When Liu Dianshi heard that Gu Qian was going to go to the countryside, his face turned white with fright.

His reputation in Nanxiang is not very good, especially among the people who accept the benefits of Nanxiang, and there are also people who give bad ideas to the former master, so he just goes down lightly, and it is strange that he is not torn alive by those people!

So as Gu Qian expected, this Liu Dianshi lay in the thatched house after lunch, and his face turned blue in a hurry, seeing that he didn't even want his life in order not to go to the countryside, Gu Qian couldn't force him, so he could only order a fluent official descendant from the bookstore, took Gu Xiaojiu, and said a few words to Gu Tai, and rode out of the city like this.

"Master, you know that Liu Dianshi is making a trick, why don't you demolish him?" On the way, Gu Xiaojiu asked curiously.

"Everyone is fighting with their lives, what can I do, master?" Gu Qian glanced at him and said, "Didn't you see him mixing croton soup into his rice? Why don't you stop it?"

"Aren't I busy reporting to the master," Gu Xiaojiu hehe, "How could I have thought that he would really eat it." ”

There is also a bookstore with unknown attributes behind him, Gu Qian naturally won't talk to Gu Xiaojiu deeply, but Liu Dianshi's practice of not having three hundred taels of silver here provides him with a new idea, maybe he can open a gap from Liu Dianshi.

Thinking all the way, when he arrived at the boundary of Nanxiang, Gu Qian saw that the bookstore was obviously nervous.

"Zhang Yong, what's wrong?" Gu Qian reined in his horse and asked lightly.

"If you go back to the eldest master, we have already entered Nanxiang. ”

"Why don't you go ahead?"

"Big man, the little one has a builder who doesn't know whether to say it or not. ”

"You just say it. ”

Zhang Yong stopped his horse, glanced at Gu Qian with low eyebrows, and said cautiously: "Master Mingjian, since the mob of Nanxiang besieged the county government, the security of Nanxiang has become much stricter, let's just ride in like this, it is difficult to ensure that we will not be interrogated." ”

"What then?" Gu Qian said with interest.

"The little one dared to ask the old man to dismount and walk into Nanxiang. ”

"What about the horses?"

"The little uncle lives in the village of Scooping Water in front, so we can leave the horses there first. Zhang Yong persuaded a few words, and seeing that Gu Qian was silent, his heart became more and more bottomless.

"Let's go, just do as you say. ”

After walking forward with a stick of incense, he arrived at a small village composed of more than a dozen families, and Zhang Yong took the lead and took the lead in front of a family at the entrance of the village.

"Second uncle, I'm the second dog, open the door quickly!" Zhang Yong got off the horse, and instead of leashing the horse to the tree at the door, he led the horse and knocked on the door.

Gu Qian and Gu Xiaojiu also arrived later, Gu Xiaojiu jumped off the horse first, and then ran over to serve Gu Qian to dismount, Gu Qian pushed his hand away and said with a smile: "I'll come by myself." In Gu Xiaojiu's impression, Gu Qian is a weak scholar, but he didn't expect to run all the way, this Tanhualang looks thin, but his body is not bad, can he run and do exercises every day?

In Gu Xiaojiu's thoughts, Chai Fei's door knocked open, and a middle-aged man in a short coat with a dark face came out.

"Who's calling the door?"

"Second uncle, it's me!" Zhang Yong greeted with a smile.

"It's the second dog, why are you here?" A flash of surprise burst out in the man's eyes, he wiped his hands on the placket of his shirt crampedly, opened the firewood door, and smiled: "Come in, come in!"

"Second uncle, I have business to go to Nanxiang, and you also know that Nanxiang is not peaceful, so I want to put the horse here with you for two days, and then ride back to the city when I am done. As he spoke, he took out half a hanging of money from his coat, "Second uncle, you can keep this money and buy some bean cakes." ”

"Raise horses, raise horses, what money do you put in!" Second Uncle Zhang pushed back the money handed over by Zhang Yong, "Second Uncle and your third grandfather co-raised a cow, and there is forage, can you still raise your horse?"

