Xie Da ran in front, his daughter-in-law chased after him with a kitchen knife, and the two ran down the north slope one after the other. As soon as she entered the main street, Xie Da wanted not to lead her daughter-in-law to Sister Yang again, she was angry, her eyes were red, and if she injured Sister Yang again, there would be no more money to compensate, so Xie Da turned around and ran in the direction of the ranch.

The blood on his head trickled down his forehead and onto his eyelids, and he reached out and wiped it, and his face was immediately spent, but he was not slow to run. His daughter-in-law couldn't catch up with him, so she held a kitchen knife and bent over her knees, panting and scolding, "If you run again, you won't be spared if you run to the edge of the sky, and if you don't return my money, you will die outside!" ”

Xie Da saw his daughter-in-law stop there panting, and also stopped and said, "Don't make a fuss and make the people in the field laugh, our family is all face-saving people, so we have to find a way again, you tell the truth, how many taels are left in the house?" ”

When his daughter-in-law heard this, she got angry again, and stepped forward and raised her knife to chase after her, "You are still here to get to know my truth, is it still for the woman!" "The young shepherds on the night shift in the ranch have never seen such a bustle, and they all run from afar as if they were watching a trick.

Xie Da ran three or five steps away from his daughter-in-law, and then turned around and said, "There is something you can't talk about at home, as for shouting outside, the door is not closed when it gets dark." ”

Xie Da's daughter-in-law ran and listened to Xie Da's words, and suddenly stopped and said, "It's not that you are angry with me, just now I finished counting and threw thirty taels on the kang and came out to grab the knife, why can't I make do with buying a smaller one." It's just that the one hundred taels I picked for nothing haven't been warmed yet! ”

"It's not like you can still have a house to live in, it's like the sky is falling, in case the money is lost, everything will be wrong on you,!" The two of them didn't care about fighting anymore, they both thought about the silver on the kang in their hearts, and they turned around and ran back together.

Several shepherds couldn't see it clearly, and saw that the eldest daughter-in-law Xie had thrown away the knife and ran fast in front. Xie Da ran to the kitchen knife on the ground, and said in his heart that he had to ask for silver, and the knife was also bought with silver. He bent down and picked up the knife. He ran home with his hand covered in blood.

The shepherds thought that Xie Da was powerful, and shouted in unison, "This is the master!" ”

Let's say that Xie Da and his family ran back to the yard one after another, and saw that the door of their house was still wide open. I didn't care about taking a breath and got in, and after a while, I rushed out in a hurry, and when I went to see the door of the eldest brother's house, it was General Tie who held the door. Second sister-in-law Xie sat down on the ground, slapped her hands on the ground and cried.

Xie Da was also dumbfounded, where is there still half a piece of silver on the kang! As soon as I heard that, there were thirty taels left. Xie Da also thought that he could also move to a new village, but who knew that he really let him guess.

He didn't persuade his daughter-in-law either, looking at the locked door of his eldest brother's house and thinking, there is always someone in his family on weekdays, but why today. Her daughter-in-law cried enough from the ground and got up and grabbed him to be angry, the two were arguing, and the eldest brother and sister-in-law came back from outside the hospital.

Xie Da asked, "Brother and sister-in-law, why did you go?" ”

His eldest brother didn't speak, so his sister-in-law took it and said. "It's not all about buying a house, and we might as well have silver as our brothers, so we have to go to my mother's house and get some back, and I'll go to Feng Tuanguan tomorrow to record my name."

Xie Da asked, "Did you go back to your parents' house and get some?" Aren't you afraid of meeting a thief in this dark sky? How much did you take? ”

The sister-in-law said, "How many, just thirty taels, just enough to buy a small yard." ”

The second sister-in-law stopped crying, and sat on the ground coldly when she heard this, "I haven't heard of any silver from my sister-in-law's family for so many years." Usually the accounts are calculated according to copper coins, how can there be silver at such a moment! ”

The sister-in-law said, "It's not surprising, I was crying poor yesterday." It's not for nothing that we go to the kiln today, why should our mother's family be poor? ”

"Coincidentally, eldest brother, our family just lost thirty taels today, I remember that when we went out, we saw the eldest brother and sister-in-law entering the courtyard, why did we open the door and go out and didn't bring the door, so you walked back and forth to your father-in-law's house after a while?" Xie Dachong said to his eldest brother. "Big brother, your father-in-law's house is not less than fifteen miles away from here, and it is not less than twelve or thirteen miles away, is it flying?"

The eldest brother of the Xie family came back from his sister's house, and it was dark, and before they entered the yard, they saw the two adults of the second family rushing to the street with knives, and the second sister-in-law Xie was still talking about silver. Brother Xie and his daughter-in-law didn't go to persuade him, and when he saw the door of the second child's house open, he quietly went in, and saw that there were thirty taels of silver on the kang under the light, and his sister-in-law grabbed it and put it in her arms and pulled Xie Guang out.

