FIMA Ch108: Action

Early this morning, Gu Siyuan rode his bicycle as usual to go to work in the county town.

However, just a short distance after leaving the house, he collided head-on with Gu Lili, who seemed to have popped out of nowhere.

Although Gu Siyuan felt he hadn’t touched him, Gu Lili sat directly on the ground refusing to get up, and even cried out pitifully: “Third Brother…”

Looking at the person for a moment, Gu Siyuan narrowed his eyes, propped his foot on the ground, and got off the bike.

Taking a few steps forward, he asked faintly: “Is your leg broken, or are you about to die?”

“…” Gu Lili.

Does he know how to talk?

However, thinking of his objective, Gu Lili forcibly endured it.

He let out continuous hissing sounds from his mouth, his hands tightly hugging one leg. His eyes slightly red, he cried out in pain: “Third Brother, my leg hurts so much, you were riding the bike too fast just now…”

Gu Siyuan’s expression remained unchanged, looking at him lazily and saying: “Oh, then should I take you to the county hospital for an examination?”

Gu Lili felt a burst of joy in his heart, and immediately pretended to be magnanimous, saying: “That won’t be necessary. For us country folks, this bit of bumping and bruising doesn’t require going to the hospital. Isn’t the brigade’s health clinic just up ahead? Third Brother, you just support me over there to have a look.”

Raising his eyes, Gu Siyuan glanced over there; just a few steps away was the educated youth point and the brigade health clinic.

This spot was chosen quite well.

Smiling, Gu Siyuan kicked the bicycle’s kickstand into place.

The next moment, Gu Lili found himself almost half-suspended in the air, being carried by Gu Siyuan, dragged and pulled toward the health clinic.

“…” Gu Lili.

He lowered his eyes, his gaze deep and profound.

Hmph, Gu Siyuan can only be smug for this little while.

Gu Siyuan handed the person over to the doctor, and then came out of the health clinic; the whole process only took a few minutes.

Getting back on his bicycle, his hand casually felt the army green cloth bag hanging on the handlebars. Sure enough, it was much thinner.

Heh…

However, he just pretended not to have noticed, happily riding his bike and continuing to rush toward the county town.

And after he had gone far, next to the enclosing wall of the educated youth point not far away, a figure slowly walked out, holding a stack of drawing papers in hand.

Gu Siyuan arrived at the agricultural repair factory at about the same time as usual. As soon as he entered the office, he followed his memory to redraw the engine drawing paper that he had lost previously.

This time, he didn’t wait anymore, and directly took it to Section Chief Lu’s office.

Seeing Gu Siyuan, Section Chief Lu was quite happy. Stopping his movement of going out, he smiled and said: “Truly a rare guest, you lad actually took the initiative to come find me?”

Gu Siyuan’s expression was calm: “Recently I came up with some things, and wanted to ask the Section Chief to take a look.”

“Something you came up with?” Raising an eyebrow, Section Chief Lu looked at the papers he was holding: “Here, bring it over.”

Gu Siyuan reached out and handed it over.

Taking it and sweeping a glance, Section Chief Lu chuckled: “An engine, ah. Today truly is a good day; you are already the second person to send an engine drawing over.”

“Oh.” Narrowing his eyes, Gu Siyuan didn’t have much of a reaction.

For the time being, Section Chief Lu didn’t continue to look closely at this thing either. Turning around, he placed it on the desk: “I’ll look at it when I get back. The experts from the city are coming tomorrow, I have to go to a meeting with the Factory Director and Party Secretary first.”

Following behind Section Chief Lu, Gu Siyuan walked out together, and returned to his own office.

Fang Jie and Ling Zhi were sitting on chairs chatting. Seeing him come back, they asked curiously: “Did you give that drawing to Section Chief Lu?”

Gu Siyuan nodded casually: “Mm.”

Fang Jie asked curiously: “What did Section Chief Lu say?”