"Second uncle, it's not one horse, it's three. Zhang Yong let go of his body, pointed to Gu Qian and Gu Xiaojiu behind him and introduced: "These two are Master Gu and Xiao Jiuye, I went to Nanxiang with Master Gu, and this money is also a reward from Master Gu." ”

Gu Qian didn't wear an official uniform, so Second Uncle Zhang couldn't recognize that this was the new lord, but Gu Qian had lived in the capital for two years, so he naturally had a noble air that only Beijing officials have, so Second Uncle Zhang knew that this was not an ordinary person when he saw him, and he was about to kowtow to Gu Qian with trembling in his heart.

"Second Uncle Zhang, please get up," Gu Qian helped him up, didn't let him kneel, and after helping Second Uncle Zhang up, he said with a smile: "These horses will trouble Second Uncle." ”

"No hassle, no hassle. Second Uncle Zhang had never seen such a kind official, and he was even more at a loss for a while, but fortunately, Gu Xiaojiu was clever, and when he saw Second Uncle Zhang blocking the door and didn't know how to invite guests in, he jumped out and shouted: "Second Uncle, I'm thirsty, can I ask for a bowl of water to drink?"

"Enter, enter, please enter!" Second Uncle Zhang came back to his senses and hurriedly invited a few people into the courtyard.

The courtyard of the Zhang family is not small, but the house is very cramped, and Gu Qian did not go in, but Zhang Yong went into the house to get a few benches and made two bowls of coarse tea in the courtyard to drink.

The small Scooping Water Village is on the periphery of Nanxiang, from the Scooping Water Village to the east over two mountains is Nanxiang, listening to Uncle Zhang's introduction, Nanxiang is now heavily guarded, it is difficult for outsiders to enter Nanxiang, Zhang Yong listened to this, and his worried eyes were on Gu Qian, Gu Adult's clothes and skin looked like a foreigner, and he was afraid that he would be arrested as a spy before he entered Nanxiang.

"Sir, the situation in Nanxiang is not good. Zhang Yong said worriedly: "Why don't you take a break at the second uncle's house, and go to Nanxiang to investigate?"

Gu Qian took a sip of coarse tea, smiled and raised his eyebrows: "What, are you afraid that I will affect you?"

"Isn't the eldest lord practicing the small?" Zhang Yong's face turned white, "The small one is worried about the safety of the eldest master, where can he dare to have other thoughts." ”

"Since this official dares to come, he has naturally made preparations. Gu Qian smiled faintly and said, "Okay, let's drink this bowl of tea and go on the road!"

When Zhang Yong saw Gu Qian's fearless appearance, a sense of awe rose in his heart, and he hurriedly bowed his head in response, and didn't dare to say anything again.

Although there are only two mountains apart, if you want to get to Nanxiang, you need more than just a body. In order to cover up his hiding, Gu Qian put on makeup at Second Uncle Zhang's house, not only changed into a short fight, but also smeared his face, and wore a half-worn hat on his head.

This dress looks like a farmer, but it's a pity that Mr. Gu's feet are still the improved cloud toe shoes brought out from his hometown, the style of these shoes is similar to the modern mille-feuille bottom, not only the foot, but also the sole is sewn with a layer of rubber, such shoes Gu Qian asked the old mother at home to make three pairs, which should be his special hiking shoes.

Walking on the mountain road in such shoes is not only non-slip, but also not awkward, but it can envy Gu Xiaojiu, who is following behind. He didn't expect that Master Gu, who had always only read sage books, was willing to use his brains in life, compared with Gu Qian in his impression when he was a child, this Master Gu who came back from the capital was like a different person.

Could it be that the water in the capital is more nourishing? Gu Xiaojiu, who was puzzled, could only think like this.

"What do you want, why don't you leave quickly?" Gu Qian wiped his sweat and called back.

"It's coming, it's coming. Gu Xiaojiu trotted two steps, then slowed down again, caught up with Gu Qian, and complained weakly: "Why haven't you yet?"

