Chapter 49 Yan Min Injured
“It’s Gu Yu. I heard from others that you cured the measles patients in the village. You’ve done a great job!”
“It was just a coincidence. Uncle Yan, what’s wrong with you? You don’t look well!”
As Gu Yu quickly walked up to Yan Min, he noticed that Yan Min’s condition was not good. There was a lot of sweat on his forehead, and his pale face made Yan Min look very weak.
Then, Yan Min forced a smile at Gu Yu, but Gu Yu was not fooled. He directly spoke out that something was wrong with Yan Min’s body.
It looked like he was injured.
Although it was not uncommon for constables to get injured, Yan Min’s current secretive behavior revealed that something was not right.
“Alas, it’s my bad luck…”
When Yan Min heard Gu Yu’s words, a bitter smile appeared on his face. Then, the sweat on his forehead increased, prompting Gu Yu to quickly step forward to help him and find a quiet place nearby to sit down.
As soon as Yan Min sat down, Gu Yu saw blood quickly seeping from his shoulder.
The area of blood was not small, indicating that Yan Min’s injury was not minor.
“Uncle Yan, what exactly happened? We haven’t seen each other for a few days, and you’ve become like this?”
“Do you still remember the Yong Dynasty Changfang being apprehended not long ago?”
“I remember.”
“My injury now is also because of this… After I resumed my post, the first case I participated in was to confiscate Wang Changfang’s house. Although the mansion he lived in had already been sealed, he had other properties that had not yet been dealt with.”
Seeing that he could no longer hide the matter, Yan Min did not continue to conceal it. Instead, he slowly explained the reason for his injury, which turned out to be related to the case of Wang Changfang.
This made Gu Yu narrow his eyes slightly, subconsciously thinking of the Wang clan.
Now that Wang Changfang had been apprehended, even if people were arranged outside, they would not amount to much. The only ones who could attack Yan Min would be the Wang clan.
Recalling the previous passers-by discussing the relationship between Wang Changfang and the Wang clan, Gu Yu felt he had guessed in the right direction.
“When I went to one of the courtyards, I suddenly found a secret door in the wall of a room, where a locked iron box was hidden.”
“An iron box?”
“Yes, after I pried open the iron box, I found several letters hidden inside.”
Yan Min sighed as he said this. Then, seeing the curiosity on Gu Yu’s face, he was about to smile, but because his shoulder was too painful, he couldn’t smile at all.
If he had known this would happen, he would never have gotten involved in this mess!
“Could it be that the Wang clan left the wounds on Uncle Yan?”
“How do you know about the Wang clan!”
“I overheard someone talking about it on the street before. I happened to catch a bit of it, and now that I hear it’s related to Wang Changfang, I naturally thought of the Wang clan.”
“Alas, it’s likely them! The bailiffs who went to search the house with me that day were found drowned in the river yesterday, and I was lucky to have narrowly escaped with my life.”
Then, after hearing Yan Min say that his companion was dead, Gu Yu’s expression immediately turned serious.
Originally, Gu Yu thought it was a probing from the Wang clan, but he did not expect that someone had already been killed.
In that case, Yan Min’s current situation was very dangerous.
“I also know that I can’t escape this time, so I won’t go back, lest I implicate you, Aunt Chunhua. If the Wang clan sends more people later, it will be fine if I die alone and don’t implicate others.”
“Uncle Yan, please don’t say that. It’s better to live poorly than to die easily! How about this, you come back with me now. My house has high walls and traps, so I’m not afraid of anyone coming.”
“No, what can three children from the Gu family do! I can’t let you get into danger too. You should hurry home! Don’t be with me anymore, lest you also become their target.”
Thinking that Yan Min’s life was threatened, Gu Yu quickly spoke again, wanting to invite Yan Min to go home with him, for fear that he would really be killed.
After all, Gu Mengyao and her brother would be very sad.
But Yan Min directly shook his head and wanted to drive Gu Yu away, not wanting him to also become dangerous.
Gu Yu persuaded him repeatedly, but Yan Min showed no sign of softening. Instead, seeing Gu Yu’s persistent attitude, he stood up from the ground and prepared to move away from Gu Yu.
If Gu Yu didn’t leave, he would.
Gu Yu was very helpless seeing this, and in the end, he did not force Yan Min to go home with him. However, he left Yan Min with plenty of recovery spring water, which at least stopped his wounds from bleeding.
As for this recovery spring water, Gu Yu also used the name of Elder Wuwei, saying that it was a potion he had concocted, which had a significant healing effect on wounds.
“Uncle Yan, if you encounter any problems that you cannot solve, you must come to Yang Family Village to find us! Don’t bear it alone. You are so seriously injured, you might encounter something else next time…”
“Alright, alright, I know my current situation. Don’t worry, I’m going to live a long life and won’t die easily.”
