"The village chief only has one son, you should know that, right?"
The sudden light made Wang Dahu squint his eyes subconsciously, opened his eyes, and pursed his chapped lips. Before he could celebrate seeing the sunlight again, he heard the devil's whisper.
This man actually didn't give him any food! If he hadn't always eaten well and gained a lot of fat, he would have starved to death right now!
"Didn't you hear? Then I have to leave."
Hearing the sound, Wang Dahu turned his head and looked up at Gu Jiu without saying a word, looking at the person in front of him with no light in his eyes. Hunger and lack of water had already given him a strong sense of dizziness, and it was impossible to think carefully.
"Who placed the death cap?"
"Wang Dahu, I am giving you a chance now. The village chief's precious son has been poisoned and is now unconscious and in urgent need of money. If you can solve this problem, I will let you go."
Hearing this, Wang Dahu's eyes lit up a lot.
"real?"
The voice was hoarse and really unpleasant to listen to.
"You have no other choice. Your only chance of survival is to believe in me!"
Upon hearing this, Wang Dahu stared at Gu Jiu without blinking, and slowly said Wang's name in a dry breath.
"How do you prove it's her? You're just saying nothing. Even if we go to the Yamen, the other party won't admit it."
"I."
Gu Jiu raised his eyebrows and smiled: "You want to say that you can be a witness?"
Wang Dahu nodded, with extremely obvious expectations in his eyes.
Gu Jiu stretched out his hand and pulled him up from the ground: "But why should I trust you? You know you have no credibility with me."
Wang Dahu looked at Gu Jiu sluggishly, blinked subconsciously and swallowed when he saw the sweet potato in the other person's hand.
"Sister-in-law Gua got that death cap from somewhere. She might still have it there now."
"She's going to keep the stolen goods?"
Wang Dahu stared at Sweet Potato and nodded: "I overheard the two of them talking, saying that they wanted to avenge her son. You are all fine now, and she will definitely not give up! I just overheard their conversation and wanted to come over to pick up some. Money. All I know is that I was shocked! This...this can be eaten!"
"No, the information is not enough."
Gu Jiu let go, broke the sweet potato into two, and ate it himself. The crisp crunching sound made Wang Dahu's Adam's apple roll back and forth.
"Auntie, come here, I'm not involved in this matter. How can I know so much? Otherwise, if they don't succeed once, they might come a second time. How about you all pretend to go out and try?"
Gu Jiu paused and threw the other half of the sweet potato down with his backhand. That's not a bad idea.
So that afternoon the village chief found a reason to gather everyone together.
"Folks, this time we will mainly talk about the job that Xiaojiu recommended to us. Let's..."
The village chief was talking nonstop above, Gu Zheqi responded impassionedly, and Gu Jiu quietly paid attention to Wang's direction. About thirty minutes later, Wang suddenly changed places with several people and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Gu Jiu quickly winked at the village chief.
"Zheqi, the village chief you mentioned also knows it. But if there is no money and the children are malnourished, what's the use of just accompanying them? Besides, Xiaojiu's method is much easier to control? Look at it. , Grandma Bu is already so old and makes money like everyone else."
As he spoke, he pointed at Grandma Bu. Upon seeing this, Grandma Bu nodded vigorously. She had made so many mistakes, and if she still had a chance to make money next time, she had to help others publicize it!
"I'm so old that I can't even use my eyesight anymore. You all have such good eyesight. It's no problem to designate! It can be done in a moment!"
"Yes, yes, it's about time we, the people of Gujia Village, get rich together!" The other people who got the copper coins said helpfully. The rest of the people were originally jealous when they saw others making money, but now they felt itchy in their hearts.
"If you don't believe it, you can go back with me and have a look, and I will demonstrate it to you again." Looking at the shaken people, Gu Jiu continued.
"Go, go, see if you don't suffer any loss!"
Aunt Xia said as she pulled everyone home.
"Come on, I've newly steamed the wowo and mixed it with vegetables. It's very fragrant! I'll give you one to try later!"
Hearing Aunt Xia's words, everyone who was hesitant at first followed him half-heartedly. After all, who wouldn't take advantage of a free opportunity!
"Gu Jiu, do you know what you are doing? The children in Gujia Village will soon lose their future because of you!"
Gu Zheqi walked up to Gu Jiu, his tone full of reproach.
Gu Jiu looked back at him in a funny way: "Gu Zheqi, there is this saying in the ancient book: Canglin knows etiquette in practice. Although I have never participated in the boy student and scholar examinations, I also know that if a person does not have enough to eat, if Extremely lacking in energy, he cannot focus on one thing!"
"Haha! Gu Jiu, do you want to listen to what you are saying? You, a person who has never read a book and can't even write your own name, are talking about knowledge with me?"
Listening to Gu Zheqi's laughter, Gu Jiu was too lazy to say anything else. Every time she realized one thing from Gu Zheqi: Don't argue with fools!
"Why haven't you spoken? Are you feeling guilty? Gu Jiu, if your words really exist, there's no way I haven't heard them after reading for so many years!" Gu Zheqi took two quick steps and stood in front of Gu Jiu to stop him. Luo Lu: "Gu Jiu, apologize!"
"What?"
"Who allowed you to fabricate words that don't exist to bluff people?"
Seeing Gu Zheqi's self-righteous and condescending attitude, Gu Jiu sneered: "Gu Zheqi, you don't know yet, Gu Jing, my brother passed the exam for this year's children's student, he is only seven years old! What about you? Nineteen Year old genius.”
