Chapter 143: Empty

After all, even when things got so bad, the Gu family didn't say a bad word about the Li family, so it seems that the Li family is really good.

Wang Yufen found an excuse and hurried back to tell her daughter the good news.

Shi Aoxue said with some pride, "Mom, what did I say? It's that woman surnamed Gu who's unlucky. General Li is obviously a good man, but it's also my destiny to marry him. Otherwise, how could we have come from such a long distance to meet at this time?"

Wang Yufen nodded, "Yes, but no girl would take the initiative in this matter, and we don't know what General Li is thinking."

"Then you can ask Dad." Shi Aoxue said with a red face.

Wang Yufen slapped her thigh excitedly, "Look at me, how could I have forgotten about this!"

…

In the afternoon, it was just as Li Mumu expected.

The yamen runners really came, there were three of them in total.

And it was the same person who just sent them to the village entrance last time and left them alone. The other two were strangers.

Perhaps because there were so many people, the yamen runner was more confident and kicked the wooden door, which had just been repaired not long ago, open again with great force.

Fortunately, everyone was prepared, otherwise we would have been scared by him.

Even though the man was yelling at her, when he saw Gu Lan, he still didn't dare to look her in the eye because he thought of how powerful she was that day.

"Sir, what happened?" Gu Jian asked.

The bailiff snorted coldly, "It's just a routine inspection. You'll have to get used to this kind of life from now on."

The man said, winked at the other two, and then rushed into the house.

Li Yunchao frowned and clenched his fists. Seeing this, Gu Yuru gently shook her head at him.

Although these guys are hateful, there is no need to conflict.

Li Yunchao calmed down with his mother's comfort and just waited to see the show.

The three of them ran around the house like three weasels, wishing they could turn the rice jar upside down, but they didn't find the things that Old Lady Li described.

The three of them exchanged glances, their expressions looking very ugly.

Song Qiang suppressed her laughter and said, "Sir, what are you looking for? Why don't you tell me and I'll find you."

The bailiff glared at her and said, "We...we're not looking for anything. We're just checking to see if you have any restless thoughts."

Song Qiang asked again, "We are all honest people. We dare not have any inappropriate thoughts. Sir, you have checked it."

The bailiff snorted coldly, "Go!"

As soon as they left, the Gu family members all looked at Li Mumu. If she hadn't thought of this, a lot of their things would have been robbed.

It would be bad enough if you lost your things, but you might also be accused of being restless.

The yamen runners left the Gu family but still refused to give up, after all, Mrs. Li's description was so detailed.

But they certainly didn't see it.

Just at this moment, someone passed by the village.

The bailiff stopped the man and said, "Sir, I have not broken any law."

"Tell me about your crime?" The yamen runner said impatiently, squinting at him. "I'm asking you, do you know the new Gu family in your village?"

"Oh, I know!"

"I heard that someone gave their family a lot of good things. Is that true?"

"What...what good stuff? I've never seen it, never heard of it. Their family is very poor and has nothing. They are borrowing it from people in our village."

The bailiff took one look at the man, kicked him and let him go.

Then he pulled another child over to ask, and unfortunately this child was Piglet.

The piglet is waiting.

This is the task assigned to me by my sister Mumu and the village chief.

Must be completed.

"You, come here!"

The piglet ran over excitedly, "Sir, what do you want from me?"

"I'm asking you, if you lie, I'll make you pay for it."

The piglet was so scared that he quickly said, "Don't hit me, I'm not lying."

"Someone sent something to the Gu family. Is this true or false? The men in the Gu family all ate meat."

"That meat belongs to my family."

"Yours?" the bailiff asked coldly, "Why give it to them?"

The piglet nodded vigorously. "They... they saved my life, so my parents gave them meat as a thank you. Otherwise, where would they get the meat?"

When the yamen runner heard this, it seemed reasonable. He had asked two questions in a row, and the result would be the same if he asked again.

I think that old lady Li is just making things up, and she might still be holding something back.

They didn't care about the grudge between the two families, but they had made a wasted trip and the matter was not over yet.

Zhuwa watched the three of them leave, then turned around and went to the Gu family to report the news.

He wiped his nose with his sleeve, then saw the pink and tender Li Mumu and shyly hid his sleeve behind his back. "I just said it according to what you taught me, and they didn't doubt it at all."

"Brother Zhuwa, you are so awesome." Li Mumu praised sweetly.

Piglet sniffed. A word of praise from his sister Mumu was better than anything else. He felt like he was walking on clouds, floating in the air.

"I heard them say they were going to the Li family to settle accounts with that old lady." Zhuwa said with a smile.

Old Mrs. Li ran to the Gu family early in the morning to curse people. Many people in the village knew about it. In their eyes, the Gu family was a good family, and anyone who bullied them must be a bad person.

Li Mumu took out two candies and handed them to Zhuwa. In such a big house, it was still possible to hide a few candies.

The piglet quickly shook his head and said, "I don't want it. You can keep it for yourself."

"I still have some!" Li Mumu said.

The piglet smiled innocently, "Then I don't want any either. Give it all to my sister. If you eat more, I'll be happier than if I eat it all myself."

Li Mumu stuffed the candy into his hand despite his refusal.

Piglet felt a little embarrassed when he looked at his clumsy hands and his sister's white and tender hands.

But her sister didn't look down on her at all, and no one in the Gu family looked down on them for being ordinary people.

"Sister is so nice, everyone in your family is nice, they are different from them!"

"They?" Zhang Yi smiled softly, "Who are they?"

Zhuwa didn't treat the Gu family as outsiders. He angrily said, "They are the Shi family. They look down on others with their chins. They even look down on the village chief. Before, when someone from our village spoke to them, they ignored them."

"Unlike you, you don't look down on us at all." Although the piglet is not very big yet, he can still tell the good from the bad.

Zhuwa caught a glimpse of the books on the Gu family's kang. It turned out that Zhang Yi was teaching a few children to read.

"Do you like reading? Do you know how to read?" Zhang Yi asked softly.

Zhuwa shook his head and said, "No one here goes to school. Education costs money, and we don't have money at home."

Zhang Yi looked at everyone and had a bold idea in his mind.

"Mom, I think...it's freezing and snowy now, and we can't do anything. I'm just teaching them, so why not just let all the kids in the village come if they want to?"

Madam Gu nodded. "This is a good thing. Why wouldn't I agree?"