Xie Guang said, "How can this work? ”

His daughter-in-law said, "Why not? To tell you the truth, this silver is ours, and it is also the will of God to come back today, and I don't want the twenty taels left! As soon as the eldest brother of the Xie family thought that this was really the case, he came up with an idea and said, "Let's go out and hide first, otherwise it's hard to say when we come back." ”

The two of them found a place to hide, and waited until Xie Da and his wife came back before they appeared. After listening to Xie Da's words, his sister-in-law was not in a hurry, and said with a smile, "It's not a little far, our sister-in-law gave me fifty taels of silver a few days ago, saying that the two brothers are fifty taels, and it was Gao who took care of him to buy the house." I thought that it would be bad if I met a thief, but fortunately my mother's family had a lot of people, and it was not easy to start if there were thieves in and out, so I put the silver in my mother's house. Yesterday, I gave a letter to my mother's family and asked them to send thirty taels, and it happened that you delivered it when you went out, and your eldest brother and I just sent people away...... Why didn't you receive the money from your sister? But also, the brothers have lived a life of carrying a birdcage and having a drink for a while, how can they look at a mere fifty taels. ”

After that, the sister-in-law of the Xie family took her husband back to the house and hung the two of them in the dark yard.

The second sister-in-law of the Xie family was so angry that she didn't want to cry, and she didn't have the energy to fight anymore, and the more than 100 taels of silver were only covered in her hands, and now there is nothing left. Maybe she had been sitting on the ground for a long time, or maybe she had just run so hard that as soon as she stood up, her eyes turned black and she fell into the courtyard all at once.

Gao Yu didn't move this time, his livelihood was all here, the brick kiln, the tavern, and the newly approved alfalfa plot immediately had to find someone to level out a small piece, and in a few days it would be Qingming, he had to get the ground done before Qingming, put some fertilizer, and sprinkle the grass seeds when it rained.

So after breakfast that day, he went to the pasture and called Gao Jun, and the two rode to the north of the mountain. When passing by the entrance of the village, Gao Jun saw the grave on the side of the road and asked the second brother to wait for him for a while.

He dismounted and went to the grave, and when he saw that there were clumps of new weeds growing on it, he stooped down and pulled them out. The words on the tombstone cut out of the wood were not very clear, and a sense of sadness could not help but rise in my heart.

Gao Yu saw his brother hesitating in front of a grave for a long time, so he came over and said, "You have a heart," Gao Yu was busy day and night in the kiln here. He didn't dare to come here to pull weeds, in fact, it was only a hundred steps away from his brick kiln.

Gao Jun said, "Second brother, you hire two people to repair this place." Brick on the veil...... Stele...... You don't have to go through the hassle of writing, just engrave your name. ”

Gao Yu responded. When the two left, Gao Jun seemed to feel that there was a gust of wind blowing behind him, and the wind of spring and March was neither hot nor cold. It's going to be Qingming soon. He suddenly wanted to go back to Chang'an to have a look.

The approval document sent by Luo Dao newly granted a large piece of wasteland in the north of the mountain to Gaoyu, and the Xizhou government had enough reasons to give strong support to this kind of production activities that were conducive to the pastoral affairs of the Tang Dynasty. Gao Yu said on the road, I will plant grass for you, and the price will always be cheaper than outside.

Gao Jun knew that he was talking about business, so he didn't laugh, he just said, "It's best, but I don't want you to suffer a big loss." In the future, as long as it's always lower than what Jia Manzhou delivers, I don't want anyone to chew behind my back. ”

In fact, this piece of land is not far from the residence of the two elder brothers of the Xie family, from the Xie family's thatched house, to the north to climb the high gang, you can see the whole picture of this land, but under the high gang is a knife-like steep hillside, but there is no path.

The two had to go out of the east entrance of the village, and on the left side of the road to Liuzhong County was a sheep intestine trail that crossed the mountain, and they happened to take a horse, and the two rode a horse after one another.

Gao Jun saw that there were many mulberry trees on the hillside inside the trail, and they had already pulled out green shoots. Some crazy branches can reach out and touch them on a horse. They were also left to fend for themselves, and no one repaired them, which reminded him of the lonely grave again. The heart says that people are like plants and trees, and in the blink of an eye, they are a reincarnation. Mulberry trees can still pull branches when spring comes. And the old man can only be farther and farther away, worse than a gust of wind. So I made up my mind to go to Chang'an to have a look.

