"Xiao Jiu, do you think it's possible that your aunt did it?"
After a while, the village chief pondered: "She did not appear at the head of the village at that time. What's more important is that it was her brother who died. She had enough reasons to poison him."
In fact, it was not just her, but Mr. Gu and others except Gu Zheqi did not arrive.
"But we have no evidence. Even if we go to her, she won't admit it." Gu Cheng analyzed calmly.
"Then what's the deal? Let's just forget about it?"
Aunt Xia's eyes flickered back and forth between her man, her son, and Gu Jiu, and she asked anxiously.
After a period of silence, Gu Jiu returned to the table: "As time goes by, clues will emerge. Let's eat first."
"Okay, then don't drink this soup!" Aunt Xia said as she reached out and put the bowls of several people aside.
After finishing the meal, Gu Jiu and the village chief continued to make the spinning machine.
At noon the next day, when the time agreed with the villagers was reached for handing out some of the spinning machines, Gu Jiu looked at the dozen or so people who came with some doubts.
"Did everyone remember the wrong date?"
"The rest of the people are probably not coming." Aunt Chen, who had just arrived, said.
"Why?"
"Yesterday, the villagers gathered around your cousin to ask about his experience. Your cousin said that the most important thing in studying is companionship. He was able to pass the exam purely because your uncle has been accompanying him this year and supervising his studies. So, a lot of The villagers decided to put aside the matter of making money."
Gu Jiu: ...No child would like his parents to watch him and study all day long...
"Then it seems that the aunt doesn't believe it."
"No, ma'am, I don't believe this. If you have some free time, you might as well earn some money and buy two meat buns for our little baby."
Gu Jiu nodded and waited for a while. After making sure no one came again, he divided the spinning machine and demonstrated it to them in detail.
"There are only these few steps in total. After everyone is done, you can bring it directly to me, and I will settle your wages on the spot."
"Okay, okay. Just wait. Auntie will be able to get several of them by this time tomorrow!"
"good."
…
In the afternoon, Aunt Xia was concentrating on spinning silk in the house, the village chief went to the mountain to chop firewood, and Gu Jiuze and Gu Cheng were quietly discussing the affairs of the academy in the house, giving off a sense of tranquility.
But at this moment, a head suddenly popped out from the wall. He looked around and saw that no one had turned over and entered the courtyard wall.
"This death cap is so useful!"
Wang Dahu said as he swaggered towards the main house.
The black shadow sliding in front of the window made Gu Jiu immediately alert. He raised his hand to signal Gu Cheng to be quiet. The next second they heard Wang Dahu's voice.
Aunt Xia was the only one in the main house. After seeing Wang Dahu enter the main house, Gu Jiu and Gu Cheng quickly picked up the things and followed them out.
"came back?"
Aunt Xia's voice startled Wang Dahu, who was rummaging through the suitcase for money. He subconsciously picked up the stool on the side and walked in the direction of the sound.
Seeing Aunt Xia who was concentrating on spinning with her back to him, Wang Dahu raised the stool and was about to smash it down, but Gu Jiu turned his head and knocked him unconscious.
A thud.
Aunt Xia was startled, and she tore the silk thread with a force of her hand.
Holding the broken wire, Aunt Xia was about to get angry when she turned her head and saw Wang Dahu lying on the ground and stood up in shock.
"Xiao, Xiaojiu, what's going on?"
"He climbed over the wall and came in just in time for Brother Cheng and I to see him. We took advantage of his sneak attack and knocked him out in advance."
"Then, then this blood..."
Gu Jiu: "It's my first time to turn my head. I don't know how hard I should use it."
Aunt Xia nodded and planned to go out and call the village chief back.
"Cheng, you and Xiaojiu take care of it at home. Mom goes out to call your dad!"
"Eh."
Gu Cheng entered the room and looked at Gu Jiu who was tying up someone, then looked at the bricks broken in half and the blood on Wang Dahu's face, as if he suddenly understood something.
"I was surprised just now. I'm so much older than you and I'm still a man. Why are you so determined to let me go out as a backup? The co-authorship is so hidden!"
Hearing this, Gu Jiu smiled. In fact, she just thought that it would be more difficult for Gu Cheng to follow. After all, his bones were not much stronger than those of the elderly. As Aunt Xia said, she slipped when she went out last year and broke her leg.
Alas, she was really afraid that he would kill her again if she didn't wait for him.
"This bleeding...does it need to be stopped?" Gu Cheng asked, pointing to the bleeding hole on Wang Dahu's head.
Gu Jiu was stunned for a moment, nodded, and immediately found a piece of cloth and pressed it on Wang Dahu's head.
"I don't usually do this. It's mainly because it's my first time using this brick and it's hard to control the intensity."
Gu Jiu tried to explain, but Gu Cheng obviously didn't believe it. In his whole life, he had never seen someone hit someone and break the brick in half. How much strength did it take?
After a while, the village chief and Aunt Xia came back in a hurry.
"Xiao Jiu, Cheng'er, where are you two?"
"father."
As soon as Gu Cheng went out, the village chief immediately checked anxiously: "Nothing hurt, right?"
"without."
"That's good. Where is Xiaojiu? He's not hurt, right?"
"No." Gu Jiu said as he dragged Wang Dahu out.
The village chief frowned immediately when he saw Wang Dahu, why is this man not done yet?
"Cheng'er, go back to your room first."
After Gu Cheng left, the village chief frowned as he looked at Wang Dahu, who was still unconscious.
