Chapter 811 - 807: Cooperation Reached

"I can’t fully explain this to you. Basically, someone covets my fortune, and to steal it, she keeps making trouble for my family.

"She’s even done many terrible things and harmed a lot of people.

"The way to deal with her is to find an unlucky person and let her absorb your bad luck. She becomes unlucky, and you turn into a normal person."

Leng Yuan knew this explanation sounded completely bizarre. However, he was confident that after enduring so much suffering caused by his perpetual bad luck, Shen Lang would believe what he had to say.

For a moment, Shen Lang really didn’t know if he should believe it. Yet, the things that had happened to him over the years were genuinely bizarre. He wondered if things were really just as Leng Yuan described.

"The fact that we can get close to you proves we have a way to counter your bad luck. That alone makes this worth believing. Even if we fail, you’ll just stay the same as you are now. That’s the worst-case scenario."

The worst-case scenario was merely maintaining the status quo. But if there was even the slightest improvement, Shen Lang would be one step closer to being a normal person. He wasn’t worried about that.

What he was worried about was something else. "You aren’t trying to use me to harm anyone, are you?"

Gu Jiaojiao rolled her eyes. In all her life, this was the first time someone implied she looked like a villain. She wondered how she couldn’t look like a good person when she was so pretty and delicate.

Perhaps Gu Jiaojiao’s reaction was too obvious, making Shen Lang realize he had been too blunt. He let out a dry laugh. "I’m sorry. I agree to cooperate with you."

With the agreement settled between the three of them, Gu Jiaojiao and Leng Yuan decided to head down the mountain.

Meanwhile, back at the Qingshan Team, everyone was gossiping about this incident.

Sun Yeshu had been paying close attention as well. When she waited until the next day and saw that neither Gu Jiaojiao nor Leng Yuan had returned, she became thrilled. It seemed that everything Xu Wenwan had told her was true! In an excellent mood, Sun Yeshu sat before her mirror and carefully applied her face cream. Once she was satisfied that her skin was plump and dewy, she took her favorite dress out of the wardrobe, slipped it on, and finally stepped out of the Leng family’s house.

In the village, everyone was deeply concerned about Leng Yuan and Gu Jiaojiao, genuinely fearing that the couple wouldn’t return. But at the same time, malicious rumors about the two were beginning to spread throughout the area.

"I heard that Gu Jiaojiao actually had an engagement back in Jiang City. She only married Leng Yuan because she came down to the countryside and didn’t want to do manual labor.

"And do you all remember? Leng Yuan and Gu Jiaojiao slept together before they even got married. I heard it only happened because Gu Zhiqing drugged Leng Yuan," a villager gossiped, glancing left and right before lowering her voice.

At this reminder, quite a few people recalled the incident. Back then, Li Hongmei had shouted about it until the entire Qingshan Team knew. It was only because Leng Yuan and Gu Jiaojiao had gotten their marriage certificate right away that things settled down. Otherwise, if anyone truly looked into it, the events of that day were highly suspicious.

"Now that you mention it, I remember too. If Gu Zhiqing had an engagement in Jiang City and still married someone else here, then she really has ideological issues. Educated youths came down to the countryside to build up the rural areas. How could she behave like that?"

The person speaking was Liu Xiqing. Previously, when she had been badmouthing Leng Yuan under the old locust tree, Gu Jiaojiao had caught her and nearly broken her leg with a rock. She hadn’t dared to speak ill of Gu Jiaojiao before, intimidated by the girl’s tyrannical temper. But now that Gu Jiaojiao had been taken away by the officials—and might never return—she naturally wasn’t afraid anymore.

The older woman chatting with Liu Xiqing let out a laugh. "That’s not all. There’s more to the story!"

This statement successfully piqued everyone’s curiosity.

"What? There’s more? What else is there? Hurry up and tell us!"