eurekapd Chapter 123 The Dust Settles
Chapter 123 The Dust Settles
As soon as Gu Lang said these words, the audience fell silent for a moment.
Mr. Zhao's complexion immediately became ugly, but after he saw the gazes of others looking at him from the corner of his eyes, he thought of his current situation, and immediately restrained his expression that might reveal his secrets, and looked at the Gu in front of him. Lang said coldly: "Don't you want to spit blood!"
Gu Lang looked at him with a half-smile, and said loudly in front of everyone: "You should be the most clear about whether it's bloody or not. You thought I was young and couldn't remember so many things, but why did you Didn't you ever think that when I grow up, I will be able to investigate those facts back then?"
Master Zhao's face became even more ugly. With his cautious temperament, how could he not have thought about such a thing? After Gu Lang came back, he sent someone to investigate him, and finally concluded that he It's just a sick child who is not to be feared, and it can't be a big deal.It's just that who would have thought that it was this moment of carelessness that caused his current predicament.
Gu Lang looked at the annoyance in Master Zhao's eyes, and knew that he must have thought of something, but he was not interested in further investigating it now.
Gu Lang turned his head to look at the people present, and said loudly: "Everyone, some of you think that this servant sent someone to hurt us on his own initiative. It's just that we have no grievances with this servant, why did he spend so much money on it?" Do you have the energy to do this?"
As soon as Gu Lang's words came out of his mouth, some of the crowd who watched the fun interjected, fearing that the world would not be chaotic: "But with the wealth and status of you and Master Zhao, it is even more impossible for you to have an intersection. How can you prove that Master Zhao instigated it?" He did all this?"
The corners of Gu Lang's lips curled up, and there was a pleasant smile on his face. He looked at the person who asked the question, and saw that he shrank his neck and hid behind the crowd after he finished speaking uprightly, as if he was very afraid of facing him. Gu Lang is average.
However, Gu Lang smiled lightly, with a bit of sarcasm in his tone, "Yes, you are right, my current family background is completely different from Mr. Zhao's, and even I am not as good as myself. Put a finger on Mr. Zhao.
But more than ten years ago, my Gu family was the richest man in the city, but Mr. Zhao was not as prosperous as he is today. He was just a peddler who left his hometown with his whole family and needed help from my Gu family to barely survive. "
As soon as Gu Lang's words came out of his mouth, the audience was in an uproar. Obviously, his words had a great impact on everyone.Gu Lang looked at their half-believing eyes, and the smile on his face became stronger. He continued: "Back then, Zhao Yuan's family came here after fleeing disaster. The family, old and young, looked miserable. My mother had just left the temple to burn incense. When I came back, when I passed by them, I saw their plight, and I felt pity immediately, and not only arranged for them to live, but also gave them money to settle down."
Hearing this, someone among the spectators suddenly took a breath, and suddenly shouted: "Yes, I also heard from my father that the Zhao family was an outsider back then. When they first came here, they still had sex with my family. neighbor."
The person next to him sneered when he heard his words, and said dismissively, "I'm afraid you are dreaming! Your family lives in such a place where no shit, how could the Zhao family be neighbors with yours?"
"Your house is the place where birds don't shit. What's wrong with my house? These are all my father said, and my father can't lie to me." The man was very unconvinced, and couldn't help pushing back.
The people next to him were even more dissatisfied and began to argue about this issue, "What's wrong with your father, who doesn't know if your father is bragging."
The commotion they caused only attracted everyone's attention for a moment, and then they were drawn back to Gu Lang's next narration.
"My father has always indulged my mother. He saw that she saved you and gave you resettlement fees. He didn't say anything, as long as my mother was happy. But later, you used the excuse of thanking me to appear in front of my father from time to time. In the end, relying on his eloquent mouth that turned black and white, he became a frequent visitor to my Gu family's house, and because of this, he won my father's favor."
Chen Xing has been listening quietly by the side. Ever since Gu Lang spoke just now, he felt that there was something wrong with Gu Lang today.At this moment, seeing the smile on his face, but his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, and the tone of his speech became more and more cold, so he knew that what he was going to say next was by no means that simple.
