The night is dark.

Gu's mansion is brightly lit.

"The head of the family, Gu Qiu and the family's soldiers are back!"

"Coming back?" Gu Peng's face was overjoyed: "Where are they?" ”

"They're all in the courtyard now!"

Gu Hou lowered his head and his face was heavy, and there was a trace of emotion in his expression that he wanted to cry but couldn't cry.

"What's wrong?" Gu Peng was stunned, shouldn't he be happy?

"Master of the house, you better go and see for yourself!" Gu Hou's choked voice said faintly, he personally went to collect the corpses, carried the corpses one by one on the cart, and then used a lot of tenants from the manor outside the city to carry them, and then sent them back to the Gu family's mansion.

Gu Peng's heart suddenly, a gloomy aura surged into his heart, and his steps were much faster, but when he approached the courtyard, he heard a wailing sound in the midst of crying, and his heart sank into the ice cellar at once.

"My son!"

"Woo woo, Xianggong, why did you go!"

"Who gave my father back to me!"

"Brother, I swore that I would kill all the Yellow Turban thieves in the future to comfort your spirit in the sky!"

“……”

When the corpses are brought back, they weep, they cry, they cry, they roar, they mourn...... The voices with strong emotions were staggered in the mansion, and the sad mood was spreading, and the entire Gu clan seemed to have fallen into a lowest point.

The children of the entire 200 families, they happily set out on the expedition, thinking that they were making meritorious contributions, but now overnight, all of them have turned into corpses.

Their parents, wives and children, and relatives are now left with only grief.

"Qiu'er, my Qiu'er, why are you willing to let the old man go!"

Gu Peng walked along the courtyard step by step, he stretched out his hand and stroked the corpse with his head separated, he couldn't cry, but his eyes were red and teary, as if he was seeping with bloody tears.

He has a son, but after his son raised his filial piety and went out of his career, he was away for a long time, only his nephew Gu Qiu was quite intimate, regarded as a parent, but Gu Qiu was good at martial arts, he could only invite the best ranger, a military man who had been in the army and retired, to teach him eighteen kinds of martial arts, and let him teach him to read in person.

But today, this little nephew he loved the most became a cold corpse, although the body was complete, but the head was cut off, and it looked like it was spliced together.

"Master of the family, you mourn and change, take care of your body!" Gu Hou looked at Gu Peng, who was a little shaky under the attack of grief and indignation, and hurriedly whispered advice: "Now that the family is on the cusp, you must not fall!" ”

"I'm not going to fall!"

Gu Peng's eyes burst out with a resentful and cruel light, his hands held the crutches rigidly, and he said very stiffly: "With such a big revenge, how could I fall down so easily!" ”

He looked up to the sky and drank wildly, and his mournful voice echoed in the courtyard: "Yellow Turban Thief, a certain and you don't share the sky." ”

One wrong step and he paid a heavy price.

Thirty years at the helm of the family, this was the biggest mistake he ever made.

"Head of the house, is there someone outside the house asking to see you?"

A porter came in a hurry, a little impatient.

"Who?" Gu Hou saw that Gu Peng's mood was a little wrong, and hurriedly asked.

"The head of the Luo family, the head of the Wang family, the head of the Chen family......" The porter reported more than a dozen names in one breath.

"Invite them to the lobby!"

When Gu Peng heard these names, he took a deep breath, calmed down, and said gloomily.

"No!" The porter took the command.

"Gu Hou!"

"In!"

"All the children of the family, bury them thickly, and each of them will receive a gold pension to appease the mood of their relatives!" Gu Peng calmed down, and once again became the head of the Gu family who was scheming, and he knew everything about everything.

In this era, human life is very cheap, especially the private soldiers of the scholar clan, who die for the family, and glory does not need vulgar money to compensate, under normal circumstances, even if a government soldier dies, at most it is only to supplement ten stone rice, or a few pieces of cloth.

But this time, the annihilation of the 200 soldiers will inevitably affect the morale of the army within the Gu clan, so he wants to appease the morale of the army with a lot of money.

"No!" Gu Hou received the order.

Gu Peng walked out of the courtyard step by step with a cane, his back was very vicissitudes of life, and he was still sad, but his steps were still very steady, he could carry a family man, his shoulders were very strong, even if he was old, he couldn't step over.

