Chapter 123： the dust settles

As soon as Gu Lang said these words, the audience fell silent for a moment.

Master Zhao's face immediately became ugly, but after he saw the look of others looking at him out of the corner of his eye, he thought of his current situation, and immediately restrained the possibility of revealing Looking at Gu Lang in front of him, he said coldly, "You don't want to spit blood!"

Gu Lang looked at him with a half-smile, and said loudly in front of everyone: "You should know best whether it is **** or not. You think I was young and can't remember. So many things, but why haven't you thought that when I grow up, I will be able to investigate the facts of the original?"

Master Zhao's face became more and more ugly. With his cautious temperament, how could he have never thought about such a thing? After Gu Lang came back, he sent someone to investigate him. Fan, the final conclusion is that he is just a sickly scumbag who is not afraid of anything, and he can't make a big deal. It's just that who would have thought that it was the carelessness at this time that caused his current predicament.

Gu Lang looked at the annoyance in Master Zhao's eyes and knew what he must have thought of, but he was not interested in further research.

Gu Lang turned his head to look at the people present, and said loudly: "Everyone, some of you feel that this servant made his own decisions and sent people to hurt us. It's just that we have no grievances with this servant. , why did he spend so much energy doing this?"

How can you prove that Master Zhao ordered him to do all this?"

The corners of Gu Lang's lips curled up, with a somewhat pleasant smile on his face, he looked at the person who asked the question, and after seeing his righteousness, he shrank his neck and hid. Behind everyone, it seems that they are very afraid to meet Gu Lang.

Gu Lang laughed softly, with a bit of irony in his tone, "Yes, you are right, my current family background is completely different from that of Master Zhao. , even my whole person can't compare to a finger of Master Zhao.

But more than ten years ago, my Gu family was the richest man in the city, and Mr. Zhao did not have the same scenery as today. He was just a family member who left his hometown and needed me to help his family. Just a surviving hawker. "

As soon as Gu Lang's words came out, there was an uproar in the audience. Obviously, his words had a great impact on everyone. Gu Lang looked at their suspicious eyes, and the smile on his face became stronger and stronger. He continued: "When Zhao Yuan's family fled here, the family, old and young, all looked miserable. My mother just burned incense in the temple at that time. When I came back, I saw their tragic situation when I passed by them, and I immediately felt compassion, not only arranged accommodation for them, but also gave them money to settle down."

Hearing this, someone in the crowd watching the fun suddenly took a breath and suddenly shouted: "Yes, I also heard my father say that the Zhao family was an outsider back then. When I came here, I was a neighbor with my family."

Are you a neighbor?"

"Your house is the place where birds don't poop. What's wrong with my house? These are what my father said, and my father can't lie to me." The man was very unconvinced and couldn't help the top back.

The people next to him were even more dissatisfied and started arguing about this issue, "What happened to 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 attracted by Gu Lang's next story.

"My father always pampered my mother. Seeing that she rescued you and gave you the resettlement fee, he didn't say anything, as long as my mother was happy. He appeared in front of my father from time to time, and in the end he became a frequent visitor to my Gu family’s house with that mouth that turned black and white, and was favored by my father.”

Chen Xing has been listening quietly beside him, since Gu Lang opened his mouth just now, he felt that there was something wrong with Gu Lang today. Looking at him with a smile on his face at this moment, his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, and the tone of his speech became more and more cold, and he knew that what he was going to say next was by no means so simple.

Chen Xing hesitated for a moment, then gently held Gu Lang's hand, shook the hand that connected them for a moment while he was stunned, and silently told him that he would By his side, he has always supported him.

The moment he left the county, he had been waiting for this day.

"My father lent him money to open a shop and introduced his network to him to pave the way, as a confidant and friend. However, he teamed up with the then county magistrate to forge a mountain bandit going down the mountain An accident that killed all my family members! How can all this be described in four words?”

Gu Lang's words were sonorous and powerful, like a heavy hammer hitting everyone's heart. Finally, someone seemed to suddenly wake up and looked at Zhao, who had an ugly face in the scene. Master, suddenly muttered: "No wonder, my father said that the Zhao family suddenly made a fortune, and he has such a good relationship with the former county magistrate, so this is the reason!"

"This Master Zhao is really cruel! Others saved his family, but he actually harmed the whole family. It's not an exaggeration to call him a beast!"

"You've been feeding the beasts for a long time, and others will recognize the masters. This Master Zhao's family is not as good as beasts at all!"

Gu Lang revealed the secrets that had been buried in his heart for many years. Looking at the unpredictable Master Zhao, he took a few steps forward and came to him. Relying on his posture half a head taller than him, he looked down at him and 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 are dying under the nine springs, they treat you like a close friend, you To harm them like this. If they knew about it, I'm afraid they would regret saving your family's life!"

Master Zhao is no longer calm at this time, especially after listening to Gu Lang telling about the series of immoral things he did, the blood on his face is even more. It dissipated, and at this time, facing Gu Lang's questioning, it was even more powerless to resist.

Immediately, Master Zhao felt a tingling pain in his arm, he turned his head to look and saw Madam Zhao staring at him, her eyes sharp with a bit of determination.

