The beautiful pastoral field of Jiangmen girl

Chapter 98 Anxiety (2)
When the sky was twilight, the men got up one by one, rolled up the bedding on the ground, and put them on the ox cart.The last group of night watchmen hurriedly disposed of the embers on the ground, and walked away after making sure it was all right.

The women also woke up, made an appointment, took the children, and went to a place shaded by trees to relax.

Qingshu was thinking about Gu Yuanhe's matter, and woke up from sleep, and didn't sleep well all night.Everyone got up together, although the noise was not loud, she woke up, and sat up as quietly as possible, so as not to wake up Qingyang who was sleeping soundly.She pulled down the thick curtain on the car window, and made a quilt for Qingyang under the dim light, then quickly closed the thick curtain, it was really cold outside.

After the carriages and horses were set up and everyone was sure that everyone had returned, Gu Qiang waved his hand, and everyone hurried on their way in silence, leaving the leeward place, and went to wait outside the gate of the small city.

To say that the happiest person in the group is none other than Guye.There are maids to serve, comfortable carriages to sit in, food and clothing to worry about, and nothing to worry about.As soon as the carriage moved, Qingyang woke up, sat up, leaned on his sister, yawned and asked in a low voice if he would see Yuan Bao's brother soon.As for Gu Yeshi, she was still asleep under the silk quilt, so she didn't care if Mother Su, who was thinking about her son, had red eyes and gray hair.

In the morning light, the gate of the small city finally opened.The Gufu group entered Kangxi Town together with the farmers carrying vegetables and firewood.While inquiring, they searched for a suitable inn, and finally chose a "Shiji Inn" to book it, and paid a three-day deposit.

There are three upper rooms, six ordinary guest rooms, and four Datong shops. If there are no caravans or rich people passing by on weekdays, the three upper rooms are all empty, and there are at least three or two ordinary rooms empty, and only Datong. Shop business is good.

The store owner got this good business early in the morning, yelling at the guys to work, boiling water for cooking in the kitchen, feeding horses and drinking cattle in the backyard, making tea and pouring water in the waiter in the front, it took a long time to work.At the Datong shop, there were three or five people who got up early and didn't leave, and the shop also sent a buddy to introduce them to other inns.

Of the three upper rooms, the best and largest one was given to Gu Ye, Qingshu used one, and Qingyang used one.Of the six ordinary guest rooms, one was given to Gu Qiang and Mother Su, one was given to Wu Langtou, three were shared by women and children, and one was reserved for Gu Yuanhe.The rest of the men lived in the four Datong bunks easily.On weekdays, ten people can be accommodated in one Datong shop. When there are many people and business is hot, a Datong shop can accommodate fifteen or six people.

After Wu Tongtou settled the board and lodging issue, Qing Shu, who had no appetite, ate a few mouthfuls and anxiously waited for the news.As soon as he had a place to stay, Qing Shu immediately asked Gu Qiang to bring his men to find Gu Yuanhe.This is the most important thing at the moment, more important than buying a house in the town.

Gu Qiang, Zhang Da, Wei Tiehammer, Wu Xiaoshan and Kang Shuanzhu and their party left the town and hurried all the way to Dagujia Village in the southeast.

Four or fifty years ago, more than 50 people with ancient surnames fled to Kangxi Town, and chose an unnamed small village with only 40 to 40 households, where they settled down and thrived.In just five years, the number of people with the ancient surname has increased from more than 60 to more than [-] people. The original thirty or forty families have mixed surnames, and there is no unity of the ancient surname people. Sitting big, the nameless village has a name, Gujia Village.

Gu Yunhu was born in Gujia Village. When he was ten years old, hundreds of miles nearby were hit by catastrophe, and the whole Gujia Village fell into a gloomy mist.Someone proposed to escape from the famine again and find another place to live, but the patriarch and half of the clan disagreed. In the end, the patriarch gritted his teeth and ordered that no one should mention the word fleeing from the famine again. People with ancient surnames should be born here and die here. days of exile.

On the second day, there were six or seven people with the ancient surname in Gujia Village who followed other people with the surname to flee the famine.

Gu Yunhu grew up stronger than other children and had a big appetite. His mother was in poor health and pregnant, so she couldn't work.Every day, his father took him to look for wild vegetables all over the mountains and fields, peel bark, dig tree roots, and occasionally saw small prey, and chased them desperately.

As the elder brother, Gu Yunfu hides at home moaning and complaining every day.Before the famine happened, he sat in a private private school every day to study, and his parents pointed out that he would be successful in the future, and never let him do field work.After the famine happened, he couldn't study in private school, and he couldn't fill his stomach with rice bran and vegetables every day. First, he blamed the sky, second, his brother's big appetite, and third, his mother would give birth to a brother or sister to compete with him. Food.

A few months later, Gu Yunfu delivered his sissy prematurely. Three or four experienced women from the clan came and shook their heads. In the end, they tried their best to save his mother, but not the child.

The 11-year-old Gu Yunhu was very protective of his mother, and wanted to beat his elder brother, Gu Yunfu, but his father protected his promising eldest son from beating him.Since then, there has been a rift between brothers and between father and son.When his mother got better and was able to go to the fields to do work, the young Gu Yunhu said that he would go out to find work and earn copper coins to support his mother.

Everyone said that the child's words were not to be trusted, and they didn't take it seriously.Unexpectedly, a few days later, Gu Yunhu disappeared from Gujia Village.After more than a year, someone suddenly came back with thirty copper coins, and Gu Yunhu's mother, who was half-haired with sorrow, held the copper coins brought back by her son, crying hoarsely.And Gu Yunfu encouraged his father to send him to private school again.His father's eyes turned red, he slapped him, and scolded the eldest son for being a wolf-hearted man, not caring about the whole family's life or death.

Many years later, Gu Yunhu brought back money ranging from thirty copper coins to fifty copper coins, to a hundred copper coins, to a few taels of silver. Finally, he brought his newly married woman back to his hometown and kowtowed to his parents.He wanted to take his father and mother to Beijing, but his parents refused, so he had to leave silver taels for them, hurried back to Beijing, and then set off for the expedition.

Two years later, the frontier was pacified, and when he came back from the battlefield, he learned that his father and mother both passed away half a year ago, within two days.

After Gu Yunfu took 500 taels of silver from Gu Ye's hand for the funeral of his parents, his family came to the capital to join them.

Gu Yunhu never forgot the pain of losing a younger brother. He could help his elder brother, but he still couldn't forgive his elder brother's mistakes when he was young.It's just that he never told anyone about this kind of pain. For the sake of his elder brother being by his parents' side all these years, he didn't care about the fact that his elder brother would reach out to him for money every year.

On the battlefield, 35-year-old Gu Yunhu was shot three times in the chest.When he was carried back to the camp by his brothers, he knew he was going to die, and before he died, he told Gu Qiang the secret of resenting his elder brother for killing his unborn younger brother, and told Gu Qiang that he could not always be by his parents when he was alive By your side, you must go back after death, lie at the feet of your parents, and accompany the two elders under the underworld.

Therefore, Gu Qiang first brought Gu Yunhu's body back to Beijing, let Gu Ye see it, and after asking the court for instructions, he followed Gu Yunhu's last words and sent him back to his hometown.At that time, the imperial court sent officials and Feng Shui masters. The Feng Shui master had seen the Feng Shui around Gujia Village, and finally pointed to a barren slope surrounded by trees seven or eight miles away from Gujia Village.

(End of this chapter)