mtl008 Chapter 167 Misunderstanding
Chapter 167 Misunderstanding
If it were a girl asking him that question, Lin Bao felt he could forgive her, but this guy, a grown man, was putting on an act, which disgusted him.
Lin Bao, with his fiery temper, couldn't hold back and kicked him directly: "Gu Xuewen, don't you dare pretend with me. If you want to cry, then cry. Don't be so sarcastic here. Don't force me to cut out your tongue."
Upon hearing this, Gu Xuewen's face showed a look of horror, and his trembling finger pointed at Lin Bao: "You, you, you... How could you do this in broad daylight, in front of everyone?"
Aren't you afraid of being taken to see the authorities?
Upon hearing this, Lin Bao scoffed, "Gu Xuewen, Gu Xuewen, where's your brain that's good for studying?"
"Where are your eyes, which were always on when you were reading? Did you leave them at the academy and not bring them back with you?"
When Lin Bao said this, he really didn't give Gu Xuewen any face at all, and Gu Xuewen's face turned green after hearing it.
But he was a student, a scholar, and even if he heard such harsh words, there was nothing he could do but argue with this person in front of everyone.
"Lin Bao, you are simply, simply..."
Gu Xuewen was speechless. He stood up and prepared to leave, but how could Lin Bao let him leave so easily?
He stopped him: "You haven't finished speaking yet, Young Master Gu, where are you going?"
Gu Xuewen was blocked from moving forward and could only take a step back, looking at Lin Bao in front of him.
"Lin Bao, this is the Gu family's place. They won't just stand by and watch you treat me like this."
Hearing this, Lin Bao wanted to laugh. He turned to look at the people around him, then turned back to look at Gu Xuewen.
“I say, Scholar Gu, you know this is the Gu family home, not your old Gu family home?”
"You've been howling here for so long, and not a single member of your Gu family has come. Do you know what that means?"
Lin Bao recounted what Li Guixiang had done to cause trouble earlier. Upon hearing this, Gu Xuewen seemed to have suffered a huge blow and refused to believe what Lin Bao said.
"It's impossible, you're lying. My mother would never do such a thing. She has always been the best to my grandmother. How could she do something like that? You must be slandering my mother."
"Heh, I slander your mother? Who do you think your mother is? A fairy from heaven? Does she need me to slander her?"
If Lin Bao were to slander a fairy, he might be seen as having taken a liking to her, but Li Guixiang is a madwoman; he wouldn't even accept her if she were given to him for free.
Gu Xuewen's expression turned ugly upon hearing this, his angry yet speechless demeanor truly showcasing the extreme weakness of a scholar.
Lin Cai came over and pulled Lin Bao away: "What my third brother said is true. Many people here saw it. If you don't believe me, you can go and ask."
"Besides, the old lady died of suffocation. We weren't home, so others know who the murderer is. But whoever it is, he can't escape."
Gu Xuewen returned to the Gu family home with a dark expression, and the entire Gu family home was now very quiet.
He thought no one was there, but as he went back to his room, he suddenly heard someone sobbing.
Gu Xuewen wanted to listen more carefully, so he took two steps back, and then the door to the next room opened.
"Big brother's back, what are you doing outside instead of going to your room?"
Gu Jiao'er came out of her room. After she finished speaking, the voice disappeared. Gu Xuewen listened carefully and immediately wondered if he had misheard.
He turned to look at Gu Jiao'er: "Did you hear anything just now?"
"Brother, you've probably been listening to too many audiobooks and are hallucinating. The house is so quiet, what's that sound?"
"Is there really no sound at all?"
He asked again, still unsure, and received the same answer.
In the room separated by a wall, Li Guixiang knelt on the ground, her body covered with crisscrossing wounds that crisscrossed her entire back.
She wanted to cry because of the pain, but she dared not cry because the man behind her had just warned her.
If her son finds out, her future days won't be so easy.
She was treated this way entirely because she messed things up.
The person was already dead. She went over and made a scene, but it was all for naught.
Gu Jinniu was furious when he got this result. He looked at Li Guixiang kneeling on the ground.
"I've already thought of what you should do after this, so why did you still mess it up?"
"A little girl and a few children, are they really that difficult to deal with?"
When Li Guixiang was asked the question, she told him everything that had happened at the Gu family's house. After listening, Gu Jinniu lowered his head.
"You mean someone is helping?" He knew who was helping, and he also knew that he couldn't beat that person.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have waited until now!
With a snap, a whip lashed out, and Li Guixiang immediately bit her wrist; she was in real pain.
She grabbed Gu Jinniu's trouser leg and pleaded in a weak voice, "I'm sorry, I was wrong, I didn't mean to, please give me another chance, I promise I won't mess it up, I will definitely do it for you."
"You want me to give you another chance? Sure, but they won't give me one. So you've already wasted your chance, and you should accept the punishment, understand?"
As soon as Gu Jinniu finished speaking, he lashed out with the whip again. Gu Xuewen, on the other side, did not hear it because his room was separated from Li Guixiang's and the others' rooms by Gu Jiao'er's room.
The village chief said he was going to the yamen to report the old lady's cause of death, but when he heard the words "smothered to death," he was completely dumbfounded.
"Lin girl, do you know what you're saying? How is this possible?"
Smothering to death? That's murder; the killer must be caught.
“I’m telling the truth. Everyone in the Gu family knows it. Besides, Scarface told me about it.”
Upon hearing Scarface's name, the village chief fell silent. He knew what Scarface had done before, and someone like that must have taken lives. If he told him how someone died, the village chief wouldn't doubt him.
"Even so, but this matter... who did this?!"
Lin Cai couldn't answer the question either. He didn't know himself. Although he had a guess in his heart, it was just a guess and there was no substantial evidence.
The old lady's coffin was kept at the Gu family's house for five days before the two Gu brothers came over. As soon as Gu Yinniu arrived, he started crying, looking exactly like a filial son.
Gu Jinniu remained as honest and simple as ever, as if he wasn't the person in the courtyard that night.