After two more days, I finally entered the boundary of Huizhou, and arrived at the largest city in Huizhou, Jinyang City, in the evening. Tomorrow, Zhou Boyan will part ways with Gufu and his party and continue to go south. And the ancient mansion is going east.

is finally going to part ways, to be honest, Qingshu is really relieved. You say she hates Zhou Boyan, it's not like that at all; You said that she liked Zhou Boyan, but that was even more impossible. In short, Qing Shu himself couldn't say clearly, but he subconsciously didn't want to have too much contact with Zhou Boyan.

Contrary to Qingshu, Qingyang's expression is inseparable. While Qing Shu wasn't paying attention, he quietly hugged something and tiptoed out. As soon as he came out of the door, he met a small fish serving the water, and he hurriedly shushed the ground and asked the small fish not to make a noise.

Xiao Yu cooperated, bent down, and asked softly, "Young Master, where are you going?" You can't run around, and you'll be in trouble if you meet bad guys. ”

Qingyang didn't speak, pointed to the door diagonally opposite the corridor, hugged the thing in his arms and pressed his feet over, and gently slammed the door.

"Come in." Zhou Boyan's voice came from the house neither high nor low.

Qingyang pushed open the door and walked in.

Xiao Yu looked funny, entered Qingshu's room, and put down the water, "Miss, the young master went to Yan Gongzi's side, and the slave maid was not at ease, so she went out and guarded the door, waiting for the young master." ”

Qing Shu, who was reading a book under the lamp, smiled helplessly, "He can really take advantage of loopholes." Go ahead, the young master comes out, and brings it back to the room immediately, so that he won't run around, and everyone will be worried. ”

Xiaoyu agreed, went out and guarded Qingshu's door, so that as soon as Qingyang came out of the diagonal door, she could see it, and it was not rude.

In Zhou Boyan's room, Qingyang called Brother Shengyan and walked over with the things in his arms.

Zhou Boyan was taking off his coat and sitting on the bed reading a book in his underwear. Seeing that it was not Gu Shi who came in, but Qingyang, he casually put down the book, walked to the chair in front of the table and sat down, "Why are you running around alone?" ”

Qingyang leaned over and put the things in his arms on the table in front of him. It's an oiled paper bag, a big oiled paper bag, and it's bulging inside, and I don't know what it is. He opened the oil-paper bag with a look of dedication, revealing the contents of the wrapper.

Zhou Boyan raised his eyebrows, as far as he knew, this thing Gu Qingshu was very precious, and he only gave his younger brother one or two pieces a day. What's the matter today, I'm willing to give him so much. He wrapped it up, held it in his palm and weighed it, at least two catties, "Give it to me?" He couldn't believe it.

Qingyang nodded his little head, "Well, it's all for Brother Yan." My sister said that she would kill the pig in the future and make jerky for Xiaoyang to eat. Xiaoyang can eat it at any time, but Brother Yan can't eat it, so Xiaoyang wants to give it to Brother Yan to eat. Brother Yan, you can only eat two pieces a day! How did he know that Qingshu let him only eat one or two pieces a day, because he was thinking that the jerky was not easy to digest, and he didn't want him to eat more and make his stomach uncomfortable.

Zhou Boyan heard the point, Xiaoyang wanted to give it to Brother Yan to eat, does this mean that it was Qingyang's own initiative to give him dried meat, but Gu Qingshu didn't know it. He immediately had another guess, and asked the guess, "Xiaoyang gave all the jerky to his brother?" ”

Qingyang nodded happily.

got the answer he wanted, Zhou Boyan put away the jerky casually, saying that he remembered Qingyang's advice and only ate one or two pieces a day.

After talking for a while, Zhou Boyan put on his coat and personally sent Qingyang out, and when he saw Xiaoyu waiting outside the guest room door of the Gu family's sister and brother in the corridor, he retreated into the house and closed the door.

Seeing that Qingyang was back, Qingshu lost his very precious dried meat and didn't know it, and counted a few words to Qingyang who went out without saying hello, and the two sisters and brothers washed up and went to bed.

On the second day, when he was about to leave, Qing Shu had just left the door of the inn, but saw Zhou Boyan riding on a horse and was about to leave. Qing Shu pretended not to see it, but Zhou Boyan smiled faintly and hugged his fists, "Thank you for the jerky given by Miss Gu, I am grateful." "He won't return such good dry food.

