Midsummer July.

At noon, the scorching sun scorched the earth to a scorched yellow, and even a trace of water vapor from zuihou was steamed away.

Sun Qiaoyun stared, looking at the gray soil in the fields in the medicine garden, which had already dried up, and the rows of withered yellow medicine seedlings that shrunk into a ball, and only sighed after a while.

"Sister, sister, it's no good! Steward Ge is here again, and he has several family members with weapons!"

The shouts came, but it was my sister's voice.

Sun Qiaoyun's sister, Sun Xiaoyun, a little girl who was only fifteen years old, was running from the dirt road towards the medicine garden with an empty wooden barrel, shouting and looking very panicked.

Sun Qiaoyun didn't show a panicked look, and waited for her sister to run in front of her before asking, "Didn't you go to the well at the bottom of the mountain to fetch water, why did you run home again?"

Sun Xiaoyun supported his thighs with both hands, bent over, and said while gasping: "The wells under the mountain are all dry, and I have run for more than ten miles and have not found a drop of water!

Sun Qiaoyun said: "Did they say what to do?"

Sun Xiaoyun said: "What else can Ge Peel do here, he is not here to ask for an account! He told me to come and find my sister to go back quickly, otherwise I will smash the things in the house and demolish our house!"

Sun Qiaoyun said: "Okay, let's go back." ”

She bent down and packed up the medicine hoe and dustpan, carried it in her hand, and pulled her sister along the dirt road towards the old house of the Sun family.

Sun Qiaoyun is eighteen years old, with a slender figure and a very pretty appearance, wearing a light green cloth shirt and a light gauze short skirt, which looks very delicate and lovely.

The Sun family used to be a big family, even the richest family outside the west gate of Changsha Mansion, and it was famous, even the Changsha prefect and the general soldier, often brought their relatives to visit the old house of the Sun family with gifts during the New Year's holidays.

This is all because the owner of the old house of the Sun family in the western suburbs is Sun Duhe.

Sun Duhe is a eunuch, he has no children, Sun Qiaoyun and Sun Xiaoyun are the righteous daughters he received.

Sun Duhe is known as "Iron-faced Yama", the official worships the three products, and is canonized as "General Zhaowu" by the great tomorrow, and was once considered to be the first master in the Dongchang Jinyi Guard.

Whether it is the official rank or the real power he holds, he is much higher than the prefect of Changsha and the like. Therefore, even if the prefect and the chief soldier came, they were very respectful and polite to the people of the Sun family.

Sun Qiaoyun is deeply loved by Sun Duhe, she has been very smart and well-behaved since she was a child, not only knows how to answer gifts, but also does a very good job of female red needlework.

But there are unforeseen circumstances, five years ago, Sun Duhe died suddenly, and unfortunately died in a battle in Lujing to exterminate the underworld Shili Qinglongzhai, and the person who killed him was one of the chief deacons of the "World Alliance", "cold-faced Zhuge " Zhu Zhenyan.

The old man died suddenly, the family fell in the middle of the road, and the life of the Sun Qiaoyun sisters also plummeted.

Originally, the Sun family had a lot of wealth, even if Sun Duhe died, their sisters' livelihood would not be so embarrassing. But although the grandfather of the Sun family has no heirs, he has eight brothers. Sun Duhe's funeral has not yet been completed, his hundreds of thousands of properties and hundreds of acres of land deeds have been divided among these eight people, and not even a tael of silver has been left for Sun Qiaoyun's sisters.

Of course, the uncles would not take all the things, at least they left the ancestral house of the Sun family's thirteen courtyards to the niece, as well as the five acres of medicine fields on the mountain.

The ancestral house can't be taken away, and the area of the medicine field is too small, and it is halfway up the mountainside, so the uncles can't look down on it.

As soon as the old man died, the land property was also divided, and the Sun family naturally lost its income, and the servants of the Sun Mansion and the maids of the Yahuan soon left, and there were only two sisters of the Sun family in the empty courtyard of the Thirteen Entrances. Fortunately, Sun Qiaoyun is smart and clever, and he knows a little about planting herbs, so he barely survived by relying on the five-acre medicine garden and survived with his sister for two years.

However, the disaster did not go alone, and God did not open its eyes, and the Hunan realm actually encountered a severe drought for three consecutive years, and water became scarcer than oil! The Sun family's medicine garden was on a mountain, and the ground was high, and the nearby water source was soon exhausted, and the Sun sisters had to go to a well several miles down the mountain to fetch water for watering the garden. Not to mention the hard work, with the physical strength of the two delicate girls, they couldn't pick up a few loads of water all day, and many of the herbs planted in the medicine garden gradually dried up and died.

There are fewer and fewer medicines planted in the medicine garden, and with the loss of dead medicine seedlings, the five-acre medicine garden basically has no income. Sun Qiaoyun had no choice but to pawn the furniture and utensils at home to maintain basic living expenses. In the spring of this year, all the valuable things in the house have been sold out, and in order to raise money to buy medicine seedlings, Sun Qiaoyun had to beg the wealthy family nearby and borrowed some silver taels on credit.

However, no one thought that this year Xiangjing would usher in a major drought for the fourth consecutive year, and it was more serious than in previous years, even the water well under the mountain was cut off, and if you want to carry water, you have to go to the bank of the Xiangjiang River more than ten miles away, and the water that the two sisters carried all day is not enough to irrigate an acre of medicinal fields. Soon, most of the medicinal seedlings bought with borrowed money also died, and the Sun family's life became even tighter.

