In addition to the salary of the servant, the painter raised by the county government also has a reward for silver. This bounty is a bounty for fugitives, and the amount is usually 10% to 30% of the bounty.

But many of those portraits are not like them, and it is difficult to catch the fugitive, and even if they do, at most a bounty of 10% will be given. If it is like the portrait that Gu Jin'an brought, the chance of catching the fugitive is very high, and the father-in-law will definitely give a bounty of thirty percent.

Gu Jinan knew very well that his family had no money and no power, and if he wanted to become famous, he couldn't miss this opportunity, so he immediately nodded: "Sir, the student is willing." ”

Shang Xiucai laughed: "Okay, I'll arrange this matter, you can practice this kind of painting skills first during this time." ”

The two paintings I brought here today are obviously from two people. One painting is smooth and natural, and the other is relatively stiff in the lines, it is the kind of work that has no form and no god, obviously from Gu Jin'an's hand.

Gu Jinan got up and said, "The student understands. ”

Shang Xiucai raised his hand and motioned for him to sit down, knowing that the third grandfather was here to beg him to find someone, so he asked them about the situation of Gu Fuya and Gu Daya.

The third grandfather said: "Fu Ya is the second Chinese New Year's Eve today, and she is married to Xie Pingzi of Xie Jiaping, Changping Town, Pingzi is Chinese New Year's Eve and fifth, and she is the third child of the old Xie family, and the husband and wife have two sons and one daughter. The eldest son is fifteen this year, named Xie Jingxian; The second son is thirteen this year, named Xie Jingmin; The youngest daughter is ten years old, and her name is Xie Jianing......"

The third grandfather explained the situation of Gu Fuya's family very carefully, from how old Gu Fuya is, who she marries, where her family lives, and what she does to make a living.

"When we fled the famine, we went to Changping Town to look for it, but the people in the town said that they had returned to Xiejiaping, and the grocery store had already closed."

The third grandfather is such a daughter, in this life, he just wants his daughter to marry a good family, and he has never thought of asking his daughter to recruit and pass on the lineage.

Their husband and wife had a good idea of Gu Fuya's family early on, and finally when Gu Fuya was fifteen years old, they married Gu Fuya to Xie Laosan of Xie Jiaping.

Xie Laosan's father and the third grandfather are good brothers, when the two were young, they often went to various places to dig wells to work, and the third grandfather trusted the Xie family, so he married his only daughter to the third son of the Xie family.

Facts have proved that the third grandfather's vision is very good, the Xie family is very good to Gu Fuya, Xie Pingzi has also known Fuya since childhood, the two husbands and wives have a good relationship since they became relatives, the Xie family and the third grandfather's family contributed money together to open a grocery store for Xie Pingzi in Changping Town, and the husband and wife took their children to watch the shop, and their lives were very good.

But the world is unpredictable, a drought, and no good days are gone. The well in Changping Town dried up, and Xie Pingzi and Gu Fuya could only take their children back to Xie Jiaping.

By the time the third grandfather and the others came to Xiejiaping, there was no one in Xiejiaping for a long time, and the people in the entire Pingzi had fled collectively.

"We originally thought that if everyone walked faster, we would always be able to run over them, but we fled all the way and asked everywhere, but there was no news." The third grandfather said, his eyes couldn't help but redden, he wanted to be strong for a lifetime, but every time he encountered this only bloody thing, he couldn't help but cry.

Shang Xiucai was very sad about the affairs of their family, and while listening to what the third grandfather said, he wrote down these things on a piece of paper and said, "Third Uncle Gu must not be sad, as long as we look for it, there will always be a day when we find it." ”

After speaking, he asked the third grandfather a few more questions, and after making up for what he had missed, he asked Gu Dashan: "Brother Gu, what is the situation of the eldest sister of the Gu family?" ”

Gu Dashan took out a yellowed letter from the cloth bag he was carrying and handed it to Shang Xiucai: "This is the letter that the eldest girl brought to me back then, and the situation of her family is all above." ”

Gu Dashan has always carried this letter, and when he fled the famine, he also turned it out and brought it with him, even if he forgot about the situation of the eldest girl's family one day, he would not be able to see his sister in the future.

