Chapter 111: Chapter 111 Giving Two DustpansHuang Xiangwen’s eyes burst with malevolence as she dragged the old Huang with her, "Mother, look, Youyou has grown up looking like a rich young lady from the city, not at all like a rural child! Isn’t this all thanks to our Gu Family that she was raised so well? But she’s so ungrateful, not even remembering our kindness, and instead blames us for treating her poorly."

    Uh... as if the meat on her bones grew in the Gu Family’s home? Gu Youyou sneered!

    "Mother, you tell me, isn’t father always talking about sending the best food to Youyou’s room for every meal? At your and father’s advanced age, you’ve never had a meal better than hers!"

    Heh, the food brought to her might have been fine, but whether it was fine once eaten, that remained to be seen.

    However, Huang Xiangwen’s last few words did strike a chord with the old Huang.

    Indeed, that old fool at home is so biased, always favoring this sickly child with anything good.

    Now that she’s recovered, she doesn’t show any gratitude at all.

    She, Huang Xiangwen, nodded in agreement and looked at Gu Youyou with a fierce light in her eyes, "Your second aunt is right, our family has given you anything good we had. And how do you repay us? You get married and then disown us, don’t you? Such ingratitude is a curse from heaven itself!"

    Gu Youyou sneered and looked at Huang Xiangwen, who stood behind the old Huang, "Grandmother, you’re mistaken, I won’t be struck by lightning from heaven, it’s liars who get struck by lightning! Isn’t that right, Huang Xiangwen?"

    Huang Xiangwen stomped her foot and cursed, "You little wretch, what do you mean by that?"

    Gu Youyou spoke unhurriedly, "You know very well what I mean, there’s no point in pretending otherwise. It’s all in the past now, you wouldn’t want to spell things out too clearly, would you!"

    "You..."

    The old Huang knew that her daughters-in-law outwardly obeyed but secretly opposed, skimping on Gu Youyou’s food, but she did not know about Huang Xiangwen giving Gu Youyou rat poison, nor did she know the extent of the skimping.

    So when Gu Youyou voiced these words, she just snorted and put on an elder’s airs, "There’s a saying, ’At the bedside of a chronic illness, there is no filial child’, and you’re just a niece. After looking after you for so many years, it’s understandable that your aunt has some complaints, and sometimes may not do things quite right, but your total lack of recognition, isn’t that a bit too much?"

    "Heh heh..."

    Gu Youyou let out a dry laugh!

    She could understand the saying, ’At the bedside of a chronic illness, there is no filial child’. She could understand when the family was poor and hungry, they would steal her portion of the meal. They got tired of looking after her and wished she would die sooner, even giving her rat poison she could comprehend!

    But how could you, Huang Xiangwen, explain the numerous times you poured out the food rather than giving it to me?

    Why would you administer rat poison neither early nor late, but just before my wedding? How do you explain that?

    Plainly speaking, you have no conscience, after all those years of service, what you coveted was the silver from the Lin Family and the possessions left by my parents. Giving me a bowl of rat poison on my way out, what you eyed was nothing more than those dowries!

    Even if everything you, Huang Xiangwen, did could be understood, that doesn’t stop me—that Gu Youyou—from hating you all.

    Had it not been for your deliberate humiliations, she could have held on for another half a year, persisted until she could leave that haunted house!

    The old Huang, her eyes gleaming at the sight of the new winnowing baskets, was already putting aside the recent unpleasantness, busily saying, "Since you’ve said so yourself, it’s all in the past now, let’s not bring up those matters. I came today to take two winnowing baskets! All the baskets at our house are broken, and we have so much land and so much work, and no time for repairs. I see you’ve got plenty of baskets here, surely you can spare one or two, right?"

    "No way!" Gu Youyou refused without hesitation!

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