Chapter 348: What Goes Around Comes Around
Because everyone sat according to their preferences, the table compositions were different. Some tables had two women and one man; others had two men and one woman or even three of the same gender.
Some people like the emperor was sitting alone. However, those arranged tables were still empty because the guest of honor had yet to arrive.
As the farewell dinner was specially organized for Gu Xijiu, so she had naturally become the focal point.
Correspondingly, Gu Xijiu’s father, Gu Xietian, had also become the focal point. Gu Xietian was severely battered and troubled these two days too. Two days ago, he angrily killed Leng Xiangyu with his sword. Though he felt good at that moment, he was distraught.
Firstly, he had to settle the issue of Leng Xiangyu by publicly announcing that she died because of her sudden illness, embalmed and buried her in a simple coffin. She could not be buried in the graveyard of the Gu family but somewhere in the wild.
The status of women during this generation was meager. As long as she violated one of the seven reasons of divorce, she would be divorced if the case was not serious, else she would be executed, and nobody including the officials would care even if she was drowned in a pig basket immersed in water.
Furthermore, Leng Xiangyu originated from a small size family, and she usually treated her family members harshly and ungenerously. Hence, none of her family members wanted to help her even if she died an unnatural death. Therefore, they neither said nor did anything as soon as Gu Xietian gave them some money.