Chapter 70 Family and State Affairs (2).
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"The Guo family is guilty of treason? What's going on? β
After hearing Fan Guan's explanation, Xiao Mo couldn't help but be stunned and felt very strange. γReading.comγ
Xiao Mo also has some understanding of Guo Xiaoting's family, although it is one of the largest families in Yunzhou County, and the family has rich assets, but that's all, such as "rebellion", the Guo family should not be qualified to commit it.
Hearing Xiao Mo's inquiry, Fan Guan and Xiao Huan glanced at each other, but Xiao Huan explained: "We are not very clear about this matter, but when Fan Guan was dealing with official business in the Yushitai, he accidentally saw an official document mentioning it, saying that during the invasion of my Great Chu by the northern barbarians, among the two cities and seven counties of Yunzhou, a total of thirty-nine families committed the crime of treason, all of which were local large households. and funded a large amount of grain and grass to the Beiyi coalition army, and among these 39 households, there was a single county Guo family in the list. β
Fan Guan said: "Since Zirou you retreated from the Beiyi coalition army, my Dachu army has also recovered the lost territory, and reassigned officials to manage the place, and under the report of the people, these local big families who have taken refuge in the barbarians and fought for the tiger have been arrested and convicted, I heard that they are now on the way to the capital, and they are waiting for the criminal department to deal with them." β
Xiao Huan thought for a while, and added: "It seems that this situation is not only in Yunzhou, as far as I know, in all the states and counties that have been invaded by the barbarians, there are more or less some families who have committed the crime of treason, and the total number of people is combined, I am afraid that there can be two or three hundred households, four or five thousand people, they saw that the barbarians were menacing, but they made a mistake, thinking that my Great Chu would definitely not be able to stop the barbarian coalition army, but I didn't expect that Youzirou You were born out of thin air, and it actually made my Great Chu able to turn defeat into victory, and now the imperial court will settle accounts after the autumn." They also deserve bad luck. It's just that the crime of treason is too big and involves a wide range of people, so many innocent people have also been affected, which is really a pity. β
After Xiao Mo heard Xiao Huan and Fan Guan's explanations. Nodding thoughtfully, he said: "It turned out that he took refuge in the Beiyi coalition army, no wonder he committed the crime of rebellion, although my Dachu finally repelled the coalition army of the Beiyi tribes, and forced the Beiyi tribes to pay tribute, but after all, they still lost face, and now it is the time to stand up for power, and these families will inevitably be sentenced to serious crimes......
Seeing that Xiao Mozheng was frowning slightly, thoughtful, and didn't know what he was thinking, Xiao Huan and Fan Guan glanced at each other again. But he understood the wrong direction, thinking that Xiao Mo was thinking about how to rescue Guo Xiaoting's family at this time.
So, Fan Guan smiled narrowly and teased: "However, it is precisely because this matter is too widely implicated. So just a single county Guo family, it will never be eye-catching, with Zirou your current prestige and status, just rescuing a single county Guo family, it is easy to think about it, even if someone finds out, no one dares to criticize anything. Why worry now? Just say hello directly to the relevant yamen, they will naturally sell your face. β
Xiao Huan joked: "That's it, that's what I thought, I still remember that Guo Xiaoting is superior in appearance, conduct, and talent, and her sister is also a very rare beauty, and now she is in trouble." If Zirou can take the opportunity to save the beauty heroically, then Guo Xiaoting is now a family failure, and in the end she can only repay her with her personal promise, and at that time, Zirou will be a beauty. Fan Guan and I are also matchmakers, but we are looking for Zirou to ask you for money. β
Fan Guan nodded again and again, and said with a serious face: "I heard that after Zirou returned to the court, His Majesty rewarded you with 50,000 pieces of silver and 800 horses, and Xiao Huan and I can only receive one piece of dry money every month, but we are poor and have been greedy for a long time." β
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Obviously, Xiao Huan and Fan Guan had already decided that Xiao Mo had a good impression of Guo Xiaoting, so no matter how Xiao Mo explained, they couldn't change their opinions.
In this way, Xiao Mo simply didn't bother to defend anymore.
It's just that seeing Xiao Huan and Fan Guan between the two of them speaking, sentence after sentence, which is both seamless and tacit, it makes Xiao Mo's eyes flash a trace of envy...... Or even jealousy.
Now, the more they get in touch, the more Xiao Mo feels that during the time when he went to Shangyuan City to resist Beiyi, the relationship between Xiao Huan and Fan Guan, the two original happy enemies, has become better and better, and the relationship between them has become better and better.
