Chapter 668: Asking for Secrets
For this matter, Gou Lao Roll has to agree if they don't agree. Hu Xianxian didn't care if they were happy or not, and took Cui'er and Ma Shuo down the mountain with Mud Dan'er.
Some of the onlookers followed down the hill into the city, while others ran to the ridges and stood on the ridges, waiting to see the ploughs pulling the plough.
Cha Shun patted Suishun's shoulder and said with a smile: "This move is very good, and helping the old farmer do farm work is also a great merit." Brother, you have to supervise them well and don't let them be lazy. After saying that, he also went back to the temple.
On the road, when Mud Dan'er saw that Ma Shuo and Cui'er were unable to walk due to injury, he let them ride horses.
Ma Shuo pushed and asked Cui'er to ride the horse, and Cui'er let him ride again, but the mud eggs thought they were too grinding to push around, so he deliberately said a few words to them fiercely, and let Ma Shuo ride up with Cui'er.
Outside the gate of Deyizhuang, Hu Xianxian asked him to stop and went into the courtyard to borrow a place for Ma Shuo and Cui'er to treat their wounds simply.
When they were healing, Gou Laopaw, who stayed in Yizhuang, trembled and looked aside.
The mud egg squinted at him and told Hu Xianxian about some miscellaneous things in the uprising.
Because the righteous mound in Gaojia Village has become a treasure land of feng shui in the eyes of some people, the people of Goujia Village and Majia Village under the mountain have made a windfall from it. Mingli is Gou Laopaw in Shouyizhuang, and the yamen is also assigned to Gou Lao's rolling pipe, but the people who really profit the most are Gou Bantou and Ma Zhutou.
The two of them made a fortune, but the others suffered. Not to mention anything else, if someone in the family dies, the funeral expenses are much higher than in other places.
Funeral-related industries, such as coffin shops, inscriptions, and those who sell incense wax paper money, all have to pay money to Gou Bantou and Ma Zhutou.
Yizhuang built two new courtyards, and they did not allow Ma Shuo to come in to live, but they had to take 20% of the money for Ma Shuo's inscription. made Ma Shuo tired and tired of doing things, and the money that fell into his hand was only enough to eat. Ma Shuo also has a bit of a stinky temper of a tall scholar, and refuses to ask them to help him.
Hu Xianxian twisted his eyebrows when he heard this, but he didn't expect that the righteous mound he repaired back then would let Gou Bantou and Ma Zhutou get a fortune from the dead.
After the sister and brother finished speaking, Hu Xianxian turned his head and asked Gou Laopaw: "Why don't you allow Ma Shuo to live in Yizhuang temporarily?" ”
Seeing her stern expression, she was so frightened that she broke into a cold sweat, and hurriedly said: "This Yizhuang is not a good place, and Ming'er will build a good house for Mr. Ma in the village." ”
"Huh...... Need not! Hu Xianxian asked Ma Shuo and Cui'er to rest for a while, and she asked Mudan'er to accompany her around the expanded Yizhuang.
Walking casually, Hu Xianxian asked the mud boy who was following him, Gou Bantou seemed to have participated in Cheang's rebellion, how could he rely on those people in Gou Bantou to be so horizontal.
"At the time of the war, Gou Bantou hid back in the village and did not participate in the war at all. Also, his concubine Qu Chunxiang and General Huo's Qu Chunai are both sisters who grew up in Jinhualou, and with this relationship, no one will investigate the bad things he did with Che Ang before. ”
Hearing what the mud boy said, Hu Xianxian paused and thought. If she didn't know Huo Fei, she would still believe this reason, but now it is clear that although Huo Fei is arrogant, he can still distinguish between right and wrong. Moreover, it is a disgraceful thing for a concubine to be born in a Qinglou, how could she cover Qu Chunxiang's concubine because of Qu Chun's love?
Of course, this was just a suspicion in her heart, and she wasn't sure that Huo Fei was not covering Gou Bantou. It's hard to say the question, she asked about Che Ang's fate.
"When Che Ang was the prefect of Lingzhou, he also recruited a lot of capable people, and when the eldest brother attacked the city, Che Ang's subordinates escorted him to escape."