Sandwiched between the north and south ridges, this land has the appearance of seventy or eighty acres, and the terrain in the middle is also flat, but mixed with gravel rolled down from the mountains on both sides. The wind was strong at the top of the mountain to the north, and fist-sized rocks rolled all over the ground. The soil layer is also not good. In addition, the mountain road in and out is narrow and difficult to walk, and there have been people who want to open up the wasteland here before, but the cost is not small, so they just do it.

The two of them made plans as they walked, and if they wanted to plant the grass here, they had to hire someone to immediately pick out the stones in the field and turn over the ground to fertilizer. In order to be safe, retaining walls should be built under the mountains on both sides to prevent stones from rolling down from behind, and the path into the mountain should be widened to make it easier to enter and exit.

The two of them were standing on the edge of the ground and were discussing, when they heard someone arguing overhead, and they could hear some of it. I only listened to one woman's words, "My brother-in-law gave you and me fifty taels each, why can't we have this silver?" You have lost the money, but you have come to suspect your brother and sister-in-law! Gao Jun heard that this was Xie's sister-in-law talking.

I only listened to the other woman's words, "Hmph, you can tell me clearly, when and where did the tall man put the silver into your hands, can you dare to say it clearly?" Let's go to Mr. Gao to testify in person. "This is Xie's second sister-in-law.

When Gao Jun heard this, he immediately beckoned the second brother to leave quickly, and his face was also feverish for them. The second brother said, "Do you want to tell them in the future, you don't have to speak so loudly in the future, there will be more outsiders in my field, don't listen to what you shouldn't listen to." ”

Gao Jun snorted, "A few taels of silver is a bad thing, whoever likes to listen to it." ”

Gao Yu laughed in a low voice, "If you have this first, then I can listen to it." After that, I really put my hands in my ears and listened, but I could only hear that the two sides had already moved at this time, and the two women tore each other for a while, and each beat their own men who came to fight, annoying that they had no ability. It seems that the sister-in-law caught the second brother Xie Guang between pulling, and the second sister-in-law went to catch the eldest uncle without showing weakness, and the family couldn't score a lot.

The two of them listened tastelessly, and when they came back, Gao Yu said on the road, "If you have such energy to do something serious, I'm afraid that if I see them, I will fight a thousand children." ”

Mr. Gao left his second brother and returned to the ranch from the village, and explained the recent major events in the ranch to Liu Wu in detail and went home, Liu Yuru and Xie were taking Tian Tian to turn over the soil in the yard, and the mother-in-law and the old man helped move some bricks and were repairing the flower beds in the yard. And Siqing and Fan Ying took a sword, and the other held a two-moon scimitar, and they were cutting on the other side.

Gao Jun said, "The old and the weak are working here, but the two of you are playing." ”

Liu Yuru smiled and said, "You don't need to provoke, this is called doing your best." Tian Tian and the old man's grandson were playing with the soil with a small wooden shovel, and Tian Tian said, "We are not helping the eldest lady to work." ”

Gao Jun said to Liu Yuru, "It's about to be clear, and I'm going to Chang'an." Liu Yuru knew what he meant, Gao Jun asked her if she wanted to go back to see, she said, "I don't have anything to worry about, I don't want to go, and I have to take care of the house." ”

Gao Jun saw a thin bead of sweat on her ruddy and elegant face, and remembered the upcoming journey, and Gao Jun's heart suddenly gave birth to reluctance. But seeing that she had completely abandoned Chang'an and put all her thoughts here, she was very relieved.

Fan Ying jumped over and said, "I'll go back with you!" Go by all means. There was a hint of begging on his face.

Gao Jun saw Siqing also watching, and said, "You're not afraid that someone will blame you for privately detaining you for life, so go ahead." I don't have anything here, even Siqing who hasn't been to Chang'an is not in a hurry than you, who do you say I should bring? I don't bring anyone with me, you and Siqing are here to use the sword, I can rest assured. ”

When Liu Yuru and the others heard this, they asked about the day, and immediately put down the work in their hands to do something for him. In the afternoon he went to Xizhou, and returned from the place where he had done a good job at the Rod's knife. The next morning, Gao Jun flew up with a black knife and a charcoal fire, waved at the women who were sent to the courtyard, and said goodbye.

Gao Jun arrived at Chiting at noon to guard and capture, Gao Jun just had a hurried meal, replenished the water bag and went on the road again.

On the way, Gao Jun remembered that Brother Xue Li said that charcoal fire was a bloody horse, and since it came to his side, he had experienced a few battles, but he didn't see it once.

Gao Jun had the heart to try, and he kept speeding up the horse on the road, and he let it eat some forage at night and walked for another two or three hundred miles, but he still couldn't see a trace of blood and sweat from it.

However, by the time the morning dawned, the Yumen Pass, which was 1,200 miles away from Xizhou, had already revealed its tall and majestic tower in the morning light. (To be continued.) )