"Xiao Jiu, ask your aunt to take out the subway car, and we will take him to the Yamen!"
"But what if he accuses us of retaliating and secretly goes to Taohua Village to kidnap him?"
Hearing this, the village chief sighed unwillingly: "Then we can't just let it go, right?"
"It's true that he can't, but we can force him to accuse others, and then it's okay to kill him as a warning to others."
Upon hearing this, the village chief's brows immediately widened: "How do you say this? Will Wang Dahu speak honestly?"
"meeting!"
Gu Jiu dragged Wang Dahu into the utility room, made sure that the binding was okay, then gagged him and closed the door.
Then everyone did whatever they were supposed to do, and it was only at dusk the next day that Gu Jiu opened the door of the utility room again, letting in a bit of moonlight.
Wang Dahu seemed very excited when he heard the noise, whining and shaking his head. However, without eating for a day and a half, coupled with the injury on his head and being in a completely dark environment, Wang Dahu's physical strength was obviously exhausted.
"Hurry up and let me go! Otherwise you will have a hard time!"
Gu Jiu chuckled: "But you are the one who feels uncomfortable now! Don't worry, we will take you to the Yamen right now!"
"Oh, Yamen? What's the crime? I didn't do anything?" Wang Dahu turned his head and refused to admit it at all.
"But it is unreasonable for you, a person from Taohua Village, to suddenly appear in our Gujia Village. Even if you don't recognize it, there will always be people who see you along the way. Even without your family, they will definitely know that you are out. When the time comes, everyone will If you are summoned, someone will always spill the beans."
"Ha!" Wang Dahu suddenly laughed proudly when he heard this: "There is no one at home, and I didn't meet anyone on the way!"
"Oh~ That's it~"
Wang Dahu smiled proudly, and before he could say the words "Hurry up and let me go", the smile froze on his face.
"Doesn't that mean that no one will notice you starving to death here! This is really a once and for all thing!"
Gu Jiu laughed extremely wantonly and tried to put the cloth back into Wang Dahu's mouth while laughing.
Wang Dahu immediately panicked. While twisting his body, he threatened Gu Jiu: "You are going to jail! I tell you, if I really die here, you will pay with your life!"
Gu Jiu shrugged: "But no one knows you're here, right?"
"But... ow! ow!"
"Okay." Gu Jiu clapped his hands and stood up, walked to the door and looked at Wang Dahu, whose eyes were surrounded, and said: "You'd better stop struggling, because I'm going back to the city soon, and I don't know the next time I open this door. When is it?"
He said and closed the door again.
In the main room, Aunt Xia looked at the broken silk with a pity expression.
"Xiao Jiu, does this look no longer count?"
Gu Jiu looked at the silk in Aunt Xia's hand and said, "It can barely be counted as two copper coins."
"real?"
"Um."
"Okay, look, this is all what I did in the past two days!"
Gu Jiu looked at the silk that Aunt Xia handed over and praised, "Auntie, that's awesome. Not one of these fifteen is up to standard!"
"Really!" Although Gu Jiu had told her before that there would be no problem with her work, it was another thing to hear it with her own ears during the acceptance inspection.
"Of course it's true. If you add two coins to the ten coins, the total number of silk coins is thirty-two coins."
As he spoke, Gu Jiu took out the copper coins that he had prepared to wear in advance and put them into Aunt Xia's hand: "Besides, these twenty coins are what I pay for my meals these days. There is no reason for me to eat and drink for free."
"Oh, it's just a pair of chopsticks! I won't accept these twenty coins!" Aunt Xia put the twenty coins in Jiu's hands and shouted into the room: "I'm going to town!" "
"Why are you going to town at this time? It's dark outside?" the village chief asked in disbelief.
Aunt Xia looked at the sky and smiled sheepishly: "Look at my brain. I was so happy that I forgot about it all of a sudden. I was still thinking about going to the town to buy you some delicious food!" After that, Aunt Xia walked up to the village chief with the copper coins.
"Look, I earned all of this myself!"
"Yes, yes, this is more than what I earn on average."
"That's not the case."
Then other villagers who had received cocoons also came to Gu Jiu one after another with silk. Except for one family that failed to pass one third, the rest were acceptable.
"Here, Xiaojiu, am I not going to be able to take it next time?"
The old woman who was raising several children by herself when I was sharing sweet potatoes last time looked at the silk she had made, then looked at other people's, and spoke carefully.
Gu Jiu paid a deposit when he picked up these cocoons. If he couldn't get a certain number, the money would be deducted, so it was definitely best to choose someone with a high success rate.
But when he saw the old lady, Gu Jiu still shook his head.
"Yes, but grandma, your error rate is indeed a bit high. The cocoons I give you are all carefully selected by me. Logically speaking, there will be no problems with the cocoons themselves that will cause you to make mistakes. But everyone has first priorities. Next time, you can just follow everyone and continue to receive it, but if it continues like this for a long time, it will definitely not work."
"No! You don't know that grandma was very meticulous in her work when she was young. Now that she is old, her eyesight is not as good as hers. But don't worry, next time she will definitely be better than this time!"
"OK."
Those who received the money were very happy. As for those who failed to receive the money after listening to Gu Zheqi's words, although they said that the most important thing was not to miss the money, they secretly started to come to Gu Jiu one after another to ask about the next time. When are you coming back.
Gu Jiu answered one by one, and after sending everyone away with a smile, he came to the utility room again...
