novelraw Chapter 230 I don't want to die, so it can only be you who dies!
Chapter 230 I don't want to die, so it can only be you who dies!
Chapter 230 I don't want to die, so it can only be you who dies!
She looked at Gu Tang and continued to defend herself in a flustered tone: "It was your grandmother who approached me about selling you! I originally didn't want to get involved in this matter and asked your grandmother to find someone else."
But who would have thought that your grandmother was a scoundrel! She actually turned the tables on me, saying that if I didn't take on this matter, she would go to your father and accuse me of having taken a fancy to you and planning to kidnap you and sell you!
I won't lie to you, I have indeed become a bit ruthless in the past few years... Your aunt has lived in the same courtyard as me for many years, so she has some dirt on me. If she and her daughter go to your father and try to frame me, he will definitely believe them!
Li mixed up her true and false statements, figuring that Gu Tang didn't know her well and couldn't tell whether her words were true or false for a while.
They only said what was advantageous to themselves, pushing all the blame onto Madam Feng and Gu Zhier.
She was right about one thing: it was originally the mother and daughter who approached her; otherwise, she wouldn't have gotten involved.
Gu Tang didn't care what she said; she had already planned out a path for her in her mind, so no matter how much she described herself as highbrow, it wouldn't matter.
However, there was one thing she was curious about.
She stared at Li and asked, "You seem very afraid of my father."
Li froze for a moment, then tugged at the corner of her mouth and told Gu Tang about the scene when Gu Lianshan made a scene at the Wang family a few years ago.
Finally, he didn't forget to add a couple of words to his own defense: "...Ever since then, the entire Wang family has been terrified of your father and rarely dares to offend him. Those of us in this line of work dare even less to offend someone as ruthless as your father! We're afraid that one day he might get upset and take me to the authorities!"
This time, if it weren't for your grandma and aunt forcing me, I wouldn't have dared to lay a finger on you, even if you were beaten to death! My dear niece, please trust your aunt this time! If you let me go, I'll keep a lamp burning for you forever!
In the end, Li actually knelt down!
"Auntie kowtows to you! Good niece, auntie truly knows she was wrong! Please forgive me this time! I'll help you teach your grandma and aunt a lesson later!"
Gu Tang remained unmoved by Li's pleas for mercy.
"Spare you? If I spare you today, I'll be the one lying here next time. Everyone is afraid of death, and I'm no exception. After this incident, there's no way we can reconcile. There can only be one outcome: either you die, or I die."
Li stopped kowtowing, suddenly looked up at Gu Tang, her eyes filled with horror.
Gu Tang adjusted the stun guns in her hands and said, "I haven't lived enough yet, so I won't die. I'll just have to send you down there..."
Upon hearing this, Li's face turned deathly pale, her heart pounded with fear, and she trembled with dread.
As Gu Tang approached step by step, Li Shi collapsed to the ground, supporting herself with her hands and retreating backward.
"Siya! Auntie knows she was wrong! Please forgive Auntie this time! Auntie will be your slave from now on!"
As he spoke, he stood up, trembling all over, and tried to run out to call for help.
Just as she was about to stand up, Gu Tang calmly delivered another blow.
The blow sent the man sprawling to the ground, convulsing and howling in agony.
Just like with the short man, place the two ends of the stun gun that release the current against Li's left and right temples respectively.
"You've done too many bad things in your life, and what you're getting today is what you deserve."
Before Li could react, Gu Tang immediately pressed the switch, sending a powerful electric current into Li's brain.
The powerful electric current instantly pierced Li's brain, causing his body to convulse stiffly for a moment before his eyes closed and he stopped breathing.
Fearing that they might be faking their deaths, Gu Tang dragged the short man to Li Shi's side and took turns shocking them with electric shocks twice more.
They reached out their fingers to check, and indeed, neither of them was breathing, and their pulses had stopped beating.
Gu Tang took out a gas mask, put it on, and then removed the fuse from an original gas bomb and placed it on the ground.
Afterwards, he closed the door and hid under the eaves to wait.
About fifteen minutes later, she opened the door, and the room was filled with bluish smoke.
Pick up the empty gas shell casings from the ground, open both doors and all the windows inside the house to ventilate and let the bluish smoke drift out.
Before long, the smell in the room returned to normal, and the poisonous gas was gone. Only then did Gu Tang remove the gas mask.
Looking at the short man and Li lying side by side on the ground, Gu Tang breathed a sigh of relief.
With both electric shocks and poison gas, he must be dead.
