The eight counties of Youzhou, because Huang County suddenly announced that the county would be abolished and called the country, and the lord was changed to the king, which led the remaining six counties in the south to form a coalition to crusade against it. Huang Jun asked Damu for help. The two counties of Muhuang are allies for thousands of years, and Damu cannot but save them. After the Battle of Mude, Damu implemented a policy of rest and recuperation, and slowly recovered, and the people gradually became richer. Once ordinary people, especially farmers, have savings in their hands, the first thing they think of is to build a new house. In order to prevent the reduction of cultivated land and the reduction of grain production, the Damu official ordered that the area of each house in each county in the county should be counted as a family of three, and it should not exceed 120 square feet, and those who exceeded it must be demolished.

At this time, the old lord of Damu died suddenly, and the lord of Huangjun also announced his abdication after learning the news, and passed the throne to the prince, and the originally imminent war between the north and the south was suddenly delayed.

Anyway, the group of four went south, and they were all a little listless. After walking for more than two months and going through some dangers, we finally reached the border of great harmony. As soon as Su Yue entered the place, he introduced them to the other person with great interest.

"This place is called the Two Realms Mountain. There are thousands of miles of fertile fields in the lower two realms of the mountain, which is called Shuanghe Field. The soil there is fertile, but it is a famous granary in Youzhou. "The mountains of the two realms are steep and deep, strange rocks and strange forests, and the fog is thick. It's just that the Liangjie Mountain is the border of great harmony, and it is sparsely populated, and every night, the four of them always stay in the farmhouse, and there are many people who spend the night in broken temples and woods. There is no entanglement, so I can only catch some game in the mountains and find some wild fruits, even so, I am often hungry and full, which is not as good as before.

After walking in the mountains of the Two Realms for a few days, with a slender waterfall, as Su Yue said, thousands of miles of fertile soil were in front of him, and there were large and small villages embedded in the vast fields. The two rapids in the mountains of the two realms, which are only forty miles apart, bend and turn in the mountains, and receive many trickles on the way, and when they reach the valley, they become two great rivers, and the great rivers open two rivers in the mountains, bulldozing the mountains that block the way in front of them, and irrigating the countless farmlands along the coast. This is why it is also known as Twin Rivers Field.

Along the banks of Shuanghechang is the largest granary in the northern part of Damu, and it is also one of the more affluent areas in Damu. The four of them came down to the mountain, found a nearby village, and thought about the thousands of acres of fertile land here, going to a good man's house, begging for a bowl of rice, and borrowing a bed to sleep on, it should be no problem. Liao Tingyun was disdainful and scolded: "What are you begging for, we are not called Huazi, the old lady has a guy in her hands, and she has not done anything about robbing the house." ”

Dian Yin said: "However, there is no pawnshop in this small village, and I still have Kuaiyu." ”

"You have to get ......" Liao Tingyun was impatient in her heart, "Or it's the same as in the mountains a few days ago, anyway, the old lady doesn't start!" After speaking, he stood back. Su Yue and Dian Yin also stood still when they saw this. Tong Xi said: "Then I'll go, I'm not like you, shameless!"

So, Tong Rhino hit the front, Su Yue, Liao Tingyun, and Dian Yin followed behind and entered the village. There were many turns in the alley, and suddenly I heard a noise in the distance. The four of them looked for the sound, but they saw an ancestral hall around the corner, on which were written the four big characters "Gu's ancestral hall". Many people on the side looked at the periphery coldly, and just as six or seven big men were punching and kicking around a young man, the onlookers just watched expressionlessly and did not make a sound. Dian Yin and Su Yue stepped forward and shouted for them to stop. A middle-aged man in his forties glanced back at them, stopped them, and several big men came over to push and shove, preventing them from approaching.

Dianyin is a young man who has no ambition, and he can't see others so arrogant. At the moment, he used his fists and kicks to beat those big men to the ground one by one. The big man who was the leader beckoned the six or seven who beat the descendants to stop him, and he was beaten by Dianyin again.

