SFS Chapter 277 Being Implicated
Chapter 277 Being Implicated
The guard who spoke was rather fierce, and Lin Hu also acted as if he was frightened: "No, no, no, I... I didn't lie, anyway I... I just can't... I just can't take you back!"
After he finished speaking, he closed his eyes. I also felt like, "Come on, even if you kill me, I can't take you back."
Zhao Li called the man back. Lin Hu slightly opened his eyes, secretly glanced at him, and then closed them again.
He looked like a child, wanting to look but not daring to, wanting to peek but afraid of being discovered. Zhao Li happened to see it, and this action made him completely lower his guard.
"Don't misunderstand, we're just cold and wanted to go to your place to warm up. Since you don't want to, then forget it."
After he finished speaking, he turned and left. Lin Hu scoffed inwardly, "What a bastard who's up to no good. It would be strange if he were really that kind."
Fine, go ahead and go. Do you expect me to stop you? You're dreaming in broad daylight. You wish!
Zhao Li did think that way, but the people behind him were completely unpredictable. They had walked quite a distance before the people behind them reacted at all.
Zhao Li, who had been confident, stopped, turned around, and then laughed.
"Wow, I didn't expect there to be so many interesting things on this mountain!"
Those around him didn't dare to breathe loudly upon hearing this.
Lin Hu, who had just left, was running through the forest, leaving a trail of footprints behind him. He stopped and looked at them, then decided that this wouldn't do, so he ran directly to the outer edge of the forest.
Not long after we started running, we saw the road down the mountain. The road down the mountain was different from the one up the mountain. Apart from being a bit slippery, there wasn't much snow on it.
Even if you walk over it, the traces will disappear after a while.
Lin Hu ran all the way down the mountain without stopping for a moment. When he reached the foot of the mountain, all traces of the mountaintop had long since disappeared.
Instead of returning to his hometown village, he went somewhere else and wandered around alone until dark before finally returning to the Lin family home in the dark.
As soon as he got back and opened the door, he was shoved hard in the back, followed by a sharp pain in his knees, and Lin Hu uncontrollably fell to his knees.
He didn't even know what was happening before he was attacked.
After he had a clear view of the situation in the main room, he heard: "Lin Hu, the sixth-generation descendant of the Lin family, do you know your crime?"
The last time he was called by his full name was because... But this time, Lin Hu couldn't understand why he was being called by his full name again.
He looked up at his parents, who were seated at the head of the table: "Father, Mother, when the yamen hears a case, shouldn't they at least explain the reason?"
He had just arrived home and had no idea what had happened when he was forced to kneel on the ground. They didn't tell him anything, they didn't tell him anything, and they were making him confess to some crime!
"What have I said to you since you were old enough to understand?"
"What are the Lin family rules? Do you all still remember them?"
The three brothers fell silent. The eldest and the third were silent because they knew what was going on, while the second brother was completely bewildered.
Lin Hu still doesn't understand what happened. After he was scolded and knelt in the house for half an hour, he limped back to his room and finally found out what had happened.
His predicament tonight was entirely due to the two horses Lin Bao brought back.
The two brothers only considered the number of horses, completely forgetting that those horses were warhorses, and the kind needed on the battlefield.
As soon as they brought the horse back, their parents noticed something was wrong, and the two brothers immediately knelt down.
So from the moment they returned, more than an hour had passed, and the two of them knelt for more than an hour.
Upon hearing Lin Bao's words, Lin Hu could no longer control his fists.
Damn it, it turns out he was implicated.
"Knowing they were warhorses, why did you bring them back?"
Upon hearing this question, the other two fell silent, because neither of them remembered that those horses were warhorses.
Thankfully, they only brought back two horses. If they had brought back all the horses, they would probably be half-crippled, if not dead.
The Lin family acquired two more horses, and this was no secret; soon everyone in Gujia Village knew about it.
They can't take it anymore, and many of them have gone out to secretly find food.
But now the ground is covered in snow, and the food is either frozen or buried in the snow. If you find it, it's either rotten or you can't find it at all.
Almost everyone who went out returned empty-handed. When their families saw that they had found nothing, their initial joy instantly plummeted.
"Good heavens, when will this snow stop? If it keeps snowing like this, how are we supposed to live?"
"I can't live anymore, I can't live anymore, nobody can live anymore! There's no food, no water, no clothes, if this continues, we're all going to die!"
The cries of anguish from every household had reached their peak. Gu Dachui heard those sounds and looked into the house with a worried expression.
They still have some food at home, but no one outside knows that. And those people have always assumed they're hiding food; if they all come, then…
Gu Dachui was worried about this problem, but Lin Cai wasn't worried at all; they were almost out of food at home.
Even if someone comes looking for her, they'll only find a tiny bit of trash. And if they want it, she wouldn't mind giving it all to them.
However, they might not be able to afford the consequences of doing so.
It wasn't just Gujia Village; the surrounding villages were also in a state of despair. Every household had nothing to eat, and they couldn't find any when they went out to look. Seeing their family members starving, and themselves starving, fueled their resentment even more.
No one knows who it was, but suddenly someone said that the Lin family had a horse. Everyone's eyes lit up instantly, but some people shook their heads.
"No, no, what are you thinking? Even if they have it, it's theirs, what does it have to do with us? Besides, that's a horse, not grain."
"So what if it's a horse? Horses are edible, aren't they? And it's all meat. You can have a good meal of meat and fill your stomach. Isn't that great?"
Many people were tempted by this, but some were unwilling. They were just looking for food, not about to starve to death, so there was no need to risk it.
Besides, if we provoke them, they might just take action. Which of these people could possibly defeat them?
Upon hearing this, some of those who were initially interested began to back down. Their thinking was simple: they just wanted to live, not lose their lives.