Shaking his head, Gu Siyuan said: “He went to a meeting, hasn’t looked at it yet.”

Stretching his head over, Ling Zhi said very gossipy: “I saw you drawing it for almost a month. Is that our tractor’s engine? Is there really a big difference from the current ones? To make you spend all that effort?”

Nodding faintly, Gu Siyuan told the truth according to the facts: “Mm, slightly modified some structural problems. The engine’s energy utilization efficiency and lifespan will both be improved quite a bit.”

“…” Exchanging a glance, Fang Jie and Ling Zhi were instantly in shocked.jpg mode.

This kind of thing sounds like an Arabian Nights fantasy, how come coming out of your mouth it seems so casual?

Although they always knew Gu Siyuan was drawing, and roughly knew it was an engine.

However, they always thought Gu Siyuan was just blindly attempting to draw, and never truly took it seriously.

After all, Gu Siyuan had only entered the factory for two months, and wasn’t a knowledge-type talent who had attended a technical secondary school or university.

This engine modification already belonged to the field of research and development.

But now, since Gu Siyuan had said so, then there was a huge possibility.

After all, they deeply knew that the person before them was absolutely not someone who spouted big talk without basis or evidence.

Good heavens…

Fang Jie asked another question with difficulty: “So, the reason you said those words to Ma Jun yesterday, was because you had this engine design drawing as your backing?”

Gu Siyuan nodded: “Can be considered so!”

“…”

Alright.

Fang Jie and Ling Zhi fell completely silent.

…

This day, the following time passed as usual.

Gu Siyuan still carried out maintenance work in the workshop, and in his free time, held mechanics-related books to read.

However, the tranquility was ultimately broken at around two o’clock in the afternoon.

A colleague ran hurriedly into the workshop, shouting loudly: “Comrade Gu Siyuan, Comrade Ma Jun, Section Chief Lu is looking for you for a matter, please go to his office, immediately!”

Hearing this voice, Ma Jun raised his head abruptly. His restless and unsettled heart since yesterday suddenly miraculously calmed down at this moment.

Slowly turning his line of sight toward Gu Siyuan, he saw that Gu Siyuan had already gotten up to leave. His expression was as outstandingly cold and stern as usual, and his back was as straight and hard as before, as if completely unaware of the impending violent storm.

Ma Jun suddenly smiled darkly: Right, Gu Siyuan, this idiot, originally didn’t know.

Thinking of the interesting scene that was about to happen later, he also immediately strode out with large steps.

Gu Siyuan and Ma Jun arrived at Section Chief Lu’s office almost one right after the other.

However, slightly deviating from their imagination, not only was Section Chief Lu there, but there were also two other similarly aged agricultural repair factory leaders sitting there. They were Deputy Party Secretary Qin of the Party Committee, and Section Chief Deng from the neighboring section.

And as soon as they saw the two of them, the three leaders cast appraising gazes over instantly.

Section Chief Lu had always been a straightforward person, and cut straight to the chase: “Why I called you two over at this time, I believe someone among you already knows clearly in their heart.”

Saying so, he directly slammed the drawing papers in his hand onto the desk, with obvious anger.

“So, what exactly is going on? Why are the engine drawing papers sent by you two exactly the same? Explain the situation to me clearly right now!”

This morning, Section Chief Lu sat together with the Factory Director, Party Secretary, and several other section chiefs to hold a meeting for the city machinery factory leaders and experts arriving tomorrow.

After the meeting, he went to eat at the cafeteria together with Deputy Secretary Qin and Section Chief Deng.

The few of them had known each other for many years, so naturally, there was inevitable banter and bullshitting in between. As someone from the neighboring section, Section Chief Deng naturally mocked their Engine Section’s performance achievements this year, saying they had absolutely produced no manufacturing results.

The agricultural repair factory’s full name was Agricultural Machinery Repair and Manufacturing Factory; not only repair, but also manufacture.

