Chapter 197: Defeat
Before everyone could figure out the Guo family's motive for doing this, the discussion outside was already boiling, and the Guo family's reputation plummeted.
In particular, the official was ordered to set fire to the mass grave and visited Beishantou Village to verify the cause of the girl's family's death. Everyone's impression of the Guo family has fallen to the bottom.
Although Master Guo beat the drum and shouted that he was wronged. Although the prefect personally tried the case, he found that there was no evidence to support the girl's statement.
But it is human nature to sympathize with the weak, the government failed to give a clear explanation, the Guo family did not get the punishment they deserved, and everyone didn't dare to say anything on their faces, but they were not convinced in their hearts.
A few days ago, in order to save the corrupt image of the pickle case and win people's hearts, the Guo family opened private schools in several cities and towns to teach poor children to read and write for free.
Originally, it had some results, and the people who had been blessed showed great tolerance and gratitude to the Guo family. But this 'female ghost' incident, most of the people took their children home.
"People like us still expect to be the top official in the examination? Don't fail to recognize the last two words, but let the people of the Guo family teach the child to be a beast. ”
"Even if it's a beast, he can leave a cheap life, I'm afraid that the Guo family will have some bad intentions, and directly smash the child's brain, so that he will be scary in the mass grave."
"This Guo family is too lacking in morality."
"There are so many scholars who are customers under his house, and in my opinion, they are not good things."
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The Guo family has not many scholars around them, and most of the talented students in the surrounding prefectures and counties have joined them. But most of the students have a lot of integrity, although they took refuge in the Guo family in order to touch the light of Mrs. Guo, but also because the Guo family is a well-known family of cherishing talents and a family of great kindness.
Now that there are two major cases in a row, the Guo family's face is exhausted, which student with a bit of blood dares to stay under him?
For a while, the students under the door walked around, and most of them knelt at the door of Master Qin, begging to worship him as a teacher.
Mr. Guo was so angry that he vomited blood, and Mrs. Guo fainted directly.
This dizziness, the stroke that was easy to control is serious again. Under the all-out rescue of more than a dozen doctors, although the person was rescued, he only breathed a sigh, and he couldn't take care of himself in life, and he couldn't even spit out a word.
Mr. Guo sighed by the old lady's bed, Mrs. Guo couldn't get up when she wanted to, and she couldn't move if she wanted to drop something, and finally she was so anxious that her face was red and her ears were red, her eyes were bloodshot, and she spitted and scolded at Master Guo.
She cried and made trouble, spitting Xingzi sprayed Master Guo in the face, but Master Guo didn't hear a word clearly.
He looked at his mother helplessly, and sighed: "Eldest brother let us recruit talents from all over the world, and strive for our people to stand in half of the court." I have recruited talented people from all over the country, and I see that it is about to be effective, but this kind of thing has happened. ”
Mrs. Guo was excited again, and Mr. Guo pressed her shoulder and signaled her to be calm. Then he continued: "As soon as the prefect of Hunan turned against him, those students turned against the water, and my Guo family's painstaking operation in the southwest region failed.
With the current reputation of our family and the current attitude of Dong County, it is difficult for us to make a comeback. You have become like this again, how do you say I can explain to my eldest brother? ”
If someone else does things like this, it will be beaten to death.
The Guo family has a wife who is circling in the middle, but the future is ......
Mrs. Guo struggled and whimpered on the bed like a fish out of the water, she was in pain, but still no one knew what she wanted to express and what she was angry about.
Master Guo sighed, thinking that she was suddenly paralyzed and couldn't stand it, so he patted her hand and said, "Mother also admit it, the best doctor here has also shown you, there is no way." ”
"Xiang (Yang) soup (peach), stove (Zhao) pull the fierce (Langzhong) ......" was unwilling to be paralyzed in bed and could not take care of himself. There is clearly a useless Langzhong here, and there is a Langzhong who can cure her at all.
Back then, she was dying, didn't star fruit and Zhao Langzhong still pull her back from the ghost gate?
This time, Mr. Guo guessed what his mother meant. But the whole person became more and more depressed and aggrieved: "The An family offended the star fruit, but she cured the An family boy and cut off the children and grandchildren." Our family harmed Yang Cui's child and almost killed her whole family, do you expect her to treat you? I'm afraid it's better than incurable. ”
Mrs. Guo whimpered and made noise again, but Mr. Guo only sighed, and if he made trouble again, he ordered his subordinates to take care of the ancestors, and he bowed and retreated.
If the Guo family doesn't want to suffer a big disaster, they have to make achievements.
He scattered the money, bought beggars to help the Guo family speak, asked the storyteller to help guide others to explain the law, and he also opened a porridge shack and sent rice and noodles to the poor. The master of the Guo family also went to the homes of qualified children to teach in person, just to let the parents see the kindness and sincerity of the Guo family.
After such a busy time, someone came to get the silver, someone came to receive the porridge and rice, and the rice and noodles were eaten correctly, but they refused to let the children study with the Guo family.
The Guo family found several gifted children, and as soon as the parents turned around, they went to ask Master Qin, begging him to open a private school to let the children study, so as to benefit the township.
Qin Fuzi taught the children knowledge, and then joined forces with Second Uncle Qiao to set up a number of schools. Not only gifted children, but all children who want to study can come for free, as long as they bring their own rations.
In such a comparison, Guo Jiake was compared.
This alone is not fatal, what is really fatal is that the girl is pestering the Guo family and not letting go.
