Chapter 72: Chapter 72: Gu Mo’s Masterpiece

“You all say he’s not a monster, fine! Then tell me, why did the things in this basket turn into stones?”

Xu Shuhua let out a mocking laugh. “Isn’t it obvious? You probably lost the real stuff somewhere, then went to the trouble of filling a basket with rocks and now you’re blaming it all on Daibao. Gu Jiandong, you’re almost twenty years old—have a little shame, will you? You’ve always liked picking on the weak and fearing the strong, but bullying a one-year-old who can barely talk? That’s just too much.”

“When have I ever picked on the weak? I didn’t bully him! The stuff was perfectly fine, but after he touched the basket, everything inside turned to stone!”

“Then let me ask you: how heavy is this basket of rocks? How heavy were the original things? If Daibao really turned everything into stone with a single touch, making it so much heavier, you wouldn’t have noticed? If you did notice, why didn’t you say anything at the time? And if you didn’t notice, then it means the change happened after you took the basket away, so what does it have to do with Daibao? Don’t even try to say Daibao went with you to the Li family—he’s been sitting here all morning!”

“I—!”

Gu Jiandong opened his mouth, but didn’t know what to say.

He thought back carefully, and his face instantly darkened.

When he left the house, Gu Mo did touch the basket, but he was worried Gu Mo might break the eggs, so he even lifted the cover to check—the contents were perfectly fine.

He carried the basket all the way to the Li family, and the weight didn’t change at all.

Once there, he sat with Li Chunxiang and chatted in the house, leaving the basket on the table.

Later, when they decided to make some brown sugar water, Li Chunxiang lifted the cloth covering the basket, and that’s when they saw it was full of rocks.

So, what on earth had happened?

Seeing the confusion all over Gu Jiandong’s face, Xu Shuhua waved her hand impatiently. “Enough! Gu Jiandong, it’s your stuff—give it to whoever you want. If you don’t want to give it to Li Chunxiang, fine, but don’t blame Daibao. You’re a grown man, have some dignity!”

Xu Shuhua’s words snapped Gu Jiandong back to reality. He wanted to argue, but couldn’t find anything to say.

In the end, all he could do was glare fiercely at Gu Mo and Qin Yuelan, then grab the basket and storm off.

Watching his angry, puffed-up back, it was obvious—he was going home to complain to his parents.

“That’s all he’s good for!” Xu Shuhua scoffed, then turned her attention to Qin Yuelan.

Although Xu Shuhua was a mother-in-law herself, she really looked down on daughters-in-law like Qin Yuelan.

She wanted a daughter-in-law, not a meek little maid who just did whatever she was told.

All day long, whatever the mother-in-law said went, right or wrong, and she didn’t even dare utter a word of protest.

If Qin Yuelan wanted to suffer in silence, that was her business. But she was a mother now—if not for herself, she should at least think of Gu Mo!

Xu Shuhua had a lot on her mind, but in the end, she just sighed and said nothing more.

After all, Qin Yuelan wasn’t her daughter-in-law—what was the point of saying so much?

Yu Nuannuan glanced at the three adults, who were all silent but wore complicated expressions, then turned her big round eyes to Gu Mo.

Those stones in the basket weren’t something you could just find lying around.

Based on what she’d learned about Gu Jiandong over the past six months, he wasn’t the type to pull off a trick like swapping the goods for rocks.

Yu Nuannuan figured this basket of stones was probably Gu Mo’s masterpiece."

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