Chapter 0048 - Helping Hands to Solve a Clever Plan
The young man looked at Xia Kun, who was talking like a sissy, and didn't speak again. At this time, a little monk ran to inform the young man and said, "Talented boy, the abbot asked you to put down your work and hurry up to copy the scriptures, which will be used tomorrow." ”
“…… This...... I just can't copy it from now on without eating, drinking, sleeping, or sleeping! Seeing the embarrassed face of the young man who was called a high talent, the little monk shrugged his thin shoulders and said, "I can't help you, that's what the abbot said." Hey-let me tell you a rare thing, your brother and the horses of the 'Flying Tigers' were frightened by firecrackers and ran away, and I heard that the chief son of Qian was furious, and threatened that if you can't find those military horses, your brother will pay for it! It's really the same ruthlessness and unrighteousness...... Amitabha! ”
After listening to the words of the little monk, more than one person was surprised, Gao Cai looked at the ancient style, and was surprised that what Xia Kun said was true. Gu Feng looked at Gao Cai, and was surprised that Mu Cheng was actually his brother.
"How is that possible? also has a different surname......" Gu Feng took the initiative to ask to help Gao Cai copy the scriptures in order to clarify his doubts, Gao Cai didn't seem to want to agree, but he was helpless, he really couldn't complete the task alone, so he had to agree to Gu Feng. Except for Xia Kun's handwriting, which is not very good, Gu Yun and Qin Dui can both copy it, and if one person can't complete the work, four people can do it quickly. When it was time for dinner, the task given to Gao Cai by the abbot was completed, and they ate and stayed in the temple for one night. Gao Cai finally lifted his hostility towards Gu Feng and them, and told the grievances between him and Mu Cheng with all his heart.
Mu Cheng's father and Gao Cai's father are a pair of very good friends, and they are intimate partners in business. However, Gaocai's family disaster is not a one-way street, first the mother was ill, and she asked a doctor for medicine for a few years, and the family wealth was spent and the old man's life was not saved. In order to save the lives of Mu Cheng's father and several helpers, his father was buried by a mudslide while buying and selling grain. The remaining lonely and talented man is only 14 years old. Mu Cheng's father took Gao Cai as his adopted son, took him home, raised him, and provided Gao Cai to study like his own son. However, just last year, Mu Cheng's father died of illness, and all the original arrangements for Gao Cai were changed after Mu Cheng took charge. It should be the brothers, Mu Cheng did not recognize this younger brother, and gave Gao Cai a house and 20 acres of fertile land, Mu Cheng snatched them all, and drove Gao Cai out of the house domineeringly, so he had to borrow the temple to live.
"Brother Gao Cai, can the old man give you these fields and real estate without a contract when he is alive? Take the title deed and house deed to the county magistrate to sue him. ”
Gao Cai lowered his head sadly, as if it had made several efforts to stop his sadness, sighed and said, "Here's the problem!" There are contracts for the house and the fertile land, but somehow in my book fell into the hands of the guy. I didn't have any proof, relying on a few words of truth from the oral testimony of a few neighbors, it didn't have much effect, barely let the guy give me five acres of ration land, but it was all low-lying land with overgrown reeds and nine floods in ten years, just next to the reeds on the shore of Lake Kurosawa, the grain harvested in a year was not enough for me to eat for half a year, and this year's drought, I thought that the land would be better, but I went to see it two days earlier, and the crops were not much better than in previous years. ”
"So you have to live in the temple and help with some work in exchange for a few meals."
"Exactly! However, there is another point, which is that I can read and learn here. ”
"Oh! You are also a scholar, have you taken the county exam this year? ”
"Participated, and the county master also saw that he was lucky to enter the Hongmen, and he became a showman."
