Chapter XXXVII. Scatter all your possessions

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On the carriage, the Jinyi guards pulled the furious Hou Guoxing and begged bitterly.

Soon, the group came to a secluded courtyard near the imperial city.

"Princess!"

Hou Guoxing, who let the Jinyi guards forcibly pull them into the courtyard, saw Wang An, who was wearing civilian clothes with Luo Sigong, stunned in place, and opened his mouth in surprise.

"Hou Gongzi! You're back! Wang An, who was looking forward to wear it, walked forward quickly, pulled Hou Guoxing up, looked left and right, and after confirming that it was okay, he turned to Luoyang, who was standing on the side, his eyes were full of surprise, and said:

"Our hospitality lady has thanked Commander Luo!"

Although it was ordered by the emperor, Wang An, who should be polite, naturally would not be left behind, and Luo Sigong was also modest.

Hou Guoxing looked at the two polite people on the side, put down the doubts in his heart and said:

"Commander Luo, I don't know if I brought the subordinate here? What is it? If the commander and the prince have nothing else to do, they will immediately rush back to the Hou Mansion. ”

Hou Guoxing doesn't care about investigating why these two people brought themselves here, the tenants at home are still waiting for help!

After speaking, he arched his hand to the two of them, ready to push the door and leave.

"Don't worry! This commander has already sent my Jinyi Wei Baihu to bring people over to help you watch the Hou Mansion! The emperor has decreed that if something happens to you, this commander will also suffer......"

Luo Sigong pulled Hou Guoxing with a calm face!

It turned out that when Luo Sigong forcibly took Hou Guoxing away in the prison, Hou Guoxing pointed out that a large number of scholars would soon surround him, and if he left, he would directly lead the fire of the matter to Jinyiwei.

So he offered to stay in prison and promised to get out. Jin Yiwei is a secret agent of the Son of Heaven, and this kind of thing of a large number of scholars gathering in the capital naturally cannot escape Luo Sigong's eyes.

Seeing Hou Guoxing's appearance of being full of chest, after Luo Sigong weighed it, he ordered the Jinyi guards who stayed in the prison to protect Hou Guoxing! and agreed to Hou Guoxing's request and sent someone to the Hou Mansion to protect him.

At this time, seeing that Luo Sigong's face was not good, Wang An on the side hurriedly spoke and said softly:

"Hou Gongzi! Lord Luo brought you here for your safety! And everything has been arranged, and the Baohou Mansion is safe and sound. You're going to stay in this yard for the next few days. Don't show up, wait until you're done. That's right! I'll arrange for you to come over your maid too......"

Looking at the chattering Wang An and the Jinyi guards who surrounded him firmly, Hou Guoxing could only agree to stay in the limelight here for a few days after Luo Sigong repeatedly assured that the Hou Mansion was safe.

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Houfu Courtyard!

Waiting tenants come in and out carrying wooden plows and honeycomb coal stoves!

"No, you can't send it out! Guest housekeeper, uncle ......"

The old man pulled the guest light next to him and cried incoherently!

After Hou Guoxing was arrested yesterday, Keguang called these tenants at home today according to Hou Guoxing's explanation, and prepared to send all the wooden plows and honeycomb coal stoves out to the farmers who were farming outside.

Lao Zhangtou looked at this group of tenants who had been favored by the Hou Mansion on weekdays, and there were actually a few people who were carrying things vigorously, and when he was furious, he ran to the side of a man carrying a wooden plow, pushed him to the ground, pointed at everyone and roared loudly:

"You bastards! What kind of people are the lady and the young master, you don't know? Those gentlemen said that the lady and the young master were traitors, and you believed it? ”

The few tenants who were still carrying wooden plows and honeycomb stoves saw the rest of the tenants staring blankly at themselves and the others, and they also blushed for a while, and they didn't know where to stay.

The angry old man pointed to a black-faced man next to him and said:

"Liu Dazhuang, you froze under the root of the city back then, if it weren't for the lady passing by, you would have died a long time ago!

And you owed a lot of gambling debts to the casino, and people came to the door to take your girl to a brothel, who gave you a way to live......

Under the scolding of Lao Zhangtou, Liu Dazhuang, the black-faced man, fell to the ground violently, hugged his head and cried:

"Uncle Zhang! I... I'm not human! But yesterday, a scholar came and said that if we were following the Hou family, we would die if we couldn't save it......

As soon as the man named Liu Dazhuang opened his mouth to cry, the tenants on the side also cried:

"Uncle Zhang, we were also forced to do nothing. Now the young master has beaten up that group of scholars and masters! I heard that he was going to be killed! ”

"Uncle Zhang, guest housekeeper! If you owe it to the waiter, we will definitely find a way to repay it in the future! ”

Keguang looked at the people who were crying and crying, pulled the old man who was scolding, sighed, rubbed his red eyes and said:

"I know everyone's difficulties, the young master has already ordered, this time the Hou family may not be able to get through the difficulty, everyone is an old tenant of the Hou Mansion......

It turned out that this time Keguang called his tenants over, and according to Hou Guoxing's instructions, he gave them the 1,000-mu land deed of the Hou family, and gave each person 10 taels of silver as a settlement fee.