Chen Xing hesitated for a moment, then gently took Gu Lang's hand, shook their connected hand when he was in a daze, and told him wordlessly that he would be by his side and always support him. .
Just as Chen Xing thought, following Gu Lang's narration, Gu Lang felt that he could no longer suppress the violence in his heart. He had been waiting for today for a long time, so long that the moment he left the county since he was a child, He has been waiting for this day.
The moment Chen Xing's hand touched him, he froze for a moment, and his feverish mind calmed down a bit, and then he gradually returned to his usual calm appearance.
"My father lent him money to open a shop, introduced his contacts to pave the way for him, and treated him as a bosom friend. However, he joined forces with the county magistrate at the time to fake an accident in which bandits descended from the mountain and beheaded my Gu family. Kill them all! How can all of this be described by the words wolf-hearted and dog-lung!"
Gu Lang's words were sonorous and forceful, like a heavy hammer hitting everyone's hearts, and finally someone seemed to wake up suddenly, looking at the ugly Mr. Zhao in the scene, he suddenly murmured: " No wonder, my father said that the Zhao family got rich suddenly, and they had such a good relationship with the former county magistrate, so this is the reason!"
"This Mr. Zhao is really ruthless! Others saved his family, but he actually killed other people's family. It is not an exaggeration to call him a beast!"
"Beast, you have fed it for a long time, and others will recognize the master. This Mr. Zhao's family is not as good as a beast!"
Gu Lang revealed the secrets that had been buried in his heart for many years one by one. Seeing Master Zhao whose face was changing unpredictable at this time, he took a few steps forward and came in front of him, relying on being half a head taller than him Looking at him in a condescending posture, he said coldly:
"Zhao Yuan, I don't know if you will feel scared at night with that money, will you think about my father and mother who died under the nine springs, they treated you like a close friend, and you hurt them like this. If If they know it, they will probably regret saving your family's life back then!"
Master Zhao is no longer as calm as he was at the beginning, especially after listening to Gu Lang's narration of the series of immoral things he did at the beginning, the blood on his face dissipated little by little. Gu Lang's questioning was even more powerless.
Immediately afterwards, Mr. Zhao felt a tingling pain in his arm. He turned his head and saw Mrs. Zhao staring at him with piercing and determined eyes.
"Master, I know that you have been guilty of not saving the people of the Gu family for so many years, but you can't just let him splash dirty water like this! We still have a whole family waiting for you to return home, and the old lady is even more so. Tell me when I leave the house, and let me take you back safely."
When Mr. Zhao heard this, the wavering expression that was originally caused by guilt disappeared at this moment. He turned his head to look at Gu Lang in front of him, and his expression returned to his usual strategizing, "Speaking without proof, Although I was taken care of by Mr. Gu, I can't tolerate your wanton slander."
Gu Lang glanced at Mr. Zhao who was back to normal, then at Mrs. Zhao next to him who was holding Mr. Zhao's arm, and sneered softly.He took a few steps back to the center of the hall, and said loudly: "You are right, there is no evidence for what you say. Since you said you did it, you need to show evidence."
Hearing this, Mr. Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. He and the county magistrate have dealt with those who did those things. Now that the county magistrate has gone west, there is no one in this world who can identify him.Even if Gu Lang knew what happened to the truth back then, his words were groundless, and no one would believe what he said.
Thinking of this, Master Zhao's tense mood gradually relaxed, and even the eyes he looked at Gu Lang were no longer as vigilant as before, but full of indescribable mockery.
It's just that when Master Zhao's eyes fell on Gu Lang's face, he found that he did not show annoyance as he imagined, on the contrary there was a little bit of mockery, and the sarcasm in those eyes stared at him brightly, as if He is a ridiculous joke.
Mr. Zhao felt that there was something wrong there, but before he realized that something was wrong, he heard another commotion coming from the gate of the yamen.
The crowd who came to watch the excitement split into two sides as if they had seen something terrible, and then a shambling person walked in from the well-defined aisle.The man was wearing a pair of crutches, his clothes were torn, his face was covered with scars, and he walked tremblingly, as if he could be blown down by a gust of wind.