Since she got sick and left the yamen, she cried and mourned at the door of Guo's house all night long. is what she looks like when she pretends to be a ghost and is scary, a bloody dead duck in one hand, a dead chicken with a broken neck in the other, and then wears a mask with green fangs and shouts that Master Guo is dead.
The county government arrested her a few times, persuaded her, said it, and beat the board. But don't let her out, as long as she has free custody, she will immediately pester the Guo family.
Others asked her why: "The government says that the evidence is incomplete, and your family's death may really have nothing to do with the Guo family." If you are so indomitable and scary, you are not afraid that Mrs. Guo will break your neck? ”
"I watched him kill my whole family, what evidence do I need? There are people in his family in the court, and he doesn't have to be convicted of killing someone. But I want them to be at peace every day, and my father and mother want to know about it, and they should come back after changing into ghosts, and find them with me to ask for their lives. ”
Everyone felt that the child was pitiful, and they all tolerated her messing around. But the Guo family listened to people crying and mourning day after day, and they didn't get tired of it, but they finally couldn't help but make a move.
That night, the girl made trouble again, and the Guo family nursing home beat the girl in the name of fighting ghosts. But the next morning, I found that the girl was drowned in the lotus pond of the Guo family.
At this time, the entire Liang County was angry.
"A little doll, no father and no mother, and a bad brain, you can't stand it and take it away, what do you do to harm people's lives?"
He carefully examined the body and determined that the cause of death was choking. But the Guo family couldn't find evidence that they would drown the girl, so they had no choice but to give up.
In this way, who is convinced?
The eyes of the people in the entire county have changed when they look at the Guo family, and the storyteller in the teahouse and wine shop has compiled this matter into a book. The beggars took the Guo family's silver as usual, but they were yang and yin, and they said good things about the Guo family, and their tone was very disdainful.
By now, the Guo family's reputation has been completely ruined.
In desperation, the Guo family sold their family property and went to the capital to seek refuge in Taifu.
Before leaving, Master Guo went to find Dong County's order, and left a sentence with a black mouth and a black face: "Since Dong County's order has a choice, then it is good to do it yourself." ”
Dong County's order was wronged, and he had clearly tried his best to maneuver in the middle. It's the Guo family who doesn't fight for it.
It happened that star fruit and Qiao An came together to send the plaque, and the four words of Lord Qingtian rolled the gold edge, which made Master Guo's eyes hurt.
"You guys are good, Guo someone is leaving!"
Qiao An also bowed his hand to Master Guo: "Thank you Master Guo for complimenting." ”
Master Guo snorted coldly and threw his sleeves, turned around and left.
Carambola stopped him again: "These days, hasn't Miss Guo come home to look for you?" At the mass grave, I could see her dead without looking at her. ”
Master Guo turned his head and glared at the star fruit fiercely, and his eyes were so fierce that Qiao An stood in front of the star fruit.
When he left, Qiao An handed over the plaque to Dong County Ling, and left with star fruit without even saying a word.
Dong Xianling was so angry that he smashed the plaque directly, but he also saw it when he smashed it again. When he goes to the capital to complain, where will the prince still believe him?
On the way back, star fruit and Joan passed by the pickle shop. I thought it would be a bleak scene, but I didn't expect the door to be full of people, and it was very lively.
Star Fruit and Joan glanced at each other, each with a glint in their eyes.
"Brother-in-law really has a way, let's go, let's take a look."
pulled away from the crowd, but saw Zhang Cun eating pickles with water. More than 20 small altars were opened casually by the onlookers, and he tasted which altar was opened.
When he had eaten, he asked the onlookers to eat too: "Take a bite and give ten copper plates, if you get sick because of this, I will save money for medical treatment and compensate you for ten taels of silver for lost wages." If you eat someone to death, I will save it for him. ”
After shouting for a long time, no one dared to try: what if it really eats to death? Who can pay us back?
Xiao Er, who came back from going out, found the star fruit, and wanted to call Zhang Cun after saluting, but the star fruit stopped him.
"All these days, he's been selling pickles like this?"
Xiao Er sighed, shook his head helplessly, and said, "Where is it for sale?" There are a lot of people who watch the excitement, but I don't really buy a single one. He himself had to eat half of the jar one day, and he ate the acid reflux water that made his stomach hurt. ”
"No one wants to taste a bite of silver?"
"No one!" Xiao Er sighed again: "Ten copper plates is a lot, but who wants to get sick, who doesn't care about their own lives." Our pickles have eaten so many people to death, and no one is willing to try it easily. If they lose their lives, they won't survive if the shopkeeper resists his life. ”
"But doesn't the shopkeeper eat it himself? I've been eating it for so long, isn't it okay? ”
"Then who knows which one is poisonous and which one isn't? What if the shopkeeper is playing tricks and deceiving people? ”
"Yes!"
Qiao An watched Zhang Cun eat a large number of chopsticks pickles under the laughter of the people, and couldn't bear to say, "I'll try!" ”
He asked a villager to help him eat the vegetables, and then said: "Let's open the door to do business, the picture is just a good word, poisoning people in the dish, what is the profit?" Therefore, the villagers can rest assured that after such a thing happened to the Yang family, they will personally supervise the quality of the dishes, and there will never be any more poisonous pickles......"
Joan was still talking, but the onlookers were all gone. They watched around, originally just to play Zhang Cun to eat pickles, and they had no fun, so what else to watch?
You say grocery shopping? He is not the only one who sells pickles in Liang County, so why don't I risk my life? There is no poison in these jars, so what if someone poisons them one day? The Yang family has offended someone, God knows when someone will come to take revenge?
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