Chapter 213 Tie him up and send him away!
The young man's words made Gu Lianshan calm down. He glared at Gu Laian and told him to behave himself for a while.
"You only think that you don't want to go, but you don't think about whether others are willing to take you! I won't hide it from you. In order to send you over, I paid your master six taels of silver!
The six taels of silver will only cover you for three years. In the next three years, as long as I don't beat you to death, it doesn't matter even if your arms and legs are broken.
"After three years, if you repent, your master will start teaching you skills. If you still refuse to change, I will take you back, break your legs, and raise you like an animal!"
Gu Lianshan spoke with gritted teeth, which made Gu Laian's scalp tingle.
But these words did not impress Gu Laian, instead they made him even more resentful!
He just said he had no money, but now he said he spent six taels of silver to find him a master. If he gave him the six taels of silver, wouldn't it be better than finding any master?
What father would let an outsider use money to torture his son? !
He just wanted him to die, but he didn't dare to do it for fear of damaging his reputation. So he simply gave money to an outsider and let him kill him!
The more Gu Laian thought about it, the more hateful he became. He looked at his father with a sinister look as he walked forward to open the door and welcomed in a white-haired old man.
"Master Wei! Please come in, please come in..." Gu Lianshan smiled and respectfully welcomed the old man outside the door into the house.
Behind Master Wei were two middle-aged men and two young men, each of whom was carrying a bag and following Master Wei all the time.
Gu Lianshan pulled Gu Laian over and introduced them to him one by one.
The two young men are Master Wei's apprentices, and the two middle-aged men are bodyguards hired by Gu Lianshan. One is to protect Master Wei and his party to Mocheng, and the other is to prevent Gu Laian from escaping halfway.
Hearing these words, Gu Laian's face darkened and his eyes were filled with malicious provocation. No matter how his father Gu Lianshan urged him, he was stubborn and didn't say a word.
Gu Tang did not join in the fun in the house. While her father was talking, she went out to call the waiter back, handed him a few copper coins as a fee for running errands, and asked him to bring some good tea and snacks, and also pack some dry food for the journey, and settle the bill together when they left.
The young man who received the benefit smiled and agreed repeatedly, then ran quickly to the kitchen.
Gu Tang didn't go into the house, but waited at the door. After a while, the waiter came over with good tea and snacks.
"The dry food is still being prepared and will be ready soon. I will serve the tea and snacks first so as not to leave the guests cold."
"You're so thoughtful. Bring it in." Gu Tang pushed open the door and led people into the house.
The atmosphere in the room was not very good, but Gu Tang pretended not to know and continued to talk with a smile: "I asked the waiter to bring some hot tea and snacks. It's not easy to rush here in such a cold weather. Have some hot tea to warm yourself up first."
She personally brought the snacks and placed them on the small table in front of Master Wei, then poured him a cup of hot tea and handed it to him.
Master Wei had a serious look on his face. He gave Gu Tang a faint smile as he took the hot tea, then turned around and continued to look at Gu Laian.
"Master Wei...what do you think of this child?" Gu Lianshan was unsure, as his son was truly useless.
In order to find a suitable master craftsman, Gu Lianshan had invited many people to dinner and drinks during those days, and finally he met Master Wei through the introduction of Clan Leader Gu.
Although Master Wei has a serious face, he is a good person and a good teacher. As long as the apprentice is diligent and hardworking, Master Wei will treat everyone equally, whether they are smart or stupid, and will teach them everything he knows. He will never fool his apprentices or keep anything to himself.
A craftsman with such good character will be selective in who he accepts as his apprentices and will not accept ordinary people.
Gu Lianshan wants Master Wei to accept his son, so he cannot hide the truth about Gu Laian's temperament and character.
Who made the guarantor Clan Leader Gu? If this is kept secret, wouldn’t Clan Leader Gu be put in a difficult position?
Therefore, as early as the first time he met Master Wei, Gu Lianshan told Master Wei everything about his son's character.
In order to prevent Master Wei from refusing to accept him as a disciple, he took Patriarch Gu along and pestered him, saying all kinds of sweet words. He also took out six taels of silver and gave it to him, saying it was for his son's food and drink expenses for three years.
Finally, Master Wei, who had had enough of the pestering, agreed and said that he would try it for three years. If it didn't work after three years, he would let Gu Lianshan take the person back.
Now that the two sides have met, Gu Lianshan wants to know what kind of evaluation Master Wei, who always has a sharp eye, will give to his son.