After hearing Gu Jiu's words, the villagers immediately exploded.
"Xiao Jiu, did Xiao Jing really get admitted into Tongsheng? I thought he had the same name!"
"This Xiao Jing is really good at studying! She was able to give birth to a child at the age of seven. This is the first case in our Gujia Village!"
"Xiao Jiu, please tell everyone how Xiao Jing learned?"
Seeing Gu Zheqi's increasingly cold face, Gu Jiu smiled and followed the surrounding villagers "passing" him.
Mrs. Wang was about to leave after putting her things away, but she didn't expect that Gu Cheng suddenly jumped out and just wandered back and forth in the yard without coming in.
Mrs. Wang knew that Gu Cheng, the only child in the village chief's family, had been in poor health since he was a child and could not get wind. Even if he came out, he could only breathe a little.
So Mrs. Wang was not in a hurry to leave immediately, thinking that Gu Cheng would enter the house in a short time, and it wouldn't be too late for her to leave after others entered.
But what he didn't expect was that after a while, before Gu Cheng came into the house, he heard faint footsteps coming from outside.
Has the village chief finished speaking? Didn’t we have to talk for two hours at times like this before? Why is it so fast this time?
Just as Wang was about to rush out, she saw Gu Jiu entering the door. She quickly shrank back and found a place to hide.
Gu Jiu and Gu Cheng looked at each other and immediately understood the message the other wanted to convey.
"The things are in the main room. Two people will help me take them out in one go. I will demonstrate them to everyone outside. The room is too small to accommodate so many of us."
After entering the house, Gu Jiu glanced at the extra dust in the corner, walked over calmly, grabbed the other person's gray coat with a slight hook in his mouth, and pulled hard.
"There's a thief!"
thief?
Since Gujiacun was robbed twice by Taohua Village before, he is now particularly sensitive to words like thieves and thieves. As soon as Gu Jiu finished speaking, several people rushed in from outside, just in time to knock Gu Jiu away and run away with his face covered.
"Get her!"
There was almost a crowd of people standing outside the courtyard, and it was impossible for Wang to escape.
"This, this is... his mother?" Looking at Wang's face, someone shouted in disbelief.
"Why are you sneaking into our house?" Aunt Xia asked first. She turned to look at Gu Jiu and Gu Cheng and said, "Cheng'er, Xiao Jiu, you two, hurry up and see if I'm missing anything?"
Feeling the accusatory and disgusted eyes of the surrounding villagers, Wang's face immediately turned red. Ever since she gave birth to Gu Zheqi, she had never suffered such injustice!
"Aunt Xia, what are you yelling at? I, I just suddenly came to find you in trouble, who came to steal your things?" Wang stood up and retorted confidently. Anyway, she had never stolen anything, and even if she checked, she would not do it at all. Will you find something on her?
As long as she bites her to death, there's nothing these people can do!
Gu Jiu and Gu Cheng went in and rummaged around for a while, and finally found the crushed death cap in the cereal noodles.
"Auntie, what is this?"
Gu Jiu asked, pointing to a few white spots among the yellow on his hand.
Wang froze and immediately turned her head away: "How do I know what it is? Isn't it normal for multigrain noodles to have something on them?"
"These are crushed death caps. What I have in my hand is enough to kill!"
After Gu Jiu showed the bag in his hand to everyone, he continued in the eyes of everyone's shock and suspicion: "The village chief's house was poisoned four days ago. Since then, every time she goes out, Aunt Xia will be very careful. Sort the things well. Auntie, you thought it was a bag of multigrain noodles, but you didn’t know that Aunt Xia picked it all night and left only yellow noodles in it. There is no way there is white substance in it! "
Hearing this, not only the Wang family, but also the villagers were confused. Poison?
"The witnesses and evidence are all there. Auntie, come with us to the Yamen!"
"Xiao Jiu is right, our Gujia Village can't tolerate people like you! It's still early now, Zheqi's mother, come with us!" the village chief said with a cold face.
"Why do you prove that this white thing is poisonous?"
Wang shook off everyone and pointed at Gu Jiu and asked.
"Then you eat it for us to see! If you dare to eat it, it proves that there is no problem! We wrongly blamed you, and I apologize to you."
As Gu Jiu spoke, he stretched his hand in front of Wang. Looking at something less than three centimeters away from her, Wang's face turned pale with fright. She has not forgotten what her mother said before, a small amount of this thing can kill someone!
Her son has just been admitted as a scholar, and she will live a good life soon. How can she die now?
"Eat, mother, if you say you are wronged, prove it to everyone!" The villager on the side who got the copper coins from Gu Jiu agreed.
"Why?" Wang took two steps back and distanced herself from Gu Jiu, fearing that Gu Jiu would suddenly have a fit and stuff this thing into her mouth.
"My son has been admitted as a scholar. I want to live a good life in the future. Why did I poison them? This is clearly to frame me!"
"Because of your brother. The first time the village chief's family was poisoned was the day your mother brought your brother's coffin to Gujia Village to cause trouble!"
Gu Jiu's voice calmly awakened everyone's memories. For a moment, the way everyone looked at Wang completely changed. If they had doubts just now, now they were filled with determination.
Just when Wang was hemming and hawing, someone suddenly said: "Gu Zheqi is here."
Hearing Gu Zheqi, Wang seemed to feel emboldened and straightened her back. Those who didn't know it thought she was the victim.
