A Girl Traveling Through Troubled Times

Guier realized that Xu Wenjie asked her to leave because Director Zhou had already taken action and was afraid that Guier would be affected.

So Guier smiled and said to Miss Shen, "Miss Shen, I know what to do. If anyone asks, just say you know nothing and you haven't told me anything about this. Do you understand? What I'm about to do is completely unknown to you and has nothing to do with you."

Then she turned around, as if nothing had happened, and went back to the classroom, quietly packing up her things. She didn't want to take the things away, but to see if there was anything left that could be used as a handle.

Then Guier slowly left the classroom and walked to the playground, just like she usually did during recess. Zhou Huifang saw her and said, "Class is almost over, why are you still walking out?"

Guier smiled and said, "I'm going to the bathroom."

At this time, some of the students on the playground were playing, some were chatting, and some were reading under the trees. No one noticed her.

As they got closer to the school gate, Guier turned around and looked back at the campus. She really liked attending classes here and getting along with her classmates. Xu Wenjie suddenly sent her such a message. Something big must have happened. She left the campus and didn't know if she could come back.

With a sigh, Guier turned around and prepared to leave the campus.

"Student, are you going out at this time? Class is about to start." The old janitor who was cleaning near the school gate asked curiously.

"Oh, I am..." Gui'er was racking her brains for an explanation.

Suddenly, several cars drove up to the school gate, and several people in Zhongshan suits jumped out of the cars and walked towards Guier.

Gui'er subconsciously stepped aside, wanting to let them pass. But one of them took the photo, looked at it, then glanced at Gui'er, and said to the others, "That's her."

Gui'er felt something was wrong and wanted to turn around and run, but it was too late. She wanted to call for help, but the first person who ran up to her covered her mouth with a handkerchief.

The old janitor saw this and shouted, "Who are you? This is a school, in broad daylight. Do you want to rape a girl?"

Gui'er was dragged out by them. She felt as if the handkerchief contained some anesthetic, and she felt dizzy. However, she was unwilling to surrender. She struggled desperately, freed herself from the handkerchief, and shouted to the old janitor, "Go tell Teacher Shen, tell Teacher Shen to notify my family."

The man cursed, "Damn it." He swung his hand and hit Guier on the head with a hammer. She felt dizzy, and then the handkerchief covered her face again, and she completely lost consciousness.

An unknown amount of time had passed before Gui'er felt a sharp pain in her head. She opened her eyes and found herself lying on a bed in a room. It was called a bed, but it was more like the kind of high bed where patients lay while being diagnosed by doctors in the rural clinics where she used to go when she was sick at her grandparents' house in the countryside as a child before she traveled through time.

She struggled to get up and felt something wet on her head. When she touched it, it was blood.

"Are you awake? Let me see." A man in a white coat and a mask came over and, without thinking twice, forcefully lifted Gui'er's eyelids and took a look. Then he walked to the door and shouted, "You're awake! Take her away."

Guier quickly asked, "Are you a doctor? My head is injured and bleeding, why isn't it bandaged?"

The man in the white coat ignored him and sat back down at his desk, writing something on a piece of paper.

At this time, two people came in from the door, dragged Guier away without saying a word.

Coming out of the room, Guier saw that it looked like a prison, with cells with iron bars on both sides. The room she had just stayed in might be the infirmary.

Guier was dragged to a small room. There was a table and a chair in the room. Across from the table, more than a meter away, there was a stool. It was very unique, a bit like the stools in the interrogation room of a police station. You could handcuff your hands, but it was made of wood.

Gui'er was pressed on the stool. She looked around and found that there were no windows in the room. It seemed that she had walked all the way here and did not find a single window. The infirmary where she had just woken up also had four walls. She didn't know whether it was day or night.

Gui'er suspected she'd been captured by spies. But why was she arrested for no apparent reason, and after Xu Wenjie had informed her? The timing was ingenious. She considered many possibilities, but couldn't fathom them. Although she'd joined the group, she didn't participate in many daily affairs. Neither Song Xichen nor Manager Liu or Manager Zhang had used her young age as an excuse to keep her from getting deeply involved. So why was she arrested? Could it be that someone had exposed her and implicated her?

She felt that this possibility was the greatest, but she had a background after all, and it was a warlord background. The safest thing to do now was to deny it to death, because no one had direct evidence to prove that she was involved in anything. The old school worker would definitely report it after seeing her being kidnapped, and the people in the Sha Mansion would know the news soon. It was hard to say whether the lady and Sha Yanyao would save her, but Guier felt that Sha Yanxiao would definitely find a way to save her.

Gui'er thought it over and felt much more at ease. At this time, she felt a sharp pain in her head again. It seemed that the spy hit her head right on the old wound. Gui'er felt the pain and secretly cursed his ancestors in her heart.

At this moment, there was a clang, and the iron gate opened, and three people in Zhongshan suits came in. Guier seldom came into contact with people from government departments. Now she discovered that the Zhongshan suit was the executive jacket of this era.

The three men sat behind the table. One of them took a pen and wrote down the details. The other two stared at Gui'er. The middle one said, "Name."

Gui'er knew they were interrogating her. She looked at the three men with deliberate confusion and said, "Are you bandits? Are you trying to kidnap me? Am I your hostage?"

The man in the middle slammed the table and said, "Stop playing dumb. We wouldn't have brought you here without evidence. You'd better think it over carefully. Do you see that thing behind you? You're a child, and a schoolgirl at that. We don't want to use this on you."

Guier turned her head and took a look. There was a rack, a bit like a cross, but the ends of the horizontal pillar looked like they could be used to tie people's hands. Next to it was a stove with burning charcoal, and next to it was a pair of tongs. Next to it was a rack, on top of the rack was a washbasin, and next to the washbasin was a whip. It was obvious that these were execution tools.