Especially in recent years, the tractor repair situation in the major communes had basically reached saturation. The Factory Director encouraged everyone to stride forward more toward manufacturing, striving to spread the reputation of the county agricultural repair factory.

But ultimately, the agricultural repair factory was only a county-level factory. Whether it was workshop machine tools or personnel technology, it could only be considered average, lacking a complete production line.

If it were ordinary small accessories, it was fine; the agricultural repair factory currently had the conditions to independently manufacture them. But for things like their Engine Section, that was a bit like forcing someone to do the impossible.

How could the county agricultural repair factory have the ability to self-produce engines?

Therefore, at this moment, he was deliberately mocked by his old friend.

However, Section Chief Lu’s temper was always stubborn. He retorted on the spot, stating directly that their section did want to manufacture, but did the factory have those machine tool conditions?

Moreover, although they couldn’t manufacture, their section had never given up on progressing, and had even directly skipped the manufacturing step, striving toward the goal of research, development, and improvement.

This excuse was naturally thought up by Section Chief Lu temporarily, triggered precisely by the two engine drawing papers submitted in the morning.

Thus, arguing to the end, it evolved into a situation where the three leaders came together to look at the drawing papers. And then, very naturally, they discovered the fact that these two drawing papers were basically exactly the same.

No matter how he thought about it, Section Chief Lu still felt it was shameful. Such a scandalous matter had occurred in his own section, and because of his need for face, he had directly publicized it on the spot.

In the future, who knows how many years he would be mocked by these few old friends.

Therefore, without even having the time to sigh with emotion over the advanced and excellent nature of this new type of engine, he immediately called the two of them over.

His gaze stared fixedly at Gu Siyuan and Ma Jun, his tone solemn: “Have you thought about how you should explain?”

Raising his eyes slightly, Gu Siyuan gave Section Chief Lu a look, and said faintly: “What the Section Chief means to say is, one of us has plagiarized. That is quite a coincidence. Exactly at noon yesterday, my original design drawing papers were lost. This copy right now is what I temporarily redrew this morning.”

When it came to trust, Section Chief Lu naturally trusted Gu Siyuan deeper. It was truly because that cold, stern, and indifferent face of his all day long, and his attitude of not taking anything into his eyes, made it impossible for people to imagine associating him with words like plagiarism.

However, Section Chief Lu still looked at Ma Jun: “Comrade Ma Jun, what do you have to say?”

Ma Jun was unusually calm at this time.

Although he didn’t expect Gu Siyuan to be able to redraw a drawing in such a quick time, thinking of those things he got his hands on previously, it didn’t matter anymore.

He only looked at Section Chief Lu, speaking with the force of justice: “Section Chief, I have nothing to say. But it is obvious to all that in the three years I’ve been at the agricultural repair factory, I have never done a single thing violating the rules, and have been evaluated as advanced multiple times in the Engine Section. It is impossible for me to plagiarize others, let alone, as Comrade Gu Siyuan said, steal his design drawing.”

Section Chief Lu looked at the two of them: “So, both of you are firm that this drawing was drawn by yourselves?”

Both of them nodded.

Deputy Secretary Qin, who was watching from the side, stared at the two and said: “Do you really want to do this? If you admit it now, it can still be handled leniently. Otherwise, our agricultural repair factory absolutely cannot tolerate this kind of person who resorts to deception and fraud.”

Deputy Secretary Qin specialized in managing the discipline and ideological construction of the workers. Him saying such words was naturally extremely forceful.

Ma Jun glanced at Deputy Secretary Qin, and then withdrew his gaze, his face still firm.

Gu Siyuan, however, stated directly: “This engine design drawing took me about a month’s time, only finishing yesterday. The comrades in the same office as me can all testify for me.”

Section Chief Lu’s eyes lit up: “Really? Then have someone call them over to testify?”

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Ma Jun clearly saw Section Chief Lu’s trust in Gu Siyuan.