Seeing this, the leader ran away, and the big man who was beaten to the ground ran away, and everyone who could walk left, and even the onlookers were in a hurry to disperse.

Su Yue went up to help the descendant, and the latter grew with clear eyebrows and thin lips, like a scholar. The latter pushed Su Yue away, just patted the dust, wiped the blood on his face and left, as if the people in front of him had never appeared.

Tong Xi couldn't get used to it, and shouted loudly behind him: "My conscience has called the dog to eat? If it weren't for the general and my brother to save you, I'm afraid your life would be gone." As if he hadn't heard, the latter walked forward. Tong Xi snorted and turned his head to wait with Su Yue: "This is the hot and cold world, and the rivers are falling." ”

When the descendant heard this, he suddenly walked back, bowed to everyone, and said, "Thank you for saving me." ”

Su Yue said: "Young man, you're welcome. Why did they hit you?"

Hou Sheng seemed to be a little impatient, but he still said: "Hey! The officials forced the people to rebel, and they didn't let us live." ”

Su Yue was originally a great harmony, and when he heard what the latter said, he asked anxiously: "Why is the official forcing the people to rebel, can you tell us?"

Hou Sheng glanced at Su Yue and said, "You outsiders can't take care of it...... If you can't do it, don't ask. After saying that, he turned around and wanted to leave again.

Su Yue said: "That's not necessarily, I know a few people in the official mansion of Damu. If you tell me the truth, maybe I can help?"

The latter glanced at Su Yue, and then looked at Dian Yin, Tong Xi and others, because they had walked this way, they had never eaten and clothed, except for Liao Tingyun, they were all unkempt. Hou Sheng said: "Don't be kidding. If you are hungry, come to my house and give you bowls of rice. ”

Dian Yin said: "Don't look at us like a homeless person, not to fool you, this gentleman really knows the people of the Yamen." It's close to the border and we just came back from outside. It was only because of bad luck and loss of money that he became like this. ”

The later life saw that they were majestic and upright, with a lofty spirit, and they all had a good ability, which was really not like ordinary homeless people, so he saluted and said: "Gu Dan is a late student, there are no eyes and no beads, please forgive me." In this case, go to the cold house first and listen to the late life slowly. ”

The four of them followed him to Gu Dan's house. Most of the houses in this village are blue tiles and white walls, and at first glance they look like new houses that were built within ten years. This Gu Dan's house is also the same, with white walls and green tiles outside, and new stoves and new beams in the house.

Su Yue and the others all said with joy on their faces: "It turns out that Gu Lang moved to a new house, which is really gratifying. That Gu Dan looked bitter, sighed and said, "Hey, it's all caused by this new house." ”

Su Yue waited: "What the hell is going on?"

Gu Dan said: "You don't know, this official family doesn't give people a way to live, and my father has saved some money all his life to build a new house for his later life. Unexpectedly, the official family wants me to demolish it for no reason!"

"It's inexplicable!" said Dianyin, "why did they do that?"

Gu Dan said: "I have also read books for a few years in my later life, and I also know that the county's policy has his reasons. Now that Huangjun wants to change his course and establish a country as king, there is really no need for us to be enemies of the six counties for him. Of course, the official family has its own considerations, and it is not easy for ordinary people such as us to speculate. I may have to go to war with the six counties, so I need to prepare enough money and food. Shuanghe Field is a major food land. Therefore, it is necessary to protect the cultivated land so that there will be no shortage of food and grass due to war. These late students can understand. ”

"But I have the deed and title deed in my hand, these are the evidence that the official family approved me to build a new house, and now my new house has been built and the money has been spent, but you say that I have broken the law, what is the reason? This deed just given to me is not like waste paper?"

Dian Yin said: "This is indeed a bit unkind. As he spoke, he looked at Su Yue.

