will really not be as good as that of someone directly named Gu Lai.
"My grandmother is very frugal on weekdays. My grandfather's concubines and concubines live only two months a month. How could she spend 80,000 taels of silver a year?"
Gu Wan'er grew up in the back house of the Gu family, and she knew the situation at home best. She only bought two clothes in one season, and she didn't look like her family was well-off.
"There is only one possibility. Mrs. Gu has hidden all the money."
"You are really a miser. There is no need to put away all the money."
Wen Ziqiu gritted his teeth, Mrs. Gu was simply worse than a blood-sucking leech.
"Tomorrow I will send a copy of the bill to the Gu family, and another copy to the clan elder."
"Then there will be a show."
After Wen Ziqiu finished talking about the bill, he looked at Gu Wan'er.
"These two people, I helped my cousin look at two pretty good families. One is Zhang Juren from the west of the city. He is a few years older than you. There is only an old mother and no one else in the family. He will participate in the Spring Festival next year. If he can win the Jinshi , you will be the official wife from now on."
"The other one is Mr. Wu from the east of the city. I have some business dealings with the Wu family, and I have a good impression of Mr. Wu."
One in the east of the city and the other in the west were two completely different lives. Wen Ziqiu couldn't let Gu Wan'er make the decision, so he could only let her choose.
"That leaves me with a choice."
Gu Wan'er also had some difficulties.
She was afraid of following Mrs. Gu's path, and she was also afraid of marrying Mr. Wu and being trapped in the backyard for the rest of her life, fighting with those warblers and swallows all day long.
After much deliberation, she finally chose Zhang Juren. Even if she didn't win the Jinshi, she could just donate to become a minor official, and her future life would not be bad.
"Okay, then the matter is settled. You will live in the Wen family until the marriage is finalized. When you get married later, you can just go to the Gu family for a formality."
"Thank you, cousin."
"No need to be polite."
Wen Ziqiu was very polite to Gu Wan'er, which made Gu Wan'er feel sad.
Mrs. Gu suffered a big loss at the hands of Ye Jintang, so naturally she would not let her go easily.
She came to cause trouble again. Without seeing Mr. Wen, she started crying at the door of the Wen family, saying that Wen Ziqiu had acquired the Wen family property and began to disown her as her aunt.
Wen Ziqiu gave her the bill directly. If she dared to make trouble, he would read the details on the bill to everyone carefully in front of everyone.
"This is all false. Wen Ziqiu, you are so unconscionable. You have just taken over the Wen family's business and you don't recognize me. I am your grandfather's biological sister."
Mrs. Gu stood at the door of the Wen family's mansion, crying at the top of her voice.
She doesn't want that face and wants to fight to the death with the Wen family.
She hadn't seen Mr. Wen in the past few days. She really doubted whether Mr. Wen had been harmed by Wen Ziqiu.
"Our Wen family has accounts no matter what we do. I can bring out all the accounts that you have come to the Wen family to ask for money in the past ten years and let you check them one by one."
Wen Ziqiu also gave several clan elders a bill. They heard that Mrs. Gu went to the Wen family mansion to cause trouble, and they all came uninvited.
Ye Jintang, who was hiding behind the door and watching the excitement, did not expect that the elders of the Wen family were so powerful in fighting. After just two cups of tea, Mrs. Gu fainted from anger and was rushed to the hospital by the Gu family.
"Hey, there is no chance. I thought Mrs. Gu was so powerful, but she turned out to be a coward."
Liuli, who was standing next to Ye Jintang, said with a smile, "It's not that Mrs. Gu is a coward, it's that the elders of the Wen family are really good at talking."
"Well, all of you clan elders used to be in business. If you don't talk well, you won't make any money."
Mr. Wen knew everything about what happened at the door of Wen's house, but he did not show up and allowed Mrs. Gu to do whatever she wanted.
Because he knew that as soon as he showed up, Madam Gu would become even more evil.
Ye Jintang turned around and returned to the small courtyard where he lived.
Mrs. Gu will definitely not spit out the money she got from the Wen family again.
But Ye Jintang would not make it easy for her.
"Wuwei, go to Gu's house and keep an eye on her to see where Mrs. Gu hides her money."
"Yes, little one, go right here."
When Zhou Wuwei heard what Ye Jintang said, he vaguely guessed that Ye Jintang wanted to give Mrs. Gu's small treasury a pot.
He also heard some of Mrs. Gu's scolding Ye Jintang outside the door that day.
He dared to scold his master so harshly, but it was Zhou Wuwei's good intention that he didn't set the Gu family on fire.
