From Hoarding to Time-Travel: My Supplies Saved Him

Chapter 878 -881: Fulfillment

Song Xiuyang’s arm was still in Ming Dan’s grip. She had no idea where the other woman got the strength to pinch her so painfully.

Hearing Liu Liu’s words now, her tears began to fall again.

“I didn’t do it on purpose. I just saw that Seventh Aunt agreed with me earlier, and got a bit excited for a moment…”

“When did I ever agree with you?” Jin Qianqian asked.

Since she walked in, she hadn’t spoken more than a couple of sentences. This woman really knew how to twist the truth.

Song Xiuyang said, “When my mother-in-law wanted to divorce me, Seventh Aunt clearly frowned in displeasure.”

“Then you completely misunderstood,” Jin Qianqian replied. “I was thinking about something else.

“Do you want to know how other families would deal with someone as unreasonable as you?”

Forgetting the pain in her arm, Song Xiuyang reflexively asked, “How?”

“Even if they don’t divorce you, you’d be sent to the family temple,” Jin Qianqian said, looking at her coldly. “Just based on your disrespect toward your elders just now, you wouldn’t be allowed out of the family temple for at least three years.”

Song Xiuyang’s expression changed slightly. The Gu family didn’t have a family temple, but as long as this Seventh Aunt wanted one, there would surely be one by tomorrow.

Three years was too long. Too many things could change in that time; she couldn’t afford to take that gamble.

“Ming Dan, let her go. Remember to be more alert next time. If this happens again, just cripple her.” Jin Qianqian kept her eyes on Song Xiuyang, and her words chilled her to the bone.

In the past, she might have harbored the illusion that the elders from the separated branches of the family couldn’t control her.

But after what happened last time, the moment Seventh Uncle spoke up, didn’t Le Family still get beaten with boards? Let alone a niece-in-law like her.

Jin Qianqian didn’t know what she was thinking, otherwise she would have scoffed at it. Beating women was impossible; they preferred to nip threats in the bud.

If she dared to do anything out of line again, Gaoling Village wouldn’t tolerate her either.

“I actually think Old Seventh’s wife’s suggestion is quite good,” Li Cuicui said. “Even though we don’t have a family temple, there is a nunnery not too far away, just over a dozen miles from here. I suppose you could go there for some quiet reflection.”

Everyone finally remembered it, but that nunnery was incredibly dilapidated. Usually, there were only a few old nuns guarding the place. With absolutely no incense offerings on regular days, they had to rely on reclaiming wasteland in the back mountain and doing manual labor just to survive.

As daughters-in-law of the Gu family, they were very familiar with the area within Fang Yuan of a dozen miles. Their hearts chilled at the thought. No matter how many objections they had, they could only swallow them down for now.

Song Xiuyang knew without looking that everyone had backed down. Just as she was thinking of how to stoke the fires again, she heard Jin Qianqian say coldly, “You’ve been married into the Gu family for so many years, and I’ve often seen you auditing classes at the clan school. I’m sure the nanny has taught you some basic etiquette. If you don’t want to embarrass your husbands when you go out in the future, then use your brains more and stop blindly following what others say.”

At Jin Qianqian’s pointed final glance, everyone snapped out of their daze.

At this moment, they all understood that they had been used as someone else’s blade today.

They felt remorseful in their hearts. They each had their own sons by their sides; why did they need to worry about such groundless matters?

Seeing that they all understood, Jin Qianqian said no more.

After all, these women had their own proper mothers-in-law; it wasn’t her place to worry about them.

Xie Ruyi saw things with crystal clarity. Since it was her own daughter-in-law, it had been awkward for her to point it out directly. But now that Jin Qianqian had exposed it, she let out a sigh.

She didn’t know how to deal with this Song Family anymore. She only hoped that Old Third’s birthday next year would come quickly. When the time came, they would see whether to divorce her or take in an equal wife.

“Do you have any further objections now?” In the past, Li Cuicui had always been very generous with her daughters-in-law, so naturally, she wouldn’t be overly demanding of her granddaughters-in-law.

Now that the matter had blown up, in her eyes, arguments were inevitable in life. Since things had calmed down, she merely wanted to hear if these people had changed their minds.

“It’s all your granddaughter-in-law’s fault,” Gu Letian’s wife, Mrs. Gu Ma, said first as the eldest sister-in-law. “It was my foolish thinking. I will certainly stay home, take care of the children, serve our parents and elders, and wait for my husband to return.”

Mrs. Gu Xie and the others also hurriedly made their promises. They had indeed been too reckless this time.

This sudden change left them panicking for a moment, terrified that Gu Letian and his brothers might have other thoughts about them due to their change in status.

Because they had originally been so flustered, it only took a few provocative words from Song Family for them to cause a scene.

They were merely clinging to a stroke of luck, thinking that if everyone united their goals, the elders wouldn’t reject them.

The prospect of being able to go out and become official family wives like Seventh Aunt had long set their hearts ablaze, which was why they had caused a fuss with total disregard for the consequences.

Now, they all regretted it. They hadn’t left a good impression on the elders, and they didn’t know if this would affect the marital affection they had built over so many years.

The more everyone thought about it, the more regretful they felt, and the guilt on their faces grew deeper and deeper.

Li Cuicui nodded secretly. These granddaughters-in-law were not bad choices. Although their knowledge and abilities couldn’t compare to Old Seventh’s wife, at least they could listen to advice.

She frowned as she looked at Song Family, thinking that it might not be long before she, an old woman, would have to play the villain once.

Just as she was about to speak, Song Xiuyang suddenly knelt in front of them. “Elders, Xiuxiang has a bitter fate. After so many years without bearing fruit, my husband and I are left without a single child.

“Since my two sisters-in-law are unwilling to let me adopt one of their children, I only hope to have a biological child with Le Family.

“Le Family’s departure has no return date, and my youth is fading. I beg the elders to take pity on me and let me go out together with Le Family!”

As long as she could get out of this village, she would try her hardest to find a way to persuade Le Family not to take an equal wife or a concubine. Even if it came down to the final moment, she wanted to personally oversee the last hurdle and make the selection herself.

She even harbored dark thoughts that, if worst came to worst, she would buy a simple, honest servant girl and keep the child while getting rid of the mother.

Thinking about how Le Family had sought a child for many years without success, Xie Ruyi’s heart actually softened a little.

Jin Qianqian suddenly covered her mouth and laughed. “You should know that the Rong Dynasty rules the world with filial piety. This time, if the Holy Emperor hadn’t shown grace and made an exception to employ the young men of the Gu family, the brothers would still be honestly observing mourning in the village.

“Even I am still staying in the village to observe the mourning period. I didn’t expect a niece-in-law to be bolder than me and actually dare to say such things. Such a breach of etiquette might bring disaster upon the Gu family.”

Everyone understood the implied meaning: even a First-rank Lady was staying home to obediently observe the mourning period, yet you, a family member of a low-ranking official, dared to jump around like this.

“If you don’t want to live in the village, leaving isn’t entirely out of the question,” Li Cuicui said. In her eyes, nothing was more important than her children and grandchildren, and her voice grew increasingly cold.

Song Xiuyang didn’t register the tone for a moment and thought it was an agreement. With a face full of pleasant surprise, she said, “Grandma, you also agree to let me go out with them? Thank you, Grandma…”

“Since you don’t want to observe the mourning period for my old man, it seems you don’t want to be a member of my Gu Family,” Li Cuicui said. “If that’s the case, this old woman won’t force you.

“I’ll put my pride on the line and go to the clan elders to request a letter of divorce for you, to reward all your painstaking efforts.”