Qing Shu was stunned, "What jerky?" ”

Zhou Boyan smiled meaninglessly, didn't speak, lightly clamped the horse's belly, took Gu Shishi, who was waiting on the side, took a step forward, and left in style.

Qing Shuhu stared suspiciously at Zhou Boyan's back as he walked farther and farther, and suddenly changed his face, "Xiaoyu." "She had a bad premonition.

Xiaoyu, who was putting the burden in the car, turned around, "Miss, the slave will help you get into the car." ”

Qing Shu wanted to say that she was not in a hurry to get in the car, but then she thought about it, how could she stand in front of the crowded inn, so she took a breath and sat in the car, "What about the young master?" ”

Xiao Yu replied, "I just called the housekeeper and went over there." As he spoke, he pointed ahead.

Qing Shu didn't speak, removed the baggage stacked together in the carriage, took the bottom one and opened it, took out a food box, opened the lid, and the last bag of dried pork in it was gone. She snapped back angrily, "Eat the stupid Xiaoyang inside and out, see how my sister cleans you up." ”

Thinking of the last smile and look that Zhou Boyan left her before turning around, she was so angry that the roots of her teeth itched, "Damn, don't let this girl see you again, hum!" Knowing this, she didn't want to save it, but cheapened Zhou Boyan's house for nothing.

Let's talk about Qingyang, urging Gu Qiang and Gu Yuanbao to go quickly.

Gu Qiang was very helpless, "Young Master, what snacks do you want to eat, just talk to Miss, why come out in person?" ”

Qingyang, who was about to make up for it, was in a hurry, "No, no, Xiaoyang wants to buy delicious food for his sister to eat." ”

Gu Qiang really didn't want to let the young master walk around in an unfamiliar place, so he asked a very realistic question that could also dispel the young master's idea of buying things, "Young master, how much silver did you bring out?" ”

Qingyang was stupid, and looked at Gu Qiang with an innocent face, "Didn't the housekeeper uncle bring silver taels?" ”

Gu Qiang shook his head, "The old slave didn't know that the young master wanted to buy something, so he didn't take the silver from the young lady." ”

Qingyang wrinkled a little face and lowered his head, it's over, my sister will definitely be angry, she must ignore him, what should I do?

Seeing him like this, Gu Yuanbao hurriedly coaxed him, saying that he would go back to ask the young lady for silver immediately.

Qingyang's head shook like a rattle, and then with red eyes, he hid from Qing Shu and gave away the dried meat, so he wanted to buy delicious coax Qing Shu to prevent Qing Shu from hating him.

As soon as he heard that so many dried meat had been given away, Gu Yuanbao jumped up at that time, "Young master, young master, that's jerky, it's delicious jerky, how can you, why did you give it all to Yan Gongzi?" "The young master is generous, and sometimes he will quietly divide half of the jerky for him to eat, which makes him drool every time he thinks of the taste of jerky. However, the jerky is gone, all gone, and he can no longer eat the jerky rewarded by the young master.

Gu Qiang was made to cry and laugh by these two little ones, one was worried about being blamed by the young lady, and the other was distressed and couldn't eat anymore, which is really. In the end, Gu Qiang touched the money bag on his body, took out thirteen copper plates, put them back, and took Qingyang's hand, "Young Master, go back!" It's time for the young lady to wait. ”

Qingyang was holding hands and walking back dejectedly, and Gu Yuanbao followed behind dejectedly, still thinking about the sadness of not being able to eat delicious jerky anymore.

After walking a few steps, they met the people of the whole province who had come looking for them. Qingyang was about to get into the carriage, but he heard a hawker on the side of the road shouting "buy fruit, rare fruit, sweet and sour purple fruit......" while staggering in their direction.

Qingyang looked back, his eyes lit up, and immediately darkened again. He remembered again that he had no money on him.

Gu Qiang shook his head and beckoned, "Those who sell fruits are coming here." ”

The peddler responded happily, as if he was afraid of Gu Qiang's change of hexagram, and ran over with the courage, and he didn't even breathe, so he hurriedly put down his burden and lifted the coarse cloth covered with a bamboo basket, "Master, the sweet and sour purple fruit, you can taste it, it's delicious, it's picked in the mountains, it's fresh, it's rare." ”

The purple-black round small fruits, bunches after bunches, Gu Qiang saw it, "What kind of fruit is this?" Why haven't I seen it before? ”

The hawker looked like sixteen or seventeen, thin and skinny, and he hurriedly explained, "Master, master, you haven't seen it, it's right, this is the little one and his brother picked in the deep mountains." The small one has been eaten, it is not poisonous, it is absolutely not poisonous, I don't believe you can taste it, taste it. He was telling the truth, and he and his brother went hunting in the mountains, and stumbled upon several strange trees, which were full of this purple fruit and half-green and half-purple fruit.

