Chapter 82: Stupid Woman

Chapter 82: Stupid Woman

"If they get caught and say they're looking for you, do you think someone will really send them to the unit?"

If they really send them to the unit, it'll be like sticking to dog-skin plaster—impossible to shake off.

"I wonder if the village head and Sister Guo told them the address."

Gu Heng shook his head. "They don't know the address. Xiao Wang said that when he arrived at Sujia Village, two people claiming to be your brother and sister-in-law asked him for the address, but he didn't give it to them. I suppose the village head didn't either."

It's good that they didn't give the address. The only people in the village who know the exact location of Gu Heng's unit are Su Gensheng and his wife. As long as they don't say anything, no one will know.

"What if they ask relevant departments for information using your name? Then someone might find out and send them over."

For example, like how she and the village head mentioned some information they knew, and then some helpful person might investigate further.

Everyone in the village probably knows that she found out her husband was still alive through the newspaper.

Gu Heng smiled. "It's not that easy. They're not you. Who would dare send someone without an introduction letter to the unit? Don't worry about this. I'll handle it."

"How will you handle it?"

"I'll see if I can find them and send them back, so they won't wander around. If they wander for too long, what you just said might actually happen. But before they send them over, they'll contact the unit."

When they contact the unit, will they agree to accept them or not?

To avoid unnecessary trouble, Gu Heng plans to ask around discreetly. If he finds them, he'll send them back to the countryside without showing up in person.

Su Zhaozhao nodded. "Alright."

She wouldn't want to deal with this if she wasn't worried they might actually show up.

Forget about Su Laibao being her biological brother. She didn't want a brother who would cling to her like a leech.

To avoid Gu Heng thinking she was heartless, Su Zhaozhao added, "When Xiao Nian was four, Xu Daniu wanted to send her to be a child bride."

This was something Gu Heng didn't know. The children were too young back then to understand what happened.

"……"

Gu Heng: "I understand."

The three simple words were spoken through gritted teeth.

At that very moment, the couple they were talking about, Su Laibao and his wife, were being interrogated by the police separately.

"Where are you from?"

"……From Sujia Village, Fenghuang Town." Su Laibao sat on the stool with his head down, covered in dirt, his hair a messy tangle, his face sallow and gaunt from hunger.

"What are you doing here?"

"We're not here. We're just passing through to visit relatives."

"Visiting relatives without an introduction letter?"

"Lost it along the way?"

"Lost it? How convenient. Then how about the tickets for your journey? Also lost? Since you're visiting relatives, where are you headed?"

Su Laibao shrugged. "To find my sister and brother-in-law at the unit, but I lost the address and didn't memorize it."

"You're a relative of a military family?"

"Yes, my brother-in-law is a captain." At the mention of his brother-in-law being a captain, Su Laibao straightened his hunched back a little.

Hearing it was a captain, the police officer became more serious. "What's his last name?"

"Last name Gu, a war hero! He's been in the newspapers."

Su Laibao repeated the information he heard from the villagers.

"Comrade, can you check for me? I'm really the brother-in-law of the captain. If you send me to the unit, my brother-in-law will definitely be grateful."

The police officer scowled. "It's not that simple. You don't even know the address. You don't know if the unit is in the south or north. There are so many military regions, sub-regions, garrison areas, and defense areas. There are many captains with the last name Gu who have been in the newspapers. I'm just a police officer. Information about the military isn't something I can just check on a whim; it has to go through layers of approval."

Su Laibao was taken aback. Could it be that difficult? Wasn't it easy for his sister to find someone? She found them so quickly.

"What's your brother-in-law's name?" the police officer asked again.

"……I don't know."

The police officer narrowed his eyes. "Which edition of the newspaper was it?"

"I……I don't know."

The police officer stopped asking, put down his pen, and said, "Are you sure you're telling the truth?"

Su Laibao nodded hurriedly. "I'm telling the truth!"

At that moment, another police officer entered and whispered some information into the first officer's ear.

The first officer's brow furrowed deeply, and he slammed his hand on the table!

"Confess freely and resist strictly! Su Laibao, tell the truth. Were you the one who stole from the Honghe Guesthouse five days ago?"

Su Laibao turned pale with fright and waved his hands quickly. "No, no……"

"And you still deny it! Your wife has already confessed! What 'brother-in-law the captain'? I think you're just spreading hearsay to confuse the situation! The Honghe Guesthouse reported the case a few days ago! A large amount of fine grain was stolen from the guesthouse's canteen. You're guilty of theft! You'll be sentenced for this!"

"N...no..." Su Laibao's legs trembled, his face drained of color in fear.

"My... my brother-in-law... is truly the captain."

"Whether he's the captain or not, the fact that you committed theft is undeniable. Wait for the consequences!"

After saying this, the police officer left. A while later, someone took him to the detention center, where he saw Xu Daniu.

Xu Daniu looked just as disheveled and dirty as he was, like a beggar. As soon as she saw Su Laibao, she rushed over, "What's going on? Why did they lock us up here? Shouldn't they be taking us to find my brother?"

The couple had essentially walked into the trap. After running away from the guesthouse, although they had some money, they didn't have food ration tickets and couldn't buy anything to eat. Without an introduction letter, they couldn't return to their hometown either.

After drifting around for a few days, they couldn't take it anymore. After some thought, they came up with a plan.

They stopped hiding and deliberately appeared in front of the police officers. That's how they got caught.

Su Laibao stared at her, "Did you tell them about the stolen steamed buns?"

Xu Daniu hadn't realized the severity of the situation at all, "Yeah, didn't you tell me to tell the truth? The police would help us find my brother and take us to him."

"I told you to tell the truth, but I didn't tell you to say we stole the buns!" Su Laibao felt the world spinning.

This idiot!

"So what if we stole the buns? My brother is as important as the county magistrate. We're relatives of a high-ranking official. It's just a few steamed buns. When we find my brother, we'll have him compensate them."

Xu Daniu didn't think it was a big deal. In the countryside, if you saw good crops in someone's field, you'd grab a handful as you passed by. If you saw good fruit on a tree, you'd climb up and pick some. At most, people would scold you a bit. If they were really particular, you'd just compensate them. It wasn't a big deal.

"Slap!"

Su Laibao slapped Xu Daniu hard across the face!