Chapter 26 I Want to Follow You
The woman was obviously stunned, probably because she didn't expect that it would really alarm the authorities.
"Who reported it to the authorities?"
An official led the way and shouted to the crowd.
Nong Chun followed him.
“It’s me…”
Gu Ruanci still had her face veiled as she spoke calmly.
"Who are you?" asked the officer.
At this time, he had not noticed the three sons of the Gu family in the crowd.
"People of Dayao." Gu Ruanci's answer did not seem to satisfy the official, but he did not continue to make things difficult for him.
"You said someone here died of unknown cause?"
The officer asked again, while looking at Gu Ruanci's clothes, trying to make a simple judgment on what kind of person she was.
Gu Ruanci said, "She's lying right here. This girl wants to sell herself to bury her father. I just asked her. She's from Longjiang. She went to live with her relatives. She was beaten to death by a drunk last night."
When the coroner saw the old man, he took the initiative to step forward to check and did not delay the work.
The accompanying officers turned their attention to the woman.
"Was your father beaten to death?"
The officer lowered his voice and looked at the embarrassed woman.
The woman was a little panicked because she had been kneeling for too long and could no longer stand up.
"yes……"
After thinking hurriedly for a while, she nodded.
"Do you remember when and who the other party was?" The officer suddenly became more serious.
The woman's tears welled up again: "I don't know. I was so scared at the time that I didn't have time to react and I didn't dare to look at them..."
Gu Ruanci pretended to look around casually, watching the coroner turn over the corpse, and observing the woman intentionally or unintentionally.
Afterwards, she called Zang Xia again, handed her something, and asked her to leave the crowd.
"Sister, stop looking. Since the government has already stepped in to deal with the matter, it's time for us to go home."
Gu Yuting felt that it was almost time to let Gu Ruanci go back.
The officer then noticed that he was there, and when he remembered the name he had just addressed him, his face changed.
"Second Master Gu, you're here too... Third Master and Fourth Master are both here. I didn't notice you earlier, so please forgive me. Since this is your sister, I'm sure she's the Princess of Chaoyang County, right? I'm not very good at seeing, so please forgive me, Princess."
The police officer's reaction surprised the onlookers.
When the woman heard Gu Ruanci's identity, a gleam of light flashed in her eyes.
Gu Ruanci returned to Gu Yuting and said nothing more.
"My sister just returned to Dizhou. I took her out for a walk today. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing. We are both women, so naturally I have more sympathy. This has caused trouble for you."
The officer immediately said, "How could that be? Second Young Master, you are too kind. These matters are our responsibility."
At this time, Gu Yulou said, "It's strange. The night curfew is the responsibility of the city defense camp. In Dizhou City, under the feet of the emperor, something like this actually happened. What on earth are they doing?"
When the people from the city defense camp who had just arrived heard this, they froze.
They looked closely and found that it was the team Zhou Yuxiu was in.
Because of the previous incident at Xuan Di Temple, Zhou Yuxiu lost his position as team leader, but he still had the aura of a leader and walked in front.
"Is it you?" Zhou Yuxiu didn't expect that they would meet again so soon.
After much difficulty coaxing Zhou Qinzhu into submission, I asked my two younger brothers to take her home. As soon as I returned to the team, I heard that something had happened here. It turned out that enemies really did meet on a narrow road.
Gu Ruanci covered her face with a veil and looked at him coldly.
Just looking at her features, she looked more like the mother who left the Zhou family in his memory.
"So it's not surprising that Prince Zhou is in charge here."
Gu Yuxuan said something in a sarcastic tone, and half of his body was blocking Gu Ruanci.
"We just found out too..." the current team leader explained in a low voice.
He had no way of confidently stating that he was the person in charge, after all, he had to take the blame for this matter.
"It's preliminarily determined that he died from violence, blunt force trauma. If we want to further determine the cause of death, we'll probably have to bring him back to the authorities."
The coroner's preliminary conclusion ended the embarrassment.
"Is there any doubt about that? Didn't this girl say that she was beaten to death by a drunk last night?"
At this time, the coroner said: "This involves human life, so we should be more rigorous..."
The officers seemed to be in a dilemma, because the matter could have been handed over to the city defense camp, but now they needed their cooperation.
"That's as it should be, but what about this girl? If the case isn't concluded within a day, there's no way my father can be buried. She can't just keep waiting..."
Someone mentioned this, and the tone was quite fair.
Gu Ruanci remained calm and glanced at the man.
"That's right. This girl has reached the point where she has to sell herself to bury her father. I'm afraid there's no way out for her. If we leave her out there, I'm afraid she'll still meet with an unexpected disaster..."
"Yes, yes, what a good child..."
A few women softened their hearts and began to wipe away their tears.
Gu Yuxuan also felt a little uncomfortable. He was worried that Gu Ruanci would be saddened by the scene, but when he looked over, he found that Gu Ruanci was unmoved.
He was confused. Is that right?
But she didn't think her sister was heartless. She just thought that maybe her sister had been so sad that she had no tears left.
Thinking of this, he felt more and more that he should be nice to his sister.
The officer looked at them and did not dare to make a decision easily.
The woman raised her head timidly, glanced at Gu Ruanci, seemed to want to say something but stopped herself, then lowered her head again.
The officer probably understood what was happening, and asked righteously, "Second Master Gu, you are the ones helping this person, can you please help her to the end? If this girl really falls for those shady people, her life might be ruined..."
"Yes, the county lady is of noble status, so she must be accompanied by a few maids. This girl has no parents and a simple family, so she is the perfect match."
The man who had just helped the woman once spoke again.
After he finished speaking, everyone felt that it made sense.
Zhou Yuxiu felt particularly uncomfortable when he saw Gu Ruanci surrounded by the Gu brothers.
In the sunlight, he could even see that even someone as reserved as Gu Yulou had a light in his eyes when he looked at Gu Runci.
He recalled the joy he felt when he was a child, just after he learned that he had a younger sister.
But my grandmother did not take my youngest sister to live with her like she did with my second and third brothers.
Afterwards, he reminded himself not to waste time teasing his sister. He needed to be capable so that he could do what he wanted to do in the future and protect the people he wanted to protect.
Since when were my mother and younger sister excluded from the people I wanted to protect?
Before he could recover from his shock, Zang Xia, who had been away for a while, came back.
This time she brought with her a kind-faced nanny.
"Forget about selling yourself. If your father knew about this, he would definitely not want you to become a slave, otherwise he wouldn't have brought you all the way to Dizhou. For the next few days, you will stay with this nanny. She will teach you some survival skills and help you find a job in the future. Whether you stay in Dizhou or return to Longjiang, you can decide then."
Gu Ruanci's arrangement was beyond everyone's expectations.
After hearing this, the woman did not feel happy. Instead, she bit her lip and said stubbornly, "County Master, I want to follow you..."
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