nucmednet Chapter 270
Chapter 270
After staying in Liao Village for a week, most of the villagers who were willing to cooperate with them had already signed the contract, and Gu Jiu did not want to force those who were unwilling to do so.
Gu Jiu returned home, put away the contract, and asked, "We are going to visit the surrounding villages tomorrow. Do you want to go with me?"
Lin Shu thought about the villagers who came to her every day to sell herbs these days, so she shook her head and said, "I'd better stay at home, buy some herbs every day, and teach the villagers about herbs. I really don't have time to go with you."
Mainly because it’s summer, Lin Shu doesn’t want to run outside because it’s too hot, too sunny and too tiring.
Finally, Gu Jiu took the two young men he found from the village and drove the donkey cart out of the village.
Lin Shu stayed at home, cleaned the house, and took out the clothes to wash. After finishing all the housework, he suddenly found that it was really boring to stay in the countryside with nothing to do.
At this moment, I can't help but miss the children at home.
Lin Shu even felt a little regretful. When Dabao wanted to come along, she should have brought him along so that she wouldn't be bored.
At noon, I cooked a bowl of hand-rolled noodles for myself for lunch, and then took a nap when the sun was at its hottest outside.
At around five or six in the afternoon, Lin Shu wore a straw hat and went to the nearby barren hills to look for medicinal herbs.
The idle villagers in the village have come to the wild to collect herbs these days. All the suitable herbs that Lin Shu taught everyone to recognize on the barren hills have been collected.
Lin Shu simply started looking for Astragalus everywhere, and when he found some, he collected them and entered them into the system to exchange for points.
He waited until it got dark before carrying the basket back home, but found no one at home and Gu Jiu had not returned yet.
That night, Gu Jiu didn't get home until after eight o'clock in the evening.
Lin Shu's heart, which had been hanging for hours, now settled down. "Why did you come back so late today?"
Gu Jiu put down his briefcase and drank a glass of water. Only then did he have time to explain where he was going today. "I encountered some special circumstances today, which delayed me..."
It turned out that today Gu Jiu took two young men from the village out of the village, and originally planned to visit nearby villages.
While chatting on the road, Gu Jiu changed direction and wanted to go from far to near, starting from a faraway and more remote village.
The village we visited today is called Tanzigou. It is named this way because the village is deep in the mountains and is built along a river.
There are deep ravines and dangerous valleys along both sides of the river, and the geographical location is remote and dangerous.
You can imagine how poor such a remote village is.
However, this Tanzigou has a treasure because it is located in a remote mountain. That is, there are many wild wolfberries, especially the relatively precious black wolfberries.
In the past, due to the remote location and inconvenience in going out, black wolfberries could not be sold at a high price, so Gu Jiu made this trip specifically for black wolfberries.
I originally planned to stay in Tanzigou for two days, but I didn't expect to encounter an accident when I visited the villagers' homes in Tanzigou.
A woman dressed very shabbily threw herself at Gu Jiu's feet and said she was Lin Mei.
When Gu Jiu heard her words, he was shocked.
Lin Mei, Lin Shu's cousin, had been missing for a year or two. Suddenly, a sloppy woman jumped out in this remote village and said she was Lin Mei, which scared him.
Fortunately, Lin Mei was not too stupid. She spoke in the dialect of Xiaohe Village. The people in Tanzigou did not understand what Lin Mei said, but they knew she was asking for help.
Gu Jiu suppressed the shock in his heart, remained calm, pretended not to understand what she said, and kicked Lin Mei away with a look of disgust, cursing her bad luck.
The villagers were also startled, but they felt relieved when they saw that Gu Jiu didn't understand and looked disgusted.
Finally, Lin Mei was dragged away by a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard.
Gu Jiu pretended nothing had happened and continued to talk to the villagers about purchasing black wolfberries. Tanzigou also produced red dates, which Gu Jiu was also willing to purchase. The villagers were so happy that they forgot the previous episode.
After having lunch at the village chief's house, he hastily signed contracts with a dozen enthusiastic villagers, and then drove his donkey cart to the city to report the case.
When Lin Shu heard this, he took out the food that was left for him in the pot and asked, "You called the police. Did the police respond overnight?"