He crouched down and began searching the two of them, especially Li Shi, whom Gu Tang searched very thoroughly.
The short man was a penniless wretch; he didn't have a single copper coin.
The Li family is quite wealthy.
Gu Tang searched her and found a money pouch. When he opened it, he found silver coins of various shapes inside.
I roughly counted them, and they amounted to about ten taels.
She took the silver, threw the money bag at Li, and searched the room to make sure there were no items on the floor that could identify her.
Then he closed the doors and windows again, and finally climbed over the wall and left the courtyard.
……
Following the directions given by Gu Qing, Gu Tianbao and his men searched for a long time, but they couldn't find a single person.
Those traveling with them believed that the kidnappers must have left with the two girls long ago; they were too late, and the girls were gone forever.
Gu Tianbao didn't believe it, so he knelt down and kowtowed in front of everyone, begging them to help him search again.
Feeling sorry for him for losing two of his sisters that day, the crowd softened and agreed to help, continuing their search.
When they reached the end of the alley and saw the crowded street, everyone resigned themselves to their fate and began to urge Gu Tianbao to give up.
"Too late! Those kidnappers all have drugs. After kidnapping someone, their first thing is to drug them and quickly move them away."
"That's right, you can't save him! If only we had found him sooner."
"Go back and talk to your parents properly. This is not your fault."
……
Everyone tried to persuade Gu Tianbao, but his eyes turned red and tears streamed down his face. He sobbed and couldn't utter another word to beg for help.
indeed.
Too late.
Seeing how heartbroken he was, everyone thought he was a good boy who cared about his sister and told him to hurry back and not forget that there was an older sister who had been left behind at the entrance of the alley.
I'll also discuss it with my family to see if we should take the matter to the authorities.
After the crowd was calmed down, they gradually dispersed, leaving only Gu Tianbao still crying in the same spot.
Wiping away his tears, Gu Tianbao walked back.
At this moment, Gu Lian had already returned to the entrance of the alley.
She looked around but couldn't find Gu Qing or Gu Tianbao.
Thinking of relaying a message between Gu Tang and Gu Lianshan, Gu Lian rushed into the crowded street and headed towards Xu's Cloth Shop. Not long after she left, Gu Tianbao also returned to the alley entrance and looked around, but he couldn't find Gu Qing either.
Gu Tianbao wasn't worried about Gu Qing, thinking she either went to the city gate to wait for them or returned to Xu's Cloth Shop.
He himself was going back to Xu's Cloth Shop, and if his second uncle had prepared everything, they would definitely meet at Xu's Cloth Shop.
The matter of Si Ya and her second sister being kidnapped needs to be properly explained to Second Uncle. He was too slow; otherwise, he could definitely have saved them.
Wiping away her tears, she walked towards Xu's Cloth Shop, forcing herself to think about how to bring up the matter when she met her second uncle.
Gu Lian, who returned to Xu's Cloth Shop before Gu Tianbao, immediately began searching for people inside, wondering if her second uncle had returned.
She pushed through the crowd in front of her and took two steps inside, when her second uncle's loud voice rang out from the front.
"This sheep was slaughtered fresh today! When we arrived at our destination, the butcher hung the cleaned mutton on the meat stall. I thought mutton was warming and nourishing, so I simply bought a whole one."
The villagers chimed in, "We can't afford a whole one like the Lianshan brothers, but we can still buy a few kilograms for each family."
……
Gu Lian followed the sound and quickly saw Gu Lianshan: "Second Uncle!"
Then, her eyes reddened, tears fell, and her legs, exhausted, gave way, causing her to kneel directly in front of Gu Lianshan.
"Second Uncle! Fourth Sister was almost kidnapped by kidnappers!"
"what?"
His smile froze on his face, and Gu Lianshan's mind was buzzing: "What did you just say?"
Gu Lian wiped away her tears and sobbed, "Tianbao, Siya, and I agreed to go to the city gate together, but not long after leaving Xu's Cloth Shop, a group of men suddenly appeared, chased us into an alley, and tried to kidnap Siya!"
The people in the cloth shop fell silent upon hearing this, and everyone looked at Gu Lian in shock.
Did you encounter a kidnapper?!
Gu Lianshan's vision went black, he staggered two steps, and looked like he was about to fall backward.
"Lianshan!"
The clan elders quickly helped him up, telling him to calm down and not to get angry or anxious.
"When people are anxious, they can't think of anything. Don't worry, don't worry. Didn't Lian just say that your daughter was 'almost' kidnapped by abductors, not 'really' kidnapped?"
