Chapter 61 62. Climb Back
Unfortunately, their night was destined to be restless again. Not long after everyone fell asleep, the tightly closed city gate creaked open.
Many people sat up, their eyes fixed straight ahead.
"Someone's coming out?" The person leaning against the city wall found someone moving on the ground in the moonlight.
"What is that?" Many people gathered around, and with the light of torches, they finally saw two people covered in blood, crawling on the ground with difficulty.
"Isn't this He Tuliang? He was caught, how come he was injured so badly?" Even if the others were pushed out, they only had some superficial injuries at most, but seeing that they were crawling on the ground, and with the bloodstains behind them, it seemed that they were beaten with a stick.
"Tuping, your elder brother is out." He Caogen, the village chief of Geda Village, turned around and ran to the place where He Tuping and his friends were resting. This family was really broad-minded, all of them were sleeping soundly under the quilts.
After calling several times, Gu Yuanfeng finally sat up first, "Village Chief, why are you not sleeping so late at night?"
"Sleep, sleep, sleep. Your He Tuliang is back and is lying at the city gate. You should go and check him out." He Caogen was also very angry. It was late at night and he really thought that he wanted to make trouble.
"What? My boss is back." He Zhou, who had been pretending to be asleep, jumped up immediately, "Where is he?"
"It's at the city gate in front. You should go and bring the person back quickly." He Caogen turned around immediately after saying this and ignored their questions.
He Zhou kicked He Yang who was beside her and said, "How dare you sleep now? Go and bring your husband back."
"Husband," He Yang was sleepy and did not react for a moment.
Seeing her behavior, He Zhou could only turn around and vent her anger on He Tuping, "What are you still doing here? Go to the city gate and take a look. Your brother doesn't know that our family is already here.
And your second son’s wife, please heat up the steamed buns quickly. Your eldest brother will be hungry when he comes back soon.”
Gu Yuanfeng agreed and carefully took the steamed bun from He Zhou's hand. This was not a steamed bun made of wild vegetables, but a real steamed bun made of mixed grains. If it was torn a little, his mother-in-law would scold him for a long time.
"They are all the guys who eat everything and can't do anything. You don't know how your mother's family taught you. You can't do anything except eating." Ever since the last time the Gu family made trouble, He Zhoushi now dislikes Gu Yuanfeng.
When He Tuping rushed to the city gate, he found a large group of people gathered there, with two human figures in the middle, lying on the ground.
"He Tuliang, what's wrong with your injuries? Why are both of you injured in the same place?" Several village heads who came after hearing the news squatted in front of them and asked them, but the two men seemed to have discussed it beforehand and no one spoke.
"Why don't you guys talk? Are there any villagers who have been arrested here?"
"Are they dumb?"
Someone tried to pry them open, but the two of them dodged the attempt tacitly.
"I see they are fine, could it be that they got mad in there and are taking it out on us?"
"If you know what's going on in there, you'd better tell us," Gu Sanbu asked when he saw He Tuliang facing him. "Are there any of our fellow villagers in there? If you know anything, please tell us now. We are all getting anxious waiting."
But no matter how people asked, these two people didn't budge at all.
However, a yamen runner standing nearby laughed and said, "These two people are incredible. They deceived people and even brought them to the attention of our prefect. This is just a small punishment given to them by our prefect."
"Impossible," He Tuping did not notice his brother's embarrassment and directly stood up to refute, "My brother is an ordinary citizen. It is impossible for him to do such a fraud."
"Ordinary?" The bailiff laughed, "They dare to fabricate even miracles, what's ordinary about them?"
"A miracle?" Everyone present looked at each other in bewilderment. Gu Sanbu was the first to come to his senses. "How can such a miracle be experienced by ordinary people like us? Are they having a nightmare?"
"That's for sure. I heard that people with nightmares always can't distinguish between reality and dreams." Li Cuicui, who came over to inquire about the news, was relieved when she saw that the person lying on the ground was not her family member.
Others didn't know Lan Yun, but she could tell at a glance that in her eyes, these two people were not good people. If she didn't step on them now, when would she do so?
"Fortunately, the adults did not believe their nonsense and were not fooled by them." Under the glares of several village heads, He Caogen quickly stood up. According to the previous agreement, if there was a problem in the village, he would also be implicated.
"I told you, our leader didn't believe us at the time and took them to see the elder. As a result, he was implicated by them and got scolded. Otherwise, he wouldn't have watched them all the way to the city gate." The bailiff had been getting a little impatient after watching the two of them crawling towards the city gate, and he didn't mind telling the story of the two's embarrassing story again.
Those who originally wanted to lend a helping hand quietly retracted their offer, and some even turned around and left on the spot.
Seeing people gradually leaving, the bailiff snorted coldly, glanced at the two people on the ground with disgust, and turned and left.
"Don't leave him here, he's such a disgrace." He Caogen pointed at He Tuping, "Take him back yourself. I don't think anyone will be willing to lend a hand now. If you can't carry him, let him crawl back by himself. After all, he should be used to crawling from the capital to here, so this little bit won't make a difference."
He Tuping looked at his brother who was covered in stains and could only grit his teeth, trying to help him lean on himself. However, as soon as he made a move, He Tuliang screamed, "It hurts, it hurts, can you be gentler, you want to hurt your brother to death?"
He Tuping was so scared that he quickly let go, but when the man was about to fall back to the ground, he quickly grabbed him again. This time He Tuliang shouted even more excitedly, "Can you do anything? Do you have a brain? You can't help yourself, but you don't know how to ask for help. Do you want to kill me so that you can monopolize the family property? I said your wife is not a plaything, and you are not a plaything either."
Gu Sanbu shook his head. He really didn't know what Dashi thought of his in-laws at that time. It was no wonder that their life was so miserable with such an uncle.
"Dad, what should we do with this person? Just leave him here?" Gu Shulin asked, pointing at the blue sky beside him.
Gu Sanbu turned his head and looked at Li Cuicui, scaring her so much that she quickly stepped back, waving her hands, "This is none of my business. Although I know him, our two families are not involved at all."
(End of this chapter)
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