After breakfast the next day, Li Long went to the Purchasing Station first and told Gu Boyuan about the matter.
With something this big, the County Seat might have something to say about it later, so he had to give his father-in-law a heads-up. Otherwise, if things really did not go as he expected and became public, he would be caught on the back foot.
Li Long pulled Gu Boyuan into the back courtyard to tell him. He kept his account simple, but Gu Boyuan's expression grew grave as he listened.
"Are you sure that Xie Youcai was alone?"
"Yes. I questioned him. He came alone-oh, right, he said his father knew about it too. I reckon he was afraid I'd kill him."
"That makes things a little troublesome..." Gu Boyuan said. "What you did will definitely be judged positively in the end. I'm just worried Xie Youcai might come looking for trouble after spending a couple of years locked up."
"True." Li Long smiled. "But since it's happened, being afraid won't help. We'll see how to handle it."
What was done was done, and Li Long certainly had no regrets. Given the same situation again, he would do exactly the same thing. There was no passing this off to someone else. The fellow had damaged his Wooden Cabin, and no matter how he looked at it, this was how it had to be resolved. Lying in bed last night, he had gone over everything again and still arrived at the same course of action.
What reassured Li Long was that both Gu Xiaoxia and Gu Boyuan had thought of his safety first. As for the Silver Dollars and the rest, they had paid no particular attention to them.
He believed that if he went back to the Fourth Team