Chapter 82: A Few Joys and a Few Sorrows (2)

Gu Zhuang suffered a lot of damage in this robbery.

First of all, the people of Qianzhuang, ten percent of the houses were burned down, almost every house was damaged or injured, two were seriously injured, survived for two days, after all, they still did not survive, and there were several families whose entire houses were burned, because the fire came quickly and did not have time to snatch out the property. There is only a ruin left in the pastry shop in Zhuangkou, and the shopkeeper of the stone family came back from the city, standing at the door of the house and wanting to cry without tears, but fortunately the whole family is outside, everyone is safe, and the softness is also carried with them, so as not to fight famine.

Purple Sakura's house was also burned down a little, and her father-in-law and two men were injured, so as soon as the matter calmed down, she asked someone to go back to Xuanhetang to ask for a letter, and said that she would apologize to the old master, and she couldn't come over in person to ask for peace in order to take care of her father-in-law. Wen Yi didn't care, but asked the man to bring some silver over to help her.

And Gu Zhuang's Houzhuang suffered equally heavy losses. The people living here are all from the Gu clan, and after the inventory, they found that all the families were affected by the robbery.

A few servants died in the long house, and there were a few small breaks in the outer wall of the back door, but it was fine.

The two-room house was close to the long house and was not the main target, and the old man and young master brought people to fight the fire, and the wife took the attendant to the long house to avoid the disaster, so there were no casualties, and the house was not damaged, only a pregnant daughter-in-law had a miscarriage because she was frightened.

The original three-room house was divided by several partial branches, and there was a boudoir, except for some fright, it was quite peaceful, only the wall of one of them was burned by the fire of the woods in the east, and half of the roof was burned, but Mr. Luo was frightened, and the next day he fell ill.

The servants in the fourth and fifth rooms were injured, and the door was cut down by the thieves a few times, and the inner courtyard of the fourth room was also asked to be touched through the back door, and a few valuable antiques were damaged, and a few pieces of jewelry in the fifth wife's house were scraped away that had not had time to be cleaned up.

In the sixth room, except for the façade of the house, which is a little damaged, everyone is safe, only Mrs. Lu was worried all night, and her body was slightly weaker.

The seventh room called Liu Chongba and the other two ransacked, and those antique ornaments didn't have time to move away, but in the front yard and backyard, there were more than a dozen dead male and female servants, and the others were almost all injured, everyone was complaining in private, the master escaped by himself, but left them to die, if the old lady and the young master and the young lady can be like the sixth old lady and the ninth lady in the sixth room, and the whole family of servants are with them, how can there be such a thing? !

The back house of the eighth room near the ninth room suffered from the disaster of the pond fish, and also burned several houses, his family had few servants, except for the front and rear gatekeepers, almost all of them went to the long house with the master, and the people who stayed also looked for a place to hide, so there were no casualties, but the valuable objects of his house were also looted, and the officers and soldiers chased back only three or four out of ten.

The rest of the tribe were also the result of damage to their houses and lost their belongings, and a few of them were injured in the family, ranging from fighting fires to stopping thieves.

The ninth room is the worst. Seeing that his house was located in a remote area, and that it was easy to escape from the woods to the east and back of the house, the thieves set their sights on his house early. As soon as he saw a few young servants knocking on the door of his house, he took advantage of the opportunity to open the door and rushed up, subdued these people in the blink of an eye, and then threatened everyone in the ninth room not to cry for help. Gu Yitong, the fifteenth master of the ninth room, was injured at the time, and he had just woken up, so he had to do it for the safety of his wife and children, as if he hated the people from the long room in his heart. He took his family and male and female servants to retreat to the back house, and while the thieves were unprepared, he fled into a side courtyard, closed the courtyard door, put on the bolt and resisted it with a heavy object, and then ordered people to shout for help, but the sound of burning branches in the woods outside was too loud, and the cry for help could not reach the other side of the long house, and most of the clansmen who lived nearby went to the long house, and the rest of the people heard it, and did not dare to respond. The thieves were about to break open the courtyard gate, but they were afraid that if they acted in the middle of the night, the noise would be too loud and would reveal their location, so they had to order people to surround the courtyard to prevent the people inside from escaping, and at the same time send people out to loot their belongings. Poor Gu Yitong's wounds have not healed, and he is frightened, and he can't escape, so he can only temporarily be trapped in a remote hospital with his family and live secretly.

The bandit leader claimed to be the "Emperor of the Emperor", in fact, he was a homeless person, he had some ambitions, but he was defeated and fled, and when he arrived at Guzhuang, he no longer had the luxury of doing anything big, he just wanted to quickly get some property The woman fled to the Taiping Mountain to fall into the grass, and then seek something else when she was relieved, so she didn't pay much attention to the plan to kidnap the prince that Liu Chongba said, and only blindly thought about taking advantage of the dawn to get valuable things and leave quickly. Liu Chongba disagreed with him, and was afraid of the large number of his men, so he used the excuse to search for property, and ran out to find another way, the young bandit had always been familiar with him, and was loyal to the "emperor and the king", so he took the initiative to run out and persuade him to go back. It was at this time that they met Gu Wen'an, who ran out of ignorance.

