Shi Yuan looked at him carefully for a while, then asked uncertainly: "Are you a gopher?"
"Yes, yes!" The short man nodded repeatedly, "I am Fu Su!"
Fu Su, also known as the Drilling Rat, is also known as the Rolling Rat. The martial arts he is good at are some dirty tricks, so people in the world look down on him. Shi Yuan changed his name and went to the capital to contact the old ministry, and under the guise of catching a gopher, he nominally took refuge with Princess Xinyang.
"I remember that you were caught by me for stealing things when you were in the capital. What did you steal this time?"
"They said you were the one who recommended me, but it turned out that I was caught stealing something." The leading man took out a cloth bag from the waist of the gopher, "And he said you weren't stealing anything. You see, everyone gets the stolen goods!"
"I didn't steal anything! I really didn't steal anything! It's all my own!" The gopher still insisted.
"You still say it's not..." The man opened the cloth bag and stopped talking, "What the hell is this?"
I saw that what was exposed from the cloth bag were several bright red, water red, and pink women's bellybands.
The man threw the bellyband at the gopher's face and cursed: "You must be sick for a grown man to wear so many bellybands on you!"
The gopher quickly picked up the bellyband, carefully dusted it off, and put it in his arms. He said slightly shyly: "This is a parting gift given to me by the concubines in my house."
How many concubines does this thing have? The man was filled with hatred and jealousy. He waved his hand and said, "This kid is still making up lies. Beat him! Beat him until he tells the truth!"
"No!" The gopher screamed and was kicked several times. "Shi Yuan, Shi Yuan, please save me!"
Aunt Liu was upset by the sudden appearance of a group of people. She ran to the kitchen, took out a kitchen knife, and chopped down the peach tree in the yard.
"You all, get out of here! This is my home!"
"Old woman, why are you so arrogant!"
Ye Wuji's eyes widened when he heard the man scolding Aunt Liu! He picked up the broom beside him and hit those people.
"Ouch, ouch! What are you doing, girl!"
"Stop hitting me! If you hit me again, I'll hit you back!"
Ye Wuji was small and thin, and she and the two of them beat each of these big men. He didn't dare to fight back when he was beaten. He was afraid that the girl would be injured as soon as he fought back. It didn't matter if he injured the gopher, but if he was injured, Ye Wuji is a neighbor, so this is not good.
When Aunt Liu heard someone among the big men saying that they wanted to fight back, she also raised a kitchen knife to join the fight and said in a vicious voice: "Whoever dares to hurt our family Wuji will have no descendants."
Seeing that they were fighting with the big men, the gopher quietly moved toward the door, hoping to take the opportunity to escape. Shi Yuan stepped on his back, then cleared his throat and said, "Stop it!"
His voice was not loud, but it reached everyone's ears clearly. Those who heard his voice couldn't help but stop following his order.
"Wuji, godmother, you all come here." Shi Yuan said, "You go into the house, I will handle the things here."
After both of them entered the house, Shi Yuan picked a few leaves from the peach tree and casually held them between his fingers.
"Tell me, who asked you to come." Shi Yuan had a smile on his face, but there was no smile in his eyes.
"Who let us in? Didn't you just follow that kid?" The big man pointed at the burrowing rat at Shi Yuan's feet.
"Stop acting." Shi Yuan stepped on the burrower with great force, causing it to squeal. "You don't want to leave so many houses, but you insist on getting into this house. There are more than a dozen of you, but you can't catch a mere burrower. Gophers."
The big man laughed loudly and said: "As expected of Mr. Shi, I really can't hide it from you! Someone indeed hired us to find you."
"who?"
"How do we people know the identity of our employer? If you want to know, Mr. Shi, just go and see for yourself."
"What a painstaking effort!" Shi Yuan sighed and said, "Okay, take me there. I want to see who it is."
Inside the door, Aunt Liu heard Shi Yuan's words and said to Ye Wuji: "I thought he was a good man you could entrust, but now it seems that he has too many troubles."
Ye Wuji nodded in agreement. She really didn't want to have too many entanglements with Jianghu people, not to mention that Shi Yuan was not only connected with Jianghu, but also with the imperial court.