Chapter 11 Guo Changhai of the Guo family, nicknamed Guo Sanding, is the backup official of Qingniu County, responsible for the affairs of the east gate of Qingniu County, that is, to collect the entrance fee to the county, because he is the third in line and short, so people who know him call him Guo Sanding. A person who looks like this, why can he become a supplementary official and be responsible for such a fat difference is because Guo Changhai is a member of the Guo family in Qingniu County, and it is said that he is the younger brother of the cousin of the brother-in-law of Guo Shouyin's nephew, the second head of the Guo family.

Five years ago, after the second head of the Guo family accompanied his wife and did not return to the province, the second head of the Guo family gradually declined, and Guo Changhai could only be a backup officer, not a formal one, after all, no one in the family spoke for the second head of the family, and people went to tea and cool.

On this day, Guo Sanding was sitting bored at the east gate of the county seat, watching his two men collect the entrance fee. Although the fee is a fat difference, everyone collects a lot, fifty yuan per person, but twenty of them are to be handed over to the county lord, twenty-five dollars are to be handed over to the Guo family, and the remaining five dollars are their own, and they are not willing to stand here all day in the wind and sun, and they have to hire two ruffians to collect the entrance fee to the city, so there is not much left every month, drink a little wine, and find a kiln sister There is nothing left. Therefore, Guo Sanding has not saved any money to marry a mother-in-law to live.

Guo Sanding looked at all kinds of people coming in and out, some were carts, some were burden-bearers, some were doing business, and there were porters who worked hard, thinking that he was not bad, although he could not be rich and rich, but he did not have to suffer as hard as them. Squinting, he poured tea into his mouth with a teapot in his hand, thinking about where to eat wine at night.

It was still a hot day, when a cloud drifted in, and the sky began to drizzle.

The people at the gate of the city hula all rushed in at once, pushing and shoving, and hurried into the city to avoid the rain.

Guo Sanding looked anxious, and shouted, "Don't squeeze, come one by one, pay the fucking money, and if you don't pay, stay outside and become a big king!"

Just after roaring, the noisy sound suddenly stopped, Guo Sanding thought that his domineering spirit had an effect, and when he looked up, he found that everyone was looking outside the city gate, the scene was quiet and scary, only the sound of light rain.

I saw a fourteen-five-year-old young scholar walking outside the city, dressed in a cyan scholar's robe, neat and neat, looking white and clean, holding a folding fan, strolling in the rain. The strangest thing is that it is raining in the sky, and there is not a trace of rain on this young man's body or fan, and the boots under his feet are also dry.

Guo Sanding looked up at the sky, yes, it was raining, and he poured himself on his face, and he almost became that, but the young man ...... Strangely, the young scholar had already come to him, so the person blocking the door unconsciously flashed a way for the young scholar to pass.

Seeing that the young scholar was about to walk by, Guo Sanding gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand to stop the young man, and arched his hands: "Son, this is polite!"

The young scholar glanced at Guo Sanding and asked, "Is there something wrong?" Looking at the scholar's eyes, Guo Sanding unconsciously shivered, "No...... It's nothing, but the county rules that you need to pay a city entrance fee to pass through the city gate, so ......" Guo Sanding quickly explained.

"How much is the entrance fee?" asked the young scholar, frowning.

"Fifty dollars. This is the amount set by the county, and the small ones dare not charge indiscriminately. Seeing that the young scholar frowned again, Guo Sanding explained in detail.

"Fifty cents?" said the scholar.

Ah, seeing that you are dressed so decently, how can you not have fifty dollars, just about to have a seizure, but recalling the strange scene just now, immediately changed his words, "Since the son is inconvenient, the small one will be paid for you first, so as not to break the rules." ”

The young scholar threw a tael of silver, "I mean there is no fifty dollars in change, and there is no need to say that there is no money!" After speaking, he turned around and walked into the city. A tael of silver can be exchanged for a thousand.

Guo Sanding was holding the silver or two in a daze, and the young scholar retreated back and asked, "May I ask Brother Tai, how is the Guo family going?"

"After entering the city gate, walk along the street to the end, turn right, and then go to the end, and there are three large flagpoles standing at the door. Guo Sanding replied mechanically.

