The sun rises and the moon sets.
In the early morning, people come and go on County Yazhong Street.
Xu Dian sat on the donkey cart and wiped his mouth. Zhou Youran kept looking at the yamen entrance with his big eyes: "Brother Dian, when will my brother come out? He's been in there for a long time!"
Xu Dian is Zhou Dagu's brother, not a guard or a servant. She calls her brother as a courtesy, not as a courtesy.
Xu Dian shook his head. He had something buried in his heart, and he was a little frustrated when he spoke: "I don't know, Brother Gu is a person with status now."
"Brother Gu can write Mingzhou poems. Now, not to mention the county government, even the Qingxue Prefecture government office knows his name. Maybe the Prefectural Mufu government already knows about his talents!"
"Magistrate Guo might be able to curry favor with him!"
Zhou Youran had a clear mind and saw that Xu Dian was a little unhappy: "Brother Dian, if there is anything that makes you unhappy, you can tell me!"
"I'm not unhappy!" Xu Dian lowered his head, not knowing how to speak directly, but he also didn't want to hide it from his sensible little sister: "Youran, do you think I'm useless? Brother Gu has been in trouble these few times, and I It didn’t even help!”
Zhou Youran raised his head: "I can't help either, but I know my brother won't blame us!"
"My brother is very capable. We are safe and sound, which is the greatest help to him!"
Xu Dian also wanted to talk about the differences between men and women.
The county government door is open.
Magistrate Guo handed over to Zhou Dagu: "Then Zhou Mingzhou, I leave this matter to you!"
"I would also like to thank the county magistrate for settling the matter on my mind. Then the student will resign first!"
"please!"
"please!"
Zhou Dagu took two steps back, turned around and left.
A carriage came out from the side gate of the county government office and followed behind him.
Zhou Dagu looked at Zhou Youran and Xu Dian and smiled: "Let's go! Go home!"
Among the people on the street, some looked at him strangely, some were confused, and some looked at him as a joke.
"Didn't Zhou Dafu vomit blood? It seems he's fine now!"
"Hi! What about Dafu? I've read and heard about it. There is indeed a Dafu poem this time, but it was written by Mr. Fan and has nothing to do with him!"
"Then why is he going to the county office? Isn't he going to give gifts?"
"You are stupid, how can you give gifts in broad daylight?"
"Could it be that the county magistrate gave him a gift? Damn him. If he got like this in the county examination, why should he?"
After last night, Zhou Dagu's senses were heightened again. He heard the comments of the people on both sides, but he didn't take it to heart.
He grabbed the angry Xu Dian: "Let's go! Go home!"
"Brother Gu, they are scolding you!"
"They have their mouths. If you want to talk, just say it!" Zhou Dagu smiled and shook his head: "Let the rumors fly for a while!"
Zhou Dagu didn't care about the words of these shallow people.
The truth of the matter has its own strength to prove it.
The car passed by Xiaotaoyuan and dozens of horse-drawn carriages were parked on the mountain road.
The middle-aged man with grass in his mouth next to the carriage saw Zhou Dagu's motorcade from a distance and jumped down from a high place.
The police officer behind Zhou Dagu saw the three of them and was a little scared: "Zhou Mingzhou, there won't be robbers ahead! How about we avoid them?"
"No need, he's one of our own!" Zhou Dagu stepped forward to greet him.
"I've met Mr. Zhou! The three of us heard that you are going back to your hometown to distribute pensions today. We are cowards who dare not go to the battlefield, but we have great respect for the heroes who came off the battlefield."
Zhao Daban leaned sideways and leaked out. Behind him were dozens of carriages filled with food.
"We brothers have integrated the things we have recently acquired, and we haven't gained much. We just have a lot of food, and we are still far from the time to harvest crops!"
"You take these carts of grain back and distribute them to everyone, as a favor to our brothers."
Zhou Dagu smiled and nodded: "I understand what you mean, but there are a lot of things! How many kilograms can you put in this car?"
Zhang San replied: "About a thousand pounds! It just rained yesterday and the road was slippery. We didn't dare to pack too much when we went out."
"Twenty thousand catties?" Zhou Dagu hesitated.
How long have these guys been in control of Wang Yuan's family property? How could they have the ability to collect so many things? In order to firmly tie their own ship, they really spent a lot of blood. I'm afraid they took out all the family wealth!
Li Er took a step forward and said hesitantly: "Brother Gu, this is only part of it, there is more behind..."
"No need! These are too many, let's do this!"
Zhou Dagu pointed to the two carriages in front: "I'll keep these two! Let the others go back!"
Zhao Da was a little anxious and wanted to step forward to speak. Li Er stopped him and said, "Brother Gu, just accept it!"
He is a sensible man.
The key to the matter is not how much to collect, but whether Zhou Dagu is willing to accept it.
Zhou Dagu waved to the county government team behind him: "Brothers, follow us!"
"You two, ask Zhang San to come with me. Things at home have just been settled. You should have a lot of troubles there, so go deal with them first! I have nothing to do here!"
"Alas~" Li Er nodded.
The convoy moved forward slowly, and Zhang San got on the carriage and followed the convoy.
Zhou Youran watched the food convoy go away, and the nature of the little miser was exposed again.
"Brother, why don't you want the food delivered to your door?" In her heart, she still didn't like the behavior of the three Taoyuan brothers, but she liked the food very much.
Zhou Dagu shook his head: "Give us food, but we don't have anywhere to put it. If we send it to the widow of the hero who died on the battlefield, I'm afraid it won't be food, but death!"
"The convoy is so vast that we can't hide it from the people around us. In this season when we are short of food and clothing."
"Sending a hundred kilograms of rice that can be eaten directly is not a way to survive, it is jealousy in the eyes of others, and it is a way of death for women and children!"
