kingnovel Chapter 871 Serve as a warning
Chapter 871 Serve as a warning
Zhou Guo shook his head sadly, "No, I'm incompetent. I've been searching for so many days, but there's still no news. These little thieves are really powerful. They transported these seeds to who knows where overnight."
Mr. Wu looked at her and asked with the last glimmer of hope: "Is this true? Don't lie to me. We are friends. You already know my family background, why are you hiding it from me? I won't ask you what your plans are. Just give me some reassurance, otherwise I won't be able to sleep well in the future."
Zhou Guo said very seriously: "Master Wu, what I said is true. Why would I lie to you about such a thing? It is a huge loss for me to lose these things. I am more heartbroken than you and I hope this is false more than anyone else!"
He sighed, "Now I just hope the government can be more effective and solve the case as soon as possible and get the grain back, otherwise..."
The words were not finished.
Mr. Wu has given up.
After a long pause, he said fiercely, "Who did this? You don't know who did it yet, do you?"
Zhou Guo looked at him with a pair of innocent eyes, "Has the government found out?"
Mr. Wu choked and said unhappily, "You are usually quite smart, why can't you figure it out now? Who would steal grains? It's not worth much and it's troublesome to take it away. Wouldn't it be better to just steal the silver? Why did they have to steal thousands of stones of grain in such a blatant way? It's obvious that they came here specifically for this thing. Think about it carefully."
After saying that, he got up and left. He felt annoyed when he saw her.
Zhou Guo stood up and asked, "Where are you going? Stay and have dinner?"
“I don’t want to eat anymore!!”
I was very angry when I heard it.
Zhou Guo stood up and said, "I'll take you there."
Master Wu got on the carriage, lifted the curtain and said to Zhou Guo: "This is a very important matter, you have to pay attention to it. Anyway, I don't care. You have already promised to give me 100 acres of grain seeds next year, so you can't break your promise. I will come to your house to get it in the spring of next year!"
After saying that, he lowered the curtain and said to the driver, "Let's go."
The driver whipped his whip and the carriage started away.
The entourage also left.
The old man came out of the farm, looked at the group's backs as they walked away and said, "You're leaving now? You're not staying to eat? Where's the bucket of crabs?"
Zhou Guo said: "He is busy and needs to go find someone else to drink with."
Thinking about what Master Wu said, she curled her lips, and in a good mood, she took the old man's arm and said, "Master, let's go. We haven't eaten crabs for a few days. Let's eat a few more tonight."
The old man said, "Okay, if they don't eat it, we will."
The master of the Wu family left, and the next day the master of the Liu family came again, bringing with him the masters of several other families. Although these masters did not have much influence among the wealthy upper-class families in the north, they were still wealthy. She had promised to give them fifty or thirty acres of grain seeds. Now they were here to collect their debts?
Zhou Guo said: "Mr. Wu is really quick to speak. How did you know I was here so quickly?"
Master Liu said, "Don't tease us. We are here to get a definite answer. Is the grain really gone? Do you have any more?"
Zhou Guo held the lid of the teacup with one hand and shook his head. "No more. If this batch of seeds cannot be found, you will have to wait another two or three years. It will take two or three years to get them. This day will have to be postponed."
The group of people were anxious, and a middle-aged man in his thirties blurted out, "How could it be gone? Even if it was stolen, you sold these seeds to those farmers this year, they must still have some, can't you just collect them?"
Zhou Guo paused with his hand holding the teacup lid and looked at the person who spoke.
The man felt uncomfortable being stared at by her, and Zhou Guo's eyes were really creepy. It was really strange that a child actually seemed to want to eat people!
Zhou Guo said calmly, "If some people don't want to live, then let them try. I'm putting this on the table. If anyone touches the people of the North, I'll hang the heads of his entire family at the gate of Yunzhou for public display."
Looking at him, he spoke word by word, "To serve as a warning to others."
Everyone's face changed drastically, and some people gasped!
The man who opened his mouth to speak fainted due to lack of breath!
No one else dared to speak for a moment.
You could hear a pin drop in the living room right now.
Zhou Guo looked at the man on the ground indifferently, without saying a word, and took a sip of tea.
No one present dared to move. The fact that she dared to say this showed that she had the strength to do so. Not to mention General Xu, even Zhou Dacang, with 100,000 troops under his command, was no joke.
In this chaotic world, anyone with a large army can do whatever he wants, and people like them are just fish on the chopping board.
This group of people were trembling with fear. They only now remembered that she was not an ordinary person. If they made her angry, it was hard to say what the consequences would be.
But when they thought about it carefully, it seemed that there was nothing serious. They were just a few common people, not from her Zhou family, or even from her Cangshan Village. She didn't get so angry even when she lost the grain seeds. Everyone couldn't understand it.
After Zhou Guo finished speaking these harsh words, his heart skipped a beat and his hands trembled.
She never thought that these words would come out of her mouth one day. For a moment, she felt that she was no different from the person who said those words, except that there is always someone better than you.
After taking a few sips of tea to calm down, he said to Dashu and Xiaoshu who were standing by his side, "Get him up."
The two men stepped forward and pinched the others fiercely.
Suddenly, screams were heard!
Everyone's face twitched. Was he pretending?
It was no longer possible to pretend to be unconscious, so he had to sit up obediently. His face turned purple and he wished he could find a hole to crawl into.
Zhou Guo felt that he couldn't push people too hard, so he said, "The administration in the north is clean and honest. In this chaotic world of war, it is still a pure land. The people live and work in peace and contentment. You can also live a good life with peace of mind. In addition to the Xu family army guarding the pass and the efforts of officials from top to bottom in the north, it is also inseparable from these law-abiding people who work diligently to farm and pay taxes.
Without them, the Northland would be nothing but empty cities and dead wastelands. Therefore, if anyone messes with the people of the Northland, then he is messing with the entire Northland and the entire region. When the time comes, it won’t be my turn, but someone else will naturally deal with you.”
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Zhou Guo continued, "This is how it is with the grain seeds. I don't want to see them being stolen, but I will try my best to get them back. The seeds I promised you will be available the year after next year, even if they are gone next year. If there is nothing else, go back and wait for news."
Everyone felt relieved and stood up quickly. They didn't want to stay in this place for a moment. It was so scary!
She could also hear more than one sigh of relief from inside.
She stood up and saw the group of people out.
But no one dared to talk to her casually now. Their backs were still cold from fear. They just said hello hurriedly and got in the car.