He immediately didn’t wait anymore, and said loudly: “Those two people in your office are both your good friends, they might just give false testimony for you. Moreover, even if you truly prove it, it can only show that you drew a design drawing this month, it can’t prove that you didn’t plagiarize!”

These words were extremely aggressive and overbearing.

However, before Gu Siyuan could speak.

Section Chief Lu gave Ma Jun a look first, and said indifferently: “Comrade Ma Jun, everyone in the agricultural repair factory is our comrade. Under the premise of having no evidence, how can you casually speculate that comrades will give false testimony?”

Deputy Secretary Qin nodded, his face not looking too good either.

Ma Jun’s expression was awkward, and he immediately explained: “I’m sorry, I made a slip of the tongue just now. However, Section Chief, although I have no way to prove whether they will give false testimony, I can prove that this design drawing was indeed drawn by me myself. Because all the preliminary drafts, including concept drawings and inspiration drawings, I have saved all of them, and the time span exceeds a month.”

Hearing this, the three leaders exchanged glances.

This was indeed solid, tangible evidence.

Section Chief Lu first glanced at Gu Siyuan, whose expression was still calm, and then reached out his hand toward Ma Jun: “It’s good to have evidence.”

Before coming, Ma Jun had brought a bag with him. At this moment, he directly took out a stack of paper from the bag. With a sweeping glance, what was drawn on them was precisely various engine draft drawings.

Section Chief Lu and Deputy Secretary Qin’s trio first flipped through them quickly. The drafter was very attentive, and the skills were very superb. Not only did every draft paper have the corresponding date, time, and serial number written on it, but the lines were neat and the shapes were beautiful, completely not looking like mere drafts.

A moment later, Section Chief Lu raised his head: “These drafts are indeed not bad, they count as evidence.”

A look of joy appeared on Ma Jun’s face.

At this time, Gu Siyuan raised his sword-like eyebrows slightly, and said indifferently: “These drafts are also mine. Ma Jun, you actually even managed to steal my drafts.”

Section Chief Lu’s trio were stunned, looking at Gu Siyuan in unison.

“You… what did you say? These drafts are yours?”

Gu Siyuan nodded: “That’s right. These drafts were originally kept at my home in the village all along. Because the finished design drawing was stolen yesterday, I only brought them to the agricultural repair factory this morning, intending to use them to reorganize and redraw a copy. I didn’t expect them to surprisingly be stolen again.”

Ma Jun gave a cold sneer: “Simply absurd, I think you’ve lost your mind! First saying your design drawing was stolen, now saying the drafts were also stolen. If you keep going like this, next you’ll be saying the bank stole your money! Speaking up to now, can you produce a decent piece of evidence, instead of just relying on a mouth to spout nonsense here?”

Section Chief Lu also said: “Comrade Siyuan, this is too inconceivable. Do you have evidence for your accusations against Comrade Ma Jun?”

Ma Jun said disdainfully: “Of course he doesn’t.”

“Section Chief, as far as I know, Comrade Gu Siyuan’s educational background is only a primary school graduation. He only got into the agricultural repair factory out of good luck. Just relying on that bit of primary school education of his, I’m afraid he doesn’t even clearly understand the working principles of an engine, yet he actually talks about designing an engine, and turns around to slander me? Secretary Qin, Section Chief, our agricultural repair factory absolutely cannot tolerate this kind of black sheep.”

Hearing these words, Section Chief Lu also widened his eyes slightly, asking in shock: “Comrade Gu Siyuan, your educational background is only a primary school graduation?”

Gu Siyuan nodded, admitting straightforwardly: “That’s right.”

Section Chief Lu, Secretary Qin, and the others fell silent.

They were a nation formed by an alliance of workers and peasants, so naturally they wouldn’t discriminate against bottom-level workers or peasants. But to say a primary school graduate, who had only been in the agricultural repair factory for two months, could design such an excellent new type of engine, was even more impossible for people to believe.

Ma Jun had always known how to read people’s expressions. At this moment, he almost instantly understood the thoughts in these leaders’ minds, knowing he could basically prove his innocence.