"Escaped?"
Mud Dan'er sighed twice and said: "It's escaped, the eldest brother said that Che Ang should die a good death, both public and private, but he can't find any trace of him." ”
The attack on Lingzhou was Hu Yonggang's initiative to invite Ying, and it was somewhat a bit of a fight back to his hometown, so that he could raise his eyebrows. At that time, Che Chuang of Hongzhenji Restaurant, relying on his younger brother Che Chi, who was on an errand in the prison department of Taixing Mansion, and Che Ang, the younger brother of Lianzong with the same surname as the prefect, did not oppress the Hu family.
Hu Xianxian didn't want to pay attention to too many mundane things, and Hu Yonggang didn't tell her these things, and the mud eggs only said it after listening to her ask directly.
The mud boy also told about Che Ang's other henchmen, and the horse catcher was killed in the war; After Yang Dianwei was arrested, he was poisoned and died in prison.
Ma Running said where the money was hidden by Ma Hunting, and Hu Yonggang exempted Ma Channeling from the crime.
Ma Channeling had no one to rely on, and he was very depressed, so he went to ask for money from his wife who was beaten away from home, and they learned that Ma Channel's wife was Grandma Cai.
For the sake of Granny Cai like Du Wanzhi's mother, Mud Dan'er had to help Ma Dao find a job guarding the fish pond for people to make a living.
After the defeat of the rebels, Hu Yonggang had the intention of sparing his life, but who knew that he pretended to surrender, and later fled to the border city and was captured. After being captured, Hu Yonggang still did not kill him, so he knelt down to express his complete obedience to the imperial court.
However, Hu Yonggang cut his military status and made Deputy Commander Mi temporarily a jailer.
Che Chuang and the Hu family fought for a long time, and invested all the money they earned in Che Ang, hoping that the rebels would win, and he would turn over.
After pacifying Lingzhou City, Hu Yonggang was not ready to break into the car, and his younger brother Che Chi took the initiative to report his brother for funding the rebels.
Che Chuang was fined and confiscated his family property, put in prison, and died of illness in prison more than a month later.
Che Chi was loyal to the counterinsurgency because of his full support for counterinsurgency when he served in the Taixing Prison Division, and he reported that his brother had killed his relatives in righteousness, and he had been promoted to the Criminal Department of the capital.
"Really?" Hu Xianxian asked lightly. She was not so interested in these things, because the forces that seemed unstoppable back then were not worth mentioning now.
It's really important to have their own power, if Cui'er is just a nameless little girl who escaped from Qingqiu Country, and Ma Shuo doesn't recognize those friends, then they can only either submit to others today, or blood will be splattered on the spot.
Mud Daner also said that Hu Yonggang bought the site that originally belonged to Chejia Hongzhen Ji Restaurant, Hongbin Building was expanded very luxuriously, and Ah Ban also worked hard and did not dare to operate indiscriminately.
Hu Xianxian smiled, now the orphans of the miners have become "Master Hu", and the Hu family is prosperous.
When I remember when my family was separated and the little inn was about to be opened, I should laugh at this moment. But she has hidden worries in her heart, she can solve the disputes in the world if she is powerful, but the crisis she is facing cannot be solved by being powerful.
The destiny of heaven cannot be violated, can Cheng Haofeng help her solve it? She wished she could, she didn't want to solve it herself, it was nice to have someone to protect her under her wings.
Thinking of Cheng Haofeng, the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, and her mood was much more comfortable. I was thinking about it again, I had to hurry up and finish the chores here, and then deal with the affairs of Qingqiu Country as soon as possible.
The affairs of Qingqiu Country are best if they can fight without blood, if Lie Yufeng wants to leave, help him leave. If he wants to regain power, it will be a little difficult, but he will have to do his best.
After thinking about it, Hu Xianxian asked Mudan'er to take Ma Shuo and them back to Hu's house first, and she and Gou Laopaw wanted to talk alone.
The others left, and Gou Lao Paw was even more frightened when he faced Hu Xianxian.
He sat on the stool next to him, saying "sitting", but in fact he only touched the corner of the stool. Hooking his head, rubbing his hands, and hunching his shoulders, his tense nerves made him look stiff.
