Chapter 97 She's Gone
The trial of the case begins.
The county magistrate sat in the hall and asked everyone.
"Why do you want to go back on your word? Didn't you say that you would marry their daughter after your child passed the imperial examination?"
When Liu heard what the county magistrate said, she began to howl like a ghost.
"Reporting to the county magistrate, they deceived us and wanted our child to be engaged to their daughter. The girl's horoscope is unlucky, and many people in the village know this, but they hid it from my son and daughter-in-law's family and wanted my grandson to marry their daughter."
The county magistrate understood what was going on when he heard it.
Then he asked the people from the Shi family.
"Do you have any explanation for what they said?"
Father Shi immediately knelt down and said, "Even if I did nothing wrong, they can't go back on their words. They have already agreed on something, but they went back on their words. Now my daughter is still in danger of life and death. Although her life has been saved, she has become unconscious."
Gu Leyou felt completely finished when he heard this.
A good friend was ruined just like that.
"So now, who is taking care of her at home?" Gu Leyou asked.
"We don't have anyone to take care of her at home, so we usually lock her up at home. Today we want the county magistrate to make a decision for us. How should we solve this problem? I am a good girl with such a good skill, and now you have ruined it all."
The words had not yet been spoken.
A villager from Gujia Village ran into the lobby.
"Why are the two families in such a mess? Go home quickly and check on your daughter. She is missing. We have been looking for her for a long time but have not been able to find her."
Now the people of the Shi family were no longer able to care about so much, and the couple left the court directly.
The plaintiffs had all left, and the defendants could have left as well, but the county magistrate stopped them and gave them a lecture.
"You are the ones who are wrong in this matter. A good girl has been harmed by your family. Why didn't you ask them clearly when they were getting engaged? It's too late to regret it now."
"But our family is no longer engaged to him. What is there to regret, sir? What do you want to tell us?" asked Liu.
"Why don't you go back and prepare to marry that girl? Do you want the people in the village to talk about you for the rest of your life because of this?"
Lin disagreed with the county magistrate's words.
"If our family marries Miss A Yue, we will definitely be unlucky, so we can't marry her. Even if others criticize us, we must stick to what the fortune teller said. Besides, my mother-in-law also said that the girl's fate is indeed tough."
"You villagers are just ignorant. If you could believe what the fortune teller said, I would have been promoted to a high position long ago. Would I still be the local official?"
"But it's better to believe it than not to believe it. The county magistrate can't blame us for this, so it's wrong for you to scold us."
Gu Leyou didn't care about that and followed the 10 parents back to look for someone.
As for the children, they are usually taken home and asked to be taken care of by the neighbors. After all, if their good friend is gone, it is a life and they will never be able to live in peace for the rest of their lives.
When Gu Leyou followed A Yue’s parents home and saw what was happening, he was stunned.
Everything in the house is in a mess and A Yue is no longer at home.
I don’t know where he went.
They asked along the way and someone said that she went to the river.
When they got to the river, they only saw A Yue's shoe, and only one.
Look at the rushing river in front of me, and then look at my daughter's shoes.
Shi's parents fainted out of anxiety.
Gu Leyou quickly asked someone to send them home and then he went to look for them himself, but he still couldn't find them until dark.
At this time, the village chief also brought some villagers with torches to search all over the mountain, but after searching for a whole day and night, until the dawn of the next day, there was still no sign of the person.
Some villagers were talking about it.
"The girl from the old Shi family is probably in great danger. She is unlikely to be alive. She has gone mad and walked into the river by herself. I guess she didn't even know it. They were all busy working in the fields at the time. Who would have noticed someone jumping into the river?"
"Yes, even if there were children playing by the river, they would not be able to save them if they saw them, so the girl must have been a dead body and may have floated downstream along the river."
"Uncles, aunts, please don't talk nonsense without evidence. As the saying goes, if you want to see the person alive, you must see the body. We haven't even seen Ah Yue's body. How can you conclude that she is dead?"
Gu Leyou's mood was not right either.
She wanted to cry, but she was holding it back. If she cried, what would happen to the two old people in the Shi family?
After she calmed them both down, she said that she would go to the government office to ask the county magistrate for help.
No one knew when Lu Yan would come back. He went into the mountains to hunt a few days ago and hadn't come back for several days. No one knew what was going on.
When she went to the yamen, she had just finished talking to the county magistrate and was heading towards the village.
But this time the county magistrate had no intention of helping.
After all, it was this girl who sought death on her own and was not killed by someone. If she was killed by someone, a woman might help find the body or someone else. But she sought death on her own, and it was nothing more than a conflict between the villagers.
After all, it was the Gu family who owed others first. Who can they blame for not asking clearly?
Gu Leyou returned to the village feeling helpless and angry. The desperate expressions of Shi's parents lingered in her mind. She knew very well that the county magistrate had no intention of intervening in the matter, but she really couldn't bear to give up the search for Ah Yue.
As soon as she reached the entrance of the village, her neighbor came to tell her.
"Go home quickly and take a look. Your husband is back and is seriously injured. The little doctor is at your house."
When she heard the news, it was like a bolt from the blue and she ran home without stopping.
When she got back to the door of her house, the young doctor was about to leave with his medicine box on his back, so she hurried forward to ask what was going on.
"How is my husband?" Gu Leyou asked anxiously.
"He's been poisoned and is unconscious. I'll go back and find a way to detoxify him. You must take good care of him during this time. If anything happens, send someone to notify me and I'll come back."
"Then go and come back quickly."
After talking to the young doctor for a few words, he hurried back to the room to see his husband.
I saw Lu Yan lying on the bed, looking very weak.
He looked pale and had many wounds on his body. He must have just been in a fight. Didn't he go up the mountain to hunt? Why does it seem like someone is chasing me?
Could it be that the group of people from before had discovered their tracks and were chasing them?
The answers to all the questions can only be known when my husband wakes up.
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