Chapter 106 Recruiting thugs
Gu Feixue answered so resolutely that new life seemed to shine in the eyes of those people, and they struggled to stand up and surrender.
"I say! The one the Lord has made us is...ah!"
The man who was the first to confess suddenly started bleeding from his nose before he could finish his words.
Not only him, but even the person who had been silent on the ground began to struggle and twitch.
Everyone saw eight people in the hall, with large amounts of blood spurting out of their nostrils, eyes, ears, and mouths. In just a moment, two or three of them fell to the ground and did not move.
Gu Feixue's eyes narrowed and she looked around quickly.
In the yamen, apart from the Gu family, there was the prefect Liang at the top and the officers in the two rows on the left and right holding sticks.
These people are unable to activate the mother Gu!
The art of witchcraft mentions that if you want to activate the poisonous insect in the host, the mother poisonous insect must be nearby!
Gu Feixue's frosty eyes swept across the faces of the people watching outside the yamen one by one. The person who put the poison must be one of them!
After a while, the eight people struggled and died on the spot with blood coming out of all their orifices. The poisonous insects that flowed out of the blood of several people also allowed some sharp-eyed people to discover clues.
"Look, there are bugs in their blood, just like the one Zhang Erdan saw yesterday!"
Liang Jianwei's face looked grim. This was the second time such a vicious murder had happened in front of him!
Compared to the arrow that killed Zhang Erdan yesterday, the deaths of these eight people today were even more bizarre and chilling!
"Your Excellency, they were poisoned by a Gu, and someone nearby triggered the mother Gu, causing their sudden death. I request that all those present who witnessed the interrogation be investigated one by one to find the person who triggered the mother Gu!"
Liang Jianwei had no suspicion and ordered the imperial envoys to detain everyone present on the spot. However, after checking one by one, they found that no one was carrying the black cup that Gu Feixue mentioned.
After working hard until the afternoon, the group still found nothing. Although the people who were arrested for investigation felt a little uncomfortable, they were also very afraid of the person who cast the curse. If they could be caught, they would naturally be safer.
"Miss Gu, who is the person who cast the curse? As long as that person is not caught, won't we ordinary people have to live in fear every day?"
"yes!"
An old man stood up and said something, and then a group of people followed and echoed him.
Gu Feixue couldn't hide her disappointment:
"The person who poisoned you escaped today, but if you are poisoned by someone else in the future, you can come to me for help. I know how to cure these poisons!"
After bidding farewell to the yamen governor Liang and a group of elders and fellow villagers, the mood in the Gu family was very depressed.
"Mom and Dad, let's go to the Chema Market to find some thugs. There are also formations that use people."
Although hiring thugs may result in casualties, the situation is not peaceful now, so we can only pay a high price to hire people.
Gu Lang, Wang Shi and even Gu Tingchuan had no objection. Although the Gu family had many people, most of them were only in charge of business matters.
In Fang Gan's formation, there are one or two formation layouts that use people, and even if people without martial arts skills are used, they can achieve a defensive effect.
The people that Gu Feixue taught martial arts to were all teenagers who had not studied for long and were not tall enough to meet the requirements of the formation.
Gu Lang and his companions adopted Gu Feixue's suggestion, went to the blacksmith shop to get the prepared hidden weapons, and then rushed to the carriage and horse market.
The workers previously hired by the Gu family all had temporary contracts and could leave when the contract expired.
However, due to the seriousness of the matter this time, the Gu family did not intend to stick to the indenture contract and planned to buy many thugs to protect the safety of the Gu family members in the future.
Now Gu Feixue didn't stop her parents from paying the money. After all, the shop had just been renovated and had not yet opened, and the clothes were being made in the village at a rapid pace. Naturally, she didn't have much money on hand.
The Gu family looked for many strong laborers willing to sign indentures in the Chema Market and selected 24 good candidates. They paid them 10 taels of silver as indentures and an additional 1 tael of silver per month, and stipulated that they could redeem themselves after five years.
After signing the contract to sell themselves, they could redeem themselves and receive an income of one or two taels of silver every month. This treatment made more than 20 people very satisfied.
The Gu family also said that they could bring their families to live in their home and that the Gu family would provide them with accommodation. This made the twenty or so people even more grateful.
If life wasn't so hard these days, who would be willing to sell themselves as a servant? The treatment provided by the Gu family was the most benevolent they had ever seen, many times better than the lucrative job of moving goods at the dock.
Even Tian Dali, who had helped the Gu family before, signed a contract to sell himself to the Gu family.
Tian Dali was tall and strong and had no shortage of work, but he and some people in Chema City had offended the Qian family, who often sent people to disrupt their work, which was very annoying.
It just so happened that the Gu family came to recruit workers, and they could redeem their indentures and earn more than working outside, so Tian Dali and his group naturally chose the Gu family.
After hiring people, the Gu family waited in the carriage and horse market for them to go home and pack up their things.
It was not until dark that the Gu family rented ten ox carts, carrying the hired thugs and their families, and headed to Anju Village.
Fortunately, the Gu family farm was expanded several times during the year, and many houses were vacant, so these more than 20 families moved in.
Among these twenty-four thugs, only ten brought their wives, children and parents with them, while the others brought their parents to work for the Gu family.
Seeing these people crowding on the farm was not a good thing, so the Gu family went to bother the village chief's family the next day and bought some bricks and soil from the villagers.
The Gu family no longer lacks manpower to build a new house, but they still need the help of villagers in carrying the materials.
Anju Village then became lively again, with villagers going to the mountains to cut trees and dig soil every day.
Tian Dali and others were naturally more motivated because they were building their own houses.
These people work outside all year round, sometimes going to faraway places and unable to return home for several days, and have to sleep in the open on the road.
Now that they have come to work for the Gu family, not only can they bring their families with them, but the family also pays for building a house for them. The impression of the Gu family in everyone's mind has become even more righteous.
The Gu family has been very busy these days, especially Gu Feixue.
Before dawn, I went to the farm to check the milk production of the cows and help Wu Zhuang from Zuixianlou load the goods onto the carriage and take them away.
In the morning, the Gu family's thugs started to build the house. Gu Feixue designed the structure of the house herself, and she needed to direct everyone to build it according to the layout of the formation.
She didn't even have time to eat lunch at noon because she had to go and see the embroiderers making down jackets. Relying on her memories of her past life, she guided everyone in the production.
Gu Feixue was still busy at night, after all, hidden weapons could only be installed in the dark.
So after everyone had fallen asleep, Gu Feixue brought the Gu family to place hidden weapons and mechanisms at the key points of each formation.
It was not until ten in the morning that Gu Feixue returned to her room to rest.
However, Gu Feixue had already vowed to practice for four hours every day, so she could not sleep during the remaining time and instead used it all to practice.
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