NOVEL ONLINE FREE 5: Paying to Get In
Being approached by someone on his way back to the Gu household made Gu Yu quicken his pace toward home, to avoid meeting anyone else who might call him “Goudan.”
But Gu Yu had overestimated his sickly body; as soon as he sped up, he became breathless and panting.
After resting twice along the way, Gu Yu finally arrived at the entrance to the Gu family yard.
Calling it a yard entrance was generous—it was just a few rotten wooden poles erected around the thatched cottage, serving as a makeshift fence… However, seeing how the thatched cottage had gaps everywhere for the wind to blow through, there wasn’t much point in having this enclosure.
When the Gu family patriarch was alive, this place probably didn’t look like this. Over the years, people must have stolen things frequently, resulting in there being nothing left to steal now.
Pondering these thoughts, Gu Yu slowly shuffled to the yard, intending to enter the thatched cottage to see if his wife had returned.
Having woken early in the morning and gone straight to the village, he hadn’t spent much time at the Gu residence.
Not having the original body’s memories was troublesome…
“I have to hide this well, so brother-in-law can’t steal it away. He absolutely must not find it!”
Just as Gu Yu was about to enter the thatched cottage, he suddenly heard a child’s naive voice from the side of the cottage coming from the yard.
The words “brother-in-law” in particular made Gu Yu narrow his eyes slightly, thinking it might be his young brother-in-law speaking.
“Qingheng, hiding it is useless. If he finds it, he’ll take it anyway.”
“Hmph, Sister, brother-in-law married into our family! You’re the household head now—you can’t indulge him!”
“…”
“Even if brother-in-law is good-looking, you can’t be so unprincipled. Now people in the village are saying… after brother-in-law came to our family, he’s been subsidizing the old Yang family so they eat meat every day, but that’s all from the prey you hunt with such effort, Sister!”
Gu Yu didn’t immediately appear before the siblings. Hidden in a corner of the thatched cottage, he quietly listened to their conversation, extracting useful information.
According to Gu Qingheng, although Gu Yu’s previous self had married into the Gu family, he hadn’t cut ties with the old Yang household.
This explained why the fat woman he met on the way had looked at him with schadenfreude.
She probably knew that Gu Yu had been taking things from the Gu family and eagerly bringing gifts to the old Yang family, trying to fulfill his filial duties to his father and himself.
He completely disregarded how the Gu family was living, only thinking about compensating the old Yang household.
Thinking of this, Gu Yu couldn’t help but shake his head, reflecting on how foolishly filial this body’s original owner had been.
He might not even survive the winter, yet still had the heart to send things to the old Yang household… Not to mention, once winter arrived, Gu Yu was certain that the old Yang household would absolutely refuse to take in the three dependents.
Even if they froze or starved to death, they were surnamed Gu, not Yang.
On this point, although Gu Yu hadn’t met anyone from the old Yang household since his transmigration, just looking at the dilapidated house they were living in now, he knew that his relatives had no intention of looking after them.
Otherwise, life wouldn’t be so difficult now, unable to even guarantee enough food.
Gu Yu had been hungry since waking up until now, making his stomach ache subtly.
Given this situation, Gu Yu would no longer care about those so-called relatives.
Or rather, if not for the requirement of the space, Gu Yu wouldn’t even want to care for his current wife.
There was no help for it—Gu Yu’s emotionally detached personality couldn’t be controlled by blood relations or filial piety.