Master Wei's eyes have hardly left Gu Laian since he entered the room. When he heard Gu Lianshan ask this, he retracted his gaze and looked at Gu Lianshan, a little hesitant, not knowing whether he should tell the truth.
Gu Lianshan realized that Master Wei had something to say, but he seemed to have some reservations.
He wiped his face casually and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it. My own son knows it well. He is indeed not a good person. I just want to know if I can change him."
Master Wei did not hesitate this time: "Nine out of ten times, you can't change it. Now that I'm here, you can still regret it. But after I leave, you won't be able to regret it."
Gu Lianshan paused, knowing what he meant.
He hasn't set out yet. If he changes his mind, he will return the six taels of silver he gave him earlier.
If we wait until they set off, the money will not be returned.
Gu Lianshan did not regret it: "I really have no other choice, so I came to you. No matter what the end result will be, this is his best way out for now."
Okay.
Since the father has said so, there is nothing I can say.
Master Wei could understand his feelings. Who wouldn't be angry after giving birth to such a bastard?
Just take it in and raise it for three years. If it doesn’t work out, have someone take it back.
Being despised by his own father and outsiders, Gu Laian could no longer hold back and shouted, "I won't go! I won't learn carpentry skills! I won't be an apprentice!"
"Bah! Who said they wanted to teach you carpentry? You don't just follow the master's buttocks and work for nothing for three years. Do you still want to learn carpentry skills?"
Gu Lianshan spat at him and didn't take his words to heart. He asked Master Wei to have some tea and snacks and told him not to pay attention to what the bastard said because his words didn't count.
Halfway through his hot tea, he heard the waiter's voice from outside the door again, saying that the dry food that Gu Tang ordered was ready.
Gu Lianshan looked at Gu Tang: "Dry food?"
"Yes, this is prepared for Big Brother and Master Wei." Gu Tang went forward to open the door, took the tray from the waiter and brought it in.
There were a dozen tightly wrapped packages of oil paper on the tray, all filled with fried dough sticks.
"Take it with you on the road so you can find a food store when you are hungry."
Gu Laian looked at these fried dough cakes, his eyes turned red with hatred, and he raised his hand to throw them away!
"You little bastard is rebelling!" Gu Lianshan kicked the man, knocking him to the ground.
Master Wei glanced at him, said nothing, and continued to drink tea and eat snacks.
After his stomach was full, he put down his teacup and stood up: "It's getting late and the journey is long, we should set off quickly."
The escorts and their apprentices also stood up, except Gu Laian, who was still lying on the ground and refused to get up.
Gu Tang ignored him and distributed the dry food to the escorts and apprentices one by one, asking them to put them into the bags behind them.
Faced with Gu Laian's cheating tactics, Gu Lianshan completely lost his patience with him. He simply took out a hemp rope and tied up his hands and feet before he could react.
"Dad! What are you doing?! Let me go!"
Gu Laian's face was filled with horror, and he shouted with a trembling voice.
Gu Lianshan ignored him and called the two bodyguards over, asking them to carry Gu Laian onto their ox cart.
"Don't untie him easily, he will definitely run away halfway. Remember, if he runs away once, you will starve him and don't be merciful to him."
"Oh, I see."
The two bodyguards, one lifting his head and the other lifting his legs, carried the man away very easily.
Gu Lianshan and Master Wei followed closely behind, and behind them were Master Wei's two apprentices.
Gu Tang stayed behind, she wanted to find the innkeeper to settle the bill.
The shopkeeper was in the lobby, and when he saw Gu Tang coming to pay the bill, he kept smiling.
After pulling the abacus over and making a few movements, the bill came out quickly, and the total cost was two and a half taels of silver.
The bulk of the food was the one that Gu Laian ordered.
A table of food and a pot of wine cost one and a half taels of silver!
After paying the bill, Gu Tang hurried out of the inn and saw her father loading things onto Master Wei's ox cart at the door of the inn.
Those were Gu Laian's clothes and bedding.
Her father secretly packed up all of Gu Laian's clothes and brought them here.
Gu Laian glared at her father viciously, with a piece of cloth stuffed in his mouth. There was a bodyguard beside him watching him all the time. If he made any unusual movements or showed any intention of running away, he would be punished immediately.
After moving the last bag, the ox cart started moving quickly and headed straight towards the city gate.
Looking at the receding backs of Master Wei and the others, Gu Lianshan breathed a sigh of relief. There was no more worry, only relief.
