"This is the black cloth that person used to cover his face. With this, we will have a reasonable excuse to go to Taohua Village to find someone tomorrow." Gu Jiu paused and continued: "After you tell us the exact location, we will Let you leave, so that you can get rid of suspicion and we can save time, killing two birds with one stone."
"Will you really let me go?"
"Otherwise, why would we spend time bringing you here? Isn't it because we are afraid that too many people will tell us?"
The man was silent for a moment and asked: "Aren't you afraid that I will immediately notify him to escape when I get back?"
"You don't dare!" Gu Jiu said with a very firm tone: "Although I don't know what leverage he has on you, but once you say it, he will definitely doubt you!"
"...After entering the village, take the left road, the eighth house."
After the words fell, the village chief stepped forward and untied the rope from his body. The man took a few tentative steps, and when he saw that the others really had no intention of catching up, he ran towards Taohua Village.
As soon as the man left, Gu Jiu and the village chief divided into two groups and gathered the villagers who had just returned home.
"Girl Jiu, what are you doing here? I just took off my clothes and got ready to go to bed?" Aunt Chen asked irritably, looking at Gu Jiu standing at the gate.
"Of course I'm going to Peach Blossom Village to ask for food!"
"Did that person say that?"
"Yes!" Gu Jiu nodded: "In order to prevent them from running away tomorrow, the village chief decided to look for them tonight!"
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Chen suddenly beamed with joy: "I'm going to call them all! Let them all go!"
"That won't work! Madam, the village chief said that half of the people from each family should stay in the village. Otherwise, if we all go out, what will happen if someone comes to steal again?"
"Yes, yes! Auntie knows, please go call someone else!"
After a while, the villagers gathered again, some holding sticks and some holding baskets, and set out towards Taohua Village in high spirits.
Gu Jiu followed the village chief and took advantage of the moonlight to touch the hairpin: Sister, your death will not be in vain.
Gu Jiu and his party were very fast. As soon as the thief ran home, they arrived at Taohua Village.
"You, you escaped back?" Wang Dahu looked at the panting Wang Tiejun, stood up suddenly and looked outside: "You didn't lure them here, did you?"
"No." Wang Tiejun gasped, grabbed a bowl of cold water on the table, drank it, wiped his mouth, and said proudly: "Those people are all fools, I just lied, and they took me Put it back."
"Have you told them about my family?" Wang Dahu's face was gloomy, he grabbed Wang Tiejun's collar and asked threateningly.
Wang Tiejun waved his hand quickly: "How can I? Am I someone who can do such a thing as betraying my eldest brother? I told them to take the left road after entering the village. The eighth family, we happen to have no dealings with the Xiaofeng family, so let's Let them go dog-eat-dog!"
After hearing this, Wang Dahu's expression returned to normal: "You are quite clever. But there is a girl over there who saw my appearance. You find a chance to do it to her. We haven't eaten meat for a long time." "
"No problem! I can do it tomorrow night!"
"But then again, I always feel like I've seen that girl somewhere."
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"elder sister."
"Xiao Jing, why are you in Taohua Village?" the village chief asked, looking at Gu Jinghu who suddenly came out.
"I asked him to come." Gu Jiu stepped forward and explained: "I was afraid that the person was playing tricks, so I asked Xiaojing to squat here in advance to see which alley and gate the person entered."
Hearing this, even the village chief couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Xiao Jiu, this guy is so smart!"
Under the leadership of Gu Jing, the group quickly reached the correct location.
"I just saw him turn into this alley, but when I ran over, he had already entered. I don't know which house these two are?"
"This is easy to handle." After the village chief took out the fire sticks and lit the sticks, he walked past two houses and waved to others.
In the house, Wang Dahu heard the sound of frequent walking on the floor and suddenly became nervous: "They won't follow you here, right?"
"It's impossible. When I ran, I looked back and no one came out of their village."
Wang Dahu was still worried after hearing this. He went out and carefully poked his head out to look outside. As soon as he poked his head out, he saw the torch, and he immediately pulled back.
"Brother, how are you?" Wang Tiejun stepped forward and asked softly.
"What the hell, the one who lit the torch was the head of Gujia Village!" Wang Dahu pointed at Wang Tiejun and wanted to beat him to death immediately, but the most important thing at the moment was to pack up and escape. He didn't believe that this man came alone.
However, just when he showed up, the villagers who had been paying attention to the two houses immediately discovered him. Before Wang Dahu could enter the house to pack his things, there was a banging sound on the door, as if the door would break down in the next second. Lose.
A few young and strong people stepped on each other's shoulders and jumped in impatiently.
Soon there were shouts and curses in the yard, someone opened the door from inside, and everyone swarmed in.
