As Gu Qinghe and Liu Bai arrived at the entrance of the village, a woman came up to them and said anxiously, "He girl, Liu Xiulian, that crazy woman, took advantage of your absence and brought her sons to smash your house. Your mother was seriously injured. You should go back and take care of her!"

Gu Qinghe quickly quickened her pace and ran to the end of the village. Liu Bai saw that she was anxious, so he picked her up again without thinking too much and tiptoed towards the direction of Gu's house.

Many villagers were surrounding the Gu family's small mud house, and noisy voices and scoldings were buzzing.

"Village head, Aunt Liu's family is really too much! If you don't take care of it today, our village will never be at peace in the future! This is simply too much!"

An elderly woman supported Aunt Gu, whose right hand was bleeding, and looked indignant.

A short and skinny man who had been bullied by the Liu family said angrily, "That's right, village chief. You should take care of it! Her family saw that every household in the village had a young man conscripted by the imperial court, and they relied on their large number of men to bully others! This is too much!"

"Village chief, you have to teach them a lesson. Look at what they have done to our village in the past few years! Aunt Gu's family is bullied every day, all the eggs from Aunt Zhang's family went into the stomach of that brat Da Niu, and Aunt He's family has never brought back any vegetables!"

"..."

Liu Xiulian was accused by everyone and immediately started to curse: "Do you have any shame? When was there any trouble in the village? We were always the first to stand in front? Now I'm asking you to borrow something and you're saying this and that? If you have the ability, you should be more determined and give birth to more children! Your own man was conscripted and there's no man in the house. Do you blame me? Am I your father or your mother?!"

"And there's that crazy woman Liu Xiulan! I just wanted to be a matchmaker for their daughter He, but she actually hit me with a stick! Their daughter He is already sixteen years old today, which means she'd be an old maid in the village. If she doesn't find a partner, she won't be able to get married. I was thinking about her family, but she didn't know what was good for her and wanted to hit me! That bastard Chang'an just bites people without stopping. Our Dalang's hand was bitten and bleeding. Are you blind and didn't see it?"

Gu Qinghe patted Liu Bai's hand around his waist, and after he put it down, he squeezed into the crowd, rolled up his sleeves, picked up Aunt Gu's stick and hit Aunt Liu: "You live by the sea, why do you care so much? What does it have to do with you whether I get married or not? Didn't I say last time that you don't want to come to our house anymore? Don't you want your legs anymore?"

Aunt Liu was hit by a few sticks and ran away in fear. Her sons came forward with fierce eyes and surrounded her. Gu Qinghe picked up a handful of stones from the ground and threw them at them.

At this time, the dry rice system finally stopped cheating her. The power of the "precision strike" was much stronger than before. Several men immediately covered their hands here and there, but couldn't find where it hurt.

Liubai took the stick from Qinghe's hand and started hitting people, hitting their forearms, stomachs, and thighs. Every hit with the stick made a dull sound, and several people fell to the ground, holding their heads and rolling around wailing.

"Why is it this black-hearted and cruel boy again? Ah! Stop hitting me! It hurts!"

"Hiss—my legs!"

"Ouch! Don't hit my stomach. We were wrong. We won't come here again..."

Liu Bai ignored their cries for mercy and knocked them to the ground one by one. He stared down at them with a cold face and hit anyone who moved with a stick.

Seeing that Liu Bai was not at a disadvantage in a one-on-five fight, Gu Qinghe turned around and helped Aunt Gu over. He looked at her bloody right hand and apologized in a low voice: "I'm sorry to have caused you trouble again, Aunt Gu."

Aunt Gu shook her head, touched her head with her uninjured left hand, and said softly: "It's their nature. Even if you weren't here today, there would be others. You shouldn't blame yourself for their mistakes."

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