After a while, Gu Chen asked again: "Mr. Qin, if my family leases the land to you, can I buy some grain from you?"

Qin Di smiled and said, "In the past three years, I can sell grain at seventy percent of the market price, and I will give as much as you want! After three years, the price may have to be slightly raised, no matter what, it will be lower than the market price." ”

Gu Chen gasped: "Can I buy grain at a seven-fold discount?" Then your Qin family, thousands of miles away, how can you make money by transporting grain here?"

Qin Di thought to himself: "Do you know what the price of grain I buy is? If you wait until the lowest time, you won't even need two or three percent." ”

He said: "The Qin family only does wholesale, not retail. In addition, I put a large amount of grain here, not only to prevent fire and theft, but also to prevent robbery by robbers or looting by nearby people, so I also want to use the power of the Gu family to spend money to hire a group of sought-after. ”

Gu Chen said with a smile: "This matter is easy to say! My second brother has six or seven thousand men and horses, and except for a few big people in Sichuan, no one dares to bully us." If Mr. Qin is willing to pay a sum of money, the Gu family can guarantee food security. ”

Qin Di said with a smile: "In this way, I have some ways in the United States to buy a batch of arms." I provide ten machine guns, one hundred spears, and 50,000 oceans every year, hire two companies of soldiers, and specially guard here, all personnel are controlled by the Gu family, and let Ah Hu intervene in it, what do you think?"

Gu Chen's expression was shocked, and he said, "It should be okay, I'll send a letter to the second brother to ask." ”

The two talked about some more details, until Gu Ruhu ran over and shouted, "Grandpa has come out of the house! ”

So Qin Di and Gu Chen walked back to the original courtyard.

The old man Gu Cheng stood in the courtyard and bent down to Qin Di to salute: "Mr. Qin, you are the Grand Master of the Qin Dao!

Qin Di hurriedly said: "Don't dare to be." The younger generation is young and does not dare to accept your gift. ”

Gu Chengdao: "There is no order to learn, and the master is the teacher." Mr. Qin's piano skills are superb, and they seem to be more clever than the Taoist realm depicted by the family teacher. Mr. Zhang, a tutor, once said that when he was a child, he listened to a big pianist play and was confused. And when I listened to you play the piano, I lost my mind for two hours! When I woke up, I only felt that there were 36,000 pores all over my body, and no one was uncomfortable! It was as if I had suddenly become ten years younger!"

Qin Di said: "Dao heart and qin heart, the combination of the two makes you feel this way." What about that little brother Gu Rusong?

"Ah Song, he hasn't woken up yet! I had him carried to the bedroom. Mr. Qin, you are the most distinguished guest of the Gu family, let us set up a banquet, wash the dust for you, and then set up the incense table, so that the two children can worship you as a teacher. ”

Next, the Gu family set up a big banquet, gathered everyone, and let Gu Rumei and Gu Ruhu worship in public.

This is the apprenticeship of the Eight Classics, the ancients paid great respects, and the master and apprentice were like father and son, and they should not be child's play.

During this period, the Gu family and Qin Di reached a preliminary agreement, leasing 800 acres of land to him for a period of 20 years; Qin Di paid an annual rent of 30,000 silver dollars, plus two heavy machine guns, eight light machine guns, 100 long guns, and an additional Wu 10,000 yuan, to hire the nominal gunners, who were actually Gu Han's soldiers; at the same time, the Gu family could also buy a certain amount of grain at a lower price.

For these agreements, the Gu family is very satisfied from top to bottom, because the annual grain production of 800 acres of land is limited, and in any case, it can't reach 10,000 taels of silver, and now it is leased to the Qin family, and a total of 80,000 oceans can be obtained every year, which is a silver money spent in vain, plus those powerful guns, it is enough to make the Gu family a local tyrant.

Gu Han is Liu Wenhui's subordinate, he does not belong to the Central Army, but is equivalent to a warlord, and his management is not so strict, and he has a lot of freedom. Warlords value weapons the most, as long as they have guns and food, they can recruit people, and with enough men, they will also have power and authority.

In those years, there were warlords all over China, and there were many and poor warlords in Sichuan.

