Seeing that the thugs were almost gone, Gu Zheqi impatiently took the wooden sticks he had prepared and walked quickly in the direction of "Jiuyang Bookstore".
"Xiao Ni, if you don't get out of the way, I'll beat you up too!"
"Why are you destroying our shop?"
"You guys killed my mother!" Gu Zheqi almost shouted.
That certainty shocked everyone present, and many spectators turned around and left after hearing this. It’s not fun to join in the fun of something that involves human lives!
"Impossible! What evidence do you have? If it is true that we killed someone, then you can go to the officials and the government will naturally seek justice for you. There is no need for you to make trouble!" Ling Yang was startled at first, then recovered. He immediately retorted.
When someone was killed, he didn't report it to the authorities immediately, but instead came to smash up the store.
Nine times out of ten, they are either looking for trouble to extort money or looking for a scapegoat!
Hearing this, Gu Wensheng spit on the ground and walked to Gu Zheqi's side gloomily.
Gu Zheqi didn't want to be charged with matricide, and he didn't want to feel guilty for forcing his wife to death with his own hands in the future. But there are so many people in Gujia Village, and every household is so close to each other, who can they look for?
But Gu Jiu is different!
"Zhe Qi, don't talk nonsense to her, we are here to avenge your mother today!"
"Revenge? Revenge for what? Why didn't I know." Along with the sinister voice, there was a crisp and mocking voice.
Seeing the person coming, Ling Yang breathed a sigh of relief.
"Gu Jiu...if it weren't for you, would my mother die?"
Gu Zheqi's eyes were stunned for a moment when he looked at the visitor, followed by overwhelming hatred.
"Really? Your mother was caught poisoning us. What's wrong with us sending her to the Yamen?"
After saying that, he looked at Gu Wensheng and said: "As for you, you have embezzled the relief food allocated by the court to the village for your own selfish interests. How can a person like you have the right to stand here and judge me!"
"Gu Jiu, my father is your elder. Do you talk to your elders like this? No matter how big or small you are, there are no rules at all!"
Gu Zheqi took over the conversation and started arguing with Gu Jiu, while Gu Wensheng left the place without saying a word.
Gu Jiu looked at the crowd of people and realized that something was wrong. He turned to look at Hongxiang Pavilion and was relieved the moment he met the Madam's eyes.
"Gu Zheqi, if you have nothing serious to do, leave immediately. It's the peak period of our business right now, and you may not be able to afford the delay."
"Master, I can't afford to pay?"
Gu Zheqi pointed at himself and strode toward "Jiuyang Bookstore". Lingyang was about to step forward to stop him, but saw Gu Jiu wave his hand. Gu Zheqi walked to the closed door and was pressed against it before he could kick it open.
The original owner's poor health led to slow growth. Gu Jiu had grown a lot in height after eating well during this period, and was now almost as tall as Gu Zheqi.
"Gu Jiu! If I lose my hand, I will never let you go. Let me go!"
Gu Jiu twisted the opponent's wrist hard, and when Gu Zheqi was in pain and his knees were physiologically bent, he kicked him to the ground.
"If you keep moving, you might end up crippled somewhere!"
"Gu Zheqi, I have never seen such a hypocritical person like you. Aren't you here just because you can't accept the fact that you forced your mother to death with your own hands? It's really hard for you to come all this way to seek peace of mind. If I If you don’t show up, in the next two days you might not have successfully brainwashed yourself that your mother was the one who was harmed by me, right?”
Although he was guessed about his intentions, the other party did not show any regrets: "There are no dead people in the countryside. You must turn a blind eye to what happened in the past and not forgive others! If you don't let the village chief take my mother." Send her to the Yamen, how could she not think about committing suicide!"
"She has such amnesia that she can't even remember herself. How can she think about committing suicide? Gu Zheqi, you have to use your brain to lie!" Gu Jiu's mouth was full of sarcasm, and he continued: "You just don't want to pay and are afraid It will affect my reputation, so I might as well die without any evidence!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Zheqi froze.
"No, no, mother, mother walked down by herself. Yes, she walked down by herself!"
"That's what you forced me to do!" Gu Jiu pressed forward step by step, his voice sharp.
"No! You're talking nonsense! You..."
"Let go of Zheqi!"
Gu Wensheng hurried over with the "rescue troops" and shouted loudly, directly interrupting Gu Zheqi's incoherent words.
Gu Jiu turned around and glanced at the six people in the same clothes who were following behind Gu Wensheng. Then he looked in the direction of the madam on the second floor of Hongxiang Pavilion. He saw the other party gesturing to someone unknown, and then facing Gu Jiu's hand. The direction blew out a puff of smoke.
"How dare you touch the people of the Shi family? Little girl, if you let them go now, we'll just pretend that nothing happened."
One of the people with darker clothes walked up and said to Gu Jiu.
"That's okay, she..." Gu Wensheng wanted to say something else, but the man turned around and kicked his head hard and shut up consciously.
The man in dark blue clothes turned back to look at Gu Zheqi, his eyes full of disgust. He thought their young lady's fiancé was being targeted by some family, so he was so frightened that he even brought five more brothers with him! The result was that he was pinned to the ground and beaten by a little girl...shameful!
