Li Ergou and Fatty Cui waited until twelve o'clock in the morning before planning to go to Gu Shichu's house. In order to keep out the cold and build up their courage, they drank a lot of wine before going out.
It was freezing cold at that time, and everyone had fallen asleep early. The whole village was quiet, and even the dogs had curled up in their kennels and fallen asleep early, so there was not even the sound of dogs barking.
Li Ergou and Fatty Cui sneaked towards Gu Shichu, each holding a sickle. They didn't use any drugs to knock Gu Shichu out, and of course they couldn't find any, so they used sickles as weapons, thinking that if they threatened or intimidated Gu Shichu, he would obediently take out the money and let them do whatever they wanted.
As for the fact that Gu Shichu usually showed greater strength than ordinary people, the two men didn't care at all. They just thought that no matter how strong Gu Shichu was, it couldn't be that two grown men couldn't lift a little girl like her
Besides, she was a young and inexperienced woman. Seeing someone break into her house and rob her, she must have been scared to death. How could she dare to resist? Therefore, Li Ergou and Fatty Cui felt that the matter was under their control and success was a foregone conclusion.
It was naturally impossible for two such rivals in love to come to Gu Shichu's house to scout and monitor in advance, so they just came here stupidly.
At this time, they were standing outside the almost two-meter-high wall of Gu Shichu's house, dumbfounded.
"Damn, why is this wall so high?" Fatty Cui raised his head and looked at the wall that was more than a head taller than him, and cursed angrily.
"Let's see if there is any damage and dig a hole in the wall to get in." Li Ergou said while looking around.
Fatty Cui stood on tiptoe as hard as he could, and his raised fingers were still just a little bit away from reaching the top of the wall. He was so angry that he cursed his mother again, and finally had to agree with Li Ergou's suggestion. Then the two of them went to look for any damage on the courtyard wall.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard they try to find it, the facts will disappoint them.
When Gu Shichu first traveled through time and became the original owner, he began to repair the house and the courtyard wall. Not only did he repair the collapsed walls in many places, he even raised it by 50 centimeters. He also referred to the practices of later generations and inserted a lot of broken glass and thorns on the top of the wall. If anyone dared to climb over the wall, he would be stabbed and bleed.
After searching for more than ten minutes, Li Ergou and Fatty Cui walked around the courtyard wall and finally met each other.
"Have you found it?" Fatty Cui asked Li Ergou tremblingly. The weather was so cold that white steam came out of his mouth when he spoke. It was not a good start, which made him even more irritable as he was already in a bad mood due to the cold.
"No, no, this courtyard wall has been rebuilt, right? I took a look at it when I passed by before, and it was obviously not as new as it is now..." Li Ergou said with a confused look on his face.
"The Gu family is so poor, how can they still have money to repair the wall?" Fatty Cui said sarcastically.
"But... aren't we quite well off this year?" Li Ergou said weakly.
Fatty Cui was choked by his words and was speechless. Wasn't it because Gu Shichu had money and food that they wanted to rob him
"Can you open the lock?" Fatty Cui asked angrily, "You can't climb over the wall, so you can only pick the lock!"
Li Ergou was in a dilemma. He usually did thieves in the village and had never learned the skill of lock picking. After all, most people in the village did not lock their doors during the day, and at most left them ajar. Li Ergou would sneak in and steal things when the whole family was at work, so he didn't need to pick or pry the lock.
"I can't..." Li Ergou said with a bitter face.
"You can't do this or that. You can't do anything. What's the use of you?" Fatty Cui was very disappointed with Li Ergou. He couldn't count on Li Ergou, so he had to go forward and study the lock on Gu Shichu's courtyard door himself.
Gu Shichu's lock looks ordinary on the outside, but in fact it has a complex and tortuous structure. It was collected from her previous world. It cannot be opened without a key. Even the most skilled locksmith cannot open it successfully, unless the lock is blown up with a powerful bomb. Of course, the bomb that can blow up the lock can naturally blow open the door, so it is better to blow up the door directly.
"Damn it! What kind of lock is this?" Fatty Cui took a thin branch and inserted it into the keyhole to pry it open blindly. However, he had no idea how to do it, and the branch broke inside with the slightest effort. Fatty Cui was so angry that he wanted to curse.
He pulled hard at the lock, and it bounced back and hit the door with a bang, which scared both of them.
Li Ergou quickly called out to him, "Shh! This is too noisy. Let's not pick the lock, let's just climb the wall."
"How do we climb that high?" Fatty Cui asked with his eyes wide open.
"You squat on the ground first, and I will climb up the wall by stepping on your shoulders. Once I'm on the top of the wall, I'll reach down and pull you up." Li Ergou finally came up with a "magic plan" using his brain which had not been working for a long time.
Fatty Cui couldn't think of a solution. At first glance, Li Ergou's method sounded good and feasible, and had a high chance of success, so he agreed immediately. However, he was unwilling to yield to anyone else and wanted to compete with whoever climbed first: "Why should you go up first and I have to squat down and let you step on me? I want to be the first one!"
Li Ergou looked at Fatty Cui's fat and strong figure, and then looked at his own sickly and bamboo-like figure. He wanted to say that he was afraid that Fatty Cui's flesh would break all his bones. However, this was not the time to argue with Fatty Cui, and he was more anxious to go in and find the money, so he agreed to let Fatty Cui go up first, even at the risk of having his bones broken.
Seeing that he had compromised and squatted against the wall, Fatty Cui walked over triumphantly, stepped on Li Ergou's shoulder without saying a word, and reached up to climb up.
Li Ergou's small body was supporting Fatty Cui's weight of more than 200 pounds. He endured it with a grim look on his face and his whole body was shaking.
Before he could adapt, the fat Cui above his head suddenly let out a scream, and then his round body fell backwards. He fell to the ground with his back hunched, holding his hands up and wailing.
Li Ergou was startled and rushed over to cover Fatty Cui's mouth: "Shh! Shh! Don't shout! Someone will hear us!"
Fatty Cui shook his head and tried to shake off Li Ergou's hand, but Li Ergou was so scared that he held his hand with all his might, but Fatty Cui didn't let him shake it off.
Li Ergou scolded Fatty Cui in his ear again in a warning tone, and Fatty Cui then remembered where he was at the moment, so he had to grit his teeth and hold back his cry of pain.
"Let's go! The people inside must have heard it." Li Ergou wanted to retreat, feeling guilty and afraid.
But it was too late.
Gu Shichu heard Fatty Cui's scream. Although it was far away and not very loud and it died away quickly, she still opened her eyes immediately, pushed Ji Mingtao away cautiously, and got up. Ji Mingtao was half asleep and asked her, "Why are you up?"