Knowing that Gao Cai and Mu Cheng are on the same list, Gu Feng was very happy, why is there such a big gap between these two brothers with different surnames in terms of morality! Gu Feng prefers to make friends with Gao Cai. The two exchanged poems and reads, Gao Cai's literary style is good, but Gu Feng's poetry and writing skills are much better than Gao Cai, in fact, Gu Feng understands that Gao Cai's level is also at the level of his sister Gu Yun, or it is not as fresh as Gu Yun's poems! Gu Feng wanted to make friends with him, and at this time, it seemed that he was of good character and kind-hearted. Being bullied by his brother who is not a thing, Gu Feng is thinking about how to vent his anger for Gao Cai, and it is best to return his 20 acres of fertile land to ensure his future life.
"Brother Qin, little Xia Kun brothers, you are all rich people, let me ask you, how many silver taels do you still have on your body? Is there gold? Faced with Gu Feng's sudden question, the two were at a loss. Gu Feng smiled and whispered to them that he wanted to help Gao Cai get back the good land and real estate from Mu Cheng, and the real estate was okay, but the good land had to come back, otherwise Gao Cai's future life would be lost, and his studies would be in vain.
Xiao Xiakun had a silver coin in his hand, which weighed ten taels, and some scattered silver; Qin Dui only had some scattered silver in his hand.
"If only Liu Li and Liu couldn't leave!" Hearing Gu Feng's self-talk, even Gu Yun asked in confusion: "Little brother! What do you want gold and silver for? Gu Feng still smiled mysteriously and didn't tell the mystery, but asked: "Sister, how much money do you have on you?" ”
They all knew that Gu Feng didn't take this money to buy back the land for Gao Cai, because the money couldn't buy back twenty acres of land at all. And what exactly they are doing, they don't know. However, seeing Gu Feng holding the collected silver and frowning, and worrying because the silver was not enough, Gu Yun was a little distressed, so she secretly went to the thatched house and took out a gold leaf from her underwear.
When he saw the gold leaf, Gu Feng was happy, and he returned all the broken silver to everyone, leaving only a silver coin from Xiao Xia Kun and a gold leaf from his sister. Then I found Gao Cai and carefully told him the implementation plan of the plan.
The next day the wind was good, and Gao Cai, like everyone else, was not happy to go to the field to harvest. His five acres of land are planted with sweet potatoes and soybeans. Soybeans are sparse and grow small, not only the beans are small, but the beans are also small, and the harvest is pitiful. Soon after harvesting the soybeans and digging the sweet potatoes, Gao Cai became more and more miserable, and he showed his poor harvest, and his sad mood and demeanor exaggerated to the neighbors.
However, on the second day of the sweet potato harvest, Gao Cai suddenly became elated, and nervously let people see it, saying that he had dug up a silver coin when digging sweet potatoes, and his five-acre depression might be a cornucopia. People have to believe that the silver bill, which weighs ten taels, is in Gao Cai's hands, and it is true. Gao Cai's family doesn't say that there will be no silver bills, even if Gao Cai borrows it himself, he can't borrow it.
As word of mouth spread, Gao Cai set up a small grass hut and lived in the field with a broken quilt to guard it. After another day, Gao Cai took out a gold leaf for people to see, it was really a yellow-orange gold sheet, and people saw it with their own eyes, and there was mud on it! Another day passed, Gao Cai took out a small jade Buddha with dirt in the lines, and Gao Cai frantically showed it to people, full of spring breeze, as if there was a tendency to raise his eyebrows.
Of course, only Gu Feng, Gu Yun, and Qin Dui knew that the little jade Buddha was Xiao Xia Kun's ornament, and they regarded it as a treasure on weekdays. At this time, people were also frantically spreading the news, exaggerating, imagining, and deducing, exaggerating the blessings of high talents to the help of the gods, and boasting the five acres of depression to an inexhaustible cornucopia.
How could Mu Cheng not hear his brother's time coming these days? It turned out that he was a money fan, and he was in pain because he was robbed of thousands of taels of silver by Ma Santai's "dumb overlord" and "ruthless ghost" to compensate for the military horse! As soon as I heard that my brother's five acres of land could dig up treasures, and there were endless ones, I couldn't help but feel evil from the side of my guts.