Su Yue said: "The official policy is so rigid, there is no flexibility?"

Gu Dan cringed and said: "If you don't demolish the house, you will hand over two hundred taels of silver." ”

Su Yue said: "Isn't this much better than demolishing a new house? This house, even in our countryside, will cost thousands of taels of silver to make up for it inside and out." ”

"I just built a new house in my later life, where can I get all this money? Besides, how many of the more than 100 households in my Gujia Village have not surpassed? Just a few of us are unlucky! You say that you are not angry!"

"Why is that?"

"Our village is good. 'There are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom,' and they just took this opportunity to make money. The lieutenant only needs a hundred taels of silver, and he will hide it from us. ”

"That's a hundred taels, though, it's still a lot. But compared to two hundred taels, it's less than half. Tong Xi interjected coldly.

"Don't interject, kid!" Su Yue said with a dark face.

Gu Dan said: "This girl's words are right, but where did she get the money now? I knew this, how good it was if I didn't give me the deed back then, and I saved a lot of money!"

As he spoke, a sneaky head poked out of the house, glanced at it, and disappeared. It's just that there is a hurried voice and said, "Gu Lang, you come out for a while." ”

Gu Dan heard it and said to the four: "This is the sister-in-law Mao in the village." Wait a minute. "After that, I got out of the door.

Dianyin and Tong Xi followed behind to the door. I only heard the sister-in-law Mao say: "Gu Lang, who are these people, how dare you tell outsiders about our village casually?"

Gu Dan said: "Sister-in-law, when is it, are you still afraid of this? You are just too soft, so they bullied you." ”

Dian Yin came out and said, "Sister-in-law, what do you have to talk about?"

Gu Dan also said: "Yes, they have acquaintances in the official family, and they can help us spread the word." ”

The sister-in-law said cowardly: "You talk, you talk ......" said and turned away.

That Gu Dan stood behind her and said: "Sister-in-law, what's the use of you doing this? I am anxious day and night, and I always ask me what I have to do, but now I really have a way, but you dodge." ”

Sister-in-law Mao heard him say this, stopped, turned around and said: "Gu Lang, I didn't say you, if you don't find a reliable one, if they know about it, you won't be able to live in the future." ”

Gu Dan said: "Where else can it be bad? Even the place where it lives is gone, how bad can it be?"

Sister-in-law Mao sighed deeply, as if she was sighing for the last breath of this life, and muttered: "Hengzhi is the same, listen to you this time." With that, he walked into the house.

Su Yue waited for her to bow her head as if she was in debt as soon as she entered the house. Thirty or forty years old, with a turban on his head, a dark face, a sloppy coarse cloth dress, and the dress of a country woman.

Gu Dan said: "I couldn't take out the money originally, but now he won't accept the money he takes." Sister-in-law Mao is too, and there is a family at the head of the village, there are more than 100 households in our village, and they do not charge money from our three families, and the others are 100 per household. ”

Su Yue said: "Except for the three of you, more than 100 households have all paid one hundred taels of silver?"

Gu Dan said: "That's not either, there are always those who don't exceed 120 square feet or who have been living in the ancestral house and have not violated the rules." ”

When Dian Yin was working as a dart guard in Wanjing, he didn't care much about official policies, so he was curious: "What's the difference?"

Su Yue said: "According to the Great Harmony Decree, residential land can be built with the permission of the government, according to them, the new decree is no more than 120 square feet, and if it is exceeded, it will be demolished." Their lieutenant said that they would demolish their house, which was more than 120 square feet. ”

"Is this house a hundred and twenty square feet?" asked Dianyin.

"Then you'll have to ask them. Su Yue said with a smile.

"Counting the ancestral house, it is naturally 120 square feet. Gu Dan said, "I'm just not convinced, you want to demolish it, you have the ability to demolish all the non-compliant ancestral houses in the whole village, why only demolish the three of us?"

