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There is a village called Tianjiawan in the north of Lintaofu City, the village is not big, but there are forty or fifty families living in it, because the village is located in the official road to Chong, in order to give the travelers a rest, the village entrance is close to the official road, opened a tea shop, the villagers of this village can also come here to chat and gather if they have nothing to do, but the people of this village drink tea, it is quite cheap, a penny copper coin, you can drink for half a day, almost for nothing.

There is a thatched house of six houses at the east end of the village, because it has not been renovated for a long time, it looks a little dilapidated, the wall mud is large and falls off, the wall is full of cracks, the thatch on the roof has been withered, obviously the support time is more than one or two years, fortunately there is not much rain here, otherwise it must leak.

Those who can build such six houses are either large families with large populations and many houses in need, or they are well-off, and from the periphery of the house, the family is obviously a broken family.

The owner of the house is called Guo Shijun, a local talent, his parents died soon after they worked hard to save this house, and he has no mother-in-law at home, so far he still "goes out with a lock, and enters with a light." ”

Guo Shijun originally pinned the hopes of his family, he himself was also very competitive, he was in his twenties and was selected for Xiucai, and he originally studied in the local government school, although it was not the best "Lisheng", the government would not give grain and rice, but it was not necessary to study.

If it is expected according to normal expectations, Guo Shijun will definitely become the pride of the village in the future, even if he can't become a jinshi, there should be no problem in lifting people, and he can become a local squire at the worst.

Some good things are big, so they rushed to Guo Shijun's house, they made their own little calculations, if they can send him a room for his mother-in-law now, it should be stable to get some light and oil in the future.

However, this Guo Shijun is not only wooden, but even a little pedantic, his interests are all in reading, and there are no relatives in the family to make decisions for him, so the marriage is delayed.

No one thought that more than two years ago, Guo Shijun had a serious illness, because the treatment was not timely, the condition continued to worsen, and then all the hair on the top of his head fell out, leaving only a circle of hair around him, which was called "ghost shaving head" by the locals, which was sentenced to death.

But Guo Shijun was really fateful, and after three days of hunger strike, he was not taken away by Niu Tou Ma Mian, but just let out a loud fart, and his mind was more sober.

At first, everyone thought that he was returning to the light, and a kind villager cooked some noodle soup and forcibly poured it on him, hoping that he would be more sober, and it would be best to give him the house, land, etc. in front of everyone, and fight for his funeral, and there is still a good surplus.

Just like when Guo Shijun was sick, the neighbors saw an accident in him again, although it was not what they had hoped for.

After Guo Shijun drank the noodle soup for two or three days, his spirit was slightly better, so he asked for two white-flour steamed buns, salted radish strips and water, swallowed it, and fell asleep for a long time, but after waking up, he was able to go to the ground by himself.

The illness comes like a mountain, and the illness goes like a thread, Guo Shijun's illness is so unclear that it is not clear.

The villager who gave him noodle soup and counted on the house and land, but he regretted his intestines, and he was scolded by his aunt when he went home, if he didn't have his noodle soup, Guo Shijun would have starved to death of thirst even if he didn't die of illness.

Although Guo Shijun also sent him a lot of eggs and pork in order to be grateful, and even gave him more than one or two pieces of silver before and after, but compared with the entire property, these are a drop in the bucket.

What a self-defeating decision! If you knew today, why bother in the first place?

It's strange to say that after Guo Shijun recovered from his illness, he no longer studied with his head bored, nor did he sit in the library to earn some silver to subsidize his family, but he liked to talk nonsense in the tea shop, and even military affairs, he could also guide the maze.

At first, when he had no hair, he still wore an old felt hat, and when his hair was fully grown, he wore his hair in a bun and a gray cloth gown, just like those ordinary talents, and he was everywhere in the village.

Occasionally, for a few days, Guo Shijun closed his door and didn't know what to do at home.

Because Guo Shijun rarely interacted with people before, except for the days when he was sick and the big feet of good things, others rarely went to his home, and no one cared about his daily life.

After Guo Shijun recovered from his illness this time, he may have thanked his neighbors for saving his life in times of crisis, and gradually became active in the village, and he no longer had his nostrils facing the sky all day long, especially the tea shop Hu Kanhai, most of the audience were from his own village, and he began to integrate into his own village.

Some big feet with hearts, knowing that his family still has more than a dozen acres of thin fields, they once again opened up to find his mother-in-law, a family in the neighboring village, the daughter is sixteen years old, still waiting to be in the boudoir, the appearance is good, and the character is also loud.

There is a fertile field in the house, and the scriptures are stored in the belly.

Her parents listened to several rumors about Big Foot, especially Guo Shijun's parents have passed away, and once their daughter passes through the door, she can directly take charge of the house, so she is a little excited, and she is basically willing.

Guo Shijun died once, his mind turned alive, and when he saw that the big foot said that the girl was out of the blue, he pushed the boat down the river, and thanked him for the coal money, and he was just about to officially start the "Three Books and Six Rites".

I don't want this Guo Shijun's family to have more than ten acres of fertile land, but they don't like to operate, the land rent is difficult to collect, and they sit and eat landslides, and in less than half a year, the land property is almost sold, and in the end only these old thatched houses are left, and even making a living is a problem.