"Don't you understand the truth of running a dead horse in Wangshan?" Gu Qian was also tired, pulled out the plug of the water bladder and poured a few mouthfuls of water, before he took a breath and looked up at the mountain, at this time they had climbed halfway up the mountain, as long as they climbed over this mountain, they could reach Nanxiang.

And now, the sun has also set halfway up the mountain, and it is about to get dark.

"Sir, we have to speed up. Zhang Yong pointed to the sunset on the horizon and said.

"Good. Gu Qian hung up the water bladder and hurried away. Even if he regretted in his heart that he had done this kind of private visit, he couldn't show his cowardice to the two subordinates, he originally thought that going to the countryside was a very simple matter, but as a result, he underestimated Cheng Dù, who was difficult to walk on the ancient mountain road, and also regarded his body as too strong.

This didn't restore half of his physical strength in his previous life at all, and it seems that the matter of exercise should be hurried.

Thinking all the way, I finally arrived at this town called Nanxiang before sunset, saying that it is Zhendian, which is equivalent to a larger rural area that Gu Qian had seen in his previous life, this village is very retro, at this moment every household is cooking, and curling smoke comes out of the chimneys.

"Sir, we're here. Zhang Yong pointed to the village, which was only a few hundred meters away.

Gu Qian wiped his sweat, took a deep breath of the fresh mountain air, and nodded with a smile.

"Who!" Before the smile could disappear, two large men with long sticks jumped out from behind the trees.

"Two old brothers," Zhang Yong greeted him with a smile in his native accent, "The guy with the Yongde ticket number in our county seat, I heard that a batch of silver bars with very good quality have recently been produced by Yao Er's family, and the owner will let us take a look." ”

The two big men looked at each other, but they had heard of this name, but they couldn't do this kind of thing! Zhang Yongneng spoke Nanxiang dialect, but the big men didn't dare to stop it, and they didn't dare to block the business of the second master, but Gu Qian and Gu Xiaojiu looked like they were angry, even if they had changed their clothes, but the smell of outsiders on their bodies could not be washed away.

"You're okay, what about these two?" Da Hanjia hesitated.

"These two are our boss's newly hired bookkeepers and buddies, and they are relatives of our owner. Zhang Yong said, pulled Da Hanjia aside, and said in a low voice: "These two people were sent by the owner to supervise me, and you also know that those old men are afraid that we will make ghosts inside." As he spoke, he stuffed a few big coins into his sleeve.

Dahan understood, glanced at his partner, and then said in a big way: "Okay, I'll take you in to see Yao Er's family, if there is anything wrong with you, it's none of my business." ”

"Don't worry, naturally you won't be embarrassed by my brother. ”

The two big men discussed, and Da Han B continued to squat on the tree, while Da Han Jia held a long stick and led a few people into Nanxiang.

Just entered the village smoothly, Gu Qian was still a little incredulous, he cleared his throat, and said to Da Hanjia with a smile: "Dare to ask this strong man's name?"

Seeing his smiling appearance, Dahan was taken aback: "Hey, this gentleman has some guts! Speaking of which, we haven't seen a foreigner in our village for more than ten days, and you are the only one!"

"Didn't you hear that the villagers of Nanxiang and Beixiang burned down the county government? Why didn't the people from the government come?"

"We're looking forward to them coming!" said the big man, his face showing a hint of surprise, "Those officials have arrested our big bosses, we are not reconciled, we have arrested a few scribes and come back, we thought that we would be replaced by these people, but those people in the official government were so frightened that they didn't even bother to take their heads!

Gu Qian knew that they had arrested someone, but he didn't know that these people were exchanging prisoners for prisoners, so he could only echo and nodded, "This idea is good!"

Dahan said proudly: "That's natural, this is the idea of the three of us! It's just that we are looking forward to the stars and the moon, and we are looking forward to the people from the government to come, but unfortunately we haven't waited for a bird to come after waiting for more than ten days." ”

Gu Qian smiled awkwardly and said tentatively: "Why doesn't my brother think that we are from the government?"

"Cut!" the big man glanced at him, pursed his lips, and said, "You are from the government? Which of the old men of the government is not riding a horse and sitting in a sedan chair, who is as poor as you!"