Chapter 004: Bury Yourself
Manyi woke up from a coma, patted her face, and was okay, still alive. Climb out of the copper tripod, this is a small forest, no one around, the season is late spring, the day is just fish belly white, about five or six o'clock. Unknown fate, Almighty God, please protect me! She prayed. Suddenly feeling hungry, I turned around to take the burden and get the steamed bun but was startled, there was a woman lying next to me, why didn't I find it just now?! Oh no, there are witnesses who saw the crossing! So early, in such a remote place, there can be people! Manyi broke out in a cold sweat.
What to do, what to do! Kill somebody to do away with a witness? No, it's so cruel that you have to be shot! Manyi's head raced. Wait a minute! Shoot what! In this era, there are no modern means to solve crimes, and murder may not be caught! If she wakes up and says it, it's no wonder that she won't be burned to death as a demon! People don't destroy the heavens and the earth for their own sake! Strike first!
Manyi had the courage to reach out and touch the man's hand. It's cold, is it dead? When she turned the woman's body over, it was the Ah Xiu in the dream! This Ah Xiu is dead, but there is no blood on his body, his face is pale and thin, his eyes are deep-set, his clothes are shabby, and he has a small burden in his hand, which looks like he has fled and starved to death.
It's okay to be dead, the girl in the province I just returned to ancient times, and my hands were stained with blood, hey. Manyi secretly rejoiced. Thinking that she was going to replace this ancient Ah Xiu from now on, she decided to search for things first, dig a pit and bury them. Ah Xiu has very few western, a few clothes, a wooden hairpin, and a letter. Manyi sighed, this ancient self is really poor.
According to the dictionary brought, the letter is a letter written by Ah Xiu's father, to the effect that now he has little time and has nothing to worry about in the troubled times, but he is worried that the orphan girl Ah Xiu will not be able to make a living, and asks Guo Zixing to remember the feelings of his fellow villagers and take care of him. Man Yi put away the letter, stuffed Ah Xiu's clothes into the baggage, felt a little bit of wind and water, shook his head, got up and embarked on the journey to find Guo Zixing.
Leaving the woods, I asked the next year and month on the post road, which was April 27 in the 11th year of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, in 1351 AD. Secretly looked at the chronology, and it won't be long before Liu Futong gathers people to rise up and capture Yingzhou. When I asked about Guo Zixing's address, I saw a notice on the road, and I heard that it was the current general river defense envoy, and he issued an order to recruit 150,000 people to repair the Yellow River. The people are not easy to live in, and they have to arrest so many people to do coolies after a disaster, the officials force the people to rebel, and the Yuan Dynasty is exhausted! She thought.
Approaching Guo's house, Manyi was startled, this guy is very rich, the courtyard wall occupies half of the street, history says that this guy is a rich man, but this is too rich, it should be a big rich man! With her hair straightened, Manyi stepped forward, knocked on the door, reluctantly translated the vernacular into ancient Chinese in her heart, and explained her intention to the house slave, and the house slave went in to spread the word.
After a cup of tea, the slave flew out and respectfully let her go in with him. When I arrived in the hall, I saw Guo Zixing, watched him look at himself carefully, and when he thought he was exposed, Guo Zixing asked: "Ah Xiu, is it okay to recognize me as a father?" Ah Xiu (renamed here) was very happy in his heart: "Ah Xiu is willing!" With that, he stood up, walked in front of Guo Zixing, knelt down and shouted while kowtowing: "Father, Ah Xiu has kowtowed to you!" "Ah Xiu is not stupid, since he plays soy sauce, there is no thigh and no backstage, it is not good.
Guo Zixing laughed and helped Ah Xiu up, asked her to return to the chair and sit down, and said with a smile: "Child, I have no daughters under my knees for my father, only two hairy sons Tianxu and Tianjue, from today onwards, you are the daughter of my family!" Looking at Ah Xiu's busy nodding, Guo Zixing said again: "Child, for the father is a dragon, you are a rabbit, and the incompatibility is one of them, and the girl is not easy to marry, and you will be five years younger in the future, is it good to be a monkey?" Ah Xiu naturally agreed.
In the days that followed, Ah Xiu learned some female red and big characters during the day every day, and occasionally talked with her father and mother, and lived a leisurely life. On this day, Ah Xiu looked at the chronology and came to Guo Zixing: "Dad, Ah Xiu can tell fortunes!" Count your father as a man in the future! Guo Zixing asked with a smile: "I really can make my father happy!" Well, let's hear about it. Ah Xiuzhi opened the person and solemnly explained: "When I came, I worshipped a gentleman as a master and learned divination, so that my father will have a chance to rise to prominence in a few months!" ”
Guo Zixing laughed when he heard this: "You girl, your father is just a rich man, where did you come from?!" Ah Xiu grimaced and asked, "Does Dad know about the flooding of the Yellow River now?" Do you know that 150,000 people are now recruited? Guo Zixing was stunned and asked, "What does this have to do with Dad?" Ah Xiu Zhengse whispered: "The prince will have a kind of Xiangning?!" In a few days, someone in the White Lotus Sect will go to Yingzhou, and his father will have trouble with him, so he will naturally rise to the top. ”
Guo Zixing's face changed a few times when he heard this: No one knows about his own religion, how did this girl know? So he lowered his voice and asked, "Ah Xiu, how do you know that your father has joined the church?" Ah Xiu said with a smile, Guo Zixing was secretly surprised, and planned to take a look. A few days later, the news came that the White Lotus Sect Liu Futong and Han Shantong were suppressed, Han Shantong was arrested and beheaded, and Liu Futong led the crowd to capture Yingzhou on the third day of the first month of May, officially revolted, known as the Red Turban Army.