The main hall of the Gu Mansion, this is a spacious lobby, not magnificent, a little simple, but elegantly furnished, but in line with the façade of a scholarly door.

In the past, the Wuyin clan took the Zhu family as the leader, and the rich and magnificent hall of the Zhu family's mansion became a place for discussion among the heads of the major families, but since the Zhu family was destroyed, the Gu clan took his place and became the backbone of the Wuyin clan, and it has also become a place for major families to discuss matters.

After the Zhu clan was wiped out, they used to talk here about how to divide the interests of the Zhu clan.

Until yesterday, they were talking about how to eradicate the Yellow Turbans.

But tonight......

At this moment, the heads of more than a dozen families are like ants in a frying pot, pacing back and forth one by one, feeling uneasy.

At this time, Gu Peng, the owner of the mansion, walked in with a cane.

"Gu Family Master!"

"Brother Gu!"

Everyone saluted one after another, and those who were closer were called brothers, and those who were more distant were called the masters of the ancient family.

"The meaning of your hasty coming, the old man understands!"

Gu Peng stepped up to the first place, sat down on his knees, and the little slaves and maids on the left and right came up to offer tea, he took a sip of tea, but he couldn't understand the gloomy atmosphere in his body, and his voice was still a little cold: "We and other scholars, suffering such a heavy setback, you are a little difficult to feel at ease!" ”

"Brother Gu, you are guaranteed to win that day!" The head of the Chen family looked at Gu Peng with a dead eye: "But now, my Chen family's fifty elite government soldiers have all turned into corpses one by one!" ”

"Brother Chen, you have lost fifty soldiers, but my two hundred sons of the Gu clan can't come back, you resent me, who should I resent me!"

Gu Peng said coldly: "When I sent the army, I decided to do it alone, or did you agree, but now that the army is defeated, are you going to count all the charges on my Gu Peng's head?" ”

"This ......"

"Brother Gu is angry!"

"That's not what we meant, the Gu family has already said it!"

The heads of the family suddenly said in amazement.

This time, of the five hundred elite soldiers, the Gu family came out of two hundred, the Chen family came out of fifty, and the rest of their families only contributed half, some of them produced twenty or thirty people, and some of them produced more than a dozen people.

"Brother Gu, I don't want to blame, but I'm a little anxious, just fifty sons, although my Chen family's soldiers are greatly injured, my Chen family can still afford to be injured!" Chen Hong, the head of the Chen family, is about forty years old, very rough, not quite like a scholar, but he also used to be filial piety and honesty, but his career was not smooth, but he was only the master of Xi'e County.

Although the Chen family lost a lot of soldiers in the midst of successive failures.

But they still have young and strong, they also have money, and it is not impossible to train elite soldiers.

He said faintly: "I'm afraid of the revenge of Mushan, how to defeat this battle, we don't know yet, Jingping Village is just some old and weak women and children, how can we defeat our five hundred elites, but last night there were still yellow turban thieves into the city to plunder, overnight, I was burned in the city shops and warehouses were burned more than half, this is probably Mushan led the troops back, if Mushan led the troops to retaliate, my Chen Mansion is not as strong as the ancient mansion, can not hold at all, the ruins of the Zhu Mansion is a warning, the disaster of destroying the door, is in front of you, how can you not be impatient!" ”

"Yes!"

"I'm worried!"

"I don't want to be like the Zhu family, where there is no bloodline!"

The crowd panicked.

"Is it really Makiyama who has come back with his troops?"

When Gu Peng heard this, a trace of fear appeared on his face, although it was only for a moment, and outsiders couldn't detect it, but he also knew in his heart that he was also afraid, afraid of following in the footsteps of the Zhu family.

After all, their opponent is the Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban thieves who have no taboos, the Yellow Turban Rebellion that year, how many local heroes of the Shi clan were slaughtered by them, far from it, let's say Wuyin, the Zhu Mansion was burned down and now there is a ruin left.

"The little one meets the head of the house, and there is something to report!" A porter walked quickly, and saluted as he entered.

"What?"

"Meng Wu of Menwai County asks to see!" The porter bowed his head, his voice serious, and whispered.

"Meng Wu?"

"He still dares to come?"

When the people heard this, they were furious.

"Let him go!"

Gu Peng was also furious, and a cold killing intent burst out of his eyes.