Chapter 50 Listen to your advice and save her life
Gu Xixi smiled and looked at Widow Zhou, with no intention of backing down.
Widow Zhou was embarrassed and angry, "You, you have nothing to be proud of!"
"He didn't say he likes you and won't marry anyone else! You two aren't even officially married yet!"
Gu Xixi spread her hands in a bad mood, "There's nothing I can do about it. After all, he was sold to me by the county government."
"What I think, what he thinks..."
She smiled brightly at Widow Zhou and asked word by word, "What do you want to do?"
When they reached the foot of the mountain, everyone went back to their homes, and Gu Xixi thanked everyone again.
Except for Widow Zhou who had a grim face and said nothing, everyone else was happy.
"Why thank you? You and Chen Fang have helped the village a lot, and it's all our duty."
"Hey, you're still calling me Chen Fang. From now on you have to call me Mr. Chen!"
"That's right, hahaha. I didn't expect that we could have a teacher."
In the relaxed and happy atmosphere, Lao Qian did not forget the reason why Gu Xixi disappeared.
When everyone had laughed enough, he straightened his face and said seriously, "Niece, you said that when you fell into the trap yesterday afternoon, you personally asked the daughter of the third family of Gu to go down the mountain to ask for help?"
Gu Xixi knew that Lao Qian was going to settle the score.
She said calmly, "Yes, I didn't want to trouble everyone, so I just asked my cousin to go to my house and tell Aunt Zhang a message."
Aunt Zhang said, "Gu Qingye never came to my house yesterday."
"At night, I saw Xixi and Chen Fang were late for dinner, so I had to go to her house to look for them."
"The door is about to break down, and they still won't let me in to see Gu Qingye, and they still say they have nothing to hide?"
Old Qian asked, "Did you see Gu Qingye for the last time?"
Aunt Zhang nodded. "Yes, she was lying in her room. She said she went down the mountain with my Xixi and Chen Fang, and then they separated. She didn't know where they went."
"I went to Gu Laosan's house last night, and his neighbors can testify to that."
Gu Xixi pretended to be confused, "That's strange."
"I was shouting from under the trap at the time, and I saw Qingye lying at the entrance of the cave and asking us how we were doing."
"What did she say, I've already gone down the mountain?"
The other people present all had expressions of understanding.
Old Qian sneered, "What else could it be? It's obvious that they are lying together and intend to watch someone die without helping!"
Someone was filled with righteous indignation and said, "No wonder Liu said she felt dizzy and refused to go up the mountain with us."
"She was afraid that Xixi and Mr. Chen were still alive, and that they would confront each other and expose them!"
Everyone looked at Lao Qian, waiting for his decision.
Old Qian pondered and said, "The facts are basically clear. Everyone has worked hard today. Let's go first."
He turned to Gu Xixi and said solemnly, "My niece, you must trust me. You and your family should go back and rest. I will go to Old Third Gu's house to ask for an explanation."
Gu Xixi bowed and said, "Of course I trust Uncle Qian, but I'm sorry to trouble you."
Old Qian said, "It is my fault as the village chief that such a dishonest thing happened in the village."
When Widow Zhou left, she deliberately twisted her waist and squeezed towards Mu Nanzhao.
She lowered her head and accumulated a glance that she thought was very charming.
When he walked in front of Mu Nanzhao, he suddenly looked back, and flowers flew from the corners of his eyes...flowers? ?
The seductive glance that hadn't been cast out yet met Mu Nanzhao's cold gaze.
The petals seemed to be chopped off by countless invisible blades and shattered into powder in the air.
Widow Zhou was stunned, and a chill instantly went from the top of her head to the soles of her feet.
It was not until Mu Nanzhao walked away that Widow Zhou was able to move her trembling feet...
Aunt Zhang went home and closed the door. She was relieved only after making sure that Gu Xixi was not hurt anywhere.
"I wanted to ask you just now, how did Widow Zhou talk to you?"
Widow Zhou's late husband once had an unpleasant quarrel with Gu Bapi over a canal for irrigating the fields.
The two families have had no contact for several years.
Although time has passed and the two men have passed away one after another, when Widow Zhou saw Aunt Zhang and Gu Xixi in the village, she turned her head away and pretended not to see them.
Gu Xixi had just clearly rejected Widow Zhou, so she didn't want Aunt Zhang to know about this and get angry again.
She smiled and said, "Who knows what's wrong with her that she suddenly came to talk to me."
"It was just a few small talk, nothing more."
Aunt Zhang did not doubt him and said, "She is the kind of person who flatters the powerful and looks down on the weak. She is the most snobbish."
"Maybe he wants to restore the relationship now that he sees that our family is doing well."
Gu Xixi said, "She is irrelevant anyway, why bother with her?"
She looked at Mu Nanzhao with a smile, hinting at something.
Seeing that he had a gloomy face just now, I knew that he must have heard what Widow Zhou said.
The old doctor knew that the two had returned safely. After taking Mu Nanzhao's pulse, he went to see the medicinal herbs that Xixi had collected for him with peace of mind.
Only Gu Xixi and Mu Nanzhao were left in the west room.
Gu Xixi looked around at his expression and tried to comfort him, "She was indeed too insulting, but I have already rejected her righteously."
"Don't be angry at such an unworthy person."
Mu Nanzhao raised his eyes and said, "Don't worry about it. I will handle it myself."
Solve? Gu Xixi was shocked, "You don't want to..."
She glanced outside and lowered her voice, "Are you going to kill someone to silence them?"
After all, Gu Xixi grew up in a society ruled by law, and she could not agree with the idea of "I will kill anyone who does evil."
"Her idea was too dirty, but after all, she just thought about it and didn't put it into practice."
"Just teach her a lesson."
Mu Nanzhao said coldly, "She deserves to die if she dares to think so."
He uttered the last three words through gritted teeth.
Gu Xixi took a deep breath. It actually made a lot of sense. How should she persuade him?
She thought quickly, "There hasn't been a murder in our village for many years."
"Just because of Widow Zhou, we have attracted the attention of outsiders, which is not worth it for us!"
"Besides, you are about to meet General Meng, how can you create trouble for such a person?"
Gu Xixi's words "we" in a hurry unexpectedly made Mu Nanzhao feel much better.
"You do know how to weigh the pros and cons." His expression relaxed a little and he looked up at her.
"I'll listen to you and put it aside for now."
Gu Xixi turned her back and breathed a sigh of relief, "You didn't sleep last night, take a rest first."
This trip into the mountains yielded a fruitful harvest, and the old doctor was happily processing the medicinal materials.
Aunt Zhang poured the food on the ground and sorted it out. She saw that the wild fruits were fresh and juicy, and thought of how Gu Xi loved to eat them.
"Xixi, I can't spare my hands. Wash some fruit for yourself."
"No rush." Gu Xixi said happily, holding another small sack.
"I have to take care of that first."
The precious camellia that Gu Xixi dug up at the risk of falling into the trap is still in a sack.
Prepare half a basin of root-growing and sterilizing water, then carefully remove the soil covering the roots of the camellia, and soak the roots in the water at an angle.
Tomorrow, the piece of land that Lao Qian promised her will come in handy.
Gu Xixi was making plans in her mind when she suddenly heard a woman crying outside the wall.
"Sister Xixi, I was wrong. I am sorry to you and Brother Chen. I kowtow to you here!!"
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