Gu Jiu picked up the chopsticks and shook his head. "It's hard to travel at night, and it's even harder to travel on the steep mountain road into Tanzigou. The police didn't send police overnight, but promised to send police there early tomorrow morning."
Lin Shu was very curious about how Lin Mei was deceived and taken to a remote village in the mountains, and how she had been living in the past two years.
"I wonder if Lin Mei has given birth to a child in the village where she was deceived and taken to the mountains in the past two years?"
If she gives birth to a child, what should she do with the child once she is rescued by the police?
It was said that Lin Mei disappeared on the way to the provincial capital because she was in a bad mood due to a miscarriage.
Since then, Second Aunt Li Xiu has always been resentful towards Lin Shu, implying that it was Lin Shu who did not go to the station to pick her up, which led to Lin Mei's disappearance.
Lin Shu was too lazy to pay attention to this kind of unreasonable anger.
"Even if she gives birth to a child, Second Aunt and the others won't want it." Gu Jiu was not interested in this. Instead, he wanted to see what choice Jie Chunlei would make when Lin Mei was found.
As a man, when his wife was abducted and turned into a half-human, half-ghost, should Xie Chunlei accept Lin Mei to take her back and live a good life with her, or should he divorce her directly without showing any face?
The two chatted about Lin Mei for a while, and after Gu Jiu finished his meal and washed up, he went to bed to rest.
The next day, Gu Jiu still took two young men from the village and drove a donkey cart to other villages.
On the third day, the city police came and asked Gu Jiu, who had not yet left the house, "Since you know the victim, why don't you let the victim go back with you?"
Gu Jiu refused without thinking: "I don't know her well, and I am already doing my best to help report the case. It would be more reliable for you to send her back to her hometown and explain the situation to her family."
The police officer who called wanted to say that the northwest region was too far away from H Province, but then he thought of something and saw that Gu Jiu was unwilling, so he didn't say anything else.
"Thank you for reporting the case this time. Tanzigou has rescued more than a dozen abducted female comrades. Some of them have been abducted for more than ten years, and the shortest has been half a year. Lin Mei, whom you know, is not the most miserable among them."
The worst-off lesbians have been abducted for five or six years and have been tortured to the point of going insane.
"Thank you, Public Security Comrade, for letting me know. Have you had breakfast?" Lin Shu was preparing to cook noodles.
The public security officer waved his hands and said, "Don't worry, we just came here after breakfast. We have delivered your message. We will leave now without disturbing you."
Gu Jiu had already made an appointment to go to two other nearby villages today to mobilize the villagers to sign a contract with him. As soon as the police left, he went into the house, ate noodles, and went out.
The weather is gloomy today, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to rain. After breakfast, Lin Shu got his basket and tools and went out.
The weather is not too hot today, so she plans to go to a distant mountain to collect herbs.
But not long after I went out, I met the landlord's daughter-in-law Cuihua.
"Lin Shu, where are you going to dig herbs today? Let's go together so that we can look after each other."
Lin Shu wanted to say that she liked to be alone, but when he saw her smiling face, he knew that one should not hit someone who smiles, so he didn't say the words of rejection.
The two walked out of the village and saw Gu Jiu standing on the road outside the village chatting with a girl from afar.
Cuihua carefully observed Lin Shu's reaction, "Why is your man standing with Dani? What are they talking about? Why are they so happy?"
Lin Shu had good eyesight, and although he didn't know what they were talking about, Gu Jiu had a blank expression on his face, while the so-called big girl looked shy and timid. It seemed that her man was still as charming as ever.
Cuihua thought Lin Shu was angry and asked, "Should we go over there?"
It’s just that the distance is a bit far, and by the time they get there, the two of them might have finished talking about what they wanted to talk about.
Lin Shu narrowed her eyes and didn't say anything. While she was speaking, she saw the two young men who went out to do business with Gu Jiu, driving a donkey cart out of the village.
After the three of them got together, they drove the donkey cart out of the village. The girl stood there and watched the donkey cart leave, not taking her eyes off it for a long time.
Cuihua glanced at Lin Shu and sighed in her heart. The man was handsome and charming, and the girls and wives in the village were eager to make a move.
In her opinion, Lin Shu should also be a restless person, but she didn't know which men in the village would be attracted by her.