"How dare you lie to your grandpa, you turtle grandson? I won't beat you to death today!"
The murmuring sounds were particularly clear in the quiet night, and soon the house opposite lit up the fire. But he didn't go out, he just lay on the door and looked out through the gap above.
Gu Jiu ignored him and went straight into the yard, bypassing the villagers who were lining up to beat him up. Gu Jiu opened the door and walked in. As soon as he entered, a stick was thrown at him. If she hadn't reacted quickly, she would have gone to the west if she had hit the nails on the stick.
When the first attempt failed, the man struck a second time. Gu Jiu turned sideways and walked out of the door. People outside saw the seventy-eight-year-old boy and immediately came over with fists.
"Grandma, my own son is so hungry that he is skin and bones, but this kid has grown so strong eating my food!"
Several people were attracted by the sound, and those who were not numbered came over immediately. They dodged the stick in a few moments and hit the person firmly on his leg.
Accompanied by screams of ah, Gu Jiu entered the room again, with the same four treasures of the study and the same books and papers. Gu Jiu looked carefully from room to room and put all the forty taels of silver he found into his bag.
"Xiao Jiu, have you found any food?" the village chief came in and asked.
Gu Jiu pointed to one of the rooms and said: "Only there are more than ten kilograms of grain there, and the rest is gone." Then Gu Jiu lowered his voice and continued: "Village Chief, in addition to the two of them, there must be more There are other people. The stolen things must be equally divided, we..."
"The village chief understands, you don't need to say anything." Before Gu Jiu could finish speaking, the village chief immediately walked out of the house and stopped everyone.
"Folks, we are here to get food today. The first priority is to ask who the other people are and where their homes are?"
After hearing the village chief's words, everyone pulled away unwillingly. After Wang Dahu was pulled up from the ground, he spat blood at the village chief and said fiercely: "Do you think I am the kind of person who betrays his brothers? I can tell you that my eldest brother is an official in the city. If you really It pissed me off, so I won’t be able to eat it when the time comes and I’ll be walking around!”
The village chief didn't talk nonsense and directly threatened his son, but Wang Dahu seemed determined and let his son scream in fear without speaking. Before anyone could think of a solution, a large group of people suddenly appeared outside.
"You are not from our Peach Blossom Village, are you? With so many people coming to our village to bully people at night, I'm afraid they look down on the people of our Peach Blossom Village too much!" A man with a white beard led a large group of people to stand He said unceremoniously in front of the gate.
Seeing his own people, Wang Dahu immediately became more aggressive and shouted arrogantly at everyone: "Come on, if you dare, kill me today!"
Gu Jiu: ...There is really no shortage of fools in this world.
The village chief was not a person who acted impulsively. He stepped forward and took out the piece of black cloth that Gu Jiu had given him before. He pointed to the row of cars nearby and said, "They came to our Gujia Village to steal things, and we discovered them. We have all the witnesses and material evidence, otherwise we wouldn’t have so many people coming to the door together.”
Hearing this, the old man with a white beard stroked his beard and said, "You just stole it and gave it back. Are you going to beat someone like this?"
"I didn't steal it! Village chief, they are talking nonsense and unjustly accusing good people!" Wang Dahu suddenly thought of running away, but the person next to him quickly held him back with quick eyesight and hands.
The village chief continued: "If it only happened once, we really shouldn't beat people. But this is the second time. They stole food once before. If we hadn't found new food, Gujia Village would have been empty now. Village!"
Hearing this, the white-bearded old man continued to stroke his beard. He also knew that Wang Dahu's hands and feet were not clean on weekdays. He made the head of Gujia Village come to beat him. Thinking about it, he did do such an immoral thing, but no matter what, it was him. People in the village, not to mention Wang Dahu, has an elder brother who is an official in the city. Although he is just an official at the city gate, who can guarantee that he will never enter the city?
Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated and said: "If what you said is true, then what are you going to do? I will definitely not be able to get back the food in full."
"Let him name a few other people first."
"I am the only one to do things, no one else!"
Gu Jiu: "...Village Chief, it's getting late. Why don't we just vacate this courtyard and barely make up for our losses."
When Wang Dahu heard this, he immediately thought of the forty taels. He couldn't move them. They were used to buy a future for his son! He sold his daughter, his wife and stole things, and finally managed to save so much! If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have been afraid of this group of people making trouble to leave half of the food for them. Otherwise, they would have starved to death, and how could this happen today.
"You dare to search it and see if my brother will let you go?"
The village chief didn't speak. He looked at the old man with a white beard opposite, waiting for his answer. The man sighed: "Li Zheng, that's it. If you really take away all the things, how can you let him live?" ?”
"Then let him name the other people first!"