At dawn, when Liu Dongxing, Fu Chengyuan, Zhu Jingcheng and others went to find the whereabouts of Wen An and Wen Hui, they happened to meet the young bandit who went back to the Jiufang house to report the news, and he caught the right one, only to know where the main force of the thief was. Fu Chengyuan led his troops to suppress the bandits and quietly surrounded the house. Those thieves were busy all night, sleepy and tired, and seeing that the owner of Gu Zhuang had not moved, they thought it was okay, so they were bumped in and killed by surprise. The bandit leader was still thinking about which way to take when retreating into Taiping Mountain, but he was surrounded by people in a blink of an eye, and after breaking through a few times and not breaking out, he became a prisoner.

Everyone in the ninth room was finally saved, but Gu Yitong was seriously injured, and he could only find some cloth to bandage the wound in the side courtyard, but there was no medicine for the injury, and the injury was delayed. In addition, the officers and soldiers were menacing, and he didn't know the situation in the side courtyard, but when the thieves were about to attack, he was frightened by the boss, and after learning that he was saved, he immediately did not wake up.

In addition, there are thieves who can't escape, so they burn the house with a heart, when the soldiers are in chaos, the officers and soldiers in order to chase the fish that slipped through the net, and they didn't care about fighting the fire, and finally the servants of the ninth room extinguished the fire, but the house has been burned down very seriously.

The eldest son Gu Wenshun borrowed a courtyard from the neighboring eighth room, settled his parents and younger brother's family, and went to ask for a doctor. Helplessly, Gu Zhuang's doctor was also busy saving people, and in the end, Liu Dongxing sent some medicine to the emergency situation, and sent someone into the city to invite the doctor, so he gave Gu Yi the same treatment. However, his injuries were really delayed for too long, and he lost too much blood, and struggled for a day and a night, but he still went.

Wen Yi's ancestors and grandchildren had already returned to Xuanhe Hall with their families at this time, and when they heard the news, they were all taken aback and couldn't help but feel sad. Wen Yi asked the mother-in-law who came to report the news with tears: "Didn't you say it yesterday...... Are you awake already? Can you still talk...... I've only been able to get better since I was the fifteenth uncle, why did I just spend one night, and suddenly I ......"

The woman had a white cloth tied around her waist, her eyes were swollen from crying, and she replied in a choked voice: "The wife and the young masters also think the same, but then I saw that the master's breath gradually weakened, and I didn't know it...... It's a return to light...... Now that my wife has cried to death a few times, the eleventh young master and the seventeenth young master are still young, and there is only the sixth young master in the family to support them, so there is really no way. The sixth young master specially asked the little one to come over and report to the sixth old lady, and then begged the sixth old lady to ...... For the sake of our lord's filial piety and respect, help me point and point......" Before the words fell, he was already crying and fell to the ground.

Old Madam Lu's eyes were red, and she sighed slightly: "This is a natural thing." Wait a minute, I'll pack up and go. After a pause, he couldn't help but cover his mouth with a handkerchief: "My old woman is still here, why did the juniors leave first one by one......" When he said this, he stopped his mouth, and tears slowly flowed.

Wen Yi remembered that Uncle Fifteen had helped her ancestors and grandchildren a lot over the years, but he suffered a tragic disaster, and he was sad again. It's just that she has studied Buddhism, and she sees the major events of death and life less than ordinary people, thinking that there are still important things for the fifteenth uncle at the moment, so she held back her tears, served her grandmother to change her clothes, and changed her own clothes, and then got into a car and went to the ninth room.

The car stopped due to a jam on the road ahead. Wen Yi asked Guo Qingxi what was wrong, but heard the mother-in-law in the ninth room say hatefully: "When the little one came over, I saw it, it was the prince of Dongping who was leaving, and several masters in the fourth and fifth rooms specially gave him a meal!" Even his guards were invited, and a dozen or so large tables were set up until they reached the side of the road! That son of the world is embarrassed! On that day, it was obviously the officers and soldiers who came to save people, but afterwards they left without even eating, and he was too big! It took two days to be willing to leave, and he regarded himself as a benefactor! If he is willing to send someone to help as soon as possible, how can our master call the thief harm?! ”

Wen Yi frowned and turned her head to look at her grandmother. Old Madam Lu asked lightly, "Didn't Changfang say anything?" "There are so many people dead in Gu Zhuang, and you still have to set up a banquet in the four rooms and five rooms?! Are they confused?!

The woman snorted and said sadly: "The long house only cares about its own children, how can it be time to pay attention to anything else?" The fourth master in the second room persuaded him a few times, but the fifth and tenth masters just didn't listen, and they had a quarrel with the fourth master...... The fourth master and the fourth wife came to our house this morning, and advised our wife and sixth young master not to be angry with them......"

