Wu Xiucai's name is Wu Bo, a native of the west of Zichuan City, a poor family since childhood, twenty-five years old, and no wife, and there are only two thatched rooms in the west of the city, one bright and one dark. ”

Song Tao introduced Wu Xiucai's situation to Su Yang and Shangguan Xiang'er.

The death of Song Tao's husband Liu Zhu, Su Yang only guessed it, it was probably because he was greedy for two feet of rope, and as a result, he accidentally lost his footing, and the rope just happened to let him land......

And where Liu Zhu is buried, Wu Xiucai needs to say what it is, this address Su Yang uses the Book of Changes, and he can't get the location with his discerning eyes.

According to Song Tao, Wu Bo's family is very poor, and he relies on himself to sell words and paintings for food and clothing, and can only barely survive.

"Wu Bo and I are also acquaintances, and they are also gentlemen's friends, and what the two of us talk about on weekdays is just benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, these great principles of self-cultivation and family governance and leveling the world, exhorting each other and moving forward together. ”

Song Tao said to Su Yang.

Su Yang nodded, it seemed that Song Tao still had some understanding of Wu Bo.

The three of them rented a carriage in the city, and then Su Yang and Song Tao sat in the front, and Shangguan Xiang'er sat in the carriage, so they went to the west of the city.

The carriage was driven and staggered, and it took half an hour to arrive at Wu Xiucai's village.

After arriving in this village, Song Tao took Su Yang and Shangguan Xiang'er straight to Wu Xiucai's door, but near Wu Xiucai's door, I saw the courtyard of the high-rise building here, and there were several courtyards outside, with blue tiles and white walls, and the houses were completely new, and there were no longer the old scenes of the two thatched houses.

After the three of them walked to the door, there was a female voice crying in the courtyard that they only heard, and the door of this room was closed, so that Song Tao couldn't see it.

There happened to be an old man coming on crutches, and Song Tao hurriedly asked the old man for advice.

"Dare to ask where Wu Xiucai in this village lives now?"

After Song Tao said hello, he asked respectfully.

"You're asking about Wu Daguan's house in our village, this is Wu Daguan's house, which has just been repaired. ”

After the old man heard Wu Xiucai, he directly called Wu Xiucai a big official, indicating that he was in this door.

Hearing this, Song Tao turned around again, looked at the newly painted door in front of him, stepped forward, and politely knocked on the door with the knocker, so that after a while, someone came from inside and stretched out his hand to open the door for Song Tao.

Su Yang looked at the person who opened the door, with a folding fan in his hand, looking twenty-five or six, in this big summer, with a ball of tight cotton around his waist, and saw that it was Song Tao who called the door, with a smile on his face, he hurriedly welcomed Song Tao, Su Yang and Shangguan Xiang'er into the courtyard.

"Brother Song, you came at the right time today. ”

Wu Bo said to Song Tao: "Little brother here just has a jar of good rice wine, about 20 years of cellaring, I am worried that no one is coming, today Brother Song is here, we are drunk and resting." ”

Song Tao was stunned at this time, looked Wu Bo up and down, and said with a wry smile: "You and I haven't seen each other for half a year, but I don't want Brother Wu to have such a high level of cultivation, and now there are high-rise buildings and courtyards, and there is no ...... the original situation."

suddenly saw his brother getting rich, and Song Tao also had a sense of disparity in his heart.

"Brother Song, please. ”

Wu Bo asked Song Tao.

Song Tao nodded, turned around and asked Su Yang again, so that the four of them walked into the room, and when they walked into the room, they saw twenty or thirty women kneeling in the courtyard here, Yingying Yanyan, flowers and branches, all of them had some small damages, kneeling on the ground was not daring to make a sound at all, after watching Wu Bo come in, these women's eyes looked at Wu Bo, their eyes were red, and everyone was afraid.

After Song Tao saw these women, he became angry, stretched out his hand and pulled Wu Bo's collar, and shouted: "Okay, Wu Bo, I thought you had some high achievements to buy such a family business, but I didn't expect you to do this kind of business, no wonder you can make a fortune!"

There were twenty or thirty women kneeling in this courtyard, all of them young and beautiful, with flowers and branches, and everyone was so afraid of Wu Bo, this situation made Song Tao suddenly think that Wu Bo was doing the kiln business, and he was immediately furious, scolding him for being willing to fall and destroy his reputation.

"Brother Song is angry, Brother Song is angry. ”

Wu Bo hurriedly comforted Song Tao and said with a smile: "Brother Song, don't misunderstand, they are not Qinglou women, but my brother's concubine." ”

“......”

Song Tao was speechless for an instant, and when he looked back at the courtyard, those Yingyan women all nodded at Song Tao.

Twenty or thirty concubines, all of them are young and beautiful, and they all look beautiful.

Song Tao loosened Wu Bo's collar, hurriedly apologized to Wu Bo, and said, "It's brother Meng Lang." ”

"It's fine. ”

Wu Bo patted his collar, disappreciated, turned back to the woman kneeling on the ground and shouted, "Think about it for me!" Only then did he take Song Tao, Su Yang, and Shangguan Xiang'er into the room.

