Chapter 20 is just for show.

Gu Youyou rolled her eyes as she listened to the conversation outside.

Huang Xiangwen was really something else; was this guy even worth making up about?

Although Wang Shun was a young man who hadn’t married yet, he understood Huang Xiangwen’s meaning immediately after hearing her words, and his face suddenly turned red.
“Second Aunt Gu, you… what nonsense are you talking about? Of course I know Brother Jin isn’t home.” He pointed to the firewood on the ground and said, “Here, this is what Brother Jin asked me to bring. He’ll be back in a bit.”

Then, he stared at the things in Huang Xiangwen’s hands with ill intent and said, “But Second Aunt Gu, where are you taking all these things from Brother Jin’s house?”
Gu Youyou had already heard someone approaching, but wasn’t sure who it was. Hearing Wang Shun’s words, she felt relieved. Since this person was with Jin Zijing, he probably wouldn’t let Huang Xiangwen take the things.
The topic was steered back to what she was holding. Huang Xiangwen’s face looked somewhat unnatural, but she still shouted loudly, as if throwing a tantrum, “What do you mean ‘your Brother Jin’s things’? These were taken from our Gu family yesterday, okay? I’m taking Gu family things, what’s it to you?”

Her voice was quite loud, attracting the attention of several villagers working in the fields nearby.
In ancient times, people didn’t have much entertainment. In villages like this, especially for the village women, their only amusement was listening to gossip and watching the excitement. Let alone arguing, they could even gossip about someone finding a nest of rats.
Faced with Huang Xiangwen’s tantrum, Wang Shun simply said calmly, “So that’s my sister-in-law’s dowry? Second Aunt Gu, since your Gu family’s daughter married my Brother Jin, this dowry naturally belongs to my Brother Jin. Are you… sure you want to take it?”

Seeing that several women who were looking for a good show had come over, Wang Shun felt a little more conHe was a young man with some strength, but when it came to arguing with a village woman like Huang Xiangwen, even if he had ten mouths, he wouldn’t be able to win.
Huang Xiangwen came to collect Gu Youyou’s dowry the day after her wedding, which is utterly unreasonable. Seeing several busybodies from the village looking their way, she could only curse under her breath and abandon the idea of taking the things that day.

She had been too hasty; Gu Youyou was bedridden and unable to move, and Jin Zijin was rarely home. Why couldn’t she have come anytime? It was only the second day.
She had been too hasty; Gu Youyou was bedridden and unable to move, and Jin Zijin was rarely home. Why couldn’t she have come anytime? It was only the second day.

Ashouted at the old women outside, “Oh dear, poor thing, our Youyou has suffered so much since marrying this hunter Jin. This dilapidated house doesn’t keep out the wind or rain, and she’s all alone in there with no one to take care of her. I, her second aunt, squeezed out some time during the busy farming season to visit her, and when I saw that the fabric in her room was damp, I wanted to take it out to airter thinking for a moment, she suddenly let out a wail and it.
But this hunter Jin is something else, he actually had that bastard Wang guard this place. I just pushed open the door and he caught me, insisting that I was trying to steal these things? Tell me, these things originally came from our Gu family, why would I need to steal them? That heartless bastard, what is he thinking…”
As she cursed, she pushed aside Wang Shun, who was blocking her way, and pretended to take the fabric she was carrying to the bamboo poles in the yard to dry.
Looking at it this way, it seemed to be true. A few old women, having missed the commotion, started gossiping and criticizing Wang Shun, saying he was being too suspicious.