"Poof......
Hu Xianxian suddenly laughed, he was so frightened that he immediately stood up, bowed again and again, and said, "I'm from the countryman...... I don't know etiquette...... Ask the fairy aunt to spare her life......"
"I didn't want your life." Hu Xianxian raised his forehead and sighed.
She just saw that he was so scared, and remembered the wary expressions of the medicine pickers in Ling Shan when they saw her suddenly appear, and felt that she really deserved to be a failure, so she laughed angrily.
"Oh...... Then the fairy girl said that she would punish me. My body is not good, if I go to pull the plough and plough the field with Master Rolling and them, it will be no different from asking for my life. ”
Gou Lao Claw spoke a lot of neatly, because he thought that he would have to die anyway, and it would be good to die and understand.
Hu Xianxian also understood the reason why he was so afraid of himself, it was because he had a good relationship with Gou Lao, and he was afraid that Hu Xianxian would punish him heavily for this.
He was emaciated, his hands were disabled, and he was afraid that he would be tortured to death.
"How did you hurt your hand?" She looked at Gou's curled and scarred hand.
Gou Laopaw hesitated and said, "This ...... It was all years ago, and there's not much to say. “
"It's rude to ask someone about their past private affairs, but I'm not asking you out of curiosity, let alone to laugh at you, but to judge what to do with you. I heard rumors that the injury on your hand is related to Gou Bantou, what is the specific? ”
Because Gou Lao Paw was Gou Lao's distant cousin, and Gou Bantou trusted them extraordinarily, Hu Xianxian asked these questions. She thinks that there are more hidden things in Gou Bantou, which others don't know, otherwise a small box army team leader would not have been rampant at the north gate of Lingzhou for so many years. And Che Ang's ability to escape is mostly related to Gou Bantou.
Gou Laopaw looked at Hu Xianxian carefully, and saw that her eyes were sincere, and she didn't mean to play with him, so he slowly talked about the past: "I was only thirteen years old that year, my father and mother were gone, and I didn't want to go to the rich man's house to herd cattle to be restricted, so I messed around with others.
The leader of the mixed together is Gou Bantou and his brother, who are not very old, and if they can't get along, they will steal.
Steal it twice, and let the nursing home find out when you enter a large mansion. The older of them all ran away, so they arrested me and Gou Bantou.
Not long after, Gou Bantou's brother quietly came in to save people and helped him rescue Gou Bantou, but I didn't make it myself.
Originally, the housekeeper wanted to send us to the yamen the next morning, but when he saw another one running away, he made me angry.
He tied me up and told me where the others had gone, and we didn't have a fixed den, so I really didn't know where they were hiding.
But he didn't believe me, so he roasted my hands over a charcoal fire......"
Speaking of sadness, Gou Laopa's cloudy eyes were full of tears, and he was so choked that he couldn't speak.
Hu Xianxian waved his hand so that he didn't have to say it anymore, even if he didn't say it, the picture still appeared.
The smiling strong butler forced the trembling thief fiercely, but when he couldn't get the answer he wanted, he grabbed the thief's hand and put it on the charcoal fire to roast. Red flames poured out, blood and oil dripping, burnt smell wafted out, and black smoke rose from the thief's hands......
Who is to blame for such a thing? Hu Xianxian's heart is heavy, why are there always so many tragic things in the world? She asked Gou Lao Paw about the past, just to find out Gou Bantou's relationship network, thinking that Che Ang and Gou Bantou must have a connection, so as to catch the absconding Che Ang.
Unexpectedly, it was too much to ask something that reminded others of such a painful past.
Seeing Hu Xianxian's annoyance and self-blame, Gou Laopaw hurriedly wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, "It was all many years ago, and then the housekeeper fainted when he saw it, and he was afraid that I would die, and he would have a lawsuit, so he threw me into the grove outside the city." I didn't die, and I found Gou Bantou and them, they felt sorry for me, and Gou Bantou and his brother also told them to be kind to me......"
Hu Xianxian pouted: "The so-called better, that is, mixing together, they eat meat, and you drink soup?" ”