Gu Kaiping felt powerless these past two days; the Third Prince hadn’t given a definite answer, his father seemed to have an issue with him, and his two younger brothers were disobedient and constantly contradicted him.

Now even his daughter was causing trouble. Life was really becoming unmanageable.

Zhou Gang is a very ruthless person, even the Princes on the court aren’t spared. An Tong shouldn’t have provoked anyone, especially not his family. Now it’s really hard to put an end to this.

"Don’t test my patience," Zhou Gang, who is also resourceful, managed to get his stepmother to support him and even to outwit her. He took charge at the Zhou Family; of course, he believed he could outmatch Gu Baijiang.

"How about we negotiate compensation?" Gu Baijiang still wanted to use Gu Antong to connect with the Third Prince, so he definitely wouldn’t risk her.

If things went according to the Zhou Family’s words, Gu Antong’s reputation would be ruined, and by then, forget about entering the Third Prince Mansion, she might not even qualify to be a slave or servant there. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

"Compensation? Raising a daughter costs so much effort, and your Gu Antong’s just a push and pull to ruin her?" Mrs. Zhou pushed her daughter to her sons to take care of and stood directly in front of Gu Antong, reached out and grabbed her hair, making Gu Antong shriek in fear.

Bai Suihe heard the noise and quickly covered her ears, muttering to herself, wondering what kind of protagonist this was. This scene wasn’t described in the book, so it must have been continuously beautified by the author.

Liu Yun immediately rushed forward to grab Mrs. Zhou’s hand tightly, preventing her from moving.

"You b***h, let go of my Antong. It’s your daughter being cheap. The road is so wide, can’t she walk anywhere?

And in such cold weather, she’s dressed so flamboyantly. My daughter only fulfills her needs, letting more people see..."

At this moment, Mrs. Zhou let go of Gu Antong’s hair, her hands reaching toward Liu Yun’s face. There’s no way to trim nails on the way to exile, and Mrs. Zhou’s fingernails were long and dirty due to the busy days. After a couple of scratches, Liu Yun was already clutching her face in wails.

Xu Yulan silently moved a bit further, thinking that the brains of the first family mother and daughter were truly bad. Causing trouble for whom shouldn’t they provoke this shrew, not even seeing Mrs. Zhou, even with her two sons and many grandsons and granddaughters, she doesn’t dare to confront her and is even willing to spend money to avoid disaster.

"Quickly pull them apart," Gu Baijiang saw Mrs. Zhou still relentless, tugging at Liu Yun’s hair and started shaking her, and hurriedly shouted at Xu Yulan.

These women’s fights, these grand men certainly can’t step in, and even the second daughter-in-law was looking blankly on the side, not distinguishing inside from outside?

Xu Yulan dared not step forward, looking around, disappointed to find that Bai Suihe hadn’t come over. She still wanted to push Bai Suihe out to block the disaster.

"Father, I dare not, after all, this is An Tong’s mistake. Let her carefully apologize; won’t this trouble pass without making it too complicated."

That Mrs. Zhou was too terrifying, and there was her daughter-in-law eyeing by the side. Charging forward would have no chance of victory but to endure hardships. Looking at the sister-in-law’s swollen face, her own face ached at the thought.

Realizing the daughter-in-law was unreliable, I didn’t expect her elbow to turn outward at this time, but women fighting, a few of them really couldn’t step in, or it would escalate the conflict.

He was unwilling to admit fear of the Zhou Family, with many males in the Zhou Family.

Gu Antong, hearing Liu Yun’s screams, finally snapped back to it, stepped forward to help, just as she grabbed Zhou Mrs.’s sleeve, standing by, the eldest Zhou Family daughter-in-law moved, caught Gu Antong’s arm, "Coerce my sister-in-law, and now try to hit my mother-in-law..."

"Mr. Zhou, quickly have them stop," Gu Kaiping was anxious, not so concerned about Liu Yun’s disfigurement, but could not allow Antong’s face to be damaged.

Thinking that there are only three female members, resentment of Bai Suihe arises. If she was here, with her two maids, wouldn’t fear these Zhou Family people.

Unknowing that in a past life, it was this quarrel that dragged a weary, pregnant Bai Suihe into it, resulting in two deaths.

But because of this fatality, Bai Suihe was confusedly made to carry this blame for Gu Antong, and the Zhou Family refrained from promoting this issue again.

This conflict also ended due to the two lives, yet in the end, no one discussed Bai Suihe.

"Women fight, how can us men step in?" Zhou Gang said nonchalantly, anyway, they were at an advantage, fit to vent some anger too.

The escort, even more, refrained from complaining. What harm can women fighting cause? Compared to the market fishwives they’ve seen, it wasn’t much different, only these pampered ones looked better, hence more exciting.

Beautiful women fighting is also exquisite, their moves not outdone by village women, mesmerizing to watch.

Gu Baijiang wished to seek help from the Gu Family but, opening his mouth, felt embarrassed to speak.

Gu Kaiping got genuinely anxious, rushing to kneel in front of Gu Li, "Grand Uncle, please help, quickly separate them."

"Even at this point, you’re still concerned about your hollow reputation, as the husband and father, can’t you step forward to help?" Gu Baihe was disappointed. This branch of the Gu Family was hopeless.

As for Gu Kaiyuan, neither he nor his wife offered help when the father and brother were in distress, showing selfishness.

"But they are women..."

"You’re men, how about you match against their men one-on-one, I don’t believe the women wouldn’t stop." Even a farmer like him understands this. Doesn’t Gu Kaiping understand?

"But..." Doing so would disgrace refinement, not wanting to end ruinously like his father and the Liu Family, aspiring to officialdom.

Most importantly, afraid of pain, with fists landing on him, he couldn’t bear it.

His display gave the Gu Family relatives more disdain; such a man lacked courage.

"Enough, stop fighting," Gu Baijiang saw Gu Antong lying on the ground, hands tightly protecting her face, and finally couldn’t help but shout aloud, "Mr. Zhou, we are willing to compensate."

Only then did Zhou Gang have his wife and daughter-in-law stop, "Now, let’s discuss how to compensate?"

Without Bai Suihe and the baby in her womb losing their lives, this time, Gu Baijiang had to let Zhou Gang make outrageous demands.

"Mr. Zhou, isn’t this too much," Gu Baijiang’s expression grew cold upon hearing the sum, "Do you know how much two thousand taels of silver is?

Based on your previous salary, Mr. Zhou, it probably would take several years to save up that much."

Why did these people think of him as easy prey?

Despite being utterly penniless, even combined, he had just over a hundred taels.

Thought compensating with a couple of dresses would suffice, didn’t expect Zhou Gang was stirring the pot.

"Is this a lot?" Zhou Gang sneered, "You can always not accept it."