TSBFL Chapter 118.1

TSBFL Chapter 118.1

Chapter 118.1: 放棄

[Give up]

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When the man in front of him heard Gu Lang’s question, he immediately said, “The one who ordered them to do this is the Zhao family, and they are also paid to do it, so they also don’t know why the Zhao family did this all of a sudden.”

 

Listening to this, Gu Lang gently tapped his fingertips on the desktop and then asked as if he was not paying attention, “Have the people who are watching over the Chen family’s side made any gains?”

 

The man pondered for a while before looking at his master and replied, “The Chen family’s eldest son returned five days ago and went to the Zhao family after that. Because of the secrecy of the matter, not many people know about it.”

 

Speaking to this point, the man seemed to suddenly realize something and raised his eyes to look at the master in front of him, only to see him standing there expressionless, as if he had already guessed that it would be this kind of answer.

 

As expected, after listening to the man’s report, Gu Lang directly commanded, “Have someone go and find out what the Chen family has in their hands that can make the Zhao family afraid.”

 

“Yes.” The men answered, and at the same time, they were secretly annoyed that they hadn’t thought of such an obvious answer in the first place.

 

Gu Lang continued, “Those people are no longer useful, send them to the government and tell them what they have done.”

 

“Yes.”

 

After ordering these, Gu Lang seemed to have thought of something, pulled open a drawer on the bookcase behind him, took out mixed papers from it, gave it to the man in front of him, and instructed in a faint voice: “Give these to the County Magistrate, he should know what to do after seeing them.”

 

“Yes.”

 

Gu Lang waved his hand and let him go down to do his job, while he himself slowly turned his head to look at the empty drawers and lightly laughed, that sound in the empty room appeared a bit ironic.

 

Everyone thought that the reason why the Gu family had that disaster was because the Gu family was too rich, and thus was subjected to the snooping of the bandits, thus causing trouble or ruin for their own family.

 

However, no one knows that the disaster is real and the bandits are fake. The Gu family is not attracted to any foreign ‘seek for money wolves’, but the family near the white-eyed wolves aka thankless wretch.

 

The Madame of the Gu family was kind-hearted at that time, she saved a family in distress on her sight seeing or strolling time, and seeing that they were mostly elderly and young, she brought them back and put them in the courtyard to settle down, ready to wait for them to train them before letting them leave.

 

Later, the Master of Gu family saw that the head of the family of the rescued person was quite calculating and had a good understanding of the way of doing business, so he value his talent (cherish the talented people) and lent money to them to open a shop, but also in the subsequent process of support, to help them step by step to become bigger and bigger.

 

Unfortunately, a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom), the previous County Magistrate had a peeping heart toward the Gu Family’s fortune or wealth, after several times the blackmail was unsuccessful, coupled with the demand of the officials above, so more and more pressure, it gradually up to the evil or wicked minds.

 

Not knowing which family colluded with the county magistrate, he only knew that they reached an agreement, which led to the tragedy of the destruction (massacre) of the Gu family, and then the sudden rise of the first family in the county, the Zhao family.

 

It wasn’t until Gu Lang came back that the covering with dust truth was unearthed, the things taken out of the drawer just now were the evidence that Gu Lang had collected after his return.

 

Originally, Gu Lang was going to take things slowly, letting the Zhao family fall little by little, letting them suffer from an anxiety that was even more frightening than ‘put to death by dismembering the body’ (the death of thousand cuts ; old form of capital punishment) and letting everything that happened to the Gu family happen to the Zhao family again.

 

Just like a cat catching a mouse, when it has had enough, it bites it hard and finishes it off.

 

Gu Lang thinks he has the patience and the ability to do so. He has been planning for this day for so many years, and he is not short of that much time.

 

Gu Lang originally thought like that, he felt that if there were no accidents, everything would go according to his idea. He could even foresee the picture of the whole family who repay kindness with enmity; weeping bitterly and repenting in front of him.

 

However, when Gu Lang woke up from his sleep that day, felt the warmth under his palm, and looked at Chen Xing, who had not forgotten to press his cheeks with his hand even when he was asleep, he suddenly did not want to do it that way anymore.

 

At that moment, Gu Lang even felt that he heard a sigh from the bottom of his heart. He can accompany the Zhao family to play it slowly, but can not withstand Chen Xing to have even a small amount or little accident. So, he compromised, he gave up his blitzkrieg strategy all along, and chose the quick-fire way.

 

When he thought of this, Gu Lang was a little gloomy, his heart was still somehow reluctant, but then the line of his sight fell to the wind bells hanging in the distance, suddenly soothing down.

 

That string of wind chimes or that day, Chen Xing dragged Gu Lang out for a walk after dinner, and they bought it from a pair of old couples with gray hair.

 

Until now, Gu Lang still remembers Chen Xing’s happy face when he looked at himself at that time, he smiled and said to him: “Gu Lang, look at them, they have been together for so long, we can be like them too in the future.”

 

Gu Lang remembers that at that time, he was very sure and responded, “Yes.”

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