Old Madam Lu sank her face and never spoke. Until the car set off again, it was not long before it arrived in front of the eight-room mansion.

Wen Yi then remembered that the whole family of the ninth room was temporarily living here, and turned her head to look to the right, only to see that the door of the ninth room was crooked to the side, and the courtyard wall was in a corner, and she could vaguely see that the house inside was blackened, and the big tree in the front yard was also broken, pressing the wall dangerously, and several servants with white cloth tied around their waists were crying and cleaning there.

Wen Yi sighed secretly in her heart, the house of the ninth room was destroyed like this, and it would take a lot of effort to repair it, and the house of the eighth room was also damaged, I wonder if the fifteenth aunt, mother and son and others will find it inconvenient? Then he leaned closer to Mrs. Lu and said, "Grandmother, do you want to ...... Pick up the fifteenth aunt and mother and son to live at home for a few days? Our family has a small population, and there is still a surplus in the house......"

Old Madam Lu was noncommittal, and took her hand and walked into the door. Inside the door, there were a few servants in the ninth room bowing their heads and wiping their tears, and the main room was noisy, and several cousins in the eighth and ninth rooms didn't know what they were arguing about, and they were arguing so much that their faces were red, and the fourth uncle in the second room was there to persuade them. Wen Yi listened to a few words, it seemed that he was arguing for the future of the fifteenth uncle, and there were some words of the enemy mixed in with them, and he got closer to hear it clearly.

Seventeenth cousin Gu Yijie was scolding: "The fifteenth old died unjustly! We can't swallow this breath in Jiufang no matter what! Didn't you listen to what the bandit leader said? The reason why they came so far from Pingnan was because they heard that the prince of Dongping was here, and they planned to hold the prince hostage to negotiate with the government! If it weren't for that son, our Gu family would still be peaceful now! Okay, disaster has fallen from heaven, and now that everyone is dead, the culprit is still swaggering as a guest in our Zhuangzi! Are the four rooms and five rooms dizzy?! That's the enemy! ”

Another disagreed: "How can you blame the prince of the world for this kind of thing?" It's clearly the bandits' wishful thinking, and they're climbing indiscriminately! If it weren't for the fact that the prince was here, how could that General Fu bring so many people to come to the rescue?! And there is no hard work afterwards, which is already very rare! ”

Gu Yijie took a sip of him: "You have the heart to climb the high branches, why don't you go to accompany the wine?!" What are you doing here?! Is General Fu here for the sake of the world?! Bah! It is obvious that the elder brother of the Liu family saw that the government was understaffed, so he saved his friend's face and ran to the garrison to move the rescuers, and happened to meet General Fu patrolling the camp, so he invited the rescuers! Didn't you listen to Brother Liu yesterday? The former Qian of the garrison is always the uncle of his friend, this General Fu is the former boss of the former Qianzong, for the sake of the old man, Fang led the troops to rescue! Where is it to look at the face of that son?! ”

The man was embarrassed and didn't respond again, but another person got up and said, "It can't be all blamed on the prince of Dongping, and there are many inappropriate things in Changfang's behavior." I heard that there was a small leader among the bandits, and he was the one who instigated his accomplices to come to our village to cause trouble, because the six girls and the little seven of the long house had offended him in the past! I was going to ask the second brother clearly, what is going on, the two children are protected tightly in the long room, and I only say that the thief is talking nonsense. I think there's a ghost when I look at it! If this matter is really nonsense, why are there only two thieves, Xiao Qi and Liu Yatou, who were arrested?! ”

Gu Yijie sneered: "Of course there are ghosts!" The sixth girl has been in the hands of the bandits for a long time, and she doesn't know what happened, and everyone below is rumoring that when she was sent home, she was wearing the clothes that the second girl in the seventh room wore before leaving the pavilion! If it's okay, what will she wear?! It's ridiculous that the people in the long house think that they are the patriarch, and if they only let our partial daughter die, the man will have to be widowed for the rest of his life, or he will have to hang himself to show his innocence! Now it's his daughter's turn, and she'll pretend to be fine! ”

There was silence in the room for a while, and then someone said: "This is not in accordance with the rules, we have a good reputation of the family for a hundred years, they don't want it, we still want it!" If his family violates the rules, what face does he have to be the head of the family?! Not to mention that the children of the patriarch are in trouble......"

The fourth old man, Gu Yizheng, was busy saying: "If you don't mention this matter, it will be spread out, and you and I will have no light on our faces." For now, it's important to discuss the future of the fifteenth brother first......"

Gu Yijie shouted: "I still say that!" Be sure to give my brother an explanation! Otherwise, my brother is under Jiuquan, and when he sees that the clansmen regard the enemy who killed him as a guest, he will not be able to turn a blind eye to death! ”

Wen Yi helped her grandmother into the side courtyard, and she could still hear Uncle Seventeen's voice, her heart was tight, and she only felt that there was something big...... It's going to happen......