Sister-in-law Mao said: "It's not your donkey temper, you have to fight with Li Chang from time to time?"

Dian Yin said: "I understand. Your lieutenant commander took the opportunity of this rectification to accept a large amount of bribes, and second, he always had to give an explanation to the above, so he gave the three of you out. You are either at odds with him, or you are honest and easy to bully. ”

Gu Dan said: "How can it be so simple? One hundred taels of silver per household, ten households are one thousand taels, and in our village, to say the least, there are fifty or sixty households! Such a large sum of money, he can swallow it with a small lieutenant? What does it mean to be in a single breath and a raccoon dog?"

Su Yue said: "Those people in front of you beat you for this?"

Gu Dan said: "Those are all errand servants in civilian clothes in the township, and I recognize several of them." They just don't want me to go up there. ”

Su Yue nodded: "You don't have to go, leave this matter to me." I've got to take care of it!"

Gu Dan said: "Who are you?

Su Yue smiled: "Under Su Yue." ”

When Gu Dan and Sister-in-law Mao heard that it was Su Pihu, their hearts were full of joy at the moment, and they both shouted: "This time there is salvation, there is salvation!"

Liao Tingyun, who has always rarely spoken, pulled the corner of Su Yue's clothes and said, "We are still wanted! How dare you say your name in Damu?"

When Gu Dan heard this, he smiled and said: "Don't you know? The old lord passed away, and because he had no children, his nephew succeeded to the throne, and as soon as the new lord came to power, he gave amnesty to the world. ”

Everyone suddenly realized, they all looked at Su Yue, thinking that he would be happy, but there was no smile on his face, and his face was tightly tightened.

Su Yue said: "Don't worry, although I am a grass farmer now, I still have a few friends I know, and I will definitely give you an explanation." ”

When Sister-in-law Mao heard this, she knelt down in a hurry, and she didn't know what to say, she just kowtowed. Su Yue and the others helped her up, and the sister-in-law was still in tears.

Su Yue and the others were comforting Sister-in-law Mao, but seven or eight people suddenly broke in outside the house. One by one, holding long sticks, they couldn't help but say, and hit Gu Dan and Sister-in-law Mao without a head.

All four of them were angry. Su Yue first blocked the long stick with his back, and Dian Yin rushed forward, punched a person in the face, and knocked two teeth from his mouth. Su Yue turned around, faced the long sticks that crackled and beckoned to him, stretched out his arms, and performed a knife duel, grabbed those long sticks, pulled them back, and snatched seven or eight sticks one by one, sandwiching them under his armpits. Then with a trick, the dragon swung its tail and knocked those strong men out of the door. Liao Tingyun also rushed out of the door, with a hideous face, and just pulled out his sword but was stopped by Su Yue. Those strong men thought that Liao Tingyun really wanted to kill them, so they hurriedly got up and slipped away.

After those people left, Su Yue said, "You guys wait here first." I'm going to Yunlin County. "Yunlin is an important town in Mubei, and Shuanghechang is under his jurisdiction.

Liao Tingyun understood what he meant, and said: "What are you afraid of, raise your sword and kill them all." ”

Gu Dan got up from the ground and said loudly, "General Su doesn't need it. ”

Everyone turned their heads to look at him, only to hear him say: "Wansheng has decided to go to the mansion to report it in person." There are so many people in the village who violate the rules and have to be fined money; I am not the only one who wants to demolish the house, and I am not the only one who wants to demolish the house, and I am afraid that I will die together!"

Sister-in-law Mao hurriedly said: "You are like this, don't you offend almost everyone in the village?"

"Whether you are guilty or not, you will only know if you go to the county and make it clear. Gu Dan said loudly.