Shang Xiucai opened the letter and saw that the words on it had already been damp, and it took him more than a quarter of an hour to read the contents of this letterhead.

Gu Daya married to Huaizi Town, Mingshan County, Daaozi Village, listening to this name, you know that this is a poor ravine, the man she married is surnamed Qi, there is no big name, there is a nickname Qi Panzi.

This letter was received by Gu Dayan when he was seventeen years old, at that time Gu Daya had been running with Qi Panzi for nearly two years, gave birth to a son, and still had one in his belly, I don't know if it was a man or a woman, that is to say, Gu Daya's family may be a family of four now, or it may be more.

That's the case, it's very limited.

Shang Xiucai wrote down the situation of Gu Daya's family according to the letter, and asked Gu Dayan about Gu Daya's situation, but Gu Dayan has been away from home since he was seven years old to work, although he remembers this sister, but the time he gets along is limited, and he doesn't know much about Gu Daya's affairs, and what can be said is Gu Daya's age, some temper, and appearance.

After Shang Xiucai finished remembering these situations, he said: "I will ask Lao Luo to send these news to Fucheng to my father-in-law, you can wait at home with peace of mind, and I will inform you as soon as there is news." ”

The three of them were grateful, and the third grandfather asked again: "It's almost March, why haven't these victims been resettled?" Hasn't the drought in the Northwest eased? ”

They are now in He'an Mansion in Jianghuai, thousands of miles away from the northwest, and they don't know the situation in the northwest, and they don't know if the drought has been solved.

Shang Xiucai said: "At the beginning of February, the Di newspaper said that there was a heavy snowfall in the northwest, and the drought was alleviated, but now the people who have been assigned are not the victims who fled the famine because of the drought, but the military disaster. ”

Because of the drought, there were many military disasters in the northwest to the northeast of Dachu, and even in Zhongzhou, and the people who had escaped the drought were deeply trapped in the military disasters and could only continue to flee to the south.

The imperial court issued a strict order that the victims were not allowed to cross the Jiangnan Prefecture, so they could only resettle the victims in the Jianghuai Prefecture, and only then did they have new victims to be resettled.

The third grandfather and Gu Dashan were both frightened: "Actually, it's because of the military disaster!" ”

What farmers are most afraid of is not natural disasters, but military disasters, which can sometimes be carried over, but military disasters can indeed kill people on the spot.

The third grandfather and Gu Dashan were very scared, shaking their hands and saying, "How is this good?" ”

If the Fuya family encounters a military disaster, how can it happen?

Shang Xiucai looked at the appearance of the third grandfather and Gu Dashan, and could only comfort: "Third Uncle Gu, don't worry about Brother Gu. The imperial court has sent a large army to quell the disaster, and now it has won a few battles, the military disaster in Zhongzhou is gone, and there is also good news from the northeast, that is, it is more difficult to deal with in the northwest. ”

The northwest is the territory of the Weiguo Gong, but Emperor Jingyuan was afraid of the Weiguo Gong, regardless of the suffering of the drought of the people, and took the opportunity to destroy the Weiguo Mansion and seize the military power in the northwest of the Weiguo Gong, which led to many of the old Weiguo Gong rebelled, and it is estimated that it will take some time to quell the military disaster in the northwest.

"However, the two eldest sisters of the Gu family left the northwest during the drought, and they will not be affected by the war."

As long as you don't flee to the Northeast, it's fine.

But Shang Xiucai didn't say this, what he said was just to make the third grandfather and Gu Dashan worried.

The third grandfather knew with Gu Dashan that the military disaster was not something that their ordinary people could compete with, and they could only resign themselves to fate.

After talking about Gu Fuya and Gu Daya's two families, they left Shangjia Village and returned to Dafeng Village.

After they left the Shang family, one of them jumped out of the bamboo forest, straightened his clothes, came to the door of the Shang house, and knocked on the door of the Shang family.

This person is none other than Gu Dexing, who has always wanted to worship Shang Xiucai as a teacher.