Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

No!

This development is too bloody!

What kind of crazy setting is it that when you recall the past, you get a headache and faint! I, Gu Dashi, am a cannon fodder, not the hero!

Gu Yue pinched himself hard. Good, now his legs hurt as much as his head.

Someone grabbed his arm, and Gu Yue barely opened his eyes which were blurred by the pain, and saw Gu Xu's enlarged face.

There was an eagerness in those beautiful eyes, but it was fleeting.

"What's going on?" Gu Xu asked.

Shi San had already taken a step forward and grabbed Gu Erhua's arms. Gu Erhua was sobered up that she shouted, "Great! You little brats, you actually pretended to be ghosts to scare me!"

Gu Yue frowned.

Shi San lowered his wrist slightly, and a short knife slipped out from his sleeve, pressing it against Gu Erhua's chin to force her to shut up.

"Gu Erhua, you don't recognize these people, right?" Gu Yue squatted on the ground for a long time, still unable to recover, and forced himself to endure the dizziness and headache, and then asked, "They are all government officials, and they are here to investigate what happened in my family back then."

His tone was sinister: "It would be fine if you cooperated well, but if you continue to speak so dirty words..."

Shi San cooperated and lightly scratched the tip of the knife, cutting a line on Gu Erhua's neck... with the back of the knife.

Gu Erhua's husband went home to visit his parents' grave today and is not here.

Because of the feces throwing incident, rumors spread in the village. The villagers who were visiting the graves in the distance looked over here, and no one came to say a word. Did Gu Erhua seem to have harmed Brother Gu's family?

The villagers started to chatter behind his back. Was he caught with evidence? The thing was actually true!

Gu Yue touched his forehead, and it seemed that the place where Gu Xu had broken it hurt. He rubbed it twice and it felt better. He slowly stood up with the help of a stele on the side and glanced at Gu Erhua. The basket in her hand had fallen to the ground, revealing a pile of paper money.

Considering that she just came over to question him, maybe she wanted to burn paper for the Gu family at their grave?

It's not impossible to do some posthumous work out of guilt, but it's useless.

"I'm fine." Gu Yue comforted him casually when he found that Gu Xu was still holding his arm.

"Tell these officials everything about your encounter with the man in black that day. Don't leave out any details. Do you understand? Tell it in front of the Gu family's grave. The wronged souls are all watching you. Don't even think of lying." Gu Yue said.

Gu Erhua calmed down. Her heart had never felt so cold.

A past event surfaced.

……

Three years before the murder, Brother Gu and his wife started to do business through the Chenghou Mansion. In just one year, they earned enough money to renovate the house, recruited villagers to work, and built the spacious gray-tiled courtyard with rooms.

The villagers were very jealous, but Brother Gu and his wife were kind people. They hired all the capable laborers in the village to build the courtyard. Even the women were paid to cook, and they helped the villagers make a small fortune.

In the following two years, they lived in peace with the villagers, and their relationship was harmonious on the surface. But people in the world always have a dark side, and even if they don't say it, they are actually jealous of the Gu family in their hearts. This jealousy is not yet uncontrollable, and it can't even be considered evil, but it will quietly change people's choices and quietly push the scale of fate up a little bit.

Gu Erhua is one of such people.

She and the Gu family were distant relatives, and she had no brothers or sisters of her own. She was able to marry into a husband because of the reputation of Gu's brother and sister-in-law as wealthy businessmen. Gu's brother and sister-in-law gave a gift of ten taels of silver, but Gu Erhua and her new husband thought it was too little.

The Gu family is such a wealthy family, and they are relatives, but they only give such a small amount of money?

Of course, it is impossible to say this openly.

So, just before the family was massacred, on a rainy day about five or six years ago, Gu Erhua and her husband went to the woods to pick bird eggs and mushrooms when they encountered a group of men in black.

The group of people were all wearing black clothes and had their faces covered, so they were not conspicuous in the woods at dusk.

"Is this Gujia Village?" The black-clad man in the lead held a knife to Gu Erhua's neck, and the other men held her husband. Both of them were farmers and did not know any martial arts. Erhua's husband was a timid person, so the two did not even resist.

"Yes, yes, yes..." Gu Erhua answered hurriedly.

"Have you seen a child, about eight or nine years old, with a strange face and very handsome appearance?" asked the man in black.

"..."Gu Erhua didn't say anything for a moment.

After the man in black described it this way, she immediately knew who this group of people were looking for.

The child brought back by Brother Gu and his wife was handsome. He followed his second brother Gu Dashi around all day long, doing whatever Gu Dashi did.

Gu Dashi didn't like this kid, thinking that he had stolen the love of his parents, brothers and sisters-in-law, so he would tease and bully him with other children in the village. Little Gu Xu was not angry at all, and didn't even think there was anything wrong with it. He still followed Gu Dashi obediently, as diligently as a runner.

Gu Yue felt uncomfortable when he heard this. Was Gu Xu so clingy and well-behaved when he was a child? And then he made Gu Dashi become the one who never smiles?

Gu Dashi, you deserve to be cannon fodder!

Gu Yue was very disappointed with his friend.

Gu Xu shifted his gaze. He felt a little embarrassed when he suddenly heard about his childhood, but this emotion was only for a moment. Later events occupied a heavier weight in his memory, leaving no room for the insignificant time in his childhood.

Gu Erhua then recalled:

Gu Erhua was originally hesitant, but it was precisely because of this hesitation that the leading man in black saw her fluctuation and concluded that the couple had seen the child.

"I know you've seen him." The man in black laughed, "How about this, if you tell me his whereabouts right away, you can go home safe and sound."

"But if you don't tell me, do you know how many pieces this knife can cut a person into alive?"

——Stop. How come this threatening rhetoric is the same as mine? Gu Yue complained in his heart.

Wu Feng glanced at Gu Erhua inquiringly.

Then Gu Erhua and her husband confessed everything. They couldn't even withstand Gu Yue's slap, let alone such a tragic death by lingchi?

Not only did he recruit people, he also led the way.

Gu Yue's chest rose and fell. He resisted the urge to kick Gu Erhua.

"What are the characteristics of the man in black?" Gu Yue asked.

Gu Erhua tried hard to recall.

The woman in her thirties racked her brains for a long time before slapping her thigh and saying, "Yes! The man who held the knife to my neck had a particularly short finger..."

"Which part? Did you mistake it for a thumb?" Gu Yue doubted.

"No, no. When you put four fingers together, one of them looks particularly short." Gu Erhua bent her thumb, put the four fingers together, and gestured: "It just looks like one of the fingers is very short."