Although everyone in the village now knows that she has built a greenhouse of seven or eight acres, everyone knows that the vegetables in her greenhouse have not yet started to be sold.
If someone really saw so many vegetables piled up at her doorstep in the early morning, she would have no idea how to explain even though she had a hundred mouths to feed.
To tell the truth, others won't believe her and might even treat her as a psycho.
Even if someone really believed it, she would not have a good ending.
Firstly, the original owner's parents were not around and his grandparents were partial to him. Secondly, it was the end of the world and a man would be guilty of possessing a treasure even if he was innocent.
If everyone knew that she was in control of the farming system, it would be hard to say whether she could live to see the New Year!
Just when Gu Mingzhu was worrying about how to explain this, Wang Xiulian lowered her voice and asked anxiously:
"Mingzhu, tell me, are you lying? The three hundred thousand was not borrowed from the bank at all. You gave it to someone as a pawn..."
Wang Xiulian just couldn't utter the word "San'er" at all.
She skipped over these two words and then asked, "They give you money, and then you have to serve them before dawn every day, right!?"
When Gu Mingzhu heard this, she breathed a sigh of relief but at the same time she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Aunt, who said that?"
"It's all over the team!" Wang Xiulian's eyes turned red with anxiety. "Early this morning, someone saw you get on a car. Everyone said that it was still dark, and you went out so early, it must not be for a legitimate reason."
"They also said that the 300,000 yuan you used to build the greenhouse was not borrowed from the bank, but was given by those men!"
At this point, her eyes began to moisten, "Kid, if I had known how the money came from, I wouldn't have approved of you building a greenhouse."
Building a greenhouse to grow vegetables is profitable, but as a little girl, she has sacrificed her innocence and reputation!
"When your mother left, she entrusted you and your brother to me and told me to take good care of you. Now, you've gone the wrong way right under my nose, and I didn't even know it..."
As Wang Xiulian was talking, she squatted on the ground and cried bitterly.
Seeing this, Gu Mingzhu quickly pulled her up and said, "Aunt, why are you crying? This money was originally borrowed from the bank. I went out early in the morning to work at the wholesale point, not to do anything shady!"
"Really?" Wang Xiulian looked at her without blinking, fearing that she was lying.
Gu Mingzhu nodded again and again, "Even pearls are not so real."
"I still have the documents the bank gave me when I took out the loan. If you don't believe me, let's go home and take a look."
"Besides, who wouldn't go out before dawn?"
Wang Xiulian was completely relieved after hearing her say this. "That's good, that's good..."
But she still took Gu Mingzhui home to get the receipt.
After seeing the contents on the bill clearly, she held the bill in one hand, clenched her fist with the other, and rushed out quickly.
She was so fast that before Gu Mingzhu could react, she had already run dozens of meters away.
She quickly chased after him.
When she caught up with her, Wang Xiulian had already started fighting with the person who spread the gossip.
"You damned bitch, who allowed you to go around making up stories about other people?!"
"You are old, don't you know that you can't eat or say anything careless?!"
"She was just working at a wholesale store, but you said she was fooling around with men! You have a daughter too. If someone makes up stories about your daughter like this, I wonder what you'll do!"
Gu Mingzhu took great effort to pull the person away.
The person gossiping was Gu Haiqiang's wife.
Her home was only seventy or eighty meters away from Gu Mingzhu's home. She got up early today and went to the rooftop for a walk, and then she happened to see Gu Mingzhu getting into the car.
But because the back of the car was covered with plastic sheeting, she didn't know that the car was loaded with vegetables.
She thought that Gu Mingzhu got into someone else's car before dawn, and she was definitely not going to do anything good.
She had originally suspected that Gu Mingzhu did not borrow the money to build the greenhouse from the bank, and now that she saw this scene with her own eyes, she became even more certain.
As the saying goes, three people make a tiger.
When people gossip too much, they tend to believe it.
That's why when Gu Mingzhu came back, people pointed fingers at her.
The guy from Gu Haiqiang's family was beaten, but he still refused to accept it.
She stiffened her neck and said, "I'm talking about Gu Mingzhu, not you. Why are you so anxious with me!?"
"Also, I saw her get into someone's car with my own eyes! She went out in the middle of the night before daybreak. What serious business could she be doing?!"
"Besides, why would the bank lend her $300,000? It must have come from that wild man—"
"Bang!"
Before she could finish her words, Gu Mingzhu slapped her in the face.
Wang Xiulian even displayed the bank's receipt in public, "Open your eyes and take a closer look! This is the receipt the bank left for Mingzhu. It clearly states that she borrowed 300,000 yuan from the bank!"
Gu Haiqiang's family originally wanted to fight back.
But after seeing the bill, she didn't dare to move.
She didn't dare, but Gu Mingzhu did.
After this slap, she slapped him again with her backhand.
After the beating, she didn't wait for the woman to speak, she shouted into the house, "Brother Haiqiang! All of you, come out!"
Gu Haiqiang was still sleeping in the bed.
When he heard someone calling his name outside, he quickly put on his clothes and came out.
Seeing that everyone was present, Gu Mingzhu briefly recounted what had just happened.
Then he said to Gu Haiqiang: "In terms of seniority, we are equals. She is your wife, so I should call her sister-in-law."
Even if the people in the team do not have the same great-grandfather, they all share the same ancestor three or four hundred years ago.
Therefore, neighbors are more or less related to each other.
"But what she did today was not like what a sister-in-law would do," Gu Mingzhu said. "She started making up stories and slandering my innocence."
"I only slapped her twice today because of you, Brother Haiqiang, and your parents."
"If there is a next time, it won't be solved with two slaps..."
Gu Haiqiang didn't know about this at all before!
After hearing what Gu Mingzhu said, he first glared at his wife, and then apologized to Gu Mingzhu, "Mingzhu, I'm sorry, it was your sister-in-law who was disrespectful this time. I promise you, it won't happen again."
After saying that, he looked at his wife, "Why are you still standing there? Apologize!"
Haiqiang's family knew they were in the wrong, so they lowered their heads and apologized to Gu Mingzhu.
Gu Haiqiang felt very guilty, "Mingzhu, have you had breakfast? If not, eat it before going back. This will be considered as my family's small apology..."
Gu Mingzhu indeed didn't have time to eat breakfast.
But she didn't want to eat at his house either.
But before she could refuse, Gu Jianguo came running over, panting, "Mingzhu! Quick! Someone from the city is coming!"