Zhou Dagu touched the girl's little head. The girl obviously didn't understand what he said.
He smiled and shook his head: "It's normal that you don't understand this now. After all, you will never experience this before or in the future!"
Zhou Youran is a very ordinary sister. Like many little girls, she likes beautiful clothes and family reunions.
She had experienced hunger, and when she saw food delivered to her door, she was naturally unwilling to let it go, but she didn't know if she could take it.
Zhou Dagu took back his hand and discovered a problem.
Two helpless people want to live a good life in this cannibalistic era...
That does not work!
There are always times when you can't see yourself.
He sighed and seemed to have to find time for his sister to go to class.
As the car slowly approached Zhoujia Village, Zhou Dagu looked at the manual. This was a list prepared by County Magistrate Guo. On it were the names of one hundred and nine people, as well as their home addresses.
In his other hand was a family letter with the words of those people on it.
The policeman looked at the fork in the road: "Mr. Zhou, let's go to Zhoujia Village first?"
"No! Go to Lingjia Village!" Zhou Dagu pointed in another direction.
Xu Dian was a little nervous: "Brother Gu, the people in Lingjia Village are quite critical of you. If you go, I'm afraid there will be danger!"
Zhou Dagu knew the attitude of the people in Lingjia Village. He had a list of eighty people with the surname Ling.
What is the concept of eighty people? They are almost all the young people in a village.
He had already expected that the people in Lingjia Village would criticize him.
but.
"Let's go to Lingjia Village first!" The matter of sending letters home has always been a knot in his mind.
When dreaming back at midnight, he would always feel sweat on his face after waking up, thinking of the dead faces in the Blood Dragon Valley.
Especially the last time, visiting the Memory Palace.
Zhou Dagu felt that with his accumulation of talents, he should make a breakthrough.
Even Master Zhu was a little strange and doubted the size of Zhou Da Gu Zi's palace.
At night, Zhou Dagu entered the Zifu Confucian Temple again and discovered that there were countless black shadows floating outside the Meridian Gate of the palace.
When he first entered the Memory Palace, he used the Shenwu Gate. There were many rooms in the Forbidden City through the Shenwu Gate. He had always entered through the Shenwu Gate before.
He has always ignored the Meridian Gate, which is the main gate of the Zifu Confucian Temple.
Zhou Dagu tried to push open the Meridian Gate, but found that no matter what password he used, he couldn't push it open.
It wasn't until he discovered those dark shadows that he realized that what happened in the Blood Dragon Valley was not completely over.
That was the blood dragon crystallized by the Demon King's resentment. How could it be suppressed by a poem that subdued the country?
The demon emperor's resentment, combined with the one hundred and nine faces in his memory, had been blocking the Meridian Gate, preventing him from entering his Zifu Confucian Temple.
Master Zhu said: "This is Zifu Mengchen. They died to save you. It is normal for you to feel guilty. You are the only one who came back from a hundred and ten people. It is normal for others to be jealous and resentful!"
"If you want to open the door of the Zifu Confucian Temple, you are afraid that you will only be able to satisfy their resentment!"
Only then did Zhou Dagu decide to start with Lingjia Village.
The root of the matter should be the family letters in their hands. This is the real resentment in their hearts, resentment that they did not deliver what they should send.
Zhou Dagu had some suspicions, but he did not dare to let Master Zhu read the family letter directly. After all, the last page of the book recorded a poem that must not be known to anyone!
Cars and horses are moving, bells are ringing.
It seems that there is a big tree at the entrance of every village.
Under the big tree at the entrance of Lingjia Village, two old women were chatting and picking wild vegetables. They were a little wary when they saw Zhou Dagu approaching.
In the age of cannibalism, a village of widows without young people is just a dish in the eyes of others.
Wang Yuanwai's original land accumulation was not just stolen from such people.
"Where are you young people from?"
Zhou Dagu stepped forward: "You two, my name is Zhou Dagu, I..."
"Zhou Dagu? A deserter who came back from Liangjie Mountain, you Zhou Dagu, where did you take my son! Pay for my son's life!"
"My grandson, my little grandson, is here too. Please return my little grandson to me." Two old women with bad eyes rushed towards Zhou Dagu!
Zhou Youran rushed down from the carriage and stood in front of his brother: "The life of your grandson was not caused by my brother, but by Yaoman. Why don't you go to Yaoman to take revenge on my brother?"
The old woman held up a handful of wild vegetables in her hand: "We don't care, if more than a hundred people go out, he is the only one who comes back. It's not his fault, but who else's fault it could be! Why...why did he come back? He is not my good grandson!" "
The villagers heard the old lady's cry and came over.
They were surrounded by officers and soldiers, all women and children. They looked at Zhou Dagu, obviously knowing this man.
Everyone has the same idea. If someone wants to come back, why is it not his own man who comes back?
In the face of life and death, people are selfish!
Zhou Dagu's eyes burned across the women and children. He felt dizzy and felt that the Zifu Confucian Temple was a little shaken.
He knew in his heart that he was in the right place!
The old woman squatting on the ground once again raised the old basket and rushed towards him: "Give my little boy his life!"
Zhou Dagu didn't move.
Zhou Youran grabbed the basket from the old lady's hand with both hands: "How dare you rush up and try again!"
"My brother is a scholar. If he doesn't attack you, I will be a crazy girl. I don't care. If anyone dares to touch my brother again, I will fight her to the death!"
The girl stood in front of her brother, just like when she was young.
It’s just that the boy has grown up!
Zhou Dagu took Zhou Youran's arm. He felt that even if his sister didn't understand anything her whole life, it would be fine.
He will protect her!
Protect for life!