"Master, I know that you have been feeling guilty for not saving the Gu family for so many years, but you can't just let him pour dirty water! We still have a big family waiting When you go back to the mansion, the old lady even told me when I was out of the mansion, and asked me to take you back safely."

With an expression on his face, "What I say is unfounded. Although I was taken care of by Master Gu, I can't tolerate your wanton slander."

Gu Lang glanced at Master Zhao, who was back to normal, then looked at Mrs. Zhao who was holding Master Zhao's arm next to him, and sneered softly. He took a few steps back and came to the center of the lobby, and said loudly, "You're right, there's no basis for what you said. Since you've done it, you naturally need to show evidence."

Hearing this, Mr. Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. He and the county magistrate who did those things have dealt with them cleanly. Now that the county magistrate has also gone west, there will be no one to identify in this world. his people. Even if Gu Lang knew what the truth was at the beginning, he said nothing, and no one would believe what he said.

Thinking of this, Mr. Zhao's tense mood gradually relaxed, and even the eyes that looked at Gu Lang were no longer as vigilant as before, but full of unspeakable mockery color.

Only when Mr. Zhao's eyes fell on Gu Lang's face, he found that he did not show annoyance as he imagined, but on the contrary, there was a little mockery. The sarcasm stared at himself brightly, as if he were a ridiculous joke.

Master Zhao felt that something was not right, but before he realized that something was wrong, he heard another commotion from the yamen.

The crowd who came to watch the lively crowd seemed to have seen something terrible. They were divided into two sides at once, and then a staggering person walked in from the clear aisle. The man was holding a pair of crutches, his clothes were tattered, his face was covered with scars, and he walked tremblingly, as if it could be blown over by a gust of wind.

The man came to the lobby to meet everyone's attention, first bowed to the county magistrate above, and then introduced himself: "Sir, my name is Chang Geng, more than ten years ago, I used to be the servant next to Master Gu."

"You!" When Master Zhao heard the name, he pointed at him with a look of horror on his face, obviously not expecting this person to appear here.

When Chang Geng heard his words, he turned his head and smiled at him. The disfigured face smiled more like a ghost crawling out of the underworld, and his hoarse voice even more Added a little bit of weirdness,

"Zhao Yuan, you didn't expect that I'm still alive, right? I've been living for years, just for this moment, I want to see you in ruins, My family is ruined, and I want to see you pay the price for what you did in the first place!"

After Chang Geng said this, he turned his head to look at Gu Lang, who was standing beside him with a faint expression, but there was a bit of guilt in those eyes, he hesitated for a long time, and finally said something , "Master, long time no see."

Gu Lang gave him a fixed look, as if he was not afraid of what he looked like at this time, just nodded lightly, which was a response.

Chang Geng stopped looking at him after he finished speaking, but put his eyes on the county magistrate sitting above, then dropped his crutches and knelt slowly in front of the county magistrate down,

"The county magistrate, thanks to the favor of the Gu family, I was able to serve as an orphan by the master's side, 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 wolves and evil animals were used by Zhao Yuan. I listened to his rhetoric and opened the door to the robbers in the middle of the night, which caused the entire family of the master of the Gu family to be destroyed.

I went to Zhao Yuan after I found out that I was deceived, and wanted to die with him. Who knew that he already had the intention of killing people, stabbed me a few times when I went to find him, and then threw me into the burning Gu family mansion.

I was born with a low life, and I didn't die after all this tossing. After waking up in excruciating pain, I escaped on instinct, having been in hiding for so many years just to be able to one day personally confess his guilt. "

After Chang Geng said these words, he looked up at the county magistrate above, and then took out a few old papers from his arms and handed it forward:

"My lord, this is the evidence I have collected that Zhao Yuan colluded with the former county magistrate. I hope that the lord will give justice to my master and wife and all the grievances of the Gu family!"

The county magistrate was stunned to hear what he said, 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 county magistrate's face immediately turned cold, he turned his head to look at the ashes of Mr. Zhao and his wife below, and said sharply: "Zhao Yuan, today's people The evidence is here, what else can you say?!"

Master Zhao opened his mouth, facing the different eyes of everyone in the hall, and finally his face was ashen, he murmured and begged: "I do things by myself, and I hope the adults will open up and let go of my family. The others." The county magistrate stared at him with piercing eyes, then clapped the gavel on his hand and said coldly, "Zhao Yuan, together with the former magistrate magistrate murdered the Gu family's life decades ago, counted Ten years later, I still want to continue to murder Gu Lang, the only child of the Gu family. Today, the official sentenced Zhao Yuan to death and sentenced him to beheaded. Zhao Yuan’s current family property is all confiscated as an example!”

As soon as the county magistrate's words came out, Mr. Zhao seemed to be drained of his energy, and the whole person quickly aged ten years, and Mrs. Zhao screamed and fell to the ground .

The county magistrate frowned as he watched the scene below, waved his hand to let the official take down Mr. Zhao, 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 size of the crime they committed.

During this period, Chen Xing had been standing beside Gu Lang, holding his hand quietly.