Gu Zheqi became excited when he saw someone coming to rescue him. He obviously couldn't beat him, but he still had to twist a few times to prove that he was trying to break free.
Gu Jiu gave him a cold look, then threw the person over by his collar.
"Forget it this time, if he comes to our shop to act crazy next time, even if you come, I won't let him go!"
The man in dark blue clothes obviously didn't take Gu Jiu's words seriously, and his eyes looked like he was looking at a child. But one thing he believed in was that Gu Zheqi was most likely the cause of today's incident!
Just why? Has he fallen in love with this little girl?
This possible appearance made Shi Xuyao startled, and he looked at the nearby environment... Hongxiang Pavilion!
When he saw those three big characters, Shi Xuyao gasped subconsciously. How could the young lady's fiancé come to such a place? No, he must tell the lady about this when he returns!
After being freed, Gu Zheqi looked at the five people behind Shi Xuyao and immediately raised his head.
Gu Jiu was too lazy to answer him and opened the door to do business. Halfway through, he seemed to suddenly remember something and turned around and said, "Auntie was rescued by the villagers and is staying at home safely."
What?
The two looked at each other, both shocked.
Didn't he tell her to hide more secretly? Damn it, if I had known, I would have made her jump directly from a higher place.
Shi Xuyao didn't understand why the two of them were shocked. When he saw that everything was alright, he immediately left with the others, and couldn't wait to go back to his house to report the matter to his lady.
Gu Zheqi and Gu Wensheng were stunned on the spot for ten breaths, and then Gu Wensheng asked in a slightly probing tone: "How can you guarantee that what you said is true?"
"You will know when you go back and take a look."
Gu Jiufeng Qingyun spoke calmly and looked at the two people who became visibly panicked as her words fell.
After the others left, the madam approached Gu Jiu.
"Take a look." He said and a letter was pushed over.
"What you have to do is change the name and the information."
Hearing this, Gu Jiu put down the letter without even opening it: "I said, I don't do this kind of thing."
"You have a younger brother, he just passed the Tongsheng examination this year. After that, I guarantee that he will be able to enter the academy."
"I refuse! Whether he can enter the academy or not is his own destiny. This is not the reason for me to distort the facts. If there is nothing else, I will go back." Gu Jiu took two steps and stopped again. The madam said with a hint. He raised his eyebrows, but before he could say what he wanted me to keep you, he heard Gu Jiu say: "Thank you for what happened today."
Then he went downstairs without looking back.
What Gu Jiu didn't know was that after she left, another person appeared in the room.
"I told you a long time ago, this girl has some thoughts, but she is still very principled in nature."
"How do you know she's not faking it? Try again when you get a chance."
"Oh, okay."
…
Gu Jiu guessed that entering the academy would be troublesome, but when he actually dealt with it, he realized that it was more than just a troublesome problem.
"They need to be recommended by three teachers in the hospital or ten scholars in the hospital... Why is there such a requirement? Aren't they looking for a child student? Isn't it enough if they pass the exam?" Gu Jiu pointed to one of the lines and asked in confusion.
Ling Yang moved a stool and sat down next to Gu Jiu: "You don't understand. The entire Yuncheng seems to be complicated, but there are only a few families. And these scholars may affect the development of these families. Naturally There will be restrictions.”
"Are you saying that the restriction is false and that requiring scholars to take sides is true?"
"That's pretty much what it means."
Gu Jiu stared at the paper with confusion in his eyes. It would be troublesome to take sides. The so-called wrong step, wrong step, once you make the wrong choice, you may suffer a fatal blow.
It seems that we have to find a way to carefully study the distribution of power in Yuncheng. At that time, the old bustard said that it could be done. Could it be that Hongxiang Pavilion had already joined the team? So is it a relationship of ownership or cooperation with the people behind it?
Gu Jiu put a hand on his temple, relaxed his upper body and leaned against the cabinet door behind him.
How did Wang Guan get in? That letter of recommendation...
"Xiaojiu, where are you going?"
"I'm going to find a person named Lu Qiuzhi to see if there is any breakthrough."
The recommendation letter from Wang Guan was written by Lu Qiuzhi, but the names of two other people were added at the end. Judging from the handwriting, those two names were clearly written by Lu Qiuzhi himself.
After leaving the house, Gu Jiu made some inquiries, and after giving away a few sesame seed cakes, he finally got a piece of useful information.
"You walk along this road, turn right at the end, and turn left after a hundred meters. The third house is right there."
"Okay, thank you."
But when Gu Jiu walked to the door happily, he felt something was wrong. Is this the home of a scholar in this era?
Gu Jiu looked at the dilapidated and dirty courtyard door with doubts in his eyes, but based on the principle of giving it a try, he still knocked on the door.
"Who?"
Within a few seconds, a middle-aged woman's voice came from inside, and then, the almost colorless door opened from the inside.
"Who are you looking for?"
The woman in front of me was dressed up in a haphazard way. Although the clothes couldn't be said to be red and green, they were not much better.
"I want to find Mr. Lu Qiuzhi."