Therefore, Guo Zixing began to believe in what Ah Xiu said, and secretly gathered people to wait for the opportunity. A few months later, Guo Zixing gathered a few thousand people, took advantage of the night to enter Haozhou, and soon killed the state official and proclaimed himself a marshal. Once Guo Zixing gained power, he loved Ah Xiu even more and began to look for a husband for him. Ah Xiu always coquettishly said that good women don't have to worry about getting married.
Ah Xiu knew that the marshals in Haozhou City had their own selfish intentions: Guo Zixing himself was a faction, and the other four marshals were a faction, and there was a pure villain named Sun Deya, who co-opted the three marshals, but only disliked Guo Zixing as a reckless landlord and excluded and despised him. Every time Guo Zixing was ostracized, and when he was furious and wanted to ask for an explanation, he was persuaded by Ah Xiu, and Ah Xiu asked his father to be calm and not to be impatient, and the nobles would come soon.
She dared to say this because she had read the chronology, and Zhu Yuanzhang was about to come to Guo Zixing. In the days of soy sauce, there is no good backer, and there is no long-term meal ticket!
Haozhou was captured, and the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty was naturally unhappy, so he sent the general Cheli Buhua to attack Haozhou with heavy troops.
Ah Xiu knew that this Tori Buhua was a straw bale. He was afraid of the Red Turban Army, so he didn't dare to come hard, but he only dared to rely on his large number of people to set up a camp far away, and then send his men to catch people outside the city, pretending to be prisoners to ask for rewards from the court. Since he didn't come to attack the city, Ah Xiu was happy, except for the female red needle bird, he accompanied Guo Zixing and the little lady to drink tea and chat every day, and then used the name of the cherry as a material for practicing calligraphy, and did not take the Yuan army in his eyes at all.
After more than ten days, the people outside the city couldn't bear it, and fled into the city on a large scale, and they all came to defect when they heard that Guo Zixing was the richest and the best for the people. The stronger Guo Zixing's team grew, the more annoyed Sun Deya became, and he tried to squeeze out Guo Zixing. Guo Zixing got the benefits, and Ah Xiu often pretended to be a great immortal fortune teller to make him happy, so naturally he didn't care.
Guo Zixing, the defender of the city, in his marshal's mansion, began to think about the countermeasures to defeat the Yuan army, Haozhou City has been besieged for almost a month, and there is no food if it goes on like this, and the city will hold on for a short time. On this day, Guo Zixing couldn't think of a way, so he asked Ah Xiu to tell his fortune as before, Ah Xiu lost a few copper plates, pretended to calculate, and said that he was not in a hurry, and a good general would come to the door immediately. At this time, a centurion who was guarding the city came to report, and his subordinates caught a small work and came to the commander's mansion to get the order flag and go back to kill it.
Guo Zixing was bored, and directly told the soldiers to take the order flag to kill, but he didn't raise his head.
But Ah Xiu suddenly remembered something and opened his mouth: "The general is not in a hurry!" Ah Xiu wanted to ask a question. The centurion looked at Guo Zixing, Guo Zixing motioned for him to answer Ah Xiu, so he respectfully said: "Third Miss, please ask." ”
Ah Xiu walked up to him, raised his chin, stared at his face and asked, "How do you know that person is a fine worker?" With so many people going on every day, how can you be sure that he is going to kill him? The centurion scratched his head, organized the vocabulary, and replied: "This person said that he came to join the army, said that he could go to guard the gate, and now the Yuan army is besieged, he is a new man, and he will guard the city gate when he opens his mouth. ”
Ah Xiu looked at Guo Zixing with a smile, and Guo Zixing also smiled: Guarding the door? This Yuan army has not attacked the city head-on for a long time, he joined the army, and said that he was going to guard the gate by name, which is really strange, afraid that others will not know that he is meticulous? The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this person was really stupid, and Guo Zixing couldn't help laughing.
Ah Xiu saw Guo Zixing smiling, so he proposed to go with his father to see this fine work. The two asked the centurion to lead the way and walked to the gate of the city. From a distance, I saw a group of people surrounding a person, chattering non-stop, the three of them walked over, the centurion coughed, and the surrounding soldiers looked back and saw the father and daughter, startled, and hurriedly saluted. Ah Xiu walked directly to the person in the crowd and looked at it, and laughed even more, Guo Zixing was puzzled, nodded and motioned for the soldiers to retreat, and also came over.