Chapter 53

Huo Mingda’s cruelty left Gu Nanzhi with lingering fears!

Her judgment of his danger also soared!

“Paralytic? Sister-in-law, are you saying that Gu Jianguo will become paralyzed?”

Xie Ruyun was shocked, “Then sister-in-law, why did you…”

“Why didn’t you say it before?”

Gu Nanzhi came back to his senses after hearing the words, looked at Xie Ruyun and said, “What if I said it? I don’t want to get involved in the muddy water of that family. If I say it, I’m afraid they will blame me. You know what kind of character that family is!”

Xie Ruyun heard the words: “…”

and was silent!

It would be best for sister-in-law not to associate with the Gu family. She would not say anything else!

Xie Ruyun saw that Gu Nanzhi was fine, so she left. After Gu Nanzhi adjusted her mood, she lay down and tried to fall asleep.

That night, even though she was shocked by the sight of Gu Jianguo covered in blood, Gu Nanzhi had many dreams. In her dreams, she was covered in blood, her hands and feet were broken, and she was locked in a shack. She cried out to the sky and the earth, but no one answered her…

After waking up, Gu Nanzhi secretly cursed Wang Bingcheng and the people in the Gu family. After breakfast, when she went up the mountain with Xie’s mother and others to collect herbs, she heard the discussions of the neighbors.

“Have you heard? Gu Jianguo from the neighboring village is paralyzed!”

“Is it true?”

“How can it be true? He was fooling around outside last night and didn’t come back until dark. On the way back, he met some bad guys. He was beaten and bloody and sent to the town hospital. This morning, Gu Youcai and his wife pulled him back from the town hospital. It is said that his spine is broken and he can only go to a big hospital in Beijing for surgery. His family is so poor that he even had to borrow money from his old home in the middle of the night to go to the town hospital. How could he have the money to go to a big hospital in Beijing…”

“It’s his own fault. If he hadn’t been fooling around outside all day and came back so late, would he have met some bad guys? By the way, has the bad guy been caught?”

“It is said that the police have been notified, but we don’t know whether he has been caught or not!”

“He definitely hasn’t been caught! If he was caught, the family would have asked for compensation and would have gone to a big hospital for treatment…”

“…”

Amidst the various opinions, Gu Nanzhi passed by as if no one was around.

Everyone in the surrounding villages knew that she was an adopted daughter sold by the Gu family. Even if she watched the Gu family’s plight with indifference, no one could say a word against it.

As for the “bad guy” mentioned by the neighbors…

how could Huo Mingda leave evidence when he committed the crime? And if she hadn’t read some criminal investigation books and was familiar with the moves of her own guards, she wouldn’t have suspected Huo Mingda, but…

even if she had some suspicions, she couldn’t accuse Huo Mingda without evidence. Not to mention that she had no evidence, even if she had it, would she dare to alert the enemy?

The gossiping neighbors saw Gu Nanzhi’s family passing by, smiled and greeted them, and then continued the previous topic, not treating Gu Nanzhi as a member of the Gu family at all!

What kind of Gu family member?

There was no one who sold his daughter in the surrounding villages, and they all saw how the Gu family used Gu Nanzhi as a mule in the past!

It’s like this, it’s human nature to cut off all ties!

On this day, Gu Nanzhi collected herbs in the mountains in the morning as usual, and went down the mountain at noon to prepare to see patients. However, in the afternoon, when Gu Nanzhi was going to process the herbs when there were no patients, she found that her silver needles and tools for preparing herbs were missing!

“Ruyun, who has been to my east room?”

The first time Gu Nanzhi found out that something was missing, she went to find Xie Ruyun.

She would only take those things to the yard when she needed them, and kept them in her own room when she didn’t need them.

“No one has been there!”

Xie Ruyun was bewildered when she heard this, “Except for going to the river to wash clothes, I have been at home all the time. I have never been to my sister-in-law’s east room!”

Upon hearing this, Gu Nanzhi turned around and went to look for the three children again.

The rainy season is here, and the water level of the Tianma Bie River has risen these days. Even if Xie Ruyun goes to the river to wash clothes, she dare not bring the children.

Zhaodi and Tuanzi are still young, and even if Gu Nanzhi asks, they can’t say anything. Instead, Xie Yuanbao…

“It’s the woman in the backyard, the woman who came to our house to make trouble!”

Xie Yuanbao heard Gu Nanzhi’s question and pointed in the direction of the backyard, “I took my sister out to play, and saw her come and go…”

Gu Nanzhi: “!!!”

What else is there to not understand?

It was Xu Xiangling who stole her things!

Gu Nanzhi rushed to the backyard without thinking!

Her silver needles and the tools for preparing medicinal materials cost a full eighty yuan!

What’s the concept of eighty yuan?

In this era, it is enough for a family to chew for a year. The key is that she is now in the period of stockpiling medicine and needs those tools. How can she watch the life-saving things fall into the hands of Xu Xiangling, a half-baked doctor?

When Gu Nanzhi arrived at the backyard, she rushed directly into Xu Xiangling’s room.

“Gu Nanzhi, what are you doing?”

Xu Xiangling was packing up her things. When she saw Gu Nanzhi coming in, she immediately blocked her in front of her with a bad face, “This is my room. You can’t come in without my permission!”

“I can’t enter your room, but you can enter my room?”

Gu Nanzhi heard it and retorted without hesitation, “Xu Xiangling, where are my silver needles and processing tools? Give them back to me!”

Xu Xiangling’s eyes flashed when she heard it, and she immediately stiffened her neck and said, “What silver needles? What processing tools? I don’t know what you are talking about, please leave!”

Although she didn’t understand Chinese medicine, she had seen Gu Nanzhi use silver needles to give people acupuncture and use those tools to process the medicinal materials collected from the mountains. She knew that those things were particularly important to Gu Nanzhi!

She had suffered losses at the hands of Gu Nanzhi many times, and yesterday she forced her to pay five dollars to the Gu family. Although she was angry because of Gu Jianguo’s paralysis, she still hated Gu Nanzhi, so…

When she saw Xie Ruyun going to the river to wash clothes in the morning and the children were not playing in the yard, she had other ideas. She sneaked into the front yard and stole Gu Nanzhi’s silver needles and tools…

But Xu Xiangling was sure that she did it very secretly and no one could see it, so even if Gu Nanzhi came to her door, she was not afraid!

“Haha!”

Gu Nanzhi saw her reaction clearly, and became more and more certain that it was Xu Xiangling who stole the things. Hearing this, he sneered and said, “My nephew saw you sneaking into the front yard with his own eyes. My things were lost right after you left. How dare you say that this has nothing to do with you?”

Xu Xiangling heard this: “!!!”

Her expression changed, but she still argued, “How can you take a child’s words seriously when he can’t even recognize a person? Gu Nanzhi, stop slandering people here with empty words!”

“I slander you? I slander you, do you dare to let me search your room?”

Xu Xiangling: “!!!”

She didn’t dare!

Because even she knew that those silver needles and tools were used exclusively by people who were proficient in traditional Chinese medicine. They were not available for sale and were very valuable!

So she didn’t dare to hide the things anywhere else, so she hid them in her own room…

“Why do you search my room? You’re not a police officer!”

Xu Xiangling was an educated person after all, and she spoke more forcefully than a countryman. “Even if the police want to search my room, they must have solid evidence!”