“You’ve mistaken me for someone else. My surname isn’t Yelü, it’s Li, and my name is Li Laozhuang. I live in a village about 20 li outside the city.”
The hunter persisted.
Gu Shiliu laughed wildly, "Li Laozhuang, hahaha, if it were someone else I might mistake, but you... I would never mistake you."
Gu Shiba secretly smiled, then quickly suppressed his smile and glared at the hunter with a stern face.
Yelü Xianyong was the most valiant general under Yelü Guzha, but he was extremely ugly, and anyone who saw him once would never forget him.
The hunter tried to argue, but suddenly heard the sound of a whip whistling through the air. He lowered his head, but still couldn't dodge it.
The turban that was tightly wrapped around her head was pulled off, and her face was completely exposed.
There's nothing more to say now.
"I... I only have one question: how did you know it was me?"
Yelü Xianyong couldn't understand it.
Just as Gu Shiba was about to answer, Gu Shiliu said, "Tell me what you need to tell me, and I'll tell you."
Gu Shiba quickly swallowed back the words that were about to come out.
That was close, I almost blurted it out.
"Kill me if you want, torture me if you want. I have nothing to say." Yelü Xianyong was fearless in the face of death.
Gu Shiliu laughed and said, "Let's talk about it after you stay for two days. It's easy to come but hard to leave."
With a wave of his hand, he ordered, "Take him away and take good care of my old acquaintance in the northern frontier."
"Understood, Sixteenth Brother."
Several guards, laughing, dragged Yelü Xianyong away.
Gu Shiba was still shaken and said, "Luckily, Madam has a keen sense of smell and could tell something was wrong as soon as she smelled it. She is also meticulous and thoughtful. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to capture the person so easily."
If this person is alerted, he will be difficult to capture.
Capturing Yelü Xianyong without losing a single soldier is truly a great achievement.
Gu Shiliu laughed and said, "How could we possibly match the lady's abilities?"
He glanced at Gu Shiba again and said, "It's clear that we need to use our brains more in the future. Otherwise, we've delivered Yelü Xianyong right under our noses, and he still managed to escape. If he had succeeded, who knows how he would have mocked our incompetence behind our backs."
Gu Shiba paused for a moment before saying, "Who doesn't want to use their brain? But you need to have the ability to use it, right? I know I'm not smart, so I'll just do the things that smart people ask me to do."
In this respect, he is much better than many others.
Gu Shiliu had nothing to say.
Gu Shiba asked again, "Why did it take you so long to catch up? We waited for you at the city gate for at least half an hour, while General Jin and the others were still waiting in the temple?"
Gu Shiliu said, "We ordered our men to tie up and interrogate the monks and the Taoist priest who were mentioned by the madam. We dug out all the soil from the dry well and searched through all the collapsed houses again. We only found this one."
As he spoke, he took out a small gold ornament from his person, which was engraved with the words "Never forget" and had a small emblem at the end, which looked like some kind of animal.
The carving is exquisite and looks quite valuable.
Gu Shiba asked, "Could it be a woman?"
“I don’t know,” Gu Shiliu said. “We don’t know where the other bones are either. We’ll have to keep looking. We can’t tell just by looking at this one. It’s possible that it was a man’s bone.”
This gold ornament was likely a gift from his lover, which is why he always carried it with him.
Gu Shiba gasped: "This person may not necessarily have died in that courtyard, but his head was just thrown into the dry well?"
Gu Shiliu said, "The silk is all rotten, and there are other bones, but we can't piece together a human body."
"hiss……"
Gu Shiba frowned.
That's even more terrifying.
Is this still dismemberment?
How much resentment must one harbor towards the dead to turn someone like this?
"...Then...should we tell Madam?"
That's terrifying... Women are all timid.
Gu Shiliu, however, disagreed, saying, "Of course we have to tell her. Madam is no ordinary woman. I have already reported this to the Marquis, and he told me to report it to the Prefectural Governor's Office and have them send someone to investigate. Right now, I'm afraid General Jin is still guarding outside the temple with his troops. I guarantee that not even a fly can get out of the temple."
...
Ever since Gu Baozhu returned to the mansion, she has refused to leave the Wutong Garden.
“Good sister-in-law, we are the best of friends in the world, you have to help me, I can’t let Mother beat me again and make me kneel in the ancestral hall.”
Qin Yuan said helplessly, "Why don't you change your clothes and go see Mother? Granny Rong has already finished complaining about everything."
Gu Baozhu said, "She and Mother are in cahoots. No matter how fast I am, I can't outrun her mouth."
Qin Yuan said, "Then I'll change my clothes. I'm going to see the old lady after I change. What about you?"
Gu Baozhu hesitated: "...Then I..."
Qin Yuan said, "Actually, you don't need to worry so much. Have you forgotten that the Xu family's child picked up a skull at the family temple? The old lady probably can't take care of you."
"But, but, you can't hide forever."
Gu Baozhu looked so pitiful.
"What eleven? What fifteen? Gu Baozhu, what have you done now?"
Lord Gu's voice suddenly rang out.
Startled, Gu Baozhu started yelling and screaming. Only after she finished did she realize that the couple was already standing hand in hand, being affectionate.
If she hadn't been there, they probably would have been hugging each other.
Gu Baozhu felt awkward: "...Third Brother, why did you come back instead of doing important things in the yamen?"
Lord Gu said, "When the lady returned from the family temple, she was attacked by the Yelü clan on the way. If this is not a big deal, what is?"
"The Yelü clan? An attack?"
Gu Baozhu said blankly, "How come I don't know anything? Third Brother, are you mistaken? I came back with my sister-in-law, and we were sitting in the same carriage."
Lord Gu sighed: "Gu Baozhu, sometimes the difference between people is not just in their names, nor just in their clothes, nor just in their speech and learning, but also in their brains. On your way back, you didn't know that your third sister-in-law had captured Yelü Xianyong without making a sound, did you? He was Yelü Guzha's number one general."
Gu Baozhu opened her mouth wide, and it took her a long time to close it.
"You, you mean that hunter? Yelü Xianyong?"
But nobody paid any attention to her.
Qin Yuan has already gone to the clean room to change her clothes.
Lord Gu strolled leisurely around the room with his hands behind his back, humming a tune. Gu Baozhu knew that her third brother was in a very good mood, and suddenly remembered a saying—absence makes the heart grow fonder.
He then thought to himself, "Didn't they say my third brother's thing was no good? Maybe it's just a lie."
Feeling uncomfortable under her gaze, Lord Gu asked, "What did you ask your third sister-in-law for just now? Did you do something at the family temple?"
Gu Baozhu said guiltily, "That's right. At the time, I only thought that if Third Brother encountered something like this, he wouldn't be afraid and would protect the elderly, women, and children, so I rushed out. What should we do now? I'm afraid Mother will blame me. Third Brother, my injuries have only healed for a few days, am I going to get beaten again?"
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