As soon as the Dragon Boat Festival passes, Gu Yunxiao is about to set off.

"Father, mother, just send it here, you don't have to go any further, the son will take care of himself." Outside Huating County, Gu Yunxiao said to Gu Kaizhen and Mrs. Wang, who looked uneasy.

"Don't look at the hot weather in the past two days, don't rashly reduce your clothes, and ah, eat when you should eat along the way, use it when you need to, don't feel sorry for the silver, don't lose yourself." Mrs. Wang held her son's hand tightly, very reluctant.

"Don't worry, father and mother. The son knows it. Gu Yunxiao said comfortingly, "When my son is hit, I will definitely send someone to gallop back as soon as possible to give the second elder Daoxi." ”

Gu Kaizhen was silent and pulled Gu Yunxiao's hand out of Mrs. Wang's tightly clenched hand, and said, "Okay, it's almost, I'm almost tired of nagging all the time." The child is so old, not to mention that there is a little girl with him, he will not be hungry and freezing. ”

As he spoke, he couldn't help but instruct: "As soon as you arrive in the capital, send a letter to your family, and don't forget to take your grandfather's post to visit Lord Zhao, the head of the household department." If you are missing something, send us a letter to let us know. ”

Gu Yunxiao smiled and nodded, then turned to Gu Yunji and said, "Third brother, you will take the county exam in September." During my absence, if you need any books or textbooks, just go to my study and get them, and you don't have to ask anyone. ”

"There is also a second brother, I also saw Tingfeng go out to buy crickets yesterday, and he is not doing his job day by day. The third brother has grown a lot in the past few months, and he is about to compare you, you have to look like a brother, and it is only right to study with one mind. ”

As the eldest brother, he simply has an unfinished heart, and he is about to leave for the capital to take the exam, but he still cares about his younger brothers' homework.

Gu Yunji pushed him to the side of the carriage with tears and laughter: "My good brother, your test is the most important thing." Look at how high the sun is? It's not too early, let's go. ”

Gu Yunxiao didn't say anything more, and after waving goodbye to everyone, he gradually disappeared into the distance in the carriage.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, Gu Yunxiao also went to Beijing to take the exam, everyone returned to the track of life, doing what they had to do, and the Gu family returned to peace.

In June, the weather was hot, Huating County and several surrounding counties had not rained for more than half a month, the sun had roasted the earth dry and cracked into deep and shallow ravines, and the crops in the fields were listlessly drooping their ears, and they were about to die of thirst.

On this morning, everyone in the Gu family was eating in the hall, when they saw an old servant who was sweating profusely trotted in.

"Master, it's not good." Steward Guo was so sunburned that his face was flushed, and he couldn't breathe, "Several tenants in our Xuejia Village and Wangjiazhuang have fought for water, and I heard that there have been fatalities, and someone has already reported to the official." ”

"What?" Gu Kaizhen couldn't eat, so he raised his feet and walked out, "Come on, prepare the horse!" ”

When he walked next to Gu Yunlin, he slipped out of his second son, who was shrunk in a chair and trying not to attract attention: "Second son, come with me!" ”

Gu Yunji finished the rice in the bowl in a few bites, got up and called Gu Kaizhen: "Father, let the son go with him." ”

Gu Kaizhen stopped when he heard this, looked Gu Yunji up and down a few times, and looked at his son's bright eyes, he nodded: "Okay." ”

The situation was urgent, and several people didn't say anything all the way, and went straight to Wangjiazhuang, where the incident occurred.

Outside Wangjiazhuang, you can hear the noise and the cry of women coming from the river in the distance.

"You who have suffered a thousand cuts! I killed my man, and I want you to pay for your life! A woman dressed as a peasant woman sat on the ground, holding the corpse of a middle-aged man and crying heartbreakingly, "Be in charge! Why did you just go there! How can we live if we leave our mothers! ”

"Second Aunt Wang, you get up first, Brother Mancang has already gone, you have to clean up for him and let him settle down!"

The person next to her wanted to help her up, but was broken away by the second aunt Wang: "Phew! Black-hearted! Don't think I don't know, you just want to bury my house early, so that people can't find evidence of your murder! I tell you, no way! ”

"Look! Look at the hole in my man's head, it's still bleeding! As she spoke, the head of the man in her arms was turned over to show everyone, and she pointed to a pale-faced young man in the crowd and said hatefully, "Water seedling! Don't try to hide! I know, even if you killed my man, you have to pay for his life! ”

The young man named Shui Yangzi was so frightened that he sat on the ground, his face bloodless, and muttered, "No, no! I didn't! I squeezed the hoe in my hand, yes, he bumped into it himself! There were a lot of people at that time, pushing and pushing, I didn't mean to, I didn't know anything! I didn't want to kill! I didn't kill it! ”

"You talk nonsense! Obviously, you killed someone, and you said that he bumped into it himself. There is also this river, which flows through Xuejiacun and Wangjiazhuang, but you Xuejiazhuang people stopped the dam and encircled all the water upstream, and did not let us flow down at all, which is really shameful! A person from Wangjiazhuang said indignantly.

"So you opened the dam at night and let all the water run away? Do you have leeway? If there is no water, the crops will die of drought, and you are asking for the life of our Xuejia Village! Behold, Wang Mancang deserves it! Who told him to take the lead in opening our dams! ”

"What do you say?" The people of Wangjiazhuang were suddenly ignited with anger, and the people of Xuejia Village began to push each other, and they saw that they were about to fight again.

"Let's go! Let's get it! At this time, Steward Guo pushed aside the crowd from outside, "Master Gu is here!" ”

Gu Kaizhen walked in from the outside, saw the miserable situation on the ground, frowned and said, "What about Lizheng?" Come and talk back! ”

Li Zheng of Xuejia Village sweated in his head, and came out of the crowd and said, "Xue Quanfu in Xuejia Village has seen Master Gu. ”

"Where's Wangjiazhuang's Lizheng?"

After a while, no one in the crowd answered, and Gu Kaizhen was about to have a seizure, when he saw Steward Guo whispering in his ear: "Master, the one who died is Wang Mancang of Wangjiazhuang." ”

Gu Kaizhen's expression froze. Although Li Zheng is not an official, he has also passed the list in the county office, and the villagers beat and killed Li Zheng, which is troublesome.

Under the pressure of Gu Kaizhen's momentum, Xue Jiacun was stumbling to tell the whole story.

Originally, Xuejiacun and Wangjiazhuang were located in the upper and lower reaches of the river, respectively. Crops are dry, and the villagers rely almost exclusively on water from the river to irrigate their fields. Seeing that it has not rained for a long time, the fields are getting drier and drier, and the river is getting shallower and shallower, and it can no longer support the irrigation water of the two villages. Xuejia Village took the liberty of building a low dam with dirt upstream, leaving all the water upstream.

Wangjiazhuang went to the theory several times to no avail, no way, Lizheng Wang Mancang took a group of villagers to quietly open the dam at night, who knew that on the way was found by the people of Xuejia Village, the two groups of people scuffled, in the chaos, Wang Mancang was opened, did not wait for the doctor to come, people will not work.

Last night, the night was dark and the wind was high, and no one could see who clearly, they were all fighting with a reckless spirit, whether they were beaten by someone or Wang Mancang accidentally bumped into it by himself, whether they were beaten by the people of Xuejiacun or by the people of Wangjiazhuang, no one could tell.