If it was just poverty, it could still be handled, but what was worse was that Sun Qiaoyun provoked a big evil star, Ge Baixiong, the fourth master of Gejiabao.

Inside and outside the west city of Changsha Mansion, within a radius of two hundred miles, there is no one who does not know Gejiabao.

Thirty years ago, the Ge family was a wealthy family in Changsha with a little wealth, and it was not until Mrs. Ge's generation that it was really developed. Mrs. Ge's name is Ge Gangyu, and the people in the rivers and lakes call her "Pig Iron Buddha". Of course, he is not a real Buddha, not even a monk, he is just a lay disciple of Shaolin Temple.

Ge Gangyu returned to his hometown at the age of 30 from Shaolin Temple and began to establish the foundation of Gejiabao, and now the old lady Ge is over sixty years old, and Gejiabao is also the largest wealthy family in the west of Changsha Prefecture, with countless family wealth and thousands of acres of fertile fields. In the west of the city, no one dares to provoke them, because they are not only rich and powerful, but also in the rivers and lakes, and their martial arts are strong, even the government can't help them.

Mrs. Ge's "Dragon Elephant Prajna Gong" is profound, and the "Shaolin Luohan Boxing" is even more extraordinary, and it has never been defeated in the past 30 years. His four sons, Ge Canglong, Ge Chihu, Ge Qingbao and Ge Baixiong, also inherited the powerful Shaolin Kung Fu, and ordinary Jianghu warriors were not their opponents. And the most important thing is that the daughter of Old Lady Ge, Ge Muyun, the eldest lady of Gejiabao, married Bai Liyin, the eldest elder of the "Hengshan faction".

The "Hengshan faction" is the first major sect in the Xiangjing martial arts, even if it is not as good as the "Seven Great Sects of the Central Plains", it is not too different. As the great elder of the "Hengshan faction", Baili Yin is full of martial arts, and his unique inheritance of the "Shiqiao Swordsmanship" is even more perfect, and he is one of the best masters in the sect. Baili Yin is not young, he is sixty-eight years old this year, a few years older than Mrs. Ge, and Miss Ge was only in her early twenties when she got married, and now she has just turned thirty.

Although he is an old husband and a young wife, Bailiyin and Ge Muyun are also quite affectionate, if anyone dares to get along with his father-in-law's family "Gejiabao", Bailiyin will definitely not let him go!

Sun Qiaoyun is a weak woman, so naturally she doesn't dare to get along with "Gejiabao", she provokes Ge Baixiong, the fourth son of Old Lady Ge. It was just a chance, Sun Qiaoyun was watering in the medicine garden, but he happened to be seen by the fourth master Ge who was passing by.

Ge Baixiong is not a person who has never seen the world, he has played with countless women, in addition to the main house, there are eight aunts in the family. But maybe it was because he saw Sun Qiaoyun, a young lady with a beautiful and delicate appearance, but she was doing the rough work of an ordinary farmer, Ge Baixiong suddenly felt sympathy, and wanted to take Sun Qiaoyun back to be his ninth aunt and enjoy the glory and wealth.

Although the Sun family is poor, they were also a famous family, and Sun Qiaoyun's vision is even higher, where is he willing to make a small family for others? Take a broom and drive the matchmaker out of the door, even if Sun Qiaoyun offends the fourth master of Xiong.

Master Ge Si is kind-hearted, look at your pity, so I will give you a handout, let you live a good life, you dare not know how to lift!

How to rectify a woman from a poor family, the Ge family also has its own methods. The chief housekeeper Ge Wanjin quickly inquired about the recent situation of the Sun family, found the wealthy families who lent Sun Qiaoyun Yinliang, and bought Sun Qiaoyun's IOU from their hands. In this way, the Ge family became Sun Qiaoyun's big creditor.

In fact, Sun Qiaoyun didn't borrow much money, only more than three hundred taels of silver, and with the profit, it was only four hundred taels. Although the Sun family has no cash, the thirteen courtyards of the Sun family's old house are worth thousands of taels, and although the five acres of medicine field are not very good, if they are to be sold, they will have a market price of at least a few hundred taels.

The housekeeper Ge came to ask for the debt, and Sun Qiaoyun knew that if he didn't pay off the silver, he would definitely be in big trouble, so he took the house deed and the title deed to the market of the merchants in the city to pawn and sell on consignment. However, although the price she marked was much lower than the market price, she had been hanging in the market for more than a month, and no one was willing to buy the house and medicine field.

This is naturally the ghost of the Ge family. The chief butler Ge Wanjin is shrewd and capable, if he doesn't have some means, how can he be worthy of the nickname "Ge Peeling"? He has already let out his words, whoever dares to buy the Sun family's house and medicine field will not be able to get along with "Ge Jiabao", and there will be no good end!

Within a radius of hundreds of miles, who would dare to offend the Ge family? Not to mention that although the medicine field in the house was cheap, it could only take advantage of a few hundred taels of silver, and it was not cost-effective to provoke a gang of rivers and lakes for this money.

In this way, the Sun family was forced into a desperate situation, and the two former daughters were so widowed by a debt of only four hundred taels of silver that they had no way to go to the sky and no way to go to the ground.

Ge Wanjin was sitting in the living room of the Sun family. He is in his forties, with a square face, holding an iron-bone folded fan in his hand, although his stature is not high, but he also has a bit of momentum. Behind Ge Wanjin stood four big men with swords at their waists, the followers he brought, the disciples of the Guardian in Ge Mansion.