The man met everyone's eyes and came to the lobby. He first saluted the county magistrate above him, and then introduced himself: "My lord, my name is Chang Geng. More than ten years ago, I was the young master of the Gu family." fellow."
"You!" Hearing this name, Mr. Zhao pointed at him with a look of horror on his face, obviously he didn't expect this person to appear here.
Hearing what he said, Chang Geng turned his head and smiled at him. The smile on that disfigured face was more like an evil ghost crawling out of the underworld, and the hoarse voice added a bit of treachery.
"Zhao Yuan, you didn't expect that I'm still alive, right? I've been living all these years, people and ghosts, just for this moment today. I want to see your reputation and family ruined with my own eyes. Pay for everything you did!"
That weird voice was full of strong malice, as if the hatred accumulated for a long time was finally able to be released at this moment.
After Chang Geng said this, he turned his head to look at Gu Lang who was standing next to him with a calm expression, but there was a bit of guilt in his eyes, he hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "Young Master, long time no see."
However, Gu Lang gave him a fixed look, as if he was not afraid of his appearance at this time, and just nodded lightly as a response.
It was just this perfunctory response that made Chang Geng grin, and he sighed in relief as if he had settled his mind, "Master, you have really grown up."
After Chang Geng finished speaking, he stopped looking at him, but put his gaze on the county magistrate sitting above him, then threw away his walking stick, and knelt down slowly in front of the magistrate,
"Master County, thanks to the favor of the master of the Gu family, I was able to serve the master by his side as an orphan, and I also had a place to speak in the Gu family.
It's just that I was young and energetic at the time, and I didn't know that the rich wolf and the evil animal were being used by Zhao Yuan. I listened to his rhetoric and opened the door of the robber's house in the middle of the night, causing the entire family of the Gu family to be wiped out.
After I found out that I was cheated, I went to find Zhao Yuan, and wanted to die with him.Who knew that he already had the intention of killing people to silence him, so when I went to find him, he stabbed me a few times, and then threw me into the Gu family's mansion that had already started to burn.
I was born to be humble, and I didn't die after all this tossing.After waking up in excruciating pain, I escaped instinctively. For so many years, I have been hiding in hiding in order to one day be able to personally identify his crimes. "
After Chang Geng finished speaking, he looked up at the magistrate above, then took out a few old papers from his pocket, handed them over and said:
"My lord, this is the evidence I have collected about the collusion between Zhao Yuan and the former county magistrate. I hope that my lord will give justice to my lord and wife and all the ghosts of the Gu family!"
The county magistrate listened to his words in astonishment, and then motioned to the master next to him to bring up the things in his hand.
After reading a few pieces of paper, the face of the county magistrate immediately turned cold, and he turned his head to look at Mr. Zhao and his wife who were ashen-faced below, and said sharply: "Zhao Yuan, now that there are witnesses and evidence, you still have What can I say?!"
Mr. Zhao opened his mouth, facing the different gazes of everyone in the hall, finally his face was ashen, and he pleaded: "I do things by myself, and I hope that the Lord will spare the rest of my family." The magistrate looked at Staring at him piercingly, his gaze fixed, then he clapped the gavel on his hands, and said coldly: "Zhao Yuan, he murdered the Gu family together with the former county magistrate decades ago, and he still wants to continue murdering the Gu family decades later." The only single seedling, Gu Lang. Today, the official sentenced Zhao Yuan himself to death and beheaded, Zhao Yuan's current family property will be confiscated as an example to others!"
As soon as the county magistrate's words came out, Mr. Zhao seemed to have been drained of energy, and he quickly aged ten years, and Mrs. Zhao even screamed and fell to the ground.
The magistrate looked at the scene below with a frown, waved his hands and asked the officials to take Mr. Zhao down, and let the servants of the Zhao family carry Mrs. Zhao down.Then he looked at the gangsters and others below, and sentenced them one by one according to the magnitude of the crimes they committed.
During this period, Chen Xing has been standing by Gu Lang's side, quietly holding his hand.