Chapter 50: The Gu Family Gets Smashed Again

It can only be said that the Hu family and the Gu family, as neighbors for twenty or thirty years, really knew how to get under each other’s skin.

A family with a good reputation, even if they didn’t have relatives to help them, their friends and neighbors would definitely lend a hand.

If Gu Zhenhua was at home, outsiders wouldn’t dare to cause trouble, he could call a lot of brothers with a shout.

As for Gu Fugen and his wife, they didn’t have that kind of social circle because they had offended all the neighbors in the courtyard.

Whenever anyone in the courtyard had good food, Gu Fugen would want to go and have a bite, and he would also criticize other women who were capable, saying they weren’t well-behaved. Gu Chouni would borrow a bowl of rice from someone else, and when she returned it, she would only return half a bowl. The money she borrowed also had to be chased for a long time before she would return it.

Besides, people borrowed money to buy jobs, get married, and do proper things. Gu Chouni borrowed money because: her husband wanted to eat malt milk extract, her husband wanted to buy new clothes…

Whose hard-earned money was meant to be enjoyed by others?

After borrowing money a few times from those who were familiar with them, no one was willing to deal with the Gu family anymore.

So this time, when the Gu family was smashed, Gu Chouni wanted to borrow money to repair the things in the house, but no one was willing to lend her any.

“Just borrow twenty yuan to tide me over, I’ll pay you back next month when I get my salary.”

The person who was asked didn’t even want to make an excuse, they directly replied, “No money. I’m not lending you any. Go find someone else.”

Gu Chouni went out and came back, she hadn’t borrowed a single cent.

“You useless thing. You can’t even borrow this little bit of money, we’ve raised you for nothing, the Gu family.” Gu Fugen was furious, he scolded, “The house is in such a mess, we can’t afford to hire someone, are you going to repair it yourself?”

Gu Chouni didn’t dare to speak, she just found a hammer and silently started to tap the legs of the bed.

“Can you fix wood, can you fix electrical appliances? Can you fix my fan and radio for me?” Gu Fugen continued to ask.

After listening, Gu Chouni went to get a screwdriver, trying to dismantle the fan. After she took the fan apart, she concluded, “I’m a bit clumsy, I can’t fix this.”

“You know you can’t do it, so don’t touch it. You’ll make things worse the more you fix them.” Gu Fugen stomped his foot in anger and slapped Gu Chouni’s arm hard.

“Ouch~ Don’t hit me, I have a wound on my arm, that bitch Hu Meili hit me hard.”

“It’s not like Hu Shuangxi didn’t hit me hard. My whole body still hurts.”

Xu Xiaodong listened to her in-laws’ conversation and fell into deep thought.

Her family lived far away, in the countryside, it would take two or three hours to walk over. She couldn’t rely on her family all the time, she also wanted to be like Lin Xiangnan, beat the Gu family hard once, so that they would learn their lesson.

She wasn’t from this street, the aunties from the street office and the local police might not give her face, so when she beat them up, her family couldn’t hit them hard, they could only smash things.

Since she wanted to make the Gu family feel the pain, Xu Xiaodong thought that she would wait until the Gu family had tidied up the house, and then she would ask her family to come and smash it.

But now, looking at the situation at home, Xu Xiaodong also felt a little sorry for the money.

A broken home is worth a thousand pieces of gold, to re-furnish this house, it would cost at least two months’ salary. If they bought a new fan, kettle, and other furniture, it would cost even more.

The family’s finances were tight, and Xu Xiaodong and her two daughters would also go hungry.

If that was the case, she might as well let people directly smash these broken things. Although the deterrent effect was a little weaker, it could save the trouble of re-furnishing the house.

Thinking of this, Xu Xiaodong couldn’t help but sigh, she was still a good daughter-in-law who cared about her in-laws.

Since she had made up her mind, Xu Xiaodong started to actively look for trouble.

Seeing Gu Chouni repairing the bed, Xu Xiaodong smiled and quickly went to help.

With one swing of the hammer, the hammer accidentally slipped out of her hand and hit Gu Fugen’s favorite radio, the already damaged thing was directly broken in half.

“You useless, stupid idiot, who told you to hammer like that? I’ll divorce you, you stupid fool, sooner or later.” Gu Chouni’s scolding immediately rang out.

“I didn’t mean to. I’ve already given birth to two children for the Gu family, Mom, you still want to drive me away.” Xu Xiaodong begged loudly, then deliberately threatened deliberately in a wronged manner “It’s not like I don’t have parents to back me up. If you say this, aren’t you afraid that my family will come and reason with you like the Hu family?”

Gu Chouni sneered, “If you have the guts, let your parents come. A bunch of country bumpkins, they want to lord it over me, they’re dreaming.”

Gu Chouni’s voice was loud, she didn’t have any scruples when she mocked Xu Xiaodong, everyone in the courtyard heard her words.

Some people didn’t like Gu Chouni, but after all, she was the mother-in-law, they couldn’t help but advise, “Gu Chouni, shut your mouth. How can you talk to your child like that? You’ll regret it when Xu’s family really comes.”

Xu Xiaodong had been married to the Gu family for a few years, she had married into the city from the countryside, it was a step up for her, so she had always been cautious. The Gu family men were spineless, they hadn’t fought with anyone, they only knew how to scold the women in the family, so Xu Xiaodong had never known the family’s true nature.

Now she saw clearly, the Gu family wasn’t a bunch of tigers, they were just a bunch of bluffing cats.

Now that she knew their true nature, Xu Xiaodong wasn’t going to put up with it anymore.

They were all in-laws, why did Gu Chouni dare not provoke the Hu family, but she was so bold when it came to scolding her. Her family wasn’t a pushover in the brigade either.

So on Sunday, the Gu family was once again a scene of chaos.

The broken things in the house that hadn’t been repaired were completely destroyed.

Lin Xiangxi was playing outside, when he heard that the Gu family was smashed again, he rode his bicycle as fast as he could, rushing home to tell Lin Xiangnan and Hu Meili.

“The Gu family is fighting again.”

As soon as Hu Meili heard this, she immediately threw the clothes she was washing into the basin, dried her hands, and stood up, “Let’s go, let’s go watch the fun.”

Lin Xiangnan was bored, when she heard Lin Xiangxi’s words, she also quickly came down from upstairs, ready to go and eat melon.

Lin Xiangnan was the strongest in the family, so she took the bicycle, Hu Meili sat behind, Lin Xiangxi sat on the front handlebar, they went to the Gu family’s house with an overload.

When they arrived, the Gu family was in a lively state.

Lin Xiangnan took a handful of melon seeds and milk candy from her pocket, gave some to Hu Meili and Lin Xiangxi, and then started to eat melon seeds while watching the fun.

“You’re watching the fun and you brought melon seeds, why don’t you bring a watermelon?” Hu Meili nagged, while taking the melon seeds, she watched and commented, “Crunching~ crunching~ This Gu Chouni is actually quite strong, it’s just that her men are useless, ugh~, she can’t fight against four hands alone, crunching~ crunching~”

Hu Meili had acquaintances in this courtyard, when the other party saw her, they greeted her to their door and handed her two small stools, “Come on, sit here and watch, this is a good spot.”

The location was indeed quite good. Lin Xiangnan had just sat down and eaten two melon seeds, when she turned her head and met Gu Chouni’s gaze.

Lin Xiangnan blinked her eyes, ‘pfft~’, she spat out the melon seed shells in her mouth.