This kind of discovery actually made Xiao Mo's heart feel a little empty, as if something precious had been stolen.
In the past, because Xiao Huan and Fan Guan's nature was incompatible, in Fan Guan's eyes, Xiao Huan was like a wild monkey who jumped out of hate, and Xiao Huan would always be mad by Fan Guan's natural poisonous tongue, and at that time, the three of them were together, Xiao Mo was always the lubricant and connection point of this small group, it can be said that without Xiao Mo's existence, Xiao Huan and Fan Guan would never be able to go together!
However, by now, Xiao Huan and Fan Guan have become best friends - although they will never admit this, and they are still bickering - and Xiao Mo, who was originally a lubricant and a connection point, has become a dispensable existence, and even many times, although Xiao Mo is the highest status of the three, he always feels a little unable to get in.
This made Xiao Mo feel that among the three of them, he was not as important as before.
Xiao Mozi is actually a little withdrawn, he doesn't have many friends, and in the past 20 years, the only friends who can be called "sincere friends" are Xiao Huan and Fan Guan.
Therefore, seeing that the relationship between Xiao Huan and Fan Guan was already so close, Xiao Mo should obviously be happy, but deep in his heart, there was some uncontrollable loneliness and jealousy.
Fortunately, because Xiao Mo's prestige and status are getting higher and higher, Xiao Huan and Fan Guan were originally a little restrained after seeing Xiao Mo, but after Xiao Mo's deliberate closeness, the distance between them has narrowed a lot.
At least, Xiao Huan and Fan Guan can already joke and joke with Xiao Mo, although they are not as unscrupulous as before, but it is a good start.
This also made Xiao Mo a little relieved.
Although Xiao Mo's temperament is a little withdrawn, he still needs something like friendship.
As the higher his status, the more Xiao Mo realized how valuable it was to trust and rely on this kind of trust and reliance that was not mixed with interest considerations.
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Out of these considerations, after hearing Xiao Huan and Fan Guan's jokes, Xiao Mo also planned to make a few jokes and fight back against Xiao Huan and Fan Guan, so as to further restore the original relationship between the three of them.
It's just that. Humor has nothing to do with talent, it is an attitude to life, but it is clear that Xiao Mo lacks such an attitude.
Xiao Mo, Xiao Mo. As the name suggests, man is indifferent by nature, and you can't expect him to always talk about jokes.
Therefore, after Xiao Mo laughed at himself, he diverted the topic and said: "How many times have I told you, I only have a one-sided relationship with that Guo Xiaoting, she is a very good girl, but I don't have any special affection for her, it's just that the two of you are really dirty." I always want to be crooked, so I can't help it. What's more, I remember that Guo Xiaoting has already made a family relationship with Zhou Jingren, and I can't think about it, and you say so. It is also disrespectful to Zhou Jingren. β
Xiao Huan shook his head and said: "Zirou, you are only a few sides of Zhou Jingren, and you are not familiar with his personality, he did have a family affair with Guo Xiaoting, and now that the Guo family is in trouble, if it is ordinary, Zhou Jingren is definitely not the kind of person who will be kind of person who will be affectionate and profitable." I think I will still admit this marriage and marry Guo Xiaoting into the mansion, but the Guo family is now guilty of treason, and Zhou Jingren's temperament is the most upright, and he will never marry with such a family. Not to mention ......"
Speaking of this, Xiao Huan suddenly paused and sighed softly.
Fan Guan still said, "Zirou, you don't know yet, right? The Zhou Jing family, a total of seventeen people, rebelled angrily during the invasion of Beiyi. He had already been harmed by the barbarians, and now he hated the traitors who had defected to the barbarian coalition. Therefore, he will not give the Guo family a good look, and he is probably already thinking about how to withdraw this marriage. β
After hearing Xiao Huan and Fan Guan's explanations, Xiao Mo was stunned again, he didn't expect Zhou Jingren to be wiped out by the Beiyi Coalition Army!
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Xiao Mo has always admired Zhou Jingren's talent and style, and still remembers that during the "Yunzhou Imperial Examination Fraud Case", Zhou Jingren had obviously become the top of the written examination list, and was likely to become a Huiyuan, but Zhou Jingren rejected his own meritorious name in public because of the unfairness of the imperial examination.
didn't expect that people like Zhou Jingren would encounter such a tragic encounter.
In fact, it is not that I did not expect that Zhou Jingren's family was based in Yunzhou, and after the Beiyi coalition army invaded the rivers and mountains of Great Chu, it was like locusts in transit, burning, killing and looting everything, which caused countless human tragedies in several northern states of Great Chu, and Zhou Jingren's family was just one of them.