The room in the house is elegant and clean, the furnishings are very exquisite, Wu Bo invited Song Tao, Su Yang, Shangguan Xiang'er to sit down, and a maid stepped forward to serve tea, after the tea was served, looking at Wu Bo was also submissive, and with Wu Bo's permission, he walked outside, and was obviously relieved when he arrived outside the door.

"Brother Wu. ”

Song Tao couldn't help but ask: "Since these women outside here are your concubines, why do they all kneel in the courtyard, but what is wrong with you?"

Entering the courtyard, Song Tao had a lot of questions, now in the room, there are no outsiders left and right, Song Tao first asked this sentence to explain the doubts.

Wu Bo shook his head when he heard this, sighed, and did not shy away from it, and sighed: "The younger brother is not talented, he has the eyes of a concubine, he has never had a happy mood in his life, and now he has made a fortune, married so many concubines, and there is no one who can smooth my heart, one by one claims that his daughter is delicate and soft, and he is unbearable to be conquered, there are thirty-two concubines in the family, and there is no one to fight tonight, it is really angry!"

The eyes of Chang Yu do not refer to the eyes of Chang Yu.

When Song Tao heard this, he was stunned again, and felt that his soul was hurt.

"The cotton cloth you wear around your waist. ”

Song Tao looked at Wu Bo's waist.

"Protecting the kidneys. ”

Wu Bo said to Song Tao: "This is the root of life, so we have to be cautious. ”

Song Tao nodded again, realizing that he came to Wu Bo's house today, and he was too shocked and surprised by him.

"Brother Song, what's the matter with today?"

Wu Bo asked, then looked at Su Yang and Shangguan Xiang'er, and said to Song Tao: "If there is a place for the elder brother, even if you open your mouth, the younger brother will definitely arrange it for the elder brother." ”

Wu Bo also saw that Song Tao came today, and there must be something, so he asked.

Song Tao heard Wu Bo's words loosen, so he hurriedly asked: "We are here today to ask my brother what the three-foot rope is used for. ”

The place where this rope is applied may be the place where Liu Zhu was buried.

When Wu Bo heard Song Tao talk about this rope, his face immediately changed, and he denied it: "I don't have this three-foot rope, and I don't know what my brother is talking about." ”

"The Master is dead!"

Song Tao said solemnly to Wu Bo.

When these words were said, it really made Wu Bo's face change, looked at Song Tao, and then looked at Su Yang and Shangguan Xiang'er in the back, first greeted each other with Su Yang, passed through the name, and learned from Song Tao that he had been surrounded by ominous dreams recently, and the gentlemen in the academy were very different, after all, Wu Bo's expression changed, looked at Su Yang and Song Tao, sighed, and said: "It's all because I don't have a strict mouth, so I have this disaster." ”

Song Tao hurriedly asked the reason, but this time Wu Bo did not deny it and told his story.

"Last year, when the younger brother was lonely at home, he took out his family savings, went to the soldiers in Zichuan, and bought a woman in many sacks. ”

Wu Bo smiled bitterly and talked about the events of the day, saying: "This pocket is tightly sealed, I can't see the face of the woman in the pocket, so I can only touch it, and the woman I touched has a waist and legs, and I think it is a young woman. ”

Speaking of the events of that day, Wu Bo said with a little self-deprecation: "After buying this woman, the officers and soldiers don't want it, and the younger brother has no choice but to bring this old woman home, seeing that this old woman is really pitiful, so I let her stay at home, and I serve her like a mother." ”

When others bought women, they all bought them back to be daughters-in-law, but Wu Bo bought back a mother at that time, and many people in the village ridiculed her.

And Wu Bo's family couldn't open the lid of the pot, and there was one more woman to eat, so naturally he couldn't eat enough, Wu Bo himself only ate a little bit every day, and the rest of the meals were given to the old woman, and the two supported each other and relied on each other for the New Year, and soon after the year, the old woman died.

"She said something to me before she died. ”

Wu Bo said: "There is a cave on the top of the Huiming Peak in Zichuan, there is a pit in the cave, this pit is three feet and two feet high, and in this pit there are countless gold and silver jewelry, if I want to go down to get gold and silver jewelry, I need to light a stick of incense on the night of the full moon, just when it is a child, and worship three times in the hole, and then within the time of a stick of incense, I must get the treasure and come out of it." ”

Wu Bo told the reason why he became so rich, and did not shy away from it in the slightest, and said: "After I had money, I built a house, until more than ten days ago, I suddenly thought of how much the master took care of me on weekdays, so I brought some belongings to the master, and at that time I drank two more cups with the master. ”

Speaking of these, Wu Bo regretted it very much, looked at Song Tao and said: "After telling the master about this, I felt that there must be disaster, and sure enough, but two days, the master appeared in my sleep, entangled night and night, so that I didn't dare to sleep, and sprinkled the fire on them......"

ps: It's not at seven o'clock tomorrow, it's too cold at night, I can't stand it, I'll get up at seven o'clock tomorrow and write.