Chapter Ninety-Three: Cutting the Weeds and Eradicating the Roots
"Steward Zhou, find some people for me and carry them to the yamen, I don't care about the county order!"
Ignoring the tragic death of the people, isn't the county magistrate afraid that the matter will be broken and go up and down to investigate! If the county order doesn't matter, she will report it, and she doesn't believe that the murderer can have the ability to cover the sky!
Steward Zhou was stunned by Ranran's arrogance, for fear that she would do something out of the ordinary, so he hurriedly persuaded: "Calm down, Qingzhou is much bigger than Yuecheng, and the county officials of Yuecheng don't dare to stretch it out no matter how long they are, and Qingzhou doesn't take care of that area very much." ”
thought that Steward Zhou would be the first to come out to support her, but listening to his tone, it was obvious that he was going to suppress the matter, which made Ran Ran puzzled.
"Then what do you say!" Could it be that Steward Zhou has some unsavory secrets, otherwise, as the son of a family, he shouldn't be the first to stand up and claim justice when he sees his master die tragically.
Thinking of this, Ran Ran couldn't help but have more thoughts about Steward Zhou, and she quietly looked at the four people present. Sanshunzi was silent from beginning to end, listening to Steward Zhou's father and son report to Ranran.
A thought flashed through Ranran's heart, "By the way, the lord and the lady are going back to Beijing for a banquet, and there are also the lady's maiden family and the relatives of the Gu family in the capital, Steward Zhou, you hurry up to the capital to ask them for help." ”
"I'm afraid ......" Steward Zhou was as expected, and his face was sad.
"What's the matter, you mean unwilling?" Ranran's expression froze, and she sneered continuously.
Glimpsing Ran Ran's sudden estranged and cold attitude, Steward Zhou smiled bitterly, "Don't get me wrong, lady, it will take a day and night to get to Qingzhou from here, and then turn back when you go to the capital, I'm afraid that this corpse will have already broken down." Besides, the old lady had already severed her relationship with the Gu family in the capital, and she made it clear that she was not allowed to contact the Gu family in the capital in private. He understood why Ranran had suddenly changed his attitude, but he had a bitter word.
"So what! Could it be that when something so big happens, can they really stand by and watch? Ran Ran swallowed the news that Old Madam Gu was seriously ill, and now in her opinion, Steward Zhou was not enough to trust.
Zhou Yin saw that his father was in a dilemma by Ranran's questioning, so he stepped forward to solve the siege: "Ranran's lady, what my father means is that the top priority should be to let the old lady be buried in peace, and after the fact, we can write a pleadings to continue the appeal." Although I don't know what happened to the Gu family in Beijing back then, it is said that it was because I offended someone that I had to move here. Now, if you go rashly, let alone whether you can get help, I'm afraid that it will not be good for you. ”
The father and son of the Zhou family are of the same heart, and Ran Ran is helpless: "What about the Yao family?" "Counting the days, Gu Shichang and the others are only afraid that they will die on the way back to Beijing. has already said that he will go to the banquet, but he won't see anyone by then, won't the Yao family pursue it?
Just when Ran Ran had a new wave of hope, the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family ran in to interrupt their conversation, which also made the father and son of the Zhou family breathe a sigh of relief.
"Lady, there is a woman named Shen Jia who said that she wants to look for you."
"Let her in!"
As soon as she heard that Shen Jia was finally here, Ran Ran immediately greeted her excitedly, and now the only person she could talk to was Shen Jia.
Shen Jia came with Ah Fu Ah Cai, she rushed in in a hurry, grabbed Ranran's hand, and asked, "What the hell is going on, I heard that the Gu family was destroyed." ”
Ran took a breath, nodded with difficulty, and led them to the backyard. Seeing a row of corpses on the ground, everyone was stunned, and they all stared straight at each other and stayed in place.
I saw that Ah Fu was the most daring, stepped forward, lifted the white cloth on the face of one of them, and revealed a familiar face, and everyone's faces turned pale. Shen Jia couldn't help but run to the corner of the wall and vomited, so frightened that Ran Ran hurriedly followed.
"Are you alright?" She didn't want to see her faint when she looked for Shen Jialai, so she helped her back to the hall.
After drinking a cup of hot water, Shen Jia's face slowly eased, and she shuddered at the thought of the bloodstains on her face and the flesh on her neck, and then her teeth chattered with anger.
"Who did it, it's just crazy."
Ran Ran looked around for a moment, then rubbed to Shen Jia's side, and told her everything in a voice that only the two of them could hear.
Seeing that Shen Jia was also deep in thought, Ran Ran could only sigh and say, "Shen Jia, what do you say I should do." "Now that the Gu family is in the middle of the road, Gu Shichang and his wife died tragically, Gu Lianzhao is missing, and Mrs. Gu is seriously ill.
Although she can completely leave things alone, anyway, she is just a little girl now, and she will be said a few words at most when she runs back to her parents' house, and no one will really blame her. The problem is that she can't sit idly by, whether it is the Gu family who died tragically, or the old lady Gu who is in an unknown condition, she subconsciously has a sense of responsibility and responsibility.
It's just that she has no clue, even if she wants to apply for justice for Gu Shichang and them, she has no way to ask. At this time, she believed that those who could call the wind and rain through time were just stories, how could the reality be so beautiful, and no era should be alive with all her strength.
"Don't be too sad, life and death are fate, maybe he knew that it would be impossible to escape this catastrophe, so he let me leave in the first place." Finally, Shen Jia came back to his senses, looking at Ranran, who was also a fallen person at the end of the world, Shen Jia couldn't help.
"What do you mean?" Ran Ran turned around sharply and caught the worm in Shen Jia's words.
Shen Jia reflected that they had not been able to communicate with each other completely, and a lot of information would not be able to be shared in the future.
She thought for a while, and then told Ran Ran what she had learned: "The Gu family has been losing money everywhere as early as last year, and I heard the master say that the other party came for them, but it was hidden too deeply, and he couldn't find out who it was." At the beginning, the Gu family moved here to hide people's eyes, I thought it must have provoked someone, and now it has been discovered, so I came to eradicate the grass again. ”
Shen Jia and Steward Zhou both mentioned that they moved here to hide people's eyes, which was similar to what she had guessed at the beginning, but Old Madam Gu clearly told her that this was not the case, and who was lying.
"But why do they even kill their subordinates, many of them are not Gu family members." There are not many children in the family who really care about the family, and now there are even fewer left.
"Who knows, maybe it's because I'm afraid of extraneous branches." Shen Jia shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't know.
Ran Ran pursed her lips and thought, if Old Madam Gu lied, then what did they do to offend people, even if they had been hiding in Yunshan for so many years, they would not let go. If Shen Jia and Steward Zhou lied, would they also hear some rumors, or did they have other plans?
"Actually, I think what Steward Zhou said is right, what must be solved now is to let them be buried in the ground, you can't guard so many corpses, think about how infiltrating people!" Shen Jia said to himself, and couldn't help but shudder.
Ran Ran on the side fell into her own contemplation, and suddenly she jumped up: "You said that the other party's purpose is to cut the grass and eradicate the roots...... Oops! Grandmother is still at home! ”
If the other party's purpose was to wipe out the Gu family, wouldn't Old Madam Gu be in danger!