It's not that it's unexpected, it's just that Xiao Mo doesn't dare to think about it.
In fact, after Xiao Mo defeated the Beiyi coalition army, he could go to several northern states to inspect, but after hesitating for a long time, Xiao Mo finally retreated.
He didn't dare to see those hells on earth with his own eyes, Xiao Mo was afraid that he wouldn't be able to bear it.
From this point of view, although there are countless people in the world today, they all regard Xiao Mo as a hero who saved the Great Chu Dynasty, but Xiao Mo is not as strong as a hero should be. For those hells on earth, Xiao Mo chose to escape, not only did he not dare to inspect them, but he even controlled himself not to think too much.
Thinking of this, Xiao Mo was silent for a moment, and then sighed again.
At the same time, Xiao Mo also made a decision in his heart about Xiao Huan and Fan Guan's suggestion that they let themselves rescue the Guo family.
When the Guo family invaded the Beiyi coalition army, they turned their backs on Dachu, took refuge in the Beiyi tribe, and also funded a large amount of grain and grass for the Beiyi coalition army. This sin cannot be overstated!
In this way, if Xiao Mo went to rescue the Guo family, it would be criticized, but it would also violate Xiao Mo's principles - as Xiao Mo gradually matured and his status became higher and higher, the so-called "principles" in his heart were actually becoming less and less, but at least there was still a little.
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So, Xiao Mo shook his head and said: "Forget it, since the Guo family has made a choice at the beginning, now they have to suffer the consequences, everything has its own laws of Dachu, if I get involved, and only save the Guo family in Shanxian County, it will only be unfair to everyone, so I won't deliberately rescue them......"
However, halfway through the conversation, Xiao Mo suddenly thought of everything when he first met the Guo family sisters, when Guo Xiaoting and Guo Xiaoxia sisters were young and active, pure and innocent, but they hesitated for a moment, and then changed their words: "However, after they are escorted to the capital, I will meet with them and ask them what happened, if they are wronged, I will naturally not sit idly by, no matter what, after all, there will be a relationship." β
Seeing that Xiao Mo's expression was serious and persistent, and his attitude did not seem to be fake, Xiao Huan and Fan Guan glanced at each other, and they both shook their heads a little speechlessly.
In today's Great Chu Dynasty, the wind of human rule is extremely strong, and the phrase "there are still people outside the law" is on everyone's lips, with Xiao Mo's current identity, status and prestige, it is just a matter of one sentence to rescue a Guo family in this environment. However, Xiao Mo insisted on doing things according to the laws of Da Chu, and for a while, Xiao Huan and Fan Guan didn't know whether to say that Xiao Mo was unkind, or whether to say that Xiao Mo was selfless.
is not like a flower-like girl like Guo Xiaoting's sisters, but because her family is involved, I don't know what fate will happen next - she committed a major crime of treason, and she was killed at the worst, and she was demoted to an official slave and let others abuse her in the future, but whether it was light or heavy, such an end was unbearable.
Therefore, for a while, Xiao Huan and Fan Guan didn't know what to say, and the carriage looked a lot duller.
Seeing the appearance of Xiao Huan and Fan Guan, Xiao Mo sighed softly, but changed the topic again and suggested: "Speaking of which, Your Majesty has given me a vacation these days, and I finally have some free time, if it is late today, and the three of us have not talked at night for a long time, I want you not to go home tonight, go to my house for a night, and let us talk all night like when we were in Yunzhou, how about it?" β
Although Xiao Huan and Fan Guan felt sorry for what happened to Guo Xiaoting's sisters next, they and Guo Xiaoting's sisters were only one-sided after all, and even if they had some good feelings in their hearts, they were quite limited, so after hearing Xiao Mo's suggestion, their eyes lit up, and they nodded in agreement, and they also left the matter of Guo Xiaoting's sisters behind.
Seeing that Xiao Huan and Fan Guan agreed, Xiao Mo smiled and instructed Deng Shangquan, who was catching the train outside the carriage: "Go back to the house directly, after returning to the house, I will order the kitchen to make some side dishes, and I will have a long talk with Xiao Huan and Fan Guan." β
"Yes, young master."
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For Xiao Mo, this all-night long talk with Xiao Huan and Fan Guan is a great opportunity to restore the sense of distance between the three of them that is gradually emerging because of the status gap!
However, when Xiao Mo took Xiao Huan and Fan Guan back to his mansion, he quickly regretted his decision!
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