Because the two brothers suffered from the cold eyes of their relatives, they had no land to plant, no food to eat, worked some short-term jobs, and lived a hungry and full life. Later, the two brothers gritted their teeth, and in order to improve their living conditions, they borrowed a pickaxe from their left neighbor, a woodcutter from their right neighbor, and carried a somewhat damaged basket on their backs, and they boldly walked into the deep mountains and forests where no one dared to enter.

The two brothers walked in the mountains for two days, but fortunately they did not encounter any beasts, but unfortunately they did not hunt anything, so they could only pick some wild vegetables and weeds to wrap their stomachs. Later, I found that some of these fruits were half green and half purple, and some were purple and black all over. The hungry and dizzy brothers, who were not afraid of not being poisoned, had the thought that it was better to die of hunger than to starve, so they took them off and ate them, and then lay down on the ground and waited for death.

But after lying down for a long time, their brother was fine, so they knew that the fruit was not poisonous, so they picked it and sold it. They sold it from the town to the county seat, and this morning they went to Jinyang City, but no one believed that their fruit was not poisonous, and no one bought it. If they can't sell it today, the two brothers will really reach the point of desperation.

Look at the hawker's skinny appearance, and the clothes on his body are also badly worn and full of patches. Gu Qiang guessed that this was a kid from a poor family who couldn't get enough to eat, and as soon as he heard this kid's poisonous explanation, he understood that no one recognized or bought this fruit. He also muttered in his heart, but then he felt compassion, "You eat one, you eat it, and I'll buy it." ”

The hawker's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly grabbed two or three fruits and stuffed them into his mouth, swallowed a few mouthfuls into his stomach, and wiped his mouth, "Master, you have a good heart, two pennies and a catty, buy more!" ”

Gu Qiang was taking out the money bag, Qingyang came over, curiously picked up a bunch, got into the carriage, and showed it to Qing Shu, "Sister, look, what a strange fruit." ”

Qing Shu heard the conversation outside, Qing Shu heard it clearly, and when he saw the things Qing Yang was carrying, he deliberately straightened his face, and he couldn't maintain it anymore, so he took it with a look of surprise, "This is, this is ......" Isn't this a grape? Some of them have lost moisture, and it is estimated that they have been picked for two or three days, but there are no broken ones, and they are well preserved.

Qingyang saw that Qingshu was happy, and then he became bolder, "Sister, that person said that it was picked in the mountains, and it was called Purple Fruit." ”

Fruits picked in the mountains, no one has eaten, grapes that no one recognizes in Da'an. Qing Shu barely suppressed the excitement in his heart, and hurriedly told Xiaojuan to let the vendor come forward and speak.

The peddler got thirteen copper plates, estimated that he gave Gu Qiang about eight or nine catties of purple fruits, and was happily about to pick up the burden to report the good news to his brother, when he heard that this young lady was going to ask, he panicked, and looked at Gu Qiang with admiration.

Gu Qiang nodded, he was an honest boy, so he accompanied the vendor to the right side of the carriage, and said to Qing Shu, who was sitting in the car, that someone had brought it over.

Qing Shu in the car asked through the curtain: "Where did you pick it from the mountains?" You answered well, and you bought all the purple fruits you picked. ”

The peddler was overjoyed, not knowing at all what secrecy was, "In, in the mountains of Kangxi Town." The small home is in Kangjia Village, south of Kangxi Town, and enters the mountains from the back of the village. ”

"How many of these purple fruit trees are there in the mountains?"

"Three, three." He stammered a little nervously.

After a while, Xiaojuan got out of the car and stood in front of the vendor: "Miss is a good talker, you bought all the fruits you picked." We are about to go to Kangxi Town, if it is convenient for you, follow the carriage and horses, and when you arrive at Kangxi Town, the butler will point you a place. You go back, go into the mountain, pick all the purple fruits, and send them to the place designated by the steward. As you say, two pennies a pound will be charged. ”

The peddler was overjoyed, grinned, and couldn't close it for a long time, "Little Kang Plug, thank you kind young lady, thank you, thank you." This, that, the younger brother sells fruit at the South City Gate, that fruit, fruit ......" He wanted to ask if he wanted to buy it too, but he felt that he was not authentic, and when he went to the back, he silenced.