When the oxcart was too far away to be seen clearly, he turned around and asked Gu Tang: "Didn't you say you wanted to go to Changqing Gate? Dad will take you there right away."
Gu Tang was in no mood to go, so he whispered, "No, let's go back. My mind is full of money right now. I have to go back and think about how to sell the incense safely without exposing us."
“This is something that we really need to think about.”
Thinking of the madness of the crowd, Gu Lianshan's scalp went numb. He had to think of a good way and must not be exposed.
He waved the whip and gently hit the ox's back, and the ox cart slowly moved forward.
Gu Tang sat on the ox cart, his body swaying slightly with the shaking of the cart, and some vague thoughts came to his mind.
During the sign-in period these days, she had been focusing on weapons, and had signed in many self-defense weapons.
There were two weapons among them that she felt would be perfect for her plan.
One is a tear gas bomb and the other is a poison gas bomb.
She signed in a small number of tear gas bombs, only ten, but she signed in two hundred poison gas bombs.
The poison gas bombs given by the system are somewhat special. The poison inside the bomb can be replaced at will. She used up all her accumulated lottery chances and drew a poison gift pack, which contained two or three kinds of poisons and gases that were not lethal in small amounts but could make people faint and become unconscious quickly.
Gu Tang planned to make a switch by stuffing poison and gas that could make people faint into the bomb body, then find a good location, have someone notify the Cheng family, and ask them to bring cash for the transaction.
That's right, she only wants cash, not banknotes!
At that time, she would hide in the dark, and as soon as the Cheng family showed up, she would release a poison gas bomb to knock them down.
After getting the money, she can retire.
As for the backflow incense, don't worry, it will be given to the Cheng family. One backflow incense costs 12,000 taels of silver. She took the silver, which means she still has the minimum professional ethics.
However, there is one problem: she cannot let her father get involved in this matter, otherwise she will not be able to explain the poison gas bomb.
Back in the courtyard, Gu Tang told her father that she had not yet figured out how to sell the incense without exposing them.
Fortunately, the reputation of the incense has spread, so there is no worry about selling it. She thought slowly, there is no rush. If her father has something to do, then let him do it first. She has nothing to do for the time being.
Gu Lianshan really has something to do.
He said, "Yesterday when I went back home, Tianbao came to my house limping, with a purse in his arms, which contained more than ten taels of silver. He asked me to help him find someone to go to the mountainside village in the north to look for Wei."
"You agree?"
Gu Lianshan shook his head: "I wanted to agree, but when I went back yesterday, something happened in the village, and then Dad became hesitant, not knowing whether he should take care of it."
This aroused Gu Tang's curiosity: "What happened in the village?"
"What happened? The Gu family is embarrassed again! That bastard Gu Liansheng held a funeral for Wei in the village and invited many relatives and neighbors. When I returned to the village, the coffin had already been buried."
Gu Tang: "...Does the Gu family know that Wei might still be alive?"
"I know. Dad told them himself, but right after he told them, they immediately started to hold a funeral for Wei. It's obvious that they despise Wei and want to make her dead. I heard from Tianbao that Gu Liansheng, that bastard, has already found a matchmaker and said he wants to marry another wife."
"What did the Wei family say?"
"The Wei family? They didn't say a word!"
"It seems that the Wei family doesn't care about this matter. If they don't care, it's not easy for us to intervene. Don't take the lead in this matter. Let Gu Tianbao lead the way to Shanyao Village by himself. Just help him find a few people to go with him. Don't ask other questions."
Gu Lianshan meant the same thing.
"Since you are not in a hurry to sell incense, why don't you go back to the village with Dad?"
Gu Tang paused, then shook his head: "Although I'm not in a hurry to sell it, I still have to pay attention to the situation and can't just leave it alone."
Gu Lianshan didn't believe what she said. He guessed that the girl had other things in her mind.
Knowing that she had many ideas and a stubborn temper, and that no one could change her mind once she made a decision, Gu Lianshan did not force her to go back.
After resting for a while in the courtyard, Gu Lianshan went back by himself.
After seeing her father off, Gu Tang immediately started to get busy.
She took out ten poison gas bombs and replaced all the poison gas inside with a high concentration of hallucinogens.
These hallucinogens can make people unconscious within five breaths, and they are good for robbing houses... Pah! They are good helpers for eliminating harm to the people!
She hasn't forgotten what Mrs. Han said yesterday.
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