Gu Lianshan regained his senses and pulled Gu Lian up, asking her with a look of panic, "Where's Siya? Did Siya escape?!"
Gu Lian nodded: "Siya is very clever. She seems to have mixed some kind of powder and made a small mechanism to spray the powder into the eyes of the kidnappers. Everyone was in pain and lay on the ground."
Siya asked me to come back first to let you know. She said she had some things to do and would come back after she finished.
Upon hearing this, Gu Lianshan breathed a sigh of relief.
But before he could even catch his breath, he heard something else that made him jump again!
"She's being chased by kidnappers! Why isn't she coming back right now?! Does she have things to do? What could she possibly have to do? What could be more important than coming back to let me know she's safe?!"
Gu Lianshan roared, his heart pounding wildly in his chest!
Gu Lian trembled, not daring to reply.
She didn't know what Siya was going to do.
Everyone in the cloth shop, whether they knew Gu Lianshan or not, was trying to persuade him to calm down.
"As long as everyone's alright, that's good. Quickly find some people to go find those kidnappers. Didn't this girl say that all those kidnappers were poisoned by the powder your daughter made, and now they're all rolling on the ground in pain? You need to arrest them right away!"
"That's right, let's arrest them first! Once we've arrested them, send them to the yamen immediately!"
……
After some persuasion, Gu Lianshan managed to calm down. He glanced at the villagers and was about to ask them to catch the kidnapper when Gu Tianbao, who was a few steps behind Gu Lian, squeezed into the cloth shop.
He was lucky; he spotted Gu Lianshan immediately, as well as Gu Lian standing in front of him.
"Second sister?"
Gu Tianbao was still immersed in the fact that Gu Tang and his second sister had been arrested together, and tears kept falling all the way.
Upon seeing Gu Lian, he felt as if he were dreaming and couldn't help but shout, "Second Sister! Second Sister!"
They shouted as they pushed their way towards Gu Lian.
Hearing a familiar voice calling her name, Gu Lian immediately turned around.
Looking at Gu Tianbao, her face lit up with joy: "Tianbao!"
When the person arrived, she looked them up and down, and seeing that they were unharmed, she asked reproachfully, "Where did you go? Siya and I waited for you in the alley the whole time!"
"Wait for me in the alley?" Gu Tianbao looked confused. "Which alley?"
Gu Lian was equally bewildered by these words: "The alley that Siya ran into earlier... how many alleys could there be?"
Gu Tianbao's expression changed instantly: "My older sister told me that after those kidnappers captured you and Siya, they took you to another alley! I believed her and led a lot of people to that alley to chase after you!"
Gu Lian was stunned for a moment, and when she came to her senses, she immediately became furious: "When I said I was going to find Siya, she blocked me no matter what I did, and even slapped me!"
I thought she was just being mean-spirited, but I never imagined she was so vicious! She's deliberately trying to kill me and Siya!
Gu Lianshan didn't know how Gu Qing was involved, so he asked and told the two of them to clarify.
The siblings dared not hide anything and told Gu Qing everything without missing a single word.
The cloth shop was frequented not only by people from their own village but also by people from other villages. After hearing about this, everyone remembered Gu Qing.
This girl is not married yet. In the future, when any family has a young man looking for a wife, they must remember this name: "Gu Qing".
I just don't know which Qing dynasty it was?
Several women began to secretly inquire about it.
The clan elders' faces were so dark they could drip ink. They personally selected a few men from the same village and asked them to go with Gu Lianshan to check out that alley, with Gu Tianbao leading the way.
As for the others, they carried the prepared goods to the city gate.
If you can't finish moving it in one trip, then move it in two trips; if you can't finish moving it in two trips, then move it in three trips.
In short, we need to hurry up and finish moving back to the village, and then ask the clan rules to punish Gu Qing!
Lian and Tianbao often quarrel with Tang, and they have fought several times.
But when things happen outside, they'll still help each other out!
Instead of offering a helping hand, Gu Qing deliberately kicked him while he was down, fabricating a story and sending Tianbao and a group of people to another alley to look for him.
Fortunately, Tang had her own concocted medicine powder. If she hadn't had anything, she and Siya would probably have been kidnapped.
What good can happen to someone who's kidnapped? Most will be sold to brothels, and the better ones will be trained and given away as playthings.
Regardless of which one it is, they will suffer humiliation throughout their lives, and may even die with their eyes wide open in disgrace.