Instantly, unconcealable joy hung on the corners of his eyes and brows.

Just at this moment, a cold and sharp voice rang out clearly beside his ear: “Ma Jun, after you stole my drafts, did you earnestly look at these drawings?”

Raising his head abruptly, Ma Jun looked at Gu Siyuan with burning eyes.

What does this mean?

A highly ominous premonition suddenly arose in his heart.

Gu Siyuan’s brow was indifferent, his thin lips parting lightly: “It seems you haven’t. Then naturally you don’t know, there are actually my special marks on these draft drawings.”

How is that possible?

Previously, because he was afraid people would discover the difference in handwriting, after he stole Gu Siyuan’s original manuscript yesterday, he redrew a copy.

But these drafts were just temporarily sent over by someone at noon. After getting them, he took a casual glance, felt there were no problems, and didn’t redraw them again, as there wasn’t enough time.

Didn’t expect…

Ma Jun’s complexion changed drastically, hastily reprimanding: “What nonsense are you talking about? How could my draft drawings have your marks on them? What does this have to do with you?”

He turned again to look at Section Chief Lu, extremely anxious and indignant: “Section Chief, Secretary, don’t listen to this countryside thief’s nonsense anymore, you should immediately drive him away, so as to avoid destroying our factory’s disciplinary style.”

This almost hysterical attitude made Secretary Qin’s trio change their expressions.

This truly was a reversal…

Giving Ma Jun a look, Section Chief Lu looked at Gu Siyuan again, and said seriously: “You said there are your marks on this, where are they?”

Gu Siyuan raised his eyebrows slightly, speaking unhurriedly: “I habitually write the time and serial number on the draft paper, just find them according to the dates. Among them, on the draft paper for May 13th… on the draft paper for May 14th it is… finally, on the draft paper for June 15th…”

After a long while.

In front of Secretary Qin, Section Chief Lu corresponded those draft drawings one by one according to the order, confirming that every single one indeed had a mark, and both the location and style were completely error-free.

Raising his head, Section Chief Lu looked heavily at Ma Jun: “Tell me, what is going on here?”

Gritting his teeth, Ma Jun said: “Section Chief, my draft drawings indeed have these marks, that is my drawing habit. I didn’t expect to be surprisingly discovered and secretly memorized by Gu Siyuan, that’s why he…”

“Tsk…” Gu Siyuan truly couldn’t resist letting out a cold sneer.

Lifting his eyelids slightly, he glanced at Ma Jun and said absentmindedly: “Your habit? Since it’s your habit, then repeating the mark styles and locations I just said shouldn’t be a problem, right? As the person who moved the pen, you definitely remember it more firmly than me, the one who peeked?”

“You…”

Ma Jun’s breathing stagnated, layers of cold sweat almost floating up on his forehead.

Watching the two’s reactions, how could Secretary Qin still not understand the ins and outs of the matter? He immediately said sternly: “Comrade Ma Jun, is it? Regarding Comrade Gu’s suggestion, I also think it’s very suitable. Please repeat the marks on the drawing papers right now.”

“I…” Raising his head, Ma Jun looked at Director Qin with pleading eyes, and then slowly looked at Section Chief Lu.

His whole brain was dizzy and muddled just now, he couldn’t remember a single bit clearly at all.

Gu Siyuan, this psychopath, why did he even make some marks on every single draft drawing? And memorize them all too?

Section Chief Lu’s face was cold to the extreme: “You are usually a very clever person. Stammering like this now, it seems you don’t plan to defend yourself anymore.”

Ma Jun’s face instantly turned pale, his lips trembling as he said: “Section Chief, no, it’s not like this, I…”

Showing no mercy, Section Chief Lu said: “Resorting to deception and fraud is a problem of ideological style, but stealing things is further a problem of violating the law. Since you don’t want to say, then me directly calling to invite the Public Security comrades over, presumably would be more appropriate.”