You must know that in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, three million Sichuan troops went out of Sichuan, wearing straw sandals, single clothes and quilts, using old Mauser left over from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, not even many of them made in Hanyang, and only one division of heavy machine guns!

Not to mention that Qin Di also took out 80,000 oceans, even if he symbolically took out 10,000 yuan, as long as there were ten machine guns, the second child of the Gu family would be willing to do so!

Of course, Qin Di is not a fool, what he lacks is manpower, and he is not short of money, as long as he can do this smoothly, it is trivial to spend more money. He still has a large amount of money, lying in a foreign-funded bank, and he can't eat up the interest alone every year. He took out those guns, and he also had the intention of helping the Sichuan army.

It stands to reason that he could even provide more machine guns for the sake of the War of Resistance, but what if the Sichuan Army rashly went to fight the Red Army after taking the guns? After all, the years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had not yet begun, and the Qing and Red parties were still fighting in full swing. If the Gu family accidentally blocked the road of the Long March, wouldn't it be a great sin? Qin Di is afraid that he will suffer a catastrophe!

Three days later, Sun Sheng and Zhou Ming, who got the news, rushed over from Chongqing to take over the specific work behind.

Then, Qin Di, Yan Xue, Qin Yue, Du Rong, Du Lan, plus Gu Rumei, the six of them, left Aiping Mountain by boat.

They went up along the Yangtze River, entered the Minjiang River to the north, and came to the Xiling Snow Mountain in Dayi County.

Although more than ten years have passed, Yan Xue still found her mother's grave, because the tomb is located on the side of the mountain, which is equivalent to a wilderness, where there is a tomb with several large stones pressed on it, and a tombstone carved by Qin Di with his fingers.

Yan Xue burst into tears, knelt in front of the grave to burn paper for her mother, and then re-cultivated soil for the grave, and sat in front of the grave for a long time.

Qin Yue sighed in her heart, and unconsciously, she was brewing a new poem.

Gu Rumei whispered to persuade Yan Xue to mourn.

Du Rong and Du Lan looked up at the top of the white snow-capped mountain, and they felt a sense of yearning in their hearts.

"Sister Yan Xue, don't be sad! This is a good place, when I die in the future, if I can be buried here, I should be satisfied!"

"Look at the snow-capped mountains towering, like fairies, no wonder Sister Yan Xue's skin is so good, it turns out that she was born in the snowy mountains......"

With their persuasion, it took a long time for Yan Xue's heart to become a little better.

Subsequently, several people left the local area, and then inquired all the way to Zhaojue Temple in the northern suburbs of Chengdu.

Zhaojue Temple is a big temple, known as "the first Zen forest in western Sichuan", the incense was prosperous in the Tang and Song dynasties, after entering the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, with the decline of the country, the temple is not as good as before.

Despite this, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and there are more than 300 monks in the temple.

Because there are too many monks, and Yan Xue doesn't know her father's legal name, it is difficult to find someone, and she can't even ask!

You must know that Tantra can get married, but Zen Buddhism can't get married, if Yan Xue's father is a Zen master of Zhaojue Temple, then this Zen master has broken his vows!

When asked about this kind of thing, no one will admit it.

Unless he is a real Zen master, when he reaches a certain level, he repents in his heart, realizes his enlightenment, and does not care about the precepts of Buddhism, he will recognize Yan Xue.

Therefore, Yan Xue was full of sorrow, stood outside the mountain gate, looked at the palaces in front of her, and said to Qin Di: "Sir, let's go back, I don't want to look for him." My impression of him was vague, and even if I did, it was hard to recognize. ”

The other four women said one after another: "No, you must find it!

"If you don't dare to go, we'll ask for you! I don't believe it, and the disciples of Buddhism don't tell the truth!"

"Hmph, even if you turn Zhaojue Temple upside down, you have to find someone!"

These women are not fuel-efficient lamps, just like Bai Suzhen went to Jinshan Temple to find Fahai, what are you afraid of when you come to Jinshan?

Yan Xue said abruptly: "Even if he finds it, what can he do?

This sentence stopped everyone and couldn't help but look at each other.

Yes, what if you find it? Yan Xue's father has already escaped into the empty door, too forgetful, everything is empty, not much different from the past.