"Thank you, brother, for a little drink. The young scholar said and threw two taels of silver and left.

Looking at the young scholar who walked out of more than ten feet, Guo Sanding reacted at this time: Guo family? He went to Guo's house? Isn't it my Guo family? Looking at the back that was about to disappear from front of him, Guo Sanding gritted his teeth and handed a tael of silver to his two subordinates, "You two keep an eye on me, I'll come when I go!" After speaking, he turned around and chased straight after the figure. Guo Sanding has an intuition that this teenager is definitely not an ordinary person, something will definitely happen to the Guo family, and if he keeps up with this young scholar, his fate will definitely change, and if he misses it, he will regret it for the rest of his life.

When the two subordinates were complacent, Guo Sanding had already caught up with the young man, and said to the young man flatteringly: "The first time the son came to Qingniu County, he is not familiar with the place, so the villain should take you there." ”

The boy stopped, "Oh, how did you know I was coming to the county for the first time?"

Guo Sanding stretched out his hand and motioned to the scholar to say as he walked, "There are two points to prove, first, this entry fee has been collected for seven or eight years, and Gongzi doesn't know it, second, this Guo family is one of the three major households in Qingniu County, and has existed in Qingniu County for more than 100 years, some people may not know where the county government is, but everyone in Qingniu County knows where the Guo family is." Based on these two points, the villain guessed that Childe was coming to Qingniu County for the first time. ”

The young man put away the fan, nodded Guo Sanding, and said, "I didn't expect your heart to be quite thin." Then you don't need to lead the way, do you?"

"The main reason why the villain keeps up is that the Guo family that Gongzi is looking for is the villain's own family!" Guo Sanding explained respectfully, "Besides, Gongzi is coming to Qingniu County for the first time, and he needs a familiar person to run back and forth, right?"

The young man was happy and said, "Okay, then you can lead the way." ”

The two went straight to Guo's house one after the other. This young scholar is Liu Chang. After the fire burned down the Black Wind Village that day, he slipped out of Nanling at night. The revenge is avenged, the long-standing life goal is gone, and where do you go. Thinking of Mr. Guo's waist card, he planned to go to Guo's house in Qingniu County to have a look.

At this time, the Guo family was shrouded in a gloomy cloud, because a few days ago, a trading house escorted by the Guo family was suddenly robbed, and the dozen or so good men accompanying him, along with none of the people from the trading house, came back and died.

More than 100 years ago, the Guo family was one of the three major families in Qingniu County, because a hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Guo family practiced the "Guo Family Knife" to the end of the day, and everyone knew it within a radius of more than 1,000 miles in Qingniu County. But since the death of the ancestors of the Guo family, no children of the Guo family have practiced the fifteen-style "Guo Family Knife", so the reputation of the "Zhenyuan Dart Bureau" has gradually declined, but the Guo family is still mainly engaged in escort business, so as to earn silver taels. Under the leadership of the current head of the family, Guo Shoujin, the Guo family is still quite famous, and several bandits in Qingniu County also give face, just get some tolls, and no one has ever died, at most they have been injured.

Originally, only one dart master was sent for this trip, and a few executioners were enough, but the firm doubled the commission, so that the Guo family had to escort them away non-stop, so the head of the Guo family sent more than a dozen good hands to escort them, but they never returned, all of them died, and they still don't know that they were the murderers of the bandits. At this time, the firm had already chased after Guo's house to ask for an explanation. As for the other two families, the Liu family and the Zhao family were overjoyed when they heard that the Guo family had broken more than a dozen good hands, and they wanted to take this opportunity to fall into the well for the Guo family and take the opportunity to make some benefits.

Although, these years have gradually declined, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, the Guo family is still the head of the three major families in Qingniu County, in addition to controlling the darts of the county, but also collect the protection fee of ten of the twenty-two main streets in the city, and the entrance fee of the east gate and the north gate of the four city gates. The decision of all this lies in who has the hard fist and who has the big fist. The Guo family broke more than a dozen good hands, and the family's strength was damaged, which brought hope to the Liu family and the Zhao family.

