Across a hill across the river from Dahe Village is Xiaohe Village, where more than half of the people are surnamed Gu.

During the busy farming season, even if they can't sleep, farmers who are tired from a day's work are more willing to go back to the house and lie down.

When Gu Shi stood at the entrance of Xiaohe Village, every household in the village closed their doors, and only a few houses showed sporadic light.

The night breeze took away the heat of the day, and the pale silver moonlight sprinkled on the village road, although it was still not clear to see the road, it would not be dark all the way.

Gu Shi walked through most of the village, and finally stopped in front of a courtyard made of blue bricks, which was his original home.

The reason why it is called the original is not that he has entered the Lin family.

But after his father went, the most magnificent courtyard in Xiaohe Village was occupied by his step-grandmother Mrs. Gu and her second uncle's family, and he became the one under the fence.

Gu Shi didn't have much sadness on his face, he only stood at the gate of the courtyard for a while, then climbed the courtyard wall neatly, and then jumped up, and the person stood in the courtyard.

Because he was the only one who lived with his father, he built only four rooms when he first built the house.

One was used for the kitchen, and he and his father lived in the other, and the one with the best light facing north and south was given to him as a study.

Gu Shi went straight to the study, and now his second uncle Gu Shuangquan and second aunt Wang lived in it.

"Did you tell your mother that kid is still alive?"

As soon as he approached the door, Wang's voice sounded inside.

Gu Shuangquan said impatiently: "I didn't say it." ”

"Why don't you bring people back?"

"What are you doing when you bring it back? You're not still thinking about letting him marry your niece, are you? I tell you don't think about it. ”

"Didn't you say it before, Feng'er, that kid ......?"

"Who told you? You yourself tell the girl to solve it yourself. Don't forget that our family can accept five taels of silver from the Lin family, do you think it is possible to let my mother return the silver in exchange for that kid? ”

Silver is Mrs. Gu's life, of course it can't be.

"I'm not all for Feng'er, I just think that kid has a lot of ideas, and it's always uneasy to look at it if you don't put it in front of you. You say it's all your fault, why don't you check whether the person is dead or not......"

"Blame me now? Didn't you tell me that the kid would have so much to do if he hid the silver? ”

Wang sneered: "Won't I just guess, who knows that you will start directly." ”

"You are really, no matter what you say, you are your own nephew, why is it so heavy, and you are not afraid that your eldest brother will come to you at night."

Gu Shuangquan muttered: "It doesn't look like our family at all, whether it's a nephew or not." ”

Gu Shi was not born in Xiaohe Village, his father Gu Dalang was sold by his stepmother, who is now Mrs. Gu, to a merchant as a child when he was young.

Twelve years ago, Gu Dalang suddenly returned to Xiaohe Village with a sick child - that child was three-year-old Gu Shi.

At that time, the father and son were in tatters, if it weren't for the fact that Gu Dalang and Old Man Gu looked alike, no one would have recognized them at all.

There were suddenly two more mouths for eating at home, and the small one had to spend money to take medicine, but Mrs. Gu was unwilling, so she sent the father and son out with a broken grass house.

Who would have thought that Gu Dalang had silver in hand, and when he turned around, he was buying land and building a blue brick house.

Mrs. Gu almost died of anger, and at first she wanted to bring people back, but Gu Dalang was no longer the little doll that she rubbed and flattened back then, and she was stunned and didn't let the old lady take advantage of it.

Until two years ago, Gu Dalang had an accident......

"What?" The voice was too small, and Wang didn't hear it clearly.

Gu Shuangquan pushed her to the side impatiently: "Shut up, you, don't let people sleep." ”

Wang muttered a few words, seeing that the man really didn't pay attention to himself anymore, he pouted and fell asleep.

Gu Shi waited at the door for a long time, and only after the thunderous snoring of a man sounded inside, he cautiously pushed the door in.

It was about a cup of tea before he came out.

He climbed over the wall and went out of the yard from the place where he came in, and this time he didn't stop, and went directly to the vegetable garden at the back of the house.

He picked up a stick on the ground, and began to dig somewhere, and after a while, he asked him to dig out a wooden box with rough workmanship.

Gu Shi breathed a sigh of relief, carefully stroked the soil on the wooden box, I didn't know what to think, there was a slight smile in his eyes, and it was fleeting.

Filling in the pit and covering it with some dry soil to make sure there were no traces, he left the way he had come.

Passing by the gate of the courtyard of the patriarch of the Gu clan, there was a faint candlelight shining through, Gu Shi thought about it, turned his footsteps and walked over and knocked on the courtyard door.

……

With a creak, the courtyard door opened.

"Where have you been? Why did you come back so late? Lin Baobao heard the sound and turned around, and when he saw that it was Gu Shi, he opened his mouth to ask a series of questions.

After asking, he felt that it was not good to inquire about other people's privacy, and seriously added: "There are wolves in the mountains near here, and they are careful to be taken away when they run around at night." ”

Gu Shi didn't expect that Lin Baobao hadn't slept so late, and his steps were stunned.

Under the moonlight, a slender girl sat in front of the rice pile, clutching a small ear of rice in her hand, probably to facilitate her work, her hair and sleeves were pulled up, revealing a white lotus arm.

When I look up at you, my eyes are clear and bright, like starlight.

Gu Shi was burned and turned his head away: "I went back to Xiaohe Village, and something was delayed for a while." ”

"I'll tell you in advance next time I go out."

He said so many words suddenly, Lin Baobao was stunned for a moment before he realized that he was answering his own question, oh, and tied the picked rice ears to the same as the one he picked before. I turned my head and saw that Gu Shi was drying clothes, because he washed them by hand when he was taking a bath.

"Seeing that you didn't eat much at night, I left you a chicken leg in the kitchen." It was the two pheasant legs that Lin Wulang brought back, and there was another one that she cut and divided with the four girls.

Thinking that when he came back and asked him if he had provoked him somewhere, seeing that he was now like a nobody, Lin Baobao stopped this thought, patted the dust on his body, washed his hands and prepared to go back to the house to sleep.

This afternoon, she was actually too tired.

"I have something for you."

"What......" Lin Baobao turned around, saw the things handed in front of him through the moonlight, and kicked his round eyes: "You...... Where did you get the money? ”

It turned out to be a silver ingot!

"My dad left it."

It was the first time Lin Baobao saw the silver ingot, so he touched it with his hand strangely, and carefully took it in his hand and turned it upside down.

Gu Shi couldn't help but hook the corners of his lips: "This is five taels, for you." ”

"Why don't you give yourself ...... if you have money" The word redemption is not very good, Lin Baobao stopped in time: "Just give it to me?" ”

Gu Shi: ......

"Well, ransom money."

Well, what was given to her could also be ransom money.

"And when are you leaving?" It was only when she met this person that she saw the disaster that did not happen in advance, and Lin Baobao actually didn't want him to leave.

But...... Twisted melons are not sweet.

Gu Shi: ......

Gu Shi ignored her again.

Lin Baobao slept with the silver in his arms and didn't find it.