After Gu Shichu dealt with Li Ergou and Fatty Cui, he locked the courtyard door again. As soon as he turned around, he saw Ji Mingtao standing in the shadows, with only his tall figure faintly visible.
Gu Shichu was startled and said angrily: "Why are you standing here? You scared me. I've taken care of things, let's go back to sleep." He silently thought about whether his actions just now were too outrageous, and whether they were Let Ji Mingtao become suspicious.
Ji Mingtao listened to the wailing of the two people outside and said, "Is this considered settled? Leave them here, they will be discovered tomorrow. I will throw them into the village."
"That's up to you." Gu Shichu waved his hand and said with a yawn. Suddenly he remembered something and quickly grabbed him and said, "No, no, you can't walk out of my house and let them see that it's not safe for us to be alone." Men and women, they will know what is going on at a glance, what if they use this matter to threaten to retaliate against us?"
Ji Mingtao looked at her steadily, feeling uncomfortable when he heard her words that seemed to be eager to get rid of the relationship with him, but in the end he compromised: "Then I'll beat them unconscious first and then drag them away, so they don't know ”
"Okay." Gu Shichu nodded. If he volunteered to do such strenuous work, she wouldn't object.
Ji Mingtao walked out. The two people were still wailing and had no energy to pay attention to other things. Before they could see his appearance, Ji Mingtao ducked behind them and each of them knocked a stick. The two of them almost fainted.
He dragged Li Ergou and Cui Fatty back to the village respectively and threw them into the haystacks on the side of the village. It was enough to prevent them from freezing to death. As for whether they would bite Gu Shichu when they woke up tomorrow?
Ji Mingtao thought that if they were smart, they wouldn't do this, but even if they bit Gu Shichu stupidly, it didn't matter. There was no evidence or proof. Gu Shichu could also argue that they saw her helpless. To plot against her...
Li Ergou and Cui Fatty probably didn't expect that their plan would go wrong at the beginning. Not only did they not even get through Gu Shichu's courtyard gate, but they also stole the chicken but lost the rice. They received a fat beating and had to endure a The pain is worse than death.
After pulling the two away, Ji Mingtao returned to Gu Shichu's home. Gu Shichu asked in a daze: "You're back?"
"Well." Ji Mingtao hugged the person into his arms, but he was very awake and not sleepy at all. He thought of what happened tonight and knew that the money and food Gu Shichu received had attracted the attention of others, but she was She didn't have a family, so Li Ergou and Cui Fatty wanted to take advantage of her.
What he is most worried about now is that the people who are targeting Gu Shichu may not only be Li Ergou and Cui Fatty, but there may be others, but they haven't had time to take action yet.
How could he help Gu Shichu scare away those people with evil intentions? Ji Mingtao frowned and thought in annoyance, otherwise, he would have stayed here and guarded her?
Thinking of this, Ji Mingtao felt hot in his heart, but then he remembered that Gu Shichu had not allowed him to appear in front of others, and the heat that had just aroused suddenly cooled down again.
Gu Shichu didn't know the complex thoughts of the men next to her. She slept so soundly. Even if someone wanted to climb the wall and do something to her tonight, they couldn't stop her from having a good sleep. She was big-hearted enough.
Early the next morning, the people in the center of the village were awakened by the wailing, moaning and groaning coming from the haystacks. When they went over to take a look, they found that Li Ergou and Cui Fatty were curled up and rolling on the haystacks. , it was such a cold day that I broke out in a cold sweat, and there was also a lot of grass clippings on my body, making me look miserable.
"Oops! What are you two doing?" Sister-in-law Guan Wu, who was the first to spot the two of them, asked them dumbfounded.
Li Ergou and Cui Fatty were so tortured by the severe pain that they couldn't bear to die. How could they listen to the fifth sister-in-law's questions? Of course there was no answer.
Other villagers also gathered around at this time. Seeing the appearance of these two people, if they hadn't seen that they were well-dressed, the villagers would have thought that they were digging into the haystacks to do something "immoral".
Others asked the two people a few more questions, but they didn't answer. Someone suggested that someone go find their family members. However, Li Ergou had no family members. The captain came to inquire and could only ask a few young people. He was carried back to his home, and Fatty Cui was carried back by his family.
The village doctor was hurriedly invited to treat the two of them. However, except for Fatty Cui who had broken glass on his two palms, they only had a small patch of red on their arms. The rest of their bodies were fine, but they They kept saying that the pain was caused by being touched by a leaf, and asked the village doctor to quickly give them medicine to relieve the pain.
The village doctor asked them which kind of leaves were so powerful. They described them for a long time. There were several types of leaves that sounded similar, but those types of leaves were not harmful at all. So the village doctor became angry and thought they were talking nonsense. Are there any leaves that hurt like this when touched? If it is true, why has no one else in the village encountered it?
The two of them did not dare to say that Gu Shichu had found the leaves, so they had no choice but to beg the village doctor to give them painkillers. At this time, medicines were very scarce and precious, especially Western medicines, and their illnesses were inexplicable. The village doctors did not dare to prescribe medicines to them casually, so they only gave them some Chinese medicines to try. As for whether they were effective, they were left to fate. .
Of course it doesn't work. Even forty years later, there is no specific medicine to cure the severe pain caused by the leaves of the Golden Bark Tree. It can only be lived through, and it will be fine as long as it is over.
Gu Shichu and Ji Mingtao paid a little attention to the follow-up of Li Ergou and Cui Fatty, and breathed a sigh of relief when they didn't hear the two fighting against Gu Shichu. It seemed that these two people still knew the severity and would rather endure the pain. I don’t want to go to jail either.
Because of the strange pain of these two people, it caused a lot of discussion in the village. In this winter, everyone is relatively free, so from time to time, they take the affairs of Li Ergou and Cui Fatty as a pastime after dinner:
"Have you heard that Li Ergou and Fatty Cui are suffering from a strange disease? They say their bodies hurt, and no medicine is effective. The pain makes them bang their heads against the wall."
"Isn't it said that if you touch a certain kind of leaf, you will be allergic to it and it will hurt?"
"What kind of leaf did it hurt so much when I touched it? I asked them and they couldn't tell! If there really is that kind of leaf, how come so many people in our village have never touched it? They must have lied! I don't know what bad intentions they have done. That’s what happened!” the aunt said firmly.
"Could they be possessed by evil spirits? Weren't they on the haystack when they were discovered? They must have gone out in the middle of the night to do bad things and bumped into something they shouldn't have messed with..." Someone lowered his voice and said mysteriously .
"Bah! What's the matter of being possessed? Are you not afraid of death and want to engage in feudal superstition?" Another person quickly stopped her.