Yan Min smiled at Gu Yu, and then did not let Gu Yu follow him any further. Instead, he told him to hurry home and not to wander around the town anymore, lest he also be targeted by the Wang clan.
Gu Yu stood there and watched Yan Min leave. He did not ask what was written in those letters. Since Yan Min did not take the initiative to tell him, he probably did not want Gu Yu to be too deeply involved.
The Wang clan was truly too arrogant to dare to kill openly in the town. They really did not put the government in their eyes.
However, this also showed from the side… that the Wang clan had considerable ability.
Gu Yu wondered if they would come to cause trouble for the Gu family later.
Gu Yu thought as he left the town and hurried home. Because he was wary of the current turbulent situation in the town, it was better for him not to get too involved.
As for Yan Min’s matter, if he himself did not agree to go to the Gu family, Gu Yu would not be able to do anything even if he said it was heaven.
Moreover, Gu Yu could not directly tell Yan Min that his little wife had innate divine strength and unparalleled lightness skill, and could defeat one person who came and a pair of people who came in groups… Even if he really said that, Yan Min probably wouldn’t believe it.
Alas, in the end, it depended on Yan Min’s own fate.
As he was thinking, Gu Yu’s footsteps quickened. When he realized that the people following him were still persistent, Gu Yu helplessly shook his head.
You refuse the path to heaven, but instead choose to enter hell.
Gu Yu pretended not to notice anything and deliberately walked towards a secluded path. The people following him became more and more lax, almost to the point of walking right beside Gu Yu.
At this moment, Gu Yu’s mouth curved upwards slightly. Seeing that there were no pedestrians around, he thought it was time.
He stopped and took out the black bear from his space. Then, he ‘thoughtfully’ placed it beside the tail-gaters. After a loud bear roar, the human screams abruptly stopped.
After confirming that the black bear had dealt with the people following him, Gu Yu put the black bear back into his space. He did not go to check the corpses but quickened his pace to rush home.
Gu Yu had only stayed with Yan Min for a short while in the town just now, and he was already being followed. He suspected that this matter was not so simple.
He wondered what was written in those letters that made the Wang clan so nervous.
After returning home safely, Gu Yu did not go out again. He also reminded Gu Mengyao and her brother to be careful recently.
When Gu Mengyao curiously asked why, Gu Yu hesitated for a moment, but then he still did not tell her what happened to Yan Min. However, he did not hide the news about the Wang clan.
Upon hearing that the Wang clan, which was related to Wang Changfang, had come to seek revenge, Gu Mengyao and her brother immediately understood and nodded, saying that they would be extra careful recently.
Thus, after two days of peaceful but vigilant life, nothing happened.
This made Gu Yu think if he was being too cautious. The Wang clan should not have focused their attention on them three children, and perhaps they had already forgotten about their Gu family!
Just as Gu Yu felt that he had become a startled bird, people from the Wang clan finally arrived. One evening, they jumped over the perimeter wall. They dodged the iron nails on the wall but did not avoid the sharp bamboo buried at the base of the wall.
The sudden pain made the intruder involuntarily make a sound. And Xiaobai, the fox who was the first to discover the assassin, immediately attacked with its claws.
When Gu Yu and Gu Mengyao came out of the room, the assassin’s face was already disfigured by scratches. And after he was injured, he suffered a few kicks from Gu Mengyao and then directly surrendered.
Gu Yu took the opportunity to tie up the assassin with a rope. He remembered that professional assassins in TV shows always carried many things on them to escape. Therefore, Gu Yu did not hesitate to throw the assassin into the shed behind the house and strip him naked.
However, to prevent his little wife from getting conjunctivitis, Gu Yu charitably left the assassin with a white undershirt so that he would not show his naked body in the middle of the night.
“Was the Wang clan the one who sent you?”
“…”
“Did they want you to capture me?”
“…”
“Or, are you just a thief who happened to appear?”
“…”
Afterward, Gu Yu rummaged through the things the assassin was carrying but did not find any tokens. He secretly thought that the plots shown in TV shows were also unreliable.
In TV shows, when assassins appeared, they always carried a token with an ‘X’ written on it, allowing the protagonist’s group to discover the real culprit behind these assassins.
However, the current situation seemed to be completely the opposite.
Even though the assassin remained silent, it was a foregone conclusion that he was sent by the Wang clan.
Otherwise, Gu Yu really couldn’t think of… among his enemies, who would go to such great lengths to specially send an assassin to take his life.
Gu Yu drew the dagger carried by the assassin from its sheath and then frowned upon seeing the green color on the blade, thinking that this assassin was truly fierce for having poisoned his weapon.
