The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 181 - 180: Why So?

Chapter 181: Chapter 180: Why So?

Gu Feng and the elder Huang Family couple lived in the main house, while the second youngest Gu brother’s family lived in the east wing of the backyard, and the third youngest Gu lived in the west wing, separated by only a wall. The noisy commotion had awakened everyone in the entire backyard.

The elder Mrs. Huang had been startled awake in the middle of the night, and when she got angry, her voice was not small. Without even leaving her room, she yelled toward the west wing.

"You there in the third brother’s house, making a ruckus in the dead of night instead of sleeping. What are you lamenting for? Do you even want to harvest the rice in the fields tomorrow?"

The whole family went to the third brother Gu’s courtyard to see what the fuss was about. Upon entering the backyard, they saw the third brother Gu’s wife, Meng Qiuju, crying fiercely! That ghostly wailing turned out to be her howling.

It was rare to witness such a scene of mockery in the third brother’s house, and Huang Xiangwen, unable to suppress her laughter, was trying hard to hold it in due to the need to maintain appearances.

"Third brother’s wife, why are you crying in the middle of the night instead of sleeping? Your father and I are not dead yet."

Gu Feng, his face full of fury, glared at his wife, and Gu Feng, following behind and sensing that something was amiss, coughed loudly and asked, "What exactly is going on? Third brother’s wife, you usually seem sensible. What’s so urgent that you must cry about it in the courtyard now instead of waiting until tomorrow?"

Gu Feng was considered the most reasonable in the family. Meng Qiuju knelt before Gu Feng and began pouring her heart out in tears and snot.

"Father, it’s not that I don’t want to sleep, it’s Gu Wu. He dragged me out to the courtyard and wouldn’t let me enter the house..."

Everyone looked puzzled. What on earth was the third brother Gu doing, tormenting his wife in the middle of the night?

Huang Xiangwen, with her sharp eyes, immediately noticed the handprint on Meng Qiuju’s face and exclaimed in shock, "My heavens, Qiuju, what happened to your face? There’s a handprint."

Now that it was clear there was a handprint, what else could it be?

Meng Qiuju hurriedly covered her face with her hands.

"Indeed, there is! Third brother, did you hit your wife?" the elder Mrs. Huang also turned her head to look.

"Third brother, what’s going on?" Gu Feng’s expression darkened as he questioned the third youngest Gu.

This third brother was much more composed than the second; it would not have been surprising for the latter to do such a peculiar thing, but it was very strange for the always steady third brother to do such a thing.

"Ah!" Gu Feng sighed heavily and knelt before Gu Feng with a thud, exclaiming loudly, "Father, it’s all my fault. I failed to manage my wife and daughter, and I have disgraced our Gu Family!"

The whole family’s expression turned solemn, waiting for the third brother Gu to explain in detail.

As it turned out, it all had to do with the Bun Shop in town coming tomorrow to ask for a marriage proposal.

Gu Xiaoqing threw tantrums, claiming she already belonged to Shunzi, and that if she accepted the marriage proposal from the Bun Shop in town, she could only drown herself in the river.

After causing a scene in the evening, she was confined to the house and slapped by the third youngest Gu. Overwhelmed with anger and not mindful of his strength, he knocked her unconscious with a slap.

Meng Qiuju intervened and also suffered, getting hit as well; that wasn’t the end of it, she was then chased out to the courtyard and wasn’t allowed to reenter the house, and that’s what aroused the whole family.

After hearing all this, Gu Feng had an extremely grim look on his face.

Such a scandal involving an unmarried young woman, and the entire family couldn’t hold their heads up.

Moreover, they had already made arrangements with the Bun Shop in town, and tomorrow, the matchmaker would come with the proposal. Changing their minds now, what kind of behavior was that!

The family inwardly clicked their tongues, at a loss for words.

The courtyard fell silent enough to hear a pin drop; all eyes turned to Gu Feng, the family pillar. After a while, Gu Feng’s aged voice finally broke the silence.