[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law":3,"chapter-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-312":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1543687,2006,"Chapter 312 - 312 312 Admit Guilt","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-312",312,"\u003Cp>312: Chapter 312 Admit Guilt 312: Chapter 312 Admit Guilt “Gu Laotie, don’t get excited just yet, let’s clarify things first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tell me, what exactly happened?” the village chief hurriedly said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Laotie, tears and snot mingling, said, “This morning, I saw that human trafficker Liu Dazhuang loitering near our house, which I found quite strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone knows that Liu Dazhuang is not only involved in human trafficking, but also steals, and fearing he would bring trouble to our village, I kept a close eye on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, not long after, I saw Liu Dazhuang hurrying away with a horse cart from our village, looking guilty as if he’d stolen someone’s child!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This couldn’t be tolerated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it wasn’t one of ours, it had to be someone from our village, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone nodded their heads in agreement, finding Gu Laotie’s account plausible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued, “I took a shortcut and caught up with them, blocking their path with a big rock from the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They got out and argued with me, even producing a contract of indenture, claiming the person inside was my niece Youyou, and that he had signed the contract and paid silver, buying her from my second brother; he said even if we took this to the Governor’s Office, he would still be in the right.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd was shocked, and the village chief asked, “Is there really a contract?” He then looked at Gu’s second brother and said, “Did you really take the silver?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu’s second brother, knowing he could not lie his way out, resigned himself to his fate and nodded grimly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The village chief was furious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This incident happened in his village, a stain on his reputation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said sternly, “Even if Gu Youyou bears the Gu family name and is your niece, it doesn’t give an uncle the right to sell her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She is married to the hunter and is his wife; selling another man’s wife could land you in jail.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cornered, the human trafficker Liu Dazhuang shifted all blame onto Gu’s second brother, whose story matched exactly with that of the third brother, leaving no room for argument.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, Huang Xiangwen was trembling with fright, her words incoherent, and Gu’s second brother was so scared that he dared not speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the village chief mentioned him, he kowtowed to the patriarch Gu Feng and cried out, “Father, just kill me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was bewitched into selling Youyou, and I accept my guilt.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as Gu Feng didn’t send him to the Governor’s Office, he wouldn’t have to go to jail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Appealing to the old man’s soft heart was the wisest choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though everyone knew Gu’s second brother was the culprit, they were still shocked to hear him confess so readily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Laotie was slightly taken aback; he didn’t know Liu Dazhuang had already confessed everything, so he found Gu’s second brother’s quick confession strange, expecting him to argue in his defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Gu’s second brother confessing his guilt, Gu Laotie was at a loss for words and turned his gaze to Gu Feng, leaving the decision to his father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew how Gu Feng managed to sit there, filled with such restraint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu’s second brother had committed an unforgivable act, and sure, the bastard deserved to die, but now wasn’t the time to deal with him; the priority was ensuring Youyou’s safety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Laotie, where is Youyou?” Gu Feng asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was expecting Gu Feng to deal with Gu’s second brother, but instead, he immediately inquired about Gu Youyou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to what Erya from the Gu family had said earlier, hadn’t Gu Laotie taken Youyou back to town?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At these words, Gu Laotie shuddered and fell to his knees with a thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd was confused, Gu Feng felt a chill in his heart but still braced himself to listen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father, I’m useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I failed to protect Youyou…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Laotie explained that he hadn’t gone far carrying Gu Youyou when another group of human traffickers, who were not just traffickers but also vicious kidnappers, caught up with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They clashed, and he was beaten up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, he passed out and now had no idea how Youyou was.\u003C\u002Fp>",697,"2026-06-06T06:54:47.695Z",1,"novelbin.me","5a20fe221198eabfe0ff553a1a16546546ace1b65351a86aeed263d8a6bec0d4","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-313","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-490",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]