Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

Gu Yue folded his fingers together and then spread them out, then asked, "He looks very short when he holds the knife?"

"No, it's when it's stretched out like this." said Gu Erhua.

Gu Yue was puzzled for a moment. Why was he making this gesture for no reason?

Is this a signal or hand gesture? Can you see it clearly at night?

"You didn't lie?" Gu Yue looked at her suspiciously.

"No, no!" Gu Erhua knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, tears streaming down her face. "I haven't had a child for so many years. This is God's retribution. I will never lie to you! I just beg you, sir, please don't arrest me, otherwise I will definitely be killed..."

"Will he be killed?" Gu Yue asked.

"They told me not to report to the police and not to tell anyone else." Gu Erhua burst into tears.

"...You can go now. But you have to cooperate with me if anything happens in the future. Do you understand?" Gu Yue said.

"Yes, yes, yes." Gu Erhua nodded repeatedly.

Gu Xu looked at him: "Let him go?"

"What else?" Gu Yue frowned.

Shi San really let go. Gu Erhua quickly climbed up with unimaginable agility, picked up the basket and ran away.

"Dad, won't you take revenge?" Gu Xu asked.

"Why have you become stupid?" Gu Yue touched his head. "Now is not the time to take revenge. Now that she is dead, how can we explain it?"

"Report to the police." Gu Xu said.

"No. The threat from the man in black is probably real. If the clues are broken, it will be a small matter. But if they realize our intentions and even try to kill us, that will be a big deal." Gu Yue explained patiently.

"Okay." Gu Xu had no intention of taking revenge right now. He just wanted to ask for Gu Yue's opinion.

The villagers over there saw that there was nothing fun to watch, so they didn't dare to come forward to talk, and went back to their own business.

Gu Yue looked at the tombstones of the Gu family.

It is impossible to say that he has no feelings at all. He is sentimental to begin with, and the original body's emotions also affect him. He empathizes with the male protagonist's experience, and his chest can't help but feel tight.

Gu Dashi's brother, sister-in-law and parents are all good people, and they are very kind to the little Gu Xu who lost his family. Gu Xu probably also experienced family love for a period of time, but soon...

"Oh, by the way, didn't I ask you to stay at home and pack your things?" Gu Yue looked at Shi San.

Shi San shifted his gaze.

Then, perhaps thinking of a good rhetoric, he switched back to: "Protecting employers' safety. Yeah. First."

Gu Yue was speechless.

After sending him and Wu Feng back to get paper money and the duster and broom for sweeping the graves, Gu Yue rummaged through his sleeve pocket and took out the unused paper money props.

He gave a handful to Gu Xu, and Gu Yue grabbed the paper money and threw it into the sky.

Pale yellow copper coin-shaped pieces of paper fell down one after another.

No need to clean anyway.

Gu Yue didn't know where this feeling came from. In this brief moment when there were no guards watching him, he could ask Gu Xu some questions.

"Xiao Xu, do you still remember your parents?"

Gu Xu glanced at him calmly: "Remember."

Gu Yue was surprised, but was speechless the next second.

"My father is Gu Dashi."

"No." Gu Yue touched his forehead, "I mean, before you were... brought back by my brother. Where were you before?" He was not used to calling a cannon fodder colleague who died early "brother".

"I don't know." Gu Xu said, "I'll just wander wherever I want."

Gu Yue felt uncomfortable for a moment: "Then how did you and my brother and sister-in-law meet?"

"I don't remember." Gu Xu saw Gu Yue's eyes and softened a little: "...They gave me a basket of buns and asked me to get in the car. So I came."

Gu Yue wanted to ask, Wu Feng and Shi San came back.

Gu Yue stopped talking, took the broom and duster, and began to clean the tombstones of the Gu family.

As he swept, he felt something was wrong.

If Gu Xu had always been a homeless child, how did he learn to read?

Lie to me again!

Gu Yue was so angry that he gasped.

But he quickly calmed down and didn't get angry. The most frightening thing in interpersonal communication is misunderstandings caused by random imagination.

Just ask next time.

……

The official from the Ministry of Justice named Zhong Hao rushed to Yuning Prefecture.

With manpower and documents of delegation of power, Qin Zhaoyue immediately led people to search and search the Sarhan Prefecture, which had been blocked for many days.

This mansion is so huge that it is almost as big as the residence of a third-rank official in the capital. The garden alone has three parts: the front hall, the front yard, and the backyard for women. They are arranged in a staggered pattern, imitating the layout of the mansions in Luoyang. The landscape is also magnificent and the feng shui is even better.

In the front hall alone, Qin Zhaoyue's men found nearly ten boxes of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, porcelain and famous plants. After checking them one by one, they prepared to take them back to the capital city of Luoyang.

In addition to the precious treasures found in the front yard, many account books and a huge underground storehouse filled with gold, silver and jewelry were also found. All the secretaries and chief clerks of the Yu Ning Mansion were dispatched to check the accounts and work directly at the desk in the study.

Backyard... There were six beauties in the backyard, two of them were from good families and four were from slave families. Qin Zhaoyue took the six beauties back to the county government for questioning according to the regulations. Since there was no reliable evidence of Sarhan's crime, they could only find a place to settle them first and wait for the subsequent punishment to be decided.

Jingcun and his men searched Sarhan's house thoroughly, but they could not find any trace of poisonous weeds. They could only identify all the weeds that appeared, and if they were suspicious, they dug up the whole plant and sent it back for identification.

Qin Zhaoyue was also in the study, looking through the account books carefully. After flipping through one book, the prince took another pile from another category and slowly found something wrong.

All the account books that were brought only contained records of the sales of goods from Tianzhu or Luoyang. The huge output of spices from the pepper garden was not recorded in any of the account books.

Tax evasion is a very serious crime. As long as the tax case is investigated at the government office of Yuning Prefecture, the approximate amount of tax evasion can be obtained, which is enough to convict Sarhan.

But in this case, the people behind Sarhan would escape disaster, because all the industries belonged to Sarhan and had nothing to do with them on the surface.

We still need to get the account books of the pepper garden and find out where those poisonous weeds were sold.

"Your Highness." Jing Cun called him from outside the door. The floor of the study was cluttered with things and there was nowhere to step.

"What's wrong?" Qin Zhaoyue stepped out of the house through the crack.

"A young general accidentally broke a vase." Jingcun said.

It sounds like a small matter, but Qin Zhaoyue knew that he would not come to report such a thing on purpose.

"Where?"

Jingcun took him to a side room, and the servant of Sarhan's mansion said that this was the room where Sarhan occasionally took a nap.

On the stone brick floor, a bottle was broken into several pieces, but among the pieces there was still an intact gray bottle lying on the ground.

"This is a double-layered mechanical bottle. It can only be opened with a key." Jingcun squatted in front of the bottle. "I have seen something like this in my father's collection. It should be connected to the outer porcelain bottle, and there should be no flaws on the outside. If I hadn't accidentally found it, I wouldn't have found it."

Qin Zhaoyue asked: "Have you found the key?"