“Section Chief!” Instantly no longer cowering, Ma Jun rapidly rushed forward to stop his movements in one go.

Throwing him off, Section Chief Lu shouted: “As an old employee of the agricultural repair factory, doing this kind of morally corrupt thing, you still want me to show mercy?”

Staggering a few steps, Ma Jun still continued to plead strongly: “Section Chief, don’t call Public Security, don’t… I didn’t do it on purpose. I just accidentally picked up that design drawing, and thinking that the experts from the city are coming tomorrow, I thought I could use this to show my face, be able to follow the experts to learn, and make contributions to the factory in the future. I was just momentarily muddled…”

“Hmph, momentarily muddled?” Gu Siyuan floated a cold sentence over, “The design drawing is a thin piece of paper, treating it as you accidentally picking it up is still possible. But what about these draft drawings? Such a big pile, are you saying there just happened to blow a gust of east wind, blowing them into your hands? Section Chief, as the victim, I request reporting to Public Security to handle.”

Ma Jun’s expression was originally extremely bitter. But upon hearing a certain sentence of his, his eyes instantly lit up, and he immediately explained loudly: “No, don’t report to Public Security! I really didn’t steal, I picked up the design drawing, but that pile of draft drawings was specially gifted to me by someone! Really, someone gave them to me, it has nothing to do with me, I really didn’t steal.”

“Someone else stole them to give to you, you didn’t lie?” Narrowing his eyes, Gu Siyuan looked at him, his eye color deep and dark.

Ma Jun nodded repeatedly: “Right! It was someone else who stole them from you, it has nothing to do with me. Those draft drawings, it was two people who sought me out this noon and gave them to me! I can help you go to Public Security and identify them. Even the matter of your primary school graduation, it was them who told me.”

His speaking speed was extremely fast, as if deeply afraid Gu Siyuan wouldn’t give him a chance.

Both Section Chief Lu and Secretary Qin’s expressions became ugly. This was someone deliberately framing the employees of their agricultural repair factory, ah.

Secretary Qin said warmly: “Comrade Gu, since this is the case, we’ll give you half a day off this afternoon. Go and handle this matter properly.”

Section Chief Lu also said: “Mm, if there are any difficulties, just report our agricultural repair factory’s name. The Public Security comrades in the county will somewhat give some face.”

Secretary Qin nodded, expressing his support.

A police tricycle motorcycle followed behind Gu Siyuan’s tractor. When it drove into Yunxi Village, it immediately attracted a lively crowd of onlookers.

Quite a few people who were originally working in the fields stopped their hand movements and stretched their necks to look.

Not to mention those children who were in the midst of novelty; they directly formed groups and started running after the motorcycle.

A motorcycle, this was truly a rarity.

The tractor and motorcycle ultimately stopped at the entrance of the production brigade.

The educated youth point was very close to here. Feng Keng and Gu Lili were currently together; hearing the commotion, they also came out to take a few looks.

Sitting in the tractor, Ma Jun’s eyes instantly turned red. Pointing at the two, he said: “It’s them! It’s them who stole your drawings and then gave them to me!”

Feng Keng and Gu Lili also recognized Ma Jun, instantly changing their expressions.

And the two Public Security comrades who were originally standing by the tricycle motorcycle, hearing Ma Jun’s words, had already immediately rushed over and controlled the two of them.

“Someone reported you for stealing state secrets. Please return to the police station with us to cooperate with the investigation.”

Gu Lili felt as if a heavenly thunderbolt had struck his head. He immediately widened his eyes and struggled desperately: “What state secrets? I didn’t… Is there some misunderstanding?”

Feng Keng also said: “Public Security comrades, there must be a misunderstanding.”

At this time, in order to shake off his own involvement, Ma Jun resolutely added a stab: “There is no misunderstanding, it’s exactly them who stole Gu Siyuan’s design drawing! That design drawing is regarding engine upgrades and improvements, it will bring tremendous enhancements to our country’s transportation and other industries, it precisely belongs to state secrets! When they secretly gave it to me at that time, the uncle repairing shoes on the street not far away should have seen it.”

