Chapter 270 Almost there
In addition to Wu Gui, Peng Tianhe and a few others who went to move the food, Xiu Niang and the people from Tongshui Village also followed behind.
It's just that the embroiderer's previous remarks offended the people of Tongshui Village. In addition, her backers Meng Nan and Meng Bei became Zhou Yunshu's slaves, so the people of Tongshui Village disliked her and knocked her to the ground when they walked with her.
Wu Gui stood aside. When she saw a woman trying to step on the embroiderer's hand to vent her anger, she stretched out the knife in her hand and pointed it coldly at the woman.
"That's about it."
"Pooh!" The woman didn't dare to do anything to Wu Gui, but she spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the embroiderer.
The embroiderer's hands that were supporting her on the ground curled up slightly, and she got up from the ground silently.
"Is it worth it?" Wu Gui asked the silent embroiderer.
“This is what I should do.”
After saying this, the embroiderer continued to walk forward, leaving Wu Gui with a puzzled look on his face.
All the food and money that Mengnan and Mengbei had collected from protection fees were piled up in the main room between the two brothers' houses.
Yes, there was a main house in a large courtyard, but neither Mengnan nor Mengbei lived in it. Instead, they lived in the east and west wing rooms respectively.
The people from Tongshui Village pushed donkey carts and mule carts and stopped outside the homes of the two brothers Mengnan and Mengbei. The embroiderer brought Wu Gui and others into the house.
As soon as I came in, a little girl who looked about seven years old came out from the east wing holding a little boy who was about three years old.
"Auntie."
"mother!"
When the embroiderer saw the two people coming out, her face changed drastically. She waved her hand and shouted, "Who told you to come out? Go back to the house!"
After saying that, she looked at Wu Gui and Peng Tianhe beside her warily.
Wu Gui only glanced at the two children and then looked away. However, Peng Tianhe looked at the embroiderer's vigilant look and snorted coldly.
The embroiderer lowered her eyes and continued to lead the way.
The main hall of their house is very large. There are five tablets placed on the wooden table in front of the main room, and fruits are offered in front of the tablets.
When the embroiderer brought people in, she bowed three times to the tablet.
Peng Tianhe took a look and said sarcastically, "What bad luck."
Upon hearing this, the embroiderer clenched her fists. Wu Gui looked at Peng Tianhe and said coldly, "The dead are the greatest. Be careful with your words."
Peng Tianhe curled his lips, and although he still disagreed, he didn't say anything.
"The protection money Mengnan and Big Brother received from Qishui Village is in the east room."
After the embroiderer finished speaking, Wu Gui immediately asked Peng Tianhe to take people to the east room to move.
"If you move all the stuff out of the east room, it will be almost twice the protection fee for Qishui Manor." The embroiderer knew exactly how many things there were in the house.
Wu Gui nodded.
The embroiderer looked at Wu Gui, who was motionless, and asked, "Aren't you going in to check it out?"
Wu Gui said to her, "You don't dare lie to us."
The embroiderer sneered, "That's right."
"Can I go back to my room for a moment?"
Wu Gui didn't know what the embroiderer was going to do, but she still warned her, "Don't try any tricks."
The embroiderer lowered her eyes and said in a deep voice, "What tricks can a woman like me play?"
"My husband and elder brother have become slaves of your master. My children and I can no longer live in Tongshui Village because of what happened just now. I just want to pack up and leave with you."
Wu Gui looked at the embroiderer who went to collect her parents' tablets after she finished speaking and did not say anything else. The embroiderer also fell silent.
When they moved all the "protection fees" into the yard and began to load the donkey carts and mule carts outside the door one by one, the embroiderer came out pulling her own mule cart.
She looked at Wu Gui and said, "I can help you pack some."
Perhaps because she felt that Wu Gui was reasonable, the embroiderer kept talking to him.
As for why the embroiderer offered to help, there was a reason. Instead of letting the mule cart at home be requisitioned and taken away, it would be better for her to take the initiative to help.
And if I carry some food for that handsome scholar, he shouldn't abandon me.
Although Mengnan and Mengbei became slaves of others, Xiu Niang never thought of separating the family.
At worst, they can't live together, but she will definitely bring her children with her to live with them.
Wu Gui did not answer the embroiderer immediately, but when they had almost finished moving, he had someone move three bags of grain onto the embroiderer's cart.
As the embroiderer left on her mule cart, she looked at the people of Tongshui Village gathered at her door and said, "My father did his best to protect the entire village, and I did my best too."
"There's still a lot of food left in the west room. Divide it among yourselves. We'll separate today, and you'll figure out yourselves how to manage it from now on."
Before the embroiderer finished speaking, the people in the village rushed to her house, and no one paid attention to what she said afterwards.
The embroiderer showed a wry smile on her face, watched the grain transport convoy gradually moving away, and drove her mule cart to catch up.
When the embroiderer drove her car behind Zhou Yunshu's convoy, Zhou Yunshu just glanced at her and ignored her.
Only Meng Nan, with his hands tied, ran behind the horse, and from time to time he would look back at his wife crying.
"Woo woo woo, my wife is really great!"
"I'm so lucky! I was worried she'd run away like my sister-in-law!"
Meng Bei, who also had his hands tied and was running behind the horse, couldn't help but kick his brother when he heard his brother crying and saying hurtful words.
Does he have to repeat the fact that his wife ran away three times a day?
Meng Nan, who was kicked by his brother, cried, "Brother, why did you kick me? Are you jealous that you are not as rich as me?"
Meng Nan said this for a reason.
Before, when Wu Gui took people to move grain, the talkative Meng Nan chatted with Zhou Yunshu and said that if he needed 12,000 taels of gold to redeem him, then how much money would his brother need to leave.
Zhou Yunshu casually said five taels of silver, which inexplicably became the source of Meng Nan's pride.
"Shut up!" Meng Bei would never admit that he envied his brother's high net worth.
Zhou Yunshu and her group returned to Qishui Village amid the noise from Mengnan and Mengbei.
It was already dark when they returned to the farm.
The people of Qishui Manor were amazed to see that Zhou Yunshu brought back twice as much food and money as she had originally given out.
And when they learned that the two ferocious bandit leaders had become slaves of their master, their awe of Zhou Yunshu increased even more.
When Yan Shilei was directing the people of Qishui Village to put all the "protection fees" they had collected into the warehouse, Wu Gui came to Zhou Yunshu and said to her, "The embroiderer has also come in."
Zhou Yunshu followed Wu Gui's gaze and looked at the embroiderer who was standing beside Mengnan and Mengbei with her mule cart, feeding them water and food, and said, "She is quite affectionate and righteous."
"What about her?" Wu Gui had some feelings for the embroiderer. "Should she stay at Qishui Manor or leave with us?"
Zhou Yunshu looked at the embroiderers and was about to speak when Kang Jingyu came over with a letter.
"Sister-in-law, someone sent you a letter."
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