[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law":3,"chapter-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-65":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1543500,2006,"Chapter 65 - 65 65 Elder Maternal Aunt","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-65",65,"\u003Cp>65: Chapter 65: Elder Maternal Aunt 65: Chapter 65: Elder Maternal Aunt Gu Xiaolian, who was nearby, quickly stood up and softly greeted her aunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, so it’s my aunt,” she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mmm, Daya, that’s quite the belly you have there, how many months along are you?” the woman asked with a chrysanthemum-bright smile, staring at Gu Xiaolian’s belly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Five, five or six months!” Her face went a little pale as they mentioned her belly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gu Family’s elder aunt exclaimed in surprise, “Five or six months, you say?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That seems a bit small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eat more, you can’t neglect yourself even if you’re married off.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Xiaolian lowered her head and acknowledged with a yes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Acting respectfully, Gu Youyou also hurriedly stood up and crisply called out to her aunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The aunt scrutinized Gu Youyou from head to toe, nodding and shaking her head, leaving them unsure what she meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, she shook her head and said, “What a loss, you married beneath you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Gu Youyou and Gu Xiaolian were taken aback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They only heard the aunt continue, “Youyou, I heard some time ago that your illness had improved, but I didn’t believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’ve been ill for more than a decade, and when I saw you last New Year, you were so thin you hardly looked human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could you possibly be well?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, seeing you, indeed you have gotten better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with your recovery…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>you’ve surely married beneath you!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Look at you, you’re clearly not someone who’s done farm work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You don’t look like us farmers’ women at all; with such delicate and tender skin, shouldn’t you at the very least have married into the Fu family in town to be a concubine or something?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Better that than suffering with a poor hunter, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou’s face was rigid with displeasure, and she felt like spraying spit in her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who talks about their own niece like that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if only as a comparison, she could have at least mentioned marrying into a Bun Shop or a dumpling place in town to be a boss’s wife, which would still make her the legitimate spouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a concubine?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Xiaolian’s complexion wasn’t great either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that Gu Youyou was upset, she hurriedly tugged at the aunt’s clothing, but the aunt, apparently not having had her fill, was unresponsive and even snapped at Gu Xiaolian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, Daya, why are you tugging at my clothes?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you tear it, will you pay for it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long silence, Gu Youyou realized it wasn’t over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After talking about Gu Xiaolian, the aunt again began to speak gravely and at length about Gu Youyou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fawning and ingratiating look on her face made Gu Youyou very uncomfortable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had often seen such a look in her past life, that of her hypocritical aunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Youyou, I heard that you even brought a dowry to marry that poor hunter, taking all the good things your mother left behind, didn’t you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heh, so she was waiting here for this, Gu Youyou understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The aunt probably didn’t just look like her grandmother; the scheming in her mind was likely just as similar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou smiled faintly and said, “Yes, I took everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve been ill, you know, and it cost a lot of money to get better, so I sold all that stuff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, my illness wouldn’t have improved, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sold…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>sold everything?” The aunt’s eyes nearly bulged out of her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had thought that the girl used to be easy to deal with, but now she felt something was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her facial expression stiffened as she said, “How could you sell everything?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those were the things your mother left for you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou sighed helplessly and responded, “What could I do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter what, my mother would surely wish for me to live well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I lost my life, what good would those things do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To save my life, I sold them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mother would not blame me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You all would want me to live, wouldn’t you, aunt?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou looked at her pitifully, with wide eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elder aunt, wanting to say more, found herself unable to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>",700,"2026-06-06T06:54:47.693Z",1,"novelbin.me","bd3367a4e2770b224ab4d7b7781082df00024d6216bbb9d014b5533264541e5b","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-66","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-64",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]