At the door of Guo's house, there was a big man standing on the left and right, heroic and extraordinary. One of the big men saw Guo Sanding leading a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy over, stepped up, and said, "Sanding, you are not guarding the east gate, what are you doing when you come back? I heard that I smashed my favorite purple clay pot, so I was careful to use it as a punching bag. ”

These two are brothers, one is called Guo Cheng, the other is called Guo Sheng, and it is Guo Sheng who speaks. The relationship between the two is not bad with Guo Sanding, and they usually drink together when they have nothing to do, and they talk about the mountains.

Guo Sanding took a step forward, hugged his fists and said: "Brother Sheng, this son is going to our Guo family to find ......", looked back at Liu Chang, and still don't know who this son is looking for.

"Ben Gongzi, the person I want to visit is Guo Shoujin. Liu Chang added.

"Do you want to see the head of the family?" Guo Sheng looked at the young man in front of him and asked in surprise.

"This ......" Liu Chang pondered for a moment, "I don't have a post, but if you give this to your family master, he will understand." As he spoke, he handed the Guo family's waist card to Guo Sheng.

Guo Sheng took the waist card, looked at it, and saw that the front of the waist card was a "Guo" word, the back was a "two" word, and there was nothing else. Guo Sheng felt surprised, and felt a little familiar, think about it carefully, ah shouted, his hand trembled and almost fell to the ground, as if the head of the family has such a waist card, almost identical, but the back of the waist card of the head of the family is a "one" word.

"Childe, please wait, I'll come when I go. Guo Sheng bowed his hand to Liu Chang, turned around and ran towards the courtyard. Looking at Guo Sheng's galloping figure, Guo Sanding felt that something big was going to happen to the Guo family. In contrast, this young man was shaking his fan, carefully looking at the Guo family's mansion, without a trace of uneasiness, not like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old child at all.

In the Guo family's meeting room, Guo Shoujin, the head of the Guo family, was frowning, and there were four old people sitting in the hall, all of whom were sixty or seventy years old. These four old men are the elders of the Guo family, and the Guo family's sword skills have all been practiced to the twelfth style, and no matter how hard they try, there is no progress. Counting the head of the family, there are a total of five people in the Guo family who have practiced the sword technique to the twelfth style, don't look at it just these twelve styles, but it is one of the best in Qingniu County, otherwise it would not have been at the top of the three families.

At present, the Guo family is facing two problems, the first is that the firm is to recover the responsibility for the loss of goods. In the face of the commercial bank, it is good to say that it is okay to accompany more silver; in addition, the Liu family and the Zhao family have already handed over the challenge book, and they want to redistribute the interests of the entire Qingniu County through the challenge in the ring. Each family selected five disciples in the competition, and all of them should be under the age of thirty, after all, thirty-year-old disciples are considered the mainstay of each family, representing the hope of the next twenty years. Somehow, the Liu Zhao family actually obtained the consent of the county honor, so they had to accept the challenge if they didn't accept it.

In normal times, this is nothing at all, and the dozen or so good players who lost this time's bodyguard are all disciples in their thirties, and they originally wanted to experience these disciples through this dart, but who would have thought that such a thing would happen. The Erliu and Zhao families also sensed that there was a fault in the middle of the Guo family, so they wanted to seize the opportunity to reshuffle the cards. Guo Shoujin's intestines were repentant at this time, and he also hated those robbers. Because of this decision-making mistake, the four elders wavered about him and wanted to set up another family head. As the head of the family, martial arts do not need to be supreme, but they must have a flexible mind, and every decision should be well thought out, and every decision should be beneficial to the development of the family.

It has been discussed for two hours, and no result has been discussed, Guo Shoujin frowned tightly.

Guo Sheng knocked on the door of the conference hall, quickly walked to the head of the family, and whispered a few times in his ear. Originally, Guo Shoujin was very dissatisfied with Guo Sheng's uninvited entry, but after listening to his words, he stood up suddenly, his face full of excitement, "Where are you, take me to see him!" After speaking, he hurriedly trotted out of the conference hall with Guo Sheng, without even saying hello to the four elders.

The four elders glanced at each other and shook their heads secretly, "Shoujin is still so frizzy, how can he be a good family master?"