“…” Feng Keng and Gu Lili were enraged to the extreme.

Never seen someone pit their teammates like this.

Also, why would a perfectly ordinary pile of broken drawings suddenly rise to the scope of state secrets now?

The Public Security immediately escorted them, saying sternly: “Return to the police station with us first to cooperate with interrogation and investigation.”

Gu Lili’s face was pale to the extreme. He looked pitifully at Gu Siyuan: “Third Brother, there must be a misunderstanding here! Tell the Public Security comrades, I didn’t steal your drawings at all, let alone some state secrets?”

Gu Siyuan sneered: “If you truly are innocent, the Public Security comrades will investigate clearly and return your innocence.”

At the same time his voice fell, two figures happened to rush over from the fields not far away.

Impressively, it was Mother Gu and Father Gu.

Seeing Gu Lili controlled by Public Security, and vaguely hearing it was related to their third son, they immediately shouted at Gu Siyuan: “What’s the matter with you? Lili is your own younger brother! How could you treat him… Even if there’s some misunderstanding, can’t the family talk it out clearly? You even called Public Security to scare him?”

“Who has the interest to scare him.” Gu Siyuan glanced at them faintly, his expression indifferent.

Mother Gu knew this son had no heart and she couldn’t do anything about him. So she hurried to look toward the Public Security comrades, pleading: “Comrades, comrades, this is a misunderstanding, ah! Let my family’s ger go. This is all one family. Even if something really was lost, that’s just his younger brother playing a joke with our family’s Laosan, no need to take it so seriously, ah…”

Father Gu also wrinkled his old face, repeatedly pleading: “Public Security comrades, this is just the family playing around, we won’t trouble you anymore, ah! Lili is still young!”

“Right, ah, it’s all one family, how did it turn into having to see Public Security?”

“Lili is usually also a gentle and obedient one, what could he possibly do?”

Watching Father and Mother Gu’s pitiful appearance, the onlookers couldn’t help but discuss in low voices, clearly also quite puzzled by Gu Siyuan’s heartless way of doing things.

Just at this moment, a sharp cry rang out.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Public Security comrades, I know I was wrong, I’ve come to turn myself in!”

Everyone’s attention instantly shifted, looking toward the source of that voice. Yet they saw it was the most human-hated and dog-despised idler in their village, currently holding both hands high, making a posture of surrender with a face full of terror.

What is this about?

The villagers were all slightly confused.

Seeing him, Gu Lili and Feng Keng, however, instantly trembled all over, only feeling that things were greatly bad.

The Public Security comrades narrowed their eyes, asking coldly: “You say you’ve come to turn yourself in, what bad thing did you do?”

Sweeping his peripheral vision over Gu Siyuan’s tall figure, remembering the appearance of this person suddenly descending like a god of killing in the middle of the night yesterday, the idler’s two legs almost started trembling again.

He swallowed his saliva, and only then spoke haltingly according to the words this person taught him: “I take the initiative to turn myself in. I shouldn’t have taken Gu Lili’s benefits, and then listened to his words to go act like a hooligan toward his third sister-in-law Xie Yiyang! I didn’t do it on purpose… If I take the initiative to turn myself in now, can I…”

As soon as these words came out, the scene almost froze.

Xie Yiyang Xie-ger? Isn’t that Gu Siyuan’s wife?

What enmity and resentment does this Gu Lili have with Gu Siyuan? First stealing his things, and now letting a hooligan go bully his wife.

This is simply…

“Eh? What’s going on here? Why a circle of people?”

A crisp voice slowly drifted over.

Raising his eyes, Gu Siyuan happened to see his little wife standing on the outer circle, curiously standing on his tiptoes, desperately wanting to look inside.

The corners of his mouth hooked up slightly, and he waved his hand: “Come here.”

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