Of course, these honeycomb stoves and wooden plows could not be given to them, and Hou Guoxing specially explained the matter of Keguang at the beginning, because he didn't like the anger of the scholars to vent on this group of tenants. ”

After hearing what Keguang said, the surrounding tenants knelt on the ground one by one. It's not that they don't want to spend time with the Hou family, it's just that since last night, many people around them with a bit of status have come to scold them as lackeys of traitorous ministers.

These people are usually honest farmers, and the intimidation of these people suddenly makes their souls scattered, and they can only give up the rare cheap rent in front of them and make another living.

Now I heard that the Houjia family took out their land deeds and silver and divided them, and knelt on the ground one by one and cried with tears on their faces.

looked at the tenants around him who were crying with tears on their faces, but there was no reason to spend time with the Hou family. The old man shook his head dumbly, walked to the wall tremblingly, looked up at the sky, and suddenly roared:

"Oh my God, are you trying to force us people to death!"

The old Zhang Tou, who is over sixty years old, understands that these title deeds of the Hou Mansion, if there is no support from the Hou family behind them, will soon be taken away by others. But these people ......

Just when everyone in the Hou Mansion hugged each other and cried, the son of the old Zhang Tou outside the door came to the Hou Mansion with the surrounding landed farmers.

Looking at the crying and crying people in the Hou Mansion, the farmers who came behind couldn't help but burst into tears, and persuaded the crying tenants one after another.

After a long time, Keguang stopped the weeping crowd and said:

"You folks should also know about the catastrophe suffered by my Hou Mansion, as for the outside saying that our Hou family is all traitors, I won't explain it. How do we ...... the big guys in our Hou Mansion on weekdays?"

Speaking of this, Keguang remembered that his family was low-key and kind here on weekdays, and his sister had been cautious in the Prince's Mansion for many years, but in exchange for the current situation. For a while, I was sad and speechless.

Everyone below looked at Keguang's tears, and wept again.

"Divide it!"

Keguang wiped away his tears and gathered the farmers who came later. According to the lottery, wooden ploughs and honeycomb stoves began to be distributed to the surrounding farmers.

This wooden plough has now spread in the surrounding area, and the surrounding farmers are very envious of this thing, but due to the lack of economic ability, they can only come to the Hou family to borrow it on weekdays. The Hou family was also happy to arrive, and they didn't let them go home empty-handed.

Later, he borrowed too much, and the loss of the wooden plough was too fast, so after Hou Guoxing swallowed Wang An's two thousand taels of silver, he hired a carpenter to take the surplus labor of his tenants and began to do it on a large scale.

There is also this honeycomb coal stove, which has now been passed down in the whole Beijing Division, and the craftsmen of the palace have imitated it several times, and the effect of heat preservation has not reached the one that Hou Guoxing made at the beginning, and often one night passes, and the furnace is extinguished. Hou Guoxing saw the business opportunity of this thing at the beginning, and let Fugui take the tenants to do it.

It's just that the days are still short, and a total of dozens have been made.

Now watching Keguang take out these things and distribute them to everyone, for a while, regardless of whether the tenants around him have been drawn or not, they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Keguang. Shouted:

"Kebaba Guanyin is alive, and Hou Guoxing Luban is reincarnated."

Soon, after Keguang finished dividing the things, he gave everyone his hand and led everyone to move all the things out of the waiting house.

Then he knelt in front of the door of the Hou Mansion, asked Lao Zhangtou to bring yellow paper incense candles and burn them, knelt on the ground and cried:

"Oh my God! Please bless my Hou family and be able to survive this calamity! What did my Hou family do wrong, to get to this day, the family is ruined. ”

"Oh my God! What the hell did I do wrong! Today, my nephew is in prison, and he may be beheaded in a different place soon. ”

"Oh my God, if you open your eyes, save you and save my nephew!"

Looking at the hoarse crying Keguang, the peasants behind him cried here, knelt on the ground one after another, and shouted with Keguang:

"God, please bless the Hou family through this calamity!"

"Oh my God! I beg you to bless Young Master Hou safe and sound! ”

With this sound of prayer, more and more farmers rushed over nearby, as well as those who did some small business on weekdays, or who had heard of wooden plows and honeycomb stoves, and the crowd in front of the Hou Mansion became more and more, and the sound of prayer resounded in the sky!

A brocade guard hiding in the shadows touched his red eyes and whispered to the hundred households around him:

"Boss, you see that Hou Qianhu's family is around, that is a living Bodhisattva-like character! But why do those sons and gentlemen have to wait for thousands of families to die! ”

Baihu looked at the red-eyed young brocade guard, sighed, patted him and said:

"Hey! I don't really understand it, but I probably understand it in this Daming! Either you give birth well! Even though I am just a brocade guard, I am also left by my father. Or study to make a name for yourself. This is a thousand households......"

Just as the Flying Fish Suit Baihu was explaining to this young man in brocade clothes, suddenly the ground began to shake, and angry shouts were heard in the distance, from far to near, slowly covering up the prayers of the farmers here!