Qingyang poked his head out, "I bought it, I bought it all." You lead the way. ”

Kang Shuzi sighed, picked up the burden with his hands, ran to the front of the team, and walked in the direction of the city gate.

Gu Qiang wanted to say something but didn't say anything, so he said yes and set off, and the group followed behind Kang Shuzi, who was dizzy, and went straight to the south city gate. This Jinyang City has two city gates, one north gate and one south city gate. If you go to Kangxi Town, southeast of Jinyang City, it is relatively close to the south gate.

Kang's brother is half a head taller than Kang's bolt, but he is also skinny and about to fall when the wind blows. When Kang Shuzi explained clearly to his brother Kang Shuzhu and handed out thirteen copper plates, Kang Shuzhu wiped the corners of his eyes, put away the thirteen copper plates with trembling hands, and snorted three times at the carriage where Qingshu was sitting, and then took the burden and followed behind the Gu family with his younger brother.

Qingshu in the car, no one said it, she didn't know that someone gave her three heads.

Seeing that the two brothers were walking and floating, some people couldn't bear it and looked at Gu Qiang. Gu Qiang nodded, and the two stout men couldn't help but say that they took over the burden of the two brothers, picked them up and left.

Gu Yuanbao got the two multigrain noodles handed out by Xu Sanniang from the car, ran to the back, and stuffed them into the hands of the two brothers, "Pad your stomach, I'm thirsty, I have a water bag here, just ask for me." ”

The two brothers each grabbed a multigrain flour bun and were speechless for a while.

Gu Yuanbao scratched his head and walked with them, "Your village, is it far away from Gujia Village?" ”

Kang Shuzi took a bite of the bun and asked inarticulately, "Which Gujia village is the little brother asking?" Is it out of the general's big Gujia Village, or out of the small Gujia Village of the talented master? ”

Gu Yuanbao's face lit up, "It's the general's Gujia Village, do you know?" ”

Kang Xuanzhu patted his brother on the back who was choking on his food urgently, and replied: "Out of the general's Dagujia Village, there are twenty or thirty miles away from our Kangjia Village. Last year, my brother also went there to work part-time and visited the heroic monument of General Gu. ”

"Then do you know Gu Yuanhe? It's the one who guards the general's tomb, and he's about the same age as you. ”

Kang Xuanzhu suddenly became vigilant, "What are you asking him for?" ”

Gu Yuanbao's eyes were shining, which meant that they knew each other, and he asked with excitement, "Is he okay?" Is it long and strong? Is the house you live in good? Hungry? Did anyone sew and mend his clothes? No one is bullying......"

Kang Xuanzhu was stunned, "You, what are you doing?" Do you know Brother Yuanhe? ”

"He's my brother, it's my brother." Gu Yuanbao said excitedly, and pointed forward, "See, that's my father." Pointing to the carriage in front of him again, "My young lady and young master have returned to their hometown, and they will not leave in the future, so as to guard the general, so that the general will not be alone and have no relatives to worship during the New Year's holidays." ”

The brothers Kang Shuzi and Kang Shuzhu were stunned, and suddenly knelt on the ground with a pop, "General, the young lady and young master of the general's family...... "They actually met the young lady and young master of the general's family today, and they also sold fruits that no one bought, and got multigrain flour buns to wrap their stomachs......

Kang Shuzi looked confused: "Brother, you hit me, hit me, am I dreaming?" ”

Kang Xuanzhu also looked confused: "Bolt, hit brother, hit brother, is brother dreaming?" ”

Gu Yuanbao was anxious to know about his brother, and pulled the two brothers to no avail, so he shouted, "Dad, come on, Dad, hurry up, Brother Zhuzhu knows the eldest brother, he knows the eldest brother." ”

As soon as he heard that someone knew his son, Gu Qiang's heart was hot, and he forcibly suppressed his excitement, and asked everyone to continue to hurry, strode to the back, and pulled up the blinded brothers, "Do you know my son Yuanhe?" ”

It turned out that the Kang brothers went to the village chief's house in Dagujia Village last year to work for a short time and met Gu Yuanhe, who guarded the general's tomb. Their brothers are from other villages and have to be bullied in other people's acres and thirds of land. The daughter-in-law of the village chief's family was tricky and slammed the door, turning the two brothers around, and after the work in the field was done, she had to let the chopping wood come back, and chop it well, carry water to water the vegetable field, and have to be a horse for the village chief's grandson to ride, and the food was not full.

