She knew long ago that people from the Zhou Family and Lin Family had come, but she guessed they had come to borrow silver. Fearing her own silver would not be safe, she hid at home and didn’t come.

But Little Xiao Ji ran to call her, saying Xiao Yu wanted her to come over. Mrs. Chen understood in seconds; Little Xiao Yu didn’t want to scold people, she wanted her to do it. Why bother to be polite, just scold.

Mrs. Zhou Hu was stunned by the scolding, looking at the still tightly closed door and asked, "Who is this? How can she be so rude?"

"Pft, you of the Zhou Family, saying that without shame, who exactly is the rude one?" After scolding, Mrs. Chen proudly said, "Who am I? I am Mrs. Gu Chen, the new Scholar’s aunt. You still remember my nephew, right? His name is Gu Dexing, and this time he passed the Scholar exam, and got engaged to the eldest lady of the wealthy Xu Family from the county."

"Haha, I’m not bragging, but my nephew is truly promising. Others have taken the exam from their teens until they are buried without passing, but he passed in his early twenties. What kind of fate is this? The future niece-in-law is also filial, often sending things to our home. Not long ago, afraid that I’d get tired, she specially sent me a box of cubilose."

"Do you know what cubilose is? It’s something only the royal family gets to eat..."

With a creak, Gu Jinli opened the side room door, smiling at Mrs. Chen, "Aunt Da Gui, come in first."

Come in and boast more.

Turning to Zezi who ran over to check the situation, she said, "Tell Big Brother there’s nothing wrong here, let him handle the guest hall."

With Zezi here, surely Big Brother has rushed back from Uncle Shang’s place, she’s relieved.

Big Brother said last night, he’d go to Uncle Shang’s place this morning, and told Uncle Shang not to lend out the silver for a few days.

Zezi nodded after hearing and turned back to the main room.

The men of the Zhou Family wanted to run over to see, but unfortunately were tripped by Feng Lian and Erqing, nearly falling.

The two young boys of the Zhou Family were somewhat angry, they merely heard Mrs. Zhou Hu’s voice and worried for her, wanted to go over and take a look, but the Gu Family’s servants tripped them like this, abominable.

However, Third Grandpa and Gu Dashan had long told them the side room on the right was for female guests, advised them not to go over.

Yet they still wanted to go see, see what? See how your mother is being scolded?

Finally, Young Master Zhou couldn’t sit still, stood up, grabbed his two cousins, "Second Brother, Third Brother, Aunt Gu has a good temperament, Second Aunt will be fine."

Both Zhou Erlang and Zhou Sanlang were unhappy, but thinking of Young Master Zhou’s parents dying while fleeing famine, his marriage being held back by his parents, and him staying single until they marry, they became happy again.

Gu Jin’an glanced at Young Master Zhou, at last feeling the Old Zhou Family still had hope.

...

Soon, Erqing returned to the side room, nodded at Gu Jinli.

Mrs. Zhou Hu was still angry, said to Mrs. Chen, "Gu Family sister-in-law, Sister-in-law knows your family has prospered, but you can’t randomly scold people because of having money, right?"

"Ha, you asked for it!" Mrs. Chen was fearless in quarrels, mercilessly exposed Mrs. Zhou Hu, "You come to borrow silver, but you can’t take this opportunity to have other schemes, even pretending to be seniors in the family, we can’t tolerate you!"

Mrs. Zhou Hu was hit right on her mind, face flushed, but she didn’t want things to get too tense, looked at Mrs. Cui and said, "Gu Family’s sister-in-law, I know your family’s days are good, it’s..."

"The good days of my family are also earned through hard work." Mrs. Cui isn’t foolish, knew Mrs. Zhou Hu was secretly harboring unspeakable motives, was very angry, didn’t give Mrs. Zhou Hu a chance to say more nonsense.

Her two daughters finally settled marriage, she just managed to sleep soundly, does Mrs. Zhou Hu intend for her to lose sleep?

Gu Jinli laughed, Mother, not bad, it’s exactly this kind of momentum needed, living in the countryside, being bolder was better than being silent.

Mrs. Zhou Hu was blocked, stammered, knowing she truly angered Mrs. Cui, dared not make sneaky comments, wept and said, "Gu Sister-in-law, Sister-in-law knows she doesn’t speak well, but your family must lend us money, otherwise my family will be taken by the government for execution."

Mrs. Zhou Hu already calculated, just borrowing two hundred taels of silver from Mrs. Cui, fifty taels for paying taxes, fifty taels for building a new house, fifty taels for finding wives for her two sons and buying land, the rest for doing business.

She couldn’t believe it, as the Gu Family set up a business, she believed her family could too. And with the Gu Family so wealthy, they shouldn’t care about such two hundred taels of silver, once she gets the money, delaying ten or eight years without repaying, the Gu Family should have forgotten.

Unfortunately, she imagined too beautifully, Gu Jinli said, "Silver, my family can’t lend."

"Why?!" Mrs. Zhou Hu got anxious, glared at Gu Jinli, can’t you shut up and not speak?

Gu Jinli indicated, she couldn’t.

"The folks in ten miles and eight villages don’t have silver to pay taxes, and your two families came so brazenly, now don’t know being watched by how many villages. If my family lends silver to you, it won’t take half a day before the whole Da Feng Village gets surrounded, come borrowing silver from us, what will we do then?"

She continued, "This is still secondary, the important thing is those evil-minded scoundrels, seeing my family lending out so much silver, what if they gather people to the village to rob money? Wealth should not be shown, especially at times like this, so my family can’t lend silver to you, your trip is futile."

This hole can’t be opened, once opened, it will bring endless trouble.

"Actually, if you two families quietly sent someone to inform Third Grandpa and Third Grandma, they could secretly lend silver to you, but now with such commotion, for self-protection, even if we wanted to lend money to you, it’s impossible."

...

In the guest hall, Gu Jin’an said the same.

Elder Zhou was stunned, angrily said, "Young Gu, what do you mean by this? You just won’t lend?"

Gu Jin’an nodded, "To keep the house peaceful, not targeted by the folks in ten miles and eight villages, this silver, my family can’t lend."

"You!" Elder Zhou fuming with rage, cried a scene, and still got such words in the end, isn’t this trip wasted?

No, this is life-saving silver, Elder Zhou didn’t want to return empty-handed, looked at Third Grandma and said, "Sister-in-law Gu, I know you have a kind heart, you must help us, we don’t want much, fifty taels each family is enough. Just a hundred taels of silver can save our two families, it’s great fortune, maybe after this good deed your family can find Gu Fuya."

While fleeing famine, Third Grandpa and Third Grandma were inquiring about Gu Fuya’s family, so Elder Zhou and Elder Lin both knew.

Third Grandma was stunned, thought of Fuya’s family, eyes turned red, but shook her head and said, "No, this silver can’t be lent to you."

She already made a big mistake letting Zhou and Lin families in, after Erqing girl reminded her, if she still lent out silver, that would be one mistake after another.

Fuya is important, but Dashan’s family is also important to her.

Gu Jin’an didn’t want Third Grandma to be troubled, gave Elder Zhou and Elder Lin a definitive answer: "Elder Zhou, Elder Lin, don’t hurry, although my family can’t lend money to you, but in Tianfu County, there are people who can."

He told them about the new bank opening in the county, specifically lending money to farmers to pay taxes.