As soon as the woman's parents inquired and knew that the Guo family was declining day by day, they blamed Bigfoot for not harming his daughter, but fortunately, it was still too late, and the marriage was refused.

Guo Shijun didn't care, not only did he not blame the other party for breaking the verbal agreement, but he didn't even ask for Xie Meili back, but when the bigfoot saw that Guo Shijun's life was not like words, they completely gave up the idea of finding his mother-in-law for him, and scolded in their hearts: He deserves to be a bachelor in his life!

The severance of this marriage, everyone thinks that Guo Shijun is a loser, maybe his brain burns out when he is sick, not only ordinary people, but also military households who are too poor to open the pot, even if their daughter can't marry because she has no dowry, she doesn't want to marry Guo Shijun, so as not to suffer for the rest of her daughter's life.

What others say, Guo Shijun doesn't care, it's still the same, and then I have no money to go to the teahouse, and I either hang out with a teacup all day long, or I am in a daze under the sun, and sometimes I mumble to myself.

After the Heavenly Mandate Army entered Longyou, they distributed land to him, but he was not good at farming, and handed over the land to others to plough on his behalf, and before the harvest season, his life was already extremely difficult.

Guo Shijun didn't know where to hear that Li Zicheng, the governor of the capital, had built a cement road and a cement bridge in Gongchang Mansion, and contacted the glass he burned in Xining.

The neighbors don't dig deeper, they are used to Guo Shijun's madness, they smile in front of them, say two words of compliment, but behind their backs, Guo Shijun will destroy those dilapidated houses sooner or later, and I am afraid that he will have to sleep on the haystack in the future.

On this day, Guo Shijun took the only two steamed buns, and asked the neighbors to take care of the houses for him temporarily, and he didn't need to say goodbye to everyone, singing songs that others couldn't understand all the way, and went to Lanzhou in the north with the morning dew.

Two steamed buns can barely support a day's food, but it takes at least three days to travel from Tianjiawan to Lanzhou, a distance of nearly 200 miles, and to cross a large number of valleys.

Guo Shijun traveled for a day, and by the end of the night, the steamed buns had been consumed, and he had no money on him, so he had to rest in a sheltered place at the foot of the mountain.

Although it was freezing at this time, the night in the mountains was still very cold, Guo Shijun wrapped the old cotton clothes tightly around his body, and still couldn't resist the cold, so he had to get up and walk, go around the foot of the mountain, trot for a while, although his body was slightly warmer, but he was more tired.

He couldn't help but think to himself: if he trotted like this and his body was tired, how would he rush tomorrow? And once he exercised, he would consume more food, but he had no more food on his body......

How to keep out the cold in the valley?

Guo Shijun leaned on a big tree, slowly squatted down, shrunk his body into a ball, and suddenly touched the fallen leaves on the ground, and was happy in his heart: There is!

Although the weather was gloomy and cold, the valley was not deep and secluded, and the nearby was already in full bloom, so he plucked a large number of branches and leaves from the branches, first spread a half-meter-wide layer in the valley as a quilt, and then picked off many leaves, took off the outer robe pocket, covered his body, and lay down in the leaves, only half of his head was exposed.

Although it is not as good as a quilt, it can withstand some mountain wind and night dew, Guo Shijun feels not as cold as he was just now, and with fatigue, he fell asleep unconsciously.

When he woke up, the sun had already come out, and the cold seemed to have subsided, but the biggest problem Guo Shijun faced was no longer cold, but hunger.

He had neither food nor money, and he did not want to go to the market to beg, so he had to pluck the young branches and leaves of some plants in the mountains and feed his hunger on the stream.

Guo Shijun endured hunger and cold, and finally rushed to Lanzhou, and asked people about it, and Li Zicheng, the governor of the capital, went to Guguan, and he was stunned, like pouring a scoop of ice water on his head.

Lanzhou is hundreds of miles away from Guguan, and it is no longer possible to rely on plant streams to rush to Guguan.

Guo Shijun is unwilling, why is he carrying it like this? Heaven gave me a second life? Is it just the one who fooled me and made me suffer here?

He stumbled away from Lanzhou City, wanting to go to Gaolan Mountain to find some food to satisfy his hunger, Gaolan Mountain is huge, maybe some wild fruits may not be enough!

Unexpectedly, when I went up the mountain from the foot of the mountain, my body was weak, my feet were weak, and I suddenly fell to the ground, rolled twice, my eyes were black, and I didn't know anything.

When Li Zicheng returned to Lanzhou, he could have entered the east gate from the official road, but he was in a good mood along the way, so he intended to see the scenery along the way.

When approaching Lanzhou, he left the official road with his own soldiers and crossed half of Gaolan Mountain, wanting to enter the city from the south gate, but at the foot of Gaolan Mountain, he encountered a half-lying corpse.

"This is not a battlefield, how can there be corpses?" Li Zicheng frowned, "If it is a normal death, someone will always give it a burial!" ”

He Xiaomi's gaze and said, "Dadu Governor, this person is wearing a long robe, he should be a scholar!" ”

"Reader? How could a scholar die in the valley? Could it be that when you were visiting the mountain, you accidentally fell from the top of the mountain? Li Zicheng pointed with his hand and said: "In the Longyou area, there are few people who read, Xiaomi, go and see!" ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" He Xiaomi took two personal soldiers and went to the "corpse" to take a closer look.