Chapter Eighty: Important News
After the water source in Lian Town was restored, the village chief was no longer worried. Instead, he strolled around the village every day, very satisfied with the current life.
If it were before the Earth Dragon appeared, the village chief wouldn’t have been so content.
However, simply the fact that no more refugees were coming to the village made the village chief feel that his current life was incredibly pleasant!
If only there was less trouble…
“Yang Yiwen, why are you at my house again!”
“Village Chief, I don’t have any food at home, I’m starving!”
“You deserve to be hungry. Who told you to sell all your own grain? Although I’m the village chief of Yang Family Village, I don’t have any extra grain at my house. You should leave quickly!”
Seeing Yang Yiwen squatting at his doorstep again, the village chief sighed helplessly and spoke very impolitely, no longer wanting to bother with him.
Grain prices had risen sharply. Yang Yiwen’s family and their dependents were constantly coming over to mooch meals. Anyone would have had enough!
Especially since the village chief’s family also didn’t have any extra grain.
So, Yang Yiwen should go find solutions elsewhere!
“Village Chief, I know you have a good relationship with the Gu family! Even if the Gu family leaks a little grain from their fingers, it would be enough for my family to survive! Please, talk to the Gu family for me, I’m begging you.”
“Yang Yiwen, if you want to target the Gu family, then tell Gu Yu yourself, don’t involve me! Whose grain is blown in by the wind, to be given to you for free? You wouldn’t even dare to think like that in your dreams lying on your bed at night!”
When Yang Yiwen saw that the village chief had directly refused, he didn’t argue any further. He sat down firmly at the village chief’s doorstep, looking like he wasn’t going to leave. The village chief shook his head and immediately ambled off elsewhere.
If Yang Yiwen’s family’s grain had been robbed or stolen, the village chief might have thought of a way to help him. But Yang Yiwen sold his family’s grain because of the rising prices and gambled it away.
Who would want to help him for such a reason!
For gamblers like him, if anyone were to help them, they would surely be squeezed dry to the last drop of blood.
As for Yang Yiwen’s family, they could only consider themselves unlucky.
Thinking of these things, the village chief’s expression was filled with annoyance. As he walked, he looked up and found himself near the Gu family…
There was nothing to do now. Just as the village chief turned to leave, he suddenly noticed something was wrong!
The Gu family, how did they get another bear???
Looking at the two bears playing and frolicking near the Gu family, the village chief felt his legs tremble uncontrollably. As he stumbled away, he thought to himself that the Gu family was becoming more and more difficult to deal with!
If nothing else, just these two bears alone, even if refugees entered the village, they probably wouldn’t dare to approach the Gu family’s home.
If Yang Yiwen, who just acted unreasonably and threw a tantrum at him, were to see these two bears, he wondered if he would still have the courage to target the Gu family!
…
“Xiao Hei, don’t run too far. The village is over there… Although no one will come over out of boredom, don’t meet them either. Otherwise, if something happens from fright, and they come to me for compensation for spiritual damages, it won’t be good.”
As Gu Yu was bringing food to Xiao Hei and its mate, he saw that the place where the two bears were playing was too close to the village. He immediately reminded them. After Xiao Hei nodded to show it understood, Gu Yu was satisfied and let the two bears continue playing.
After turning to leave, he didn’t immediately return home. Instead, he walked to a hidden spot at the foot of the mountain and retrieved several letters and a few small jars from the predetermined location.
He placed the jars back in their original spot and quickly opened the letters, reading the contents of the letter paper to see if his previous proposal had been accepted by the Tang Sect.
The result was as suspenseful as a foregone conclusion.
The Tang Sect had almost no objections and directly and happily accepted Gu Yu’s proposal. In their reply letter, they mentioned that they had already sent the poison and hoped that Gu Yu could prepare the antidote and send it over as soon as possible.
Furthermore, the Tang Sect would, as per Gu Yu’s request, have Tang Lian write a letter to Gu Qingheng to inform him of the postponement of the training schedule.
Seeing this, Gu Yu nodded with satisfaction. Then, he opened the remaining envelopes and read them carefully.
Recently, Gu Yu had asked the alliance’s informants to select important news and deliver it in letter form to this location, allowing Gu Yu to learn about everything happening in Linfeng Kingdom without leaving his home.
When he saw the mention of disaster relief grain in the letters, Gu Yu thought this was very good news.
However, he wondered how much of this disaster relief grain would be left by the time it reached Lian Town!
According to the known information, the Wang Clan was already preparing to make a move against the Gu family. It was expected that they would also tamper with the disaster relief grain.
But, these matters could be dealt with after the disaster relief grain arrived!
Besides, Magistrate Bai wasn’t just for show. After the disaster relief grain was reduced, he would be the first to feel anxious.
Thinking of these things, Gu Yu threw the letters into his space and, holding a few small jars, rushed home to prepare the antidotes for these poisons.
For his younger brother-in-law’s studies, he was truly going to great lengths!
“A’yu, where did you go just now?”
“Oh, the alliance contacted me, asking me to decipher several poisons… Originally, I wanted to refuse directly, but the alliance gave me an important piece of information, which left me no choice but to make the antidotes.”
“Important information?”
When Gu Yu returned home, Mengyao Gu, who was sitting in the courtyard reading a book, saw him and asked with doubt, wondering why Gu Yu, who had only gone out to feed the bears, took so long to return.
Gu Yu did not hide anything from her, but when he explained the reason, he did not reveal everything.
The ‘deal’ between him and the Tang Sect could not be exposed!
“Yes, the people from the alliance mentioned… that the Imperial Court’s disaster relief grain is coming soon. The escort is still the Wang Clan.”
“What! It’s actually people from the Wang Clan!”
Upon hearing this important news from Gu Yu, Mengyao Gu was extremely surprised.
However, her surprise was mainly due to the escorting party… What was the Emperor thinking?
He had previously seemed indifferent to the people of the Wang Clan, so why was he now letting the Wang Clan escort the grain? Wasn’t this like letting the thieves guard the treasury?
“I was also very surprised when I first heard this news, but… I heard that there were some disturbances in the capital. The last time I went to the capital, I encountered an assassination attempt on the Emperor. Although the murderer was caught in the end, the Emperor began to become suspicious… It was because of this that, on the Empress Dowager’s suggestion, the Wang Clan was appointed as the escort.”
Speaking of the Emperor, Gu Yu was somewhat helpless.
It was just one assassination attempt, and this Emperor was truly too timid.
He had been through many assassination attempts himself, and yet he was living quite comfortably now!