Finally, after half a month of short-term work, the promised salary of ten copper plates a day became two copper plates a day. The two brothers had nowhere to say anything, but they let the brother of the village chief's daughter-in-law beat him up and was bumped into by Gu Yuanhe. Gu Yuanhe went up at that time, kicked the two brothers of the village chief's daughter-in-law one by one, pulled the Kang family brothers up, found the village chief, and did not talk nonsense, and asked the village chief's family to pay the Kang family brothers' wages.

In the eyes of the people of Gujia Village, Gu Yuanhe is a taciturn and strong young man. Every day, he either cleaned the general's cemetery, or worked in a few acres of thin fields, or sat under the general's heroic monument erected by the government and looked into the distance, no one knew what he was thinking, and no one dared to provoke him.

Kang said that this was before, and things changed very quickly. Half a month ago, the two brothers went to Dagujia Village to see Gu Yuanhe, and Gu Yuanhe just sat in front of the general's tomb in a daze. The two brothers asked the elder for a long time, and Gu Yuanhe told them that the village chief took the town to catch fast, took away a few acres of thin fields planted by Gu Yuanhe, and warned Gu Yuanhe not to enter the village again.

It turned out that a few days ago, the two brothers of the village chief's daughter-in-law were bullying the strangers again, and when Gu Yuanhe saw them, another person kicked them over and let the outsiders go. Unexpectedly, soon, the village chief took his land and did not let him enter the village again. The brothers of the Kang family were very worried, but Gu Yuanhe said that he had the silver brought from the capital on his body, so he didn't have to worry about food and clothing.

Half a month has passed, and the Kang brothers don't know if Gu Yuanhe is good or not, because they run around every day to wrap their stomachs, first, they don't have time, and second, they don't dare to go again for fear of causing trouble to Gu Yuanhe.

When such a news came to Qing Shu's ears, Qing Shu couldn't calm down, and directly called the two brothers to the carriage to talk, "The village chief is so domineering, no one in Gujia Village stands up to speak?" ”

The two brothers replied no, no one cared, and no one stood up for Gu Yuanhe.

"What about the Gu family? There's still my father's uncle in the village, isn't there? ”

The two brothers also said that no one came out to speak for Gu Yuanhe, Gu Yuanhe lived alone in a thatched hut on the hillside, no one helped him, and he had to go to the town to buy vegetables and food.

Qing Shu glanced at the bright sunlight outside, this is the evil result of the stupid woman of the Gu Ye clan, this is the credit of Gu Yunfu, the bastard who only fattened himself but forgot his brother's kindness. For five years, for five whole years, no one was sent back to his hometown to do anything, no one was sent back to his hometown to worship, leaving Gu Yuanhe alone to guard the general's tomb.

Why should others pay attention to the deceased general who is not valued by your own family? If it weren't for the fact that not long after she came to Da'an, she took out fifty taels of silver and asked Gu Qiang to give it to Gu Yuanhe, what would Gu Yuanhe, who had been robbed of the field on which he depended for his survival, eat and drink? What to take to live?

In terms of time, the incident happened half a month ago, even if Gu Yuanhe wrote a letter to the capital, even if they didn't leave the capital, received the letter, and then sent someone over, it took a month to go back and forth. Fortunately, they left Beijing and returned to their hometowns, which saved half a month in the middle. I only hope that Gu Yuanhe will be fine in the past half a month.

Such a big thing happened in Gujia Village, where can Qingshu still hurry slowly. "Find a roadside rest, everyone hurry up to eat some dry food, share the purple fruits, and then set off, to rush to Kangxi Town as soon as possible." According to the speed of their travel, they will not reach Kangxi Town until noon tomorrow. But now that they got such news, they must rush desperately, rush to the town as soon as possible, and then quickly send people to Gujia Village to inquire about the situation, and take Gu Yuanhe to the town by the way.

Since the brothers of the Kang family are on good terms with Gu Yuanhe, Qingshu naturally will not leave them behind, and let them take turns to rest on the scooter with the men in the house.

It's just that the group of them was in a hurry, and they still didn't have time to enter the town. It was already dark, and the small gates of the town were closed. The group couldn't, so they could only sleep outside the town, put up a fire, cook some hot food, and after eating, they lined up the people for the night vigil, and rested, and they would enter the town as soon as the small city gate opened tomorrow