Chapter 122: Father Gu Is Back (1) (1/2)

They had nothing but disdain for the Gu family.

So if there was a better choice, Old Madam Zhang and Zhang Xiaohui would abandon the Gu family without hesitation.

They had married Zhang Xiaohui to the Gu family because they saw that the Gu family’s sons were rich and often sent good things back. Their own family had always been desperately poor, which was why they had chosen Gu Yunshen.

The exceptional times had not yet begun and landlords and background were not such a big deal. The Gu family had always been doctors and were fairly stable. So they allowed Zhang Xiaohui to marry Gu Yunshen.

After all, Zhang Xiaohui was only a daughter. Even if she married someone from a poor background, it would not affect the Zhang family’s status. All they required was for her to bring back good things back from the Gu family.

But as the years passed, they grew increasingly contemptuous of the Gu family.

Gu Yunshen had remained at home to take care of the old folks. The brothers who had moved away had more and more children and they sent fewer and fewer things back. It was completely insufficient to satisfy the Zhang family’s growing appetites.

Zhang Xiaohui was fairly good-looking. In the village, she was considered one of the prettier ones. Also, she had not done very much work during her years in the Gu family, so she was much better-looking than the other women of her age in the brigade.

Old Madam Zhang increasingly felt that it was a pity to have married her pretty daughter to a bumpkin like Gu Yunshen. She gradually realized the advantages of living in the city and was filled with regret that she had not arranged a marriage for Zhang Xiaohui that would allow her to move to the city.

Now that an opportunity like this had arrived, Old Madam Zhang was delighted!

Although the relationships between men and women were governed strictly in these times, people also simultaneously advocated free love and freedom of choice in marriage. Although divorces were not common, they were widely accepted.

So in Zhang Xiaohui’s situation, Old Madam Zhang immediately thought of quickly divorcing Gu Yunshen.