Su Yue and the others all clapped their hands and said, "Gu Lang is courageous and knowledgeable, which is admirable. ”

That Gu Dan said: "The general should not make fun of the late birth. I only hope that along the way, the general can help. ”

Su Yue said: "Su Mou will definitely send you to the county, there are many so-called heroes in the world, not everyone can be like Gu Lang, and can have such an open mind." ”

Sister-in-law Mao was angry in her heart and said, "Gu Dan, Gu Dan, you really don't know what to do." You are young and not afraid, and when the time comes, even if it affects me, I will not let you go as a ghost. After saying that, he cursed and went out.

The people let her go, and did not step on her.

Dian Yin said: "We were in Yuhu Village last time, are you really okay?"

Su Yue said: "A few days ago, when I was in the Two Realms Mountain, my old friend in Mudu had already asked someone to send a message to me. The new Lord was not the son of the world, and the two were not together when the old Lord was alive. So don't worry. The Lord also wants Su to go back and continue to be a general. ”

"You agreed?" asked Liao Tingyun.

Su Yue glanced at her, smiled, and said, "Then am I still here now?"

Dian Yin, Liao Tingyun and others put their minds at ease.

Gu Dan's father passed away last year, and he was the only one in the family, and the five of them ate some food indiscriminately, and they fell asleep after a while. In the early morning of the second day, I had to go out on the road and rush to Yunlin County. Before leaving the village, suddenly more than a dozen big men surrounded him, each holding an iron rod or even a long knife. There was a person standing out in the middle, thirty or forty years old, with a fat head and big ears, and a pockmarked face, who was the big man headed by the ancestral hall yesterday. He glanced at Su Yue and the others, sneered, and said slowly, "Gu Dan, where are you going?"

Gu Dan whispered: "His name is Gu Biao, and he is the eldest son of the lieutenant. ”

"What are you chirping!" Gu Biao shouted, "Hurry up and go back to Lao Tzu, otherwise I will break your legs." ”

Dianyin made a gesture of drawing his sword and took another step forward. Unexpectedly, a few big men took several steps back. Dianyin saw that although they still looked domineering on their faces, there was unconcealed horror in their eyes. He understood, these people were scared yesterday, and among those people yesterday, except for the one who was knocked out of his front teeth, the rest were there.

Sun Tzu said: A soldier who surrenders without a fight is also a good man.

Dian Yin suddenly pulled out his double knives, put on a posture, made a big fanfare, and yelled. Those big men with tigers on their backs really threw down their weapons and ran away. Su Yue stepped forward, put his right hand on Gu Biao's shoulder, and gently clamped it. His right shoulder was in pain. Su Yue pinched his shoulders and pulled him back, and he fell on all fours. It caused Tong Xi, Dian Yin and others to laugh.

Gu Biao was lying on the ground, but he kept scolding. Liao Tingyun pulled out his green pupils and said sharply: "The old lady cut his mouth with a sword." ”

He saw that the blade of the blue pupil sword was as thin as paper and as cold as ice, and he also closed his mouth, and he didn't beg for mercy, but there was still arrogance in his eyes.

Su Yue stopped Liao Tingyun and said to Gu Biao: "You go." ”

Gu Biao turned his head and glanced at him.

Dian Yin said: "If you don't leave, Lao Tzu will regret it." ”

Gu Biao hugged his right shoulder with his left hand and ran away.

Su Yue, Dian Yin, and Liao Tingyun protected Tong Xi and Gu Dan, and went south to Yunlin County. Along the way, there is either the sound of water or the singing of birds in the wild. The captain who crossed the river sang mountain songs, the old farmers in the fields sang folk songs, and from time to time frightened egrets flew up from his side and fell not far away. It is a good mountain, a good water, a good scenery and a good person.

Leaving Shuanghechang, there were mountains and forests again, and the five of them walked into the mountains and came to a small bamboo forest.

The breeze is blowing, and the sun is warm. It's the most comfortable time of the day. The bamboo forest is unusually quiet, no birds chirp, and no insects fly. After not taking a few steps, Liao Tingyun suddenly pulled out his green pupils and said softly: "There is a murderous aura!"