"Whether the pancake is big or not depends on whether you, old gambler, are obedient. If you are obedient, you can eat the pancake. If you are not obedient, then you won't eat it! Also, in our Rong clan, there are many elderly people who do not want to live with their descendants."
So, you old gambler, you must fill these old people's water jars every day! And you must harvest all the grain from their fields within two days, without using sickles!
"Besides that, you old gambler, go to the Gu family and apologize to them! Until they forgive you! If they don't forgive you, apologize whenever you have time! I don't care how they want you to apologize! But you must apologize!"
This means the Gu family can deal with the old gambler however they want.
For now, keep Du Qincai calm and prevent her from going to that person, lest she alert him.
The old gambler felt very wronged, but he dared not say too much because this matter involved Du Qincai and that person. He had promised the village head that he would not expose this matter, but by going to the Gu family for a meal, he had exposed the matter.
Outsiders might not be able to tell, but he knew very well that the reason Du Qincai had been behaving herself for several days was because he had scared her. If it weren't for him, how could Du Qincai have been so obedient?
Now that he's offended Du Qincai, that person... will soon come knocking on his door: "Village Head, I was wrong!"
"Wrong? Too late! There are some punishments, not from me, but from him!" As the village headman spoke, he pointed to the azure sky, telling the old gambler that the one truly punishing him was their Wen Hong County's upright and just magistrate, Lord Zuo Li!
The old gambler immediately hung his head in dejection, completely lacking energy and spirit, and showing none of the arrogance he had shown at the Gu family's house before. He looked as listless as a wilted eggplant.
The village head gave the old gambler a look of exasperation and muttered under his breath, "Did he get his head stuck in a door? Utterly stupid!"
But he had to inform the magistrate immediately so that the magistrate could prepare or arrest the person.
Before that, the village head took the old gambler to the Gu family and made him apologize to Du Qincai in front of him.
But Du Qincai wasn't home. The village head knew things had gone wrong; Du Qincai must have gone to find that person.
So he told the old gambler to apologize to Gu Changqing immediately, then get back to work, and asked the Ronghua brothers to keep an eye on things.
He went to the county town and told the county magistrate about the matter.
To get there before Du Qincai, the village head specially rode a horse.
This horse belongs to Gu Beiyi!
Gu Beiyi led the village head to the county town.
Otherwise, the village head's pace is too slow. By the time he arrives at the county office and finds the magistrate, that magistrate will already know and have come to their Zhonggui Village to take the old gambler away.
That would disrupt the magistrate's plans, causing that person to try every means to exonerate himself, making it difficult to clear Gu San Niu's name as a jinx.
When the village head saw that Gu Sanniu had voluntarily given up his warhorse and even led him to the county town to see the magistrate, he was overjoyed and said, "Gu Sanniu, if all the evidence proves that you are not a jinx, I, Rong Dongling, will be the first to apologize to you and clear your name!"
"Thank you, village head!" Gu Beiyi said.
When Zuo Li learned of this, he was furious and immediately began to make arrangements, summoning all the yamen runners. "All yamen runners, divide into two groups. One group will take all the people related to Gu San Niu to the county yamen. The other group will stay at Gu Changqing's house. If the Gu family causes trouble or resists, or if anyone Du Qincai brings causes trouble, tie them up and take them to the county yamen! I will be there shortly!"
Because that person is not easy to deal with, the constables are probably no match for him, so he has to personally step in as the county magistrate to suppress that person!
Otherwise, that person would become completely lawless.
He had to take a group of people to Zhonggui Village, and these people were the secret guards left to him by Prince Yi, who were to take down that person.
Otherwise, his constables would have had no way to subdue that person.
After making the arrangements, Zuo Li followed the village head back to Zhonggui Village.
Meanwhile, the villagers of Zhonggui Village all put down their work. The constables had arrived in Zhonggui Village before Zuo Li, and following Zuo Li's instructions, they sent everyone connected to Gu Sanniu to the yamen. Another group of constables went to Gu Changqing's house, surrounding it completely, preventing anyone from leaving!
The Gu family members were all brought back by the yamen runners and confined to their home.
Du Qincai hasn't returned yet.
There was no sign of Gu Daniu or Gu Erniu either.
The family consisted only of Gu Changqing, Chai Shi, Hui Shi, Gu Changqing's five granddaughters, and one grandson.
Chai and Hui were terrified. "Father, what's going on? Why did the yamen runners suddenly come to our house and trap us inside?"
Even the five granddaughters were terrified. They had never encountered anything like this before, and being naturally timid, they trembled with fear.
Only Gu Jinbao, the chubby little boy, knew nothing. Seeing the yamen runners looking so imposing, his eyes lit up. He sat at the door, watching the yamen runners standing at their door, and even spoke to them in his childish voice, but none of the yamen runners spoke to him.
Gu Jinbao pouted, very unhappy. She stood up angrily and ran to the east wing to tell Gu Changqing, "Master, those people at the door won't talk to me. They are so rude! Master, can you beat them up for me like Grandma did? Beat them until their heads are bleeding and their teeth are all gone!"
Gu Changqing: "..." This child is ruined! He's been ruined by Du Qincai!
When Chai heard her son say such things, her face changed, and she secretly resented her mother-in-law, Du, for corrupting her son: "Jinzhu, those yamen runners outside are not people like us common folk. Otherwise, we'll go to jail, sleep with rats and cockroaches every day, never get enough to eat or wear, and get beaten up. So don't mess with them, understand?"
Gu Jinbao pouted and burst into tears: "Mom, you're not as good to me as Grandma. I like Grandma, I want Grandma! I ask Grandma to do whatever I want, and she does it. Why don't you spoil me like Grandma does? Those people are so bad. They don't talk to Jinzhu. They're big bad guys and should be beaten until their intestines spill out!"
This wasn't the first time Gu Changqing had heard such words from Gu Jinbao; he was already used to it.
Every time I heard Gu Jinbao say such vicious things, I felt a chill run down my spine.
The village head and Zuo Li arrived at Zhonggui Village on horseback. As soon as they reached the Gu family's gate and entered the courtyard, they heard the outrageous words spoken by the eight-year-old boy, Gu Jinbao. Their brows immediately furrowed.
How can a little kid speak so viciously? Are all the adults in your family dead? Why don't you discipline them properly?
But thinking of the Gu family's situation and Du Qincai's character, Zuo Li shook his head. "Like father, like son," that perfectly describes them.
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