This time, Gu Yundong didn’t wake up her sleeping brother with a bulging belly. She quietly slipped out of bed and went outside.

The moonlight tonight was as bright as yesterday, illuminating the entire courtyard.

As soon as Gu Yundong opened the door of the hall, she saw four dark shadows in the middle of the courtyard. Upon closer inspection, she realized they were four sacks.

What… is this?

The sacks were silent. Gu Yundong looked around hesitantly before approaching and untying the ropes on the sacks. Immediately, she saw a person’s head poking out.

“Hmm.” Gu Yundong stepped back abruptly. Honestly, if she hadn’t experienced so much and had such strong mental fortitude, she might have screamed in terror, summoning all the neighbors.

Who the hell dumped these here?

Gu Yundong nearly cursed the ancestors of whoever did this, but she steadied her mind before approaching again.

Upon closer examination, the person in the sack still had a black cloth covering their face, resembling… a thief?

Gu Yundong widened her eyes, suddenly realizing something. There were four sacks here, exactly the number Shao Qingyuan mentioned.

So, these people were dumped here by Shao Qingyuan?

Gu Yundong felt a surge of blood rise in her chest, unable to go up or spurt out. It was headache-inducing!!

After a moment, she approached and slapped the face of the person in the sack fiercely. “Hey, wake up, wake up.”

“Ugh…” Zhuangzi groggily opened their eyes, their mind foggy for a moment. Then, as if realizing something, they hurriedly called out, “Master…” Before they could beg for mercy, their mouth was gagged with a rag.

They whimpered a couple of times, their eyes adjusting to the moonlight, finally recognizing the person in front of them.

Their eyes widened. Wasn’t this the little girl from the Gu family?

They remembered… last night, they and their brothers came to her house to steal, but then they were knocked unconscious. When they woke up, their eyes were blindfolded, their mouths gagged, not knowing where they were or who attacked them.

They thought they were going to be sold into slavery in a dark furnace, doomed to live or die. But before they could think of how to escape, they were beaten half to death and then passed out again.

When they woke up again, they were beaten again.

They thought they had encountered a maniac, but they didn’t expect that when they woke up again, they could clearly see who was in front of them.

Could it be that she knocked them four brothers out last night?

No… impossible?

Gu Yundong seemed to see the vicissitudes of life in their eyes. Finally, under their terrified gaze, she gently spoke, “What’s your name? Answer my questions nicely, don’t scream, or your fingers might not survive.”

Gu Yundong held a dagger, pulling their bound hands. The dagger gleamed coldly, resting on their fingers, ready to draw blood with just a little pressure.

Zhuangzi was scared to death, so when Gu Yundong removed the gag from their mouth, they immediately obediently answered, “My name is Zhuangzi.”

“Did you come to my house in the middle of the night to steal?”

Zhuangzi immediately shook their head, denying, “No, we were just passing by.” Before they could finish, they felt a sharp pain in their fingers and quickly nodded, “Yes, we came to steal. We saw that you could afford such a big house, and with no men in your house and no one to trouble us afterward, except for me, there’s also Liangzi, Daqian, and Gousheng. Liangzi is our boss.”

“Yeah, isn’t that a clear explanation? I’ll be nicer to you tomorrow.” Gu Yundong smiled and put away the dagger.

Zhuangzi shivered inexplicably. Why? She was just a thirteen-year-old girl, but why did she seem so terrifying? Could it be that the beatings she received during the day had left her with a psychological shadow, making him subconsciously afraid of her?

“What do you mean by ‘tomorrow’?”

“You’ll find out then.” Gu Yundong waved her hand, and Zhuangzi passed out again.