Gu Yunjiao said coldly, "Regarding the matter of selling the land, don't say that my elder sister disagrees, I won't agree either."
"No matter what, the family's house and land cannot be sold!"
"If you want to go to the Prefecture City, just go yourself."
Li Shi's crying stopped briefly, then she cried even more fiercely.
"You are also heartless, your father is missing, you won't search for him, and won't let me go either."
Gu Yunjiao said plainly, "How much more heart should I have? I traded myself for five taels of silver to buy you medicine, isn't that enough?"
She stood up, "No one is stopping you from looking for Father, just don't sell the land."
Hearing this, Li Shi cried even louder.
Gu Yunjiao ignored her and began searching around the room.
After searching for a while, Gu Yunjiao found a thick stack of books and booklets, along with a white porcelain mortar and pestle.
After placing the items aside, she continued searching.
Finally, she managed to find what she was looking for in a drawer at the bottom of the wardrobe.
A box of purple sandalwood.
Opening the box, inside was a set of Golden Needles.
She returned to her parental home today just for this item.
The family originally had two sets of needles: one set of Golden Needles and one set of silver needles.
Both sets were passed down from ancestors; it's said the family's great-grandfather was an Imperial Physician.
Her father had always used the set of silver needles, and now that set of silver needles disappeared with him.
Gu Yunjiao found a piece of cloth to wrap the box, books, and the mortar, when Li Shi raised herself from the bed in shock, "What are you doing? That's your father's ancestral inheritance, it cannot be sold!"
Just then, her elder sister Gu Mei came in and her eyes lit up at the sight of the purple sandalwood box.
She almost forgot that the family still had this.
There is gold in those needles, although mixed with other things, it still has some gold, and that purple sandalwood box is valuable too, probably pawnable for a dozen taels of silver.
Gu Mei raised her eyebrows, "What, now that you're married, you're secretly moving things from your parental home to your husband's house?"
Gu Yunjiao quickly wrapped the items and held the bundle in her arms.
Gu Mei said anxiously, "You can't take that, the family is almost out of food, I'll take it to the pawnshop for some silver."
Gu Yunjiao sneered, "Just sold me for five taels of silver, and it's gone already?"
"In an ordinary family, five taels of silver is enough for a year."
Gu Mei said angrily, "What do you know, Mother needs medicine daily, how long can that little silver last?"
Li Shi pursed her lips on the bed, she hadn't been taking medicine daily; it's been more than half a month since her last medicine.
Gu Mei, this damned girl, said there was no silver to buy herbs.
Gu Yunjiao didn't want to argue with Gu Mei, she just said, "I won't sell these things. I need them."
Hearing that they wouldn't be sold, Li Shi breathed a sigh of relief and lay back down.
Gu Mei was not satisfied, "You also can't take it away, it's an ancestral item, you, a married-out daughter, have no right to it!"
Gu Yunjiao looked at her coldly and suddenly said, "Elder sister, I want to ask you."
"This marriage with the Jiang family to bring good luck, you clearly went to ask Second Aunt for it yourself, so after receiving the betrothal silver from the Jiang family, why did you suddenly refuse to marry the next day?"
"Even if you didn't want to marry, why push me to do it?"
The original Gu Yunjiao was foolish, since her elder sister and mother cried, she agreed.
Gu Mei's eyes flickered, "Half of the betrothal silver was spent on Mother's medicine; what would we do if you didn't marry over there?"
Gu Yunjiao stared at Gu Mei, "I'm asking you why you suddenly decided not to marry?"